Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s
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My Top 10 Songs of the 2010s:
10. Car Seat Headrest - The Gun Song (Nervous Young Man, 2013)
9. Swans - A Piece Of The Sky (The Seer, 2012)
8. Lil B - I Love You (God's Father, 2012)
7. Car Seat Headrest - Famous Prophets (Stars) (Twin Fantasy, 2018)
6. The Brave Little Abacus - Pile! No Pile! Pile! (Just Got Back From the Discomfort—We're Alright, 2010)
5. Carly Rae Jepson - Run Away With Me (E•MO•TION, 2015)
4. Car Seat Headrest - Bodys (Twin Fantasy, 2011/2018)
3. Lil Ugly Mane - Prelude To Panopticon: "On Doing An Evil Deed Blues" (Single, 2013)
2. Lana Del Rey - Venice Bitch (Norman Fucking Rockwell, 2019)
1. Car Seat Headrest - Beach Life-In-Death (Twin Fantasy, 2011/2018)
- Chart updated: 09/16/2019 00:45
- (Created: 10/25/2016 07:31).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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"It'll take some time, but somewhere down the line, we won't be alone."
So first off I'm just going to let this represent both versions of the album because otherwise the top 2 spots on this chart would just be both versions of Twin Fantasy.
If you had told me a year ago that a straighforward indie rock album released in 2018 could make my top 3 albums of all time, I wouldn't believed you. Especially not one from Car Seat Headrest. For a long time my only exposure to this band was through 2016's Teens of Denial, an album that I thought that, despite having some great high points, was a very bland, unexciting, commercial Strokes knockoff. It wasn't until late 2017 that I heard the original 2011 Twin Fantasy, and I immediately fell in love with it, and my opinion on the band changed completely - and when I heard that they were going to re-record it, I was upset. I was sure that it would be turned into a watered-down commercialized Teens of Denial-esque version, and that wasn't what I wanted for that album at all. So the original continued growing on me, and it finally made it to that glorious 5 star rating just a week before the new version came out. And I never would have expected to say this, but the new version is better. In almost every way. I've barely listened to the 2011 one since this came out - the only real advantage that it has over this is Will's vocal performance, the monologue on Nervous Young Inhumans (I miss galvanism!) and the whole 'sincerity' factor. I mean, they're both 10/10 albums, but, in addition to the better production, this one also has the extended version of Famous Prophets, which alone is enough to push it above the original, and the different/more optimistic monologue at the end of the title track. I still think that the original is essential to listen to before hearing this, but I definitely consider this the superior version. But even setting aside the differences between the versions, I didn't expect to like this album, either version, as much as I did. But the themes, the lyrics, the angst, oh that glorious angst, it was exactly what I needed during that first half of 2018, my final year of high school. I can't begin to count the times I screamed along to Beach Life-In-Death while driving to school, or the amount of hope I found in the simplicity of My Boy, or how strongly I could relate to almost every song on the album as much as I despise myself for it. I guess there's a bit of gay furry in all of us.
Favourite Tracks: Beach Life-In-Death, Famous Prophets (Stars), Twin Fantasy (Those Boys), Sober To Death, Nervous Young Inhumans, My Boy (Twin Fantasy) [First added to this chart: 02/11/2018]
So first off I'm just going to let this represent both versions of the album because otherwise the top 2 spots on this chart would just be both versions of Twin Fantasy.
