Best of 2010, Vancouver Edition

2010 is almost over and its time for "best of the year" lists. For this week’s episode I've picked my favorite albums released by local bands this year and played my favorite songs from those albums. It was really easy and really hard at the same time to pick songs to play. There is an amazing music scene in Vancouver and there are lots of brilliant bands, but I had to leave off some of them, because its impossible to fit all those great songs in one hour of radio show. Here's the list of all the albums by Vancouver bands released this year, that I've listened and liked:

Top 5:

1. The Dreadnoughts - Polka's Not Dead  




2. The Hextalls - Get Smashed!

3. Cambridge - This Is Not A Victory


 

4. Invasives - Desk Job At Castle Dracula




5. McRackins - It Ain't Over Easy

Other great 2010 releases by the bands from Vancouver, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: 

• Annihilator - Annihilator


• Baptists - Drown Your Sorrows EP


• Battle Snakes - On Fire '99


• Big John Bates - Bad Pussy 7''


• Bison BC - Dark Ages


• Bone Daddies - Bone Daddies


• Carpenter - Sea To Sky


• D.O.A. - Talk - Action = 0


• The Deadcats - Look Like Hell!


• Grave Maker - Ghosts Among Men


• Impeders Of Progress - Lessons EP


• The Jolts - Kaminari Lover / (Baby I'm A) Loser 7''


• No Other Way - Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump


• Nomeansno - Tour EP 1


• Nomeansno - Tour EP 2


• Party At The Moontower - Fifty Year Storm 7''


• Quiet Kids - Serious Lovers


• The Real Mckenzies - 2010 - Shine Not Burn


• Real Problems - Scum City Girls EP


• The Split Up's - E.P 7''


• Tranzmitors - Sunday Morning / Jimmy’s At The Mod Shop 7? 


• Unfun - Sick Outside View


• The Valuables - The Valuables EP


• Vicious Cycles - Vicious Cycles 7''


• White Lung - Atlanta 7''


• White Lung - It's The Evil


• The Wrecktals - ANALBUM

And here's this week's episode:

INVASIVES - If I Was You [Desk Job At Castle Dracula] 
BONE DADDIES - Pizza Girl [Bone Daddies]
THE WRECKTALS - A-Path of Least Resistance [ANALBUM]
THE VALUABLES - Knockin On My Door [The Valuables]
CAMBRIDGE - Kubark [This Is Not A Victory]
IMPEDERS OF PROGRESS - Lessons [Lessons]
CARPENTER - Mean Things [Sea To Sky]
PARTY AT THE MOONTOWER - Mitchy Mitchy Mitchy [Fifty Year Storm]
BATTLE SNAKES - Wind Me Up (The Hits) [On Fire '99]
McRACKINS - Need Somebody [It Ain't Over Easy]
THE SPLIT UP'S - Televisual [E.P.]
THE HEXTALLS - Mark Wilson [Get Smashed]
THE DREADNOUGHTS - Sleep is For The Weak [Polka's Not Dead]

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