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yan·off (yä nôf) n. A Wisconsin family consisting of Gillie, Carly, Kathy and Scott Yanoff.

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Scott's Picks for Best Albums of 2010

  1. High Violet by The National
    Favorite track: Terrible Love
  2. Together by The New Pornographers
    Favorite track: My Shepherd
  3. Intriguer by Crowded House
    Favorite track: Amsterdam
  4. Beachcomber's Windowsill by Stornoway
    Favorite track: Zorbing

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Scott's Picks for Best Songs of 2010

  1. Blood Buzz OH by The National
  2. Zorbing by Stornoway
  3. Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) by Arcade Fire
  4. Terrible Love by The National
  5. England by The National
  6. Runaway by The National
  7. My Shepherd by The New Pornographers
  8. Crash Years by The New Pornographers
  9. Amsterdam by Crowded House
  10. Archer's Arrows by Crowded House
  11. Flume by Peter Gabriel
  12. Electrocution by Nada Surf
  13. Stars Evading by Cari Clara
  14. Bright Lights by Cari Clara
  15. Headed for the End of the World by The BoDeans
  16. Stay by The BoDeans
  17. Yulia by Wolf Parade
  18. Victim of Circumstance by She Bears
  19. Something, Somewhere, Sometime by Ben Sollee & Daniel Martin Moore
  20. All is Love by Curt Smith
  21. Rocket by Goldfrapp

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Scott's Most-Disappointing Albums of 2010

  1. Suburbs by Arcade Fire
    It's a good album, but it's incredibly derivative of both their own music as well as other people's music. Arcade Fire die-hards will think it's a new masterpiece, but I'll take the individuality of the songs off of their previous effort, "Neon Bible", versus their throw-back to their album "Funeral" and its attempt at a cohesive theme. They seem to sacrifice on song quality when aiming to weave that common thread amongst the songs.
  2. Scratch My Back by Peter Gabriel
    Why can't Peter just come up with his own music? It's been years since his last original album release, and where's the "I/O" album we were expecting as a follow-up to "Up", or even the "Son of Ovo" album? In any case, the freebies that Peter's offered up, "Mirrorball" and "Flume", are pretty much the best things on this album. He does an admirable cover of Arcade Fire's "My Body is a Cage", but he destroys just about everything else with a pedestrian take on everyone else's great songs. One review I read said that after listening to this album, they were going to listen to some Leonard Cohen to cheer themselves up.
  3. Mr. Sad Clown by The BoDeans A decent Springsteen influence shows up which is enjoyable. Opening track "Stay" is a keeper, as is "Headed for the End of the World". I'm usually evenly split between liking Kurt versus Sammy but Kurt's really got the much better stuff on this album. They each contribute a couple of real clunkers in the middle such as Sammy's "Cheesecake Pan" and Kurt's "Say Goodbye", and they never really recover after that.