Chorus.fm Members EOTY Lists 2019 • Page 2

Top 30:

1. Bon Iver - i, i
2. Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow
3. The National - I Am Easy To Find
4. Julia Jacklin - Crushing
5. Clairo - Immunity
6. Noah Gundersen - Lover
7. The Tallest Man on Earth - I Love You. It's a Fever Dream.
8. Big Thief - Two Hands
9. Half Moon Run - A Blemish in the Great Light
10. Purple Mountains - Purple Mountains
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11. Konradsen - Saints and Sebastian Stories
12. Teen Daze - Bioluminescence
13. Local Natives - VIOLET STREET
14. Lana Del Rey - Norming Fucking Rockwell!
15. Big Thief - U.F.O.F.
16. Andrew Bird - My Finest Work Yet
17. Nilüfer Yanya - Miss Universe
18. Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising
19. Angel Olsen - No Mirrors
20. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib – Bandana
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21. Marika Hackman - Any Human Friend
22. Vampire Weekend – Father Of The Bride
23. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Ghosteen
24. Strand of Oaks - Eraserland
25. Blood Incantation - Hidden History of the Human Race
26. Apollo Brown - Sincerely, Detroit
27. (Sandy) Alex G – House Of Sugar
28. billy woods & Kenny Segal – Hiding Places
29. Florist - Emily Alone
30. Tomb Mold - Planetary Clairvoyance

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Top 10 Songs(1 per album):

1. Bon Iver - Faith
2. Clairo - Bags
3. Hailaker - Not Much
4. Sharon Van Etten - Seventeen
5. Julia Jacklin - Don't Know How To Keep Loving You
6. Big Thief - Not
7. The National - Quiet Light
8. Noah Gundersen - Audrey Hepburn
9. The Tallest Man On Earth - I'll Be A Sky
10. Konradsen - Roasted

 

Me too, I'm still hearing things for the first time too and spending more time with others. I like to finish mine right at the end of the year.

 

Top 20:

1. Alex Lahey - The Best of Luck Club
2. Grayscale - Nella Vita
3. Clairo - Immunity
4. Charly Bliss - Young Enough
5. Maggie Rogers - Heard It In A Past Life
6. Holding Absence - Holding Absence
7. Bring Me The Horizon - amo
8. NF - The Search
9. Free Throw - What’s Past is Prologue
10. Hot Milk - Are You Feeling Alive? EP
11. Sleeping With Sirens - How It Feels To Be Lost
12. Roam - Smile Wide
13. Bayside - Interrobang
14. Better Oblivion Community Center - Better Oblivion Community Center
15. Emarosa - Peach Club
16. The Maine - You Are OK
17. Billie Eilish - When We Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
18. Carly Rae Jepsen - Dedicated
19. I Prevail - Trauma
20. Taylor Swift - Lover

 

I'm gonna have to go back and listen to stuff from the first half of the year, it feels so long ago for some reason and I can't remember too many releases from then that really grabbed me. Anyways here's a rough top 15 for now, out of the 197 records I listened to this year which was an increase from 2018 (175 albums). The sequencing past the top 5 doesn't really matter at all. I'll come back and edit this a few times and add some stuff to it:

1. Greet Death - New Hell
   (Favs: You're Gonna Hate What You've Done, Entertainment, New Hell)
2. Slaughter Beach, Dog - Safe And Also No Fear
   (Favs: Black Oak, Map of the Stars, Good Ones)
3. From Indian Lakes - Dimly Lit
   (Favs: Garden Bed, A Bad Dream, Your Heartbeat Against Mine)
4. Jay Som - Anak Ko
   (Favs: Anak Ko, Tenderness, Devotion)
5. DIIV - Deceiver
   (Favs: The Spark, Blankenship, Like Before You Were Born)
6. Somos - Prison On A Hill
   (Favs: Mediterranean, Dreamless, Untraceable Past)
7. Chastity - Home Made Satan
   (Favs: Sun Poisoning, Anxiety, Strife)
8. Jaws - The Ceiling
   (Favs:)
9. Oso Oso - Basking In The Glow
   (Favs: a morning song, the view, impossible game)
10. Wiki - OOFIE
    (Favs: Grim, The Routine, Back Then)
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11. Denzel Curry - ZUU
12. Sleep Talk - Everything In Colour
13. Pup - Morbid Stuff
14. Danny Brown uknowhatimsayin?
15. Webbed Wing - Bike Ride Across The Moon
16. Julia Shapiro - Perfect Vision
17. Twin Peaks - Lookout Low
18. Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind
19. White Denim - Side Effects
20. White Reaper - You Deserve Love

Overall there were some amazing records that came out this year but comparing it to 2018, I had wayyyyyy more stuff that I really loved and return to from last year. Last year I had a top 50 and this year I can barely come up with 20 that I loved/liked a ton.

