1. The Hotelier - Goodness 2. Galileo Galilei - Sea and the Darkness 3. The Dear Hunter - Act V: Hymns with the Devil in Confessional 4. Crying - Beyond the Fleeting Gales 5. Pinegrove - Cardinal 6. Panic! at the Disco - Death of a Bachelor 7. BRAZA - BRAZA 8. Supercombo - Rogério 9. The 1975 - I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it 10. Chairlift - Moth 11. Baleia - Atlas 12. blink-182 - California 13. Biffy Clyro - Ellipsis 14. Mahmundi - Mahmundi 15. Jimmy Eat World - Integrity Blues 16. Somos - First Day Back 17. American Football - American Football 18. Tegan & Sara - Love You to Death 19. The Descendents - Hypercaffium Spazzinate 20. Shields - How Can We Fix This? 21. Pierce the Veil - Misadventures 22. DIIV - Is the Is Are 23. Posture & the Grizzly - I Am Satan 24. Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book 25. Cymbals Eat Guitars - Pretty Years 26. Against Me! - Shape Shift with Me 27. Yellowcard - Yellowcard 28. PSY - The 7th Album 29. Francis & the Lights - Farewell, Starlite! 30. Catfish & the Bottlemen - The Ride EPs 1. Aaron West & the Roaring Twenties - Bittersweet 2. tricot - Kabuku 3. The Starting Line - Anyways 4. Turnover - Humblest Pleasures 5. Fióti - Gente Bonita 6. TWIABP - Formlessness 7. TWIABP - Long Live Happy Birthday
What a Year. Too hard to rank such a stacked year, so I ranked 25 and 50 more just in alpha order. "Honorable Mention" A Tribe Called Quest // We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service American Football // American Football II Basement // Promise Everything Beach Slang // A Loud Bash Of Teenage Feelings Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals // Call It What It Is Blink 182 // California Bloc Party // Hymns Bob Mould // Patch The Sky Brian Fallon // Painkillers Broken Beak // Broken Beak Car Seet Headrest // Teens Of Denial Caveman // Otero War Connections // Midnight Run Crying // Beyond The Fleeting Gates Diarrhea Planet // Turn To Gold DIIV // Is The Is Are DMA’s // Hills End Drive-By Truckers // American Band Green Day // Revolution Radio Grouplove // Big Mess Iggy Pop // Post Pop Depression Jank // Versace Summer/Awkward Pop Songs Joyce Manor // Cody JPNSGRLS // Divorce Lonely The Brave // Things Will Matter LVL UP // Return To Love M83 // Junk Merchandise // A Corpse Wired For Sound Microwave // Much Love Miike Snow // iii Moose Blood // Blush Nothing // Tired Of Tomorrow Pete Yorn // ArrangingTime Phantogram // Three Pity Sex // White Hot Moon PUP // The Dream Is Over Ray LaMontagne // Ouroboros Shearwater // Jet Plane And Oxbow Somos // First Day Back St. Lucia // Matter Sunflower Bean // Human Ceremony Switchfoot // Where The Light Shines Through Third Eye Blind // We Are Drugs EP Touche Amore // Stage Four Whitney // Light Upon The Lake Wild Nothing // Life Of Pause Wye Oak // Tween You Blew It! // Abendrot Young The Giant // Home Of The Strange Yuck // Stranger Things Top 25: 25) Every Time I Die // Low Teens 24) Taking Back Sunday // Tidal Wave 23) Gates // Parallel Lives 22) Local Natives // Sunlit Youth 21) Jeff Rosenstock // Worry. 20) Cymbals Eat Guitars // Pretty Years 19) Band Of Horses // Why Are You OK 18) Balance And Composure // Light We Made 17) Steve Gunn // Eyes On The Lines 16) Kings Of Leon // WALLS 15) Wilco // Schmilco 14) Radiohead // A Moon Shaped Pool 13) Red Hot Chili Peppers // The Getaway 12) Weezer // Weezer (White Album) 11) Modern Baseball // Holy Ghost 10) Pinegrove // Cardinal 9) The 1975 // I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful, Yet So Unaware Of It 8) David Bowie // Blackstar 7) Bon Iver // 22, A Million 6) Jimmy Eat World // Integrity Blues 5) Nada Surf // You Know Who You Are 4) Into It. Over It. // Standards 3) Deftones // Gore 2) Thrice // To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere 1) The Hotelier // Goodness
Couldn't keep up with music as much this year, unfortunately. Absolutely adore these ten though. 1. Bree Tranter - Another Night On Earth 2. Half/Cut - Ecco Locale 3. Busted - Night Driver 4. Dope Lemon - Honey Bones 5. Postiljonen - Reverie 6. Valley Hush - Valley Hush 7. Memoryhouse - Soft Hate 8. The 1975 - I Like It When You Sleep... 9. Twin River - Passing Shade 10. Matt Corby - Telluric
I have a list of 30, that I'll whittle down. There's no numbers or ranking here. I've 100% forgotten multiple albums but I spent about 15 minutes trying to remember everything 2016 was amazing. fuck i forgot solange, savages and beyonce.
