One of the key pillars of Hüsker Dü. Your next question… who the hell were Hüsker Dü? Influential 80’s (largely indie) act from Minneapolis, renowned for their noisy but melodic spiky songs which were appallingly recorded…
For Bob’s solo work, if you’re interested give Silver Age and Workbook a go. Then try Copper Blue from his early 90’s 3-piece Sugar.
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Give me some credit…I have not only heard of Husker Do…but have also listened to New Day Rising and Zen Arcade.
But never been interested enough to know the names of the band members (they have not made it to the playlist 
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I don’t think any album from this decade would get in my top 100 all-time faves. Possibly 200. It’s a lot of “oh yeah, that’s pretty good I guess”
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They’d litter throughout my 100-200.
Can’t really imagine any being top 100.
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All part of their rough-hewn charm Jez, but there’s absolutely no denying it…
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I have theory on that.
The older we get, the greater the number of albums that we have listened to and so newer ones (unless they are really damn good) don’t get played as often as the ones from our younger days.
And so our “all time faves” will tend to heavily favour albums from the years when we were first getting serious about music…the number of albums that we had access to were far fewer than what we can access these days and so we (well I certainly did) played them a lot more and got to know them so much better.
Eg: The biggest problem I had with picking my 70s choices was which great albums were going to miss out.
For this 2010s list, I’ve spent the last week going back and listening to a heap of the albums on my playlist.
It was way harder to find the three albums for some years.
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Yeah definitely agree with that. Looking through my lists, the last newly released album that really got through to me in the impressionable way they do when you’re younger, a big strong fave, was in 2008.
I dunno…there must be something going on…maybe with spare time or formats?
It’s weird that I have virtually nothing from '99-11, and then five years where…to my tastes everything got better?
I think I started listening to Spotify in 2015…so…that doesn’t completely explain it.
Edit: LMW was born in 00, so…there were a lot of So Fresh cd’s. And I guess I was listening to my i-pod a lot?
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No Wombats?
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This was the decade where it all changed a bit for me. I started to get older, the music wasn’t being made for me anymore, and after spending the better part of two decades constantly going to gigs and festivals, that started to trail off. I don’t blame the decade or the music (there’s still heaps of great stuff this decade) It was me, my age and my stage in life. Plus, my first daughter was born half way through the decade, which automatically and instantly removes your finger from being anywhere near the pulse of popular culture.
2010 and 2013 were still stacked for me, and if I was a ‘Baker’ type to give honorable mentions, they’d both have quite a few.
2010
3 - MGMT- congratulations
2 - Children Collide - Theory of everything
1 - Vampire Weekend - Contra
2011
3 - Art vs Science - The experiment
2 - Foster The People - Torches
1 - Bush - Sea of memories
2012
3 - Future of the left - the plot against common sense
2 - Two Door Cinema Club - Beacon
1 - Jack white - Blunderbuss
2013
3 - Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
2 - Future of the Left - How to Stop Your Brain in an Accident
1 - The Secret Life of Walter Mitty - Soundtrack
2014
3 - Royal Blood - Royal Blood
2 - Blood Red Shoes - Blood Red Shoes
1 - Shihad - FVEY
2015
3 - The fratellis - Eyes wide, tongue tied
2 - Wilco - Star Wars
1 - Parkway Drive - Ire
2016
3 - Violent Soho - Waco
2 - Catfish And The Bottlemen - The Ride
1 - Empire of the sun - Two Vines
2017
3 - The Chats - Get this in ya
2 - Changa - Pnau
1 - The Smith street band - More Scared of You than You Are of Me
2018
3 - MGMT - Little dark age
2 - Parquet Courts - Wide Awake!
1 - Hockey Dad - Blend Inn
2019
3 - Tool - Fear Inoculum
2 - Fontaines D.C - Dogrel
1 - Blood Red Shoes - Get tragic
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2010
3 - kanye west - my beautiful dark twisted fantasy
2 - mark ronson & the business international - record collection
1 - arcade fire - the suburbs
2011
3 - m83 - hurry up we’re dreaming
2 - childish gambino - camp
1 - boy & bear - moonfire
2012
3 - purity ring - shrines
2 - kendrick lamar - good kid m.a.a.d city
1 - bruno mars - unorthodox jukebox
2013
3 - daft punk - random access memories
2 - arctic monkeys - a.m.
1 - london grammar - if you wait
2014
3 - taylor swift - 1989
2 - future islands - singles
1 - vance joy - dream your life away
2015
3 - chvrches - every open eye
2 - courtney barnett - sometimes i sit and think and sometimes i just sit
1 - tame impala - currents
2016
3 - broods - conscious
2 - the avalanches - wildflower
1 - metallica - hardwired to self-destruct
2017
3 - gang of youths - go farther in lightness
2 - smith street band - more scared of you than you are of me
1 - kendrick lamar - damn
2018
3 - idles - joy as an act of resistance
2 - confidence man - confident music for confident people
1 - tonight alive - underworld
2019
3 - billie eilish - when we fall asleep where do we go
2 - ash grunwald - mojo
1 - amyl and the sniffers - amyl and the sniffers
jeez 2018 and 2019 was full of folks trying some sht on that uhhhh never really stuck. there’s a lot of singles i like from those years, but albums… sheesh
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The backend of this decade is absolute tripe. First half is better than I initially thought. Had to leave a lot off the table, I guess my decline in being hip to the what’s happenin.
2010
3 - lcd soundsystem- this is happening
2 - beach house - teen dream
1 - tame impala - innerspeaker
2011
3 - destroyer - kaputt
2 - Kurt vile - smoke ring for my halo
1 - war on drugs - slave ambient
2012
3 - tame impala - lonerism
2 - beach house - bloom
1 - Ariel pink - mature themes
2013
3 - daft punk - random access memories
2 - Kurt vile - wakin on a pretty daze
1 - disclosure - settle
2014
3 - Todd terje- its album time
2 - war on drugs - lost in the dream
1 - sun kil moon - benji
2015
3 - crazy p - walk dance talk sing
2 - Jamie xx - in colour
1 - Tim deluxe - the radicle
2016
3 - the Marcus king band
2 - greyhounds - change of pace
1 - Anderson .paak - Malibu
2017
3 - war on drugs - a deeper understanding
2 - against all logic - 2012- 2017
1 - grateful dead - Cornell 5/8/77
2018
3 - Marcus king band - Carolina confessions
2 - Khruangbin - con todo el mundo
1 - connan mockasin - jassbusters
2019
3 - big thief - two hands
2 - Neal Francis - changes
1 - Dabeull - intimate fonk
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Can I skip 2014?
I’ve actually got the rest of the thing filled out, but 2014 is giving me fits.
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Sure you can 
Released July 2018…please amend your votes and tag me when you’ve done so 
Damn it 2019 is puss
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I can lend you a few
Found one, updated
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