Category Archives: listomania

listomania: top 20 hip hop songs of 2010, part 2

Posted on December 31, 2010 by

My ten favourite hip hop songs of 2010… And no, Kanye didn’t come out on top.

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listomania: top 20 hip hop songs of 2010, part 1

Posted on December 30, 2010 by

2010 was a strange year for hip hop. Drake singing like a girl. Eminem going all emo on us.  Weezy coming out of jail. T.I. going back in. B.o.B just being bloody everywhere. And Kanye West being, well… himself. If … Continue reading →

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listomania: top 10 pop songs of 2010

Posted on December 29, 2010 by

“Can’t Stop the Pop,” DJ Earworm’s annual pop mash up extravaganza, seems particularly appropriate this year: As everyone from Billboard to NPR to the New York Times has noted, 2010 witnessed the triumphant return of pop. 2010 may have been a gloomy … Continue reading →

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listomania: top 10 trance songs of 2010

Posted on December 28, 2010 by

Last year at this time, I couldn’t name a single trance producer. Tiesto — the soundtrack to nights out on the Jersey Shore? — maybe. Armin van Buuren — the guy who produced “Bonkers“? Oh no, wait, that would be … Continue reading →

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listomania: top 10 electro/house songs of 2010

Posted on December 28, 2010 by

Deadmau5 opened his show with “Some Chords” when I saw him perform on Halloween weekend. Good choice: It’s the best song off the phenomenal, filler-free 4×4=12, seamlessly transitioning between a sombre, stately buildup and an eardrum-pummeling beat. It tore the down the … Continue reading →

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listomania: top 10 dubstep songs of 2010

Posted on December 27, 2010 by

Musically, 2010 will be remembered for many things — both good and, well, not so good — but I’ll look back on it as the year that America finally sat up and paid attention to what the rest of the … Continue reading →

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