Best Album of the Decade 2010 to 2019- AND WE HAVE A WINNER!!!!!!!!

[Kwyjibo]

Okay, let's do this, ranking's a bitch and could be completely different tomorrow, but who cares?

1. Ayreon - The Theory Of Everything (2013)
2. Spock's Beard - X (2010)
3. Dream Theater - Distance Over Time (2019)
4. Haken - Affinity (2016)
5. Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud (2015)
6. Anthrax - Worship Music (2011)
7. Arch/Matheos - Sympathetic Resonance (2011)
8. Pain Of Salavation - In The Passing Light Of Day (2017)
9. Star One - Victims Of The Modern Age (2010)
10. Van Halen - A Different Kind Of Truth (2012)
11. Insomnium - Winter's Gate (2016)
12. Fates Warning - Theories Of Flight (2016)
13. Neal Morse - The Similitude Of A Dream (2016)
14. James LaBrie - Static Impulse (2010)
15. Avantasia -  The Wicked Symphony (2010)

[Stadler]

That's a pretty good list, right there.

[Sacul]

Small update 

Anathema - Weather Systems | Atmospheric Rock, Progressive Rock | 2012
David Bowie - ★ [Blackstar] | Art Rock, Jazz, Experimental | 2016
Ulver - The Assassination of Julius Caesar | Synthpop | 2017
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly | Conscious Hip Hop, West Coast Hip Hop, Neo Soul, Jazz, Experimental | 2015
BADBADNOTGOOD - III | Jazz Fusion, Instrumental Hip Hop | 2014
Various Artists - Hotline Miami: Official Soundtrack | Synthwave, Neo Psychedelia, Electro House | 2012
Nils Frahm - Spaces | Modern Classical, Ambient, Live | 2013
Bent Knee - Shiny Eyed Babies | Art Rock, Progressive Rock | 2014
Darren Korb - Transistor Original Soundtrack | Downtempo, Folktronica, Trip Hop | 2014
clipping. - CLPPNG | Industrial Hip Hop, Experimental Hip Hop, Noise | 2014
Obsidian Kingdom - Mantiis | Progressive Metal, Post-Metal, Death Metal, Black Metal, Avant-Garde Metal, Experimental | 2012
Nine Inch Nails - Bad Witch | Industral Rock, Experimental Rock, Noise Rock, Dark Jazz | 2018
Steven Wilson - Grace for Drowning | Progressive Rock, Art Rock, Experimental, Jazz | 2011
Gazpacho - Demon | Progressive Rock, Art Rock, Atmospheric Rock | 2014
Sufjan Stevens - - Carrie & Lowell | Indie Folk, Singer/Songwriter, Ambient Pop | 2016

Honorary mentions:
David Maxim Micic - Bilo 3.0 | 2013
Haken - The Mountain | 2013
Dead Can Dance - Anastasis | 2012
Brand New - Science Fiction | 2017
Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell! | 2019
Destiny Potato - LUN | 2014
Diablo Swing Orchestra - Pandora's Piñata | 2012
Mario Galaxy Orchestra - Super Mario Galaxy 2: Original Soundtrack | 2010
Nine Inch Nails - Hesitation Marks | 2013
Marketa Irglova - Muna | 2010
Devin Townsend Project - Epicloud | 2012
柏大輔 [Daisuke Kashiwa] - 88 | 2011

[Mladen]

I finally pulled this one off:

1. Ghost - Prequelle
2. Dream Theater - A Dramatic turn of events
3. Steven Wilson - Hand. cannot. erase.
4. Blaze Bayley - Promise and terror
5. Stone Sour - House of gold and bones part 1
6. of Montreal - Lousy with Sylvianbriar
7. Iron Maiden - The Book of souls
8. Rush - Clockwork angels
9. Spock's Beard - X
10. Mastodon - Emperor of sand
11. Dream Theater - The Astonishing
12. Mac Demarco - II
13. Radiohead - A Moon shaped pool
14. David Bowie - Blackstar
15. Neal Morse - Testimony 2
16. Spock's Beard - Brief nocturnes and dreamless sleep
17. Iron Maiden - The Final frontier
18. Steven Wilson - The Raven that refused to sing
19. Ghost - Meliora
20. Damon Albarn - Everyday robots

[Nachtmerrie]

The list will probably look competely different within a year but this is it for now.

1. The Ocean - Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic
2. Tesseract - Altered State
3. Swallow the Sun - When a Shadow is Forced Into the Light
4. Ne Obliviscaris - Urn
5. Haken - Affinity
6. Mastodon - Emperor of Sand
7. Tool - Fear Inoculum
8. Periphery - II
9. Hallatar - No Stars Upon the Bridge
10. Leprous - Coal
11. Neal Morse Band - The Similitude of a Dream
12. Animals As Leaders - The Joy of Motion
13. Fates Warning - Theories of Flight
14. Evergrey - Hymns for the Broken
15. Draconian - Sovran

[NoseofNicko]

clipping. - CLPPNG | Industrial Hip Hop, Experimental Hip Hop, Noise | 2014

Gotta give that a listen.

