2010 Recap: Top 35 songs

Happy New Year everyone! What better way to start 2011 then by listing my favorite songs from 2010? Yeah I know that isn't very good reasoning, but I've been busy and I didn't get around to posting my list before the year ended!

I wanted to highlight as many bands from this year as I could so there aren't any songs from my favorite LPs or EPs. For the same reason I limited the list to one song per artist.

I didn't feel like individually uploading all 35 songs so I only put links for up for songs I already shared and hosted at one point on another. Don't worry though you can grab a zip of all 35 right here!

1. Away Frm U - Oberhoffer
2. Heavy Pop - Wu Lyf
3. School Night - Coma Foxes
4. Wrinkle Carver - Gobble Gobble
5. Sun's Going Down - Shimmering Stars
6. When your Love is Safe - Active Child
7. Dance Yrself Clean - LCD Soundsystem
8. Albatross - Besnard Lakes
9. O.N.E. - Yeasayer
10. Lemonade - Braids
11. Not in Love - Crystal Castles Featuring Robert Smith
12. Solo 4 Claire - Wise Blood
13. Mr. Peterson - Perfume Genius
14. Younger Us - Japandroids
15. Shiny Fur - Bedrooms of the Nation
16. Blood - Middle East
17. 5 rings - Keepaway
18. Lifestyle - Ace Hood
19. What a drag - Bear Hands
20. Stay Close - Delorean
21. Prom Queen - School Knights
22. Take Me Home or I Die Alone - Dead Gaze
23. I Only Know (What I Know Now) - James Blake
24. Wasting Time - Reading Rainbows
25. Oh My God - Cults
26. Fuck You - Cee Lo Green
27. Decisions - How To Dress Well
28. Photojournalist - Small Black
29. Mickey Mouse(demo/extended version) - Wavves
30. Birthday Party - Unoumedude
31. Caroline, Please Kill Me Now - Coma Cinema
32. Infinity Guitars - Sleigh Bells
33. Waiting on You - Sun Airway
34. You - Golden Panda
35. Brick and Mortar - The Stationary Set

Expect a return to regular posting (and mixtapes!) now that the holidays are over. Happy 2011 and God Bless!

Guest Post: Andrew Daw's year end list

Andrew Daw is one of my best friends. As this list will probably show you, we have very similar musical tastes. I can't think of anyone I enjoy discussing music with more(all though there are a few people who he's tied with) and he always has an open invitation to post on this blog. Daw listed his 10 favorite albums of the year, and 8 of them were in my top 15!

10. Weathervanes - Freelance Whales

9. The Suburbs - Arcade Fire

8. Contra - Vampire Weekend

7. Sir Lucious Left Foot - Big Boi

6. All Delighted People - Sufjan Stevens

5. Real Life Color - Magic Man

4. Age of Adz - Sufjan Stevens

3. Gorilla Manor - Local Natives

2. Teen Dream - Beach House

1. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye West

2010 Recap: Top 15 Albums

15. Notorious xx - Wait What?

14. Age of Adz - Sufjan Stevens

13. Wild Smile - Suckers

12. All We Grow - S Carey

11. Contra - Vampire Weekend

10. Stoned Alone - Coma Cinema

9. Down There - Avey Tare

8. The Suburbs - Arcade Fire

7. Halcyon Digest - Deerhunter

6. High Violet - The National

5. Gorilla Manor - Local Natives

4. The Wild Hunt - The Tallest Man on Earth

3.My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye West

2. Real Life Color - Magic Man

1.Teen Dream - Beach House

2010 Recap: Top 10 Remixes/covers

1. Graceland - The Tallest Man on Earth - Paul Simon Cover
2. Comfy In Nautica - Stephen Farris Remix - Panda Bear
3. Oh Naoko - Houses Remix - Sun Airway
4. Boy From School - Grizzly Bear - Hot Chip Cover
5. Nikki - Gobble Gobble - The Dream Cover
6. Wet Hair - Teen Daze - Japandroids Cover
7. Money on My Mind/I am the One - JJ - The xx intro sample
8. In Ruins - Baths Remix - Fol Chen
9. To the Lighthouse - Millionyoung remix - Memoryhouse
10. The Kids Don't Stand a Chance - Mike Snow Remix - Vampire Weekend

Guest Post: Thomas Michael year end list

Thomas Michael is the primary songwriter for Jaded Hipster Choir, and a merciless consumer and creator of great music. This list is in his own words, "The Top 10 songs that I heard for the first time in 2k10" so obviously it isn't just limited to songs that came out this year, and they aren't in any particular order. Enjoy, and expect more guest posts very soon!

