Miglior album del 2010: i primi responsi di Mojo, Q e NME

Le più importanti testate musicali del globo terracqueo, in questi giorni, hanno iniziato a pubblicare le loro classiche poll di fine stagione, in cui i redattori sono chiamati a votare i migliori album dell’anno appena trascorso (e ok, manca ancora un mese intero, ma la poll va pubblicata prima di Natale e del rush nei negozi per i regali ad amici e parenti, no?).
Dai primi autorevoli giudizi delle testate britanniche (NME, Mojo e Q) non sembra esserci una gran convergenza di opinioni: gli unici che sembrano ridersela sempre e comunque sono i canadesi Arcade Fire, il cui terzo lavoro The Suburbs è al n.1 per Q, e al secondo posto sia per l’NME che per Mojo.
Il New Musical Express stavolta fa una scelta a sorpresa – che rispecchia anche la nuova più anticonformistica direzione editoriale – incoronando miglior album del 2010 Hidden dei These New Puritans, assente dalla Top 50 sia di Mojo che di Q.
Anche i redattori da Mojo, comunque, stavolta non sono da meno, ed eleggono un album passato un po’ sotto traccia (eccetto che dalle parti dello stesso Mojo, che all’epoca dell’uscita gli diede cinque stelle, ossia il massimo dei voti) quale Queen Of Denmark del 41enne di Denver John Grant, in passato leader della band The Czars, scioltasi nel 2004. Grant appare al n.6 nelle chart di Q ma è totalmente ignorato da quelle dell’NME.

Ecco di seguito, per farvi un’idea complessiva, le Top 50 degli album 2010 dei redattori – rispettivamente – di Mojo, dell’NME e di Q.

MOJO – Top 50 Albums of 2010

1 John Grant – Queen of Denmark
2 Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
3 MGMT – Congratulations
4 Edwyn Collins – Losing Sleep
5 The Black Keys – Brothers
6 Paul Weller – Wakes Up The Nation
7 Midlake – The Courage of Others
8 Phosphorescent – Here’s To Taking It Easy
9 The Coral – Butterfly House
10 Doug Paisley – Constant Companion
11 Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest
12 Mavis Staples – You Are Not Alone
13 Joanna Newsom – Have One On Me
14 Manic Street Preachers – Postcards From A Young Man
15 Avi Buffalo – Avi Buffalo
16 Aerial Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Before Today
17 Roots Manuva meets Wrongtom – Duppy Writer
18 Caribou – Swim
19 Rumer – Seasons of My Soul
20 Grinderman – Grinderman 2
21 Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan – Hawk
22 Sam Amidon – I See The Sign
23 Sharon Jones and The Dap Kings – I Learned The Hard Way
24 The Jim Jones Revue – Burning Your House Down
25 Foals – Total Life Forever
26 Gorrilaz – Plastic Beach
27 Field Music – Field Music (Measure)
28 DangerMouse and Sparklehorse – Dark Night of The Soul
29 Gill Scott-Heron – I’m New Here
30 Janelle Monae – The ArchAndroid
31 Neil Young – Le Noise
32 Robert Plant – Band of Joy
33 The Roots – How I Got Over You
34 Villagers – Becoming A Jackal
35 M.I.A. – // / Y /
36 LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening
37 Teenage Fanclub – Shadows
38 Gonjasufi – A Sufi And A Killer
39 Wyatt, Atzmon, Stephens – For The Ghosts Within
40 Eli Paperboy Reed – Come and Get It
41 Tom Jones – Praise and Blame
42 Kelley Soltz – To Dreamers
43 The Besnard Lakes – Are The Roaring Night
44 Swans – My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky
45 Roky Erickson with Okkervil River – True Love Cast Out All Evil
46 Peter Gabriel – Scratch My Back
47 Jane Weaver & Septieme Souer – The Fallen By Watch Bird
48 John Legend & The Roots- Wake Up!
49 Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabate – Ali & Toumani
50 Matthew Dear – Black City