[PixelDream]

1. Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase.
2. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
3. James Blake - Overgrown
4. Deftones - Koi No Yokan
5. David Bowie - Blackstar
6. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
7. Jon Hopkins - Singularity
8. Steven Wilson - To The Bone
9. Janelle Monae - The Electric Lady
10. Kanye West - Yeezus
11. Leprous - Pitfalls
12. Beyonce - Lemonade
13. Avenged Sevenfold - The Stage
14. Symphony X - Underworld
15. Opeth - Pale Communion

Biggest surprise for me this decade: Getting into way more hiphop and dance music! And it being possible for me to like ANY Avenged Sevenfold. Really jammed on that one.

[mike099]

13. Avenged Sevenfold - The Stage  -  Really good album.  Is this the album they released without any marketing, etc?

[TAC]

4. Blaze Bayley - Promise and terror

This album didn't make my list unfortunately, but the final 4 song suite makes my list in the Songs Of the Decade Thread. Still, this is a great album. I'm actually listening to it now.

[cramx3]

13. Avenged Sevenfold - The Stage  -  Really good album.  Is this the album they released without any marketing, etc?

Yup, surprise heres a new album!  Too bad that really hurt their sales and kind of proved a point that the record business's ways do work (promos, singles, advertising)

[Max Kuehnau]

13. Avenged Sevenfold - The Stage  -  Really good album.  Is this the album they released without any marketing, etc?

Yup, surprise heres a new album!  Too bad that really hurt their sales and kind of proved a point that the record business's ways do work (promos, singles, advertising)

Great album IMHO and very dynamic production and mastering too. I like it quite a bit

[Tick]

Its between...
Marillion - Fear
Rush - Clockwork Angels
The Neal Morse Band - The Similitude of a Dream
Leprous - Pitfalls
Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn of Events
Big Big Train - English Electric

Probably overlooking a bunch of stuff but I'm not going to over think it.

[Max Kuehnau]

To me there are four that are equally worth taking my personal top spot: ADTOE, DT12 and Soldier Of Love by Sade and Voice by Hiromi Uehara as well. All of them perfect from beginning to end in every way.

[wolfking]

4. Blaze Bayley - Promise and terror

This album didn't make my list unfortunately, but the final 4 song suite makes my list in the Songs Of the Decade Thread. Still, this is a great album. I'm actually listening to it now.

Love the inclision of this album so high.  So heavy, raw and brutal.  I prefer The Man Who Would Not Die but this is great.

[IDontNotDoThings]

Hey y'all. Just a reminder that the deadline is less than a week away. Then I'll double-check for edits & in a day or two & then publish the results.

[RoeDent]

I thought this was lonestar's thread. Or are you two collaborating?

[lonestar]

He said he was keeping tabs, which will save me a shit ton of work


Which reminds me, I gotta make my list official this weekend.

[IDontNotDoThings]

He said he was keeping tabs, which will save me a shit ton of work

I'm a she

[lonestar]

My bad, was just playing the DTF percentages

[King Postwhore]

 

[TAC]

So offensive.

[IDontNotDoThings]

[jingle.boy]

To be fair, there's like 2 other active (barely) female posters in this sausage fest of a forum.  Though, to be equally fair, the icon in the profile details should've been a clue.   

[lonestar]

To be fair, there's like 2 other active (barely) female posters in this sausage fest of a forum.  Though, to be equally fair, the icon in the profile details should've been a clue.   

Yeah, I never look at those tbh....

[IDontNotDoThings]

To be fair, there's like 2 other active (barely) female posters in this sausage fest of a forum.

I'm sure they wouldn't like being called "barely female", but ok.

[IDontNotDoThings]

As for the results, it does seem weird for me to be the one to publish the results of someone else's poll, so once I've finished tallying the votes, I'll PM the spreadsheet to lonestar so he can publish them (& check for mistakes if he wants to ).

[TAC]

To be fair, there's like 2 other active (barely) female posters in this sausage fest of a forum.

I'm sure they wouldn't like being called "barely female", but ok.

That’s ok. J Boy is barely male. 

[jingle.boy]

Hey!  I've met 'em both, and they both know how awesome I think they are.

To be fair, there's like 2 other active (barely) female posters in this sausage fest of a forum.

I'm sure they wouldn't like being called "barely female", but ok.

That’s ok. J Boy is barely male. 

Your ole lady knows how 'male' I am.   

I'm allowed to reprise that schtick every so often.

[lonestar]

Final Final list!!!


