The Music Club’s Top Albums/Singles of 2010

Fabolous, #8 on Rosen’s list for There Is No Competition 2 (The Funeral Service)

The Music Club, Slate‘s innovative, epistolary music blog, finally released its list of top albums and singles from the past year with contributors Jody Rosen, Ann Powers, Jonah Weiner, and Carl Wilson. For the sake of brevity, Rosen’s list is the only one reproduced below.

Along with each’s list is often a creative discussion of the music selected. And with Rosen’s comes a nuanced deconstruction of Kanye West and his most recent chef d’oeuvre (My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy) and, most enjoyably, a simply magical diatribe directed at–you guessed it–Miss Taylor Swift.

Swift lost me this year in the unlikeliest fashion: by being a spoiled brat.

Other memorable moments include Weiner’s profile of the “weirdo rapper” phenomenon.

Toward the margins, there’s Lil B, a brilliantly warped, post-Lil-Wayne deconstructionist from the Bay Area. He freestyles prolifically and deftly (or, when he feels like it, gloriously ineptly), dabbles in ambient music, extends metaphors so far that they break down and lose any metaphorical component, calls himself a faggot but says he’s not gay, calls himself a bitch, calls himself Hannah Montana, says “fuck Justin Bieber” then says he’s friends with Justin Bieber, compares himself to Aretha Franklin, Matlock, Jesus, Mel Gibson, and even your father.

Here is Rosen’s truly eclectic list of 2010’s best. Check out the full article (and the other lists) here.

Albums:

1. Kanye West, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
2. Sleigh Bells, Treats
3. Joanna Newsom, Have One on Me
4. Busy Signal, D.O.B.
5. Trey Songz, Passion, Pain & Pleasure
6. Vampire Weekend, Contra
7. Calle 13, Entren Los Que Quieran
8. Fabolous, There Is No Competition 2 (The Funeral Service)
9. Standard Fare, The Noyelle Beat
10. Justin Bieber, My World 2.0

Singles:

1. Justin Bieber featuring Ludacris, “Baby”
2. Kanye West, “Runaway”
3. Sade, “Soldier of Love”
4. Cage the Elephant, “Shake Me Down”
5. Taio Cruz, “Dynamite”
6. Rihanna, “Rude Boy”
7. Lloyd Banks featuring Juelz Santana, “Beamer, Benz or Bentley”
8. Ke$ha, “Your Love Is My Drug”
9. Easton Corbin, “A Little More Country Than That”
10. Trey Songz, “Love Faces”
11. Busy Signal, “How U Bad So”
12. Alejandro Escovedo, “Anchor”
13. Katy Perry, “Teenage Dream”
14. Easton Corbin, “Roll With It”
15. Lindstrom & Christabelle, “Lovesick”
16. Waka Flocka Flame, “Hard in Da Paint”
17. Best Coast, “Boyfriend”
18. Chris Brown, “Deuces”
19. Nicki Minaj, “Did It on ‘Em”
20. Lyfe Jennings, “Statistics”
21. Little Big Town, “Little White Church”
22. Rihanna featuring Drake, “What’s My Name?”
23. Arcade Fire, “Ready To Start”
24. Wavves, “Post Acid”
25. E-40, “The Server”