2015 Review: Top Albums of the last year
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Re: 2015 Review: Top Alums of the last year
Blurryface by Twenty One Pilots is my favorite album by far. Art Angels by Grimes was good.
Honorable Mentions:
Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think...
Wolf Alice - My Love is Cool
Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss
Blurryface by Twenty One Pilots is my favorite album by far. Art Angels by Grimes was good.
Honorable Mentions:
Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think...
Wolf Alice - My Love is Cool
Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss
Re: 2015 Review: Top Alums of the last year
Kendrick Lamar : To Pimp A Butterfly
Tame Impala : Currents
Run the Jewels : RTJ2
A$AP Rocky : AT.LONG.LAST.A$AP
The Chemical Brothers : Born of Echoes
Future : DS2
Kendrick Lamar : To Pimp A Butterfly
Tame Impala : Currents
Run the Jewels : RTJ2
A$AP Rocky : AT.LONG.LAST.A$AP
The Chemical Brothers : Born of Echoes
Future : DS2
Re: 2015 Review: Top Alums of the last year
A lot of great reviews on this album but I just can't get into it.
A lot of great reviews on this album but I just can't get into it.
Re: 2015 Review: Top Alums of the last year
Wasn't there another thread dedicated to this exact topic, a couple weeks ago?
Wasn't there another thread dedicated to this exact topic, a couple weeks ago?
Re: 2015 Review: Top Alums of the last year
Was released back in 2014, love the album, and would be on my list but edge case....
Doomtree - All Hands
toyGuitar - In This Mess
Murder by Death - Big Dark Love
Madisen Ward and the mama Bear - Skeleton Crew
Desaparecidoes - Payola
Modest Mouse - Strangers to Ourselves
Ryan Bingham - Fear and Saturday Night
The White Buffalo - Love and the Death of Damnation
American Aquarium - Wolves
Turnpike Troubadour - ST
Chris Stapleton - Traveller
Lucero - All a man Should Do
Alabama Shakes - Sound & Color
Bully - Feels Like
Watters - What's Real
Houndmouth - Little Neon Limelight
Radkey - Dark Black Makeup
Cage the Elephant - Tell me I am Pretty
major Lazer - Peace Is the Mission
Wavves - V
FIDLAR - Too
Built to Spill - Untethended Moon
toyGuitar - In This Mess
Murder by Death - Big Dark Love
Madisen Ward and the mama Bear - Skeleton Crew
Desaparecidoes - Payola
Modest Mouse - Strangers to Ourselves
Ryan Bingham - Fear and Saturday Night
The White Buffalo - Love and the Death of Damnation
American Aquarium - Wolves
Turnpike Troubadour - ST
Chris Stapleton - Traveller
Lucero - All a man Should Do
Alabama Shakes - Sound & Color
Bully - Feels Like
Watters - What's Real
Houndmouth - Little Neon Limelight
Radkey - Dark Black Makeup
Cage the Elephant - Tell me I am Pretty
major Lazer - Peace Is the Mission
Wavves - V
FIDLAR - Too
Built to Spill - Untethended Moon
I liked the Churches album (or CHVRCHES, whatever). Also enjoyed Alabama Shakes. I'm willing to give Adele's 25 a chance, but otherwise it's been a quiet year for music.
My Morning Jacket's and Muse's albums were disappointing.
My Morning Jacket's and Muse's albums were disappointing.
One of my favorite threads of the year.
