Favorites of 2010

[jvandyck87]

Somebody else can do a decade thread at this point, which might be cool, but I'm gonna start my annual best of the year thread a couple days early because I'm going away. I started tabulating a personal chart that I don't publish that contains a hybrid of singles and album tracks and also debuts songs in the lower region that I think are ehh but are charting well. Songs I don't like are omitted altogether. Here's my top 210 of 2010 with a bonus song going into the new year (2011 --> 211, yeah I'm lame like that, especially cuz it doesn't really work). Rankings determined by weighted average of inverse points system on personal chart and iTunes play count. Ties are broken by which song I like better right now or want to be higher on my end of the year list, as it should be.

1 Deftones - "Diamond Eyes"
2 Sevendust - "Unraveling"
3 Karnivool - "All I Know"
4 Rammstein - "Ich Tu Dir Weh"
5 Textures - "Awake"
6 Dead Letter Circus - "Here We Divide"
7 Avenged Sevenfold - "Nightmare"
8 Muse - "Undisclosed Desires"
9 Deftones - "You've Seen The Butcher"
10 Alter Bridge - "Isolation"
11 Silversun Pickups - "The Royal We"
12 Paper Tongues - "Trinity"
13 Mumford & Sons - "Little Lion Man"
14 Jimmy Eat World - "My Best Theory"
15 Linkin Park - "The Catalyst"
16 Coheed & Cambria - "Here We Are Juggernaut"
17 Civil Twilight - "Letters From The Sky"
18 Alice In Chains - "Your Decision"
19 Periphery - "Icarus Lives!"
20 Ed Kowalczyk - "Grace"
21 A Silent Film - "You Will Leave A Mark"
22 Circa Survive - "Imaginary Enemy"
23 Creed - "A Thousand Faces"
24 10 Years - "Shoot It Out"
25 Taproot - "Release Me"
26 Disturbed - "Another Way To Die"
27 Evans Blue - "Erase My Scars"
28 Stone Temple Pilots - "Take A Load Off"
29 Janus - "Eyesore"
30 Serj Tankian - "Left Of Center"
31 Flobots White Flag Warrior
32 Secret & Whisper Warrior (Southern Arrowwood)
33 Shaman's Harvest Dragonfly
34 Bullet For My Valentine Your Betrayal
35 Kings Of Leon Radioactive
36 Skillet Awake And Alive
37 Korn Oildale
38 Three Days Grace World So Cold
39 Trapt Sound Off
40 Civil Twilight Anybody Out There
41 Periphery Jetpacks Was Yes!
42 Katatonia Day And Then The Shade
43 Dead Letter Circus One Step
44 Nonpoint Frontlines
45 Halestorm Familiar Taste Of Poison
46 Sevendust Forever
47 Silversun Pickups Growing Old Is Getting Old
48 Rush Caravan
49 We Are The Fallen Bury Me Alive
50 Minus The Bear My Time
51 Paper Tongues Ride To California
52 Deftones Sextape
53 Massive Attack Atlas Air
54 The Gracious Few Honest Man
55 Sevendust Better Place
56 Tesseract Deception
57 Slipknot Snuff
58 Cee Lo Green f**k You
59 Cake Sick Of You
60 Middle Class Rut New Low
61 Soundgarden Black Rain
62 Chevelle Letter From A Thief
63 Serj Tankian The Charade
64 My Chemical Romance Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na)
65 Flyleaf Arise
66 Metric Gold Guns Girls
67 Black Keys Tighten Up
68 Rammstein Rammlied
69 Florence + The Machine Dog Days Are Over
70 Filter The Inevitable Relapse
71 Like A Storm Chemical Infatuation
72 The Temper Trap Fader
73 Karnivool Simple Boy
74 Textures Messengers
75 BT Always
76 Katatonia Forsaker
77 Broken Bells The High Road
78 Dillinger Escape Plan Widower
79 Breaking Benjamin Lights Out
80 The Temper Trap Sweet Disposition
81 Circa Survive I Felt Free
82 Stone Sour Mission Statement
83 Iwrestledabearonce Tastes Like Kevin Bacon
84 Shinedown The Crow & The Butterfly
85 Nonpoint Miracle
86 Karnivool Set Fire To The Hive
87 Skillet Hero
88 Crash Kings You Got Me
89 Godsmack Cryin' Like A Bitch
