Top 15 Albums Of The Decade (So Far) • Page 5

For me it started in the late 90's in high school, but really took off in college back in the Napster days.

 

for me i started to really get obsessed in like the 6-7 grade. i think thats about when i started to actively search new things out for myself to listen to. Prior to that pretty much all i knew in life was Jimmy Eat World and Brand New. and FOBs "Take This To Your Grave"... so considering that 2/3 of my top 3 records of all time are JEW and Brand New albums, i guess my "all time favorites" were cemented at a pretty early age.

 

FOB were my first big scene band. All I had was YouTube when I was in middle school and early high school so I would just use YouTube recommended and surf through FOB lyric videos for hours haha

 

some dope lists on here. I might do one but it might take a bit

 

in elementary school i would throw in my TTTYG cd and my ripped Jimmy Eat World CDs that my uncle burned me into my sisters hello kitty CD player and roller blade around my unfinished basement rocking out for hours hahaha

 

And on the topic of our personal musical evolutions:

I was pretty into music even as a child. Started out listening to my parents' vinyl and CDs in the early-mid 90s. Billy Joel, Elton John, assorted classic rock/soft rock, some top 40 pop/rock of the time.

Interest was piqued in modern rock around the beginning of middle school, '97-'98. It was all pretty mainstream radio rock stuff initially - Matchbox 20, Third Eye Blind, Oasis, and the like. Although I also got into grunge and stuff like Smashing Pumpkins just a few years after those scenes' prime.

Sometime around the beginning of high school, 2001-ish, is when my eyes were really opened to more "serious" rock, I suppose. Radiohead and Tool/APC became my idols for a couple years, and I barely listened to anything else.

So interestingly, my starting point for "serious" listening was from a place of exclusive prog snobbery at a fairly young age. Since then, I think I've expanded my horizons gradually year after year, but it's still pretty much all rock to a degree. And almost everything I really like today can somehow be traced back through a web to Tool, APC, or Radiohead. My horizons always seem to expand incrementally by finding artists touring with or somehow related to what I already like - jumping straight to something 100% foreign has never worked.

I will say that in hindsight, I regret being so "art rock" focused in high school. I never even gave stuff like post-hardcore, punk, or emo a chance - dismissed it all out of hand without any real basis. Today, bands like Coheed, Glassjaw, Brand New, and Saosin are some of my favorites, but I missed out on their primes by being a close-minded ass.

 

In no particular order, these are what came to mind first:

Run The Jewels - RTJ2
Pentimento - I, No Longer
Dryjacket - Lights, Locks, and Faucets
Benjamin Francis Leftwich - Last Smoke Before The Snowstorm
Diet Cig - Over Easy EP
Turnover - Peripheral Vision
Julien Baker - Sprained Ankle
Fickle Friends - Velvet EP
Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion
Leon Bridges - Coming Home
Dead Sara - Pleasure To Meet You
Owen - L'Ami de Peuple
Dreamcatcher - Wonderlust
Somos - Temple Of Plenty
Gleemer - Moving Away

It was hard not to include stuff that's come out this year, such as the new Owen, Descendents, and Face To Face albums.

 

Sorry I'm on tour and just saw this haha. Fixed!

 

Apparently we are. Boo.

 

Nah.

 

Hahahaha

 

In no particular order

Haim- Days Are Gone
Frank Ocean- Channel Orange
Fall Out Boy- Save Rock And Roll
The 1975- The 1975
The National- High Violet
Simple Plan- Get Your Heart On
Barenaked Ladies- Grinning Streak
Good Charlotte- Cardiology
Weezer- White Album
Blink 182- California
Gotye- Making Mirrors
Drake- Thank Me Later
Patrick Stump- Soul Punk
Adele- 21
The Madden Brothers- Greetings From California

 

Decided to limit myself to one per artist. Alphabetical, obvi

Bon Iver - Bon Iver, Bon Iver
Colour Revolt - The Cradle
Comadre - S/T
Deafheaven - Sunbather
Father John Misty - I Love You Honeybear
Felix Culpa - Sever Your Roots
Fucked Up - Glass Boys
Japandroids - Celebration Rock
Kanye West - Yeezus
The Men - Open Your Heart
Pianos Become the Teeth - The Lack Long After
Spiritualized - Sweet Heart Sweet Light
Spoon - Transference
Tame Impala - Lonerism
Xerxes - Collision Blonde

 

Boo

why wouldn't we want MORE? :(

I'm already listening to some cool stuff I didn't know, like Counterparts (never heard of them before) but too many two Hotelier album lists (so to speak)

cool seeing someone mention Mew, although +/- is their weakest and the Carly Rae love

 

Spiritualized is such a cool band. Tame def released one or two best of the decade worthy albums

 

get at it

 

@wisdomfordebris

you too

 

2010: 3
2011: 2
2012: 4
2013: 3
2014: 2
2015: 1


didn't include any from this year cuz idk what my order will even be like yet for the end of the year

 

Tim Hecker - Ravedeath 1972
The National - Trouble Will Find Me
Grizzly Bear - Shields
The Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt
Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
Kevin Devine - Between The Concrete & Clouds
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
The Knife - Shaking The Habitual
Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz
Radiohead - The King of Limbs
Joanna Newsom - Have One on Me
D'Angelo - Black Messiah
Majical Cloudz - Are You Alone?
Weatherbox - Flies in All Directions
Pinegrove - Cardinal

I guess. That's a mix of my most listened-to and others that I think are objectively best but don't always listen to obsessively like the others.

 

Tim Hecker was definitely in my last three or so cuts

 

In no order and it might be over 15 idgaf dammit

Harmlessness
Oh Common Life
Run the Jewels 2
Yeezus
Watch the Throne
Home Like Noplace is there
The Bones of What You Believe
Keep You
Sunbather
Tetsuo & Youth
The Greatest Generation
Forcefield
Come Now Sleep
Kingfisher
Runners in the Nerves World
Wrongdoers
The Last Word is Yours To Speak
Attack of the Wolf King

*mic drop*

Edit: it's 18

 

Really don't feel like doing 15, but I know my favorite of the decade is Channel Orange.

Also, I got into music pretty early. I had a lot of family that had their own unique taste and I think I really picked up something from each of them. My mom liked a lot of radio music, especially bands like Goo Goo Dolls and the like that were blowing up when I was growing up, my stepdad listened to 80s hair metal and 90s nu-metal mostly, my uncle listened to bands like Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson when I was growing up (and now listens to a lot of the same things I do, his favorite modern band is Foxing), and my grandparents listened to old country radio. I started to really take interest in getting my own CDs around 2001 or so, when Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory came out. My tastes kinda followed early '00s radio rock for a while, since my exposure was basically MTV at the time.

Around 2004, I discovered Much Music/Fuse, which became monumentally influential to me. Soon I was begging family to buy me CDs from My Chemical Romance, The Used, Fall Out Boy, Motion City Soundtrack, The Matches, etc. That was definitely where my music tastes really began to develop more rapidly and take shape. That led me to find a lot of stuff pretty early, given my age. I remember reading an Alternative Press review of TDAG that gave it a perfect score and anxiously awaiting an opportunity where I could buy it (and getting it and not really understanding it at first, only to revisit it a couple years later and have it completely floor me lol). I honestly kinda miss that time period sometimes, only because in recent years, I've failed to really feel the same sense of wonder and satisfaction in my musical journey. Discoveries don't feel as hard-earned to me anymore, and it's rare that an album will ever take over my entire day the way it used to- played on repeat on cheap headphones/speakers while I laid on the floor reading the lyric sheets. The closest I get to that feeling these days is when my band is in the writing process, but it's not exactly the same thing. Idk. This was quite the ramble haha.

 

William Basinski - Cascade
Jonny Greenwood - The Master
Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica
Tame Impala - Currents
Grizzly Bear - Shields
Bjork - Vulnicura
David Krakauer - Dreams and Prayers
Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
Grouper - Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill
The Caretaker - An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
Deathspell Omega - Paracletus
Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath 1972
Lantlos - .neon

 

Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
Thursday - No Devolucion
Tame Impala - Currents
Deafheaven - New Bermuda
Kanye West - Yeezus
Burial - Kindred
Burial - Rival Dealer
Tame Impala - Lonerism
Pianos Become The Teeth - Keep You
Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica
Deafheaven - Sunbather
The 1975 - I Like It When You Sleep
Drake - Take Care
Holy Other - Held
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lowell

theres a lot id like to include fifteen is too low of a number

 

In No Order:
Deftones - Koi No Yokan
Deftones - Gore
Anberlin - Vital
Anberlin - Lowborn
Rush - Clockwork Angels
Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
Mastodon - Once More 'Round The Sun
Between The Buried And Me - The Parallax II: Future Sequence
Periphery - Periphery
Periphery - Juggarnaut
Protest The Hero - Volition
The Wonder Years - The Greatest Generation
The Early November - Imbue
Conditions - Fluorescent Youth
Thrice - To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere

Honorable mentions:
Chiodos - Illuminaudio
Norma Jean - Meridional
Yellowcard - When You're Through Thinking Say Yes
Defeater - Abandoned
Baroness - Yellow And Green
Baroness - Purple
Russian Circles - Memorial