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I've enjoyed the Mr. Wonderful album, the backng tracks and production more than anything else about it, and haven't understood some of the hate it's gotten on these boards. I still haven't checked out Pond. I'll remedy that soon.
I'm a little late but here is my list for the first quarter.
25. Transfixiation by A Place To Bury Strangers 24. Man It Feels Like Space Again by Pond 23. Panda Bear Meets The Grime Reaper by Panda Bear 22. III by Follakzoid 21. The Powers That B by Death Grips 20. Complicated Game by James McMurtry 19. s/t by July Talk 18. s/t by Ibeyi 17. B4.DA.$$ by Joey Bada$$ 16. Revisionist by Sannhet 15. The Race For Space by Public Service Broadcasting 14. Restarter by Torche 13. Dying by Spectres 12. Transcendental Heatwave by The Cush 11. No Cities To Love by Sleater-Kinney 10. After by Lady Lamb 09. the Ark Work by Liturgy 08. Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress by Godspeed You! Black Emperor 07. Don't Lose This by Pops Staples 06. Fantasy Empire by Lightning Bolt 05. The Deal by Sumac 04. Vulnicura by Bjork 03. Shadow Shows by Seryn 02. To Pimp A Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar 01. Carrie & Lowell by Sufjan Stevens
2. Percussions, 2011 until 2014 3. Blur, the Magic Whip 4. Fort Romeau, Insides 5. Kendrick Lamar, To Pimp a Butterfly 6. Hot Chip, Why Make Sense 7. Sufjan Stevens, Carrie & Lowell 8. Samo Sound Boy, Begging Please 9. Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress 10. Kamasi Washington, the Epic 11. Mark Ronson, Uptown Special 12. Minsk, The Crash and the Draw 13. Raekwon, Fly International Luxurious Art 14. Django Django, Born Under Saturn 15. badbadnotgood & Ghostface Killah, Sour Soul 16. Jose Gonzalez, Vestiges & Claws 17. The Ocean, Pelagial 18. Palms Trax, In Gold 19. STS x RDJ2, STS x RJD2 20. Father John Misty, I Love You Honeybear 21. The Go! Team, The Scene Between 22. Joey Bada$$, B4 da $$ 23. Roland Tings, Roland Tings 24. Sleater-Kinney, No Cities to Love 25. Basic House, Visa Prick
Also it's THAT much better than everything else, including that Percussions album (thanks Larry Farnsworth for that suggestion). Real interested to listen to it.
2. Percussions, 2011 until 2014 3. Blur, the Magic Whip 4. Fort Romeau, Insides 5. Kendrick Lamar, To Pimp a Butterfly 6. Hot Chip, Why Make Sense 7. Sufjan Stevens, Carrie & Lowell 8. Samo Sound Boy, Begging Please 9. Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress 10. Kamasi Washington, the Epic 11. Mark Ronson, Uptown Special 12. Minsk, The Crash and the Draw 13. Raekwon, Fly International Luxurious Art 14. Django Django, Born Under Saturn 15. badbadnotgood & Ghostface Killah, Sour Soul 16. Jose Gonzalez, Vestiges & Claws 17. The Ocean, Pelagial 18. Palms Trax, In Gold 19. STS x RDJ2, STS x RJD2 20. Father John Misty, I Love You Honeybear 21. The Go! Team, The Scene Between 22. Joey Bada$$, B4 da $$ 23. Roland Tings, Roland Tings 24. Sleater-Kinney, No Cities to Love 25. Basic House, Visa Prick
Is the GYBE at number 9 more about the quality of the album or the competition being weak? It's great but I was surprised to see it that high on your list.
