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Scene Point Blank's Favorites: Year End (2010)

Individual Staff Lists

Below are the staff lists by SPB writers which made up the overall site totals. To link to a specific writer's list, simply click their name and copy the URL in your address bar. To view our review of the record (where applicable), click the album name.

Aaron H's list

1. The Gamits - Parts (Paper + Plastick)
2. RVIVR - Self-Titled (Rumbletowne)
3. Iron Chic - Not Like This (Dead Broke Rekerds)
4. The Thermals - Personal Life (Kill Rock Stars)
5. Murder by Death - Good Morning, Magpie (Vagrant)
6. Bars of Gold - Of Gold (Friction Records)
7. The Menzingers - Chamberlain Waits (Red Scare)
8. We Were Skeletons - Self-Titled (Topshelf)
9. The Riot Before - Rebellion (Paper + Plastick)
10. Best Coast - Crazy For You (Mexican Summer)
11. Crime in Stereo - I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone (Bridge Nine)
12. None More Black - Icons (Fat Wreck)
13. Elliott Smith - An Introduction To... (Kill Rock Stars)
14. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs (Merge)
15. Janelle Monáe - The ArchAndroid (Wondaland Arts Society / Bad Boy)
16. Dangers - Messy, Isn't It? (Vitriol)
17. Make Do and Mend - End Measured Mile (Paper + Plastick)
18. Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis (Season of Mist)
19. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - The Brutalist Bricks (Matador)
20. Johnny Cash - American VI: Ain’t No Grave (American)
21. Defiance, Ohio - Midwestern Minutes (No Idea)
22. Against Me! - White Crosses (Sire)
23. Smoke or Fire - The Speakeasy (Fat Wreck)
24. The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang (Side One Dummy)
25. Alkaline Trio - This Addiction (Heart & Skull)

Bob's list

1. Swans - My Father Will Guide Us Up A Rope To The Sky (Young God)
2. Locrian - The Crystal World (Utech)
3. Integrity - The Blackest Curse (Deathwish Inc.)
4. Planning For Burial - Leaving (Enemies List Home Recordings)
5. House Of Low Culture / Mamiffer - Split (Utech)
6. Angel Eyes - Midwestern (The Mylene Sheath)
7. Various Artists - A Death Cinematic / Sons Of Alpha Centaurii - Split (Simple Box Construction)
8. Envy - Recitation (Temporary Residence)
9. 108 - 18:61 (Deathwish Inc.)
10. Burning Love - Songs For Burning Lovers (Deranged)
11. One Starving Day - Atlas Coelestis (Beta Lactam Ring/Nar Shardaa)
12. Sailors WIth Wax Wings - Self Titled (Angel Oven Records)
13. Iroha & Fragment - Bittersweet (Denovali)
14. Three Mile Pilot - The Inevitable Past Is The Future Forgotten (Temporary Residence)
15. Starkweather - This Sheltering Night (Deathwish Inc.)
16. Gholas - ??????? (Self Released)
17. Twilight - Monument To Time End (Southern Lord)
18. Woe - Quietly, Undramatically (Candlelight)
19. Krieg - The Isolationist (Candlelight)
20. Year of No Light - Ausserwelt (E-Music)
21. Nails - Unsilent Death (Six Feet Under)
22. Nadja - Autopergamene (Essence Music)
23. End Of A Year - You Are Beneath Me (Deathwish Inc)
24. Airs - Rainclouds Over The Remains Of Hope (Music Ruins Lives)
25. Johnny Cash - American VI: Ain’t No Grave (American)

