Chorus.fm Members EOTY Lists 2017 • Page 15

I do, and listening to it on Spotify led me to find Pumarosa, The Big Moon, and Girl Ray.

 

You're the only person I know who's mentioned Pumarosa! They're on my EOTY list too!

 

Did you post yours yet, or are you still working on it? I’m interested to see it

 

Still working on it. I've chosen 50 albums, don't know where I'm putting them all yet, and allowing time for any that sneak up on me

 

Ah, 2017. It was a wild year for me, and as is typical, different music played different parts in my life. Early in the year, my apartment was destroyed in a fire, and the near-death-ness inspired me to quit my steady job. I spent six months or so living with other people while working 70+ hours a week to save up for graduate school. I moved to Philadelphia in September and started my MFA program. Right after the fire, I went to the Diet Cig record release show in Brooklyn with some of my friends and we had the best time. The show was awesome, but being with my friends and having a good time also just felt really good and cathartic.

The Diet Cig record, Swear I’m Good At This, and the Japandroids records, Near to the Wild Heart of Life, were on repeat during those days. I discovered that driving from my fiance’s grandmother’s house -- where we had been living at the time -- to a new city with my life packed in the car and an eclipse overhead might be the perfect time to listen to the Japandroids. If anyone else is ever in that situation, definitely put on Near to the Wild Heart of Life.

Also shortly after the fire (and the insurance check), I splurged on tickets to Jason Isbell in Nashville in October. My parents, my fiancé, and I went down there, toured the city, ate hot chicken and BBQ, drank in front of live music, bought records and saw Jason two nights at the Ryman Auditorium. Incredible shows and a great experience.

XPNFest and Shadow of the City were great this year. A co-worker at my job over the summer was also a Bleachers fan and we blasted Gone Now a lot, our hard-working summer culminating at the Stone Pony at the very beginning of local summer, screaming “you survived motherfucker you’ve got to give yourself a break” into each other’s faces.

Some old favorites put out solid records this year (Old 97’s, Josh Ritter, Blitzen Trapper, Dan Wilson, The Killers) some new acts jumped onto my radar and have become potential new favorites (Tyler Childers, Gang of Youths, Sheer Mag, Alex Lahey) and there’s still a ton of stuff I haven’t given enough listens (Nicole Atkins, Deer Tick, Amber Coffman, The Mountain Goats, Liam Gallagher). I’d also like to improve the amount of female artists I listen to: in my top 30 there’s 10 but just 2 in the top 10. Anyway, here’s my 30 favorite albums, 10 favorite songs, my favorite shows of the year, some 2016 albums, and some of the albums I’m most looking forward to in 2018.

Albums:

1. Japandroids - Near to the Wild Heart of Life
2. Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit - The Nashville Sound
3. Diet Cig - Swear I’m Good At This
4. Old 97s - Graveyard Whistling
5. Tyler Childers - Purgatory
6. Josh Ritter - Gathering
7. Gang of Youths - Go Farther in Lightness
8. Bleachers - Gone Now
9. Alex Lahey - Love You Like A Brother
10. White Reaper - The World’s Best American Band
11. Colter Wall - Colter Wall
12. Blitzen Trapper - Wild and Reckless
13. Sheer Mag - Need To Feel Your Love
14. The Killers - Wonderful, Wonderful
15. John Moreland - Big Bad Luv
16. Dan Wilson - Re-Covered
17. Neil Young - Hitchhiker
18. Charly Bliss - Guppy
19. The Wild Reeds - The World We Built
20. Haim - Something To Tell You
21. Ron Gallo - Heavy Meta
22. Alex the Astronaut - See You Soon - EP and To Whom It May Concern - EP
23. Chuck Prophet - Bobby Fuller Died For Your Sins
24. Craig Finn - We All Want the Same Thing
25. Bridget Kearney - Won’t Let You Down
26. Paramore - After Laughter
27. Girlpool - Powerplant
28. Bash & Pop - Anything Can Happen
29. Dead Man Winter - Furnace
30. Cloud Nothings - Life Without Sound

10 songs:

“Say Yes To Life” by Gang of Youths
“If We Were Vampires” by Jason Isbell
“Feathered Indians” by Tyler Childers
“Dream of Mickey Mantle” by Bleachers
“God in Chicago” by Craig Finn
“Want You Back” by Haim
“Cut to the Feeling” by Carly Rae Jepsen
“Talking About Love To A Cigarette” by Wilderado
“Latchkey Kid” by John Moreland
"New Year's Day" by Taylor Swift

