Chorus.fm Members EOTY Lists 2017 • Page 3

1. Circa Survive – The Amulet

2. The Maine – Lovely Little Lonely

3. Julien Baker – Turn Out the Lights

4. Manchester Orchestra – A Black Mile to the Surface

5. Turnover – Good Nature

6. The War on Drugs – A Deeper Understanding

7. Enter Shikari – The Spark

8. The Contortionist – Clairvoyant

9. Citizen – As You Please

10. Queens of the Stone Age – Villains

11. Real Estate – In Mind

12. Paramore – After Laughter

13. Foo Fighters – Concrete and Gold

14. Japandroids – Near to the Wild Heart of Life

15. Alvvays – Antisocialites

16. Movements – Feel Something

17. The National – Sleep Well Beast

18. August Burns Red – Phantom Anthem

19. Pvris – All We Know of Heaven, All We Need of Hell

20. Lorde – Melodrama

21. Royal Blood – How Did We Get So Dark

22. Fleet Foxes – Crack Up

23. Kendrick Lamar – DAMN.

24. Grizzly Bear – Painted Ruins

25. Counterparts – You’re Not You Anymore

26. LCD Soundsystem – American Dream

27. Glassjaw – Material Control

28. Chris Stapleton – From A Room: Volume 1+2

29. Sleep On It – Overexposed

30. Run the Jewels – Run the Jewels 3 (Because I'm the wooorssttttt)

 

Might have some tweaking to do but this is pretty close to a final (in no order):

Gang of Youths - Go Farther In Lightness
Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger in the Alps
David Ramirez - We're Not Going Anywhere
Jeffrey Martin - One Go Around
Julien Baker - Turn Out The Lights
John Moreland - Big Bad Luv
Ruston Kelly - Halloween
Will Hoge - Anchors
Caroline Spence -Spades and Roses
The Menzingers - After The Party
Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit - The Nashville Sound
Richard Edwards - Lemon Cotton Candy Sunset
Hodera - First Things First
Tyler Childers - Purgatory
Jade Jackson - Gilded
Can't Swim - Fail You Again
The National - Sleep Well Beast
Travis Meadows - First Cigarette
Movements - Feel Something
Natalie Hemby - Puxico

 

1. Brent Faiyaz – Sonder Son
2. Milo - Who Told You To Think??!!?!?!?!
3. Glassjaw – Material Control
4. dvsn – Morning After
5. Daniel Caesar - Freudian
6. Manchester Orchestra – A Black Mile to the Surface
7. Miguel – War & Leisure
8. Phoebe Bridgers – Stranger in the Alps
9. Brockhampton – Saturation
10. SZA – Ctrl

11. Smino – Blkswn
12. The National – Sleep Well Beast
13. Sabrina Claudio – About Time
14. Syd – Fin
15. Moses Sumney - Aromanticism
16. Snoh Aalegra - Feels
17. The War on Drugs – A Deeper Understanding
18. Sampha – Process
19. Laura Marling – Semper Femina
20. Iron & Wine – Beast Epic

 

I need some more time to think about this.

 

My list will look different than the ones I’m seeing thus far. This is good - it gives me plenty of things to listen to. I love going through these lists and listening to everything I haven’t heard!

Okay here we go:

1. Awaken I Am - Blind Love

This album and band came out of nowhere for me. I had never heard of the band nor had I ever listened to any of their previous work. I had signed up for a free trial of Apple Music a few days earlier and was adding music to my library when I randomly came across this rocker of a record, during a less than inspired cardio workout. Within the first minute of the first track I was jumping around and singing along with the chorus like I had heard the song a million times. Each track thereafter for the entire record had a similar effect. For the sheer reason that this was my top workout and most listened to record of 2017 I had to place it atop my list and I do so without doubt or regret.

2. Carousel Kings - Charm City

I didn’t want to rank THIS album by THIS band THIS high but as I wrestled with this list I realized if I moved this any lower down the list I’d be lying to myself. Is this a groundbreaking album filled with can’t miss artistic lyrics and profound melodies that will blow your mind? No. Is this album a nonstop energetic, charismatic, catchy, fun, upbeat joyride worth blasting out from your Beats and into your ears - oh yes. This has NFG level catchy songwriting with surprisingly impressive and tight riffs, hooks and guitar work interwoven throughout the album. For a pop-punk band these guys can shred. The vocal performance is solid and there is no letdown track. I really have no complaints aside from being able to truthfully say there is nothing new about this band. They just do what they do and they do it well. Is there really anything wrong with that?

