Chorus.fm Members EOTY Lists 2020 • Page 4

"Desert Rambler" imo but it's like ten minutes long fair warning

 

Thundercat - It Is What It Is
Hum - Inlet
Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure
Code Orange - Underneath
Tame Impala - The Slow Rush
Higher Power - 27 Miles Underwater
keiyaA - Forever, Ya Girl
Mil-Spec - World House
Freddie Gibbs - Alfredo
Nothing - The Great Dismal

 

In The Den, Desert Rambler, or Folding

 

Fun fact: Two of the guys in Like Rats used to be in a band with my cousin. Cool band.

 

Which band?

 

They were called 2*Sweet. They were an emo/pop punk band active in the mid 2000s (from Chicago).

 

Lol I totally remember 2*Sweet

 

I'm always surprised when people know who they are haha. They broke up right before getting signed due to creative differences between members on the direction to take the band (genre wise) so I just assume not many people have heard of them and I'm always wrong.

 

I saw the name on APnet a bunch, and I always assumed they were a joke band because they're called 2*sweet

 

I have this album in my iTunes still.

 

Oh my god wow. This is seriously amazing. I haven't listened in a while honestly but I'm going to have to now. I was a youngster when they were active and they were my first "punk" show I ever went to, which is cool. I didn't realize their popularity at the time because I wasn't really into emo/pop punk music then, but I'm glad they still live on in some peoples iTunes libraries haha.

 

Wow what a blast from the past.

 

It’s sooooo good. Well worth the 22 year wait

 

I loved 2*Sweet. One of my bands recorded with Andy a few years ago and had such a good time.

 

In no particular order

Poppy - I Disagree
Jacob Collier - Djesse: Vol. 3
Run The Jewels - RTJ4
Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters
Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia
Cory Wong - Elevator Music for an Elevated Mood
Tame Impala - The Slow Rush
Taylor Swift - Folklore
Fleet Foxes - Shore

 

Her album thread on here hasn't had much in the way of discussion, certainly in comparison to other records, so it doesn't surprise me that much. It's a challenging, sparse, raw record - something that appeals to critics but it doesn't have the warmth of something like the Phoebe Bridgers record, and I think a lot of the hooks sink in while you're listening to it rather than becoming lodged in your brain when you're not, so for a lot of people it's probably not a regular listen.

Personally, it's one of my favourites of the year. Haven't decided if I'll bother properly ranking my list but if I do, it's probably top three.

 

Lots of great stuff on this list. I’ll be checking out anything I haven’t heard yet.

 

The thing with Fiona Apple is she has always been more of a critic's darling than a widely embraced musical figure. That's bearing out with year-end lists: she's getting the most AOTY wins, but is still lagging behind Phoebe Bridgers on the aggregated list (at least this one that Rob Mitchum tracks every year). Punisher has broader-based appeal across fans of a wide range of genres, and is just an easier sell to a more casual music fan.

 

Probably forgot some. And this is pretty much in order. I think...

Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist - Alfredo
Roc Marciano - Mt. Marci
King Krule - Man Alive!
Blu & Exile - Miles
Moodymann - Taken Away
Aquiles Navarro & Tcheser Holmes - Heritage of the Invisible II
The Heliocentrics - Infinity Of Now/Telemetric Sounds
Sparkle Division - To Feel Embraced
Actress - Karma & Desire
Action Bronson - Only For Dolphins
SAULT - Untitled (Black Is)/UNTITLED (Rise)
Run the Jewels - RTJ4
Ambrose Akinmusire - on the tender spot of every calloused moment
Jahari Massamba Unit - Pardon My French
Makaya McCraven - Universal Beings E&F Sides
Ka - Descendants of Cain
Oneohtrix Point Never - Magic Oneohtrix Point Never
Tom Misch & Yussef Dayes - What Kinda Music
Kamaal Williams - Wu Hen
Liv.e - Couldn't Wait To Tell You...
Boldy James - The Price Of Tea In China/The Versace Tapes
Thundercat - It Is What It Is
Theo Parrish - Wuddaji
R.A.P. Ferreira - purple moonlight pages
Beatrice Dillon - Workaround
Your Old Droog - Dump YOD: Krutoy Edition
MIKE - Weight of the World
The Koreatown Oddity - Little Dominiques Nosebleed
Jesse Lanza - All The Time
KeiyaA - Forever, Ya Girl
Jeff Parker - Suite for Max Brown
Idles - Ultra Mono
070 Shake - Modus Vivendi
Westside Gunn - Pray For Paris/ Flygod Is An Awesome God 2
Yves Tumor - Heaven to a Tortured Mind
Mac Miller - Circles
Rahiem Supreme - The Pretty Prada Papi
bastien keb - The Killing of Eugene Peeps
Oscar Jerome - Breathe Deep
Kassa Overall - I Think I'm Good
Old Man Gloom - Seminar IX: Darkness of Being/Seminar VIII: Light of Meaning
Jeremy Cunningham - The Weather Up There
Melt Yourself Down - 100% Yes
Sam Gendel - Satin Doll


