Chorus.fm Members EOTY Lists 2016 • Page 32

Can someone help me like the Pinegrove album? I feel like I should like it, but I've tried it 5 times or so and can't even get half way through. My tastes generally line up with a lot of folks in here and I have seen this album receive so much praise, yet I just can't seem to like it. Or even not dislike it.

 

I really couldn't get into it upon its initial praise but gave it a shot a few months later and it really clicked. I should add that "Size of the Moon" was the only song that I really *liked* at first listen (now I love it). Definitely a grower!

 

Read the lyrics

 

My favorite song is New Friends which is last, and it's only like 8 songs just get through it and maybe don't like it if you dont

 

If the "I should call my parents when I think of them, should tell my friends when I love them..." verse in Old Friends isn't drawing you in, the album might not be for you.

 

I'm in the same boat. Gonna try it again today though..

 

Something about the shift in the weather made Pinegrove click for me.

 

Trying it again now while reading along with the lyrics. Hoping for a change of heart. I really want to like it!

 

yeah sure this is fine

1. Pinegrove - Cardinal
2. Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial
3. The Hotelier - Goodness
4. Chairlift - Moth
5. Kanye West - The Life Of Pablo
6. Chance The Rapper - Coloring Book
7. LVL Up - Return To Love
8. Japanese Breakfast - Psychopomp
9. Jeff Rosenstock - Worry
10. Owel - Dear Me
11. Bellows - Fist and Palm
12. Cymbals Eat Guitars - Pretty Years
13. Angel Olsen - My Woman
14. Frank Ocean - Blonde
15. Bon Iver - 22, A Million
16. Flock of Dimes - If You See Me, Say Yes
17. John K Samson - Winter Wheat
18. Posture And The Grizzly - I Am Satan
19. White Lung - Paradise
20. Young Thug - Slime Season 3/Jeffery
21. Anderson Paak - Malibu
22. For Everest - We Are At Home In The Body
23. YG - Still Brazy
24. Future - EVOL
25. Anohni - Hopelessness
26. Crying - Beyond The Fleeting Gates
27. Solange - A Seat At The Table
28. Blood Orange - Freetown Sound
29. Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition
30. I Love Your Lifestyle - We Go Way Back
31. From Indian Lakes - Everything Feels Better Now
32. Daughter - Not To Disappear
33. Nicolas Jaar - Sirens
34. Balance and Composure - Light We Made
35. Mitski - Puberty 2
36. Chris Farren - Can’t Die
37. Joyce Manor - Cody
38. Kevin Gates - Islah
39. The 1975 - I Like It When You Sleep
40. Johnny Foreigner - Mono No Aware
41. Nao - For All We Know
42. Joey Purp - iiiDrops
43. Ariana Grande - Dangerous Woman
44. Florist - The Birds Outside Sang
45. Oathbreaker - Rheia
46. The Range - Potential
47. Happy Diving - Electric Soul Unity
48. DJDS - Stand Up And Speak
49. 21 Savage & Metro Boomin - Savage Mode
50. Luh - Spiritual Songs For Lovers To Sing

 

For me, seeing a band live, or in a 'session-like' environment usually helps...

 

people cant just flip a switch and make you like an album. if you dont like it you dont like it, i dont think you need help

 

But people can point out what they like about an album that someone else might not have picked up on. I feel it's a fair thing to ask, especially when you feel like you're missing out on something considered so major.

 

idk when it comes to a majorly hyped album that has already had so much said about it throughout the course of a year idk what new perspective someone could add that isnt already out there. i just dont get trying to force yourself to like something just because other people do, if after 5 listens i dislike something im not gonna keep trying. i might return to it later down the road. i get what youre saying but at the same time its not something i really do

 

Yeah, it's totally situational, by person and by the piece of art. For me, when certain circles really praise something and I don't get it, I want to know what or where that disconnect is coming from. But again, totally different approaches for different people. I think my approach largely comes from watching movies though, where I feel like there is a lot more chance for that lack of connection between a person and a work, and reading/finding other positions actually lend greatly to understanding.

 

I can help you like any album for a price.

 

Gonna have to agree with you on this one. It's a decent release, but I just don't see why it's so hyped. Just feels like another serviceable release from Run for Cover to me.

 

But forreal, there's tons of stuff which are critically acclaimed which I just can't really get into. Radiohead for example.

 

My 12 favorite albums of the year, couldn't bring myself to rank them:

Bellows - Fist & Palm
Deer Leap - Impermanence
Dikembe - Hail Something
Emma Ruth Rundle - Marked For Death
Hello Shark - Delicate
Hotelier - Goodness
Human Hands - Morning Sun
Mothers - When You Walk A Long Distance You Are Tired
Signals Midwest - At This Age
Told Slant - Going By
Tyler Daniel Bean - On Days Soon To Pass
TW Walsh - Fruitless Research

 

actually just turned on hello shark for the first time. right before reading this haha. it's pretty good.
forgot about a new human hands release

 

My top 10 list revised.

The Hotelier - Goodness
Pinegrove - Cardinal
Bon Iver - 22, A Million
LVL UP - Return To Love
John K Samson - Winter Wheat
Joyce Manor - Cody
Jeff Rosenstock - Worry.
Touché Amore - Stage Four
O' Brother - Endless Light
Into It. Over It. - Standards

 

That's where I am coming from with Cardinal. Some of the biggest releases of the year within this website--Hotelier, Thrice, Jimmy Eat World...I loved. It seemed a foregone conclusion I'd at least like Pinegrove, but on the first couple listens I wasn't really drawn in. Listening while reading the lyrics definitely gave me a different appreciation for it. I don't know if I'll ever be nuts about it, but I can definitely see where the praise is coming from.

 

Here it is:

1. Mitski - Puberty 2
2. Beyonce - Lemonade
3. The 1975 - I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It
4. Chance The Rapper - Coloring Book
5. Future - Evol
6. Young Thug - Jeffery
7. Pinegrove - Cardinal
8. Daughter - Not To Disappear
9. Kanye West - The Life of Pablo
10. Rihanna - Anti
11. Ariana Grande - Dangerous Woman
12. Frank Ocean - Blonde
13. A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
14. Tinashe - Night Ride
15. Japanese Breakfast - Psychopomp
16. Solange Knowles - A Seat At the Table
17. Camp Cope - Camp Cope
18. DJDS - Stand Up and Speak
19. The Range - Potential
20. Rae Sremmurd - SremmLife 2

 

Seeing 1975 show up quite a bit. That album had 0 pull for me to return to it more than like 5 times. Shame cause I really enjoyed it that first week or two it was released.

 

It wasn't really a constant listen for me. It was more sparingly, but whenever I did I loved it. I had to give it one last listen before I could properly rank it, though I already want to rearrange the order.

 

I don't listen to the 1975 record nearly as much as a lot of the ones on my list that it beat out. Placing it so high on my list came from it being such a wonderfully constructed and well executed album. It's more than just collection of songs to me -- it's like an experience, as cheesy as that sounds haha. That's not to say a lot of the songs don't stand out individually or anything, but the ebbs and flows of the album are just really perfect and makes the whole thing so unique.

PLUS UGH IS SUCH A BANGER