Chorus.fm Members EOTY Lists 2016 • Page 4

Chad and Bruce. I think Bon Iver was my 2 or 3.

 

Right!

Chad, Bruce, JT, Bon Iver...I know I'm getting old because I might actually have to look up the other two...

 

Kacey was your top album last year, right? Not sure I remember what you picked in 2014.

 

Just kidding, your 2014 AOTY was Damien Rice.

YOU'RE WELCOME.

 

Hah nice! Glad I can count on you

 

Let's do a top 40.

1. Bon Iver - 22, A Million

This album came out the day before I flew away to Nepal, I remember downloading it in the night while packing my bags, and listening to it pretty much constantly on the plane over there. When I got to Nepal, I settled into a routine of a ~12 hour hike in the day, before stopping for the night. During the night in the lodges, I'd listen to this album, and read a book called IQ84 . I think both of them affected me profoundly, and when I listen to the Bon Iver album now, it instantly brings back the book to mind. The two are instriscally (and probably forever) conjoined in my mind, which I think is a pretty powerful testament to both.

Maybe I'm unusual in this regard, but it's pretty rare/basically unheard of for me to listen to an album and love it at first listen. Usually I'll get a vague positive impression and then that'll grow with time and repeated listens. This is a rare exception, where I just absolutely adored it on first listen. It's everything I didn't know I wanted, and it's basically been on constant repeat ever since - I genuinely think I've listened to it every single day since. It's perfect to me.

Order of the rest is sketchy, but I like the rest of these albums a lot too.

2. Daughter - Not To Disappear
3. 65daysofstatic - No Man's Sky: Music for an Infinite Universe
4. Friends in America - Be In Love / Don't Die Alone
5. Your Boy Tony Braxton - Adult Contempt
6. ASEUL - New Pop
7. Holy Fuck - Congratulations
8. Jimmy Eat World - Integrity Blues
9. Muncie Girls - From Caplan to Belsize
10. Saul Williams - MartyrLoserKing

11. Perfume - Cosmic Explorer
12. ANOHNI - Hopelessness
13. The Jezabels - Synthia
14. Kano - Made in The Manor
15. Chance The Rapper - Colouring Book
16. Charles Bradley - Changes
17. Michael Kiwanuka - Love and Hate
18. David Bowie - Blackstar
19. LA BAIE - The Bay
20. 오희정 - Freckles

21. Mono - Requiem for Hell
22. Beyonce - Lemonade
23. Conor Oberst - Ruminations
24. James Blake - The Colour in Anything
25. Gregory Porter - Take Me To The Alley
26. Biffy Clyro - Ellipsis
27. Craig Manning - A Way to Get Back Home
28. 악동뮤지션 - Spring
29. Jeff Rosenstock - Worry
30. Basia Bulat - Good Advice

31. Esperanza Spalding - Emily's D+ Evolution
32. FM 84 - Atlas
33. Anousha Shankar - Land of Gold
34. Bombino - Azel
35. Lake Street Dive - Side Pony
36. Skepta - Konnichiwa
37. Pinkshinyultrablast - Grandfeathered
38. Yndi Halda - Under Summer
39. 얼짱 Pistol - Waste
40. The 1975 - Knobhead album title

That sounds about right! Big shout out to the new Hailey, It Happens album, which would have made this list if it was released a month sooner! Haven't had the chance to give it a good enough listen yet to accurately place it. Don't have to live and die by these lists, but that's a decent approximation of what I've enjoyed most this year, put in vague order.

Anybody needs any RIYLs, or whatever for any of these, give us a shout!

 

Been keeping track of my list all year, but now I'm revisiting stuff I didn't give much time to or haven't listened to yet. I know my #1 and that's about it

 

Right now:

1) Pinegrove – Cardinal
2) Jeff Rosenstock – Worry.
3) Joyce Manor – Cody
4) Cymbals Eat Guitars – Pretty Years
5) The Hotelier – Goodness
6) Kanye West – The Life of Pablo
7) PUP – The Dream Is Over
8) Modern Baseball – Holy Ghost
9) Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool
10) Pkew Pkew Pkew – Pkew Pkew Pkew
11) Crying - Beyond the Fleeting Gales
12) Camp Cope - Camp Cope
13) Bon Iver - 22, A Million
14) Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book
15) AJJ - The Bible 2
16) Chris Farren - Can't Die
17) LVL UP - Return to Love
18) Weezer - The White Album
19) Told Slant - Going By
20) Frank Ocean - Blonde

Pretty much set at this point but I might make a new discovery or two over the next month.

