Shit, I really need to catch up on the music that came out this year. I could maybe do a top five if I put my heart into it.
I have my list almost ready, but I'd like to sit on it a little longer. The only thing I'm 100% on is Chance The Rapper's Coloring Book is my hands down #1
catching up on stuff. loving these albums: payroll giovanni and cardo negative gemini kornel kovacs gallant mick jenkins sturgill simpson ian william craig helms alee
Field Mouse - Episodic Cymbals Eat Guitars - Pretty Years Bob Mould - Patch the sky Angel Du$t - Rock the Fuck on Forever The Black Queen - s/t Zeal & Ardor - Devil Is Fine Praise - Leave it all behind Fury - Paramount Big Eyes - Stake my claim A Pregnant Light - Deep lavender dreams Oathbreaker - Rheia Solange - A seat at the table Martyrdod - List Tinashe - Nightride David Bowie - Blackstar Zao - The well-intentioned virus
Because I'm Me, Frankie Sinatra and Subways the best 1-2-3 opening punch in recent memory. That section will live on a long time.
10. Explosions in the Sky - 'Wilderness' 9. Basement - 'Promise Everything' 8. Two Door Cinema Club - 'Gameshow' 7. Modern Baseball - 'Holy Ghost' 6. Taking Back Sunday - 'Tidal Wave' 5. Jimmy Eat World - 'Integrity Blues' 4. Weezer - 'The White Album' 3. Thrice - 'To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere' 2. All Get Out - 'Nobody Likes a Quitter' 1. Brian Fallon - 'Painkillers' I should note that Julien Baker's 'Sprained Ankle' would be #2 if this was 'favorite albums discovered in 2016.' I just didn't know who she was until this year, and that's absolutely my second most listened to/favorite record from 2016 (even if it's 'from' 2015).
This is what I came up with. Top 5 1. Chance The Rapper - Coloring Book 2. YG - Still Brazy 3. A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service 4. Common - Black America Again 5. Blink 182 - California 6 - 25 (No Order) YG - Red Friday Rihanna - Anti Skepta - Konnichiwa American Football - American Football LP Beyonce - Lemonade Jeff Rosenstock - Worry. Good Charlotte - Youth Authority Dreezy - No Hard Feelings Havoc & Alchemist - Silent Partner Cam & China - Cam & China Yellowcard - Yellowcard Owen - The King Of Why’s Mac Miller - The Divine Feminine Rapsdoy - Crown De La Soul - and the Anonymous Nobody... Terrace Martin - Velvet Portraits DJ Mustard - Cold Summer The Descendants - Hypercaffium Spazzinate DJ Quik - Rosecrans EP J. Cole - 4 Your Eyez Only Honorable Mentions Ness Nite - Nite Time Kodak Black - Lil Big Pac Ella Mai - Change D.R.A.M. - Big Baby D.R.A.M. Bon Iver - 22, A Million Modern Baseball - Holy Ghost Kamaiyah - A Good Night In The Ghetto Ariana Grande - Dangerous Woman Payroll Giovanni - Big Bossin Vol. 1 ABRA - Princess Fifth Harmony - 7/27 Vybz Kartel - King Of The Dancehall Reks - The Greatest X Kanye West - The Life Of Pablo Green Day - Revolution Radio German/Austrian/Swiss Hip Hop Albums 1. Megaloh - Regenmacher 2. Sido - Das Goldene Album 3. Eko Fresh - Freezy 4. Samy Deluxe - Berühmte Letzte Worte 5. Crack Ignaz & Wandel - Geld Leben 6. Fler - Vibe 7. Möchtegang - Campione 8. Chima Ede - Principium 9. SXTN - Asozialisierungsprogramm Christmas Albums Kacey Musgraves - A Very Kacey Christmas Lauren Daigle - Behold R. Kelly - 12 Nights Of Christmas Jon Batiste - Christmas With Jon Batiste Ariana Grande - Christmas & Chill
1. Pinegrove – Cardinal 2. Chance the Rapper –Coloring Book 3. The Hotelier – Goodness 4. Bon Iver – 22, A Million 5. A Tribe Called Quest - We got it from Here... 6. Seismograph – In Oblivion 7. Jeff Rosenstock – Worry 8. Blood Orange – Freetown Sound 9. Young Thug - Jeffery 10. Weezer –White Album Top 10 tentative. I'm just as surprised as you that Weezer is on there
Overlooked albums that I've been enjoying and won't stop talking about to get more people to listen: Seismograph - In Oblivion !!!!!! Roar - Impossible Animals Negative Gemini - Body Work Hinds - Leave Me Alone Your Boy Tony Braxton - Adult Contempt Yumi Zouma - Yoncalla Vesuvio Solo - Don't Leave Me in the Dark Ingrid Michaelson - It Doesn't Have to Make Sense
