Best albums of the 2010s

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It is kind of a bummer that the music I use for junk food has this laungage barrier that makes it hard to share with friends. Although if I'm playing Car DJ, my knowledge of classic rock and obscure euro club music normally saves the day.

You can't really go wrong with The Greatful Dead, although that's no where near current

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So I've been thinking about this and decided to type "Best album of the decade" into Youtube and just clicked a random video and hear the argument and the first video was this where like 4 different dudes just spit hot takes



I have no idea what kind of rep What Culture has because I don't watch them but I was surprised that I was somewhat familiar with a chunk of the ones mentioned---I was fully expecting to have not heard any of them.

I did, however, realize that I never did go back and listen to David Bowie's last album, which is a shame because I do like his older work. Probably need to give that a listen sooner and not later.

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yo robertsona hit vibes hell fukcin yeah

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Errm... The Grateful Dead would like a word.

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I don't know too much about the mainstream but I can say that the 2010s were a GREAT decade for doujin music

Taishi in particular had a meteoric rise after his 2000s work with CODE ZTS LABEL with his new compllege label and it's really hard to choose just a single album... I might pick the original "Phant" album. There's only three songs but you get a showcase from the entire Holy Trinity of Trance: Taishi, zts, and Nhato. "bluefieldcreator" might be Taishi's magnum opus (others might disagree) and "freeflakes" is a great entry from zts, my all-time favorite doujin artist.



zts didn't have an album I'd pick this decade, which is fine since his late 2000s work is enough to pack an entire career, but his work in Umineko is still untouched to this day. He also made some absolute bangers for Mashiro Witch (rip), like blackstarlight and lingering affection:



He also did an absolutely stellar job with "point at infinity" for the Mashiro Witch x Umineko collab... I can't find a good rip on YouTube so I might upload it myself sometime.

Outside of the trance sphere, OPHANIL by KOSZONTO was probably the best doujin album I've come across in the 2010s. It's just... magic. The album is operatic so listen to the songs in order --- the whole thing is only 20mins or so and totally worth it.



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Not a "best album" but I wanted to give a shoutout to yogurtbox for "Tree of Knowledge", an OST for a fake PC-98 game, using the YM2608 soundfont. They were inspired to start the project after listening to Ryu Umemoto's brilliant EVE: BURST ERROR soundtrack and it really shows. I would be really interested to hear a followup to this after they have the time to sit down and play through the entirety of YU-NO, undoubtedly one of the best gaming OSTs ever.

Standouts from "Tree of Knowledge" are Opening, Schedule, and Evil Spirit. 'Opening' in particular reminds me a lot of YU-NO's opening:

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I just got to around the 5 minute mark on your first video and this shit bops, hard

I feel like I recognize this melody from somewhere

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Some Rap Songs/Solace - Earl Sweatshirt
TA13OO - Denzel Curry
Everything from Octo Octa since 2017
SATURATION I/II - Brockhampton
Flower Boy - Tyler
Everything from Pile since 2011
Gay Disco - Guerilla Toss
2012-2017 - AAL
Veteran - JPEGMAFIA
The Sciences - Sleep
Collapse EP - Aphex Twin
Most Fire!/Orchestra releases
Sonic Citadel - Lightning Bolt
Trading Basics - Palm
Prom King - Skylar Spence
Memories in Widescreen - 36
Speedin Bullet 2 Heaven - Kid Cudi

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10. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
9. Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition
8. Death Grips - The Powers That B
7. Young Thug - Jeffery
6. Full of Hell - Trumpeting Ecstasy
5. Keiichi Okabe & Keigo Hoashi - Nier:Automata Soundtrack
4. Grouper - A I A: Alien Observer
3. Celer - Xiexie
2. Autechre - elseq 1-5
1. The Caretaker - Everywhere At The End Of Time

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Looking at my last.fm listening history makes me realize I need to really broaden my music tastes to more recent albums.

Death Grips - The Money Store
Between the Buried and Me - Automata I & II
Killswitch Engage - Disarm the Descent
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP 2

The only other one I can think of is off Metallica’s Master of Puppets box set. Cliff Burton’s final show was released on it and that was a great thing to experience for the first time.

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The recordings of Ben Johnston's String Quartets by the Kepler Quartet

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The Marshal Mathers LP 2 goes hard as fuck for me. That's absolutely one of my favourite records

As a Dream Theater fan I can say A Dramatic Turn of Events and their self titled album are also incredible as well

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came to the world at a time when it was in need of a villain
asshole, that role i think i succeeded in fillin

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Ayyyyyyyyyy! That's my favourite song off that record

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Ok fixed but the image is humongous LMAO

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link the full size version I can't read that one