The Chorus.Fm Users Definitive Albums List • Page 11

I’d never heard of Arthur Russell until just a moment ago, but after Wikipedia-ing that album it sounds really interesting ! Looking forward to checking it out.

 

ooooookay. Mine is all over the place. The last 30 or so could probably be switched around a lot. Even stuff past #8 or so.

I don't use this site or listen to much new music any more, but here's my RYM. My old lists are WILD to go through. I can't believe I listened to or enjoyed some of that stuff.

https://rateyourmusic.com/list/ecirht/all-time-faves/

1. St. Vincent - Actor
2. 605daysofstatic - We Were Exploding Anyway
3. Cursive - The Ugly Organ
4. Ariana Grande - Dangerous Woman
5. Margot and the Nuclear So & So's - The Dust of Retreat
6. mewithoutYou - Brother, Sister
7. Stars - Heart
8. Thrice - Vheissu
9. Led Zeppelin - IV
10. Darren Korb - Transistor Soundtrack
11. maybeshewill - I Was Here for a Moment, Then I Was Gone
12. Thursday - Full Collapse
13. Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030
14. My Brightest Diamond - Bring me the Workhorse
15. Murder By Death - Red of Tooth and Claw
16. Minus the Bear - Highly Refined Pirates
17. Cave In - Jupiter
18. Charli XCX - Number 1 Angel
19. Charli XCX - Pop 2
20. Streetlight Manifesto - Everything Goes Numb
21. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
22. Imogen Heap - Speak For Yourself
23. The Faint - Danse Macabre
24. Killswitch Engage - The End of Heartache
25. Sage Francis - A Healthy Distrust
26. Daughter - If You Leave
27. Mew - Frengers
28. AFI - Black Sails in the Sunset
29. mewtihoutYou - Pale Horses
30. Thrice - The Artist in the Ambulence
31. Hot Rod Circuit - Sorry about Tomorrow
32. Baroness - Yellow & Green
33. St. Vincent - St. Vincent
34. Murder By Death - Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon
35. Yelle - Complètement fou
36. Pianos Become the Teeth - Keep You
37. Theophilous London - This Charming Mixtape
38. Every Time I Die - Hot Damn
39. Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
40. Drake - Take Care
41. Boris - Pink
42. Circle Takes the Square - As the Roots Undo
43. Death Cab for Cutie - The Photo Album
44. Less than Jake - Losing Streak
45. Trophy Scars - Alphabet, Alphabets
46. Tycho - Weather
47. 夢中夢 [Mutyumu] - イリヤ -Il y a-
48. Justice - Cross
49. H2O - FTTW
50. Amosoeurs - Amosoeurs

 

I am probably wasting at least 20 votes on things no one else will vote for, haha

 

Yeah I'm not being "strategic" at all in my voting. I think 85% of my list will have overlap with others here but there are some "wasted votes" for sure. Doubt anyone else will have Lucinda Williams in their top 10 (although "other" Chris could surprise me)

 

But will that Lydia album have the same support it had on AP

 

I feel like I should have put Hybrid Theory on mine.

 

Arthur Russell is brilliant. "That's Us/Wild Combination" alone is a masterpiece and was ahead of its time.

 

What's the cutoff for this btw

 

50

 

shoutout cave in

 

Yeah I have zero doubt that 35 or so of my top 50 will get zero votes lol.

 

