Chorus.fm Members EOTY Lists 2018 • Page 15

Albums I liked a lot this year:

Alkaline Trio - “Is This Thing Cursed?”
Andrew WK - “You’re Not Alone”
Caroline Rose - “Loner”
Chvrches - “Love Is Dead”
Iceage - “Beyondless”
Justin Courtney Pierre - “In The Drink”
Let’s Eat Grandma - “I’m All Ears”
mewithoutYou - “[Untitled]”
MxPx - “MxPx”
Robyn - “Honey”
Underoath - “Erase Me”
Said Fantasy - “Chorus Noel” EP
Wajatta - “Casual High Technology”

Plus I listened to lots of old favorites like The Aquabats, Descendents, Less Than Jake, Ramones, Taylor Swift, The Cars, Blink 182, As Cities Burn, The Cool Kids, Beastie Boys, The Cooties, Five Iron Frenzy, New Order, Kraftwerk, NoFX, Operation Ivy, Sum 41, The Chariot, and more!

Soundtracks
Black Panther
Katamari Damacy

Comedy
John Mulaney - “Kid Gorgeous At Radio City”
Pete Holmes - “Dirty Clear”

Podcasts
Comedy Bang Bang
Labeled: The Stories, Rumors And Legend Of Tooth And Nail
Off Book: The Improvised Musical Podcast
Raised By TV
Screw It: We’re Just Gonna Talk About Spider-Man
Spontaneanation
The Good Place The Podcast
You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes
And random episodes of others.

Concerts
Andrew WK
Jay Pharaoh
Hannibal Burress

I won’t even try to list TV and Movies...too much! And if there is anything that I remember I may edit this list.
All things considered it was a great year.
To an even better, happier 2019!

 

1. The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry
2. Now, Now - Saved
3. The Wonder Years - Sister Cities
4. Thrice - Palms
5. Silent Planet - When The End Began
6. CHVRCHES - Love is Dead
7. boygenius - boygenius EP
8. Death Cab For Cutie - Thank You For Today
9. Emery - Eve
10. Jeremy Zucker - Glisten EP

 

I guess I have to listen to Kacey Musgraves?

 

Love seeing lists from users I never see.
Always gives me so much music to explore. Even if it is completely overwhelming.

Always find a few gems.
Cloakroom and Joey Bada$$ we’re my big finds from last year. And stayed with me all 2018.

Thanks everyone for sharing.

 

1) Slaves - Beautiful Death
2) Underoath - Erase Me
3) SECRETS - Secrets
4) Cherry Pools - Less Religion, More Sex
5) The Amity Affliction - Misery
6) As It Is - The Great Depression
7) nothing.nowhere - Ruiner
8) Against The Current - Past Lives
9) The Story So Far - Proper Dose
10) The Plot In You - Dispose

 

This took me ages, and I'm more unsure about the order than in previous years, but here we are. Too much amazing music this year. Love to see everyone else's lists, makes me realize how much I missed out on!

Favorite Full-Length Albums:

1. Jeff Rosenstock - Post-
2. Foxing - Nearer My God
3. mewithoutYou - [Untitled]
4. Casey - Where I Go When I Am Sleeping
5. Spanish Love Songs - Schmaltz
6. Soccer Mommy - Clean
7. Kero Kero Bonito - Time N' Place
8. Kids See Ghosts - Kids See Ghosts
9. Charmer - Charmer
10. Twenty One Pilots - Trench
11. Dance Gavin Dance - Artificial Selection
12. Father John Misty - God's Favorite Customer
13. Antarctigo Vespucci - Love In the Time of E-Mail
14. Earl Sweatshirt - Some Rap Songs
15. The Wonder Years - Sister Cities
16. Cloud District - Don't Give Up, Skeleton
17. Save Face - Merci
18. Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog
19. Vein - Errorzone
20. Architects - Holy Hell
21. Noname - Room 25
22. Brockhampton - Iridescence
23. Gulfer - Dog Bless
24. Pinegrove - Skylight
25. Hovvdy - Cranberry
26. All Get Out - No Bouquet
27. Turnstile - Time and Space
28. Ovlov - Tru
29. JPEGMAFIA - Veteran
30. Donovan Wolfington - Waves
31. Pusha T - Daytona
32. Mitski - Be the Cowboy
33. Atmosphere - Mi Vida Local
34. Polyphia - New Levels New Devils
35. Silent Planet - When The End Began
36. Kanye West - ye
37. American Pleasure Club - A Whole Fucking Lifetime of This
38. Cursive - Vitriola
39. Vundabar - Smell Smoke
40. El Ten Eleven - Banker's Hill
41. Retirement Party - Somewhat Literate
42. Nothing - Dance on the Blacktop
43. Fiddlehead - Springtime and Blind
44. Vince Staples - FM!
45. Snail Mail - Lush
46. Shad - A Short Story About War
47. Fog Lake - Captain
48. Delta Sleep - Ghost City
49. Mick Jenkins - Pieces of a Man
50. Justin Pierre - In the Drink

