Friday, December 17, 2010

2010: The Year In Review - Top Songs


Welcome to the start of the silly season. This time of year is always hectic, deliberating over lists of every kind whilst having a mental breakdown in the process. I thought I'd start off with the easiest list first; the one where numbers or rankings don't apply (plus it's an easy way of saying that none of the other lists are finished).

Here are my favourite songs of 2010. In no particular order:

Liars - Too Much, Too Much
Beach House - Norway
Retribution Gosepl Choir - White Wolf
Massive Attack - Saturday Come Slow
Tindersticks - Factory Girls
Shearwater - Castaways
A Silver Mt Zion - There Is Light















Eluvium - Make Up Minds
Harvey Milk - Merlin is Magic
Harvey Milk - I Know This Is No Place For You
Yellow Swans - Limited Space
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Sweet Feeling
The Fall - Your Future Our Clutter
The Fall - Bury Pts 1 and 3
Caribou - Sun
Roky Erickson with Okkervil River - True Love Cast Out All Evil
Roky Erickson with Okkervil River - Forever
Broken Social Scene - Forced to Love
The National - Terrible Love

















The Besnard Lakes - Land Of Living Skies Pt. 1: The Living Skies
The Besnard Lakes - Albatross

65 Days Of Static - Tiger Girl
The Hold Steady - Soft In The Centre
Band Of Horses - Northwest Apartment
High Places - vs Mankind - The Longest Shadows
The New Pornographers - Up In The Dark
Phosphorescent - Tell Me Baby (Have You Had Enough)
Deftones - Beauty School
Defontes - Sextape
Teenage Fanclub - Into The City
Surfer Blood - Anchorage













!!! - The Hammer
Citay - Hunter
Steve Mason - Boys Outside
Killing Joke - The Raven King
Autolux - The Science of Imaginary Solutions
School of Seven Bells - Bye Bye Bye
Best Coast - When The Sun Don't Shine
Sun Kil Moon - Sam Wong Hotel











Arcade Fire - Half Light II (No Celebration)
Arcade Fire - Empty Room
Les Savy Fav - L.A.
Highspire - Sunraindown
Jonsi - Grow Til Tall
The Walkmen - Angela Surf City
The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang
Matthew Dear - Gem
Swans - Reeling The Liars In
The Twilight Sad - The Wrong Car
Philip Selway  - Don't Look Down
Zola Jesus - I Can't Stand
No Age - Glitter














Isis - The Pliable Foe
Flying Lotus - Recoiled
Interpol - Lights
Crippled Black Phoenix - We Forgotten Who We Are
Salem - Killer
Manic Street Preachers - A Billion Balconies Facing the Sun
The Charlatans - Love Is Ending
Grinderman - Worm Tamer
Grinderman - Palaces Of Montezuma
Deerhunter - Desire Lines
Superchunk - Rosmarie















Underworld - Scribble
Neil Young - Angry World
Clinic - Milk and Honey
Envy - Light and Solitude
BXI - Magickal Child
Kurt Vile - In My Time
Three Mile Pilot - Same Mistake
The War On Drugs - Baby Missiles
British Sea Power - Bear
Electric Wizard - Paterns of Evil
Gareth Liddiard - Did She Scare All Your Friends Away
Red Sparowes - In Illusions of Order
Black Mountain  - Wilderness Heart
Pantha Du Prince - The Splendour













Blonde Redhead - My Plants Are Dead
Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan - Lately
Wolf Parade - Little Golden Age
Wolf Parade - Yulia
The Corin Tucker Band - Riley
Stars - Wasted Daylight
Belle & Sebastian - I Didn't See It Coming














Windsor for the Derby - Queen of the Sun
Jesu - Dethroned
Titus Andronicus - Richard II
Growing - Mind Eraser
Paul Weller - Find The Torch, Burn the Places
Oneohtrix Point Never - Describing Bodies

Words by Simon K.


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