The Chorus.Fm Users Definitive Albums List • Page 28

yeah there’s definitely been a recent push with them

 

It’s been my favorite album for my entire life

 

maybe everyone's just gripped by clinton/gore '92 nostalgia

(this is a JOKE don't get mad please)

 

I think the thing that’s made it look like it was on the rise is that it was popular in the era of rock dominance (look at the first Rolling Stone list or the Grammy win), but as the dominance of rock has receded with more recent music fans, Rumours has stayed because it also appeals to indie fans for the production and pop fans for the vocals and hooks. So if you stay in the same place while everyone recedes back, it looks like you’re gaining

 

i feel like the same thing kind of goes for a lot of the albums of that era tbh. the same could be applied to ziggy

 

So now blend the two lists together and make it terrible like mine. Go ahead. I'll wait.

 

we got Breaking Benjamin next to Obsequiae next to Jars of Clay next to Mae next to Eternal Champion...

 

Considering that my top five is Thrice, two punk albums, and two grindcore albums - I'd be in good company.

Also totally realized after looking back at my list that I missed an album that'd be in my top ten if I redid it - Mastodon's Leviathan.

 

I listened to the ludicrously titled What People Call Low Self-Esteem Is Really Just Seeing Yourself the Way That Other People See You by a group (person?) named Awakebutstillinbed, because the name jumped out to me in it's silliness. I can't remember who's list it was on, though sorry! I added a bunch of albums onto my Apple Music from here, but didn't make a note who included it in their list.

Not really sure this was for me, I really wasn't a fan of the lead singer's voice, very nails on a chalkboard to me, really couldn't stand her singing, just way too tuneless for me. The first three minutes of the opening track were absolutely horrendous, and I was wondering if I should give up on it already. Once the band kicks in it does get a bit better, and instrumentally it was pretty classic lo-fi emo / punk sounding songs, but nothing particularly memorable there.

Melodramatic to the extreme, it was just about okay when it was all chaotic and yelling, where it sounded like those mid-90s screamo bands like I Hate Myself and Orchid and that sort of thing. Reminded me a bit at times like a (not as good) version of Home, Like NoPlace Is There. The slower and more melodic bits didn't work for me at all, unfortunately, really didn't enjoy them.

An eye catching album title though, I'll give them that!

 

My new five-year plan is to listen to every album mentioned in this thread I haven't heard.

 

Lol, it was my list. Cool that it got you to give them a try! It’s definitely not for everyone. I think you’re right on with the Home comparison, I definitely love the albums for similar reasons.

 

1. Planetary - Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly, and James McAlister
2. Liquid Swords – GZA
3. Homogenic – Bjork
4. Ok Computer - Radiohead
5. The Black Parade – My Chemical Romance
6. Born to Run – Bruce Springsteen
7. 22, A Million – Bon Iver
8. Trouble Will Find Me – The National
9. Transgender Dysphoria Blues – Against Me!
10. Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? – of Montreal
11. The Downward Spiral – Nine Inch Nails
12. Goo – Sonic Yout
13. To Pimp A Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar
14. Diary – Sunny Day Real Estate
15. Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) - Wu-Tang Clan
16. The Score – Fugees
17. The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill – Lauryn Hill
18. Stankonia – OutKast
19. Tim – The Replacements
20. The Con – Tegan and Sara
21. Transatlanticism – Death Cab For Cutie
22. Madvillainy – Madvillain
23. The Electric Lady - Janelle Monae
24. After the Gold Rush – Neil Young
25. Clarity – Jimmy Eat World
26. I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning – Bright Eyes
27. Merriweather Post Pavilion – Animal Collective
28. Nothing Feels Good – The Promise Ring
29. On the Impossible Past –The Menzingers
30. Only Built 4 Cuban Linx – Raekwon
31. Age of Adz – Sufjan Stevens
32. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots – The Flaming Lip
33. Folklore – Taylor Swift
34. Too Bright – Perfume Genius
35. Disintegration – The Cure
36. Modern Vampires of the City – Vampire Weekend
37. Diamond Eyes – Deftones
38. Highway 61 Revisited – Bob Dylan
39. In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 – Coheed and Cambria
40. Sing the Sorrow – AFI
41. Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain – Pavement
42. Domestica – Cursive
43. A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships – The 1975
44. Ordinary Corrupt Human Love – Deafheaven
45. Fleetwood Mac – Fleetwood Mac
46. Jane Doe – Converge
47. HNDRXX – Future
48. The Low End Theory – A Tribe Called Quest
49. Operation Ivy – Operation Ivy
50. Rocket to Russia - Ramones

 

The only albums I ranked in order are 1-10 because those are for sure. The rest vary like crazy.

Shout out to the hip-hop classic threads. I've been exposed to such amazing music I wouldn't have found otherwise.

 

Solid list

 

Yeah that’s a good list.

 

Edit: Scratch that. Not trying to add to negativity. Rather focus on the great picks in here.

 

Particularly cool to see these picks. Nice list.

 

Starting to chip away at some of the albums I haven't heard yet. Shout at the Devil from @Blainer93's list is doing way more for me than I thought it would

 

A Hair metal classic.

 

someone @ me when they get to the Newsboys album and Tron Legacy soundtrack on my list pls

 

Newsboys album was a journey. I couldn't figure out why it sounded familiar and then I looked at Wikipedia and saw they had songs in VeggieTales

 

I didn't listen to secular music until like ninth grade (grew up as a preacher's kid) and Newsboys were like, thee band I was super into

 

Somehow got unsubscribed from this, so playing catch up!

You’re in for a treat! That album is super dynamic and fun/occasionally agonizingly heartbreaking.

Hell yeah! This is my favorite record from this year by a wide margin and just absolutely blew me away for all the reasons you mentioned. Glad you enjoyed it.

Love these two lists especially and think it’s interesting we all picked different Dawes records.