Best of 2010

I posted some of this info on Facebook already, but I figured I'd throw my best of lists on the blog as well as the playlist that I used for my best of 2010 show on KALX. So here it goes.

Top 15 Albums of 2010:
1. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasty
2. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
3. LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening
4. Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
5. The National - High Violet
6. Jonsi - Go
7. Girls - Broken Dreams Club EP
8. Spoon - Transference
9. The Roots - How I Got Over
10. The Black Keys - Brothers
11. Jenny and Johnny - I'm Having Fun Now
12. Holy Fuck - Latin
13. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles (II)
14. Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
15. Dom Sun Bronzed Greek Gods EP

Top 10 Shows of 2010:
1. Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros - The Fillmore
2. Arcade Fire - The Greek Theater
3. Jonsi - Palace of Fine Arts
4. Atoms for Peace - The Fox Theater
5. Pavement - The Greek Theater
6. Frightened Rabbit - The Fillmore
7. The National - Treasure Island Music Festival
8. The Album Leaf - Berkeley Art Museum
9. Manchester Orchestra - Great American Music Hall
10. Explosions in the Sky - Great American Music Hall


Best of 2010 Playlist:
LCD Soundsystem - Dance Yrself Clean - This is Happening (DFA)
Rafter - Fruit - Animal Feelings (Asthmatic Kitty)
Black Keys - She's Long Gone - Brothers (Nonesuch)
Jenny and Johnny - My Pet Snakes - I'm Having Fun Now (Warner Bros)
Superchunk - My Gap Feels Weird - Majesty Shredding (Merge)
Darker My Love - 18th Street Shuffle - Alive As You Are (Dangerbird)
Deerhunter - Desire Lines - Halcyon Digest (4AD)
Frightened Rabbit - Skip the Youth - The Winter of Mixed Drinks (Fat Cat)
Jonsi - Grow Till Tall - Go (XL)
Mister Loveless - The Old Pain - Three Words (Shady Glen)
Vampire Weekend - Cousins - Contra (XL)
Girls - Heartbreaker - Broken Dreams Club (True Panther Sounds)
Titus Andronicus - A More Perfect Union - The Monitor (XL)
The Extra Lens - Cruiserweights - Undercard (Merge)
New Pornographers - Crash Years - Together (Merge)
John Hiatt - The Open Road - The Open Road (New West)
Mimicking Birds - Burning Stars - S/T (Glacial Pace)
The Bird and the Bee - Heard it on the Radio - Interpreting the Masters Volume 1: A Tribute to Daryl Hall and John Oates (Blue Note)
Holy Fuck - Red Lights - Latin (Young Turks)
Phantogram - When I'm Small - Eyelid Movies (Barsuk)
Kanye West - Lost in the World - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (Def Jam)
Broken Social Scene - Forced to Love - Forgiveness Rock Record (Arts & Crafts)
Wolf Parade - Ghost Pressure - Expo 86 (Sub Pop)
Local Natives - Wide Eyes - Gorilla Manor (Frenchkiss)
The National - Lemonworld - High Violet (4AD)
Judgement Day - Peacocks/Pink Monsters - Peacocks/Pink Monsters (S/R)
Crystal Castles - Celestica - S/T II (Fiction)
The Roots - Dear God 2.0 - How I Got Over (Def Jam)
Communist Daughters - Soundtrack to the End - Soundtrack to the End (Grain Belt)
Dom - Living In America - Sun Bronzed Greek Gods (S/R)
Spoon - Nobody Gets Me But You - Transference (Merge)
Arcade Fire - Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) - The Suburbs (Merge)