Best Albums of the decade
primussucks
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In my opinion...
1. Alice In Chains "black gives way to blue"
2. Queens Of the Stone Age "like clockwork"
3. Local H "Hey Killer"
4. Foo Fighters "wasting light"
5. Mastodon "the hunter"
6. Mastodon "cold dark place ep"
7. Alice In Chains "the devil put dinosaurs here"
8. Mastodon "once more around the sun"
9. Mastodon "emperor of sand"
10. Local H "hallelujah I'm a bum"
1. Alice In Chains "black gives way to blue"
2. Queens Of the Stone Age "like clockwork"
3. Local H "Hey Killer"
4. Foo Fighters "wasting light"
5. Mastodon "the hunter"
6. Mastodon "cold dark place ep"
7. Alice In Chains "the devil put dinosaurs here"
8. Mastodon "once more around the sun"
9. Mastodon "emperor of sand"
10. Local H "hallelujah I'm a bum"
Summerfest 7/8/95
Missoula 6/20/98
Alpine Valley 6/26/98 & 6/27/98
Alpine Valley 10/8/00
Champaign 4/23/03
Alpine Valley 6/21/03
Missoula 8/29/05
Chicago 5/16 & 17/06
Grand Rapids 5/19/06
Summerfest 6/29/06 & 6/30/06
Tampa 6/12/08
Chicago 8/23/09
Indy 5/7/10
Alpine Valley x2 2011
Wrigley 2013
Milwaukee 14
Telluride 16
Missoula 6/20/98
Alpine Valley 6/26/98 & 6/27/98
Alpine Valley 10/8/00
Champaign 4/23/03
Alpine Valley 6/21/03
Missoula 8/29/05
Chicago 5/16 & 17/06
Grand Rapids 5/19/06
Summerfest 6/29/06 & 6/30/06
Tampa 6/12/08
Chicago 8/23/09
Indy 5/7/10
Alpine Valley x2 2011
Wrigley 2013
Milwaukee 14
Telluride 16
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Comments
1. AIC - Rainer Fog
2. Cold War Kids - LA Divine
3. U2 - Songs of Innocence/Experience
4. Kings of Leon - WALLS
5. Metallica - Hardwired...To Self-Distruct
6. Florence + The Machine - Ceremonials
7. Collective Soul - See What You Started By Continuing
8. Silversun Pickups - Better Nature
9. Soundgarden - King Animal
10. Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
11. The Chemical Brothers - Further
1. Brandi Carlile- By The Way, I Forgive You
2. Honey Honey- 3
3. Deftones- Gore
4. Chris Cornell- Songbook
5. Fiona Apple- The Idler Wheel....
6. Gojira- Magma
7. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds- Skeleton Tree
8. Pearl Jam- Lightning Bolt
9. Ryan Adams- 1989
10. A Perfect Circle- Eat the Elephant
11. Tool- Fear Inoculum
12. Sturgill Simpson- Sailors Guide...
13-15. All 3 Wheeler Walker Jr albums
10/31/09- Philly
5/21/10- NYC
9/2/12- Philly, PA
7/19/13- Wrigley
10/19/13- Brooklyn, NY
10/21/13- Philly, PA
10/22/13- Philly, PA
10/27/13- Baltimore, MD
4/28/16- Philly, PA
4/29/16- Philly, PA
5/1/16- NYC
5/2/16- NYC
9/2/18- Boston, MA
9/4/18- Boston, MA
9/14/22- Camden, NJ
9/7/24- Philly, PA
9/9/24- Philly, PA
Eddie Vedder- 6/25/11- Philly, PA
RNDM- 3/9/16- Philly, PA
But I guess these would be on it:
Frank Ocean - Blonde
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
Carly Rae Jensen - Emotion
Beyonce - Lemonade
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
Taylor Swift - Red
Japandroids - Celebration Rock
no order
Missoula 6/20/98
Alpine Valley 6/26/98 & 6/27/98
Alpine Valley 10/8/00
Champaign 4/23/03
Alpine Valley 6/21/03
Missoula 8/29/05
Chicago 5/16 & 17/06
Grand Rapids 5/19/06
Summerfest 6/29/06 & 6/30/06
Tampa 6/12/08
Chicago 8/23/09
Indy 5/7/10
Alpine Valley x2 2011
Wrigley 2013
Milwaukee 14
Telluride 16
10/31/09- Philly
5/21/10- NYC
9/2/12- Philly, PA
7/19/13- Wrigley
10/19/13- Brooklyn, NY
10/21/13- Philly, PA
10/22/13- Philly, PA
10/27/13- Baltimore, MD
4/28/16- Philly, PA
4/29/16- Philly, PA
5/1/16- NYC
5/2/16- NYC
9/2/18- Boston, MA
9/4/18- Boston, MA
9/14/22- Camden, NJ
9/7/24- Philly, PA
9/9/24- Philly, PA
Eddie Vedder- 6/25/11- Philly, PA
RNDM- 3/9/16- Philly, PA
In No Order...
