Halfway through the Decade

[RPS]

1. Deftones - Koi No Yokan

2. Deftones - Diamond Eyes

Everything else is comparatively shit.

Deafheaven - Sunbather

Well this topic was fun while it lasted but I guess it can be closed now.

I know right, it's almost as if music taste is subjective!

Yes... the guy who started the thread asking people what their opinions on the best albums of the year doesn't believe that music is subjective. The eye roll wasn't me being cheeky.

[METALMAN]

Don't be nasty about my silly lists. :/

Albums

1. Josh Rouse - El Tourista

2. Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie Xx - We're New Here

3. M.I.A. - Matangi

4. Tame Impala - Lonerism

5. Donald Fagen - Sunken Condos

6. Lana Del Rey - Born to Die

7. Beach House - Bloom

8. The Cribs - In the Belly of the Brazen Bull

9. Neil Young - Psychedelic Pill

10. Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time

Other good ones:

Arcade Fire - The Suburbs

Caribou - Swim

The Drums - The Drums

Flying Lotus - Until the Quiet Comes

Janelle Monae - The Archandroid

Kanye West - Yeezus

Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City

Mulatu Astatke - Mulatu Steps Ahead

Pond - Beard, Wives, Denim

The Strokes - Angles

Wu Lyf - Go Tell Fire To The Mountain

Yuck - Yuck

Songs

1. Cher Lloyd - Playa Boi

2. Chvrches - Lies

3. Belle & Sebastian - Come On Sister

4. Foster the People - Call It What You Want

5. The Cribs - Glitters Like Gold

6. Japandroids - The House That Heaven Built

7. Neil Young - Ramada Inn

8. Kurt Vile - Wakin' On A Pretty Day

9. Miguel - Do You

10. Rihanna - Diamonds

Other good ones:

Avi Buffalo - What's In It For Me?

Jamie T - Sticks 'n' Stones

Janelle Monae - Q.U.E.E.N.

M.I.A. - Bad Girls

Plan B - Stay Too Long

Sky Ferreira - Boys

Tinie Tempah - Pass Out

The 2 Bears - The Birds & the Bees

The Weeknd - The Morning

Zoey Van Goey - The Cake and Eating It

[lari]

1. Star One - Victims of the Modern Age

Heavy prog metal that exceeded all my expectations when it came out in 2010:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX5t8iy9FfY

2. Axxis - Kingdom of the Night II - White Edition
3. Iced Earth - Dystopia
4. Saxon - Sacrifice
5. Blaze Bayley - Promise and Terror
6. Rage - Strings to a Web
7. Battle Beast - Battle Beast
8. Helloween - Straight out of Hell
9. Uriah Heep - Into the Wild

10. Mystic Prophecy - Ravenlord

Yeah, I like heavy metal.

Songs:

Rage - Forever Dead
Blaze Bayley - The Trace of Things that Have no Words

Iron Maiden - When the Wild Wind Blows
Gamma Ray - Avalon
Mercury Tide - Home
Mystic Prophecy - Cross of Lies
Star One - 24 Hours
Blind Guardian - A Voice in the Dark
Iced Earth - Anthem
Uriah Heep - Into the Wild

Edited August 23, 2014 by lari

[SRN]

So this took some work; at first I thought dividing it into eletronic bleeps and bloops, heavy metal and silly guitar music but that took way too much work so instead I decided on this. And while I am fairly certain of the album part of the list, the song part of it (restricted to stuff only released as singles, for the sake of my sanity) is a big mess and might still change. Yes, there is a shared first and fourth place and yes, there is a reserved list for tracks of the trap music persuasion but I don't give a fuck, it was tough enough cramming it all down to a list with ten places and in order too.

1. Devin Townsend - Deconstruction
-. Devin Townsend - Epicloud
2. Kvelertak - Kvelertak
3. Horsepower Productions - Quest for the Sonic Bounty
4. Thou - Summit
-. Bongripper - Satan Worshipping Doom
5. Disclosure - Settle
6. Rustie - Glass Swords
7. Suuns - Zeroes QC
8. Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels
9. Ian Pooley - What I Do
10. Gridlink - Longhena

HONORABLE MENTIONS~

Salem - King Night
Moon Hooch - Moon Hooch
Dirty Knobs - I Am Sitting In An Infinite Room
Danny Brown - XXX
BADBADNOTGOOD - BBNG2
Janelle Monáe - The ArchAndroid
Ghost - Opus Eponymous
Chase & Status - No More Idols
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
Helen Money - Arriving Angels
Iceage - New Brigade
Iceage - You're Nothing
Liturgy - Aesthetica
Matana Roberts - COIN COIN Chapter One: Gens de couleur libres
The Men - Leave Home
Vybz Kartel - Kingston Story
Peer Group - Brutalist Sketches in the Style Of Water Stained Concrete
Spleen United - School Of Euphoria
Talons - Hollow Realm
The National - High Violet
Corrupted - Garten Der Unbewusstheit
Charts and Maps - Dead Horse
Death Grips - The Money Store
Todd Terje - It's Album Time

1. Rustie - Slasherr
-. Joy Orbison - BB
2. Kvelertak - Bruane Brenn
3. Disclosure - Latch
4. Spleen United - Sunset to Sunset
5. Longevity - Tantrum
6. Death Grips - I've Seen Footage
7. Duke Dumont - The Giver
-. Duke Dumont - I Need U (100%)
8. Diplo - Revolution
9. Gesaffelstein - Pursuit
10. Todd Terje - Inspector Norse

TURNT UP SPECIAL LIST OF TRAP TRACKS~
1. Kongsted - Chuck Norris (Fabian Mazur Remix)
2. Major Lazer - Original Don (Flosstradamus Remix)
3. RL Grime - Core
4. Gent & Jawns - Turn Up
5. TNGHT - Goooo
6. Victor Niglio - Jiggy
7. Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike vs. DVBBS & Borgeous - Stampede (Major Lazer x P.A.F.F. Remix)
8. Disclosure - White Noise (Hudson Mohawke Remix)
9. Marc Madness - Bulleh
10. LAXX - Gold Plated

HONORABLE MENTIONS~

Buku - All Deez
TWRK - BaDINGA!
RL Grime & What So Not - Tell Me
We Bang - Wo Ah (ForeverKid Remix)
Baauer - Yaow!
Flosstradamus - Rollup (Baauer Remix)

Edited August 26, 2014 by SRN