I listened to that Stars album and did not like it at all :shrug:

Plastic Beach.

There is only one album that I'm sure I will put in my top at the end of the year and it's Teen Drean by Beach House. I listen some other but even if I like them I don't know yet if they will still be on my top in 6 months.

See you in december.

 

I've forgotten something obvious...

 

Plastic Beach.

Didn't really want to get that :\ maybe because of the hype. I love Some Kind Of Nature but didn't really like the other stuff I listened to on youtube.

Didn't really want to get that :\ maybe because of the hype. I love Some Kind Of Nature but didn't really like the other stuff I listened to on youtube.

 

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Okay, well listen to Demon Days then. Demon Days is the shit.

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Okay, well listen to Demon Days then. Demon Days is the shit.

 

I will get around to them, don't worry ;)

Ok i cant quite rank my albums just yet but i will categorise them

 

Top Tier

 

This Is Happening - LCD Soundsystem

Teen Dream - Beach House

I Speak Because i can - Laura Marling

High Violet - The National

Innerspeaker - Tame Impala

 

Middle Tier

 

Down the Way - Angus + Julia Stone

Plastic Beach - Gorillaz

Contra - Vampire Weekend

S/T - The Drums

Tourist History - Two Door Cinema Club

One Life Stand - Hot Chip

Crystal Castles II - Crystal Castles

Rush to Relax - Eddy Current Suppression Ring

Go - Jonsi

 

Slightly Lower Tier

 

Astrocoast - Surfer Blood

Swim - Carbou

Acolyte - Delphic

April Uprising - John Butler Trio

 

Good but Haven't Listened Properly Tier

 

Treats - Sleigh Bells

S/T - Broken Bells

Forgiveness Rock Record - Broken Social Scene

Further - The Chemical Brothers

 

amazing year so far, rivals 2008 already and has smashed 09 out of the park. if we get great records from interpol, fleet foxes and arcade fire and maybe something special from radiohead this might just beat 2007.

Ok so here is my list. I was going to wait until the end of the month but then I released that I am just going to come back and change it anyway. I might organise mine in tiers like Deaths_friend (I always forget your name sorry). There are still a lot of albums I need to listen to so this is a great thread, thanks briggs.

 

Top Tier

 

Teen Dream - Beach House

Odd Blood - Yeasayer

Forgiveness Rock Record - Broken Social Scene

Total Life Forever - Foals

High Violet - The National

 

Second Tier

 

Innerspeaker - Tame Impala

Contra - Vampire Weekend

Go - Jonsi

The Drums - The Drums

Down The Way - Angus and Julia Stone

This is Happening - LCD Soundsystem

Treats - Sleigh Bells

Broken Bells - S/T

Cystal Castles - Crystal Castles II

Heartland - Owen Pallett

 

Third Tier

 

Heligoland - Massive Attack

Acolyte - Delphic

Transference - Spoon

There is Love In You - Four Tet

Plastic Beach - Gorillaz

One Life Stand - Hot Chip

Swim - Caribou

The Five Ghosts - Stars

Tourist History - Two Door Cinema Club

The Crystal Axis - Midnight Juggernauts

Cosmogramma - Flying Lotus

Have One On Me - Joanna Newsom

Congratulations - MGMT

Where Did The Night Fall - UNKLE

 

Its so difficult to make a definitive list when you listen to so much music. Ive listened to about 80 albums so far this year and to cut it down to a top 30 is so challenging. For all I know, my list could look completely different depending on when I write it. What I do know however is that the quality of the music this year has been excellent and I do look forward to the second half.

I haven't honestly listened to enough new music the past few months, going to have to give a bunch of these a try. I stopped torrenting after I infected my computer with like 89754 annoying trojans and shit, so I guess... I will have to be legal now? Ugh. Tsk tsk.

Dang legal music acquisition!

It's so stupid, the actual artists get a pathetically small cut of the album sales, the people who make money are just the record company. Artists get money from touring live. And know how people get to want to see artists live? BY LISTENING TO THE FUCKING ALBUM.

That's why record labels get so pissed off about pirating but the bands are like meh.

Yeah, I have yet to hear of an actual artist getting seriously upset over pirating. In fact I saw a video on YouTube of a pissed off indie film director going on the street selling bootlegs of his own movie for 1/4 the price of the official ones and saying "this way I actually make money for what I created" etc.

I like when bands have the option of buying it directly from them. Like Stars started up their own label and are selling their new album through it (although it is distributed by Universal still). But even so, ordering it on the band's website is a way to know they're getting more money than if I just went to HMV.

That's cool, I may buy Stars' album that way.

NPR Listeners Top Albums of 2010 (so far)

 

1 Gorillaz: Plastic Beach

2 The National: High Violet

3 The Black Keys: Brothers

4 Broken Bells: Broken Bells

5 LCD Soundsystem: This Is Happening

6 Vampire Weekend: Contra

7 Beach House: Teen Dream

8 Mumford and Sons: Sigh No More

9 Spoon: Transference

#10 Sleigh Bells: Treats

#11 Local Natives: Gorilla Manor

#12 Yeasayer: Odd Blood

#13 The New Pornographers: Together

# 14Flying Lotus: Cosmogramma

# 15 She & Him: Volume Two

# 16 Band of Horses: Infinite Arms

# 17 Jonsi: Go

# 18 The Knife: Tomorrow, In A Year

#19 Broken Social Scene: Forgiveness Rock Record

#20 Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings: I Learned The Hard Way

 

Rest of the list here - http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2010/06/29/128189562/results2010sofar#more

^Thats a solid list as well. I didn't think black keys would be so high up and local natives and mumford and sons were last year.

Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

Say Hi - Numbers and Mumbles

Mellowdrone - Box

Mellowdrone - Angry Bear

Marina & The Diamonds - The Family Jewels

Lindstrom & Christabelle - Real Life Is No Cool

Boulder Acoustic Society - Punchline

This is turning out to be an amazing year for music! I'm not sure of all of the album names but here's what I like.

 

My list for 2010 is:

 

Olafur Arnolds

Blindfold (both albums)

Efterklang- Magic Chairs

Beach House- Teen Dream

Baths- Cerulean

Biggi Hilmarsson

Battles

Mutemath

Ramona Falls

Bear In Heaven

Paper Route

:D

^ The Mutemath album came out last year.

Phoenix was last year too ( a few posts back)

 

And Battles new album still isn't out.

^Thats a solid list as well. I didn't think black keys would be so high up and local natives and mumford and sons were last year.

 

they had their american releases this year. you'll be surprised at the gaps between normal release and american release for alot of young indie bands.

they had their american releases this year. you'll be surprised at the gaps between normal release and american release for alot of young indie bands.

 

Oh really? That is quite a gap. I do love both bands though.

Hmmmmm...

 

High Violet-The National

This Is Happening-LCD Soundsystem

Congratulations-MGMT

Teen Dream-Beach House

Contra-Vampire Weekend

The Drums-The Drums

 

No particular order. That's all I've got at 3 AM :shrug: