Best Ever Albums

Re: 2015 End of the Year Lists

jhuik — Mon, 28 Dec 2015 07:43:00 GMT

Author: jhuik

Posted: 12/28/2015 12:43

Skinny wrote:

My guess would be 'Alright', because of its significance within the anti-police brutality/Black Lives Matter movement.

Nnnnnailed it!

Re: 2015 End of the Year Lists

Anonymous — Sun, 27 Dec 2015 15:53:17 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 12/27/2015 20:53

pusha t is better than kendrick i think. his rhymes is looser.

Re: 2015 End of the Year Lists

Yoooreds — Sun, 27 Dec 2015 07:03:45 GMT

Author: Yoooreds

Posted: 12/27/2015 12:03

I can't find anywhere to post this list, and my membership restrictions don't allow for yearly lists, to here is my 2015 list, for anyone interested.

My top 20 albums of 2015

1. Riverside - Love, fear and the time machine
2. Steven Wilson - HAND. CANNOT. ERASE.
3.The Decemberists - What a terrible world. what a beautiful world
4. Sanguine Hum - Now we have light
5. Anekdoten - Until all the ghosts are gone/

in addition here are 15 more albums that require a honourable mention.

6. Public Service Broadcasting - The race for space
7. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
8. Tame Impala - Currents
9. Bruce Soord - Bruce Soord
10. Mumford and Sons - Wilder Mind

11. Wolf Alice - My love is cool
12. The Receiver - All burn
13. Nordic Giants - A seance of dark deleteion
14. Editors - IN DREAM
15. Foals - What went down

16. Kamari Washington - The epic
17. Slaves - are you satisfied
18. Kurt Vile - B’lieve I’m going’ down
19. Gazpacho - Molok
20. Zervas and Pepper - Abstract heart

Re: 2015 End of the Year Lists

Anonymous — Sun, 27 Dec 2015 01:21:47 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 12/27/2015 06:21

iknowwhenthat wrote:

blacksaintsinnerLAD wrote:

"Loudly avowed poptimists" for EMOTION is so damn accurate :lol:

you forgot to write stuff

some of the jokes are okay. last one is dumb.

Re: 2015 End of the Year Lists

Lowkey — Sat, 26 Dec 2015 11:27:25 GMT

Author: Lowkey

Posted: 12/26/2015 16:27

blacksaintsinnerLAD wrote:

"Loudly avowed poptimists" for EMOTION is so damn accurate :lol:

Re: 2015 End of the Year Lists

alelsupreme — Sat, 26 Dec 2015 09:18:41 GMT

Author: alelsupreme

Posted: 12/26/2015 14:18

"Loudly avowed poptimists" for EMOTION is so damn accurate 🤣

Re: 2015 End of the Year Lists

Applerill — Thu, 24 Dec 2015 07:24:53 GMT

Author: Applerill

Posted: 12/24/2015 12:24

CryingGameDahlin wrote:

and here I was thinking Poptimist was just some made-up sub-culture by Applerill

https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=poptimism&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

Even Fantano talked about it, Bro.

Re: 2015 End of the Year Lists

cestuneblague — Thu, 24 Dec 2015 04:21:46 GMT

Author: cestuneblague

Posted: 12/24/2015 09:21

revolver94 wrote:

stereotyping you by your favorite album of 2015 (flavorwire)

http://flavorwire.com/553256/stereotyping-you-by-your-favorite-album-of-2015

and here I was thinking Poptimist was just some made-up sub-culture by Applerill

Good list but missing a few favorite albums...

Re: 2015 End of the Year Lists

Lowkey — Wed, 23 Dec 2015 21:43:58 GMT

Author: Lowkey

Posted: 12/24/2015 02:43

Rip, they never have mine. Well, I suppose Drake could pass Pusha for me in these final days

Re: 2015 End of the Year Lists

mickilennial — Wed, 23 Dec 2015 20:29:40 GMT

Author: mickilennial

Posted: 12/24/2015 01:29

Quote:

Older millennials whose escape plan involves the Pacific Northwest.

That hit me a little close...

