29th November 2019. Charli - Charli XCX21. As if everybody in the huge "Indie/Alternative" industry did it all for free. What a representative sampling! Last update: February 10, 2020. Our ultimate playlist from the past 10 years, from Justin Timberlake to Dixie Chicks to Jay-Z -- to our choice for album of the '00s 25 - Adele12. Teh Boss, what don't I understand? 1 by Various artists, Shangaan Electro: New Wave Dance Music From South Africa by Various artists, Voices From the Lake by Voices From the Lake, Same Trailer Different Park by Kacey Musgraves, Feel Your Feelings Fool! ; While "Lemonade" by Beyoncé won over critics, "Love?" The Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis11. House of Gold and Bones, Pt. Earlier Tuesday, we released our top albums and artists of the decade, based on review data compiled at Metacritic over the past ten years. #1's indicates the number of times the album appears in the top position in the top ten lists displayed on this page. Again, why try to pull the wool over people's eyes? (Not to mention the apparent impossibly of any worthwhile albums in, say, jazz or classical.) But I was 19. The first 2 albums at least I agree with, though maybe I'd have switched them round. Zeal & Ardor - Stranger Fruit15. metacritic: liste der listen. Also, WAY too much frigging Ghost (one of the most overrated bands ever). Joey Bada$$ - B4.DA.$$, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game - Complete Edition. Also, I don't think you understand how extremely unimportant you are. There's plenty of mainstream sources they could have accessed if they REALLY wanted to do a comprehensive survey. Comments and Reviews. Teenage Dream - Katy Perry20. Here are TIME’s picks for the best albums of the 2010s, presented chronologically. Pusha T, Lana Del Rey and J.Cole all made the list, but who will be at the top? So, to get a better read on the current consensus, we have also aggregated best-of-the-decade lists published by a variety of music and entertainment publications in late 2019. Steve Lehman & Sélébéyone - Sélébéyone13. Golden Hour - Kacey Musgraves24. For more about how we put together this list, read this letter from our editor-in-chief Puja Patel . 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Lover - Taylor Swift10. Listen to the Best Albums of the Decade Spotify playlist here. 91. Paul, you've not only missed the point of this list, you've missed the point of musical taste in general, i.e. Now, it's time to check in with other publications to see which albums they have selected to represent the best of the decade. This section will be updated as new lists are published throughout the end of the year. Posted by. It's just a smaller flock. Where are albuns like Blackstar - Bowie, Skeleton Tree - Nick Cave, Sleep Well Beast - The National, They Want My Soul - Spoon and A Moon Shaped Pool - Radiohead. Michael Kiwanuka: Kiwanuka album art work. Our editors' list of the decade's 200 best albums reflects the complexities of modern listening: from our favorite French robots to the final dispatches of now-departed icons to a surprising number of Odd Future affiliates, even this quantity and variety of albums likely leaves a few stones unturned. 1 year ago. Individual lists are displayed at the bottom of the page, but in the table below, the most frequently mentioned albums are ranked according to our points system (which gives bonus points for being ranked at the top of a list): Below are the 60 individual top ten lists used to calculate the standings above. Tyler, the Creator - Flower Boy8. ALBUMS MENTIONED ON MOST BEST OF THE DECADE TOP 10 LISTS. Nick Cave's Ghosteen is the best album of the 21st century, with Skeleton Tree not far behind, Daft Punk do electronic and R&B better than anyone else (by a mile ) as shown via their masterpiece Random Access Memories, LCD sound system produced a gem of an album with American Dream and Dillinger Escape Plan redefined heavy metal and brought it to another level with their swan song Dissociation album. Yeah, right! I don't want to get into a flame war, but you should be prepared to take shots if you're going to give them, instead of engaging in intelligent debate.But, I guess, one of us really understands what's going on and one of us doesn't. The Metascore is a weighted average of scores from top professional critics, on a scale from 0 (bad) to 100 (good). Before we look at the individual lists, let's see which albums turned up most often. Jamie XX – In Colour4. that it's subjective. Run the Jewels - RTJ 212. I still haven't finished the final season of The Americans because I'm dreading how things will turn out for the family. If they had done that - and dropped the facade that the only reason they even index the major publications is to make them look more inclusive and, supposedly, more legitimate - they wouldn't have received nearly as much criticism as they did. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game - Complete Edition. I wish you'd organise your Critics List for 2009 the same way you've done this one. I don't understand how anyone could put The Undoing in their top 10. Click on the name of any publication to view that publication's full list. Albums must have reviews from at least 15 critics to qualify for inclusion; reissues, compilations, and EPs are excluded. Norman **** Rockwell - Lana Del Rey13. Arcade Fire - Funeral is the Greatest album of all time. (And thanks Han for the embarrassing revelation that Metacritic may have ignored Rhapsody's main list and posted the Alternative list instead.) We’re half way through the 2010s so it’s the right time to look back at the last five years and celebrate 50 of the finest albums. But we did our best. How? Transgender Dysphoria Blues by Against Me! Camila - Camila Cabello22. Why not? For example, many of these lists remind me of the pre Michael Jackson days of MTV, where RWB was a crime. Burial - Kindred5. It's true, I missed in the Best Albums and Artists of the Decade description where they said they mainly focus on Indie and Alternative and only have about 700 out of the year's 20,000 albums in their database. city by Kendrick Lamar, Beauty Pill Describes Things As They Are by Beauty Pill, The Weight of These Wings by Miranda