Dan Fisher's list

1. She & Him - Volume Two (Merge)
2. The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang (Side One Dummy)
3. Blood Red Shoes - Fire Like This (V2)
4. Caitlin Rose - Own Side Now (Theory 8)
5. Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can (Virgin)
6. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - The Brutalist Bricks (Matador)
7. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs (Merge)
8. Far - At Night We Live (Xtra Mile)
9. Wavves - King of the Beach (Fat Possum)
10. Swans - My Father Will Guide Us Up A Rope To The Sky (Young God)
11. The Gamits - Parts (Paper + Plastick)
12. Jimmy Eat World - Invented (Interscope)
13. Murder by Death - Good Morning, Magpie (Vagrant)
14. Shearwater - The Golden Archipelago (Matador)
15. Imelda May - Mayhem (Decca)

Gregg Harrington's list

1. Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis (Season of Mist)
2. Cipher - The Joyous Collapse (Uprising)
3. Minus the Bear - OMNI (Dangerbird)
4. Sage Francis - Li(f)e (Anti)
5. 108 - 18:61 (Deathwish Inc.)
6. Terror - Keepers Of The Faith (Century Media)
7. Trash Talk - Eyes And Nines (Trash Talk Collective)
8. Nails - Unsilent Death (Six Feet Under)
9. The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang (Side One Dummy)
10. Crime in Stereo - I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone (Bridge Nine)

Jon E.'s list

1. Swans - My Father Will Guide Us Up A Rope To The Sky (Young God)
2. Integrity - The Blackest Curse (Deathwish Inc.)
3. Alcest - Ecailles De Lune (Prophecy Productions)
4. Starkweather - This Sheltering Night (Deathwish Inc.)
5. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (Def Jam)
6. Danzig - Deth Red Sabaoth (Evilive Records)
7. Killing Joke - Absolute Dissent (Universal)
8. Death In June - Peaceful Snow (Nerus)
9. Crucified - coldest winters; darkest reaches of the mind (Double Or Nothing)
10. Nails - Unsilent Death (Six Feet Under)
11. Skin Like Iron - Descent Into Light (Six Feet Under)
12. Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma (Warp Records)
13. Agalloch - Marrow of the Spirit (Profound Lore)
14. The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang (Side One Dummy)
15. The Body - All the Waters of the Earth Shall Turn to Blood (At A Loss)
16. Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis (Season of Mist)
17. Make Do and Mend - End Measured Mile (Paper + Plastick)
18. Janelle Monáe - The ArchAndroid (Wondaland Arts Society / Bad Boy)
19. Burning Love - Songs For Burning Lovers (Deranged)
20. Nachtmystium - Addicts: Black Meddle Pt. 2 (Century Media)
21. MATER SUSPERIA VISION - Second Coming (Disaro)
22. Have a Nice Life - Voids (Music Ruins Lives)
23. Parasitic Skies - The Descent (Seventh Dagger)
24. Trash Talk - Eyes And Nines (Trash Talk Collective)
25. Lantlôs - .Neon (Lupus Lounge)

Kevin's list

1. Iggy & The Stooges - Raw Power (Re-Issue) (Sony)
2. 1349 - Demonoir (Prosthetic Records)
3. Chastain - The Reign of Leather (Leviathan Records)
4. Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones (Prowling Death)
5. Forbidden - Omega Wave (Nuclear Blast)
6. Arson Anthem - Insecurity Notoriety (Housecore Records)
7. Accept - Blood of the Nations (Nuclear Blast)
8. Mike Patton - Mondo Cane (Ipecac)
9. Dio - At Donington UK: Live 1983 (Niji Entertainment Group)
10. Flobots - Survival Story (Universal)
11. Foetus - Hide (Ectopic Ents)
12. Burzum - Belus (Phantasm Imports)
13. Deathspell Omega - Paracletus (Norma Evangelium Diaboli/SOM)
14. Cephalic Carnage - Misled By Certainty (Relapse)
15. Johnny Cash - American VI: Ain’t No Grave (American)
16. Black Breath - Heavy Breathing (Southern Lord)
17. Deftones - Diamond Eyes (Reprise)
18. Elliott Smith - An Introduction To... (Kill Rock Stars)
19. MIA - Maya (Interscope)
20. Trap Them - Filth Rations (Southern Lord)
21. Angel Eyes - Midwestern (The Mylene Sheath)
22. Killing Joke - Absolute Dissent (Universal)
23. Nachtmystium - Addicts: Black Meddle Pt. 2 (Century Media)
24. Rotting Christ - Aealo (Season of Mist)
25. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - The Brutalist Bricks (Matador)

