Chorus.fm Members EOTY Lists 2018 • Page 5

In order
1. The 1975 – A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
2. The Wonder Years – Sister Cities
3. Coheed and Cambria – Vaxis – Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures
4. Spanish Love Songs – Schmaltz
5. Kacey Musgraves – Golden Hour
6. Let’s Eat Grandma – I’m All Ears
7. Pianos Become the Teeth – Wait For Love
8. Joyce Manor – Million Dollars to Kill Me
9. Lil Peep – Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 2
10. Janelle Monae – Dirty Computer
not in any order
11. Foxing – Nearer My God
12. BTS – Love Yourself: ‘Answer’
13. BTS – Love Yourself: ‘Tear’
14. Cardi B – Invasion of Privacy
15. Arctic Monkeys – Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
16. Now, Now – Saved
17. Deafheaven – Ordinary Corrupt Human Behavior
18. Mitski – Be the Cowboy
19. Thrice – Palms
20. Basement – Beside Myself

 

The lack of Meg Myers in this thread is really sad haha.

 

FWIW I've been going back and listening through all of my favorite albums trying to make my top-10, and I'm not really sure if she will crack it. I loved the album when it first came out - and it's still great - but I just think this has really been a strong year for a ton of different artists.

 

Yeah but looking at some lists of 40 or more from some people here that didn't have her and then seeing some that did make those same lists haha

 

She's so slept on it's disappointing. I'm betting a lot of people here haven't even given the album a listen.

 

1. Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness - Upside Down Flowers
2. Trophy Eyes - The American Dream
3. Trash Boat - Crown Shyness
4. The XCERTS - Hold on to Your Heart
5. CAMP COPE - How To Socialize and Make Friends
6. Yungblud - 21st Century Liability
7. Panic! At The Disco - Pray for the Wicked
8. WSTR - Identity Crisis
9. The Story So Far - Proper Dose
10. Snail Mail - Lush
11. Warm Thoughts - I Went Swimming Alone
12. Charlie Puth - Voicenotes
13. Foxing - Nearer My God
14. Ice Nine Kills - The Silver Scream
15. Lucy Dacus - Historian
16. nothing,nowhere. - Ruiner
17. Silent Planet - When The End Began
18. Tiny Moving Parts - Swell
19 S. Carey - Hundred Acres
20. Culture Abuse - Bay Dream

 

No eve????

 

Thanks kevo!!!

 

Top 20 Music of 2018:

1. Mayday Parade - Sunnyland
2. The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
3. Matthew Thiessen & The Earthquakes - Wind Up Bird
4. William Ryan Key - Virtue / Thirteen
5. Death Cab For Cutie - Thank You For Today
6. Tash Sultana - Flow State
7. Matt Nathanson - Sings His Sad Heart
8. Eager Seas - Mine As Well
9. The Rocketboys - Come Home
10. Luca Brasi - Stay
11. Dave Grohl - Play (this is probably cheating, but it’s a 23 minute song so like c’mon. Give me this.)
12. DZ Deathrays - Bloody Lovely
13. Hussey - Hitchens
14. Basement - Beside Myself
15. Foxing - Nearer My God
16. Thrice - Palms
17. Typhoon - Offerings
18. Can’t Swim - This Too Won’t Pass
19. Trash Boat - Crown Shyness
20. The Body Rampant - RMPNT

(honourable mention: The Living End - Wunderbar)

Best Movie of 2018:
BlacKKKlansman
(honourable mention: Bohemian Rhapsody)

Best Game of 2018:
Spider-Man (PS4)

Best TV Series of 2018:
Unsolved (Netflix)
(honourable mention: Bodyguard (Netflix))

Some notes:
I hated Incubus' 8 when it came out in 2017 but this year It's been on constant rotation for me.

 

Eve? I’m not even sure what that is am I missing out on an album I should love?

