Here we go with Part 2 of what amounts to the 60 best songs of 2010. 3 CDs with 20 songs each. Download links for each individual song and the whole shebang and artwork below. Enjoy.
Best of 2010 - Volume 2
1. Go Do - Jónsi
2. Ambling Alp - Yeasayer
3. Airplanes - Local Natives
4. Becoming A Jackal - Villagers
5. Heaven's On Fire - The Radio Dept.
A pet peeve of mine is when artists include spoken audio clips in their songs. I've chosen to overlook it here, as the rest of the song is just so damn catchy.
6. Too Much - Sufjan Stevens
7. Taxi Cab - Vampire Weekend
I remember listening to this song while walking around in the January snowdrifts through the streets of Philadelphia. It's a gentle, wistful song and it will always conjure up that memory for me.
8. Cameras - Matt & Kim
9. Somebody To Love Me - Mark Ronson & The Business Intl.
10. The Ring - Jamie Lidell
Jamie Lidell turns up the funk,
hard, on this tune about what I can only assume is a guy lamenting the loss of the one that got away. If you haven't had a chance to see him live, do so.
11. The Ghost Inside - Broken Bells
12. No One's Gonna Love You - Cee Lo Green
I liked this song when Band Of Horses did it, so I suppose I was destined to enjoy this version which is a rather faithful reconstruction of the original with some R&B flair.
13. Go Outside - Cults
14. Undercover Martyn - Two Door Cinema Club
This was released in the UK in late 2009 but didn't see domestic release and (deservedly) wide acclaim until 2010. The whole album is full of catchy indie-pop but this one with it's shouts and hand-claps was my favorite.
15. Radar Detector - Darwin Deez
I find the term "hook-laden" is thrown around a lot these days. I think it certainly applies here. Darwin Deez writes incredibly catchy and surprising music. The falsetto vocal breaks and drawn out repetition of the songs lynch-pin are unexpected and make what would otherwise be just a
really catchy song into something more.
16. Conversation 16 - The National
I was afraid I'd eat your brains. Most likely about domestic relationships and figurative cannibalism, I like to think it's really about fear of turning into a zombie. A real and significant danger of which we must all be ever vigilant.
17. Someday - Dr. Dog
Philly natives Dr. Dog managing to sound like Michael Buble doing Wilco with a musical nod to Disney's Robin Hood thrown in for good measure.
18. Sarah Smile - The Bird & The Bee
One of my favorite songs, done well.
19. Healing Hands - Citizen Cope
Citizen Cope is an artist that I always thought of as indie and outside the mainstream though he's apparently a big hit among the college set.
20. Vanderlye Crybaby Geeks - The National
I love The National's lyrics though the gestalt is nearly always impenetrable to me. I have no idea what this one is about but the line
All the very best of us/String ourselves up for love is what sticks with me.
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