Here's a place for everyone to share their EOTY lists for 2019. The Chorus.fm website contributors are hard at work at our own lists and we plan, like we did on AP.net, to post and share these on the website in early January. Hope everyone had a great musical year and I can't wait to read all everyone's lists. Here's the 2019 Albums thread if you need some memory refreshing on what you listened to last year. Archive: 2018 (Contributor List) 2017 (Contributor List) 2016 (Contributor List)
Starting the post, will be filling it in over the next few days... Menzingers - Hello Exile blink-182 - NINE Jimmy Eat World - Surviving Dangerous Summer - Mother Nature Masked Intruder - III Teenage Bottlerocket - Stay Rad!
Running through my favorites from the year right now and throwing together a list after I give them all one more run through
My top 50 and a favorite song: 1. Big Thief- U.F.O.F. (“Orange”) 2. Vampire Weekend- Father of the Bride (“Harmony Hall”) 3. Big Thief- Two Hands (“Not”) 4. Lana del Rey- Norman Fucking Rockwell (“Happiness is a butterfly”) 5. Angel Olsen- All Mirrors (“Lark”) 6. Mannequin Pussy- Patience (“Drunk II”) 7. Wilco- Ode to Joy (“Quiet Amplifier”) 8. Bon Iver- i,i (“Naeem”) 9. Purple Mountains- Purple Mountains (“Snow is Falling in Manhattan”) 10. Weyes Blood- Titanic Rising (“Movies”) —————————————————— 11. (Sandy) Alex G- House of Sugar (“Gretel”) 12. FKA twigs- MAGDALENE (“cellophane”) 13. Sharon Van Etten- Remind Me Tomorrow (“Seventeen”) 14. Club Night- What Life (“Trance”) 15. Strange Ranger- Remembering the Rockets (“Sunday”) 16. PUP- Morbid Stuff (“See You at Your Funeral”) 17. Charly Bliss- Young Enough (“Capacity”) 18. Denzel Curry- ZUU (“Wish”) 19. Clairo- Immunity (“Bags”) 20. Nilüfer Yanya- Miss Universe (“Heavyweight Champion of the World”) 21. Oso Oso- Basking in the Glow (“the view”) 22. The National- I Am Easy to Find (“light years”) 23. Brittany Howard- Jaime (“Stay High”) 24. Greet Death- New Hell (“You’re Gonna Hate What You’ve Done”) 25. Jessica Pratt- Quiet Signs (“This Time Around”) —————————————————— 26. Tyler, the Creator- IGOR (“EARFQUAKE”) 27. Jenny Lewis- On the Line (“On the Line”) 28. Helado Negro- This is How You Smile (“Please Won’t Please”) 29. Jay Som- Anak Ko (“Superbike”) 30. Jamila Woods- LEGACY! LEGACY! (“ZORA”) 31. Ariana Grande- thank u, next (“needy”) 32. Whitney- Forever Turned Around (“Giving Up”) 33. Damon Locks/Black Monument Ensemble- Where Future Unfolds (“The Colors That You Bring”) 34. black midi- Schlagenheim (“953”) 35. American Football- American Football (LP3) (“Heir Apparent”) 36. Sleater-Kinney- The Center Won’t Hold (“The Dog / The Body”) 37. Taylor Swift- Lover (“Cruel Summer”) 38. billy woods & kenny segal- hiding places (“toothy”) 39. Billie Eilish- When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (“when the party’s over”) 40. Baroness- Gold & Grey (“Tourniquet”) 41. Danny Brown- uknowhatimsaying¿ (“Dirty Laundry”) 42. The Hold Steady- Thrashing Thru the Passion (“Blackout Sam”) 43. Solange- When I Get Home (“Almeda”) 44. The Comet is Coming- Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery (“Summon The Fire”) 45. Better Oblivion Community Center- Better Oblivion Community Center (“Sleepwalkin’”) 46. Faye Webster- Atlanta Millionaire’s Club (“Kingston”) 47. glass beach- the first glass beach album (“classic j dies and goes to hell part 1”) 48. Carly Rae Jepsen- Dedicated (“Want You In My Room”) 49. Blood Incantation- Hidden History of the Human Race (“Inner Paths (to Outer Space)”) 50. Earl Sweatshirt- FEET OF CLAY (“EAST”)
