It's literally just us in her thread mainly haha but I love her so much. If she ends up releasing another album next year (although all my favorites say they are releasing next year) it will probably be my #1 album or very high up on my list.
I was absolutely obsessed with that album for a period this year. I can’t imagine it won’t be a celebrated album 20 years from now, especially with how big “Lottery” became. And live, it’s mad how Jade’s not playing massive tours of her own already. I think she mentioned when I saw her last that Thalia Hall was the biggest room she’s headlined in the U.S., but she played it like a damn stadium
I live in Tyler and have seen Rhett Miller here once before. I think he grew up here maybe? Anyway, I hope you enjoyed Stanley’s. The BBQ is great.
1. Laura Stevenson - The Big Freeze 2. PUP - Morbid Stuff 3. The National - I Am Easy To Find 4. Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell! 5. Wicca Phase Springs Eternal - Suffer On 6. Tyler, The Creator - Igor 7. Great Grandpa - Four of Arrows 8. Angelo De Augustine - Tomb 9. Better Oblivion Community Center - Better Oblivion Community Center 10. Kishi Bashi - Omoiyari
I don't like putting them in order but here's my favorite 8 or something Brittany Howard - Jaime Better Oblivion Community Center - Better Oblivion Community Center Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell! Mark Guliana - Beat Music! Beat Music! Beat Music! Snarky Puppy - Immigrance Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind Gary Clark Jr. - THIS LAND American Football - American Football Special shout to PVRIS' Hallucinations EP. If EP's count, that replaces American Football
1. Summer Cannibals - Can’t Tell Me No 2. The Menzingers - Hello, Exile 3. PUP - Morbid Stuff 4. Free Throw - What’s Past Is Prologue 5. Slaughter Beach, Dog - Safe and Also No Fear 6. Somos - Prison On A Hill 7. Mannequin Pussy - Patience 8. The Early November - Lilac 9. The Get Up Kids - Problems 10. Field Mouse - Meaning 11. Better Oblivion Community Center - Better Oblivion Community Center 12. Off With Their Heads - Be Good 13. Jimmy Eat World - Surviving 14. Meg & Dia - happysad 15. Pkew Pkew Pkew - Optimal Lifestyles 16. Tegan & Sara - Hey, I’m Just Like You 17. Say Anything - Oliver Appropriate 18. The Hold Steady - Trashing Through the Passion 19. Dowsing - Sky Coffin 20. Hikes - Mahal Kita 21. Appleseed Cast - The Fleeting Light of Impermanence 22. Copeland - Blushing 23. Radar State - Strays 24. Vagabon - Vagabon 25. Turnover - Altogether 26. Stickup Kid - Soul Drive 27. Pine - Pine 28. Rose Elinor Dougall - New Illusion 29. Bad Religion - Age of Unreason 30. Bayside - Interrobang EPs 1. Bouncing Souls - Crucial Moments 2. Vinnie Caruana - Aging Frontman 3. Sainte - Bad Summer 4. Driver Friendly - Ceremony 5. Bad Luck - Drug Phase
Putting these in order is tough because there were some really great releases this year. I’m not ready to think about the actual order yet, other than the first few. Those are solid in their places. 1. Great Grandpa - Four Of Arrows 2. Charly Bliss - Young Enough 3. Harmony Woods - Make Yourself At Home 4. Big Thief - UFOF/Two Hands. I’m going to cheat and count these as one since they’re equally great to me. 5. Long Beard - Means To Me 6. Infinity Crush - Virtual Heaven 7. American Football - LP3 8. The Menzingers - Hello Exile 9. Jimmy Eat World - Surviving 10. Hesitation Wounds - Chicanery This might change by the end of the year.
I know it's long but I've just loved so much music this year lol 1. Proper. - I Spent The Winter Writing Songs About Getting Better 2. Fresh - Withdraw 3. Nervus - Tough Crowd 4. Venom Prison - Samsara 5. Queen Zee - Queen Zee 6. The Menzingers - Hello Exile 7. Carly Rae Jepsen - Dedicated 8. PUP -Morbid Stuff 9. Suggested Friends - Turtle Taxi 10. Ithaca - The Language of Injury 11. Employed To Serve - Eternal Forward Motion 12. 03 Greedo - Netflix & Deal 13. Sports Bra - Talk It Out 14. Renounced - Beauty is a Destructive Angel 15. Rico Nasty - Anger Management 16. The Callous Daoboys - Die On Mars 17. Tiny Blue Ghost - Euphoria 18. Fuming Mouth - The Grand Descent 19. Dump Him - Dykes To Watch Out For 20. Sanction - Broken In Refraction 21. Gerogia Maq - Pleaser 22. Frame Of Mind - Irieshun 23. Amygdala - Our Voices Will Soar Forever 24. 03 Greedo - Still Summer In The Projects 25. Big Thief - Two Hands 26. Harmony Woods - Make Yourself At Home 27. Seeyouspacecowboy - The Correlation Between Entrance and Exit Wounds 28. Nef The Pharaoh - Mushrooms & Coloring Books 29. Denzel Curry - ZUU 30. Dave Hause - Kick 31. Knocked Loose - A Different Shade of Blue 32. Danny Brown - uknowwhatimsayin 33. Kim Petras - Clarity 34. Personal Best - What You At 35. Wristmeetrazor -Misery Never Forgets 36. Mess - Learning How To Talk 37. Freddie Gibbs - Bandana 38. Chastity Belt - Chastity Belt 39. Insignificant other - I'm so glad I feel this way about you 40. SOB X BRE - Family Not a Group 41. G Perico - Ten-Eight 42. Gatecreeper - Deserted 43. Nuvolascura - Nuvolascura 44. Better Oblivion Community Center - Better Oblivion Community Center 45. Tyler The Creator - IGOR 46. Abuse Of Power - What On Earth Can We Do 47. Cloud Rat - Pollinator 48. Mozzy - Internal Affairs 49. Diva Sweetly - In The Living Room 50. Fury - Failed Entertainment EPs: 1. Girl In Red - Chapter 2 2. Morality Rate - You Were The Gasoline 3. Portrayal Of Guilt - Suffering Is A Gift 4. Lili Trifilio - Book Club 6. Watchcries - Unearthed 7. One Step Closer - From Me To You 8. Result of Choice - Place Of My Dreams 9. Petrov - Sleep Year 10. Anxious Hum - Myspace Demos
Albums I loved: Bon Iver, I,i Sturgill Simpson Tool Albums I Liked A Lot: The National Foals Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost Better Oblivion Community Center James Blake Albums I Liked: Local Natives Gary Clark Jr Jimmy Eat World Vampire Weekend The Rancounteurs The Black Keys Anderson Paak Thom Yorke Coldplay Beck Brittany Howard Albums I Was Looking Forward To, But Disappointed: The Menzingers Silversun PIckups
Vulfpeck just put out their show at MSG from this year which was my favorite live show in the past decade so that’s added to my list. Do live shows count? Cause now they do
She was fantastic at Thalia Hall. Every time I saw her this year was great honestly. Seeing her play the Toyota Music Den at Lolla was sick because I was front row, and seeing her at Schubas was awesome because it was sold out and I was second row. Basically, she’s never disappointed me live!
Top Albums of 2019 Tegan & Sara - Hey, I’m Just Like You Blink 182 - Nine Billie Eilish - WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? The Menzingers - Hello Exile Clairo - Immunity Carly Rae Jepsen - Dedicated Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind PUP - Morbid Stuff Jimmy Eat World - Surviving Sum 41 - Order in Decline Also took a crack at my end of decade list. I'm sure I've forgotten some, but these are the ones that stand out / have remained in the rotation over the last decade: Top Albums of the 2010’s The Menzingers - On the Impossible Past Mixtapes - Even on the Worst Nights Tegan & Sara - Heartthrob The Menzingers - After the Party Blink 182 - California The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang The Wonder Years- Suburbia I’ve Given You All and Now I’m Nothing Amy Shark - Love Monster Alkaline Trio - This Addiction Against Me! - White Crosses
This list could change in the future, lots of albums that I'm seeing that I haven't listened to and will need to spin and trying to put these all into order was like splitting hairs. But, as of now, this is it for me. As is clear, I'm a bit of a pop fan, so this might be quite different than your standard end of year list haha. Also very long, sorry! Top Albums: 1. Kim Petras - Clarity 2. Charli XCX - Charli 3. Caroline Polachek - Pang 4. Taylor Swift - Lover 5. Vampire Weekend - Father of the Bride 6. Ariana Grande - thank u, next 7. Carly Rae Jepsen - Dedicated 8. MUNA - Saves the World 9. Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell 10. La Bouquet - Sad People Dancing 11. Billie Eilish - WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP... 12. Jimmy Eat World - Surviving 13. FKA twigs - MAGDALENE 14. Bon Iver - i,i 15. MARINA - Love + Fear 16. Sigrid - Sucker Punch 17. Harry Styles - Fine Line (NOTE - Current ranking based on the three pre-released singles. I'll have a better idea where this ranking will shift after listening to the full thing this weekend, but I anticipate it will remain in my Top 20) 18. The National - I Am Easy to Find 19. Lizzo - Cuz I Love You 20. Post Malone - Hollywood's Bleeding 21. Clairo - Immunity 22. Kim Petras - Turn Off the Light 23. King Princess - Cheap Queen 24. Tegan and Sara - Hey, I'm Just Like You 25. Betty Who - Betty 26. Tove Lo - Sunshine Kitty 27. Maggie Rogers - Heard It In a Past Life 28. Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising 29. Oso Oso - Basking in the Glow 30. Mabel - High Expectations 31. Marianas Trench - Phantoms 32. Mark Ronson - Late Night Feelings 33. Camila Cabello - Romance 34. The Maine - You Are OK 35. BANKS - III 36. Brittany Howard - Jaime 37. BTS - Map of the Soul: Persona 38. The Japanese House - Good At Falling 39. Greyson Chance - portraits 40. Tinashe - Songs for You 41. VÉRITÉ - new skin 42. Bring Me the Horizon - amo 43. Charly Bliss - Young Enough 44. TAEYEON - Purpose 45. Jonas Brothers - Happiness Begins 46. Half Moon Run - A Blemish in the Great Light 47. Broods - Don't Feed the Pop Monster 48. Bishop Briggs - CHAMPION 49. Aitana - Spoiler 50. Alice Merton - Mint Top EPs: 1. Astrid S - Down Low 2. Aly & AJ - Sanctuary 3. Ralph - Flashbacks & Fantasies 4. MisterWives - mini bloom 5. SAINTE - bad summer 6. Virginia to Vegas - Hartland St. 7. Lil Nas X - 7 8. Astrid S - Trust Issues 9. The Beaches - The Professional 10. Grace VanderWaal - LETTERS: VOL. 1 11. Alessia Cara - This Summer 12. Låpsley - These Elements
I'm jealous of those who could confidently put together a ranking of more than 20 albums per year. Like...where do y'all find the time to get so close to these albums? I'm lucky if I enjoy 10-15 albums per year (and ever since I got Spotify a few years ago, I really try to get into new/different stuff). My problem is, once I find something I enjoy, I'll spend weeks with it and don't care to move on from it.
Absolute Faves FKA Twigs - Magdalene Big Thief - Two Hands Big Big Faves Laura Stevenson - The Big Freeze PUP - Morbid Stuff Big Thief - UFOF Better Oblivion Community Center - S/T Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell! The National - I Am Easy to Find Queen of Jeans - If You're Not Afraid, I'm Not Afraid Bon Iver - i,i Clairo - Immunity Palehound - Black Friday Charly Bliss - Young Enough Julia Jacklin - Crushing Anderson Paak - Ventura Big Faves Angel Olsen - All Mirrors James Blake - Assume Form Kehlani - While We Wait Dessa - Sound The Bells Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising Billie Eilish - When We All Fall Asleep Where Do We Go? Maggie Rogers - Heard It in a Past Life Bad Books - Bad Books III All Other Faves Lucy Dacus - 2019 EP Sasami - Sasami Alex G - House of Sugar Kevin Morby - Oh My God Hovvdy - Heavy Lifter Barrie - Happy to Be Here Vagabon - Vagabon Local Natives - Violet Street Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow The Japanese House - Good at Falling Aldous Harding - Designer Whitney - Forever Turned Around PVRIS - Hallucinations EP Jay Som - Anak Ko Men I Trust - Oncle Jazz Jimmy Eat World - Surviving Richard Dawson - 2020
If I get this done by New Year's, I will be very satisfied. It's a light year on lights out classics for me, but as always a very deep year for very good stuff.
Anybody do a Top 10 Songs of 2019 list? It's the only Top 10 music list I've done the last 5 years; putting my 2019 together now, and it's incredibly difficult
Borrowed @mad layout (thanks - We have a lot similar) as it is was right there in front of me and saved committing to an order; Absolute Faves Bon Iver - i,i Noah Gundersen – Lover The National - I Am Easy to Find Julia Jacklin - Crushing The Tallest Man On Earth – I Love You. It's a Fever Dream. Big Big Faves Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell! Angel Olsen - All Mirrors (Sandy) Alex G – House of Sugar Oso Oso – basking in the glow Crane Like the Bird – Crane Like the Bird Martin Frawley – Undone at 31 Bruce Springsteen – Western Stars Carly Rae Jepsen – Dedicated American Football – American Football (LP3) Damien Jurado – In the Shape of a Storm Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow Cass McCombs – Tip of the Sphere Big Faves White Reaper – You Deserve Love DOPE LEMON – Smooth Big Cat Chastity Belt – I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone Infinity Crush – virtual heaven The Dangerous Summer – Mother Nature Vampire Weekend – Father of the Bride Copeland – Blushing The Japanese House - Good at Falling Aldous Harding - Designer Big Thief - U.F.O.F
I actually find it much harder ranking songs than I do albums. For some reason I just find it easier judging a full piece of work than I do working out whether I like this 3 minutes better than that 4 minutes.
Oh I totally agree; for me though, when I see so many lists of just albums, it becomes almost overwhelming. If I were to see someone's Top 10 song list, to me that'd be much easier to dive into and really get an idea quickly on why that song is so good, to that person. I'd love to see everyone's top songs lists on here, so I could then quickly search each song and get exposure to so many more amazing new songs I haven't heard before
After 2 and a 1/2 hours of seriously trying to whittle down 40-something tracks I picked, listening to various tracks back and forth, over and over again, and put into a list of my Top 10, I've completed it. A lot of good ones left out, but these meant more to me than anything else. The lyrical song craft of "Watermelon" is simply mind blowing 1. Noah Gundersen - "Watermelon" 2. Jordan Davis, Julia Michaels - "Cool Anymore" 3. Tony Anderson - "Ariana" 4. Highasakite - "Too Much To Handle" 5. The Band CAMINO - "Daphne Blue" 6. HAIM - "Now I'm In It" 7. Emily King - "Go Back" 8. LEON - "Hope Is A Heartache" 9. Y O U T H F O O L - "First Kiss" 10. Taylor Swift - "The Archer"
This was hard, but here's my top 25 songs of the year. I was keeping it one song per artist but how could I not include two Girl In Red Songs 1. Girl In Red - dead girl in the pool. 2. Carly Rae Jepsen - Real Love 3. Nervus - Burn 4. Queen Zee - Sissy Fists 5. Proper.- A$AP Rocky Type Beat 6. Fresh - Revenge 7. Venom Prison - Asura's Realm 8. Beach Bunny - Dream Boy 9 . Girl in Red - i'll die anyway. 10. The Menzingers - London Drugs 11. Sports Bra - Sobriety Kills 12. Suggested Friends - Pretty Soon Your Grave Will Be A Landfill 13. Ithaca - The Language of Injury 14. Employed To Serve - Dull Ache Behind My Eyes 15. 03 Greedo - Disco Shit 16. Kim Petras - Icy 17. Spanish Love Songs - Losers 18. Renounced - Self Inflicted 19. Rico Nasty - Sellout 20. Big Thief - Not 21. PUP - Bloody Mary, Kate and Ashley 22. Seeyouspacecowboy - With High Hopes and Clipped Wings 23. Personal Best - Every Day She Kills Me 24. Dump Him - Dykes to Watch Out For 25. Portrayal of Guilt - Scarcity