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weird list over here

https://uproxx.com/music/best-hip-hop-albums-of-the-2010s-ranked/

flopsy bird (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 17:26 (four years ago) link

here's the pitchfork 2000's album list for you, happy birthday

200. Ratking: So It Goes (2014)
199. Wu Lyf: Go Tell Fire to the Mountain (2011)
198. Jean Grae / Quelle Chris: Everything’s Fine (2018)
197. Fatima Al Qadiri: Genre-Specific Xperience (2011)
196. Portal: Vexovoid (2013)
195. Downtown Boys: Full Communism (2015)
194. Titus Andronicus: The Monitor (2010)
193. Lil Peep: Hellboy (2016)
192. Kelela: Cut 4 Me (2013)
191. Kate Bush: 50 Words for Snow (2011)
190. Huerco S.: For Those of You Who Have Never (and Also Those Who Have) (2016)
189. Miranda Lambert: The Weight of These Wings (2016)
188. Pusha-T: Daytona (2018)
187. Iceage: Beyondless (2018)
186. Various Artists: Mono No Aware (2017)
185. Hailu Mergia: Lala Belu (2018)
184. Soccer Mommy: Clean (2018)
183. Elysia Crampton: American Drift (2015)
182. G.L.O.S.S.: Trans Day of Revenge (2016)
181. Jamila Woods: LEGACY! LEGACY! (2019)
180. Chvrches: The Bones of What You Believe (2013)
179. Shabazz Palaces: Black Up (2011)
178. Savages: Silence Yourself (2013)
177. Margo Price: All American Made (2017)
176. Gil Scott-Heron: I’m New Here (2010)
175. Jessie Ware: Devotion (2012)
174. Sharon Van Etten: Are We There (2014)
173. Hurray for the Riff Raff: Small Town Heroes (2014)
172. Popcaan: Where We Come From (2014)
171. JPEGMAFIA: Veteran (2018)
170. Skee Mask: Compro (2018)
169. Paramore: After Laughter (2017)
168. Julianna Barwick: The Magic Place (2011)
167. (Sandy) Alex G: DSU (2014)
166. Nicki Minaj: The Pinkprint (2014)
165. Jay Som: Everybody Works (2017)
164. Hop Along: Painted Shut (2015)
163. Meek Mill: Dreamchasers 2 (2012)
162. Sturgill Simpson: Metamodern Sounds in Country Music (2014)
161. The 1975: I like it when you sleep… (2016)
160. Noname: Room 25 (2018)
159. Pallbearer: Foundations of Burden (2014)
158. Sleigh Bells: Treats (2010)
157. The 1975: A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships (2018)
156. Jenny Lewis: The Voyager (2014)
155. 21 Savage / Metro Boomin: Savage Mode (2016)
154. Mica Levi: Under the Skin OST (2014)
153. Purple Mountains: Purple Mountains (2019)
152. Arctic Monkeys: AM (2013)
151. Lady Gaga: The Fame Monster (2009)
150. Playboi Carti: Playboi Carti (2017)
149. Mac DeMarco: 2 (2012)
148. Nicolas Jaar: Space Is Only Noise (2011)
147. The National: High Violet (2010)
146. Sheer Mag: Compilation (2017)
145. Chief Keef: Finally Rich (2012)
144. PJ Harvey: Let England Shake (2011)
143. Weyes Blood: Titanic Rising (2019)
142. Fennesz: Agora (2019)
141. Rick Ross: Rich Forever (2012)
