Best 2010 Albums

[theoden236]

Like I said, it went from best of 2010 to what 2010 albums i picked up, and i liked alot of them enough for them to stick to me upon just the first listen. That's the way I see it and I stand by it.

 

[A1a23]

Ok yeah I was gonna say that's a shitload of albums to be listed in the best of. I wish i had picked up that many albums though.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

So I fucked up and precluded The Dead - Ritual Executions from my list like a moron. Please excuse this grave error.

 

[Lateralus14]

What the fuck kind of argument is this? Someone has to listen to a single album for a week to give themselves a "mature impression" (a nebulous, poorly defined concept if I've ever seen one, that's for sure) of it? I think you need to remove the stick from your ass, dude.

Well the brain is going to remember more stuff with more listens, so I'd say it's pretty accurate to say your impression of an album would be more developed with multiple listens whereas with one listen you'll get shit like "it sounded cool."

my picks of 2010 (no order)

EDIT-Okay, there's really no order. It's just what 2010 releases i chose to pickup

1. Keep of Kalessin-Reptilian
2. Dark Fortress-Ylem
3. Melechesh-The Epigenesis
4. Hate-Erebos
5. Triptykon-Eparistera Daimones/Shatter EP
6. Enslaved-Axioma Ethica Odini
7. Dimmu Borgir-Abrahadabra
8. Finntroll-Nifelvind
9. The Ocean-Heliocentric/Anthropocentric
10. Ihsahn-After
11. Withered-Dualitas
12. Agalloch-Marrow of the Sprit
13. Borknagar-Universal
14. Stargazer-A Great Work of Ages
15. Thulcandra-Fallen Angels Dominion
16. Allegaeon-Fragments of Form and Function
17. Barren Earth-Curse of the Red River
18. Burzum-Belus
19. Nevermore-The Obsidian Conspiracy
20. Watain-Lawless Darkness
21. 1349-Demonoir
22. Dark Tranquillity-We Are the Void
23. Soilwork-The Panic Broadcast
24. Solution 45-For Aeons Past
25. Ov Hell-The Underworld Regime
26. Castevet-Mounds of Ash
27. Sargeist-Let the Devil In
28. Negura Bunget-Virstele Pamintului
29. Therion-Sitra Ahra
30. Abigail Williams-In the Abscence of Light
31. Sjodogg-Ode to Obscurantism
32. Cradle of Filth-Darkly, Darkly Venus Aversa
33. Nachtmystium-Addicts
34. Witchery-Witchkrieg
35. Immolation-Majesty & Decay
36. Atheist-Jupiter
37. Witchsorrow-s/t
38. Blind Guardian-At the Edge of Time
39. Daath-s/t
40. The Contortionist-Exoplanet
41. Istapp-Blekinge
42. Woe-Quietly, Undramatically
43. The Funeral Pyre-Vultures at Dawn
44. Deathspell Omega-Paracletus
45. Darkthrone-Circle the Wagons
46. Valkyrja-Contamination
47. Twilight-Monument to Time End
48. October Tide-A Thin Shell
49. Mushroomhead-Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children
50. James Labrie-Static Impulse
51. Sigh-Scenes From Hell
52. Limbonic Art-Phantasmagoria
53. Eluveitie-Everything Remains as it Never Was
54. Orphaned Land-The Neverending Way of ORWarrior
55. Order of Ennead-An Examination of Being
56. Clinging to the Trees of a Forest Fire-Songs of Ill Hope and Desperation
57. Decrepit Birth-Polarity
58. Haeresiarchs of Dis-Denutias Cinid
59. Rotting Christ-Aeolo
60. Rhapsody of Fire-The Frozen Tears of Angels
61. Iron Maiden-The Final Frontier
62. Unearthly Trance-V
63. Aeon-Path of Fire

There's nothin good about who you are or what you do.

 

[Kulak]

Well the brain is going to remember more stuff with more listens, so I'd say it's pretty accurate to say your impression of an album would be more developed with multiple listens whereas with one listen you'll get shit like "it sounded cool."



There's nothin good about who you are or what you do.

just get over it.

 

[Krow]

I cant remember even 20 releases from this year... which is why my list:

1. Electric Wizard - Black Masses
2. Hour of 13 - The Ritualist
3. Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones
4. The Grotesquery - Tales From the Coffin Born
5. Profanatica - Disgusting Blasphemies Against God
6. Overkill - Ironbound
7. Defeated Sanity - Chapters of Repugnance

That'll do for me.

Went all the way to 7.

 

[rms]

Against Nature - Cross Street

 

[VelociBrad]

I have no idea how one can list 50 best albums in one year. Have you given each and every one of them enough spins to actually get a mature impression of every single record? I could never do that. Thats about one aalbum each week and thats only whats on your top 50. If you can list 50 best albums how many did you listen to in total?