 

1. Foxing - Nearer My God
2. The Wonder Years - Sister Cities
3. The Aces - When My Heart Felt Volcanic
4. Alkaline Trio - Is This Thing Cursed?
5. Fickle Friends - You Are Someone Else
6. Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog
7. The Story So Far - Proper Dose
8. The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
9. Hellogoodbye - S'only Natural
10. Jeff Rosenstock - POST-
11. Pianos Become The Teeth - Wait For Love
12. Saves The Day - 9
13. Turnstile - Time & Space
14. Now, Now - Saved
15. Mitski - Be The Cowboy
16. Justin Courtney Pierre - In The Drink
17. Camp Cope - How To Socialise and Make Friends
18. Trash Boat - Crown Shyness
19. Boygenius - Boygenius
20. Joyce Manor - Million Dollars To Kill Me
21. This Wild Life - Petaluma
22. Jukebox The Ghost - Off To The Races
23. Poppy - Am I A Girl?
24. Fall Out Boy - MANIA/Lake Effect Kid EP
25. Ariana Grande - Sweetener

 

Gonna up my list to a top 40 and including notable EPs/Deluxes/Oddities, because this year has been too good

1. Andrew McMahon- Upside Down Flowers
2. Hawthorne Heights- Bad Frequencies
3. Alkaline Trio- Is This Thing Cursed?
4. Coheed And Cambria- The Unheavenly Creatures
5. Senses Fail- If There Is Light, It Will Find You
6. Trash Boat- Crown Shyness
7. The Sonder Bombs- Modern Female Rockstar
8. John Nolan- Abendigo
9. Thrice- Palms
10. Light Years- Afterlife


Honorable mentions (11-40)

11. All Get Out- No Bouquet
12. Beartooth- Disease
13. Real Friends- Composure
14. mewithoutyou- [untitled]
15. Out Of Service- Morning
16. Mike Shinoda- Post Traumatic
17. Mitski- Be The Cowboy
18. Sevendust- All I See Is War
19. Trophy Eyes- The American Dream
20. Even The Trees- If Only Every Day Could Be Like This
21. Basement- Beside Myself
22. Cecil Frena- The Gridlock
23. Underoath- Erase Me
24. Carb On Carb- For Ages
25. Tiny Moving Parts- Swell
26. Toy Cars- Paint Brain
27. Stand Atlantic- Skinny Dipping
28. Ogikubo Station- We Can Pretend Like
29. Pianos Becomes The Teeth- Wait For Love
30. Boston Manor- Welcome To The Neighbourhood
31. Spanish Love Songs- Schmultz
32. Black Foxxes- Reioi
33. Architects- Holy Hell
34. Hopesfall- Arbiter
35. Foxing- Nearer My God
36. Emery- Eve
37. Brian Fallon- Sleepwalkers
38. The Creeps- Beneath The Pines
39. Colour & Shade- Colour & Shade
40. Emecia- Familiar Spirits

EPs, Deluxes & Oddities

1. boygenius- boygenius
2. Harsh Lights- Overthinking
3. William Ryan Key- Thirteen
4. AFI- The Missing Man
5. Silverstein- The Afterglow/Aquamarine Acoustic
6. Jimmy Eat World- Love Never/ Half Heart
7. William Ryan Key- Virtue
8. Starset- Vessels 2.0
9. New Found Glory- Makes Me Sick Again
10. Bayside- Acoustic Volume 2

 

Can't wait to share with you all my "Omg I really really like these 20188" List

 

Actually, I think Tate Chasers - Taint is my album of the year.

What’d you think about it @Jason Tate?

 

ftfy

 

Seeing all the love for Fickle Friends in here got me to check their album out and I fucking love it.

I may need to do a revision to my list at the end of the month with some adjustments.

