Your Personal Top 10 of the 2010s • Page 2

Alright, I think I'm set. I don't have time to give descriptions now, but if anyone is curious about anything lmk!

Autre Ne Veut - Anxiety
Big Thief - Capacity
Camp Cope - Camp Cope
Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
Drake - Take Care
The Hotelier - Goodness
Jamie xx - In Colour
Joyce Manor - Never Hungover Again
Kanye West - Yeezus
The National - Trouble Will Find Me

Honorable Mention/Best EP of the 2010s:
serpentwithfeet - blisters

 

Oh man, I love Chad's voice!

Yeah, it was almost two Butch, two Jason, and two Noah, haha. Those three have definitely dominated my listening this decade. Isbell would have another one in the next five, too (though my 11 is probably American Slang).

And I liked your 1975 description. Definitely very apt.

 

This is a dope and different list! Definitely adding Autre Ne Veut to my "To Listen" list... never heard of them.

 

Yeah ten hurt tbh. I had to leave off Ledges, American Slang, Blonde, Some Nights, Gossamer... man, music's just the best isn't it?

 

i have a list narrowed to fifteen but i can't really cut it down from there :/ there are glaring omissions too

 

Man, I haven't listened to Gossamer or Some Nights in ages. Loved both of those albums back when they came out. Should revisit them.

My "painful to leave off" was the rest of my 2015 top five. I love all of those (Butch, Isbell, Noah, Dawes, Stapleton) about equally, but only Afraid of Ghosts made it.

 

My advice is to pretend you'd be able to never listen to them again. Which 5 could you live without?

 

that's a dark world. i'll give it a try

 

Wow this was extremely difficult to narrow down to 10 albums. Here goes...

The Reign of Kindo – This Is What Happens (2010)
All of their albums are amazing, but the instrumentation on this one especially is incredible.
Favorite song: Comfort In The Orchestration

Zac Brown Band – You Get What You Give (2010)
I was not at all into country music (despite my fiancé’s best efforts) before this album, but after hearing “Colder Weather” on the radio I caved. This album is a monster.
Favorite song: Colder Weather

Transit – Listen & Forgive (2011)
Had never even heard of these guys before this album but was instantly hooked after hearing “Long Lost Friends” for the first time.
Favorite song: All Your Heart

Marianas Trench – Ever After (2011)
Pop-rock at its finest. I could listen to Josh Ramsay sing the phone book.
Favorite song: Fallout

Anberlin – Vital (2012)
I am probably in the minority here, but I think this is Anberlin’s best album. What a discography these guys have.
Favorite song: Modern Age

Yellowcard – Southern Air (2012)
I was only a casual Yellowcard fan until hearing this album, now they are one of my favorite bands, period. They took it to another level with this one.
Favorite song: Always Summer

Vertical Horizon – Echoes From The Underground (2013)
I hadn’t listened to Vertical Horizon since “Everything You Want” was burning up the airwaves, but I stumbled across this album and was floored.
Favorite song: Frost

Taylor Swift – 1989 (2014)
An undeniably catchy pop album. While “Red” contains my favorite song of hers (All Too Well), 1989 as a whole is superior in my book.
Favorite song: All You Had To Do Was Stay

The Early November – Imbue (2015)
This album didn’t hook me as quickly as the others on this list, but man, once it did I couldn’t stop listening. Every song is amazing.
Favorite song: Boxing Timelines

The Maine – Lovely Little Lonely (2017)
Undoubtedly my favorite album of the 2010 decade so far. This one came out of absolutely nowhere for me. The Maine had completely fallen off my radar. This album changed that quickly.
Favorite song: Taxi

 

Titus Andronicus - The Monitor (2010)
Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest (2010)
Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues (2011)
Bon Iver - Bon Iver, Bon Iver (2011)
Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City (2013)
The Hotelier - Home, Like NoPlace Is There (2014)
Cymbals Eat Guitars - LOSE (2014)
Jason Isbell - Something More Than Free (2015)
Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor's Guide to Earth (2016)
The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding (2017)

Limited myself to one per artist.

