Miscellaneous Music Top Tens

My top 50 albums countdown will start tomorrow and end right before Christmas. Check back for that daily.

Best Album Tracks
1. fun. "All the Pretty Girls"
2. Bat For Lashes "Daniel"
3. Dirty Projectors "Stillness is the Move
4. Karen O and the Kids "All is Love"
5. JJ "From Africa to Malaga"
6. Mastadon "The Czar"
7. Animal Collective "My Girls"
8. Bon Iver "Woods"
9. Phoenix "Lisztomania"
10. Grizzly Bear "Two Weeks"

Best Album Openers
1. fun. "Be Calm"
2. Grizzly Bear "Southern Point"
3. David Bazan "Hard to Be"
4. The Paper Chase "If Nobody Moves Nobody Will Get Hurt (The Extinction)
5. Phoenix "Lisztomania"
6. Dirty Projectors "Cannibal Resource"
7. Bat For Lashes "Glass"
8. Califone "Giving Away the Bride"
9. MewithoutYou "Every Thought a Thought of You"
10. Clues "Haarp"

Best Album Closers
1. MewithoutYou "Allah, Allah, Allah"
2. Mastadon "The Last Baron"
3. Grizzly Bear "Foreground"
4. Bon Iver "Woods"
5. Portugal. The Man "Mornings"
6. Mastodon "The Last Baron"
7. ISIS "Threshold of Transformation"
8. The Antlers "Epilogue"
9. HEALTH "In Violet"
10. Do Make Say Think "Think"

Artists of the Year
1. The Dirty Projectors
2. Animal Collective
3. Mastodon
4. Grizzly Bear
5. Phoenix
6. fun.
7. David Bazan
8. Omar Rodriguez-Lopez
9. Zach Hill
10. JJ

Videos of the Year
1. Grizzly Bear "Two Weeks"
2. Animal Collective "My Girls"
3. Bat For Lashes "Daniel"
4. YACHT "Psychic City (Voodoo City)"

Biggest Letdowns (this is a category about albums)
1. The Mars Volta-Octahedron
2. Conor Obrust- Outer South
3. Islands- Vapors

Best Music-Related TV Performance
1. The Roots w/ Elvis Costello "(I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea"
2. The Roots w/ Paul Simion "Late in the Evening"
3. The Roots w/ Mos Def Talib Kweli and the Dirty Projectors "History"

Best Album Covers
1. ISIS- Wavering Radiant

2. Portuagal. The Man- The Satanic Satanist

3. Portugal. The Man - The Majestic Majesty

4. Omar Rodriguiz-Lopez- Los Suenos De Un Hidago

5. Neko Case- Middle Cyclone

6. MewithoutYou- Its All Crazy! Its All A Dream! Its All False! Its Alright

7. Do Make Say Think- The Other Truths

8. Clues- s/t


9. Bat for Lashes- Two Suns

10. Cryptacize- Mythomania