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I have a pretty wide range of musical tastes, and this decade, I have a way to look through my music collection and select which ALBUMS I liked the most, because I have my entire 1100+ CD collection ripped to 192 kbps mp3 files, with folders by artist, as well as plenty of downloads.
I decided not to try to pick a 10 best, but just go through the folders and pick the stuff that has stuck with me and I go back to for various reasons. You may not find a bunch of artists you know - many of these I have settled on because of lyrics or production or just plain delight.
A few that didn't make this list that I don't own yet but I keep going back to on Spotify/Amazon Music: A Moon Shaped Pool by Radiohead, Plini (everything this band does - sheesh!), Sun Structured by Temples
My favorite albums from the twenty-teens in general alphabetical order going through my music folder:
1. Josh Garrels: Love & War & The Sea In Between
2. A Boy & His Kite: Self-Titled
3. Benjamin Dunn and the Animal Orchestra: Fable
4. Cool Hand Luke: Of Man
5. Death Cab for Cutie: Kintsugi
6. Double Ferrari: Self Titled
7. Gotye: Making Mirrors
8. Half Moon Run: Dark Eyes
9. Jars of Clay: Inland
10. Kings of Leon: Come Around Sundown
11. Kyshona Armstrong: Go
12. Lincoln Brewster: Oxygen
13. Local Natives: Hummingbird
14. Matthew Perryman Jones: Land of the Living
15. Mutemath: Vitals
16. Pinkshinyultrablast: Grandfathered
17. Nils Frahm: Solo
18. Propaganda: Crimson Cord
19. Shearwater: Animal Joy
20. Simple Minds: Walk Between Worlds (Deluxe Edition)
21. Snarky Puppy: We Like It Here
22. Soft Science: Maps
23. Sufjan Stevens: Carrie & Lowell
24. Sunflower Bean: Human Ceremony
25. The Black Keys: El Camino
26. The Hold Steady: Teeth Dreams
27. The National: High Violet
28. The War on Drugs: A Deeper Understanding
29. Tony Bennett: Duets II
30. Trent Dabbs: Southerner
31. Ulrich Schnauss: No Further Ahead than Today
32. Wye Oak: The Louder I Call the Faster It Runs
33. All of the great music from February Album Writing Month challenge
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Thanks for sharing Rockstar - I love when the musicians in this Forum share their favorites - always discover some newer stuff that I would have never come across otherwise.
The rest of you out there - please share your favorites of the newer stuff also - for me, that includes the 90's too : )
I just really lost touch in discovering new stuff since the 90s....
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What a neat collection - will definitely be checking these out. Honestly, only two in the list even rang a bell. Thanks for sharing.
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I subscribe to Downbeat magazine and each issue list's 25 to 250 albums and artist's by various artist, then there are all the extra artist's mentioned. By far, I think it is the best magazine for jazz. I could make one issue go 6 months if I wanted to, it's so good.
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I’ve listened to but four of them. The old guy thing  We’ll peruse your list. Thanks. Parenthetically, we uploaded around 500 CD’s to iTunes years ago so when Apple Music came along the algorithms “knew” us well. Nowadays along with stuff we’ve loved for years Apple will mix in occasional newer tunes - some of which we like. Bud
Our albums and singles are on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, Pandora and more. If interested search on Janice Merritt. Thanks! Our Videos are here on our website.
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I’m actually pretty old school and prefer to buy CDs. Of my list, maybe 5 albums were downloads. I haunt the goodwill thrift shops here which are well stocked with good condition CDs. Those that don’t sell go to an outlet where they are sold for $0.49. This weekend’s haul:
Boz Scaggs, Taylor Swift, Led Zeppelin, Rage Against the Machine, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Heart, Rhythm Knights, Leo Kottke, Cat Stevens, Glen Campbell, the Weepies.
My tastes run pretty wide.
