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Triple J Music Director Richard Kingsmill on Kanye couldn't agree more.

when i saw them in Sydney eddie was too sick to play Alive :( eddie is in sydney next march but the tickets were way too expensive so im going to be missing out. :(

i disagree. i much prefer this to him making a thread that somebody else has already made.

thanks for the positive feedback guys. sorry it was so long but i spent about 12hrs at the venue so it was hard to compress it down to a short summary.

i thought they were going to do a handful of shows next year also? kinda like what they did in 2008....

here is my final top 25. 1. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening 2. The National - High Violet 3. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy 4. Foals - Total Life Forever 5. Tame Impala - Innerspeaker 6. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs 7. Angus + Julia Stone - Down the Way 8. Beach House - Teen Dream 9. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles II 10. Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can 11. Jonsi - Go 12. Cloud Control - Bliss Release 13. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach 14. Interpol - S/T 15. Parades - Foreign Tapes 16. Vampire Weekend - Contra 17. Yeasayer - Odd Blood 18. The Drums - S/T 19. Hot Chip - One Life Stand 20 Dead Letter Circus - This Is The Warning 21. The Chemical Brothers - Further 22. Caribou - Swim 23. Two Door Cinema Club - Tourist History 24. Broken Bells - S/T 25. Local Natives - Gorilla Manor Special Mentions Sufjan Stevens - All Delighted People EP (would've made the top 10 if Sufjan didnt call it an EP) The White Stripes - Under Great White Northern Lights (brilliant live recording) Sleigh Bells - Treats (i appreciate its awesomeness but just couldn't find a spot for it) i ended up leaving out some albums i really really enjoyed this year so that was difficult but that did mean i ended up with 25 albums i genuinely loved this year as opposed to previous years where ive included albums just to make up the numbers. the top 13 in particular really really impressed me and the top 3 are of the quality that i would put in an end of decade list.

you guys have Boxing Day in england right? the day after christmas...

1-1!!! bring on melbourne and sydney!

im most probably the biggest kanye fan on this forum and not even i would say it is the best album of the year but it is pretty amazing and i can see why pitchfork would call it the best album of the year.

ok as U2's australian tour comes to an end tonight in Perth i think ive delayed this for too long. so heres my review of their 2 night stay in sydney last week. Night 1 well i rocked up at about 6-30pm met up with friends and headed straight into the stadium. i had a pretty good idea of what to expect when i walked in but the first time i saw the Claw i was blown away, it was much much bigger than i expected and possessed an incredible presence in an otherwise massive stadium. Jay-z strolled on stage to a fairly noisy reception after 7pm and tore into his set straight away. he gave us most of his big songs like Run this town. Big Pimpin, encore and so on but his great performance wasnt what i took away from the set. i now have a new found respect for the man. he sells out stadiums in the US, headlined glasto but he still has the humility to come down to australia (a market he has never truly broken) and play to a near empty stadium to people who dont enjoy that brand of music let alone his music during broad daylight and he did it all with a great big smile on his face. with that sort of attitude towards performing im not at all surprised he has been so incredibly successful. now moving on to U2. i really enjoyed how they sort of strutted around the stage for a few minutes and got the crowd pumped before launching into the first song which just happened to be Beautiful Day. they then did I Will Follow to perfection. by the time they go to Elevation about 30mins into the show Bono's body language was starting to show that he was a little disappointed at the lack of crowd participation, at one point commenting "does this feel like a Monday night?" and he was completely right. i couldnt believe that the opening riffs to beautiful day and mysterious ways were met with muted responses, nobody chanted the opening bits of Elevation and basically every new song just fell flat. the setlist was brilliant in my opinion with a healthy chunk of All That You Cant.... played and Bad mixed in with a few INXS classics. on the other hand the sound was atrocious but to no fault of the band, the stadium just isnt made for live music. like i said before the crowd was shit making it really hard for the band. but Bono and The Edge gave us everything they had and i really appreciated that. im not sure if i can say it is easily the best show ive ever seen but it was bloody good. Night 2 i worked the merch and program stands from 4 to 9 at this show. after cashing up and getting my all access wristband i went and found the best seat i possibly could. at that point they had already played New Years Day and Beautiful Day with Sgt Peppers outro. the setlist was fairly predictable until Bono launched into a monologue about their Lovetown tour and then got into All I Want Is You which made my jaw drop, it is easily one of my all time favourite songs and i never expected them to play it in sydney, i later found out that was the first time they had played it on this tour. they went onto play Pride and Love Rescue Me from the rattle & hum album. the rest of the set was quite predictable aside from Ultra Violet. sitting in my $200 dollar seat i realised why the seated tickets were so much more expensive than the pit tickets, the experience was far more enjoyable from the stands than in the pit. standing on the floor i felt some what distant from the spaceship/stage but in my seat i could appreciate everything that was happening in front of me. sadly, ticket sales for the 2nd night were extremely poor, my supervisor told me in the morning that they were expecting less than 40 000 down from close to 80 000 the night before. but through the day i heard a lot of talk about people having the promoters coming in to their workplace and handing out 50 -100 free tickets at a time. so by the time U2 started the stadium was near capacity. overall it was a wonderful experience and i feel as though i was a part of this 360 tour in some way through working the merch stands. at the end of the 2nd night i really did not want to leave my seat and felt a sense of sadness go through me knowing that it will be a long time before i see another show this huge.

man utd v chelsea has been postponed because of the heavy snow at stamford bridge.

wow what an hour! england 5 down now :D

anyone but kanye would be a shock.

yeah i think ive poured close to $1500 into the music industry this year alone when you include concert tickets, albums and magazines.

i tend to always agree with kingsmill lol. i still see him as the most influential man in the australian music scene and rightly so. and he included Laura! what a legend! and we ended up with pretty similar lists BUT i posted mine first. :P on the other hand the voted list has some surprises, a little surprised two door made it and amazed that kanye made it to 11 after just 3 weeks of being out there but the rest was pretty predictable .

making this thread was a bad idea..............:(

THIS.

RHCP is a difficult band to recommend to people cos no other band sounds anything like them. but i can see how Green Day fans might like them.

whats with all these EP's in the list? are they genuine EP's or are they sufjan wannabes. speaking of sufjan i was expecting him in the top 10 so a little surprised at where he ended up. maybe All Delighted People might outrank it.

yeah i used richard kingsmills top 10. i dont want to use lists based on popular vote like the triple j list. if you find the time tonight to post the FL top 10 i will paste it on the first post. i've ended up with way more lists than i first expected so thanks to everyone to has contributed.

please come to the aussie music thread! we need more peoples http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?t=63219

Pop Crimes was a brilliant record but was released in 2009.

BNM has lost all significance. 2010 was an awesome year in music but 55 BNM albums in one year is a bit too much.

sticking with the aussie theme. The Presets, Living End, Silverchair and The Panics are all due for a new album.