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Thread started 08/09/19 3:49pm

MickyDolenz

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Favorite albums of the 2010s

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You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #1 posted 08/09/19 4:32pm

EmmaMcG

In no particular order...

Mayer Hawthorne - Man About Town
To be honest, all of Mayer's albums are great so any one of them could be on this list but seeing as I'm trying to keep it to one album per artist, I'm going with Man About Town, his most recent solo album. If you haven't heard it yet, you're in for a treat. Think Steely Dan crossed with Hall & Oates and you're halfway there.

Tuxedo - Tuxedo III
OK, so kind of cheating on the whole "one album per artist" seeing as Mayer Hawthorne makes up half of Tuxedo but so what. Whereas Mayer's solo stuff is a mixture of soul and classic RnB, Tuxedo is straight up funk. Once again I've gone for their most recent album but all 3 are worthy of inclusion.

Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer
Janelle keeps on getting better and better. Her latest album is nothing short of a modern day masterpiece.

Bootsy Collins - World Wide Funk
Probably Bootsy's best album in 30 years or more.

Prince - HitnRun Phase Two
After the dismal Phase One, my enthusiasm for new Prince material was at an all time low. But then he hit me with what is one of my favourite Prince albums of all time. Classic, yet fresh. If Baltimore had been left off, it would have been perfect.

D'Angelo - Black Messiah
I know I said these were in no particular order, but Black Messiah is my number 1 album of the 2010s. I had been waiting for new D'Angelo for a very long time and he did not let me down. I just wish he released new material more often.



Honourable mentions to:

Chromeo - Head Over Heels
Bruce Springsteen - Western Stars
Justin Timberlake - Man of the Woods
Harts - Queens, Kings and All Big Things
Lenny Kravitz - Strut
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Reply #2 posted 08/10/19 6:55am

alphastreet

4-Beyonce
Unbreakable-Janet
Starboy-the Weeknd
Unorthodox jukebox-Bruno Mars
Caution-Mariah Carey
Madame x-Madonna
Every Open Eye-chvrches
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Reply #3 posted 08/10/19 12:42pm

TheFman

The Getaway - RHCP

Mylo Xyloto - Coldplay

Shiny and Oh So Bright, Vol. 1 / LP: No Past. No Future. No Sun. - Smashing Pumpkins

if i can think of anything else, i'll add it later...

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Reply #4 posted 08/10/19 8:30pm

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You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #5 posted 08/10/19 9:00pm

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Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell

Sara Barelles - Amidst the Chaos

Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer

James Blake - Assume Form

Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour

Corrine Bailey Rae - The Heart Speaks in Whispers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Live Anthology

Laura Marling - Semper Femina (why is this woman not more well known?!)

The Greatest Showman - Soundtrack boxed (I know I just lost all credibility lol )

Prince - Originals

Jason Isbell - Southeastern

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Reply #6 posted 08/12/19 7:20am

RJOrion

"Victory Lap" - Nipsey Hussle
"Art Official Age" - Prince
"Lost Tapes 2" - Nas
"Wasted Talent" - Jim Jones
"Diplomatic Ties" - The Diplomats
"Broke With Expensive Taste" - Azealia Banks
"SYRE" - Jaden Smith
"Tuxedo" - Tuxedo
"Introducing Stokley" - Stokley Willisms
"I Dont Like Shit, I Dont Go Outside" - Earl Sweatshirt
"Doris" - Earl Sweatshirt
"A Seat At The Table" - Solange Knowles
"Blood" - Lianne Lahavas
"Now, Then & Forever" - Earth, Wind & Fire
"20Ten" - Prince
"Choose Your Weapon" - Hiatus Kaiyote
"Black Messiah" - D'Angelo
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Reply #7 posted 08/12/19 9:28am

namepeace

To name just a few:

Choose Your Weapon
-- Hiatus Kaiyote

The Epic -- Kamasi Washington

Yes Lawd! -- NxWorries

New Amerykah Pt. II: Return of the Ankh -- Erykah Badu

Black Messiah -- D'Angelo & the Vanguard

Ego Death -- The Internet

Art Official Age -- Prince

The ArchAndroid -- Janelle Monae

good kid, m.A.A.d. city -- Kendrick Lamar

Drunk -- Thundercat

Where Does This Door Go? -- Mayer Hawthorne

Ventriloquism -- Me'Shell Ndegeocello

Fin -- Syd

Malibu -- Anderson .Paak

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Good night, sweet Prince | 7 June 1958 - 21 April 2016

Props will be withheld until the showing and proving has commenced. -- Aaron McGruder
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Reply #8 posted 08/12/19 10:54am

RJOrion

namepeace said:

To name just a few:

Choose Your Weapon
-- Hiatus Kaiyote

The Epic -- Kamasi Washington

Yes Lawd! -- NxWorries

New Amerykah Pt. II: Return of the Ankh -- Erykah Badu

Black Messiah -- D'Angelo & the Vanguard

Ego Death -- The Internet

Art Official Age -- Prince

The ArchAndroid -- Janelle Monae

good kid, m.A.A.d. city -- Kendrick Lamar

Drunk -- Thundercat

Where Does This Door Go? -- Mayer Hawthorne

Ventriloquism -- Me'Shell Ndegeocello

Fin -- Syd

Malibu -- Anderson .Paak

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i forgot to put "Black Messiah" and "Choose Your Weapon" in my list...good choices..
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Reply #9 posted 08/12/19 10:55am

RJOrion

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Reply #10 posted 08/12/19 2:36pm

namepeace

RJOrion said:

namepeace said

[Edited 8/12/19 9:29am]

i forgot to put "Black Messiah" and "Choose Your Weapon" in my list...good choices..


