instead of listing 2016 albums, i made a list of albums from any year that i listened to for the first time this year. absolutely enamored with the first five on this list, everything else is ranked kind of roughly and ranges from solidly enjoyable to "wish i'd spent more time with". 1. the hotelier - goodness (2016) 2. loner chic - year of the goth (2016) 3. sparklehorse - vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot (1992) 4. the wrens - the meadowlands (2003) 5. told slant - still water (2012) 6. cymbals eat guitars - pretty years (2016) 7. pinegrove - cardinal (2016) 8. infinity crush - unreleased songs and demos (2016) 9. jeff rosenstock - worry. (2016) 10. frankie cosmos - next thing (2016) 11. johnny goth - gray sky (2015) 12. katie dey - asdfasdf (2015) 13. sioux falls - rot forever (2016) 14. twiabp - harmlessness (2015) 15. as gideon weeps - palindrome (2016) + little life, little death (2015) 16. conor oberst - ruminations (2016) 17. all get out - nobody likes a quitter (2016) 18. julien baker - sprained ankle (2015) 19. logan archer - bring it out of me (2016/half-assedly released) 20. panoramic/talk, tired thanatoid - split (2016) songs from records not listed above that really stuck with me (particularly the first one): Walking Home At Night, by Birote The Musical Wasted on the Senate Floor, by Emperor X exegetical heretical, by alyssa kai Baked Goods, by Young Jesus In Heaven, by Japanese Breakfast Self Help, by Cotton Ships Lookers, by The Menzingers Your Best American Girl, by Mitski + my friends' unreleased music that i wish i could list here
Rihanna's ANTI is that yearly album that appears on so many lists and makes me really scratch my head.
It's a really great album imo but I don't think it's top 20 good. I think a lot of it comes from it being Rihanna's best album.
Anti is fucking great, and I have not liked a Rihanna album since her first one (I do think Rude Boy was a banger though)
Green Day - Revolution Radio Panic At The Disco - Death of A Bachelor ETID - Low Teens Childish Gambino - Awaken My Love DGD - Mothership Against ME! - Shape Shift With Me Thrice - To Be Everywhere is To Be Nowhere Kanye West - The Life of Pablo Into It. Over It. - Standards Yellowcard - Yellowcard Blink 182 - California Moose Blood - Blush Direct Hit - Wasted Mind The Weeknd - Starboy Letlive - If I'm the Devil...
1.Thrice - To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere 2. Architects - All Of Our Gods Have Abandoned Us 3. Bayside - Vacancy 4. Every Time I Die - Low Teens 5. Letlive - If I'm The Devil... 6. Touche Amore - Stage Four 7. Norma Jean - Polar Similar 8. Silent Planet - Everything Was Sound 9. Neurosis - Fire Within Fires 10. Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas - Mariner 11. Emarosa - 131 12. Saosin - Along The Shadow 13. Vanna - All Hell 14. Brian Fallon - Painkillers 15. White Lung - Paradise 16. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Dissociation 17. Basement - Promise Everything 18. The Color Morale - Desolate Divine 19. Nails - You Will Never Be One of Us 20. Balance & Composure - Light We Made
This year was tough. There was so much good music, but it made it hard to pay attention to everything. Here are my Top 25 though, which includes EPs as well. The top 3 are are definitive. 4-10 could probably be rearranged depending on the day, and I cheated a bit by combining Nada Surfs new album with the live one they put out recently. 11-25 I had a bit of a hard time with, in terms of ordering. That could also be rearranged depending on my mood, but I had to stop at some point. 1. Kevin Devine - Instigator 2. Pinegrove - Cardinal 3. David Bazan - Blanco 4. All Get Out - Nobody Likes A Quitter 5. The Hotelier - Goodness 6. Jimmy Eat World - Integrity Blues 7. Nada Surf - Peaceful Ghosts/You Know Who You Are 8. Francis - Marathon 9. The Furniture - Park Cars EP 10. Modern Baseball - Holy Ghost 11. Band of Horses - Why Are You Ok 12. Wet - Don't You 13. Into It Over It - Standards 14. John K Samson - Winter Wheat 15. Jim James - Eternally Even 16. TW Walsh - Fruitless Research 17. Tokyo Police Club - Melon Collie and Infinite Radness I and II 18. Saint Seneca -The Mallwalker EP 19. Wilco - Schmilco 20. The Starting Line - Anyways EP 21. Rogue Wave - Delusions of Grand Fur 22. Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial 23. Bon Iver - 22, A Million 24. Hallelujah The Hills - A Band Is Something To Figure Out 25. Nighttime Sunshine - Nighttime Sunshine EP
