Popcorn Noises

Top Tunes 2010

People who follow me on tumblr have probably already seen a handful of these blurbs. I haven’t been super explicit about organizing them as an ongoing list, but it was nice to take my time and only have to talk about one or two songs a day. Now, through the magic of tagging, I have a collection of 25 of my favorite songs from 2010 (a month in the making!) for the perusing pleasure of whomever. Clicking a song title in the list below will take you to the thing I wrote about it.

And, of course, any time you put up a list like this, it bears repeating: this is an entirely personal collection. I haven’t heard every good song that came out this year and, more importantly, just because I left some awesome songs off this list doesn’t mean I think any less of them. Actually, to be perfectly transparent, this list was primarily compiled by looking at play counts in my iTunes library and then seeing what feelings I felt, a method which I realize is chock full of holes. Good thing most people don’t judge you based on silly things like year-ends lists, right?

- LCD Soundsystem - “All I Want”
- Real Estate - “Art Vandelay (Daytrotter session)”
- Deerhunter - “Helicopter”
- Janelle Monae - “Tightrope (ft. Big Boi)”
- High Places - “On Giving Up”
- Dent May - “Eastover Wives”
- Here We Go Magic - “Collector”
- Primary 1 - “You Belong to Me (ft. Anna Prior)”
- Emeralds - “Candy Shoppe”
- The Besnard Lakes - “Albatross”
- Twin Shadow - “Slow”
- Mountain Man - “Sewee Sewee”
- Gobble Gobble - “Eat Sun, Son”
- Wye Oak - “My Neighbor”
- Beach House - “Take Care”
- Oberhofer - “o0Oo0Oo”
- Candy Claws - “Silent Time of Earth”
- The Love Language - “Heart to Tell”
- Woods - “Death Rattles”
- Spoon - “Is Love Forever?”
- Benoit Pioulard - “Lasted”
- Crystal Castles - “Celestica”
- Levek - “Look on the Bright Side”
- Gorillaz - “Empire Ants (ft. Little Dragon)”
- oOoOO - “Hearts”