Favourite albums of last decade?

stickyfiddle

I'm back on my bi-annual "what shall I listen to now" quest. So I'm wondering what people favourite albums are from the last 10 years or so. 

Most recently I've been adoring Bon Iver's latest record, with mixed input from Band of Horses, The Hold Steady and My Morning Jacket, but I'm open to anything (though bonus points for not being prog or metal)

octatonic

Some of my favourite albums of the last decade:

Not heavy: 

"Twisted Blues" by Oz Noy
"Swoon" by Silversun Pickups
"One Drop East" by Salmonella Dub
"Lily-O" by Sam Amidon

Heavier:

"Cooking with Pagans" by Freak Kitchen
All of the Clutch records
All of the Big Wreck albums
"All You Can Eat" and "Balls Out" by Steel Panther
"Threat To Survival" by Shinedown

Sporky

Air by Astronoid.
Polymorphic Code by The Algorithm
Fade by Cloudkicker
Melting Sun by Lantlos
A Determination Of Morality by Rosetta
Plains of the Purple Buffalo by *shels
Dive by Tycho
and
A Winged Victory For The Sullen by A Winged Victory For The Sullen.

Deadman

All 4 Syd Arthur albums

So who's paranoid by The Damned

Big fugitive life by Ezra Furman

90 bisodol by Half man half biscuit

Years of refusal by Morrissey

Backspacer and Lightning bolt, both by Pearl Jam

What the world needs now by PIL

Like clockwork by QOTSA

The soft pack by The soft pack

Comfort by Splashh

Response by The Spitfires 

Not music by Stereolab

Innerspeaker and Lonerism, both by Tame Impala

Red light fever by Taylor Hawkins and The Coattail Riders

The beyond/Where the giants roam by Thundercat


I struggle to find much I like recently though. Music needs a kick up the arse but I can't ever see myself getting into Grime.

vasselmeyer

I quite enjoyed "Now That's What I Call Music! 79".  A significant improvement over 78.

starwarsnosebleed

King gizzard-im in your mind fuzz
king Gizzard-Float along...fill your lungs
Fuzz-II
Ty Segall-Twins/Gemini
Devo-Hardcore vol 1&2
Deafheaven-Sunbather
Lightning bolt-Earthly delights
Grinderman-s/t
Baptist genarals-Jackleg devotional
Melvins-Nude with boots
Electric wizard-Witchcult today
Murlocs-Young blindness

Im discovering far more music now from the 60's-90's than i am anything from the 2000's.
But there has still been some great albums.

ICBM

vasselmeyer said:

I quite enjoyed "Now That's What I Call Music! 79".  A significant improvement over 78.

lol

But actually they're quite a good indication of the quality of mainstream music in general. The last two (95 and 96) are surprisingly good overall. Some of the earlier ones are a bit shit… can't remember what 78 is like . I own over two thirds of them, so it becomes a bit of a blur after a while .

It took a while to go through my post-2006 albums (I have almost 500 according to my iTunes library, although that includes singles and compilations), but here are some of them… favourite from each artist if I've got more than one.

Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
ATB - Trilogy
Band Of Horses - Cease To Begin
Belinda Carlisle - Voila
Bellowhead - Broadside
Brandon Flowers - Flamingo
Bruce Springsteen - Magic
Calexico - Carried To Dust
Calvin Harris - 18 Months
Christina Perri - Lovestrong
Cowboy Junkies - At The End Of Paths Taken
Crowded House - Time On Earth
David Gray - Draw The Line
Diana Vickers - Songs From The Tainted Cherry Tree
Dinosaur Jr - Farm
Editors - An End Has A Start
Eskobar - Death In Athens
Faithless - The Dance
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Franz Ferdinand - Tonight
Fun - Some Nights
Garbage - Not Your Kind Of People
Glasvegas - Glasvegas
Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
Hard-Fi - Once Upon A Time In The West
Heather Nova - The Way It Feels
Holly Figueroa - Gifts & Burdens
Hozier - Hozier
Idlewild - Make Another World
Jake Bugg - On My One
James - Hey Ma
James Bay - Chaos And The Calm
The Jezabels - Prisoner
Kate Bush - Director's Cut
Kate Nash - Made Of Bricks
Kate Rusby - 20
Kathleen Edwards - Asking For Flowers
Kelly Clarkson - My December
The Killers - Day & Age
KT Tunstall - Tiger Suit
Lady Gaga - Art Pop
Lana Del Rey - Born To Die
Laura Cantrell - No Way There From Here
Little Pink - Gladly Would We Anchor
Lucinda Williams - West
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - The Heist
Maddy Prior - Seven For Old England
Marianne Faithfull - Give My Love To London
Marina & The Diamonds - Electra Heart
Metric - Synthetica
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Beats
Morcheeba - Dive Deep
Neil Finn - Dizzy Heights
Neil Young - Psychedelic Pill
OneRepublic - Native
Paolo Nutini - Sunny Side Up
REM - Accelerate
Richard Hawley - Standing At The Sky's Edge
Rihanna - Good Girl Gone Bad
Shakira - She Wolf
Tiesto - Elements Of Life
The Waterboys - Modern Blues
Years & Years - Communion
Yoko Ono - Yes I'm A Witch Too