3. Picturesque - Back to Beautiful

I’ve seen plenty of lists with Circa Survives “The Amulet” ranked at #1 and this album nowhere on the list at all. This baffles me. I put this band in the Saosin/Circa mold for some reason I cannot exactly figure. That said, they aren’t a copycat and they really don’t sound much like either of the above mentioned bands. High quality vocals, driving guitars, choruses catchy enough to bounce around in your car to but not too catchy to where they get stuck in your head and take away from what they do best fill this record from top to bottom. There isn’t a sleeper in the bunch.

4. Neck Deep - The Peace and the Patience

This is just a fun album. I’m probably ranking it higher than I should because tracks like Happy Judgement Day and In Bloom got a lot of plays from me this year.

5. Walk the Moon- What If Nothing

I almost ranked this as high as #2. I know nothing about this band or their first two released but I was surprised and blown away by this album. Tracks like “Tiger Teeth” are timeless. I am definitely curious about the rest of their discography.

6. Story of the Year - Wolves

I remember seeing SOTY at Warped Tour at Randall’s Island, NY. I was one of maybe a dozen people at the small side stage they played their set on. It was early on near the beginning of the day. They played some of their soon to be bigger hits off of Page Avenue and I knew they’d blow up. Since Page Avenue though I haven’t connected with SOTY quite the same until now, almost. I really am enjoying this new record.

7. Thomas Rhett - Life Changes

Say what now? A pop country record? Another surprise for me. My wife is big into the country music scene and she told me about this awesome love story. Guy and Girl grow up good friends dating other people. Guy and Girl nearly marry other people. A family member tells guy that he better tell girl how he feels or he will for him. Guy and girl end up together, marry young and guy then gets famous.

Guy and girl struggle to get pregnant so they adopt a girl from Uganda but then have a miracle pregnancy of their own and go from no kids to 2 kids. This is the love story of Thomas Rhett and his wife. Life indeed changes. Sometimes music hits you in the feels and makes you smile. My wife told me this love story because we have a love story of our own which I’ll keep to myself. Listen to perhaps my favorite track of the year if you will, it’s the title track of this record.

And all the rest:

Andrew McMahon In the Wilderness - Zombies on Broadway

Knuckle Puck - Shapeshifter

Silverstein - Dead Reflection

Grayscale - Adornment

ROAM - Great Heights & Nosedives

I the Mighty - Where the Mind Wants to Go / Where You Let it Go

Thousand Below - The Love You Let Too Close

Otherwise - Sleeping Lions

Taylor Swift - Reputation

Paramore - After Laughter

Seaway - Vacation

Incubus - 8

The Front Bottoms - Going Grey

PVRIS - All We Know of Heaven, All We Need of Hell

Kesha - Rainbow

Prophets of Rage - Prophets of Rage

Rise Against - Wolves

The Movielife - Cities In Search of a Heart

Palisades - Palisades

Nothing More - The Stories We Tell Ourselves

Nothing But Thieves - Broken Machine

BEST EP LIST:

1. Amy Shark - Night Thinker

2. Echosmith - Inside a Dream

Sparks the Rescue - When It Thunders

 

Half of your list fell in my 31-50 (which I didn't post - just felt like too much). A few overlaps in our top 30's too. Good picks all around!

 

PEOPLES OF NORTH AMERICA. You need to get Jamie Lenman's Devolver in your life, as it's my album of the year by far. Listen to the track Mississippi.

Also, much agreement with others on here.

Afghan Whigs - In Spades
Hundredth - RARE
Cloud Nothings - Life Without Sound
Meat Wave - The Incessant
Citizen - As You Please
Creeper - Eternity, In Your Arms
QOTSA - Villains
Bronx - V
Protomartyr - Relatives In Descent

The order keeps changing, so I present my list for your delectation then bugger off. Toodle-oo!

 

I do. Please share.

