I don’t just mean “albums that you like from this decade”, I’m talking about which albums will be viewed is 20+ years as genuine classics.
For instance, though I loved it upon release, and it was seen by many as the album of the year, I’m not sure Channel Orange will be remembered in say 30 years as a masterpiece. Similarly, though AMSP is my album of the year, will it be overshadowed by Radiohead’s earlier work? When it comes to albums that will be seen in years to come as up there with the best, I would say:
Kendrick – TPAB and GKMC Sun Kil Moon – Benji (I genuinely believe its reputation will just grow and grow, I think it’s a real top 10-20 albums ever made contender. The Guardian omitting this and To Be Kind from their 40 best albums of the year list was laughable) Joanna Newsom – HOOM Swans – To Be Kind/The Seer Kanye – MBDTF (you may not like it, but it will be) PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
Ones I’d say are maybes: These New Puritans – Hidden Death Grips – The Money Store Scott Walker – Bish Bosch Sufjan – Age of Adz and Carrie & Lowell EMA – Past Life Martyred Saints Janelle Monae - The ArchAndroid Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
What does everyone else think?
William Ortiz
Tim Hecker - Virgins
Mason Hall
Benji is the only one from those you mention that I'd agree with.
Brayden Harris
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Logan Roberts
think this SWANS trilogy will, eventually
Jason Reyes
Jason Aldean - Old Boots New Dirt
Levi Cruz
yeah I think most of the albums you posted will be rememberred.
I do think that some of the albums there are going to be associated more strongly with the current culture than others? Hip-hop of today will be associated with the racial tensions. Like indie will be associated with the hipsters from 5 years ago. I think electronic music (OPN, that weird PC music, vaporwave) will also be rememberred as a movement, with the internet and all. Not every electronic artist will be rememberred of course, but i think definitely OPN will be rememberred as a innovative artist that captured something of this time.
some of the other artists you posted are good and will be influential to next generations of musicians, but they won't be remembered as of this time if that makes sense. Like radiohead, Swans and folk artists you posted have made great albums, but they won't be associated with what's going on in the world right now. Radiohead will be overshadowed by their earlier work I think, and swans will be rememberred for being culturally relevant earlier (no-wave gothic, whatever) but i think their output now will be seen as something that is by itself .Just like we don't really associate nick drake with the 60's as much as more culturally engaged artists.
Xavier Garcia
It's a good shout, but I think maybe Flying Lotus will be remembered as a key influential figure generally, rather than for 1 masterpiece. I'll put that in the "maybe" category.
I adore that album, but I'm not sure if it will go down as a genuine classic.
Liam Hill
Very interesting, you're right that there is a distinction there (a good example would be Never Mind the Bollocks being remembered and discussed more than much better albums of the time).
Hudson Baker
The Ark Work Farside Virtual
Blake Bennett
it will take until 2030 for the majority to recognize it as such though
Jace Miller
pic related for sure this also also carrie & lowell won't be remembered AOA yeah but not that one. don't forget james ferraro's FSV too
Jeremiah Hernandez
fuck i thought this was that drake thing i got so triggered
Christian Williams
nah its not drake. but it's a popular discussed album around the art community. my professor herself recommend me it during a breakup. still have yet to find something that sounds like it.
Austin James
The Money Store
Nathan Sullivan
>Swans - The Seer/To Be Kind/Glowing Man
>Godspeed you! Black Emperor - Allelujah! Dont bend! Ascend
>Sun Kil Moon - Benji
>Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
>OPN - Replica
>Kanye - MBDTF (fucking hate the guy and the majority of his music but I have to give this to him.)
That's really all so far imo senpai, maybe the suburbs by Arcade Fire
Jason Harris
Helplessness Blues by Fleet Foxes
Leo Nguyen
They're not exactly similar but I can see a lot of influence from Yo La Tengo's And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out in The Redeemer.
Jacob Gonzalez
sorry meant to reply to this post:
Jack Rivera
thx I'll check it out
I disagree with AMSP and im a huge radiohead fan.
Tyler Davis
>a bunch of guitar shit
Justin Barnes
A moon shaped pool and allelujah are just newer albums from already acclaimed artists and they don't do anything really new or interesting in relation to the rest of their discographies. Good albums, but i don't see them becoming classics any time soon.
Nicholas Baker
I've never been a huge radiohead fan, but AMSP is fantastic.
Liam Cooper
give it two years before you say that.
Connor Foster
A cuck who likes hip hop beats.
*lowers trilby*
Anthony Martinez
I fucking love TNP but Hidden won't be considered a classic from the 2010s. Probably one of the best cult albums, if anything.
Also: Beyonce - s/t Frank Ocean - Channel Orange Bowie - Blackstar (I'm calling it already) Disclosure - Settle Tame Impala - Lonerism/Currents
They may be meme albums, but they're gonna be remembered.
