Please post your top 3 of 2014 - Music - Forums : Best Ever Albums

paladisiac · 2014-12-01T11:21:00-05:00

Hi all, I know 2014 is one month from conclusion, but with the leaky internets these days, there's a good chance most of you have a good idea of what your 2014 favorites are. Besides, the purpose of this thread is to give me and others an inkling into albums I or you might have missed. So please, post your top 3 albums of 2014 in this thread. Feel free to extol their virtues. I, and hopefully others, will use it as a quick reference point for those albums that escaped my/your ear or maybe some albums i/you need to give another listen to. (I know i could just peruse the BEA '14 list, but i find this fun.) Thank you! I'll start off with my current top 3 of 2014: 01 cloud nothings - here and nowhere else 02 jenny lewis - the voyager 03 spoon - they want my soul

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This could easily change within a month but as it stands now:

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To Be Kind by Swans

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You're Dead! by Flying Lotus

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It's Album Time by Todd Terje

Didn't expect this since I couldn't stand The Seer. All 3 are interchangeable though in terms of ranking.

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Ok so I jumped the gun. This one album sorta grew on me a lot (and it started high to begin with) and it's knocked Arca out of my number 3 spot.

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Restless Shapes by Gajek

Here's what I wrote about it on the chart:
"This is an exciting debut. I could tell it was something special when I came across it and excitedly told every single person I could about it, but I still only viewed it as sort of "second-tier great". But no. This is amazing. It has a sort of Steve Reich minimalism touch to the melody and structure, but it's all electronic, with this huge emphasis on percussion and synth timbre. It's 22 tracks divided into 3 suites. Each part flows seamlessly into the next, but each track change triggers a pretty dramatically different set of parameters, while a theme still persists to tie em all together. It's just some absolutely wonderful stuff and I'm very excited to see what they do next."

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Want by Wreck And Reference

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La Barca by Thomas Köner

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Mirrors Fold by Gum Takes Tooth

fuck only giving 3

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Verstorung by We Will Fail

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Concreté Misery by Sevendeaths

JMan

I love going through this thread and finding recs. Definitelygonna try that Nikki Nack album in a bit.

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My top 3 with 2 strong contenders:

1- Are We There by Sharon Van Etten
2- Manipulator by Ty Segall
3- They Want My Soul by Spoon

This ones could be in:

Lost In The Dream by The War On Drugs

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Lives up to the hype

Swans - To Be Kind
Sun Kil Moon - Benji
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Piñata
Timber Timbre - Hot Dreams
Iceage - Plowing Into The Field Of Love
Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 2

Great albums but in the scope of 10's will be forgotten

The War on Drugs - Lost In The Dream
Aphex Twin - Syro
Grouper - Ruins
Have a Nice Life - The Unnatural World
Mac DeMarco - Salad Days
St, Vincent - St. Vincent
Sharon Van Etten - Are We There
BADBADNOTGOOD - III
Weezer - Everything Will Be Alright In The End
Joyce Manor - Never Hungover Again
Ty Segall - Manipulator

Mediocre/bad

Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness
Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else
The Hotelier - Home, Like Noplace Is There
The Smashing Pumpkins - Monuments To An Elegy
Thom Yorke - Tomorrow's Modern Boxes
Morrissey - World Peace Is None Of Your Business

That's all I've heard of 2014 so far,I think I'll check out a few more albums than I'm done with 2014 albums for the time being.

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newbands1 wrote:

Lives up to the hype

Swans - To Be Kind
Sun Kil Moon - Benji
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Piñata
Timber Timbre - Hot Dreams
Iceage - Plowing Into The Field Of Love
Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 2

Great albums but in the scope of 10's will be forgotten

The War on Drugs - Lost In The Dream
Aphex Twin - Syro
Grouper - Ruins
Have a Nice Life - The Unnatural World
Mac DeMarco - Salad Days
St, Vincent - St. Vincent
Sharon Van Etten - Are We There
BADBADNOTGOOD - III
Weezer - Everything Will Be Alright In The End
Joyce Manor - Never Hungover Again
Ty Segall - Manipulator

Mediocre/bad

Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness
Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else
The Hotelier - Home, Like Noplace Is There
The Smashing Pumpkins - Monuments To An Elegy
Thom Yorke - Tomorrow's Modern Boxes
Morrissey - World Peace Is None Of Your Business

That's all I've heard of 2014 so far,I think I'll check out a few more albums than I'm done with 2014 albums for the time being.

I like how you've grouped this. Great idea. Can't really argue with your top 6 aka Lives Up to Hype. I still need to give Timber Timbre more spins, but I totally agree with the other five. Easily some of the best stuff from the year, and I can see them being in "Best of the Decade" lists in ten years.

I think that Angel Olsen album is quite good and should be moved into your second grouping of "Great, but not a classic." Otherwise, I think you've nailed it from what I've heard.

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Busdriver just weaseled his way into my top 3

Also c'mon Angel kicks ass. Sure the new album's not as good as her previous efforts but still a gem of expert songcraft and lyricism (such as I'm come to expect from her)

but I'm also a fanboy so eh

Anyway yeah this is really great

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Perfect Hair by Busdriver
Like really really great

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newbands1 wrote:

Lives up to the hype

Swans - To Be Kind
Sun Kil Moon - Benji
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Piñata
Timber Timbre - Hot Dreams
Iceage - Plowing Into The Field Of Love
Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 2

Great albums but in the scope of 10's will be forgotten

The War on Drugs - Lost In The Dream
Aphex Twin - Syro
Grouper - Ruins
Have a Nice Life - The Unnatural World
Mac DeMarco - Salad Days
St, Vincent - St. Vincent
Sharon Van Etten - Are We There
BADBADNOTGOOD - III
Weezer - Everything Will Be Alright In The End
Joyce Manor - Never Hungover Again
Ty Segall - Manipulator

Mediocre/bad

Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness
Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else
The Hotelier - Home, Like Noplace Is There
The Smashing Pumpkins - Monuments To An Elegy
Thom Yorke - Tomorrow's Modern Boxes
Morrissey - World Peace Is None Of Your Business

That's all I've heard of 2014 so far,I think I'll check out a few more albums than I'm done with 2014 albums for the time being.

Pretty much agree, with the exception of The Hotelier, only because I quite liked it. Other than that, you're spot on.
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RepoMan wrote:

I like how you've grouped this. Great idea. Can't really argue with your top 6 aka Lives Up to Hype. I still need to give Timber Timbre more spins, but I totally agree with the other five. Easily some of the best stuff from the year, and I can see them being in "Best of the Decade" lists in ten years.

I think that Angel Olsen album is quite good and should be moved into your second grouping of "Great, but not a classic." Otherwise, I think you've nailed it from what I've heard.

I haven't really heard that many new albums because I feel that there's already too many older classic albums that I have yet to hear so I primarily focus on those but once in a while I give a 2014 album a spin and this is just my primary summary of what I've heard so far.