CYW is my choice for Album of the Decade, and Black Messiah is in my top 5 at least.

Good night, sweet Prince | 7 June 1958 - 21 April 2016

Props will be withheld until the showing and proving has commenced. -- Aaron McGruder
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Reply #11 posted 08/13/19 12:41am

EmmaMcG

EmmaMcG said:

In no particular order...

Mayer Hawthorne - Man About Town
To be honest, all of Mayer's albums are great so any one of them could be on this list but seeing as I'm trying to keep it to one album per artist, I'm going with Man About Town, his most recent solo album. If you haven't heard it yet, you're in for a treat. Think Steely Dan crossed with Hall & Oates and you're halfway there.

Tuxedo - Tuxedo III
OK, so kind of cheating on the whole "one album per artist" seeing as Mayer Hawthorne makes up half of Tuxedo but so what. Whereas Mayer's solo stuff is a mixture of soul and classic RnB, Tuxedo is straight up funk. Once again I've gone for their most recent album but all 3 are worthy of inclusion.

Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer
Janelle keeps on getting better and better. Her latest album is nothing short of a modern day masterpiece.

Bootsy Collins - World Wide Funk
Probably Bootsy's best album in 30 years or more.

Prince - HitnRun Phase Two
After the dismal Phase One, my enthusiasm for new Prince material was at an all time low. But then he hit me with what is one of my favourite Prince albums of all time. Classic, yet fresh. If Baltimore had been left off, it would have been perfect.

D'Angelo - Black Messiah
I know I said these were in no particular order, but Black Messiah is my number 1 album of the 2010s. I had been waiting for new D'Angelo for a very long time and he did not let me down. I just wish he released new material more often.



Honourable mentions to:

Chromeo - Head Over Heels
Bruce Springsteen - Western Stars
Justin Timberlake - Man of the Woods
Harts - Queens, Kings and All Big Things
Lenny Kravitz - Strut


I initially left it out of my list but I would just like to add Zapp's latest album "Zapp VII - Roger & Friends". Zapp's first album in something like 17 years and it doesn't disappoint. Unfortunately it seems to have flown under the radar a bit but it's definitely worth checking out and I'd recommend it to anyone looking for some classic, old school funk. The album features Bootsy Collins, Tuxedo and even some posthumous Roger Troutman amongst others.
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Reply #12 posted 08/13/19 5:37am

Thibaut

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye West

To Pimp A Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar

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

Life Is Good - NaS

Pinata - Freddie Gibbs & Madlib

Malibu - Anderson .Paak

Compton - Dr. Dre

4:44 - Jay-Z

Black Messiah - D`Angelo

Channel Orange - Frank Ocean

The Archandroid - Janelle Monae

The Electric Lady - Janelle Monae

Blackstar - David Bowie

New Amerykah pt. 2 - Erykah Badu

The 20/20 Experience - Justin Timberlake

Art Official Age - Prince

Hitnrun Phase Two - Prince

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Reply #13 posted 08/31/19 1:12pm

MickyDolenz

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You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #14 posted 08/31/19 7:11pm

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RJOrion said:

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That's a good one.

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Reply #15 posted 09/03/19 9:41pm

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Blackstar (2016) by David Bowie, 50 Words for Snow (2011) by Kate Bush and Black Messiah (2014) by D'Angelo and the Vanguard music

Keep Calm & Listen To Prince
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Reply #16 posted 09/05/19 12:56pm

Romeoblu

Prince / Art Official Age
St Vincent / Masseduction
D'angelo / Black Messiah
Bruce Springsteen / The Promise
Prefab Sprout / Crimson Red
Janelle Monae / Dirty Computer
Kimbra / The Golden Echo
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Reply #17 posted 09/05/19 2:40pm

Cloudbuster

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Adele - 21

Alicia Keys - Here

Alison Moyet - The Minutes

Arcade Fire - Reflektor

Arctic Monkeys - AM

Beck - Morning Phase

Bruce Springsteen - Western Stars

Bruno Mars - 24K Magic

Coldplay - Ghost Stories

Crowded House - Intriguer

David Bowie - The Next Day

De La Soul - and the Anonymous Nobody...

Ed Harcourt - Furnaces

Elbow - The Take Off And Landing Of Everything

Frank Ocean - Channel Orange

Janelle Monae - The Electric Lady

Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience

Kate Bush - 50 Words For Snow

Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

KT Tunstall - Invisible Empire // Crescent Moon

Leonard Cohen - Old Ideas

Lindsey Buckingham - Seeds We Sow

Madonna - Madame X

Neneh Cherry - Blank Project

Noel Gallagher - Who Built The Moon?

