Favorite Albums of Last Year?

Recently I have been looking through all the albums I have bought/downloaded in 2010. I was wondering if anyone else had any favorite albums of last year. Here are mine: 
 
1. Superchunk - Majestry Shredding   

I've only heard of two of those bands... 

Here's a few of my favourites:
 
Miike Snow by Miike Snow (was this 2010?)
Carl Barat by Carl Barat 
High Violet by The National
Crystal Castles II by Crystal Castles
Total Life Forever by The Foals

Recovery. 
 
There's a shitstorm a-brewin'...

You can probably guess what mine is: This is Happening by LCD Soundsystem.

" Crystal Castles II by Crystal Castles "

1)MBDTF by Kanye West - Some of the best production Iv ever heard on a hip hop album mixed with Kanye at his lyrical peak = One of the best albums in years 
 
2) The Archandroid by Janelle Monae  -  one of the best debut albums in years , featuring rich production,  a variety of genres, and Janelle's amazing personality and voice 
 
 3) Sir Luscious Left foot by Big Boi  - Was my favourite hip hop album of the year before MBDTF. Funky and fresh indeed  
 
4)  Before today by Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti  -  Loved the old school funk rock sound of this album 
 
5)  The Suburbs by Arcade Fire - Probably their weakest album, but still great 

MBDTF by Kanye West - fantastic music, just ignore the majority of the lyrics.    

" 4) Haunted Graffiti by Ariel Pink -  Loved the old school funk rock sound of this album "

Last year was such a great one for music. Off the top of my head, I was constantly listening to Transference- Spoon Plastic Beach- Gorillaz, This is Happening- LCD Soundsystem, Scott Pilgrim vs The World: The Video Game Soundtrack- Anamanaguchi, IRM-Charlotte Gainsbourg, Sir Luscious Left Foot- Big Boi, Apollo Kids- Ghostface Killah, Contra- Vampire Weekend. (Still haven't listened to The Suburbs and I just barely got into Mumford & Sons and Florence & The Machines albums...sorry I can't really give good opinions on those.)

Plastic Beach mos' def.

"Dagger Paths" by Forest Swords

of Montreal's False Priest. 

i have no idea. here is what i got in no order
 
 
 
stone sour- audio secrecy
 

 
 
 


 
great albums by the artist.

Mine was easily My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and I guess All Day, would be right behind it.

I posted this a couple months ago, but here goes:  http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/moelarrycurly/blog/?page=2
 
10. This is Happening - LCD Soundsystem 
9. The Lady Killer - Cee Lo Green 
8. All Day - Girl Talk 
7. Immersion - Pendulum 
6. Brothers - The Black Keys 
5. The Orchard - Ra Ra Riot 
4. Broken Bells - Broken Bells 
3. Plastic Beach - Gorillaz 
2. How I Got Over - The Roots 
1. The Suburbs - Arcade Fire 
 
To be completely honest, I don't recognize any of the picks that the OP has.  Interesting how people have such different tastes.

John Lajoie's I Kill People filled my comedy void left but the mediocrity of Bo Burnham's Words Words Words.

Forgot a few others. Broken Bells was a solid album & makes me excited for the inevitable follow-up, Drake's Thank Me Later is one of the best debut rap albums in a long while and Cee-Lo's never been better than he is in The Lady Killer.

Dark Twisted  Fantasy and The LadyKiller. Easy peasy. 
 
Was pretty disappointed with LCD Soundsystem's latest though...

Minus The Bear - Omni
Powerglove - Saturday Morning Apocalypse
 
they have the best cover of gotta catch em all I've ever heard, serious:
 
  

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy    

I did not really buy any new albums last year. My favorite albums I did buy last year are: Float by Flogging Molly, The Curse by Atreyu, Good Mourning/Remains by the Alkaline Trio, and The Meanest Of Times by The Dropkick Murphys.

Annihilation of the Evil Machine - K-Rino
 
Can't Ban Tha Truth - Trae (It's a mixtape) 
 
Heroin - Z-Ro

" @Rokkaku said:

" Crystal Castles II by Crystal Castles "

This.   That album is glorious. I don't even like that sort of music for the most part, but CC made me a fan in no time flat.  "

" 4. Broken Bells - Broken Bells  "

" @ShaggE said:

" @Rokkaku said:

" Crystal Castles II by Crystal Castles "

This.   That album is glorious. I don't even like that sort of music for the most part, but CC made me a fan in no time flat.  "

I know, I saw them last year and their sound is just as good in person.  Celestica performed live will destroy you. "

There's been a million of threads like this, but here's a couple of my favorite 2010 albums, again... :P
 

• Black Mountain - Wilderness Heart
• SECT - Babylon Rising

Katy Perrys album, it smelled of sweets!

LCD Soundsystem, Dom, Best Coast, Bird and the Bee, Twin Sister EP and Cults EP are what I listened to the most from 2010.

" @the_OFFICIAL_jAPanese_teaBAG: It's just when I hear the word "hipster" it is usually used with negative connotation, which makes sense, because I fucking hate that word. Anyway, I'm not offended. It's all good, dude. "

" I did not really buy any new albums last year. My favorite albums I did buy last year are: Float by Flogging Molly, The Curse by Atreyu, Good Mourning/Remains by the Alkaline Trio, and The Meanest Of Times by The Dropkick Murphys. "

I'm usually straighter than this, but the best albums I heard last year were the debut, titular Fleet Foxes album and debut Mumford & Sons album, Sigh No More. Below, a sample from each: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VExmgC0z9U0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KkUeRPjc-Y     
 Also, this EP came out in 2009, but it's free and awesome. Like a chiptunes thing with some real instruments, vocals and great lyrics. 
http://www.iimusic.net/catalog/2009/10/the-j-arthur-keenes-band-pamplemousse     
  
And that was a lie, i'm not straighter than that. I'm usually about 4% gay.

" Katy Perrys album, it smelled of sweets! "

Big Fan of All Day by Girl Talk.

1) "Self Preserved While The Bodies Float Up" - Oceansize
 
2) "Omni" - Minus the Bear
 
3) "Armistice" - Mute Math (came out in 2009 but I didn't buy it until 2010)
 
4) "Dark Is The Way, Light Is The Place" - Anberlin
 
5) "Collective" - Stavesacre (came out in 2001 but I didn't buy it until 2010)
 
6) "Joyland" - Andy McKee
 
7) "Paisajes" - Tristeza

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy by a wide, wide margin. As a big rock person, I'm having trouble coming up with an album as good as West's since 1979, perhaps barring AC/DC's Back in Black. 
 
However, The Black Keys' Brothers, deadmau5's 4x4=12 and Leon Russell/Elton John's The Union were also excellent. 
 
EDIT: Not to mention the soundtracks of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, The Social Network, Deadly Premonition, Super Meat Boy, and Pac-Man CEDX.

" 1)MBDTF by Kanye West - Some of the best production Iv ever heard on a hip hop album mixed with Kanye at his lyrical peak = One of the best albums in years        

 That album is amazing .  

 5)The Suburbs by Arcade Fire - Probably their weakest album, but still great  "