Post by RedFrog Intern on Jun 29, 2015 15:12:41 GMT -5
1. Carrie & Lowell // Sufjan Stevens 2. I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside // Earl Sweatshirt 3. I Love You, Honeybear // Father John Misty 4. To Pimp A Butterfly // Kendrick Lamar 5. The Waterfall // My Morning Jacket 6. Why Make Sense? // Hot Chip 7. In Colour // Jamie xx 8. What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World // The Decemberists 9. Vulnicura // Bjork 10 Black Messiah // D'Angelo & The Vanguard (Decided to throw this one in although it was 2014) 11. Policy // Will Butler 12. AT.LONG.LAST.ASAP // A$AP Rocky 13. Goon // Tobias Jesso Jr. 14. What For? // Toro y Moi 15. Universal Themes // Sun Kil Moon
Post by manoverboard on Jun 29, 2015 15:46:40 GMT -5
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Chasing Yesterday Blur - The Magic Whip Hop Along - Painted Shut Waxahatchee - Ivy Tripp Alabama Shakes - Sound & Color Florence & The Machine - How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful The Japanese House - Pools to Bathe In
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Chasing Yesterday Blur - The Magic Whip Hop Along - Painted Shut Waxahatchee - Ivy Tripp Alabama Shakes - Sound & Color Florence & The Machine - How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful The Japanese House - Pools to Bathe In
Pools to Bathe In is so, so lovely! Glad someone else has been enjoying it too
Considering you've found the need to respond to my threads as if you are threatened by me I offer you some peace my confused counterpart. May you find peace in your restless soul.
Post by Son of a Beek on Jun 29, 2015 23:45:22 GMT -5
Q2 Lists
Separated by tiers
Kendrick Lamar- To Pimp A Butterfly Jamie xx- In Colour Donnie Trumpet and the Social Experiment- Surf Shamir- Ratchet
Adventures- Supersonic Home Godspeed You! Black Emperor- Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress BBNG & Ghostface Killah- Sour Soul Jeff Rosenstock- We Cool? Father John Misty- I Love You, Honeybear
Wavves and Cloud Nothings- No Life For Me Drake- If You're Reading This It's Too Late An Autumn For Crippled Children- The Long Goodbye Death Grips- The Powers that B Hop Along- Painted Shut Czarface- Every Hero Needs a Villain Sannhet- Revisionist
Waxahatchee- Ivy Trip Sorority Noise- Joy, Departed Bosse-De-Nage- All Fours Son Lux- Bones
EPs 1. Aphex Twin- Computer Controlled Acoustic Instrument EP Pt 2 2. Blis.- Starting Fires in my Parents House 3. Oneohtrix Point Never- Commissions 2 4. You Blew It!- Pioneer of Nothing 5. Camera Shy- You Can Tell A Lot
Top 25 not in order Bjork Kendrick Sufjan Faith No More Speedy Ortiz Father John Misty Florence & the Machine Jamie xx Laura Marling Punch Brothers GYBE Sannhet Earl Sweatshirt Ghostface & BBNG Czarface Alabama Shakes Kacey Musgraves Lady Lamb Torres Thee Oh Sees Mikal Cronin King Gizzard Lighting Bolt Viet Cong Modest Mouse
In alphabetical order, because ranking anything at this point is a bad idea for me. Also I'm sticking with "releases" over "albums" because this way I can toss in EPs and mixes and whatever else.
Basic House: Visa Prick Bicep: Just (EP) Blur: The Magic Whip The Body & Thou: You, Whom I Have Always Hated Czarface: Every Hero Needs a Villain Detroit Swindle: Figure of Speech (EP) Detroit Swindle: the Punch Drunk EP Django Django: Born Under Saturn DJ Metatron: This Is Not... (mix) Fort Romeau: Insides Hot Chip: Why Make Sense? Jamie xx: Home (mix) Jamie xx: In Colour Howling: Sacred Ground Lakker: Tundra Leftfield: Alternative Light Source Kacey Musgraves: Pageant Material Palms Trax: In Gold (EP) Percussions: 2011 until 2014 Raekwon: F.I.L.A. Refused: Freedom Samo Sound Boy: Begging Please Sufjan Stevens: Carrie & Lowell John Tejada: Dramamine Titus Andronicus: The Most Lamentable... Kamasi Washington: The Epic Youandewan: Spiral Arms
not to be nitpicky, but the Titus record isn't out for four more weeks, even though it leaked like three weeks ago
You are showing your age by having Czarface listed but no Vince Staples.