90 Alice In Chains Lesson Learned
91 30 Seconds To Mars This Is War
92 Ozzy Osbourne Life Won't Wait
93 Framing Hanley You Stupid Girl
94 Anberlin Impossible
95 Flyleaf Chasm
96 Swtichfoot The Sound
97 Coheed & Cambria World Of Lines
98 Filter Clouds
99 Sick Puppies Odd One
100 Art Of Dying Die Trying
101 Red Ordinary World
102 Cage The Elephant In One Ear
103 Muse The Resistance
104 Stone Sour Say You'll Haunt Me
105 Drowning Pool Turn So Cold
106 In This Moment The Promise
107 Crash Kings Mountain Man
108 Avenged Sevenfold Welcome To The Family
109 Weezer Memories
110 Disturbed The Animal
111 Nonpoint Crazy
112 Godsmack Love-Hate-Sex-Pain
113 The Paper Sons Set In Motion
114 Mixtape Sitting High
115 Linkin Park Waiting For The End
116 The Contortionist Flourish
117 Dave Matthews Band Shake Me Like A Monkey
118 The Script Breakeven
119 Bush Afterlife
120 Brandon Flowers Crossfire
121 Far Deafening
122 Phoenix 1901
123 Seasons After Cry Little Sister
124 Filter No Love
125 Shaman's Harvest Strike The Slate
126 Katatonia The Longest Year
127 Fear The State Gangsters & Rockstars
128 Circa Survive Get Out
129 Coheed & Cambria The Broken
130 Soilwork Epitome
131 Alter Bridge Words Darker Than Their Wings
132 Arcade Fire Ready To Start
133 Five Finger Death Punch Far From Home
134 Switchfoot Mess Of Me
135 Vampire Weekend Giving Up The Gun
136 Paper Tongues Get Higher
137 2Cents Now You Know
138 Drowning Pool Feel Like I Do
139 Five Finger Death Punch Walk Away
140 Sevendust Splinter
141 All That Remains Hold On
142 The Constellations Felicia
143 Apocalyptica End Of Me
144 Deftones Rocket Skates
145 H.I.M. Heartkiller
146 Finger Eleven Living In A Dream
147 Mudvayne Scream With Me
148 Rise Against Savior
149 Silversun Pickups Panic Switch
150 Porcupine Tree Bonnie The Cat
151 Underoath In Division
152 Dead By Sunrise Let Down
153 Edisun Medicate
154 Mike Patton Urlo Negro
155 Tesseract Resolution
156 Massive Attack Paradise Circus
157 Three Days Grace The Good Life
158 Richy Nix In My Head
159 Pearl Jam Just Breathe
160 My Chemical Romance Sing
161 Sick Puppies Maybe
162 Adam Lambert Whataya Want From Me
163 Deftones Beauty School
164 Mumford & Sons Thistle & Weeds
165 Eminem Not Afraid
166 Alter Bridge Show Me A Sign
167 I Declare War Extermination Process
168 Cage The Elephant Shake Me Down
169 OneRepublic All The Right Moves
170 BOB Airplanes
171 Times Of Grace Strength In Numbers
172 Abused Romance Vaporize
173 Eye Empire Victim (Of The System)
174 Sara Bareilles King Of Anything
175 Intervurt Union Square
176 Shaman's Harvest Shine
177 Periphery Insomnia
178 Dead By Sunrise Too Late
179 BOB Nothin' On You
180 Lo-Pro Alive
181 Massive Attack Babel
182 Daughtry Life After You
183 The Letter Black Hanging On By A Thread
184 Barren Earth Forlorn Waves
185 Weezer I Want You To
186 Innerpartysystem American Trash
187 We Are The Fallen Tear The World Down
188 Muse Uprising
189 Filter No Re-entry
190 Red Feed The Machine
191 Pop Evil Last Man Standing
192 Mumford & Sons The Cave
193 Dimmu Borgir Gateways
194 10 Years Fix Me
195 Dead Letter Circus Big
196 Birds Of Tokyo Circles
197 Train If It's Love
198 Mogwai Rano Pano
199 Gorillaz Stylo
200 Aurora Sky Just Like You
201 Tesseract Emotive
202 Tarja f/ Phil Labonte Dark Star
203 The Veer Union Darker Side Of Me
204 Korn Let The Guilt Go
205 You Me At Six Stay With Me
206 Cold War Kids Louder Than Ever
207 Katy Perry Firework
208 Smile Empty Soul Don't Ever Leave
209 Thrice In Exile
210 Taproot Fractured (Everything I Said Was True)

