This part 3 of my best 60 songs of 2010. Split onto 3 CDs of 20 songs each. Please keep in mind that the listings below in no way represent a ranking and were placed in that order just because they sounded good that way.
This was the most fun CD to make and will likely be my favorite. There is a
How I Met Your Mother episode where Barney makes a mix CD and explains that rather than making a CD that goes up and down in energy like most people his CDs just go up. This CD (with a few exceptions) is like that.
Best of 2010 - Volume 3
1. Bushwick Blues - Delta Spirit
In a just world, these guys would have all of the fame and fortune they deserve and this song would be a huge hit... but then if they got too popular I guess I would have to disavow any knowledge of them, so it's probably for the best. A song about nostalgia and lost love and regret that rocks as hard as its subject material.
2. Forced To Love - Broken Social Scene
3. Trouble Comes Running - Spoon
4. Coffee Spoon - Cold War Kids
5. She's Long Gone - The Black Keys
6. Solitude Is Bliss - Tame Impala
7. Vaporize - Broken Bells
8. Enough's Enough - Jamie Lidell
9. How I Got Over - The Roots feat. Dice Raw
10. POWER - Kanye West
11. Fuck You - Cee Lo Green
12. Tightrope - Janelle Monáe feat. Big Boi
13. Seven Nation Army - Ben L'Oncle Soul
An instantly recognisable bass-line starts this one up but from there quickly diverges into funk-soul bliss. An incredible intepretation of a modern classic.
14. Come And Get It - Eli (Paperboy) Reed
15. Repo Man - Ray LaMontagne & The Pariah Dogs
This one was a real surprise on an album of mostly low-key blue-grass and country numbers. A funkified jam punctuated by Ray's trademark howl. Add this one to that list of break-up tunes with Cee Lo & Sharon Jones.
16. Tighten Up - The Black Keys
Excuses and
Promises were both great tracks from The Morning Benders but this one with its rollicking bass-line and shouted chorus was the more hard-hitting and the better fit.
19. This Too Shall Pass - Ok Go
Ok Go's latest left me severely underwhelmed with this song being the only real high-point. This one is a real stadium anthem rocker, though, with an awesome video, to boot.
20. Ready To Start - Arcade Fire
I've always had a conflicted relationship with Arcade Fire and not just because it's too hard to find a picture where they're all lined up together (C'mon guys! Broken Social Scene can do it!). When they first arrived a few years ago they were embraced whole-heartedly by the indie community and were critical darlings from the get-go. Try as I might, however, I just could never get into it. Clearly they were accomplished musicians but something about the way the songs were mixed, the vocals too low, the instruments too high -- it just didn't do it for me. On their latest album, their most accessible yet, I finally got it. The trend unfortunately continues somewhat as
Ready To Start and
We Used to Wait were the standouts for me and
Sprawl II, almost eveyone else's pick, was still unreachable for me. The irony has not escaped me of putting this song at the end of my mix.
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