Best of 2010

[Paint Your Lips]

That Spinner performance is just amazing. And Helicopter and He would have laughed are two of my favourite songs off Halcyon Digest. The intro to Helicopter is epic.

Nice to see there are some people on here enjoying Deerhunter.

[alvarezbassist17]

God, this thread is so fucking frustrating with DSL; I wish I got more than 150 kb/s.  I'll have to remember to come back next time I'm on campus.

I'm diggin on the new ocean CDs like crazy.  What a tight band.  Also, the new Acacia Strain has been pretty addicting.  Just plain heavy \m/

[sing blue silver]

these are my top albums for the year so far based on what my stoned mind can recall right now. i know there are some i'm forgetting.

deftones - diamond eyes
coheed and cambria - year of the black rainbow
circa survive - blue sky noise
the felix culpa - sever your roots
oceansize - self preserved while the bodies float up
senses fail - the fire
mike patton - mondo cane
ratatat - lp4

[bright lights, big city]

God, this thread is so fucking frustrating with DSL; I wish I got more than 150 kb/s.  I'll have to remember to come back next time I'm on campus.

I'm diggin on the new ocean CDs like crazy.  What a tight band.  Also, the new Acacia Strain has been pretty addicting.  Just plain heavy \m/

fuck yeah on both those albums. you probably know this already, but the 23rd we get the new After the Burial cd. I'm temped to wait to make a year-end list (especially of the top metal) until that shit comes out.

[Slacker]

God, this thread is so fucking frustrating with DSL; I wish I got more than 150 kb/s.  I'll have to remember to come back next time I'm on campus.

I'm diggin on the new ocean CDs like crazy.  What a tight band.  Also, the new Acacia Strain has been pretty addicting.  Just plain heavy \m/

fuck yeah on both those albums. you probably know this already, but the 23rd we get the new After the Burial cd. I'm temped to wait to make a year-end list (especially of the top metal) until that shit comes out.

i most certainly could use some new after the burial before this month ends.

[RoyalDeftonicBoy]

Whitechapel-A New Era Of Corruption
The Dillinger Escape Plan-Option Paralysis
Eminem-Recovery
Deftones-Diamond Eyes
Chimaira-Coming Alive
Massive Attack - Heligoland

[alvarezbassist17]

God, this thread is so fucking frustrating with DSL; I wish I got more than 150 kb/s.  I'll have to remember to come back next time I'm on campus.

I'm diggin on the new ocean CDs like crazy.  What a tight band.  Also, the new Acacia Strain has been pretty addicting.  Just plain heavy \m/

fuck yeah on both those albums. you probably know this already, but the 23rd we get the new After the Burial cd. I'm temped to wait to make a year-end list (especially of the top metal) until that shit comes out.

fuckin fuck yeah dude, this calls for a signature update!

[bright lights, big city]

fuckin righteous

[alvarezbassist17]

darn tootin'

ps that blows dicks that they're not comin to chicago on this tour, they are totally filthy live.  have you seen them before?

[alvarezbassist17]

Totally feelin that Emarosa record.

[Starz]

^ Yes!

[bright lights, big city]

making my picks for 2010 official. decided to split it into a metal category and everything else

THE BEST:
1. MGMT - Congratulations
2. Mike Patton - Mondo Cane
3. Sleigh Bells - Treats
4. Yeasayer - Odd Blood
5. Klaxons - Surfing the Void
6. the Picturesque Episodes - Constellations
7. Jaguar Love - Hologram Jams
8. Surfer Blood - Astro Coast
9. Chiodos - Illuminaudio
10. Matt & Kim - Sidewalks
11. Deftones - Diamond Eyes
12. Lights Out Asia - In the Days of Jupiter
13. Broken Bells - s/t
14. Jack Wall - Mass Effect 2 OST
15. Álfheimr - Dream Sequences
16. Sufjan Stevens - Age of Adz
17. the Felix Culpa - Sever Your Roots
18. Jatun - Blanket of Ash
19. Circa Survive - Blue Sky Noise
20. Bill Elm & Woody Jackson - Red Dead Redemption OST

BEST OF METAL:
1. Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis
2. The Contortionist - Exoplanet
3. Crippled Black Phoenix - I, Vigilante
4. Dysphoria - Satyriasis XXI
5. The Acacia Strain - Wormwood
6. Rings of Saturn - Embryonic Anomaly
7. I Declare War - Malevolence
8. Through the Eyes of the Dead - Skepsis
9. The Ocean - Heliocentric/Anthropocentric
10. Celeste - Morte(s) Nee(s)
11. Year of No Light - Ausserwelt
12. And Hell Followed WIth - Proprioception
13. Periphery - s/t
14. The Secret - Solve et Coagula
15. Devil Sold His Soul - Blessed & Cursed
16. The Chariot - Long Live
17. Intronaut - Valley of Smoke
18. Norma Jean - Meridional
19. Suffokate - No Mercy, No Forgiveness
20. Vendetta Spoken - Schrödinger Equation

[Caín]