1. Gaslight Anthem- 59 Sound
2. The Menzingers- On the Impossible Past
3. Bayside- Self Titled
4. Rise Against- Siren Song of the Counter Culture
5. Silverstein- Discovering the Waterfront
6. Saosin- Self Titled
7. The National- High Violet
8. The Horrible Crowes- Elsie
9. The Wonder Years- Suburbia, I’ve Given You All and Now I’m Nothing
10. Spanish Love Songs- Schmaltz
11. Broadway Calls- Self Titled
12. Bayside- The Walking Wounded
13. Polar Bear Club- Sometimes Things Just Disappear
14. Set Your Goals- Mutiny
15. Armor For Sleep- What to do When You’re Dead
16. Gaslight Anthem- Sink or Swim
17. Alexisonfire- Crisis
18. Transit- Listen and Forgive
19. Red City Radio- The Dangers of Standing Still
20. Spanish Love Songs- Brave Faces Everyone
21. This Wild Life- Clouded
22. New Found Glory- Self Titled
23. Fireworks- All l Have to Offer is My Own Confusion
24. Steel Train- Trampoline
25. The National- Boxer
26. Silverstein- This is How the Wind Shifts
27. The Menzingers- Chamberlain Waits
28. Four Year Strong- Rise or Die Trying
29. Have Mercy- The Earth Pushed Back
30. Gaslight Anthem- Handwritten
31. Senses Fail- Still Searching
32. The Wonder Years- The Greatest Generation
33. Forever Came Calling- Contender
34. The Swellers- Ups and Downsizing
35. Pentimento- Self Titled
36. Rise Against- Revolutions Per Minute
37. Yellowcard- Ocean Avenue
38. Aaron West & the Roaring 20’s- We Don’t Have Each Other
39. Frank Turner- Love, Ire & Song
40. Gaslight Anthem- American Slang
41. The Wonder Years- The Upsides
42. The Menzingers- After The Party
43. Banner Pilot- Hearts Beat Pacific
44. Against Me!- New Wave
45. The Dangerous Summer- Reach for the Sun
46. Tigers Jaw- Self Titled
47. Taking Back Sunday- Tell All of Your Friends
48. Hawthorne Heights- The Silenece in Balck and White
49. Polar Bear Club- Clash Battle Guilt Pride
50. Fireworks- Gospel

 

I tried my best not to repeat artists so I can have a greater / more diverse selection, though there are definitely a few artists on here I would add numerous albums by.

1) Moving Mountains - Pneuma
2) Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
3) OutKast - Aquemini
4) Sigur Rós - Takk...
5) Death Cab for Cutie - Plans
6) Helios - Eingya
7) How to Dress Well - "What is this Heart?"
8) The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
9) Arrange - Their Bodies in a Fog
10) Erykah Badu - Mama's Gun
11) Nick Drake - Pink Moon
12) The Hotelier - Goodness
13) Jónsi & Alex - Riceboy Sleeps
14) Copeland - Eat, Sleep, Repeat
15) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
16) Hammock - Raising Your Voice... Trying to Stop an Echo
17) Broken Social Scene - S/T
18) Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends
19) Black Star - Mos Def & Talib Kweli are Black Star
20) Rhye - Woman
21) Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
22) Linkin Park - Minutes to Midnight
23) Bright Eyes - Lifted or the Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
24) The Ghostwriters - Remote Dreaming
25) Thrice - The Alchemy Index ( I-IV)
26) Weatherbox - The Cosmic Drama
27) Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
28) Madvillain - Madvillainy
29) Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
30) Fall Out Boy - From Under the Cork Tree
31) As Tall As Lions - S/T
32) Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
33) Fog Lake - There's a Spirit There's a Soul
34) Wild Pink - Yolk in the Fur
35) Albert Giménez - Un Somni Petit
36) This Will Destroy You - S/T
37) Gorillaz - Demon Days
38) Cassino - Kingprince
39) Red House Painters - Songs for a Blue Guitar
40) Thursday - War All the Time
41) Young Thug - Barter 6
42) GAS - Pop
43) Kyle Bobby Dunn - ...and the Infinite Sadness
44) Sufjan Stevens - Michigan
45) Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
46) Fiona Apple - Tidal
47) Janelle Monae - The ArchAndroid
48) Eluvium - Pianoworks
49) Balam Acab - Wander/Wonder
50) Radiohead - In Rainbows

