The 100 Best Recordings of 2010
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The 100 Best Recordings of 2010
These are our picks for The 100 Best Recordings of 2010, based on the playlists of Wednesday MidDay Medley on 90.1 FM KKFI. This past year we have featured hundreds of new and local releases, as well as live performances and interviews with dozens of local artists. Over 40 recordings on our list are from the Kansas City and Lawrence music scene. We love ALL of this music! Tune into 90.1 FM for our annual 4-week special event: Wednesdays, 10 to Noon, December 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th. We’ll play nearly 8-hours of music that represent: The 100 of Best Recordings of 2010!
1. Hearts Of Darkness – Hearts Of Darkness / Shipshape
2. Soft Reeds – Soft Reeds Are Bastards / The Record Machine
3. Sara Swenson – All Things Big And Small / Independent
4. The Grisly Hand – Safe House / Independent
5. Kristie Stremel & The 159ers – Color Of Stars / Stremeltone
6. Cowboy Indian Bear – Each Other All the Time / The Record Machine
7. Barclay Martin Ensemble – Pools That Swell With The Rain / Independent
8. Howard Iceberg & The Titanics – dozens / Independent
9. Margo May – Summerof / Independent
10. the Caves – five songs with the Caves / Independent
11. Arcade Fire – The Suburbs / Merge
12. Bleach Bloodz – Devil Magick / Independent
13. Janelle Monáe – The ArchAndroid / Bad Boy
14. Anais Mitchell – Hadestown / Righteous Babe
15. Mavis Staples – You Are Not Alone / Anti
16. Field Music – Field Music (Measure) / Memphis Industries
17. Joanna Newsom – Have One on Me / Drag City
18. David Byrne & Fatboy Slim – Here Lies Love / Todomundo – Nonesuch
19. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – I Learned The Hard Way / Daptone Records
20. The Black Angels – Phosphene Dream / Light in The Attic Records
21. The Black Keys – Brothers / Nonesuch
22. The ACBs – Stona Rosa / Independent
23. Ghosty – Team Up Again / More Famouser
24. Vi Tran – Goodbye, Summer / Independent
25. M Bird – Over The Bones / M Bird Music
26. B’Dinas – Homemade Rock and Roll / Independent
27. Sam Billen – Removers / The Record Machine
28. John Velghe – John Velghe : ep / Nope Records
29. The National – High Violet / 4AD
30. Sufjan Stevens – The Age of Adz / Asthmatic Kitty
31. Monta At Odds – Fuoco Infernale / Upstairs Recordings
32. Dum Dum Girls – I Will Be / Sub Pop
33. Hidden Pictures – Choosing Sides / Centropolis Records
34. Making Movies – In Deo Speramus / Appeal Latino
35. The Mynabirds – What We Lose in The Fire We Gain in The Flood / Saddle Creek
36. Grand Marquis – Hold On To Me / Grand Marquis Music
37. Mikal Shapiro – For Good / Independent
38. The Columns – The Columns / Independent
39. Tame Impala – InnerSpeaker / Modular Recordings
40. Cate Le Bon – Me Oh My / The Control Group
41. Neil Young – Le Noise / Reprise
42. Dollar Fox – Close To Home / Independent
43. Sarah Jaffe – Suburban Nature / Kirtland
44. Avi Buffalo – Avi Buffalo / Sub Pop
45. Deer Tick – The Black Dirt Sessions / Partisan Records
46. Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest / 4AD
47. Sterling Witt – Shadows And Secrets / Bright Orange Records
48. Evelyn Evelyn – Evelyn Evelyn / Eleven Records
49. Dean & Britta – 13 Most Beautiful: Songs For Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests / Double Feature Records
50. Laurie Anderson – Homeland / Nonesuch
51. Eternal Summers – Silver / Kanine Records
52. Roman Numerals – EP.1 / Independent
53. LCD SoundSystem – This is Happening / DFA – EMI
54. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Ariel Pink Before Today / 4AD
55. Lucy Wainwright Roche – Lucy / Independent
56. Carolina Chocolate Drops – Genuine Negro Jig / Nonesuch
57. The People’s Liberation Big Band – The People’s Liberation Big Band / Tzigane
58. The Oil Boiler Collective – The Oil Boiler – Original Cast Recording /Spoonbender Labs
59. Belle and Sebastian – Write About Love / Matador / 2010
60. The Magnetic Fields – Realism / Nonesuch / 2010
61. Ernest James Zydeco – Roots Rocket Radio / Independent
62. Various KC/Lawrence Musicians – 72 musicians (soundtrack recording) / Independent
63. Various KC/Lawrence Musicians – Midwasteland Takeover SXSW 2010 / Independent
64. Bill Belzer - You Shouldn’t Have / Independent
65. Mouth – Word Of Mouth, Volume II / Independent
66. Jónsi – Go / XL
67. Devo – Something For Everybody / Warner Bros.
68. Clinic – Bubblegum / Domino
69. The Like – Release Me / Geffen – Downtown
70. Stereolab – Not Music / Drag City
71. Destroyer – Streethawk: A Seduction / Merge Records / Reissue
72. Best Coast – Crazy For You / Mexican Summer Records
73. Husky Rescue – Ship Of Light / Catskills Records
74. Laura Marling – I Speak Because I Can / Virgin
75. James Christos – Enigmatic / Guerilla Movement
76. Winston Apple – Alias Zimmerman (Apple Sings Dylan) / Independent
77. Bobby Bare Jr. – A Storm – A Tree – My Mother’s Head / Bloodshot
78. Various Artists – The Twistable, Turnable Man Returns / Sugar Hill
79. The Kinsey Sicks – Each Hit & I / Independent
80. Efterklang – Magic Chairs / 4AD
81. Galactic – Ya – Ka – May / Anti
82. Quasi – American Gong / Kill Rock Stars
83. Pavement – Quarantine The Past – The Best of Pavement (Remastered) / Matador
84. Superchunk – Majesty Shredding / Merge
85. Band Of Horses – Infinite Arms / Fat Possum
86. Nortec Collective presents Bostich & Fussible – Bulevar 2000 / Nacional
87. Alejandro Escovedo – Street Songs of Love / Concord Music Group
88. Antony & The Johnsons – Swanlights / Secretly Canadian
89. The New Pornographers – Together / Matador
90. The Besnard Lakes – The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night / Jagjaguar
91. The Sexy Accident – Now That She’s Gone / Independent
92. Shannon Stephens – S/T / Asthmatic Kitty
93. Male Bonding – Nothing Hurts / Sub Pop
94. Abe Vigoda – Crush / Post Present Medium
95. of Montreal – False Priest / Polyvinyl
96. Karen Elson – The Ghost Who Walks / XL
97. CocoRosie – Grey Oceans / Sub Pop
98. The Knife – Tomorrow, In A Year / Rabid – Mute
99. Xiu Xiu – Dear God, I Hate Myself / Kill Rock Stars
100. !!! – Strange Weather, Isn’t It? / Warp Records
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