Incredibly diverse, good year for music.
To see the AV Club's list and then note how many excellent albums that are on it that I would never have even thought of just proves to me what a great year for music 2010 was.

Usually you guys are pretty much on the ball, but this time almost all of my top 10 albums are not represented.

I want to see them something fierce. They might have made my favorite LP of '10

Art Brut did surprise me. I liked their first album okay but live they totally kicked it up. Nice mention of a band I wouldn't have prolly thought of on my own.

Third Eye Blind, those were the dudes that did that "You're my Butterfly" song, right?

Plenty
I'm sure there are plenty of other books authored up inside the Ventureverse but my favorite is prolly "Gentleman Prefers Gentlemen" (or something close to that) written by the 60s Venture team member and cantankerous philanderer Col. Gentleman.

I think, nay, KNOW I played a lot of NES in 1991.

Are people really downplaying Nevermind? Yes In Utero and swathes of MTV Unplugged are loads better, but christ in a crop-top it's not like Nevermind was 'disposable.' I agree that it's kind of in the no-man's land of not being as raw as their earlier stuff and not as 'twisted' or broken as the later stuff but good…

Blonde on Blonde^2
I know they aren't exactly popular with the Pitchfork set, but Nada Surf's excellent album "Let Go" from back in '02 has a song called Blonde on Blonde which isn't a cover but a song about listening to the radio while it's raining. That same year Avril Lavigne also released an album named "Let Go"…

Pains of Being a 13-year-old in 1991
Hyden, first, thank you for this project. And not just because biographically speaking, I'm your exact target audience (just replace Appleton, WI with Hamburg, NY, a lily-white suburb south of Buffalo—just the other side of the great lakes is all).

I would've replaced Superunknown with Siamese Dream but the point still stands.

agree with the googly eyed pile of Orange. I'd take Stabbing Westward, Econoline Crush (showing my proximity to Canada, eh?) and God Lives Underwater (which I still listen to to this day) over any of those Nirvana-esque whiny-ass misanthropes and misogynists.

I was dorky enough, I didn't need the Library's help.

I dunno, I'm in the "Smells Like Teen Spirit" changed my life crowd as dopey as that sounds. My sister and I would watch MTV and even then I knew it was more about concocting a certain look, but something about Nirvana at that time and place (along with NIN's "Hurt" and Beck's "Loser" a few years later were stupidly…

Our convenience mart was helpfully named Convenience Mart. Walgreens and CVS only started coming to rural western NY in the mid 90s along with Thai food and 'bagels'.

Pearl Jam was the only one of those bands that sent me spinning the radio dial for something else. Not sure why, since Vedder strikes me as a guy who actually likes music (rather than say Weiland or even Corgan who mostly used it as a kind of vehicle to get famous/make money/show everyone how weird and damaged they…

I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a documentary today.

I imagine if the remaining chefs were better, they might have had more confidence that whoever did well should pass on by. This gimme so late in the game felt like they were saying "well, we don't trust any of you, so whoever does something mildly good here, well, they're as good a bet as any."

hope they like saffron is all I'm saying.

man, chefs (at least the amateur ones I've hung around with, and I can only assume it gets somewhat worse as you climb up the ladder of fame and power) are some of the heaviest drug users on the planet. Pot seems like a prerequisite.