Thee Oh Sees- Smoat Reverser
Ty Segall- Mutilator
LCD Soundsystem- This is Happening
Tool- Fear Inoculum
The Weeks- Easy
Jay Z Kanye- Watch the Throne
Awolnation- Run
Foster The People- Torches
Cardi B- Invasion of Privacy
All Them Witches- Sleeping Through The War
Veruca Salt - Ghost Notes
Pearl Jam - Constitution Hall 9/19/98
Pearl Jam - Lightning Bolt
Metric - Art of Doubt
Ghost - Meliora
Hilltop Hoods - Drinking From The Sun
Hilltop Hoods - The Great Expanse
Smashing Pumpkins - Oceania
Jenny Lewis - Voyager
Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
Nine Inch Nails - Not The Actual Events/Add Violence/Bad Witch
Battles - Gloss Drop
Rush - Clockwork Angels
Lady Gaga - Born This Way
Lady Gaga - Joanne
Meg Myers - Sorry
Billy Strings - Home
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
Billlie Eilish - When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
Tegan and Sara - Heartthrob
The Chats - Get This In Ya
Illy - The Chase
360 - Falling & Flying
Obviously this is mostly shit I listen to and I'm sure I'm forgetting some stuff...
David Bowie -- Blackstar
Neko Case -- Hell-On
Billie Eilish -- When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
Karen O & Danger Mouse -- Lux Prima
OST -- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Pearl Jam -- Lightning Bolt
The Raconteurs -- Help Us Stranger
Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter -- Marble Son
Tom Waits -- Bad as Me
Roger Waters -- Is This the Life We Really Want?
Neil Young -- Le Noise
Neil Young & Crazy Horse -- Psychedelic Pill
The War on Drugs-Lost in a Dream
Hiss Golden Messenger-Heart Like a Levee
Kendrick Lamar-Butterfly... and DAMN.
Amen Dunes-Freedom
Bon Iver-all three albums from this decade are awesome
Hansard-Didn't He Ramble
By the Way I Forgive you - Brandi Carlile
IDLES - Joy as an Act of Resistence
IDLES - Brutalism
Gang Of Youths - Go Farther in Lightness
Gang of Youths - The Positions
WAAX Big Grief
Marilyn Manson - The Pale Emporer
Bon Iver - Bon Iver
Maggie Rogers - Heard it in a Past Life
Black Pumas - Black Pumas
Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
Pearl Jam - Lightning Bolt
Wolf Alice - My Love is Cool
Chris Cornell - Songbook
You+Me - rose ave.
Tired Lion - Dumb Days
Glen Hansard - Didn't He Ramble
City and Colour - Little Hell
Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten
Meg Mac - Low Blows
The Middle East - I Want That you are always Happy
Violent Soho - Hungry Ghost
Logic - Bobby Tarantino II
*BEC, Brisbane, March 1995
*BEC, Brisbane, March 1998
*BEC, Brisbane, November 2006
*QSAC, Brisbane November 2009
*EV Solo, QPAC, Brisbane March 10 and 12 2011
*Big Day Out, Gold Coast, 19 Jan 2014
*EV Solo, QPAC, Brisbane, 22,23 & 25 Feb 2014
Give it an honest listen cover to cover on whatever your Music playing vehicle is. What say you? I've ordered the CD and the vinyl, I think it's fist-pumping punch the ceiling in your car play drums on the steering wheel while driving a hundred miles an hour down the freeway or down a Country Road with a lit joint in your hand. Hank Williams meets Pink Floyd? maybe David Bowie ish?
No real genre totally innovative and refreshing. Hard Rock guitars with sexy synthesizing. can't put my finger on it. I Just love it!!
Upon further thought not Hank Williams.
It's more like Waylon>Pink Floyd> David Bowie>Pearl Jam and probably some others but he's unique unto himself.
this music accelerates like Pearl Jam's early music did. The song writing rhythms and riffs are badass, intertwined with vulnerabilities similar to Eddie V.
All Said and Done reminds me a little bit of Black. The guitar solo in this one sounds like something Mike McCready would do.
https://youtu.be/-nrGmG4MN0k
Sound & Fury https://g.co/kgs/E2t7Pf
Make Art Not Friends
https://youtu.be/U0-mjAB_Mig
Maybe I'm a little off topic with rock album of the year. But I didn't want to start a new thread.
Very clever lyrics, and a killer album cover to boot.
Fastest Horse In Town is about getting rich off the backs of broken down horses, literally and figuratively.. fantastic!! extraordinary!!
https://youtu.be/qBYct1Ed_Eo
Cheers!!
1 Joseph Arthur - The Ballad of Boogie Christ
2a/b. The Spring Standards - Would Things be Different; Yellow/Gold
3. Drive-By Truckers - American Band
4. Lucius - Wildewoman
5. Trapper Schoepp - Run Engine Run
6. Wilco - The Whole Love
7. Mark Lanegan - Blues Funeral
8. Joan Shelley - Over and Even
9. Eric Stuart Band - Lipstick and Barbed Wire
10. Mdou Moctar - Ilana the Creator
Honorable Mentions:
Erika Wennerstrom - The Sweet Unknown; Old 97s - The Grand Theater Vol 1; AA Bondy - Believers;
Joseph Arthur - The Graduation Ceremony. Come Back World; Lucius- Good Grief;
Wilco - Star Wars, Ode to Joy; Mazzy Star - Seasons of Your Day;
Joan Shelley - Electric Ursa, Joan Shelley; Drive-By Truckers - English Oceans.
PS - Looks like the whole forum is now double spacing? or at least this whole thread
I feel other albums that I enjoyed upon their release but no longer listen to (eg, Soundgarden's King Animal; U2's Songs of Innocence/Experience; Lightning Bolt) were more about my love for the particular band at an earlier time and not so much about the quality of the release itself. I think Radiohead's album stands up quite well compared to their earlier work (although I don't know if I'd say the same about The King of Limbs).
That Sturgell Simpson album (Sound & Fury) is pretty solid, I must admit.
I will definitely revisit the Live at Austin City Limits performance. Thanks for the recommendation.