Absolutely not ranking this bc it's too fucking hard but here you go, alphanumerical order baby! 65daysofstatic - replicr, 2019 Anamanaguchi - [USA] Cursive - Get Fixed Employed to Serve - Eternal Forward Motion False Advertising - Brainfreeze Fontaines D.C. - Dogrel Glass Beach - The First Glass Beach Album Hayden Thorpe - Diviner The Japanese House - Good at Falling Jimmy Eat World - Surviving La Dispute - Panorama Lakes - The Constance LP Meursault - Crow Hill Mover Shaker - Another Truck Stop The Murder Capital - When I Have Fears The National - I Am Easy to Find Nervus - Tough Crowd One True Pairing - One True Pairing Origami Angel - Somewhere City PAWS - Your Church on My Bonfire Proper. - I Spent the Winter Writing Songs About Getting Better Russian Circles - Blood Year Telefon Tel Aviv - Dreams Are Not Enough The Twilight Sad - It Won/t Be Like This All the Time The Vegan Leather - Poor Girls/Broken Boys
Grayscale - Nella Vita Youth Fountain - Letters To Our Former Selves Emarosa - Peach Club Locket - All Out Cory Wells - The Way We Are The Maine - You Are OK Meg & Dia - Happysad Doll Skin - Love Is Dead and We Killed Her Jade Bird - Jade Bird Turnover - Altogether Capstan - Restless Heart, Keep Running Knocked Loose - A Different Shade Of Blue Lizzo - Cuz I Love You Breathe Carolina - DEADTHEALBUM Small Talks - A Conversation Between Us Free Throw - What’s Past Is Prologue Commonwealth - Everyone Around Me Bayside - Interrobang The Talbott Brothers - Ghost Talker Arrange - Blood Dust Hunny - Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Origami Angel - Somewhere City Better Oblivion Community Center - Better Oblivion Community Center YBN Cordae - The Lost Boy The Band Camino - tryhard Clairo - Immunity Vérité - new skin Taylor Swift - Lover Pine - PINE Megan Thee Stallion - Fever Wish You Were Here - I’m Afraid of Everything Waterparks - Fandom Chastity - Home Made Satan The Faim - State of Mind Charly Bliss - Young Enough City & Colour - A Pill For Loneliness SYML - SYML Selfish Things - Logos Dayseeker - Sleeptalk The Dangerous Summer - Mother Nature Sigrid - Sucker Punch Saweetie - ICY The Damned Things - High Crimes Parting Ways - Meant Well Joy Williams - Front Porch John Floreani - Sun Slingshot Dakota - Heavy Bonding Bleached - Don’t You Think You’ve Had Enough? Empty - Hope and the Loss of It Caamp - By and By EPs: Pvris - Hallucinations Can’t Swim - Foreign Language Lucy Dacus - Sofi Tukker - Dancing On The People Point North - Retrograde Bogues - Paint All the Walls the Same Young Culture - (This Is) Heaven MisterWives - mini bloom Sasha Sloan - Self Portrait Simple Creatures - Everything Opposite Hot Milk - Are You Feeling Alive? Ralph - Flashbacks & Fantasies girl in red - chapter 2 Bloom. - Withered Nothing,nowhere. - BLOODLUST Aly & AJ - Sanctuary Jetty Bones - “-“ The Mowglis - American Feelings Yours Truly - Afterglow Magnolia Park - Vacant Nova Charisma - Exposition I Times Like These - Take Me Home Claud - Sideline Star Tones and I - The Kids Are Coming Nightly - Talk You Down Xylø - yes & no Wolf & Bear - EP Calling All Captains - Nothing Grows Here The Gospel Youth - Thoughtless September Stories - You Don’t Love It.