Loren's list

1. Tiltwheel - The Hiatus AKA The High Hate Us (ADD Records)
2. The Brokedowns - Species Bender (Red Scare)
3. Arrivals - Volatile Molotov (Recess)
4. Off With Their Heads - In Desolation (Epitaph)
5. STNNNG - The Smoke of My Will (Modern Radio)
6. The Dopamines - Expect The Worst (Paper + Plastick)
7. The Measure [SA] - Notes (No Idea)
8. Whiskey - Rust Colors (No Idea)
9. The Sass Dragons - New Kids On The Bong (Johans Face)
10. Young Livers - Of Misery & Toil (No Idea Records)
11. MIA - Maya (Interscope)
12. Mike Patton - Mondo Cane (Ipecac)
13. Devil's Brigade - Devil's Brigade (Hellcat)
14. The Riot Before - Rebellion (Paper + Plastick)
15. Defiance, Ohio - Midwestern Minutes (No Idea)
16. The Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt (Dead Oceans)
17. Tim Barry - 28th and Stonewall (Suburban Home)
18. Too Many Daves - Weekend at Dave's (ADD Records)
19. Private Dancer - Alive in High Five (Learning Curve)
20. Brendan Kelly/Joe McMahon - Wasted Potential (Red Scare)
21. Sundowner - We Chase the Waves (Asian Man)
22. The Hold Steady - Heaven is Whenever (Vagrant)
23. Mayflower - Second Best Sunsets (Kiss of Death)
24. Wavves - King of the Beach (Fat Possum)
25. Black Keys - Brothers (Nonesuch)

Matt's list

1. Janelle Monáe - The ArchAndroid (Wondaland Arts Society / Bad Boy)
2. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - The Brutalist Bricks (Matador)
3. Beach House - Teen Dream (Sub Pop)
4. The Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt (Dead Oceans)
5. Tame Impala - Innerspeaker (Modular Recordings)
6. Rafter - Animal Feelings (Asthmatic Kitty)
7. Rocky Votolato - True Devotion (Barsuk/Second Nature)
8. Minus the Bear - OMNI (Dangerbird)
9. Jaga Jazzist - One-Armed Bandit (Ninja Tune)
10. Sharon Jones And The Dap Kings - I Learned The Hard Way (Daptone)
11. Crime in Stereo - I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone (Bridge Nine)
12. Frightened Rabbit - The Winter Of Mixed Drinks (Fat Cat)

Michael's list

1. Jimmy Eat World - Invented (Interscope)
2. Crucified - coldest winters; darkest reaches of the mind (Double Or Nothing)
3. Mumford - Sigh No More (Glass Note)
4. Off With Their Heads - In Desolation (Epitaph)
5. Sage Francis - Li(f)e (Anti)
6. Make Do and Mend - End Measured Mile (Paper + Plastick)
7. The National - High Violet (4ad)
8. Black Keys - Brothers (Nonesuch)
9. Alpha - Life Swallower (6131)
10. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs (Merge)
11. Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis (Season of Mist)
12. Skin Like Iron - Descent Into Light (Six Feet Under)
13. Minus the Bear - OMNI (Dangerbird)
14. Terror - Keepers Of The Faith (Century Media)
15. Deftones - Diamond Eyes (Reprise)
16. The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang (Side One Dummy)
17. Broken Bells - Broken Bells (Sony)
18. Crime in Stereo - I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone (Bridge Nine)
19. Black Breath - Heavy Breathing (Southern Lord)
20. Circa Survive - Blue Sky Noise (Atlantic)
21. She & Him - Volume Two (Merge)
22. Murder by Death - Good Morning, Magpie (Vagrant)
23. Killing the Dream - Lucky Me (Deathwish Inc.)
24. Sharon Jones And The Dap Kings - I Learned The Hard Way (Daptone)
25. Starkweather - This Sheltering Night (Deathwish Inc.)