Hard to pick a favourite, but at a wild stab… Marianne Faithfull, Give My Love To London.

mudslide73

Off the top of my head:

Morning Phase - Beck.
Lost in the Dream - War on Drugs.
Pressure and Time - Rival Sons. 
Primrose Green - Ryley Walker.
Everything - Ryan Adams.

EricTheWeary

In the last ten years I've probably largely been listening to 2Tone, sixties ska, punk and dub reggae so new music isn't my forte. I would have mentioned My Morning Jacket but that's in the OP. I'll +1 to Pressure and Time (although that's pretty 1970s).

I'll throw in Adore Life by Savages which trendy people seem to like and not realise it sounds like Bauhaus, but it's very good. 

Walter Trout - Blues for the Modern Daze; it's hard work to recommend white blues and old Walter is as dull as they come but for 40 minutes he raised the level. 

Wilko Johnson and Roger Daltrey - Going Back Home; more old duffers having fun.

Magic - Don't Kill the Magic; I wouldn't say it's 100% solid but it's much, much better than a pop reggae band from Canada ought to be.

Richard Thompson - Acoustic Classics; one of my least favourite things to do with a guitar is have a single acoustic behind someone singing but this is the exception. Richard has a huge back catalogue and he kindly condensed a lot of the best bits into this [okay, new versions if not new songs]. 

Jim Campilongo - Orange or Dream Dictionary; the latter is easier listening although both can be a bit hard work as a listen end to end. However, as a pure form of making a noise from the electric guitar he's hard to beat.

And that other one that I've listened to loads and loads in the last ten years but for some reason I can't quite think of now but will do so in about three days and add to this Discussion then long after everyone has lost interest...

joneve

Fools and Worthless Liars, Old Souls and All These Countless Nights by Deaf Havana. Lyrically, the first two are a bit "young" but sonically the latter two are two of my favourite albums ever. 

Silverball by Barenaked Ladies...also the recently released "Ladies and Gentlemen: Barenaked Ladies and the Persuasions" - which are re-worked BNL tracks with Acapella band the Persuasions adding some awesome vibes.

Asymmetry and Wired by Mallory Knox

Priorities and Automatic by DON BROCO. 

There's probably loads more, but they are the ones that get the most spins on Spotify whilst I'm at work. 

Philly_Q

I'm not going to get any bonus points for not being prog or metal (although none of this is very metal by modern standards) but I like this stuff:

Elder
Royal Thunder
Mars Red Sky
Blood Ceremony
Black Moth
Baroness
My Sleeping Karma
Earthless
Golden Void
Luna Sol
Baroness
Windhand
Goatess
Witchcraft
Mount Salem
Siena Root

Winny_Pooh

Some eclectic stuff here, haven't heard a fraction of it.

Sone of this may pre date 2007 so forgive my memory.

Lhasa - Lhasa
Bill Callahan - Apocalypse
Justin Townes Earle - nothings gonna change the way you feel about me now
MewithoutYou - Brother Sister
Lizz Wright - the orchard
Joanna Newsom - have one on me
Dutch Uncles - oh shudder
Rhye 
Feist - the reminder
Matthew Herbert big band - there's me and there's you
The Mynabirds - what we loose in the fire we gain in the flood
Black dub
Lana Del Rey - Paradise
Them crooked vultures
Ane brun - it all starts with one
Edward Sharp & the magnetic zeros (third album)
Half moon run - dark eyes
Gillian Welch - harrow & the harvest
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss -  Raising Sand
Sahara Smith - Myth of the heart
Black Keys - el camino
The war on drugs - lost in the dream
Fever Ray

dtr

In a rock/americana vibe...

