Lonerism by Tame Impala
Also one of this albums I underestimated earlier on and by rediscovering it began to really re-appreciate it. This is neo-psychedelic music at its best where the electronics play an important (in any case much more important than on their previous album Innerspeaker which is more guitar based and equally good). This album climbs from the 48th to the 28th rank.
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All We Love We Leave Behind by Converge
This hardcore punk interwoven with trash metal but there is a really melodic line in here, a bit comparable with the early Hüsker Dü if you think away the metal. So I think it's already clear that I liked this album very much and I'm glad I listened to it and can rank it at the 14th rank of 2012.
These are the two albums of 2013 I listened to and just to remind you: this round I mainly pick albums at the bottom of my year chart and albums on my wishlist I can't really place.
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The Weight Of Your Love by Editors
After they exchanged their guitars for synthesizers on their previous album In This Light and On This Evening, they returned with an album which was a bit inbetween and that's also it's biggest weakness: it's neither fish and flesh and most of all: it has not really good songs. I had already ranked it at the lowest spot in my year chart but now I decided to drop it all together from my year chart.
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Israel Nash's Rain Plans by Israel Nash
When I first looked into this album I thought this will be just another country album. When I read about it further I thought this will be just another Neil Young clone album. But no this album is just great completely on its own. Of course you could mistake it for a Neil Young album and of course it has some Country influences (that lapsteel) but oy it just blew me away and it takes all those elements to completely blow me away. The song writing is fantastic and the guitars sound both lyrical and gritty. I'm a fan and highly recommended and it enters at the 30th rank.
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Nice! I'm glad you loved that Israel Nash album. I think as the album progresses he seperates himself more and more from that Harvest-era Neil Young sound. I agree its a really good album. _________________ -Ryan
The Endless River by Pink Floyd
I like the general flow of this last Pink Floyd/David Gilmour album and it does have a lot of references to their earlier work. Especially It's What We do is very good, but the rest of the tracks float by like an Endless River. The album is too long for it's own good and gets a bit repetitive. So because I still like it generally it remains at one of the last ranks of my year chart: 60.
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Weird Little Birthday by Happyness
There's a lot of comparison made with other albums (Pavement, Wilco, etc) but the only one I can really agree with is Sparklehorse. But I liked the album very much and the bonus tracks are even better. The year rank is 23.
Weird Little Birthday by Happyness
There's a lot of comparison made with other albums (Pavement, Wilco, etc) but the only one I can really agree with is Sparklehorse. But I liked the album very much and the bonus tracks are even better. The year rank is 23.
Sun Coming Down by Ought
I very much underrated this album so I upped it from the 51st to the 29th rank.
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Sprained Ankle by Julien Baker
The first track, Blacktop starts with a fairly rickety guitar tune and also the voice of Julien Baker is fairly flat but gradually both the singing and the guitar motifs get better although at some point I wanted to stop listening because the album couldn't completely hold my attention.
But I'm glad I persisted. Near the second half the songs get better and the intensity grows and Something turns into a little gem and it only gets better with Rejoice, the highlight of the album where she screams her longs out in utter despair. Vessels is just beautiful and Go Home ends the album with a simple but beautiful guitar motif.
This album cannot be anything else than a grower and to be sure I also got the first tracks I relistened to them and also Brittle Boned and Everybody Does and Good News grew in my appreciation so the album already lands at the 32nd rank.
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Skeleton Tree by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
I'm still more a fan of the wilder Nick Cave but this album still holds up and still moves: I bumped it up from rank 58 to 47.
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Like An Arrow by Blackberry Smoke
Southern rock and with not a bad track to be found but none excell either so doesn't get to join my year chart.
2017, the last year I will cover in round 5 with two albums I listened to:
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Colossus by Triggerfinger
A Belgian band of which I'm not a big fan but with an album just good enough for my year chart and goes up from rank 90 to rank 85.
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Earl Grey by Girl Ray
Strange that I missed this album when it was released in 2017 because it's a killer. These girls were only 18 at the time but they sure knew their music history: a bit of everything from folk to jangle rock to jazz etc with as highlight the very long winding proggy Earl Grey (Stuck In A Groove) and groovy it is. The album immediately goes to the 23rd rank of the year: recommended!
This is the start of the 6th round and here I'll try not to fish in the lowest and most unknown ranks but just try to listen to whatever I like to listen to at the moment. I'll start with 1967.
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The Velvet Underground & Nico by The Velvet Underground & Nico
If there ever was a classic, this is one with Heroin and Femme Fatale as the quintessential ones but don't forget Sunday Morning; I'm Waiting For My Man and Venus In Furs and all those others. Maybe only the last two tracks are a bit less good but still form an integral part of this.. well classic. And I even moved it from the 2nd to the 1st rank of the year before The Doors.
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Matthew & Son by Cat Stevens
The title track, I Love My Dog and Here Comes My Baby are obvious classics on this first album of Cat Stevens. The rest of the album is not bad but especially the second half is not really the Cat Stevens that would appear on his latter albums. Still good for the 23rd rank of the year.
These are the two albums of 1968 I chose to listen to:
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Odessey And Oracle by The Zombies
One of those albums that gets better everytime you listen to it and it certainly did get better for me. Especially the first half of the album is just great plus naturally also that great closing track Time Of The Season. It climbs from the 11th to the 6th rank of the year.
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Idea by Bee Gees
I don't know why I put this album on my wishlist and why I chose to finish listening to it but I did. Don't get me wrong, they had some ok hits and I've Got A Message To You and the title track are not bad but overall and especially on this album the general atmosphere is sugar and syrup as is proven by that other hit on this album: I started A Joke. And in that sense, the mono versions are a bit better than the stereo ones. So not really my cup of tea.
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