Hello everyone, I've been meaning to work out what my favourite tracks and albums of the 2010s have been and have finally found time to begin...

 

To start with I'm just going to list the 200 tracks that have accompanied me through the decade, there's every chance that I've forgotten some things that I loved but I've gone largely with my play counts and limited an act to 3 tracks maximum. It's difficult to order anything so it is just a list for now, although the ones in bold are the ones I'm going to guess would be in my top 25 of the decade - difficult to narrow down though!

 

 

A.A.L. - I Never Dream

Adele - Rolling in the Deep

Adele - Water Under the Bridge

Agnes Obel - Familiar

Aimee Mann - Goose Snow Cone

Alanis Morissette - Underneath

Alex Cameron - Runnin’ Outta Luck

All Saints - One Strike

alt-J - Taro

ANOHNI - 4 Degrees

Arcade Fire - Afterlife

Arcade Fire - Everything Now

Arcade Fire - Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)

Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know?

Azealia Banks - 212

Banks - Beggin’ for Thread

Belanger - Take Me Home

Ben Howard - Nica Libres at Dusk

Bicep - Aura

Bicep - Glue

Big Boi - Shutterbugg

The Blaze - Territory

Bloc Party - Octopus

Bon Iver - 33 God

Bon Iver - Holocene

Breach - Everything You Never Had (We Had It All)

Brittany Howard - Stay High

Caribou - Odessa

Cat Power - Cherokee

Cat Power - Ruin

Charli XCX - Nuclear Seasons

The Chemical Brothers - Go

The Chemical Brothers - Swoon

Christine and the Queens - Christine

Christine and the Queens - Doesn’t Matter

Clean Bandit - Mozart’s House

Clean Bandit - Rather Be

Clean Bandit - Symphony

College - A Real Hero

The Common Linnets - Calm Before the Storm

Crystal Castles - Baptism

Crystal Castles - Celestica

Crystal Castles feat. Robert Smith - Not In Love

Daft Punk - Get Lucky

Daft Punk - Instant Crush

Diamond Rings - Show Me Your Stuff

Drab Majesty - Dot In The Sky

Dua Lipa - Be The One

Dua Lipa - New Rules

Emmylou Harris - The Road

Erykah Badu - Window Seat

Fae - RUOK

Favela - Gong

Fiona Apple - Every Single Night

FKA Twigs - Sad Day

FKA Twigs - Two Weeks

Florence & the Machine - Queen of Peace

Future Islands - In The Fall

Gang Gang Dance - MindKilla

Georgia - Started Out

The Go! Team - Buy Nothing Day

Gotye feat. Kimbra - Somebody That I Used To Know

Grace Mitchell - Now

Grimes - Flesh Without Blood

Grimes - Kill vs Maim

Grimes - Realiti

Groove Armada - Paper Romance (White Light Version)

HAARM - In The Wild

HAERTS - Hemiplegia

HAERTS - Wings

Haim - Falling

Haim - Forever

Halsey - Hurricane

Hanna Järver - Anekdoter

Hatchie - Without a Blush

HEALTH - New Coke

iamamiwhoami - Chasing Kites

iamamiwhoami - Hunting for Pearls

ionnalee feat. TR/ST - Harvest

The Irrepressibles - Two Men In Love

James Blake - Retrograde

Jamie Woon - Night Air

Jamie xx feat. Gil Scott-Heron - I’ll Take Care Of U

Jamie xx feat. Romy - Loud Places

Janelle Monáe - Tightrope

Jay Electronica - Exhibit C

Jessie Ware - If You’re Never Gonna Move

Jessie Ware - Imagine It Was Us

Jessie Ware - Wildest Moments

Joan as Police Woman - Holy City

Joanna Newsom - Good Intentions Paving Co.

Josef Salvat - Open Season

Justin Timberlake - Let the Groove Get In

Kadie Elder - First Time He Kissed a Boy

Kan Wakan - Molasses

Kanye West - Runaway

Kenton Slash Demon - Harpe

Kiesza - Hideaway

Kitten - Fall On Me

Kölsch - Cassiopeia

Kyla La Grange - Cut Your Teeth

Lady Gaga - Always Remember Us This Way

Lady Gaga - Heavy Metal Lover

Lady Gaga - Scheiße

Lana Del Rey - The Greatest

Lana Del Rey - Mariner’s Apartment Complex

Lana Del Rey - Ride

Laura Marling - Devil’s Spoke

Laura Mvula - Green Garden

LCD Soundsystem - I Can Change

Le Prix & Johan Agebjörn feat. Lake Heartbeat - Watch The World Go By

Lizzo - Juice

London Grammar - Strong

Lorde - Green Light

Lorde - The Louvre

Lower Dens - I Drive

LP - Lost On You

Ludovico Einaudi - Experience (Starkey Remix)

M83 - Midnight City

Madonna - Ghosttown

Madonna - I Don’t Search I Find

Maggie Rogers - Retrograde

Major Lazer - Lean On

Marina and the Diamonds - Fear and Loathing

Mark Ronson feat. Lykke Li - Late Night Feelings

Mark Ronson feat. Miley Cyrus - Nothing Breaks Like a Heart

MorMor - Heaven’s Only Wishful

Martha Wainwright - Proserpina

MØ - Blur

Mutya Keisha Siobhan - Flatline

Nabihah Iqbal - Zone 1-6000

Nakhane feat. ANOHNI - New Brighton

The National - Bloodbuzz Ohio

The National - Conversation 16

New Order - Singularity

No Doubt - Push and Shove

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds - AKA… What a Life!

