My Favorite Albums of 2010

10. A tie between Vampire Weekend's "Contra" and Gorillaz's "Plastic Beach"





9. Delorean - Subiza

"Real Love" is one of my favorite songs of 2010.




8. Caribou - Swim

The best track on the album is free on the Merge Records 2010 Digital Sampler.



7. Shearwater - The Golden Archipelago

Free mp3 of The Golden Archipelago track "Castaways" from Matador.  It is a beautiful song. Give this one a listen.

More Free Amazon Mp3 credits = More Hastily Conceived 2 Buck Chuck Metaphors

Amazon has two free Mp3 credit codes you can enter for a total of $3.29 of credit.  With 1,000 albums at $5, and some even cheaper, there are many great albums to choose from for less than $2, making for another round of bad two buck chuck image metaphors.  Enter GIVEMP3S for a $2 credit, and give Bing your email here: http://www.discoverbing.com/celebrate/index2.html for an additional code that will give you $1.29.  You can enter both codes here. Simply click the "enter code" button on that page. [More info at Slickdeals]

There are way too many good options to give an exhaustive list, but here are some gems:

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November 2010 Playlist

YouTube playlists for the win.  Here are some old and new songs I am enjoying in November 2010.

1.  Caribou - "Odessa" - (Free at Amazon)
2.  Delorean - "Real Love"
3.  Candy Claws - "Sunbeam Show"
4.  M83 - "We Own the Sky"
5.  Deastro - "Light Powered"
6.  Sufjan Stevens - "All for Myself"
7.  The Tallest Man on Earth - "Like the Wheel"  - (Free at Amazon)
8.  Shearwater - "Rooks"
9.  DM Stith - "Pitty Dance"
10. Wilco and Billy Bragg (and Guthrie) - "Remember the Mountain Bed"
11. Jens Leckman - "Shirin"