1. James McMurtry "Complicated Game". The master of Americana/alt-country songwriting cranks out a borderline masterpiece of an album that opens with the line "Honey, don't you be yellin' at me while I'm cleaning my gun". One of his most character-sketch heavy albums that melds subtle, yet interesting acoustic arrangements with the best lyrics this side of Dylan. Spotify these: Copper Canteen, Carlisle's Haul, Long Island Sound, South Dakota
2. Turnpike Troubadours "Turnpike Troubadours". Perhaps my favorite band of the past 3 years, these guys were bred on the insular Texoma "Red Dirt" circuit, but their sound and scope and is so much bigger than that description. These guys blend traditional country and heartland rock better than anyone else right now, and Evan Felker is approaching James McMurtry in terms of songwriting chops. Crisp fiddle, and **** hot guitar solos dominate this album instrumentally, as they visit the traditional themes of life on the road and crumbled relationships as good as anyone. "The Bird Hunters" is probably the best song of 2015 for me. Spotify these: The Bird Hunters, The Mercury, Ringing in the Year, Long Drive Home
3. Phil Cook "Southland Mission". This Little Feat inspired southern boogie gospel masterpiece completely caught me off guard. I'd never heard of Phil Cook before this past year, but found I knew his guitar work from Hiss Golden Messenger albums. These songs burst with joy and greasy guitar licks as this goofy dude from Wisconsin blasts golden odes to the heyday of 70's southern rock. Also includes a killer version of Charlie Parr's "1922 Blues". Spotify these: Great Tide, 1922, Gone, Ain't it Sweet
4. Ryan Adams "1989". I thought I was going to hate this album. I was so wrong. Adams takes what turn out to be surprisingly good songs of Taylor Swift's, and turns them into legitimately excellent music with his excellent and captivating folky rock/alt-country arrangements that veer from rocking ("Style") to soaring and gorgeous ("Wildest Dreams"). Spotify these: Style, Wildest Dreams, Bad Blood, Blank Space
5. Bottle Rockets "South Broadway Athletic Club". Another classic from the undisputed underrated kings of Midwestern rock and roll. The Festus, MO outfit just keeps rolling along cranking out brilliant observations of working class life that feature either sweet melodies or bone crushing guitar riffs. "Building Chryslers" might have the riff of the year. Spotify these: Dog, Building Chryslers, Monday, Shape of A Wheel
Because I can only post one video, I'll leave this one:
[video=youtube;bLm0Jwgg6Mc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLm0Jwgg6Mc[/video]
1. James McMurtry "Complicated Game". The master of Americana/alt-country songwriting cranks out a borderline masterpiece of an album that opens with the line "Honey, don't you be yellin' at me while I'm cleaning my gun". One of his most character-sketch heavy albums that melds subtle, yet interesting acoustic arrangements with the best lyrics this side of Dylan. Spotify these: Copper Canteen, Carlisle's Haul, Long Island Sound, South Dakota
2. Turnpike Troubadours "Turnpike Troubadours". Perhaps my favorite band of the past 3 years, these guys were bred on the insular Texoma "Red Dirt" circuit, but their sound and scope and is so much bigger than that description. These guys blend traditional country and heartland rock better than anyone else right now, and Evan Felker is approaching James McMurtry in terms of songwriting chops. Crisp fiddle, and **** hot guitar solos dominate this album instrumentally, as they visit the traditional themes of life on the road and crumbled relationships as good as anyone. "The Bird Hunters" is probably the best song of 2015 for me. Spotify these: The Bird Hunters, The Mercury, Ringing in the Year, Long Drive Home
3. Phil Cook "Southland Mission". This Little Feat inspired southern boogie gospel masterpiece completely caught me off guard. I'd never heard of Phil Cook before this past year, but found I knew his guitar work from Hiss Golden Messenger albums. These songs burst with joy and greasy guitar licks as this goofy dude from Wisconsin blasts golden odes to the heyday of 70's southern rock. Also includes a killer version of Charlie Parr's "1922 Blues". Spotify these: Great Tide, 1922, Gone, Ain't it Sweet
4. Ryan Adams "1989". I thought I was going to hate this album. I was so wrong. Adams takes what turn out to be surprisingly good songs of Taylor Swift's, and turns them into legitimately excellent music with his excellent and captivating folky rock/alt-country arrangements that veer from rocking ("Style") to soaring and gorgeous ("Wildest Dreams"). Spotify these: Style, Wildest Dreams, Bad Blood, Blank Space
5. Bottle Rockets "South Broadway Athletic Club". Another classic from the undisputed underrated kings of Midwestern rock and roll. The Festus, MO outfit just keeps rolling along cranking out brilliant observations of working class life that feature either sweet melodies or bone crushing guitar riffs. "Building Chryslers" might have the riff of the year. Spotify these: Dog, Building Chryslers, Monday, Shape of A Wheel
Because I can only post one video, I'll leave this one:
[video=youtube;bLm0Jwgg6Mc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLm0Jwgg6Mc[/video]
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I think it's so weird that, like, every year there seems to be some rap album that white people go apeshit over. And it's always just that one album, too...this year was Kendrick Lamar, last year was Drake, the year before that was Kanye West. It's like we collectively say "I'm going to like this album so I can maintain my eclectic and open-minded musical tastes".
I think it's so weird that, like, every year there seems to be some rap album that white people go apeshit over. And it's always just that one album, too...this year was Kendrick Lamar, last year was Drake, the year before that was Kanye West. It's like we collectively say "I'm going to like this album so I can maintain my eclectic and open-minded musical tastes".
Bryson Tiller - T R A P S O U L
Turnpike Troubadours - Turnpike Troubadours
Vince Staples - Summertime '06
Travis Scott - Rodeo
Turnpike Troubadours - Turnpike Troubadours
Vince Staples - Summertime '06
Travis Scott - Rodeo
This has nothing to do with age, it is all whether you like to waste your time looking for new music or not. They have done studies that support at a certain age, human's lose interest in music and the arts. I think I will always be a counter to that.... Just enjoy it all too much.
