Best of 2010 - Miscellaneous, Honorable Mentions and Albums of the Year

To wrap up 2010, I decided to lump together a few of my favorite dance/house, electronica, folk, jazz and latin songs. Not that these genres don't deserve their own articles, but I'm out of time!

1. Gotta Get Your Love (Kenny Dope Remix) | Gary Davis | Chocolate Star | Dance/Alternative



2. A Sunday Smile | Beirut | The Flying Club Cup | Folk



3. Beauty | Jose James | Blackmagic | Jazz



4. Looks Like Heaven | Peas | Filters | Dance



5. I Walked | Sufjan Stevens | The Age of Adz | Electronica



6. Superstition | Yesterdays New Quintet | Stevie: Instrumental Tribute to Stevie Wonder | Jazz



7. Without You (New Version) | Empire Of The Sun | Walking On A Dream | Dance



8. Drunk Girls (Holy Ghost! Adult Swim Remix) | LCD Soundsystem | Adult Swim Singles Project | Dance/Electronica



9. Space Cowboy | Eve St. Jones | Jazz and '90s | Jazz



10. Cabo Parano | Martin Solveig & Stephy Haik | Cabo Parano | Latin/Dance



11. Young Love (Shoes Mix) | Mystery Jets | Twenty One | Dance


12. Ella Menea (Remix) | NG2 Featuring Julio Voltio | Ella Menea | Salsa



13. Pumpkin Soup | Kate Nash | Made of Bricks | Pop



14. Theorema Del Faya (Tea Party Vocal Mix) | Ian Friday Presents Anto Vitale | Theorema Del Faya (Vinyl) | Dance



15. Like Spinning Plates | Radiohead | Amnesiac | Electronica




Honorable Mentions
I also took a look at the songs that were "left over" and decided to pick my top 10 honorable mentions:

1. Mentira | Marcos Valle | Previsao Do Tempo | Latin/Funk



2. The Rap World | Large Professor ft. Pete Rock | Hip-Hop



3. Crosses | Zero 7 | The Garden | Electronic/Downtempo



4. Dizzy | Y Society | Never Off (On & On) | Hip-Hop



5. Love Rock | Mtume | Kiss This World Goodbye | R&B



6. James Brown | Lmno & Kev Brown | Selective Hearing Part 2 | Hip-Hop



7. Katy Song | Red House Painters | Red House Painters I | Rock



8. Hot Stepper | Ini Kamoze | Reggae



9. Fireworks | Drake | Thank Me Later | Hip-Hop



10. Cry Tough | Dennis Alcapone | Dennis Alcapone's King of Kings | Reggae

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Albums of the Year (2010)

And last, but not least, here are my albums of 2010--in no particular order.

1. Movies on Demand | Consequence | Hip-Hop
2. Music Fan First | Eric Roberson | R&B
3. Madlib Medicine Show No. 2: Flight to Brazil | Madlib | Latin
4. Leftback | Little Brother | Hip-Hop
5. New Amerykah Part Two: Return Of The Ankh | Erykah Badu | R&B
6. Lust - Art & Soul. A Personal Collection | Louie Vega | Dance
7. Statik Selektah & Termanology are 1982 | 1982 | Hip-Hop
8. Blackmagic | Jose James | Jazz
9. Wants, World, Women | Dwele | R&B
10. Another Heist | Camp Lo | Hip-Hop

Thanks to everyone for their feedback on my 2010 picks--I definitely picked up a lot of great recommendations from all of you! We'll do it again next year...