Same here, listening to a ton of older stuff EDIT: FINALLY a new page, lol. Went through 200 albums on the last page, so I expect this will be the last thread page for this year.
480. Jónsi - Shiver (2020) 481. Dagny - Strangers / Lovers (2020) 482. Dirty Projectors - Earth Crisis (2020) 483. Laura Jane Grace - Stay Alive (2020) 484. Joseph - Native Dreamer Kin (2014) 485. Deradoorian - Find The Sun (2020) 486. Ryan Hemsworth - RYANPACK VOL 3 (2020) 487. Aloe Blacc - All Love Everything (2020) 488. AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (1976) 489. Lana Del Rey - Violet Bent Backwards Over The Grass (2020) 490. Louis The Child - Candy II (Beat Tape) (2020) 491. Aerosmith - Rocks (1976) 492. Acceptance - Wild, Free (2020) 493. Jay Electronica - Act II: The Patents of Nobility (The Turn) (2020) 494. Bob Dylan - Desire (1976) 495. Blondie - Blondie (1976) 496. Commodores - Hot On The Tracks (1976) 497. Carpenters - A Kind Of Hush (1976) 498. Ringo Starr - Choose Love (2005) 499. Emmy The Great - April/月音 (2020) 500. Bahamas - Sad Hunk (2020) 501. Vérité - new limbs volume 1 (2020) 502. Paul McCartney - Chaos and Creation in the Backyard (2005) 503. Kiiara - lil kiiwi (2020) 504. Jack Garratt - Love, Death & Dancing (Vol. 5: Reworks) (2020) 505. David Bowie - Station to Station (1976) 506. Eagles - Hotel California (1976) 507. Funkadelic - Tales Of Kidd Funkadelic (1976) 508. Eric Clapton - No Reason To Cry (1976) 509. Earth, Wind & Fire - Spirit (1976) 510. Sam Means - I'm Sorry (2020) 511. Heart - Dreamboat Annie (1976) 512. REPRISE: A ROC Nation Album (2020) 513. Boston - Boston (1976) 514. Parliament - The Clones Of Dr. Funkenstein (1976) 515. Funkadelic - Hardcore Jollies (1976) 516. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Give Me Back My Bullets (1976) 517. James Blake - Before (2020) 518. Kučka - Unconditional (2015) 519. Omar Apollo - Apolonio (2020) 520. Sasha Sloan - Only Child (2020) 521. Deep Sea Diver - Impossible Weight (2020) 522. Whethan - Fantasty (2020) 523. Black Thought - Streams of Thought, Vol 3: Cane and Abel (2020) 524. beabadoobee - Fake It Flowers (2020) 525. Open Mike Eagle - Anime, Trauma and Divorce (2020) 526. Astrid S - Leave It Beautiful (2020) 527. Jorge Ben - África Brasil (1976) 528. Marvin Gaye - I Want You (1976) 529. Steve Miller Band - Fly Like An Eagle (1976) 530. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (1976) 531. Local Natives - Sour Lemons (2020) 532. Major Lazer - Music Is The Weapon (2020) 533. Gorillaz - Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez (2020) 534. Anna Of The North - Believe (2020) 535. PUP - This Place Sucks Ass (2020) 536. Ben Harper - Winter Is For Lovers (2020) 537. Bea Miller - elated! (2020) 538. FEVER 333 - WRONG GENERATION (2020) 539. Dej Loaf - Sell Sole II (2020) 540. THEY. - The Amanda Tape (2020) 541. Olivia O'Brien - It's Not That Deep (2017) 542. Wallows - Remote (2020) 543. Arlo Parks - Super Sad Generation (2019) 544. Arlo Parks - Sophie (2019) 545. Dave Hause - Patty (2020) 546. Dave Hause - Paddy (2020) 547. Sam Smith - Love Goes (2020) 548. Ariana Grande - positions (2020) 549. LÉON - Apart (2020) 550. Puscifer - Existential Reckoning (2020) 551. Ty Dolla $ign - Beach House 3 (2017) 552. Jim-E Stack - EPHEMERA (2020) 553. MihTy - MihTy (2018) 554. Common - A Beautiful Revolution (Pt 1) (2020) 555. Astrid S - Trust Issues (2019) 556. Ty Dolla $ign - Featuring Ty Dolla $ign (2020) 557. Mr. Bungle - The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny Demo (2020) 558. Astrid S - Down Low (2019) 559. American Fail - American Fail (2020) 560. K/DA - All Out (2020) 561. Aerosmith - Toys In The Attic (1975) 562. Eagles - One Of These Nights (1975) 563. Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia (2020) 564. Childish Gambino - 3.15.20 (2020) 565. BENEE - Hey u x (2020) 566. Frank Turner & Jon Snodgrass - Buddies II: Still Buddies (2020) 567. David Bowie - Young Americans (1975) 568. Carpenters - Horizon (1975) 569. Meg Myers - Thank U 4 Taking Me 2 The Disco (2020) 570. Meg Myers - I'd Like 2 Go Home Now (2020) 571. Samia - The Baby (2020) 572. Earth, Wind & Fire - That's The Way Of The World (1975) 573. Eric Clapton - There's One In Every Crowd (1975) 574. Masego - Studying Abroad (2020) 575. America - Hearts (1975) 576. Elton John - Rock Of The Westies (1975) 577. Anthony Green - Would You Still Be Live (2020) 578. Parliament - Chocolate City (1975) 579. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Nuthin' Fancy (1975) 580. Kali Uchis - Sin Miedo (del Amor y Otros Demonios) ∞ (2020) 581. Paul Simon - Still Crazy After All These Years (1975) 582. Funkadelic - Let's Take It To The Stage (1975) 583. Michael Jackson - Forever, Michael (1975) 584. Lissie - Thank You To The Flowers (2020) 585. XYLØ - Outsiders Club (2020) 586. Kaye - Conscious Control (2020) 587. Dirty Projectors - Ring Road (2020) 588. Raye - Euphoric Sad Songs (2020) 589. Phoebe Bridgers - Copycat Killer (2020) 590. Refused - The Malignant Fire (2020) 591. I Am The Avalanche - DIVE (2020) 592. Parliament - Mothership Connection (1975) 593. Tayla Parx - Coping Mechanisms (2020) 594. The Who - The Who By Numbers (1975) 595. The Bird and the Bee - Put Up The Lights (2020) 596. Phoebe Bridgers - If We Make It Through December (2020) 597. St. Ranger - Users May Access the Garden to Dynamically Resize Panes. (2020) 598. Miley Cyrus - Plastic Hearts (2020) 599. Poppy - A Very Poppy Christmas (2020) 600. Taylor Swift - folklore: the long pond studio sessions (2020) 601. Tinashe - Comfort & Joy (2020) 602. Danny Black - Black Ryno (2020) 603. Sabrina Claudio - Christmas Blues (2020) 604. Billie Joe Armstrong - No Fun Mondays (2020) 605. Tori Kelly - A Tori Kelly Christmas (2020) 606. The Rocket Summer - Bee Sides: Select Rarities 2015-2020 (2020) 607. The Network - Money Money 2020 Pt 2: We Told Ya So! (2020) 608. Kishi Bashi & Toby Chu - Stillwater: Vol. 1 (Apple TV+ Original Series Soundtrack) (2020) 609. Rico Nasty - Nightmare Vacation (2020) 610. The Dangerous Summer - All That Is Left Of The Blue Sky (2020) 611. Manchester Orchestra - Christmas Songs Vol. 1 (2020) 612. Death Cab For Cutie - The Georgia E.P. (2020) 613. The Postal Service - Everything Will Change (2020) 614. Sigur Rós - Odin's Raven Magic (2020) 615. Matt Nathanson - Farewell December (2020) 616. Cloud Nothings - Life Is Only One Event (2020) 617. Paul McCartney - McCartney III (2020) 618. Lavender Diamond - Now Is The Time (2020) 619. Night Traveler - Night Traveler, Vol. 1 (2019) 620. War - Why Can't We Be Friends (1975) 621. Charli Adams - Good At Being Young (2020) 622. Quarter-Life Crisis - Quarter-Life Crisis (2020) 623. James Blake - Covers (2020) 624. Kid Cudi - Man On the Moon III: The Chosen (2020) 625. The Avalanches - We Will Always Love You (2020) 626. Foxy Shazam - Burn (2020) 627. Taylor Swift - evermore (2020) 628. Big Freedia - Big Freedia's Smokin' Santa Christmas (2020) 629. George Maple - MYTH (2020) 630. Satica - Drippin' (2017) 631. Channel Tres - i can't go outside (2020) 632. Nick Murphy - Cassette #3 (2020) 633. Grimes - This story is dedicated to all those cyberpunks who fight against injustice and corruption every day of their lives! (2020) 634. Maggie Rogers - Notes From The Archive: Recordings 2011-2016 (2020) 635. Bayside - Acoustic Volume 3 (2020) 635. M. Ward - Think Of Spring (2020) 636. Less Than Jake - Silver Linings (2020) 637. Machinedrum - A View of U (2020) 638. Goldfinger - Never Look Back (2020) 639. Circa Survive - Circa Family Christmas (2020)
I've had a lot more time this year to listen to older albums, I'd guess that only a third of my first listens are 2020 albums
Update: Finally broke past 300 with this weeks releases. August was sadly a slow month for me, didn't connect with much outside of Dikembe, Narrow Head, Cave People, and Glass Animals. September had a higher volume of releases but had me feeling similar to August. Deftones, Eastwood, Maxwell Stern, Svalbard, Slick Shoes, and Oscar Lang were my favorites of the month.
