In no certain order

Hammersmith Odeon - Frank Zappa
Greasey Love Songs - Frank Zappa/Mothers
Have Mercy His Complete Chess Recordings 69-74 - Chuck Berry
Aint No Grave - Johnny Cash
Carnival of Sound - Jan & Dean
Garden of Joy - Maria Muldaur
10 Songs for the New Depression - Loudon Wainwright III
Time Will Tell - Millie Small
Memphis Blues - Cyndi Lauper
Live In Bosto 1982 - George Thorogood & the Destroyers
Mean Old Man - Jerry Lee Lewis
West Coast Seattle Boy - Jimi Hendrix

I'd include the following too
Lennon Signature Box
Apple Box

Tom Petty-Mojo

Not much new music to rave about:

Tame Impala - Innerspeaker
West Coast Seattle Boy - Jimi Hendrix
Syd Barrett - An Introduction
Wings - Band On The Run (Re-Issue)
Rolling Stones - Exile On Main St CD+DVD & Ladies and Gentlemen (Both excellent re-issues)
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Couldn't Stand The Weather (Re-issue)
Robin Trower's Re-issues
Hawkwind - Levitation (Re-issue)
The Who - Live @ Leeds (Re-issue) with Hull concert

+ the others I can't remember right now

I'm a blur with vault releases......definitely the Odeon and Ruben & The Jets releases, the four Collector's Choice Jefferson Airplane releases, the Stooges' Live at Uganos. Exile, Lennon Box.....

My favorite new release
Darker Circles - The Sadies
....(a great album)

McCartney Citifield

I don't think I bought any other new 2010.

New:
The Coral — Butterfly House
The Moons — Life On Earth
Ocean Colour Scene — Saturday
Teenage Fanclub — Shadows
Paul Weller — Wake Up The Nation
Jon Windle — Step Out The Man

Vault:
Badfinger remasters
Cast — All Change (deluxe)
Les Fleur De Lys — Reflections (remaster)
The Jam — Sound Affects (deluxe)
The La's — 1986-1987: Callin' All (deluxe)
The La's — Callin' All (box)
Ocean Colour Scene — 21 (box)
The Yardbirds — Little Games (mono)

(Can hardly remember what came out in which year anymore!)

As soon as i have time (LOL) I'll do my yearly search through new releases, Vault & Strokes for the last 12 months to remind myself what came out this year & do a real list

Here's a few off the top of my head:
Ellington Mosaic Box
Ellington Cotton Club 1938 Remaster
Hendrix Box (or at least discs 2-4)
Bowie Station To Station 3 disc
Paula Cole Ithaca
Zappa Hammersmith

I'd have to look up what I got this year, but off the top of my head...

Zappa - Hammersmith Odeon (awesome)
Here Come The Mummies - Carnal Carnival
Dio - Donnington 83 & 87
SRV - Couldn't Stand The Weather DE
Mike Keneally/Marco Minneman - Evidence Of Humanity

Alan

Representing the Dance community, here's some of the highlights of the songs I'm counting down on Fusion Radio Chicago's Top 100 of 2010.

Listen Dec. 31 @ NOON or Jan. 1 @ NOON, hosted by me


Here's some IMWAN-friendly songs

Goldfrapp- Rocket (a great 'fuck you for screwing me over' song)
Deadmau5- Ghosts 'n Stuff
DJ Mog- Somewhere
Delerium ft. Kreesha Turner- Dust In Gravity
Jes- Love Song (cover of The Cure classic)
Kaskade- Dynasty
ATB- Could You Believe
Basement Jaxx- Raindrops
Kyau and Albert- Once In A Lifetime

(I left off the Lady Gaga entries for your own sanity.)

I'm really going to have to look at what was released this year, but I'm fairly certain my #1 will be Mavis Staples - You Are Not Alone.

