Top 25 of 2010 Part 1

Check it yo

this isn't in any particular order

Sungrazer – Sungrazer



Dope motherfucking stoner rock. This is really Doug's album but I've listened to it a few times. Riff-based, melodic stoner rock with ridiculous guitar tone just all over your ears. Kyuss influence all over this but it's stoner rock so I guess that's expected. Vocalist is not really Garcia-style stoner rock kinda shit; more "pretty" if you want. Sounds a bit like Lil B

ha ha just kidding

get it or be a lady

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The Tallest Man on Earth – The Wild Hunt



DOUGLAS GUEST WRITIN' WHAT WHAT

so I'm not cut out for this writing shit, but Kiza and Kristian (The Tallest Man On Earth) certainly are. The simple visual imagery is just for story-telling. First time I heard this guy, I didn't seem to enjoy anything but his guitar-work (which is fabulous, might I add) until I got more into hip-hop.

That's right. Jay-Z and Nujabes got me into Dylan-vox folk.
The lyrical content is pretty absurd here, so you have to pay attention to get the stories, and recognize when he's just rambling about how much he's walked around and seen everything. After that, and the odd voice, The Tallest Man On Earth is incredibly happy music. Being able to hear the artist smile is one of my favorite qualities in music, and you'll never here this guy sing without emotion.

gettttttt

oh and King of Spain is immaculate

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The Black Keys – Brothers



The best blues-rock album of 2010 and probably just the best straight up rock album of 2010. The Black Keys, until Attack and Release, were getting stale, what with their 3 or 4 lo-fi blues rock albums. I mean it was good, but that shit was getting MAD OLD

but then Attack and Release came with it's flashes of psychedelia and Danger Mouse production and breathed life into the project. even so, it was lacking a certain something; it just felt uninteresting at some points. Brothers is the intersection of the psychedelic side of the black keys and the blues rock side and it's fucking great, man. Fantastic, mature songwriting mixed with varied instrumentation and just fucking

the fucking BLUES, dude
there's a big soul influence in the record too
it's great you should get it

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Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy



Man I really don't want to talk about this album

Y'all know about it already

fucking

Columbians know about this shit

fuck

alright alright

the checklist of awesome things about this album:

fucking massive choirs and shit
crazy clever lyricism
dope ass producers fucking everywhere (Kanye basically invited all the dopest motherfuckers ever to Hawaii and let them be awesome with him)
even with all the producers here Kanye's at least co-producing every song here
Justin Vernon
NO ONE MAN SHOULD HAVE ALL THAT POWER
Raekwon's verse at the end of "Gorgeous"
the fact that All of the Lights features like 10 or twenty different musicians and singers and you can't even tell if any of those motherfuckers are on there at all
Pussies in sarcophagi
Nicki Minaj on Monster
fucking crazy ass instrumentation (strings, pianos, vocoders, guitars, fucking choirs, synths, fucking everything shit man)
the pronunciation of "ridiculous" on So Appalled
the ridikalus beat on So Appalled
the vintage Kanye production on Devil In A New Dress that you only realise is not vintage Kanye production at all but Bink production after reading the liner notes
the chorus of Runaway
the 3-minute vocoder solo in Runaway
falling in love with pornstars
Kanye turning "Woods" into the tribal auto-tune america-choir of Lost in The World
WHO WILL SURVIVE IN AMERICA WHO WILL SURVIVE IN AMERICA WHO WILL SURVIVE IN AMERICA WHO WILL SURVIVE IN AMERICA WHO WILL SURVIVE IN AMERICA WHO WILL SURVIVE IN AMERICA WHO WILL SURVIVE IN AMERICA WHO WILL SURVIVE IN AMERICA WHO WILL SURVIVE IN AMERICA WHO WILL SURVIVE IN AMERICA

get

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Big Boi – Sir Lucious Leftfoot



The second-best hip hop album of 2010. Crazy ass production (Big Boi co-produces on around half of the songs). Big Boi rapping in top form. This shit was delayed WAY TOO FUCKING LONG

fuck Jive Records

no three stacks on here because of Jive Records

fuck them

fuck Steve Harvey too

basically this is just some dope-ass rhymes and dope ass beats

funky motherfucking shit

musically adventurous

crazy ass album

fuck

i mean this is really good guys

get it

big boi was basically like yo fuck all this other shit here's the funkiest shit fucking ever

and then he dropped this

(if you want a preview check out Shutterbugg or Fo Yo Sorrows)

get it fucker

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James Blake – CMYK



What up it's James Blake

i've already talked about James Blake on here already

but basically:

minimal dubstep (or post-dubstep if you want to just shit all over everything) with chopped up vocal samples (from both 90s and 00s r&b and his own vocals)

piano too

crazy melodic and crazy experimental

his full album is dope as fuck too but it wasn't "released" in 2010 because you're all criminals

CMYK is more dancey (insofar as James Blake can be dancey) and synthy

Klavierwerke is more personal piano works filtered through a scratchy ass laptop mic and
Blake's own minimal arrangements

good shit yo check that shit


got 3 maybe 4 more parts for ya'll now sit down before I kill your whole family