What's Been The Best Album This Decade - Since 2007 (Optional?) (1 Viewer)

[E-Z Glider]

Radiohead - In Rainbows

Spoon - Ga ga ga ga ga

Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum

Black Keys - Brothers

Arcade Fire - Suburbs

Mumford and Sons - Sigh No More

Iron & Wine - Kiss each other clean

fun. - Some nights 

Jack White - Blunderbuss

 

[Nigel Tufnel]

####ed Up - David Comes to Life

Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest

Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga 

Baroness - Blue Record

Arcade Fire - The Suburbs

Japandroids - Celebration Rock

 

[Wild Young Billy]

Aside from Beck, I will add

The Record Company- Give it Back to You. 

So good. 

 

[Leroy Hoard]

M83 has had a few that might qualify, including their most accessible recent one called Junk.

 

[rockaction]

M83 has had a few that might qualify, including their most accessible recent one called Junk.

Which reminds me that MGMT's Oracular Spectacular came out in '07. 

Come to think of it, '07-'08 was a heck of a year for some albums.  

 

[rockaction]

####ed Up - David Comes to Life

I hated this...until I listened to it. I loved Hidden World, hated Common Chemistry, and was determined to not like this. My friend changed my mind. Great album.  

 

[Brony]

The National - Boxer

or 

Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial

Not only an interesting band but one of my favorite names for a band.

 

[jvdesigns2002]

Although most of these would not be in my wheelhouse of music taste--if one were to try to try to come up with a general consensus for the best album of the last 10 years--it'd be hard to keep artists like Adele, Drake, Kendrick Lamar, and Kanye out.  

 

[rockaction]

Although most of these would not be in my wheelhouse of music taste--if one were to try to try to come up with a general consensus for the best album of the last 10 years--it'd be hard to keep artists like Adele, Drake, Kendrick Lamar, and Kanye out.  

I agree with this, especially Kanye West and Kendrick Lamar. 

But I think Kanye's last great album was Graduation, in my own humble opinion (and it is humble but for the fact that I just want to talk about it).

 

[skycriesmary]

Radiohead - In Rainbows

Spoon - Ga ga ga ga ga

Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum

Black Keys - Brothers

Arcade Fire - Suburbs

Mumford and Sons - Sigh No More

Iron & Wine - Kiss each other clean

fun. - Some nights 

Jack White - Blunderbuss

This. I almost put in In Rainbows. Another consideration, Nick Cave - Push the Sky Away.

 

[Eephus]

Although most of these would not be in my wheelhouse of music taste--if one were to try to try to come up with a general consensus for the best album of the last 10 years--it'd be hard to keep artists like Adele, Drake, Kendrick Lamar, and Kanye out.  

Nostalgia, ULTRA by Frank Ocean should be in the conversation

 

[Jutz]

1989

 

[mobb_deep]

Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
The National - Boxer

 

[rockaction]

1989

T. Swift?  

 

[Nigel Tufnel]

####ed Up - David Comes to Life

Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest

Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga 

Baroness - Blue Record

Arcade Fire - The Suburbs

Japandroids - Celebration Rock

Should have included Modern Vampires of the City as well. 

 

[rockaction]

Should have included Modern Vampires of the City as well. 

If we're going back to 2007, their debut deserves to be there as well.  

 

[Rushmore]

Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial

I hear some Kinks influence, which is very cool in my book.  

 

[Ilov80s]

One of these:

Kendrick GKMC

Local Natives Hummingbird 

Jamie Xx Colour

Father John Misty Fear Fun

 

[shuke]

My favorites:

My Morning Jacket - Circuital

Band of Horses - Mirage Rock

Arcade Fire - Suburbs

Fleet Foxes - self titled

Heartless Bastards - Arrow and Restless Ones

Radiohead - In Rainbows

So much other great stuff: Car Seat Headrest, Father John Misty, Greensky Bluegrass, M. Ward, Of Monsters and Men, The National, LCD Soundsystem, Phish, Ray LaMontagne, War on Drugs, Shins, Spoon

 

[skol asylum]

Cage the Elephant - Melophobia

The Civil Wars - Barton Hallow

The Darkness - Last of our Kind

Of Monsters and Men - My Head is an Animal

Wolf Alice - My Love is Cool

 

[wilked]

My favorites:

My Morning Jacket - Circuital

Band of Horses - Mirage Rock

Arcade Fire - Suburbs

Fleet Foxes - self titled

Heartless Bastards - Arrow and Restless Ones

Radiohead - In Rainbows

So much other great stuff: Car Seat Headrest, Father John Misty, Greensky Bluegrass, M. Ward, Of Monsters and Men, The National, LCD Soundsystem, Phish, Ray LaMontagne, War on Drugs, Shins, Spoon

Way to narrow it down dude

 

[AAABatteries]

Mumford and Sons - Sigh No More

This and Babel I really liked - their latest was Meh.

