Here it is (part 2)

5. Trampled By Turtles - Palomino

I guess it might be the nostalgia from seeing these guys live and the fact that these bastards are from Minnesota, but it's hard to dislike any track from this album. It is easy to say I dig folk when you're from Minnesota because you always have Bob Dylan on your side with that argument, but how do you argue that you dig an indie folk/bluegrass band like Trampled By Turtles? well ,you just man up and say you dig them and put them at number 5 for a top ten of 2010.

4. The National - High Violet

If I could give an award for biggest impact as far as bands go over 2010, The National would win first place without any sort of argument. I am somewhat embarrassed to say that I didn't discover The National until mid summer of 2010, but with that said I'm so glad that I managed to listen to them. It's very hard to put a label on them because they aren't quite pop and they aren't indie and they aren't alternative, but they are some sort of amalgamation of them. High Violet isn't as good as Boxer was, but how the fuck could any album stack against Boxer and come out on top? The answer is that it's almost impossible to pull that off and come out on top. This album is a bit more low key than Boxer and I guess it's all up to personal opinion as far as the rating goes. If you thought Boxer was a bit too intense and was lacking in the metaphor department, High Violet very well might be your album of the year... If not, it's the 3rd best album of the year and that's nothing to be ashamed of.