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Favorite Albums of 2010 (1-10.5)
1. Best Coast - Crazy for You (Beach music with 60’s girl group vocals and a hint of Loretta Lynn.) 
2. LCD Soundsystem - It Is Happening (Dance music for those that hate to dance….except with men dressed in panda bear costumes.)

3. Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest (Big. Open. Spaces. Psych. Beauty)
4. Wavves - King of the Beach (Songs in the key of Summer) 
5. The Black Keys - Brothers (Blues for white people)
6. The National - High Violet (When I was 15 Black Flags wrote songs about me. The National write songs about me now at 37.)
7. Off! - The First 4 EPs (16 Songs. 18 minutes. One big middle finger!)
8. The Walkmen - Lisbon (The Sergio Leone of indie rock. Slow details my friend….slow details.)
9. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (I hate Kanye West…but it seems he hates him too. Dense and fantastic.)

10. Boston Spaceships - Our Cubehouse Still Rocks (GBV is still alive and well….and they are called Boston Spaceships)
10.5 Vampire Weekend - Contra (The official soundtrack to the 1980 book, The Official Preppy Handbook)