edit: want to shout out some honorable mentions -

Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
Noname - Room 25
Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
The Dangerous Summer - War Paint
D'Angelo - Black Messiah
Grimes - Miss Anthroposcene
Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
The Beatles - Revolver
Lupe Fiasco - Food and Liquor
Owen - S/T
Say Anything - ...Is A Real Boy
Deafheaven - Sunbather
Elite Gymnastics - RUIN
Woo - Into the Heart of Love
Jeremih - Late Nights
TTNG - Animals
Blood Orange - Freetown Sound
The Early November - The Room's Too Cold
Crash of Rhinos - Distal
Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks
Gabor Szabo - Dreams
Brendan Rivera - No Ocean in Ireland
Gates - Bloom and Breathe
The Dream - Love King
Healy - Subluxe
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - On the Echoing Green
Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place
Underoath - Define the Great Line
Washed Out - Within and Without
SOPHIE - Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
Everyone Everywhere - S/T (2012)
Stars of the Lid - The Tired Sounds of...
Gatsby's American Dream - Volcano
Lydia - Assailants
Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
Fear Before the March of Flames - Odd How People Shake
State Lines - Hoffman Manor

 

what if instead of my top 50 albums I give you, say, 5 albums I've been listening to recently

 

hell yes to weatherbox!

 

what if you do what i tell you

sure do whatever you want

 

”True To Your Heart” finally getting some respect!

I tried to sit down and start making a list and it broke my brain so I may end up tapping out but who knows!

 

Don’t agonize over it. They won’t carve it on your tombstone. Just make one, don’t look back, and be part of the process

 

What emo song is this from

 

One of my 50 is an album of my Dad’s. Probably 10 people have ever heard it. But if I’m making an honest list, it’s there, wasted vote or no

 

who is putting xsandos on their list

 

you can just put E•MO•TION at #1 and walk away, it's fine

 

1. Weezer – Pinkerton
2. Titus Andronicus – The Monitor
3. Neutral Milk Hotel – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
4. Bomb the Music Industry – Vacation
5. Radiohead – Kid A
6. Modest Mouse – The Lonesome Crowded West
7. Japandroids – Celebration Rock
8. Hop Along – Painted Shut
9. The World is a Beautiful Place & I am No Longer Afraid to Die – Harmlessness
10. The Strokes – Is This It
11. Joyce Manor – Never Hungover Again
12. American Football – American Football (1999)
13. Say Anything – Is a Real Boy
14. Arcade Fire – Funeral
15. Carly Rae Jepsen – Emotion
16. Jeff Rosenstock – Worry
17. The Wonder Years – Suburbia I’ve Given You All And Now I’m Nothing
18. The Hotelier – Home, Like Noplace is There
19. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly
20. The Killers – Hot Fuss
21. Vampire Weekend – Contra
22. LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver
23. The Menzingers – On the Impossible Past
24. Prince Daddy & The Hyena – Cosmic Thrill Seekers
25. My Chemical Romance – The Black Parade
26. The Mountain Goats – Tallahassee
27. The Front Bottoms – The Front Bottoms
28. Daft Punk – Discovery
29. Spraynard – Funtitled
30. awakebutstillinbed – What People Call Low Self-Esteem is Really Just Seeing Yourself the Way Other People See You
31. Tame Impala – Currents
32. The Weakerthans – Left and Leaving
33. Tokyo Police Club – Champ
34. Cloud Nothings – Attack on Memory
35. Mitski – Puberty 2
36. 100 gecs – 1000 gecs
37. Saves the Day – Through Being Cool
38. Fall Out Boy – Take This To Your Grave
39. Camp Cope – How to Socialise and Make Friends
40. Gorillaz – Demon Days
41. Fountains of Wayne – Welcome Interstate Managers
42. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
43. Laura Stevenson – Wheel
44. The Sidekicks – Awkward Breeds
45. Bon Iver – 22, A Million
46. Grimes – Art Angels
47. Green Day – Dookie
48. Spanish Love Songs – Schmaltz
49. Defiance, Ohio – Midwestern Minutes
50. TV on the Radio – Dear Science

Feel free to make fun of me for never listening to an album pre-1990 (and maybe suggest me some )

 

My biggest issue is that 50 is about 2% of what I OWN, let alone what I’ve heard. So while I love stuff from every era and genre, this ballot is going to be light in some areas like jazz and hip-hop. It is what it is

 

Same. My initial list is heavy on music generally known and loved by this site, just because a lot of it was formative to me and came out when I was of a certain age. Kinda shamefully, only like 10% has female vocalists and band members, even though that's easily 50% of what I listen to.