It's really quite easy. Who only listens to 1 album per week? If you can only manage to digest 1 album each week there is something seriously wrong with your listening ability. I have listened to everything in my top 100 at least 3x, some of them much more.

 

[rms]

you also like ghey music

 

[Lateralus14]

It's really quite easy. Who only listens to 1 album per week? If you can only manage to digest 1 album each week there is something seriously wrong with your listening ability. I have listened to everything in my top 100 at least 3x, some of them much more.

Just not that into listening to new music nowadays. Last year I listened to my top 10 about 10-15 times each and I listened to probably 30 albums overall at least 2-3 times, hearing about 50-60 albums total. This year though, I've heard maybe 15 albums, and only 5 or 6 albums more than 3 or 4 times. These come to mind.

Alcest (~30 listens)
DsO (~9 listens)
Briton Rites (~5 listens)
Agalloch (~4 listens)
Inquisition (~4 listens)
Hour of 13 (~4 listens)
Les Discrets (~4 listens)

 

[TheInsane]

What the fuck kind of argument is this? Someone has to listen to a single album for a week to give themselves a "mature impression" (a nebulous, poorly defined concept if I've ever seen one, that's for sure) of it? I think you need to remove the stick from your ass, dude.

It's really quite easy. Who only listens to 1 album per week? If you can only manage to digest 1 album each week there is something seriously wrong with your listening ability. I have listened to everything in my top 100 at least 3x, some of them much more.

To you both. It takes time for some music to mature and to develop. All music is not a direct experience. alot of the albums I love and rank highly are the ones that took multiple listens to actually get into in the first place.

Then again alot of the albums that sounds good on the first listen often lack something deeper and you find that after a while, and a more mature judgment, that they werent as good as you initially thought.

My argument was that if someone has 50 albums on their best of list thats about one album a week. If there is 50 good ones there has to be alot of bad ones as well. How many chances has this persona ctually given each album. with the amount of time a normal person has to listen to music (assuming you have a job or school work to do) I think it would be impossible to give a fair chance to 50 albums in one year and even less so if we include all the ones you didnt like either. How many spins can you have possibly given these albums on an average?

To judge an album fairly I think you at least have to listen to it 10 times. That way it has time to sink in, all the different "colours" will be clearer etc. Bu then again we live in a consumer society where quantity is more often valued more than quality.

 

[VelociBrad]

you also like ghey music

You keep makin yourself look bad tryin to troll me. Pretty sad dude. I had fun flying out to Texas and going to a 2 day metalfest and spending $200 on merch, what did you do lately?

 

[The Ozzman]

If there's any reason to not join the military, it's rms' attitude after he joined up. I really can't tell if he's trolling or not.

 

[VelociBrad]

You have to listen to an album minimum 10 times before you are allowed to judge it? I guess I better go listen to every deathcore album 10 times then.

 

[Lateralus14]

I don't necessarily agree with him there; first of all I don't think it takes more than one listen to tell if you like or don't like something, and secondly I think the magic number is closer to 5-7. I do agree with him, however, on the notion that, while you may like an album on first listen, you probably have no idea how good it is until a little later.

 

[Addo_Of_Nex]

Also worth noting is the fact that it is imperative you at least read the lyrics and do some research on the album before passing judgment. I absolutely despise it when people pass over brilliant material because they're too busy focusing on nothing but the riffs.

 

[Draehl]

Also worth noting is the fact that it is imperative you at least read the lyrics and do some research on the album before passing judgment. I absolutely despise it when people pass over brilliant material because they're too busy focusing on nothing but the riffs.

I just can't place any value on any aspect of music that isn't... music. Lyrics, the artist, album art, song names, etc. really are a distant distant concern when compared to the composition, texture, etc. of the music itself. Give me a wonderfully written and performed piece of music and leave the rest. I'd totally buy a black metal record with a pink cow on the cover written by a 14 year old mongolian girl about invisible unicorns so long as the music kicks my ass.

 

[Kulak]

I just can't place any value on any aspect of music that isn't... music. Lyrics, the artist, album art, song names, etc. really are a distant distant concern when compared to the composition, texture, etc. of the music itself. Give me a wonderfully written and performed piece of music and leave the rest. I'd totally buy a black metal record with a pink cow on the cover written by a 14 year old mongolian girl about invisible unicorns so long as the music kicks my ass.

invisible unicorns

 

[Kulak]

Also worth noting is the fact that it is imperative you at least read the lyrics and do some research on the album before passing judgment. I absolutely despise it when people pass over brilliant material because they're too busy focusing on nothing but the riffs.

If that is what they get enjoyment out of then why should they not?
Music is a form of art and interpreted and enjoyed however the listeners wants to.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

...some research on the album...

What does this entail?