Also pt2: I never got Benji. Every time I try to listen to it, by sides end up in orbit because I think the lyrics and delivery are so fucking stupid. Does it grow on you?
Michael Ortiz
I'd only give you tame impala currents. rest are wrong. disclosure isn't good at all considering every dj in the uk making house music has better tunes playing. and don't forget jame xx's in colour blew it away
also stop saying meme for bad albums you like
Carter Hall
Barter 6
Thomas Bell
Benji certainly is a grower, I liked it 1st time but the delivery and lyrical style felt strange, now I'd say it's probably in my top 20 albums ever.
Brayden Butler
Replace Benji with Ghosts of the Great Highway or Universal Themes and you're right.
Death Grips will be considered one of the more important bands for our times, but not for TMS. TMS is their weakest and least interesting album.
Bentley Thompson
>Kanye - MBDTF (fucking hate the guy and the majority of his music but I have to give this to him.) >hating some random guy that you don't even know >actually having that much pent up rage that you HATE them The media really knows how to brainwash people.
Matthew Kelly
Whatever you say friendo.
James Wood
>currents >not lonerism Absolutely not. There are way too many stand out tracks on Lonerism.
Kayden Harris
Benji is timeless, I agree. It will be seen as the Blonde on Blonde of the 2010s.
Angel Moore
i think blackstar will be remembered just because of the context but it will be remembered nonetheless
As for sun kil moon maybe try listening to carissa again when you think you might be in the mood I liked it the first though so i don't know
Daniel Nguyen
Pretty much every acclaimed album will get remembered to a point. It just depends on what circle of music communities you reside in.
Jose Torres
you could try and argue your picks instead of being passive aggressive m8
lonerism is good but innerspeaker is much better. Currents is gonna be talked about forever people play it non stop at my university. look at the spotify numbers. it's a classic I'd say only the hipsters will still talk about lonerism because it's a good nostalgia album from 70's psych much I'm open for discussing to prove me wrong
Owen Reed
nobody even remembers those dorks disclosure now
Charles Clark
Benji's overrated as fuck
agreed. I loved Currents but Lonerism's a better record
Brayden Morgan
>I'm open for discussing to prove me wrong That's all well and good but all of us here are just making speculation. We can't make 100% clear cut predictions of the future.
I mean look at Weezers "Pinkerton". It got pretty heavily panned 20 years ago and now it's considered an absolute must have classic album.
Anthony Parker
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Evan James
I agree thats why I say we should all test each other on our picks logically. I don't mind being wrong
yeah I can see this being talked unfortunately even tho I prefer listening to liturgy -aesthetica more
Andrew Hernandez
Ya it will be, purely because they explored a relatively untouched sound. I still don't think it was executed very well
Christopher Flores
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Landon Watson
>OPN will be rememberred as a innovative artist that captured something of this time. your a dorable
Owen Diaz
Beyonce had a huge impact on online/IRL culture with BEYONCE. Not only the huge number of individual 'meme' phrases (not saying that derogatorily), but also how she used it to position herself at the vanguard of the celebrity pop-feminist movement of the last few years.
Blackstar probably wouldn't be a classic had Bowie not died, but it's the capstone to the career of a legendary artist. It's also legitimately good.
Channel Orange is also legitimately good, and if the hype for Boys Don't Cry is anything to go by, it's already considered a modern classic. I mean, people are analysing the HTML code of his website and turning out release date clues.
And Tame Impala will be remembered in some form or another, be it for Lonerism or Currents (hence why I put both).
I give you the point about Disclosure though. You're probably right.
Jayden Williams
It's a good album but I don't think it's especially revolutionary or ahead of its time. But what the fuck do I know
Jaxon Martinez
These are both good shouts.
Parker Myers
good points on beyonce and the rest.
Henry Rodriguez
I'm pretty damn excited for Danny Brown's newest upcoming album too. Speaking off classics, he'll go down as one of the GOAT rappers.
Evan Turner
>meme grips >20+ years from now k80 m80 180
Gavin Cooper
This will be an underground classic. Idk what you guys think of TDEP but they're one of my fave bands and they have immense talent.
Gabriel Cooper
Calculating Infinity will always be my favorite of theirs
Nathaniel Torres
Kendrick? Kanye? Janelle Monae? Joanna Newsom? Scott Walker? Death Grips?
Gabriel Long
I still haven't listened to it. I'm afraid of listening to another vocalist. I know it's really irrational.
Jordan Murphy
Calculating Infinity will always be my favorite of theirs >this decade
Carson Jackson
shit, it just popped back up in my comment space after I made a new post. weird
nah it's good, go listen to it. It's more abrasive sounding but the breakdowns and fills on it are legendary
Liam Wright
>this decade Oh shit. Sorry man. I fucked up. Replacement hip hop album that gets overlooked but will have a cult fan base in years to come. Aight I'll listen to it tomorrow.
Gavin Foster
This decade, as in 2010 onwards.
