2020 in music. • Page 2

1. Nothing - The Great Dismal
2. bdrmm - Bedroom
3. Orchid Mantis - Far From This World

• Deftones - Ohms
• Svalbard - When I Die, Will I Get Better?
• Higher Power - 27 Miles Underwater
• Tame Impala - The Slow Rush
• Narrow Head - 12th House Rock
• The Midnight- Monsters
• Kid Cudi - Man On The Moon III: The Chosen
• Hum - Inlet
• Dikembe - Muck
• Pink Skies - Spectra
• Vundabar - Either Light
• Trace Mountains - Lost in the Country
• Charmer - ivy
• Surf Rock Is Dead - Existential Playboy
• Mick Jenkins - The Circus
• Slow Pulp - Moveys
• Glom - Merit
• The Chain Gang of 1974 - Honey Moon Drips
• Elephant Tree - Habits
• Rina Sawayama - Sawayama
• Stay Inside - Viewing
• Pallbearer - Forgotten Days
• Armand Hammer - Shrines
• Modern Color - From The Leaves of Your Garden
• White Denim - World As A Waiting Room

 

1. Charli XCX - How I'm Feeling Now
2. The 1975 - Notes on a Conditional Form
3. Bring Me the Horizon - Post Human: Survival Horror

4. Katie Pruitt - Expectations
5. Stand Atlantic - Pink Elephant
6. Taylor Swift - folklore
7. The Weeknd - After Hours
8. Rina Sawayama - Sawayama
9. Enter Shikari - Nothing Is True & Everything Is Possible
10. Grimes - Miss Anthropocene
11. clipping. - Visions of Bodies Being Burned
12. Taylor Swift - Evermore
13. Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia
14. The Used - Heartwork
15. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
16. Poppy - I Disagree
17. Hot Mulligan - You'll Be Fine
18. The Killers - Imploding the Mirage
19. Carly Rae Jepsen - Dedicated Side B
20. Yukika - Soul Lady
21. Movements - No Good Left to Give
22. Dan Deacon - Mystic Familiar
23. Thy Catafalque - Naiv
24. TK From Ling Tosite Sigure - Sainou
25. Hayley Williams - Petals for Armor
26. Beach Bunny - Honeymoon
27. Caitlyn Smith - Supernova
28. Black Dresses - Peaceful as Hell
29. Acceptance - Wild, Free
30. Machine Girl - U-Void Synthesizer

Third Charli AOTY for me in the last 4 years.

 

phoebe's taking this year huh

 

i do not get it at all

it’s a fine album but when, like, 9 months after it came out people were putting it in their top 20 ever … just plainly baffling to me

 

It's the kind of album I can see people connecting really hard with. There's a few songs of hers that I really really love and I can imagine she'd be one of my favourites if I liked all of her songs that much.

 

Very simply, it's a great album. BUT I think it really connected with people because it came out in the heart of the lockdowns. It's a melancholy album that was a good soundtrack for the isolation we were all experiencing.
It came out in the summer, and any other summer Punisher probably would've been cast aside after a few listens for more sunny, beach time energetic albums. It really benefited from pandemic.

 

1. Taylor Swift - evermore
2. Katie Pruitt - Expectations
3. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Reunions

Tough cuts:

Taylor Swift - folklore
Ken Yates - Quiet Talkers
The Killers - Imploding the Mirage
Bruce Springsteen - Letter to You
Dawes - Good Luck with Whatever
Donovan Woods - Without People
The Chicks - Gaslighter
Ruston Kelly - Shape & Destroy

Also love:

Caitlyn Smith - Supernova
Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
Ingrid Andress - Ladylike
Dua Lipa - Future Nostalga
Kelsea Ballerini - kelsea

Honorables:

Brian Fallon - Local Honey
Brett Eldredge - Sunday Drive
Brothers Osborne - Skeletons
Cassadee Pope - Rise and Shine
Cam - The Otherside
Chris Stapleton - Starting Over
Gabe Lee - Honky Tonk Hell
Haim - Women in Music Pt 3
Kathleen Edwards - Total Freedom
Lindsay Ell - Heart Theory
Lori McKenna - The Balladeer
Maddie & Tae - The Way It Feels
Mandy Moore - Silver Landings
Margo Price - That's How Rumors Get Started
Mary Chapin Carpenter - The Dirt and the Stars
Miley Cyrus - Plastic Hearts
Soccer Mommy - Color Theory
Tenille Townes = The Lemonade Stand
Waxahatchee = Saint Cloud
John Moreland - LP5

 

There's probably something in this. It's a warm melancholy; not the most exciting record, but very nicely made and hits a neat balance between reflecting that pensive isolation people were feeling at the time whilst also having a very pleasant snug feel.

I liked it at the time for what it was and I get why people really connect with it even though I don't listen to it now.

 

1. Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud
2. Taylor Swift - folklore
3. The Killers - Imploding the Mirage

 

Second part is almost exactly what I was going to say. There are a few Phoebe songs I think are all time pantheon level and then a whole bunch of stuff that is imo pleasant but not incredibly noteworthy. It’s a good album and I can see why someone who cares as much about the whole thing as I do about say Garden Song would hold it in such high esteem.

It definitely did not hurt that she released two of them and then the album as a whole at a time when people were absolutely clamoring for anything worth being excited about.