Haw - Hiss Golden Messenger
Barn Doors and Concrete Floors - Israel Nash
Sojourner - Magnolia Electric Co
 
Rap, for lack of anything better to call it...

A Badly Broken Code - Dessa
The Mighty Ocean and Nine Dark Theatres - Astronautalis
The Impossible Kid - Aesop Rock

Punk rawk and noize..

II - Metz 
Holding Hands with Jamie - Girl Band

Jazz...

Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau

richardhomer

Still - Richard Thompson's last album, produced by Jeff Tweedy. Great songs, great performances - up there with the best of his back catoligue.

Grumpyrocker

Thanks to MusicBee I can easily sort stuff into years. These are some of my favourite albums since 2007.  I've tried to keep it down to one album per band - but in most cases if I've mentioned a band I've enjoyed all their output over the last ten years.

Not Heavy:
Delain -  The Human Contradiction
Riverside - Love, Fear & The Time Machine
Bruce Soord with Jonas Renkse - Wisdom of Crowds
The Gathering - Disclosure
The Gathering - A Noise Severe
Anneke Van Giersbergen - Drive
Steve Rothery - The Ghosts of Pripyat
Anathema - Weather Systems

Heavier:
Paradise Lost - The Plague Within
Amorphis - Under the Red Cloud
Insomnium - Winter's Gate
Witherscape - The Inheritance
Carcass - Surgical Steel
Sabaton - Carolus Rex
Omnium Gatherum - New World Shadows
Moonsorrow - Varjoina Kuljemme Kuolleiden Maassa
Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier
Megadeth - Endgame
Heaven & Hell (Dio Black Sabbath) - The Devil You Know
Immortal - All Shall Fall
Opeth - Watershed
Nightwish - Dark Passion Play
Katatonia - Night Is the new Day
Be'Lakor - Vessels
In Mourning - The Weight of Oceans
Epica - The Quantum Enigma
Xandria - Sacrificium
Nightwish - Dark Passion Play

Bellycaster

Daft Punk - Random Access Memories


and some others I can't think of at the moment 

guitarfishbay

Don't expect many share my tastes 

Bring Me The Horizon - Sempiternal
Circa Survive - On Letting Go
Karnivool - Sound Awake
Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance
Sylosis - Dormant Heart. In my all time top metal albums list for certain

None of the pop/electro/etc I've liked in the past decade has survived the 'only CD in my car for weeks' test, but I like a lot of music

duotone

Tellison - The Wages Of Fear (pop/rock)
Charles Bradley - No Time For Dreaming (r&b/soul)
Gregory Porter - Take Me To The Alley (jazz)
Frank Ocean - Blonde (pop)
Against Me! - Shape Shift With Me (Rock)
Daniel Romano - Sleep Beneath The Willow (country) 
Creeper - Eternity, In Your Arms (Rock)
Al Green - Lay It Down (r&b/soul)

axisus

The last few albums by my two favourite bands, Pendragon and Big Big Train. Both prog so you can ignore me.

Bucket

Biffy Clyro - Only Revolutions
Big Wreck - Albatross
Big Wreck - Ghosts
Busted - Night Driver
Deftones - Koi No Yokan
Devin Townsend Project - Epicloud
The Dowling Poole - Bleak Strategies
The Dowling Poole - One Hyde Park
Dream Theater - Black Clouds and Silver Linings
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP 2
Faith No More - Sol Invictus
Frost* - Milliontown
Ginger Wildheart - 555%
Ginger Wildheart - Year of the Fanclub
Hey! Hello! - S/T
It Bites - The Tall Ships
Mastodon - The Hunter
Mastodon - Once More Round the Sun
Periphery - Periphery II
Protest the Hero - Volition
Steel Panther - Balls Out
Sylosis - Edge of the Earth
Sylosis - Monolith
Turbowolf - S/T
Turbowolf - Two Hands
Vulfpeck - The Beautiful Game
The Wildhearts - Chutzpah

If I had to pick a top five:

1: Ginger Wildheart - 555%
2: The Dowling Poole - One Hyde Park
3: Big Wreck - Albatross
4: Turbowolf - Two Hands
5: Frost* - Milliontown

Bucket

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