Best Albums of the decade

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  • No Coder
    No Coder Brisbane Posts: 1,126
    Here's mine - 
    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
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me

    *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
  • RYME
    RYME Wisconsin Posts: 1,904
    edited November 2019
    In my humble opinion I declare this best rock album 2019.  Sturgill Simpson Sound and Fury.
    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!!
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  • May 30th
    May 30th Posts: 1,891
    No Coder said:
    Here's mine - 
    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
    great list!!!
  • pearljammr78
    pearljammr78 Posts: 1,613
    You + Me is a great album. Just got told about it. Real cool. 
    Peace,Love and Pearl Jam.
  • ceska
    ceska New York Posts: 1,137
    edited November 2019
    Top Ten, er, Eleven:
    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
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    HesCalledDyer said:
    Why does my shit always double space?
    It's an ongoing problem with these forums:


    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • rummy
    rummy British Columbia, Canada Posts: 4,466
    edited November 2019
    Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
    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.
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  • DewieCox
    DewieCox Posts: 11,432
    RYME said:
    In my humble opinion I declare this best rock album 2019.  Sturgill Simpson Sound and Fury.
    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!!
    It’s great, but so believe Sailor’s is the Sturg album for this discussion. 

    I need to put together a list shortly.
  • Glorified KC
    Glorified KC KCMO Native Posts: 2,814
    edited November 2019
    rummy said:
    Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
    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 enjoyed King of Limbs, if you don’t judge it on the context of Radiohead’s catalog.  I would rank it near the bottom of their studio albums, but still enjoy the album.  If you haven’t seen them perform it live at Austin City Limits, I recommend doing so.
    I wish I was a sacrifice, but somehow still lived on.
  • rummy
    rummy British Columbia, Canada Posts: 4,466
    edited November 2019
    cdthomas1981 said:
    rummy said:
    Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
    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 enjoyed King of Limbs, if you don’t judge it on the context of Radiohead’s catalog.  I would rank it near the bottom of their studio albums, but still enjoy the album.  If you haven’t seen them perform it live at Austin City Limits, I recommend doing so.
    I agree with what you are saying about TKOL. It's a decent record but just not as good as the one before it (In Rainbows) or after it (A Moon Shaped Pool). I listen to it's From The Basement more than the album itself. I think "The Daily Mail" is better than anything on it.
    I will definitely revisit the Live at Austin City Limits performance. Thanks for the recommendation.
  • RYME
    RYME Wisconsin Posts: 1,904
    edited December 2019
    A sailor's guide to Earth is another Masterpiece cover to cover.
    This guy has some of the most clever songwriting I've ever heard.
    So at some point he got kicked out of the Navy.  So he says "Flying high beats dying for lies in a politician's war"
    Wow
    Sea Stories
    https://youtu.be/PQXmldsfuxs
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  • mfc2006
    mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,491
    RYME said:
    A sailor's guide to Earth is another Masterpiece cover to cover.
    This guy has some of the most clever songwriting I've ever heard.
    So at some point he got kicked out of the Navy.  So he says "Flying high beats dying for lies in a politician's war"
    Wow
    Sea Stories
    https://youtu.be/PQXmldsfuxs
    It’s a brilliant album and may be my favorite as well. I need to think this over a bit more before I compile my list.
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  • rummy
    rummy British Columbia, Canada Posts: 4,466
    edited December 2019
    I'm grateful for this thread. I'm going to check out some of the albums you've all mentioned over the next month ... sort of a December resolution.
    Post edited by rummy on
  • RYME
    RYME Wisconsin Posts: 1,904
    edited December 2019
    rummy said:
    I'm grateful for this thread. I'm going to check out some of the albums you've all mentioned over the next month ... sort of a December resolution.
    Me too, Great thread!
    Not rock, but Tyler Childers is really coming into his own.   In the midst of all that Sturgill Simpson is doing, he is also helping other really great lesser-known artists get some exposure and a leg up.
    Sturgill Simpson produced Tyler Childers last two albums.  Sturgill Simpson had Cody Jinks open for him on a tour, now Cody Jinks is cruising outstanding!!
    https://codyjinks.com/
    Cody Jinks just released two albums in October.  That must've been his October surprise.  Word of the second album only came out a few weeks before the one album we were expecting.  Hell of a great surprise,  Both are insanely good!!
    This is some top shelf bourbon sipping music.
    This is reall country not corporate driven CMA Country.  CMA Country is garbage.
    This dude is real country.  A Storyteller that pours his heart and soul into every note and every lyric. The stories he tells are so clear in your mind as you listen.  These 2 albums of his are in the top 10 for me.  Sturgill has the other 4 in my mind. 
    Cody Jinks has the other 4 in my mind.
    These three artists are going to keep me happy for a long time.
    And right now Sturgill Simpson and Tyler Childers are teaming up for a big  arena tour called Good-Looking Tour and they're starting to sell out.  This despite not having any major record labels no radio play and no MTV.  The extraordinary thing is its mostly word of mouth and they both have pretty much exploded!
    https://www.sturgillsimpson.com/tour

    https://tylerchildersmusic.com/
    Along with the other artists mentioned in this thread that I will explore, here are 3 outstanding artists for some of you to stew on during these coming winter months.