 

about as done as it'll ever get. anything beyond 10 is p much interchangeable, any number of honorable mentions couldve made my list i just gave up on caring about order. my top three albums this year literally saved my life. ive had quite the year.

1. The 1975 – I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It
2. The Hotelier – Goodness
3. Diiv – Is The Is Are
4. Tim Hecker – Love Streams
5. Touche Amore – Stage Four
6. Nicolas Jaar – Sirens
7. A Tribe Called Quest – We Got It From Here....Thank You For Your Service
8. Oathbreaker – Rheia
9. Kanye West – The Life of Pablo
10. Anhoni – Hopelessness
11. Ash Borer – The Irrepassable Gate
12. Frameworks – Smother
13. Jimmy Eat World – Integrity Blues
14. Frank Ocean – Blond
15. DJDS – Stand Up and Speak
16. The Body – No One Deserves Happiness
17. Danny Brown – Atrocity Exhibition
18. Anthony Green – Pixie Queen
19. Sumac – What One Becomes
20. Kevin Gates – Islah
21. An Autumn For Crippled Children – Eternal
22. Joyce Manor - Cody
23. YG – Still Brazy
24. Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool
25. Pinegrove – Cardinal
26. Trna – Lose Yourself To Find Peace
27. 21 Savage – Savage Mode
28. Show Me a Dinosaur – Show Me A Dinosaur
29. Balance and Composure – Light We Made
30. The Weeknd – Starboy
31. The Body/Full of Hell – One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache
32. Thrice – To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere
33. Bon Iver- 22, A Million
34. The Field – The Follower
35. Conor Oberst – Ruminations
36. Future - EVOL
37. Bossk – Audio Noir
38. Every Time I Die - Low Teens
39. Rihanna – Anti
40. Hudson Mohawke – Watch Dogs 2 OST: Ded Sec
41. Russian Circles – Guidance
42. Daughter – Not To Dissappear
43. Anderson Paak - Malibu
44. Gates – Parallel Lives
45. MIA – AIM
46. The Dillinger Escape Plan – Dissociation
47. O'brother – Endless Light
48. Father – Im A Piece of Shit
49. Alcest - Kodama
50. From Indian Lakes – Everything Feels Better Now
    
    Honorable Mentions
    
    Deftones – Gore
    DVSN – Sept. 5
    Zomby - Ultra
    Schoolboy Q – Blank Face
    Cobalt – Slow Forever
    Chance the Rapper – Coloring Book
    Inter Arma – Paradise Gallows
    You Blew It – Abendrot
    Nueorsis – Fires Within Fires
    Gucci Mane – Woptober
    Polyenso – Pure in the Plastic
    Luh. - Spiritual Songs For Lovers To Sing
    Clams Casino – 32 Levels
    Machinedrum – Human Energy
    Against Me – Shape Shift With Me
    Solange – A Seat At The Table
    Young Thug – Jeffery
    Against Me – Shape Shift With Me
    James Blake – The Colour in Everything
    The Range – Potential
    David Bowie – Black Star
    Cobalt – Slow Forever
    Nick Hook – Relationships
    Chance the Rapper – Coloring Book
    Saosin – Along the Shadow
    Mark Pritchard – Under the Sun
    Dedekind Cut - $uccesor
    NxWorries – Yes Lawd
    Local Natives – Sunlit Youth
    Savages – Adore Life
    Jeff Rosenstock - Worry
    Kendirck Lamar – Untitled. Unmastered.
    2 Chainz – Collegrove
    Beyonce – Lemonade
    2 Chainz – Daniel Son, Necklace Don
    Baauer – Aa
    Ty Dolla Sign – Campaign
    Denzel Curry – Imperial
    How To Dress Well – Care
    Jeremih – Late Nights: Europe
    Warpaint – Heads Up
    Jeseu/Sun Kil Moon – Jesu/Sun Kil Moon
    Drake – Views
    Kvelertak – Nattesferd
    Lone – Levitate
    Rival Consoles – Night Melody
    Kaytranada – 99.9%
    Katy B – Honey
    James Blake - The Colour In Anything

 