(Also shoutouts to La Dispute, Marietta, and TTNG for releasing fantastic reworks/remasters of already existing albums. Decided not to include them in the list, but they are great and you should check them out too!)

Favorite EPs:

1. Michael Cera Palin - I Don't Know How To Explain It
2. mewithoutYou - [untitled]
3. Stars Hollow - Happy Again
4. Invalids - Fulfillment
5. boygenius - boygenius

Misc:

Favorite Movies:
1. Paddington 2
2. Blindspotting
3. Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse
4. Burning
5. Hereditary
6. Won't You Be My Neighbor?
7. Avengers: Infinity War
8. Annihilation
9. Sorry to Bother You
10. The Sisters Brothers

Favorite Games:
1. Smash Ultimate
2. Red Dead Redemption 2
3. Spider-Man
4. Octopath Traveler
5. Spyro: Reignited Trilogy

Favorite Tv:
1. The Haunting of Hill House
2. Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind
3. My Hero Academia Season 3
4. Devilman Crybaby
5. That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime

 

Too late for anyone to give a shit, I'm sure, but:

1. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
2. Dessa - Chime
3. The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
4. Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness - Upside Down Flowers
5. Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer
6. The Xcerts - Hold on to Your Heart
7. Kina Grannis - In the Waiting
8. Ashley McBryde - Girl Going Nowhere
9. Brandi Carlile - By the Way, I Forgive You
10. John Butler Trio - Home
11. Troye Sivan - Bloom
12. The Decemberists - I'll Be Your Girl
13. Dawes - Passwords
14. Shad - A Short Story About War
15. Ruston Kelly - Dying Star
16. Chvrches - Love Is Dead
17. Mary Chapin Carpenter - Sometimes Just the Sky
18. Lori McKenna - The Tree
19. The Aces - When My Heart Felt Volcanic
20. Paul McCartney - Egypt Station
21. Big Red Machine - Big Red Machine
22. Thrice - Palms
23. Caitlyn Smith - Starfire
24. Snow Patrol - Wildness
25. Pinegrove - Skylight
26. Now, Now - Saved
27. Cloud Nothings - Last Building Burning
28. Lucero - Among the Ghosts
29. Chromeo - Head Over Heels
30. Foxing - Nearer My God
31. Death Cab for Cutie - Thank You for Today
32. Florence + the Machine - High As Hope
33. Tiny Moving Parts - Swell
34. Deaf Havana - Rituals
35. Matt Nathanson - Sings His Sad Heart
36. Steve Perry - Traces
37. American Aquarium - Things Change
38. John Nolan - Abendigo
39. Anderson East - Encore
40. Coheed and Cambria - The Unheavenly Creatures

Just missed:
Arctic Monkeys, Moose Blood, Eric Church, First Aid Kit, Dave Matthews Band, Smashing Pumpkins

Honorable Mention:
The Struts, Emery, Unearth, Alkaline Trio, Drake, Rick Springfield, The Republic of Wolves, Camila Cabello, Father John Misty, Christine and the Queens, Ben Howard, Hopesfall, Donovan Woods, Punch Brothers, Amos Lee, Charlie Puth, Frank Turner, Mae, Four Fists

Top 10 EPs (no order):
Nine Inch Nails - Bad Witch
Iron and Wine - Weed Garden
Fall Out Boy - Lake Effect Kid
Plini - Sunhead
Boygenius - Boygenius
Vince Staples - FM!
William Ryan Key - Virtue
Chvrches - Hansa Sessions
Bad Rabbits - Mimi
Black Thought - Streams of Thought, Vol. 2

 

Well this is a hell of a way to learn Cary Brothers put something out in 2018. Goddamn it.

 

If you were to pick the 3-5 of these I'd most be into, would it just be in ranking order?

 

I always look forward to your list Chris!