This. Glad to hear there are more people out there that get it. I feel like they should be way bigger than they are.
Ok, this might change, but I think this is it: 1) Bon Iver - 22, A Million 2) Gojira - Magma 3) The Hotelier - Goodness 4) Daughter - Not To Disappear 5) Dillinger Escape Plan - Dissociation 6) Black Peaks - Statues 7) Overhead, The Albatross - Learning To Growl 8) Touche Amore - Stage Four 9) Angel Olsen - My Woman 10) Deftones - Gore 11) Modern Baseball - Holy Ghost 12) Shura - Nothing's Real 13) Every Time I Die - Teen Years 14) Weezer - The White Album 15) David Bowie - Blackstar 16) Savages - Adore Life 17) Milk Teeth - Vile Child 18) Brian Fallon - Painkillers 19) Russian Circles - Guidance 20) Thrice - To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere
1. Kanye West- The Life of Pablo 2. Pinegrove- Cardinal 3. Jeff Rosenstock- WORRY. 4. Car Seat Headrest- Teens of Denial 5. Chance the Rapper- Coloring Book 6. Bon Iver- 22, A Million 7. Beyoncé- Lemonade 8. Sturgill Simpson- A Sailors Guide to Earth 9. Frank Ocean- Blonde 10. David Bowie- Blackstar 11. PUP- The Dream is Over 12. Radiohead- A Moon Shaped Pool 13. The Hotelier- Goodness 14. Cymbals Eat Guitars- Pretty Years 15. Miranda Lambert- The Weight of These Wings Best Songs (no order) Kanye West- Ultralight Beam Kanye West- Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 1 Radiohead- True Love Waits Miranda Lambert- Vice Joyce Manor- Last You Heard of Me Beyoncé- Sorry Beyoncé- Hold Up PUP- DVP Conor Oberst- Tachycardia Weezer- LA Girlz Frank Ocean- Ivy Solange- Cranes in the Sky Bon Iver- 22 Over Soon Leonard Cohen- Treaty Jeff Rosenstock- Pash Rash Rihanna- Higher Los Campesinos- I Broke Up in Amrante Drake- Feel No Ways Mitski- Your Best American Girl Pinegrove- Aphasia Sturgill Simpson- Oh Sarah Chance the Rapper- No Problems Car Seat Headrest- Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales The Hotelier- Soft Animal Cymbals Eat Guitars- Wish
If someone told me last year year that a Weezer album would make my top 5 and a Kanye West wouldn't and Donald Trump would be president I would- Albums: 1) Bon Iver - 22, a million 2) The Range - Potential 3) The Hotelier - Goodness 4) Weezer- The White Album 5) Local Natives - Sunlit Youth (EP Honerable mentions: Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion Bsides, Vince Staples - Prima Donna) Songs: 1) Local Natives - Villiany 2) ANOHNI - 4 Degrees 3) Wild Beats - Dreamliner 4) Bon Iver - 8 (circle) 5) Frightened Rabbit - An Otherwise Disappointing Life 6) SBTRKT - Good Morning (ft The-Dream) 7) M83- Go! (ft Mai Lan) 8) GTA - Little Bit of this (ft Vince Staples) 9) Future - Fly Shit Only 10) Weezer - Thank God for Girls
folks, alright, here it is: David Bowie - Blackstar Cymbals Eat Guitars - Pretty Years Bon Iver - 22, a Million Blood Orange - Freetown Sound Okkervil River - Away Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition LVL UP - Return to Love Frank Ocean - Blond Kvelertak - Nattesferd Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool Pinegrove - Cardinal Mitski - Puberty 2 Helms Alee - Stillicide Autolux - Pussy’s Dead Mick Jenkins - The Healing Component The Weeknd - Starboy Hamilton + Rostam - I Had a Dream That You Were