Top Albums of the Decade

Chris_H_2 · Post by **Chris_H_2** » Wed January 15, 2020 3:12 am

E.H. Ruddock wrote:Chris, the fact that Valtari or Kveikur are not on there has me questioning our friendship

valtari definitely not. but man, i can't believe i forgot kveikur. *edited

Norah · Post by **Norah** » Wed January 15, 2020 3:15 am

Pretty much all of my favorite albums of the last ten years are by women or women led groups:

Everything by The Mynabirds, Courtney Barnett, St Vincent, Laura Marling, Fiona Apple, Lucy Dacus, Hop Along, Middle Kids...

Post by **epilogue** » Wed January 15, 2020 4:09 am

Sound And Fury by SS and Let England Shake by PJH are two others I need to add. Great pulls, guys.

verb_to_trust · Post by **verb_to_trust** » Wed January 15, 2020 5:41 am

cutuphalfdead wrote:Pretty much all of my favorite albums of the last ten years are by women or women led groups:

Everything by The Mynabirds, Courtney Barnett, St Vincent, Laura Marling, Fiona Apple, Lucy Dacus, Hop Along, Middle Kids...

That's pretty sexist

verb_to_trust · Post by **verb_to_trust** » Wed January 15, 2020 5:42 am

Idler Wheel is definitely on the list though..

verb_to_trust · Post by **verb_to_trust** » Wed January 15, 2020 5:45 am

I see trag picked the wrong Yo La Tengo album. Fade is the correct answer. I'm also taking MBDTF over Yeezus if forced to chose just one.

bodysnatcher · Post by **bodysnatcher** » Wed January 15, 2020 5:59 am

Lightning Bolt

tragabigzanda · Post by **tragabigzanda** » Wed January 15, 2020 6:12 am

liebzz · Post by **liebzz** » Wed January 15, 2020 12:50 pm

No one has mentioned it yet, but off the top of my head, my favorite from the 10s might actually be Circuital. It’s not MMJ’s best album but it’s really damn good. I have to look in more carefully, but that’s my immediate instinct pick.

Chris_H_2 · Post by **Chris_H_2** » Wed January 15, 2020 3:08 pm

liebzz wrote:No one has mentioned it yet, but off the top of my head, my favorite from the 10s might actually be Circuital. It’s not MMJ’s best album but it’s really damn good. I have to look in more carefully, but that’s my immediate instinct pick.

that album was such a letdown for me. I really liked the waterfall though, and would rank it way higher on my list of mmj albums.

Post by **epilogue** » Wed January 15, 2020 3:34 pm

cutuphalfdead wrote:Pretty much all of my favorite albums of the last ten years are by women or women led groups:

Everything by The Mynabirds, Courtney Barnett, St Vincent, Laura Marling, Fiona Apple, Lucy Dacus, Hop Along, Middle Kids...

Hop Along! Fuck...

verb_to_trust · Post by **verb_to_trust** » Wed January 15, 2020 3:48 pm

durdencommatyler wrote:
cutuphalfdead wrote:Pretty much all of my favorite albums of the last ten years are by women or women led groups:

Everything by The Mynabirds, Courtney Barnett, St Vincent, Laura Marling, Fiona Apple, Lucy Dacus, Hop Along, Middle Kids...
Hop Along! Fuck...

As long as we're talking Painted Shut here

verb_to_trust · Post by **verb_to_trust** » Wed January 15, 2020 3:49 pm

tragabigzanda wrote:
verb_to_trust wrote:I see trag picked the wrong Yo La Tengo album. Fade is the correct answer. I'm also taking MBDTF over Yeezus if forced to chose just one.
I’ve not listened to it! I should though, they recorded that one with John McEntire. Thanks for the reminder verb.

I think you're in for a treat!

liebzz · Post by **liebzz** » Wed January 15, 2020 4:42 pm

Chris_H_2 wrote:
liebzz wrote:No one has mentioned it yet, but off the top of my head, my favorite from the 10s might actually be Circuital. It’s not MMJ’s best album but it’s really damn good. I have to look in more carefully, but that’s my immediate instinct pick.
that album was such a letdown for me. I really liked the waterfall though, and would rank it way higher on my list of mmj albums.

I really like The Waterfall, but for me it does drag at points. Circuital, for me, possibly only struggles at the end, and even there I came to appreciate the last few songs more having seen them live.

Post by **Jorge** » Sun January 19, 2020 4:38 am

I am finding it really hard to cut my list down to a reasonable number, or to properly rank the ones that I have. There were a lot of albums I loved deeply during this period.

liebzz · Post by **liebzz** » Sun January 19, 2020 4:19 pm

Listen to Robert Finley’s Goin’ Platinum. That would make my list for sure. That voice is just awesome.

