SwedgeAntilles Posted December 1, 2019 Report Share Posted December 1, 2019 By moderate demand it´s time for the ALBUMS AND TRACKS OF THE DECADE LISTS! Here´s the plan; post your top ten albums and tracks in this thread over the next few weeks and I´ll collate the results and present the eFestivals definitive Albums and Tracks lists on Christmas Eve. For your lists to be counted they need to be in order i.e 1 to 10 so they can be rated accordingly (feel free to post ´in no particular order´ lists in here too but they won´t be counted in the final results). If anyone needs some inspiration here´s a few of the end of decade lists from the usual lads: https://www.nme.com/features/nme-best-albums-of-the-decade-2010-2019-2580278 https://consequenceofsound.net/2019/11/top-albums-of-the-2010s/ https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/the-200-best-albums-of-the-2010s/ https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2019/10/best-albums-of-the-2010s-paste.html https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/qvg5j3/the-100-best-albums-of-the-2010s https://www.stereogum.com/featured/best-albums-of-the-2010s-list/ https://www.stereogum.com/featured/best-songs-of-the-2010s-list/ https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/the-200-best-songs-of-the-2010s/ https://consequenceofsound.net/2019/11/top-100-songs-of-the-2010s/ https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2019/10/best-songs-of-the-2010s-1.html Get your lists out! 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badlands Posted December 1, 2019 Report Share Posted December 1, 2019 Nice one Swedge. Not gonna rush mine but there’s likely to be 2 x Yeezy, 2 Frank O, a Paak, a Beck and a National with three to mull over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jyoung Posted December 1, 2019 Report Share Posted December 1, 2019 Yeah I will take some time to think it over but I expect MBDTF and both Frank records will feature heavily across the board and rightly so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwedgeAntilles Posted December 1, 2019 Author Report Share Posted December 1, 2019 I´m still finalising mine too. Will make sure to bump the thread occasionally to keep it on the front page while folk are thinking Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gigpusher Posted December 1, 2019 Report Share Posted December 1, 2019 I'll have to give this some consideration but off the bat John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts has to be on my list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assorted Posted December 1, 2019 Report Share Posted December 1, 2019 Ooh! I'm quite ready for this thread because I've been working for a while now on a playlist of my favorite songs of the decade (I have 560 of them and it's now just a great playlist to listen to) and I've since pulled 30 of my definite favorites from that list trying to make a top 100... so pretty easy for me to make a top 10 right now. I do feel the last year (2019) gets kinda fucked in lists like this but I assume it gets made up for in revised lists like mid-decade from now... I can only give 10 tracks - I don't really listen to full albums much anymore except for a few times when they first come out... I wish I had more than 10 so I could include - 25 Bucks - Danny Brown (feat Purity Ring) 10 - 212 - Azelia Banks 9 - Where Are We Now - David Bowie 8 - Runaway - Kanye West (ft Pusha T) 7 - We The People - A Tribe Called Quest 6 - Real Death - Mount Eerie 5 - Jim Wise - Sun Kil Moon 4 - What We Loved Was Not Enough - Silver Mt. Zion 3 - Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales - Car Seat Headrest 2 - GMF - John Grant 1 - Bloodbuzz Ohio - The National Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt42 Posted December 1, 2019 Report Share Posted December 1, 2019 (edited) Most culturally impacting albums I reckon are My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye West AM - Arctic Monkeys 21 - Adele To Pimp a Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar Channel Orange - Frank Ocean Beyonce - Beyonce Random Access Memories - Daft Punk Blackstar - David Bowie The Suburbs - Arcade Fire I feel like in this decade all of this albums really shook the music scene and grabbed it by the neck. They also brought with them some signature sounds that many other artists tried to emulate. I definitely would say these are the most culturally impacting albums of the decade. I wouldn’t say they are my favourite albums (all of them) but you can root so much of 2010s music back to these releases. Edited December 1, 2019 by Matt42 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Hugh Jass Posted December 1, 2019 Report Share Posted December 1, 2019 (edited) Will sleep on it and post tomorrow. However that NME list is bollocks, AM album of the decade?? It’s not even the best album by that band this decade. Edited December 1, 2019 by Hugh Jass 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt42 Posted December 1, 2019 Report Share Posted December 1, 2019 On 12/1/2019 at 11:24 PM, Hugh Jass said: Will sleep on it and post tomorrow. However that NME list is bollocks, AM album of the decade?? It’s not even the best album by that band this decade. Expand I think album of the decade has to also take into account what albums influenced popular culture as well as being just good. I don’t really like AM, but you can’t deny that the album was almost stupidly inescapable at one point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bamber Posted December 1, 2019 Report Share Posted December 1, 2019 (edited) Y'all know, for me. this is the one. Jessie J - R.O.S.E.