Lambert, Chuck Person’s Eccojams Vol. David Bowie - Blackstar2. Tinashe – Aquarius5. For more of our best of decade coverage, check our Best Songs Of The 2010s, Best Hip-Hop Albums Of The 2010s, and Best Pop Albums Of … It's a shame Metacritic doesn't have the courage to buck this crowd, and instead panders to it. Disclosure - Settle9. User reviews have it at 5.3. So, to get a better read on the current consensus, we have also aggregated best-of-the-decade lists published by a variety of music and entertainment publications in late 2019. Kid A was like nothing else before, and incredibly beautiful, though it took a lot of getting used to. They're still sheep. Users. Give us your list in the comments section below. The decade ends in a list of lists. List of Movies, TV Shows, Videogames, and Albums Postponed by the Coronavirus. Individual lists are displayed at the bottom of the page, … This is more complete after utilizing a more calculated rubric so that my rating system is more objective, because I'm a massive dumb nerd. Maybe they need to put the same emphasis on hiring music editors as they do movie editors.As to my importance, Teh Peon, I'm sure when you wrote that you called up the stairs from your basement apartment to tell Mom how you really burned some guy on line. The Best Albums of The Decade: The 2010s. "TLOU2 won? Metacritic - Best Albums of the Decade (Best-Of-The-Decade Top 10 Lists, 2010-2019) show list info. )In other words, for these other fraudulent "sources", there can not possibly be any ground breaking or extremely satisfying happenings in music unless it's part of the hallowed "alternative" music scene, instead of the EVILLLLLL commercial music industry. The truth is that they slapped something together that they knew would appeal to their marketing target and put a phony title on it, pretending it was comprehensive.As I said, in that other article, it's really surprising how lazy and deceptive they are on music, when they produced a best and worst movie list of the decade that was impressively exhaustive and thorough. Pure Heroine - Lorde6. Many publications have published multiple lists by genre; we are only including one list (the most generalized one) from each source. © 2021 METACRITIC, A RED VENTURES COMPANY. Red - Taylor Swift5. LOL!The sad truth is that real mavericks are rare. Then your Dad called down, "You're 30 years old, when are you going to get a job and move out? ", and you whined "Parents" and went back to your video games. In this case, the indie/alternative crowd, which is just a subset of the music scene, no matter how many time critics bleat it's "the music of the future". Kendrick Lamar - To pimp a Butterfly10. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. The "Best Indie and Alternative" lists. Music reviews, ratings, news and more. Okay, I've got to raise an eyebrow at the number of votes The Last of Us II has gotten compared to not just the other... big f to all the stupid tlou2 haters. All you're doing is bashing these critics because their (entirely subjective) taste, unsurprisingly, differs from yours. Additional best of the decade lists (as well as our year-end best of 2019 coverage) will roll out over the following weeks. Metacritic: Best Albums Of The Decade. The best music of 2019. Grouper - AIA/Alien Observer14. Some popular shows have surprisingly lower averages. Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma7. Composite: n/a. Drake: Take Care. Oceansize - Self-preserved while the Bodies float up18. © 2021 METACRITIC, A RED VENTURES COMPANY. So in other words, consider this list complete unless I fall into a surprise … (I mean, jeez, the UK Times even sited Britney Spears!?! glad this exists but just to point out this you guys are missing at least one - chance the rapper's coloring book has an 89 with 21 reviews so it should be up there bumping out foundations of a burden. "So, to get a better read on the current consensus, we have also aggregated best-of-the-decade lists published by a variety of music and entertainment publications in late 2019". Here are the 100 best albums of 2010-2019: 100. It'll be added the next time we update the list. Unusually, in these streaming-led times, Kiwanuka is a contemplative song cycle intended to be listened to … hOw?" Loud - Rihanna23. And check out all of Pitchfork… Billboard has comprehensive decade-end coverage, where you can check out the top-selling artists of the decade, among other things. Totally agree with Kid A topping the list. We begin our recap of the best entertainment of the 2010s with two lists of the decade's best albums, representing views from different vantage points in time. Fleabag is incredible Mad Max is my favorite action film of the decade. Reissues and other older material, EPs, live albums, holiday albums, greatest hits albums, multi-artist soundtracks, and other compilations are excluded from the above lists. - Best Ever Albums score: 473 - Best Ever Albums user rating: 80 - Rank in year: #49 - Rank in decade: #595 - Year: 2008. Last update: February 10, 2020 While the list above reflects how critics felt about each album at the time of its release, opinions can change over time. Speak Now - Taylor Swift8. Deftones - Koi No Yokan4. (BTW, I've done a little work in the media and have seen this all before.). Please sign up or log in to post a comment. While the list above reflects how critics felt about each album at the time of its release, opinions can change over time. 1989 - Taylor Swift2. RWB? https://www.metacritic.com/feature/best-albums-of-the-decade-2010s And for an even more comprehensive collection of decade-end lists than what you see above, try Acclaimed Music. 21 - Adele18. Okay, I've got to raise an eyebrow at the number of votes The Last of Us II has gotten compared to not just the other... big f to all the stupid tlou2 haters. On one of the best British pop albums of the decade, Metronomy offered a sleek and classy departure from their electronic roots to create something truly special. What are your favorite albums of the decade? Jenny Hval - Viscera3. Are they ashamed to say that? Maybe I 'd have switched them round critical lists are published throughout the end the! 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