Feelin’ a bit like The Wheeler lately.

Eh, it’s Monday

2010 was a weird year for music. Lots of pretty good stuff, but nothing big and huge that blew my socks off. Compared with last year it was kind of dull. That’s to take nothing away from the greatness of the albums on this list, though. Highly recommended if you want to try out something you haven’t already!

Darren’s Top 15 Favorite Albums of 2010

1. 
   Versailles – Jubilee
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2. 
   D’espairsRay – Monsters
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3. 
   Kylie Minogue – Aphrodite
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4. 
   Katy Perry – Teenage Dream
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5. 
   Keane – Night Train
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6. 
   Eminem – Recovery
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7. 
   Accept – Blood of the Nations
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8. 
   Nobuo Uematsu – Distant Worlds II
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9. 
   Weezer – Hurley
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10. 
    Buck-Tick – Razzle Dazzle
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11. 
    Alan Wake – Complete Soundtracks
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12. 
    Angels & Airwaves – Love
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13. 
    41 Gorgeous Blocks – This Kills Me
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14. 
    Mylene Farmer – Point de Suture
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15. 
    Asian Kung-Fu Generation – Magic Disc
    

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

• Placebo – Battle for the Sun Redux (Old but remastered/remixed and some new songs)
  
• Deathgaze – Bliss Out (Awesome, but too new to fully judge)
  
• Jimmy Eat World – Invented (Awesome, but too new to fully judge)
• Linkin Park – A Thousand Suns (Awesome, but too new to fully judge)
• Rurutia – Behind the Blue (EP)
  

Happy 2011! I could’ve sworn I posted a resolutions list last year that I was going to cleverly go back and critique here, but apparently I didn’t. 2010 was okay. Ups and downs, more ups than previous years.

The downiest downer for me is that it’s getting seriously hard to get around and I’m right at that very awkward line between being able to walk and not. The funny / good thing is that I would’ve said the exact same thing this time last year and probably the year before as well. It’s a sloooow process that’s lasted my entire lifetime. So, I’m slowly trying to convince myself that there is nothing wrong with having a vehicle mode should it become necessary. Actually, I can walk around perfectly fine if I’ve got someone’s shoulder to balance on, but that’s not always practical.

Anyway, I digress big time. My goals in 2011 are to draw more, remain un-depressed, spend less money, socialize more, drink more water, record four digital singles through the year of my “currently-untitled-formerly-Man-Before-Mars-project”, see Lazer play live, visit California, and bang that Chorra chick from TRON. Or Gem. The characters, not the actresses. IT’LL HAPPEN. We’ll check on this list at the end of the year, and I bet you’ll see straight check marks all the way through.

Hope everyone else is having a rockin’ good time and their own happy New Years!