Back to 2010 (Re-Ranking the Best of Lists) • Page 3

Just find it surprising is all.

 

The Roots - How I Got Over is the first album that comes to mind for me

 

lol I have listened to exactly one album on the OP list

 

My favorite The Roots album, but I'm biased because this was my first.

 

Just by coincidence, I listened to A Thousand Suns by Linkin Park yesterday. I think I might have to change my vote from the favorite album poll from the other week. What a great record. It definitely changed their sound, but it just works. Waiting For The End might be one of my favorite LP songs of all time, especially the second half. Really surprised to see it left off the list.

 

Gayngs - Relayted was the best album of 2010

 

Mine is Game Theory. I'm an exception, but I've come close to concerting some people here.

 

Well, that year seems also less nostalgic to me already - it's like it was a start of the years that I can challenge as disappointing & years I could've had spent differently.

Also, I'm with @Jason Tate on Omni love! and I'd have to think of my AOTY of 2010, it could be Circa's Blue Sky Noise! Can't think of anything else now.

 

2010 was a MUCH bigger years for movies in my life than it was for music, so it's awesome seeing The Social Network so high here.

A few other thoughts -- Danger Days was actually the album that made me a My Chem fan, so I loved that album in 2010; but I was totally in the camp that didn't like Invented, which has now become my #2 favorite JEW album (behind Clarity).

The only glaring hole I see here is House of Heroes's Suburba, since I know that you were a pretty big fan, at least back in the day. It's a tight competition whether Suburba or TEINTE goes down as my favorite HOH album.

Keep it up! I've really enjoyed reading these re-rankings, especially due to the commentary (not just the rankings themselves).

 

Oh yeah that album's held up well for me, too. I liked Erase Me a lot, but I'd love to receive another album or two in the vein of Disambiguation.

 

To each their own lol.

 

In 2010, I was graduating high school and then entering my first semester of college, so the music I was listening to reflected a lot of that. The artists I had on REPEAT were the new records from Four Year Strong, A Day to Remember, Kanye West, Kid Cudi, Lil Wayne, Eminem, Deadmau5, Skrillex and Minus the Bear.

Re-Ranked with 2020 eyes:

1. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
2. Tame Impala - Innerspeaker
3. The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang
4. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
5. Deftones - Diamond Eyes
6. Circa Survive - Blue Sky Noise
7. Minus the Bear - Omni
8. Four Year Strong - Enemy of the World
9. Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager
10. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
11. A Day to Remember - What Separates Me From You
12. Wiz Khalifa - Kush and Orange Juice
13. Motion City Soundtrack - My Dinosaur Life
14. Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
15. The Wonder Years - The Upsides
16. The Black Keys - Brother
17. Jimmy Eat World - Invented
18. The Menzingers - Chamberlain Waits
19. Rick Ross - Teflon Don
20. Kendrick Lamar - Overly Dedicated
21. Pretty Lights - Glowing in the Darkest Night
22. J. Cole - Friday Night Lights
23. Bomb the Music Industry! - Adults!!!: Smart!!! Shithammered!!! And Excited By Nothing!!!!!!!
24. Drake - Thank Me Later
25. Skrillex - Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites

 

needs more deftones

 

Just out of curiosity, did you try that song?

If you did & weren't into it, cool, taste is subjective, etc. But, especially since you posted about Gaslight Anthem & Jimmy Eat World, & a lot of people on this site who love 'em also love a lot of Taylor Swift's best album cuts... I dunno. If you only know her biggest singles, & you like finding new music, it's worth giving a shot.

"All Too Well," "State of Grace," & "Holy Ground" might be the best entry points for a Gaslight Anthem, etc., fan.

 

Though also, normally I don't care for unsolicited recommendations, lol. There's so much shit out there that people should be able to make their own decisions on what they wanna put into their ears, w/in reason.