If you had told me a year ago that a straighforward indie rock album released in 2018 could make my top 3 albums of all time, I wouldn't believed you. Especially not one from Car Seat Headrest. For a long time my only exposure to this band was through 2016's Teens of Denial, an album that I thought that, despite having some great high points, was a very bland, unexciting, commercial Strokes knockoff. It wasn't until late 2017 that I heard the original 2011 Twin Fantasy, and I immediately fell in love with it, and my opinion on the band changed completely - and when I heard that they were going to re-record it, I was upset. I was sure that it would be turned into a watered-down commercialized Teens of Denial-esque version, and that wasn't what I wanted for that album at all. So the original continued growing on me, and it finally made it to that glorious 5 star rating just a week before the new version came out. And I never would have expected to say this, but the new version is better. In almost every way. I've barely listened to the 2011 one since this came out - the only real advantage that it has over this is Will's vocal performance, the monologue on Nervous Young Inhumans (I miss galvanism!) and the whole 'sincerity' factor. I mean, they're both 10/10 albums, but, in addition to the better production, this one also has the extended version of Famous Prophets, which alone is enough to push it above the original, and the different/more optimistic monologue at the end of the title track. I still think that the original is essential to listen to before hearing this, but I definitely consider this the superior version. But even setting aside the differences between the versions, I didn't expect to like this album, either version, as much as I did. But the themes, the lyrics, the angst, oh that glorious angst, it was exactly what I needed during that first half of 2018, my final year of high school. I can't begin to count the times I screamed along to Beach Life-In-Death while driving to school, or the amount of hope I found in the simplicity of My Boy, or how strongly I could relate to almost every song on the album as much as I despise myself for it. I guess there's a bit of gay furry in all of us.
Favourite Tracks: Beach Life-In-Death, Famous Prophets (Stars), Twin Fantasy (Those Boys), Sober To Death, Nervous Young Inhumans, My Boy (Twin Fantasy) [First added to this chart: 02/11/2018]
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2018
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"Because it's come to be too much, I can't just pile aesthetic-perceptive dilemma, over-analytic demeanors, feelings of lonely worthlessness and unproductivity atop the other, allowing each to bleed through their fabricated boundaries and become one more thing."
Favourite Tracks: Pile! No Pile! Pile!, Bug-Infested Floorboards — Can We Please Just Leave This Place Now, Please Don't Cry They Stopped Hours Ago, A Highway Got Paved Over My Future I Drive It Getting To School. [First added to this chart: 07/07/2018]
Favourite Tracks: Pile! No Pile! Pile!, Bug-Infested Floorboards — Can We Please Just Leave This Place Now, Please Don't Cry They Stopped Hours Ago, A Highway Got Paved Over My Future I Drive It Getting To School. [First added to this chart: 07/07/2018]
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"They found her near the airport in a crater near the bend, where she and I'd walk by the zoo, not knowing we'd do what all plagues do, I forget her all the time these days and be forgotten too."
Favourite Tracks: Why Write A Letter That You’ll Never Send, I See Seaweed, Nine Eyes, Laika
Favourite Tracks: Why Write A Letter That You’ll Never Send, I See Seaweed, Nine Eyes, Laika
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"That is all, that is all, there is nothing else."
Favourite Tracks: Turn the Light On, Words I Hear, I Shall Love 2, I Shall Love 1, Underneath The Moon [First added to this chart: 12/12/2018]
Favourite Tracks: Turn the Light On, Words I Hear, I Shall Love 2, I Shall Love 1, Underneath The Moon [First added to this chart: 12/12/2018]
Year of Release:
2018
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1,312
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"The unending amends you've made are enough for one life, be done. I believe in innocence, little darlin', start again, I believe in everyone."
Normally I wouldn't let an album get away with being over 2 hours long but it's Joanna Newsom and she's literally perfect so I'm fine with it. Any one of these three discs alone would be good enough to be album of the year. Put all three together, and there really isn't any doubt.
Favourite Tracks: Good Intentions Paving Company, '81, Have One On Me, Baby Birch, Does Not Suffice [First added to this chart: 08/04/2017]
Normally I wouldn't let an album get away with being over 2 hours long but it's Joanna Newsom and she's literally perfect so I'm fine with it. Any one of these three discs alone would be good enough to be album of the year. Put all three together, and there really isn't any doubt.
Favourite Tracks: Good Intentions Paving Company, '81, Have One On Me, Baby Birch, Does Not Suffice [First added to this chart: 08/04/2017]
Year of Release:
2010
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4,763
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"The Delta Rise, the drunk north star, do I ever wonder just what you are. After I stumble out of a last call bar, it's you and me."
