thread for tracking best music of the 2010s lists

Best list so far, kruezer! #milesahead

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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?

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.

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

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

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

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.

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2019/10/best-albums-of-the-2010s-paste.html

https://www.cleveland.com/life-and-culture/g66l-2019/10/9ca10ee95f3302/100-greatest-albums-of-the-2010s.html

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

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

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

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

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

great list deej!!!

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

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.

spotify pl deej list

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?

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)

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

thnx for the good words ppl

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

just listened to "Alright" for the first time

prob not much for me in this decade

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

ctrl+f 'dawson'

nothing

next

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?

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

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!!

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.

i haven't looked at this list yet

their song list has some interesting choices!

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

not really, and I just scrolled the whole thing

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

if these are your horizons i pity you tbh

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

i said 'some' interesting choices.

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

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

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

*most stultifying

there are a bunch of songs in the 200-101 range (the only part of these lists i look at tbh) that probably won't make the cut on lots of other decades list. katie dey, girl band, polo g, tirzah, frightened rabbit, colleen green, etc., are all solid choices that have little-to-zero chance of making to in other lists.

and the poptimistic choices in that region (zedd, jidenna, fetty wap) appeal to me, personally.

if these are your horizons i pity you tbh

― imago, Tuesday, November 5, 2019 10:58 AM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

you can fuck right off for this btw

katie dey was p much the only time i was pleasantly surprised and that was in the bottom five of the 200!

why are you taking this personally

there's something about these that gives me a sick feeling the deeper I scroll

lol dude is getting a sick feeling from reading some lists

why are you taking this personally

― imago, Tuesday, November 5, 2019 11:11 AM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i wasn't until you said "if these are your horizons i pity you tbh"