2017 Mid-Year Album Lists Thread • Page 6

hmmmm let me come up with an arbitrary order off the top of the dome

1. arca - arca
2. perfume genius - no shape
3. slowdive - slowdive
4. (sandy) alex g - rocket
5. vince staples - big fish theory
6. jlin - black origami
7. fleet foxes - crack-up
8. kendrick lamar - damn.
9. full of hell - trumpeting ecstacy
10. darkest hour - godless prophets and the migrant flora
11. tigers jaw - spin
12. the xx - i see you
13. young thug - ebbtg
14. sinjin hawke - first opus
15. power trip - nightmare logic
16. sampha - process
17. code orange - forever
18. freddie gibbs - you only live 2wice
19. paramore - after laughter
20. mew - visuals
21. gucci mane - droptopwop
22. payroll giovani - payface
23. gas - narkopop
24. forest swords - compassion
25. pond - the weather
26. clark - death peak
27. stormzy - gang signs and prayers
28. father john misty - pure comedy
29. smidley - smidley
30. lorde - melodrama
31. tombs - the grand annihilation
32. the shins - heartworms
33. dirty projectors - dirty projectors
34. charli xcx - number 1 angel
35. mastodon - emperor of sand


the order stopped mattering around 10 lol

 

your arbitrary list is gratifying to this fleshy anxiety prison

 

i forgot starlito & don trip and the menzingers fuck

 

Tbh, that Menzos album is my biggest disappointment this year

 

mines future but menzos is not nearly as good as rented world or otip but its still really good

 

Nevermind, there is objectivity. ATP is objectively better than Rented World.

 

mehhhhhhhhhhhhhh @ both

 

rented world is my favorite menzingers album by a pretty large margin /shrug

 

I did like it quite a bit when it dropped but it faded out of my mind so quickly. I'm hoping that when the weather turns it might stick with me a bit more.

This is insane

 

seems as tho this whole thread forgot jake jenkins put out an ep this year. its cool im fine dont worry about it

 

(obviously kidding about the objective remark)

I really don't think Rented World holds up at all outside of its top songs. ATP has maybe three weak songs and they're still much better than the likes of Bad Things, The Talk, etc... ATP feels like a true follow up to OTIP. Might even be better overall. It's surely more confident sounding than anything they've done.

 

bad things is a Good Song

 

Bad Things might be their worst song not from their first album. Sounds like Alkaline Trio-lite.

 

alkaline trio is a Good Band (up until agony and irony)

 

I agree. I like Alkaline Trio. That's why I said -lite. Alkaline Trio is good. Bad Alkaline Trio is not.

 

lite doesnt mean bad

 

It's not bad. It's just Alkaline-lite. So you know, just a little bit basic.

 

exactly i can enjoy a basic punk rock song if it doesnt suck

 

Go to your fucking room. No dessert after dinner for you

 

So can i. we seem to be at an impasse here especially since you didn't acknowledge that "basic" comment. The song is simplistic (the chorus painfully so) but I was moreso playing off the Alkaline thing. Joke before reason, always.

 

you're the one thats basic pal

 

after the party is the only menzingers album i've been able to get into.

 

At this point I think I like ATP even more than OTIP. Although it's probably close. Rented World is fantastic but I don't like it as much as either of the albums surrounding it.

 

I feel like my ambivalence towards their new album is pretty circumstantial. The content and tone doesn't really stick with where I am anymore whereas the other two were definitely a perfect fit for those periods of my life.