Daniel Myers
nobody is going to give a fuck about royce da 5 9 ever except for m&m fans
Hunter Hill
Yeah I realised chill.
Blake Richardson
Death Grips will never be regarded as a classic.
Henry Allen
Sorry, hadn't seen the other comments when I posted.
Landon Hughes
Okay user.
Josiah Nelson
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Kevin Fisher
It's a maybe for me, I think it may depend on how big an influence it ends up having (which is why I chose their debut studio album - could substitute it for Exmilitary).
Lincoln Hernandez
Hopefully. Fantastic album.
Blake Bell
all good. Nice pick. That album's great Just plain not true. They don't even make similar music. Nice attempt though I guess
Carter Ross
This is a great choice, slipped my mind (OP). Really has the feeling of an album that's stature will grow over time.
Jackson Nelson
who do you think will be remembered? OPN is fairly popular and makes minimal music with samples and synths, sure that isn't that innovative and has been done before now, but the feelings and atmosphere it creates is of a kind I have not experienced before. Please be constructive and don't just shitpost
Leo Nelson
Modern Radiohead will be overshadowed by their older work.
Connor Anderson
everytime I hear Feel You its quality just grows and grows with each listen
Sebastian Thompson
Thanks. Prhyme is up there in my top 10 easily. I still need to listen to Pinata. I have his discography but I still haven't given him a chance yet.
Zachary Turner
I love AMSP but I agree, just as an album like The Colour of Spring is great, but it's not seen really as a classic because of better Talk Talk albums.
Charles Sanders
I mean arguably with fantastic bands like Radiohead almost all of their albums are "classics" so it doesn't matter. It's hard to talk about one of their albums without the rest being discussed.
Grayson Morgan
such a good album
William Jackson
For some reason I just don't see it, albums that are regarded as classics are usually very accessible and were very popular at some point. Most of Death Grips' discography is neither.
Samuel Miller
Fuck yeah. He's slowly working his way up into my favourite rappers. You heard Hot Soup? Fantastic mixtape.
Also, anyone here a Jack White fan?
Jose Green
Generally true, but there's always the odd Trout Mask Replica that slips through.
Jason Johnson
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Luke Stewart
>albums that are regarded as classics are usually very accessible According to who? I don't like Swans, I find their music incredibly hard to listen to and very inaccessible. Yet they still have "classics".
Jaxon Gomez
also... Destroyer - Kaputt James Blake s/t Beach House - Teen Dream (definitely not Bloom) Dean Blunt - The Redeemer
Cameron Thompson
For real. Death grips? Jesus Christ what a childish opinion. NO ONE will remember death grips even 10 years from now, except fags like OP.
Oliver Sullivan
Stop your shit posting, child.
Gavin Cooper
Classics in smaller circles. Most people in 20 years will have no idea who the Swans are.
Leo Morales
that honestly depends on your definition of classic
some people consider trout mask replica a classic and others don't. In my opinion classics don't have to be wildly popular.
A classic is a work with artistic merit that defines a style. It's at the top or the first of its class
Mason Gutierrez
Their first 3 albums will undoubtedly go down as classics.
Joseph Watson
> the Swans lol
you do have a point though
Connor Fisher
That's why it's all relative. It all depends on the music you most associate with. It depends on the music community you surround yourself with.
Leo Perez
My definition of classic is a great piece of music that is widely remembered and still praised for being innovative, reflecting of the time it was recording in, or just being generally good but still widely popular.
Camden Robinson
I don't believe at all that a piece of music has to be innovative to be considered fantastic, or worthy of "classic" status.
Owen Howard
no, it genuinely is true
royce da 5'9 and the other weedcarriers in laughterhouse are complete non entities that will not be discussed by anybody with a decent grasp on hip hop culture, now and into the future
premo has a single beat on a devin the dude album that will be remembered by generations more than this flabby grab at suburban kids who started listening to rap by way of recovery
Anthony Robinson
I said innovative, reflective of the time it was recorded in, OR widely regarded as generally good.
Lincoln Hughes
Oh sorry, I must have missed that.
Joshua Bennett
Okay user.
Nathan Kelly
BP will be their Red
Easton Sanchez
can somebody do a chart?
Owen Anderson
plebeian with little cultural understanding of even his own time.
Brandon Reed
I would say Homogenic but this is 2010- so got cut off by around 15 years or so.
Nowhere near as innovative musically, but incredibly personal, evocative and one of Bjork's best, at the very least of her 2000's work. Although, Vulnicura might fall into the same pitfall as Moon Shaped Pool; great album, yet overshadowed by previous releases. Especially funny given Bjork's-Radiohead's claim to being the forerunners of alternative music and releasing their albums at pretty much the exact same dates as each other.
Brandon Gonzalez
i don't think we'll have 'classics' in the same way we used to. music is much too personalised now for there to be consensus to that degree. people will remember the stuff they listened to.