Our 2010 top 10s in & out of PA (share & comment

Please consider posting ten of your favourite albums from 2010 if you can and look at and try to comment on other people choices that you know or interest you.

Similar things have been done by me and others but I wanted to make one where it can include included Prog and Non-Prog, in PA and not in PA AND where part of it is to try to look through and comment on each other's choices when possible (particularly if we know and like something). I'm hoping this might give me a better idea of what some people like through the years that maybe in and out of PA, Prog or not, and maybe help some people to connect over music that they like.

I like topics where we share our interests as well as displaying an interest in what others mention as their interests. I like that kind of interaction, and I do like it when it's mostly positive, or at least negativity is minimal, and especially when it's enthusiastic.

I did a yearly lists topic for our top 20 or less you like from each year: CLICK. And Mirakaze did a whole series covering years, but that was for Prog. And there have been many other such topics. But those lacked much commentary on other people's choices.

This can be for ten or less (or somewhat more). Ideally, I would appreciate some of the labels that rateyourmusic gives for the albums, a category at PA if applicable, or your own descriptions. That might help to better get a feel for your interests,

So where I really hope this can be different from other list topics is that we try to not only present our lists, but that we look at each others lists and try to comment on what we know or are interested in from those lists. Please try to focus on the positive; negativity and criticism can be such a downer. And I know that some prefer to vote for an comment on other people's choices rather than try to make their own lists, they should be comfortable just commenting on whatever they see and like. I would rather do these kind of topics than polls, but my issue has been the lack of interactivity amongst list makers, and the lack of comments on other people's choices.

Ten of my favourites from 2010:

Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz (Art/Progressive Pop, Indietronica)
Sufjan Stevens - All Delighted People EP (Chamber Pop, Progressive Folk)
Joanna Newsom - Have One on Me (Chamber Folk, Progressive Folk)
Kayo Dot - Coyote (Avant-Prog, Experimental Rock, Post-Rock)
Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky (Experimental Rock, Post-Rock)
Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest (Neo-Psychedelia, Indie Rock)
Susanne Sundfør - The Brothel (Art Pop, Electronic)
Shibusashirazu - Shibu-yotabi (Experimental Big Band, Jazz-Rock/Fusion)
Beach House - Teen Dream (Dream Pop, Indie Pop, Neo-Psychedelia)
Univers Zero - Clivages (Avant-Prog)

So please come up with your own lists if you can and/or comment on other people's choices. But please try to limit negativity (to each their own tastes).

Edited by Logan - 9 hours 41 minutes ago at 14:07

The 2010s were such a rich decade for me that I could post ten such lists and all the releases would still be absolutely awesome.

Having said that, from your list I have only listened to Clivages ... once, I think. Can't remember what it sounded like. Goes to show how much music is out there ...

1. (S) Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing (2013, listened often) [BC, SPO]
2. (S) Ayreon - The Source (2017, listened extensively) [BC, SPO]
3. (S) Ghost - Prequelle (2018, listened extensively) [AP Prog-Adj] [BC, SPO]
4. (S) Big Big Train - Grand Tour (2019, listened extensively) [BC, SPO]
5. (S) Neal Morse Band - The Similitude of a Dream (2016, listened often)
6. (S) Haken - The Mountain (2013, listened extensively) [BC, SPO]
7. (S) Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork (2013, several listens) [AP Non-Prog] [BC, SPO]
8. (S) Between The Buried And Me - Coma Ecliptic (2015, listened extensively) [BC, SPO]
9. (S) Witherscape - The Northern Sanctuary (2016, listened often) [BC, SPO]
10. (S) Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase. (2015, listened often) [BC, SPO]

These are all masterpieces IMHO, crowning achievements of these artists.

Yeah, I meant for this to be 2010 specific. Incidentally, originally I was going to do this topic for all of the 2010s asking for five per year, but then thought that was a bit too much to ask, especially if adding genre info, too limiting for me with just five per year, and I thought with ten per year we might find it easier to find albums to comment on for each year in other people's lists.

Anyway, from your list, Mike, The Raven That Refused to Sing is an album that did impress me.

EDIT: by the way, here is a playlist of one track per my ten for 2010, just in case anyone is interested in maybe hearing something they don't know yet. It's no substitute for full albums, of course.





Edited by Logan - 8 hours 17 minutes ago at 15:31

^ I have loved Yugen's Iridule, Frogg Cafe's Bateless Edge, and Jaga jazzist's One-Armed Bandit, and are all in my top 20 for 2010. Been a while since I played them, I should again very soon. Thanks. :)

Superb year for me, one of my recent favorites.

1. (S) Вежливый отказ - Гуси-лебеди (listened often) [BC, SPO]
2. (S) Pikapika TeArt - Moonberry (listened often) [BC, SPO]
3. (A) Yūgen - Iridule (listened often) [BC, SPO]
4. (A) Uz Jsme Doma - Jeskyne (Caves) (listened often) [BC, SPO]
5. (A) Aranis - RoqueForte (listened often) [BC, SPO]
6. (A) Univers Zéro - Clivages (listened extensively)
7. (?) Rational Diet - On Phenomena and Existences [BC]
8. (?) Glenn Branca - The Ascension: The Sequel [AP Prog] [BC, SPO]
9. (?) Brown Vs Brown - Odds and Unevens [BC]
10. (?) Zoë Keating - Into the Trees [AP Non-Prog] [BC, SPO]
11. (?) Richard Pinhas - Metal / Crystal [BC]
12. (?) Radio Massacre International - Time & Motion
13. (?) Xing Sa - Création de l'Univers
14. (?) Cosa Brava - Ragged Atlas
15. (B) Jaga Jazzist - One-Armed Bandit (listened often) [BC, SPO]
16. (?) Elephant9 - Walk The Nile [BC, SPO]
17. (?) Jean Louis - Morse
18. (?) Faun Fables - Light Of A Vaster Dark
19. (?) Algernon - Ghost Surveillance
20. (?) Kayo Dot - Coyote [BC, SPO]

Edited by Nogbad_The_Bad - 5 hours 34 minutes ago at 18:14