Why 2010 is awesome:
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today
Beach House - Teen Dream
Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record
ceo - White Magic
Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles II
Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
Delorean - Subiza
Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
Four Tet - There Is Love in You
Frightened Rabbit - The Winter of Mixed Drinks
Charlotte Gainsbourg - IRM
Gonjasufi - A Sufi and a Killer
Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
Hot Chip - One Life Stand
LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
Liars - Sisterworld
Local Natives - Gorilla Manor
Los Campesinos! - Romance is Boring
Menomena - Mines
Morning Benders - Big Echo
Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
The National - High Violet
Owen Pallett - Heartland
She & Him - Volume Two
Sleigh Bells - Treats
Spoon - Transference
Suckers - Wild Smile
Surfer Blood - Astrocoast
Tame Impala - Innerspeaker
These New Puritans - Hidden
Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
Vampire Weekend - Contra
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Yeasayer - Odd Blood

Why 2010 will be awesome:
Confirmed
BOLD denotes album has already been released or leaked.
!!! - Strange Weather, Isn't It?
Abe Vigoda - Crush
The Album Leaf - A Chorus of Storytellers
Alcest
The Antlers
The Apples in Stereo - Travelers in Space and Time
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today
Ash - A-Z Series, Volume One
The Automatic - Tear the Signs Down
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
Architecture in Helsinki - Vision Revision
Avey Tare - Down There
Erykah Badu - New Amerykah, Part II: Return of the Ankh
Band of Horses - Infinite Arms
Battles
Beach House - Teen Dream
The Beastie Boys - Hot Sauce Committee, Part One
Jeff Beck
Belle and Sebastian - Belle and Sebastian Write About Love
The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night
Bettie Serveert - Pharmacy of Love
Best Coast - Crazy for You
Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
Bonnie "Prince" Billy and the Cairo Gang - The Wonder Show of the World
Jónsi Birgisson - Go
The Black Keys - Brothers
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Beat the Devil's Tattoo
Black Prairie - Feast of the Hunter’s Moon
Blitzen Trapper - Destroyer of the Void
Blonde Redhead - Penny Sparkle
The Books - The Way Out
Born Ruffians - Say It
British Sea Power
Broken Bells - Broken Bells
Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record
Cake - Showroom of Compassion
Camu Tao - King of Hearts
Caribou - Swim
Johnny Cash - American VI: Ain't No Grave
ceo - White Magic
The Charlatans - Who We Touch
The Chemical Brothers - Further
Chromeo - Business Casual
Clinic - Bubblegum
Cloud Cult - Light Chasers
The Coral - Butterfly House
Corin Tucker Band - 1000 Years
Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles II
Daft Punk - Tron Legacy
Darker My Love - Alive As You Are
David Byrne and Fatboy Slim - Here Lies Love
The Dead Weather - Sea of Cowards
Delorean - Subiza
Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
Dessa - A Badly Broken Code
Devo - Something for Everybody
Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis
Does It Offend You, Yeah? - Don't Say We Didn't Warn You
Rose Dougal (ex-Pipettes) - Without Why
Dr. Dog - Shame, Shame
Dr. Dre - Detox
Drive By Truckers - The Big To Do
The Drums - The Drums
Duffy - Endlessly
Eels - End Times
Eels - Tomorrow Morning
The Fall - Your Future Our Clutter
Lupe Fiasco - Lasers
Fenn O'Berg - In Stereo
Field Music - Measure
Flotation Toy Warning - The Machine That Made Us
Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
Foals - Total Life Forever
Four Tet - There Is Love in You
Black Francis - Nonstoperotik
Free Energy - Stuck On Nothing
Friendly Fires
Frightened Rabbit - The Winter of Mixed Drinks
The Futureheads - The Chaos
Charlotte Gainsbourg - IRM
Gang of Four - Content
The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang
Girl Talk - All Day
Glasvegas
Goldfrapp - Head First
Gonjasufi - A Sufi and a Killer
Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
Grinderman - Grinderman 2
GZA - Liquid Swords II
Javelin - No Mas
Juliana Hatfield - Peace and Love
Hercules & Love Affair
