I have no idea how hamilton didn't get on my top 5 albums, but it came late in the year and i'm an obsessive listener when I find something I like
Top 5 Albums:
1. Graduation - Kanye West
2. The Color Before the Sun - Coheed and Cambria
3. Give up - The Postal Service (this is absolutely song exploder's fault)
4. From Under the Cork Tree - Fall Out Boy
5. Act II: The Father of Death - The Protomen
Top 5 Artists:
1. Coheed and Cambria
2. Fall Out Boy
3. Kanye West
4. The Protomen
5. Counting Crows
I have no idea how hamilton didn't get on my top 5 albums, but it came late in the year and i'm an obsessive listener when I find something I like
Top 5 Albums:
1. Graduation - Kanye West
2. The Color Before the Sun - Coheed and Cambria
3. Give up - The Postal Service (this is absolutely song exploder's fault)
4. From Under the Cork Tree - Fall Out Boy
5. Act II: The Father of Death - The Protomen
Top 5 Artists:
1. Coheed and Cambria
2. Fall Out Boy
3. Kanye West
4. The Protomen
5. Counting Crows
Quick, before anybody notices and makes fun of us
Let us discuss how Fall Out Boy is better at sequencing an album than maybe anybody else in the pop rock game
I have no idea how hamilton didn't get on my top 5 albums, but it came late in the year and i'm an obsessive listener when I find something I like
Top 5 Albums:
1. Graduation - Kanye West
2. The Color Before the Sun - Coheed and Cambria
3. Give up - The Postal Service (this is absolutely song exploder's fault)
4. From Under the Cork Tree - Fall Out Boy
5. Act II: The Father of Death - The Protomen
Top 5 Artists:
1. Coheed and Cambria
2. Fall Out Boy
3. Kanye West
4. The Protomen
5. Counting Crows
Quick, before anybody notices and makes fun of us
Let us discuss how Fall Out Boy is better at sequencing an album than maybe anybody else in the pop rock game
Or maybe anybody else period????
I have yet to hear anyone better, their sequencing is fuckin' sublime
edit: Like every time I re-listen to their albums, when the next song comes up it's just always the perfect one that should be coming after the previous song. It's like a superpower or something that they have
I have no idea how hamilton didn't get on my top 5 albums, but it came late in the year and i'm an obsessive listener when I find something I like
Top 5 Albums:
1. Graduation - Kanye West
2. The Color Before the Sun - Coheed and Cambria
3. Give up - The Postal Service (this is absolutely song exploder's fault)
4. From Under the Cork Tree - Fall Out Boy
5. Act II: The Father of Death - The Protomen
Top 5 Artists:
1. Coheed and Cambria
2. Fall Out Boy
3. Kanye West
4. The Protomen
5. Counting Crows
Quick, before anybody notices and makes fun of us
Let us discuss how Fall Out Boy is better at sequencing an album than maybe anybody else in the pop rock game
Or maybe anybody else period????
I have yet to hear anyone better, their sequencing is fuckin' sublime
edit: Like every time I re-listen to their albums, when the next song comes up it's just always the perfect one that should be coming after the previous song. It's like a superpower or something that they have
Through sequencing alone, they can elevate an entire song - like "Golden." If "Golden" was anywhere else on the record, I would skip it every time. On its own, its not a particularly good song. But slotted right where it is, feeling like a coda to "Hum Hallelujah" and a simultaneous introduction to "Thnks fr th Mmrs," it's perfection. It becomes integral.
Oh, folks with Spotify - check out a record called Native North America: Volume 1.
It's an impeccably curated work, gathering long-lost recordings of indigenous folk/rock/countrty artists from the mid-60s to the early-80s. There are some truly stunning songs on there, by people unfairly lost to the sands of time. It's very justly nominated for a Grammy (Best Historical Album), and is very much worth checking out. Highly, highly recommended.
Anyway, I really only just started using Spotify, so I don't have a robotically curated top 5.
But if I had to take a guess at the stuff I listened to the most it would probably be:
1. Carry the Sun - The Glitch Mob
2. A Love Like War - All Time Low
3. Ex's & Oh's - Elle King
4. Black Sun - Death Cap For Cutie
5. Immortals - Fall Out Boy
If we do it by albums, it looks more like:
1. Love Death Immortality - The Glitch Mob
2. My Head Is An Animal - Of Monsters and Men
3. Megalithic Symphony - AWOLNATION
4. Adventure - Madeon
5. Hamilton
I'm behind on listening to new stuff, still in October, but I'm sure Purity Ring's another eternity will remain my top album of the year.
Just looking through my starred (checked now) stuff on Spotify, my personal best based on at least two songs being checked:
Purity Ring - another eternity
Grimes - Art Angels
Deerhunter - Fading Frontier
Metric - Pagans in Vegas
New Order - Music Complete
The Front Bottoms - Back On Top
Josh Ritter - Sermon on the Rocks
Motion City Soundtrack - Panic Station
Silversun Pickups - Better Nature
Public Service Broadcasting - The Race For Space
Tame Impala - Currents
Jeff Rosenstock - We Cool?
