Chorus.fm Members EOTY Lists 2016 • Page 6

every year is great but some years are greater than others

 

I genuinely believe this year was been phenomenal for new music, at least in my own world. Not that other years aren't great, but I've had to, at one time or another, wonder if every album in my top 5 could not only be my AOTY but be considered an all-time favorite.

 

*The Incredibles voice* "If every year is great.... the none are".

 

Boooo

 

I'm going to be controversial and say this year hasn't been unusually good or anything. I've had one absolute 10/10 this year, and a handful of very, very good records. I don't think it's been any better than other years.

 

Like I said my top 3 albums saved my life... that's never happened to me before

 

I think out of the 200 albums I listened to at least 75 of them i'd consider great. I think it's been a really rewarding year music wise

 

I agree. Not a bad year at all, but hasn't stood out above other recent years imo.

 

I want to see what I had for 2015. Don't remember what I picked outside of TPAB being #1 or maybe that was Kamasi Washington

 

My top 10 last year would mostly be the same

 

I'm kind of the same to a certain extent. I think it's been an amazing year for 'really good' albums; there's so much good stuff in fact that I know I'm going to have real problems creating a definitive enough list.

However, I don't think there's been as many absolute 10/10 worldies as I was expecting, especially given how many great bands/artists have been releasing stuff this year.

 

10/10's arent common any year

 

I think I've currently only got one that I'd describe as 10/10. And a huge bunch of 8 and 9/10s.

 

do you not love 8's and 9's? a record doesnt have to be a 10 for me to love it. i love everything in my top 50 and several beyond but only my top 3 even approach 10

 

There's a bunch of 9s I love, yeah.

 

I think if we compare 10/10s, this year is about on par with the others.

2013 had three 10/10s for me. All Scottish! That's probably my favourite year in a while.

 

1. The Hotelier - Goodness

At this time of the year, it's harder to remember the time and place of Goodness. I have to reconnect with this already vague memory of spring and nature and seeing them in Vermont. But I remember playing it back to back, obsessed with how the album creates its own space that you feel around you and inside you.

2. Pinegrove - Cardinal
3. Jimmy Eat World - Integrity Blues
4. Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial
5. The 1975 - i like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it
6. Jeff Rosenstock - WORRY.
7. PUP - The Dream Is Over
8. Mitski - Puberty 2
9. Thrice - To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere
10. Brian Fallon - Painkillers
11. Frank Ocean - Blonde
12. Touché Amoré - Stage Four
13. Saosin - Along The Shadow
14. Cymbals Eat Guitars - Pretty Years
15. Conor Oberst - Ruminations
16. Cassino - Bottlenecker EP
17. Taking Back Sunday - Tidal Wave
18. Modern Baseball - Holy Ghost
19. Beyoncé - Lemonade
20. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
21. Kanye West - The Life of Pablo
22. All Get Out - Nobody Likes a Quitter
23. Owen - The King of Whys
24. Crying - Beyond the Fleeting Gates
25. Blood Orange - Freetown Sound
26. Kevin Devine - Instigator
27. Say Anything - I Don't Think It Is
28. Explosions In The Sky - The Wilderness
29. From Indian Lakes - Everything Feels Better Now
30. Joyce Manor - Cody

 

Frank is my 10, with Vektor and Radiohead being very close.

 

I seriously listened to 20 albums this year. So, here's how I rank my year. This is one of, if not my favorite year for music ever at this point.
View attachment 4878

 

I've had maybe three 10's this decade.

 

Really? I usually have two or three every year.

 

i never give tens immediately, a record to me is only a ten is if it continues growing on me and never at any point dips in quality or i get tired of listening to it

 

Looking at my RYM I only have 30 albums that I've given 5 stars to and probably 20 or so of those are from 2002-2009

 

Interesting. Which are the three or so this decade?

 

Infinity Crush - When We're Snow, The Hotelier - Home, Like Noplace is There and Hellogoodbye - Would It Kill You. All three just blow me away in every aspect and I love every song an incredible amount except for Housebroken but I can ignore that.