Because the internet doesn’t have enough opinions on it already…Vision The Kid’s look back on music in the wet and wild year of Two Thousand Ten.
Album of the Year: Kanye.
Is anyone even arguing this anymore?
Favorite review of album of the year: this one.
“The more he piled on — string sections, Elton John piano solos, vocoder freakouts, Bon Iver cameos, King Crimson and Rick James samples — the better the music got”
Song of the Year: Cee-Lo.
2nd Song of the Year: Florence + The Machine.
Rookie of the Year: Wiz Khalifa and/or Free Energy.
Most Overhyped: Sleigh Bells and/or Titus Andronicus.
Just like The XX, give them a few years to develop, if they’re actually good they will not disappoint. THEN you can heap enormous praises/hand jobs on them.
Album I only heard a couple tracks of but everyone loves: Vampire Weekend.
Another album like that: LCD Soundsystem.
Albums suspiciously not on Pitchfork’s Top 50: Local Natives, The Roots, Yeasayer. Really Pitchfork?
Albums RollingStone inevitably ranks way too high: Taylor Swift at #13. Elton John/Leon Russell at #3 (though that album’s probably pretty good)
Best New(ish) Voice: Aloe Blacc, (seen here on Jimmy Fallon).
Think Bill Whithers meets Nate Dogg (with content leaning more towards the former)
Biggest Disappointment: T.I. Terrible album, you would think prison (again) would produce a more mature collection of songs, one without room for “skateboard P make your face fall off”
Favorite Flop: Soulja Boy selling 13,000 units his first week
Best Verse of the Year: Nicki Minaj on “Monster”. Has a female rapper EVER shit so hard on all her male contemporaries? Has anyone since Em out rapped Jay-Z on a track like that?
Saddest Shit I heard: Josh Ritter “The Curse”
Runner Up: Jeremy Messersmith “A Girl, A Boy and a Graveyard”
Poppy ass shit I feel no guilt about singing along with whatsoever: Robyn “Dancing On My Own”
Best comeback: Eminem
Worst comeback: Leaders of the New School (did they even try?)
Throwback song I dug super hard this year: Doo Wa Ditty by Zapp and Roger. Also: No One Is To Blame by Howard Jones (after an amazing cover at the First Ave Gayngs show)
Pop Icon Of The Year : Gaganye. It’s a mashup of Kanye and Lady Gaga I made up in my mind. A drunk, proud black woman who is a ventriloquist for some reason. It’s terrible.
Most excited for next year: Kanye and Jay-Z, The REAL best of both worlds (even if both worlds are the same world), Lupe, Lasers. Oh and of course the Vision The Kid album, due out 1st half 2011. Production from Last Triumph’s Tru.
Most excited for every year: Dre, Detox
