100 Salem - King Night99 Cardi B - Invasion of Privacy98 M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming97 (Sandy) Alex G - House of Sugar96 Nothing - Guilty of Everything95 Macintosh Plus - Floral Shoppe94 The Hotelier - Home, Like No Place Is There93 Skrillex - Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites92 Elysia Crampton - American Drift91 Gojira - Magma90 Mac Miller - Swimming89 The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream88 Pile - Dripping87 Jeremih - Late Nights: The Album86 FKA Twigs - LP185 Wiley - Zip Files84 Nicki Minaj - The Pinkprint83 Sheer Mag - Need to Feel Your Love82 Darkside - Psychic81 Holly Herndon - Platform80 Total Control - Henge Beat79 Gucci Mane - World War 378 Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold77 Turnstile - Nonstop Feeling76 Kelela - Take Me Apart75 LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening74 100S - Ice Cold Perm73 James Blake - James Blake72 YOB - Atma71 PJ Harvey - Let England Shake70 Stormzy - Gang Signs and Prayer69 Justin Bieber - Journals68 Dean Blunt - The Redeemer67 John Maus - We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves66 J Balvin - Vibras65 Lorde - Melodrama64 Lil Peep - Come Over When You're Sober63 Burna Boy - Africa Giant62 Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell61 The-Dream - Love Kingn60 SOPHIE - Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides59 Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Piñata58 Bon Iver - Bon Iver57 Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds in Country Music56 Kamasi Washington - The Epic55 Japandroids - Celebration Rock54 Grouper - Ruins53 Tyler, the Creator - Flower Boy52 Carcass - Surgical Steel51 Jamie xx - In Colour50 Ozuna - Odisea49 ANOHNI - Hopelessness48 Frank Ocean - channel ORANGE47 Aphex Twin - Syro46 Drake - If You're Reading This It's Too Late45 PartyNextDoor - PND244 Popcaan - Forever43 Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest42 Future - 56 Nights41 Prurient - Frozen Niagara Falls40 The Weeknd - House of Balloons39 Grimes - Visions38 Blood Orange - Cupid Deluxe37 Charli XCX - Pop 236 Deafheaven - Sunbather35 Waka Flocka Flame - Flockaveli34 Thundercat - Drunk33 Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer32 Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness31 Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell30 Chance the Rapper - Acid Rap29 Titus Andronicus - The Monitor28 Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city27 Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour26 Arca - Arca25 Carly Rae Jepsen - EMOTION24 Beyoncé - Beyoncé23 Chief Keef - Almighty So22 Robyn - Body Talk21 Tierra Whack - Whack World20 Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy19 Young Thug - Barter 618 Lana Del Rey - Born to Die17 Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me16 Bad Bunny - X100PRE15 SZA - CTRL14 Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel...13 Tame Impala - Lonerism12 Miguel - Kaleidoscope Dream11 Beach House - Teen Dream10 Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica09 Future - DS208 Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly07 Rihanna - Anti06 DJ Rashad - Double Cup05 Beyoncé - Lemonade04 Power Trip - Nightmare Logic03 Frank Ocean - Blonde02 Rich Gang - Tha Tour Pt. 101 Solange - A Seat at the Table
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 7 November 2019 10:39 (four years ago) link
Weird list but I like that it has vaporwave, witch house and reggaeton and also a fixation on trap since those were definitely genres that dominated through the decade and haven’t been as prominent (if featured at all) on previous lists. This list kind of feels to me like the most “sounds of the 2010s” so far. It’s far from perfect and I think they’re overrating a bunch of these albums but makes me excited to read a singles/tracks list from them.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 7 November 2019 10:48 (four years ago) link
Many of those genres produced better songs than actual albums. I don’t think I can name an album in those genres that I’d rate a 10/10 but I can easily think of singles that would.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 7 November 2019 10:53 (four years ago) link
Also some interesting revisions of the decade by Chris Otthttps://shallowrewards.substack.com/p/rival-dealer-the-2010s-part-i
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 7 November 2019 11:05 (four years ago) link
that vice list is very weird in places but that at least makes it interesting
the weirdest pick is justin bieber - journals which i don't remember ever seeing anyone advocate for before and in my memory the purpose singles were his only real critical breakthrough. journals had a bizarre release strategy though that made it very overlooked by both critics and the public compared to what you'd expect from someone of bieber's popularity. a weird inclusion like that definitely has me curious at least
― ufo, Thursday, 7 November 2019 11:21 (four years ago) link
I remember liking quite a few of those Journal tracks. It’s been ages though, would have to listen again.