- Album Edited December 1, 2019 by bamber 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a6l6e6x Posted December 1, 2019 Report Share Posted December 1, 2019 Had a bit of time to mull over this as we all knew the thread was coming! Still need longer, will check in this week and then look at it next week to disagree with my past self Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwedgeAntilles Posted December 2, 2019 Author Report Share Posted December 2, 2019 On 12/1/2019 at 11:24 PM, Hugh Jass said: Will sleep on it and post tomorrow. However that NME list is bollocks, AM album of the decade?? It’s not even the best album by that band this decade. Expand It's really weird eh? Placements are all over the shop and there's some strange omissions Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrillhouse188 Posted December 2, 2019 Report Share Posted December 2, 2019 On 12/2/2019 at 8:15 AM, SwedgeAntilles said: It's really weird eh? Placements are all over the shop and there's some strange omissions Expand Can’t get over TBAP not making the top 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh Jass Posted December 2, 2019 Report Share Posted December 2, 2019 Having slept on it... Albums (in no particular order): Kendrick - Good Kid Maad City The National - Trouble Will Find Me QOTSA - Like Clockwork IDLES - Brutalism Fontaines DC - Dogrel Tracks: Kendrick - Swimming Pools LDR - Summertime Sadness Arcade Fire - Everything Now Adele - Rolling in the Deep (just for that Glasto performance!) The National - Pink Rabbits Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh Jass Posted December 2, 2019 Report Share Posted December 2, 2019 On 12/2/2019 at 8:15 AM, SwedgeAntilles said: It's really weird eh? Placements are all over the shop and there's some strange omissions Expand Seeing Drones on the list made me smile and think of this place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lessthanwill1 Posted December 2, 2019 Report Share Posted December 2, 2019 Albums: 1. Björk - Vulnicura 2. Sufjan Stevens - Age of Adz 3. LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening 4. Joanna Newsom - Have One on Me 5. Death Grips - The Money Store 6. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs 7. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool 8. Carly Rae Jepsen - EMOTION 9. Kendrick Lamar - GKMC 10. Alvvays - Antisocialites Songs 1. LCD Soundsystem - Home 2. Bjork - Stonemilker 3. Kendrick Lamar - Sing about me i'm dying of thirst 4. Arcade Fire - Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) 5. The National - Graceless 6. Sufjan Stevens - Impossible Soul 7. Grimes - Kill vs. Maim 8. Mount Eerie - Real Death 9. Lorde - Ribs 10. Charli XCX - Track 10 Doing songs was almost traumatic lol so many incredible songs had to be cut. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrumpyRaver Posted December 2, 2019 Report Share Posted December 2, 2019 I'm djing at a 2010's party on NYE, so I feel this thread is going to be incredibly useful to log my memory of some bangers... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badlands Posted December 2, 2019 Report Share Posted December 2, 2019 (edited) Not convinced AM, RAM or The Suburbs has much of a lasting cultural impact mind, @Matt42 lad!! Wouldn’t argue with the rest. Doesnt fit in with this list at all but if you’re talking about albums that have influenced this decades music, you’d have to include 808’s. Edited December 2, 2019 by Badlands Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrillhouse188 Posted December 2, 2019 Report Share Posted December 2, 2019 Albums: Los Campesinos! - Romance Is Boring Frank Ocean - Blonde Sufjan Stevens - Age of Adz Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening Foals - Total Life Forever Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lowell Neon Indian - VEGA INTL. Night School Vampire Weekend - Contra Songs: Sufjan Stevens - Impossible Soul Los Campesinos! - By Your Hand LCD Soundsystem - Home Vampire Weekend - Diplomats Son Frank Ocean - Nikes Foals - Black Gold Neon Indian - Slumlord Kanye West - No More Parties In LA Foals - In Degrees Danny Brown - Really Doe Albums I'm fairly happy with, maybe last two or so spots could shift around, narrowing down to 10 songs was ridiculous! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastynh Posted December 2, 2019 Report Share Posted December 2, 2019 My 2 fave tunes of the decade. Both sweet and melancholy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Matt42 Posted December 2, 2019 Report Share Posted December 2, 2019 On 12/2/2019 at 10:51 AM, Badlands said: Not convinced AM, RAM or The Suburbs has much of a lasting cultural impact mind, @Matt42 lad!! Wouldn’t argue with the rest. Doesnt fit in with this list at all but if you’re talking about albums that have influenced this decades music, you’d have to include 808’s. Expand Maybe it’s just the circles you interact with but I’d say all three of those albums are staple pieces of this decade. AM and RAM definitely — I’d say the suburbs is the weak one of the three! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dentalplan Posted December 2, 2019 Report Share Posted December 2, 2019 On 12/1/2019 at 11:25 PM, Matt42 said: I think album of the decade has to also take into account what albums influenced popular culture as well as being just good. Expand Why not list albums you enjoy listening to the most? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt42 Posted December 2, 2019 Report Share Posted December 2, 2019 On 12/2/2019 at 1:32 PM, dentalplan said: Why not list albums you enjoy listening to the most? Expand oh I will eventually just can’t make a judgement on it now. I think it’s easier to pin point what albums I think made the biggest impact on culture throughout this decade. The funny thing with doing that though is they are typically albums which aren’t cool to like. Like it or not another one I’d probably add to the mix that I haven’t seen on here yet is + by Ed Sheeran. Very much set the way for Capaldi, Ezra et all and changed what sort of music became commercially successful. Maybe I’m just a music geek but I like to look back on the decade and see what albums influenced changes in the music scene - and what could come next. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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