My Favorite Albums of 2010

A year ago today I posted a list of "my 100 favorite albums of the decade".

Now, a year later, I give you my list for 2010.
(The links go to youtube videos so you can hear songs from each album.)

My favorite albums of 2010:

The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang

Click to hear "Diamond Church Street Choir"
Click to hear "Lucky"

The Hold Steady - Heaven is Whenever

Click to hear "We Can Get Together"
Click to hear "Hurricane J"

The Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt

Click to hear "You're Going Back"
Click to hear "The King of Spain"

The Tallest Man on Earth - Sometimes the Blues is Just a Passing Bird EP

Click to hear "Tangle in this Trampled Wheat"
Click to hear "The Dreamer"

Titus Andronius - The Moniter

Click to hear "A More Perfect Union"
Click to hear "Four Score and Seven"

Belle and Sebastian - Write About Love

Click to hear "Write about Love"

She & Him - Volume 2

Click to hear "In the Sun"
Click to hear "Ridin' in My Car"

Phosphorescent - Here's To Taking it Easy

Click to hear "It's Hard to be Humble (When You're from Alabama)"
Click to hear "The Mermaid Parade"

Band of Horses - Infinite Arms

Click to hear "Older"
Click to hear "Compliments"

album of the year:
Frontier Ruckus - Deadmalls and Nightfalls

Click to hear "Nerves of the Nightmind"
Click to hear "Silverfishes"
Click to hear "Pontiac, The Nightbrink"
Click to hear "I Do Need Saving"

honorable mention:
Tim Kasher - The Game of Monogamy

Click to hear "Cold Love"

The 50 States of Beer - Colorado

Colorado

New Belgium Brewery - Fort Collins, CO
Best Beer:

New Belgium's Biere de Mars

While visiting the New Belgium brewery in Fort Collins last March, we took the tour. At one point we stopped for a tasting, and I asked the tour guide if we could try a beer that you couldn't get outside of the brewery at that time.

He poured us a Biere de Mars Ale. It was a great beer. The first thing we did was throw it back, it had a lemon taste that invited drinking.

Then he says "Ok, now taste the beer." Ours were gone. So he poured us another, it was just as good as the first.

He told us a story of how the head brewer at New Belgium, Peter Bouckaert (a belgian) loved how American's were so different than Europeans when it came to beers. If you hand a European a beer... they sniff it, they scrutinize it.

Hand a beer to an American and we drink it. Cause, hey, you might give us another.

For More Reading about New Belgium and Biere De Mars, go here.

Up next, Nebraska

My 100 Favorite Films of the Decade

So, as this decade comes to an end, I decided that I would go back and reflect on all the movies that came out and make a list of my favorites. That was extremely hard, so I ended up doing my top 10 favorite movies for each of the last ten years. Here She Goes...

2000-
O Brother, Where Art Thou
Traffic
Boiler Room
American Psycho
Best in Show
Almost Famous
Requiem For A Dream
Snatch
Memento
best picture: High Fidelity
honorable mention: A Perfect Storm

2001
Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
Shrek
Black Hawk Down
Vanilla Sky
The Others
Joe Dirt
Jay and Silent Bob Strikes Back
Out Cold
Made
best picture: The Royal Tenenbaums
honorable mention: Zoolander

2002
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Star Wars: Attack of the Clones
About Schmidt
The Count of Monte Cristo
Slackers
About a Boy
Super Troopers
The Dangerous Lives of Alter Boys
Rodger Dodger
best picture: Gangs of New York
honorable mention: Orange County

2003
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
Mystic River
Old School
Bad Santa
Intermission
Lost in Translation
A Mighty Wind
The Cooler
Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator
best picture: Veronica Guerin
honorable mention: 28 Days Later

2004
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgandy
In Good Company
Sideways
The Life Aquatic
Hotel Rwanda
The Motorcycle Diaries
I Heart Huckabees
The Machinist
best picture: Garden State
honorable mention: Harold and Kumar go to White Castle

2005
Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith
Batman Begins
Brokeback Mountain
40 year Old Virgin
Crash
The Constant Gardner
Me and You and Everyone We Know
The Ballad of Jack and Rose
Green Street Hooligans
best pictures: The Squid and the Whale
honorable mention: The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

2006
The Departed
The Prestige
Children of Men
Clerks 2
Marie Antoinette
Running With Scissors
Trailer Park Boys: the Movie
Half Nelson
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
best picture: Little Miss Sunshine
honorable mention: V for Vendetta

2007
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters
Knocked Up
Juno
There Will Be Blood
Into the Wild
The Darjeeling Limited
The Simpsons Movie
Persepolis
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
best picture: The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
honorable mention: Lars and the Real Girl

2008
The Dark Knight
Iron Man
Tropic Thunder
City of Ember
Charlie Bartlett
Role Models
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Slumdog Millionaire
best picture: The Wrestler
honorable mention: Pineapple Express

2009
The Hangover
Star Trek
Inglourious Basterds
Zombieland
Funny People
The Invention of Lying
(500) Days of Summer
Big Fan
Fantastic Mr. Fox
best picture: Up
honorable mention: Where The Wild Things Are

My Favorite Albums of 2007 and 2008

My Top 10 albums of 2007 (just incase you were curious)
- spoon / ga ga ga ga ga
- bright eyes / cassadaga
- the good life / help wanted nights
- modest mouse / we were dead before the ship even sank
- band of horses / cease to begin
- wilco / sky blue sky
- jose gonzalez / in our nature
- the envy corps / story problem ep
- rilo kiley / under the blacklight
- iron and wine / the shepherd's dog

My Top 10 albums of 2008
- the hold steady / stay positive
- conor oberst / conor oberst
- fleet foxes / fleet foxes
- the tallest man on earth / shallow grave
- jack's mannequin / the glass passenger
- the gaslight anthem / the 59 sound
- kings of leon / only by the night
- vampire weekend / vampire weekend
- she & him / volume one
- coldplay / viva la vida or death and all his friends