Readers Poll 2010: The Shame Cauldron Decides Pt 2
Last week, we revealed your picks for Biggest Controversy, Best Comeback, Best New-Ish Act and Best Live Act of the year. Today, it’s your top 50 albums of the year.
1. Tame Impala
Innerspeaker (Modular)
In a not-so vintage year for local releases – lots of good records, no real masterpieces – Tame Impala’s Innerspeaker proves that Cream really does rise to the top. Whether you love it for its lo-fi rumble and the way it swirls around when you listen to it on headphones, or hate it for the way its mines your parents’ record collection, the album no doubt touched a nerve at home and abroad. It won last month’s J Award for Album of the Year, garnered five ARIA nominations (it was infamously mislabeled “Innerspeak” by Jessica Mauboy), and has proved to be our biggest export, cracking Pitchfork’s Top 50 albums for 2010.
Recorded in an “enormous mansion with 180 degree views of the Indian Ocean” (it was later mixed in a log cabin in upstate New York by Dave Fridmann), Innerspeaker was essentially the brainchild of Kevin Parker, who revealed his reservations about it in an interview with us in May. “I’m more excited for the next album than Innerspeaker,” he told M+N. “With Innerspeaker I had a lot of tension worked up in my brain, I was quite careful and now that that’s been laid in we can do whatever we want, give into any temptation we have.” A more electronic album inspired by Todd Rundgren’s A Wizard, a True Star is reportedly in the works.
2. Eddy Current Suppression Ring
Rush to Relax (Shock)
3. My Disco
Little Joy (Shock)
4. Gareth Liddiard
Strange Tourist (Shock)
5. Dan Kelly
Dan Kelly’s Dream (Shock)
6. ZOND
ZOND (R.I.P Society)
7. Cloud Control
Bliss Release (The Ivy League)
8. Grinderman
Grinderman 2 (Mute Records)
9. Super Wild Horses
Fifteen (Aarght!/Shock)
10. You Am I
You Am I (Other Tongues)
11. Naked on the Vague
Heaps of Nothing (Siltbreeze)
12. Pikelet
Stem (Chapter Music/Love & Mercy)
13. kyü
kyü (Popfrenzy)
14. Fabulous Diamonds
Fabulous Diamonds II (Chapter Music)
15. Circle Pit
Bruise Constellation (Timberyard/Siltbreeze)
16. PVT
Church With No Magic (Warp/Inertia)
17. The Gin Club
Deathwish (Plus One Records)
18. Love Connection
Love Connection (Sensory Projects)
19. Glenn Richards
Glimjack (Sony)
20. Sia
We Are Born (Monkey Puzzle/Inertia)
21. Otouto
Pip (Two Bright Lakes)
22. Rat Vs Possum
Daughter Of Sunshine (Sensory Projects)
23. Darren Hanlon
I Will Love You At All (Flippin Yeah)
24. Angus & Julia Stone
Down the Way (EMI)
25. Kes Trio
Black Brown Green Grey White (Mistletone)
26. Richard In Your Mind
My Volcano (Rice Is Nice)
27. Washington
I Believe You Liar (Universal)
28. Bum Creek
AL (Chapter Music)
29. The John Steel Singers
Tangalooma (Dew Process)
30. The Ancients
The Ancients 2 (Sensory Projects)
31. The Paradise Motel
Australian Ghost Story (independent)
32. Kim Salmon & The Surrealists
Grand Unifying Theory (Low Transit Industries)
33. Blank Realm
Déjà What? (Bedroom Suck/Albert's Basement)
34. Hungry Kids of Hungary
Escapades (Stop Start/EMI)
35. Little Red
Midnight Remember (Liberation)
36. Sally Seltmann
Heart That’s Pounding (Shock)
37. Deaf Wish
Mercy (Radio Records Melbourne)
38. Violent Soho
Violent Soho (Liberation/Universal)
39. Graveyard Train
The Drink The Devil and The Dance (Spooky Records)
40. Hits
Living With You Is Killing Me (Mere Noise)
41. Clare Bowditch & The New Slang
Modern Day Addiction (Island Records Australia)
42. Parades
Foreign Tapes (Dot Dash/Remote Control)
43. Spencer P Jones
Sobering Thoughts (Bang Records)
44. Lakes
Solar Flecks (Inverted Crux)
45. Dead Farmers
Go Home (R.I.P Society)
46. Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire!
