Junkyardkid's Best Songs of 2010

It has been a pretty interesting year in finding new music. Here are my 10 favorite songs from 2010 - the year Sufjan Stevens decided to use auto-tune.



10. Kylie Minogue - Get Outta My Way
My favorite dance pop track of the year. Catchy as hell, I had this song on repeat for days.
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9. Beach House - Zebra

Any way you run, you run before us.

Dark and haunting. One of the tracks that stood out when I was shuffling through my recent downloads.
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8. Cee-Lo - Forget You/Fuck You

I guess he's an Xbox and I'm more Atari.

A middle-finger song disguised as a sunny '60s Motown track - genius.
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7. Marina and the Diamonds - I Am Not a Robot

Better to be hated than loved loved loved

for what you're not.

I don't know what's with the fascination with robots this year (Fembot, The Girl and the Robot) but I'm digging the energy on this song.
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6. Stornoway - Zorbing

So electrifying, Oh im nearly flying
lost my heart between the sheets of lightning.

Opening song on the soundtrack of my life.
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5. Jonsi - Boy Lilikoi

Use your eyes, the world goes and flutters by

Use your eyes, you'll know you are

I am in love with the folky fantasy atmosphere of this track. I am now convinced that if you go through the back of your closet you either end up in Narnia or Iceland.
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4. Sufjan Stevens - Futile Devices

And when I sleep on your couch I feel very safe,

and when you bring the blankets I cover up my face.

Compulsory pensive track for the nightly commute.
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3. Vampire Weekend - White Sky
Basically everything from Contra, actually. This song and Horcahata are my two favorite tracks off the album.
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2. Freelance Whales - Generator ^ First Floor 

We're finding everyday several ways that we can be friends.

If you haven't noticed, I have a thing for quirky-sounding indie bands. You know, the ones who fill the verses with repeating syllables (eh-eh-eh-eh, uh-ah-oh oh-oh-ooh) that make no sense at all. Curse that music critic who compared Freelance Whales to Owl City.
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1. Robyn - Dancing On My Own

So far away but still so near,

but you don't see me standing here.

I just came to say goodbye.

The story of my life told in four minutes and fifty seconds.
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Songs that almost made the cut:
Josh Ritter Change of Time
Tunng Hustle
Ellie Goulding The Writer
Seabear Arms
Glee Teenage Dream
2NE1 Go Away*

* LOL no judging