1. The Black Keys - Brothers
2. Beach House - Teen Dream
3. Timmy Sean - Songs From & Inspired By Noisewater
4. Duncan Maitland - Lullabies For the 21st Century
5. Field Music - Field Music (Measure)
6. She & Him - Volume Two
7. Kelley Stoltz - To Dreamers
8. Seth Swirsky - Watercolor Day
9. The Grip Weeds - Strange Change Machine
10. Kula Shaker - Pilgrims Progress
11. The Apples in Stereo - Travellers in Space and Time
12. John Grant - Queen Of Denmark
13. Rose Elinor Dougall - Without Why
14. Ed Harcourt - Lustre
15. The Coral - Butterfly House
16. Farrah - Farrah
17. The Divine Comedy - Bang Goes The Knighthood
18. Sunrise Highway - Sunrise Highway
19. Fyfe Dangerfield - Fly Yellow Moon
20. The Offbeat - In Love Field

There are still a few albums I'd like to hear before I make it "final", but here's my list so far:

1. Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz
2. Janelle Monáe - The ArchAndroid
3. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
4. Chromeo - Business Casual
5. Twin Shadow - Forget
6. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
7. Kylie Minogue - Aphrodite
8. Robyn - Body Talk
9. !!! - Strange Weather, Isn't It?
10. Sleigh Bells - Treats
11. Robyn - Body Talk Pt. 1
12. Prince - 20Ten
13. Duffy - Endlessly
14. Robyn - Body Talk Pt. 2
15. Beach House - Teen Dream
16. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
17. Gorillaz - The Fall
18. Annie Lennox - A Christmas Cornucopia
19. Soundtrack - Greenberg
20. Maximum Balloon - Maximum Balloon
21. Bryan Ferry - Olympia
22. Hot Chip - One Life Stand
23. Goldfrapp - Head First
24. Marina and the Diamonds - The Family Jewels

With 3 albums in my all-time top 100, 2 of which being in my top 40, 2010 is going down as one of my top 10 years of all time.

My I-don't-get-it of the year is The Black Keys, I just.. don't get it. To me it sounds like the same thing literally a hundred other bands do, and they don't stand out at all. What am I missing here?

Another album that's almost certain to get on my list once I listen to it more: Mavis Staples - Creep Along Moses.

One of the factors in the factor analysis I did in the EOY spreadsheet was:

1. Joanna Newsom
2. Mavis Staples
3. Sufjan Stevens

I like Joanna Newsom and Sufjan Stevens a lot, so I went to hear Mavis Staples'. I liked it a lot, but it sounds nothing like the other two. It's a gospel album that has an old school soul feel.

You Are Not Alone?

1. Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
2. Janelle Monae – The ArchAndroid
3. Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
4. Vampire Weekend – Contra
5. LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening
6. The Roots – How I Got Over
7. Screaming Females – Castle Talk
8. Best Coast – Crazy For You
9. Harlem – Hippies
10. Baths – Cereulean

1. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – Say No To Love
2. Arcade Fire – Empty Room
3. Kanye West – Monster
4. Janelle Monae – Cold War
5. Yeasayer – Ambling Alp
6. Kanye West – POWER
7. Sleigh Bells – Rill Rill
8. Best Coast - Girlfriend
9. Arcade Fire – Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
10. Harlem – Friendly Ghost

Top 5 songs

Broken Bells - The Ghost Inside
The National - Bloodbuzz Ohio
Rosetta - A Determinism of Morality
Vampire Weekend - White Sky
The Black Belles - What Can I Do?