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I’m actually pretty old school and prefer to buy CDs. Of my list, maybe 5 albums were downloads. I haunt the goodwill thrift shops here which are well stocked with good condition CDs. Those that don’t sell go to an outlet where they are sold for $0.49. This weekend’s haul:
Boz Scaggs, Taylor Swift, Led Zeppelin, Rage Against the Machine, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Heart, Rhythm Knights, Leo Kottke, Cat Stevens, Glen Campbell, the Weepies.
My tastes run pretty wide. Yes they do...as do ours. Some great stuff in that haul. We used to peruse flea markets, thrift shops, etc., for vinyl and CD's (even old 78's and 45's)but guess we've gotten lazy with streaming. I'd just rather walk in the living or get in the car and tell Siri what to play! But man did we make some great rare finds over the years. Bud
Our albums and singles are on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, Pandora and more. If interested search on Janice Merritt. Thanks! Our Videos are here on our website.
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Oooh - I love these kinds of lists Some really good picks here, but some of them I'd never heard of or I did hear of but never listened to for whatever reason. Looks like I have some new stuff to check out this week. Thanks for sharing!
Cheers,
Deryk
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I listen to a lot of records once or twice.
Even ones I like a lot - because there is SO much music available.
It is hard to remember...
but I'll pick a few that I do...(the ones that got many listens...)
Brandy Clark - 12 Stories
Lee Brice - Hard 2 Love
Travis Meadows - First Cigarette
Jason Isbell - Southeastern
Ashley McBryde - Girl Going Nowhere
Charlie Puth - Voicenotes
Tyminski - Southern Gothic
Luke Combs - This One's for You
Luke Combs - What You See Is What You Get
Justin Moore - Late Nights and Longnecks
HARDY - Hixtape, Vol. 1
HARDY - This Ole Boy
Miranda Lambert - Platinum
Eric Church - Carolina
RaeLynn - WildHorse
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I listen to a lot of records once or twice.
Even ones I like a lot - because there is SO much music available.
It is hard to remember...
but I'll pick a few that I do...(the ones that got many listens...)
Brandy Clark - 12 Stories
Lee Brice - Hard 2 Love
Travis Meadows - First Cigarette
Jason Isbell - Southeastern
Ashley McBryde - Girl Going Nowhere
Charlie Puth - Voicenotes
Tyminski - Southern Gothic
Luke Combs - This One's for You
Luke Combs - What You See Is What You Get
Justin Moore - Late Nights and Longnecks
HARDY - Hixtape, Vol. 1
HARDY - This Ole Boy
Miranda Lambert - Platinum
Eric Church - Carolina
RaeLynn - WildHorse
A friend of mine is one of RaeLynn’s touring lelectric guitarists. I met him while he was doing cello duty for Jars of Clay’s Inland album release party in Nashville. We did Jars of Clay’s in ear monitors and I spent quite a bit of time at Jars’ rehearsal space while we were doing that. He’s a very creative cellist, and a dang good electric guitar player to land RaeLynn’s gig. May have the world’s largest collection. Of unique Air Jordan basketball shoes. Anyways, there’s one connection between your list and mine!
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But man did we make some great rare finds over the years.
Bud Probably my most strange and profitable find was a 4 CD boxed set from This Mortal Coil, a weird sort of creative collective/label from the 80’s. Discs were like new. Bought for 5$ at a Goodwill on Long Island, sold a few months back for $55 on Discogs.com.
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I subscribe to downbeat magazine which lists so many albums per issue, that no one has the time to listen to them all. The problem with some of these ideas is your going to limit yourself inside of a small sphere. I own many of the record catalogs for different genera's of music and the non-commerical stuff is very interesting OUTSIDE OF COUNTRY!!! which I am not a huge fan of! I feel like shows like the voice, and the preservation of these already commercial music are destroying people from discovering the real innovators who paved discussions about music that don't seem to be in the public domain but should. I subscribe to Questia digital library and Thomas Holmes wrote an interesting book about the history of electronic music. Cartridge musique concrete. For example, today would that be classified as music? People need to take advantadge of what these times have to offer. Instead of being close-minded and sticking with top 40 picks. There is far more interesting music in the scenes behind all of the TV nonsense. Except AGT which I respect that program a lot.
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