This year my wife and I celebrate two decades of love, partnership, and music addiction. We’ve shared our tastes, blended as time blurs distinctions, and keep finding exciting new artists to become this year’s favorites. And this year offered many to choose from.
Bryan Ferry (of Roxy Music fame) and Deco are technical newcomers although hardly new to either of us. Both put out awesome albums well before our official list started counting in 2000.
NEWCOMERS
Bryan Ferry, Cee Lo Green, Devo (!), Drive-By Truckers, Miss Li, The Like, Tom Jones
FAMILIAR FACES, FRESH SOUNDS
Court Yard Hounds
SECOND-TIMERS
Apples In Stereo, Broken Bells, Casiokids, Keane, Klaxons, Melody Gardot, Morningwood, Peter Gabriel, Ra Ra Riot, Tegan & Sara, Two Door Cinema Club
RETURNING FAVORITES
LCD Soundsystem, We Are Scientists, Hot Chip, Sia, The Bird & The Bee, Florence + The Machine, Robyn Hitchcock, The Black Keys, The Futureheads, The New Pornographers, Goldfrapp, Nerina Pallot
2010 Playlist
Track by track, with artist
- I’m Alive
TOM JONES - Heartbeat Song
THE FUTUREHEADS - Dream About the Future
THE APPLES IN STEREO - F**k You
CEE LO GREEN - Heartache By Numbers
BRYAN FERRY - Drumming Song
FLORENCE + THE MACHINE - Finn bikkjen!
CASIOKIDS - All I Want
LCD SOUNDSYSTEM - The High Road
BROKEN BELLS - This Fucking Job
DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS - Tighten Up
THE BLACK KEYS - You’ve Changed
SIA - Boy
RA RA RIOT - Venusia
KLAXONS - The Boy In the Bubble
PETER GABRIEL - Our Love Is Easy
MELODY GARDOT
- Narcissus In a Red Dress
THE LIKE - Heard It On The Radio
THE BIRD & THE BEE - Thieves In The Night
HOT CHIP - Rocket
GOLDFRAPP - Sumthin’
DEVO - Best Of Me
MORNINGWOOD - Back In Time
KEANE - Rules Don’t Stop
WE ARE SCIENTISTS - Your Hands (Together)
THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS - Something Good Can Work
TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB - Real Late Starter
NERINA PALLOT - Dancing the Whole Way Home
MISS LI - Hell
TEGAN & SARA - Ain’t No Son
COURT YARD HOUNDS - Sickie Boy
ROBYN HITCHCOCK & THE VENUS 3
