Ten Favorite Albums of the Decade (2010-2019)

TenderLovingKiller® said:
I couldn’t do ten. Not because there weren’t ten but because there was a clear top five and the difference between 6 and 26 were soooo close I couldn’t decide. I also didn’t want to do a list of like 100 because it would take a long ass time. Instead here’s my top 5 and yes I know it’s basic middle-aged dude with a beard indie rock but I have accepted who I am.

My Top Five
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The War on Drugs - Lost In A Dream
Father John Misty - I Love You Honeybear
Mac DeMarco - Salad Days
Radiohead - A Moon Shape Pool
The National - Sleep Well Beast
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I agree. Top 5 would have been easier. Great list!
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
I couldn’t do ten. Not because there weren’t ten but because there was a clear top five and the difference between 6 and 26 were soooo close I couldn’t decide. I also didn’t want to do a list of like 100 because it would take a long ass time. Instead here’s my top 5 and yes I know it’s basic middle-aged dude with a beard indie rock but I have accepted who I am.

My Top Five
​
The War on Drugs - Lost In A Dream
Father John Misty - I Love You Honeybear
Mac DeMarco - Salad Days
Radiohead - A Moon Shape Pool
The National - Sleep Well Beast
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Not sure if a War on Drugs album will crack my top 10 but they're certainly one of my 10 favorite artists of the decade
 
Gonna make it an even 30 since I'm OCD about lists.

1. Portugal. The Man - In the Mountain In the Cloud
2. The National - Trouble Will Find Me
3. Sufjan Stevens - Age of Adz
4. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
5. Menomena - Mines
6. Margot and the Nuclear So & So's - Buzzard
7. Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial
8. Suckers - Wild Smile
9. The National - High Violet
10. Ramona Falls - Prophet

11. Delta Spirit - History From Below
12. Sioux Falls - Rot Forever
13. Menomena - Moms
14. The New Year - Snow
15. Arctic Monkeys - AM
16. Thunder Dreamer - Capture
17. Akron/Family - S/T II
18. Local Natives - Hummingbird
19. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
20. Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear

21. Strange Ranger - Daymoon
22. Modest Mouse - Strangers to Ourselves
23. Iron & Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean
24. Pinback - Information Retrieved
25. Horse Feathers - Thistled Spring
26. Mimicking Birds - Eons
27. LVL UP - Return to Love
28. The Antlers - Burst Apart
29. The Rural Alberta Advantage - Mended Like Gold
30. Broken Social Scene - Hug of Thunder
 
2010 - Joanna Newsom, Have one on Me
2011 - Destroyer, Kaputt
2012 - Waxahatchee, American Weekend
2013 - Yo La Tengo, Fade
2014 - Car Seat Headrest, How to Leave Town
2015 - Courtney Barnett, Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
2016 - Nap Eyes, Thought Rock Fish Scale
2017 - Angel Olsen, Phases
2018 - boygenius, boygenius
2019 - Big Thief, UFOF (so far)
 
kickerofelves said:
2010 - Joanna Newsom, Have one on Me
2011 - Destroyer, Kaputt
2012 - Waxahatchee, American Weekend
2013 - Yo La Tengo, Fade
2014 - Car Seat Headrest, How to Leave Town
2015 - Courtney Barnett, Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
2016 - Nap Eyes, Thought Rock Fish Scale
2017 - Angel Olsen, Phases
2018 - boygenius, boygenius
2019 - Big Thief, UFOF (so far)
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UFOF is VERY good. Loved Capacity and I'm glad to see they only improved.
 
Edited, cause I don't read good.

1. I Love You, Honeybear - Father John Misty
2. In Rainbows - Radiohead
3. Kids See Ghosts - s/t
4. Carrie and Lowell - Sufjan Stevens
6. Delta Spirit - s/t
7. AM - Arctic Monkeys
8. Bahamas is Afie - Bahamas
9. And the War Came - Shakey Graves
10. Drugs n' Hymns - Rocco DeLuca
 
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Grant said:
Okay, top 15. Too many greats to leave on the sidelines!

1. I Love You, Honeybear - Father John Misty
2. In Rainbows - Radiohead
3. Kids See Ghosts - s/t
4. Black Album - Jay-Z
5. Transatlaticism - Death Cab for Cutie
6. O - Damien Rice
7. College Dropout - Kayne West
8. Carrie and Lowell - Sufjan Stevens
9. Delta Spirit - s/t
10. Give Up - Postal Service

11. AM - Arctic Monkeys
12. Figure 8 - Elliot Smith
13. Bahamas is Afie - Bahamas
14. And the War Came - Shakey Graves
15. Drugs n' Hymns - Rocco DeLuca
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A lot of these are from the early '00s.
 
Wow, tough challenge narrowing it to 10. I obviously reserve the right to update this list at any time, because I'm sure I forgot something I love, but here are 10 that come to mind first:

Frank Ocean - Channel Orange (2012)
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell (2015)
Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest (2010)
Kamasi Washington - The Epic (2015)
Mistki - Be the Cowboy (2018)
Father John Misty - I Love You Honeybear (2015)
D'Angelo - Black Messiah (2015)
Christine and the Queens - S/T (2015)
Vince Staples - Summertime '06 (2016)
Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel (2012)
(Waxahatchee's Cerulean Salt would be #11)

Turns out I REALLY loved 2015.
 
Black Messiah by D'Angelo
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy by Kanye West
To Pimp A Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar
The Arch Android by Janelle Monáe
Cosmogramma by Flying Lotus
Lemonade by Beyoncé
Aromanticism by Moses Sumney
When I Get Home by Solange
We Got It From Here...Thank You For Your Service by A Tribe Called Quest
Room 25 by Noname
 
10-19 This might change tomorrow if you ask me then. Listing ten from a decade is tough, especially one with so many releases and so much high quality stuff.

1. Ty Segall- Twins
2. Okkervil River- I Am Very Far
3. Patterson Hood- Heat Rumbles in the Distance
4. Thee Oh Sees- Floating Coffin
5. Buck Curran- Morning. Haikus Afternoon Ragas
6. Neil Young & Crazy Horse- Psychedelic Pill
7. Yo La Tengo- Fade
8. Women- Public Strain
9. Sharon Van Etten- Epic
10. Ceremony- Zoo
 
1. Mitski-Bury Me at Makeout Creek (2014)
2. Andy Shauf-The Party (2016)
3. Hop Along-Painted Shut (2015)
4. Explosions in the Sky-Take Care, Take Care, Take Care (2011)
5. Fleet Foxes-Helplessness Blues (2011)
6. Big Thief-Capacity (2017)
7. Mount Eerie-Clear Moon (2012)
8. Jay Som-Everybody Works (2017)
9. Sampha-Process (2017)
10. Kamasi Washington-Harmony of Difference EP (2017)
 
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