Chorus.fm Members EOTY Lists 2016 • Page 18

I do what I can to listen to as much different stuff as possible, but it still doesn't generally end up at the top of my EOTY list because I usually find I have to get way more into the genre to appreciate particular albums more, which takes time

 

Everything I cut from my list is still incredible and I'm already having regrets on things I cut.

Hello Miranda Lambert

 

Sounds like me on Fridays. I try to post all the new Metal releases that Tate's post lacks... I don't do it every week because it mostly goes unnoticed.

 

Same. I feel like my list is mostly just Metal, pop punk and a few indie or hip hop releases. I listened to plenty of singer-songwriters, electronic and hip hop although most of it just doesn't appeal to me so my list reflects more of the genres I'm predisposed to enjoy.

 

Same

 

My top 10 is probably albums that made me feel the most at the moment or that I somehow went back to the most (which aren't always the same albums) and the rest is random stuff I liked. It's not necessarily a judgement regarding "quality".

 

Top 20-30 is always about emotional impact. After that it's just stuff I liked a lot

 

Yep, same. My EOTY list has way different proportions of genres than the list of stuff I listened to, though I'm hoping it'll balance out more as the years go on

 

Okay, here's what I think my end list will end up being:

2016
1. The 1975 - I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful, yet so unaware of it
2. Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book
3. Kanye West - The Life of Pablo
4. Descendents - Hypercaffium Spazzinate
5. Jimmy Eat World - Integrity Blues
6. Relient K - Air For Free
7. The Hotelier - Goodness
8. Beyonce - Lemonade
9. Butch Walker - Stay Gold
10. The Weeknd - Starboy



Also, I realized I never did a 2015, so here it is:
1. Marianas Trench - Astoria
2. The Money Pit - The Money Pit
3. The Front Bottoms - Back On Top
4. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
5. Frank Turner - Positive Songs For Negative People
6. Fall Out Boy - AB/AP
7. Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion
8. Lord Huron - Strange Trails
9. Marina and the Diamonds - Froot
10. FIDLAR - Too

 

Zac did a great job in the post following yours, just want to really emphasize Joyce Manor.

 

Someone asked for artists who post their lists, Brooklynvegan has been posting a lot of these:

Touche Amore’s Top 10 Albums of 2016

Foxing list their top 10 albums of 2016, release “Indica” video

Modern Baseball’s favorite LPs of 2016

PUP list their top 10 LPs of 2016

Hinds tell us their Top 10 LPs of 2016

Frank Turner tells us his top 10 albums of 2016, covered The Mountain Goats

Julien Baker lists her top 10 albums of 2016, released a holiday song

 

I think I'm finally ready to commit to this order. This is the stuff that managed to both hit me hard emotionally, sound great musically, and keep me interested and engaged through re-listens. There were a bunch of albums I enjoyed this year that were either kinda cheesy that I just like 'cause they're fun (With Confidence, Settle Your Scores) or stuff that was genuinely good that I didn't spend much time with (Bastille, Against Me!) that could have made the list, but I tried to be honest about the stuff that actually got me stoked on music this year.

P.S. Everyone needs to listen to that Glacier Veins EP. I'll shut up now.

LPs
1. Cardinal - Pinegrove
2. Goodness - The Hotelier
3. i like it when you sleep... - The 1975
4. Headspace - Issues
5. Tidal Wave - Taking Back Sunday
6. American Nightmare - Bad Rabbits
7. Stories for Monday - The Summer Set
8. Laugh Tracks - Knocked Loose
9. ,Dies - Gouge Away
10. Low Teens - Every Time I Die
11. Death of a Bachelor - Panic! at the Disco
12. The Home Inside My Head - Real Friends
13. Slow Burn - Old Gray
14. Nobody Likes a Quitter - All Get Out
15. Lemonade - Beyonce


EPs
1. Clear Your Head - Glacier Veins
2. Mulligan - Bogues
3. Trans Day of Revenge - G.L.O.S.S.
4. Outgrown Things - Movements
5. The Lonely End - Everyone Leaves
6. Evermore - Homesafe
7. I Know What I'm Not - Life Lessons
8. Tired Eyes - Cayetana
9. Anyways - The Starting Line
10. Debris - Stickup Kid

 

@tumbleweedterror - that Knocked Loose album is so pissed off.

