Thursday, October 10, 2019

#101: The Honorable Mentions

This weekend, I will be releasing my list of the 100 best albums of the decade.
Yeah. I know. The grand-daddy of them all.
But first, here are a bunch of albums I considered adding to the list at some point. The honorable mentions. A big fat respectable tie for the 101st best album of the decade.
This also includes a forecast of how many albums from each year will be on the list.
Here we go.

2010
Gorillaz 
Plastic Beach
The National
High Violet
Waka Flocka Flame
Flockaveli













The list will have 16 albums from 2010.

2011
Tim Hecker
Ravedeath, 1972
Nicolas Jaar
Space Is Only Noise
M83
Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
Death Grips
Exmilitary
Liturgy
Aesthethica
Real Estate
Days
Kendrick Lamar
Section.80
James Ferraro
Far Side Virtual

The list will have 12 albums from 2011.

2012
Grouper
A I A: Alien Observer
Grimes
Visions
Mac DeMarco
2
Perfume Genius
Put Your Back N 2 It
Traxman
Da Mind Of Traxman
Cloud Nothings
Attack On Memory

The list will have 12 albums from 2012.

2013
Jon Hopkins
Immunity
Arcade Fire
Reflektor
Kanye West
Yeezus
Youth Lagoon
Wondrous Bughouse
Julia Holter
Loud City Song
Blood Orange
Cupid Deluxe
Bill Callahan
Dream River













The list will have 11 albums from 2013.

2014
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra
Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light On Everything
St. Vincent
St. Vincent

The list will have 13 albums from 2014.

2015
Destroyer
Poison Season
Kamasi Washington
The Epic
Joanna Newsom
Divers













The list will have 7 albums from 2015.

2016
Sturgill Simpson
A Sailor's Guide To Earth
Kendrick Lamar
untitled unmastered.

The list will have 14 albums from 2016.

2017
Ibibio Sound Machine
Uyai
Kelela 
Take Me Apart
Charlotte Gainsbourg
Rest













The list will have 4 albums from 2017.

2018
Beach House
7
A.A.L. (Against All Logic)
2012-2017
Yves Tumor
Safe In The Hands Of Love

The list will have 8 albums from 2018.

2019
Little Simz
Grey Area
Purple Mountains
Purple Mountains
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib
Bandana
Lingua Ignota
Caligula

The list will have 3 albums from 2019.

Part of me feels bad for making this list before 2019 is even over. I could have waited 6 more weeks. Some of the albums above could grow on me. But I've realized that when it comes to what I'm getting in return for all this [AKA nothing], the worst thing I could do is overthink this.

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