Honorable Mention:
The National - High Violet (2010)
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs (2010)
Thursday - No Devolucion (2011)
Drake - Take Care (2011)
Japandroids - Celebration Rock (2012)
Passion Pit - Gossamer (2012)
Converge - All They Want They Leave Behind (2012)
Phosphorescent - Muchacho (2013)
Deafheaven - Sunbather (2013)
Kanye West - Yeezus (2013)
Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels (2013)
Spoon - They Want My Soul (2014)
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell (2015)
Pinegrove - Cardinal (2016)
Kendrick Lamar - DAMN. (2017)

 

Chronologically:

Bon Iver - Bon Iver, Bon Iver (2011)
Andrew Peterson - Light for the Lost Boy (2012)
From Indian Lakes - Able Bodies (2012)
My Epic - Behold (2013)
Copeland - Ixora (2014)
Anberlin - Lowborn (2014)
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell (2015)
Julien Baker - Sprained Ankle (2015)
The Sun Kite - No Fire (2016)
Manchester Orchestra - A Black Mile to the Surface (2017)

Honorable mentions:

Cool Hand Luke - Of Man (2011)
Nickel Creek - A Dotted Line (2014)
La Dispute - Rooms of the House (2014)
mewithoutYou - Pale Horses (2015)
Thrice - To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere (2016)
Jeremy Enigk - Ghosts (2017)
The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding (2017)
Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger in the Alps (2017)
Paramore - After Laughter (2017)
'68 - Two-Parts Viper (2017)

I'm still in the honeymoon phase as far as 2017 goes, but I think time will be good to those records. What a terrific year.

 

Infinity Crush - When We're Snow
The Hotelier - Home, Like Noplace is There
Hellogoodbye - Would it Kill You?
Charlie Simpson - Young Pilgrim
My Chemical Romance - Danger Days
Chad Perrone - Release
fun. - Some Nights
The Reign of Kindo - This is What Happens
Fightstar - Behind the Devil's Back
La Dispute - Wildlife

 

Most valuable takeaway from this thread so far: Listen to Jason Isbell.

 

Yep you gotta do that ASAP. It's not my favorite record of his, but many folks in this thread got started on the album Southeastern with him, and that's not a bad place to start if you're looking to pick up his catalog.

 

Bomb the Music Industry - Vacation
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
Bon Iver - Bon Iver, Bon Iver
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
Kanye West -My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Kanye West - Yeezus
Chance the Rapper - Acid Rap
The Hotelier - Goodness
The Menzingers - On the Impossible Past

 

Without repeating the same artist twice

1. Bon Iver - Bon Iver, Bon Iver
2. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
3. The Tallest Man On Earth - The Wild Hunt
4. Noah Gundersen - Carry The Ghost
5. Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
6. Jason Isbell - Southeastern
7. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
8. Grizzly Bear - Shields
9. The National - Trouble Will Find Me
10. Volcano Choir - Repave

HM: Phosphorescent - Muchacho
Kanye West - Yeezus
Local Natives - Hummingbird
TWOD - Lost in the Dream
Grouper - Ruins
David Ramirez - Fables
Night Beds - Country Sleep

 

ok fine i'll do this

emperor x - western teleport
now now - threads
mansions - dig up the dead
kanye west - my beautiful dark twisted fantasy
the hotelier - home like noplace is there
twiabp - harmlessness
jeff rosenstock - worry
from indian lakes - able bodies
sufjan stevens - carrie & lowell
carly rae jepsen - emotion

eh sure okay i don't want to think too hard about this

 

see you guys in 2020

 

Niiice. I was hoping I wouldn't be the only one.

 

i don't know why i like that record so much still, their newer ones are sonically more to my taste but for some reason i listen to this record regularly, haha

 

Damn My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy didn't even occur to me, that feels to me like it was pre-2010

 

I'm with you. I feel like FIL's sound has progressed with my personal tastes cause most of what I listen to is more chill, but Able Bodies is so dynamic and unpredictable. It also has so many "moments" on it that make me giddy.

 

Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010)
The Hotelier - Goodness (2016)
The Wonder Years - The Greatest Generation (2015)
Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion (2015)
TWIAPB - Harmlessness (2015)
Waxahatachee - Cerulean Salt (2014)
Empire Empire - You Will Eventually Be Forgotten (2014)
Tyler Daniel Bean - Longing (2012)
Everyone Everywhere - Everyone Everywhere (2012)
Taylor Swift - Red (2012)

 

cant believe i forgot The Monitor and literally any of the last 3 Kanye projects :(

 

EE 2012 was close for me