Chambered's Top 30 Songs Of 2010
here is my top 30 songs of the year. While I think 2010 was more of an "album" year, there were no doubt some songs that will stick with me for quite some time. hope you enjoy. |
| 30 |  | Women
Public Strain
Eyesore: There's a few problems I have with this album which I won't get into now, except for the fact that the clear best song is at the end (which usually isn't a criticism of mine, some of my favorite albums save the best for last), tucked away in a bright corner filled to the brim with collateral energy and sends the album off into oblivion. |
| 29 |  | Alexisonfire
Dog's Blood
Dog's Blood: Finally, Alexisonfire seem back after a lackluster couple of releases with a return to their roots of atmospheric hardcore, with Dallas Green's wonderous croon of "In dog's blood, we will all drown" as the cherry on top. |
| 28 |  | Tera Melos
Patagonian Rats
Trident Tail: One spot of unbelievable clarity in a fuckfest maze of an album. |
| 27 |  | Arcade Fire
The Suburbs
The Suburbs: With a chorus that ranks up there with the band's best, the title track from the Canadian group's latest is lovely. |
| 26 |  | Menomena
Mines
Lunchmeat: there's many little wtf moments on this song and one BIG wtf moment that eventually come together in the end with a truly killer guitar lead that is at once snarling and beautiful. |
| 25 |  | Sleeping Village
Fragments
My Quality Of Being: A 9 minute forray into bleak waters. Harsh black metal collides with the beauty of a shooting star beaming towards the horizon. |
| 24 |  | The Roots
How I Got Over
Dear God 2.0: The raps are solid, the beat is driving, the chorus is ethereal, everything comes together in a way only the class of artists like The Roots could deliver. "it's still me one of yo biggest fans / I get off work, right back to work again / I probably need to go ahead and have my head examined / look how they got me on the Def Jam payment plan...they send my dad to you in a barrage of bullets / why is the world ugly when you made it in your image / and why is livin life such a fight to the finish / for this high percentage / when the sky's the limit / a second is a minute / every hour's infinite" |
| 23 |  | Deftones
Diamond Eyes
You've Seen The Butcher: It's pretty much an exorsize in juns but regardless it's effective and has a groovy as hell chorus that bombs away at the listener. Abe Cunningham has almost never sounded sharper. |
| 22 |  | Dinosaur Feathers
Fantasy Memorial
Sleeping In: The songwriting here is fantastic (the rest of the album is a no no) as the song so naturally bleeds into its eargasmic 2nd half repeated climax of "you never wanted to sleep in / you never wanted to let the morning win". Superb. |
| 21 |  | Daft Punk
Tron: Legacy
Armory: Derezzed may have the punching power, but Armory just blows it away in terms of vividness pertaining to Tron. |
| 20 |  | Big Boi
Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
Fo Yo Sorrows: Just the most chill of tracks. Toke that shit up. |
| 19 |  | Immolation
Majesty And Decay
A Glorious Epoch: Immolation have been slaying heads since forever, and this pounds as hard as anything they have done in their illustrious career. |
| 18 |  | Crocodiles
Sleep Forever
Girl In Black: A gleaming mountaintop of poignant, heartfelt lyricism and sparse atmospherics. |
| 17 |  | The Dillinger Escape Plan
Option Paralysis
Gold Teeth On A Bum: The ending. Nuff said. |
| 16 |  | How To Dress Well
Love Remains
Walking This Dumb: Recorded in a live setting, this pulsating, beautiful song begs you to rave your way into the night. |
| 15 |  | Sufjan Stevens
The Age Of Adz
I Want To Be Well: Has the best part on the album (you know which part) and the rest is sublime. |
| 14 |  | Deerhunter
Halcyon Digest
He Would Have Laughed: What a mammoth way to end the album. Not mammoth in sound but just how personal the lyrics seem to be and how fluid everything is in portraying the message. |
| 13 |  | Flying Lotus
Cosmogramma
Do The Astral Plane: Flying Lotus is DJ'ing the biggest party in the solar system and this is where the club reaaaally gets rockin. |
| 12 |  | MellowHype
BLACKENEDWHITE
Loaded: The most swag song in an album full of swag. Just wait til the bass kicks in at the "bambi" part and you're floored. |
| 11 |  | Warpaint
The Fool
Undertow: The vocals are instantly memorable, the music is beautiful, and the lyrics will relate to many a person who has had a difficult relationship. |
| 10 |  | Max Richter
Infra
Infra 6: My god, this just pulls at your heartstrings with such soft piano melody and slight static in the background. Quite possibly the saddest song of the year. |
| 9 |  | The Tallest Man On Earth
The Wild Hunt
King Of Spain: Seems to slightly rise above the rest on The Wild Hunt. Could have been a few songs. |
| 8 |  | Dark Time Sunshine
Vessel
Run: You just need to listen to the production and beat to get a sense for how astoundingly chill this is. |
| 7 |  | Janelle Monae
The ArchAndroid (Suites II and III of IV)
Say You'll Go: It could have been the smash-hit, eclectic "Tightrope" but this is Janelle at her most scarred and vulnerable, creating a song that sounds like it's bottled up in a jar of clouds. |
| 6 |  | The Knife
Tomorrow, In A Year
Seeds: The cooldown after the penultimate T,IAY track is a mind-boggling techno beat that doesn't seem like at much at first but when it explodes into frenetic opera-house you know this is something fucking special. |
| 5 |  | Titus Andronicus
The Monitor
A Pot In Which To Piss: Let's be honest for a minute, the last remaining minutes of this track will probably be forever ingrained into my skull, as a reminder to fucking LIVE. |
| 4 |  | Kanye West
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Monster: Nicki Minaj |
| 3 |  | The National
High Violet
Conversation 16: Completely ruins me in more ways than one, plus has arguably the moment of the year. "I was afraid, I'd eat your brains / cause I'm evil" |
| 2 | | The Knife
Tomorrow, In A Year
Colouring Of Pigeons: It represents the explosion of modern life in the evolution of our existence that has made me go "holy shit" since February. |
| 1 | | Titus Andronicus
The Monitor
The Battle Of Hampton Roads: Will most likely be number 1 in 2019. Sorry decade. |
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