2010 The National - High Violet (Runner up: Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy) 2011 The Wonder Years - Suburbia, I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing(Runner-up: M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming) 2012 The Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten(Runner-up: Imagine Dragons - Night Visions) 2013 CHVRCHES - The Bones of What You Believe (Runner-up: The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die - Whenever, If Ever) 2014 The Hotelier - Home, Like NoPlace Is There (Runner-up: Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 2) 2015 mewithoutYou - Pale Horses (Runner-up: The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die - Harmlessness) 2016 The Hotelier - Goodness (Runner-up: The 1975 - i like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it) 2017 Phoebe Bridgers - Strangers In the Alps(Runner-up : Paramore - After Laughter) 2018 Foxing - Nearer My God (Runner-up: Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour) 2019 The Maine - You Are OK (Runner-up: Bibio - Ribbons)
here's the list i made before taking it down to 10. i couldve made this a much bigger list but i didnt want to dwell on this too long and stress myself out because its not too important and its ultimately supposed to be a fun thing to do
I know I was a junior in high school when it came out. It still hits me like a fucking freight train to this day and I listen to it constantly
Lets give this a quick go for a top 30. Top 2 I'm happy with and would be consistent with, the rest is all a bit made up. 1. Frightened Rabbit - Pedestrian Verse 2. Bon Iver - 22, A Million 3. The Tallest Man on Earth - Dark Bird is Home 4. The National - High Violet 5. Kanye West - MDBTF 6. 65daysofstatic - We Were Exploding Anyway 7. Bon Iver - Bon Iver, Bon Iver 8. There Will be Fireworks - The Dark, Dark Bright 9. Friends in America - What It is to Be 10. Dessa - Castor, the Twin 11. Japandroids - Celebration Rock 12. The Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt 13. Frightened Rabbit - The Winter of Mixed Drinks 14. The Menzingers - On the Impossible Past 15. The Xcerts - There is Only You 16. The Twilight Sad - It Won't Be Like This all The Time 17. Shad - Flying Colours 18. The National - Sleep Well Beast 19. Sigur Ros - Valtari 20. Mickey Factz - Mickey MauSe 21. MIA - Matangi 22. Bombay Bicycle Club - So Long, See you Tomorrow 23. Against Me - Transgender Dysphoria Blues 24. Tusks - Dissolve 25. The Menzingers - After The Party 26. The Maccabees - Given To The Wild 27. Daughter - Not to Dissapear 28. St Vincent - Masseduction 29. Young Fathers - White Men are Black Men Too 30. Stormzy - Gang Signs & Prayers. Very quickly put together, but this sounds about right. Easy to overthink, but this is good enough.
I think I have my albums picked out. I'm going to do a write up for each one that probably no one will read but also that no one can stop me from doing
One of the most underrated albums of the decade and one of its best R&B albums is “Charlene” by Tweet. It made NPR’s 2016 list but that was about it.
I thiiiiink: No particular order The Hotelier- Home, Like No Place is There Freddie Gibbs/Madlib- Piñata FKA Twigs- LP1 Foxing- Nearer My God The 1975- I Like It When You Sleep... Pinkshinyultrablast- Everything Else Matters Bon Iver- Bon Iver, Bon Iver Deftones- Diamond Eyes St. Vincent- Strange Mercy Flying Lotus- Until The Quiet Comes HM: Frank Ocean- Blonde Thursday- No Devolucion Kendrick Lamar- DAMN. The 1975- ABIIOR Circa Survive- The Amulet Cloud Nothings- Here and Nowhere Else Phoebe Bridgers- Stranger In the Alps Phonte- No News is Good News The Range- Potential mewithoutYou- Pale Horses
I cut it down to this... Top 10 Albums of the Decade: 1. Kehlani - SweetSexySavage 2. Jay Z - 4:44 3. YG - My Krazy Life 4. The Menzingers - After The Party 5. Rosalia - El Mal Querer 6. Chance The Rapper - Coloring Book 7. The Lawrence Arms - Metropole 8. Kacey Musgraves - Pageant Material 9. Blu & Exile - Give Me My Flowers While I Can Still Smell Them 10. Romeo Santos - Golden Honorable Mentions: Lary - Hart Fragil, Spraynard - Mable And for those that care.. Top 5 German Albums of the Decade: 1. Lary - Hart Fragil 2. Samy Deluxe - SchwarzWeiss 3. Drangsal - Zores 4. Rola - 12:12 5. Max Herre - Hallo Welt!
1. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs 2. Julien Baker - Sprained Ankle 3. Japandroids - Celebration Rock 4. Lorde - Melodrama 5. The National - Trouble Will Find Me 6. Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino 7. Joyce Manor - Never Hungover Again 8. Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues 9. The Horrible Crowes - Elsie 10. Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger in the Alps
Sorry for quoting such an old post but YES to this quote. What a tremendous album. I'm currently in the making of my list, and this one is definitely part of it.
I decided to base this more on records that really shaped how I listened to music and ones that opened my eyes to new kinds of music in these years, more than, "which ones do I enjoy the most now". Before 2010, I was listening to mostly post-hardcore like Chiodos and Pierce the Veil, along with metal, like Opeth, Protest the Hero, and things like that. I started college in '09, started my full time job in my career field in '13, so I've really grown up in these years. 1. Fireworks - Gospel 2. Turnover - Peripheral Vision 3. Pinegrove - Cardinal 4. mewithoutYou - [Untitled] 5. Joyce Manor - Never Hungover Again 6. Balance and Composure - Separation 7. Pianos Become the Teeth - Keep You 8. Tame Impala - Currents 9. Manchester Orchestra - A Black Mile to the Surface 10. Polyphia - Renaissance I like the year by year breakdown too, so here's that. 2010 Four Year Strong - Enemy of the World (Runner up: Circa Survive - Blue Sky Noise) 2011 Fireworks - Gospel (Runner-up: Balance and Composure - Separation) 2012 Coheed and Cambria - The Afterman (we'll count them as one here) (Runner-up: Anberlin - Vital) 2013 Balance and Composure - The Things We Think We're Missing (Runner-up: The Wonder Years - The Greatest Generation) 2014 Joyce Manor - Never Hungover Again (Runner-up: Pianos Become the Teeth - Keep You) 2015 Turnover - Peripheral Vision (Runner-up: Tame Impala - Currents) 2016 Pinegrove - Cardinal (Runner-up: Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor's Guide to Earth) 2017 Manchester Orchestra - A Black Mile to the Surface (Runner-up : Circa Survive - The Amulet) 2018 mewithoutYou - [Untitled] (Runner-up: Coheed and Cambria - The Unheavenly Creatures) 2019 Whitney - Forever Turned Around (Runner-up: Local Natives - Violet Street)
Has anyone discovered anything new from other lists that is just blowing them away? I've only spent a week with Fiona Apple, but in a personal list of 50, I honestly feel like I could include it.
I figured I might as well share.. My Unranked and Imperfect 2010s Top 50 Rap Albums List Pusha T – My Name Is My Name DJ Quik – Rosecrans LP J Hus – Common Sense Big K.R.I.T. – Return Of 4eva TiRon & Ayomari – A Sucker For Pumps Statik Selektah & Action Bronson – Well Done Intuition & Equalibrum – Intuition & Equalibrum Wu-Tang Clan – The Saga Continues Ruby Ibarra – Circa91 Jay Z – 4:44 Casper – Lang Lebe Der Tod (German) Oddisee – The Iceberg Gavlyn – Headspace G. Perico – All Blue Ronnie Flex – Rémi (Dutch) Wiki – No Mountains In Manhattan Rick Ross – God Forgives, I Don’t The Carters – Everything Is Love Chance The Rapper – Coloring Book A Tribe Called Quest – We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service Mac Miller - The Divine Feminine Skyzoo – A Dream Deferred Common – The Dreamer/The Believer Samy Deluxe – SchwarzWeiss (German) Nas – Life Is Good J. Cole – Born Sinner Dreezy - No Hard Feelings Rapsody – Crown YG – My Krazy Life Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Wale – Ambition Fat Joe – The Darkside Cam’ron - The Programm Dave – Psychodrama Max Herre – Hallo Welt! (German) Black Milk – Album of the Year Blu & Exile - Give Me My Flowers While I Can Still Smell Them The Roots - How I Got Over Bun B – Trill O.G. Yo Gotti – I Am Raekwon – The Wild Statik Selektah – 100 Proof (The Hangover) Evidence – Weather Or Not Jay Z & Kanye West – Watch The Throne Curse – Die Farbe Von Wasser (German) Ghostface Killah - Twelve Reasons To Die Fashawn – Ode To Illmatic Big Boi – Sir Lucious Left Foot… The Son of Chico Dusty De La Soul – And the Anonymous Nobody.. Beastie Boys – Hot Sauce Committee Part Two