Brett · Post by **Brett** » Mon January 20, 2020 2:41 am

Here's 50 in no particular order other than what generally came to mind and looking back at my best of lists throughout the decade. Though those first ten would make a really solid top ten, I think. Also makes me want to put together yearly mixes for 2010-2014, since I didn't start doing that until 2015. Maybe that will be my next project.

Thee Silver Mt. Zion - Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything
Oceansize - Self-Preserved While the Bodies Float Up
Vennart - To Cure a Blizzard on a Plastic Sea
Eric Chenaux - Slowly Paradise
Carla Bozulich - Boy
Sandro Perri - Impossible Spaces
Ought - Sun Coming Down
Jerusalem in My Heart - If He Dies, If If If
Nightjars - The Natural Playmate
Efrim Manuel Menuck - Pissing Stars
My Bloody Valentine - m b v
Deakin - Sleep Cycle
Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - "Luciferian Towers"
Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de couleur libres
Sandro Perri - Soft Landing
Fly Pan Am - C'est ça
The Mike Smith Company - Songs of the Mike Smith Company
Pat Jordache - Steps
Avec le Soleil Sortant de sa Bouche - Zubberdust!
Avec le Soleil Sortant de sa Bouche - Pas Pire Pop [I ♥ You So Much]
Eric Chenaux - Skullsplitter
Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld - Never Were the Way She Was
Ryan Driver - Who's Breathing?
Ryan Driver - Careless Thoughts
The Cluttertones - Ordinary Joy
The Cluttertones with Lee Pui Ming - Leeways
Esmerine - Dalmak
Thee Silver Mt. Zion - Kollaps Tradixionales
Pat Jordache - Future Songs
Vennart - The Demon Joke
Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis
Duster - Duster
Do Make Say Think - Stubborn Persistent Illusions
Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress'
Sigur Rós - Kveikur
Esmerine - Mechanics of Dominion
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
The Dwarfs of East Agouza - Bes
Aurochs - Another Helpful Medicine
British Theatre - Mastery
Explosions in the Sky - The Wilderness
Explosions in the Sky - Take Care Take Care Take Care
The Titillators - Your Kind of Music
Animal Collective - Centipede Hz
Colin Stetson - All This I Do For Glory
Saltland - I Thought It Was Us But It Was All of Us
The Allison Cameron Band - The Allison Cameron Band
Jerusalem in My Heart - Daqa'iq Tudaiq

LoathedVermin72 · Post by **LoathedVermin72** » Wed June 18, 2025 8:45 pm

Didn't know where else to put these so they're here now. One per artist.

2020s
Better Lovers - God Made Me an Animal
Chat Pile - Cool World
Danny Elfman - Big Mess
Princesa Alba - Besitos, Cuidate
Shygirl - ALIAS
Slayyyter - STARFUCKER
Snow Wife - QUEEN DEGENERATE
Taichu - RAWR
Teen Mortgage - Devil Ultrasonic Dream
Terminal Sleep - Chapter 2: Elicit Fear

2010s
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Ghosteen
Charli XCX - Pop 2
Daughters - Daughters
Death from Above 1979 - The Physical World
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis
Dr. John - Locked Down
The Drones - I See Seaweed
Lady Gaga - Born This Way
Mike Patton - Mondo Cane
Kanye West - Yeezus

2000s
At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It in People
Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist
Glassjaw - Worship and Tribute
Gorgoroth - Ad majorem Sathanas gloriam
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
Mayhem - Ordo ad chao
Radiohead - Kid A
Kanye West - Graduation

1990s
Acid Bath - Paegan Terrorism Tactics
Burzum - Filosofem
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Under the Running Board
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing.....
Mos Def - Black on Both Sides
Pearl Jam - Vs.
Queens of the Stone Age - Queens of the Stone Age
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Strapping Young Lad - City
Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe

1980s
David Bowie - Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
The Exploited - Troops of Tomorrow
George Harrison - Cloud Nine
Pixies - Doolittle
Chris Rea - On the Beach
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A.
Steely Dan - Gaucho
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs

1970s
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
Led Zeppelin - Presence
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
Steely Dan - Katy Lied
Al Stewart - Year of the Cat
The Stooges - Raw Power
The Velvet Underground - Loaded
Yes - Close to the Edge
Neil Young - American Stars 'n Bars

1960s
John Coltrane - Giant Steps
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Green River
Dr. John - Gris-Gris
Duke Ellington, Charlie Mingus, & Max Roach - Money Jungle
Herbie Hancock - Empyrean Isles
John Lee Hooker - It Serve You Right to Suffer
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
Ben Webster & Oscar Peterson - Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson
Andy Williams - Under Paris Skies

Post by **epilogue** » Wed June 18, 2025 9:04 pm

Man, the top 10 of the 90's would be an excruciatingly difficult exercise for me.

LoathedVermin72 · Post by **LoathedVermin72** » Wed June 18, 2025 9:05 pm

you can do it i believe in you

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