 

I saw them in a small jazz art space, great show. But also one of the Chicago sax guys I know was backing her up on horns with his group, I don't think they're on this tour, so it'll be a different experience.

 

Here is my current standings, don't expect any changes unless a big surprise release happens.

1. Story of the Year-Wolves
2. The Menzingers- After The Party
3. Paramore- After Laughter
4. Portugal The Man- Woodstock
5. The Front Bottoms- Going Grey
6. Circa Survive- The Amulet
7. Manchester Orchestra- A Black Mile to the Surface
8. Silverstein- Dead Reflection
9. Seaway - Vacation
10. Gorillaz- Humanz
11. Rise Against- Wolves
12. The Flatliners- Inviting Light
13. Julien Baker- Turn Out the Lights
14. Comeback Kid- Outsider
15. August Burns Red- Phantom Anthem
16. Foster the People- Sacred Hearts Club
17. Anti-Flag- American Fall
18. Broken Social Scene- Hug of Thunder
19. Blink 182- California DLX
20. Stone Sour- Hydrograd

Honorable Mentions:
Nine Inch Nails- Add Violence
The Dear Hunter- All is All As it Should Be
Sparks the Rescue- When it Thunders
Death from Above- Outrage is Now!
Lights- Skin & Earth
The Movielife- Cities in Search of a Heart
Goldfinger- The Knife
Queens of the Stone Age- Villians
Foo Fighters- Concrete and Gold
Linkin Park- One More Light
Our Lady Peace- Somethingness Vol.1
Bleachers- Gone Now

 

Year End album List:

Story Of The Year- Wolves
Blink-182: California Deluxe
Silverstein: Dead Reflection
Foo Fighters: Concrete And Gold
All That Remains: Madness
Paramore: After Laughter
Linkin Park: One More Light
New Found Glory: Makes Me Sick
Starset: Vessels
Flogging Molly: Life Is Good

 

1 - Colter Wall - Colter Wall
2 - The Menzingers - After the Party
3 - Steve Moakler - Steel Town
4 - Manchester Orchestra - A Black Mile to the Surface
5 - Zac Brown Band - Welcome Home
6 - Turnpike Troubadours - A Long Way From Your Heart
7 - Noah Gundersen - White Noise
8 - Tyler Childers - Purgatory
9 - Chris Stapleton - From a Room Vol 1
10 - Kuckle Puck - Shapeshifter
11 - John Mayer - The Search for Everything
12 - Fleet Foxes - Crack Up
13 - Paramore - After Laughter
14 - Chris Stapleton - From a Room Vol 2
15 - Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 3

 

what does he do tho?

 

1. mount eerie - a crow looked at me

honorable mention

wild pink - wild pink
great grandpa - plastic cough
los campesinos! - sick scenes
julien baker - turn out the lights
rozwell kid - precious art
rainer maria - s/t

 

ALBUM OF THE YEAR
1. Body Origami “Bright & Only Mine”
2. Drab Majesty “The Demonstration”
3. Converge “The Dusk In Us”
4. SZA “Ctrl”
5. The National “Sleep Well Beast”
6. Hazel English “Just Give In/Never Going Home”
7. David Bazan “Care”
8. Kendrick Lamar “DAMN.”
9. Lo Tom “Lo Tom”
10. Bully “Losing”

HONORABLE MENTIONS
Joey Bada$$ “ALL-AMERIKKKAN BADA$$”
Code Orange “Forever”
Paramore “After Laughter”
Julien Baker “Turn Out The Lights”
Cyhi The Prynce “No Dope On Sundays”
Glassjaw “Material Control”

SONGS OF THE YEAR
1. Calvin Harris “Slide” (ft. Frank Ocean & Migos)
2. Body Origami “Sunny Pry”
3. Brian Brown “Roger & Zapp”
4. Lo Tom “Overboard”
5. Now, Now “Yours”
6. The National “This System Only Dreams In Total Darkness”
7. SZA “Doves In The Wind” (ft. Kendrick Lamar)
8. Converge “I Can Tell You About Pain”
9. David Bazan “Care”
10. Kesha “Praying”

SHOWS OF THE YEAR
1. Lauryn Hill at The Ryman
2. Radiohead at Phillips Arena
3. U2’s The Joshua Tree Anniversary Tour at Papa John’s Stadium
4. Mewithoutyou’s A to B Life Anniversay Tour at Mercy Lounge
5. Sigur Ros at TPAC
6. Kesha’s Rainbow Tour at The Ryman
7. Jay z’s 4:44 Tour at Bridgestone Arena
8. Drab Majesty at Exit/In
9. Now, Now at Mercy Lounge
10. Cove at That 70’s House (the first time in 2017)

 

I just don't know why they should be left off because they gave everyone a nice Christmas present haha.

