Your Personal Top 10 of the 2010s • Page 8

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No order, but this is just my personal rankings:

The Kooks - Junk of the Heart
The Wombats - Glitterbug
Passion Pit - Gossamer
Two Door Cinema Club - Tourist History
fun. - Some Nights
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
Bombay Bicycle Club - A Different Kind of Fix
TV on the Radio - Seeds
Phantogram - Three
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

These just missed:
The Decemberists - The King is Dead
Best Coast - California Nights
Miike Snow - iii
Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, Sometimes I Just Sit

 

Blink-182 - California
Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
Joyce Manor - Never Hungover Again
Hostage Calm - Die on Stage
The Menzingers - On the Impossible Past
The Menzingers - Rented World
The Menzingers - After the Party
Spraynard - Mable
The Wonder Years - The Upsides
The 1975 - I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It

 

Now I want to put Spraynard back on my list ;_;

 

Bon Iver - 22, A Million
Camp Cope - Camp Cope
The Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten
The Horrible Crowes - Elsie
The Hotelier - Goodness
Julien Baker - Turn Out the Lights
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
The Menzingers - On the Impossible Past
The National - High Violet
Young Thug - Jeffery

Honorable Mentions:

Dry the River - Shallow Bed
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence
Lorde - Melodrama
The World Is... - Harmlessness

 

This was harder to narrow down than I thought, and a few are from last year. My musical tastes have been shifting a bit lately, so this maybe completely different come the end of 2019, but here it is as of right now (in no particular order)

Paramore - After Laughter
SZA - Control
Clem Snide - Girls Come First
Kevin Devine - Instigator
War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
New Found Glory - Makes Me Sick
Dr. Dog - Shame, Shame
Big Thief - Capacity
Taylor Swift - Red
Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion

Honorable Mention:
Hop Along - Painted Shut
SaintSeneca - Dark Arc
Bad Books - Bad Books
Paramore - Self Titled
Francis - Marathon

 

In no particular order (I'll add my descriptions later):

*The Hotelier - Goodness
*The Hotelier - Home Like Noplace Is There
*Foxing - Dealer
*Pianos Become the Teeth - Keep You
*Pianos Become the Teeth - Wait for Love
*The Devil Wears Prada - Dead Throne
*Julien Baker - Turn Out the Lights
*The Wonder Years - No Closer to Heaven
*Manchester Orchestra - Simple Math
*The Wonder Years - Simple Cities

Honorable Mention:
- The Wonder Years - The Greatest Generation
- Every Time I Die - Low Teens
- The Devil Wears Prada - 8:18
- Being As An Ocean - Waiting for Morning to Come
- Silverstein - This Is How the Wind Shifts
- Transit - Listen and Forgive

 

They're incredible! They used to play in Melbourne just about every week but not so much these days. I'd also recommend Vol. II. They are currently working on Vol. III

 

alright time to vote for your faves
Vote for the Best of the 2010s in the Pitchfork Readers’ Poll

 

Currently trying to put my top 200 in some semblance of order and Jesus Christ I think I might go insane.

 

Also, @Matt Chylak, I guess you already know what most of my Pitchfork ballot looked like...

 

1. The Hotelier: Home, Like Noplace Is There (2014)
2. Cymbals Eat Guitars: Lenses Alien (2011)
3. Adrianne Lenker: abysskiss (2018)
4. Captain, We're Sinking: The Future Is Cancelled (2013)
5. Katie Dey: Flood Network (2016)
6. Young Jesus: S/T (2017)
7. The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die: Whenever, If Ever (2013)
8. Julia Brown: to be close to you (2013)
9. David Maxim Micic: Who Bit the Moon (2017)
10. The Menzingers: On the Impossible Past (2012)

stuff I left out to keep it at 1 album per artist/project
Big Thief - UFOF
Big Thief - Capacity
The Hotelier - Goodness

honorable mentions
Little Big League - These Are Good People.
American Pleasure Club - I blew on a dandelion & the whole world disappeared
American Pleasure Club - a whole fucking lifetime of this
The Sidekicks - Awkward Breeds

 

Haha fair. I may not have any changes to mine; need to think on it before submitting.

