{"id":5983,"date":"2010-12-12T11:59:04","date_gmt":"2010-12-12T16:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=5983"},"modified":"2010-12-12T11:59:04","modified_gmt":"2010-12-12T16:59:04","slug":"2010-contenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/12\/2010-contenders\/","title":{"rendered":"2010 contenders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dammit, is it really December? Anyway, this is what I listened to this year:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Albemarle Ramblers \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Gentleman from Virginia<\/li>\n<li>Amanda Palmer \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Amanda Palmer Performs The Popular Hits Of Radiohead On Her Magical Ukulele<\/li>\n<li>The Apples in stereo \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Travellers in Space and Time<\/li>\n<li>Arcade Fire \u00e2\u20ac\u201d The Suburbs<\/li>\n<li>Bart Veerman \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Some o&#8217; Mine and Some I Like (2003)<\/li>\n<li>Basia Bulat \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Heart Of My Own<\/li>\n<li>Belle &amp; Sebastian \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Write About Love<\/li>\n<li>Ben Veneer \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Ben Veneer<\/li>\n<li>Bertrand Belin \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Hypernuit<\/li>\n<li>Bill Holt \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Dreamies (1973)<\/li>\n<li>Brett Dennen \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Brett Dennen (2005)<\/li>\n<li>Brian Wilson \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin<\/li>\n<li>Broken Social Scene \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Forgiveness Rock Record<\/li>\n<li>Calvin, Don&#8217;t Jump! \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Under Bridges<\/li>\n<li>Caribou \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Swim<\/li>\n<li>Carolina Chocolate Drops \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Genuine Negro Jig<\/li>\n<li>Charlotte Gainsbourg \u00e2\u20ac\u201d IRM (2009)<\/li>\n<li>Chris Coole &amp; Ivan Rosenberg \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Farewell Trion<\/li>\n<li>Colleen and Paul \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Colleen and Paul<\/li>\n<li>The Corin Tucker Band \u00e2\u20ac\u201d 1,000 Years<\/li>\n<li>Dan Jones \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Dan Jones and The Squids:Live 09<\/li>\n<li>Dan Jones &amp; Peter Wilde \u00e2\u20ac\u201d My Name Is John Smith<\/li>\n<li>The Delgados \u00e2\u20ac\u201d The Great Eastern (2000)<\/li>\n<li>Dum Dum Girls \u00e2\u20ac\u201d I Will Be<\/li>\n<li>Eels \u00e2\u20ac\u201d End Times<\/li>\n<li>Eels \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Tomorrow Morning<\/li>\n<li>Elf Power \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Elf Power<\/li>\n<li>Entertainment For The Braindead \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Roadkill<\/li>\n<li>Final Fantasy \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Heartland<\/li>\n<li>Forest City Lovers \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Carriage<\/li>\n<li>Friendly Rich and the Lollipop People \u00e2\u20ac\u201d The Sacred Prune Of Remembrance<\/li>\n<li>Frightened Rabbit \u00e2\u20ac\u201d The Winter of Mixed Drinks<\/li>\n<li>Frontier Ruckus \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Deadmalls and Nightfalls<\/li>\n<li>Germans \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Elf Shot Lame Witch (2008)<\/li>\n<li>Goldfrapp \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Head First<\/li>\n<li>Gonja Sufi \u00e2\u20ac\u201d A Sufi And A Killer<\/li>\n<li>The Good Right Arm Stringband \u00e2\u20ac\u201d The Good Right Arm Stringband<\/li>\n<li>High Places \u00e2\u20ac\u201d High Places vs. Mankind<\/li>\n<li>Hold Your Horses! \u00e2\u20ac\u201d 70 Million<\/li>\n<li>The Hungry Moment \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Phantom 45<\/li>\n<li>Hurray for the Riff Raff \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Young Blood Blues<\/li>\n<li>James Blackshaw \u00e2\u20ac\u201d All Is Falling<\/li>\n<li>Joanna Newsom \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Have One On Me<\/li>\n<li>J\u00c3\u00b3nsi \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Go<\/li>\n<li>Kyle Creed \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Liberty (1977)<\/li>\n<li>Ladies of the Canyon \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Haunted Woman<\/li>\n<li>M.I.A. \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Maya<\/li>\n<li>Macy Gray \u00e2\u20ac\u201d The Sellout<\/li>\n<li>Major Organ And The Adding Machine \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Major Organ and the Adding Machine (re-release)<\/li>\n<li>MGMT \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Congratulations<\/li>\n<li>Miles Kurosky \u00e2\u20ac\u201d The Desert of Shallow Effects<\/li>\n<li>Mojave 3 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Ask Me Tomorrow (1995)<\/li>\n<li>Nana Grizol \u00e2\u20ac\u201d &#8220;Ruth&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Nesey Gallons \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Southern Winter by Smouldering Porches<\/li>\n<li>The New Pornographers \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Together<\/li>\n<li>of Montreal \u00e2\u20ac\u201d False Priest<\/li>\n<li>Old Man Luedecke \u00e2\u20ac\u201d My Hands Are On Fire and Other Love Songs<\/li>\n<li>The Open Letters \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Bicycle EP<\/li>\n<li>Peter Stampfel &amp; Baby Gramps \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Outertainment<\/li>\n<li>Peter Stampfel &amp; Z\u00c3\u00b6e Stampfel \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Ass in the Air<\/li>\n<li>Pocahaunted \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Make It Real<\/li>\n<li>Princess Pangolin \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Princess Pangolin<\/li>\n<li>Raymond Scott \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Soothing Sounds For Baby (1963)<\/li>\n<li>Robyn Hitchcock \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Propellor Time<\/li>\n<li>The Ruby Suns \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Fight Softly<\/li>\n<li>Smoosh \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Withershins<\/li>\n<li>Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Let It Sway<\/li>\n<li>Stereo Total \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Baby Ouh!<\/li>\n<li>Suckers \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Wild Smile<\/li>\n<li>Sufjan Stevens \u00e2\u20ac\u201d All Delighted People EP<\/li>\n<li>Sufjan Stevens \u00e2\u20ac\u201d The Age of Adz<\/li>\n<li>Sunbear \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Moonbath<\/li>\n<li>The Superions \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the Superions<\/li>\n<li>The Tallest Man On Earth \u00e2\u20ac\u201d The Wild Hunt<\/li>\n<li>Tune-Yards \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Bird-Brains (2009)<\/li>\n<li>The Turtles \u00e2\u20ac\u201d The Turtles Present The Battle of the Bands (1968)<\/li>\n<li>Vampire Weekend \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Contra<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Must be getting old; two of the albums (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bertrandbelin.com\/\">Bertrand Belin<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/brettdennen.net\/\">Brett Dennen<\/a>) I bought because <em>I heard tracks on the radio<\/em>. Consequently, I predict Lawrence Welk in my best of 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dammit, is it really December? Anyway, this is what I listened to this year: Albemarle Ramblers \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Gentleman from Virginia Amanda Palmer \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Amanda Palmer Performs The Popular Hits Of Radiohead On Her Magical Ukulele The Apples in stereo \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Travellers in Space and Time Arcade Fire \u00e2\u20ac\u201d The Suburbs Bart Veerman \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Some o&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[2215,1014,47,1215],"class_list":["post-5983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-choons","tag-2215","tag-best-of","tag-music","tag-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-1yv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5984,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5983\/revisions\/5984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}