JW's Top 20 Tracks of 2010

We played the top 13 on our 11th episode of Johnny Whopper - here are the top 20, a composite of mine & Knox's lists.

20. Neil Young - Sign of Love
19. Dirty Gold - California Sunrise
18. No Age - Chem Trails
17. The Drums - Let's Go Surfing
16. Oneohtrix Point Never - Returnal (Voice by Antony)
15. Sufjan Stevens - Too Much

14. Cee-Lo Green - Fuck You
13. Sam Amidon - Relief
12. unouomedude - Buildings
11. Beach House - Take Care
10. Fyfe Dangerfield - When You Walk in The Room

09. Kurt Vile - In My Time

08. Emeralds - Candy Shoppe

07. Robyn - Dancing on My Own

06 Chrome Sparks - I'll Be Wait for Sadness Comes Along

05. The War on Drugs - Comin' Through

04. Dead Gaze - Take Me Home or I Die Alone

03. Kanye West - Runaway (feat. Pusha T)

02. Surfer Blood - Swim

01. Deerhunter - Helicopter

Johnny Whopper episode 2

01. Neil Young - Walk With Me
02. Psychic TV - The Orchids
03. Blue Hawaii - Lilac
04. Mountain Man - Loon Song
05. Fiveng - Easy
06. Dead Gaze - Take Me Home or I Die Alone
07. Sea Pinks - Japanese Knotweed
08. Blackhawks - Sunday Morning
09. Christmas Island - Black Cloud
10. Deerhunter - Basement Scene
11. Alasdair Roberts - The Daemon Lover
12. C V L T S - RADD PITT
13. Welcome Back Sailors - I’ll Be There
14. Pears - Mossel Bay
15. Low - Sunshine
16. Julian Lynch - Still Racing

Knox had some killer selections this time around - the Blue Hawaii, Fiveng and Dead Gaze tracks all slayed. My picks were more understated compared to Knox’s noise-pop bombast but I stand by them, especially Blackhawks, who legitimately rule, and Neil Young, whose new album is fire.

A little more on Sea Pinks, whom I was pretty tongue-tied about: they’re on CASS/FLICK and are related to Girls Names somehow. They share a member or something, yadda yadda, who blogs about it at BEACH COMBER.

Johnny Whopper episode 1

Playlist for the first episode of JOHNNY WHOPPER:

01. Deerhunter - Helicopter
02. Ice Cream Shout - Tattooed Tears
03. No Age - Chem Trails
04. Tamaryn - Love Fade
05. MV & EE - Feelin’ Fire
06. OOIOO - SOL
07. Cloudland Canyon - Sister
08. Lower Dens - I Get Nervous
09. The Art Museums - Oh Modern Girls
10. Memphis Pencils - Helium Efforts
11. Mark McGuire - The Vast Structure of Recollection
12. My Dry Wet Mess - Yours Truly
13. Tennis - Cape Dory

Kind of an all-over-the-place show, but we’re just getting warmed up.

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No podcasts this week, but I’m told they’ll start happening soon.