The below list of my favourite songs of 2010 is perhaps a little more controversial than usual. It includes several things it shouldn't - a song released three days too early, disproportionate overrepresentation of French electro, a song that only qualifies by reissue, and GRIME, for almost-literal crying out loud. It isn't in order of preference. Hell, it doesn't even stop at a nice round number of tracks. And now this post includes an Oxford comma (which I rather hope you would give a fuck about), and a series of pre-emptive disclaimers.
- Free Energy - Free Energy
- Jamaica - Short And Entertaining
- The Thermals - I Don't Believe You
- The Soft Pack - Answer To Yourself
- The Black Keys - Howlin' For You
- Crocodiles - Hollow Hollow Eyes
- Surfer Blood - Swim
- Marina & The Diamonds - Shampain
- Goldfrapp - Rocket
- Cee Lo Green - Fuck You
- Tinie Tempah - Pass Out
- Wiley & Chew Fu - Take That (edit)
- Hadouken! - Turn The Lights Out
- Good Shoes - Under Control
- The Futureheads - Struck Dumb
- Dinosaur Pile-Up - Traynor
- Sleigh Bells - A/B Machines (demo)
- LCD Soundsystem - Pow Pow
- Silver Columns - Brow Beaten
- Two Door Cinema Club - Something Good Can Work (Twelves remix)
- Caribou - Odessa
- Wild Nothing - Chinatown
- The Drums - Best Friend
- Allo Darlin' - The Polaroid Song
- The School - Let It Slip
- The Kissaway Trail - SDP
- Best Coast - Boyfriend
- Field Music - Measure
- First Aid Kit - Hard Believer
- Laura Veirs - I Can See Your Tracks
- Peggy Sue - February Snow
- Arcade Fire - We Used To Wait
- Vampire Weekend - Giving Up The Gun
- Fool's Gold - Surprise Hotel
- Fang Island - Careful Crossers
- Japandroids - Younger Us
If you have a spare two hours to soundtrack, and can tolerate the Spotify-induced omission of a certain Arcade Fire track, click here and let me know what you think.
To compensate for said omission, here's a reminder of that wonderful We Used To Wait video starring your childhood home. Win Butler lives there now. He wants to know why you didn't tell him about the woodworm in the bedroom beams.
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