1. The Hotelier - Goodness
2. Kanye West - The Life of Pablo
3. Every Time I Die - Low Teens
4. Butch Walker - Stay Gold
5. Modern Baseball - Holy Ghost
6. Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book
7. Brian Fallon - Painkillers
8. Thrice - To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere
9. Kevin Devine - Instigator
10. The 1975 - I Like It When You Sleep ...
11. Pinegrove - Cardinals
12. Moose Blood - Blush
13. Taking Back Sunday - Tidal Wave
14. Bayside - Vacancy
15. Jimmy Eat World - Integrity Blues
16. Balance & Composure - Light We Made
17. Kendrick Lamar - Untitled/Unmastered
18. Nice as Fuck - S/T
19. PUP - The Dream Is Over
20. Conor Oberst - Ruminations
21. Catish & the Bottlemen - The Ride
22. All Get Out - Nobody Likes a Quitter
23. Frank Ocean - Blonde
24. Against Me! - Shapeshift With Me
25. The Lumineers - Cleopatra

 

i see no one even bothered listening to the okkervil river album, bad looks all around

 

im sure there are great albums on my list you didnt bother with patrick

 

I listened to Okervil River.

It won't make my list but I listened to it

 

Thanks @George and @Chase Tremaine for putting my record on your lists! Love you guys.

 

I also listened to Okkervil River

 

I haven't really been into Okkervil River for a while unfortunately. Still love their older albums.

 

1. Frank Ocean - Blonde
2. The Weeknd - Starboy
3. Gallant – Ology
4. Wet - Don't You
5. dvsn – SEPT 5TH
6. Conor Oberst – Ruminations
7. Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book
8. Solange – A Seat at the Table
9. Glass Animals - How to be a Human Being
10. Kanye West – The Life of Pablo

11. The Zolas - Swooner
12. JMSN - It Is
13. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
14. Bon Iver – 22, A Million
15. Anohni - Hopelessness
16. Rihanna - Anti
17. Jimmy Eat World - Integrity Blues
18. Craig David - Following My Intuition
19. James Blake - The Colour in Anything
20. Tinashe – Nightride

21. The 1975 - I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It
22. Schoolboy Q - Blank Face LP
23. Sara Watkins - Young in All the Wrong Ways
24. Banks – The Altar
25. How to Dress Well - Care
26. Penny and Sparrow - Let a Lover Drown You
27. Maxwell - blackSUMMERS'night
28. Anderson Paak - Malibu
29. Beyoncé - Lemonade
30. Bruno Mars – 24K Magic

31. Noname – Telefone
32. Zayn - Mind of Mine
33. Pinegrove – Cardinal
34. Matt Corby – Telluric
35. Lisa Hannigan – At Swim
36. Billie Marten – Writing of Blues and Yellows
37. Sia - This is Acting
38. Hodgy - Fireplace: TheNotTheOtherSide
39. Wild Rivers - Wild Rivers
40. Sarah Jarosz - Undercurrent

41. blink-182 - California
42. Kilo Kish - Reflections in Real Time
43. Polyenso - Pure in the Plastic
44. Young Thug - Jeffery
45. Deftones - Gore
46. Joe Purdy – Who Will Be Next?
47. 21 Savage & Metro Boomin – Savage Mode
48. John Legend – Darkness and Light
49. Future - EVOL
50. Ka - Honor Killed the Samurai



Top 5 EPs:

1. Gabrielle Aplin - Miss You
2. Vince Staples – Prima Donna
3. Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion: Side B
4. Maty Noyes – Noyes Complaint
5. Blueprint – Vigilante Genesis

 

it's their best album and he rebooted the band but alright

 

top EP's would be something like

1. Vince Staples - Prima Donna
2. Slug Christ - Sometimes Even The Moonlight Hurts My Eyes
3. Krallice - Hyperion
4. Aphex Twin - Cheetah
5. Gila - Genkidama
6. Dylan Brady - Choker
7. Lil Aaron - Gloing Pain$
8. Kevin Gates - Murder For Hire 2
9. Carly Rae Jepsen - EMOTION Side B
10. SBTRKT - Save Yourself

 

Cool seeing these two, even if they're further back. Two albums I like a lot that haven't gotten much talk.

 

I mean yeah that's cool I just don't like it that much. Album arts great though.

 

If you thought only one album released this year deserved a 9.5, your list will be more a "best mediocre albums of 2016 list" right? hah

 

I mean it's still the best to come out for me, ha. I just don't love many.

 

Well no scores from 7.0-9.5 are still good to very good to great albums imo

 

Yeah, I still think a 7 is a great album and that's the worst that'll make my list. I just don't find many albums I'd give a 9.5 in most years.