140. Parquet Courts: Sunbathing Animal (2014)
139. Emeralds: Does It Look Like I’m Here? (2010)
138. Alabama Shakes: Sound & Color (2015)
137. A$AP Rocky: LIVE.LOVE.A$AP (2011)
136. Tim Hecker: Ravedeath, 1972 (2011)
135. Fleet Foxes: Helplessness Blues (2011)
134. M83: Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming (2011)
133. Frankie Cosmos: Zentropy (2014)
132. Amen Dunes: Freedom (2018)
131. Run the Jewels: Run the Jewels 2 (2014)
130. Tame Impala: Lonerism (2012)
129. Various Artists: Bangs and Works Vol. 1: A Chicago Footwork Compilation (2010)
128. Radiohead: A Moon Shaped Pool (2016)
127. Car Seat Headrest: Teens of Denial (2016)
126. Panda Bear: Tomboy (2011)
125. Yves Tumor: Safe in the Hands of Love (2018)
124. Real Estate: Days (2011)
123. Deafheaven: Sunbather (2013)
122. Snail Mail: Lush (2018)
121. The Hotelier: Home, Like Noplace Is There (2014)
120. Tyler, the Creator: Flower Boy (2017)
119. Girlpool: Before the World Was Big (2015)
118. Leonard Cohen: You Want It Darker (2016)
117. Death Grips: The Money Store (2012)
116. Janelle Monáe: The ArchAndroid (2010)
115. U.S. Girls: In a Poem Unlimited (2018)
114. Sampha: Process (2017)
113. Japandroids: Celebration Rock (2012)
112. Daft Punk: Random Access Memories (2013)
111. EMA: Past Life Martyred Saints (2011)
110. Waka Flocka Flame: Flockaveli (2010)
109. Julia Holter: Aviary (2018)
108. Kaytranada: 99.9% (2016)
107. Dirty Projectors: Swing Lo Magellan (2012)
106. Moses Sumney: Aromanticism (2017)
105. Disclosure: Settle (2013)
104. Waxahatchee: Cerulean Salt (2013)
103. Helado Negro: This Is How You Smile (2019)
102. Jeremih: Late Nights: The Album (2015)
101. Chromatics: Kill for Love (2012)
100. Ariana Grande: Sweetener (2018)
99. Bad Bunny: X 100PRE (2018)
98. Todd Terje: It’s Album Time (2014)
97. The War on Drugs: Lost in the Dream (2014)
96. Low: Double Negative (2018)
95. Jai Paul: Leak 04-13 (Bait Ones) (2019)
94. Vampire Weekend: Contra (2010)
93. Tirzah: Devotion (2018)
92. JAY-Z / Kanye West: Watch the Throne (2011)
91. Bon Iver: 22, A Million (2016)
90. Joyce Manor: Never Hungover Again (2014)
89. Caribou: Our Love (2014)
88. Jenny Hval: Apocalypse, girl (2015)
87. Rae Sremmurd: SremmLife (2015)
86. Haim: Days Are Gone (2013)
85. Jessica Pratt: On Your Own Love Again (2015)
84. Chance the Rapper: Acid Rap (2013)
83. Burial: Rival Dealer EP (2013)
82. Girls: Father, Son, Holy Ghost (2011)
81. Solange: When I Get Home (2019)
80. Aphex Twin: Syro (2014)
79. Tame Impala: Currents (2015)
78. Kurt Vile: Smoke Ring for My Halo (2011)
77. Four Tet: There Is Love in You (2010)
76. Arcade Fire: The Suburbs (2010)
75. The Weeknd: House of Balloons (2011)
74. SOPHIE: OIL OF EVERY PEARL’s UN-INSIDES (2018)
73. Cardi B: Invasion of Privacy (2018)
