The Chorus.Fm Users Definitive Albums List • Page 20

Blainer93 - 30/50
George - 18/50
bradsonemanband - 31/50
Cody - 4/50 (wtf?)
jorbjorb - 9/50
pepetito - 36/50
swboyd - 26/50
phaynes12 - 31/50
spyki - 27/50
ohthewater - 31/50
koryoreo - 20/50
ootypa - 28/50
alien sexist - 26/50
VanMastaIteHab - 28/50
inspectorkemp - 20/50
imthesheriff - 33/50
irthesteve - 44/50
stars143 - 38/50
paulo - 34/50 (my fave list so far)
street spirit - 25/50
carpet elf - 21/50
daydream nation - 16/50
Craig Manning - 14/50
megt585 - 38/50
Borat 2 - 29/50
flask - 29/50

 

I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but Rumours being on so many lists makes me really happy.

 

It's funny how lists can sort of solidify over time. Like, I don't think I ever really thought about an all-time favorite album list until my senior year of high school, after I'd really fallen in love with Born to Run. My top four has not changed since and I can't imagine the album it would take to crack it.

I can definitely say that writing about Reunions and getting into the nitty gritty of why I find that album so moving was huge in convincing me that it's my second favorite Isbell record and worthy of a spot on this list.

 

Yeah I literally think it's impossible to make my top 5 now. That window of changing my life has closed. Doesn't mean there isn't stuff I LOVE that would make a top 50. But that absolute elite tier has to be kinda formative.

 

Aw shucks, I’m all embarrassed now

 

it wasn’t a joke but i was wrong, albatross is also good

 

All that RhymeSayers tho

 

bruh...

 

also do not love fleetwood mac a ton but also less willing to subject myself to criticism than pat lol

 

Even if you don’t love Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Nicks’ Bella Donna is straight fiya. How could anyone talk smack on Edge of Seventeen?

 

Honestly kinda shocked you don't like Tusk.

 

Tusk was made for the weird kids, and it rules.

 

Here’s a list. Lots of tough cuts, and the order is all over the place outside of the top ten or so. The toughest thing was balancing formative importance with how I think albums hold up now.

1. The Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site
2. The Wonder Years - Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing
3. Mineral - The Power of Failing
4. The Hotelier - Home, Like NoPlace Is There
5. The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang
6. Jimmy Eat World - Chase This Light
7. The Weakerthans - Reunion Tour
8. The Graduate - Anhedonia
9. Jason Isbell - Southeastern
10. The Get Up Kids - Something To Write Home About
11. Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
12. Thursday - A City By the Light Divided
13. The Junior Varsity - Wide Eyed
14. Rilo Kiley - The Execution of All Things
15. The Format - Dog Problems
16. Laura Stevenson - Wheel
17. John K. Samson - Provincial
18. The Gaslight Anthem - The ‘59 Sound
19. Spanish Love Songs - Brave Faces, Everyone
20. Bleachers - Strange Desire
21. Motion City Soundtrack - My Dinosaur Life
22. Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
23. Fun. - Some Nights
24. The Menzingers - After the Party
25. The 1975 - The 1975
26. John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
27. Counting Crows - August and Everything After
28. Regina Spektor - Begin To Hope
29. Thursday - War All the Time
30. Waxahatchee - American Weekend
31. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
32. Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger In the Alps
33. The Wonder Years - No Closer To Heaven
34. Gin Blossoms - New Miserable Experience
35. Hellogoodbye - Would It Kill You?
36. The Ataris - So Long, Astoria
37. Texas Is the Reason - Do You Know Who You Are
38. John Mayer - Continuum
39. The Promise Ring - Nothing Feels Good
40. Guster - Keep It Together
41. Anberlin - Cities
42. The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency and I
43. The Get Up Kids - Guilt Show
44. Relient K - Forget and Not Slow Down
45. Spanish Love Songs - Schmaltz
46. Rush - Moving Pictures
47. Taylor Swift - Red
48. The Tower and the Fool - How Long
49. Joie de Vivre - We're All Better Than This
50. Ruston Kelly - Dying Star

 

Lots of Reconstruction Site love.

 

fucking hell this should probably be in my top 25-30, totally forgot it

 

It could probably be even higher on mine depending on the day. Some of the best pop rock songs ever.

 

Bit of Anticon and Def Jux too. Mid noughts indie rap represent!

 

Somehow I forgot John Mayer continuum. That would be in mine prolly around 30 or so

 

Probably my favorite era of hip-hop. Atmosphere and Del really broke down a lot of walls for me when it came to the genre. I'm a little disappointed in myself for not including Seven's Travels, By the Throat, Bike for Three, or Full Circle. I guess I just haven't listened to them in a good amount of time. Gonna change that tonight.

 

Recently picked up that Guster album on vinyl and have been falling back in love with it. Lost and Gone Forever was on my long list for this, too.

 

I had both of those on my long list and this one won out because it was my introduction to the band, and “Amsterdam” is still my favorite song of theirs. The back of Lost and Gone is just about perfect though.

 

Jerry Blavat’s For Dancers Only would have made my top 5 in terms of quality/influence, but it’s not well known at all and a compilation, so I didn’t wanna put it in. I made an Apple Music playlist of all of the songs I could, and youtube links for the loosies not on there. RIYL: Motown/Soul. Enjoy!

Here’s Jerry’s infamous Heat Wave intro:

 

Great albums, both of them

 

No joke @OhTheWater, your continued advocacy for that comp is a heartwarming constant in an impermanent world.

 

Love guster