 

Precisely why I like it so much! Hardcore is definitely not my genre of choice but something about what that band is doing is really working for me.

 

In no particular order;

Tancred - Out of the Garden
The Growlers- City Club
Local Natives- Sunlit Youth
Norma Jean- Polar Similar
Night Verses- Into the Vanishing Light (it's a grower)
Every time I die- Low Teens
Sunflower Bean- Human Ceremony
Phantogram - III
ScHoolboy Q - Blank Face LP
Emarosa - 131

 

need folks to tell me what to listen to thats not listed. theres some stuff i forgot for sure but theres also a lot this year i havent gotten around to yet

 

Seismograph

 

king - we are king
did you listen to hibachi for lunch?
dawn richard - redemption
dawn richard x kingdom - infrared ep
dj koze - pampa records vol 1
anna meredith - varmint
kaitlyn aurelia smith - EARS
ka - honor killed the samurai
ian william craig - centres
youandewan - there is no right time
gallant - ology
payroll giovanni & cardo - big bossin vol 1
nite-funk EP
nao - for all we know
nef the pharoah and cardo - neffy got wings
maxwell - blackSUMMERSnight
mick jenkins - the healing component

lol idk those are ones that seem right up your wheelhouse that arent on your list/not sure ive heard you talk about before

 

Yes! Maybe I missed it in other posts but I feel like nobody talked about this! This is such a good EP. For all the love that Noah Gundersen gets on this site, I'm surprised at how overlooked Young in the City is.

Favorite moment on the EP:

"Young dumb, full of some
Animal instinct I guess
Your so pretty, your so pretty
Get the hell out of that dress
And get stoned, real stoned
Bring your body to bed

Let me give a whole new meaning
To getting inside your head."

 

Very much co-sign Gallant.

 

gallant went to my friend's high school, haha

 

yeah but do they have a guest spot on the album introducing him??

 

ayyyyyy
i do have actual real life friends that played in a full band abhi dijon set too

 

Did you listen to Spotlights new album Tidals? Female-fronted atmospheric metal kind of music. They opened up for Deftones this past summer. I only listened to the album once and thought it was pretty good. I've been meaning to go back to it.

 

1. Jeff Rosenstock - WORRY.
2. Touche Amore - Stage Four
3. Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker
4. The Hotelier - Goodness
5. Brian Fallon - Painkillers
6. Apologies, i have none - Pharmacie
7. The So So Glos - Kamikaze
8. Descendents - Hypercaffium Spazzinate
9. Joyce Manor - Cody
10. The Naked and Famous - Simple Forms

Having less and less time to listen to stuff while keeping up with TV/games/podcasts between work and school and life, but those top four are some of the most powerful pieces of music I've experienced in adulthood.

- Rosenstock's record is a masterclass in verbalizing the problems that the average person encounters in today's climate, while also sympathizing for the racially charged bullshit that others have to go through. There hasn't been a day since release where I haven't listened to it front-to-back at least twice, and if I had to rank my favorite records of all time, this would be in that top ten as well.

-Touche Amore hit me like a freight train as someone who lost my mother to cancer at a young age and who currently struggles with depression and anxiety. I was on my way to Rite-Aid on my break at work when I first tapped play and heard Flowers & You, and it is the only time music had caused me to cry in public. A beautiful portrait of the various stages of grief.

- Cohen has been someone that I only came to appreciate after learning that the Menzingers' Sun Hotel 2 was more-or-less a cover of a Cohen track. I learned that just over two years ago, and have been steadily working backwards through his catalog finding a lot I love and a lot I don't care for, which only speaks to the man's willingness to go down which ever avenue he desired. When the single came out, I was floored. The message was clear and haunting, this was his swan song. The record itself is a dark hallway with many doors into a life well-lived. I bugged my girlfriend to listen to the thing every other day since the record released, and I had a day off from work when I heard the news of his passing. Talk about going out on top.

I'm also aware of the lack of women and people of color: truth be told, many of my favorite artists didn't have proper studio releases this year, and my schedule has left little room for discovery. I've beaten the new Run the Jewels single to death, for example. There'd be more representation if I went with a longer list or did an honorable mentions, which I may do down the line.