year-end lists

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this alien likes year-end lists. here's Q magazine's best 50 albums of 2010 (via stereogum), with my impressions attached:

↑ = like it
↓ = don't care for it
→ = interested in exploring it


50 Jarvis Cocker - Further Complications
49 Bob Dylan - Together Through Life
48 Ian Brown - My Way
↑ 47 Madness - The Liberty Of Norton Folgate
46 Golden Silvers - True Romance
↑ 45 Conor Oberst And The Mystic Valley Band - Outer South
44 The View - Which Bitch?
43 Tinariwen - Imidiwen Companions
42 Mariachi El Bronx - Mariachi El Bronx
41 Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
40 Cheryl Cole - 3 Words
39 The Horrors - Primary Colours
38 Richard Hawley - Truelove's Gutter
37 Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
→ 36 Sonic Youth - The Eternal
35 Pearl Jam - Backspacer
34 White Lies - To Lose My Life
33 Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
32 Paolo Nutini - Sunny Side Up
31 Biffy Clyro - Only Revolutions
↑ 30 La Roux - La Roux
29 Wilco - Wilco (The Album)
↓28 Bruce Springsteen - Walking On A Dream
27 The Dead Weather - Horehound
→ 26 Bat For Lashes - Two Suns
→ 25 Noah And The Whale - The First Days Of Spring
24 Mos Def - The Ecstatic
23 The Prodigy - Invaders Must Die
22 The Low Anthem - Oh My God, Charlie Darwin
21 Jamie T - Kings & Queens
20 Fever Ray - Fever Ray
19 Monsters Of Folk - Monsters Of Folk
↑↑ 18 Mika - The Boy Who Knew Too Much
→ 17 Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown
↑↑ 16 Empire Of The Sun - Walking On A Dream
15 Dizzee Rascal - Tongue N' Cheek
14 Devendra Banhart - What Will We Be
13 Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
12 Jack Penate - Everything Is New
11 Doves - Kingdom Of Rust
↑ 10 Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
↓ 09 U2 - No Line On The Horizon
→ 08 Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You
↑↑↑ 07 Muse - The Resistance
06 Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
05 Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers
04 Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
↑ 03 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
02 Florence And The Machine - Lungs
01 Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum

about the rest, i know nothing.