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dihansse

Gender: Male
Age: 60

These are the two albums of 2010 I listened to:

An album I already own:

Hippies by Harlem
Just good old-dashioned jangly lo-fi rock and rises from the 49th to the 18th rank.

An album on my wishlist:

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Heaven Is Whenever by The Hold Steady
Not their best but pretty solid album by The Hold Steady and enters my year chart at the 33rd rank.

dihansse

Gender: Male
Age: 60

And then comes 2011:

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The Whole Love by Wilco
Maybe not as good as their classics like YHF but definitely a very enjoyable album where they already leave their comfort zone and still completely sound as fantastic Wilco with the first track, Art Of Almost. They start off with something dance-y to finish with some great guitars. The other great tracks are Dawned On My, a fairly simple but effective pop song, and Born Alone and the long but never boring Sunday Morning. The album goes from the 6th to the 5th rank of the year.

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Tao Of The Dead by ...And You Will Know...il Of Dead
I very much love a lot of their albums but not this one which is too proggy and is sung and played in some kind of a nu-metallish way. Not for me.

dihansse

Gender: Male
Age: 60

These are my two albums of 2012:

First an album I already own:

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Leaving Atlanta by Gentleman Jesse
Just good power pop and nothing much more to say apart from the fact it rises from the 25th to the 18th rank on my year chart.

Then an album on my wishlist not finishing far behind that one:

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Our Mother Electricity by All Them Witches
This is their first album on which they still had to find their own place so this is overall good stoner rock and the album ends up at the 20th rank of the year.

musicoed

Gender: Male
Location: SPb

dihansse wrote:

Leaving Atlanta by Gentleman Jesse
Just good power pop and nothing much more to say apart from the fact it rises from the 25th to the 18th rank on my year chart.

I first summed up the year in a public forum at the end of 2011.
The rules were soft, it was enough to provide a list of 10 albums.
I had a list of at least 50 positions, but I was in no hurry to stand out.
Finally, one of the participants published a list of 50 albums too.
What a disappointment and surprise, we had nothing in common.

Gentleman Jesse - Leaving Atlanta (2012)
This album is #17 out of 50 on my list of the year.
In the entire BEA forum, there are only two lists of the year with this release.
The rating practically does not differ, the age of the authors of the lists is 50+.
For ten years, I hardly checked or changed my 2012 list.
Therefore, I only formally made sure that this is the only thing in which our lists are similar.
After all, these are real lists, real people.))

dihansse

Gender: Male
Age: 60

Two albums of 2013 I listened to:

An album I already own:

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Chelsea Light Moving by Chelsea Light Moving
Every Sonic Youth lover should have this album. Why: because it's really Thurston Moore's band and everything that Thurston Moore contributed to SY is here: the manic singing and the beautiful distorted guitars. It's a great album full of tracks which would have sounded great on any SY album with Sleeping While I Fall as the best one. So no wonder it moves up from the 42nd to the 9th rank in my year chart.

An album on my wishlist:

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Join The Dots by Toy
I already discovered Clear Shot and their self-title debut recently but this one is even better. It's the perfect marriage between motorik krautrock, psychrock and a sniff of Jesus & Mary Chain/MBV fuzz and they really excel in making the combination and still do their own thing. The best track is the steaming title track but all of it is great although the album is more than an hour long. A newfound favorite band with still Happy In The Hollow to discover and this one immediately enters at the 4th rank of the year 2013.

dihansse

Gender: Male
Age: 60

These are the albums I chose for 2014:

An album I already own (bought on Itunes):

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Upside Down Mountain by Conor Oberst
I saw a reference I wouldn't have thought of myself immediately but which is not so far off: that Conor Oberst sounds a bit like Paul Simon on this album. Certainly in the sense that the songs seem to sound simple but oh so effective. This is a good though not fantastic album which nevertheless rises from the 43rd to the 34th rank.

An album on my wishlist (included in my Apple Music playlist):

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Manipulator by Ty Segall
This must be one of his best. Ty Segall is the king of fuzz rock but for a whole album sometimes he can be a bit tiring. While also here there are plenty of fuzz guitars, he often switches to cleaner electric guitar sounds and even goes accoustic sometimes without losing his edge. The best tracks are still the ones where he freaks out on his guitar like on Feel, The Faker an Susie Thumb. And on the closer Stick Around he creates a great atmosphere with mainly accoustic guitar. So one of his highlights which ends up at the 4th rank of the year.

dihansse

Gender: Male
Age: 60

musicoed wrote:

dihansse wrote:

Leaving Atlanta by Gentleman Jesse
Just good power pop and nothing much more to say apart from the fact it rises from the 25th to the 18th rank on my year chart.

I first summed up the year in a public forum at the end of 2011.
The rules were soft, it was enough to provide a list of 10 albums.
I had a list of at least 50 positions, but I was in no hurry to stand out.
Finally, one of the participants published a list of 50 albums too.
What a disappointment and surprise, we had nothing in common.

Gentleman Jesse - Leaving Atlanta (2012)
This album is #17 out of 50 on my list of the year.
In the entire BEA forum, there are only two lists of the year with this release.
The rating practically does not differ, the age of the authors of the lists is 50+.
For ten years, I hardly checked or changed my 2012 list.
Therefore, I only formally made sure that this is the only thing in which our lists are similar.
After all, these are real lists, real people.))

I discovered this site only in 2015 and it's indeed nice to see people with similar tastes havig completely different charts; it's always interesting to go through these charts and find something new. And there two more albums in common than Gentleman Jesse: The Maccabees and Wild Nothing.

dihansse

Gender: Male
Age: 60

2 albums of 2015:

An album I already own (bought on Itunes):

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Foil Deer by Speedy Ortiz
I liked Major Arcana better but also this album which was released two years later was not bad although not convincing on every track like MA. But goes from the 52nd to the 44th rank.

An album on my wishlist:

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B'lieve I'm Goin Down... by Kurt Vile
This album came two years after the great Wakin On A Pretty Daze is much sparser then the other and filled with instruments like banjo's and bar piano's. The songs are also longer and on the long track Wheelhouse this leads to a trance inducing atmosphere. But on the track the final result is yawn inducing. Apart from Wheelhouse and the first track this is a fairly boring and overlong album and I doubted for a bit because I do like the guy from time to time but I decided to not include it in my year chart.

dihansse

Gender: Male
Age: 60

A new year and nearly at the end of round 10 with two album of 2016 I listened to:

An album I already know (added to my playlist of Apple Music in 2016):

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Skydogs by The Sore Losers
A Belgian band with some hardrocking psychrock and they do very well on this album and keep it interesting on nearly every single track and they move from the 57th to the 28th rank.

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A Weird Exits by Thee Oh Sees
Also psychrock and they do very well here if they stick to the harder edge like on Gelatinous Cube. I like them a lot less when they lose themselves in progjams (or jammy prog) like on some of the latter songs. So a bit of a mixed bag but still a fairly good album by this band which ends up at the 55th rank.

dihansse

Gender: Male
Age: 60

These are the two albums of 2017 I listened to:

An album I already know (part of my playlist in Apple Music):

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In Spades by The Afghan Whigs
As good as any of their better albums and Greg Dulli is screaming his lungs out in the greatest way again. The highlight of the album is Oriole and the album climbs from the 56th to the 25th rank.

An album on my wishlist:

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Write In by Happyness
A melodic and in most songs fairly soft album delivered in the singing way of The Auteurs. A bit hidden between the better known Weird Little Birthday and Floatr but it's as good as those two an enters at the 45th rank.