Top 100 Music Albums of 2020 by babyBlueSedan
Another year, another year chart. Are year charts a way to track the best music of a given year? Or are they a signpost of another year that has passed, a substitute for more traditional anniversaries brought on by our incessant need to rate and rank? As time passes, we will grow weaker. Leaders will rise and fall, fads will begin and end. Entire civilizations may be destroyed. But year charts will remain, every year, appearing like clockwork. When did they start? What is their purpose? There is only one thing we can be sure of: they will never end.
(everything i've heard is here, high scores are better than low ones, my comments suck, blah blah blah)
(This has been a really weird year for me musically. For the past few years I've listened to ~100 new albums and typically between 25-30 of those end up crossing the 70 plateau. This year I've already got nearly 20 of those and the year isn't even half over. But despite that, only two albums have crossed the 80 threshold. So I guess this year has had a lot of consistent quality but no real standout releases. It's possible a lot of the current 70s and 75s starts to inch up as I listen to them more, so I guess we'll see what happens as the year goes on.)
(I'm still short on albums I love but the year seems to have evened out as the quality has dipped as the year's gone on. Either that or I've finally hit the age where I don't like new music.)
- Chart updated: 03/17/2021 22:45
- (Created: 01/29/2020 02:29).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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Solo Hop Along
Like everyone, the thing I liked the most about Hop Along was/is Frances Quinlan's voice. Totally unique, and capable of alternating between raspy and sweet on the turn of a dime, it brought the best out of some songs with underrated stories and lyrics. If this solo album has done anything, it's made me realize how the band's rustic guitar rock also brought a lot to the Hop Along equation. Quinlan's voice is as amazing as ever here. But man, is it carrying these songs. Otherwise these songs seem really bare. Some of these are rocks songs, and some of them lean closer to indietronica. But none of them feel fully fleshed out; if these songs were rooms, they'd be completely empty, and Quinlan's voice would be a really cool painting hanging on one of the walls. I bet the lyrics here are as good as ever, but they're really hard to latch onto in the midst of these stark songs. The last track, a cover of Built To Spill's "Carry the Zero," illustrates this point pretty well. I didn't realize this was a cover until I recognized the melody of the "fraction of the sum" part. Which is a good thing I guess - I prefer covers that sound fully like the cover-er's work. But where the original has a great slide guitar and a lot of layers, Quinlan's version is stripped down and really feels like it's missing something. Her emotion on the chorus is fantastic, but otherwise her voice sounds like it's trying to find a foothold where there is none, kind of ambling along in a way that's completely out of step with the music. [First added to this chart: 02/05/2020]
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Top 100 Music Albums of 2020 composition
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Torres | 1 | 1% | |
Carly Rae Jepsen | 1 | 1% | |
Esoctrilihum | 1 | 1% | |
Rina Sawayama | 1 | 1% | |
Fiona Apple | 1 | 1% | |
Deftones | 1 | 1% | |
Lydia Loveless | 1 | 1% | |
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62 | 62% | ||
14 | 14% | ||
7 | 7% | ||
4 | 4% | ||
3 | 3% | ||
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Top 100 Music Albums of 2020 chart changes
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Up 1 from 30th to 29th Daughter by Lydia Loveless |
Up 1 from 29th to 28th Shrines by Armand Hammer |
Up 1 from 4th to 3rd Purple Moonlight Pages by R.A.P. Ferreira |
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Down 2 from 2nd to 4th Keleketla! by Keleketla! |
Down 2 from 28th to 30th Miss Anthropocene by Grimes |
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Græ by Moses Sumney |
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01/12/2021 11:16 | Larcx13 | 1,092 | 86/100 | |
12/17/2020 10:39 | Arthurknight | 361 | 89/100 | |
11/16/2020 23:17 | sssvnnn | 2,824 | 83/100 | |
11/12/2020 10:41 | Purplepash | 1,307 | 88/100 | |
07/13/2020 16:05 | AledJames | 3 | 98/100 |
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perfect note for the work put in
Good chart, even better genre comments.
I'm giving this chart a rating of 100 for the insightful and thoughtful comments (I wish I could work out and verbalise why I do or don't like an album as much as you seem to be able to) even though you diss a lot of my favourite albums of the year :-)
Really appreciate your writing on the albums! Don't always agree with your perspectives, but I love the thought and work that you put into your criticism. Look forward to checking out your lists more.
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