After seeing so many other folks list theirs, I thought it would be interesting to try to put together a list of my favorite albums from the past decade. I discovered some surprising things as I went through everything.
To start, I made a rule that only 1 album per band could be on the list. Otherwise that darn Steve Adamyk Band would have taken up too many spots. They are hands down the band of the decade. Six absolutely killer albums in ten years. No one else came close to that. Plus their debut album is my second favorite album of the last ten years.
The most interesting thing that I noticed was that the bulk of the records that mean the most to me weren't the albums that I thought were the number one record of their particular year. As time went on certain records grew on me more and others faded away a bit.
The other thing that jumped out at me was how great of 2010 was. There are six records from 2010 in my top twenty of the entire decade. Taking up almost a third of the entire list seems pretty crazy to me, though in fairness, they did have the longest amount of time for me to become attached to them. It's hard for a 2019 record to be one of the best of the entire decade, as I've only had a few months to listen to them, though Foxhall Stacks and Shoplifters were on the shortlist as I was whittling down to a top 20.
What isn't crazy to me at all is the fact that the first Mrs. Magician record was my absolute favorite of the past ten years. When making this list, there was never even a question of that. It is such a perfect record from start to finish. I truly believe that it is one of the greatest albums in the history of the earth.
01 - Mrs. Magician - Strange Heaven - Swami
02 - Steve Adamyk Band - Steve Adamyk Band - Ptrash
03 - Hot Snakes - Jericho Sirens - Sub Pop
04 - Year Zero - Year One - Ptrash
05 - Dead Mechanical - Addict Rhythms - Toxic Pop
06 - Title Tracks - In Blank - Windian
07 - Leatherface - The Stormy Petrel - Big Ugly Fish/No Idea
08 - The Night Marchers - Allez Allez - Swami
09 - Sonic Avenues - Television Youth - Dirtnap
10 - The Pretty Flowers - Why Trains Crash - Dirt Cult
11 - Boat - Dress Like Your Idols - Magic Marker
12 - Dan Sartain - Dan Sartain Lives - One Little Indian
13 - Bob Mould - Silver Age - Merge
14 - Cloud Nothings - Here And Nowhere Else - Carpark
15 - Superchunk - Majesty Shredding - Merge
16 - Tenement - Napalm Dream -Mandible
17 - The No Marks - Light Of One - Brassneck
18 - Dirtbombs - Ooey Gooey Chewy Ka-Blooey - In The Red
19 - Chestnut Road - Chestnut Road - Brassneck
20 - Gentleman Jesse - Leaving Atlanta - Douchemaster
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