What are your Top 5 Albums of 2010?

Here are mine in descending order:   
Include YouTube highlight  samples if you want
5. Pendulum-Immersion     
   

 Champ by Tokyo Police Club
 
American Slang by The Gaslight Anthem 
 
Enemy of the World by Four Year Strong 
 
TSOL by Shad 
 
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy by Kanye West  
 
In no real order.

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is my album of the year. It's hard to rank the rest though: Lady Killer (Cee-Lo Green), Contra (Vampire Weekend), Plastic Beach (Gorillaz), and Sleigh Bells.

5. "Age Of Adz" by Sufjan Stevens
4. "Pilot Talk" by Curren$y 
3. "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy" by Kanye West 
2. "Black City" by Matthew Dear
1. "Dagger Paths" by Forest Swords

" @Unknown_Pleasures:   I can't get into Matthew Dear AT ALL. "

Amazing Year for Music! 

1. "The ArchAndroid" by Janelle Monae  
     

I think Victims of the Modern Age by Star One is the only 2010 album I've listened to.

To be honest, I'm not sure about a top-5 at the moment, I'd have to give it some time to properly think about it :P
But anyway, Black Mountain's "Wilderness Heart" would most definitely be on that top 5!

In no particular order:
 
Serj Tankian - Imperfect Harmonies (2010)
Sage Francis - Li(f)e (2010)
Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager  (2010)
Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More (2009)
Nicole Atkins - Neptune City (2007)

Haven't even heard of most of these bands. The TC's list is especially  terrible, emo and wannabe gangsta at the same time. 

" Only 1 this year...  Deftones - Diamond Eyes "

"Sidewalks" - Matt & Kim 
"Contra" - Vampire Weekend 
"What Separates Me From  You" - A Day To Remember
"The Suburbs" - Arcade Fire
"Enemy of the World - Four Year Strong
bonus - "The Head and the Heart" - The Head and the Heart
 
probably other albums as well that i forgot about that came out this year

Girls- Broken Dreams Club
Child Abuse- Cut and Run
Twin Shadow- Forget 
Best Coast- Crazy for You
Burzum- Belus
 
No particular order

One of these was released in the late '90's, but it was new to me this year. 
 
1.) Eminem: Recovery. I'm a huge fan of Eminem's and it's great to see him return to his former glory with a great new album.
2.) Nickelback: The State. It's over ten years old but I just listened to it this year. Haters gonna hate, but their first album is a great alt-rock album.
3.) Deadmau5: 4x4=12. A number of the tracks have been released already, but some not in the highest quality. The official release has some of his best songs yet. 
4.) Daft Punk: Tron Legacy Score. Good to get you pumped up for the film, which I can't wait for!
5.) Dirty Heads: Any Port in a Storm (Deluxe Edition). At this point everyone has heard "Lay Me Down" but I encourage all of you to check out the rest of the album. These guys are the shit.

" I think Victims of the Modern Age by Star One is the only 2010 album I've listened to. "

5 Funstyle by Liz Phair  
  

• "Nightmare" - Avenged Sevenfold 
• "Korn III: Remember Who You Are" - Korn 
• "Mantra" - In Vain 
• "Recovery" - Eminem 
• "A Thousand Suns" - Linkin Park 
• "Order of the Black" - Black Label Society  
• "Rebirth" - Lil' Wayne
• "Relentless" - Yngwie Malmsteen 
• "Loud" - Rihanna 
• "Nobody's Daughter" - Hole

1. The Fragile- Nine inch Nails ( A reissue was supposed to be released in 2010 and even though it wasn't It still gets my first place. Deal with it)
2. Brothers- The Black Keys
3. Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys- My  Chemical Romance
4. Telephantasm- Soundgarden
5. Outside The Box- Skream

1.  Transit Transit - Autolux
2. The Suburbs - Arcade Fire
3. Surfing the Void - Klaxons
4. Forgiveness Rock Record - Broken Social Scene
5. The Monitor - Titus Andronicus 
  
Some close runners up are Kele's Boxer, Les Savy Fav's Root for Ruin, and MGMT's Congratulations.

'The Suburbs' by Arcade Fire is the best experience I've had all year in music. So glad I got to see them live this year. 
 
Also, I can't get enough of that drop in 'The Island' even though I don't like the song :s The hook, the hook!

Is it sad that most of the music I've listened to this year was music that didn't come out this year?
 