My immediate response was to say that I'm showing my taste by having Czarface and no Vince Staples, but I honestly haven't gotten to Vince yet. I couldn't tell you if it was good or bad.
I can help ya out there: it is really fucking good.
Considering you've found the need to respond to my threads as if you are threatened by me I offer you some peace my confused counterpart. May you find peace in your restless soul.
Serious question for everyone, but Larry Farnsworth 's list prompted this thought: What are your listening habits?
How much time a day do you spend listening to music?
I have a lot of things I like to do. Most of my time Spent listening to music comes at work. I do a lot of driving in between stops, and that's where I get in the most time. After work, besides spending time focusing just onmy family, other hobbies compete for my time like video games, tv and movies, and playing basketball. On average, I probably spend 3-4 hours a day listening to music.
I can help ya out there: it is really fucking good.
I'll be the judge of that. Given my distaste towards much of this fatherless bullshit millenial hip-hop, I'm a bit leery going in. Is it like that shitty Earl Sweatshirt album, where it's gloomy and moody as fuck and people mistake petulant adolescent bitching for substantive lyrical content? Is it just a bunch of rippity-rap nonsense that sounds good but isn't saying shit? Those are my expectations.
No. It's good. The production on it is top notch, and his lyrical content both sounds good and has something to say. I can't say you'll love it, but would be surprised if you thought it was bad.
not to be nitpicky, but the Titus record isn't out for four more weeks, even though it leaked like three weeks ago
I have absolutely no idea as to when albums actually come out anymore. ? has ruined me.
I was in the same boat for a while. Then I realized that if I looked to see if there were any professional(ish) reviews of a record, I'd know if it was out already, which has helped me keep track of which things belong to which months
Serious question for everyone, but Larry Farnsworth 's list prompted this thought: What are your listening habits?
How much time a day do you spend listening to music?
I have a lot of things I like to do. Most of my time Spent listening to music comes at work. I do a lot of driving in between stops, and that's where I get in the most time. After work, besides spending time focusing just onmy family, other hobbies compete for my time like video games, tv and movies, and playing basketball. On average, I probably spend 3-4 hours a day listening to music.
I listen to music when I'm in the car and a couple hours after I get home from work. Not enough.
Serious question for everyone, but Larry Farnsworth 's list prompted this thought: What are your listening habits?
How much time a day do you spend listening to music?
I have a lot of things I like to do. Most of my time Spent listening to music comes at work. I do a lot of driving in between stops, and that's where I get in the most time. After work, besides spending time focusing just onmy family, other hobbies compete for my time like video games, tv and movies, and playing basketball. On average, I probably spend 3-4 hours a day listening to music.
I listen to music when I'm in the car and a couple hours after I get home from work. Not enough.
I listen en route to and from work (metro + walking, ~30 mins each way), when I'm working in the office and not in meetings/out and about throughout the day, pretty much any time I'm in the car, and often before bedtime. Sometimes a solid 2-3 hours in the evening, depending on what I'm doing. I like putting on music as I cook. And write. Sometimes as I read, so long as it is ambient/chill music.
Considering you've found the need to respond to my threads as if you are threatened by me I offer you some peace my confused counterpart. May you find peace in your restless soul.
Serious question for everyone, but Larry Farnsworth 's list prompted this thought: What are your listening habits?
How much time a day do you spend listening to music?
I have a lot of things I like to do. Most of my time Spent listening to music comes at work. I do a lot of driving in between stops, and that's where I get in the most time. After work, besides spending time focusing just onmy family, other hobbies compete for my time like video games, tv and movies, and playing basketball. On average, I probably spend 3-4 hours a day listening to music.
I turn it first thing when I wake up. Usually something droney or ambient to start the day off. Then I start to see if anything is streaming. Somewhere about the middle of the day, I go off on tangents.
I tend to cook dinner to hair metal just so I can sing in a spatula.
E: just realized I didn't answer the question. At home, 11 to 13 hours a day. Mostly on the computer but I still take stuff off the shelves. Weekends drop off (unless you count Old McDonald) to about 4 -5 hours.
