So, yeah, I know I haven't updated my blog in a year. For a guy who spends much of his time chatting about music over the internet, you'd think I'd have invested more in this kind of thing.
But here we are.
Moving on. I'm back! Well, at least long enough to post my yearly best songs list.
It's been a hectic year for me. I'm playing in three active bands now which, don't get me wrong, is great, but consider also that I am the sole songwriter in two of them. Yeah . . . that's a lot of work. What this means is that I've listened to way less new music this past year. Which is a shame, but it's a small price to pay for being able to do what I love with the people I like for the people I am ambivalent toward but would like to have pay me. Did that make sense? Regardless, expect to be facebook concert-spammed very, very soon.
As some of you will surely notice, this year's list is shorter than last year's. In fact, it's the shortest list I've done since I first started making them in 2005 (though I didn't start giving them away to people until 2007). Now, despite what I said earlier, I did listen to a ton of great records this year and not all of them were included on this list. Unlike last year's two-part behemoth, I opted to start the new decade with a short, concise list of the songs I loved the very most in 2010. While I enjoyed doing it the other way, part of me felt I had to work too hard to fit in songs by bands that, while great, make better albums than they do singles. Also: this was way less work.
Anyway. Feel free to download it and share it with friends. And please let me know what great songs/records I missed out on. Being a music fan means constantly playing catchup and I'm sure there were a ton of record released this year just waiting for me to love. Hopefully I can find the time before the onslaught of great new music begins again in 2011.
As much as I hate to say it, this might be my last year doing this list. Though I'll never stop listening to new music and giving it to/forcing it upon friends, I'm usually too busy writing my own songs these days to listen to songs by anyone else. Total gift/curse, believe me.
Oh, and if this does happen to be my last year I'd like to take this opportunity to congratulate Spencer Krug on being the only artist to have a song on every year-end list I've ever done. It really baffles me how prolifically brilliant this guy is. Seriously, dude releases like two albums a year and he is only getting better (some might argue that point, but no one could argue that he's getting worse). My guess is that he is actually some kind of wizard (which would explain all the dragon references).
Here is the list:
01. LCD Soundsystem - "I Can Change" [from This Is Happening]
02. Gil Scott-Heron - "New York Is Killing Me" [from I'm New Here]
03. The Hold Steady - "The Weekenders" [from Heaven Is Whenever]
04. Joanna Newsom - "Good Intentions Paving Company" [from Have One On Me]
05. Liars - "The Overachievers" [from Sisterworld]
06. The Tallest Man On Earth - "Troubles Will Be Gone" [from The Wild Hunt]
07. Wolf Parade - "What Did My Lover Say? (It Always Had To Go This Way) [from Expo 86]
08. The National - "Anyone's Ghost" [from High Violet]
09. Woods - "Death Rattles" [from At Echo Lake]
10. Grinderman - "Heathen Child" [from Grinderman 2]
11. Spoon - "Out Go The Lights" [from Transference]
12. Arcade Fire - "Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)" [from The Suburbs]
And here is the download link:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GWDIZE6J
Enjoy.
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