It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times - 2010 to 2019 Albums & Tracks of The Decade

[Tommy Dickfingers]

First thing that comes to mind. Album and track top 10 for me easy. Don’t really care for Ric Ross but his verse is fire. 

[Slugy]

No particular order.

 

The Suburbs - Arcade Fire

Suck it and See - Arctic Monkeys

Tranquility Base Hotel - Arctic Monkeys

Swimming - Mac Miller

Smother - Wild Beasts

Total Life Forever - Foals

Currents - Tame Impala

Malibu - Anderson .Paak

Rise of Hobo Johnson - Hobo Johnson

High Violet - The National

 

Easy Life & Mellah missed out due only having EP's out.

 

[golden egg]

52 minutes ago, Tommy Dickfingers said:

First thing that comes to mind. Album and track top 10 for me easy. Don’t really care for Ric Ross but his verse is fire. 

Just one of the greatest guest verses. Perfect song. 

[OnlyRevolutions]

Albums:

i like it when you sleep - The 1975

Holy Fire - Foals

SATURATION - BROCKHAMPTON

MBDTF - Kanye West

Blond - Frank Ocean

Good Kid Maad City - Kendrick Lamar

The Balcony - Catfish & The Bottlemen

SATURATION II - BROCKHAMPTON

Flower Boy - Tyler, The Creator

What Do You Think About The Car? - Declan Mckenna

Only Revolutions - Biffy Clyro (for giving me my name)

 

 

Edited December 2, 2019 by OnlyRevolutions

[Wooderson]

Albums  

1. Blackstar - DB   
2. Joy As An Act Of Resistance - Idles   
3. This Is Happening - LCD Soundsystem   
4. War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream   
5. Queen Of Denmark - John Grant   
6. Teens of Denial - Car Seat Headrest   
7. Manipulator - Ty Segall   
8. We Like It Here - Snarky Puppy   
9. The Harrow & The Harvest - Gillian Welch   
10. Blunderbuss - Jack White
11. Primal Scream - More Light   
12. Masana Temples - Kikagaku Moyo   
13. Polygondwanaland - King Gizz   

Tracks

1. Dreaming in the Non Dream - Chris Forsyth
2. Web - Thee Oh Sees
3. Desire Lines - Deerhunter
4. Neuroplasticity - The Peep Tempel
5. Speed Trap Town - Jason Isbell
6. One Sunday Morning - Wilco
7. Stylo - Gorillaz
8. Sprawl II Mountains Beyond Mountains - Arcade Fire
9. Back in '74 - Endless Boogie
10. Blood and Sand/Milk and Endless Waters - All Them Witches

[GrumpyRaver]

I can't get my albums below a top 13...

Albums

1. Blackstar - David Bowie
2. Pale Green Ghosts - John Grant
3. I See You - The XX
4. Singularity - Jon Hopkins
5. High Violet -The National
6. St Vincent - St Vincent
7. Our Love - Caribou
8. Teen Dream - Beach House
9. Modern Vampires of the City - Vampire Weekend
10. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye West
11. Tremors - Sohn
12. To Pimp a Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar
13. Colours - Beck

[Badlands]

3 hours ago, Matt42 said:

Maybe it’s just the circles you interact with but I’d say all three of those albums are staple pieces of this decade. AM and RAM definitely — I’d say the suburbs is the weak one of the three!

It was more your talk of being able to use them as a point of reference to the sound of other music released this decade. No doubting the fact that RAM was a big deal, but i haven't seen a load of copycats following it, though it's obvs given Nile Rodgers a boost! Same with The Suburbs and AM.

[Hugh Jass]

6 minutes ago, Badlands said:

It was more your talk of being able to use them as a point of reference to the sound of other music released this decade. No doubting the fact that RAM was a big deal, but i haven't seen a load of copycats following it, though it's obvs given Nile Rodgers a boost! Same with The Suburbs and AM.

RAM will go down as this decade’s triumph of hype over quality.

[Badlands]

3 minutes ago, Hugh Jass said:

RAM will go down as this decade’s triumph of hype over quality.

I still think its high points are very high. Both Pharell tracks and Instant Crush are top notch.

[Hugh Jass]

6 minutes ago, Badlands said:

I still think its high points are very high. Both Pharell tracks and Instant Crush are top notch.