New:
Vampire Weekend-Contra
Scorpions-Sting In The Tail
Asia-Omega
Heart-Red Velvet Car
Iron Maiden-The Final Frontier
Mumford & Sons-Sigh No More
Black Country Communion-s/t
Heaven And Hell-Neon Knights Live In Europe
Ultravox-Return To Eden Live At The Roundhouse
Black Keys-Brothers

Vintage:
Badfinger remasters
Black Sabbath remasters
Madness remasters
Rolling Stones-Exile On Main Street remaster
Thin Lizzy remasters (early Decca ones)
Deep Purple remasters
King Crimson remasters
Paul McCartney & Wings-Band On The Run remaster
Wishbone Ash-Sometime World: An MCA Travelogue
The Frames remasters
Bow Wow remasters (Japanese 70s Metal-NOT the 'lil rapper!)
Badlands remasters
Oasis-Time Flies 1994-2009
Triumph remasters (don't have 'em yet but I know I'll love them)
Miles Davis-Kind Of Blue deluxe
Dave Brubeck-Legacy Of A Legend


DVD:
Rolling Stones-Ladies And Gentlemen
Bad Company-Live At The Hard Rock
Rush-Beyond The Lighted Stage
Heaven And Hell-Neon Knights Live In Europe

updated:
Totally forgot the brilliant Black Keys album!

Favorite new music of 2010 (baker's dozen, pretty much in order):

Dr. Dog-- Shame, Shame
Cee Lo Green-- The Lady Killer
The Hold Steady-- Heaven Is Whenever
Girl Talk-- All Day
Josh Ritter-- So Runs The World Away
Blitzen Trapper-- Destroyer Of The Void
We Are Scientists-- Barbara
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists-- The Brutalist Bricks
LCD Soundsystem-- This Is Happening
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers-- Mojo
Spoon-- Transference
The New Pornographers-- Together
The Black Keys-- Brothers

Favorite Vault Releases:

Bruce Springsteen-- Darkness On The Edge Of Town Box Set
Sloan-- B Sides Win
Gomez-- Live Series Volume 1: Europe 2009

Heaven And Hell - Neon Knights Live
Dio - Donnington
Deep Purple - Deepest Purple remaster
V/A - A Rocket In My Pocket : A The Hipsters Guide To Rockabilly Music (another great ACE Records comp)
Black Country Communion
Thin Lizzy - 3 Decca remasters
Black Sabbath - remasters
The Who - Greatest Hits Live
Jeff Beck - Live At The Grammy
Iron Maiden - Final Frontier

In no particular order and pulled from a purchased release pool that is limited - maybe 2-3 xs this count with 2010 copywrite, and can be changed at any time and is ignoring obvious ones as well...

My Top 12s in no particular order

Studio releases for 2010
Wood, Ron - I Feel Like Playing
MGMT - Congratulations
Plant, Robert - Band of Joy
Sword, The - Warp Riders
John, Elton and Russel, Leon - The Union
Black Mountain - Wilderness Heart
Hold Steady, The - Heaven is Whenever
Drive-By Truckers - The Big To-Do
Guy, Buddy - Living Proof
Crow, Sheryl - 100 Miles From Memphis
Dead Weather, The - Sea of Cowards
Jones, Sharon and the Dap-Kings - I Learned the Hard Way


Archive / Live / re-releases
Trucks, Derek - Roadsongs
Porcupine Tree - Recordings
Soundgarden - Telephantasm
Keene, Tommy - Tommy Keene You Hear Me: A retrospective 1983-2009
King Crimson - "The Collectable King Crimson Vol 5: Like in Japan 1995 - The Official Edition"
Charles, Ray - Genius + Soul = Jazz
Dio, Ronnie James - At Donington U.K. - Live 1983 & 1987
Bowie, David - Station to Station
Davis, Miles Bitches Brew - Legacy Edition (Love the DVD)
Lennon, John - Double Fantasy / Stripped Down (Called out in particular as I 'liked' Double Fantasy before - but I really loved this release)
Gov't Mule - Mulennium
Queens Of The Stone Age - Rated R

Chunks of goodness:
The Dead releases
Dylan Mono recordings
Nick Cave and Bad Seeds 2010 cd/dvd batch


Special one just cause it was a SACD Hybrid - they still release them! Yeah! And I got it for a steal, and it is a great album:
Donaldson, Lou Blues's Walk

In alphabetical order
I'm surprised myself by the new groups as well as by the great albums by older, established artists. 2010 was a pretty strong year for music, I think.

