Albums I liked a lot this year: Alkaline Trio - “Is This Thing Cursed?” Andrew WK - “You’re Not Alone” Caroline Rose - “Loner” Chvrches - “Love Is Dead” Iceage - “Beyondless” Justin Courtney Pierre - “In The Drink” Let’s Eat Grandma - “I’m All Ears” mewithoutYou - “[Untitled]” MxPx - “MxPx” Robyn - “Honey” Underoath - “Erase Me” Said Fantasy - “Chorus Noel” EP Wajatta - “Casual High Technology” Plus I listened to lots of old favorites like The Aquabats, Descendents, Less Than Jake, Ramones, Taylor Swift, The Cars, Blink 182, As Cities Burn, The Cool Kids, Beastie Boys, The Cooties, Five Iron Frenzy, New Order, Kraftwerk, NoFX, Operation Ivy, Sum 41, The Chariot, and more! Soundtracks Black Panther Katamari Damacy Comedy John Mulaney - “Kid Gorgeous At Radio City” Pete Holmes - “Dirty Clear” Podcasts Comedy Bang Bang Labeled: The Stories, Rumors And Legend Of Tooth And Nail Off Book: The Improvised Musical Podcast Raised By TV Screw It: We’re Just Gonna Talk About Spider-Man Spontaneanation The Good Place The Podcast You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes And random episodes of others. Concerts Andrew WK Jay Pharaoh Hannibal Burress I won’t even try to list TV and Movies...too much! And if there is anything that I remember I may edit this list. All things considered it was a great year. To an even better, happier 2019!
1. The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry 2. Now, Now - Saved 3. The Wonder Years - Sister Cities 4. Thrice - Palms 5. Silent Planet - When The End Began 6. CHVRCHES - Love is Dead 7. boygenius - boygenius EP 8. Death Cab For Cutie - Thank You For Today 9. Emery - Eve 10. Jeremy Zucker - Glisten EP
Love seeing lists from users I never see. Always gives me so much music to explore. Even if it is completely overwhelming. Always find a few gems. Cloakroom and Joey Bada$$ we’re my big finds from last year. And stayed with me all 2018. Thanks everyone for sharing.
1) Slaves - Beautiful Death 2) Underoath - Erase Me 3) SECRETS - Secrets 4) Cherry Pools - Less Religion, More Sex 5) The Amity Affliction - Misery 6) As It Is - The Great Depression 7) nothing.nowhere - Ruiner 8) Against The Current - Past Lives 9) The Story So Far - Proper Dose 10) The Plot In You - Dispose
This took me ages, and I'm more unsure about the order than in previous years, but here we are. Too much amazing music this year. Love to see everyone else's lists, makes me realize how much I missed out on! Favorite Full-Length Albums: 1. Jeff Rosenstock - Post- 2. Foxing - Nearer My God 3. mewithoutYou - [Untitled] 4. Casey - Where I Go When I Am Sleeping 5. Spanish Love Songs - Schmaltz 6. Soccer Mommy - Clean 7. Kero Kero Bonito - Time N' Place 8. Kids See Ghosts - Kids See Ghosts 9. Charmer - Charmer 10. Twenty One Pilots - Trench 11. Dance Gavin Dance - Artificial Selection 12. Father John Misty - God's Favorite Customer 13. Antarctigo Vespucci - Love In the Time of E-Mail 14. Earl Sweatshirt - Some Rap Songs 15. The Wonder Years - Sister Cities 16. Cloud District - Don't Give Up, Skeleton 17. Save Face - Merci 18. Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog 19. Vein - Errorzone 20. Architects - Holy Hell 21. Noname - Room 25 22. Brockhampton - Iridescence 23. Gulfer - Dog Bless 24. Pinegrove - Skylight 25. Hovvdy - Cranberry 26. All Get Out - No Bouquet 27. Turnstile - Time and Space 28. Ovlov - Tru 29. JPEGMAFIA - Veteran 30. Donovan Wolfington - Waves 31. Pusha T - Daytona 32. Mitski - Be the Cowboy 33. Atmosphere - Mi Vida Local 34. Polyphia - New Levels New Devils 35. Silent Planet - When The End Began 36. Kanye West - ye 37. American Pleasure Club - A Whole Fucking Lifetime of This 38. Cursive - Vitriola 39. Vundabar - Smell Smoke 40. El Ten Eleven - Banker's Hill 41. Retirement Party - Somewhat Literate 42. Nothing - Dance on the Blacktop 43. Fiddlehead - Springtime and Blind 44. Vince Staples - FM! 45. Snail Mail - Lush 46. Shad - A Short Story About War 47. Fog Lake - Captain 48. Delta Sleep - Ghost City 49. Mick Jenkins - Pieces of a Man 50. Justin Pierre - In the Drink (Also shoutouts to La Dispute, Marietta, and TTNG for releasing fantastic reworks/remasters of already existing albums. Decided not to include them in the list, but they are great and you should check them out too!) Favorite EPs: 1. Michael Cera Palin - I Don't Know How To Explain It 2. mewithoutYou - [untitled] 3. Stars Hollow - Happy Again 4. Invalids - Fulfillment 5. boygenius - boygenius Misc: Favorite Movies: 1. Paddington 2 2. Blindspotting 3. Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse 4. Burning 5. Hereditary 6. Won't You Be My Neighbor? 7. Avengers: Infinity War 8. Annihilation 9. Sorry to Bother You 10. The Sisters Brothers Favorite Games: 1. Smash Ultimate 2. Red Dead Redemption 2 3. Spider-Man 4. Octopath Traveler 5. Spyro: Reignited Trilogy Favorite Tv: 1. The Haunting of Hill House 2. Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind 3. My Hero Academia Season 3 4. Devilman Crybaby 5. That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime
Too late for anyone to give a shit, I'm sure, but: 1. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour 2. Dessa - Chime 3. The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships 4. Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness - Upside Down Flowers 5. Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer 6. The Xcerts - Hold on to Your Heart 7. Kina Grannis - In the Waiting 8. Ashley McBryde - Girl Going Nowhere 9. Brandi Carlile - By the Way, I Forgive You 10. John Butler Trio - Home 11. Troye Sivan - Bloom 12. The Decemberists - I'll Be Your Girl 13. Dawes - Passwords 14. Shad - A Short Story About War 15. Ruston Kelly - Dying Star 16. Chvrches - Love Is Dead 17. Mary Chapin Carpenter - Sometimes Just the Sky 18. Lori McKenna - The Tree 19. The Aces - When My Heart Felt Volcanic 20. Paul McCartney - Egypt Station 21. Big Red Machine - Big Red Machine 22. Thrice - Palms 23. Caitlyn Smith - Starfire 24. Snow Patrol - Wildness 25. Pinegrove - Skylight 26. Now, Now - Saved 27. Cloud Nothings - Last Building Burning 28. Lucero - Among the Ghosts 29. Chromeo - Head Over Heels 30. Foxing - Nearer My God 31. Death Cab for Cutie - Thank You for Today 32. Florence + the Machine - High As Hope 33. Tiny Moving Parts - Swell 34. Deaf Havana - Rituals 35. Matt Nathanson - Sings His Sad Heart 36. Steve Perry - Traces 37. American Aquarium - Things Change 38. John Nolan - Abendigo 39. Anderson East - Encore 40. Coheed and Cambria - The Unheavenly Creatures Just missed: Arctic Monkeys, Moose Blood, Eric Church, First Aid Kit, Dave Matthews Band, Smashing Pumpkins Honorable Mention: The Struts, Emery, Unearth, Alkaline Trio, Drake, Rick Springfield, The Republic of Wolves, Camila Cabello, Father John Misty, Christine and the Queens, Ben Howard, Hopesfall, Donovan Woods, Punch Brothers, Amos Lee, Charlie Puth, Frank Turner, Mae, Four Fists Top 10 EPs (no order): Nine Inch Nails - Bad Witch Iron and Wine - Weed Garden Fall Out Boy - Lake Effect Kid Plini - Sunhead Boygenius - Boygenius Vince Staples - FM! William Ryan Key - Virtue Chvrches - Hansa Sessions Bad Rabbits - Mimi Black Thought - Streams of Thought, Vol. 2
The Voidz — Virtue Against All Logic — 2012 - 2017 Clarence Clarity — THINK: PEACE Death Grips — Year of the Snitch The Garden — Mirror Might Steal Your Charm George Clanton — Slide Haru Nemuri — Haru to Shura HMLTD — Hate Music Last Time Delete MGMT — Little Dark Age Tropical Fuck Storm — A Laughing Death in Meatspace
Lots of stuff I love on here, even some of the records that I didn't put on my list. But I missed that Kina Grannis album! Yeah, ranking order is probably good. Though, you can bump Heather Morgan up to around Adam Hood/Dierks Bentley on the list. There's a song on that one with Lori McKenna.
I just came here to say I'm so happy to see Care for Me by Saba on your list @Jason Tate . Truly underrated (and my number 1 album of 2018).
I honestly don’t know why Belmont is not getting the love they deserve. That album is AOTY for me and my wife.
Honestly I only heard about the Grannis one because I follower her on various social media. She's one like Mree where I feel like if I don't stay vigilant I'll lose track of them. The album is lovely though And I'll probably try and play catch up on a few of these over the course of January. I liked that Tasjan album a lot, too. Just didn't quite make my top tier.
Yeah, I’ve got a few artists like that for sure. And I get it! It’s hard for stuff to sneak into your list at the end of the year as is. Glad you liked that album though.
I felt okay with my list, but this Petal album is making me question it. What an album. What a voice.
That was a sneaky one for me. I wasn’t “blown away” from the start but I kept coming back to it over and over. It’s infectious in a sad kinda way haha
SAME! I saw the album on a random list not on this site and gave it a try and said “hmmm yeah this is cool.” And then just kept coming back and back and back and it clicked.
Better late than never I guess... 1. The 1975 – A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships 2. mewithoutYou – [Untitled] 3. Turnstile – Time & Space 4. The Amity Affliction – Misery 5. Senses Fail – If There Is Light, It Will Find You 6. Trophy Eyes – The American Dream 7. Vein – Errorzone 8. Foxing – Nearer My God 9. Thrice – Palms 10. Pianos Become The Teeth – Wait For Love 11. Hawthorne Heights – Bad Frequencies 12. boygenius – boygenius (EP) 13. The Wonder Years – Sister Cities 14. Mayday Parade – Sunnyland 15. Teenage Wrist – Chrome Neon Jesus 16. Save Face – Merci 17. Animal Flag – Void Ripper 18. Death Cab For Cutie – Thank You For Today 19. Belmont – Belmont 20. Lucy Dacus - Historian ---------------------------------- And here are 30 songs I enjoyed from 2018 (alphabetical order by artist): 1. The 1975 - Be My Mistake 2. The Amity Affliction - Drag The Lake 3. Belmont - Pushing Daisies 4. Cecil Frena - All Of My Heroes 5. Conditions - Give It All 6. The Dangerous Summer - Infinite 7. Death Cab For Cutie - 60 & Punk 8. Foxing - Slapstick 9. Frank Turner - Be More Kind 10. Hands Like Houses - Half-Hearted 11. Harsh Lights - Light The Way 12. Hawthorne Heights - Starlighter (Echo, Utah) 13. Light Years - How Are You 14. Mayday Parade - It's Hard To Be Religious When Certain People Are Never Incinerated By Bolts Of Lightning 15. Meg Myers - Numb 16. mewithoutYou - Julia (Or, 'Holy To The Lord' On The Bells Of Horses) 17. Moose Blood - Such A Shame 18. Mumford & Sons - Forever 19. Pianos Become The Teeth - Charisma 20. Real Friends - Me First 21. Save Face - Plans 22. Senses Fail - Stay What You Are 23. Smoking Popes - When You Want Something 24. The Story So Far - Out Of It 25. Teenage Wrist - Stoned, Alone 26. Thrice - A Branch In The River 27. Trophy Eyes - Miming In The Choir 28. Turnstile - Real Thing 29. Warm Thoughts - Your Haircut Man 30. The Wonder Years - Raining In Kyoto
I love it but isn't even one of my favorites on the album. Which just shows how great the album is as a whole haha