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 7 November 2019 11:43 (four years ago) link
Journals even
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 7 November 2019 11:44 (four years ago) link
(he went full on r&b there)
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 7 November 2019 11:50 (four years ago) link
It is very refreshing to see Burna, Popcaan, Balvin and Ozuna on a list like this.
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 7 November 2019 12:05 (four years ago) link
journals >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> purpose
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 November 2019 13:04 (four years ago) link
between stereogum and vice im a little incredulous that people like born to die so much
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 November 2019 13:05 (four years ago) link
me too, i went back to it after nfr and some of it is outright bad, certainly the worst lana album despite being the one with the hits
― ufo, Thursday, 7 November 2019 13:13 (four years ago) link
ldr is a brand that sells well atm
vice list slight improvement on its ghastly forerunners but there are plenty of the same problems. for example but by no means limited to deafheaven as token metal pick across the board
― imago, Thursday, 7 November 2019 13:29 (four years ago) link
at least vice have the decency to throw gojira and carcass in too
― imago, Thursday, 7 November 2019 13:31 (four years ago) link
the vice list has much more metal than i expect to see on most other lists so i don't really think deafheaven count as a token pick there
― ufo, Thursday, 7 November 2019 13:32 (four years ago) link
yeah that Power Trip album is awesome but weird to see so high. i dont agree with a lot of that list but it at least feels more personal.
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Thursday, 7 November 2019 13:34 (four years ago) link
oh haha I didn't even notice that
― imago, Thursday, 7 November 2019 13:39 (four years ago) link
my point stands that there are certain artists cropping up in all of these lists, creating an undisputed canon that i just can't get with. exhibit a: tame impala but there's like 60/70 that are ubiquitous regardless of their merits
― imago, Thursday, 7 November 2019 13:41 (four years ago) link
i suppose we have to find the pleasure in the gaps, which this list has more of. 'henge beat' for instance is a good & crazy call on a fairly obscure album, everyone go listen to 'carpet rash'
― imago, Thursday, 7 November 2019 13:47 (four years ago) link
― imago
canons are an exercise in compromise, decade-end lists are not really the time or the place to erase the arguably boring music beloved by a certain vocal demographic from the canon. in 20 years if it's really boring nobody will care about it and we can all sit back and laugh. merits? tame impala have an audience and aren't obviously evil.
― tantric societal collapse (rushomancy), Thursday, 7 November 2019 14:42 (four years ago) link
Speaking of canon, metacritic’s list is out:
https://www.metacritic.com/feature/best-albums-of-the-decade-2010s
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 7 November 2019 16:30 (four years ago) link
creating an undisputed canon that i just can't get with.
you literally just disputed it
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 7 November 2019 16:53 (four years ago) link
undisputed by the basic culturezine mafia ;)
― imago, Thursday, 7 November 2019 17:31 (four years ago) link
and you give a shit what the mafia says why?
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 7 November 2019 17:46 (four years ago) link
becaaaause the sheeple listen to them and construct this tastes accordingly
maybe let's see how the land lies in twenty years though yes
― imago, Thursday, 7 November 2019 17:50 (four years ago) link
I like that these lists exist. None of them ever match what I like at all. Out of a list of, say, 200 I'm lucky to find 1 or 2 songs or albums I was unaware of that I wind up liking. Good enough for me. Literally could not care less about a canon.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 7 November 2019 17:50 (four years ago) link
I fully endorse the Power Trip placement.
