Top 30 Best Albums of 2010.
2010 was a weird year. The twin life manglers of buying our first home and starting my own business from said home (and not exactly as planned…) has meant my listening to more music, more often, and with more diversity than I have since Napster was first released and I got a job as a lab monitor on campus. I got to download music all day, and listen to it loudly! On speakers! And I didn’t have to keep looking over my shoulder while I read music blogs or label sites looking for new albums, to boot.
So I agonized over this list. What normally took a lazy afternoon at work took weeks. Some albums I just couldn’t compare. Some albums I felt like maybe I’d only scratched the surface of. Some albums I think are great, but frankly, I’m just sick to death of, but hope I’ll enjoy them again next year (I’m looking at you, Vampire Weekend). But I’m stopped making any progress on it and I’m tired of avoiding every other Best Of list like trying not to hear the score of a Phillies game you DVR’d, so here it is. The Top 30 Best Albums of 2010 — or at least My Favorite — and it’s a list I’ll likely disagree with mere seconds after posting.
And by all means, everyone should be posting his or her lists, too. I know I’m not the only opinionated jerk around here and I don’t buy this “I didn’t listen to any new music this year” crap I keep hearing. Yes you did, and somewhere in the back of your brain, you’ve ranked them. So out with it.