Reaper's Top 30 (plus Honorable Mentions) Favorite Albums of 2010

[Reaper16]

This year, a very deep year for music, I will post a top 30, complete with descriptions and YouTube embeds to a song I really like from each album.

My top 30 isn't quite complete yet. I anticipate posting everything for that list tomorrow. But in the meantime, this thread will begin with a handful of Honorable Mentions, listed alphabetically, for people to mull over.

Honorable Mentions:
Brotha Lynch Hung - Dinner and a Movie
Enforcer - Diamonds
Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier
LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
Manticora - Safe
Oceansize - Self Preserved While the Bodies Float Up
Overkill - Ironbound
Pain of Salvation - Road Salt pt. 1
Sleigh Bells - Treats
Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz
Tech N9ne - Collabos: The Gates Mixed Plate
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Mojo
Bobby Watson - The Gates BBQ Suite
Kanye West - G.O.O.D. Fridays


Top 30:
30.) The National - High Violet
29.) Kutt Calhoun - Raw and Un-Kutt
28.) Joanna Newsom - Have One on Me
27.) Gayngs - Relayted
26.) Johnny Cash - American Recordings VI: Ain't No Grave
25.) Burzum - Belus
24.) Blind Guardian - At the Edge of Time
23.) High on Fire - Snakes for the Divine
22.) Karnataka - The Gathering Light
21.) Ihsahn - After
20.) Das Racist - Sit Down, Man
19.) Kvelertak - Kvelertak
18.) Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini
17.) Heathen - The Evolution of Chaos
16.) Briton Rites - For Mircalla
15.) Glasser - Ring
14.) Big Boi - Sir Luscious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
13.) Borknagar - Universal
12.) Sigh - Scenes from Hell
11.) Gil Scott-Heron - I'm New Here
10.) Alcest - Écailles de Lune
09.) Robyn - Body Talk
08.) Ces Cru - The Playground
07.) Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones
06.) Janelle Monae - The ArchAndroid
05.) The Lord Weird Slough Feg - The Animal Spirits
04.) Angra - Aqua
03.) Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
02.) Dessa - A Badly Broken Code
01.) Agalloch - Marrow of the Spirit

Thanks for reading/listening! Feel free and discuss the albums mentioned or the albums snubbed.

[Titty Meat]

Nice videos Stanley but that Sheek Louch song is a few years old.

[salame]

metal lol

[Reaper16]

Originally Posted by salame

metal lol

Be a better poster.

[Taco John]

Whoah! Warrant has returned with marginally better music!

[Mr Luzcious]

I love that you do this Reaper. Always a few things I somehow managed to miss.

[salame]

Originally Posted by Reaper16

Be a better poster.

good one brah

[Reaper16]

Originally Posted by Taco John

Whoah! Warrant has returned with marginally better music!

You ever hear the Warrant cut "Uncle Tom's Cabin"? That track slays.

[Demonpenz]

I am still trying to get to Das Racist in full. some cuts in there are rad

[Miles]

Originally Posted by Reaper16

LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening:
It's an LCD Soundsystem album. You know what to expect. This one is a massive step down for me from 2007's momentous Sound of Silver. This album feels tired in places, bored with itself. Still though, it's LCD Soundsystem.

I didn't see it as that much of a step down from Sound of Silver at the higher points at all. Four of the nine tracks were Murphy at his best but would agree that the album had some flat moments. Probably my vote for album of the year despite the imperfections.

[Miles]

Originally Posted by Reaper16

30.) The National - High Violet:

[FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]A key reason why I don’t claim this list to necessarily represent the “best” albums of the year: I don’t know the context for some of these bands that the kids listen to these days. A lot of my friends really like this album, so I listened to it. I don’t have the context with The National to know whether this album is them treading water or exploring something new or whatever. Going simply on what I hear on this record: I quite like it. Well, some of it. I think the album gets off to a slow start, the singer isn’t very good, and I absolutely hate the flat, thudding drum sound. But the album’s middle section is legitimately arresting to me. Tracks like “Afraid of Everyone,” “Runaway,” “Conversation 16,” and especially “Lemonworld” earn all the praise this album receives. The songs on this album are quiet, sparse, and vaguely like lullabies, but brimming with a palpable tension that keeps you on edge.

Pretty good take on this one. I have enjoyed their past few albums and you might want to check out "The Boxer" next. They remind me a bit of "The Walkmen" in the sense that they put out pretty high quality albums that I really enjoy but not quite to the level that I love them as much as others.