• Roman's Revenge - Nicki Minaj
• Until We Bleed - Kleerup ft. Lykke Li
• Reeling the Warmth - Kohwi
• Greater Vultures - Coma Cinema
• Only Girl (In the World) - Rihanna
• I Suppose I Should Say Thanks or Some Shit - Gold Panda
• Lammicken - Braids
• Lightworks - J Dilla
• Water - Teen Daze
• Nemo - Gobble Gobble

2010 Recap: Top 15 EPs

Its that time of year! This week I'm going to be rolling out my year end favorites, along with a few friend's favorites. Today its EPs, I've got a list of Remixes/Covers, Albums, and Songs to come, and who knows what my friends will have to say. If you're a TL;DR kind of person expect a recap once everything has been posted

1. `+` - Wise Blood
2. The Years - Memoryhouse
3. All Delighted People - Sufjan Stevens
4. Guards - Guards
5. Boat Boat - Totally Nebular
6. What Happens in Hingham stays in Hingham - Mean Winds
7. Lamp Lighter - MoonLasso
8. Boy - Young Man
9. Adelyn Rose - Adelyn Rose
10. Daytrotter Session - Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr
11. Beach Dreams - Teen Daze
12. Fade Cave - Yellow Ostrich
13. Dynazty - Nazcar Nation
14. Sometimes the Blues is just a Passing Bird - Tallest Man on Earth
15. Coal Mine Canary - The Dundies

Just a few things worth noting: All the EPs with links are free(with the artist's approval of course) and you can stream most of the other ones without too much trouble. Boat Boat actually came out in 2009 (Edit: and its not even an EP!), but I didn't get it until this year (and its short enough to feel like an EP!), so I'm going to count it. I only included the Daytrotter session because it has all the same songs as Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr's Horsepower EP, but it has a warmer feel to it and I always find myself listening to it over the actual EP. And finally, The Tallest Man on Earth's EP would be much higher on this list if his LP didn't overshadow it, you really need to check both out if you haven't yet!!

First post/ Favorites of 2010 so far.

Since I already spend a significant portion of my free time listening to music and making mixtapes (usually for myself....) I've decided I'm going to start a Blog! Well restart a blog, but we won't talk about the first attempt it was not so great. But anyways, here is a list of my 10 favorite songs, 5 favorite EP's and 10 favorite LP's I wrote down a couple weeks ago when I couldn't sleep! And yeah, I may or may not have taken the general idea for this post from altered zones. There are mp3s for all 10 songs and the EPs and LPs with links can be downloaded in full for free directly from the artists or their labels.

Songs:

I didn't pick any songs that were on any of the LPs or EPs on this list because they'll get their time to shine later. Also, I'm too lazy to upload mp3s so I just used links from other blogs. This of course means that by the time you read this post (never?) the links might be broken... but I'm new to this!
10. Running - Computer Magic Download!
9. Black bird - Soft Cat Download!
8. What a Drag - Bear Hands Download!
7. When Your Love is Safe - Active Child Download!
6. Black Sheep - Suckers Download!
5. O.N.E. - YeasayerDownload!

4. Wrinklecarver - GOBBLE GOBBLE Download!

3.Away Frm U - Oberhofer Download!
2. Dance Yrself Clean - LCD SoundsystemDownload!
1. Heavy Pop - Wu Lyf Download!

EPs:
5. Small Black EP - Small Black

4.Fade Cave - Yellow Ostrich
3. Coal Mine Canary - The Dundies
2. The Years(zip) - Memory House
1. Guards EP - Guards
Small Black would be number 1 if it wasn't a reissue from last year. And no, Coal Mine Canary is not biased Jacksonville/Murray hill love, its actually really great.


LPs
10.Notorious xx - Wait What

9. King of the Beach - Wavves
8. Wild Smile - Suckers
7. Contra - Vampire Weekend
6. Gorilla Manor - Local Natives
5. High Violet - The National
4. The Wild Hunt - The Tallest Man on Earth
3. The Suburbs - Arcade Fire
2. Real Life Color(zip) - Magic Man
1. Teen Dream - Beach House