If there is one thing that Blitz never has enough of, it’s music threads…so here’s another one.
Over the coming weeks I am looking to develop a comprehensive list of Blitzer’s favourite albums for each year from 1960 through to 2024.
I’ll break it down into threads by decades so you don’t have to spend ages on putting your favourites together.
This sixth thread is for the 2010s.
I’m asking that you name your top three albums for each year…in order as your top album will get three votes, 2nd favourite will get 2 votes and 3rd favourite will get one.
2012
3 Hilltop Hoods - Drinking From The Sun
2 Tame Impala - Lonerism
1 Lana Del Rey - Born To Die
2013
3 Arctic Monkeys - AM
2 Lorde - Pure Heroine
1 Placebo - Loud Like Love
HM Alice In Chains - The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here
2014
3 Sia - 1000 Forms Of Fear
2 Hilltop Hoods - Walking Under Stars
1 The Smith Street Band - Throw Me In The River
2015
3 Purity Ring - Another Eternity
2 Original Broadway Cast Recording/Lin-Manuel Miranda - Hamilton
1 Tame Impala - Currents
HM Seth Sentry - Strange New Past
2016
3 Panic! At The Disco - Death of a Bachelor
2 Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker
1 Sia - This Is Acting
HM Nick Cave - Skeleton Tree
2019
3 Billie Eilish - When We Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
Working on this one but it’s gonna be a couple of days. Don’t own many albums from the decade at all, and reacquainting myself with stuff I remember giving a go back then.
3 Foxy Shazam - Foxy Shazam
2 Black Rock - Joe Bonamassa
1 Buddy Guy - Living Proof
2011
3 Tedeschi Trucks Band - Revelator
2 Joe Bonamassa - Dust Bowl
1 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Willoughby’s Beach
2012
3 Father John Misty - Fear Fun
2 Pat Metheny - Unity Band
1 The Darkness - Hot Cakes
2013
3 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Float Along Fill Your Lungs
2 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Eyes Like The Sky
1 Alice In Chains - The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here
2014
3 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - I’m In Your Mind Fuzz
2 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Oddments
1 Ryan Adams - Ryan Adams
2015
3 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Quarters!
2 Wilco - Star Wars
1 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Paper Mâché Dream Balloon
2016
3 Psychedelic P orn Crumpets - High Visceral Part 1
2 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Nonagon Infinity
1 The Lemon Twigs - Do Hollywood
2017
3 Psychedelic P orn Crumpets - High Visceral Part 2
2 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Polygondwanaland
1 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Flying Microtonal Banana
2018
3 Khruangbin - Con Todo El Mundo
2 The Lemon Twigs - Go To School
1 Alice In Chains - Rainier Fog
2019
3 Psychedelic P orn Crumpets - And Now For The Whatchamacallit
2 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Fishing For Fishies
1 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Infest The Rats’ Nest
I knew I would be relying on them to fill a lot of spots. I wasn’t listening to much other new music that decade. At least until The Lemon Twigs, Psychedelic P orn Crumpets and Khruangbin came along.
Im sorry @swoodley but you knew picking those albums were going to get a reaction from a small section of this joint. Your work here is fantastic. We all love ya mate xxx
3 - Parades - Foreign Tapes
2 - Rasmus Kellerman - The 24th
1 - The Posies - Blood/Candy
2011
3 - dEUS - Keep You Close
2 - Fountains Of Wayne - Sky Full Of Holes
1 - Eskimo Joe - Ghosts Of The Past
2012
3 - Bob Mould - Silver Age
2 - Therapy? - A Brief Crack Of Light (hardly a career highlight…)
1 - Regina Spektor - What We Saw From The Cheap Seats
2013
3 - Hungry Kids Of Hungary - You’re A Shadow
2 - Alice In Chains - The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here
1 - Laura Mvula - Sing It To The Moon
2014 (probably the best - or least worst, to be more accurate - year of the decade…)
3 Bis - Data Panik etc
2 Freeman - Self-titled
1 Bob Mould - Beauty & Ruin
HM: Thumpers - Galore, Weezer - Everything Will Be Alright In The End (the carcass suddenly had a pulse… short-lived as it turned out…), We Are Scientists - TV en Francais
2015
3 - Blur - The Magic Whip
2 - The Kickback - Sorry All Over The Place
1 - The Moonbabies - Wizards On The Beach
2016
3 - Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
2 - Pixies - Head Carrier (hardly a career highpoint)
1 - Tiger Lou - The Wound Dresser
HM: Bob Mould - Patch The Sky
2017
3 - Ups & Downs - The Sky’s In Love With You
2 - Soulwax - From Deewee
1 - Charly Bliss - Guppy
HM: Mew - Visuals, The Kickback - Weddings & Funerals
2018
3 - Alice In Chains - Rainier Fog
2 - Therapy? - Cleave
1 - Lo Moon - Self-titled
HM: Low - Double Negative
2019
3 - Tool - Fear Inoculum (once you filter out the tedious, tiresome, noodling instrumentals)
2 - Bob Mould - Sunshine Rock
1 - Pixies - Beneath The Eyrie
Don’t go expecting too many all time classics… there’s very few acts that debuted in the 2010’s there… and of the established acts there’s not too many career highlights (although it was a career resurgence for Bob Mould after a prolonged period of spinning his wheels).