I think the only reason I just felt that need to recommend Taylor Swift songs is that, in 2020, there are still people who get caught up subconsciously in certain narratives & miss out on good stuff that they'd actually really dig with an open mind. We were talking about that recently in the unpopular/bad music opinions thread. It's freeing to move past certain assumptions on what is & isn't cool, etc., & discover dope shit that you tricked yourself into not liking.

But, yeah, we all just ultimately like what we like, & that's that, more or less. lol.

 

ya left out black keys and deftones.

 

Loved that Black Keys album. And damn, I thought ADTR was 2011. That would go high on my list now

 

Happy to see Danger Days get its due. Looking back, I don't think MCR wanted to be a band anymore at that time, but they still gave it their all and ended their legacy with a damn good album. When most bands who are about to break up make one last album, I usually find it never holds up, but Danger Days does for me and I think that's a testament to their quality as a band.

I don't go back to 2010 much nowadays, but Diamond Eyes and Blue Sky Noise are the two albums I come back to on a regular basis. Both of those albums I think are absolute gems in the discography of two incredible bands.

 

I’m pretty sure that album was really poorly received when it came out, especially on absolutepunk. I’ve always liked it but it’s definitely super polarizing

 

Do you think it's an album that has maybe aged better with people over time?

@Jason Tate any thoughts on the album?

 

I think a lot of Linkin Park's discography has grown on people over the years - a big cutoff point for me was Minutes to Midnight and I fell out of love with them for a while. I felt terrible when Chester passed for not giving their later albums a fair shake and did a deep dive. A Thousand Suns in particular was a standout from their post-Meteora work

 

honorable mentions - a great big pile of leaves - have you seen my prefrontal cortex; bad books - bad books; s. carey - all we grow
25. kvelertak - kvelertak
24. autolux - transit transit
23. underoath - ø
22. high on fire - snakes for the divine
21. flying lotus - cosmogramma
20. superchunk - majesty shredding
19. mavis staples - you are not alone
18. the chariot - long live
17. the drive-by truckers - the big to-do
16. the gaslight anthem - american slang
15. vampire weekend - contra
14. my chemical romance - danger days
13. the dead weather - sea of cowards
12. sufjan stevens - age of adz
11. the black keys - brothers
10. trent reznor and atticus ross - the social network OST
9. frightened rabbit - the winter of mixed drinks
8. gorillaz - plastic beach
7. the felix culpa - sever your roots
6. the national - high violet
5. deftones - diamond eyes
4. colour revolt - the cradle
3. spoon - transference
2. tame impala - innerspeaker
1. titus andronicus - the monitor


wow the best list yet again wow

 

Great big pile of leaves album is awesome. Forgot about that

 

2010 was a transitional year as I started high school, had my first crush, lots of bands and artists were about to put important albums. It's such a special year to me looking back. I also started to expand my horizons outside of what was popular in the scene, which will be more reflected in the following years.

Alright, on the top off my head, that was more or less my top in no particular order:

Underoath - O Disambiguation
Deftones - Diamond Eyes
Minus The Bear - OMNI
Young Guns - All Our Kings Are Dead (which turns 10 tomorrow and whose anniversary show obviously got cancelled but hopefully they'll make up for it next year)
Gabriella Cilmi - Ten
School Food Punishment - Amp-Reflection
The Automatic - Tear The Signs Down
A Hope For Home - Realis
Circa Survive - Blue Sky Noise
Shad - TSOL
Transit - Keep This To Yourself
Conditions - Fluorescent Youth
Eightfourseven - Lossless
Comeback Kid - Symptoms + Cures

I still love all those albums like day one, and since then I would add:

Janelle Monae - The ArchAndroid
Christina Aguilera - Bionic
Ellie Goulding - Bright Lights
Linkin Park - A Thousand Sun's (which I disliked at first, go figure)
Marina And The Diamonds - The Family Jewels
Kylie Minogue - Aphrodite
Sara Bareilles - Kaleidoscope Heart

Okay there was that Make Do And Mend album too, but I haven't listened to it, or to this band in a long time. One of those times where I was so sure a band would be huge, at least in the scene, but it turns out I was wrong. Samesies about Four Year Strong.