 

1) The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
2) twenty one pilots - Trench
3) mewithoutYou - [Untitled]
4) Mac Miller - Swimming
5) Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats - Tearing At the Seams
6) Parquet Courts - Wide Awake!
7) Lord Huron - Vide Noir
8) Born Ruffians - Uncle, Duke & the Chief
9) Fall Out Boy - M A N I A
10) Panic! At the Disco - Pray For the Wicked

 

Hi Chorus.fm people. In the year of our lord 2018, I got married and started a new job and moved to Kensington, Philadelphia. Our first dance was almost “Book Of Love” by the Magnetic Fields before it actually became “If We Were Vampires” by Jason Isbell. My mother chose the slow version of “Forever Young” by Bob Dylan & The Band for our dance together. I met Courtney Marie Andrews at XPNFest in Camden and Katie Pruitt at Boot & Saddle. I got to see my best friend on tour with Allen Stone. We saw Gang of Youths twice (snuck my underage brother in both times), Gaslight Anthem in Asbury Park, Ruston Kelly, Japandroids on what was their last headlining show of the tour, Katie Toupin on her first solo tour, Houndmouth twice, Lake Street Dive in New Haven, Paul Simon’s farewell tour, Taylor Swift and her on-the-fly antics after a malfunction at Lincoln Financial Field, Diet Cig, Josh Ritter close down XPNfest and probably some more that I’m forgetting. So, it seems it was a good year for music. Here’s some of my favorites:

Albums

1. Lake Street Dive - Free Yourself Up
2. Ruston Kelly - Dying Star
3. Courtney Marie Andrews - May Your Kindness Remain
4. Brian Fallon - Sleepwalkers
5. Glorietta - Glorietta
6. Brandi Carlile - By the Way, I Forgive You
7. The Night Game - The Night Game
8. Public Access TV - Street Safari
9. Mt. Joy - Mt. Joy
10. Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer
11. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
12. Lori McKenna - The Tree
13. Rhett Miller - The Messenger
14. Houndmouth - Golden Age
15. The Longshot - Love is for Losers
16. Dawes - Passwords
17. The Decemberists - I’ll Be Your Girl
18. Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel
19. Kyle Craft - Full Circle Nightmare
20. Haley Heynderickx - I Need To Start A Garden
21. Brent Cowles - How To Be Okay Alone
22. First Aid Kit - Ruins
23. The Aces - When My Heart Felt Volcanic
24. Leon Bridges - Good Thing
25. Camila Cabello - Camila
26. Ezra Furman - Transangelic Exodus
27. Titus Andronicus - A Productive Cough
28. The Wombats - Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life
29. Caroline Rose - Loner
30. Amanda Shires - To The Sunset
31. Jeff Tweedy - WARM
32. Death Cab For Cutie - Thank Your For Today
33. Liz Cooper & The Stampede - Window Flowers
34. Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog
35. Colter Wall - Songs of the Plains
36. Oh Pep! - I Wasn’t Only Thinking About You…
37. King Tuff - The Other
38. The Lemon Twigs - Go To School
39. Okkervil River - In The Rainbow Rain
40. Robyn - Honey

Songs

“Good Kisser” by Lake Street Dive
“May Your Kindness Remain” by Courtney Marie Andrews
“Once In My Life” by the Decemberists
“Psycho Star” by King Tuff
“60 & Punk” by Death Cab For Cutie
“My Mind’s a Ship That’s Going Down”
“High Hopes” by Panic! at the Disco
“Modern Love” by Houndmouth
“Jersey on the Wall (I’m Just Asking” and “Somebody’s Daughter”
“Lincoln Creek” and “Someday” by Glorietta
"Keep A Little Soul" by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
“A Little More” by Alessia Cara

EPs

Katie Toupin - Moroccan Ballroom
Tenille Townes - Living Room Worktapes
Hozier - Nina Cried Power
Katie Pruitt - OurVinyl Live EP
Boygenius - Boygenius


Other things

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - An American Treasure
The Old 97s - Love The Holidays
Neil Young - Songs For Judy
Shovels & Rope - Predecessors
Uncle Tupelo - No Depression Rarities
The Gaslight Anthem - ’59 Sound Sessions
Various artists - Love, Simon (Soundtrack)
Paul Simon - In The Blue Light
Gang of Youths - MTV Unplugged