1. Janelle Monae / The ArchAndroid
2. Kanye West / My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
3. Agalloch / Marrow of the Spirit
4. Barren Earth / Curse of the Red River
5. Big K.R.I.T. / K.R.I.T. Wuz Here
6. The-Dream / Love King
7. Salif Keita / La Difference
8. The Sword / Warp Riders
9. Lindstrom & Christabelle / Real Life is No Cool
10. Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabate / Ali & Toumani
11. Freeway & Jake One / The Stimulus Package
12. Brian Wilson / Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin
13. Drive-By Truckers / The Big To-Do
14. Cee-Lo Green / The Lady Killer
15. Celph Titled & Buckwild / Nineteen Ninety Now
16. Electric Wizard / Black Masses
17. Edwyn Collins / Losing Sleep
18. Iron Maiden / The Final Frontier
19. Lloyd Cole / Broken Record
20. Midlake / The Courage of Others
21. Curren$y / Pilot Talk
22. Caribou / Swim
23. Flying Lotus / Cosmogramma
24. Robert Plant / Band of Joy
25. Witchery / Witchkrieg
26. Gorillaz / Plastic Beach
27. Vampire Weekend / Contra
28. Tom Jones / Praise & Blame
29. The Magnetic Fields / Realism
30. Justin Townes Earle / Harlem River Blues
31. Los Lobos / Tin Can Trust
32. The New Pornographers / Together
33. Keith Jarrett & Charlie Haden / Jasmine
34. Erykah Badu / New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh)
35. Mount Kimbie / Crooks & Lovers
36. Afrocubism / Afrocubism
37. Antony & the Johnsons / Swanlights
38. Deathspell Omega / Paracletus
39. John Hiatt / The Open Road
40. The Hold Steady / Heaven is Whenever
41. Ryan Adams & The Cardinals / III/IV
42. Grinderman / Grinderman 2
43. Hole / Nobody's Daughter
44. Josh Rouse / El Turista
45. Weezer / Hurley
46. Four Tet / There is Love in You
47. Superchunk / Majesty Shredding
48. Mose Allison / The Way of the World
49. Sun Kil Moon / Admiral Fell Promises
50. Kylesa / Spiral Shadow

Here's mine, which is a nice follow-up to Greg's great list, seeing as we share the same Top 2:

01. Janelle Monáe - The ArchAndroid
02. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
03. Emeralds - Does It Look Like I'm Here?
04. Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
05. Actress - Splaszh
06. Zs - New Slaves
07. Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
08. Gil Scott-Heron - I'm New Here
09. Little Women - Throat
10. Laurie Anderson - Homeland
11. Joanna Newsom - Have One on Me
12. Yellow Swans - Going Places
13. Sun City Girls - Funeral Mariachi
14. Georgia Anne Muldrow - Ocotea
15. The Roots - How I Got Over
16. Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to The Sky
17. John Grant - Queen of Denmark
18. Rangers - Suburban Tours
19. Jaga Jazzist - One-Armed Bandit
20. Arp - The Soft Wave
21. The Budos Band - III
22. These New Puritans - Hidden
23. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part Two: Return of The Ankh
24. The Besnard Lakes - …Are The Roaring Night
25. Afro-Cubism - Afro-Cubism
26. Robyn - Body Talk
27. Jason Moran - Ten
28. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
29. MGMT - Congratulations
30. Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz
31. Glenn Branca - The Ascension, Part II
32. The Books - The Way Out
33. The Souljazz Orchestra - Rising Sun
34. Esperanza Spalding - Chamber Music Society
35. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
36. Los Planetas - Una ópera egipcia
37. Shugo Tokumaru - Port Entropy
38. Curren$y - Pilot Talk
39. Konono No. 1 - Assume Crash Position
40. Girl Talk - All Day

Mine, I have already said, it's for me the worst year since a long time. NOt totally bad, good albums, but none that are truly exceptional.

01. Beach House - Teen Dream
02. Yodelice - Cardioïd
03; Bryan Ferry - Olympia
04. Caribou - Swim
05. Vampire Weekend - Contra
06. Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky
07. Villagers - Becoming a Jackal
08. Florent Marchet - Courchevel
09. The National - High Violet
10. MGMT - Congratulations
11. LCD Soundsystem - This is happening