High Places - High Places vs. Mankind
The Hold Steady - Heaven is Whenever
Holy Fuck - Latin
Hot Chip - One Life Stand
Hot Hot Heat - Future Breeds
Inspectah Deck - Manifesto
The Indelicates - Songs For Swinging Lovers
Interpol - Interpol
Jenny and Johnny - I'm Having Fun Now
jj - jj no 3
Miles Kane (of Last Shadow Puppets)
Kayo Dot
Killing Joke
Kings of Leon - Come Around Sundown
Klaxons - Surfing the Void
The Knife, Planningtorock and Mount Sims - Tomorrow, In a Year
Kula Shaker - Pilgrim's Progress
LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
Les Savy Fav - Root for Ruin
Liars - Sisterworld
Lightspeed Champion - Life Is Sweet! Nice To Meet You
The Like - Release Me
Lil Wayne - Rebirth
Local Natives - Gorilla Manor
Locksley - Be In Love
Los Campesinos! - Romance is Boring
Madvillain
Magnetic Fields - Realism
Manic Street Preachers - Postcards from a Young Man
Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can
Margot & the Nuclear So and So's - Buzzard
Massive Attack - Heligoland
Matt & Kim - Sidewalks
Maximum Balloon - Maximum Balloon
Melvins - The Bride Screamed Murder
Menomena - Mines
MGMT - Congratulations
M.I.A. - / \ / \ / \ Y / \
Midlake - The Courage of Others
Midnight Juggernauts - The Crystal Axis
Minus the Bear - Omni
Morning Benders - Big Echo
Mount Eerie - Black Wooden
Mystery Jets - Serotonin
Kate Nash - My Best Friend is You
The National - High Violet
Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
The New Pornographers - Together
New Young Pony Club - The Optimist
No Age - Everything in Between
Ocean Colour Scene - Saturday
Oceansize - Self Preserved While the Bodies Float Up
of Montreal - False Priest
Kele Okereke - The Boxer
OK Go - Of the Blue Colour of the Sky
Okkervil River
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - History of Modern
Owen Pallett - Heartland
Panda Bear - Tomboy
Pain in Salvation - Road Salt One
Parenthetical Girls - Privilege Part 1: On Death & Endearments EP
Lee "Scratch" Perry - Revelation
The Pipettes - Earth vs. Pipettes
Robert Pollard - We All Got Out of the Army
Robert Pollard - Moses on a Snail
The Pop Group - The Alternate
Portugal. The Man - American Ghetto
Quasi - American Gong
The Rapture
Ra Ra Riot - The Orchard
Ratatat - LP4
Richard Ashcroft and the United Nations of Sound - Richard Ashcroft and the United Nations of Sound
Robyn - Body Talk Pt. 1
Robyn - Body Talk Pt. 2
Rogue Wave - Permalight
Rooney - Eureka
The Roots - How I Got Over
Rotting Christ - Aealo
Röyksopp - Senior
Sade - Soldier of Love
Laetitia Sadier - The Trip
Santigold
School of Seven Bells - Disconnect from Desire
Self - Super Fake Nice
Phil Selway - Familial
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings - I Learned the Hard Way
She & Him - Volume Two
Sigh - Scenes from Hell
Shining - VII - Född förlorare
Shout Out Louds - Work
Sky Larkin - Kaleide
Sleigh Bells - Treats
The Smashing Pumpkins - Teargarden by Kaleidyscope
The Soft Pack - The Soft Pack
Spoon - Transference
Stars - The Five Ghosts
Stereolab - Not Music
Marnie Stern - Marnie Stern
Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz
The Streets - Computers and Blues
Suckers - Wild Smile
Sunny Day Real Estate
Superchunk - Majesty Shredding
Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky
Tame Impala - Innerspeaker
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - The Brutalist Bricks
Teenage Fanclub - Shadows
Television Personalities - A Memory is Better Than Nothing
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra - Kollaps Tradixionales
The Thermals - Personal Life
These New Puritans - Hidden
Richard Thompson - Dream Attic
Tindersticks - Falling Down a Mountain
Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
Tokyo Police Club - Champ
Tunng - And Then We Saw Land
Ulver - Psyche
The Vaselines - Sex With An X
Vampire Weekend - Contra
Laura Veirs - July Flame
Patrick Wolf - The Conqueror
The Walkmen - Lisbon
The Watson Twins - Talking to You, Talking to Me
Wavves - King of the Beach
Paul Weller - Wake Up The Nation
We Are Scientists - Barbra
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Weezer - Hurley
Weird Al Yankovic
The Whigs - In the Dark
Woods - At Echo Lake
Wolf Parade - Expo 86
Women - Public Strain
Xiu Xiu - Dear God, I Hate Myself
Yeasayer - Odd Blood
Pete Yorn - Pete Yorn

