The lists just keep coming. I know this blog focuses on mixes of ambient & electronic music but we all listen to other stuff too, right?
It was around 2008 - 2010 that I started listening to more and more non-ambient music. I have listened to a lot of music, mostly indie/alternative, for my whole life. But during the 90s & 00s I listened to so much ambient, new age, electronic, instrumental music that I let the other stuff slide. It wasn't until my daughter was in high school and she introduced me to the Avett Bros that I started to balance out my listening habits.
Now I listen to an absolute shit ton of "normal" music. I create a playlist of albums each year, like my 2019 Albums playlist with 5008 songs in it. I also make a playlist of songs of the year and a playlist of the best albums of the year, which made it easier to create these decade lists.
So here it is, my top 50 albums of the decade, in chronological order:
- Vampire Weekend - Contra (2010)
- Bon Iver - Bon Iver (2011)
- Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues (2011)
- Kate Bush - 50 Words for Snow (2011)
- The Rural Alberta Advantage - Departing (2011)
- Yacht - Shangri-La (2011)
- Beirut - The Rip Tide (2011)
- The Decemberists - The King Is Dead (2011)
- Amateur Love - It's All Aquatic (2012)
- Of Monsters and Men - My Head is an Animal (2012)
- Andrew Bird - Break It Yourself & Hands of Glory (2012)
- Best Coast - The Only Place (2012)
- Lord Huron - Lonesome Dreams (2012)
- Phosphorescent - Muchacho (2013)
- Jon Hopkins - Immunity (2013)
- Kacey Musgraves - Same Trailer Different Park (2013)
- Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City (2013)
- Waxahatchee - Cerulean Salt (2013)
- The National - Trouble Will Find Me (2013)
- Bill Callahan - Have Fun With God (2014)
- Damien Jurado - Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son (2014)
- The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream (2014)
- Phox - Phox (2014)
- Sylvan Esso - Sylvan Esso (2014)
- Piers Faccini & Vincent Segal - Songs Of Time Lost (2014)
- The Decemberists - What A Terrible World... (2015)
- Public Service Broadcasting - The Race for Space (2015)
- Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think... (2015)
- Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell (2015)
- Beyonce - Lemonade (2016)
- David Bowie - Blackstar (2016)
- Deep Sea Diver - Secrets (2016)
- Andrew Bird - Are You Serious? (2016)
- Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool (2016)
- The Lumineers - Cleopatra (2016)
- Kiasmos - Blurred (2017)
- The War On Drugs - A Deeper Understanding (2017)
- Roger Waters - Is This The Life We Really Want? (2017)
- Father John Misty - Pure Comedy (2017)
- Diet Cig - Swear I’m Good At This (2017)
- Cigarettes After Sex - Cigarettes After Sex (2017)
- Khruangbin - Con Todo El Mundo (2018)
- Frank Turner - Be More Kind (2018)
- Snail Mail - Lush (2018)
- Damien Jurado - The Horizon Just Laughed (2018)
- Camp Cope - How to Socialise & Make Friends (2018)
- Low - Double Negative (2018)
- Wye Oak - The Louder I Call (2018)
- Fontaines D.C. - Dogrel (2019)
- Strand of Oaks - Eraserland (2019)
Here's the corresponding Spotify playlist:
Here's my list of the songs of the decade, in alphabetical order:
- Adele - Someone Like You
- alt-J - Tessellate
- Alvvays - Archie, Marry Me
- Amen Dunes - Blue Rose
- Andrew Bird - Bloodless
- Andrew Bird - Pulaski at Night
- Andrew Bird - Give It Away
- Angelique Kidjo - The Great Curve
- Bedouin - Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
- Beirut - Santa Fe
- Best Coast - California Nights
- Best Coast - The Only Place
- Beyonce - Freedom
- Beyonce - All Night
- Bon Iver - Perth
- Bon Iver - Holocene
- Bonobo - Cirrus
- Brandy Carlile - The Joke
- Bruce Springsteen - Hello Sunshine
- Camp Cope - How to Socialize & Make Friends
- Chris Staples - Dark Side of the Moon
- Cigarettes After Sex - K.