 

[the moops]

Just can't get into Mumford and Sons. Lead singer dude tries too hard

 

[Jaysus]

Just can't get into Mumford and Sons. Lead singer dude tries too hard

I like him, but I am a total sucker for a banjo crescendo so I may be biased. 

 

[shuke]

Way to narrow it down dude

This was more in response to people saying they didn't know of any good recent music.

MY BAD.

 

[Jutz]

T. Swift?  

Yes.  I was really impressed with the WHOLE 1989 album.  A lot of albums are a few good songs with filler, not the case for this one.

1989 was solid from start to finish and even had a 'bonus track' I really liked that was released as a single... "New Romantics" which sounded like Pet Shop Boys.

There were a lot of 80's influences you could hear through the album, and since I grew up on 80's music I really enjoyed it. 

 

[Jaysus]

1989 was solid from start to finish and even had a 'bonus track' I really liked that was released as a single... "New Romantics" which sounded like Pet Shop Boys.

I actually really liked that song.  

 

[rockaction]

Yes.  I was really impressed with the WHOLE 1989 album.  A lot of albums are a few good songs with filler, not the case for this one.

1989 was solid from start to finish and even had a 'bonus track' I really liked that was released as a single... "New Romantics" which sounded like Pet Shop Boys.

There were a lot of 80's influences you could hear through the album, and since I grew up on 80's music I really enjoyed it. 

Sure, was just wondering if that's what you were referring to.  

 

[wilked]

This was more in response to people saying they didn't know of any good recent music.

MY BAD.

No problem...

Also, if you are curious on my favorite state here are some of my favorites

 

[Waingro]

I like him, but I am a total sucker for a banjo crescendo so I may be biased. 

I'm with you here. 

Which is why I'd add The Lumineers self titled album to this list. Fits right into this fun folk rock style.

 

[Waingro]

Which reminds me that MGMT's Oracular Spectacular came out in '07. 

Come to think of it, '07-'08 was a heck of a year for some albums.  

Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris (2007)

Has some fantastics songs on this album.

 

[El Floppo]

Yes.  I was really impressed with the WHOLE 1989 album.  A lot of albums are a few good songs with filler, not the case for this one.

1989 was solid from start to finish and even had a 'bonus track' I really liked that was released as a single... "New Romantics" which sounded like Pet Shop Boys.

There were a lot of 80's influences you could hear through the album, and since I grew up on 80's music I really enjoyed it. 

In before the hipsters say Ryan Adams version

 

[SlaX]

My first thought was Arctic Monkeys, AM (2013)

I agree with AM.  Hardly a bad song on it.  Twenty One Pilots - Blurryface would probably be my distant second.  Note:  I don't buy full albums anymore.  So better albums most likely have been mentioned.

 

[Jutz]

In before the hipsters say Ryan Adams version

I used to have the Whiskeytown CD Strangers Almanac and I listened to every song many times over many years ago.  I am fan of Ryan Adams and thought it was incredibly flattering of him to cover 1989.  I listened to maybe 2 full songs of his 1989 cover, and several song clips and it was pretty cool, but I didn't like it THAT much.  I do think it was awesome that he did it though.

 

[wikkidpissah]

I've spent a coupla days now listening to y'all's pix to make sure - lotta decent "best we got"'s but nothing that says "we're searing this into your brain and you will never be the same" (which is the point of r&r, after all) - but the correct answer is Sufjan Stevens's Age of Adz. 

Closest this century has to a Sgt Pepper but pretty damn far at that. More ideas in one album than any twenty 21st C albums and some truly poignant song moments, but still more tropes than songs. It is a flat, frikkin sin that someone hasn't gotten to SS and convinced him of the obligation to society which his genius demands. That he has yet to offer himself up to the counterpoints, contradictions, containments & contexts of contrasting talents necessary to turn his canoodling onanism into the masterworks which could move the world is more wrong than Trump. Were i to encounter the lad, he'd get the Jesse-Pinkman-in-Uncle-Jack's-compound treatment from me til he came to his senses.

