Uncle Critic

Wow what a year, this was almost impossible.
A disclaimer first, Iron Maiden came out with an album this year, but no one can compete with Iron Maiden so I exempt them from the list. So this is really the top non-Iron Maiden albums of the year.

The Real #1 – Iron Maiden: The Final Frontier

1. Leatherface: The Stormy Petrel
2. Rumspringer: Empty Towers
3. The Dopamines: Expect the Worst
4. Deep Sleep: Turn Me Off
5. The Seven Degrees of Stephen Egerton
6. The Hextalls: Get Smashed
7. Iron Chic: Not Like This
8. Spraynard: Cut and Paste
9. The Queers: Back to the Basement
10. Candy Hearts: Ripped Up Jeans & Silly Dreams
11. Tit Patrol: Hate Speech
12. Nasty Cats: Misanthropy, Melancholia & Desperation
13. Clint Maul: Know You Know
14. Razors Edge: Sonic! Fast! Life!
15. Lich King: World Gone Dead
16. Full of Fancy: Liquid Nature
17. Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings: I Learned the Hard Way
18. Superchunk: Majesty Shredding
19. Unwelcome Guests: Don’t Go Swimming
20. Del The Funky Homosapien: It Ain’t Illegal Yet

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Holy shit! SO many good EPs this year, jesus christ this was not easy.

1. The Fucking Cops: You Have The Right To Shut The Fuck Up
2. The Zits: Electrified! EP
3. Like Bats: Look on the Bright Side
4. The Ergs!: Thrash Compactor
5. Ergquist: 42,069 Seconds With
6. Night Birds: Midnight Movies
7. The Slow Death: S/T EP
8. House Boat: Processing Complaints
9. The Quarantines: Robot Girl
10. Clint Maul: Thrift Store Dress EP
11. John K. Samson: Provincial Road 222
12. Night Birds: S/T
13. New Creases: About Last Night…
14. Mean Jeans: Tears In My Beers
15. No Friends: Traditional Failures EP
16. The Defectives: Defectives EP
17. Vacation: The Do Shit Disc
18. Jonesin’ The Dream Is Dead
19. Wax Phantom: Don’t Fool With a Phantom EP
20. Opio: Mark It Zero

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It was a great year for splits; so many that they got their own list. Transgressions almost got back to back top slots. How the fuck did Traffic Street end up with 4 of the top 5? That’s why they’re the best I guess.

1. The Transgressions/The Side Project: Stop Wasting My Time
2. The Prozacs/Super White Garlic: Broken Smiles
3. The Transgressions/The Credentials
4. Rational Anthem/Billy Raygun
5. Vacation Bible School/The God Damned Doo Wop Band: Covered
6. Chad Price/Rocky Votolato
7. Timeshares/Captain, We’re Sinking
8. Pretty Boy Thorson & The Falling Angels/Worthwhile Way
9. Break the Habit/Spraynard
10. Teenage Softies/Stolen Parts

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There was actually a lot more great demos this year than I had thought, this turned out to be pretty hard there was a ton of demos that I forgot were from 2010. I had originally planned to slide demos into the EP/Singles list, but there was too much good stuff.

1. Dead Ringer: Demo 2010
2. Cell Mates: Demo
3. Sun Puddles: Demo
4. New Creases: Demo
5. Backtracer: Demo 9/12/2010

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1. Machete
2. Black Swan
3. Ip Man 2
4. Kick-Ass
5. The Expendables
6. Toy Story 3
7. Hot Tub Time Machine
8. The Town
9. The Book of Eli
10. The American
11. Frozen
12. The Social Network
13. Due Date
14. Get Him to the Greek
15. The Crazies
16. Youth in Revolt
17. The A-Team
18. Grown Ups
19. Cop Out
20. The Wolfman

But it wasn’t all good, so here’s the bottom rung, the bad. The worst 3 movies of 2010

3. Knucklehead
2. Jonah Hex

And the worst movie of 2010:
1. A Nightmare on Elm Street

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