Believer101
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I feel happy that I was able to remind people Kanye West exist.
Keep up the love for MBDTF
Keep up the love for MBDTF
Here's where it's currently at!Being that I'm the dude that posted a (working) list of 200 albums, I'm of course going to request you post your full 100.
Adds a lot more flavor to these lists when people dig deeper and ups the chance of albums being mentioned that people overlooked.
Plus, your top 10 is an interesting one.
It is outstanding, isn't it? I kind of only marked it down as it's so recent and in my head but I've probably played it more than anything in the past year plus.@Poly-Rythmo I had never heard of Muriel Grossman before but this Golden Rule album is awesome
Helps that it's right in my jazz sweet spot - post bop, modal/spiritualesque.It is outstanding, isn't it? I kind of only marked it down as it's so recent and in my head but I've probably played it more than anything in the past year plus.
David Comes to Life, holy shit, what a great record.First Team:
1. John Grant - Queen of Denmark (2010)
2. Drive-By Truckers - American Band (2016)
3. Tim Wheeler - Lost Domain (2014)
4. Soccer Team - Real Lessons in Cynicism (2015)
5. Girl Band - Holding Hands with Jamie (2015)
6. Sparks - Hippopotamus (2017)
7. Gang of Youths - Go Farther in Lightness (2017)
8. Caroline Rose - Loner (2018)
9. Ball Park Music - Puddinghead (2014)
10. Steven Adams & the French Drops - Virtue Signals (2018)
Honorable mention:
The Posies - Blood/Candy (2010)
Frank Turner - England Keep My Bones (2011)
Fucked Up - David Comes to Life (2011)
Little Green Cars - Absolute Zero (2013)
Neko Case - The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You (2013)
The New Pornographers - Brill Bruisers (2014)
TV on the Radio - Seeds (2014)
Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial (2016)
Thee Oh Sees - A Weird Exits (2016)
Starflyer 59 - Young in My Mind (2019)
I would agree and likely rank them:I'm going to begin by lobbing out the casual bomb that I think this is the weakest decade of the past six (and this is coming from somebody not much into the 80s).
I haven't thought too much about the order of decades but that looks pretty decent - I might have swapped 70s for 60s as no 1, especially in Africa where 80s is my no 2 but 70s rules supreme (for me).I would agree and likely rank them:
1. 1960s
2. 1970s
3. 1990s
4. 2000s
5. 1980s
6. 2010s
I think this decade has been strong for rap/hip-hop and releases inspired by such, but fairly weak (compared to the top of prior decades) with releases more in the rock mode. It’s deep with lots of really good releases, but masterpieces are fewer and farther between.
I would agree and likely rank them:
6. 2010s
I think the only way this take is justifiable is if your are somebody who listens to rock and pretty much nothing else.
The sheer volume of high quality releases was absolutely mind blowing this decade. Thus me finding it truly challenging to narrow a list down to 200 albums for the decade--and having end of the year lists that go 50 deep from 2014-2018 even when there are dozens of highly acclaimed albums each year that do nothing for me (ala War on Drugs, Beyonce, Beach House, Drake, ext).
This was the decade where the labels completely lost control of the creative process, where indie artists and experimentalism thrived and a truckload of dynamite got put into the concept of genres. You can argue that there are less releases that are automatic "classics", but I think that has more to do with the death of radio and mono-culture than the quality of the releases.
It was the best decade for electronica hands down, arguably on par with the 90s for the best era of mainstream rap (with plenty of solid underground releases too), a decade that saw the return of jazz within the zeitgeist, a phenomenal decade for interesting pop and/or R&B music and a very, very solid era for indie rock, folk and punk.
I remember having this discussion a couple years back on the VMP forums about this, but I'd honestly go--
Tier 1: 2010's/1990's
Tier 2: 1970's (best decade for rock, lots of great jazz and R&B but no electronica or rap)
Tier 3: 1980's
Tier 4: 1960's/2000's
Tier 4: Anything prior to the 1960s.
But of course, that's completely subjective. Like what really constitutes a Cosby sweater anyways?
brilliantly argued but historically wrong seeing as the 1970s is when electronica was born!
a cosby sweater >> a drink that cosby hands you....