I plan on posting my top ten albums of the year in late December, and I'm going to try to keep it to one post and not four or five like last year. One of the reasons is because while I do want to share some cool music that you may have missed, I'm realizing how fickle my tastes can be. I looked at my top ten list from last year and I only listen to three or four of those albums with any sort of regularity.

Here's what it looked like last year:

1 - Spoon - Gimme Fiction
2 - Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
3 - Beck - Guero
4 - Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs
5 - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - s/t
6 - Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
7 - Common - Be
8 - Robert Glasper - Canvas
9 - John Legend - Get Lifted
10 - MIA - Arular

And here's what it would look like if I posted it now, after at least a year of listening to these albums (last year's rank in parenthesis):

1 - Spoon - Gimme Fiction (1)
2 - Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary (2)
3 - Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs (4)
4 - Broken Social Scene - s/t
5 - Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak
6 - Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
7 - Edan - Beauty and the Beat
8 - The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
9 - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - s/t (5)
10 - LCD Soundsystem - s/t

With the 2005 Hold Steady album (Separation Sunday) a close 11th. I haven't listened to any of the other six in the last six months, maybe not even this year for a couple of them. I still can't get enough of Spoon though, and Wolf Parade & Andrew Bird remain weekly or bi-weekly listens after a year of hearing them.

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