In the Year 2030 #6

•Bonaroo cuts costs by playing jam band tunes over loud-speakers; burn-outs don't notice

•Toby Keith given ACM lifetime achievement award; due to lack of willing presenters, Academy sets trophy on stage for him to collect for himself

•Person who let the dogs out finally arrested during routine traffic stop

•Black Eyed Peas' song "Uh Yeah Uh" hits #1 on Billboard, setting a record for least number of words in a #1 song (uh yeah uh)

•Ringtones get Grammy category; cell phones held to microphone during "performances"

•Nickelback and Breaking Benjamin era fondly recalled as "back when rock was still good"

•George Strait's latest album certified platinum

•New live video-feed Twitter allows users to see what people/artists they're following are doing with each update; 50 Cent's life proven not to be nearly as interesting as previously thought

•Antique first generation iPod in mint condition sold on eBay for $12,524; returned when found to include Darryl Worley's "Have You Forgotten?"

•Grand Ol' Opry renamed CMA Fest Auditorium

10 Most Popular Posts of 2010

I'm copying Country California with this feature but so what? These are the 10 FTM posts that got the most traffic in 2010. What stands out the most to me is that there are ZERO of the monthly "Country Album Cover Days" in the Top 10... in fact, there were only a couple in the Top 30. I've actually known they weren't as big of a draw for a while now, but plan to continue to have monthly country days in the coming year. Farce the Music began exclusively as an album cover parodying blog, but had to evolve to grow. Apparently that growth has been successful, as 2010 was FTM's best year so far (in its short history) and Nov-Dec were its best months yet. Thanks for sticking with us as we evolve!

Top 10 FTM Posts of 2010:

1. My Review of Taylor Swift's Grammy Performance

2. 99 Cent Reviews: Rodney Atkins - Farmer's Daughter

3. 99 Cent Reviews: Soulja Boy - Pretty Boy Swag

4. Jennifer Nettles' Tatt: A Closer Look

5. 10 Worst Country Singles of 2010

6. 99 Cent Reviews: Jason Aldean - Dirt Road Anthem

7. Top 10 Things Easton Corbin is Not More Country Than

8. Taylor Swift's iTunes Playlist

9. Parody Covers of 4-27 Country Releases

10. Jamey Johnson - The Guitar Song: A Warning List

Happy New Year!

Stay safe tonight. See you in 2011!

Random Best of 2010 Lists

This is my last "Best of 2010" post... I promise!

Favorite EPs of 2010:

Eleven Bones - Four Day March

Buy this, country and alt-country fans! It's so freaking good.... and they better put out a full album soon, or else!

Horatio Lee Jenkins - Drunker Than Satan

Funny stuff!

John Moreland - Hope Springs Ephemeral

Right up the alley of fans of Slobberbone, The 'Mats, Lucero and the like.

Favorite Live Albums of 2010

Drew Kennedy - Alone, But Not Lonely (Still a free download and well worth it! ;))

Drew with guitar, singing songs and telling stories about the songs. So good.

Jason Boland and the Stragglers - High in the Rockies

The band is in great form, tearing through a long set of originals and awesome covers.

Zac Brown Band - Pass the Jar

If you don't count the song with an ear-shredding performance by the cackling Angie Aparo, there's not a clunker to be found here. These guys are tight!

Biggest Disappointments of 2010

These aren't bad albums by any stretch…just not what I was hoping for from these artists.

Johnny Cash - American VI: Ain't No Grave

Sun Kil Moon - Admiral Fell Promises

The Hold Steady - Heaven is Whenever

Hank III - Rebel Within

Ryan Bingham - Junky Star

Other 2010 Albums Beyond My Top 40 Worthy of Mention: (in some semblance of order)

Delta Spirit - History From Below

The Moondoggies - Tidelands

Against Me! - White Crosses

Marah - Life is a Problem

Phosphorescent - Here's to Taking It Easy

My Darkest Days - s/t

Blitzen Trapper - Destroyer of the Void

Travel By Sea - Two States and the Blindness that Follows

Easton Corbin - s/t

Monster Magnet - Mastermind

Titus Andronicus - The Monitor

Eminem - Recovery

Dierks Bentley - Up On the Ridge

Krizz Kaliko - Shock Treatment

Peter Cooper - The Lloyd Green Album

Tim Barry - 28th & Stonewall

Alan Jackson - Freight Train

Truckstop Darlin' - S/T

The National - High Violet

The Brothers Comatose - Songs from the Stoop

Nightjar - Hometown Stranger

Danzig - Deth Red Saboath

The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang

Ray Wylie Hubbard - A. Enlightenment B. Endarkenment (Hint: There Is No C)

Trombone Shorty - Backatown

Javi Garcia and the Cold Cold Ground - A Southern Horror

Jerrod Niemann - Judge Jerrod and the Hung Jury

Retribution Gospel Choir - 2

Brett Detar - Bird in the Tangle

Gary Allan - Get Off On the Pain

Butch Walker and the Black Widows - I Liked It Better When You Had No Heart

Walt Wilkins & the Mystiqueros - Agave

Rihanna - Loud

Nas & Damian Marley - Distant Relatives

Arcade Fire - The Suburbs

South Memphis String Band - Home Sweet Home

American Graveyard - Hallelujahland

Josh Thompson - Way Out Here

Nappy Roots - The Pursuit of Nappyness

Kings of Leon - Come Around Sundown

The Steel Wheels - Red Wing

Shinyribs - Well After Awhile

Widespread Panic - Dirty Side Down

Whispering Pines - Family Tree

Mark Chesnutt - Outlaw

Guthrie Kennard - Matchbox

Murder By Death - Good Morning, Magpie

The Band Perry - s/t

D.B. Rielly - Love Potions and Snake Oil

The Benedictions - Play Devil Music

Little Brother - LeftBack

Stone Temple Pilots - s/t

Jakob Dylan - Women and Country

Memphis 59 - Ragged But Right

The Morning Benders - Big Echo

Slash - s/t

She & Him - Volume 2

Carolina Chocolate Drops - Genuine Negro Jig

Freedy Johnston - Rain on the City

The Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt

Rogue Wave - Permalight

I See Hawks in L.A. - Should've Been Gold

Gil Scott-Heron - I'm New Here

The Sadies - Darker Circles

Bucky Covington's Top 10 Resolutions for 2011

Bucky Covington's Top 10 Resolutions for 2011

(transcribed by his publicist)

10. Don't engage in conversation with Tom-Tom anymore

9. Already smarter than 5th grader, so find 6th grader to beat at tic-tac-toe

8. Don't take product labels literally from now on

7. Convince Taylor Swift to write song for me

(remember to change to perspective of male!)

6. Remember that "camouflage" and "camomile"

are not the same thing before next hunting season

5. Stop responding to emails from dethroned Nigerian princes

4. Learn to see the good in all people, even hateful bloggers like Trailer and CM

3. When I feel self-conscious, always remember,

I'm more intelligent than a likely 2012 presidential candidate

2. Buy new goldfish, remember that it doesn't eat flakes from Goldschlager

1. Learn the difference between "supposition" and "suppository" ...!!