ya it's bad, i think i could count the 2020 releases i've enjoyed on maybe two hands and they're mostly from established, big name artists. new Rat Boy seems pretty cool, though. also this seems relevant! Is Pandemic Brain Changing Your Taste in Music? You're Not Alone
I think I’m up to around 750 for the year but stopped seriously tracking around 650 as it got to be a pain and feel too much like work instead of something fun
+MGK Tickets to My Downfall +Story of the Year Black Swan +Evanescence Self Titled +Blink 182 Flyswatter +Blink 182 Shortbus +Blink 182 EOTS demos +TTS Demos Odds and Ends +Simple Creatures Everything Opposite +Simple Creatures Strange Love +Transplants Self Titled +AVA Love Pt 2 +AVA Of Nightmares +AVA WDNTW Acoustic +AVA Chasing Shadows +Jimmy Eat World Futures Stabbing Westward EP The Used Heartwork (+)44 When Your Heart Stops Beating AVA I-Empire AVA We Don't Need to Whisper AVA Love Part 1 AVA The Dream Walker Blink 182 They came to Conquer Uranus Blink 182 Buddha Blink 182 Chesire Cat Blink 182 Dude Ranch Blink 182 The Mark, Tom and Travis Show Blink 182 Neighborhoods Blink 182 Dogs Eating Dogs Blink 182 California Blink 182 Nine Boxcar Racer Self Titled Evanescence Origin Evanescence Synthesis Hawthorne Heights Bad Frequencies SOTY Wolves
oh no, no one else will care, but I just realized I fucked up in my numbering. Somehow I accidentally went from 463 to 434. So since then my list has been about 30 off. Now I gotta go back and fix it all Aahhhhhh
Only doing 2020 releases, alphabetical order. Bold are AOTY contenders The 1975 - Notes on a Conditional Form Beabadoobee - Fake It Flowers Charli XCX - How I'm Feeling Now Childish Gambino - 3.15.20 Deftones - Ohms Eminem - Music to Be Murdered By Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters Gorillaz - Song Machine Volume One: Strange Timez Grimes - Miss Anthropocene HAIM - Women in Music Pt III Halsey - Manic Hayley Williams - Petals for Armor Hillary Capps - The Way Back Home The Japanese House - Chewing Cotton Wool Jessie Reyez - Before Love Came to Kill Us Juice Wrld - Legends Never Die Justin Bieber - Changes Knuckle Puck - 20/20 Lady Gaga - Chromatica Lil Wayne - Funeral Machine Gun Kelly - Tickets to My Downfall Mac Miller - Circles New Found Glory - Forever and Ever x Infinity Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher Run the Jewels - RTJ4 Sara Bareilles - More Love: Music From Little Voice Soccer Mommy - Color Theory Stand Atlantic - Pink Elephant Taylor Swift - folklore Still need to listen to: The Strokes, Bright Eyes, The Front Bottoms, Carly Rae Jepsen, Katy Perry and Blackpink. Also waiting on Ariana Grande, Smashing Pumpkins and McCartney III to come out.
Nice I'll add it to my list! I've never listened to their original music before, but I did watch their Like A Version cover of Don't Look Back in Anger. They sounded great!
Updated through October. Its getting to the point in the year where stuff is really slowing down and I'll probably end up going back to see what I've missed this year. Any recs are welcome! Off the top of my head, these are the only records left I'm anticipating this year: Seahaven Novo Amor Jesu King Gizzard Smashing Pumpkins I Am The Avalanche Fireworks (maybe?)
I somehow and realizing that even though I'm at 562 albums tracked, I somehow didn't even track big ones like Dua Lipa or Childish Gambino. I don't know how many others may have been untracked ahhhhh
Is there a thread where people are listing their best of for 2020 yet? So many albums, I'd like to see which ones people recommend the most.
I don't think I have seen one yet, usually it pops up right as December starts, but I wouldn't be shocked to see one earlier than that
I regularly have arguments with myself about how I'll rank my top 10 albums of the year. Too much of my time is taken up by making a list that literally no one but myself will care about.
Same, same. I frequently pace around my kitchen debating the precise ranking of my favorite whatevers, as though there's anyone in the world that would ever care, or know.
For me the biggest trick is always balancing how to rank an album that I really really loved for a few weeks to a month, but also pretty quickly moved on from, vs. albums that I never really had a phase of being obsessed, but I've pretty consistently gone back to over the year.