I just barely left TGA off my top 10 (American Slang is probably the one I'd put on) but hot damn if they/Brian don't have my favorite discography of the decade. I'm in agreement with all your top tracks too (minus "She Lovers You", I could never get into that. And I looooove "Boxer").
that's great to hear. I consider the standard version to be the record. the deluxe pretty much just adds some transitional scenery which is cool but not essential
I’ve always loved the picture Brian paints in that song that goes along with its music. American Slang the album gives you a driving, bouncing, grooving feel. She Loves You is like the walk home at night after a busy day with friends. It’s set to a familiar romantic concept of Romeo and Juliet, but paints the pictures of New York City alleys, a rainy night, steam coming up from storm drain vents. I said I’m a big fan of Horrible Crowes, and She Loves You captures what would be that “Night time” music sound that was Elsie. I’d also through Blue Jeans and White T Shirts and Backseat as pre Crowes nighttime music. All of American Slang is great and Brian/Gaslight/Crowes are definitely my band of the decade.
EDIT: Here is a very long list of albums I liked over the decade. I'll cut it down. (Sandy) Alex G – Rocket A Tribe Called Quest - We got it from Here... Abhi/Dijon – Stay Up Action Bronson – Blue Chips Against Me – Transgender Dysphoria Blues Algernon Cadwallader – Parrot Flies Amen Dunes – Freedom American Pleasure Club – a whole fucking lifetime of this An Autumn for Crippled Children – The Long Goodbye Araabmuzik - Electronic Dream Arrange – Blood Dust Arrange – The Body EP Arrange – Their Bodies in a Fog Autre Ne Veut - Anxiety BTMI – Adults!!! BTMI – Vacation Big Thief – UFOF Blood Orange – Freetown Sound Bon Iver – 22, A Million Bon Iver – Bon Iver Bon Iver – i,i Brockhampton – Saturation I/II Caracara - Summer Megalith Carly Rae Jepsen – EMOTION Chance the Rapper – Acid Rap Chance the Rapper –Coloring Book Charly Bliss – Guppy Charly Bliss –Young Enough Danny Brown - XXX Deafheaven – Sunbather Default Genders- main pop girl 2019 Earl Sweatshirt – Some Rap Songs Future – Beast Mode/Monster/56 Nights Future – FUTURE/HNDRX German Error Message – After the Warmth Glocca Morra – Just Married Hop Along – Bark Your Head Off, Dog Hop Along – Painted Shut How to Dress Well – Love Remains Jeff Rosenstock – Worry Jeremih - Late Nights Joanna Newsom - Divers Julia Holter – Aviary Julie Byrne - Not Even Happiness Kacey Musgraves – Golden Hour Kanye West – MBDTF Kanye West – Yeezus Katie Ellen – Cowgirl Blues Kelela - Take Me Apart Kendrick Lamar – DAMN. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly King Krule – The OOZ Laura Stevenson – Sit Resist Los Campesinos! – Sick Scenes lostodyssey - THISDREAMSUCKS Lydia Loveless – Somewhere Else Midnight Reruns – Spectator Sports Miguel - Kaleidoscope Dream Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me Nana Grizol – Ursa Minor Nickelus F - Stuck Oso Oso – Basking in the Glow Perfume Genius – No Shape Quiet Friends – Quiet Friends SZA – Ctrl Seismograph – In Oblivion Slaughter Beach, Dog – Birdie Strange Ranger - Remembering The Rockets Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lowell TR/ST – Joyland TR/ST – TRST Taylor Swift -1989 Taylor Swift – Red Taylor Swift – Speak Now The 1975 – A Brief Inquiry The 1975 – S/T The Front Bottoms – Going Grey The Front Bottoms – S/T The Front Bottoms – Talon of the Hawk The Holy Mess – Casa Ru Las Degas The Hotel Year – It Never Goes Out The Hotelier – Goodness The Hotelier – Home Like Noplace Is There The Menzingers – After the Party The Menzingers – On the Impossible Past The National – High Violet The Tallest Man On Earth – The Wild Hunt The Weeknd – House of Balloons Tierra Whack –Whack World Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City Vince Staples - Summertime 06 Vince Staples – Big Fish Theory Waxahatchee – Out in the Storm Web of Sunsets – Chaos Waltz Weezer – White Album Wild Pink – Yolk in the Fur Young Thug - BEAUTIFUL THUGGER GIRLS Young Thug - Jeffery If you see anything on here that you don't know about and want me to talk about more, let me know!
