Top 10 Tracks Of 2010

#10 Simple Minds - I Travel [mp3]

I would call this a guilty pleasure except I have no guilt in loving this piece of disco rock.

#9 Total Control - Paranoid Video [mp3]

"It has a sparse brutality with a haze of recent violence around it"

#8 Arcade Fire - The Suburbs [mp3]

Apparently it sounds like Neil Young. All I know is that it sounds good.

#7 Gold Panda - You [mp3]

Lead track from probably the album of the year.

#6 Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Fright Night (Nevermore) [mp3]

Everyone's opted for Round And Round but I prefer Fright Night (Nevermore).

#5 Eleven Pond - Watching Trees [mp3]

"... gloriously otherworldly, its jerky funk wrapped in melancholia. It also possesses a stone cold classic pop chorus."

#4 Amon Düül II - Mozambique [mp3]

"This morning I listened to the free-form, off-kilter German prog-rock (krautrock is a term I've grown to dislike) of Amon Düül II while on the bog. Lovely."

#3 DJ Nate - Make Em Run [mp3]

"... for three minutes and a second this is the weirdest and most compelling track of the year."

#2 Police Academy 6 - Run [mp3]

"... my track of the summer. It has Balearic touches but really it is a pop song, dripping with melody. All it needs is a puppet's vocals and it'll soar away."

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#1 Telex - Moskow Diskow [mp3]

"Moskow Diskow is a stupendous piece of dead-pan futuristic electronic disco music... from Belgium. It's the four-four handclap/fingersnap sound. It's the vocoder. It's the French (or Flemish, whatevs). It's the synths. It's the train motifs (the sister of Kraftwerk's bicycles?). It's the everything."