I think I'm ready to just stop thinking about this so much. I don't see this list changing much between now and the next couple weeks since I didn't get to play catch up much this month due to the end of the semester and some personal issues. Anyway, these are the albums that I loved this year that really grabbed me and held my attention, or that I came back to after a while and still found myself loving them. My #1 has absolutely become a very important album in my life. Enjoy. Or don't. 1. The 1975 - I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It 2. Touche Amore - Stage Four 3. Frank Ocean - Blond 4. Jimmy Eat World - Integrity Blues 5. Every Time I Die - Low Teens 6. Oathbreaker - Rheia 7. Thrice - To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere 8. Deftones - Gore 9. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool 10. The Weeknd - Starboy 11. Russian Circles - Guidance 12. The Hotelier - Goodness 13. Frameworks - Smother 14. O'Brother - Endless Light 15. Balance And Composure - Light We Made 16. YG - Still Brazy 17. Pinegrove - Cardinal 18. Daughter - Not To Disappear 19. Gates - Parallel Lives 20. An Autumn For Crippled Children - Eternal
Album: 1. Against the Current – In Our Bones 2. Panic! At the Disco – Death of a Bachelor 3. Taking Back Sunday – Tidal Wave 4. Yellowcard – Yellowcard 5. Anarbor – Anarbor 6. Dance Gavin Dance – Mothership 7. Tiny Moving Parts – Celebrate 8. Moose Blood – Blush 9. A Day to Remember – Bad Vibrations 10. Trophy Eyes – Chemical Miracle 11. Bayside – Vacancy 12. Young the Giant – Home of the Strange 13. Architects – All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us 14. Jimmy Eat World – Integrity Blues 15. AJJ – The Bible 2 16. An Harbor – May 17. Emarosa – 131 18. The Rocket Summer – Zoetic 19. Tegan and Sara – Love You to Death 20. ROAM – Backbone EP: 1. Aaron West & The Roaring Twenties – Bittersweet 2. Creeper – The Stranger 3. Frank Turner – Mittens 4. Flamingo – Flamingo 5. River Oaks – River Oaks Lots of Hopeless stuff as usual.
Kiss It Better, Desperado, Needed Me, Love on the Brain and Higher are enough to get Anti on my list. AND THEN there are more great tracks. Save for Woo, it's excellent front to back
I do agree, and I really like that song, but for some reasons it just doesn't feel like it fits on the album for me. I can't really complain because it's awesome, but it feels weird every time I get there in the album
Still digesting YG, Posture and the Grizzly, Kevin Gates, Skepta, and Ash Borer. Though here is my top 10 songs and my fav albums. Songs: 1) The 1975- If I Believe You 2) O'Brother- Your Move 3) Frank Ocean- Nights 4) Future- Low Life 5) Thrice- The Long Defeat 6) Jeff Rosenstock- I Think I Did Something Weird Last Night 7) The Hotelier- Settle the Scar 8) Kanye West- Real Friends 9) Deftones- Phantom Bride 10) The Range- Copper Wire Albums: 1)The 1975- I Like It When You Sleep 2) Jeff Rosenstock- Worry 3) Future- EVOL 4) O'Brother- Endless Light 5) Oathbreaker- Rheia 6) Frank Ocean- Blond 7) Balance and Composure- Light We Made 8) Thrice- To Be Everywhere is to Be Nowhere 9) Touché Amore- Stage Four 10) Deftones- Gore 11) Bon Iver- 22, A Million 12) Chance the Rapper- Coloring Book 13) The Hotelier- Goodness 14) Pinegrove- Cardinal 15) Kanye West- The Life of Pablo 16) The Range- Potential 17) Joyce Manner- Cody 18) Dance Gavin Dance- Mothership 19) Radiohead- A Moon Shaped Pool 20) Young Thug- Jeffrey 21) Crying- Beyond the Fleeting Gales 22) Neurosis- Fire Within Fires 23) Saosin- Along the Shadow 24) Sianvar- Stay Lost 25) Clams Casino- 32 Levels Honorable mentions: Vince Staples- Prima Donna Kendrick Lamar- Untitled Unmastered You Blew It!- Abendrot Young Thug- SS3 & I'm Up Future- Purple Reign 65 Days of Static- OST of No Man's Sky
Really liked this Caught up with the thread, bunch of stuff to listen to that I forgot about or never heard of. But not touching my list again I've edited that thing slightly way too many times.
1. Tiny Moving Parts - Celebrate 2. Paper Route - Real Emotion 3. Jimmy Eat World - Integrity Blues 4. The Starting Line - Anyways EP 5. Band of Horses - Why Are You OK 6. All Get Out - Nobody Likes A Quitter 7. Bon Iver - 22, A Million 8. Blink-182 - California 9. Explosions in the Sky - The Wilderness 1 and 2 listened to almost daily since their releases.