Top 20 releases of the 2010's

[The Emperor's Son]

last call, get those votes in. tallying tomorrow (12/31)

1. eps, comps, and reissues count
2.

1-20, point breakdown tbd



if you want to update your list then edit your post. Do not post a second list, please

Do. Not. Post. A. Second. List

tallying is a major hassle if you have three lists scattered around the thread

I won't start any tallying til mid/late-december so plenty of time

[The Emperor's Son]

1. frank ocean - blond

ariel pink - pom pom
d'angelo and the vanguard - black messiah
burial - kindred
leak 04-13 - jai paul
oneohtrix point never - garden of delete
grouper - ruins
sufjan stevens - carrie and lowell
kendrick lamar - good kid maad city
king krule - the ooz
tops - pictures of you staring
charli xcx - pop 2
fiona apple - the idler wheel
donato dozzy - plays bee mask
tim hecker - ravedeath, 1972
summertime '06 - vince staples
kanye - yeezus
women - public strain
default genders - main pop girl 2019
laurel halo - dust


hm:

dirty beaches - drifters / love is the devil
destroyer - kaputt
voices from the lake - voices from the lake
jay som - everybody works
cut copy - zonoscope
caroline no - no language
miguel - wildheart
chromatics - kill for love
how to dress well - total loss
arca - mutant
james blake - s/t
dj koze - amygdala
beach house - teen dream
panda bear - tomboy
angel olsen - my woman
julia holter - have you in my wilderness
gang gang dance - eye contact
burial - rival dealer
deerhunter - halcyon digest
king krule - 6 feet beneath the moon
vampire weeked - contra
blood orange - cupid deluxe
sean nicholas savage - bermuda waterfall
dirty projectors - swing lo magellan
nicolas jaar - sirens
beyonce - lemonade
fleet foxes - crack up
slowdive - slowdive
sophie - oil of every pearl
htrk - 9-5 club
dawn richard - blackheart
perfume genius - no shape
tame impala - lonerism
elite gymnastics - ruin

[Grumby]

women, jai paul and king krule for me as well.

[ecto]

frank ocean - blond
frank ocean - channel orange
jai paul - leak 04-13
kendrick lamar - good kid maad city
king krule - the ooz
gorillaz - plastic beach
ghostface killah - apollo kids
elite gymnastics - ruin
slowdive - slowdive
tame impala - lonerism
wavves - king of the beach
pure x - pleasure
classixx - hanging gardens
isaiah rashad - cilvia demo
sweet valley - eternal champ
tyler - igor
schoolboy q - oxymoron
vampire weekend - modern vamps
mac demarco - salad days
ariel pink - before today
toro y moi - anything in return


this isn't in any particular order

[Double McDouble]

seems insane to have blonde as the far and away number one and not have channel orange mentioned anywhere imo.

[alaska]

this is my ranking in terms of "Impact it had on me at the time" i guess

1. blond - frank ocean
2. low - double negative
3. sophie boiler room set
4. toro y moi - anything in return
5. caribou - swim
6. kendrick lamar - good kid maad city
7. bill callahan - apocalypse
8. vampire weekend - modern vampires of the city
9. julia holter - aviary
10. jai paul - leak
11. kanye west - my beautiful dark twisted fantasy
12. bon iver - s/t
13. the mountain goats - transcendental youth
14. flying lotus - cosmogramma
15. young thug - barter 6
16. floating points - elaenia
17. elite gymnastics - ruin
18. burial - rival dealer
18. sufjan stevens - carrie and lowell
19. vince staples - big fish theory
20. titus andronicus - the monitor


a couple of songs on "shaking the habitual" are contenders for favorite song of the decade but the ambient shit is just too much for me

[neuartillery]

Can't wait to ruin this thread with some guitar rock

[Double McDouble]

my ten favorites. no order other than fiona or channel orange being number one

fiona apple - idler wheel
frank ocean - channel orange
frank ocean - blonde
chance the rapper - acid rap
young thug - jeffery
vampire weekend - modern vampires of the city
tyler the creator - flower boy
taylor swift - 1989
kendrick - to pimp a butterfly
kanye - beautiful dark twisted fantasy

[woozy ducks]

1 Slowdive - Slowdive
2 The Bats - The Deep Set
3 Jay Som - Everybody Works
4 Recondite - On Acid
5 Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me
6 Courtney Marie Andrews - Honest Life
7 Purple Mountains - st
8 Cultes des Ghoules - Coven, or Evil Ways Instead of Love
9 Sarah Shook & The Disarmers - Years
10 Shame - Songs of Praise
11 Xetas - The Tower
12 Jungbluth - Jungbluth EP
13 Sleep - The Sciences
14 Night Birds - Mutiny at Muscle Beach
15 Kaleidoscope - After The Future
16 Perfume - JPN
17 Lucero - All a Man Should Do
18 Grouper - A I A: Alien Observer
19 Ryuichi Sakamoto - async
20 Gnod - Just Say No To The Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine


Hm:
Group Doueh & Cheveu - Dakhla Sahara Session
Black Marble - It's Immaterial
Neil Cicierega - Mouth Moods
Hot Snakes - Jericho Sirens
tim hecker - ravedeath, 1972
Converge - The Dusk in Us
Turnover - Peripheral Vision

[alaska]

Can't wait to ruin this thread with some guitar rock

guitar rock rules

paging vivian lol

[No Good Advice]

that phoebe bridgers album is up there

[ecto]

I forgot MBDTF wow

[Gnarls]

Jimmy Lavalle and Mark Kozelek - Perils From The Sea
Waka Flocka Flame - Flockaveli
Frank Ocean - Blonde
Sun Kil Moon - Among The Leaves
Soulja Boy - The DeAndre Way
Iris Dement - Sing the Delta
Dean Blunt - Black Metal
Dean Blunt - The Redeemer
Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel
Ariel Pink - Pom Pom

D'Angelo - Black Messiah
Junglepussy - Jp3
Sheer Mag - Compilation LP
Noname - Telefone
Roc Marciano - Marcberg
Kero Kero Bonito - Bonito Generation
Future Islands - On The Water
Sun Kil Moon - Admiral Fell Promises
Bedouine - Bedouine
Advance Base - Animal Companionship

I stopped keeping up with music ~2014, around when I stopped making good posts now that I think about it

[guy forget]

Man this has been a long fuckin decade

[Grumby]

Man this has been a long fuckin decade

yeah, i feel like everything i'm thinking of right now is from the past three or four years. scratching my head

[warmjets]

gonna limit to one album per artist. i'm gonna edit this a few times and add some more stuff but for now

01. Frank Ocean - Blonde
02. Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
03. Purple Mountains - Purple Mountains
04. Slowdive - Slowdive
05. Lorde - Pure Heroine
06. Dum Dum Girls - Only in Dreams
07. M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
08. Jay Som - Everybody Works
09. Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell
10. Julianna Barwick - Will
11. Joyce Manor - Never Hungover Again
12. Beach House - Teen Dream
13. Vampire Weekend - Contra
14. Yo La Tengo - Fade
15. Lotus Plaza - Spooky Action at a Distance
16. Young Thug - JEFFERY
17. Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time
18. A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Sea When Absent
19. Big Thief - Capacity
20. Charli XCX - Sucker

[Grumby]

i don't know how much holds up from those lean chillwave years

[Grumby]

oh yeah halcyon digest for sure

[Mandible]

Ryuichi Sakamoto - async
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
Jon Hassell - Listening To Pictures (Pentimento Volume One)
Burial - Street Halo / Kindred
Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica
D'Angelo and the Vanguard - Black Messiah
Cass McCombs - Mangy Love / Wit's End
Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
Body/Head - Coming Apart/The Switch
Harriet Tubman - The Terror End Of Beauty
Todd Terje - It's Album Time
Jessica Pratt - On Your Own Love Again
Angel Olsen - My Woman
DJ Rashad - Double Cup
Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time
Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty

[banquo]

post

[it's the suspense that gets me]

i guess??? top of my head.

frank ocean - blonde
car seat headrest - twin fantasy (face to face)
black dresses - wasteisolation
robyn - honey
lingua ignota - all bitches die
tyler the creator - flower boy
the avalanches - wildflower
danny brown - xxx
dj rashad - 20 minute workout
james ferraro - live at primavera sound
laurel halo - quarantine
waka flocka flame - flockaveli
sufjan stevens - age of adz
d'angelo - black messiah
earl sweatshirt - some rap songs
sicko mobb - super saiyan vol 1
young thug/rich homie quan - rich gang vol 1
kid cudi - speedin bullet 2 heaven
arca - mutant
chief keef - back from the dead vol 2

i'll try and do a list of other stuff that i think is just as good as those others but doesnt have the same personal significance later.

[gauchebag]

the idler wheel and let england shake are my two sure things. can't say which is better though. maybe pj

[a long gush from your hole]

1. laurel halo - quarantine
2. dean blunt - the redeemer
3. oneohtrix point never - replica
4. kanye west - yeezus
5. arca - mutant
6. frank ocean - blonde
7. sophie - oil of every pearls un-insides
8. young thug - barter 6
9. charli xcx - pop 2
10. james ferraro - far side virtual
11. grouper - ruins
12. dean blunt and inga copeland - black is beautiful
13. klein - tommy
14. death grips - the money store
15. julia holter - loud city song
16. carly rae jepsen - emotion
17. dj rashad - double cup
18. e+e (elysia crampton) - the light that you gave me to see you
19. macintosh plus - floral shoppe
20. tirzah - devotion

hm:
ariana grande - thank u, next
the caretaker - an empty bliss beyond this world
chuck person - chuck person's eccojam's vol. 1
future - ds2
giant claw - dark web
the knife - shaking the habitual
mount eerie - a crow looked at me
pharmakon - abandon
playboi carti - s/t
triad god - 黑社會 triad

