Favourite albums of last decade?

kennedydream1980

The Tall Ships - It Bites

dindude

Lots of stuff but the below is limited to what I think are genuinely brilliant albums end to end and still get a lot of repeat listens, in no order:

MGMT - Oracular Spectacular 
Everything Everything - Arc
Chvches - The Bones of What you Believe
Ben Howard - I Forget Where We Were
John Mayer - Born and Raised
Wolf Alice - My Love is Cool
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs

prowla

kennedydream1980 said:

The Tall Ships - It Bites

Now that's a good album - I saw them on that tour.

prowla

ICBM said:

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Crowded House - Time On Earth
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Hard to pick a favourite, but at a wild stab… Marianne Faithfull, Give My Love To London.

There y'go; favourite picked!
(I've got the live album of the gig they did at Wembley - you ordered it before going in and picked it up on exit.)

prowla

Grumpyrocker said:

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

I got to see Heaven & Hell at Wembley; Geezer's bass sound was fantastic.

(Nightwish - the album is so good it made it onto the list twice!)

prowla

My favourite is Clockwork Angels - Rush's best since Moving Pictures.

(I saw them on both of those tours!)

stickyfiddle

Cheers all! Some I know I don't like in there, plenty I know I like and plenty I don't know so should keep me going for a while

As for my own list, the following stick out off the top of my head:

Gaslight Anthem - all albums but particularly American Slang and Handwritten
The Hold Steady - Boys & Girls in America
Springsteen - Wrecking Ball
The Tragically Hip - Man Machine Poem
Bon Iver - 22, A Million (and the live NPR gig)
Noel Gallagher - Chasing Yesterday 
St Vincent - St Vincent
Ryan Adams - Ryan Adams
Beck - Morning Phase (great call from @mudslide73 )
Sigur Ros - Kveikur
QOTSA - Like Clockwork
REM - Collapse Into Now

HAL9000

vasselmeyer said:

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

I gather that, like most bands, NTWICM are struggling with that difficult 97th album.

Grumpyrocker

prowla said:

(Nightwish - the album is so good it made it onto the list twice!)

More of a cut and paste error

ICBM

prowla said:

ICBM said:

Crowded House - Time On Earth

There y'go; favourite picked!

That was a close contender too. Can't believe I forgot to mention the Finn Brothers 'Everyone Is Here' - that would also be on the shortlist, I think I might marginally prefer it to the Crowded House ones… but anything with Neil Finn in it is good.

blobb

LogoS - L'enigma della vita.

http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=45403

lasermonkey

Tomorrow's Harvest- Boards Of Canada
Until In Excess, Imperceptible UFO- The Besnard Lakes
A Coliseum Complex Museum- The Besnard Lakes
Bloom- Beach House
Emeralds- Robin Guthrie
3D- SPC ECO
Blood/Candy- The Posies
Drums And Guns- Low
To The Pine Roots- Iain Archer
Departure Songs- Hammock
Fleet Foxes- Fleet Foxes
Three Fact Fader- Engineers
Drowned In A Sea Of Sound- The Daysleepers

stimpsonslostson

Gallows- Grey Britain.
Without shadow of a doubt.
It's a scathing and vitriolic attack on the state of the UK.
It sounds like the Sex Pistols playing Black Sabbath. 
 Sadly (or impressively) it's still completely relevant today, some 8 years later. 




Honourable mentions:
Gaslight Anthem: 59 Sound

Hot Water Music: Exister

Mastodon: Crack the Skye 

BloodEagle

Power Trip - Nightmare Logic
Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb
Wormrot - Dirge
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Nails - Unsilent Death
Converge - Axe to Fall
Yob - Clearing the Path to Ascend
Indian - From All Purity
Dragged into Sunlight - Hatred for Mankind
Oathbreaker - Rheia
Deafheaven - Roads to Judah 
Napalm Death - Time Waits for No Slave
Young and in the Way - When Life Comes to Death 

Moss

Too many to list, but I'll try

Father John Misty - I Love You Honeybear
LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver + This Is Happening
Gaslight Anthem - The 59 Sound
Jon Hopkins - Immunity
CHVRCHES - The Bones Of What You Believe
Jamie XX - In Colour
Bombay Bicycle Club - A Different Kind Of Fix + So Long, See You Tommorrow
Temples - Sun Structures
Max Cooper - Emergence
East India Youth - Total Strife Forever
Radiohead - In Rainbows + TKOL + A Moon Shaped Pool
Public Service Broadcasting - The Race For Space
Hot Chip - Why Make Sense?
Kate Tempest - Let Them Eat Chaos
King Gizzard and the Wizard Lizard - basically everything they've ever done
Caribou - Swim + Our Love
Ezra Furman - Perpetual Motion People + Day Of The Dog
Pinkshinyultrablast - Grandfeathered
Grimes - Art Angels
Todd Terje - It's Album Time
Nils Frahm - Spaces
Idles - Brutalism
Beach House - Bloom

And this week's At The Drive In and Slowdive albums are looking might they might join that list

olafgarten

Just listing stuff other people haven't mentioned:

Jack White - Blunderbuss
Jack White - Lazaretto
The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
Margo Price - Midwest Farmer's Daughter 
Nikki Lane - All Or Nothin 
Nikki Lane - Walk Of Shame
Taylor Swift's first 3 albums (Taylor Swift, Speak Now and Fearless)
Lukas Nelson and Promise Of The Real - Promise Of The Real. 

DarnWeight

In no particular order...

Swans - To Be Kind
Shellac - Dude Incredible
The Forms - The Forms
Low - Ones And Sixes
Wire - Change Becomes Us
LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
Neil Young - Le Noise
The War On Drugs - Slave Ambient (personally, I prefer it to Lost In The Dream)
The National - High Violet
The Chills - Silver Bullets
Obits - I Blame You
The Flaming Lips - Embryonic

richcol

Anderson Paak - Malibu
Al Green - Lay it Down
Booker T Jones - Sound the Alarm
Down to the Bone - Dig it
Nils Landgren Funk Unit - Teamwork
British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?

Majorscale

St Vincent - St Vincent
Dave Matthews Band - Big Whiskey & The Groogrux King
Tom Petty - Mojo
Elbow - Seldom Seen Kid
Black Joe Lewis - Scandalous 
John Mayer - Where The Light Is
Tori Amos - Abnormally Attracted To Sin

Christophe

I honestly cannot recall buying a new album in the last 10 years only specific songs. I have downloaded replacements for lost cds

Passion & Warefare
Use your illusion 1
Van Halen 1 

Guess my tastes are stuck in the past