20. angel olsen - all mirrors 19. for your health / shin guard - death of spring 18. microwave - death is a warm blanket 17. julia jacklin - crushing 16. la dispute - panorama 15. denzel curry - zuu 14. charly bliss - young enough 13. strange ranger - remembering the rockets 12. jay som - anak ko 11. glass beach - the first glass beach album 10. state faults - clairvoyant 9. malibu ken - malibu ken 8. cherry glazerr - stuffed any ready 7. wicca phase springs eternal - suffer on 6. claud - sideline star 5. oso oso - basking in the glow 4. great grandpa - four of arrows 3. knocked loose - a different shade of blue 2. origami angel - somewhere city 1. better oblivion community center - s/t
1. The Twilight Sad - It Won/t Be Like This All the Time 2. SeeYouSpaceCowboy - The Correlation Between Entrance and Exit Wounds 3. Frail Body - A Brief Memoriam 4. Have a Nice Life - Sea of Worry 5. Orville Peck - Pony 6. The Callous Daoboys - Die on Mars 7. American Football - American Football 8. Employed to Serve - Eternal Motion Forward 9. Full of Hell - Weeping Choir 10. Blanck Mass - Animated Violence Mild
Drab Majesty - Modern Mirror Fuming Mouth - The Grand Descent Jamila Woods - Legacy! Legacy! Never Ending Game - Just Another Day Jay Som - Anak Ko
I always like to hold out til pretty close to Christmas to make a list, December surprise releases are always possible and can mix things up
Here's my list right now, but it will probably change as I go back and listen to everything again throughout the month. 1. Future Teens - Breakup Season 2. Charly Bliss - Young Enough 3. Pedro the Lion - Phoenix 4. The Menzingers - Hello Exile 5. The Mountain Goats - In League With Dragons 6. Jimmy Eat World - Surviving 7. Taylor Swift - Lover 8. Origami Angel - Somewhere City 9. The Get Up Kids - Problems 10. Telethon - Hard Pop 11. Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties - Routine Maintenance 12. Ceres - We Are a Team 13. Oso Oso - Basking In the Glow 14. Dave Hause - Kick 15. Better Oblivion Community Center - Better Oblivion Community Center 16. The Dangerous Summer - Mother Nature 17. Somos - Prison On a Hill 18. Bruce Springsteen - Western Stars 19. Junius Paul - Ism 20. The Maine - You Are OK 21. Nervus - Tough Crowd 22. Proper. - I Spent the Winter Writing Songs About Getting Better 23. Sturgill Simpson - Sound and Fury 24. Mover Shaker - Another Truck Stop 25. Great Grandpa - Four of Arrows
Top 20: 1. Somos - Prison On A Hill 2. Oso Oso - basking in the glow 3. Jimmy Eat World - Surviving 4. The Early November - Lilac 5. PUP - Morbid Stuff 6. The Maine - You Are OK 7. Dowsing - Sky Coffin 8. Nervus - Tough Crowd 9. Origami Angel - Somewhere City 10. The Dangerous Summer - Mother Nature 11. Future Teens - Breakup Season 12. Tyler, The Creator - Igor 13. Prince Daddy & The Hyenas - Cosmic Thrill Seekers 14. Macseal - Super Enthusiast 15. PKEW PKEW PKEW - Optimal Lifestyles 16. Holy Pinto - Adult 17. Big Nothing - Chris 18. Mannequin Pussy - Patience 19. Brockhampton - GINGER 20. Chris Farren - Born Hot
At least the first few are in order. After that it's whatever came to mind. Anyway top 25 for me: PUP - Morbid Stuff Tyler, the Creator - IGOR JPEGMAFIA - All My Heroes Are Cornballs Oso Oso - basking in the glow The Menzingers - Hello Exile Origami Angel - Somewhere City Denzel Curry - ZUU (Sandy) Alex G - House of Sugar blink-182 - Nine Blood Incarceration - Hidden History of the Human Race Bayside - Interrobang Maxo Kream - Brandon Banks BROCKHAMPTON - GINGER Jimmy Eat World - Surviving Young Thug - So Much Fun Fury - Failed Entertainment Little Simz - GREY Area Mikey Erg - Waxbuilt Castles Counterparts - Nothing Left to Lose Aaron West & the Roaring Twenties - Routine Maintenance FK Twigs - MAGDELENE Angel Olsen - All Mirrors Grayscale - Nella Vita The Dangerous Summer - Mother Nature Vampire Weekend - Father of the Bride
1. Holy Fawn - Death Spells (this was technically released last fall, but was re-released this year when I discovered it) 2. DIIV - Deceiver 3. Ceres - We Are a Team 4. Grayscale - Nella Vita 5. Clairo - Immunity 6. Oso Oso - basking in the glow 7. Somos - Prison on a Hill 8. Greet Death - New Hell 9. Of Monsters and Men - Fever Dream 10. Taylor Swift - Lover 11. The Dangerous Summer - Mother Nature 12. Origami Angel - Somewhere City 13. Dean Lewis - A Place We Knew 14. Harmony Woods - Make Yourself at Home 15. DaBaby - KIRK 16. Idiot Pilot - Blue Blood 17. SeeYouSpaceCowboy - The Correlation Between Entrance and Exit Wounds 18. Slow Crush - Ease 19. Immanu El - Structures 20. Nightly - Talk You Down
1. The Maine - You are Ok 2. Jimmy Eat World - Surviving 3. Grayscale - Nella Vita 4. Jon Pardi - Heartache Medication 5. Luke Combs - What You See is What you Get 6. The Dangerous Summer - Mother Nature
I've been so focused on end-of-the-decade stuff that I haven't really even thought about my EOTY list until today. Can't remember the last time I waited this long to even start it.