[Montague Terrace]

not in order

Crocodiles - Endless Flowers
Robyn - Body Talk
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
Korallreven - An Album by Korallreven
Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
Joyce Manor - Joyce Manor
Chromatics - Kill for Love
Joanna Newsom - Divers
Modern Baseball - Holy Ghost
Gerard Way - Hesitant Alien
Radiohead - Moon Shaped Pool
David Bowie - Blackstar
Angel Olsen - My Woman
D'Angelo - Black Messiah
Beach House - Teen Dream
Merchandise - After the Fall
Big Thief - Masterpiece
Slowdive - Slowdive
Carly Rae Jepsen - Dedicated

[iacus]

Did hipinion ever do a best of the 90s thread

[emotional fascism]

Emma Ruth Rundle owned this decade for me (2 Marriages releases, Some Heavy Ocean, Marked for Death, On Dark Horses)
Bowie - Blackstar [masterpiece]
My Bloody Valentine - m b v [also a masterpiece]
Neko Case - The Worse Things Get... [bleak as fuck, but her strongest statement]
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Skeleton Key

need more time on anything deeper than this. maybe Sleater Kinney 'No Cities to Love'

[Brevity]

edited 10/31


1.
D'Angelo & the Vanguard - Black Messiah
Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion
Cass McCombs - Big Wheel and Others
The Avalanches - Wildflower
Golden Birthday - Blue Island
Jai Paul - Leak 04-13
Miranda Lambert - The Weight of These Wings
Frank Ocean - Blonde
Kendrick Lamar - to pimp a butterfly
Robyn - Body Talk
Jim O'Rourke - Simple Songs
Kacey Musgraves - Same Trailer Different Park
PC Music, Vol. 1
Brandy Clark - Big Day in a Small Town
Kanye West - Yeezus
Purple Mountains - s/t
CAVE - Threace
Kero Kero Bonito - Bonito Generation
Charli XCX - Pop 2
Kylie Minogue - Aphrodite
20

[Althea]

1. The Weather Station - The Weather Station
Godspeed You Black Emperor - Allelujah, Don't Bend, Ascend
Paramore - After Laughter
Taylor Swift - Red
Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion

6. Yo La Tengo - There's a Riot Going On
Octo Octa - Resonant Body
Lambchop - FLOTUS
Charli XCX - Pop 2
Bing & Ruth - City Lake

11. Meg Baird - Seasons on Earth
Andre Ethier - Under Grape Leaves
Cian Nugent - Night Fiction
Khruangbin - The Universe Smiles On You
Martha - Blisters in the Pit of My Heart

16. Handsome Furs - Sound Kapital
Bitchin Bajas - Bitchin Bajas
Vampire Weekend - Father of the Bride
The Mountain Goats - Transcendental Youth
John K Samson - Winter Wheat

(This is ranked 1-20, I just left most of the numbers out to make it easier to edit)

[neuartillery]

First draft, alphabetical.

Atoms and Void / And Nothing Else
Julianna Barwick / The Magic Place
Beauty Pill / Describes Things as They Are
Blanck Mass / World Eater
Bottomless Pit / Blood Under the Bridge
Bill Callahan / Apocalypse
Sarah Davachi / Let Night Come On Bells End the Day
Deafheaven / Sunbather
Eluvium / False Readings On
Errors / Have Some Faith in Magic
Grouper / A I A
Tim Hecker / Ravedeath, 1972
Kendrick Lamar / Good Kid MAAD City
Mount Eerie / Now Only
Angel Olsen / My Woman
Pile / A Hairshirt of Purpose
Polvo / Siberia
Protomartyr / Relatives in Descent
Run the Jewels / Run the Jewels 2
Wye Oak / Civilian

[A-Ok]

garden of delete - oneohtrix point never
r + 7 - oneohtrix point never
replica - oneohtrix point never
hurry up we're dreaming - m83
5 the way out - the books
before today - ariel pink
I like it when you sleep... - the 1975
mouth silence - neil cicierega
visions - Grimes
10 age of - oneohtrix point never
junk - m83
bloom - beach house
depression cherry - beach house
modern vampires of the city - vampire weekend
15 halycon digest - deerhunter
commissions part one ep - oneohtrix point never
shriek - wye oak
yeezus - kanye west
pom pom - ariel pink
20 kaputt - destroyer

hms
slowdive - slowdive
strange mercy - st. vincent
good time - opn
uncut gems - opn
spooky action at a distance - lotus plaza
moon shaped pool - radiohead
7 - beach house
high violet - national