Simply put, post your favorite album(s) of this year. Mine would have to be, in no particular order:
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Frightened Rabbit- The Winter of Mixed Drinks: Amazing lyrics coupled with great subject matter. Damn catchy too.
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The National- High Violet: Also has amazing lyrics. Lemonworld is my favorite song on it.
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The Roots- How I Got Over: Their best album yet. Pure, unadulterated hip hop.
And most of all...
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Kanye West- My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Incredible production topped off with great lyrics and guests.
Zodiac, by Electric Six
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Coat of Arms, by Sabaton
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Those are the only albums I actually looked forward to this year and I liked them.
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Damn I still need to listen to this
A Silver Mt. Zion - Kollaps Tradixionales
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Furdidurke - Native
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Skagos/Panopticon - Split
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While I think Panoption's half is good, Skagos half is amazing.
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how could you put something so good next to the most shitty thing out this year
Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager - Kid Cudi
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Further - The Chemical Brothers
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A Thousand Suns - Linkin Park (fucking amazing ambient tracks)
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Congratulations - MGMT
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I never really understood how people take Dimmu Borgir seriously. I was really into Hot Topic black metal for a while when I was younger and then I realized how fucking cheesy Dimmu Borgir is, failed shock rock.
High Violet is an incredible album. Definitely my top album for 2010. More of my favourite albums this year:
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Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
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The Coral - Butterfly House
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Sleigh Bells - Treats
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These New Puritans - Hidden
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Klaxons - Surfing The Void
Oh god it's changed so many times over the year, but my two favorites are
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american slang - The gaslight anthem
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distant relatives - Nas & Damian Marley
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incidentally the only three newly-released albums I bought this year, but they're all good
Most of the stuff in this thread are brilliant, so I don't really want to post them again
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Holy shit, how could I forget about this? That too.
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Its a really good album. You will enjoy it a lot if you liked Kanye West's album.
So many great albums this year. So I'll give you a top five
1. "The Winter of Mixed Drinks" - Frightened Rabbit
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Absolutely love Frightened Rabbit. My sister got me into them (kind of) when she brought back "The Midnight Organ Fight" from seeing them live at a festival a couple years ago. But that was way back when I didn't care for listening to music at all. I gradually got into listening to more music, which really was just Muse, Lily Allen and stuff like that. Then I got kind of bored of all that and remembered that my sister loved Frightened Rabbit. That was maybe the end of last year when I got it. And then this album was released not long after.
Favourite song from the album: "Not Miserable"
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2. "We Were Exploding Anyway" - 65daysofstatic
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My music nerd friends were having a disagreement. One of them, thought this was some of the wost music they'd ever heard and the other thought it was fantastic. I listened to it and chose my side.
My favourite track is Tiger Girl, but right now I'm really obsessed with "Go Complex".
This is one of the few albums I've ever liked that I've had multiple obsessions with.
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3. "Contra" - Vampire Weekend
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catchy shit
Favourite track "I Think Ur A Contra"
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4. "The Suburbs" - Arcade Fire
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Well I love Arcade Fire so obviously I had to listen to it. The only trivia about me and Arcade Fire is that, before I was very into music, these were one of the bands I listened to for some reason. About the time when Neon Bible was released and I only listened to music so that the bus ride into and out of school went faster.
Favourite Track: "Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)"
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5. "I Love You! I Love You! I Love You and I'm In Love With You! Have An Awesome Day! Have The Best Day of Your Life!" - The Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt!
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A different music nerd friend of mine was listening to this. He had a music blog that he doesn't update anymore and it introduced me to The Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt. Also a band called Sleep Party People which is good but I never really listened to them much.
This album would be further up my list if every song was like "[Ride Friendship.]". Which is my favourite track.
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Some more albums I really liked were
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibUMtQo09i0]"Latin" by Holy Fuck[/url], [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5VgLOs0LwQ]"Go" by Jónsi[/url] and [url=http://vimeo.com/11708902]"My Best Friend Is You" by Kate Nash[/url]
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I felt like writing an essay
Too many good albums this year.
My head is about to explode :argh:
[I]Plastic Beach[/I] by the Gorillaz
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Superfast Jellyfish is by far my favorite song from this album.
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And:
[I]Brothers[/I] by The Black Keys
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Favorite song from this album? Probably Everlasting Light. I love the heavy beat in this one.
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Fuck me, I can never get media tags to work...
Also this is another good album from this year in fact.
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"The Guessing Game" by Cathedral
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No favourite because I haven't actually listened to the whole thing. I've just really liked all I have listened to.
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At The Edge of Time - Blind Guardian
I just...it's pure awesome. I cannot describe it in any other way. If you like power metal at all, you will absolutely love this album.
Caribou - Swim
Darwin Deez - Darwin Deez
Ellie Goulding - Lights
Delphic - Acolyte
Grum - Heartbeats
Hot Toddy - Late Night Boogie
Jamaica - No Problem
Rusko - OMG!
And loads more which I can't remember.