Favourite Tracks: It's You and Me Against the World (Life of a Narcissist), Small Town Ghosts, Horse Man, I Love You Big City, Snake Lake
Favourite Tracks: It's You and Me Against the World (Life of a Narcissist), Small Town Ghosts, Horse Man, I Love You Big City, Snake Lake
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"And it pains me to say, I was wrong. Love is not a symptom of time. Time is just a symptom of love."
Favourite Tracks: Time As A Symptom, Anecdotes, Waltz Of The 101st Lightborne, Sapokanikan, Divers [First added to this chart: 03/31/2017]
Favourite Tracks: Time As A Symptom, Anecdotes, Waltz Of The 101st Lightborne, Sapokanikan, Divers [First added to this chart: 03/31/2017]
Year of Release:
2015
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2,202
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"So why did I weep when Trayvon Martin was in the street, when gang banging make me kill a nigga blacker than me?"
Favourite Tracks: The Blacker The Berry, How Much A Dollar Cost, u, Mortal Man, These Walls, King Kunta [First added to this chart: 11/03/2016]
Favourite Tracks: The Blacker The Berry, How Much A Dollar Cost, u, Mortal Man, These Walls, King Kunta [First added to this chart: 11/03/2016]
Year of Release:
2015
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31,464
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"Your arms look so fucking cute, they look like lil cigarettes, I bet I could smoke you, I could roast you, and then you'd love it and you'd text me 'I love you' and then I'd fucking ghost you!"
Single-handedly absolves every sin committed within the past 10 years of trashy pop music trends
Favourite Tracks: Money Machine, 745 Sticky, xXXi_wud_nvrstøp_ÜXXx, 800dB Cloud, Stupid Horse
Single-handedly absolves every sin committed within the past 10 years of trashy pop music trends
Favourite Tracks: Money Machine, 745 Sticky, xXXi_wud_nvrstøp_ÜXXx, 800dB Cloud, Stupid Horse
Year of Release:
2019
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662
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"Could you wrap your hands all the way around my neck and tell me where I stand."
What the heck I don't even like this type of music why is this so good
Favourite Tracks: Last Minute, Secondlife, 285 [First added to this chart: 09/15/2019]
What the heck I don't even like this type of music why is this so good
Favourite Tracks: Last Minute, Secondlife, 285 [First added to this chart: 09/15/2019]
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Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s composition
| Year | Albums | % | |
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| 2010 | 9 | 9% | |
| 2011 | 10 | 10% | |
| 2012 | 6 | 6% | |
| 2013 | 9 | 9% | |
| 2014 | 7 | 7% | |
| 2015 | 10 | 10% | |
| 2016 | 14 | 14% | |
| 2017 | 4 | 4% | |
| 2018 | 27 | 27% | |
| 2019 | 4 | 4% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| Car Seat Headrest | 4 | 4% | |
| Kanye West | 4 | 4% | |
| Frank Ocean | 4 | 4% | |
| Kendrick Lamar | 4 | 4% | |
| Lil Ugly Mane | 3 | 3% | |
| Death Grips | 3 | 3% | |
| Beach House | 3 | 3% | |
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63 | 63% | |
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15 | 15% | |
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9 | 9% | |
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6 | 6% | |
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3 | 3% | |
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1 | 1% | |
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1 | 1% | |
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Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
|---|
| Up 6 from 19th to 13th Loud City Song by Julia Holter |
| Up 5 from 20th to 15th Have You In My Wilderness by Julia Holter |
| Up 3 from 31st to 28th A Laughing Death In Meatspace by Tropical Fuck Storm |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 16 from 16th to 32nd Schlagenheim by Black Midi |
| Down 16 from 27th to 43rd Kaputt by Destroyer |
| Down 12 from 12th to 24th Kindred EP by Burial |
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A lot of hip hop for someone who points out that he "doesn't even like hip hop" :'D
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