 

I've got it down to 32 contenders for my top 20. No idea how I'll narrow them down.

 

First year I haven’t been able to narrow down to a Top 20 Ranking. Below is a top 30 of the year. Albums 1-10 are ranked accordingly, 11-30 have no ranking and can shift depending on many factors. Enjoy !

1. The Japanese House - All We Know Is Falling
2. Somos - Prison On A Hill
3. Origami Angel - Somewhere City
4. The Menzingers - Hello Exile
5. Microwave - Death Is A Warm Blanket
6. Oso Oso - Basking In the Glow
7. The Dangerous Summer - Mother Nature
8. Julia Jacklin - Crushing
9. Noah Gundersen - Lover
10. Bayside - Interrobang
11. Pup - Morbid Stuff
12. Secret Band - LP2
13. Jimmy Eat World - Surviving
14. Better Oblivion Community Center - S/T
15. Tyler Childers - Country Squire
16. Turnover - Altogether
17. Sturgill Simpson - Sound and Fury
18. The National - I Am Easy to Find
19. White Reaper - You Deserve Love
20. Copeland - Blushing
21. Billie Eilish - When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
22. La Dispute - Panorama
23. American Football - LP3
24. Pedro the Lion - Phoenix
25. The Jon Hill Project - Rebirth
26. The Appleseed Cast - The Fleeting Light of Impermanence
27. Cherry Glazerr - Stuffed & Ready
28. The Early November - Lilac
29. Silversun Pickups - Widows Weed
30. The Get Up Kids - Problems

 

1. PUP - Morbid Stuff

Will put in order and add more soon:

• blink-182 - NINE
• The Dangerous Summer - Mother Nature
• Say Anything - Oliver Appropriate
• Vampire Weekend - Father Of The Bride
• Billie Eilish - When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
• Idiot Pilot - Blue Blood
• Sum 41 - Order In Decline
• Charly Bliss - Young Enough
• The Rocket Summer - Sweet Shivers
• Have Mercy - The Love Life
• 93PUNX - 93PUNX
• Vacationer - Wavelengths
• DIIV - Deceiver
• The Menzingers - Hello Exile
• Jimmy Eat World - Surviving
• The Drew Thomson Foundation - The Drew Thomson Foundation
• Wander - March
• Better Oblivion Community Center - Better Oblivion Community Center

 

No particular order

Mini Mansions - Guy Walks Into a Bar
Jimmy Eat World - Surviving
Silversun Pickups - Widow's Weeds
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross - Watchmen Soundtrack (Vol. 1 and 2)
Beck - Hyperspace
Cold War Kids - New Age Norms 1
Mark Lanegan Band - Somebody's Knocking
Wilco - Ode To Joy
The Menzingers - Hello Exile
Pixies - Beneath the Eyrie
Tool - Fear Inoculum
Strung Out - Songs of Armor and Devotion
The Black Keys - Let's Rock
Sum 41 - Order in Decline
Yeasayer - Erotic Reruns
The National - I Am Easy to Find
Bad Religion - Age of Unreason
Pelican - Nighttime Stories
Third Eye Blind - Screamer (Minus 2x Tigers )
Cage the Elephant - Social Cues
Lo Moon - Lo Moon
Millencolin - SOS
In Flames - I, the Mask
BROODS - Don't Feed the Pop Monster
Cherry Glazerr - Stuffed & Ready
Jenny Lewis - On the Line
American Football - American Football (2019)

 

Big Thief - UFOF
Better Oblivion Community Center - S/T
Big Thief - Two Hands
Great Grandpa - Four of Arrows
Oso Oso - Basking in the Glow
Pup - Morbid Stuff
Greet Death - New Hell
Charly Bliss - Young Enough
Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell!
Clairo - Immunity

 

1. Lana Del Rey: Norman Fucking Rockwell!
2. The Maine: You Are OK
3. Tierra Whack: Singles ("Gloria", "Only Child", "Wasteland", "Unemployed", "Clones")*
4. Tove Lo: Sunshine Kitty
5. Harry Styles: Fine Line
6. Kevin Abstract: ARIZONA BABY
7. Say Anything: Oliver Appropriate
8. Taylor Swift: Lover
9. Miley Cyrus: She Is Coming EP & other 2019 releases^
10. Ariana Grande: thank u, next
11. Mannequin Pussy: Patience
12. Pup: Morbid Stuff
13. Bayside: Interrobang
14. Party Favor: Layers
15. Anderson .Paak: Ventura
16. Brittany Howard: Jamie
17. Turnover: Altogether
18. Vampire Weekend: Father of the Bride
19. Red Hearse: Red Hearse
20. Charli XCX: Charli
21. Miranda Lambert: Wildcard
22. Whitney: Forever Turned Around
23. Billie Eilish: When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go
24. Danny Brown: uknowhatimsayin
25. Camila Cabello: Romance
26. Lizzo: Cuz I Love You
27. Wallows: Nothing Happens
28. Jenny Lewis: On the Line
29. The Menzingers: Hello Exile
30. Tyler, the Creator: IGOR
31. blink-182: NINE

