Were These the Best Albums of the 2010s?

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Music Interviews, Music Commentary, Music

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🗓️ 31 December 2019

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Our critics get grilled about their best-of lists from the past decade.

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0:00.0	When you need to smile but you can't afford it
0:08.3	Go point it out. I'm gonna steal it out. I going to steal it
0:16.3	When the flow is more familiar than
0:22.3	Welcome to the New York Times
0:24.3	podcast, you are Call Me Doom to Repeat it, A.F. of music, news and criticism.
0:30.3	I'm your host, John Caramonica.
0:33.0	I'll never stop breaking the love for you.
0:40.0	I'll never stop.
0:42.0	And I am here today to be dragged. You're listening to Emily Sunday. Remember her?
0:51.0	So in 2012, everyone was chazamming.
0:55.0	Yeah.
0:57.0	In 2012, Emily Sunday's debut album came out.
0:59.9	It was called Our version of Events.
1:02.0	And I thought it was kind of a banger and I gave it my
1:05.0	number one album of the year and that same year my number two album of the year was
1:12.3	by an upcoming artist named Taylor Swift.
1:15.4	The album was called Red.
1:17.1	Now you may think John, what could possibly have led you to make this decision
1:22.1	in the year of our Lord 2012. A couple of months ago,
1:26.2	the music crew got together to plan out our end of decade coverage. Karen comes in with the
1:31.1	hot pile of papers with me and JP's lists our end of year lists
1:37.3	Joe starts rifling through them and alights upon this I don't want to say it's unfortunate but I wouldn't say it holds the test of time.
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