72. Father John Misty: I Love You, Honeybear (2015)
71. Robyn: Honey (2018)
70. Perfume Genius: No Shape (2017)
69. Drake: If You’re Reading This, It’s Too Late (2015)
68. Flying Lotus: Cosmogramma (2010)
67. Courtney Barnett: Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit (2015)
66. Fever Ray: Plunge (2017)
65. Future: Dirty Sprite 2 (2015)
64. Mitski: Be the Cowboy (2018)
63. Danny Brown: XXX (2011)
62. Grouper: Ruins (2014)
61. Arca: Arca (2017)
60. King Krule: The OOZ (2017)
59. Taylor Swift: Red (2012)
58. Kamasi Washington: The Epic (2015)
57. Kendrick Lamar: DAMN. (2017)
56. Björk: Vulnicura (2015)
55. St. Vincent: Strange Mercy (2011)
54. Young Thug: Barter 6 (2015)
53. Jlin: Black Origami (2017)
52. LCD Soundsystem: This Is Happening (2010)
51. DJ Koze: Knock Knock (2018)
50. Grimes: Visions (2012)
49. Oneohtrix Point Never: Replica (2011)
48. ANOHNI: Hopelessness (2016)
47. Carly Rae Jepsen: E•MO•TION (2015)
46. The Knife: Shaking the Habitual (2013)
45. Mount Eerie: A Crow Looked at Me (2017)
44. A Tribe Called Quest: We got it from Here... Thank You 4 Your service (2016)
43. Sky Ferreira: Night Time, My Time (2013)
42. Erykah Badu: New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh (2010)
41. Beyoncé: Lemonade (2016)
40. Charli XCX: Pop 2 (2017)
39. Bill Callahan: Apocalypse (2011)
38. Tierra Whack: Whack World (2018)
37. David Bowie: Blackstar (2016)
36. Rosalía: El Mal Querer (2018)
35. Blood Orange: Cupid Deluxe (2013)
34. Vince Staples: Summertime ’06 (2015)
33. Big Thief: U.F.O.F. (2019)
32. Bon Iver: Bon Iver (2011)
31. Beyoncé: 4 (2011)
30. Mitski: Puberty 2 (2016)
29. Deerhunter: Halcyon Digest (2010)
28. FKA twigs: LP1 (2014)
27. Earl Sweatshirt: Some Rap Songs (2018)
26. Angel Olsen: Burn Your Fire for No Witness (2014)
25. Jamie xx: In Colour (2015)
24. SZA: CTRL (2017)
23. Kacey Musgraves: Golden Hour (2018)
22. Destroyer: Kaputt (2011)
21. Beach House: Teen Dream (2010)
20. DJ Rashad: Double Cup (2013)
19. Lana Del Rey: Norman Fucking Rockwell! (2019)
18. Kendrick Lamar: good kid, m.A.A.d. city (2012)
17. Sufjan Stevens: Carrie & Lowell (2015)
16. Joanna Newsom: Have One on Me (2010)
15. Kanye West: Yeezus (2013)
14. Lorde: Melodrama (2017)
13. Drake: Take Care (2011)
12. Rihanna: ANTI (2016)
11. Grimes: Art Angels (2015)
10. Frank Ocean: Channel Orange (2012)
9. D’Angelo & the Vanguard: Black Messiah (2014)
8. Robyn: Body Talk (2010)
7. Vampire Weekend: Modern Vampires of the City (2013)
6. Solange: A Seat at the Table (2016)
5. Fiona Apple: The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do (2012)
4. Kendrick Lamar: To Pimp a Butterfly (2015)
3. Beyoncé: Beyoncé (2013)
2. Kanye West: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010)
1. Frank Ocean: Blonde (2016)

