Top 79 Music Albums of 2014 by paladisiac

For 2014, i'm tightening my minimum track-average rating from 61.67 to an even 64. The only allowable exceptions are: 1) those with a strong whole-album concept (where the whole is stronger than the sum of the parts), 2) albums JUST under 64-track avg that i believe i'll like more (and subsequently re-rate up) over time, and 3) for sentimental favorites.

I'm including brief synposes of albums here and will expand upon them per album once 2014 is over.

• Chart updated: 04/09/2024 16:45
• (Created: 01/07/2014 16:00).
• Chart size: 79 albums.

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31. (=)

Get Hurt 

 The Gaslight Anthem

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[First added to this chart: 12/21/2023]

Year of Release:

2014

Appears in:

22 charts

Rank Score:

127

Rank in 2014:

194

Rank in 2010s:

1,937

Overall Rank:

9,399

Average Rating:

 70 (37 votes)

Comments:

2

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2014 Forest Hills Drive 

 J. Cole

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[First added to this chart: 03/27/2024]

Year of Release:

2014

Appears in:

143 charts

Rank Score:

1,271

Rank in 2014:

24

Rank in 2010s:

213

Overall Rank:

1,370

Average Rating:

 76 (249 votes)

Comments:

19

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Ghost Stories 

 Coldplay

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[First added to this chart: 03/21/2024]

Year of Release:

2014

Appears in:

197 charts

Rank Score:

1,045

Rank in 2014:

27

Rank in 2010s:

264

Overall Rank:

1,641

Average Rating:

 60 (574 votes)

Comments:

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Pour It On 

 New Build

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665/10= 66.5
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Sure, this project from hot chip members remotely sounds like hot chip, but not really. It's a lot more abstract in a 90s ambient/techno kind of way. First track immediately reminds me of psychosonik, and maybe even front 242 and wishdokta if you mellowed out their aggresive approaches. So there's some sentimental value in these longplayers for me. They mix simple swaths of synthesizer and computer programming in a way cut copy sometimes does (think "sun god"). Unfortunately, it's a bit too subtle to offer any grand slams, but these tracks would easily fit in any 90s-10s IDM mix and hold their own. [First added to this chart: 10/20/2014]

Year of Release:

2014

Appears in:

5 charts

Rank Score:

3

Rank in 2014:

2,852

Rank in 2010s:

26,690

Overall Rank:

97,590

Average Rating:

 71 (2 votes)

Comments:

1

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Never Hungover Again 

 Joyce Manor

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[First added to this chart: 04/05/2023]

Year of Release:

2014

Appears in:

50 charts

Rank Score:

374

Rank in 2014:

64

Rank in 2010s:

682

Overall Rank:

3,842

Average Rating:

 75 (56 votes)

Comments:

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Turn Blue 

 The Black Keys

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[First added to this chart: 07/07/2021]

Year of Release:

2014

Appears in:

235 charts

Rank Score:

1,181

Rank in 2014:

25

Rank in 2010s:

227

Overall Rank:

1,465

Average Rating:

 72 (508 votes)

Comments:

35

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My Everything 

 Ariana Grande

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[First added to this chart: 02/24/2021]

Year of Release:

2014

Appears in:

45 charts

Rank Score:

223

Rank in 2014:

114

Rank in 2010s:

1,126

Overall Rank:

5,866

Average Rating:

 63 (92 votes)

Comments:

5

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Are We There 

 Sharon Van Etten

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[First added to this chart: 11/27/2023]

Year of Release:

2014

Appears in:

244 charts

Rank Score:

1,383

Rank in 2014:

21

Rank in 2010s:

194

Overall Rank:

1,269

Average Rating:

 79 (278 votes)

Comments:

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Xscape 

 Michael Jackson

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530/8= 66.25
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Man, that first track is so R&B funky-hot it could fit on "Off the Wall". The rest, well, feels like a hodgepodge of good Jacko ("chicago") to songs that didn't make a previous album for a reason ("slave to the rhythm"). LA Reid curated "Xscape" so it feels fairly cohesive and what were once demos feel fairly fleshed-out, it's just that this kind of feels like a cash grab (probably the first of many in a 2pac style multi-cash-grab) which makes it less-enjoyable than it could be... (But DAMN that 1st track is HOT!) [First added to this chart: 05/28/2014]

Year of Release:

2014

Appears in:

22 charts

Rank Score:

78

Rank in 2014:

335

Rank in 2010s:

3,096

Overall Rank:

14,366

Average Rating:

 60 (74 votes)

Comments:

7

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Hozier 

 Hozier

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[First added to this chart: 04/02/2024]

Year of Release:

2014

Appears in:

99 charts

Rank Score:

581

Rank in 2014:

49

Rank in 2010s:

441

Overall Rank:

2,661

Average Rating:

 73 (162 votes)

Comments:

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Top 79 Music Albums of 2014 composition

Artist	Albums	%
The Preatures	1	1%
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart	1	1%
Weezer	1	1%
The Black Keys	1	1%
The Roots	1	1%
Ben Howard	1	1%
Information Society	1	1%
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Country	Albums	%
	53	67%
	13	16%
	5	6%
	2	3%
	2	3%
	2	3%
	1	1%
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Top 79 Music Albums of 2014 chart changes

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Down 1 from 77th to 78th Sisyphus by Sisyphus
Down 1 from 78th to 79th Monuments To An Elegy by The Smashing Pumpkins

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I Forget Where We Were by Ben Howard

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