Your top 10 non-classical album picks for 2010

[MN Dave]

If you have one. 

#1 John Grant – QUEEN OF DENMARK (indie pop)

#2 Devo – SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY (alternative pop)

#3 Brant Bjork – GODS AND GODDESSES (stoner rock)

#4 Cee Lo Green – THE LADY KILLER (indie R&B)

#5 Killing Joke – ABSOLUTE DISSENT (alternative rock)

#6 Scorpions – STING IN THE TAIL (hard rock)

#7 Accept – BLOOD OF THE NATIONS (heavy metal)

#8 Melvins – THE BRIDE SCREAMED MURDER (quirky sludge/stoner metal)

#9 John Mellencamp – NO BETTER THAN THIS (Americana)

#10 Grand Magus – HAMMER OF THE NORTH (heavy metal)

[MN Dave]

For jazz, I liked the Dave Holland Octet, but that's all I heard. 

[bwv 1080]

Agalloch - Marrow of the Spirit
Negura Bunget - Virstele Pamintului
Foals - Total Life Forever
Immolation - Majesty & Decay
Swans - My Father will Guide me up a Rope to the Sky
Otis Taylor - Clovis People vol 3

[MN Dave]

Heavy.

Electric Wizard's new one is good.

[Henk]

I don't get to 10, Dave, but here are my purchases:

1. Blonde Redhead - Penny Sparkle (pop)
2. KT Tunstall - Tiger Suit (pop)
3. Carlos Moscardini - Horizonte Infinito (spanish)
4. Bettie Serveert - Pharmacy of Love (pop)
5. Buddy Guy - Living Proof (blues)
6. Free Energy - Stuck on Nothing (pop)
7. Herbie Hancock - The Imagine project (pop)

I like all, except the Herbie Hancock was a bit unsatisfactory.

Having to get yet:
Kenny Wheeler - Windmill Tilter the Story of Don Quixote (jazz, reissue)

[Lethevich]

Matt & Kim - Sidewalks (really happy indie pop with a keyboard-vocalist and drummer)
Burzum - Belus (obviously )
Crystal Castles - s/t (more of a house influence than their debut, also less of a contrast between stark chillout and 8 bit noise, it is more blended overall, but still retains their key features. The louder tracks are even more distorted than before)
Surfer Blood - Astro Coast (indie rock, bouncy, airy, interesting distortions)
Year of No Light - Ausserwelt (wall-to-wall noise/sound/atmosphere)
The Lord Weird Slough Feg - The Animal Spirits (I like an anything they do, perhaps not their best release but every album they make is always very refreshing folk/prog tinged heavy/power metal)
Wuthering Heights - Salt (similar genre to Slough Feg, but more traditional metal songwriters. The whole "concept" and dramatic attitude in this genre I usually find has far more ambition than achivement, but this album won me over - it's just ernest, catchy and fun)
Red Sparowes - The Fear is Excruciating, But Therein Lies the Answer (unbearably pretentious band, but they write great post-rock)
Hooded Menace - Never Cross the Dead (there are hundreds of bands aiming for an occult doomy-deathy sound, but this one does it better than the rest)
Stars - The Five Ghosts (this is an acquired taste band - melodramatic, sweet, yet simultaneously gloomy indie rock. That is why their fans listen to them, though, and this is yet another good release)


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I was once again disappointed by Cathedral's latest album. I don't know how, but they seem to have forgotten how to be catchy. Not too thrilled with Negură Bunget's latest - but all the core members who left after the last album have formed a new band which apparently sounds much the same, so I'm awaiting a full-length from them. The Magnentic Fields - Realism was just boring. I find it hard to like the band anyway as they are pretentious jerks, but at least they used to write good music.

[MN Dave]

I don't get to 10, Dave, but here are my purchases:

1. Blonde Redhead - Penny Sparkle (pop)
2. KT Tunstall - Tiger Suit (pop)
3. Carlos Moscardini - Horizonte Infinito (spanish)
4. Bettie Serveert - Pharmacy of Love (pop)
5. Buddy Guy - Living Proof (blues)
6. Free Energy - Stuck on Nothing (pop)
7. Herbie Hancock - The Imagine project (pop)

I like all, except the Herbie Hancock was a bit unsatisfactory.

Having to get yet:
Kenny Wheeler - Windmill Tilter the Story of Don Quixote (jazz, reissue)

I've been looking at that Buddy Guy.

[MN Dave]

Lethe, I have a few of those. Maybe not pop enough to make my top 10. Of course, a lot of the time, I just haven't listened enough for them to click.

[Lethevich]

So much music, so little time

[MN Dave]

So much music, so little time

Hell, yeah. People have a nerve making top ten lists when they couldn't have possibly heard everything.

[snyprrr]

David Foster Christmas with Bocelli!!!! fabu,... NOT!!!

[Papy Oli]

My only 2 non-classical purchases this year 

 

[AndyD.]

Accept- Blood of Nations
Curt Anderson- For Some Time
Buddy Guy - Living Proof
Slash- Slash
Michael Schenker Group- 30th Anniversary Live
Jeff Beck - Emotion and Commotion

And that's about it. Mostly "older" artists, and mostly Popular music. I didn't like most of the new Rock and Jazz that I heard, and that which I did like amounted to only a couple of tracks, never an album.

[KevinP]

I'm seriously trying to remember any new (not reissued) music purchases from 2010. I'm sure there must be something but I'm coming up blank...

[greg]

Heavy.

Electric Wizard's new one is good.

I didn't even know about this one  ... checking out the title track right now and liking it so far.

[MN Dave]

I didn't even know about this one  ... checking out the title track right now and liking it so far.

And you don't even smoke weed!

[AndyD.]

And you don't even smoke weed!

Gad!

[AndyD.]

Gad!

Eeewwwps. Thought this was the listening thread. Zounds.

[jowcol]

I've been looking at that Buddy Guy.

I thought it was okay, but the live album in the early 90s and Sweet Tea were the only ones I found to be revelations. 

[MN Dave]

I thought it was okay, but the live album in the early 90s and Sweet Tea were the only ones I found to be revelations.

Yeah! Sweet Tea is like Zep only way better!