EDIT:  Originally I said I could only think of one album I've really listened to this year, but after thinking and looking through a lot of stuff, I found about 5 albums I could list

Mumford and sons- Sigh no more
Steel Train- Steel Train
My Chemical Romance-  Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys
A Day to Remember- What Separates Me From You
Hellogoodbye- Would It Kill You

In no particular order

Man this is hard, I don't like ranking really since I like them all
well here is a list of my 5 fav songs of the 2010 so If I listed the song then that means I really like that album.
1. Woe is me - Delinquents
  

1. Nails - Unsilent Death
  

  MY FAV 5 OF tHE YEAR (most listened to)
lloyd banks - hunger for more pt 2
redman - reggie noble
bun b - trill
kanye west - my beautiful dark twisted fantasy
capone n noreaga - war report 2
 
notables **
ice cube - i am the west
b.o.b's album 
kid cudi
big boi - sir lucious left foot
eminem

Didn't buy a huge amount of music this year. Still, none of the albums I've heard so far have been clankers, so that's good! 
 
5: Arckanum - Sviga Læ      
As much as I love the guy and what he does, this album just didn't hit it quite as far out of the park this time.   
  

" 1. The Dead Weather - Sea Of Cowards 2. Daft Punk - Tron Legacy soundtrack 3. Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can 4.Karen Elson - The Ghost Who Walks 5. Grinderman - Grinderman 2   This is literally every album that came out this year that I listened to, although if i listened to everything else this would still probably be my top 5.       "

Dillinger and Fukpig

1.Gorillaz-Plasic Beach
 
  

5. MGMT - Congratulations
4. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
3. Motion City Soundtrack - My Dinosaur Life
2. Wavves - King of the Beach
1.Surfer Blood - Astro Coast

" Haven't even heard of most of these bands. The TC's list is especially  terrible, emo and wannabe gangsta at the same time.  "

1. Celeste - Morte(s) Nee(s)  <-You can officially download that shit for free 

 
2. Trash Talk - Eyes & Nines 
  
 
3. Ceremony - Rohnert Park 
   
 
4. Envy - Recitation 
    
 
5. Extortion - Loose Screws 
  

" I think Victims of the Modern Age by Star One is the only 2010 album I've listened to. "

5. Victims of the Modern Age by Star One

05. Human See, Human Do 

I'll be honest, I was reluctant to get into this. I'm usually very much against power-esque vocals, but I decided to give this one a shot. Turns out, if you're willing to look past/accept them, it's awesome! Also, Dan Swanö. Dude makes everything better, right? (Genre: Progressive Metal/"Space Metal")

4. Monolith by In Mourning

04. The Smoke

While arguably not as great as their 2008 debut, Shrouded Divine, this is still a very solid effort. (Genre: Progressive Death Metal)
 

3. Fortunes Haze by Look to Windward

03 Fortunes Haze II: Exodus/Return

I literally just found out about this yesterday, so if I'd had more time to listen to it, it might have ended up at number 2 even. Anyway, completely unknown and new band, album came out just last week, only one song on YouTube as of right now, but not the one I had picked as a sample, so the link will have to do. (Genre: Progressive/Atmospheric/Extreme/I-don't-know these-guys-are-kind-of-all-over-the-place-Metal)

2. Anthropocentric by The Ocean

05 The Grand Inquisitor II: Roots & Locusts 

Can you believe these dudes put out two albums in one year? While the other one, Heliocentric, maybe wasn't that great (but still good!), this one does do everything right. They greatly improved upon the clean vocals they tried out on Helio, and at the same time brought back all the heaviness that made them great in the first place. (Genre: Progressive Sludge (yes fuck you it exists))

1. Aquarius by Haken

03 Aquarium

Yep. Don't have much to add either. Anything I would say would probably sell this short. I suggest people just listen to it. (Genre: Progressive Rock/Metal)

In no particular order 
 
Broken Bells - Broken Bells  
Loved this album.  Definitely wish there was more of this kind of music around.  Also, loving this album finally got me into The Shins, which I had been trying to do for a while.  If you like The Shins and haven't heard this album, definitely check it out. 
   

I still haven't heard the new Kanye West album in its entirety, but the little that I HAVE heard is fucking fantastic.  The guy may be an asshole, but man....he can back himself up. 
 
Beyond that, here's my top five at the moment: 
 

Periphery - S/T 

Big Boi - Sir Luscious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty  

10 Years - Feeding The Wolves  

All That Remains - For We Are Many  

Demon Hunter - The World is a Thorn  

1. HIM Screamworks - Love theory in practice