Honourable mentions:

Against All Logic - 2017-2019
Moses Boyd - Dark Matter
Shabazz Palaces - The Don of Diamond Dreams
The Weeknd - After Hours
Nazar - Guerilla
Gil Scott-Heron - We're New Again (A Reimagining by Makaya McCraven)
The Streets - None Of Us Are Getting Out Of This Life Alive
YAEJI - WHAT WE DREW
The Professionals - The Professionals

 

There's a lot of stuff I need to give more listens to. I also have a list of close to 200 artists that i've been compiling over the past year or so of artists I need to listen to and a good third of them have released albums this year too. I already know there will be at least two or three in there that will probably push themselves to the top of my list if I listened to them now, but I just haven't got the time. Or the urge tbh, 200 artists is daunting as fuck haha

 

This is mine. Nothing else really comes close to these releases.

 

This list rules and has a ton I missed

 

In a year lacking so many good things, music was not one of them. I've been keeping a running list all year that has changed frequently but I'm pretty confident with what I've got.

Albums
1. Machine Gun Kelly - Tickets to My Downfall
2. The Used - Heartwork
3. Spanish Love Songs - Brave Faces, Everyone
4. Anti-Flag - 20/20 Vision
5. All Time Low - Wake Up, Sunshine
6. Knuckle Puck - 20/20
7. Bearings - Hello, It's You
8. Goldfinger - Never Look Back
9. Driveways - October Forever
10. Seaway - Big Vibe

11. Neck Deep - All Distortions Are Intentional
12. Four Year Strong - Brain Pain
13. The Front Bottoms - In Sickness And In Flames
14. Run The Jewels - RTJ4
15. New Found Glory - Forever & Ever x Infinity
16. Green Day - Father Of All Motherfuckers
17. Logic - No Pressure
18. girlfriends - Girlfriends
19. Yungblud - Weird!
20. The Network - Money Money 2020 PT II

21. Hot Mulligan - You'll Be Fine
22. Juice WRLD - Legends Never Die
23. Bruce Springsteen - Letter To You
24. With Abandon - Keepsakes
25. Iann Dior - I'm Gone
26. AC/DC - Power Up
27. Keep Flying - Survival
28. Boys of Fall - Distance
29. Seahaven - Halo of Hurt
30. Eminem - Music To Be Murdered By

EP
1. Fever 333 - Wrong Generation
2. Thief Club - New View
3. Dozer TX - Suffer Together
4. Mayday Parade - Out of Here
5. PUP - This Place Sucks Ass
6. No Pressure - No Pressure
7. Alkaline Trio - E.P.
8. MGK & Audio Up - Halloween In Hell
9. Weight the Anchor - Right At Home
10. Chief State - Tough Love
11. Heart to Heart - Heartbreaker
12. kennyhoopla - how will i rest if i'm burried by a highway
13. Wallows - Remote
14. Handguns - When The Lights Burn Out
15. Descendants - Suffrage

Reworks/Covers/Live
1. Aaron West & The Roaring Twenties - Live at Asbury Park
2. State Champs - Unplugged
3. The Wonder Years - Burst & Decay II
4. Bayside - Acoustic EP 3
5. Punk Rock Factory - A Whole New Wurst
6. Arctic Monkeys - Live at the Royal Albert Hall
7. Billie Joe Armstrong - No Fun Mondays
8. The Bouncing Souls - Volume 2
9. Grayscale - Live From The Barber Shop
10. The Menzingers - From Exile

Singles
We The Kings - These Nights
Public Enemy ft. Mike D, Adrock, & Run DMC - Public Enemy Number Won
24kGoldn ft. Iann Dior - Mood
Bleachers ft. Bruce Springsteen - chinatown
All American Rejects - Me vs. The World
Billie Eilish - No Time To Die
blink-182 - Quarantine
Dropkick Murphys - Mick Jones Nicked My Pudding, James Connolly, Smash Shit Up
Falling In Reverse - The Drug in Me is Reimagined
Fever 333 - Presence is Strength
Iann Dior ft. MGK & Travis Barker - Sick and Tired
kennyhoopla ft. Travis Barker - Estella
Man Overboard - Lifeline
Mod Sun - Karma, Stay Away ft. MGK & Goody Grace
Poortstacy ft. Travis Barker - Choose Life, Nothing Left
Rise Against - Broken Dreams INC
SPEAK - Social Distance
Run The Jewels ft. Travis Barker - Forever
twenty one pilots - Level of Concern
The Wonder Years - Out On My Feet, Brakeless

 

Best: RTJ 4
Very Good: Pearl Jam, Tame Impala, EOB, Bright Eyes, Smashing Pumpkins
Good: The Strokes
Not Good, but for some reason I listened to multiple times: Green Day, The Killers
Biggest Disappointment: Childish Gambino
Best The National Album: Taylor Swift
2nd Best The National Album: Matt Berninger

 

Folding!!

I'm trying to finalize my list and Inlet is definitely top 10.. and I don't really listen to much heavy stuff these days