In order 1. The 1975 – A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships 2. The Wonder Years – Sister Cities 3. Coheed and Cambria – Vaxis – Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures 4. Spanish Love Songs – Schmaltz 5. Kacey Musgraves – Golden Hour 6. Let’s Eat Grandma – I’m All Ears 7. Pianos Become the Teeth – Wait For Love 8. Joyce Manor – Million Dollars to Kill Me 9. Lil Peep – Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 2 10. Janelle Monae – Dirty Computer not in any order 11. Foxing – Nearer My God 12. BTS – Love Yourself: ‘Answer’ 13. BTS – Love Yourself: ‘Tear’ 14. Cardi B – Invasion of Privacy 15. Arctic Monkeys – Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino 16. Now, Now – Saved 17. Deafheaven – Ordinary Corrupt Human Behavior 18. Mitski – Be the Cowboy 19. Thrice – Palms 20. Basement – Beside Myself
FWIW I've been going back and listening through all of my favorite albums trying to make my top-10, and I'm not really sure if she will crack it. I loved the album when it first came out - and it's still great - but I just think this has really been a strong year for a ton of different artists.
Yeah but looking at some lists of 40 or more from some people here that didn't have her and then seeing some that did make those same lists haha
She's so slept on it's disappointing. I'm betting a lot of people here haven't even given the album a listen.
1. Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness - Upside Down Flowers 2. Trophy Eyes - The American Dream 3. Trash Boat - Crown Shyness 4. The XCERTS - Hold on to Your Heart 5. CAMP COPE - How To Socialize and Make Friends 6. Yungblud - 21st Century Liability 7. Panic! At The Disco - Pray for the Wicked 8. WSTR - Identity Crisis 9. The Story So Far - Proper Dose 10. Snail Mail - Lush 11. Warm Thoughts - I Went Swimming Alone 12. Charlie Puth - Voicenotes 13. Foxing - Nearer My God 14. Ice Nine Kills - The Silver Scream 15. Lucy Dacus - Historian 16. nothing,nowhere. - Ruiner 17. Silent Planet - When The End Began 18. Tiny Moving Parts - Swell 19 S. Carey - Hundred Acres 20. Culture Abuse - Bay Dream
Top 20 Music of 2018: Mayday Parade - Sunnyland The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships Matthew Thiessen & The Earthquakes - Wind Up Bird William Ryan Key - Virtue / Thirteen Death Cab For Cutie - Thank You For Today Tash Sultana - Flow State Matt Nathanson - Sings His Sad Heart Eager Seas - Mine As Well The Rocketboys - Come Home Luca Brasi - Stay Dave Grohl - Play (this is probably cheating, but it’s a 23 minute song so like c’mon. Give me this.) DZ Deathrays - Bloody Lovely Hussey - Hitchens Basement - Beside Myself Foxing - Nearer My God Thrice - Palms Typhoon - Offerings Can’t Swim - This Too Won’t Pass Trash Boat - Crown Shyness The Body Rampant - RMPNT (honourable mention: The Living End - Wunderbar) Best Movie of 2018: BlacKKKlansman (honourable mention: Bohemian Rhapsody) Best Game of 2018: Spider-Man (PS4) Best TV Series of 2018: Unsolved (Netflix) (honourable mention: Bodyguard (Netflix)) Some notes: I hated Incubus' 8 when it came out in 2017 but this year It's been on constant rotation for me.