Ryan Adams - 1989
White Reaper - White Reaper Does It Again
Battles - La Di Da Di
I know I'm missing both some big stuff and some hidden gems though. Need to sit down in the coming weeks and peruse the top album charts coming out. NPR Music put there's out yesterday, incidentally.
I know I'm missing both some big stuff and some hidden gems though. Need to sit down in the coming weeks and peruse the top album charts coming out. NPR Music put there's out yesterday, incidentally.
I always love the NPR list, because it tends to hit a really wide swath of stuff. And its hard to overstate how delightful I find any list with corrections like this:
"An earlier version of this story indicated Colleen's album Captain of None featured an upright bass. The bass sounds on the album were made by a viola da gamba processed through an octaver pedal."
I don't use Spotify so my top 5 albums is emotion based not data:
1. Titus andronicus - TMLT
2. Fred Thomas - All Are Saved
3. Trust Fund - No one's coming for us
4. Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
5. probably RTJ2
I am taking note of your top 5's so I have something to listen to with this spotify subscription I literally bought today
you should definitely listen to slow club's newest actual album which is...complete surrender, because it's really good and I saw them live and they were great? also that new metric album is pretty good but I haven't honestly listened to it as much as I should have. "the shade" is a great fucking song, though
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I have no idea how hamilton didn't get on my top 5 albums, but it came late in the year and i'm an obsessive listener when I find something I like
Top 5 Albums:
1. Graduation - Kanye West
2. The Color Before the Sun - Coheed and Cambria
3. Give up - The Postal Service (this is absolutely song exploder's fault)
4. From Under the Cork Tree - Fall Out Boy
5. Act II: The Father of Death - The Protomen
Top 5 Artists:
1. Coheed and Cambria
2. Fall Out Boy
3. Kanye West
4. The Protomen
5. Counting Crows
Quick, before anybody notices and makes fun of us
Let us discuss how Fall Out Boy is better at sequencing an album than maybe anybody else in the pop rock game
Or maybe anybody else period????
I have yet to hear anyone better, their sequencing is fuckin' sublime
edit: Like every time I re-listen to their albums, when the next song comes up it's just always the perfect one that should be coming after the previous song. It's like a superpower or something that they have
Is sequencing an album a rare thing? Most of my music I listen to by album, and it seems that the genres I tend to prefer are pretty heavily sequenced. Like, hip-hop, electronica, proggy-rock like QOTSA, they all seem to structure their albums to tell an overarching narrative.
I have no idea how hamilton didn't get on my top 5 albums, but it came late in the year and i'm an obsessive listener when I find something I like
Top 5 Albums:
1. Graduation - Kanye West
2. The Color Before the Sun - Coheed and Cambria
3. Give up - The Postal Service (this is absolutely song exploder's fault)
4. From Under the Cork Tree - Fall Out Boy
5. Act II: The Father of Death - The Protomen
Top 5 Artists:
1. Coheed and Cambria
2. Fall Out Boy
3. Kanye West
4. The Protomen
5. Counting Crows
Quick, before anybody notices and makes fun of us
Let us discuss how Fall Out Boy is better at sequencing an album than maybe anybody else in the pop rock game
Or maybe anybody else period????
I have yet to hear anyone better, their sequencing is fuckin' sublime
edit: Like every time I re-listen to their albums, when the next song comes up it's just always the perfect one that should be coming after the previous song. It's like a superpower or something that they have
Is sequencing an album a rare thing? Most of my music I listen to by album, and it seems that the genres I tend to prefer are pretty heavily sequenced. Like, hip-hop, electronica, proggy-rock like QOTSA, they all seem to structure their albums to tell an overarching narrative.
I do a little of both. I keep a great big spotify list of all the albums that come out which I play on shuffle, but for stuff I seek out myself it's full album listening.
UnbrokenEvaHIGH ON THE WIREBUT I WON'T TRIP ITRegistered Userregular
my spotify top 5 this year:
01 - Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
02 - Run the Jewels 2 - Run the Jewels
03 - Roses - Coeur de Pirate
04 - Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels
05 - At The Club - Kenickie
Looking at the seasonal breakdown to see what my listening looked like BH (Before Hamilton), winter was a lot of Arctic Monkeys, Weird Al, and Run The Jewels, spring was RTJ, My Chemical Romance and Kenickie, summer was Kanye, Beastie Boys, and Mountain Goats
Oddly, I can't seem to load most-listened artists or my fall listening, the page just stalls indefinitely. In both cases #1 is gonna be Hamilton so the more varied artist credits on the album may be messing with it?
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the spotify statistics are kinda cool, i listened to 388 hours (+6% from last year), 533 different artists (+147), 3,142 different songs (+241)
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Top 5 Albums:
1. Graduation - Kanye West
2. The Color Before the Sun - Coheed and Cambria
3. Give up - The Postal Service (this is absolutely song exploder's fault)
4. From Under the Cork Tree - Fall Out Boy
5. Act II: The Father of Death - The Protomen
Top 5 Artists:
1. Coheed and Cambria
2. Fall Out Boy
3. Kanye West
4. The Protomen
5. Counting Crows
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Quick, before anybody notices and makes fun of us
Let us discuss how Fall Out Boy is better at sequencing an album than maybe anybody else in the pop rock game
Or maybe anybody else period????
