To coincide with The Factual Opinion closing out its epic year-end wrap-up today, here’s a couple of lists of my favorite music from this year, along with links to the shit I wrote at TFO.  Please check some of it out if you can.

In order to figure out my favorite albums of 2010, I made a playlist of 50 albums that I would be stoked to listen to right now.  I feel like these kinds of things should be functional and temporal—so that means I got rid of some stuff that I might think is objectively better, but I don’t really need to listen to in the foreseeable future (like Big Boi’s Sir Lucius Left Foot) as well as stuff that I like that doesn’t necessarily fit in with my listening habits (like Liars’ Sisterworld).  Once I had the playlist, I ranked the albums using some combination of past enjoyment, present enjoyment, projected future enjoyment, and a guess at general objective worth.  My songs list is my exact ballot from our poll, which I submitted about a month ago.  Some new stuff might sneak on there if I were to redo it (like Girl Unit, for instance).  Asterisks indicate stuff that made our final TFO lists, and links are to the pieces I wrote.  Please enjoy.

ALBUMS:

1.       Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy*

2.       Robyn – Body Talk*

3.       Sleigh Bells – Treats*

4.       The Tallest Man On Earth – The Wild Hunt/Sometimes the Blues is Only a Passing Bird*

5.       Das Racist – Shut Up, Dude/Sit Down, Man*

6.       Gorillaz – Plastic Beach*

7.       Gil Scott-Heron – I’m New Here*

8.       The Chemical Brothers – Further*

9.       Guido – Anidea*

10.   Big K.R.I.T. – K.R.I.T. Wuz Here*

11.   Janelle Monáe – The ArchAndroid*

12.   Ted Leo and the Pharmacists – The Brutalist Bricks

13.   Rick Ross – Teflon Don

14.   Free Energy – Stuck On Nothing

15.   Javelin – No Más

16.   Screaming Females – Castle Talk*

17.   Playboy Tre – The Last Call*

18.   Pursuit Grooves – Fox Trot Mannerisms

19.   Starkey – Ear Drums and Black Holes*

20.   Wavves – King of the Beach

21.   Onra – Long Distance

22.   No Age – Everything In Between

23.   Yelawolf – Trunk Muzik 0-60

24.   LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening*

25.   Jamie Lidell – Compass*

26.   Superchunk – Majesty Shredding

27.   Tyler the Creator – Bastard*

28.   A-Trak – Dirty South Dance 2

29.   Ghostface Killah – Apollo Kids

30.   The-Dream – Love King

31.   Scuba – Triangulation*

32.   Diddy Dirty Money – Last Train To Paris

33.   Roc Marciano – Marcberg

34.   Domo Genesis – Rolling Papers

35.   Toro y Moi – Causers of This

36.   Goldfrapp – Head First

37.   Gold Panda – Lucky Shiner

38.   Best Coast – Crazy For You

39.   TOBACCO – Maniac Meat*

40.   Maker – Maker vs. Now Again

41.   Curren$y – Pilot Talk/Pilot Talk 2

42.   Quadron – Quadron

43.   Flying Lotus – Cosmagramma

44.   Broken Social Scene – Forgiveness Rock Record

45.   Ikonika – Contact, Need, Want, Love, Have

46.   Vampire Weekend – Contra

47.   Caribou – Swim*

48.   Girl Talk – All Day

49.   Bettye Lavette – Interpretations: The British Rock Song Book

50.   Drake – Thank Me Later

SONGS:

1.       Robyn – “Dancing On My Own”*

2.       Sleigh Bells – “Rill Rill”*

3.       Broken Social Scene – “All To All”*

4.       Das Racist – “Shorty Said (Gordon Voidwell Remix)” *

5.       Japandroids – “Younger Us” *

6.       Kanye West – “Monster (Feat. Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Bon Iver, & Nicki Minaj)”*

7.       Crystal Castles – “Not In Love (Feat. Robert Smith)”*

8.       Robyn – “Hang With Me”*

9.       Christina Aguilara – “Elastic Love” *

10.   Quadron – “Slippin’”*

11.   Guido – “Way U Make Me Feel”

12.   Drake – “Shut It Down (Feat. The-Dream)”

13.   Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – “Round and Round”*

14.   Earl Greyhound – “Black Sea Vacation”

15.   Kaine – “Love Saves the Day”

16.   M.I.A. – “XXXO (Remix Feat. Jay-Z)”

17.   Vampire Weekend – “Run”*

18.   Screaming Females – “I Don’t Mind It”*

19.   Onra – “Long Distance (Feat. Oliver DaySoul)”

20.   Gil Scott-Heron – “New York Is Killing Me”*

21.   DJ Zinc – “Wile Out (Feat. Ms. Dynamite)”*

22.   No Age – “Glitter”*

23.   The Tallest Man On Earth – “Burden Of Tomorrow”*

24.   Ted Leo & The Pharmacists – “Ativan Eyes”

25.   The Chemical Brothers – “Escape Velocity”*

26.   Black Rob – “No Fear”

27.   Escort – “Cocaine Blues”

28.   Gorillaz – “Empire Ants (Feat. Little Dragon)”*

29.   KingPen Slim – “The Win”

30.   Wavves – “King Of The Beach”

31.   Kanye West – “Runaway (Feat. Pusha T)”*

32.   Big Boi – “Shutterbug (Feat. Cutty)”*

33.   Big K.R.I.T. – “Hometown Hero (Remix Feat. Yelawolf)”

34.   Beach House – “Lover Of Mine”*

35.   Yelawolf – “I Wish (Feat. Raekwon)”

36.   Jamie Lidell – “Completely Exposed”

37.   Tame Impala – “Solitude Is Bliss (Midnight Juggernauts Remix)”

38.   Tyler The Creator – “Slow It Down (Feat. Hodgy Beats)”

39.   Goldfrapp – “Rocket”

40.   LCD Soundsystem – “Home”

41.   Gauntlet Hair – “I Was Thinking…”

42.   Les Savy Fav – “Let’s Get Out Of Here”*

43.   Scuba – “Before”

44.   Kelis – “4^th of July (Fireworks)”

45.   Tegan And Sara – “Alligator (Four Tet Remix)”*

46.   Washed Out – “You And I (Feat. Caroline Polachek)”

47.   Free Energy – “Bad Stuff”

48.   Vado – “Speaking In Tungs (Feat. Cam’Ron)”*

49.   I:Cube – “Fallin’”

50.   Fang Island – “Life Coach”