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Serious question for everyone, but Larry Farnsworth 's list prompted this thought: What are your listening habits?
How much time a day do you spend listening to music?
I have a lot of things I like to do. Most of my time Spent listening to music comes at work. I do a lot of driving in between stops, and that's where I get in the most time. After work, besides spending time focusing just onmy family, other hobbies compete for my time like video games, tv and movies, and playing basketball. On average, I probably spend 3-4 hours a day listening to music.
I have a job that is primarily at a desk, and some of the people in my office are people whose beliefs are so backwards that I don't like to hear them talk. Therefore, I listen to music a majority of the day when I am in the office. It drops off on the weekends because I am doing other stuff. I keep a bit loaded on the phone, but I don't update it enough for it to be fresh every time I am in the car.
1. Lightning Bolt - Fantasy Empire 2. Bjork - Vulnicura 3. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress 4. Sleater - Kinney - No Cities To Love 5. Liturgy - The Ark Work 6. Ibeyi - Ibeyi 7. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly 8. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell 9. Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter Three: River Run Thee 10. Ryley Walker - Primrose Green
This will all change by next week (or until that Carly Rae Jepsen album drops).
(So Far)
Björk - Vulnicura Sleater-Kinney - No Cities to Love Jenny Hval - Apocalypse, girl Jim O'Rourke - Simple Songs Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly Shamir - Ratchet Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit Mbongwana Star - From Kinshasa Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld - Never Were The Way She Was
Lightning Bolt - Fantasy Empire Ibeyi - Ibeyi Jamie xx - In Colour Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress Speedy Ortiz - Foil Deer Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter Three: River Run Thee The Body & Thou - Released From Love / You, Whom I Have Always Hated Hop Along - Painted Shut Prurient - Frozen Niagara Falls Bully - Feels Like
Dawn Richard - Blackheart Allison Moorer - Down To Believing Kamasi Washington - The Epic Viet Cong - Viet Cong Torres - Sprinter LoneLady - Hinterland Ryley Walker - Primrose Green Vessels - Dilate Mount Eerie - Sauna Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs
No ordering this time anymore than how it's grouped. 30 albums that I've liked so far this year.
Top 25 not in order Bjork Kendrick Courtney Barnett Sufjan Faith No More Speedy Ortiz Father John Misty Florence & the Machine Jamie xx Laura Marling Punch Brothers GYBE Sannhet Earl Sweatshirt Ghostface & BBNG Czarface Alabama Shakes Kacey Musgraves Lady Lamb Torres Thee Oh Sees Mikal Cronin King Gizzard Lighting Bolt Viet Cong Sleater Kinney Modest Mouse MMJ Susanne Sundfor Natalie Prass
Holy crap somehow I left Courtney Barnett off the last list gland's list made me realize my mistake). I said not in order but it is pretty much in order at the top.
Again I'm continually amazed at the amount of new music some of you people listen to. When ranking a new album does that include stuff you've only listened to once or twice? I feel like I need to listen to most albums at least three or four times before knowing whether I like it or not. Some are an instant like or dislike, but most need multiple listens. Maybe it's because I can't really listen to a new album while doing something else; if I listen to a new album passively nothing really sticks. I enjoy contemplating lyrics, digesting sonic nuance, etc., and that takes focus.
Though after typing this I scrolled up and realized that this has already been discussed. I just don't have the opportunity to listen to music that much. I live five minutes away from work so I don't get much time in that way, and I can't really listen to music while I'm at work. I listen to music at home, but like I said, even if I'm just aimlessly surfing the web I can't listen to the music well enough to digest it.
Anywho, my laughably short list:
1. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell 2. Bjork - Vulnicura 3. Mumford and Sons - Wilder Mind 4. Donnie Trumpet and the Social Experiment - Surf 5. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly 6. MMJ - The Waterfall 7. Alabama Shakes - Sound and Color
Stuff I've listened to a time or two and thought "That was nice", but don't know well enough to rank or appreciate: Jamie XX - In Colour Sun Kil Moon - Universal Themes Florence and the Machine - How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear Panda Bear - Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper
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