― o. nate, Friday, 8 November 2019 01:45 (four years ago) link
― imago, Thursday, November 7, 2019 8:41 AM (twelve hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
it's called 'lowest common denominator'. i'm not crazy about them or anything, but imho tame impala are a relatively good lcd band. they have a really good drummer, and the 'always going backwards' song is catchy
― flopson, Friday, 8 November 2019 02:11 (four years ago) link
"speaking of canon" erm isn't that the whole reason threads like this are even made? i'm surprised there isn't more pushback to the idea that we ought to keep reflexively making threads like this every single time list season starts up again
― dyl, Friday, 8 November 2019 04:21 (four years ago) link
Crack Magazine top 100 albums of the decade
https://crackmagazine.net/article/what-just-happened/the-top-100-albums-of-the-decade/
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 11 November 2019 23:51 (four years ago) link
100 Macintosh Plus - Floral Shoppe99 Jeremih - Late Nights (The Album)98 Caribou - Swim97 Tropic of Cancer - Restless Idylls96 Clams Casino - Instrumentals95 Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker94 Kurt Vile - Wakin on a Pretty Daze93 Ratking - So It Goes92 Wu Lyf - Go Tell Fire to the Mountain91 JME - Integrity90 St. Vincent - Masseduction89 Odd Future - The OF Tape Vol. 288 Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree87 Chance the Rapper - Acid Rap | Youtube Version with "Juice" included86 Tierra Whack - Whack World85 Daughters - You Won't Get What You Want84 Huerco S - For Those of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have)83 Kano - Hoodies All Summer82 Sleater-Kinney - No Cities to Love81 Nines - Crop Circle80 Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire for No Witness79 Metronomy - The English Riviera78 Tomasa Del Real - Bellaca Del Año77 Lorde - Melodrama76 The Caretaker - An Empty Bliss Beyond This World75 Janelle Monáe - The ArchAndroid74 Popcaan - Where We Come From73 Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell72 M.E.S.H. - Piteous Gate71 Charli XCX - Pop 270 DJ Python - Dulce Compañia69 Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool68 Mica Levi - Under the Skin OST67 These New Puritans - Field of Reeds66 Richard Dawson - Peasant65 Perfume Genius - Too Bright64 (Sandy) Alex G - DSU63 Bad Bunny - X 100PRE62 Nicolas Jaar - Space is Only Noise61 Ought - More Than Any Other Day60 Laurel Halo - Chance of Rain59 U.S. Girl - In a Poem Unlimited58 Gil Scott-Heron - I'm New Here57 Beach House - Bloom56 Andy Stott - Luxury Problems55 Kelela - Cut 4 Me54 The Bug - Angels & Devils53 SpaceGhostPurrp - Blvcklvnd Rvdix 66.652 Arcade Fire - The Suburbs51 The Hotelier - Home, Like Noplace Is There50 Young Thug - Barter 649 IDLES - Joy as an Act of Resistance48 Yves Tumor - Safe in the Hands of Love47 Playboi Carti - Playboi Carti46 Tyler, the Creator - Flower Boy45 Earl Sweatshirt - Doris44 Show Me the Body - Body War43 Blood Orange - Freetown Sound42 Novelist - Novelist Guy41 Robyn - Body Talk40 Actress - Ghettoville39 Anohni - HOPELESSNESS38 Jlin - Dark Energy37 Mitski - Puberty 236 Danny Brown - XXX35 Arca - Arca34 Deafheaven - Sunbather33 Drake - Take Care32 SZA - Ctrl31 D'Angelo and The Vanguard - Black Messiah30 Oneohtrix Point Never - Returnal29 Rihanna - ANTI28 Fever Ray - Plunge27 The Weeknd - House of Balloons26 Sons of Kemet - Your Queen is a Reptile25 John Talabot - ƒIN24 David Bowie - Blackstar23 Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy22 Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost21 Björk - Vulnicura20 Grimes - Visions19 Frank Ocean - Blonde18 Grouper - Ruins17 Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away16 J Hus - Common Sense15 Rustie - Glass Swords14 Kanye West - Yeezus13 Beyoncé - Lemonade12 Rich Gang - Tha Tour Pt. 111 Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence10 FKA Twigs - LP109 Jam City - Classical Curves08 Jenny Hval - Apocalypse, girl07 Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly06 SOPHIE - OIL OF EVERY PEARL'S UN-INSIDES05 Solange - A Seat at the Table04 PJ Harvey - Let England Shake03 DJ Rashad - Double Cup02 Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city01 Dean Blunt - BLACK METAL
i swear to god the next time i see deafheaven in one of these
― imago, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 00:12 (four years ago) link
Dean Blunt's Black Metal is pretty good but I think The Redeemer is great
Classical Curves is an interesting choice
― Dan S, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 00:26 (four years ago) link
i will never understand how upset you can get that other people like records you don't
― tantric societal collapse (rushomancy), Tuesday, 12 November 2019 00:40 (four years ago) link
Classical Curves being in there makes a lot of sense considering the make-up of the rest of that Clash list, it's a very FACT list and the ballot contained a lot of FACTish writers. There's an element of canon construction in all of these but it feels especially on-the-nose here, but when the list contains Popcaan, John Talabot, Sons of Kemet, J Hus, JME, DJ Rashad and the new Kano I'm OK with that.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 09:52 (four years ago) link
It also feels *very much* like an albums list composed by people whose primary listening is to largely non-album genres.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 09:54 (four years ago) link
the difference between this list and a FACT one is that FACT are quite wilfully not on-the-nose in their lists generally (and all for the better). this feels like a midpoint between FACT and the more typical sort of lists that come out of big US publications. there's still a lot to like about it as Matt said. i expect Classical Curves will show up on a lot of other UK lists, it seemed to be a real favourite among slightly left of center UK publications. generally i find UK lists to be a little more interesting as there's fair amount of stuff that just doesn't crossover to the US (and thus the rest of the english-speaking world) unfortunately
still have never understood anything from Dean Blunt though
also had no idea "Juice" was missing from the streaming version of Acid Rap - what's up with that, was it a sample issue or something?