 

hell yeah

 

the new glassjaw is definitely shaking my list up.
as of now:
1. Julien Baker - Turn Off the Lights
2. Kendrick Lamar - Damn
3. (This is were Brand New would go, but leaving it off for obvious reasons)
3. Glassjaw - Material Control
4. Movements - Feel Something

And I have a bunch I still haven't listened to. Brand New kind of took over for me, and then news broke and I got really bummed out about music and the scene.

 

This year has maybe been a bit quieter than the past few for me. There's been a bunch of albums that I've liked a lot - but nothing that's felt like a 10/10 all-timer for me, which the last few years have had at least one.

The National is probably my AOTY, will put together a list tonight maybe.

 

1. Taylor Swift - Reputation
2. The National - Sleep Well Beast
3. Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me
4. The Front Bottoms - Going Grey
5. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Nashville Sound
6. Lana Del Rey - Lust for Life
7. Emperor X - Oversleepers International
8. Dua Lipa - Dua Lupa
9. Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory
10. Julien Baker - Turn Out the Lights

 

This thread is what I use to catch up on everything I missed throughout the year

 

Here's a relatively hastily put together list. These lists aren't gospel, I don't have to live and die with them, just a collection of albums I've enjoyed this year. Order is very rough, as I mentioned a post up, I don't have a clear, hands-down AOTY, so below is a bunch of albums that I like quite a bit. If anybody would like a RIYL or more info on any of them, let me know!

1. The National - Sleep Well Beast
2. The Menzingers - After The Party
3. Asgeir - Afterglow
4. Japandroids - Near to the Wild Heart of Life
5. Dia Frampton - Bruises
6. Conor Oberst - Salutations
7. Jamie Lenman - Devolver
8. Brand New - Science Fiction
9. Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger in the Alps
10. Enter Shikari - The Spark


11. Passion Pit - Tremendous Sea of Love
12. Stormzy - Gang Signs & Prayers
13. Arcane Roots - Melancholia and Hymms
14. Tusks - Dissolve
15. Wolf Alice - Visions of a Life
16. Yuksek - Nous Horizons
17. Adore // Repel - Empty Orchestra
18. Waxahatchee - Out in the Storm
19. Deafcult - Auras
20. Tricot - 3


21. Bjork - Utopia
22. Daughter - Music Before The Storm
23. Tei Shi - Crawl Space
24. Cigarettes After Sex - Cigarettes After Sex
25. Cloud Nothings - Life Without Sound
26. Allison Crutchfield - Tourist in this Town
27. Captain, We're Sinking - King of no Man
28. Converge - The Dusk In Us
29. Julien Baker - Turn Out The Lights
30. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN


31. Low Roar - Once In A Long, Long While...
32. Manchester Orchestra - A Black Mile to the Surface
33. Mogwai - Every Country's Sun
34. Thomas Dybdahl - The Great Plains
35. Madelline Kenney - Night Night At The First Landing
36. LLLL - Chains
37. The Body & Full of Hell - Ascending a Mountain of Heavy Light
38. POS - Chill, Dummy
39. Solstafir - Berdreyminn
40. Four Tet - New Energy

 

Demi's album ended up being a surprise for me this year. Sis lost a lot of goodwill with me over the last few albums but I think this one is a step in the right direction and her vocals are wild.

 

best list so far because it's the only one to list the aoty

good job

 

The Ominous Circle - Appalling Ascension
Power Trip - Nightmare Logic
Artificial Brain - Infrared Horizon
Elder - Reflections of a Floating World
Condor - Unstoppable Power
Urn - The Burning
Hellripper - Coagulating Darkness
Darkest Hour - Godless Prophets & Migrant Flora
Extremity - Extremely Fucking Dead
Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper