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January 08, 2010 Music » Features

The Best of 2010 (So Far and Only According to Mike Conklin) 

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In order to avoid finding myself in the situation I've found myself in at the end of pretty much every year since around 1999, where I'm left desperately digging through stacks of records, or my hard drive, or other people's year-end lists to make sure I haven't forgotten anything from the preceding 11.5 months, I'm going to try something new. Well, new for me anyway: A running list of the new songs and albums I like most throughout the year, presented mostly, if not entirely, without commentary aside from what you'll find in our reviews or on the blog. My hope is that, in addition to making my life easier when it comes time for year-end silliness to take over, it will present a relatively accurate snapshot of what music was all about in 2010. This seems somewhat unlikely, of course, because I'm just one person with my own pigheaded taste in things, but at the very least, it will wind up being a completely sick playlist for me to listen to over holiday break.

Songs
1. The Knife: "Colouring of Pigeons"
2. Ke$ha: "Blah Blah Blah"
3. Freelance Whales: "Hannah"
4. Spoon: "Written in Reverse"
5. Laura Veirs: "July Flame"
6. Ben Kweller: "Sawdust Man" (From 2009 album Changing Horses, single released 1/12/10.)
7. Young Man: "Five"
8. Vampire Weekend: "California English"
9. Title Tracks: "Every Little Bit Hurts"
10. First Rate People: "Girls' Night"
11. Surfer Blood: "Swim"
12. Yeasayer: "Ambling Alp"
13. The Magnetic Fields: "You Must Be Out of Your Mind"
14. Titus Andronicus: "A More Perfect Union"
15. Beach House: "Zebra"
16. Shearwater: "Black Eyes"
17. Clem Snide: "I Got High"
18: Janelle Monae: "Tightrope" (feat. Big Boi)
19. Yeasayer: "I Remember" 20. The Tallest Man on Earth: "You're Going Back"
21. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists: "Bottled in Cork"
22. Cults: "Go Outside"

Albums
1. Vampire Weekend: Contra
2. Surfer Blood: Astro Coast
3. Beach House: Teen Dream
4. Owen Pallett: Heartland
5. Midlake: The Courage of Others
6. Shearwater: The Golden Archipelago
7. Titus Andronicus: The Monitor
8. Liars: Sisterworld
9. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists: The Brutalist Bricks
10. The Tallest Man on Earth: The Wild Hunt
11. Four Tet: There Is Love in You
12. Charlotte Gainsbourg: IRM
13. Harlem: Hippies
14. Kaki King: Junior
15. Trans Am: Thing
16. Nathaniel Rateliff: In Memory of Loss
17. Sam Amidon: I See the Sign
18. Broken Social Scene: Forgiveness Rock Record

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