Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s by 
FlorianJones 
Anything with a write-up was in my top 50 at the end of the decade, in December of 2019.
As of today (June 14, 2022), 6 of those original top 50 have dropped into 51-100. None of them have dropped off the list entirely.
- Chart updated: 06/14/2022 23:15
- (Created: 11/26/2014 05:57).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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Top Tracks: We Know Who U R, Jubilee Street, Higgs Boson Blues
The recent release of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ Ghosteen is said to be the conclusion of a trilogy, a trilogy that started six years ago with Push The Sky Away. Treating albums as a trilogy is an intriguing concept – a concept that feels both cinematic and literary. Those traits are fitting for Cave, a renaissance man most well known for music, who also has extensive experience in cinema and literature. To a degree, the trilogy was derailed after tragedy befell Cave’s family, leaving the ghost of his late son hanging over the Skeleton Tree and Ghosteen. Push The Sky Away is a predominantly bleak affair (most Bad Seeds albums are), but in comparison to its successors, it feels almost playful. Cave has an incomparable knack for making profound statements that on initial glance read as a joke, and that’s on full display in Push The Sky Away. Nick Cave always sounds divorced from time, so when he pulls in such distinctly contemporary reference points as Wikipedia or Hannah Montana, it catches the listener off guard. It’s almost unnerving, and it feels like the only response is to laugh a little. There’s no one else that can do this the way Cave can.
What slight hint of levity there is on Push The Sky Away is understandably lost on the other albums in the trilogy, but they still feel connected by their aesthetic similarities. Each of these three albums is progressively more minimal than the last. The extremes this is taken to on Ghosteen seem logical given the spoken word nature of Cave’s grieving, but that path was set long before he had reason to grieve. The nine songs on Push The Sky Away have flourishes here and there, but in each case, the song is driven by a steady and unwavering backbone right from the start. These very skeletal foundations are slow, and often quiet, but heavy with inertia. It feels as though they’re backed by the unstoppable weight of a freight train. It takes confidence to leave something like that alone. It’d be an easy thing to underestimate, but building too much on top would quickly degrade the structural elegance. Cave delivers these simple pieces with aplomb. Once again, he makes work unlike anyone else, because he is unlike anyone else. [First added to this chart: 06/22/2017]
The recent release of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ Ghosteen is said to be the conclusion of a trilogy, a trilogy that started six years ago with Push The Sky Away. Treating albums as a trilogy is an intriguing concept – a concept that feels both cinematic and literary. Those traits are fitting for Cave, a renaissance man most well known for music, who also has extensive experience in cinema and literature. To a degree, the trilogy was derailed after tragedy befell Cave’s family, leaving the ghost of his late son hanging over the Skeleton Tree and Ghosteen. Push The Sky Away is a predominantly bleak affair (most Bad Seeds albums are), but in comparison to its successors, it feels almost playful. Cave has an incomparable knack for making profound statements that on initial glance read as a joke, and that’s on full display in Push The Sky Away. Nick Cave always sounds divorced from time, so when he pulls in such distinctly contemporary reference points as Wikipedia or Hannah Montana, it catches the listener off guard. It’s almost unnerving, and it feels like the only response is to laugh a little. There’s no one else that can do this the way Cave can.
