Best Ever Albums

Re: 2025 Year-End Lists

craola — Fri, 2 Jan 2026 02:27:23 GMT

Author: craola

Posted: 01/02/2026 07:27

thurston moore found the time to listen to 350 albums last year? my man.

Re: 2025 Year-End Lists

Tap — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 20:38:52 GMT

Author: Tap

Posted: 12/31/2025 01:38

Here's the list builder I was talking about https://endaural.com/assembler25.html

Re: 2025 Year-End Lists

Hayden — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 00:04:07 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 12/29/2025 05:04

Tap wrote:

Thanks! I'm working on a variation where you build a top 10 one at a time based on different categories so that it's a bit more engaging, hopefully will have that done soon!

In the meantime here's Thurston Moore's top 350, some good picks on here https://open.substack.com/pub/72558/p/350-best-records-of-2025-by-thurston

Can we add this chart to BEA. I want to make notes :D—

Super interesting list from Moore. I know a few, course, but mostly new names in that top 50—

Re: 2025 Year-End Lists

Tap — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 19:04:17 GMT

Author: Tap

Posted: 12/29/2025 00:04

Thanks! I'm working on a variation where you build a top 10 one at a time based on different categories so that it's a bit more engaging, hopefully will have that done soon!

In the meantime here's Thurston Moore's top 350, some good picks on here https://open.substack.com/pub/72558/p/350-best-records-of-2025-by-thurston

Re: 2025 Year-End Lists

Johnnyo — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 12:59:34 GMT

Author: Johnnyo

Posted: 12/20/2025 17:59

Tap wrote:

The Wire's contributor lists are pretty fun https://www.thewire.co.uk/issues/charts/2025-rewind-contributors-charts

CABBAGES list is good too, the Salimata album on here is a must listen https://www.cabbageshiphop.com/2025-best-hip-hop-rap-albums/

The Stereogum country list that they did with Don't Rock The Inbox is good because it got me to listen to Sunny War https://stereogum.com/2483029/the-10-best-country-albums-of-2025/lists/year-in-review/2025 -in-review

And I'm really happy with my randomizer, it pulls 10 out of a pool of 605 https://endaural.com/grabbag25.html

Just tried the randomiser. Love it! Great idea

Re: 2025 Year-End Lists

Tap — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 14:53:26 GMT

Author: Tap

Posted: 12/17/2025 19:53

The Wire's contributor lists are pretty fun https://www.thewire.co.uk/issues/charts/2025-rewind-contributors-charts

CABBAGES list is good too, the Salimata album on here is a must listen https://www.cabbageshiphop.com/2025-best-hip-hop-rap-albums/

The Stereogum country list that they did with Don't Rock The Inbox is good because it got me to listen to Sunny War https://stereogum.com/2483029/the-10-best-country-albums-of-2025/lists/year-in-review/2025 -in-review

And I'm really happy with my randomizer, it pulls 10 out of a pool of 605 https://endaural.com/grabbag25.html

Re: 2025 Year-End Lists

LedZep — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 12:31:51 GMT

Author: LedZep

Posted: 12/11/2025 17:31

This ain't exactly a 2025 list, but RA made best songs of the century so far. A decent and pretty interesting selection, much better than I expected, honestly. While listening through their picks, I ended up putting together my own top 100 for no real reason other than wanting to share and discuss it with a few friends, I guess. And because their Burial pick intrigued me (South London Boroughs is an essential song, certainly, but I'm not sure it's his best).
https://rateyourmusic.com/list/LedZep1/the-best-electronic-tracks-of-2000-25-my-edition/

I don't think we've had a discussion about electronic/club music on BEA in a long time. Did anyone check this RA list? What did you think and do yall have any recs?

Edit: It seems that, in the meantime, RA made The Best Electronic Records of 2000-25.

Re: 2025 Year-End Lists

Hayden — Thu, 4 Dec 2025 21:38:40 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 12/05/2025 02:38

Bandcamp P1

Bandcamp P2

Re: 2025 Year-End Lists

LedZep — Wed, 3 Dec 2025 04:29:56 GMT

Author: LedZep

Posted: 12/03/2025 09:29

Hayden wrote:

As someone who typically isn't into that kinda stuff, I think it's a great record, and hope it ends up as most publication's AOTY

Yeah, me too. I can’t remember the last time I enjoyed a fairly standard indie rock record this much. There are some excellent krautrock-inspired jams, some wonderfully weird ballads, and Cameron Winter’s eccentric vocals steal the show. For what it is, it’s an impressively varied record and every track is a banger.

Re: 2025 Year-End Lists

Hayden — Tue, 2 Dec 2025 20:46:20 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 12/03/2025 01:46

RockyRaccoon wrote:

My biggest takeaway from a lot of these lists - I really need to give that Geese album another listen, cause I thought it was solid but not AOTY material

As someone who typically isn't into that kinda stuff, I think it's a great record, and hope it ends up as most publication's AOTY—
Winter & Geese are on a roll—

Most exciting rock act out of NYC in far too long—

Re: 2025 Year-End Lists

MadhattanJack — Tue, 2 Dec 2025 18:45:08 GMT

Author: MadhattanJack

Posted: 12/02/2025 23:45

RockyRaccoon wrote:

My biggest takeaway from a lot of these lists - I really need to give that Geese album another listen, cause I thought it was solid but not AOTY material

It's not bad, for what it is — it kinda sounds like what we might have had if Animal Collective or The Dodos had abducted Rufus Wainwright in the mid-2000s and forced him to be their lead singer instead of allowing him to have a successful solo career. So it's interesting, but I think your initial reaction was right, it's not AOTY material unless you're really, really into that sort of thing.

I also agree with you about The Quietus, btw — I'm glad they exist, and a lot of avant-garde/experimental artists might not appear on anybody's year-end list at all if not for them, but if you don't know that going in you might end up listening to some pretty inaccessible stuff in the hopes of "educating" yourself, when in fact your tastes are really not all that conventional and you probably shouldn't worry so much about not knowing who 80 percent of these people are.

Re: 2025 Year-End Lists

RockyRaccoon — Tue, 2 Dec 2025 15:30:12 GMT

Author: RockyRaccoon

Posted: 12/02/2025 20:30

My biggest takeaway from a lot of these lists - I really need to give that Geese album another listen, cause I thought it was solid but not AOTY material

2025 Year-End Lists

RockyRaccoon — Tue, 2 Dec 2025 15:29:06 GMT

Author: RockyRaccoon

Posted: 12/02/2025 20:29

It's that wonderful time of year where all the music publications put out their top albums of the year lists! Figured I'd create a thread for us to keep track of them since a lot of the big ones are out such aaaaaas:

Pitchfork's 50 Best Albums of 2025

New Yorker's 15 Best Albums of 2025

Vulture's Top 10 Albums of 2025

Paste Magazine's Top 50 Best Albums of 2025

Stereogum's 50 Best Albums of 2025

The Line of Best Fit's 50 Best Albums of 2025

And of course, the coolest list released every year that always thumbs its nose at you and says do you even actually know anything about music???

The Quietus's 100 Best Albums of 2025

(this sounds like I'm badmouthing The Quietus but honestly it's just the opposite, I love them and their list is always the most interesting list every year)