2017 albums I listened to for the first time in 2018 and really enjoyed

Susto - & I’m Fine Today
David Ramirez - Watching From A Distance
The Weeks - Easy
Jon Latham - Lifers

And finally, what I'm looking forward to in 2019

The Jason Isbell-produced Josh Ritter album

The full-length Katie Toupin album

New Shovels & Rope

New Jason Isbell

New Avett Brothers

Sara Bareilles
Vampire Weekend
Jade Bird
Carly Rae Jepsen

 

I'm too lazy to separate out EPs/LPs/splits/demos this year and rank them, but here's my list:

Spanish Love Songs - "Schmaltz"
Tragedy - "Fury"
Candy - "Good to Feel"
Six Brew Bantha - "Blight"
Turnstile - "Time and Space"
UADA - "Cult of a Dying Sun"
Mindforce - "Excalibur"
Backslider - "Death Residue"
Fickle Friends - "You Are Someone Else"
Cult Leader - "A Patient Man"
Khemmis - "Desolation"
Mutilation Rites - "Chasm"
Converge - "Beautiful Ruin"
Battering Ram - "Let Me Fight Where I Lay"
Big Bite - "s/t"
Mammoth Grinder - "Cosmic Crypt"
Noose Rot - "The Creeping Unknown"
Phrenelith - "Ornamented Dead Eyes"
Regional Justice Center - "World of Inconvenience"
Sargeist - "Unbound"
Teenage Wrist - "Chrome Neon Jesus"
Thrice - "Palms"
Thou - "Magus"
Vein - "Errorzone"

 

adding The 1975 and River Whyless to "albums that would have made my list if I had waited a couple weeks"

 

I'm gonna need a bit more time with some releases before I post mine!

 

Favorite thing about this thread is seeing what albums i may have missed/had slip by this year

 

We gotta start going to shows together, my list has a ton of crossover with yours

 

my list will be posted here shortly

 

this was the lowest amount of albums i listened to in a year since like, 2012. i listened to roughly 109, give or take a few im forgetting. so im doing a top 20 instead of a top 50 because there were just so many albums i listened to 1-3 times that never had the chance to make a lasting impression on me but i still enjoyed a lot regardless. so it was hard to rank past a certain point. anyway, here it is.

1. the 1975 – a brief inquiry into online relationships
2. foxing – nearer my god
3. father john misty – gods favorite customer
4. the wonder years – sister cities
5. fall out boy – mania
6. beach house – 7
7. coheed and cambria – the unheavenly creatures
8. tim hecker – konoyo
9. cult leader – a patient man
10. vince staples – fm!
11. kacey musgraves – golden hour
12. against all logic - 2012-2017
13. robyn – honey
14. birds in row – we already lost the world
15. mammoth grinder – cosmic crypt
16. earl sweatshirt – some rap songs
17. pusha t – daytona
18. deafheaven – ordinary corrupt human love
19. lil peep – come over when youre sober pt 2
20. ariana grande – sweetener

20 more honorable mentions in absolutely no order:
fucked up – dose your dreams
oneohtrix point never – age of
at the gates – to drink from the night itself
dance gavin dance – artificial selection
kelly moran – ultraviolet
cloud nothings – last building burning
anthony green – would you still be in love
dj koze – knock knock
rae sremmurd – sr3mm
thou – magus
kevin gates – luca brasi 3
low – double negative
sleep – the sciences
mr twin sister – salt
mac miller – swimming
jon hopkins – singularity
demdike stare – passion
arctic monkeys – tranquility base hotel + casino
mewithoutyou – untitled
sophie – oil of every pearl's uninsides


edit: and of course these were my biggest disappointments

the dangerous summer – the dangerous summer
underoath – erase me
kanye west – ye
drake – scorpion
thrice – palms
future – beast mode 2
animal collective – tangerine reef
saves the day - 9
chvrches - love is dead