Rich’s Top Albums of 2010

1. Destroyer Of The Void by BLITZEN TRAPPER
2. Broken Bells by BROKEN BELLS
3. The Big To Do by DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS
4. The Things We Left Behind by BLUE RODEO
5. God Willin’ & The Creek Don’t Rise by Ray Lamontagne…
6. The Suburbs by ARCADE FIRE
7. Good Old War by GOOD OLD WAR
8. Dream Attic by RICHARD THOMPSON
9. Brothers by THE BLACK KEYS
10. See You On The Moon by TIFT MERRITT
11. Strange Change Machine by THE GRIP WEEDS
12. Rocksteady by BIG HEAD TODD & THE MONSTERS
13. Pickin’ Up The Pieces by FITZ & THE TANTRUMS
14. Human by JOHNNY CLEGG
15. High Violet by THE NATIONAL
16. Dirty Side Down by WIDESPREAD PANIC

The Top 90 Albums of 2009

1 ARI HEST Twelve Mondays

2 COLDPLAY Viva La Vida/Prospekt’s March

3 BEN HARPER & RELENTLESS 7 White Lies For Dark Times

4 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Working On A Dream

5 ELVIS COSTELLO Secret, Profane, & Sugarcane

6 MARK KNOPFLER Get Lucky

7 QUINCY MUMFORD South Edgemere

8 WILCO Wilco (the album)

9 LEVON HELM Electric Dirt

10 THE BLACK CROWES Before The Frost…Until The Freeze

11 ERIC CLAPTON & STEVE WINWOOD Live From Madison Square Garden

12 THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM The ’59 Sound

13 GREEN DAY 21st Century Breakdown

14 U2 No Line On The Horizon

15 BOB DYLAN Together Through Life

16 JACK JOHNSON En Concert

17 DAVE MATTHEWS BAND Big Whiskey And The Groo Grux King

18 PEARL JAM Backspacer

19 ONE ESKIMO One Eskimo

20 ASTRID WILLIAMSON Here Come The Vikings

21 DAVY KNOWLES & BACK DOOR SLAM Coming Up For Air

22 PHISH Joy

23 BRUCE HORNSBY & THE NOISEMAKERS Levitate

24 NEIL YOUNG Fork In The Road

25 THE GUGGENHEIM GROTTO Happy The Man

26 JOHN MAYER Battle Studies

27 TORI AMOS Abnormally Attracted To Sin

28 NORAH JONES The Fall

29 THE SMITHEREENS Play Tommy

30 STEVE FORBERT The Place And The Time

31 THE KILLERS Day & Age

32 ROSANNE CASH The List

33 YOUNG DUBLINERS Saints And Sinners

34 RYAN ADAMS & THE CARDINALS Cardinology

35 DAVID GRAY Draw The Line

36 MONSTERS OF FOLK Monsters Of Folk

37 CHRIS ISAAK Mr. Lucky

38 MATTHEW SWEET & SUSANNA HOFFS Under The Covers

39 DONAVON FRANKENREITER Pass It Around

40 R.E.M. Live At The Olympia

41 WEEZER Weezer (red album)

42 TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS The Live Anthology

43 FOO FIGHTERS Greatest Hits

44 GOV’T MULE By A Thread

45 JOHN FOGERTY The Blue Ridge Rangers Rides Again

46 MASON JENNINGS Blood Of Man

47 KAISER CHIEFS Off With Their Heads

48 DEREK TRUCKS BAND Already Free

49 GOMEZ A New Tide

50 PETE YORN Back And Forth

51 JOHN WESLEY HARDING Who Was Changed And Who Was Dead

52 MEAT PUPPETS Sewn Together

53 ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN The Fountain

54 WPA Works Progress Administration

55 JORMA KAUKONEN River Of Time

56 SON VOLT American Central Dust

57 JOE BONAMASSA The Ballad Of John Henry

58 MILES HUNT and ERICA NOCKALLS Catching More Than We Miss

59 DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE The Open Door EP

60 FLOGGING MOLLY Float

61 JOSS STONE Colour Me Free

62 CRACKER Sunrise In The Land Of Milk And Honey

63 IAN HUNTER Man Overboard

64 BOB DYLAN Tell Tale Signs:The Bootleg Series Vol 8

65 ALEXI MURDOCH Away We Go soundtrack

66 DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE The Twilight Saga: New Moon soundtrack

67 STEVE EARLE Townes

68 WILLIE NILE House Of A Thousand Guitars

69 FASTBALL Little White Lies

70 JAMES MADDOCK Sunrise On Avenue C

71 CARA DILLON Hill Of Thieves

72 LOS LONELY BOYS 1969

73 YUSUF (formerly CAT STEVENS) Roadsinger

74 FLEET FOXES Fleet Foxes

75 TORI AMOS Midwinter Graces

76 CAGE THE ELEPHANT Cage The Elephant

77 ERIN McKEOWN Hundreds Of Lions

78 SHEMEKIA COPELAND Never Going Back

79 SHANNON McNALLY Coldwater

80 BELL X1 Blue Lights On The Runway

81 ALICE IN CHAINS Black Gives Way To Blue

82 RHETT MILLER Rhett Miller

83 PHOENIX Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

84 MIKE DOUGHTY Sad Man Happy Man

85 CITY AND COLOUR Bring Me Your Love

86 JILL HENNESSY Ghost In My Head

87 VARIOUS ARTISTS Live At The NIGHT Vol. 4

88 INDIGO GIRLS Poseidon And The Bitter Bug

89 THE SWELL SEASON Strict Joy

90 WILL HOGE The Wreckage

90.5 ASSEMBLY OF DUST Some Assembly Required

Altrok’s Top 10

01. Echo & The Bunnymen The Fountain
02. Thermals, The – Now We Can See – Now We Can See
03. Yorke, Thom – Ciao My Shining Star; The Songs of Mark Mulcahy
04. Cribs, The – Ignore The Ignorant
05. Brazilian Girls – I’m Losing Myself (Feat. David Byrne) – Single
06. Morrissey – Years Of Refusal
07. Florence & The Machine – Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) – Single
08. Everything Everything – Photoshop Handsome – Single
09. La Roux – La Roux
10. Miike Snow – Miike Snow

Radio Daddy’s Top 10

1. Bob Dylan Together Through Life
2. Devendra Banhart What Will We Be
3. Steven Wilson Insurgentes
4. Wilco Wilco (the album)
5. Bruno Coulais Coraline (Original Soundtrack)
6. Neko Case Middle Cyclone
7. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
8. Levon Helm Electric Dirt
9. The Fireman Electric Arguments
10. Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers The Live Anthology

 

Reissues of the year

The Beatles catalogue
King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King – 40th Anniversary Series (DVD-A 5.1 Surround Mix)

Fox’s Top 10

1. Bring Me Your Love by CITY AND COLOUR
2. Cruel Guards by THE PANICS
3. Sigh No More by MUMFORD AND SONS
4. Happy the Man by THE GUGGENHEIM GROTTO
5. Saints and Sinners by THE YOUNG DUBLINERS
6. South Edgemere by QUINCY MUMFORD
7. One EskimO by One EskimO
8. Twelve Mondays by ARI HEST
9. Declaration of Dependence by KINGS OF CONVENIENCE
10. Levitate by BRUCE HORNSBY AND THE NOISEMAKE