 

I had one album different and then had them in order, obviously, which these weren’t. But for the most part, my thoughts haven’t changed a ton.

 

Kanye West: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
This one shows just how much can change in 10 years. But at the start of the decade Kanye was on a different level, and this album is still a masterpiece.

The Menzingers: On the Impossible Past
Over the course of the decade this has gone from "maybe my favourite album of the year" to one of my absolute favourite albums of all time. Exactly what I want from music as an AP.net kid all grown up.

The Wonder Years: Suburbia I've Given You All And Now I'm Nothing
As the 2010s started I thought I was done with pop punk, even if looking back I have no affinity for the "more hip" music I was trying to get into like Animal Collective etc. The Upsides made me realise there was still a lot of life left for the genre and this album has gradually overtaken it as the band's opus (no mean feat given they have realeased five straight killer records).

Father John Misty: I Love You, Honeybear
My favourite album of the decade lyrically speaking, so entertaining, amusing and yet heartfelt. I listened to this a lot around the time of my wedding and it was perfect to soundtrack that wonderful time in my life.

The Hotelier: Home Like NoPlace Is There
I hadn't kept up with emo for years but this album really kick started my interest in more modern emo bands, which I feel are true gatekeepers of underground rock these days, a bit like hardcore bands were in the 1980s. Album has nine songs and at least five are among my favourites of the decade.

Foxing: Nearer My God
In some ways this feels like the masterpiece that aforementioned emo scene was building up to (if TWIABP's Harmelessness doesn't quite count). So dynamic, expansive and versatile.

Kendrick Lamar: Good Kid M.A.A.D. City
To Pimp A Butterfly will likely receive all the album of the decade accolades, and is deserving to be sure, but this is the album that got so many of us into Kendrick and is still my go-to record of his. Amazing storytelling and more energy than it seems at first.

The Horrible Crowes: Elsie
I consider this the first Brian Fallon solo album, and certainly still the best. Creates a mood like few albums can. I'd kill for a follow-up. Blood Loss is still just stunning.

(I reserve the final two spots until the decade actually ends)
(Also if I hadn't limited the list to one album per artist then TWY, Hotelier and Menzingers would all have multiple entries)

 

Seems unlikely (and not advocating some coordinated effort) but it would be amazing if we could get a couple of the biggest 'scene' albums onto this list -- Home Like NoPlace Is There could be an outside chance...

 

Noah’s Lover is the one that’s knocking at the door for me. (Man, that’s a special project.) But at this point, I don’t know which of mine I could remove for it.

 

It’s knocking for me, too. And my number 10 slot is kind of shaky, so we’ll see.

 

I probably know my top 4 right now and could put together a rough top 10, but I want more time to sit with it

 

GKMC is gonna top TPAB and im gonna be heated

 

TPAB is a genuine career and decade defining record, it’s always been curious to me how people gravitate towards GKMC.

 

This is true and I think it’s his “best” album, but I replay GKMC a lot more

 

Yeah TPAB is "better" but GKMC is more enjoyable to listen to for me, and since it's still brilliant in its own right, it gets the nod.

 

Who is going to go through all these and tally the "votes" so we can see which albums have made the most top 10s for Chorus members? I shall reward them with stranger internet praise

 

A top 10 each year is hard enough, let alone a decade. Feel like a top 10 wouldn't give justice to a lot of albums that I adore.

Whatever I'll do it anyway

The Hotelier - Goodness
Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues
The Menzingers - On The Impossible past
itoldyouiwouldeatyou - Oh Dearism
Nervus - Everything Dies
Vince Staples - Summertime '06
Creeper - Eternity, In Your Arms
Renounced - Theories of Despair
Proper. - I Spent the Winter Writing Songs About Getting Better
Venom Prison - Animus