The Chorus.Fm Users Definitive Albums List • Page 30

That Dolphy record was way too out there for me. The first track sounds like someone is murdering a turkey. That and Ascension are past the line of what I can get into.

 

Here's what I've got:

1. Julien Baker - Sprained Ankle
2. Julien Baker - Turn Out the Lights
3. Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
4. Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger in the Alps
5. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lowell
6. Elliott Smith - Either/Or
7. Manchester Orchestra - Mean Everything to Nothing
8. Death Cab for Cutie - Plans
9. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
10. Bon Iver - Bon Iver, Bon Iver
11. Lucy Dacus - Historian
12. Circa Survive - On Letting Go
13. mewithoutYou - Brother, Sister
14. Paramore - After Laughter
15. Mitski - Bury Me at Makeout Creek
16. Big Thief - U.F.O.F
17. Frank Ocean - Blonde
18. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
19. Lorde - Melodrama
20. Circa Survive - Blue Sky Noise
21. Lucy Dacus - No Burden
22. Bright Eyes - I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning
23. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
24. Lorde - Pure Heroine
25. Mitski - Be the Cowboy
26. Death Cab for Cutie - We Have the Facts and We’re Voting Yes
27. Elliott Smith - S/T
28. Bon Iver - 22, A Million
29. Big Thief - Capacity
30. Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think...
31. Hop Along - Painted Shut
32. The National - Trouble Will Find Me
33. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
34. Paramore - Brand New Eyes
35. Sufjan Stevens - Michigan
36. Jimmy Eat World - Futures
37. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel...
38. My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
39. SZA - CTRL
40. Manchester Orchestra - I’m Like A Virgin Losing a Child
41. Circa Survive - Juturna
42. Pedro the Lion - Control
43. Fiona Apple - When the Pawn...
44. Japanese Breakfast - Psychopomp
45. mewithoutYou - Catch For Us the Foxes
46. Angel Olsen - MY WOMAN
47. Now, Now - Threads
48. Alex G - Beach Music
49. Mitski - Puberty 2
50. Waxahatchee - Cerulean Salt

A few notes:

1. Julien is my favorite artist of all time. It's probably not "cool" to have the same artist in the one and two slot of a list like this, but it wouldn't feel representative of my taste otherwise.

2. There's a lot of artist repetition and recency bias. Again, this list is meant to be representative of my taste at this moment in time, and I definitely fall in the category of depth, not breadth. This is something I'd like to work on, particularly in terms of adding older/classic artists into my rotation. I was never really exposed to music as a kid outside of piano lessons and whatever radio station my dad chose, so I lack a strong musical foundation in that sense. If anyone has any recs based on what's there, I'd love to hear them.

3. I'm not happy with the number of POC on my list, particularly Black artists. I have Frank and SZA, but I could do better. I don't think it's fair or productive to criticize people's list for not being diverse enough, but it's one of my goals after this project to actively and purposefully seek out a wider range of representation in my listening. Part of this means digging deeper into genres like hip-hop, R&B, jazz, etc. Once again, I'll take any recs I can get.

This was fun!

 

I hope you’re happy man.

 

I honestly think Home is their 3rd best

 

No better place to pick up recs than this thread. @jorbjorb had a list packed with women and PoC, as did a bunch of other posters. Happy exploring.

 

I absolutely love INGO, especially Nite Ratz and Title, but you cannot beat An Intorduction to the Album

 

I've been taking some notes! I also plan to dig through every album I haven't heard in the final list. Thanks!

 

I think Nite Ratz does.

nothing beats Soft Animal imo.

As much as I loved Home, there are multiple songs on Goodness I like more than the best on it, save maybe Dendron

 

“Lonely Hearts Club” is the second-best Hotelier song, right behind “An Introduction”

 

Shit, intro might be my 5th favorite on the album!

 

But it has arguably the best “fuck” on record.

 

That is true

 

To be clear, their worst song is better than like 95% of the best songs from the other bands in the scene. INGO by itself would have been a Drive-Thru classic if it came out in 04.

 

these takes bruh

 

I haven’t really wavered on them since Goodness dropped, lol.

INGO is a pop punk classic with better lyrics than just about every other pop punk classic

Home is a highpoint for the modern revival scene, whatever name you give it.

Goodness transcends it all. The atmosphere, the lyrics, everything. It is a special record that takes me to places most records don’t.

 

an introduction is their best song.

 

If you took the best songs that Kenny and Ace wrote and put them on a record, it would still be slightly worse than INGO, a band made up of high schoolers

 

This one’s too rich for my blood.

But then again I think When I Hit the Ground is a top 2 Ace record, so what do I know

 

nite ratz isn’t in their top 5 songs

introduction isn’t the best on the album but it’s top 3

discomfort revisited is the best

 

well, kenny and ace haven’t made any good songs, so

 

That’s a hot take


I was also excluding the I Can Make a Mess songs, and I think I fucking forgot that record on my list. damn

 

Discomfort is probably my pick for 1/2 on Home, absolutely.
The 4 before Intro:
Dendron
In Framing
Shape
Discomfort

 

Pat this is worse than my Sandler conversation!

 

Goodness is such a weird album bc of my first time hearing it coupled with everything going on in my life at the time.

From the moment it dropped I haven’t really been able to put into words how much I love it and why it means so much to me.

It legitimately could wind up my favorite album of all time

 

I forgot about that record. It’s so good.