1. Majeure - Timespan
2. Maserati - Pyramid of the Sun
3. Deftones - Diamond Eyes
4. The Most Serene Republic - Fantasick Impossibliss
5. Lights Out Asia - In the days of Jupiter
6. Holy Fuck - Latin
7. The Sword - Warp Riders
8. Glassjaw - Singles
9. Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paraylsis

[Sinatra]

In no specific order

warpaint- the fool
the walkmen- lisbon
violens- amoral
surfer blood- astrocoast
sleigh bells- treats
parades- foreign tapes
no age- everything in between
mgmt- congratulations
deerhunter- halcyon digest
beach house- teen dream
arcade fire- the suburbs
autolux- transit transit
deftones- diamond eyes
letlive- fake history
the contortionist- exoplanet
The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza- Danza III
kanye west- My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

[Crazylegs]

My favorites of the year are the following:

1. Oceansize - Self Preserved while the bodies float up
2. Motorpsycho - Heavy metal fruit
3. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah part 2: return of the ankh
4. Deerhunter - Halcyon digest
5. Kvelertak - Kvelertak
6. Marco Benevento - between the needles and nightfall
7. Dungen - Skit i allt
8. Deftones - Diamond eyes
9. Jaga Jazzist - One armed Bandit
10. The Sword - Warp Riders
11. Eels - End times

Looking through this thread makes me realize how many albums i have to check out soon.

[Starz]

Seems to be quite a lot of love for Sleigh Bells and Beach House on here but I really can't get into those albums...

ANYWAY, here is a final list of my favourite albums of 2010. I had high hopes for 2010 but there hasn't really been one album this year where it's changed my life and it's all I listened to non-stop for months. I have high hopes for 2011 though as some of my favourite bands are releasing new albums (Dredg, Jakob and Laura as examples).

In no specific order:

1. Barn Owl - Ancestral Star
2. Arcade Fire - Suburbs
3. 65daysofstatic - We Were Exploding Anyway
4. Crippled Black Phoenix - I, Vigilante
5. Deftones - Diamond Eyes
6. Emarosa - Emarosa
7. Gold Panda - Lucky Shiner
8. Lights Out Asia - In The Days of Jupiter
9. Menomena - Mines
10. Nils Frahm - 7 Fingers
11. Teebs - Ardour
12. Yellow Swans - Going Places
13. The Ascent of Everest - From This Vantage
14. Baths - Cerulean
15. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis
16. Dead Letter Circus - This Is The Warning
17. Letlive - Fake History
18. Sailors With Wax Wings - S/T
19. Talons - Hollow Realm
20. The Saddest Landscape - You Will Not Survive

[ben]

Beach House- Teen Dream
Caribou- Swim
Crystal Castles- Crystal Castles (II)
Curren$y- Pilot Talk 1 & 2
Deerhunter- Halcyon Digest
Emeralds- Does It Look Like I'm Here?
Flying Lotus- Cosmogramma
Four Tet- There Is Love In You
Girls- Broken Dreams Club
Health- DISCO2
Janelle Monae- The Archandroid
Kanye West- MBDTF
Liars- Sisterworld
Loscil- Endless Falls
No Age- Everything In Between
Oneohtrix Point Never- Returnal
Panthu Du Prince- Black Noise
Scuba- Triangulation
Sun Araw- On Patrol
A Sunny Day In Glasgow- Autumn, Again
Surfer Blood- Astrocoast
Teebs- Ardour
Teengirl Fantasy- 7 AM
Tobacco- Maniac Meat
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross- The Social Network OST
Warpaint- The Fool
Wavves- King of the Beach
Women- Public Strain

[wither-I]

year of no light -ausserwelt
beach house -teen dream
rinoa -an age among them
pianos become the teeth -old pride
red sparowes -the fear is excruciating, but therein lies the answer
hadoken -luminary
jonsi -go
post harbor -they can't hurt you if you dont believe in them
hammock -chasing after shadows, living with the ghosts
the ascent of everest -from this vantage
other mountains -japan EP
oceana -clean head EP
lights out asia -in the days of jupiter
in the wake of giants -the joy, the sorrow

[theis]

Beach House- Teen Dream
Caribou- Swim
Crystal Castles- Crystal Castles (II)
Curren$y- Pilot Talk 1 & 2
Deerhunter- Halcyon Digest
Emeralds- Does It Look Like I'm Here?
Flying Lotus- Cosmogramma
Four Tet- There Is Love In You
Girls- Broken Dreams Club
Health- DISCO2
Janelle Monae- The Archandroid
Kanye West- MBDTF
Liars- Sisterworld
Loscil- Endless Falls
No Age- Everything In Between
Oneohtrix Point Never- Returnal
Panthu Du Prince- Black Noise
Scuba- Triangulation
Sun Araw- On Patrol
A Sunny Day In Glasgow- Autumn, Again
Surfer Blood- Astrocoast
Teebs- Ardour
Teengirl Fantasy- 7 AM
Tobacco- Maniac Meat
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross- The Social Network OST
Warpaint- The Fool
Wavves- King of the Beach
Women- Public Strain

Too hipster for listing Deftones?

[ben]

That should just be implied.  But yes I am embarrased for forgetting