Quicklist: The '10s

[Iowan]

1. Turnpike Troubadours "A Long Way From Your Heart" (2017)
2. The Yawpers "American Man" (2015)
3. Lydia Loveless "Boy Crazy" (2013)
4. Tyler Childers "Purgatory" (2017)
5. Sturgill Simpson "Metamodern Sounds in Country Music" (2014)
6. Drive-By Truckers "American Band" (2016)
7. John Prine "Tree of Forgivenenss" (2018)
8. Queens of the Stone Age "...Like Clockwork" (2013)
9. Dexateens "Teenage Hallelujah" (2016)
10. Todd Snider "Cash Cabin Sessions Vol. 3" (2019)
11. Bash & Pop "Anything Can Happen" (2017)
12. Chuck Prophet "Temple Beautiful" (2012)
13. Heartless Bastards "Arrow" (2012)
14. James McMurtry "Complicated Game" (2015)
15. Old 97's "Most Messed Up" (2014)
16. Natural Child "Hard in Heaven" (2012)
17. Dawes "Nothing is Wrong" (2011)
18. Turnpike Troubadours "Turnpike Troubadours" (2015)
19. Hayes Carll "KMAG YOYO" (2011)
20. Lydia Loveless "Somewhere Else" (2014)
21. Glossary "Feral Fire" (2010)
22. Dead Man Winter "Cardinal" (2017)
23. Wussy "Attica!" (2014)
24. Margo Price "Midwest Farmer's Daughter" (2016)
25. Car Seat Headrest "Teens of Denial" (2016)
26. Sturgill Simpson "High Top Mountain" (2013)
27. Turnpike Troubadours "Goodbye Normal Street" (2012)
28. Patterson Hood "Heat Lightning Rumbles in the Distance" (2012)
29. Wheeler Walker Jr "Redneck Shit" (2016)
30. Lucero "Among the Ghosts" (2018)
31. Turnpike Troubadours "Diamonds & Gasoline" (2010)
32. American Aquarium "Things Change" (2018)
33. Jack Ingram "Midnight Motel" (2016)
34. Old Crow Medicine Show "Remedy" (2014)
35. Lee Bains III & the Glory Fires "Dereconstructed" (2014)
36. Trampled By Turtles "Life is Good on the Open Road" (2018)
37. Sturgill Simpson "Sound & Fury" (2019)
38. Natural Child "For the Love of the Game" (2012)
39. Mike & The Moonpies "Live at the WinStar" (2016)
40. Roadside Graves "If Shacking Up is All You Want to Do" (201)
41. Lydia Loveless "Real" (2016)
42. Jason Isbell "Southeastern" (2013)
43. Drive-By Truckers "English Oceans" (2014)
44. John Moreland "Big Bad Luv" (2017)
45. Two Cow Garage "Sweet Saint Me" (2010)
46. Jenny Lewis "On the Line" (2019)
47. The Yawpers "Human Question" (2019)
48. Mike & The Moonpies "Steak Night At the Prairie Rose" (2018)
49. John Moreland "In the Throes" (2013)
50. Lilly Hiatt "Trinity Lane" (2017)

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we're gonna need some formatting guidelines here...

[Zip City]

I didn't keep good enough spreadsheets, I fear. Putting this together is too intimidating

[Iowan]

I didn't keep good enough spreadsheets, I fear. Putting this together is too intimidating

I combed back through the year-end threads we've done here and noted the entries I still love from each year.

After that it was pretty scattershot, and I pretty much winged the order off of how I was feeling at the moment. I think it's pretty damn close to how I've truly felt.

[KcGhostToMost]

Npo

This Red Mountain- Chris Porter
Love Rides a Dark Horse- Gill Landry
Go Go Boots- Drive By Truckers
Ode To Joy- Wilco
Burn.Flicker.Die.- American Aquarium
The Saint of Lost Causes- Justin Townes Earle
Coyote- John Calvin Abney
Hatteras Night, A Good Luck Charm- Will Johnson
Karma For Cheap- Aaron Lee Tasjan
Full Circle Nightmare- Kyle Craft
Ever Since I Lost My Mind- Susto
Life In The Dark- The Felice Brothers
The Projector- Simone Felice
Marie Lepanto- Marie Lepanto
Trinity Lane- Lilly Hiatt
High On Tulsa Heat- John Moreland
Dark So Gold- The Pines
Lost At Last Vol. 1- Langhorne Slim

[paulc]

Sort of in order, but can vary 3/4 places up or down depending on what I was last listening to .....

Nick Cave - Ghosteen
Deer Tick - Black Dirt Sessions
The National - High Violet
Drive By Truckers - English Oceans
Jason Isbel - southeastern
Alabama Shakes - Boys & Girls
The War On Drugs - A Deeper Understanding
Charles Lloyd & The Marvels + Lucinda Williams - Vanished Gardens
Billy Bragg & Joe Henry - Shine a Light: Field Recordings from the Great American Railroad
Middle Brother - Middle Brother
American Aquarium - Burn Flicker Die
Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor's Guide to Earth
Band of Horses - Infinite Arms
Kathleen Edwards - Voyageur
Black Keys - brothers
Patterson Hood - Heat Lightning Rumbles in the Distance
Nathaniel Rateliff - Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats
Beirut - the rip tide

[beantownbubba]

As i've mentioned before, I haven't listened to much new music in the past few years, certainly not enough to compile anything approaching a knowledgeable or comprehensive decade list. So this is more or less my best of 2010-15 w/ a couple of later albums thrown in. The multiple albums listed for a few artists means either I couldn't distinguish between virtually equal albums or that the artist gets a "decade achievement award" for consistently good work though perhaps w/out a defining moment. Admittedly the Wild Flag/Ex Hex listing pushes the concept at least as far as it will go but I thought Mary Timony deserved to be recognized. The Promise would have been near the top of the list for '78 (Darkness was my pick for album of that year) and might have made my 70's decade list so I see no problem including it on the list for the decade in which it was actually released. American Band grabs the top spot for being most listened to. The others are in a very loose order to which I am not committed. Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse's Dark Night of the Soul topped my 2010 list and I thought about including it here, but I really don't listen to it anymore and imho only parts of it hold up.

Anybody ever heard/heard of Mannequin Pussy? Rob Sheffield calls them his band of the decade but I've literally never heard of them and haven't heard any of the 3 albums he mentions.

DBT – American Band
Bruce Springsteen – The Promise
Bettye LaVette – Things Have Changed
Robbie Robertson – How to Become Clairvoyant
Lydia Loveless – Somewhere Else/Boy Crazy
Dexateens – Sunsphere/Teenage Hallelujah
Leonard Cohen – Popular Problems
A Tribe Called Quest – We Got It From Here…Thank You 4 Your Service
Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp A Butterfly
Chuck Prophet – Temple Beautiful/Night Surfer

Car Seat Headrest – Teens of Denial
Wussy - Attica
David Bowie - Blackstar
DBT – Go Go Boots/English Oceans
Patterson Hood – Heat Lightning Rumbles in the Distance
Jason Isbell – Southeastern
Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires – Dereconstructed
Neil Young – Americana/Le Noise/Psychedelic Pill/Live at the Cellar Door
Sturgill Simpson – Metamodern Sounds in Country Music
Glossary – Feral Fire

Wild Flag - s/t/Ex Hex – Rips
Heartless Bastards - Arrow
Adele – 21