― ufo, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 11:10 (four years ago) link
Even regional US scenes have a tendency to be erased in the big publications' lists.
(Also 'Juice' was the one I always found myself skipping so props to the streaming version there)
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 11:20 (four years ago) link
it’s a sample issue iirc
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 12 November 2019 14:41 (four years ago) link
lol Deafheaven is a great band
― alpine static, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 23:13 (four years ago) link
I misread that as: lol Deafheaven is a great bland
― that said, I’d prefer a single serving of you (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 00:49 (four years ago) link
the redeemer, black is beautiful, and one nation are my fave dean blunt albums
― brimstead, Wednesday, 13 November 2019 00:51 (four years ago) link
I like classical curves a lot, glad to see/hear that its appeal has endured. it has a lot of space and drama
― brimstead, Wednesday, 13 November 2019 00:52 (four years ago) link
Me I like Stone Island
― that said, I’d prefer a single serving of you (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 02:18 (four years ago) link
Classical Curves includes a very out-there mutation of instrumental grime, but it also feels like it is much more than that
― Dan S, Wednesday, 13 November 2019 03:18 (four years ago) link
it stimulates some of the same pleasure centers for me as Daniel Lopatin’s music
― Dan S, Wednesday, 13 November 2019 03:21 (four years ago) link
I love almost everything he’s done this decade but Dean Blunt is a hard sell for most of my friends except those who smoke weed. And even them can’t stand him more than two songs in a row. I might need to meet more people.
The Babyfather side project is also slept upon a lot. I get so offput by that offensively tacky album cover for BBF, but I give it a pass because God Hour is one of my favorite things he’s done.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 06:26 (four years ago) link
One of my friends described his music as post-racial and I can kind of hear what he meant.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 06:30 (four years ago) link
never was sure what the object was that was depicted on that album cover
― Dan S, Wednesday, 13 November 2019 07:39 (four years ago) link
Kind of enjoyed this list despite multiple Drake entries:
https://exclaim.ca/music/article/exclaim_50_best_canadian_albums_of_the_2010s
50. Owen Pallett - In Conflict (2014)49. Shad - Flying Colours (2013)48. Jennifer Castle - Pink City (2014)47. Colin Stetson - New History Warfare, Vol. 3: To See More Light (2013)46. Andy Shauf - The Party (2016)45. Counterparts - The Difference Between Hell and Home (2013)44. Women - Public Strain (2010)43. Braids - Deep in the Iris (2015)42. Snotty Nose Rez Kids - Trapline (2019)41. Tomb Mold - Planetary Clairvoyance (2019)40. Justin Bieber - Purpose (2015)39. Ought - More Than Any Other Day (2014)38. Gord Downie - Secret Path (2016)37. Marie Davidson - Working Class Woman (2018)36. Timber Timbre - Hot Dreams (2014)35. Alvvays - Antisocialites (2017)34. Royal Canoe - Today We're Believers (2013)33. Majical Cloudz - Impersonator (2013)32. Dilly Dally - Sore (2015)31. METZ - METZ (2012)30. Haviah Mighty - 13th Floor (2019)29. Gorguts - Colored Sands (2013)28. Hubert Lenoir - Darlène (2018)27. Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker (2016)26. Purity Ring - Shrines (2013)25. Preoccupations - Viet Cong (2015)24. Drake - Nothing Was the Same23. Tanya Tagaq - Animism (2014)22. Feist - Metals (2011)21. BADBADNOTGOOD - IV (2016)20. Caribou - Our Love (2014)19. PUP - The Dream Is Over (2016)18. Destroyer - Kaputt (2011)17. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! (2012)16. Alvvays - Alvvays (2014)15. A Tribe Called Red - We Are the Halluci Nation (2016)14. Mac DeMarco - Salad Days (2014)13. Grimes - Visions (2012)12. Fucked Up - David Comes to Life (2011)11. Jeremy Dutcher - Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa (2018)10. Daniel Caesar - Freudian (2017)9. U.S. Girls - In a Poem Unlimited (2018)8. Japandroids - Celebration Rock (2012)7. The Weeknd - House of Balloons (2011)6. Caribou - Swim (2010)5. Grimes - Art Angels (2015)4. Drake - Take Care (2011)3. Carly Rae Jepsen - E•MO•TION (2015)2. Kaytranada - 99.9% (2016)1. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs (2010)
― silverfish, Wednesday, 13 November 2019 18:55 (four years ago) link