And, since i'm an old man with no cred, little harm can be done to my rep by nominating tUnE-yArDs Whokill, Jamie Cullum's The Pursuit & Paul Simon's So Beautiful So What along with Stevens' Carrie & Lowell as supplementary entries.

 

[Eephus]

I used to have the Whiskeytown CD Strangers Almanac and I listened to every song many times over many years ago.  I am fan of Ryan Adams and thought it was incredibly flattering of him to cover 1989.  I listened to maybe 2 full songs of his 1989 cover, and several song clips and it was pretty cool, but I didn't like it THAT much.  I do think it was awesome that he did it though.

I think Adams' self-titled album from 2014 is his best from the past decade.

 

[skycriesmary]

I've spent a coupla days now listening to y'all's pix to make sure - lotta decent "best we got"'s but nothing that says "we're searing this into your brain and you will never be the same" (which is the point of r&r, after all) - but the correct answer is Sufjan Stevens's Age of Adz. 

Closest this century has to a Sgt Pepper but pretty damn far at that. More ideas in one album than any twenty 21st C albums and some truly poignant song moments, but still more tropes than songs. It is a flat, frikkin sin that someone hasn't gotten to SS and convinced him of the obligation to society which his genius demands. That he has yet to offer himself up to the counterpoints, contradictions, containments & contexts of contrasting talents necessary to turn his canoodling onanism into the masterworks which could move the world is more wrong than Trump. Were i to encounter the lad, he'd get the Jesse-Pinkman-in-Uncle-Jack's-compound treatment from me til he came to his senses.

And, since i'm an old man with no cred, little harm can be done to my rep by nominating tUnE-yArDs Whokill, Jamie Cullum's The Pursuit & Paul Simon's So Beautiful So What along with Stevens' Carrie & Lowell as supplementary entries.

This. Carrie & Lowell was an amazing album as well. I actually preferred it, but it's not the multi faceted amazeballs record that Age was.

 

[got_nugs]

Since Halcyon, Rainbows, ‘Burbs are mentioned already I’ll add An Awesome Wave by Alt J.   Somewhere down the line I mistakenly played this through three times and now it has its hooks in me. Headphones recommended.

 

[wikkidpissah]

An Awesome Wave by Alt J.   

good stuff. i'd like em better if their singer sounded less like Carl Spackler, but they got sumn

 

[El Floppo]

Since Halcyon, Rainbows, ‘Burbs are mentioned already I’ll add An Awesome Wave by Alt J.   Somewhere down the line I mistakenly played this through three times and now it has its hooks in me. Headphones recommended.

was thinking of this one too.. definitely broke a mold putting this out- such a distinct and different sound.

 

[Nigel Tufnel]

Should have included Modern Vampires of the City as well. 

####, almost forgot about The Monitor by Titus Andronicus. 

 

[Ilov80s]

Yo @rockaction when is the poll? I am thinking of doing an aughts battle of the bands

 

[rockaction]

Yo @rockaction when is the poll? I am thinking of doing an aughts battle of the bands

Great idea. But the poll might be flawed if I do it now. Let's open up the floor for nominations. I'll look at those which were mentioned by more than one poster and do it in a few days. 

Feel free to start an aughts battle. We can handle more than one...

 

[Ilov80s]

Great idea. But the poll might be flawed if I do it now. Let's open up the floor for nominations. I'll look at those which were mentioned by more than one poster and do it in a few days. 

Feel free to start an aughts battle. We can handle more than one...

I was thinkng bands,  not albums. I actually did a very large Battle of the Bands like 10 years ago on here. Had a 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s regions. I just chose the bands on my own and did rankings randomly since I figured people would always disagree. I know Beatles (60s) beat LZ (70s) in the finals. 

 

[rockaction]

I was thinkng bands,  not albums. I actually did a very large Battle of the Bands like 10 years ago on here. Had a 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s regions. I just chose the bands on my own and did rankings randomly since I figured people would always disagree. I know Beatles (60s) beat LZ (70s) in the finals. 

Yeah, I caught that, I think. 

I actually just looked and am not sure how to add a poll question to an already existing topic. I'll check it out more and do a rough sketch.  

 

[Eephus]

Nominating Django Django

 

[rockaction]

Nominating Django Django

Of course I had to look that up.

 

[Northern Voice]

Year end style FBG poll IMO.

 

[rockaction]

Year end style FBG poll IMO.

Sure. Let's do it. You want to run it? I'm lousy at logistics, NV. You're better at this.