[DoodleBob]

For the lazy amongst us, and without editorial commentary (though #9 is a head-scratcher)

10. Judas Priest - Firepower (2018)
9. Kate Bush - 50 Words For Snow (2011)
8. Idles - Joy As An Act of Resistance (2018)
7. Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase (2015)
6. Queens Of The Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork (2013)
5. David Bowie - Blackstar (2013)
4. Foo Fighters - Wasting Light (2011)
3. Iron Maiden - The Book Of Souls (2015)
2. Tool - Fear Inoculum (2019)
1. Rush - Clockwork Angels (2012)

[ifinnegan]

Can’t imagine wanting to hear one note of any of that.

[VeniVidiVici]

I didn’t know Rock and Roll had been done after the 80’s.

[Jim W N]

Hey, where’s the Rolling Uglies on that list? Didn’t they do something this decade?

[chris37]

Two of my favorite selections from two of the above bands:

1. Culling Voices by Tool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj3IbZV_YQM

2. Little Sister Queens of the Stone Age

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGRqnNEOpe0

Oh and who the Hell is Kate Bush!?

[LongWayHome]

Overlooked: Bob Seger 2014 “Ride Out”. The best thing he’s done since the 70s.

[Menehune56]

This is when you know you’re old.

[MrEdd]

I have mostly been buying various jazz entrees this past decade.

A lot of classic jazz has tremendous compilation sets remastered and affordable. There are some interesting new artists and new movements.

Try some electro swing, combining sampling of hot jazz from before the depression with some pretty good modern musicians. I am partial to Caravan Palace because one of their percussionists is a Lionel Hampton fan and plays some good vibraphone

Melody Gardot has put out some good albums this past decade.
Her recent Currency of Man album sounds like detective show themes used to sound like in sixties and seventies when hardboiled private eyes were the thing.

And as usual, Postmodern Jukebox continues to impress.

[PGalt]

Thanks for posting. I haven’t listened to much much music in the last 20 years. I’d heard the Brits voted Bohemian Rhapsody the greatest rock song of all time. IMO this is the greatest American rock song of all time...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54BCLYNkFKg

I’ll check some out on the list.

[equaviator]

“1. Rush - Clockwork Angels”

Hell, I spend more time listening to Rush Limbaugh now than I listened to my rock and roll in the mid-60’s all the way up to about 1980. Rock is dead...Long live Rush!

[Psalm 73]

"though #9 is a head-scratcher"

ANYthing by Kate Bush rocks (in an odd, eclectic way).

[Seruzawa]

Kate Bush? Seriously? That impeaches the whole list.

[dfwgator]

The King of Limbs - Radiohead

Didn’t care for it at first, compared to Ok, Computer/Kid A/In Rainbows, but it grew on me.

[heavy metal]

going back to the 80’s but fitting for the current situation going on in iraq involving “iran”, which hopefully will be known as “iwalk” with a limp...

seek and destroy by metallica...

[llevrok]

I agree with Gene, modern rock n roll is dead. In fact, non existent.

Ditto for Country too (disco with boots)

[ConservativeStatement]

I am one of the few I suppose that enjoyed “A Different Kind of Truth” by Van Halen. “Move Like This” by the Cars was also one I liked. There was nothing sensational about either album but as a fan of both bands, I enjoyed the final products.

[sleeper-has-awakened]

No list could be complete without some non-mainstream rock bands. Although not receiving the exposure they deserve, these albums are awesome. In my opinion, the best of the decade;

Neal Morse Band - The Grand Experiment

Threshold - Legends of the Shire

The Flower Kings - Waiting for Miracles

IQ - Road of Banes

IQ - Resistance

The Neal Morse Band - The Similtude of a Dream

Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase.

RPWL - Tales from Outer Space

Airbag - All Rights Removed

Subsignal - La Muerta

Ayreon - The Source

These are some of the best rock albums out there the past decade.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

Re: #7 (Steven Wilson). I sure wish he and the rest of his Porcupine Tree bandmates would get back together.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Can’t argue with Rush at #1. Steven Wilson should be #2 instead of #7. But a lot of the names on the list are 80’s and 90’s stars who released “big comeback” albums. None of the newer bands listed really did anything for me and I think there are some major omissions, although it was good to see Myles Kennedy get so many positive mentions.

[minnesota_bound]

I have not heard a good pop or rock song for many many many years on the radio, heck the oldies stations play music from the 80’s onward, mostly terrible.

I find my music now at youtube and listen to the real oldies and music from the movies and classical music.

I have heard a few and only a few good country songs in at least a decade. None included trucks, cut off jeans or drinking....or bro’s wearing plastic cowboy hats.

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[mumblypeg]

I skimmed & got bored. Not very enlightening.
Most on list seemed to be newer releases by OLD talents — i.e. geriatric holdovers from the & 70s.
Point being, thats where excellence in rock is to be found, but we already know that.
The only youngsters I spotted & like on that list are Queens of the Stone Age.
They’re cool.
I also like Paolo Nutini— was he on the list? If I were 40 years younger, I’d be in the front row, throwing my panties at him.