Bonus Meshuggah/Lady Gaga Bleed-A-Razzi

Top 20 Albums
1 Deftones - Diamond Eyes
2 Dead Letter Circus - This Is The Warning
3 Alter Bridge - AB III
4 Filter - The Trouble With Angels
5 Sevendust - Cold Day Memory
6 Periphery - Periphery
7 Massive Attack - Heliogland
8 Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More
9 Coheed & Cambria - Year Of The Black Rainbow
10 TesseracT - Concealing Fate
11 Iwrestledabearonce - It's All Happening
12 Circa Survive - Blue Sky Noise
13 Soilwork - The Panic Broadcast
14 Eye Empire - Moment Of Impact
15 Nonpoint - Miracle
16 The Contortionist - Exoplanet
17 Minus The Bear - Omni
18 10 Years - Feeding The Wolves
19 Serj Tankian - Imperfect Harmonies
20 Signum A.D. - The Unsilenced

*I put Karnivool - Sound Awake in my '09 rankings even though it was released in the U.S. in 2010. It would be somewhere in the 2-4 range on this year's list.

Best New Artist - Dead Letter Circus...edging out the beloved M&S who deserve that grammy buy might be better off not winning it.

Biggest disappointmet - I was hoping the new Soilwork album would be as good as Stabbing The Dram given the return of Peter Wichers, but it wasn't. However, my two biggest disappointments were probably from Serj and Linkin Park as I loved "Left Of Center" and "The Catalyst" and loved a lot of both bands' previous work. Neither album is bad by any means though.

Biggest (pleasant) surprise - Mumford & Sons. If you told me I was going to become borderline obsessed with a folk band this year, I would have laughed at you at this time last year. Deftones - Diamond Eyes was also a big surprise just because at this point in their career and with the adversity of losing Chi Cheng, they put out an album that is certainly a contender with Saturday Night Wrist for my favorite of their already awesome career. Finally, I wasn't expecting to like anything from the new Evans Blue, but "Erase My Scars" is up there with the best of the Matisyn-era stuff for me.

Favorite Concert Attended: Fair To Midland and Karnivool in one show. As much as love Sevendust...the combo of Fair To Midland/Karnivool dominates Sevendust and 10 Years, who are quite unremarkable albeit solid live.

New obsession of 2010 not from 2010: Textures has catapulted itself into my top 10 bands of all-time on the strength of one album, albeit from 2008. As much as loved Ours' album, Textures - Silhouettes would have easily supplanted it as my #1 album from that year had I known about it then. The album is easily in my top 5 of all time. Unfortunately their lead singer has since quit, but the clips of the new singer are promising, and any album they release in 2011 should fare well on my year-end list barring any major regression.

Pick to blow up and get huge in 2011: In the alt/rock world: Paper Tongues. If "Get Higher" can catch on, maybe "Ride To California" can crossover to pop after "Get Higher"runs its course at pop. Either way, to me they're due to be the next big new alternative act with one of these singles. I wish it had been "Trinity". In the active rock world: Red. With the recent success of Skillet, a good lead single choice this era should yield a top 5. Dark horse candidate = Signum A.D. but they have to release a single for adds obviously for it to happen. They sound like a better Five Finger Death Punch imo, which is right up active rock radio's non-cock rock alley. My pick to get huge in the pop world in 2011 = Sam Tsui. He's a youtube phenom and he and Kurt Schneider are gonna ride the youtube wave to pop stardom in 2011 or early 2012. Book it.

Looking forward to 2011: Potential release from a project featuring Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree and Mikael Akerfeldt of Opeth = two of my five favorite bands in one act. Fair To Midland and Hurt should FINALLY release albums that they've been tormenting us with for so long. The aforementioned Textures should be due for a new record. The clips of the upcoming Red album really impressed me. They've gone from band I felt was mediocre at best when I heard "Breathe Into Me" to a solid first-week purchase for Until We Have Faces. Crossfade's upcoming effort should be awesome as well based on the three songs I've heard so far from the record, all three of which would rank #s 1, 2, and 3 in my favorite Crossfade song list - a substantial improvement over their debut and an immeasurably massive whooping of their sophomore snoozefest slump. Finally, here's to hoping "Sextape" and "Better Place" become U.S. alt/rock singles for Deftones and Sevendust in 2011. Cheers.

Sorry if this post is horrifically long.

[Pipa]

Cool list!

I'll just link ya straight to here:

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[(Artie Ziff)]

My favorite song of '10 was In One Ear. The best CD (vinyl, actually) was Come Around Sundown.

[fran182]

Top 30 Favorite Albums Of 2010:

1. Jimmy Eat World - Invented;
2. Motion City Soundtrack - My Dinosaur Life;
3. Valencia - Dancing With A Ghost;
4. Circa Survive - Blue Sky Noise;
5. Anberlin - Dark Is The Way, Light Is A Place;
6. Story Of The Year - The Constant;
7. Weezer - Hurley;
8. My Chemical Romance - Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys;
9. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy;
10. Sing It Loud - Everything Collide;
11. The Graduate - Only Every Time;
12. Deftones - Diamond Eyes;
13. Eminem - Recovery;
14. Hawthorne Heights - Skeletons;
15. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs;
16. Ra Ra Riot - The Orchard;
17. A Common Year - Between Cities;
18. Good Charlotte - Cardiology;
19. A Day To Remember - What Separates Me From You;
20. Angels & Airwaves - Love;
21. Far - At Night We Live;
22. Brandon Flowers - Flamingo;
23. Ivoryline - Vessels;
24. Broken Bells - Broken Bells;
25. Stars - The Five Ghosts;
26. Chad Perrone - Release;
27. Linkin Park - A Thousand Suns;
28. Four Year Strong - Enemy Of The World;
29. Brandon Boyd - The Wild Trapeze;
30. Rufio - Anybody Out There.

