Worthwhile best of the 2010s lists?
 

So. Almost another decade. Yay. Time for lists: things I used to love that social media and listicles have utterly sucked the life out of for me.

I’m not sure if I’m doing anything more than a top 10, but what I want to know is: Are there ANY music sites out there whose lists you’re looking forward to?

Please send recommendations for lists that might be worth viewing.

Thanks or whatever.

Tiny Mix Tapes: 2010’s Empty Essence

Not sure if this is what you were looking for, but there is a little something for everyone.

Yeah that works. Thanks.


Crazy how everyone’s sharing stuff.

i don’t know any lists, sorry :D

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eta bitchdork has 200. top googl result
https://pitchfork.com/features/lists...-of-the-2010s/

ah, why did i have to look... :mad:

Beyond the "best of the decade" matter, it used to be so easy to find top-ten lists of each year by publication on Metacritic. Now I can't for the life of me find those goddamn little lists there - I wonder if the website received some kind of DMCA notice about it and can't show them anymore. If I'm wrong and that section is still on the site, please let me know and dare to call me an idiot who can't follow links properly:

https://www.metacritic.com/music

fyi, the calendar began at year 1 not year zero. the next decade doesn't start until 2021


/nerd

a decade is not like a century that marks the calendar.

a decade can begin and end wherever one chooses.

so the 10s is just the 10 years that begin with 1 (in this context)

2001 is the real beginning of the xxi century, but 1980 was the beginning of the 80s. apples, oranges

This thread is off to a good start. Why do you not post some lists and shut the fuck up?

:p


one can pick and choose a century or millenia as well. no one doing all these "end of the 2010s" list are mentioning their awareness that it isn't the end of the 2010s.

In fact, if we adopt a historian's perspective, 2001 is the real beginning of the 21st century because of 9/11. And the 20th century is often "compacted" to about eighty years (mathematically incongruous, I know) and called "from Sarajevo to Sarajevo": Franz Ferdinand's assassination in 1914 to the siege of the city in 1992.

Actually, what's incongrous is that Franz Ferdinand the Archduke, not the band, was the one assassinated. NOW, I finally found what I was looking for on Metacritic. Want lists? Here are 21 best-of-the-decade lists and 20 best-of-2019 lists. Both sets preceded, as you can see, by Metacritic's own calculations. Munch on THAT and report back.

By the way, when reading all this stuff it's crucial to keep in mind what Robert Christgau says: consensus has consequences. Here's the most recent of those columns I could find after a quick search (it's from 2014, though!):

https://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/bn/2014-01.php

Years go by, trends change, records nobody in their right mind considered bitchen or relevant may eventually resurface as masterpieces that everybody was too stupid to give more than one spin. And sometimes they're not that obscure, if at all! I keep saying that every time Sam Phillips makes an album it's one of the year's best, but nobody here gives a flying fuck (your loss, mooks). I can guarantee you that Diane Cluck's upcoming album will be gorgeous (I've heard the songs recorded live and she'd have to get hit in the head by a meteorite to ruin them in the studio), but since "wyrd folk" (good LAWD what a dumb tag) ain't where it is anymore, it won't show up on any goddamn list. You know who will be listed, inevitably? Kanye West, whose 2020 LP, Michaelo Ricardo, will consist of praises to Mike Pence over Ray Conniff samples.

Shit, even a band as great and consistent as Wye Oak, praised by everyone and your grandmother just a few years ago, got barely a mention in 2018, even though they made one of their best, The Loudest I Call, The Faster It Runs. To a degree, this isn't unlike, say, the Golden Globes, where the critics get smitten with a show; then, regardless of its merits, they move on to the next shiny thing. Hugh Laurie won the award for his performance in the first two seasons of House, but when he and the program reached their quality peak in season three, the vote went to the new kid in town, Jon Hamm.

On the other hand, some universal acclaim is certainly deserved. I do believe Weyes Blood made a phenomenal work that will stand the test of time. Just take these bloody lists with a kilo of salt and try not to choke on it.

