In a normal year, I would make a top 5 or top 10 list. In 2010 I make a top 20, and leave of a LOT of great albums. I mean A LOT. I didn’t overthink this list. I didn’t go back and re-listen to any of it. I just gut reaction ranked the top 20 albums in my iTunes library that were released in 2010.
1 - Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
2 - Atmosphere - To All My Friends, Blood Makes the Blade Holy
3 - Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - The Brutalist Bricks
4 - Spoon - Transference
5 - The Black Keys - Brothers
6 - Alkaline Trio - This Addiction
7 - Broken Bells - Broken Bells
8 - My Chemical Romance - Danger Days
9 - Jimmy Eat World - Invented
10 - Interpol - Interpol
11 - Vampire Weekend - Contra
12 - Free Energy - Stuck on Nothing
13 - Kings of Leon - Come Around Sundown
14 - Butch Walker - I Liked It Better When You Had No Heart
15 - OK Go - Of The Blue Colour of the Sky
16 - Bad Religion - The Dissent of Man
17 - The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang
18 - Caro Emerald - Deleted Scenes From the Cutting Room Floor
19 - Eminem - Recovery
20 - The Roots - How I Got Over
Commence bickering.