Mine Russian Circles - Guidance Chairlift - Moth Kanye West - The Life of Pablo An Autumn for Crippled Children - Eternal Sumac - What One Becomes Wye Oak - Tween True Widow - Avvolgere Young Thug - Jeffrey Khemmis - Hunted Lucy Dacus - No Burden Bossk - Audio Noir Dinosaur Jr. - Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book Red Fang - Only Ghosts NxWorries - Yes Lawd! YG - Still Brazy Show Me a Dinosaur - S/T Beyonce - Lemonade Hiss Golden Messenger - Heart Like a Levee Whitney - Light Upon the Lake Every Time I Die - Low Teens Young Thug - Slime Season 3 Explosions in the Sky - The Wilderness Bleached - Welcome the Worms Touche Amore - Stage 4 Kevin Devine - Instigator Conor Oberst - Ruminations Anderson Paak - Malibu Isaiah Rashad - The Sun’s Tirade 2 Chainz - Collegrove Inter Arma - Paradise Gallows Warpaint - Heads Up Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depression some honorable mentions: lydia loveless o'brother greys thrice ttng happy diving deftones noname sturgill simpson frameworks pup modern baseball crying kevin morby culture abuse kaytranada parquet courts kendrick lamar car seat headrest jimmy eat world diiv joyce manor wilco
Felt like this the second I heard it. I knew instantly that it was special and that Pinegrove was a special band. I see them as the torch bearers for the future of indie punk stuff. I think they're gonna be the band to really break into the mainstream from this scene and it's going to be fun to watch.
Favorite Albums 1. Modern Baseball – Holy Ghost 2. Trophy Eyes – Chemical Miracle 3. Cold Collective-Bachelorette Party 4. The Hotelier - Goodness 5. Crying – Beyond the Fleeting Gales 6. Into It. Over It. - Standards 7. Moose Blood - Blush 8. Basement – Promise Everything 9. Tancred – Out of the Garden 10. Tiny Moving Parts - Celebrate 11. Joyce Manor - Cody 12. Thrice – To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere 13. Taking Back Sunday – Tidal Wave 14. Milk Teeth- Vile Child 15. Frameworks - Smother 16. Balance & Composure – Light We Made 17. Microwave - Much Love 18. Two Tongues – Two Tongues Two 19. Mat Kerekes – Luna and the Wild Blue Everything 20. Slaughter Beach, Dog - Welcome 21. Panic! At The Disco – Death of A Bachelor 22. Against The Current – In Our Bones 23. You Blew It! - Abendrot 24. Say Anything – I Don’t Think It Is 25. Pity Sex - White Hot Moon 26. All Get Out – Nobody Likes A Quitter 27. Jimmy Eat World – Integrity Blues 28. Touche Amore – Part Four 29. Gates – Parallel Lives 30. Vinnie Caruana - Survivor’s Guilt Honorable Mentions -blink-182 – California -Field Mouse – Episodic -Sherwood – Some Things Never Leave You -My Iron Lung – Learn To Leave -Cardiknox – Portrait Favorite EPs 1. Can’t Swim – Death Deserves A Name 2. K. Flay – Crush Me 3. Elvis Depressedly - California Dreamin’ 4. Stickup Kid – Debris Biggest Letdowns 1. The 1975 - I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it 2. Relient K – Air For Free 3. Teen Suicide - It's the Big Joyous Celebration, Let's Stir the Honeypot 4. Yellowcard – Yellowcard 5. Tonight Alive – Limitless
