RHMB Best of 2010 Lists!

Here's a collection of RHMBers and their picks / comments on the music of 2010! I tried keeping up with the lists I saw but I might have missed some, so I apologize in advance if yours isn't here. Pictured above is Before Today, which was mentioned a bunch here. Please leave your favorites in the comments if you want!

big-eyed reindeers:

1) ariel pink's hg Before Today

And in no order...

joanna newsom Have One On Me
oneohtrix point never Returnal
jonny greenwood Norwegian Wood [OST]
games That We Like To Play EP
sufjan stevens The Age Of Adz/ All Delighted People EP
eluvim Similes/ Static Nocturne
magnetic fields Realism
le sang song Le Sang Song
twin sister Color Your Life
mice parade What It Means To Be Left-Handed
denseland Chunk
women Public Strain
autechre Oversteps

hamdy:

1) Ariel Pink's Haunted Grafitti - Before Today
2) Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Rush to Relax
3) LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
4) Flight - The Lead Riders EP
5) Four Tet - There Is Love In You
6) Beach House - Teen Dream
7) Dum Dum Girls - I Will Be
8) Thee Oh Sees - Warm Slime
9) Le Sang Song - s/t
10) Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
11) Crystal Castles - s/t
12) Nice Face - Immer Etwas
13) The Soft Moon - s/t
14) Liars - Sisterworld
15) Blank Dogs - Landed and Fixed
16) Here We Go Magic - Pigeons
17) The Ponys - Deathbed Plus 4 EP
18) Department of Eagles - Archive 2003-2006
19) Harlem - Hippies
20) Rayon Beach - The Memory Teeth EP

Harri:

1. Thee Oh Sees - Warm Slime
2. Moon Duo - Escape
3. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today
4. Liars - Sisterworld
5. Autechre - Move of Ten
6. Beach Fossils - Face It / Distance 7"
7. Blank Dogs - Landed and Fixed
8. Gary War - Police Water EP
9. Flight - Ghosts 7"
10. Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Rush to Relax
11. Dunes - s/t EP
12. Panda Bear - Tomboy 7"
13. Le Sang Song - s/t LP
14. Junip - Fields
15. Solvent - Subject to Shift
16. The New Lines - BEKO single
17. Bitters - East General
18. Dum Dum Girls - I Will Be
19. Wooden Shjips - Vol. 2
20. Matthew Herbert - One One

mela:

2010 - in no specific order

the tindersticks - falling down a mountain
the national - high violet
holly mirinda - the magician's private library
antony & the johnsons - swanlights
the black keys - brother
wovenhand - the treshingfloor
solveig slettahjell - tarpan seasons
menomena - mines
caribou - swim
nina nastasia - outlaster

only sleeping:

here's my list for public ridicule and derision:

1. boy eats drum machine - hoop+wire / 20 beats
2. lcd sounsystem - this is happening
3. wolf parade - expo 86
4. the black keys - brothers
5. autechre - move of ten / oversteps
6. flying lotus - cosmogramma / pattern+grid world
7. les savy fav - root for ruin
8. beach fossils - beach fossils
9. four tet - there is love in you
10. eddy current suppresion ring - rush to relax
11. ra ra riot - the orchard
12. archie bronson outfit - coconut
13. tobacco - maniac meat
14. the nels cline singers - initiate
15. best coast - crazy for you
16. bare wires - seeking love
17. isobel campbell & mark lanegan - hawk
18. sun kil moon - admiral fell promises
19. elvis costello - national ransom
20. gorillaz - plastic beach

stay gold jonyboy:

MY TOP FIVE RECORDS OF 2010:
1. Barbes Records (Various) - The Roots Of Chicha 2
2. Typhoon - Hunger And Thirst
3. The Roots - How I Got Over
4. Erykah Badu – New Amerykah Part II: Return of the Ankh
5. Menomena - Mines

The Grolsch:

25 records from 2010

My favourites

1. Broadcast 2000 - Broadcast 2000
2. The National - High Violet
3. Dry The River - Bible Belt / Family Tree EP
4. The Acorn - No Ghost
5. Megafaun - Heretofore EP
6. The Black Keys - Brothers
7. Stornoway - Beachcomber's Windowsill
8. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
9. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today
10. Pavement - Quarantine The Past*

*Okay, I know Pavement's a cop-out but it was better than everything else. And I saw them play live so I'm counting it.


Honorable mentions

Anais Mitchell - Hadestown
Beach Fossils - Beach Fossils
Boy Eats Drum Machine - Hoop and Wire
Dark Dark Dark - Wild Go
Emeralds - Does It Look Like I'm Here?
Emma Pollock - The Law of Large Numbers
Fionn Regan - The Shadow Of An Empire
Forest City Lovers - Carriage
Holly Golightly and the Brokeoffs - Medicine County
Holly Miranda - The Magician's Private Library
The Magnetic Fields - Realism
Panda Su - Sticks and Bricks EP
Tunng - ... And Then We Saw Land
Wild Nothing - Gemini


Horrible guilty pleasure that I can't turn off despite the fact that it's rotting my soul

Marina and the Diamonds - The Family Jewels

witches hat:

i would've struggled with a top 30 nevermind 40
it appears i forgot to listen to most stuff more than once

1. Thee Oh Sees 'Warm Slime'
2. Forest Swords 'Dagger Paths'
3. Nina Nastasia 'Outlaster'
4. Scott Tuma 'Dandelion'
5. Kitchen's Floor 'Loneliness Is A Dirty Mattress'
6. King Kong Ding Dong 'Youth Culture Index'
7. Sean McCann 'Chances Are Staying'
8. Seijaku 'Mail From Fushitsusha'
9. Sun City Girls 'Funeral Mariachi'
10. he North Sea 'Bloodlines'
11. Smoke Jaguar 'The Whaler's Rest'
12. Pumice 'Worldwide Gullet'
13. Swans 'My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky'
14. Faust 'Faust Is Last'
15. Liars 'Sisterworld'
16. Beach House 'Teen Dream'
17. Kim Doo Soo 'Evening River'
18. Wyatt, Atzmon, Stephen 'ForThe Ghosts Within'
19. Celer 'Dying Star'
20. Alastair Galbraith 'Mass'

I hope 2011 is just as good.

~Harri

P.S. 2010 RHMB Communal Mix is coming soon!

LATE ADDITIONS:

really dizzy:

They're kind of in order. I can't believe Beach House is at the top of the list.

0. Beach House - Teen Dream
1. LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening
2. Yeasayer - Odd Blood
3. Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
4. Four Tet - There is Love in You
5. Boy Eats Drum Machine - 20 Beats
6. Boy Eats Drum Machine - Hoop + Wire
7. Caribou - Swim
8. The Books - The Way Out
9. Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
10. Twin Sister - Color Your Life
11. Thee Oh Sees - Warm Slime