    I'm grateful to have snagged a ticket to the April 10th Madison Show!!
    Tyler Childers, Purgatory and Country Squire are both masterpieces cover to cover.
    He doesn't tell you how the story might have gone Through the Grapevine, he tells you like it is and exactly how it was and what happened. That's the brilliance of Tyler Childers!!  Explore and enjoy.
    *So here is my list of10 best albums of the decade, in order by artist not by favorite.
    Sturgill Simpson
    1. High Top Mountain
    2. Metamodern Sounds In County Music
    3. A Sailor's Guide To Earth
    4. Sound and Fury
    Tyler Childers
    5. Purgatory
    6. Country Squire
    Cody Jinks
    7. Adobe Sessions
    8. Lifers
    9. After the Fire
    10. The Wanting
    Musical Bliss!!
    Cheers y'all !!

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  • RYME
    RYME Wisconsin Posts: 1,904
    And while some of you are working on your list for best albums of the decade.
    Let me introduce you to Cody Jinks
    https://youtu.be/shLcKVfGpAo
  • RYME
    RYME Wisconsin Posts: 1,904
    edited December 2019
    While we're working on the list, I think I'll just keep dropping songs that I think you might like.
    Here is one more,,
    Sturgill and Tyler a few years ago.
    https://youtu.be/8vG3olnA8Tw
    Sturgill just playing guitar on this one but this tune reminds me of the Grateful Dead big time!!
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  • No Coder
    No Coder Brisbane Posts: 1,126
    pearljammr78 said:
    You + Me is a great album. Just got told about it. Real cool. 
    Yeah, my wife loves Pink, so I knew about it as soon as it was announced. I love City and Colour, so it was a great match. Pink should do more with Dallas Green as they compliment each other beautifully
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me

    *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
  • RYME
    RYME Wisconsin Posts: 1,904
    edited December 2019
    I wasn't going to keep going with this tonight, I should let someone else talk.
    But now I've had like a quadruple shot of Maker's Mark while listening to Sturgill,  giving me liquid courage to lay down a few more.
    Check out the diversity in this guy, will start with this one.
    The Dead Don't Die
    https://youtu.be/xiukuoSjDj0
    All Said & Done, This song reminds me of
    Black, and the guitar solo sounds like something Mike McCready would do
    https://youtu.be/-nrGmG4MN0k

    Fastest Horse In Town!!
    This song reminds me of Red Mosquito.
    Listen to them side-by-side I think it's that buzzing slide guitar I think. ( I'm not a musician myself just a music connoisseur, so if I have the wrong terminology I beg your pardon)
    https://youtu.be/H9hjhPx-ydw
    Fascinating lyrics this guy writes.
    I think it's about getting rich off the backs of broken down horses literally and figuratively, (like Kentucky Derby horses, if more people knew what goes on behind the scenes at horse races it would turn everybody's stomachs, & everyday people busting their ass and not really getting ahead.
    This is one hell of a album closer!!  And now I'll give it a rest.  Enjoy
    I also want to thank Pearl Jam for setting the bar really high for me, it's like the standard by which I analyze music.
    Fastest horse in town here we go!
    https://youtu.be/qBYct1Ed_Eo




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  • DewieCox
    DewieCox Posts: 11,432
    edited December 2019
    1. Southeastern
    2. Like Clockwork
    3. A Moon Shaped Pool
    4. The Waterfall
    5. Ouroboros
    6. A Sailor’s Guide To Earth
    7. Helplessness Blues
    8. Blunderbuss
    9. Celebration Day
    10. Brothers
    11. The King Is Dead
    12. Something More Than Free
    13. Help Us Stranger
    14. Truth and Salvage Co
    15. Middle Brother
    16. Lazaretto
    17. Trouble Will Find Me
    18. Be The Void
    19. Circuital
    20. Star Wars
    21. New Basement Tapes
    22. Nashville Sound
    23. Conditions of My Parole
    24. Whole Love
    25. Signs
    26. Sound and Furt
    27. Oceania
    28. Lightning Bolt
    29. Mirage Rock
    30. Reflektor
    31. Modern Lore
    32. High Water II
    33. High Water I
    34. Uniform Distortion
    35. American Epic Sessions
    36. Wished Out
    37. From A Room 2
    38. Rattle That Lock
    39. High Violet
    40. Part of the Light


    Sure I’m forgetting some and these are probably more my favorite but I try to place a lot of value in the more cerebral aspects of songwriting. 
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  • nicknyr15
    nicknyr15 Posts: 9,250
    Faith No More - Sol Invictus 
    KOL- Walls
    U2- Songs of Innocence
    Kanye- Twisted Fantasy 
    Rival Sons- The Great Western Valkyrie 
    Tool- Fear Inocculum
    Deftones- Koi No Yokan 
    Pearl Jam- Lightning Bolt 
    jack White- Blunderbuss 
    Primus- Green Naugahyde 
    Kanye West- Yeezus 
    Racountuers- Help Me Stranger 
    Rival Sons- Feral Roots 
    Chili Peppers- The Getaway
    Run the Jewels- RTJ 3 
    My Morning Jacket- The Waterfall 


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