*Technically not an album, but between the 5 songs she did put out, plus me getting way more into Whack World (2018) this year, there's no way I couldn't include her.

^Kind of cheating again but Miley's EP, plus the Ashley O songs, Slide Away, and Don't Call Me Angel make for a great playlist that basically functions as an album for me.


Top EPs:
1. Teamonade: This Is Your Only Warning
2. Rezz: Beyond the Senses
3. Social House: Everything Changed
4. Dillon Francis: Magic Is Real
5. Bad Bad Hats: Wide Right EP


Favorite Songs (off the top of my head, no order)
1. "Only Child" Tierra Whack
2-3. "Fuck It I Love You"/"California" Lana Del Rey
4. "False God" Taylor Swift
5-6. "Glad He's Gone"/"Mistaken" Tove Lo
7. "Drunk II" Mannequin Pussy
8. "Interrobang" Bayside
9. "Baby Boy" Kevin Abstract
10. "Graveyard" Halsey
11. "Solita" Kali Uchis
12. "History Repeats" Brittany Howard
13. "NASA" Ariana Grande
14/15. "Harmony Hall"/"Sunflower" Vampire Weekend
16. "Slide Away" Miley Cyrus
17. "Watermelon Sugar" Harry Styles
18. "See You At Your Funeral" Pup
19-20. "My Best Habit"/"Slip the Noose" The Maine

 

1. Coldplay - Everyday Life
2. Vampire Weekend - Father of the Bride
3. Jimmy Eat World - Surviving
4. Sigrid - Sucker Punch
5. Chance the Rapper - The Big Day
6. Clairo - Immunity
7. Lizzo - Cuz I Love You
8. Big Thief - U.F.O.F.
9. Billie Eilish - WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?
10. Sam Cohen - The Future's Still Ringing In My Ears

 

Mostly doing decade end review instead of year end review, so I don’t think this will change much, if at all

1) Penny & Sparrow - Finch
2) Vampire Weekend - Father of the Bride
3) Sigrid - Sucker Punch
4) Kings Kaleidoscope - Zeal
5) Maggie Rogers - Heard It In a Past Life
6) Foals - Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost Pt 1
7) Jade Bird - Jade Bird
8) OWEL - Paris
9) Local Natives - Violet Street
10) Billie Eilish - WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP...

 

SO happy seeing Sigrid on two lists in a row

 

1. Baroness - Gold & Grey
2. Jimmy Eat World - Surviving
3. Sturgill Simpson - Sound & Fury
4. Bon Iver - i,i
5. La Dispute - Panorama
6. Greet Death - New Hell
7. Tyler, the Creator - IGOR
8. Bad Books - III
9. Mannequin Pussy - Patience
10. Young Thug - So Much Fun
11. American Football - LP3
12. Lana Del Ray - Norman Fucking Rockwell!
13. PUP - Morbid Stuff
14. Charli XCX - Charli
15. Oso Oso - basking in the glow
16. Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind

 

**Callous Daoboys - Die On Mars**
Bon Iver - I,I
Hobo Johnson - The Fall of Hobo Johnson
meth. - Mother of Red Light
Fawn Limbs - Harm Remissions
Fawn Limbs - Their Holes Aroused by the Splinters Carved from Their Teeth
Needle Play - Cruel Spring
Seizures - Reverie of the Revolving Diamond
Black Matter Device - Hostile Architecture
He Is Legend - White Bat
Ithaca - The Language of Injury

And 2019's 2018 album of the year:
Pool Kids - Music To Practice Safe Sex To

 

This was hard. It’s been a great year for music.
Top 10:
1. Bon Iver - i,i
2. The National - I Am Easy to Find
3. The Dangerous Summer - Mother Nature
4. Jimmy Eat World - Surviving
5. The Get Up Kids - Problems
6. Mannequin Pussy - Patience
7. Oso Oso - Basking in the Glow
8. The Menzingers - Hello Exile
9. Copeland - Blushing
10. The Maine - You Are OK