You want lists, you get lists.
Here's a list of number 1 hits in the Dutch charts between 2010 and now. Or actually until 2014, because by then they realised that nobody gave a fuck.

Great posts soup!

As for music websites, I only give a shit about Brainwashed and TMT. Those are the only sites I'm aware of that truly dig deep into obscure avant music i like. Yeah yeah the Wire blah but it's stupid expensive.

Because I haven’t seen any good ones? I don’t spend as much time on the internet as I used to, because I don’t have much time?

Because I’m literally asking other people if they have seen any good lists and to share them if that is the case?

Truly the point and purpose of the thread.

Why don’t YOU post something? I’d genuinely love to see any worthwhile end-of-decade lists you’ve come across.


Not counting the P4k/Rolling Stone/Spins of the world because bleh.

Anyway don’t be a shit

Didn’t think I needed to clarify this, but this is for Jan. 1, 2010-Dec. 31, 2019. Aka the 2010s.

This is something I’ve come up with, so I doubt anyone finds it worthwhile.


Three random (not a best of) albums from each year:


2010
Sun City Girls - Funeral Mariachi
JG Thirwell - The Mesopelagic Waters
Barn Owl - Ancestral Star


2011
Charalambides - Exile
Thurston Moore - Demolished Thiughts
Alvarius B - Barboque Primitiva

2012
Dead Can Dance - Anastasia
Aaron Dilloway - Modern Jester
X-TG - Desert Shore/The Final Report

2013
Body/Head - Coming Apart
Jesu - Everyday I Get Closer To The Light From Which I Came
Wire - Change Become Us

2014
Current 93 - I Am The Last Of All The Field That Fell
Sun Kill Moon - Benji
Einstürzende Neubauten - Lament

2015
Wolf Eyes - I Am A Problem: Mind In Pieces
Lightning Bolt - Fantasy Empire
Flying Saucer Attack - Instrumentals 2015

2016
Brian Eno - The Ship
Controlled Bleeding - Larva Lamps And Baby Bumps
Bonnie Prince Billy - Pond Scum

2017
Slowdive - Slowdive
UUUU - UUUU
Aaron Dilloway - The Gag File

2018
Wet Tuna - Livin’ The Die
Andrew Chalk - Baroque Steps
Lea Bertucci - Metal Aerher

2019
Blood Rhythms - Civil War
The Modern Folk - Modern Folk X
Tuluum Shimmering - Blue Water Sunray

"He can be taught!"

These are good picks! Though not my own picks. But hey, that’s kind of the point.
Thanks!

There was another website/zine that used to have a fan base on SYG. I can’t remember the name of it for the life of me, but it was the kind of site that put Oren Ambarchi and Jefre Cantu-Ledesma and Emeralds and stuff on year-end lists... like the most widely known entry would be Swans or something.

Anyway, does anyone know what I’m talking about?
Don’t remember the name because I’m not cool, and I don’t have time to scour the boards for it, but it was like white text on a black background? Mostly text-based. Always had really good lists.

Actually saw the pitchfork one yesterday. Fuck me what a dire list. Swear they just pick em out of a hat and hope people swallow it

I think you mean The Wire https://www.thewire.co.uk

I don’t think they’ve made a best of list yet but they’re always pretty insightful.

Edit:

Nvm, here’s the list: https://www.yearendlists.com/2019/12...leases-of-2019

I’m OK with Blonde being #1, because that’s a great album, but I think they picked it mostly to avoid putting a Trump supporter at #1. I forget most of the rest of the list, but it was not great if I recall correctly.

Don’t think it was Wire, but ... maybe? I feel like it was decidedly less well-known than Wire but what do I know

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Originally Posted by TheDom https://www.yearendlists.com/ [...]

One of the very few works of art so powerful it makes you feel the human race shouldn't become extinct real fucking quick.

Sid Smith’s 2019 PROG list:

50 Essential ‘Psych’ Albums 2013-2019

50 albums over the previous six years is an odd scope, but this list is well worth your time and attention.

I left the PROG list here because I figured it was the best place to do so......because who knew GONG had a new album out in 2019???