This is off the top of my head. Only my first pass. Best Song Menzingers - Lookers (Potential) Top 10 1. Balance and Composure - Light We Made 2. Thrice - To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere 3. Apologies I Have None - Pharmacie 4. Angel Du$t - Rock The Fuck On Forever (20 minutes of shouty & catchy fun.) 5. Naked and Famous - Simple Forms 6. Dillinger Escape Plan - Dissociation 7. Touché Amoré - Stage Four 8. Bon Iver - 22, A Million 9. Black Peaks - Statues 10. Basement - Promise Everything Others Good Stuff Gojira - Magma Deftones - Gore Creeper - The Stranger EP Pinegrove - Cardinal Lonely the Brave - Things Will Matter ETID - Low Teens Diarrhhea Planet - Turn To Gold Weezer - White Album Puppy - Vol II Jimmy Eat World - Integrity Blues Biggest Disappointments Against Me - Shape Shift With Me letlive - If I'm The Devil Biffy Clyro - Ellipsis I also only discovered Jeff Rosenstock - Worry... a couple of days ago, but I already love it.
I'm going to have a really hard time ranking that one. Wrote it in as my #1 before I heard it and I'm clearly biased towards it as you can see by the name but I don't love it as much as I wanted to.
Personally, I like it as much as the Season, which was my AOTY in 2011, and the record I've listened to most since then. I think it's basically perfect and is everything I wanted from an AGO follow up. I've spent a lot more time with 'Painkillers,' and it's everything I've ever wanted from a Brian Fallon release. Basically, 2016 was a perfect year of music for me. Everything on my top 6 was legitimately 'AOTY' level. I think that this year was my favorite music year ever.
Alright, here's where I'm at. Got my top 8 decided. Narrow my list down to 18 from about 40ish so it's progress. 1. Touche Amore - Stage Four 2. Architects - All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us 3. Tiny Moving Parts - Celebrate 4. Trophy Eyes - Chemical Miracle 5. Every Time I Die - Low Teens 6. Moose Blood - Blush 7. White Lung - Paradise 8. Blink-182 - California Soasin - Along the Shadow Issues - Headspace Emarosa - 131 Trade Wind - You Make Everything Disappear Black Foxxes - I'm Not Well A Day to Remember - Bad Vibrations Norma Jean - Polar Similar Knocked Loose - Laugh Tracks Microwave - Much Love From Indian Lakes - Everything Feels Better Now
There's still a lot I need to catch up on from the last few months, but here's what I have at this point: 1. Jeff Rosenstock - WORRY. 2. Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book 3. Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor's Guide to Earth 4. A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It From Here...Thank You 4 Your Service 5. Kanye West - The Life of Pablo 6. The Hotelier - Goodness 7. Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition 8. Parker Millsap - The Very Last Day 9. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool 10. Pinegrove - Cardinal 11. Lydia Loveless - Real 12. Young Thug - Jeffery 13. Beyonce - Lemonade 14. Against Me! - Shape Shift With Me 15. LVL UP - Return to Love 16. YG - Still Brazy 17. Jimmy Eat World - Integrity Blues 18. Drive-By Truckers - American Band 19. Maren Morris - Hero 20. Noname - Telefone 21. Joyce Manor - Cody 22. Descendents - Hypercaffium Spazzinate 23. The 1975 - I like it when you sleep... 24. Miranda Lambert - The Weight of These Wings 25. Frank Ocean - Blonde
If you're looking for recs that might be a little outside your wheelhouse, I can really vouch for Lydia Loveless and Mary Chapin Carpenter
1. blink-182 - California 2. Panic! At The Disco - Death Of A Bachelor 3. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool 4. Third Eye Blind - We Are Drugs 5. Jimmy Eat World - Integrity Blues 6. Thrice - To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere 7. Taking Back Sunday - Tidal Wave 8. Sum 41 - 13 Voices 9. Parachute - Wide Awake 10. Steve Moakler - self-titled Honorable Mention: Metallica - Hardwired…To Self-Destruct I love that this list could have easily come from the early 2000's (for the most part) haha what an awesome throwback year it's been.