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 17:42 (four years ago) link

This list suxx too

Spry at 78 (morrisp), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 17:47 (four years ago) link

fucking hell pitchfork, that is not it

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 18:26 (four years ago) link

I was putting together my favourites from the 2010s while I was trying to vote in the 2000s poll, so here are the 100 songs of the 2010s I picked, in a rough order from top to bottom. Not a curated list but hey, here it is if anyone wants to look. I haven't really paid much attention to 2019 yet so its missing this year altogether I think.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xU6X7n5YMWn1y5BeqMvs636VOMgsY2Sy_64jrPY-nbg/edit?usp=sharing

Will (kruezer2), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 19:21 (four years ago) link

Best list so far, kruezer! #milesahead

breastcrawl, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 20:16 (four years ago) link

yeah, good list, just baffles me that something like Tkay Maizda - U-huh does not make it onto things like the pitchfork list because why? too pop? no angle to take on it? seems like loads of great music is lost to them because they insist on viewing it down a series of narrow lenses.

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 20:21 (four years ago) link

There’s some really good songs in that list that I hope get more attention outside of ILM but I haven’t seen them hyped anywhere else.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 21:01 (four years ago) link

tkay maidza shows up a couple of times when you search the pitchfork archives but basically she's not on anyone's radar outside of triple j and like...the singles jukebox

monotony, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 22:21 (four years ago) link

Diddy & Dirty Money, The Dream, Sun-El Musician, Owen Pallett, Tkay Maidza on that list, to name a few, are great songs from good albums that I have seen love thrown around ILM but seldom see mentioned elsewhere.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 22:32 (four years ago) link

the pitchfork album list is pretty much as expected, isn't it? like aside from, say, mitski being their #1 last year and landing at #64, artists like miguel and rustie missing out, and 4 placing higher than lemonade, it seems as though there are few surprises if you've followed their site this decade

monotony, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 22:33 (four years ago) link

Beyond anything else, Blonde as the best lp of the decade is simply bizarre, I don't even dislike it but in what way is that the pinnacle?

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 22:37 (four years ago) link

god, i like a handful of them, but like the aesthetic range in that top 10 is paper thin as compared to the great big wide world of music. it's sad. or rather it'd be sad if it meant anything.

alpine static, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 23:04 (four years ago) link

I don’t get Blonde. Maybe if he was a better singer? Maybe if it had more interesting production choices? Channel Orange has enough hooks to ignore the weakness within but Blonde is all about textures and his voice but they don’t interest me enough to do a full album that sounds like this.

production-wise there’s also an insane amount of clipping on his vocals

✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 23:21 (four years ago) link

like the aesthetic range in that top 10 is paper thin as compared to the great big wide world of music.

That’s a good way of putting it

Spry at 78 (morrisp), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 23:30 (four years ago) link

agree there were more memorable songs on Channel Orange, but I also like the texture and ambience of Blonde

Dan S, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 23:50 (four years ago) link

Seems weird publishing a list with Big Thief's UFOF at #33, when its companion album is dropping in a few days. Like you'd want to wait and see if that one is good too.

aphoristical, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 23:59 (four years ago) link

That Cleveland.com list has some good choices (though the blurbs are really bad).

drunk on hot toddies (morrisp), Thursday, 10 October 2019 03:21 (four years ago) link

would be surprised if any new Big Thief album this year could top UFOF

Blonde feels like Donuts to me - haphazard, amorphous, not defining, but there is something about it

Dan S, Thursday, 10 October 2019 03:23 (four years ago) link

personally i'm waiting for Tiny Mix Tapes' list, which we all know will be completely fucked up but somewhat interesting

josh az (2011nostalgia), Thursday, 10 October 2019 04:41 (four years ago) link

tmt's lists are by far the best thing they do because they're usually at least interesting and the blurbs are more generally readable than the reviews

ufo, Thursday, 10 October 2019 05:22 (four years ago) link

just finished my hundred songs ... it rules ass tbh

― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Tuesday, October 8, 2019 1:37 AM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

share it deej

― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, October 8, 2019 9:02 AM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

https://somanyshrimp.com/2019/10/09/best-music-2010-2019

a friend linked me this v approvingly

lowercase (eric), Thursday, 10 October 2019 11:47 (four years ago) link

great list deej!!!

american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 10 October 2019 12:50 (four years ago) link

yeah thats a great list, how the hell did I forget Wololo and Y-tjukutja.

Will (kruezer2), Thursday, 10 October 2019 13:05 (four years ago) link

sometimes I think these publications should just solicit lists from all of their writers (to maintain the ruse) and then just randomly pick one person's individual list and run that as the staff list.

