Just some records I remember having on repeat this decade. Joyce manor s/t, MoBo YGMIA, Turnover PV, Transit L&F, Circa Survive BN. Also thinking back I realized some bands I only like EPs, is a top 50 eps list pointless? Idk idk
Out of curiosity, how close was Southern Air or Integrity Blues to making this list? I was surprised to see them both not make the cut. Nice work on the list - I don't vibe with much of the top 10 but I do think that you guys did a good job of taking a huge selection of albums and putting this together.
I mean I’m a paramore fan. I like/love most of their stuff...just not that. And that’s basically an album of Paramore pretending to be most of my other favorite bands lol
I had both on my list — The King of Limbs at #1 and A Moon Shaped Pool at #28. I’m a Radiohead super fan so the band would end up on my list somewhere! TKOL clicked with me over time and I grew as a music fan by letting it be a slow burner. It also resonates with me on an emotional level. I’ve spoken about this before but Separator is a song that’s pulled me out of panic attacks, and for that, the entire album means a hell of a lot to me. Now, I won’t speak for everyone, but I see A Moon Shaped Pool as a beautiful album that’s so close to being great. The atmosphere and reworked songs are wonderful. Decks Dark is one of my favourite Radiohead songs of all time. But, The Numbers and Tinker Tailor... hold back the album and that’s a real shame. I skip those songs every time. If I could get over those quibbles, it would’ve been higher in my list.
That album topped the Pitchfork list and has ranked high on virtually every other decade list that has come out so far. i don't think it's going unheralded by any stretch of the imagination. Southern Air was around 58. Surviving was around 61. Integrity Blues was at 70.
Here’s my quick list in no particular order American Love - Bad Rabbits When You’re Through Thinking Say Yes - Yellowcard My Dinosaur Life - Motion City Soundtrack Enemy of the World - Four Year Strong Vessel - Twenty One Pilots The Upsides - The Wonder Years Listen and Forgive - Transit Real Talk - Man Overboard Save Rock and Roll - Fall Out Boy A Place of our Own - Have Mercy American Candy - The Maine Future Hearts - All Time Low Clouded - This Wild Life The Front Bottoms - The Front Bottoms Paramore - Paramore Saved - Now Now Some Nights - Fun Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness Strange Desire - Bleachers Online Relationships - The 1975 We Don’t Have Each Other - Aaron West Transgender Dysphoria Blues - Against Me
Listened to After Laughter and I don't really think it's for me, but I'll give it another chance at some point Gonna try to listen to the other records from this list that I haven't heard in the coming months though. But weirdly enough of the top 29 albums on this, the only one I hadn't heard was #1
Surprised at not seeing either Copeland record, Sturgil Simpson's A Sailor's Guide record, 68's Two Parts Viper, ANY FOALS (Total Life Forever!!!), or the Gayngs record. Great list though, I definitely agree with a lot of it.
Was wondering the same question, can’t help to think that it would be on the list if a certain person hadn’t been awful to women; that being said it’s not possible for all folks to separate, at least not yet.
Same. I can’t think of a single song I like by her. It seems like everyone talks about her and I don’t know a single person that actually likes her more recent music. Obviously that’s anecdotal of course because there are many that do. But like I hear more talk about her music by critics, or with Lemonade it was more about the story behind the music than the music itself. I don’t even recall her more recent music charting that high on billboard in terms of singles.
War paint - the dangerous summer Simple math - Manchester orchestra Much love - microwave Damn - Kendrick Lamar On the impossible past - Menzingers acid rap - Chance the rapper After laughter - Paramore Lp3 - American football Back on top - front bottoms blonde - Frank ocean Dig up the dead - mansions Hurry up we're dreaming- m83 Keep you - pianos become the teeth Low teens - every time I die Oxymoron - schoolboy q Plastic cough - great grandpa Wildlife - la dispute You're always on my mind - a great big pile of leaves You're gonna miss it all - modern baseball Just scrolled through my itunes and here's some off the top of my head. So much good music to choose from. I remember laying in bed listening to a ton of these in college, especially war paint and simple math.
Probably wouldn't be a popular pick, and it just came out recently, but I think Order in Decline by Sum 41 was a really awesome record.
I do but her self titled is the most overrated album of the decade for mine. I have tried so many times and just can't get into it at all outside a couple of songs.
Was really shocked not to see Golden Hour on the list!! Easily in my Top3 of the decade. Solid list though.
Great list, my favourite 2010s list I've seen online anywhere. I think my biggest surprise snub was The Wonder Years' Suburbia. A true 'scene album, massive in popularity, seemed (and still seems) important, and most of all it is just full of classic tunes. If not for a lull in the middle (Summers in PA being the main offender) it would be perfect. The biggest happy surprise for me was Father John Misty so high up. I felt like staff/contributors here were generally not into FJM. But Honeybear is an absolute classic.
Sometimes I forget how far I am removed from what appears to be the musical consensus on this site. I haven't even heard most of the albums on this list Of those I have heard I basically only care for After The Party, Lemonade and My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, but even Lemonade and MBDTF aren't my favourites of their respective genres by any means. I do think that it is not like every other list, which is always a good thing.
It might be recency bias, but I personal think Surviving is a superior record to Integrity Blues. Both were on my ballot, but I think you can thank me for the difference in point totals, since Surviving was pretty high on my list and Integrity Blues was more toward the bottom of the 50. I mean, a certain person WAS awful to women, though. Brand New wasn’t going to be on my list anyway, but there were definitely artists (cough, Ryan Adams) that were on an early draft of my list that I cut because I couldn’t listen to those records after learning things about the artists that made them. For me, it’s less “this person is shitty so they are off my list” (though that’s probably a part of it) than “I can’t see myself wanting to listen to this record in the future, so why would I put it on my list?” Suburbia was pretty close. Probably one of the next 10 albums. I think what happened there is that the staff members who were really big Wonder Years fans don’t write for us anymore.