KTT's Top 10 Albums Of 2010

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fcktheyanks

Discussion Starter · Oct 9, 2010

You know the drill...

1. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy 4.9/5
2. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs 4.8/5
3. Nas & Damian Marley - Distant Relatives 4.9/5
4. Janelle Monae - The ArchAndroid 4.9/5
5. Vampire Weekend - Contra 4.5/5
6. Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot 4.3/5
7. The Roots - How I Got Over 4.3/5
8. The Foreign Exchange - Authenticity 4.5/5
9. Ben Folds/Nick Hornby - Lonely Avenue 4.2/5
10. Eminem - Recovery 4.2/5
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11. Sage Francis - Li(f)e 4.4/5
Kings Of Leon - Come Around Sundown 4.2/5
Fake Problems - Real Ghosts Caught On Tape 4.2/5
Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon II 4.0/5
Taylor Swift - Speak Now 4.5/5
Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz 4.5/5
The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang 4.1/5
Brandon Flowers - Flamingo 4.0/5
Atmosphere - To All My Friends, Blood Makes The Blade Holy 4.0/5
B.o.B - The Adventures of Bobby Ray 3.8/5
Homeboy Sandman - The Good Sun 4.1/5
Aloe Blacc - Good Things 4.2/5
Bruno Mars - Doo-**** & Hooligans 4.0/5
20. N*E*R*D - Nothing 4.2/5
MGMT - Congratulations 4.0/5
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - The Brutalist Bricks 4.2/5
Los Campesinos! - Romance is Boring 4.3/5
Broken Bells - Broken Bells 4.2/5
John Legend & The Roots - Wake Up! 4.0/5
Jack Johnson - To The Sea 4.1/5
Reflection Eternal - Revolutions Per Minute 3.8/5
Guster - Easy Wonderful 3.9/5
Ratatat - LP4 4.0/5
30. Titus Andronicus - The Monitor 4.3/5
Gorillaz - Plastic Beach 4.1/5
Hot Chip - One Life Stand 4.3/5
Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles (II) 4.1/5
Jonsi - Go 4.6/5
Example - Won't Go Quietly 4.0/5
Cee-Lo - The Lady Killer 4.1/5
Drake - Thank Me Later 3.7/5
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Mojo 3.4/5
The National - High Violet 4.0/5
Spoon - Transference 3.4/5
40. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening 3.3/5
MIA - Maya 3.4/5
Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma 3.6/5
Flobots - Survival Story 3.4/5
Kele (of Bloc Party) - The Boxer 3.4/5
hellogoodbye - Would It Kill You? 3.2/5
Murs & 9th Wonder - Fornever 3.1/5
RjD2 - The Colossus 3.2/5
Meth Rae Ghost - Wu-Massacre 3.1/5
Ice Cube - I Am The West 2.3/5

Matt & Kim - Sidewalks
Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
Of Montreal - False Priest
Black Milk - Album of the Year
Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
Vinnie Paz - Season of the Assassin
T.I. - No Mercy
Daft Punk - Tron Legacy OST

Ghostface Killah - The Apollo Kids (12/14)

Big Sean - Finally Famous (?)
Talib Kweli - Gutter Rainbows 2011
Kanye West & Jay-Z - Watch The Throne 2011
Gza? Common? J. Cole? Radiohead? Detox?

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K N E E S

· #2 · Oct 9, 2010

1. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
2. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
3. Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
4. Janelle Monae - The ArchAndroid
5. Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot
6. The Black Keys - Brothers
7. Vampire Weekend - Contra
8. The National - High Violet
9. She & Him - Volume Two
10. Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz
11. The Dream - Love King
12. Eminem - Recovery
13. The Mynabirds - What We Lose In the Fire We Gain In the Flood
14. Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
15. The Roots - How I Got Over
16. Kitten - Sunday School
17. Frightened Rabbit - The Winter of Mixed Drinks

Still need to listen - Have One on Me (wanted to since August lol i gotta get on this shit) The Lady Killer, Plastic Beach (yeah i know)....

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EscoStar

· #3 · Oct 9, 2010

Chea!