Evans on Hammond (evol j), Thursday, 10 October 2019 13:40 (four years ago) link

spotify pl deej list

be goose, do crimes (||||||||), Thursday, 10 October 2019 15:08 (four years ago) link

Yeah, good list. One question: which Respect The Drumboss did you pick? All of Heavy K’s albums have that title. I’m guessing it’s the 2013 one, or perhaps the 2015 one, and probably not the 2018 one, but who knows?

breastcrawl, Thursday, 10 October 2019 16:51 (four years ago) link

actually intended 2015 -- 2013 is dope ofc but i came to that late, "givemeluv" was one of my most listened songs that year (i regret not making space on the singles list, but that excuse was how i justified not ranking, like, rihanna singles on the songs list)

ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Friday, 11 October 2019 00:13 (four years ago) link

that excuse = dropping a song from the songs list if the artist had an album i knew would make it

ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Friday, 11 October 2019 00:14 (four years ago) link

thnx for the good words ppl

ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Friday, 11 October 2019 00:15 (four years ago) link

all these lists are missing chelsea jade's Personal Best, a favorite of mine.

unashamed and trash (Unctious), Friday, 11 October 2019 01:38 (four years ago) link

just listened to "Alright" for the first time

prob not much for me in this decade

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 11 October 2019 02:53 (four years ago) link

three weeks pass...

https://www.stereogum.com/featured/best-albums-of-the-2010s-list/

ufo, Monday, 4 November 2019 20:59 (four years ago) link

ctrl+f 'dawson'

nothing

next

imago, Monday, 4 November 2019 21:01 (four years ago) link

OK I scrolled it. The same rancid shit Pitchfork served up. Genuinely great albums, yes, but diminished by this empty canon-affirmation. What's the point of Stereogum?

imago, Monday, 4 November 2019 21:04 (four years ago) link

SOME genuinely great albums, I mean, and the usual pablum

imago, Monday, 4 November 2019 21:04 (four years ago) link

Here's all the albums Pitchfork told you to love, in a slightly different order! And with Yeezus at 2 - that's OUR power move! Team Stereogum shocked you there!!

imago, Monday, 4 November 2019 21:05 (four years ago) link

stereogum is one of the few sites that actually pays people to go in-depth about particular songs and albums, so they are a net good even if their taste can run towards the corny side. they also promote some pretty excellent guitar-oriented music that few other sites touch on.

kanye kendrick frank kendrick frank kanye (voodoo chili), Monday, 4 November 2019 21:18 (four years ago) link

i haven't looked at this list yet

kanye kendrick frank kendrick frank kanye (voodoo chili), Monday, 4 November 2019 21:18 (four years ago) link

their song list has some interesting choices!

https://www.stereogum.com/featured/best-songs-of-the-2010s-list/

kanye kendrick frank kendrick frank kanye (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 15:36 (four years ago) link

not really, and I just scrolled the whole thing

imago, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 15:56 (four years ago) link

faddish american pop canon reinforced once again. here are your royals

imago, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 15:58 (four years ago) link

if these are your horizons i pity you tbh

imago, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 15:58 (four years ago) link

there wasn't even a weyes blood song, presumably as she's a bit too weird. but i don't want to focus on single examples. there's something really empty and aggressively banal about these lists that serve to massage the self-assurance of middling-interest hipsters and achieve fuck all besides

imago, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 16:01 (four years ago) link

i said 'some' interesting choices.

some people don't like weyes blood as much as you do.

kanye kendrick frank kendrick frank kanye (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 16:02 (four years ago) link

that was just an example of how averse these lists are to anything that's a little tricky or unusual or heaven forbid unfashionable

imago, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 16:04 (four years ago) link

it's the americanness of it all that's the lost stultifying part perhaps? idk I'd almost want to analyse these lists - pfork, stereogum etc - on an artist-by-artist basis and work out the curatorial parameters, the boxes being ticked, the consensuses they're trying to manufacture

nothing against lists, but there's something about these that gives me a sick feeling the deeper I scroll, and I know I'm not alone in this

imago, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 16:06 (four years ago) link

*most stultifying

imago, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 16:06 (four years ago) link


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