Creating a list of 150 albums that defined a decade is a challenge. Do you try to enumerate your favourite albums? If you do, you run the risk of revealing your sometimes atrocious taste. Do you try to compile the best, or most important albums? If the former, who are you to say what is “best”? If the latter, it is often impossible to understand what music is most influential until a lot of time has passed.
So, in creating this list (and my upcoming list of songs that defined the 2010s), I’ve taken a highly subjective approach that draws on a combination of the three. Some of these are the albums I enjoyed the most. Some are the albums I think will stand the test of time. Some are the albums I found to be of the highest musical and lyrical quality. But all were the albums I found myself returning to repeatedly, the albums that I listened to over and over during the course of the last decade.
What follows are my top ten albums of the decade, ranked, as well as a list of 140 more, unranked. I’ve also tossed in a spotify playlist for good measure. Hope you enjoy.
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