1. Foxing - Nearer My God 2. The Wonder Years - Sister Cities 3. The Aces - When My Heart Felt Volcanic 4. Alkaline Trio - Is This Thing Cursed? 5. Fickle Friends - You Are Someone Else 6. Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog 7. The Story So Far - Proper Dose 8. The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships 9. Hellogoodbye - S'only Natural 10. Jeff Rosenstock - POST- 11. Pianos Become The Teeth - Wait For Love 12. Saves The Day - 9 13. Turnstile - Time & Space 14. Now, Now - Saved 15. Mitski - Be The Cowboy 16. Justin Courtney Pierre - In The Drink 17. Camp Cope - How To Socialise and Make Friends 18. Trash Boat - Crown Shyness 19. Boygenius - Boygenius 20. Joyce Manor - Million Dollars To Kill Me 21. This Wild Life - Petaluma 22. Jukebox The Ghost - Off To The Races 23. Poppy - Am I A Girl? 24. Fall Out Boy - MANIA/Lake Effect Kid EP 25. Ariana Grande - Sweetener
Gonna up my list to a top 40 and including notable EPs/Deluxes/Oddities, because this year has been too good 1. Andrew McMahon- Upside Down Flowers 2. Hawthorne Heights- Bad Frequencies 3. Alkaline Trio- Is This Thing Cursed? 4. Coheed And Cambria- The Unheavenly Creatures 5. Senses Fail- If There Is Light, It Will Find You 6. Trash Boat- Crown Shyness 7. The Sonder Bombs- Modern Female Rockstar 8. John Nolan- Abendigo 9. Thrice- Palms 10. Light Years- Afterlife Honorable mentions (11-40) 11. All Get Out- No Bouquet 12. Beartooth- Disease 13. Real Friends- Composure 14. mewithoutyou- [untitled] 15. Out Of Service- Morning 16. Mike Shinoda- Post Traumatic 17. Mitski- Be The Cowboy 18. Sevendust- All I See Is War 19. Trophy Eyes- The American Dream 20. Even The Trees- If Only Every Day Could Be Like This 21. Basement- Beside Myself 22. Cecil Frena- The Gridlock 23. Underoath- Erase Me 24. Carb On Carb- For Ages 25. Tiny Moving Parts- Swell 26. Toy Cars- Paint Brain 27. Stand Atlantic- Skinny Dipping 28. Ogikubo Station- We Can Pretend Like 29. Pianos Becomes The Teeth- Wait For Love 30. Boston Manor- Welcome To The Neighbourhood 31. Spanish Love Songs- Schmultz 32. Black Foxxes- Reioi 33. Architects- Holy Hell 34. Hopesfall- Arbiter 35. Foxing- Nearer My God 36. Emery- Eve 37. Brian Fallon- Sleepwalkers 38. The Creeps- Beneath The Pines 39. Colour & Shade- Colour & Shade 40. Emecia- Familiar Spirits EPs, Deluxes & Oddities 1. boygenius- boygenius 2. Harsh Lights- Overthinking 3. William Ryan Key- Thirteen 4. AFI- The Missing Man 5. Silverstein- The Afterglow/Aquamarine Acoustic 6. Jimmy Eat World- Love Never/ Half Heart 7. William Ryan Key- Virtue 8. Starset- Vessels 2.0 9. New Found Glory- Makes Me Sick Again 10. Bayside- Acoustic Volume 2
Actually, I think Tate Chasers - Taint is my album of the year. What’d you think about it @Jason Tate?
Seeing all the love for Fickle Friends in here got me to check their album out and I fucking love it. I may need to do a revision to my list at the end of the month with some adjustments.
1) The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships 2) twenty one pilots - Trench 3) mewithoutYou - [Untitled] 4) Mac Miller - Swimming 5) Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats - Tearing At the Seams 6) Parquet Courts - Wide Awake! 7) Lord Huron - Vide Noir 8) Born Ruffians - Uncle, Duke & the Chief 9) Fall Out Boy - M A N I A 10) Panic! At the Disco - Pray For the Wicked
Hi Chorus.fm people. In the year of our lord 2018, I got married and started a new job and moved to Kensington, Philadelphia. Our first dance was almost “Book Of Love” by the Magnetic Fields before it actually became “If We Were Vampires” by Jason Isbell. My mother chose the slow version of “Forever Young” by Bob Dylan & The Band for our dance together. I met Courtney Marie Andrews at XPNFest in Camden and Katie Pruitt at Boot & Saddle. I got to see my best friend on tour with Allen Stone. We saw Gang of Youths twice (snuck my underage brother in both times), Gaslight Anthem in Asbury Park, Ruston Kelly, Japandroids on what was their last headlining show of the tour, Katie Toupin on her first solo tour, Houndmouth twice, Lake Street Dive in New Haven, Paul Simon’s farewell tour, Taylor Swift and her on-the-fly antics after a malfunction at Lincoln Financial Field, Diet Cig, Josh Ritter close down XPNfest and probably some more that I’m forgetting. So, it seems it was a good year for music. Here’s some of my favorites: Albums Lake Street Dive - Free Yourself Up Ruston Kelly - Dying Star Courtney Marie Andrews - May Your Kindness Remain Brian Fallon - Sleepwalkers Glorietta - Glorietta Brandi Carlile - By the Way, I Forgive You The Night Game - The Night Game Public Access TV - Street Safari Mt. Joy - Mt. Joy Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour Lori McKenna - The Tree Rhett Miller - The Messenger Houndmouth - Golden Age The Longshot - Love is for Losers Dawes - Passwords The Decemberists - I’ll Be Your Girl Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel Kyle Craft - Full Circle Nightmare Haley Heynderickx - I Need To Start A Garden Brent Cowles - How To Be Okay Alone First Aid Kit - Ruins The Aces - When My Heart Felt Volcanic Leon Bridges - Good Thing Camila Cabello - Camila Ezra Furman - Transangelic Exodus Titus Andronicus - A Productive Cough The Wombats - Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life Caroline Rose - Loner Amanda Shires - To The Sunset Jeff Tweedy - WARM Death Cab For Cutie - Thank Your For Today Liz Cooper & The Stampede - Window Flowers Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog Colter Wall - Songs of the Plains Oh Pep! - I Wasn’t Only Thinking About You… King Tuff - The Other The Lemon Twigs - Go To School Okkervil River - In The Rainbow Rain Robyn - Honey Songs “Good Kisser” by Lake Street Dive “May Your Kindness Remain” by Courtney Marie Andrews “Once In My Life” by the Decemberists “Psycho Star” by King Tuff “60 & Punk” by Death Cab For Cutie “My Mind’s a Ship That’s Going Down” “High Hopes” by Panic! at the Disco “Modern Love” by Houndmouth “Jersey on the Wall (I’m Just Asking” and “Somebody’s Daughter” “Lincoln Creek” and “Someday” by Glorietta "Keep A Little Soul" by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers “A Little More” by Alessia Cara EPs Katie Toupin - Moroccan Ballroom Tenille Townes - Living Room Worktapes Hozier - Nina Cried Power Katie Pruitt - OurVinyl Live EP Boygenius - Boygenius Other things Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - An American Treasure The Old 97s - Love The Holidays Neil Young - Songs For Judy Shovels & Rope - Predecessors Uncle Tupelo - No Depression Rarities The Gaslight Anthem - ’59 Sound Sessions Various artists - Love, Simon (Soundtrack) Paul Simon - In The Blue Light Gang of Youths - MTV Unplugged 2017 albums I listened to for the first time in 2018 and really enjoyed Susto - & I’m Fine Today David Ramirez - Watching From A Distance The Weeks - Easy Jon Latham - Lifers And finally, what I'm looking forward to in 2019 The Jason Isbell-produced Josh Ritter album The full-length Katie Toupin album New Shovels & Rope New Jason Isbell New Avett Brothers Sara Bareilles Vampire Weekend Jade Bird Carly Rae Jepsen
I'm too lazy to separate out EPs/LPs/splits/demos this year and rank them, but here's my list: Spanish Love Songs - "Schmaltz" Tragedy - "Fury" Candy - "Good to Feel" Six Brew Bantha - "Blight" Turnstile - "Time and Space" UADA - "Cult of a Dying Sun" Mindforce - "Excalibur" Backslider - "Death Residue" Fickle Friends - "You Are Someone Else" Cult Leader - "A Patient Man" Khemmis - "Desolation" Mutilation Rites - "Chasm" Converge - "Beautiful Ruin" Battering Ram - "Let Me Fight Where I Lay" Big Bite - "s/t" Mammoth Grinder - "Cosmic Crypt" Noose Rot - "The Creeping Unknown" Phrenelith - "Ornamented Dead Eyes" Regional Justice Center - "World of Inconvenience" Sargeist - "Unbound" Teenage Wrist - "Chrome Neon Jesus" Thrice - "Palms" Thou - "Magus" Vein - "Errorzone"
adding The 1975 and River Whyless to "albums that would have made my list if I had waited a couple weeks"
this was the lowest amount of albums i listened to in a year since like, 2012. i listened to roughly 109, give or take a few im forgetting. so im doing a top 20 instead of a top 50 because there were just so many albums i listened to 1-3 times that never had the chance to make a lasting impression on me but i still enjoyed a lot regardless. so it was hard to rank past a certain point. anyway, here it is. the 1975 – a brief inquiry into online relationships foxing – nearer my god father john misty – gods favorite customer the wonder years – sister cities fall out boy – mania beach house – 7 coheed and cambria – the unheavenly creatures tim hecker – konoyo cult leader – a patient man vince staples – fm! kacey musgraves – golden hour against all logic - 2012-2017 robyn – honey birds in row – we already lost the world mammoth grinder – cosmic crypt earl sweatshirt – some rap songs pusha t – daytona deafheaven – ordinary corrupt human love lil peep – come over when youre sober pt 2 ariana grande – sweetener 20 more honorable mentions in absolutely no order: fucked up – dose your dreams oneohtrix point never – age of at the gates – to drink from the night itself dance gavin dance – artificial selection kelly moran – ultraviolet cloud nothings – last building burning anthony green – would you still be in love dj koze – knock knock rae sremmurd – sr3mm thou – magus kevin gates – luca brasi 3 low – double negative sleep – the sciences mr twin sister – salt mac miller – swimming jon hopkins – singularity demdike stare – passion arctic monkeys – tranquility base hotel + casino mewithoutyou – untitled sophie – oil of every pearl's uninsides edit: and of course these were my biggest disappointments the dangerous summer – the dangerous summer underoath – erase me kanye west – ye drake – scorpion thrice – palms future – beast mode 2 animal collective – tangerine reef saves the day - 9 chvrches - love is dead