2024 Top 5: LPs Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us Fontaines D.C. - Romance Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven Childish Gambino - Bando Stone and The New World MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks EPs Ada Lea - Notes Friko - Weird Fishes/Arpeggi Amyl and The Sniffers - U Should Not Be Doing That Skinshape - Pensando Baixo Glass Beams - Mahal Songs Jack White - It's Rough on Rats (If You're Asking) Waxahatchee feat. MJ Lenderman - Right Back to It Friko - Statues Fontaines D.C. - Desire Vampire Weekend - Connect
Should have posted this a few days ago but oh well! 1. Charli XCX - Brat 2. MGMT - Loss of Life 3. Kendrick Lamar - GNX 4. Father John Misty - Mahashmashana 5. Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft 6. Tyler the Creator - Chromokopia 7. Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us 8. The Cure - Songs of a Lost World 9. Halsey - The Great Impersonator 10. Ariana Grande - Eternal Sunshine 11. Porter Robinson - SMILE! :D 12. St Vincent - All Born Screaming 13. Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk 14. Clairo - Charm 15. IDLES - TANGK 16. Kacey Musgraves - Deeper Well 17. Sabrina Carpenter - Short n Sweet 18. Brittany Howard - What Now 19. Allie X - Girl With No Face 20. Jamie xx - In Waves 21. The Last Dinner Party - Prelude to Ecstasy 22. Doechii - Alligator Bites Never Heal 23. Dua Lipa - Radical Optimism 24. Denzel Curry - King of the Mischievous South Vol. 2 25. Vince Staples - Dark Times Honorable mentions to Childish Gambino, The Smile, Johnny Blue Skies and Poppy
The order's a little hazy... But this more or less feels right to me in this moment. Hah. So much great music this year!
FULL TOP 50: Albums I Listened to Once and Will Likely Rank Them in Hindsight: Childish Gambino - Bando Stone and the New World Drug Church - Prude Knocked Loose - You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To Seeyouspacecowboy - Coup de Grace Spirit of the Beehive - You'll Have to Lose Something Tyler, The Creator - Chromakopia Biggest Disappointments: Balance & Composure - With You in Spirit Bleachers - Bleachers Chastity Belt - Live Laugh Love Microwave - Let's Start Degeneracy Oceanator - Everything is Love and Death Snarls - With Love, Soccer Mommy - Evergreen Super American - Gangster of Love Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department Vince Staples - Dark Times ^^ Best of 2024 Playlist (one song per artist/release) ^^Playlist of stuff that just gets stuck in my head throughout the year
1. Wild Pink - Dulling the Horns 2. Clairo - Charm 3. Friko - Where We've Been.... 4. MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks 5. Zach Bryan - The Great American Bar Scene 6. The Cure - Songs of a Lost World 7. Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk 8. Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood 9. Foxing - Foxing 10. Middle Kids - Faith Crisis Pt 1
1. Knocked Loose – You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To 2. Charli XCX – BRAT 3. Touché Amoré – Spiral in a Straight Line 4. Foxing – Foxing 5. Kendrick Lamar – GNX 6. Better Lovers – Highly Irresponsible 7. Balance and Composure – with you in spirit 8. Gouge Away – Deep Sage 9. Real Friends – Blue Hour 10. Speed – Only One Mode
I wrote about my favorites here Ceres - Magic Mountain (1996-2022) Carly Cosgrove - The Cleanest of Houses are Empty Stay Inside - Ferried Away Macseal - Permanent Repeat Touche Amore - Spiral in a Straight Line Alkaline Trio - Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs Southtowne Lanes - Take Care Bayside - There are Worse Things Than Being Alive
Can finally share my list! 1. Donovan Woods – Things Were Never Good If They’re Not Good Now 2. Kelsea Ballerini – Patterns 3. Coldplay – Moon Music 4. Kacey Musgraves – A Deeper Well 5. Katie Pruitt – Mantras 6. Zach Bryan – The Great American Bar Scene 7. Maggie Rogers – Don’t Forget Me 8. Snow Patrol – The Forest Is The Path 9. Taylor Swift – The Tortured Poets Department 10. MJ Lenderman – Manning Fireworks 11. Sarah Jarosz – Polaroid Lovers 12. Michigan Rattlers – Waving from a Sea 13. Green Day – Saviors 14. Super American – Gangster of Love 15. Madi Diaz – Good Faith 16. Gracie Abrams – The Secret of Us 17. Liv Greene – Deep Feeler 18. Augustana – Something Beautiful 19. Taylor Acorn – Survival In Motion 20. Post Malone – F-1 Trillion 21. Pale Waves – Smitten 22. Sabrina Carpenter – Short ‘n’ Sweet 23. Dawes – Oh Brother 24. Waxahatchee – Tigers Blood 25. Hannah Ellis – That Girl 26. Nada Surf – Moon Mirror 27. Mat Kearney – Mat Kearney 28. Japandroids – Fate and Alcohol 29. Billy Strings – Highway Prayers 30. The Dangerous Summer - Gravity Write-ups about everything here: Craig Manning’s Top Albums of 2024
some faves of mine released last year in no particular order love letter: everyone wants something beautiful stand still: steps ascending mdou moctar: funeral for justice one step closer: all you embrace sweet pill: starchild dawes: oh brother christian lee hutson: paradise pop #10 bayside: there are worse things than being alive john moreland: visitor knocked loose: you won't go before you're supposed to couplet: ep2 joy oladokun: observations from a crowded room delta sleep: blue garden heavyhex: true to you jon batiste: beethoven blues lake street dive: good together father john misty: mahashmashana hot water music: vows khruangbin: a la sala the early november: s/t real friends: blue hour
My Favorite Songs of 2024 1. Hans Zimmer - Lisan al Gaib (From “Dune: Part Two”) 2. Charli xcx f/ Shygirl - 365 remix 3. Charli xcx - 365 4. Charli xcx f/ Billie Eilish - Guess remix 5. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross - Challengers: Match Point (From “Challengers”) 6. Hans Zimmer - Worm Ride (From Dune: Part Two) 7. Zedd, Muse - 1685 8. Glass Beach - motions 9. Melt-Banana - Case D 10. Charli xcx f/ Bb trickz - Club Classics remix 11. Vampire Weekend - Connect 12. The Smile - I Quit 13. The Smile - Read the Room 14. Magdalena Bay - Cry for Me 15. Sky Ferreira - Leash 16. Shygirl, Danny L Harle - encore 17. The Smile - Zero Sum 18. LVL1, DJ Final Boss - Rave Generator 19. Eminem, JID - Fuel 20. Champion, Four Tet, Skrillex - Talk to Me 21. Polo & Pan - Nenuphar
I'm pleased to read someone who has the honesty to admit that a bunch of their favourite songs were by the same artist.
most played new songs of 2024 according to the mp3 player app on my phone and heavily influenced by what got added to my running playlist: the smile "zero sum" (runner up "eyes and mouth") foxing "gratitude" / "looks like nothing" / "hell 99" vr sex "dictionary talk" loma "pink sky" father john misty "she cleans up" pissed jeans "junktime" clipping. "run it" nilufer yanya "like i say (I runaway)" better lovers "deliver us from life"/ "everything was put here for me" no man "can't kill us all" stop.drop.rewind "sleep" fellowship "hold up your hearts (again)" volcandra "not even death"
Albums: 1. Bayside - There Are Worse Things Than Being Alive 2. Alkaline Trio - Blood, Hair, And Eyeballs 3. Hot Water Music - Vows 4. The Dangerous Summer - Gravity 5. Frank Turner - Undefeated 6. Cold Years - A Different Life 7. Green Day - Saviors 8. Touché Amoré - Spiral In A Straight Line 9. Sum 41 - Heaven :x: Hell 10. Aaron West And The Roaring Twenties - In Lieu Of Flowers Songs: 1. Frank Turner - Somewhere Inbetween 2 Thursday - Application For Release From The Dream 3. The Dangerous Summer - Gravity 4. Thursday - White Bikes 5. Frank Turner - Letters 6. Touché Amoré - Hal Ashby 7. Alkaline Trio - Blood, Hair, And Eyeballs 8. Tim Hause - Summerkiss 9. Team Scheisse - Mittelfinger 10. MakeWar - Tell Me
This is my list. Top 10 to 11 are mostly right. Ghost Code and Warriors have been marked with a // because these are compilations (at least for me). Rage - Afterlifelines Orden Ogan - The Order of Fear Unleash the Archers - Phantoma Axxis - Coming Home Hammer King - König und Kaiser Hammerfall - Avenge the Fallen Soulbound - Obsydian Wind Rose - Trollslayer Crystal Viper - The Silver Key Haggefugg - Tanz und Gloria Against Evil - Give 'em Hell Robse - Harlekin und Krieger Asenblut - Entfesselt Wintersun - Time II Harpyie - Voodoo Saltatio Mortis - Finsterwacht // Smash into Pieces - Ghost Code Amaranthe - The Catalyst Linkin Park - From Zero Subway to Sally - Post Mortem Hiraes - Dormant Tungsten - The Grand Inferno // Feuerschwanz - Warriors Dragonforce - Warp Speed Warriors All for Metal - Gods of Metal (The Year of the Dragon) Ensiferum - Winter Storm Metalite - Expedition One Powerwolf - Wake Up the Wicked In Extremo - Wolkenschieber Rhapsody of Fire - Challenge the Wind Manticora - Mycelium Sonata Arctica - Clear Cold Beyond Aeon Gods - King of Gods Leaves' Eyes - Myths of Fate Krilloan - Return of the Heralds Dragony - Hic Svnt Dracones As the Sun Falls - Kaamos Vera Lux - Durch die Schatten Thunder and Lightning - Of Wrath and Ruin Bloodorn - Let the Fury Rise The Offspring - Supercharged Freedom Call - Silver Romance Ryujin - Ryujin Dominum - The Dead Don't Die Serious Black - Rise of Akhenation
damn i'm late to the game, didnt even know this was a thread! R&B Kali Uchis – ORQUÍDEAS LOONY - Self Titled Nxworries - Why Lawd? Normani - DOPAMINE Omar Apollo - God Said No Punk/Hardcore Alkaline Trio - Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs The Complicators - Self Titled The Promised End - For the Buried and The Broken Shooting Daggers - Love & Rage Hood Rats - Crime, Hysteria & Useless Information Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven Hot Water Music - Vows Bermuda Squares - Outsiders YOBS - Self Titled Bad Nerves - Still Nervous Many Eyes - The Light Age The Chisel - What A Fucking Nightmare Amyl & The Sniffers - Cartoon Darkness Dune Rats - If It Sucks, Turn It Up Spaced - This Is All We Ever Get Gouge Away - Deep Sage Cosmic Joke - Self Titled Regional Justice Center - Freedom Sweet Freedom Indie/Indie Pop Rachel Chinouriri - What A Devastating Turn Of Events Indie The Marias - Submarine Alfie Templeman - Radiosoul Khruangbin - A LA SALA Still Woozy - Loveseat Washed Out - Notes from a Quiet Life Lola Young - This Wasn't Meant For You Anyway Suki Waterhouse - Memoir of a Sparklemuffin Father John Misty - Mahashmashana Maggie Rogers - Don't Forget Me Beach Weather - Melt Remi Wolf - Big Ideas The Last Dinner Party - Prelude to Ecstasy Florence + The Machine - Symphony of Lungs - BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall Tommy Newport - Mister Domino The Buoys - Lustre Yours Truly - Toxic Darkwave/Experimental Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She Darkwave/Experimental Twin Tribes - Pendulum Nu Grunge/ Shoegaze Blanket - Ceremonia Present - Silver Lining Wishy - Triple Seven LOWLIVES - Freaking Out Retro Soul/Modern Psych Rock/Rock Aaron Frazer - Into The Blue MRCY - Volume 1 Thee Marloes - Perak Jack White - No Name Thee Heart Tones - Forever & Ever Kelly Finnigan - A Lover Was Born The Dip - Love Direction The Sinseers - Sinseerly Yours Thee Sacred Souls - Got a Story to Tell Marcus King - Mood Swings Shannon & The Clams - The Moon is In The Wrong Place Dark Dazey - The Dissolving Door Hip Rop/Rap Kendrick Lamar - GNX Denzel Curry - King Of The Mischevious South Sexyy Red - In Sexyy We Trust GloRilla - GLORIOUS Pop/Dance Charli XCX - Brat Sabrina Carpenter - Short n' Sweet Justice - Hyperdrama Paco Versailles - Olé Maca The Blessed Madonna - Godspeed