I have yet to hear anyone better, their sequencing is fuckin' sublime
edit: Like every time I re-listen to their albums, when the next song comes up it's just always the perfect one that should be coming after the previous song. It's like a superpower or something that they have
ineedmayo.com Eidolon Journal Updated
Through sequencing alone, they can elevate an entire song - like "Golden." If "Golden" was anywhere else on the record, I would skip it every time. On its own, its not a particularly good song. But slotted right where it is, feeling like a coda to "Hum Hallelujah" and a simultaneous introduction to "Thnks fr th Mmrs," it's perfection. It becomes integral.
A lot of Bowie as well, mostly the 'Berlin' stuff
Also listened to a lot of those Jamie xx & Tame Impala albums
Not much hip-hop besides RTJ and the new Roots Manuva stuff
Up against some punk? Yeah why not. Rubbing shoulders with backpacker rap? Makes sense. Tipping the hat to electronica? Sure thing.
Took me a while to get into it, but I really like it now.
don't trust mine, i'm just constantly listening to either Hamilton or music that is all 10+ years old
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We both like Fall Out Boy and Coheed & Cambria
I trust you
So I'm sure I'll dig these two.
It's unsurprising - the albums I actually bought appear further down than the albums I didn't in my top five
Even though I can guarantee I've listened to The Most Lamentable Tragedy more than pretty much anything
I really don't use Spotify for much though
Those are probably like a half dozen plays apiece on those
shit, i never find other coheed and cambria fans!
ineedmayo.com Eidolon Journal Updated
It's an impeccably curated work, gathering long-lost recordings of indigenous folk/rock/countrty artists from the mid-60s to the early-80s. There are some truly stunning songs on there, by people unfairly lost to the sands of time. It's very justly nominated for a Grammy (Best Historical Album), and is very much worth checking out. Highly, highly recommended.
No joke, I found out about them through a trailer for 9. This one, specifically.
I was like, "That's pretty cool background music. Wonder where it's from."
And then I learned that C&C has, like, a pulpy sci-fi mythos behind a bunch of their albums and I thought, "Okay, yeah, I''m into that."
But if I had to take a guess at the stuff I listened to the most it would probably be:
1. Carry the Sun - The Glitch Mob
2. A Love Like War - All Time Low
3. Ex's & Oh's - Elle King
4. Black Sun - Death Cap For Cutie
5. Immortals - Fall Out Boy
If we do it by albums, it looks more like:
1. Love Death Immortality - The Glitch Mob
2. My Head Is An Animal - Of Monsters and Men
3. Megalithic Symphony - AWOLNATION
4. Adventure - Madeon
5. Hamilton
Just looking through my starred (checked now) stuff on Spotify, my personal best based on at least two songs being checked:
I know I'm missing both some big stuff and some hidden gems though. Need to sit down in the coming weeks and peruse the top album charts coming out. NPR Music put there's out yesterday, incidentally.
I always love the NPR list, because it tends to hit a really wide swath of stuff. And its hard to overstate how delightful I find any list with corrections like this:
"An earlier version of this story indicated Colleen's album Captain of None featured an upright bass. The bass sounds on the album were made by a viola da gamba processed through an octaver pedal."
1. Titus andronicus - TMLT
2. Fred Thomas - All Are Saved
3. Trust Fund - No one's coming for us
4. Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
5. probably RTJ2
you should definitely listen to slow club's newest actual album which is...complete surrender, because it's really good and I saw them live and they were great? also that new metric album is pretty good but I haven't honestly listened to it as much as I should have. "the shade" is a great fucking song, though
And yo
Girlpool is real good
Yeah! I've only listened to their self-titled from last year, haven't gotten around to the new album yet.
some faves that aren't on that first ep
Been a good evening.
Is sequencing an album a rare thing? Most of my music I listen to by album, and it seems that the genres I tend to prefer are pretty heavily sequenced. Like, hip-hop, electronica, proggy-rock like QOTSA, they all seem to structure their albums to tell an overarching narrative.
I do a little of both. I keep a great big spotify list of all the albums that come out which I play on shuffle, but for stuff I seek out myself it's full album listening.
make your own electro
Fucking love this so much
proper takes me back to clubs when I was at uni
01 - Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
02 - Run the Jewels 2 - Run the Jewels
03 - Roses - Coeur de Pirate
04 - Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels
05 - At The Club - Kenickie
Looking at the seasonal breakdown to see what my listening looked like BH (Before Hamilton), winter was a lot of Arctic Monkeys, Weird Al, and Run The Jewels, spring was RTJ, My Chemical Romance and Kenickie, summer was Kanye, Beastie Boys, and Mountain Goats
Oddly, I can't seem to load most-listened artists or my fall listening, the page just stalls indefinitely. In both cases #1 is gonna be Hamilton so the more varied artist credits on the album may be messing with it?
When I looked up and saw Lord Huron's Strange Trails just chilling on the back wall. In yellow at 180.
It is mine now. I own this masterwork.