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NME – Top 50 Albums of 2010

1. These New Puritans – ‘Hidden’
2. Arcade Fire – ‘The Suburbs’
3. Beach House – ‘Teen Dream’
4. LCD Soundsystem – ‘This Is Happening’
5. Laura Marling – ‘I Speak Because I Can’
6. Foals – ‘Total Life Forever’
7. Zola Jesus – ‘Stridulum II’
8. Salem – ‘King Night’
9. Liars – ‘Sisterworld’
10. The Drums – ‘The Drums
11. The National, ‘High Violet’
12. Caribou, ‘Swim’.
13. Gayngs, ‘Relayted’.
14. The Fall, ‘Your Future, Our Clutter’.
15. Yeasayer, ‘Odd Blood’.
16. Grinderman, ‘Grinderman 2’.
17. Factory Floor, ‘Untitled’.
18. Warpaint, ‘The Fool’
19. MGMT, ‘Congratulations’
20. Deerhunter, ‘Halcyon Digest’.
21. Janelle Monae, ‘The ArchAndroid’
22. Swans, ‘My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky’
23. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, ‘Before Today’.
24. Vampire Weekend, ‘Contra’
25. Avi Buffalo, ‘Avi Buffalo’.
26. Les Savy Fav, ‘Root For Ruin’.
27. Best Coast, ‘Crazy For You ‘.
28. New Young Pony Club, ‘The Optimist’
29. No Age, ‘Everything In Between’.
30. Klaxons, ‘Surfing The Void’
31. Crystal Castles, ‘Crystal Castles’
32. Islet, ‘Wimmy’. NME said: “Mind-bending.
33. Marina And The Diamonds, ‘The Family Jewels’.
34. Kanye West, ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’.
35. Glasser, ‘Ring’.
36. Hurts, ‘Happiness’.
37. Lonelady, ‘Nerve Up’.
38. Big Boi, ‘Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son Of Chico Dusty’.
39. Magnetic Man, ‘Magnetic Man’.
40. Sleigh Bells, ‘Treats’.
41. Steve Mason, ‘Boys Outside’.
42. Mystery Jets, ‘Serotonin’.
43. Everything Everything, ‘Man Alive’.
44. Manic Street Preachers, ‘Postcards From A Young Man’
45. Four Tet, ‘There Is Love In You’
46. Paul Weller, ‘Wake Up The Nation’.
47. Pulled Apart By Horses, ‘Pulled Apart By Horses’.
48. My Chemical Romance, ‘Danger Days’.
49. Surfer Blood, ‘Astro Coast
50. Frightened Rabbit, ‘The Winter of Mixed Drinks’

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Q – Top 50 Albums of 2010

1. Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
2. Robert Plant – Band of Joy
3. Plan B – The Defamation of Strickland Banks
4. Laura Marling – I Speak Because I Can
5. Vampire Weekend – Contra
6. John Grant – Queen of Denmark
7. Gorillaz – Plastic Beach
8. The National – High Violet
9. Paul Weller – Wake Up the Nation
10. MGMT – Congratulations
11. The Black Keys – Brothers
12. Gil Scott-Heron – I’m New Here
13. Beach House – Teen Dream
14. Hot Chip – One Life Stand
15. Yeasayer – Odd Blood
16. Foals – Total Life Forever
17. John Legend & The Roots – Wake Up!
18. Manic Street Preachers – Postcards from a Young Man
19. Grinderman – Grinderman 2
20. Take That – Progress
21. Band of Horses – Infinite Arms
22. Corinne Bailey Rae – The Sea
23. LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening
24. Bryan Ferry – Olympia
25. Kings of Leon – Come Around Sundown
26. Klaxons – Surfing the Void
27. Midlake – The Courage of Others
28. Avi Buffalo – Avi Buffalo
29. Interpol – Interpol
30. Brandon Flowers – Flamingo
31. The Chemical Brothers – Further
32. The Drums – The Drums
33. Tricky – Mixed Race
34. The Dead Weather – Sea of Cowards
35. Man Alive – Everything Everything
36. The Roots – How I Got Over
37. The Coral – Butterfly House
38. Janelle Monae – The Archandroid
39. I Am Kloot – Sky at Night
40. Peter Gabriel – Scratch My Back
41. Belle and Sebastian – Write About Love
42. Tom Jones – Praise & Blame
43. Skream – Outside the Box
44. Villagers – Becoming a Jackal
45. Cherry Ghost – Beneath This Burning Shoreline
46. Joanna Newsom – Have One On Me
47. Two Door Cinema Club – Tourist History
48. Edwyn Collins – Losing Sleep
49. Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest
50. Steve Mason – Boys Outside