1. Prince Daddy and the Hyena - Cosmic Thrill Seekers 2. Pup - Morbid Stuff 3. Oso Oso - Basking in the Glow 4. Origami Angel - Somewhere City 5. Great Grandpa - Four of Arrows 6. The Menzingers - Hello Exile 7. Telethon - Hard Pop 8. Chris Farren - Born Hot 9. Pkew Pkew Pkew - Optimal Lifestyles 10. Proper. - I Spent the Winter Writing Songs About Getting Better 11. Mal Blum - Pity Boy 12. Future Teens - Breakup Season 13. Laura Stevenson - The Big Freeze 14. Vampire Weekend - Father of the Bride 15. Thom Yorke - Anima 16. Carly Rae Jepsen - Dedicated 17. Anamanaguchi - [ U S A ] 18. Titus Andronicus - An Obelisk 19. Macseal - Super Enthusiast 20. Charly Bliss - Young Enough
1. Charli XCX - Charli 2. Carly Rae Jepsen - Dedicated 3. Charly Bliss - Young Enough 4. Hovvdy - Heavy Lifter 5. Tyler, the Creator - IGOR 6. (Sandy) Alex G - House of Sugar 7. FKA twigs - MAGDALENE 8. Clairo - Immunity 9. Have a Nice Life - Sea of Worry 10. JME - Grime MC 11. Better Oblivion Community Center - Better Oblivion Community Center 12. 100 Gecs - 1000 Gecs 13. Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising 14. Jay Som - Anak Ko 15. Foals - Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost Part 1 16. Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow 17. Jenny Hval - The Practice of Love 18. Stormzy - Heavy is the Head 19. Oso Oso - Basking in the Glow 20. Hannah Diamond - Reflections 21. Big Thief - U.F.O.F. 22. Little Simz - GREY 23. Bellows - The Rose Gardener 24. Vampire Weekend - Father of the Bride 25. Dave - Psychodrama 26. Mannequin Pussy - Patience 27. Skepta - Ignorance is Bliss 28. Strange Ranger - Remembering the Rockets 29. Cherry Glazerr - Stuffed & Ready 30. Floating Points - Crush 31. The National - I Am Easy to Find 32. Kano - Hoodies All Summer 33. Florist - Emily Alone 34. Purple Mountains - Purple Mountains 35. Ada Lea - what we say in private 36. Richard Dawson - 2020 37. Great Grandpa - Four of Arrows 38. Baroness - Gold & Grey 39. The Twilight Sad - It Won/t be Like This All the Time 40. Georgia Maq - Pleaser 41. Mutual Benefit - Just Another Diamond Day 42. Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell 43. Pup - Morbid Stuff 44. Slowthai - Nothing Great About Britain 45. Lingua Ignota - CALIGULA 46. Bon Iver - i,i 47. JPEGMAFIA - All My Heroes Are Cornballs 48. I Love Your Lifestyle - The Movie 49. Julia Jacklin - Crushing 50. Full of Hell - Weeping Choir
(1) Noah Gundersen - Lover (2) Owel - Paris (3) Penny and Sparrow - Finch (4) Copeland - Blushing (5) Valiant Hearts - Odyssey (6) Emily Scott Robinson - Traveling Mercies
List of new albums/eps I enjoyed this year Jimmy Eat World - Surviving blink-182 - NINE Cursive - Get Fixed 311 - Voyager Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell! Thom Yorke - ANIMA Coldplay - Everyday Life Simple Creatures - Everything Opposite EP Simple Creatures - Strange Love EP Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Watchmen: Volume 1 Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Bird Box (Abridged) Flying Lotus - Flamagra Third Eye Blind - Screamer Death Cab For Cutie - The Blue EP Weezer (Teal Album) The Black Keys - “Let’s Rock” Karen O, Danger Mouse - Lux Prima Ramin Djawadi - Game Of Thrones: Season 8 Weezer (Black Album) Interpol - A Fine Mess EP