I’ve always felt there’s a hint of Emperors New Clothes about it.

[Badlands]

4 minutes ago, Hugh Jass said:

I’ve always felt there’s a hint of Emperors New Clothes about it.

I don't think you're alone in that, quite the backlash against all the hype. It's certainly not as good as the reviews made out.

[Matt42]

RAM didn’t influence music released after it? Y’all are on crack.

[GrumpyRaver]

1 minute ago, Matt42 said:

RAM didn’t influence music released after it? Y’all are on crack.

Nah, people on crack have their finger on the pulse...

[jyoung]

I could make a top 100 and RAM wouldn't be in it.

[Badlands]

7 minutes ago, Matt42 said:

RAM didn’t influence music released after it? Y’all are on crack.

Name ten albums that it influenced 

[GrumpyRaver]

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[GrumpyRaver]

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Edited December 2, 2019 by GrumpyRaver

[Mezhyp1]

20 minutes ago, Badlands said:

Name ten albums that it influenced 

name one 

[GrumpyRaver]

8 minutes ago, Mezhyp1 said:

name one 

Uptown Special

[Hugh Jass]

22 minutes ago, Mezhyp1 said:

name one 

If I was feeling generous I’d say Get Lucky played a part in Nile Rogers’ career renaissance. But he was already well on his way by that point.

[dentalplan]

5 hours ago, Matt42 said:

Like it or not another one I’d probably add to the mix that I haven’t seen on here yet is + by Ed Sheeran. Very much set the way for Capaldi, Ezra et all and changed what sort of music became commercially successful. 
 

Maybe I’m just a music geek but I like to look back on the decade and see what albums influenced changes in the music scene - and what could come next.

Maybe the only self-professed music geek to go to the mat for Ed Sheeran’s +. Nobody has said it because people usually list music that they like.

That kind of packaged artist was always successful though - Sheeran got in on a tried and true format. Did you not notice James Blunt and basically half of X Factor/Pop Idol in the noughties?

[CaledonianGonzo]

Audacious of Dua Lipa to drop the best song of the decade when there's only a few weeks to go.

[Mouseboy11]

Going to do both in no particular order as I'm not a big fan of having to rank things...took me a while to think of these but I feel these are probably the albums that have stuck with me the most and that I often revisit.

Albums: 

Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid Maad City 
Idles - Brutalism
Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork
Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 2
Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
Foals - Total Life Forever
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Nonagon Infinity 
Bon Iver - 22, A Million 

Dishonourable mention

 

Brand New - Science Fiction

Songs:

Midland - Final Credits
Kanye West - Runaway
Jamie XX - Loud Places
Car Seat Headrest - Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales
Idles - Samaritans
Lapsley - Operator (DJ Koze Edit)
JME - Man Don't Care
Adele - Rolling in the Deep
Queens of the Stone Age  - I Appear Missing
Kendrick Lamar - M.a.a.d City

 

Edited December 2, 2019 by Mouseboy11

[BlackZeppelin]

Based on listening frequency

( Worrying lack of diversity here):

1. Moon Shaped Pool

2. King of Limbs

3. What Went Down

4. Flying Microtonal Banana (KG)

5. Holy Fire

6. No Geography

7. I'm in your Mind Fuzz (KG)

8. El Camino (Black Keys)

9. Sea of Cowards ( Dead Weather)

10. Blunderbuss (Jack White)

I know, I should get out more.

[Mezhyp1]

13 hours ago, Mouseboy11 said:

Going to do both in no particular order as I'm not a big fan of having to rank things...took me a while to think of these but I feel these are probably the albums that have stuck with me the most and that I often revisit.

Albums: 

Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid Maad City 
Idles - Brutalism
Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork
Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 2
Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
Foals - Total Life Forever
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Nonagon Infinity 
Bon Iver - 22, A Million 

Dishonourable mention

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Brand New - Science Fiction

Songs:

Midland - Final Credits
Kanye West - Runaway
Jamie XX - Loud Places
Car Seat Headrest - Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales
Idles - Samaritans
Lapsley - Operator (DJ Koze Edit)
JME - Man Don't Care
Adele - Rolling in the Deep
Queens of the Stone Age  - I Appear Missing
Kendrick Lamar - M.a.a.d City

 

Very glad to finally see Final Credits. Will be very high on my tracks of the decade