Shows:
- Shovels and Rope at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park - it was a really electric crowd and they always put on a fantastic show, one of the best live acts around, but they could feel it in the room and somehow stepped it up.
- The aformentioned Diet Cig at Baby’s Back in Brooklyn
- Shadow of the City, mostly Bleachers but also Titus Andronicus and Brian Fallon
- Josh Ritter at Union Transfer in Philadelphia
- Brian Fallon, solo and acoustic, at House of Independents in Asbury Park

2016 albums that I didn't listen to enough then but have now and would have been on my list last year:
Kyle Craft - Dolls of Highland
Courtney Marie Andrews - Honest Life
Margaret Glaspy - Emotions and Math
Maren Morris - Hero

2018 anticipated:

Sleepwalkers by Brian Fallon
Ruins by First Aid Kit
Solo music by Katie Toupin
A new Houndmouth album
Full Circle Nightmare Kyle Craft
Street Safari by Public Access TV
Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life by The Wombats
Hoping for something new from:
- Decemberists
- John Fullbright
- Titus Andronicus
- Hamilton Leithauser

 

The Menzingers - After The Party
Propagandhi - Victory Lap
Converge - The Dusk In Us
Silverstein - Dead Reflection
Hundred Suns - The Presatalis
Darkest Hour - Godless Prophets and the Migrant Flora
Cloakroom - Time Well
Dave Hause - Bury Me In Philly
Pvris - All We Know Is Heaven, All We Know Is Hell
While She Sleeps - You Are We
The Ongoing Concept - Places
AFI - The Blood Album
Less Art - Strangled Light
Code Orange - Forever
Mutoid Man - War Moans
Hundredth - Rare
The Flatliners - Inviting Light
He Is Legend - Few
Fit For An Autopsy - The Great Collapse

 

Awesome, look forward to it

 

More than half of the acts on your list are also in mine :)

 

That’s so cool, that means I have halfway decent taste in music

 

Not sure which is worse: that you cheated and included the Neil Young album, or that you ranked it below The Killers.

Kidding. Nice list.

 

Of course you do!

 

1. Kendrick Lamar - Damn.
2. Julien Baker - Turn Out the Lights
3. King Krule - The Ooz
4. Manchester Orchestra - A Black Mile to the Surface
5. SZA - ctrl
6. Big Thief - Capacity
7. Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger In the Alps
8. Loyle Carner - Yesterday's Gone
9. Lorde - Melodrama
10. The National - Sleep Well Beast

 

I think you would like Power Trip. They’re very Ride the Lightning/Master Of Puppets era of Metallica at times.

 

Enjoyed reading this.

Craig Finn is 13 and 25 on your list :)

 

Really enjoying this Japandroids record so far! I skipped it because I thought Celebration Rock was vastly overrated. Since I’m liking this record though I may have to revisit that one.

 

my list is getting very close to ready, i know you all have been waiting!!!!

 

i'm waiting on pins and needles and also anticipating being very disappointed at the same time. go cwhit!

 

that sounds like literally everything in my life, very fitting!!!

 

Pop songs of the year:

1. Chief Keef - Woah

That’s it

 

That's intriguing as hell.

 

i have no problem with this

 

My list of pop songs of the year is at like 50 haha, will be posting soon

 

1. Creeper - Eternity, In Your Arms
2. G perico - All Blue
3. The Menzingers - After The Party
4. Employed To Serve - The Warmth of a Dying Sun
5. Higher Power - Soul Structure
6. G Perico - 2 Tha Left
7. Sorority Noise - You're Not As ____ As You Think
8. Kamaiyah - Before I wake
9. Tyler The Creator - Flower Boy
10. Iron Chic - You Can't Stay Here
11. Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory
12. Converge - The Dusk In Us
13. Cursed Earth - Cycles of Grief
14. Dave Hause - Bury Me In Philly
15. Worriers - Survival Pop
16. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN
17. Muskets - Chew
18. Pvris - AWKOHAWKOH
19. Incendiary - Thousand Mile Stare
20. Code Orange - Forever
21. Mozzy - 1 Up Top Ahk
22. Drawing Last Breath - Final Sacrifice
23. Ruby Ibarra - Circa91
24. Tigers Jaw - Spin
25. Gucci Mane - Droptopwop
26. Prawn - Run
27. G Herbo - Humble Beast
28. Mozzy - Fake Famous
29. Watchcries - Wraith
30. Trapped Under Ice - Heatwave


I'll probably hate this tomorrow but w/e

 

I want @BoldTitan ‘s end of the year list.

It better be black mile 9 times and the right away great captain live album once.

 

Yeah, I probably like it better than a lot of actual 2017 records, but sort of hedged it because it's not a true 2017 record.

Whoops. Yeah I had him up there when it first came out but meant to bump it down as more albums came out this year. I guess that means I get to add Cloud Nothings, though.