Top 100 Music Albums of 2015
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babyBlueSedan 
As with my 2014 chart, I'm including everything I've listened to for the year here, even terrible albums. The reason is I use this more of a log of what I've listened to; I still plan to rank bad albums last so they'll invariably get no points. Plus it's my chart and I do what I want.
31 keepers so far! Everything else that's rated a 70 is close. Ratings for those albums will probably climb as I give them more listens. Anything rated 65 is something I enjoyed but don't think I'll ever listen to again; however I still highly recommend those albums.
This has probably been the best year for music since 2012.
**Update 9/3/18: I've updated the portion of this chart with the over 70 albums to keep it in line with my current ratings. Everything under a 70 still has my opinions from 2015, which are probably shitty.
**Update 2/19/20: Did another update of everything 70 and above.
- Chart updated: 02/20/2020 01:15
- (Created: 01/23/2015 02:02).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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55/100
I really want to like this band. The remind me of American Football and despite its stupidity I love their name. And their album art is cool. Their last album was fine, and I was hoping this would be the one I loved. But this is a downgrade I feel.
If you like emo, you'll probably love this. But when I'm listening to it I feel like I'm enjoying the parts I enjoy because they make me reminiscent of listening to this type of music when I was younger. They remind me of pop punk and lazy summer days, but I feel like it's only because this type of music makes me feel those things. That doesn't make any sense but it's true. Also the singer's voice is so whiny that it almost sounds artificial in the way it's trying to produce that sound.
Then there are the lyrics. I've been listening to the aforementioned American Football as well as the Dismemberment Plan a lot lately. Their lyrics hit very hard because of how relateable they are, but they also have a sense of poetry to them. TWIABPAIANLATD's lyrics seem to try too hard to be poetic to the point where they don't make any goddamn sense. They're a little too obtuse to be immediately relatable and digestable, which really is what works best with this type of music. I don't mind taking a few listens to tear apart the lyrics of a dreary Earl Sweatshirt rap or a Sparklehorse deep cut, but when the point of the music is to induce emotion, I shouldn't have to think too hard about what the lyrics mean. All this talk about Diana the hunter and evil seeing evil's shadow just makes me tune out.
Ultimately I feel the same way about this one that I do about it's predecessor: I like the band's general sound but it just doesn't have any good songs. The nonsensical lyrics definitely don't help and this one feels more formulaic as well. I'll probably try it again at some point but I really don't see myself ever loving it. [First added to this chart: 09/28/2015]
I really want to like this band. The remind me of American Football and despite its stupidity I love their name. And their album art is cool. Their last album was fine, and I was hoping this would be the one I loved. But this is a downgrade I feel.
If you like emo, you'll probably love this. But when I'm listening to it I feel like I'm enjoying the parts I enjoy because they make me reminiscent of listening to this type of music when I was younger. They remind me of pop punk and lazy summer days, but I feel like it's only because this type of music makes me feel those things. That doesn't make any sense but it's true. Also the singer's voice is so whiny that it almost sounds artificial in the way it's trying to produce that sound.
Then there are the lyrics. I've been listening to the aforementioned American Football as well as the Dismemberment Plan a lot lately. Their lyrics hit very hard because of how relateable they are, but they also have a sense of poetry to them. TWIABPAIANLATD's lyrics seem to try too hard to be poetic to the point where they don't make any goddamn sense. They're a little too obtuse to be immediately relatable and digestable, which really is what works best with this type of music. I don't mind taking a few listens to tear apart the lyrics of a dreary Earl Sweatshirt rap or a Sparklehorse deep cut, but when the point of the music is to induce emotion, I shouldn't have to think too hard about what the lyrics mean. All this talk about Diana the hunter and evil seeing evil's shadow just makes me tune out.
Ultimately I feel the same way about this one that I do about it's predecessor: I like the band's general sound but it just doesn't have any good songs. The nonsensical lyrics definitely don't help and this one feels more formulaic as well. I'll probably try it again at some point but I really don't see myself ever loving it. [First added to this chart: 09/28/2015]
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Top 100 Music Albums of 2015 composition
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| Beach House | 2 | 2% | |
| Courtney Barnett | 1 | 1% | |
| Susanne Sundfør | 1 | 1% | |
| Titus Andronicus | 1 | 1% | |
| Viet Cong | 1 | 1% | |
| Dr. Dre | 1 | 1% | |
| My Morning Jacket | 1 | 1% | |
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68 | 68% | |
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11 | 11% | |
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7 | 7% | |
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5 | 5% | |
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3 | 3% | |
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2 | 2% | |
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2 | 2% | |
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Top 100 Music Albums of 2015 chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 23 from 36th to 13thSprinter by Torres |
| Up 11 from 26th to 15thDumb Flesh by Blanck Mass |
| Up 5 from 27th to 22ndNew Bermuda by Deafheaven |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 17 from 19th to 36thThe Heart Is A Monster by Failure |
| Down 16 from 18th to 34thNever Were The Way She Was by Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld |
| Down 10 from 23rd to 33rdDeeply Rooted by Scarface |
| New entries |
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| Divers by Joanna Newsom |
| Skid Row by James Ferraro |
| Литургия [Litourgiya] by Батюшка [Batushka] |
| Leavers |
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| Poison Season by Destroyer |
| Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper by Panda Bear |
| V by Wavves |
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| 09/29/2015 01:47 |  travelful | 208 | 99/100 |
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