Of Monsters and Men - Dirty Paws

Of Monsters and Men - Little Talks

Olga Bell - Randomness

Oliver $ & Jimi Jules - Pushin’ On

Patrick Wolf - Together

Pet Shop Boys - The Pop Kids

PJ Harvey - The Words That Maketh Murder

Placebo - Jesus’ Son

Pulp - After You

Purity Ring - Begin Again

The Radio Dept. - We Got Game

Radiohead - Burn The Witch

Rationale - Fuel to the Fire

Robyn - Call Your Girlfriend

Robyn - Dancing On My Own

Robyn - Honey

Róisín Murphy - Incapable

Róisín Murphy - The Rumble

Röyksopp feat. Robyn - Do It Again

Röyksopp feat. Susanne Sundfør - Running to the Sea

Röyksopp feat. Jamie McDermott - I Had This Thing

RÜFÜS - Paris Collides

S Carey - Crown The Pines

Sampha - Blood On Me

Santigold - The Keepers

SBTRKT feat. Sampha - Hold On

Scissor Sisters - Somewhere

Seinabo Sey - Hard Times

Shura - White Light

Sia - Cheap Thrills

Sia - Elastic Heart

Sleigh Bells - Comeback Kid

Solange - Losing You

SSION feat. Ariel Pink - At Least The Sky Is Blue

St Vincent - Fast Slow Disco

St Vincent - Young Lover

Suede - Outsiders

Susanne Sundfør - Delirious

Take That - The Flood

Taylor Swift - Out of the Woods

Temples - Sun Structures

Ten Walls - Walking With Elephants

Thom Yorke - Not the News

Tove Lo - Habits

Tove Styrke - Borderline

Tove Styrke - White Light Moment

TR/ST - Capitol

TR/ST - Destroyer

TR/ST - Sulk

Underworld - And I Will Kiss

Underworld - Caliban’s Dream

Vampire Weekend - Giving Up The Gun

Vampire Weekend - Sympathy

Vaults - Cry No More

Vic Mensa - Down On My Luck

Virtual Self - Ghost Voices

The Weeknd - Belong to the World

The Weeknd - The Birds Pt I

Will Young - Come On

Woodkid - Run Boy Run

The xx - Dangerous

Years & Years - Shine

Yeasayer - Ambling Alp

Youth Lagoon - Afternoon

 

 

 

The albums are still to come, I'll be aiming to order those somehow so (knowing me) it could be a while!!! ^_^

 

Some absolutely fantastic records in here and some I don't think I've ever heard! Not many I'd say I don't like. Tempted to turn it into a playlist on Apple Music to see what I've missed out on. Looking forward to seeing the albums.

Hi Dandy! Here are my favourites from your list:

 

Adele - Water Under the Bridge

Alex Cameron - Runnin’ Outta Luck An absolutely brilliant 80s sounding piece from this guy, made it into my EOY Top 100 last year

Arcade Fire - Everything Now

Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know?

Caribou - Odessa

The Chemical Brothers - Go The last taste of the charts for them :( this remains an amazing tune though, the rapping is really good

Christine and the Queens - Christine

Clean Bandit - Mozart’s House My favourite of the three Clean Bandit singles you mentioned and probably my second favourite of their Top 40 singles behind Stronger, I wish more of their music sounded like this

Clean Bandit - Rather Be

The Common Linnets - Calm Before the Storm

Crystal Castles feat. Robert Smith - Not In Love

Daft Punk - Get Lucky

Dua Lipa - New Rules

Emmylou Harris - The Road

Georgia - Started Out

Gotye feat. Kimbra - Somebody That I Used To Know Such a shame this was a one-hit wonder, both artists have had just as good music out since!

Groove Armada - Paper Romance (White Light Version)

HAARM - In The Wild

Kiesza - Hideaway

Kitten - Fall On Me

LCD Soundsystem - I Can Change

LP - Lost On You It took me a long time to get into this but it is really good

M83 - Midnight City

Mark Ronson feat. Lykke Li - Late Night Feelings

Mark Ronson feat. Miley Cyrus - Nothing Breaks Like a Heart

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds - AKA… What a Life!

Of Monsters and Men - Little Talks

Pet Shop Boys - The Pop Kids Not my favourite PSB track released this decade but still solid output from them

Sia - Cheap Thrills

Ten Walls - Walking With Elephants

Woodkid - Run Boy Run

Years & Years - Shine

 

Great choices!

what a list *.*

 

some fabulous underrated tracks on here (Paper Romance!) and BJSC classics (Experience/Sulk/Fuel to the Fire/First Time He Kissed a Boy <3)

 

Nice to see Bicep and Kenton Slash Demon quite randomly make an appearance on this list!

Hey Dandy,

 

Great to see some love for The Flood and White Light Moment, my two late 2010 faves! Lovely to see Calm After The Storm make your list too, beautiful Eurovision entry.

 

Some great picks in your bolded tracks too - the Robyn songs, Royksopp and MKS - Flatline is such a gem.

 

Interesting to see the No Doubt song here, had completely forgotten that but it's good!