1. Distant Relatives - NaS & Damian Marley
2. Authenticity - The Foreign Exchange
3. Wake Up! - John Legend & The Roots
4. The Sea - Corinne Bailey Rae
5. The Archandroid - Janelle Monae
6. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye West
7. Plastic Beach - Gorillaz
8. TSOL - Shad
9. Cosmogramma - Flying Lotus
10. The Lady Killer - Cee-Lo

Everything Else (no order)
Shadows - JK Soul
Airtight's Revenge - Bilal
The Outsiders Are Back- Kings Go Forth
You Need This Music - Nottz
Death Is Silent - Kno
Apollo Kids - Ghostface
Escapism - SoulChef
SunStorm - Zo!
Self-Reliance - Mindsone
Album of the Year - Black Milk
Nothing - N.E.R.D
Compass - Jamie Lidell
New Amerykah Pt. 2 (Return of the Ankh) - Erykah Badu
III - Budos Band
Let Freedom Reign - Chrisette Michele
The Recipe - Amiri
Almost Famous - Spectac & Amiri
Walk Alone - PJ Morton
How I Got Over - The Roots
Wayout - Lenny Hamilton Jr.
Somewhere Beyond The Moon - ShinSight Trio
Making Sound - Eric Lau
Chamber Music Society - Esperanza Spalding
Street Bangerz Vol 3 - Gramatik
Madlib Medicine Show No. 7: High Jazz - Madlib
Revolutions Per Minute - Reflection Eternal
Sir Lucious Leftfoot: The Son of Chico Dusty - Big Boi
Love Beats - Foner
Midway - Freddie Joachim
I Learned My Lesson - Sharon Jones And The Dap Kings
Suite For Ma Dukes - Miguel Atwood-Ferguson
Good Things - Aloe Blacc
Lost Where I Belong - Andreya Triana
The Love & War Masterpeace - Raheem Devaughn
Recovery - Eminem
The Good Sun - Homeboy Sandman
The Ballad of Purple Saint James - YahZarah
Before Taxes - yU
In Search of Stoney Jackson - Strong Arm Steady & Madlib
Stimulus Package - Freeway & Jake One
I'm New Here - Gil Scott-Heron
Fornever - Murs & 9th Wonder
Leftback - Little Brother
Wu-Massacre - Meth, Ghost, & Rae
100 Proof (The Hangover) - Statik Selektah
There Is Love In You - Four Tet
How It Should Sound Vol 1 & 2 - Damu Da Fudgemunk
The Adventures of Bobby Ray - B.O.B
Thank Me Later - Drake
MSTRD - TiRon
Ode To Illmatic - Fas
TheGodleeBarnes - Blu
Odd Spring - Oddisee
No Need For Sense - Michael Uzowuru
The Mellowest Trip - Afro Butterfly
W.ants W.orld W.omen - Dwele
The Bar Exam 3 - Royce Da 5'9
Pilot Talk - Curren$y
Pilot Talk 2 - Curren$y
Villa Manifesto - Slum Village
Thanks Dilla - e4an holt
Muffins - Stevo
Streetlights - Kurupt
Season of the Assassin - Vinnie Paz

:stronger:

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kollage...

· #4 · Oct 9, 2010

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you can click the album covers...#3 you can click the actual number as well as the cover...if you bother to listen to the tracks you gotta listen to both songs in order for that one...those two tracks finishing the album are a major reason it's in that spot

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ecabney

· #5 · Oct 9, 2010

1.Deerhunter-Halcyon Digest
2.Beach House-Teen Dream
3.The National-High Violet
4.Big Boi-Sir Luscious
5.How To Dress Well-Love Remains
6.Twin Shadow-Forget
7.Superchunk-Majesty Shredding
8.Toro Y Moi-Causers of This
9.Das Racist-Sit Down, Man
10.The-Dream-Love-King

Honorable mention: every Best New Music on Pitchfork.com, and Darwin Deez

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Italian Stallion NY

· #6 · Oct 9, 2010

1T- Joanna Newsom- Have one on Me (Shoutouts to Porclein)
1T- Kanye West- My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fanstasy
3- Acrade Fire- The Suberbs
4t- The Roots-How I Got Over
4T- Nas and Damien Marley- Distant Relatives
6- Broken Bells-Broken Bells
7- John Legend and the Roots- Wake Up
8- Janelle Monae- The Archandroid
9- Bland Flowers- Flamingo
10- Gorillaz- Plastic Beach

hungry

· #7 · Oct 9, 2010

So far I guess...

1. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye West
2. A Thousand Suns - Linkin Park
3. Teflon Don - Rick Ross
4. Thank Me Later - Drake
5. The Adventures of Bobby Ray - B.o.B
6. Man on the Moon II: Kid Cudi
7. Recovery - Eminem
8. Loud - Rihanna
9. Congratulations - MGMT
10. Love King - The-Dream

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D Easy

· #8 · Oct 9, 2010

1. ((Reserved))
2. Distant Relatives
3. How I Got Over
4. Wake Up!
5. Archandroid
6. Sir Lucious Left Foot
7. Revolutions Per Minute
8. Teflon Don
9. Thank Me Later
10. Pilot Talk