Best hits of every decade

“Sound of rock scraping on rock”

https://www.neatorama.com/story/The-...-Every-Decade/

Actually this has some really Fucking good shit on it.
Strange pick for a #1 album, but I kinda dig the selection.
That 75 Dollar Bill record is crazy good indeed.

Moor Mother at #2 is also surprising, but maybe this was the site I was talking about.

Anyway thanks for sharing!!

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Originally Posted by ilduclo Best hits of every decade “Sound of rock scraping on rock” https://www.neatorama.com/story/The-...-Every-Decade/

Nifty coincidence: I once wrote in an e-mail that Bruce Springsteen's show at The Roxy on July 7, 1978 was the greatest thing since a Neanderthal figured out that banging two rocks together could make a bitchen, primal, liberating sound.

By the way, until recently, when that performance (Springsteen's, not the caveman's) finally got an official release via Nugs.net, the KMET-FM recording of it was endlessly bootlegged for decades, and rightly so. Even Clinton Heylin, in his book E Street Shuffle: The Glory Days Of Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band —where he doesn't give two shits about "being friends" with Bruce: he questions every artistic decision and even calls Jon Landau a "schmuck" (gotta love him)— praises it to the stratosphere.

Not that anyone here will care about what I just typed, but you fucking should.

From The Wire's Moor Mother cover story (issue 425, July 2019):

2010s: Favorite Music Releases ♥ Staff Picks

Mercifully, Robert Christgau kept it to 25 albums. That's how you do a fuckin' list.


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cont.

NBA Top 100 dunks of the decade :o :cool:

and

College Basketball Top 50 dunks of the decade :cool: :p

From Paste:

The 20 Best Album Covers of 2019

The 30 Best Album Covers of the 2010s

Spoiler alert: #1 is the same on both. :cool:

Here is my personal list.
Alphabetical, ** = best of the best

**100 gecs - 1000 gecs

Acronym & Kali Malone - The Torrid Eye

**Ana Roxanne - ~~~

BAND - lebenkunstler

BLACK DRESSES - THANK YOU

Carter, Tutti, Void - Transverse

Caterina Barbieri - Ecstatic Computation

Charli XCX - Charli

Christina Vantzou - Six Cellos for Sol Lewitt

Clairo - Immunity

Dis Fantasy - Dis Fantasy EP

Ellen Arkbro - Chords

Emily A. Sprague - Water Memory/Mount Vision

**Emptyset - Blossoms

Excepter - The Debussy EP

Floating Points - Crush

**HTRK - Venus in Leo

JAB - Erg Herbe

Jan St. Werner - Glottal Wolpertinger

Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Tracing Back the Radiance

Jetski - Live at Two Nights of Noise

John Chantler - Tomorrow is Too Late

Joni Void - Mise En Abyne

Kali Malone - The Sacrificial Code

Kim Gordon - No Home Record

**Kim Petras - Clarity

**Lea Bertucci - Resonant Field

Maria W. Horn - Epistasis

Missy Elliott - ICONOLOGY EP

**Myriam Bleau - Lumens & Profits

Nivhek - After Its Own Death, Walking in a Spiral Towards the House

NYPD Records, volume 3: Nefertiti Abstract Movie

Oren Ambarchi - Simian Angel

Phill Niblock - Music for Cello

Pita - Get On

Rip Hayman - Dreams of India & China

**Robert Turman - Flux (technically this is the first release)

**Sarah Davachi - Pale Bloom

**Sean McCann - Puck

Schnitt - Wand

Triad God - Triad

Uffie - Tokyo Love Hotel

Visible Cloaks, Yoshio Ojima, & Satsuki Shibano - FRKWYS Vol 15 - Serenitatem

YATTA - WAHALLA

**Yeule - Serotonin II

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I’ve only heard it twice (maybe), but from the popularity I perceived from seeing it mentioned on the internet, I’m very surprised not to see:

Norman Fucking Rockwell

My list:


https://ohnowords.wordpress.com/2020...%a8-2010-2019/