Runner ups in no order:
Grayscale - Nella Vita
Bayside - Interrobang
Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind
Future - SAVE ME
Ceres - We Are a Team
Tyler, the Creator - IGOR
Vampire Weekend - Father of the Bride
The Devil Wears Prada - The Act
Cursive - Get Fixed
Free Throw - What’s Past is Prologue
Tegan and Sara - Hey, I’m Just Like You
Young Thug - So Much Fun
Great Grandpa - Four of Arrows

 

1. Better Oblivion Community Center - Better Oblivion Community Center
2. The Menzingers - Hello Exile
3. Maggie Rogers - Heard It In A Past Life
4. Sigrid - Sucker Punch
5. PUP - Morbid Stuff
6. The Japanese House - Good At Falling
7. Carly Rae Jepsen - Dedicated
8. Jimmy Eat World - Surviving
9. Turnover - Altogether
10. Charly Bliss - Young Enough
11. American Football - LP3
12. Jenny Lewis - On The Line
13. Biffy Clyro - Balance, Not Symmetry
14. Origami Angel - Somewhere City
15. City & Colour - A Pill For Loneliness
16. Great Grandpa - Four of Arrows
17. Noah Gundersen - Lover
18. Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell
19. Big Thief - Two Hands
20. Oso Oso - basking in the glow
21. Billie Eilish - When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
22. Aaron West & The Roaring Twenties - Routine Maintenence
23. Free Throw - What’s Past Is Prologue
24. Tegan and Sara - Hey, I’m Just Like You
25. Julia Jacklin - Crushing
26. Tiny Moving Parts - breathe
27. Anteros - When We Land
28. Sam Fender - Hypersonic Missiles
29. From Indian Lakes - Dimly Lit
30. Whitney - Forever Turned Around

 

1. Sorcha Richardson – First Prize Bravery
2. Alex Lahey – The Best of Luck Club
3. Clairo – Immunity
4. Jade Bird – Jade Bird
5. IDER – Emotional Education
6. The Japanese House – Good At Falling
7. Marika Hackman – Any Human Friend
8. Big Thief – U.F.O.F.
9. Sigrid – Sucker Punch
10. Montaigne – Complex
11. Baroness – Gold & Grey
12. Hatchie – Keepsake

The Georgia Maq album released a couple days ago would probably be somewhere on this list had it dropped earlier.

 

I guess...

1. Ariana Grande - thank u, next
2. The Japanese House - Good at Falling
3. Charli XCX - Charli
4. Chromatics - Closer to Grey
5. Carly Rae Jepsen - Dedicated
6. Copeland - Blushing
7. No Rome - Crying In The Prettiest Places EP
8. Taylor Swift - Lover
9. Newsboys - United
10. Tayla Parx - We Need to Talk
11. Bon Iver - i,i
12. Billie Eilish - WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?

 

Albums of the Year:

1. Out of Service - Burden
2. Selfish Things - Logos
3. The Maine - You Are Okay
4. Dream State - Primrose Path
5. Cory Wells - The Way We Are
6. Jimmy at World - Surviving
7. The Dangerous Summer - Mother Nature
8. As December Falls - As December Falls
9. Tiny Moving Parts - Breathe
10. Grayscale - Nella Vita
11. Carousel Kings - Plus Ultra
12. Greet Death - New Hell
13. Thousand Below - Gone in Your Wake
14. Bring Me The Horizon - amo
15. The Beautiful Moment - I'm the Reaper
16. Ingrid Michaelson - Stranger Songs
17. Taylor Swift - Lover
18. Heart Attack Man - Fake Blood
19. Youth Fountain - Letters to Our Former Selves
20. The Japanese House - Good at Falling

Thoughts on the above list: How in the hell is Out of Service not a huge thing in these forums and in the scene? When I first listened to Burden it was the first I heard of them. I went in knowing this was a Chorus.FM members band so my expectations were low so I was super surprised to not only be blown away on initial listen but to crave this album at the gym even until this day. This album gave me massive "Brand New" vibes which is amazing because this release filled some of the huge void I've had in my musical pallet since the shocking demise of Brand New.

The Dream State release is nothing ground breaking musically but I listened to it as much as anything all year and consistently enjoyed it. Both the releases by Selfish Things and Cory Wells need to reach way more people. Much of the order outside of the top 6 is just randomly thrown about. The As December Falls release is a female fronted band but at times they remind me of Northstar, it has something to do with the vocal delivery but they also have some bite with some revved up guitars solos mixed in.

