Rick Sieber's 2010 List

TOP 10 ALBUMS

1. Halcyon Digest – Deerhunter
2. Measure – Field Music
3. How I Got Over – The Roots
4. Teen Dream – Beach House
5. The Suburbs – Arcade Fire
6. Blood/Candy – The Posies
7. Gemini – Wild Nothing
8. Before Today – Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti
9. Grinderman 2 – Grinderman
10. Stroke: Songs For Chris Knox – Various Artists

Bubbling Under:

• New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh) – Erykah Badu
• Mount Wittenberg Orca – Dirty Projectors & Björk
• This Is Happening – LCD Soundsystem
• Transference – Spoon
• My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy – Kanye West

TOP 40 TRACKS

1. “The Suburbs” – Arcade Fire
2. “The Day” – The Roots (featuring Blu, Phonte, and Patty Crash)
3. “Round and Round” – Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti
4. “Revival” – Deerhunter
5. “For the Ashes” – The Posies
6. “I Can Change” – LCD Soundsystem
7. “Desire Lines” - Deerhunter
8. “We End Up Together” – The New Pornographers
9. “Cousins” – Vampire Weekend
10. “Chinatown” – Wild Nothing
11. “Waterfall” – Fresh and Onlys
12. “Stylo” – Gorillaz (featuring Mos Def and Bobby Womack)
13. “Ready to Start” – Arcade Fire
14. “Don’t Catch Fire” – Peter Gutteridge
15. “Don’t Fall in Love with a Lonely Girl” – Freedy Johnston
16. “Right On” – The Roots (featuring Joanna Newsom and STS)
17. “Them That Do Nothing” – Field Music
18. “The Outer Skin” – Sean Donnelly
19. “Who Makes Your Money?” - Spoon
20. “On Melancholy Hill” - Gorillaz
21. “Measure” – Field Music
22. “The Blues” – Primary 1 (featuring Nina Persson)
23. “Shutterbugg” – Big Boi (featuring Cutty)
24. “This Time Around” – The Radio Dept.
25. “Used to Be” – Beach House
26. “Helicopter” – Deerhunter
27. “Runaway” – Kanye West (featuring Pusha T)
28. “So Caroline” – The Posies
29. “Our Composition Book” – Wild Nothing
30. “Palaces of Montezuma” – Grinderman
31. “Invisibility: Nonexistent” – Kurt Vile
32. “Youth” – Beach Fossils
33. “The Fall” – Teenage Fanclub
34. “Walcott” – Robert Forster
35. “Just Enough” – Julian Lynch
36. “In My Younger Days” - Eels
37. “New York Is Killing Me” – Gil Scott-Heron
38. “Albatross” – Besnard Lakes
39. “Window Seat” – Erykah Badu
40. “Sprawl II” (Mountains Beyond Mountains) – Arcade Fire

BEST BASSLINE:

• “Who Makes Your Money” – Spoon

WORST ALBUM TITLES:

• InDRUpendence Day – Dru Hill
• Y Not – Ringo Starr

NEWLY DISCOVERED:

• The Strange Idols Pattern and Other Short Stories – Felt (1984)