Paul Simon - Stranger To Stranger

Paul Weller - True Meanings

Pet Shop Boys - Electric

PJ Harvey - Let England Shake

Prince - Art Official Age

R.E.M. - Collapse Into Now

Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool

Seal - 7

Taylor Swift - Red

U2 - Songs Of Innocence

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Reply #18 posted 09/06/19 4:54am

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^Nice to see the love for KT's album 'Invisible Empire//Crescent Moon'... I haven't listened to it in a minute but I included it in a 2013 fav album top 10 I did on another forum with some friends... That also included Matangi by MIA and AM by Arctic Monkeys.

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Recent ones I've enjoyed include 'Man Of The Woods' by Justin Timberlake (I know not a lot of people liked it but I see it for the labour of love that it was), 'Liberation' by Christina Aguilera, 'No One Ever Really Dies' by NERD, pretty much the entire discography of Anderson .Paak (LOL), 'Choose Your Weapon' by Hiatus Kaiyote, 'Lune Rouge' by Tokimonsta, 'Yours Truly', by Ariana Grande, 'TPAB' by Kendrick Lamar, 'Settle' and 'Caracal' by Disclosure, 'Tru' by Lloyd, 'Songs of Innocence' and 'Songs of Experience' by U2, 'Sonic Highways' by Foo Fighters, 'Cura' by Keys & Krates, 'Way Back When' by Louis Futon...

I don't want your rhythm without your rhyme
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Reply #19 posted 09/06/19 7:58am

Cloudbuster

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ginusher said:

^Nice to see the love for KT's album 'Invisible Empire//Crescent Moon'... I haven't listened to it in a minute but I included it in a 2013 fav album top 10 I did on another forum with some friends... That also included Matangi by MIA and AM by Arctic Monkeys.

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Recent ones I've enjoyed include 'Man Of The Woods' by Justin Timberlake (I know not a lot of people liked it but I see it for the labour of love that it was), 'Liberation' by Christina Aguilera, 'No One Ever Really Dies' by NERD, pretty much the entire discography of Anderson .Paak (LOL), 'Choose Your Weapon' by Hiatus Kaiyote, 'Lune Rouge' by Tokimonsta, 'Yours Truly', by Ariana Grande, 'TPAB' by Kendrick Lamar, 'Settle' and 'Caracal' by Disclosure, 'Tru' by Lloyd, 'Songs of Innocence' and 'Songs of Experience' by U2, 'Sonic Highways' by Foo Fighters, 'Cura' by Keys & Krates, 'Way Back When' by Louis Futon...


It's gorgeous. nod

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Reply #20 posted 09/07/19 2:08am

novabrkr

Alcest - Les Voyages de l'Âme

Blood Orange - Cupid Deluxe

Chromeo - Business Casual

Ghost - Infestissumam

Mastodon - The Hunter

St. Vincent - s/t

The Weeknd - Beauty Behind The Madness

Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase.

Could have included several by some of those artists. It wasn't an easy to decade to find favourites - I liked it when artists that started out as "indie", or "alternative", just sort of gave up and started doing poppy records.

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Reply #21 posted 09/13/19 3:36pm

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1. Dum Dum Girls – Too True (2014)

2. Sunflower Bean – Twentytwo In Blue (2018)

3. Dum Dum Girls - I Will Be (2010)

4. Kamasi Washington – The Epic (2015)

5. La Femme – Psycho Tropical Berlin (2013)

6. The Horrors - Luminous (2014)

7. Thundercat – Drunk (2017)

8. Kamasi Washington – Heaven And Earth (2018)

9. TEEN – Love Yes (2016)

10. Saint Etienne - Words and Music by Saint Etienne (2012)

11. The Horrors - Skying (2011)

12. Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me (2010)

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Reply #22 posted 09/22/19 5:30am

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Yeah, I’m cheating a bit with some of these... but feck it, they’re 2010s releases, lol.

Marsha Ambrosius - Late Nights & Early Mornings (2011)
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories (2013)
Calvin Harris - Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1 (2017)
The Jackson 5 - Come And Get It: The Rare Pearls (2012)
Michael Jackson - Xscape (2014)
Lianne La Havas - Blood (2015)
Ledisi - The Truth (2014)
Ledisi - Let Love Rule (2017)
Marina & the Diamonds - Froot (2015)
Janelle Monáe - The ArchAndroid (2010)
Janelle Monáe - The Electric Lady (2013)
Ida Nielsen - Turnitup (2016)
Prince - Art Official Age (2014)
Prince - HITnRUN Phase Two (2015)
Mark Ronson - Uptown Special (2015)
Various Artists - Nile Rodgers Presents the Chic Organization Box Set Vol 1 / "Savoir Faire" (2010)
Various Artists - The Best of Disco Demands (2011)
Various Artists - Wondaland Presents: The Eephus (2015)
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