+ Ghostface

12/17/2010 10:44:11 AM

12/17/2010 10:52:51 AM

^ troll of the year

12/17/2010 12:40:20 PM

Quote :

"Kid Cudi's Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager was the biggest disappointment for me."

Seconded. I loved Man on the Moon - The End of Day. Was very disappointed in the second album.

12/17/2010 12:44:19 PM

^I liked basically every single song on End of Day. This CD is just a disappointment. It's growing on me a bit, but I still don't like it.

12/17/2010 2:06:07 PM

OMG

a 7DURP post

12/18/2010 10:52:18 AM

Quote :

"Harlem - Hippies"

I actually really like this album. a lot.

so much I'm gonna double post.

[Edited on December 18, 2010 at 10:54 AM. Reason : dfasdd]

12/18/2010 10:54:16 AM

^i liked it. and then they rocked my face off at hopscotch and i liked it a lot more.

12/18/2010 1:45:20 PM

Hey you guys heard that new Kanye?

12/18/2010 1:47:05 PM

LOL

12/18/2010 1:48:25 PM

Saw this on the AOL homepage...it's a list of 30 albums "that mattered most this year"

http://www.spinner.com/2010/12/07/best-albums-2010/?icid=maing|main5|dl2|sec1_lnk3|32089

12/18/2010 3:03:58 PM

lol, that shit has mumford & sons on it

12/18/2010 3:12:27 PM

in no particular order

Tera Melos- Pantagonian Rats
Sufjan Stevens- Age of Adz
Flying Lotus- Cosmogramma
Gorillaz- Plastic Beach
Minus The Bear- Omni




Kanye gets the honorable mention, along with Circa Survive

12/21/2010 12:51:10 AM

My favorites, in no particular order:

Best Coast - Crazy For You
Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record
Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot The Son Of Chico Dusty
The Morning Benders - Big Echo
Broken Bells - Broken Bells


Followed by, in no particular order:

Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
Surfer Blood - Astrocoast
Wolf Parade - Expo 86
The Love Language - Libraries
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy


My pick for album of the year:

Beach House - Teen Dream

[Edited on December 27, 2010 at 10:41 PM. Reason : How could I forget?]

12/27/2010 10:28:20 PM

Updated my list some. no particular order in any category.

Favorites:
dillinger escape plan - option paralysis
deftones - diamond eyes
deerhunter - halcyon digest
the national - high violet
Sufjan Stevens - the age of adz
look mexico - to bed to battle
circa survive - blue sky noise
Tera Melos- Pantagonian Rats
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
Parades - Foreign Tapes
Love Language - Libraries

HM
LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening
Black Keys - Brothers
The Walkmen - Libson
Sufjan Stevens - All Delighted People
amusement parks on fire - road eyes

Still need to listen to/listen to more to decide:
No Age
Sleigh Bells
Beach House
Best Coast
Crystal Castles
The Tallest Man on Earth

Disappointments
MGMT
Vampire Weekend

[Edited on December 28, 2010 at 8:47 AM. Reason : .]

12/28/2010 8:46:49 AM

Seriously, Eminem is just rehashed pop over and over again. I hate that he got nominated for a best rap album, but Bun B and Rick Ross both had great albums this year that didn't get a nod.

12/28/2010 11:21:56 AM

if you're putting Rick Ross' album over Eminem's from this year, you need to spend some more time with rap music.

12/28/2010 12:16:25 PM

^Completely disagree. I listen to a fair amount of hip-hop and I think Eminem's newest album is total garbage. I think Rick Ross' newest album is pretty decent.

12/28/2010 12:21:25 PM

Dude, if I can hear B.M.F. pumping out of trunk's all over town, then I would say that he had a pretty successful year.

Add to that with the fact that what Ross does is pretty original you know, he is basically raping behind the alias of a very infamous criminal and delivers it with perfection.

Whereas Eminem has the same rapid delivery as Jay-Z types only not as good, has Dr. Dre produce most of his stuff.

He isn't horrible, for sure, but at this point he is more of a pop star than a rap artist.

[Edited on December 28, 2010 at 12:44 PM. Reason : asd]

12/28/2010 12:41:23 PM

Quote :

"raping behind the alias of a very infamous criminal"

i lol'd so hard at this

12/28/2010 1:04:37 PM

no you didn't

12/28/2010 1:06:09 PM

i definitely did

12/28/2010 1:25:13 PM

Quote :

"Add to that with the fact that what Ross does is pretty original you know, he is basically raping behind the alias of a very infamous criminal and delivers it with perfection."

he's moved beyond that though. rick ross as faux real-life criminal saw its last real vestiges in Trilla, with deeper than rap serving to metamorphose toward something new. basically around the same time he was outed as a former CO.

2010 rick ross is a lyrical michael bay movie. he is life, writ large. he is not a person, but a concept in a human form. he took the hubris and ego of making people believe he was ACTUALLY a large-scale drug trafficker, killed ricky ross (who apparently knew noreaga, the real noreaga), and just embraced the truth that very little of the shit that rappers talk about is real, so why not just be the most grandiose storyteller out. as hip-hop lost its geographic anchors over the last decade, it has evolved to require ZERO authenticity. if you're not bothering to rep a dude for being from YOUR corner of the earth, then there's no real way to authenticate or even bother checking up on people. people just listen, go *shrug* and move on to the next song. ross realized it and capitalized on it. his latest album this year was a monster, assisted by the complimentary lex lugar production. 2010 ross found his lane, and like Wile. E. Coyote, painted the fake tunnel into the side of the mountain and walked right through.

12/28/2010 1:43:47 PM

I think there is still aspects of him rapping as ricky ross. that's his bread and butter.

A lot of the content in hip-hop is personal struggle related or based off of rags to riches stories or ghetto violence. What I find interesting about Ross's albums is that he delivers based on the perspective of the actual living and breathing Ricky Ross, which is more than just stealing his name and rapping about his own personal stories. And his beets and production are always very decent.

Anyways, that's just my spiel. The dude had a great year despite not getting a grammy.

[Edited on December 28, 2010 at 1:46 PM. Reason : nevermind]

12/28/2010 1:44:46 PM

I don't know if this has been posted, but "the tallest man on earth" 's new album should be up there

12/29/2010 1:50:23 AM

Rick Ross has delicious beets

12/29/2010 4:16:40 AM

This thread reminded me that I needed to listen to Crystal Castles. It sounds like a fucking Sonic the Hedgehog soundtrack. No, thank you.

12/29/2010 5:45:27 AM

BEARS BEETS RICK ROSS

12/29/2010 8:53:17 AM

^^ AMEN

12/29/2010 11:13:04 AM

Didn't listen to many albums this year. The only 2010 ones that I remember giving a fair listen and liking were:

Sleigh Bells - Treats
Crystal Castles - Self Titled
El Guincho - Pop Negro


I haven't gotten around to listening to the entire album but I'm sure I'll enjoy the new Deerhunter, Beach House, Janelle Monae, Tame Impalla, and Curren$y.

12/30/2010 10:01:13 PM

^^^^i actually have all of the Sonic soundtracks, CC doesnt sound anything like them

12/30/2010 10:14:09 PM