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    Ghost FM’s Favorite Music of 2010

    I’ve luckily had 3 free days in late December to breathe a little and come down with my end-year lists. To be honest, I’m always on the verge of acting biased when it comes to making such lists. Fortunately I survive many of them, including this year. I had to eliminate some of my favorites in sacrifice of these precious songs and albums. To name two of the most noteworthy ones Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs and Manic Street Preachers Postcards From A Young Man are still on heavy rotation. In fact I can never get free from listening to these two bands. So please consider these items as favorites just before we jump to our top 10 end-year lists. 10 items for each year is truly not enough space to scribble out all that beauty. But top-100 lists can be a drag most of the time, too. So here they are. Ghost FM’s best music of 2010. The word “best” can also be misleading. “Favorite” is sorta better, but who cares? This year I’ve combined the two lists into one post and included a playlist of our top 10 songs at the bottom. I have also posted this link on my Last.fm journal. Some folks were kind enough to reflect their thought balloons, there. Here are our favorite albums:

    And here are our favorite songs followed by a cool 8-track mixtape. Make sure you stream’em well in case you haven’t heard some. I don’t have to mention that I’d love to hear your bests as well down here. So enlighten me while we still can!

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    Mixtape Vol.1: Pacific Marmalade & Breeze Cocktail Breakfast at 1100

    Everybody’s posting summer mixtapes so why can’t we? Here’s our first and only one for this summer. Hope you make the best out of your season with this eclectic cocktail of chillwave, electronic, pop, surf, lo-fi, folk, ocean sound effects and why even bothering people with tags? This coral redemption lasts for 31 minutes. Steal it now.

    [♫] Ghost FM Mixtape Vol.1: Pacific Marmalade & Breeze Cocktail Breakfast at 1100

    Tracklisting:

    01 Mountain Man – “How’m I Doin” / 02 The Young Veins – “Take A Vacation!” / 03 The Avalanche – “Stay Another Season” / 04 Korallreven – “The Truest Faith” / 05 jj – “Are You Still In Valda?” / 06 Wilco – “Summer Teeth” / 07 Brian Wilson – “Gee” / 08 Janelle Monáe – “Wondaland” / 09 Lemon Jelly – “Nice Weather for Ducks” / 10 Best Coast – “Crazy For You” / 11 Islands – “Jogging Gorgeous Summer” / 12 Super Furry Animals – “Helium Hearts” / 13 The Beach Boys – “I Get Around”

    Update: Our Mixtape has also been featured on Summer Mix Series.

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    » Janelle Monáe - “Wondaland”

    Oops! I’m genuinely falling for a full-circle pop album (in this case pop can be read as “rhythmic soul”) again. Last time it was La Roux and then there was too much dull lip-syncing from Beyonce, Ashanti, Aguilera, Spears, Rihanna and all those girls who differ only when you watch them on TV. When you have them on your iPod, they all sadly sound the same. It’s like a ghost behind the curtains writing pop-infused diazepam R&B for everyone who makes requests. When you listen to a 12-track album, it’s like one song that replicates itself over and over, it’s only “honey”s that change to “babe”s and it’s only “ooh”s that change to “aaah”s. You don’t really want to know more.

    So if you’re turned down the way I am and if you’re looking for a ground-breaking talk of the town girl who can:

    • Because of her kaleidoscopic pop nature of soul can bring every decade of pop from 60s to 00s to light and embrace it joyfully;
    • Place symphonic intros and interludes for her album not to sound like constant shrieking of a woman who thinks she can sing;
    • Be in Big Boi, Of Montreal, Saul Williams and Deep Cotton’s company and keep you entertained nonetheless despite all those different genre palettes;
    • Be quality mainstream pop while rising from indie grounds. You’re not throwing away your dimes;
    • Please you if you’re a Madonna fan (“Dance Or Die”) or if you miss any other ever-present pop figure (“Tightrope” among many others of course) and then have you hallucinate the way you did when you listened to Camera Obscura or She & Him (“Sir Greendown”) and… oh man we’re in a futuristic Disneyland and Janelle (MySpace) is our ArchAndroid (Buy).

    “Wondaland” can sum up the album in the sense that each single tune comes from a different imagery and physical location (Moscow, Prague, Istanbul, Berlin, Amsterdam, New York, etc where the songs were written). It’s also the name of the studio in Atlanta where The ArchAndroid was potently recorded.

    Watch her as she quasi-Moon-Walks in tux in this fist-shaking party-heating toe-tapper funk-viddy. You needed this year’s pop catalog, now it’s you chance. Where is this Palace of the Dogs anyway? I’ll figure out, thanks!

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