But despite not making the time to review my favourite albums from 2010, I have nonetheless still been buying and listening to a lot of new stuff this year. I have therefore sorted my iTunes library by year and creamed off my top 40 from 2010.
Feel free to disagree, but I'm pretty sure that I am in fact right…

Duffy
Endlessly

Jeff Beck
Emotion and Commotion
38

The Hoosiers
The Illusion Of Safety

The Script
Science and Faith

Teenage Fanclub
Shadows

Kings of Leon
Come Around Sundown

Gorillaz
Plastic Beach

Robert Plant
Band of Joy

Eels
Tomorrow Morning

MGMT
Congratulations

Richard Thompson
Dream Attic

Iron Maiden
The Final Frontier

The National
High Violet

Deer Hunter
Halcyon Digest

Cyndi Lauper
Memphis Blues

Sleigh Bells
Treats

Leonard Cohen
Songs from the Road

The Album Leaf
A Chorus of Storytellers

Black Mountain
Wilderness Heart

The Sudden Passion
Central Standard Time

The Orb (featuring David Gilmour)
Metallic Spheres

Peter Gabriel
Scratch My Back

Edwyn Collins
Losing Sleep

Joe Satriani
Black Swans

Joe Bonamassa
Black Rock

Plan B
The Defamation of Strickland Banks

John Grant
The Queen of Denmark

The Greenhornes
****

Midlake
The Courage of Others

K. T. Tunstall
Tiger Suit

The Jim Jones Revue
Burning Your House Down

Guitar Shorty
Bare Knuckle

Paul Weller
Wake Up The Nation

The Dead Weather
Sea Of Cowards

Neil Young
Le Noise

Bad Religion
The Dissent of Man

Kula Shaker
Pilgrims Progress

Grinderman
Grinderman 2

The Black Keys
Brothers

The Arcade Fire
The Suburbs