Your Personal Top 10 of the 2010s • Page 14

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.

 

"Young Men"... wow.

 

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!

 

Why did so many great albums come out in 2009

 

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.

 

one of the spoon albums was even earlier haha. second week of the decade.

 

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

 

I don’t rly understand only listing one album per band

 

i think, given how many records come out in a decade, it makes sense and is good

 

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

 

I feel like we're really overthinking this