Butch Walker - "I Liked It Better When You Had No Heart"
Darden Smith - "Marathon"
Dessa - "A Badly Broken Code"
Dwight Twilley - "Green Blimp"
The Elms: "Stoppin' On A Dime: Live & Rare 2000-2010"
Elvis Costello - "Live at Hollywood High"
Elvis Costello - "National Ransom"
Foxy Shazam - "Foxy Shazam"
Nevershoutnever! - "Harmony"
Paul Collins - "King of Power Pop"
Robert Plant - "Band of Joy"
Scoutinig For Girls - "Everybody Wants to Be On TV"
Tom Jones - "Praise and Blame"

New:
Red Velvet Car — Heart
Postcards From a Young Man — Manic Street Preachers
Endlessly — Duffy
Mojo — Tom Petty
Need You Now — Lady Antebellum
Rocket — Goldfrapp
Come Out and Play — Kim Wilde
100 Miles From Memphis — Sheryl Crow
Hands All Over — Maroon 5
Travelling Like the Light — V.V. Brown

Collections/Reissues:
25: The Very Best of (2CD/1DVD edition) — a-ha
The Apple remasters — Badfinger
In and Out of Consciousness (3 CD version) — Robbie Williams
Greatest Hits, So Far (CD/DVD package) — Pink
“Another Step” and “Teases and Dares” (2CD remasters) — Kim Wilde

Favorite covers CD:
The Movie Songbook — Sharleen Spiteri

Favorite Holiday CD:
A Glimpse of Stocking — Saint Etienne

One of my favorite releases of 2010 turned out to be the Japanese SHM-SACD release of Who's Next.
Great packaging and wonderful sound.

CD--The Dylan mono box.
DVD--"Essential Games Of The Detroit Tigers"

It was a good year for Stones fans, with the Exile reissue, as well as DVD releases of Ladies and Gentlemen, The Rolling Stones and Let's Spend the Night Together. Throw in Keith's memoirs too.

My favorite new album was Goldfrapp's Rocket.

You Are Not Alone - Mavis Staples
Harlem River Blues - Justin Townes Earle
The Suburbs - Arcadia Fire
Tuxedos of Ashes - Winterpills
No Better Than This - John Mellencamp
Goodbye, Killer - The Pernice Brothers
Doo Wop and Hooligans - Bruno Mars
Tin Can Trust - Los Lobos
High Violet - National
IRM - Charlotte Gainsbourg
Praise and Blame - Tom Jones
A Tribute to Loretta Lynn - Butcher Holler (Eilen Jewell)
Broken Bells - Broken Bells
Write About Love - Belle and Sebastian
Beach House - Crazy For You

I have my entire collection in an excel spread sheet. Someday I'm going to learn to add the year of purchase so I can do these lists without hours of searching to see what was released in a given year.

2010 was a bountiful year, indeed. Taken from my "ICE wish-list", in roughly chronological order:

NEW RELEASES:
Juliana Hatfield "Peace and Love"
Tindersticks "Falling Down a Mountain"
Johnny Cash "Aint No Grave"
John Hiatt "The Open Road"
Paul Weller "Wake Up The Nation"
The Fall "Your Future Our Clutter"
Justin Currie "The Great War"
John Prine "In Person and On Stage"
Kevin Welch "Patch of Blue Sky"
Teenage Fanclub "Shadows"
Tom Petty "Mojo"
Crowded House "Intriguer"
The Posies "Blood Candy"
Lloyd Cole "Broken Record"
Kim Richey "Wreck Your Wheels"
Pete Yorn "Pete Yorn"


VAULT RELEASES:
Doves "The Places Between"
AC/DC "Iron Man 2"
Tommy Keene "You Hear Me"
Rolling Stones "Exile on Main St"
The Cure "Disintegration" Deluxe Edition
Dream Syndicate "Medicine Show"
Concrete Blonde "Bloodletting"
R.E.M. "Fables of the Reconstruction" Deluxe
Porcupine Tree "Recordings"
The Fall "The Wonderful & Frightening World of The Fall" Omnibus
Bruce Springsteen "Darkness/The Promise"
The Jam "Sound Affects"

VIDEO:
Rolling Stones "Stones In Exile", "Ladies & Gents...", "Let's Spend the Night..."
Dire Straits "Alchemy"
Nils Lofgren "Rockpalast"
Porcupine Tree "Anesthetize"
R.E.M. "Live from Austin TX"

Some notable releases were also mentioned in this earlier thread:
viewtopic.php?f=18&t=68536



I missed hearing about this entirely. Is this download-only, or is there a physical disc? Any other releases in the series announced yet?