Sea Priest (Dot Dash)
47. The Holy Sea
Ghosts of the Horizon (An Ocean Awaits/Fuse Music)
48. Scott & Charlene’s Wedding
Para Vista Social Club (independent)
49. Digger & The Pussycats
DIY (Spooky Records)
50. The Holidays
Post Paradise (Liberation)
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TOMORROW: Our critics weigh in with their top 50.
for real? i would never have picked Tame Impala as a favourite.
Yes, this is an outrage. (Obscure band from Melbourne) should have won!
This really is a killer record.
it got my vote by default
Bum Creek was robbed
''obscure Melbourne band was robbed''
Should have been more ''multi-instrumentalist'' girls with the massive shoulder pads and vintage glasses playing glockenspiel heavy songs mostly centered around quirky themes including, but not exclusive to, awkward dating stories, and singing out of key in a wistful, childlike manner over 'tribal' drums. Oh, and 80s synth.
For shame, East Brunswick. Did you all ride your bikes to the park for a picnic on the day of the vote, or something?
is innerspeaker gonna get reished on vinyl?
you're on fire today, TR!
zond in top ten <3
Where the fuck is Lazy Susan?
You cunts all have no fucking taste.
hahaH aha haha hahAhAH ahAHAHahaHA hahA hahah AhahAhah AhA hAhAHA.
major major lols at the amount of these I own/have heard.
Can you tell us how many people voted?
Woah, did I just tune in to a print version of Triple J's album poll?
ZOND!
none?
ding ding ding
we have a winner
i guess when you release 18 records of your own a year, you don't really have time to listen to anything else...
really? grinderman? reallly?
i wanna know how many people voted as well.
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Once again, I'm with Frankie.
M&N readers are generally stoners and/or goths, then?
Well, with Sia, Angus and Julia Stone, Fire! Santa Rosa Fire!, Little Red and The Holidays making it, I'd say they were a bunch of JJJ listeners.
Kinda curious now as to how the crits poll will match up to this one.
hmmm....no Glimjack review...
this makes me question the age of people here. are the majority around 20,21 yrs old?
because i have a hard time fathoming how anyone over say the age of 25 or so, could thoroughly enjoy innerspeaker. enough to vote it album of the year.
Over 25, thoroughly enjoyed innerspeaker.
Oh, I reckon a cursory glance at the list will tell you otherwise.
also over 25 and innerspeaker would definitely be in my top 10 of the year.
[yup](http://www.insound.com/Innerspeaker-Vinyl-2xLP-Tame-Impala/P/INS78595/
)? in the US, at least..
ps. over 25, great record
here
Yey ZOND.
Everything else, like usual, is shit... but I wouldn't expect anything less... go team predicable!
.. I understand my response was predictable as well..
YES WE CAN!
thanks shunt, copped.
Yeah, I'm well old, and Innerspeaker owns it. Why do you say that? Have you heard it? Amazing musicianship and great songwriting - fun for all ages!
Modular did a limited pre-order LP run of 500 copies, which disappointingly arrived about three months late and did not contain a download link.
Does anyone know how many albums were released in Australia this year?
51
hrmm maybe proceed with caution if the LP was that limited, insound are pretty shit re: displaying when an item's out of stock. actually they don't even seem to have a ''sold out'' setting. dumb...
yeah i'm just one of those negative cunts that takes alot to impress.
i have heard innerspeaker (many times), and seen them live a handful of times. i just don't see the big deal. i reckon their songs all sound the same. same effects and ideas on every song. delay and phaser gets pretty irritating after awhile. heard their schtick before.
and they are pretty average live.
best thing about them is the mix dave fridmann did on the album.
there's other aussie 'psych' acts i'd much rather listen to.
opinions, one man's trash is the others treasure and all that all that.
''You cunts'' applied to people whinging that it was a bad year. I reckon the best stuff that came out was on tapes and 7''s, not LP's so your list is pretty redundant in that way I guess.
And that backwards guitar loop through telekinesis tape sounds cool, hopefully one of my mates does it next year.
obscure band number three hundred an fifty four here suggesting that obscure band from melbourne number three hundred an fifty four should have won