Q Magazine's Top 50 Albums of 2010

I (Bill) stopped reading Q around 2003 but here’s their Best of 2010 list, topped by The Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs. (NME’s #2 of the year.) Check out the whole list below.

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Q Magazine – Top 50 Albums of 2010
1. Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
2. Robert Plant – Band of Joy
3. Plan B – The Defamation of Strickland Banks
4. Laura Marling – I Speak Because I Can
5. Vampire Weekend – Contra
6. John Grant – Queen of Denmark
7. Gorillaz – Plastic Beach
8. The National – High Violet
9. Paul Weller – Wake Up the Nation
10. MGMT – Congratulations
11. The Black Keys – Brothers
12. Gil Scott-Heron – I’m New Here
13. Beach House – Teen Dream
14. Hot Chip – One Life Stand
15. Yeasayer – Odd Blood
16. Foals – Total Life Forever
17. John Legend & The Roots – Wake Up!
18. Manic Street Preachers – Postcards from a Young Man
19. Grinderman – Grinderman 2
20. Take That – Progress
21. Band of Horses – Infinite Arms
22. Corinne Bailey Rae – The Sea
23. LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening
24. Bryan Ferry – Olympia
25. Kings of Leon – Come Around Sundown
26. Klaxons – Surfing the Void
27. Midlake – The Courage of Others
28. Avi Buffalo – Avi Buffalo
29. Interpol – Interpol
30. Brandon Flowers – Flamingo
31. The Chemical Brothers – Further
32. The Drums – The Drums
33. Tricky – Mixed Race
34. The Dead Weather – Sea of Cowards
35. Man Alive – Everything Everything
36. The Roots – How I Got Over
37. The Coral – Butterfly House
38. Janelle Monae – The Archandroid
39. I Am Kloot – Sky at Night
40. Peter Gabriel – Scratch My Back
41. Belle and Sebastian – Write About Love
42. Tom Jones – Praise & Blame
43. Skream – Outside the Box
44. Villagers – Becoming a Jackal
45. Cherry Ghost – Beneath This Burning Shoreline
46. Joanna Newsom – Have One On Me
47. Two Door Cinema Club – Tourist History
48. Edwyn Collins – Losing Sleep
49. Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest
50. Steve Mason – Boys Outside