My fav 30 albums Josh Ritter - Fever Breaks Vampire Weekend - Father of the Bride Tyler Childers - Country Squire Better Oblivion Community Center - Better Oblivion Community Center Shovels & Rope - By Blood Katie Toupin - Magnetic Moves Jade Bird - Jade Bird Noah Gundersen - Lover Ian Noe - Between the Country Yola - Walk Through Fire Alex Lahey - The Best of Luck Club The Highwomen - The Highwomen Kyle Craft - Showboat Honey Bruce Springsteen - Western Stars The Lumineers - III Carly Rae Jepsen - Dedicated Taylor Swift - Lover Wilco - ode to joy Iron & Wine + Calexico - Years to Burn Ten Tonnes - Ten Tonnes Durand Jones and the Indications - American Love Call Sigrid - Sucker Punch Sheer Mag - A Distant Call White Reaper - Might Be Right Spielbergs - We Are All Going To Die Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow Red Hearse - Red Hearse Matthew Logan Vasquez - Light’n Up Titus Andronicus - An Obelisk Trapper Schoepp - Primetime Illusion 10 favorite songs: “Harmony Hall” by Vampire Weekend “Seventeen” by Sharon Van Etten “Cruel Summer” by Taylor Swift “Loving Her” by Katie Pruitt “Morning in America” by Durand Jones and the Indications “Born to Bleed” by Red Hearse “All Your’n” by Tyler Childers “If Today Doesn’t Do Me In” by Ian Noe “Father Mountain” by Iron & Wine + Calexico “Anna” by The Menzingers Best shows I saw this year: My dad and I flew to Texas to see our favorite band, the Old 97s, on their home turf. We saw them play a small BBQ place in Tyler called Stanley’s, and caught Brandi Carlile at the Bomb Factory in Dallas. Both were incredible. Also saw Rhett Miller at this weird little place in Freehold, NJ called Concerts in the Studio. It’s basically some dudes garage with like 40 folding chairs in it. He told lots of stories, interacted with us, and played a wide range of his catalog, both 97s and solo. It’s always great when you can feel the rest of a crowd start liking an opener. We knew Jade Bird going into the Isbell/Father Misty show at the Met in Philly, but also delighted in her winning over everyone else. Home for Thanksgiving, we all went to see the best Springsteen cover band at the shore play in Belmar, NJ and who shows up but Jake Clemons, the actual saxophone player in the actual E Street Band. Also saw for the first time and enjoyed Noah Gundersen, Steely Dan, Hozier, Lucy Dacus, Mt. Joy, Alex Lahey, and Hudson Taylor. Albums I really want in 2020 (but haven’t been announced yet): John Fullbright Jason Isbell Dawes Hamilton Leithauser Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Diet Cig Butch Walker Courtney Marie Andrews Ruston Kelly Gang of Youths
1. Tycho- Weather 2. Charli XCX- Charli 3. Ioanna Gika- Thalassa 4. Ariana Grande- Thank U, Next 5. Silversun Pickups- Widow's Weed I barely listened to anything else this year.
No particular order but the following are likely the 10 albums I listened to the most this year: Bad Books - iii Bayside - Interrobang Better Oblivion Community Center Blink 182 - Nine The Early November - Lilac Jimmy Eat World - Surviving The Lumineers - III Matt Maeson - Bank on the Funeral SAINt JHN - Ghetto Lenny's Love Songs Slaughter Beach, Dog - Safe and Also No Fear Looking forward to seeing everyone's lists so I can start checking out some other stuff.