What's Your Top 3?: 2010s albums

No over-thinking, no spreadsheets, no calculations, just hit me with a top 3 for each topic on instinct alone.

Arctic Monkeys - Suck It & See
Taylor Swift - 1989
Los Campesinos! - Hello Sadness

Just missing out:

Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
Red
Channel Orange/Blonde
Get To Heaven - Everything Everything
Dark Twisted Fantasy
All the Beyoncé ones
Golden Hour - Kacey Musgraves
Smother - Wild Beasts
Love Triangles Hate Squares - The Computers

2 Likes

Jai Paul - Bait Ones
Frank Ocean - Endless
WU LYF - Go Tell Fire To The Mountain

6 Likes

Bon Iver - Bon Iver
The National - High Violet
Metz - S/T

1 Like

Frank Ocean - Blonde
There Will Be Fireworks - The Dark, Dark Bright
Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city

Others

Did a big Top 100 albums of the 2010s list a couple of years ago and these records made up the rest of the top 10:

Kanye - MBDTF
Deafheaven - Sunbather
Sun Kil Moon - Benji
Japandroids - Celebration Rock
Grizzly Bear - Sheilds
Burial - Kindred
LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening

4 Likes

Yellow Swans - Going Places
Robyn - Honey
Caribou - Swim

4 Likes

sufjan carrie & lowell
big thief masterpiece
kendrick TPAB

6 Likes

Today it is:

The National - High Violet
Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
Moonface - Julia With Blue Jeans On

2 Likes

Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree
Frank Ocean - Blonde

5 Likes

Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat - Everything’s Getting Older
Wild Beasts - Smother
Caribou - Swim

3 Likes

Cheatahs – Cheatahs
Every Time I Die – Low Teens
No Joy – Wait To Pleasure

1 Like

Frank Ocean - Blonde
BODEGA - Endless Scroll
Haley Heynderickx - I Need to Start a Garden

new Young Fathers could really be in place of BODEGA, but might need another year to settle in fully as an all-timer (I can’t tell what year it is lol)

1 Like

fuck yes man, one of the most perfect one-and-one albums ever

1 Like

HARD

L Campesinos! - Romance Is Boring
O Pallett - Heartland
S Stevens - The Age Of Adz

2010s peaked in 2010

3 Likes

Fucking excellent album- their best IMO

1 Like

But that would be a 2020’s album then? :smiley:

3 Likes

SOPHIE - Oil Of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer
Emeralds - Does It Look Like I’m Here?

1 Like

Sharon Van Etten - Are We There
John Grant - Queen Of Denmark
Clairo - Immunity

1 Like

Today it is:

  1. Jeff Rosenstock- Worry.
  2. Dillinger Escape Plan- One of Us is the Killer
  3. Bomb the Music Industry! - Vacation

What? Two albums featuring Jeff Rosenstock? Goddamn right.

2 Likes

Sarabeth Tucek - Get Well Soon
Deafheaven - New Bermuda
Press Club - Late Teens

2 Likes

False, it’s the 2010s from now until the heat death of the universe

2 Likes