- Cloud Nothings - Stay Useless
- Colin Stetson - Spindrift
- Courtney Barnett - Pedestrian at Best
- Damien Jurado - Over Rainbows and Rainier
- David Bowie - Blackstar
- David Bowie - Lazarus
- David Bowie - Sue(Or in a Season of Crime)(jazz version)
- Dawes - All Your Favorite Bands
- Declan McKenna - Brazil
- Diet Cig - Harvard
- Elephant Revival - Season Song
- Elephant Revival - Spinning
- Father John Misty - When the God of Love Returns
- Fleet Foxes - Blue Spotted Tail
- Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
- FONTAINES D.C. - Big
- Frank Bretschneider - Sputnik
- Frank Turner - 1933
- Frank Turner - Be More Kind
- Frank Turner - Sand in the Gears
- Gregory Alan Isakov - Suitcase Full of Sparks
- Grouplove - Tongue Tied
- Hardwell - Spaceman
- Icona Pop, Charli XCX - I Love It
- Janelle Monae - Screwed
- Japandroids - The House That Heaven Built
- Judah & the Lion - Quarter-Life Crisis
- Just A Human - Breathe
- Kacey Musgraves - Merry Go 'Round
- Kate Bush - Snowflake
- Kevin Morby - City Music
- Kiasmos - Zebra
- Kishi Bashi - Bright Whites
- Lana Del Rey - Love
- Lana Del Rey - Videogames
- Leonard Cohen - Going Home
- Leon Bridges - Coming Home
- Lissie - Love Blows
- Lo Moon - Loveless
- Lucy Dacus - I don't wanna be funny anymore
- Margaret Glaspy - Emotions and Math
- Michael Kiwanuka - Black Man in a White World
- Moderat - Running
- Moon Tapes - Desire
- Muncie Girls - Isn't Life Funny
- My Morning Jacket - Wonderful
- Neil Young - Walk Like A Giant
- Nonkeen - Animal Farm
- Oddisee - That's Love
- Of Monsters and Men - Dirty Paws
- Olafur Arnalds - Particles
- Paul Simon - Getting Ready for Christmas Day
- Phantogram - Black Out Days
- Phoebe Bridgers - Motion Sickness
- Phosphorescent - Song For Zula
- Phox - Slow Motion
- Piers Faccini & Vincent Segal - The Closing of Our Eyes
- Porches - Be Apart
- Public Service Broadcasting - Go!
- Radiohead - Burn the Witch
- Radiohead - Daydreaming
- Remember Sports - Saturday
- Rival Consoles - Unfolding
- Roger Waters - The Last Refugee
- Ryan Gosling - City of Stars
- Seth Avett & Jessica Lea Mayfield - Fond Farewell
- Sex Bob-Omb - We Are Sex Bob-Omb
- Sjowgren - Seventeen
- SOAK - Sea Creatures
- Snail Mail - Pristine
- St. Vincent - New York
- Strand of Oaks - Forever Chords
- Strand of Oaks - JM
- Sufjan Stevens - Fourth of July
- Sufjan Stevens - Blue Bucket of Gold
- Sun Kil Moon - Sunshine in Chicago
- Sylvan Esso - Kick Jump twist
- Sylvan Esso - Play It Right
- Sylvan Esso - PARAD(w/m)E
- Tame Impala - Let It Happen
- The Antlers - Parade
- The Apache Relay - Happiest Day of Your Life
- The Blow - Get Up
- The Chemical Brothers - Wide Open
- The Cranberries - In The End
- The Decemberists - Ben Franklin's Song
- The Decemberists - Once In My Life
- The Decemberists - Rise To Me
- The Goon Sax - Make Time 4 Love
- The Head & The Heart - Down In The Valley
- The Living Statues - All My Girls
- The Lumineers - Gun Song
- The National - I Need My Girl
- The Rural Alberta Advantage - Tornado '87
- The Rural Alberta Advantage -Barnes Yard
- The War On Drugs - Thinking of a Place
- The War On Drugs - Under The Pressure
- The xx - Angels
- Underworld - Always Loved A Film
- Vampire Weekend - Cousins
- Vampire Weekend - Holiday
- Vampire Weekend - Unbelievers
- Versio Curs - Fourth of July
- Waxahatchee - Summer Of Love
- Wilco - One Sunday Morning
- Wye Oak - The louder I call, the faster it runs
- YACHT - Dystopia
Here is the Spotify playlist for the songs of the decade:
What are some of your favorite non-ambient albums of the decade?
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