Best of 2010 Recap

Just a reminder of my best of 2010 lists.

The top ten TV series of 2010 are here.

The top twenty albums of 2010 are here.

The top twenty songs of 2010 are here.

The Top Twenty Songs of 2010

I broke one of my rules. I had to. I couldn’t make the choices I needed to make, so I dumped two songs I like but was really unenthusiastic about and-

I repeated artists.

I tend not to do that, simply because I believe you should try to allow as many artists on these lists as possible. There is always someone who reads them and discovers something new. If you repeat artists, it means that some band isn’t getting a spot on a list to be found out. It pains me. There are so many great bands.

But there were two artists that each had so many songs that I just could help myself. they each have two slots. The other sixteen- well, there is a lot of overlap between this list and my albums list. The year in music was quite terrible for quality singles. That explains why “Teenage dream” is on so many of them.

The Top Ten TV Shows 2010

TV hasn’t gotten worse, has it? Or does it just feel that way, seeing as the only show I still watch that debuted in September is Raising Hope, which benefits from being a sitcom that is funny. Laugh out loud funny. It has a ways to go, but it is literally the only new show I watch regularly.

It is a sad state. Most of the shows on my list this year were on last year’s. There are a couple of new ones- they’re British and I discovered them this year. But when it all comes down to it, it’s just sad that I can’t come up with newer stuff more often. And that House can still make my top 20 simply because of Hugh Laurie and Robert Sean Leonard’s performances and nothing else.

The Top Twenty Albums of 2010

The year 2010 in music can be looked at in one of two ways.

It was bad.

Or-

It was really, really bad.

I’m not kidding. Most of the music was pretty mundane. Some of it was atrociously bad. But I managed to scrape together twenty albums worthy of repeated listens. I mean, some of them have been pretty regular in the iPod shuffle in my world. One of them has pretty much stayed in my CD player at home since I bought it.

So here are the twenty albums of 2010 that I consider to be totally awesome and future all time classics. Well, okay, one of them is a classic now. The other nineteen need to catch up.