What slight hint of levity there is on Push The Sky Away is understandably lost on the other albums in the trilogy, but they still feel connected by their aesthetic similarities. Each of these three albums is progressively more minimal than the last. The extremes this is taken to on Ghosteen seem logical given the spoken word nature of Cave’s grieving, but that path was set long before he had reason to grieve. The nine songs on Push The Sky Away have flourishes here and there, but in each case, the song is driven by a steady and unwavering backbone right from the start. These very skeletal foundations are slow, and often quiet, but heavy with inertia. It feels as though they’re backed by the unstoppable weight of a freight train. It takes confidence to leave something like that alone. It’d be an easy thing to underestimate, but building too much on top would quickly degrade the structural elegance. Cave delivers these simple pieces with aplomb. Once again, he makes work unlike anyone else, because he is unlike anyone else. [First added to this chart: 06/22/2017]
Year of Release:
2013
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2,730
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Top Tracks: Jesus Alone, Rings of Saturn, Distant Sky
Death has often found itself at the center of Nick Cave’s work. As far as I can tell, there’s never been much rhyme or reason to this repeated motif (beyond a presumably innate fascination with death) that is, until Skeleton Tree. In July of 2015, Cave’s fifteen-year-old son Arthur stumbled off a cliff to his death. While these eight songs were written before this tragedy, several ad-libs and overdubs were recorded in the aftermath, and there’s no denying the shadow Arthur’s passing casts over the proceedings. Many of Nick Cave’s dreariest works are notable for savage and unruly characters rendered through guttural howls. Here his vocals spill listlessly over the music. He is consumed by grief. Both musically and lyrically, Skeleton Tree is awash with an unsettling sorrow, but not entirely without redemption. The penultimate Distant Sky is a much needed spot of warmth. The harrowing duet seems to frame the characters as a husband and wife pushing forward in search of peace, leading to the closing line “Soon the children will be rising, will be rising. This is not for our eyes.” The lyric is ambiguous, but Cave’s female accompaniment lends it an air of hopeful confidence. [First added to this chart: 06/22/2017]
Death has often found itself at the center of Nick Cave’s work. As far as I can tell, there’s never been much rhyme or reason to this repeated motif (beyond a presumably innate fascination with death) that is, until Skeleton Tree. In July of 2015, Cave’s fifteen-year-old son Arthur stumbled off a cliff to his death. While these eight songs were written before this tragedy, several ad-libs and overdubs were recorded in the aftermath, and there’s no denying the shadow Arthur’s passing casts over the proceedings. Many of Nick Cave’s dreariest works are notable for savage and unruly characters rendered through guttural howls. Here his vocals spill listlessly over the music. He is consumed by grief. Both musically and lyrically, Skeleton Tree is awash with an unsettling sorrow, but not entirely without redemption. The penultimate Distant Sky is a much needed spot of warmth. The harrowing duet seems to frame the characters as a husband and wife pushing forward in search of peace, leading to the closing line “Soon the children will be rising, will be rising. This is not for our eyes.” The lyric is ambiguous, but Cave’s female accompaniment lends it an air of hopeful confidence. [First added to this chart: 06/22/2017]
Year of Release:
2016
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4,508
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Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s composition
| Year | Albums | % | |
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| 2010 | 11 | 11% | |
| 2011 | 6 | 6% | |
| 2012 | 7 | 7% | |
| 2013 | 5 | 5% | |
| 2014 | 9 | 9% | |
| 2015 | 15 | 15% | |
| 2016 | 13 | 13% | |
| 2017 | 12 | 12% | |
| 2018 | 7 | 7% | |
| 2019 | 15 | 15% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| Kendrick Lamar | 4 | 4% | |
| Tame Impala | 3 | 3% | |
| Frank Ocean | 3 | 3% | |
| Destroyer | 2 | 2% | |
| Bon Iver | 2 | 2% | |
| Deerhunter | 2 | 2% | |
| Sufjan Stevens | 2 | 2% | |
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Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 41 from 52nd to 11th Black Up by Shabazz Palaces |
| Up 34 from 82nd to 48th Reflections by Hannah Diamond |
| Up 26 from 99th to 73rd Moth by Chairlift |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 35 from 26th to 61st Pom Pom by Ariel Pink |
| Down 28 from 21st to 49th The Age Of Adz by Sufjan Stevens |
| Down 24 from 48th to 72nd Benji by Sun Kil Moon |
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| 85/100 | 06/28/2017 17:14 | weston | | 87/100 |
| 100/100 | 02/20/2017 19:20 | Seab | | 93/100 |
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From weston 06/28/2017 17:15
Nice! I agree 2015 was the strongest year so are. And I like the stuff you've thrown at the end.
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Excellent Chart!
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