Know what album of theirs predictably has the most legs for me lately? The one that sounds like Journey, natch.
January 01. Spangle Call Lilli Line - dreams never end ++ 02. Kedama - machi no akari + 03. GANG PARADE - LAST GANG PARADE + 04. RYPPHYPE - next level + 05. Controversial Spark - after intermission ++ 06. yuichi NAGAO - oblivion + from 2018: 01. Drop's - organ (mini album) ++
I don't know if it is my personal favorite Killers album or not - on any given day it could be - but it just strikes me as like 100% pure uncut Killers. Peak Killers. Them boiled down to their absolute essence and then just exploded across twelve tracks. I'll never understand the idea, seemingly shared by the band themselves, that this is in some way a bad album.
Unsure if anyone would be interested in this, but I made a spreadsheet for anyone that prefers to track their album listening through this. Makes it a bit easier for end of the year sorting and I'm sure there's some basic analytical stuff you could look into about what you liked and disliked this year. Just make a new copy and you can begin filling it out. Chorus FM Albums 2019
Gonna try and do this Bold = favorite listen of month January: Macross 82-99 - Cham! (2015) Super Snake - Leap Of Love (2017) Nick Hakim - Green Twins (2017) The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships (2018) SeeYouSpaceCowboy - Fashion Statements Of The Socially Aware (2018) Ice Choir - Afar (2012) Perfume - Future Pop (2018) James Blake - Assume Form (2019) Better Oblivion Community Center - Better Oblivion Community Center (2019) Meg Myers - Take Me To The Disco (2018) Pat Metheny - One Quiet Night (2003) February: Xiu Xiu - Girl With Basket Of Fruit (2019) Ariana Grande - thank u, next (2019) Copeland - Blushing (2019) DJ Okawari - Perfect Blue (2018) March: John Scofield - Combo 66 (2018) LP - Lost On You (2016) Euing - Erleichda (2019) La Dispute - Panorama (2019) Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow (2019) Laura Stevenson - The Big Freeze (2019) April: Hitorie - Howls (2019) Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising (2019) Hitorie - Ai/Solate (2017) Blank Banshee - Blake Banshee 0 (2012) Saint Pepsi - Studio 54 (2013) May: Carly Rae Jepsen - Dedicated (2019) Mariya Takeuchi - Variety (1984) Saint Pepsi - Hit Vibes (2013) June: The Sylvers - Concept (1981) Daoko - Shitekiryoko (2018) July: Weyes Blood - Front Row Seat To Earth (2016) Conscious Thoughts - Anthology (2017) August: Lizzo - Cuz I Love You (2019) Rammstein - Rammstein (2019) Taylor Swift - Lover (2019) Saint Pepsi - Mannequin Challenge (2019) Lyfe Jennings - 777 (2019) Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell (2019) September: Super Snake - Vol. 4: Influenza Forever (2019) Jay Som - Anak Ko (2019) Yung Bae - Bae 5 (2019) October: Anamanaguchi - [USA] (2019)
I quite enjoyed it. Have always liked Depeche Mode overall but never really dove into full albums til recently
They're one of my favorite bands and I always forget they're one of my favorite bands until I randomly hear a song and remember "oh yeah they're kinda the best" and binge albums for a month
8. Thursday - Full Collapse (2001) 9. Pedro the Lion - Phoenix (2019) 10. Bright Eyes - Letting Off the Happiness (1998) 11. The Jon Hill Project - Rebirth (2019) 12. pronoun - you didn't even make the bed (2018) 13. pronoun - There's no one new around you. (2016)
20. Turnstile - Time & Space (2018) 21. Elvis Costello - King of America (1986) 22. The Flaming Lips - Hear It Is (1986) 23. Huey Lewis & The News - Fore! (1986) 24. G Flip - Drink Too Much (2019) 25. Maggie Rogers - Heard It In A Past Life (2019) 26. James Blake - Assume Form (2019) 27. THE FEVER 333 - STRENGTH IN NUMB333RS (2019) 28. Jain - Souldier (2018) 29. Crane Like The Bird - Crane Like The Bird (2019) 30. Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog (2018) 31. Sabrina Claudio - No Rain, No Flowers (2018) 32. A R I Z O N A - GALLERY (2017) 33. Guster - Look Alive (2019) 34. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (1992)
2019: EPs/Splits etc. 1. Origami Angel/Commander Salamander - Holy Split 2. Knocked Loose - Mistakes Like Fractures 3. Method of Doubt - Accepting What We Know 4. Kevin Gates - Only the Generals Gon Understand Albums 1. Wristmeetrazor - Misery Never Forgets 2. Judiciary - Surface Noise 3. Better Oblivion Community Center - Better Oblivion Community Center 4. Lil Pump - Harvard Dropout 5. Wild Side - Who the Hell is Wild Side? 6. No Option - Make it Count 7. Titus Andronicus - An Obelisk 8. Vampire Weekend - Father of the Bride 9. Fury - Failed Entertainment 10. Knocked Loose - A Different Shade of Blue 11. Sanction - Broken in Fraction 12. SeeYouSpaceCowboy - The Correlation Between Entrance and Exit Wounds 13. Freddie Gibbs and Madlib - Bandana