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The number-crunching, logarithms, late-night sessions and controversy is finally over and now the time has come to announce the album that wins the Neumie for 2010!! Below is a top ten countdown selected from the nominees ending with the winner!!  Wow!!  There were many new artists in the nominees this year. Of the 24 entrants in 2010, 15 were new!  The top five were very close--any one of them had the stuff to be the winner.
I have rated each album (1 to 5 'n's!)


10) New York Town.............................Israel Nash Gripka  qq
Essential Tracks: Pray For Rain, Bricks, Concrete, Pink Long Stem Rose
 
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9) Elastica..........................................Elastica   ww
Essential Tracks: Waking Up, Stutter, Connection, Smile
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8) Raising Sand..................................Robert Plant & Allison Krauss ee
Essential Tracks: Killing The Blues, Gone Gone Gone, Let Your Loss Be Your Lesson, Please Read The Letter
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7) Higher Ground........................Blind Boys of Alabama tt
Essential Tracks: People Get Ready, Wade In The Water, Freedom Road, The Cross
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6) Easy Tiger....................Ryan Adams uu
Essential Tracks: Two, Goodnight Rose, Everybody Knows, Halloweenhead
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5)  The Open Road........................John Hiatt ll
Essential Tracks: Haulin', Go Down Swingin', Movin'On, Carry You Back Home
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4) Live at The Olympia, Dublin Ireland.......................REM cc
Essential Tracks: Harborcoat, Boxcars (Carnival of Sorts), Disturbance at the Heron House, Letter Never Sent
REM performs their very early songs live for the first time in ages.
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3) The Crock of Gold.....................Shane MacGowan and the Popes  hh
Essential Tracks: St John of Gods, Rock and Roll Paddy, Paddy Rolling Stone, Joey's In America
Long-time Pogues frontman experiments with country, reggae, and stuff. Funny!
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2) The Suburbs.....................................Arcade Fire kk
Essential Tracks: City With No Children, Month of May, Empty Room, Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
Crazy Canucks with the long-awaited follow up to 'Neon Bible"
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1) Earth & Sun & Moon...........................Midnight Oil (NEUMIE WINNER!) nn
Essential Tracks: My Country, Truganini, Earth & Sun & Moon, In The Valley
Surprise! Midnight Oil's first entry gets the coveted award. The first Neumie winner from Australia!

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Other entrants, 2010:
Hope For Haiti Now.....................Various oo
American IV: The Man Comes Around........................Johnny Cash vv
April Uprising...............................John Butler Trio ii
Next Stop Soweto...........................Various jj
Number 1 Record......................................Big Star ff
Contra..............................Vampire Weekend ee
Hombre Loco................................Eels tt
Transference....................Spoon yy
Brit Awards 98........................Various nh
Up The Bracket.........................The Libertines uj
East 12th Street.......Screaming Orphans ko
Naquele Tempo............Roland Dyens ik
Electric Arguments................The Fireman (Paul McCartney) rt
Flower Petals.............The Subdudes eg