Besides my top 10 which is (relatively) settled, I've found it extremely difficult to split/order the rest of the stuff I've liked, and there's a ton of good stuff that I just haven't spent enough time with which I'm sure will completely change this list in 12 months. Top 10 (in order) The Hotelier - Goodness Pinegrove - Cardinal Daughter - Not to Disappear Cymbals Eat Guitars - Pretty Years Joyce Manor - Cody Kanye West - The Life of Pablo Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial Balance & Composure - Light We Made You Blew It - Abendrot Into It. Over It. - Standards Top 20 (I think...) Jeff Rosenstock - WORRY. White Lung - Paradise American Football - LP2 Deer Leap - Impermanence Jimmy Eat World - Integrity Blues Touche Amore - Stage Four PUP - The Dream is Over LVL Up - Return to Love Camp Cope - S/T Somos - First Day Back I guess the rest of my 'top 50' but in no real order Posture & The Grizzly - I Am Satan Clique - Burden Piece Sioux Falls - Rot Forever Nothing - Tired of Tomorrow Modern Baseball - Holy Ghost Frank Ocean - Blonde Microwave - Much Love Options - Maxed Out DIIV - Is the Is Are Creative Adult - Fear of Life Signals Midwest - At This Age Merchandise - A Corpse Wired for Sound Peaer - S/T Teen Suicide - It's the Big Joyus Celebration, Let's Stir the Honeypot Japanese Breakfast - Psychopomp The 1975 - I like it when you sleep… Oathbreaker - Rhea SPORT - Slow Jouska - Topiary Look Mexico - Uniola Mother Evergreen - S/T From Indian Lakes - Everything Feels Better Now Fox Wound - In Passing, You Too Faded Planes Mistaken for Stars - Prey Personal Space - Ecstatic Burbs Crying - Beyond the Fleeting Gales All Get Out - Nobody Likes a Quitter Tyler Daniel Bean - On Days Soon To Pass Melt - Riffer The Only Ghost in Town - Mirage Favourite songs of 2016 (in order): The Hotelier - Soft Animal Pinegrove - Waveform Into It. Over It. - No EQ Daughter - New Ways Joyce Manor - Angel In the Snow Balance & Composure - Postcard Car Seat Headrest - Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales White Lung - Sister The 1975 - Somebody Else Kanye West - Wolves
I'm still waiting on Cudi to officially decide but here is My top 15 albums this year: 1. Frank Ocean- blond. 2. The 1975 - I like it when you sleep... 3. Childish Gambino - Awaken, My Love 4. Kanye West - The Life of Pablo 5. Chance The Rapper- Coloring Book 6. blink -182 - California 7. Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein - Stranger Things Soundtrack 8. Knocked Loose - Laugh Tracks 9. Drake - Views 10. The Devil Wears Prada - Transit Blues 11. Every Time I Die - Low Teens 12. Emarosa - 131 13. Frank Ocean - Endless 14. Bad Rabbits - American Nightmare 15. J. Cole - 4 Your Eyez Only Top 10 songs: 1. Frank Ocean - Nights 2. Rae Sremmurd - Black Beatles 3. Twenty One Pilots - Heathens 4. Kanye West - Famous 5. DJ Snake - Let Me Love You 6. Chance The Rapper - No Problem 7. Knocked Loose - Deadringer 8. Childish Gambino - Boogieman 9. Frank Ocean - Pink + White 10. The 1975 - The Sound
Top 10 The Hotelier - Goodness Pinegrove - Cardinal Bon Iver - 22, A Million John K Samson - Winter Wheat LVL UP - Return to Love Touche Amore - Stage Four O' Brother - Endless Light Joyce Manor - Cody Into It. Over It. - Standards Kevin Devine - Instigator
I forgot about Tweet's album, "Charlene", a great R&B album that nobody noticed EDIT: Damn it Tweet might be in my top 10. Ah well.