thread for tracking best music of the 2010s lists

can we have a thread for bad-faith descriptions of poptimism in decade-end coverage?

ig i'm missing sfj now?

lol i have seen someone specifically bemoaning the lack of that beck album on any lists though, the internet's a big place

sorry you guys aren't going to gaslight me into think anyone still gives a shit about Morning Phase.

obviously amanda petrusich does

it's just part of the in-house style guide

I like to kid about being totally out of the musical loop but these lists reveal that I've very successfully (if not entirely intentionally) avoided contemporary music for basically an entire decade. Almost everything I'm at all familiar with is from 2010. Yikes.</old>

her 2019 list has 75 dollar bill on it, which is cool

xp you ain't young lunch

petrusich lists making the risible error of treating the 2010s like the 1960s and the readership like idiots. brad's already got this one though thankfully

Quietus is always the one where i learn the most:
https://thequietus.com/articles/27504-quietus-albums-of-the-year-2019-norman-records

whoops, thought this was best of 2019

i actually back the quietus to do a decent decade list tbf, there won't be as much scope for boring wibbly ambient-experimental bollocks as in their eoy lists

I wouldn't be surprised if tQ doesn't join in w/ a eod list.

Also, it is my very unscientific opinion that the percentage of "boring wibbly ambient-experimental bollocks" has gone down steadily over the last years?

Lovely to see Bad Debt get a mention, albeit it's the very essence of a minor record, swamped by the very notion of what's around it and the notion of a decade list of this size.

agreed ^ that is a VERY strange record on that list

did this one get posted? unranked. https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2019/10/30/aquarium-drunkard-decade-2010-19/
this is a great resource

https://www.billboard.com/100-songs-that-defined-the-2010s

wow music is terrible

― 💠 (crüt), Monday, November 18, 2019 6:48 AM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

I think that's a pretty good list in terms of not trying to make critical judgments but just presenting the songs that made a big splash.

Yeah, I like that BB list — it’s a nice mix of personal faves (including unexpectedly recent tracks like Rosalía’s “Malamente”); stuff that’s not my bag but was “important”; and then a few LOL / 🤔 picks like Rebecca Black / “Friday” and Weezer / “Africa.”

Like, including “Let It Go” and “My Shot” (among some of those other picks) seems genuinely smart.

https://www.normanrecords.com/features/albums-of-the-decade

I think it's very weird of that Billboard list to include The Weeknd and NOT have the song be "Can't Feel My Face"

https://www.factmag.com/2019/12/10/the-best-tracks-of-2019/

I guess this is the best place to ask, so when does our EOY poll nomination thread go up?

November 2029

the intro to that fact list is making me insane ... sanctimony ahoy

if you're gonna have a list like that you shouldnt be ranking fucking pop smoke & 2019 thug songs ... i feel like the audacity of that demands u pick records that show a deeper reading of genre than this tepid poptimism

Sorry that one belonged in the eoy thread not the eod one.

@JF EOY nominations r open: ILM's 2019 End of Year Tracks & Albums Poll / NOMINATIONS THREAD

they chose the wrong 2019 thug song anyway

“hot”, not that it matters, forget I said anything

https://www.tinymixtapes.com/features/2010s-favorite-music-releases-staff-picks

I like how many of the lists challenge the idea of eoy lists

attn emo goons

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/100-best-punk-emo-albums-of-the-2010s/

lots of good records presented in a mostly baffling order

weird to see a publication fucking with white lung after their singer went full alt-right. they weren't *that* good

wait what

the white lung trajectory from "good punk band" to "alt-right shill in charge of penthouse, which is now also alt-right" was, from a 2012 vantage point, unexpected!

— David Grossman (@davidgross_man) December 12, 2018

that's a yikes from me fam

but I mean even putting that aside their placements are way too high imo

Wait, Penthouse is now alt-right???

despite the conor oberst association i really wouldnt have considered phoebe bridgers 'emo' so surprising to see her on that list

a lot of what gets counted as part of the emo umbrella is about association tbh

Was Elliott Smith emo? If so, what is different about phoebe bridgers which makes her not emo?

really liked that tinymixtapes list

might not be linked here yet
https://www.tinymixtapes.com/features/2010s-favorite-100-music-releases-decade

20 to 11 is ♥

Wait, Penthouse is now alt-right???

That article doesn’t seem particularly damning(?)