Re: 2015 End of the Year Lists

Applerill — Wed, 23 Dec 2015 19:30:35 GMT

Author: Applerill

Posted: 12/24/2015 00:30

Hayden wrote:

revolver94 wrote:

stereotyping you by your favorite album of 2015 (flavorwire)

http://flavorwire.com/553256/stereotyping-you-by-your-favorite-album-of-2015

These are always fantastic 🤣

Black Messiah, Another One/ I Love You Honeybear, I Don't Like Shit, Fetty Wap and Miley Cyrus are great. :lol:

Does this mean that I'm secretly Wayne Coyne? 😮

Re: 2015 End of the Year Lists

Hayden — Wed, 23 Dec 2015 18:39:27 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 12/23/2015 23:39

revolver94 wrote:

stereotyping you by your favorite album of 2015 (flavorwire)

http://flavorwire.com/553256/stereotyping-you-by-your-favorite-album-of-2015

These are always fantastic 🤣

Black Messiah, Another One/ I Love You Honeybear, I Don't Like Shit, Fetty Wap and Miley Cyrus are great. 🤣

Re: 2015 End of the Year Lists

revolver94 — Wed, 23 Dec 2015 18:29:23 GMT

Author: revolver94

Posted: 12/23/2015 23:29

stereotyping you by your favorite album of 2015 (flavorwire)

http://flavorwire.com/553256/stereotyping-you-by-your-favorite-album-of-2015

Re: 2015 End of the Year Lists

benpaco — Wed, 23 Dec 2015 13:45:46 GMT

Author: benpaco

Posted: 12/23/2015 18:45

Tap wrote:

So there's a million lists from artists up on boomkat.com along with their picks for their own list, lots of good stuff and stuff to look into.

This is really cool and I'd love to try to compile these with other artists who have released lists (Hotel Books and The Twilight Sad both put out pretty cool ones the other day, for example) a la albumoftheyear.org but for just artists. That'd be cool as hell

Re: 2015 End of the Year Lists

Tap — Wed, 23 Dec 2015 12:31:47 GMT

Author: Tap

Posted: 12/23/2015 17:31

So there's a million lists from artists up on boomkat.com along with their picks for their own list, lots of good stuff and stuff to look into.

Also pitchfork's experimental list is pretty cool, tho it's more like "here is music that's good and trying things and that makes it experimental I guess", but yay for Drainolith, Felicia Atkinson, Pioulard, Byron Westbrook, and Joshua Abrams, along with some stuff I need to check.

Re: 2015 End of the Year Lists

Mercury — Sat, 19 Dec 2015 14:22:19 GMT

Author: Mercury

Posted: 12/19/2015 19:22

Nah, it's praised due to the beautifully detailed music and the instrumentation and the inventive and unique structure of the album and the emotion of the music. It's praised because it's an absolutely awe-inspiring mix of hip hop, Jazz, funk, and many other forms of music. It's praised because even after hearing it many times you can still find details and messages and little musical flourishes all over the thing. And it's praised because it's just a great album. Get outta here with this demeaning "white guilt" explanation for why To Pimp A Butterfly is praised.

Re: 2015 End of the Year Lists

PsychologistHD — Sat, 19 Dec 2015 12:34:44 GMT

Author: PsychologistHD

Posted: 12/19/2015 17:34

Umbrella wrote:

course theres lots more to the album. not lots more to the praise tho.

Umbrella isn't exactly out of line with this statement.

Re: 2015 End of the Year Lists

benpaco — Thu, 17 Dec 2015 13:07:33 GMT

Author: benpaco

Posted: 12/17/2015 18:07

Satie wrote:

benpaco's analysis of the album really captures its essence - lots of important stuff to say, but an absolute slog to get through to that content. :P

Even hits you right over the head at the end with the thing it's saying all along just in case you missed it 😉

Tl:DR I'd argue it's equal parts Black Star's "Astronomy (8th Light)", Tupac's "Changes", and Bowie's "Fame", and to ignore any messages about keeping level headed is to ignore a large chunk of this album.

Re: 2015 End of the Year Lists

AAL2014 — Thu, 17 Dec 2015 12:08:07 GMT

Author: AAL2014

Posted: 12/17/2015 17:08

Umbrella wrote:

these lists are suck. lamar makes show of being black and white people guilty gush. i'd rather listen to metallica.

1.) Obvious troll is obvious

2.) If you sense white guilt coming from the Kendrick record then you must feel guilty yourself.

3.) I myself love Metallica to bits but this is not the time nor place.

Re: 2015 End of the Year Lists

Lowkey — Thu, 17 Dec 2015 11:55:00 GMT

Author: Lowkey

Posted: 12/17/2015 16:55

Skinny wrote:

Hayden wrote:

TMT's list is decent. I think my favourites this year are The Quietus and Norman Records.

Between TMT and Pitchfork, I've gotten 7 recs.

Super happy to see Destroyer Carly Rae, Earl and Jenny Hval make the final list despite not getting BNM.

I still don't understand the love for the new Miguel, Future, Drake, Jeremih, Young Thug, Janet Jackson, Kelela, Oneohtrix Point Never, Vince Staples or Rae Sremmurd. I don't think I'm enjoying this new wave of hip-hop 🤔 It all just feels so lifeless and monotone.

wut