2010 was a year of great albums with strange titles. Let’s go through my favorite records of the year.
1. Titus Andronicus – The Baby Monitor
2. Deerhunter – Halcyon Indigestion brought to you by Pepto Bismol
3. Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Part I: Kanye Goes to Camp Dickwad
4. Arcade Fire – The Suburbs or How I Learned to Cope with my Upper Middle Class White Problems The Easy Way
5. The National – High Voluntary Manslaughter
6. The Tallest Man on Earth – Mattson Gone Wild
7. How to Dress Well – Lub Remains
8. Joanna Newsom – Have Three Albums Worth of Songs That are Each Longer than Two Songs Combined Should Be on Me
9. Mimicking Birds – “Let’s just have this album have the same name as the name we chose to name our band after.”
10. The Walkmen – Lisp On: A tribute to Isaac Brock
11. Wolf Parade – “A reference to the 80′s is so trendy right now guys, c’mon!”
12. These New Puritans – Hidden from Every Fucking Year-End List
13. Damien Jurado – “I shall call him . . . Saint Bartlett!”
14. Sun Kil Moon – Western Promises
15. Cotton Jones – Tall Hours in the Glowstream
16. Strand of Oaks – Pope Killdragon
17. Phosphorescent – Here’s to Taking it Queasy: Tales of Uncomfortable Bodily Reactions
18. Beach House - You Make Me Feel Like I’m Living a Teen Dream by Katy Perry
19. Avey Tare – The Rescuers Down Under: An Australian Rock Opera
20. Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy & the Cairo Gang – The Wonder Show of the World
21. Sam Amidon - I Saw the Sign, It Opened up My Eyes
22. Lower Dens - Twin Hand Movement
23. Connan and the Mockasins – Please Turn me into the Snat
24. Avi Buffalo – “Now, I know it’s been done before,” Avigdor hesitantly mumbled, “but I think we should just go with a self-titled record this go round. Whattayasay!?”
25. LCD Soundsystem – Is this Really Happening? Seriously? Holy shit! I Can’t believe I got convinced to make another one of these monstrosities! I’m gonna go do some interviews about how much I hate this band, and how I could have totally worked with Arcade Fire if I didn’t spend all of my time on this STUPID little side project. I could have been an SNL writer for fuck’s sake. But no . . . I had to make three horrible albums and complain about how much I hated it! Wah. I’m James Murphy! WAH.
Real Titles:
1. Titus Andronicus – The Monitor
2. Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest
3. Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
4. Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
5. The National - High Violet
6. The Tallest Man on Earth – The Wild Hunt
7. How to Dress Well – Love Remains
8. Joanna Newsom – Have One on Me
9. Mimicking Birds – Mimicking Birds
10. The Walkmen – Lisbon
11. Wolf Parade – Expo 86
12. These New Puritans - Hidden
13. Damien Jurado – Saint Bartlett
14. Sun Kil Moon – Admiral Fell Promises
15. Cotton Jones – Tall Hours in the Glowstream
16. Strand of Oaks – Pope Killdragon
17. Phosphorescent – Here’s to Taking it Easy
18. Beach House – Teen Dream
19. Avey Tare – Down There
20. Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy & the Cairo Gang – The Wonder Show of the World
21. Sam Amidon - I See the Sign
22. Lower Dens – Twin Hand Movement
23. Connan and the Mockasins – Please Turn me into the Snat
24. Avi Buffalo - Avi Buffalo
25. LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening
