I fucked up and forgot to make a thread on Friday. Might just do two this week. Anyway, new album next week, so let's do it. Rank em, tell us why, or just pick one. Link to all of the other polls here. You can leave suggestions for new polls there or here. Whatevs.
Red is maybe the best album of the decade, let alone her best. After that, I probably go Speak Now, 1989, Fearless, self-titled, Reputation.
Can't believe someone is going to ask me to rank my children. Alas, I will try. Red>1989>Fearless>Reputation>Speak Now>Taylor Swift However, this ranking means very little since if you asked me to rank every Taylor Swift song the top 10 would feature tracks from each album and I celebrate her entire catalog.
If we’re ranking all of them, I think I’ve landed here: Red > reputation > Speak Now = 1989 > self-titled > Fearless But every album but Fearless is represented in my top ten Taylor songs.
Red and Speak Now are my favourites for sure. Love Sparks Fly, Haunted, Back To December, State Of Grace, Red etc.
Red by a large margin for me. Can't even really make it through the others but it's been awhile since I've tried.
Red by a substantial margin. I wish to a degree that she had built upon the best of that album but nonetheless she doesn't have a dud in her catalog.
With Red being the most consistent for me I'll go with that. Red > 1989 > Reputation > Speak Now > Fearless > Taylor Swift
Red is a masterpiece. Speak Now has consistency issues and is a tad overlong, but the best songs really elevate it. 1989 is just about a perfect pop album, with more depth than a lot of people give it credit for. Fearless is solid all the way through but doesn't have as many absolute home runs for me. Taylor Swift is about half great and half unexceptional, but I like it more as time goes on and she moves further from her country roots. Reputation has the most skips, and I've got complicated feelings about it because I don't like the direction it took her sound overall, but it definitely finds its way in the back half. I really hope I like Lover more than I like Reputation. I never fell in love with that album the way I did with the three that came before it, and I'd like to have that again.
Red, followed by either Fearless or 1989. Honorable mention to the underrated self titled, which I like more than Speak Now & possibly Reputation. "Cold as You" rules.