[pen]

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeemo.

[jvandyck87]

Here are songs that I realized I forgot to include in my gargantuan list that might have made it had I remembered them (I'm not gonna go through and redo my countdown though so I'll just give them an honorable mention):


The Pretty Reckless - Make Me Wanna Die
Evans Blue - Bulletproof
Jonathan Tyler & The Northern Lights - Pardon Me
Jonathan Tyler & The Northern Lights - Gypsy Woman
Craving Lucy - Therapy
In This Moment - Mechanical Love
Brandon Boyd - Runaway Train
Sully Erna - Sinner's Prayer
Rob Zombie - Mars Needs Women
Lovehammers - Guns

[mcbrearty]

1. Daughtry - September
2. OneRepublic - Secrets
3. The Script - For the First Time
4. Nickelback - This Afternoon
5. One Night Only - Chemistry
6. Bon Jovi - What Do You Got
7. DC Tempest - Coming Back Around
8. Adelitas Way - Brother
9. Steven Tyler - Love Lives
10. My Darkest Days - Like Nobody Else
11. Goo Goo Dolls - Home
12. Paramore - The Only Exception
13. Linkin Park - Waiting For the End
14. My Darkest Days - Set It On Fire
15. Lifehouse - All In
16. My Darkest Days - Come Undone
17. The Script - Science and Faith
18. OneRepublic - The Good Life
19. Mumford and Sons - Little Loin Man
20. B.o.B & Haley Williams - Airplanes
21. One Night Only - Say You Don't Want It
22. The Script - This = Love
23. Mumford and Sons - The Cave
24. Take That - The Flood
25. Eels - All the Beautiful Things
26. My Darkest Days - Without You
27. Shinedown - Crow and the Butterfly
28. Lifehouse - Falling In
29. Eliza Doolittle - Pack up
30. Linkin Park - The Catalyst
31. Michael Buble - Hollywood
32. Brian Wilson - They Can't Take That Away From Me
33. Goo Goo Dolls - As I Am
34. Sick Puppies - Maybe
35. My Darkest Days - Can't Forget You
36. Bruno Mars - Just The Way You Are
37. Bon Jovi - No Apologies
38. Three Days Grace - The Good Life
39. Plain White T's - Rhytmn of Love
40. Jimmy Eats World - Coffee and Cigarettes
41. Kid Rock - Born Free
42. Bon Jovi - The More Things Change
43. Three Days Grace - Lost In You
44. Jimmy Eats World - My Best Theory
45. Default - Supposed To Be
46. Cee Lo Green - F**k You
47. K'naan ft. Adam Levine - Bang Bang
48. Five Finger Death Punch - Far From Home
49. Crystal Bowrsox - Hold On
50. Hey Monday - Without You Here

Listening to loads of Foreigner and Journey aswell but they were'nt released this year.

[Ron57]

Jan 1, 2011 20:06:54 GMT -5 pen said:

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeemo.

I lul'd. Though his list is pretty similar to mine. With What Separates me From You off the list completely, and A Thousand Suns much higher. Give or take a few things.

[david112]

1) Disturbed - Asylum
2) Avenged Sevenfold - Welcome To The Family
3) Skillet - Awake And Alive
4) Five Fing Death Punch - Bad Company
5) Papa Roach - Kick In The Teeth
6) Hinder - All American Nightmare
7) Flyleaf - Again
8) Skillet - Monster
9) Three Days Grace - The Good Life
10) Ozzy Osbourne - Let Me Hear You Scream
11) Skillet - Hero
12) 10 Years - Shoot it Out
13) Shinedown - Diamond Eyes
14) Godsmack - Crying like a Bitch
15) Disturbed - Another Way to Die
16) Papa Roach - Burn
17) Disturbed - The Animal
18) Breaking Benjamin - Give Me a Sign
19) Switchfoot - The Sound
20) Sick Puppies - Maybe
21) Linkin Park - Wretches and Kings
22) Halestorm - It's Not You
23) Red - Faceless
24) Demon Hunter - Collapsing
25) Hollywood Undead - Hear Me Now
26) Thousand Foot Krutch - Fire It Up
27) Anberlin - Impossible
28) Switchfoot - Mess Of Me
29) Slash - Beautiful Dangerous
30) Rev Theory - Justice
31) Nickelback - This Afternoon
32) Since October - The Way You Move
33) Trapt Sound Off
34) Bon Jovi - What Do You Got
35) Linkin Park - Not Alone