 

Apparently I just did not get to any of the hip-hop you liked this year. Haha

 

You never listened to cupcakKe? I'd love to hear your reactions

 

1. The Voidz — Virtue

Against All Logic — 2012 - 2017
Clarence Clarity — THINK: PEACE
Death Grips — Year of the Snitch
The Garden — Mirror Might Steal Your Charm
George Clanton — Slide
Haru Nemuri — Haru to Shura
HMLTD — Hate Music Last Time Delete
MGMT — Little Dark Age
Tropical Fuck Storm — A Laughing Death in Meatspace

 

Lots of stuff I love on here, even some of the records that I didn't put on my list. But I missed that Kina Grannis album!

Yeah, ranking order is probably good. Though, you can bump Heather Morgan up to around Adam Hood/Dierks Bentley on the list. There's a song on that one with Lori McKenna.

 

I just came here to say I'm so happy to see Care for Me by Saba on your list @Jason Tate . Truly underrated (and my number 1 album of 2018).

 

I honestly don’t know why Belmont is not getting the love they deserve. That album is AOTY for me and my wife.

 

Honestly I only heard about the Grannis one because I follower her on various social media. She's one like Mree where I feel like if I don't stay vigilant I'll lose track of them. The album is lovely though

And I'll probably try and play catch up on a few of these over the course of January. I liked that Tasjan album a lot, too. Just didn't quite make my top tier.

 

Yeah, I’ve got a few artists like that for sure.

And I get it! It’s hard for stuff to sneak into your list at the end of the year as is. Glad you liked that album though.

 

I felt okay with my list, but this Petal album is making me question it.

What an album. What a voice.

 

That was a sneaky one for me. I wasn’t “blown away” from the start but I kept coming back to it over and over. It’s infectious in a sad kinda way haha

 

SAME! I saw the album on a random list not on this site and gave it a try and said “hmmm yeah this is cool.” And then just kept coming back and back and back and it clicked.

 

So good

 

Better late than never I guess...

1. The 1975 – A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
2. mewithoutYou – [Untitled]
3. Turnstile – Time & Space
4. The Amity Affliction – Misery
5. Senses Fail – If There Is Light, It Will Find You
6. Trophy Eyes – The American Dream
7. Vein – Errorzone
8. Foxing – Nearer My God
9. Thrice – Palms
10. Pianos Become The Teeth – Wait For Love
11. Hawthorne Heights – Bad Frequencies
12. boygenius – boygenius (EP)
13. The Wonder Years – Sister Cities
14. Mayday Parade – Sunnyland
15. Teenage Wrist – Chrome Neon Jesus
16. Save Face – Merci
17. Animal Flag – Void Ripper
18. Death Cab For Cutie – Thank You For Today
19. Belmont – Belmont
20. Lucy Dacus - Historian

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And here are 30 songs I enjoyed from 2018 (alphabetical order by artist):

1. The 1975 - Be My Mistake
2. The Amity Affliction - Drag The Lake
3. Belmont - Pushing Daisies
4. Cecil Frena - All Of My Heroes
5. Conditions - Give It All
6. The Dangerous Summer - Infinite
7. Death Cab For Cutie - 60 & Punk
8. Foxing - Slapstick
9. Frank Turner - Be More Kind
10. Hands Like Houses - Half-Hearted
11. Harsh Lights - Light The Way
12. Hawthorne Heights - Starlighter (Echo, Utah)
13. Light Years - How Are You
14. Mayday Parade - It's Hard To Be Religious When Certain People Are Never Incinerated By Bolts Of Lightning
15. Meg Myers - Numb
16. mewithoutYou - Julia (Or, 'Holy To The Lord' On The Bells Of Horses)
17. Moose Blood - Such A Shame
18. Mumford & Sons - Forever
19. Pianos Become The Teeth - Charisma
20. Real Friends - Me First
21. Save Face - Plans
22. Senses Fail - Stay What You Are
23. Smoking Popes - When You Want Something
24. The Story So Far - Out Of It
25. Teenage Wrist - Stoned, Alone
26. Thrice - A Branch In The River
27. Trophy Eyes - Miming In The Choir
28. Turnstile - Real Thing
29. Warm Thoughts - Your Haircut Man
30. The Wonder Years - Raining In Kyoto

 

That meg Myers song RIPS how have we not talked about this?

 

I love it but isn't even one of my favorites on the album. Which just shows how great the album is as a whole haha