Top 100 Songs Of 2010 (80-61)

Songs 80-61 in station to station's Top 100 Songs of 2010.

80. Field Music-Effortlessly

Cerebral yet cheerful. Springlike but good for any rainy day, the Brewis brothers who head Field Music have a knack of making every one of their songs use these traits. Like direct offspring from the legendary XTC, "Effortlessly" has a ramshackle like guitar that practically bounces the song along like a crisp, rubber ball.
  Field Music - Effortlessly - Marc Riley by memphisindustries

79. Sufjan Stevens-I Walked
True, I couldn't get behind all of "The Age Of Adz" but I'd be re-missed to mention how pretty of a synth laced song "I Walked" is. All of Stevens' trademark production is in place as his vocals come off ghostly with a vast array of keyboards and background vocals all simply fold together into one breathtaking love song.
  Sufjan Stevens - I Walked by Aesthetes Anonymous

78. Unkle-Natural Selection

Along with the Black Angels, British electronic music wizards Unkle pit together a swarm of good music led by a wicked bass line and some really good lyrics directed at pining for the love of your life. "One day I'll find the right one for me/She will be pretty and funny at least to me....I wanna meet my perfect lady". Good for strutting the night out downtown or pretending to.
  UNKLE -- Natural Selection by Three Sevens Clash 

77. School Of Seven Bells-Babelonia

Ever wonder what would happen if you got rid of all the fuzzy distortion in My Bloody Valentine's classic "Soon"? Here's your answer. Shoegazing for the new generation with some melodic power and great vocals very Cocteau like in style. Calculated without ever feeling too calculated.
  UNKLE -- Natural Selection by Three Sevens Clash 

76. Belle & Sebastian-I Want The World To Stop

If it wasn't for that Shindig! bass line and the call and response verses "I want the world to stop/Give Me the morning" then you'd have practically no song to talk about here. Fortunately, the songs two strengths are all out magnificent and kitschy at once. Belle & Sebastian in their creative comfort zone.
  #07 - BELLE & SEBASTIAN - I want the world to stop by 60 songs in 2010 - A side 

Tame Impala-The Alter Ego

75. Tame Impala-Alter Ego

The driving bass alone makes me want to stop and stare into space or break out into a dance like the D-O-U-G-I-E. And those trippy guitars and echoed vocals are what Tame Impala shows they know how to do best. Will make you drive a bit faster down the highway.
  Tame Impala - Alter Ego by defacto

74. Foals-Blue Blood

The opener from "Total Life Forever" starts off with muted lines, "You've got the blood on your hands/I think it's my own" before it abrupts into a beach like jam with shards of guitar lines moving with the perfect tempo. And by the time Yannis Philippakis starts in with the lines "Come and help me accpt it, affect it, protect it," you don't know whether to keep dancing or try to listen to decipher cryptic codes he's singing about.
  Foals - Blue Blood by bfazenda

73. Wavves-Post Acid

With clearer production, I still think a lot of the Wavves new material sounds like Blink 182. That doesn't mean you can't enjoy a post punk classic like "Post Acid" though. With its stop start beats and a solo which consists of lead vocalist Nathan Williams whining, "Post Acid" is just pure slacker fun.
  Wavves - Post Acid by user1117597

72. Cee Lo Green-Bright Lights Bigger City

Probably the best song to prepare you for a Saturday night out on the town. Just try to resist that "Billie Jean" like beat and sharp stabs of synths pulsating through Green's tale of getting ready to hit the town. A total irresistible slice of funk-synth-pop.
  Cee Lo Green : "Bright Lights, Bigger City" by Shooter-MCP

71. Weekend-End Times

The bass wants your immediate attention here, like Peter Hook has joined a Joy Division cover band in 2010. The vocals are hidden behind the soundtrack like most of Weekend's material from "Sports" and you find yourself caught in a wall of brilliant sound. I don't know or think lyrics are important here, and why should they be, when you can just wallow in "End Times" warm afterglow of post punk-shoegaze envy.
  Weekend "End Times" by Slumberland Records

70. Titus Andronicus-A More Perfect Union

A More Perfect Titus Andronicus

If only Titus Andronicus could have bottled up more of the energy they exerted on their lead off song from the over thought "The Monitor", it may have been my favorite album of the year. The part where lead singer Patrick Stickles screams out "Tramps like us, baby we were born to die" is magnificent. The influence of Dinosaur Jr. and the Arcade Fire run rampant through this seven minute plus ode to moving to New England.
  TITUS ANDRONICUS // A More Perfect Union by influxmusic 

69. Peasant-Hard Times

An all around pretty acoustic ballad about trying to get through difficult times. On the album version, the vocal effects during the verses contrast nicely with the chorus when the effects are taken off and lead singer Damien DeRose stately professes "Oh, we just never realized, that we're running out of time." DeRose is a one man band tackling folk songwriting very nicely and "Hard Times" is a perfect lament to realizing time is short.

68. The Black Angels-Telephone

Wonder whatever would happen if ? and the Mysterians released a song that could rival their classic "96 Tears"? Your answer lies with Austin, Texas band The Black Angels who bring the garage rock with sixties organ back like it never went out of style. "You never call me name....on the telephone."
  The Black Angels - Telephone by rslblog.com 

67. Gorillaz-Rhinestone Eyes

Like being on a really colorful, spinning carnival ride with absolutely no fear of getting sick. Damon Albarn slyly use his vocals to add a bit of tension "Your love's like rhinestones falling from the sky." Dizzy-licious, to coin a new phrase.
  Gorillaz ? Rhinestone Eyes (iTunes Session) by Hypetrak 

66. Frightened Rabbit-The Wrestle

It's the bass line that rumbles along like a freight train in "The Wrestle" that gives it character. And like every song that builds and builds on "The Winter Of Mixed Drinks" it culminates in bittersweet rush of a chorus with lines like "The last taste of salt in my mouth/The skin breaks there's no sound..." It may not be the sing along song of the buch but its atmospherics simply propel it to must listen status.
  04-frightened rabbit-the wrestle by user1266980

65. Wild Nothing-Chinatown

Sweet Sounds of Wild Nothing

There is a bright tone to "Chinatown" complete with an eighties like jangle pop sound. Lead singer Jack Tatum hits home most with the line "We're not happy 'til we're running away". It's a song that somehow manages to be sad, courageous, and melodic all at once. Like a lot of songs from "Gemini", "Chinatown" makes this seem like 1985 was just the year before.
  Chinatown - Wild Nothing by gr�ddan 

64. The Dead Weather-Die By The Drop

Even if I couldn't get firmly behind The Dead Weather's "Sea Of Cowards", it still brought forth a few good songs, especially the supercharged fist raising "Die By The Drop". Alison Morehart and Jack White exchange vocal duties as their lives depend on it, "Sometimes you die just a little/Sometimes you die by the drop". It absolutely explodes into Alvin Lee like blues guitars it gets to the chorus.
  Die By The Drop - The Dead Weather by sincelastdecember 

63. Suckers-Black Sheep

"Roman Candles", "A Mind I Knew", "Save Your Love For Me"....all great songs from Brooklyn's Suckers debut " A Wild Smile". I just went with "Black Sheep" because it is disjointed joy with great staccato guitars and a jumbled chorus line that wasn't meant to be sung along to. Also love the line "Set it on fire and burn it away" that is repeated. Any of these songs, or all, could make a best of 2010 list a few years from now.
  Suckers - Black Sheep by DaButtahNutz

62. Local Natives-Wide Eyes

"Wide Eyes" is basically rooted in that fantastic percussion that rolls through it the whole time. It's something the Broadway musical troupe Stomp! could relate to. And the song kicks up some cool imagery "No food or water for the better part of ten months/Quietly he sat between the folds of a free trunk" until it bursts into the harmony of its chorus "Oh to see it with my...own eyes". Smart and enjoyable on every level.
  Wide Eyes by Local Natives 

Hamilton Leithauser of The Walkmen

61. The Walkmen-Stranded

Drunken horn laced ballads that begin with "Throw another dime in me my friend...." need to be included in any countdown. It's a good thing "Stranded" fits the bill to a T. I never know whether to sing along drunkenly with Hamilton Leithauser "I'm stranded, and I'm starry eyed!" or hum along with the gorgeous horn section that sounds like a broken down Christmas band crossed with a sad mariachi ensemble. Unique, in a word.
  The Walkmen - Stranded by Nialler9

Source: http://www.jhostation.com/2010/12/top-100-songs-of-2010-80-61.html

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