Honorable Mentions:

1.Silverstein - Redux: The First 10 Years (only not way up near the top of the above list as this isn't really new music)
2. The Almost - Fear Caller
3. Scott Sellers - Power Hungry
4. Blink 182 - Nine
5. Meh & Dia - Happysad
6. Better Oblivion Community Center - BOCC

EPs I enjoyed:

Misterwives - Mini Bloom
Spanish Love Songs - Losers (does this 2 track release even count as an EP? 2 of the best tracks I heard all year and damn is "Losers" ever relatable.)
Awaken I Am - The Beauty in Tragedy
Yours Truly - Afterglow
Jetty Bones - - -

Shows I enjoyed:

Witcher
The Rookie
Brooklyn Nine Nine
Soundtrack
The Mandalorian
The Marvelous Ms. Maisel
Stranger Things
Mary Kills People
Veronica Mars

Guilty Pleasure Tracks of 2019:

MGK, Yungblood and Travis - I Think I'm Okay
Billie Eilish - Basically all of them (I love you is one of the standout tracks of the year IMO, she sings it beautifully)
Indina Menzel - Into the Unknown

Songs of the Year (In no particular order):

Selfish Things - Rowen
Out of Service - Burden
Cory Wells - Broken
Spanish Love Songs - Losers
Misterwives - Coming Up For Air
Misterwives -whywhywhy
The Dangerous Summer - Bring Me Back to Life
Billie Eilish - I Love You
The Japanese House - We Talk All the Time
The Maine - Flowers on the Grave
Jimmy Eat World - Criminal Energy
Meg Myers - Running Up That Hill
Jetty Bones - Better

Music everyone loves that I dont understand:

Bon Iver

Most Anticipated music for 2020: (Disclaimer I mostly have no idea who's releasing what in 2020)

The Spill Canvas
The 1975

 

1. Hobo Johnson - The Fall of Hobo Johnson
2. American Football - LP3
3. Billie Eilish - When We Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
4. Teddy Roberts & the Mouths - Never Wanna Die
5. Strange Magic - Unfortunately
6. Lizzo - Cuz I Love You
7. Angel Du$t - Pretty Buff
8. Bayside - Interrobang
9. The Maine - You Are OK
10. Heart Attack Man - Fake Blood

 

1. Jade Bird - Jade Bird
2. Better Oblivion Community Center - Better Oblivion Community Center
3. American Football - American Football
4. Big Thief - Two Hands
5. Big Thief- U.F.O.F.
6. Florist - Emily Alone
7. Great Grandpa - Four of Arrows
8. Stella Donnelly - Beware of the Dogs
9. Chris Farren - Born Hot
10. Charly Bliss - Young Enough
11. Maggie Rogers - Heard It in a Past Life
12. Lomelda - M for Empathy
13. The Appleseed Cast - The Fleeting Light of Impermanence
14. Slaughter Beach, Dog - Safe and Also No Fear
15. Spencer Radcliffe and Everyone Else - Hot Spring
16. Jack M. Senff - Good To Know You
17. Lady Lamb - Even in the Tremor
18. 100 gecs - 1000 gecs
19. Prince Daddy & the Hyena - Cosmic Thrill Seekers
20. Clairo - Immunity
21. Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising
22. Carly Rae Jepsen - Dedicated
23. Free Throw - What's Past is Prologue
24. Stef Chura - Midnight
25. Angie McMahon - Salt


Honorable mentions:
Hand Habits - Placeholder
Pedro the Lion - Phoenix
Oso Oso - Basking in the Glow
Taylor Swift - Lover
Julia Jacklin - Crushing
Horse Jumper of Love - So Divine
Pronoun - I'll Show You Stronger
Sir Babygirl - Crush on Me
(Sandy) Alex G - House of Sugar
Knocked Loose - A Different Shade of Blue
Billie Eilish - When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
Faye Webster - Atlanta Millionaires Club
(Edit to add)
Rosie Carney - Bare
Marika Hackman - Any Human Friend
Pup - Morbid Stuff
Twin Peaks - Lookout Low
Dowsing - Sky Lake
Mush - Thank You We’re Mush

 

Great taste alert

But really, I’m excited to go through the albums on your list that I haven’t heard yet.

 

Thank you! I added more (and may continue) to my honorable mentions list (because there were so many that I enjoyed but I couldn't fit them on my top 25, although I wish I could).

 

Off the top of my head:

10. White Reaper - You Deserve Love
9. He is Legend - White Bat
8. Great Grandpa - Four of Arrows
7. Norma Jean - All Hail
6. Local Natives - Violet Street
5. Mike Krol - Power Chords
4. Charly Bliss - Young Enough
3. Bayside - Interrobang
2. The Devil Wears Prada - The Act
1. As Cities Burn - Scream Through The Walls