The Chorus.Fm Users Definitive Albums List • Page 34

I'll work on this this week

 

Nothing Left to Lose and City of Black & White are both records I really love, and they're both pretty different. Young Love is a lot of fun too. He kind of loses me after that, but I recommend his earlier material.

It seems like he really reconnected with some of his older work on the acoustic tour he just did, so maybe that will bring a more stripped-down approach on the next album. Or maybe quarantine will do that. Seems possible.

I've only listened to the Lyle record in your avatar, but I definitely enjoyed it. Need to spend more time with his work.

 

those are good points, I’m actually more hopeful now.

and nice glad you liked it. I feel like that one's theme of being in suspension is prescient for this era we’ve all been shuttered in. I’m sure when the time is right you’ll be drawn to The Native Genius among other stuff. I love the LA sprawl of the deluxe version for that one. the songs are just so strong, and its arc of the surrender of egoic ambition to a more humble yet devoted participant in the infinite play and “One Big Love” (along with falling in love!) helped me a lot when I needed it. ironically after that Tyler's synthwave band The Midnight blew up. don’t know if you’ve listened to them. I definitely prefer his solo stuff, but there are still some great songs in there. like I could see you being so down with “Prom Night” off their most recent release as an example

 

Just listened to At The Party... and yeah, it’s beautiful. Thank you and @mad for the rec!

 

I'll hopefully get around to doing mine this week. Kinda feel a bit embarrassed it's mostly male dominated acts from the last 15 years and it's not the most diverse, but going to put a lot of the other albums people have posted on a list and progressively work my way through it.

 

Absolutely. That's the most exciting part of this whole enterprise. Will definitely be listening to some of these very soon.

 

Don't feel bad about what your favorites are. You can't really control that. What you can control is what you give your time and your ear to. As long as you keep listening to/supporting varied and diverse stuff, that's all you can ask, imo.

 

MORE LISTS PLEASE

 

My list is coming, just taking a little longer than I thought when I have the chance.

 

Agree 100% I felt the same way when looking through my CD collection and making my list. Just have to accept people have been fed white male artists, placed on pedestals as the 'best' and 'most important' musicians, for most of history. Almost all black music was until recently treated as 'niche' (apart from MJ and Prince basically) at least where I live in Australia. Almost all female music was treated as pop and therefore 'less important' than that made by white guys -- even when those white guys were making pop music too.

Let's not overlook the fact many of us came from the AbsolutePunk days which generally means we grew up on pop-punk, not exactly a haven for diverse artists.

The praise for so many white male acts is completely justified. My list is full of such acts and I adore them and their music. As a SWM it kind of makes sense that I'd connect with many of these artists, especially through my formative years.

I have only more recently started making a concerted effort to get into more diverse artists, and have found that incredibly rewarding. But for the most part these artists and albums are new to me, which makes it difficult for many to unseat my favourites which have been in rotation for years. So I had to just accept my list would not be as diverse as I'd have liked.
I would hope and expect that if we did this exercise again in five or 10 years, I'd have more POC and women on my list. Until then the best I (we) can do is to just give these artists a fair shot and be richer for the experience.

 

And again. This is the top 2% of what I OWN. Let alone what I’ve heard. Even during the less enlightened days of AP.net I had a strong preference for female fronted music, to the point where I actually took some (fairly gentle) crap for it. That doesn’t mean they’ll necessarily occupy an even half of such a tiny percentage.

 

i mean, that probably goes for most people here haha. who only owns like 50 albums?

 

I keep my list at only 50 once I find a new album I have to erase one from memory

 

Did I miss the deadline on this?

 

nah just try to get it in over the weekend at the latest pls

 

I keep on thinking I need to rearrange mine. It's bugging me.

 

That was the point. It's such a small sampling for anyone. To assume it reflects the breadth or diversity of their taste is statistically nuts.

 

Currently in isolation so I'll probably knock this out tonight

 

I kind of want to do this too. Is there a final day we can agree on so I can maybe go back to my post and edit it before then?

 

Ooh I’m gonna do this

 

Fuck. This is gonna be difficult to rank them. I’ve kinda been going back and forth between nostalgia/formative listening experiences and how much I enjoy the album today. I feel like some of the really important ones that I don’t really care to listen to now need to be weighted in some way even though I may not enjoy them as much. Looking forward to working on this, I was just thinking about how this community is the only place I see this type of thing happen.

