Mojo's Best 50 Albums of 2010

The Queen of Denmark is not as sexy as you remembered. 
But she sounds great.  

What:

Monthly magazine Mojo published its Top 50 Albums of 2010.

Comments:

Three reasons that make this playlist different from all the other EOY playlists:

1. #1 is the fantastic Queen of Denmark, by former Czars frontman John Grant. Listen to the first four songs of the album and your life (or, at least, these final days of 2010) won't ever be the same.

2. Mojo didn't forget the actual 2010 distribution of Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse's Dark Night of the Soul.

3. Surprising exclusions: Kanye West, National, Beach House, Vampire Weekend. It means that in the aggregated chart that I'm keeping, Arcade Fire and LCD Soundsystem remain the only contenders to the top spot as Absolutely Best Album of 2010.

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THE PLAYLIST
(40 albums out of 50, 80%)

50 Matthew Dear – Black City
49 Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabate – Ali & Toumani
48 John Legend & The Roots – Wake Up!
47 Jane Weaver & Septieme Souer – The Fallen By Watch Bird
46 Peter Gabriel – Scratch My Back
45 Roky Erickson w/ Okkervil River – True Love Cast Out All Evil
44 Swans – My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky
43 The Besnard Lakes – Are The Roaring Night
42 Kelley Stoltz – To Dreamers
41 Tom Jones – Praise and Blame
40 Eli Paperboy Reed – Come and Get It
39 Wyatt, Atzmon, Stephens – For The Ghosts Within
38 Gonjasufi – A Sufi And A Killer
37 Teenage Fanclub – Shadows
36 LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening
35 M.I.A. – /\/\/\Y/\
34 Villagers – Becoming A Jackal
33 The Roots – How I Got Over You
32 Robert Plant – Band of Joy
31 Neil Young – Le Noise
30 Janelle Monae – The ArchAndroid
29 Gill Scott-Heron – I’m New Here
28 Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse – Dark Night of The Soul
27 Field Music – Field Music
26 Gorillaz – Plastic Beach
25 Foals – Total Life Forever
24 The Jim Jones Revue – Burning Your House Down
23 Sharon Jones and The Dap Kings – I Learned The Hard Way
22 Sam Amidon – I See The Sign
21 Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan – Hawk
20 Grinderman – Grinderman 2
19 Rumer – Seasons of My Soul
18 Caribou – Swim
17 Roots Manuva meets Wrongtom – Duppy Writer
16 Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Before Today
15 Avi Buffalo – Avi Buffalo
14 Manic Street Preachers – Postcards From A Young Man
13 Joanna Newsom – Have One On Me
12 Mavis Staples – You Are Not Alone
11 Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest
10 Doug Paisley – Constant Companion
9 The Coral – Butterfly House
8 Phosphorescent – Here’s To Taking It Easy
7 Midlake – The Courage of Others
6 Paul Weller – Wakes Up The Nation
5 The Black Keys – Brothers
4 Edwyn Collins – Losing Sleep
3 MGMT – Congratulations
2 Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
1 John Grant – Queen of Denmark

Listen to it on Spotify:
Mammoth (full albums, 489 tracks, about 1 day): HTTP, URI. (SR0333)
Graduated (two tracks each album from #50 to #41, three from #40 to #31, four from #30 to #21, five from #20 to #11, six from #10 to #1): HTTP, URI. (SR0334)

Previously on Spotirama end of year 2010 lists:
NPR Favourite 50 Albums
NME Best 75 Tracks & Albums
Rough Trade Top 100 Albums
Pop Matters' The 60 Best Singles
Stereogum's Top 50 Albums (and Top 15 EPs)
Rolling Stone's Best 30 Albums & Best 50 Singles of 2010
Amazon US' Top Albums & Top Songs of 2010