It's crazy when I look at lists and 0 out of the 100 I just posted are on there. No shade, just crazy that there isn't any overlap
that one just continues to hit harder. my favorite is probably "Ditchdigger". such a unique character and the chorus fills me with joy
Mine will definitely have some overlap, Aviary and A Crow Looked At Me are two glaring omissions from my off the top post a couple pages back
i’ll give my list so far in alphabetical order, but i’m probably gonna need another month for the actual ranking order. i’ll save write ups for then, probably will do the top 20 with a few sentences for each. Alabama Shakes - Sound & Color Anderson Paak - Malibu Angel Olsen - My Woman Arctic Monkeys - Suck It and See Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino Atoms for Peace - AMOK Beyoncé - Beyoncé Bon Iver - Bon Iver Bon Iver - i,i Carly Rae Jepsen - EMOTION Caspian - Waking Season CHRVCHES - The Bones of What You Believe Colour Revolt - The Cradle Cymbals Eat Guitars - Lose Cymbals Eat Guitars - Pretty Years D’Angelo - Black Messiah Danny Brown - Old David Bowie - Blackstar David Bowie - The Next Day Dawes - Nothing is Wrong Dawes - Stories Don't End Deafheaven - New Bermuda Deafheaven - Sunbather The Drive-By Truckers - American Band The Drive-By Truckers - English Oceans Father John Misty - Fear Fun Father John Misty - God’s Favorite Customer Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear The Felix Culpa - Sever Your Roots Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues Frank Ocean - Blonde Frank Ocean - Channel Orange Frightened Rabbit - The Winter of Mixed Drinks Fucked Up - Glass Boys Gang of Youths - Go Farther in Lightness Gary Clark Jr. - Blak and Blu Gary Clark Jr. - This Land Grizzly Bear - Shields Hamilton Leithauser and Rostam - I Had A Dream That You Were Mine Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog Iceage - Beyondless Iceage - Plowing into the Field of Love Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depression Japandroids - Celebration Rock Jason Isbell - Something More Than Free Jason Isbell - Southeastern Jay Z - 4:44 Jeff Tweedy - WARM Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour Kendrick Lamar - DAMN Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, MAAD City Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly Kurt Vile - Wakin on a Pretty Daze La Dispute - Rooms of the House Low - Double Negative LVL UP - Return to Love Mac Demarco - Salad Days Michael Kiwanuka - Love & Hate Miguel - Kaleidoscope Dream Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me Natalie Prass - The Future and the Past The National - High Violet The National - Trouble Will Find Me Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree Parquet Courts - Human Performance Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger in the Alps Protomartyr - Relatives in Descent Pusha T - Daytona Pusha T - King Push QOTSA - Villains Randy Newman - Dark Matter Sharon Van Etten - Are We There Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow Sigur Ros - Kveikur Solange - A Seat at the Table Spiritualized - And Nothing Hurt Spoon - They Want My Soul Spoon - Transference Strand of Oaks - Eraserland Strand of Oaks - HEAL Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds in Country Music Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor’s Guide to Earth Sturgill Simpson - Sound & Fury Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell Tame Impala - Currents Tame Impala - Innerspeaker Tame Impala - Lonerism Thom Yorke - ANIMA Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972 Titus Andronicus - The Monitor Touché Amore - Is Survived By Tribe Called Quest - We Got it From Here... Than You 4 Your Service True Widow - Circumambulation Tyler, the Creator - Flower Boy Vampire Weekend - Father of the Bride Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City Vince Staples - Summertime ‘06 Volcano Choir - Repave The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
Cant believe that Colour Revolt album was this decade. It feels like they have been gone way longer than that.
Trying to figure out which Bon Iver album to pick is going to kill me. Same with figuring out if that, Carrie and Lowell or Goodness is my #1
Here's maybe a top 20. Against Me – Transgender Dysphoria Blues Arrange – Blood Dust Bomb the Music Industry – Vacation Bon Iver – 22, A Million Bon Iver – Bon Iver Chance the Rapper – Acid Rap Earl Sweatshirt – Some Rap Songs Future – Beast Mode German Error Message – After the Warmth Hop Along – Bark Your Head Off, Dog How to Dress Well – Love Remains Joanna Newsom - Divers Kanye West – MBDTF Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly Nana Grizol – Ursa Minor Seismograph – In Oblivion Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lowell The Hotelier – Goodness The Menzingers – After the Party The Weeknd – House of Balloons
top 20 20. the antlers - familiars 19. kendrick lamar - damn 18. bright eyes - the peoples key 17. sioux falls - rot forever 16. beach house - teen dream 15. letlive - fake history 14. tigers jaw - s/t 13. glocca morra - just married 12. the money pit - s/t 11. joyce manor - cody 10. mewithoutYou - pale horses 9. pianos become the teeth - the lack long after 8. mewithoutYou - [Untitled] 7. aesop rock - skelethon 6. better oblivion community center - s/t 5. now, now - threads 4. aesop rock - the impossible kid 3. tigers jaw - spin 2. la dispute - wildlife 1. joyce manor - never hungover again
Nah, I don’t like it. Very limiting and would make a deeply inaccurate representation of what music was the most meaningful to me.
I mean, the lists are all arbitrary to begin with. I think it'd be super boring for Bon Iver to take up 3 spots of my top 10 when an artist that not many people have heard of like German Error Message could wind up getting bumped
I get that, but they’re also representations of personal taste. Like, I’m putting both Julien Baker records in my top 5 because they both individually mean that much to me and to leave them out just to highlight a different artist would be disingenuous.
That's fair. Use whatever system you'd like, really. There doesn't have to be just one way of doing things
Yeah! I’m down for whatever people want to do. Ranked, alphabetical, one album per artist, multiple albums per artist, whatever works. I just personally can’t imagine making a list meant to represent my favorite music of the decade without including, like, Pure Heroine and Melodrama together, ha
IMO there's really two main reasons to do this project: introspection and recommendation. If you care more about creating an accurate picture of the albums that arbitrarily at this moment in your life meant the most to you over the last ten years, it probably makes more sense to stick to whatever you feel is the best representation of your taste, even if that's 10 albums by 4 artists. It's basically a diary entry or a time capsule. On the other hand, if I see like 3 albums by 1 artist on someone's top 10 of the decade list, I'm going to think "wow, that person has an immensely special relationship with that artist", but it's a more difficult entry point without further discussion. Personally, as fun as it can be to rank things, I think accessibility is important if you're interested in helping someone find an album that might change their life. Which, when we're talking about personal top albums of the decade, isn't an inconceivable goal. I like how some folks in here grouped multiple albums by an artist into one "entry", which feels like a nice way to split the difference.
i just included the albums i liked the most. it seemed more silly to try to limit anything about the list in an effort to include more artists when i like their albums less than ones by artists who maybe have multiple entries on the list. but it’s just a list that like a dozen people will look at, who gives a shit, live your life