 

And while given the age range this is probably not particularly representative of why it was so positively received here, she has a pretty legitimate claim to being one of the first artists the current indie leaning 13-18 year olds of the world can claim as “theirs” and the value of that to her status is off the charts. Replace indie with emo and ask Taking Back Sunday 20 years ago.

 

1. All time low - wake up sunshine
2. seaway - big vibe
3. Kolby Cooper - Good ones never last

 

i can't think of a single song off it i'd put on a top 100 songs ever list for myself, personally, but i also tend to give way less points for recency than most on this site it seems

 

I'm also just realizing Vampire Weekend won? What?

 

yea fwiw when I say all time pantheon I mean it pretty loosely like, there are a couple songs I’d rate near 10/10. That might throw them on or near a top 100 list for me (I think I had motion sickness there when I made a list 4 years ago), might have them in the 200-300 range. I feel like after my person all top 20-30 there’s a really long list of songs I find amazing/perfect that I can recognize as worth whatever hype someone wants to assign them even if they’re not on the shortest version of short list. I’d have Kyoto and Garden Song as high as anything else from 2020 probably.

 

1. Taylor Swift: folklore
2. Hayley Williams: Petals For Armor
3. Laura Jane Grace: Stay Alive
4. Phoebe Bridgers: Punisher
5. Taylor Swift: evermore
6. Bob Dylan: Rough and Rowdy Ways
7. The Front Bottoms: In Sickness & In Flames
8. Miley Cyrus: Plastic Hearts
9. Kali Uchis: Sin Miedo (del Amor y Otros Demonios); And shout out to the TO FEEL ALIVE - EP
10. Lady Gaga: Chromatica

Others:
Dua Lipa: Future Nostalgia
Halsey: MANIC
The Avalanches: We Will Always Love You
Waxahatchee: Saint Cloud
The Chicks: Gaslighter
Chloe x Halle: Ungodly Hour
Mac Miller: Circles
Ariana Grande: Positions
Omar Apollo: Apolonio
Beach Bunny: Honeymoon
The Killers: Imploding the Mirage
Rina Sawayama: SAWAYAMA
Sufjan Stevens: The Ascension
Paul McCartney: McCartney III
Slaughter Beach, Dog: At the Moonbase
Illuminati Hotties: FREE I.H: This is Not the One You've Been Waiting For
Retirement Party: Runaway Dog
Moses Sumney: grae
Best Coast: Almost Tomorrow
Grimes: Miss Anthropocene
The Flaming Lips: American Head

Didn't change too much from what I posted in 2020 other than adding in Bob Dylan. Top 3 is still the same

 

Has anyone here ever actually made a top 100 songs list? Outside of a few particular favourites, I wouldn't even know how to start making such a list.

 

The All-Time Favorite Songs Ballot Thread • forum.chorus.fm

 

Oh yeah I forgot about that thread. I think I took one look and got tired even thinking about compiling such a list.

 

there were very few albums that got more than one first place vote each lol

 

1. Bill Callahan - Gold Record
2. Alabaster DePlume - To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals, Vol 1
3. Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud
4. Moor Mother & Billy Woods - BRASS
5. Cut Worms - Nobody Lives Here Anymore
6. Andy Shauf - The Neon Skyline
7. Fleet Foxes - Shore
8. Skyway Man - The World Only Ends When You Die
9. Protomartyr - Ultimate Success Today
10. Rose City Band - Summerlong
11. Gwenifer Raymond - Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain
12. Sault - Untitled (Black is)
13. Nubya Garcia - Source
14. Jason Isbell - Reunions
15. Bonny Light Horseman - Bonny Light Horseman

 

1. Touche Amore - Lament
2. Hum - Inlet
3. Seahaven - Halo of Hurt

Honorable Mentions
Aminé - Limbo
Code Orange - Underneath
Deftones - Ohms
Denzel Curry & Kenny Beats - UNLOCKED
The Flaming Lips - American Head
Khruangbin - Mordechai
Jesse Ware - What's Your Pleasure?
Movements - No Good Left to Give
Nothing - The Great Dismal
Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
Run the Jewels - RTJ 4
Sturgill Simpson - Cuttin Grass, Vol. 1
Sturgill Simpson - Cuttin Grass, Vol. 2
Sufjan Stevens - The Ascension
Taylor Swift - Folklore

Biggest Disappointment:
Glass Animals - Dreamland

 

Hopefully this isn’t something someone has asked before, but is there a place to find all of these threads? Wanted to go back through the years I missed.

 

YEARS IN MUSIC • forum.chorus.fm

 

Kinda funny that my top 2 from 2019 and 2020 are both separately released albums from the same artist (Big Thief and T Swift). Also shout out to Bobby Dylan for "Murder Most Foul", song of the year easily. What a song.

1. Taylor Swift - Folklore
2. Taylor Swift - Evermore
3. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
4. Run the Jewels - RTJ 4
5. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Reunions

6. Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud
7. Bartees Strange - Live Forever
8. Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia
9. Charli XCX - How I'm Feeling Now
10. Bob Dylan - Rough and Rowdy Ways

11. Perfume Genius - Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
12. Grimes - Miss Anthropocene
13. Spanish Love Songs - Brave Faces Everyone
14. Fleet Foxes - Shore
15. Brian Fallon - Local Honey

16. The Weeknd - After Hours
17. The Killers - Imploding the Mirage
18. Jeff Rosenstock - No Dream
19. Dogleg - Melee
20. Sufjan Stevens - The Ascension