1- IQ- Resistance, 2019
2- Beyond the Bridge, The Old Man and The Spirit, 2012
3- Haken- The Mountain, 2013
4- Steven Wilson- The Raven that Refused to Sing, 2013
5- Haken- Affinity, 2016
6- Ostura- The Room, 2018
7-Tesseract- One, 2011
8- Flaming Row- Elinoire, 2011
9- IQ- The Road of Bones, 2014
10- Anciients- The Voice of the Void, 2016
11- Voices From the Fuselage- Odyssey: The Destroyer of Worlds, 2016
12-Anathema- Weather Systems, 2012
13- Allegaeon- Apoptosis, 2019
14- Headspace- I Am Anonymous, 2012
15- Speaking to Stones- Elements, 2012

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

I'm not really surprised to see Resistance end up at the top of your list. It's a fantastic album. I still need to give it more listens to see where it ends up on my 2019 list. I don't think it will be on my 2010-2019 list though.

[lonestar]

I'm not really surprised to see Resistance end up at the top of your list. It's a fantastic album. I still need to give it more listens to see where it ends up on my 2019 list. I don't think it will be on my 2010-2019 list though.

It would've been Frequency if it had been released a few months later.. But yeah, IQ had to be on top and, Frequency is a better album than Road of Bones

[RoeDent]

Two days until the deadline, and I've made one change to my No. 15 album. (Reply #9 on page 1)

[IDontNotDoThings]

Two days until the deadline, and I've made one change to my No. 15 album. (Reply #9 on page 1)

Cool. Thanks for letting us know.

[Bentower]

Having given this some further thought and not having done so initially, my rankings are:

1. Ott - Mir
2. Clutch - Earth Rocker
3. Anathema - We're Here Because We're Here
4. Om - Advaitic Songs
5. Joanna Newsom - Divers
6. Björk - Vulnicura
7. Ishq - Sama
6. Master Musicians of Bukkake - Far West
7. Ulver - The Assassination of Julius Caesar
8. Ivar Bjørnson & Einar Selvik - Hugsjá
9. Arch/Matheos - Sympathetic Resonance
10. Scott Walker - Bish Bosch
11. Voïvod - The Wake
12. Ott - Fairchildren
13. Dream Theater - The Astonishing
14. Gojira - Magma
15. Kate Bush - 50 Words for Snow

Rounding up the 40:
Orphaned Land - All Is One
Bong - Mana-Yood-Sushai
Haken - Affinity
Fates Warning - Theories of Flight
Flying Colors - Second Nature
Steven Wilson - To the Bone
Opeth - Sorceress
Slugdge - Esoteric Malacology
Yob - Our Raw Heart
Elder - Reflections of a Floating World
Oranssi Pazuzu - Valonielu
Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
John Zorn - In Lambeth: Visions From the Walled Garden of William Blake
Dødheimsgard - A Umbra Omega
Lustmord - The Word As Power
Selim Lemouchi and His Enemies - Earth Air Spirit Water Fire
No-Man - Love You To Bits
Magma - Slag Tanz
Gorgots - Colored Sands
Ishraqiyun - Perichoresis
Angra - ØMNI
Swans - The Seer
Pain of Salvation - In the Passing Light of Day

[Sacul]

Having given this some further thought and not having done so initially, my rankings are:

1. Ott - Mir
2. Clutch - Earth Rocker
3. Anathema - We're Here Because We're Here
4. Om - Advaitic Songs
5. Joanna Newsom - Divers
6. Björk - Vulnicura
7. Ishq - Sama
6. Master Musicians of Bukkake - Far West
7. Ulver - The Assassination of Julius Caesar
8. Ivar Bjørnson & Einar Selvik - Hugsjá
9. Arch/Matheos - Sympathetic Resonance
10. Scott Walker - Bish Bosch
11. Voïvod - The Wake
12. Ott - Fairchildren
13. Dream Theater - The Astonishing
14. Gojira - Magma
15. Kate Bush - 50 Words for Snow

Rounding up the 40:
Orphaned Land - All Is One
Bong - Mana-Yood-Sushai
Haken - Affinity
Fates Warning - Theories of Flight
Flying Colors - Second Nature
Steven Wilson - To the Bone
Opeth - Sorceress
Slugdge - Esoteric Malacology
Yob - Our Raw Heart
Elder - Reflections of a Floating World
Oranssi Pazuzu - Valonielu
Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
John Zorn - In Lambeth: Visions From the Walled Garden of William Blake
Dødheimsgard - A Umbra Omega
Lustmord - The Word As Power
Selim Lemouchi and His Enemies - Earth Air Spirit Water Fire
No-Man - Love You To Bits
Magma - Slag Tanz
Gorgots - Colored Sands
Ishraqiyun - Perichoresis
Angra - ØMNI
Swans - The Seer
Pain of Salvation - In the Passing Light of Day

Really good list, some gems in there