At year-end I put together my list of the top 100 songs of 2010, culminating here. As is always the case, the clock hadn't turned to February before there were several new-to-me songs I realized I had missed that merited consideration. Below are my ten favorite songs that weren't on my list at year-end but that might make a revised list today. Certainly the top two tracks would have broken the top 40.
Top 10 Songs of 2010 that weren't on my year-end list (as of May 2011 - subject to revision!)
- "On Feathers and Arrows (on Burnt Pine)" / il gato / All These Slippery Things"
"And I'll remember your life / as I change mine / and forget all your forests of evergreen / because I'll survive / just fine / with burnt pine" - "Nothing Can Kill the Grimace" / Mixtapes / Maps
"And I'm not saying that I'm any better / but at least I do all my dumb shit at home / 'cause everyone's the same, and everyone is lame / but they can sing bad songs and dance ironically" - "Trust" / Generationals / Trust EP
" My friend / Olivia / said to me" - "Right Direction" / Dirty Diamonds / Monster Ballads
"For the first time / in a long time" - "I Was a Teenage Anarchist" / Against Me! / White Crosses
"Don't you remember? / When you were young and you wanted to set the world on fire" - "Digging Holes" / Icarus Himself / Mexico
"Terrible things that I know and I know" - "Land Majestic" / Anni Rossi / Heavy Meadow
"I am / an ant / stuck in / the cement" - "Water Hymn" / Painted Palms / Canopy EP
<no lyrics> - "Kites" / Geographer / Animal Shapes
" And my love is so quick / like the legs of my kids" - "Clockwatching" / Belleruche / 270 Stories
"Put them back in the backseat / your dues have long been paid"
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