Hey look, it’s New Year’s Eve and I managed to get a few minutes reprieve to put some thought into my favourite albums from the past decade. An entire decade!
iTunes shows I have 8,004 songs from the past decade. Let’s dig in! I’m not counting reissues but the Beatles had an incredible reissue campaign in the past decade.
Alice in Chains – Rainier Fog 2018
Arcade Fire – Reflektor 2014
Bad Uncle – The Surgeon’s Lament 2013
Big Wreck – Ghosts 2014
Billy Talent – Afraid of Heights 2016
Black Ribbons – Neuromancer 2012
Manchester Orchestra – A Black Mile to the Surface 2017
Boxer Rebellion – The Cold Still 2011
Broken Social Scene – Hug of Thunder 2017
Cannons – Open Letter 2013
Collective Soul – Live 2017
Dan Mangan – Nice, Nice, Very Nice 2010
Dear Rouge – Black to Gold – 2015
The Dears Acoustic: 2001-2005 (2016)
The Dears – Times Infinity Volume Two 2017
The Devin Cuddy Band – Volune One 2012
Fontarabie – Fontarabie 2014
Glen Hansard – Between Two Shores 2018
Gord Downie and the Country of Miracles – The Grand Bounce 2010
How To Destroy Angels – Welcome Oblivion
July Talk – July Talk 2013
Kathleen Edwards – Voyageur 2012
Les Cowboys Fringants – Octobre 2015
LIVE – Woodstock ’94 2019
Loon Choir – All of This and Everything Else 2015
The Lumineers – The Lumineers 2013
Matt Mays – Coyote 2012
Megadeth – Dystopia 2016
Metallica – Hardwired…To Self-Destruct 2016
Metric – Art of Doubt 2018
Murray Lightburn – Mass:Light 2013
Muse – The 2nd Law 2012
My Chemical Romance – Danger Days 2010
The National – Sleep Well Beast 2017
Nine Inch Nails – Add Violence, Bad Witch, Not The Actual Events 2017
Patrick Watson – Adventures In Your Own Backyard 2012
Pearl Jam – Lightning Bolt 2013
Postdata – Let’s Be Wilderness 2018
Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool 2016
The Reverb Syndicate – Odyssey 2015
Rob Zombie – Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor 2013
Roger Waters – Is This The Life We Really Want? 2017
Royal Canoe – Today We’re Believers 2013
Sam Roberts Band – Collider 2011
Silversun Pickups – Widow’s Weeds 2019
Skye Wallace – Skye Wallace 2019 (this one is tricky…I literally got this album a month ago so I don’t know if it has the staying power to be the best of a decade. But it’s definitely the best of 2019 and it’s still going strong into 2020!)
The Smashing Pumpkins – Oceania 2012
Sound of Lions – 11:44 2011
Spencer Burton – Don’t Let the World See Your Love 2014
St. Vincent – MASSEDUCTION 2017
Tame Impala – Currents 2015
Taylor Swift – 1989 (2014)
The Tea Party – Live from Australia 2012
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists – The Brutalist Bricks 2010
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – The Social Network soundtrack 2010
The Trews – …Thank You and I’m Sorry 2012
U2 – Songs of Experience 2017
The War on Drugs – A Deeper Understanding 2017
The Weeknd – House of Balloons
Whale Tooth – Search Party 2012
William Patrick Corgan – Ogilala 2017
Wintersleep – The Great Detachment 2016, In The Land Of 2019
It’s really interesting going down the rabbit hole of memories of all these great albums that have impacted me.
And for the greatest disappointment of the past decade…30 Seconds to Mars. You were destined to take the top spot from Smashing Pumpkins and Pearl Jam. Then you produced crap for an entire decade.
Happy new year!