D Wo

· #9 · Oct 9, 2010

SPACE SAVED FOR LATER

Servbot24

· #10 · Oct 9, 2010

1. Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
2. Janelle Monae - The Archandroid
3. The National - High Violet
4. Emeralds - Does it Look Like I'm Here?
5. The Black Keys - Brothers
6. Yellow Swans - Going Places
7. Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt
8. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
9. Rova & Nels Cline Singers - The Celestial Septet
10. Beach House - Teen Dream

Mayweather

· #11 · Oct 9, 2010

So far (no order as of yet):

1. (Reserved)
2. Janelle Monae

- The ArchAndroid
3. The Roots - How I Got Over
4. The Roots x John Legend - Wake Up!
5. M.I.A - /\/\ /\ Y /\
6. La Roux - La Roux
7. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
8. (N/A)
9. (N/A)
10. (N/A)

Haven't heard many albums this year tbh

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West

· #12 · Oct 9, 2010

1. Eminem - Recovery
2. Black Milk - Album of the Year
3. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
4. Madlib's Medicine Show Series (more a collection of albums but)
5. MGMT - Congratulations
6. Janelle Monae - The ArchAndroid
7. Gogol Bordello - Trans Continental Hustle
8. B.o.B - Adventures of Bobby Ray
9. Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot: Son of Chico Dusty
10. Ratatat - LP4

IZZO

· #13 · Oct 9, 2010

1.Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (Runaway)
2.Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma (Zodiac Sh*t)
3.The Foreign Exchange - Authenticity (The Last Fall)
4.Janelle Monae - The Archandroid (Tightrope)
5.John Legend & The Roots - Wake Up! (I Can't Write Left Handed)
6.Nas & Damien Marley - Distant Relatives (Nah Mean)
7.Arcade Fire - The Suburbs (The Suburbs)
8.Cee-Lo Green - The Lady Killer (No One's Gonna Love You)
9.The Roots - How I Got Over (The Fire)
10.Vampire Weekend - Contra (Giving Up The Gun)

Honorable Mentions:
Shad - TSOL (We, Myself and I)
Linkin Park - A Thousand Suns (Waiting For The End)
Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son Of Chico Dusty (Shutterbugg)
Black Milk - Album Of The Year (Closed Chapter)
The National - High Violet (Bloodbuzz Ohio)
Reflection Eternal - Revolutions Per Minute (Ballad Of The Black Gold)
Gorillaz - Plastic Beach (On Melancholy Hill)

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i made her say!

· #14 · Oct 9, 2010

1. The Suburbs - Arcade Fire
2. TSOL - Shad
3. Congratulations - MGMT
4. Distant Relatives - Nas & Marley
5. Plastic Beach - Gorillaz
6. How I Got Over - The Roots
7. Wake Up! - John & The Roots
8. Contra - Vampire Weekend
9. Left Foot - Big Boi
10. Das Rascit
Other
Teen Dream - Beach House
High Violet - The National

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GMC...Relapsed

· #15 · Oct 9, 2010

1. Eminem - Recovery
2. Nas and Damian Marley - Distant Relatives
3. Lady Antebellum - Need You Now
4. Fat Joe - The Darkside Vol. 1
5. The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang
6. Drake - Thank Me Later
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LiamBro

· #16 · Oct 9, 2010

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Lake.

· #17 · Oct 9, 2010

The Suburbs- Arcade Fire
The ArchAndroid- Janelle Monae
Sir Luscious Leftfoot- Big Boi
Plastic Beach- Gorillaz
Brothers- The Black Keys
How I Got Over- The Roots
This Is Happening- LCD Soundsystem
Distant Relatives- Nas & Damian Marley
In Search Of Stoney Jackson- Strong Arm Steady
Sea Of Cowards- The Dead Weather

HM: Hurley- Weezer, Cosmogramma- Flying Lotus, & Congratulations- MGMT

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pt

· #18 · Oct 9, 2010

1. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
2. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
3. Beach House - Teen Dream
4. Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
5. Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
6. Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
7. Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
8. Hot Chip - One Life Stand
9. Freeway & Jake One The Stimulus Package
10. Vampire Weekend - Contra

Shoutout(s): Reflection Eternal - Revoutions Per Minute, Broken Bells - Broken Bells

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Finn The Human

· #19 · Oct 9, 2010

1. KiD CuDi - Man On The Moon 2: The Legend of Mr. Rager
2. MGMT - Congratulations
3. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
4. RATATAT - LP4
5. Beach House - Teen Dream
6. She & Him - Volume Two
7. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles (II)
8. Brandon Flowers - Flamingo
9. The Roots - How I Got Over
10. The-Dream - The Love King

HM: Sleigh Bells - Treats

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2001

· #20 · Oct 9, 2010

1. Drake - Thank Me Later
2. Eminem - Recovery
3. Nas & Damian - Distant Relatives
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The rest I need to wait for more of this year.

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