Scott W.'s list

1. Johnny Cash - American VI: Ain’t No Grave (American)
2. Alkaline Trio - This Addiction (Heart & Skull)
3. Roky Erickson - True Love Cast Out All Evil (Anti)
4. Minus the Bear - OMNI (Dangerbird)
5. Elliott Smith - An Introduction To... (Kill Rock Stars)
6. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs (Merge)
7. Against Me! - White Crosses (Sire)
8. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - The Brutalist Bricks (Matador)
9. Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis (Season of Mist)
10. Murder by Death - Good Morning, Magpie (Vagrant)

Travis's list

1. Alkaline Trio - This Addiction (Heart & Skull)
2. Daughters - Daughters (Hydra Head)
3. Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma (Warp Records)
4. Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis (Season of Mist)
5. Swans - My Father Will Guide Us Up A Rope To The Sky (Young God)
6. Young Livers - Of Misery & Toil (No Idea Records)
7. Johnny Cash - American VI: Ain’t No Grave (American)
8. None More Black - Icons (Fat Wreck)
9. Crime in Stereo - I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone (Bridge Nine)
10. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - The Brutalist Bricks (Matador)
11. Janelle Monáe - The ArchAndroid (Wondaland Arts Society / Bad Boy)
12. Circa Survive - Blue Sky Noise (Atlantic)
13. Make Do and Mend - End Measured Mile (Paper + Plastick)
14. The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang (Side One Dummy)
15. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs (Merge)
16. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (Def Jam)
17. 108 - 18:61 (Deathwish Inc.)
18. The Gamits - Parts (Paper + Plastick)
19. Minus the Bear - OMNI (Dangerbird)
20. Murder by Death - Good Morning, Magpie (Vagrant)
21. Three Mile Pilot - The Inevitable Past Is The Future Forgotten (Temporary Residence)
22. Black Keys - Brothers (Nonesuch)
23. Trap Them - Filth Rations (Southern Lord)
24. Defiance, Ohio - Midwestern Minutes (No Idea)
25. A Wilhelm Scream - Self Titled (Paper + Plastick)

Zak Vargas's list

1. Daughters - Daughters (Hydra Head)
2. Agalloch - Marrow of the Spirit (Profound Lore)
3. Rorcal - Heliogabalus (Cal Of Ror)
4. Swans - My Father Will Guide Us Up A Rope To The Sky (Young God)
5. Nails - Unsilent Death (Six Feet Under)
6. Male Bonding - Nothing Hurts (Sub Pop)
7. The Secret - Solve Et Coagula (Southern Lord)
8. Man's Gin - Smiling Dogs (Profound Lore)
9. Electric Wizard - Black Masses (Rise Above)
10. Unearthly Trance - V (Relapse)
11. The Body - All the Waters of the Earth Shall Turn to Blood (At A Loss)
12. Deathspell Omega - Paracletus (Norma Evangelium Diaboli/SOM)
13. Surroundings - Surroundings (Free Cake)
14. Alcest - Ecailles De Lune (Prophecy Productions)
15. Coffinworm - When All Became None (Profound Lore)
16. Masakari - The Profit Feeds (Southern Lord)
17. Olde Growth - Olde Growth (Self-released)
18. Kylesa - Spiral Shadow (Season of Mist)
19. Bongripper - Satan Worshipping Doom (Self-released)
20. The Radio Dept. - Clinging to a Scheme (Labrador Sweden )
21. Sailors WIth Wax Wings - Self Titled (Angel Oven Records)
22. Ramesses - Take the Curse (Ritual Productions)
23. Thou - Summit (Gilead Media)
24. Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones (Prowling Death)
25. Celeste - Morte(s) Nee(s) (Denovali Records)