Likely
Adele
Agalloch
Babyshambles
The Bird and the Bee
Black Lips
Blood Red Shoes
Cat Power
Coldplay
Cowboy Junkies
Cut Copy
Deakin
Death Cab for Cutie
Deerhoof
Dogs Die in Hot Cars
Duffy
Elbow
Empire of the Sun
Fleet Foxes
Noel Gallagher
Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong
The Last Shadow Puppets
Lil Wayne
The Low Anthem
The Kinks
Kraftwerk
The Middle East
Modest Mouse
Mystery Jets
Outkast
Pixies
Portishead
The Polyphonic Spree
Public Image Ltd.
the inevitable Jay Reatard posthumous archival release
Radiohead
Roxy Music
Rush
The Shins
Sonic Youth
The Strokes
They Might Be Giants
The Ting Tings
U2
VHS or Beta
Amy Winehouse
The Wrens

Potential
Aesop Rock
Arcturus
The Avalanches
Beck
Beirut
Bermuda Weather Service
Black Kids
Blur
Bright Eyes
British Sea Power
Chilly Willy
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
The Cranberries
The Cure
Daft Punk
The Happy Mondays
Faith No More
Feist
David Gilmour
Girl Talk
In the Woods
Justice
M83
Stephen Malkmus
Modest Mouse
Mogwai
My Bloody Valentine
The Pharcyde
The Postal Service
R.E.M.
Rage Against the Machine
Sigur Rós
Soundgarden
Marnie Stern
Sufjan Stevens
Stiff Little Fingers
Tapes 'n Tapes
Travis
The White Stripes
The Zutons

Unappreciated and/or Bands No One Cares About
Angels and Airwaves (likely)
Against Me! (potential)
Bad Religion (confirmed)
Blacklodge (confirmed)
Blink 182 (potential)
Coheed and Cambria (confirmed)
Disturbed (HOO-WA-AA-AA-AAH!)
Flobots (confirmed)
Green Carnation (likely)
Green Day (likely)
Gorguts (likely)
Hole and/or Courtney Love (confirmed)
Incubus (likely)
In Vain (confirmed)
Limp Bizkit (confirmed. You may scream in terror now.)
Merzbow (confirmed)
My Chemical Romance (confirmed)
Ne Obliviscaris (likely)
No Doubt (likely)
The Offspring (likely)
Pendulum (confirmed)
Red Hot Chili Peppers (confirmed)
Ringo Starr (confirmed)
Joe Satriani (likely, according to an impersonator on a chat room)
Stone Temple Pilots (confirmed)
Symphony X (confirmed)
Unexpect (confirmed)
Void of Silence (confirmed)
Wintersun (confirmed)
the worthless new band formed by Liam Gallagher and a bunch of guys you probably don't care about and will probably flop without Noel's songwriting to buoy them (confirmed)

So does anyone else think first half of 2010 >>>> 2nd half ?

Or did I just not pay attention enough during the 2nd half?

or maybe the 2nd half isn't over?

2 months left... plus with leaks, there isn't a ton of stuff that hasn't come out yet.

Definitely. 90% of my top 10 were released before July.

I can't wait until Agalloch release Marrow Of The Spirit. The 23rd of November can't come fast enough.

http://transylvanianhungerrr.blogspot.com/2010/10/agalloch-marrow-of-spirit-review.html

I cannot wait.

really confident in my top 5, the rest is more hazy

1. Delorean - Subiza
2. Onra - Long Distance
3. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
4. Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
5. Sleigh Bells - Treats

Top 5:

1. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
2. Dessa - A Badly Broken Code
3. Frightened Rabbit - The Winter of Mixed Drinks
4. Cloud Cult - Light Chasers
5. The National - High Violet

At this point in the year it's looking like:

1. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
2. SNSD - Oh!
3. Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
4. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today
5. f(x) - NU ABO

1. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
2. Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
3. Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
4. Beach House - Teen Dream
5. Menomena - Mines
6. The School - Loveless Unbeliever

I'm going out to six because everybody needs to listen Loveless Unbeliever because it is amazing.

I like that everyone has different favorites this year. May not be a top-loaded year, but there is tons of stuff worth mentioning that appeals to different people.

deerhunter
beach house
lcd

1. Los Campesinos! - Romance is Boring
2. Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
3. LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening
4. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
5. Vampire Weekend - Contra
6. The National - High Violet
7. Beach House - Teen Dream
8. Drive-By Truckers - The Big To Do
9. She & Him - Volume Two
10. Sleigh Bells - Treats
11. Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can
12. Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
13. Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record
14. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
15. Surfer Blood - Astro Coast

Still largely unchanged since the summer save for the addition of Halycon Digest.

Yeah I'm loving the variety in 2010. Last year it was AnCo or Grizzly Bear or Go Home, but this year we've got fantastic albums all over the show. Heaps of mid-career successes too e.g. The Suburbs, High Violet, Plastic Beach, Have One On Me. I love that it's not dominated by debuts that will likely never be topped as quite often happens.