 

1. Thrice - Beggars
2. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
3. O’Brother - Garden Window
4. Kanye West - Yeezus
5. Saosin - Saosin
6. Julien Baker - Sprained Ankle
7. Manchester Orchestra - A Black Mile to the Surface
8. The Hotelier - Home, Like Noplace is There
9. Thrice - Vheissu
10. Menomena - Mines
11. Elliott - False Cathedrals
12. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
13. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
14. Carly Rae Jepsen - EMOTION
15. Thrice - The Alchemy Index
16. Manchester Orchestra - Mean Everything to Nothing
17. Pianos Become the Teeth - Wait for Love
18. Killer Mike - RAP Music
19. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
20. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
21. Fleet Foxes - Helpnessness Blues
22. Grimes - Art Angels
23. Passion Pit - Manners
24. Silverstein - Discovering the Waterfront
25. Circa Survive - On Letting Go
26. Foxing - Dealer
27. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
28. Deftones - White Pony
29. Thrice - To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere
30. Alexisonfire - Crisis
31. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
32. City and Colour - Sometimes
33. Silversun Pickups - Swoon
34. Young Thug - Barter 6
35. The Hotelier - Goodness
36. Nothing - Tired of Tomorrow
37. The Gaslight Anthem - The ’59 Sound
38. Baroness - Purple
39. The Decemberists - The King is Dead
40. Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues
41. Greet Death - New Hell
42. Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
43. Volcano Choir - Repave
44. Radiohead - Kid A
45. Thursday - Common Existence
46. fun. - Aim and Ignite
47. Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds in Country Music
48. Circa Survive - Blue Sky Noise
49. mewithoutYou - Ten Stories
50. Deftones - Koi No Yokan

Honorable Mentions:
Biffy Clyro - Puzzle
Thursday - No Devolucion
Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
Underoath - Lost in the Sound of Separation
Future - EVOL
Young Thug - Jeffery
Alexisonfire - Watch Out!
PUP - Morbid Stuff
The National - Trouble Will Find Me
Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City

Shuffled things around for a few days and finally just decided to post it. Tried to find a balance of my favorite albums and the ones that shaped my taste the most over time, while leaving out albums I don't return to anymore. This was lots of fun!

 

Good stuff on here

 

On @phaynes12 ’s list, I checked out Nowhere by Ride. They’d been a band I’ve known by reputation for a while, and had been meaning to listen to them, and fully expected to enjoy it.

It didn’t disappoint, though my first impressions was that it reminded me more of The Stone Roses at times than I was anticipating, not that that’s a bad thing or anything, just had a slightly different idea of what they sounded like in my head! The guitar tones were fantastic, and the drumming was brilliant, and I really enjoyed the bits where the songs got proper noisy.

A great listen, and one I’ll definitely be back to.

 

1. Puzzle - Biffy Clyro
2. The Blue Album - Weezer
3. Tell All Your Friends - Taking Back Sunday
4. Everything in Transit - Jacks Mannequin
5. Bleed American - Jimmy Eat World
6. The '59 Sound - Gaslight Anthem
7. Is a Real Boy - Say Anything
8. Disintegration - The Cure
9. (Whats the story) Morning Glory - Oasis
10. In The Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
11. Im Wide Awake its Morning - Bright Eyes
12. Whatever people say I am, that’s what im not - Arctic Monkeys
13. The Queen is Dead - The Smiths
14. Give Up - Postal Service
15. Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
16. Surburbia Ive Given You All - The Wonder Years
17. Hi-Fi Serious - A
18. Full Collapse - Thursday
19. Remote Part - Idlewild
20. Chocolate Starfish - Limp Bizkit
21. After the Party - The Menzingers
22. Transatlanticism - Death Cab For Cutie
23. Love, Ire and Song - Frank Turner
24. Ideas Above our Station - Hundred Reasons
25. Silent Alarm - Bloc Party
26. Back on Top - Front Bottoms
27. The XX - The XX
28. Brave Faces Everyone - Spanish Love Songs
29. Funeral - Arcade Fire
30. Straylight Run - Straylight Run
31. 1988 - Taylor Swift
32. Open Your Eyes - Goldfinger
33. Worship and Tribute - Glassjaw
34. Pet Sounds - Beach Boys
35. Hybrid Theory - Linkin Park
36. Lonesome Crowded West - Modest Mouse
37. Hot Fuss - The Killers
38. Like a Virgin Losing a Child - Manchester Orchestra
39. Under Soil and Dirt - The Story so far
40. Different Class - Pulp
41. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye West
42. Leaving through the Window - Something Corporate
43. Midnight Organ Fight - Frightened Rabbit
44. In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 - Coheed and Cambria
45. Free - Twin Atlantic
46. Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem
47. Relationship of Command - At The Drive in
48. From Under the Cork Tree - Fall Out Boy
49. The Neon Handshake - Hell is for Heroes
50. Discovery - Daft Punk