60 Albums 2010

Last year. 2010.60 albums but of course again I couldn't stop at 60. Robert Plant is my top pick. So retro. Well, I enjoyed that album over and over. Maybe something about the familiar voice. I really loved his duet album with Alison Krauss from 2007 which has become one of my favorite albums. This new album is also a wonderful selection of songs and Plant is in great voice again.

Arcade Fire put out another superb album along with some of my other mainstays Ariel Pink and the Black Keys. I thought the new Damien Jurado album was more full band sounding than previous efforts.with great songwriting as usual. I think Tom Petty released one of his best albums of his long career.

David Bowie has put out a few live albums and some new releases of old live material has come out recently including a wonderful second bonus disc of a concert during the Thin White Duke tour supporting Station To Station. However, this new live album A Reality Tour was the best concert recording he's done in his also long career. It wasn't a collection of hits from the past either and the new and recent songs blended perfectly with the great songs from the past and he also pulled out many deep tracks from classic albums. Throughout the wonderful music Bowie really sounded like he was enjoying himself out there especially after that near fatal heart attack in 2004.

Overall lots of great music came out in 2010.

1. Robert Plant - Band of Joy
2. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
3. David Bowie - A Reality Tour
4. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today
5. The Black Keys - Brothers
6. Damien Jurado - Saint Bartlett
7. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Mojo
8. The National - High Violet
9. Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz
10. Darker My Love - Alive As You Are
11. The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night
12. Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
13. Beach House - Teen Dream
14. Caribou - Swim
15. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - I Learned The Hard Way
16. Junip - Fields
17. Dean & Britta - 13 Most Beautiful: Songs For Andy Warhol's Screen Tests
18. Fitz & The Tantrums - Pickin' Up The Pieces
19. Blitzen Trappen - Destroyer Of The World
20. Alejandro Escovedo - Street Songs of Love
21. Neil Young - Le Noise
22. Broken Bells - Broken Bells
23. Field Music - Field Music (Measure)
24. Carolina Chocolate Drops - Genuine Negro Jig
25. Menomena - Mines
26. MGMT - Congratulations
27. The Drums - The Drums
28. Azure Ray - Drawing Down The Moon
29. Elf Power - Elf Power
30. Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can
31. Fistful of Mercy - As I Call You Down
32. Los Lobos - Tin Can Trust
33. Mary Gauthier - The Foundling
34. Peter Gabriel - Scratch My Back
35. Superchunk - Majesty Shredding
36. Patty Griffin - Downtown Church
37. John Hiatt - The Open Road
38. Tift Merritt - See You On The Moon
39. Nada Surf - If I Had A Hi Fi
40. Sufjan Stevens - All Delighted People EP
41. Tindersticks - Falling Down A Mountain
42. Justine Townes Earle - Harlem River Blues
43. Aloe Blacc - Good Things
44. Josh Ritter - So Runs The World Away
45. Mavis Staples - You Are Not Alone
46. Drive-By Truckers - The Big To-Do
47. Spoon - Transference
48. Teenage Fanclub - Shadows
49. Midlake - The Courage of Others
50. The White Stripes - Under Great White Northern Lights
51. Nina Nastasia -Outlaster
52. The Black Angels - Phosphene Dream
53. Jamey Johnson - The Guitar Song
54. Crocodiles - Sleep Forever
55. Band of Horses - Infinite Arms
56. Bruce Springsteen - The Promise
57. The Autumn Defense - Once Around
58. Eli "Paperboy" Reed - Come and Get It
59. Lower Dens - Twin Hand Movement
60. Blue Giant - Blue Giant
61. John Mellencamp - No Better Than This
62. Roky Erickson & Okkervil River - True Love Cast Out All Evil
63. LCD Sound System - This Is Happening
64. Black Dub - Black Dub
65. Betteye Lavette - Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook
66. Ray LaMontagne - God Willin' and the Creek Don't Rise
67. The Tallest Man On Earth - The Wild Hunt
68. Solomon Burke - Nothing's Impossible
69. The Sadies - Darker Circles
70. Ty Segall - Melted
71. Allison Moorer - Crows
72. Wolf Parade - Expo 86 
73. Elvis Costello - National Ransom
74. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Beat The Devil's Tattoo
75. She & Him - Volume 2
76. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
77. Sun Kil Moon - Admiral Fell Promises
78. The Radio Dept. - Clinging To A Scheme
79. Eels - End Times
80. Sharon Van Etten - Epic
81. David Byrne & Fatboy Slim - Here Lies Love
82. Surfer Blood - Astro Coast
83. Ray Wylie Hubbard - A. Enlightment B. Endarkment (Hint: There Is No C)
84. Villagers - Becoming A Jackel
85. Laura Veils - July Flame 
86. Sleepy Sun - Fever
87. Gayngs - Relayted
88. Bardo Pond - Bardo Pond
89. Woven Hand - The Threshing Floor
90. The Dead Weather - Sea of Cowards
91. Eric Clapton - Clapton
92. Jonsi - Go
93. Ryan Bingham - Junky Star
94. Dead Meadow - Three Kings
95. The New Pornographers - Together
96. Kings Go Forth - The Outsiders Are Back
97. Shearwater - The Golden Archipelago
98. Isobell Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Hawk
99. Black Mountain - Wilderness Heart
100. School of Seven Bells - Disconnect From Desire
101. Stars - The Five Ghosts
102. Peter Wolf - Midnight Souvenirs
103. Breathe Owl Breathe - Magic Central
104. Interpol - Interpol
105. Jackie Greene - Till The Light Comes
106. Liars - Sisterworld
107. The Grip Weeds - Strange Change Machine
108. Suckers - Wild Smile
109. Dum Dum Girls - I Will Be
110. No Age - Everything In Between
111. The Moondoggies - Tidelands
112. Best Coast - Crazy For You
113. The Acorn - No Ghost
114. The Secret Sisters - The Secret Sisters
115. Land of Talk - Cloak and Cipher
116. The Extra Lens - Undercard
117. Girl Talk - All Day
118. Vampire Weekend - Contra
119. Yeasayer - Odd Blood
120. Megafaun - Heretofore