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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: killsaly on December 10, 2015, 11:59:30 pm
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My Top Ten across all genres.
Justin Bieber - Purpose
Chastity Belt - Time to Go Home
American Wrestlers - American Wrestlers
Romantic States - Romantic States
Placebo - MTV Unplugged
Wildhoney - Sleep Through It
Low - Ones and Sixes
Faith No More - Sol Invictus
Dilly Dally - Sore
Blacksage - Basement Vows
It is that time of year, list time! I know at least a few people on here love lists. All in all, I thought it was an excellent year for music of all varieties, from pop to noise.
I am going to break mine up into a few small lists. All my lists are in the order of the accompanying mix that I made for each. I might edit this later and write a sentence or two on why I liked each one, but do not have the time right now and was going to do that for my blog later anyway.
My 10 favorite Electronic Releases of 2015.
https://www.mixcloud.com/killsaly/dragged-to-hell-favorite-electronic-albums-of-2015/
This one had a nice mixture of artists that I have been into since the 90s, and some new favorites of the last few years.
AFX - orphaned deejay selek 2006-2008
Luke Vibert - Bizarster
Leftfield - Alternative Light Source
Gurl Crush - Serenity Calling...
Venetian Snares - Thank You For Your Consideration
Force Publique - Bloom
Autre Ne Veut - Age of Transparency
SPC ECO - Dark Matter
Container - LP
GEMS - Kill the One You Love
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lists, make me upset. but here's my list, anyway.
marilyn manson pale emperor
Bjork vulnicura
Madonna rebel heart
prodigy day is my enemy
sufjan stevens carrie and Lowell
hot chip why make sense
faith no more sol invictus
Shamir ratchet
neil young the monsanto years
tame impala currents
omar souleyman Bahdeni Nami
Robyn & La Bagatelle Magique love is free
beach house depression cherry
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I really dug that Manson album, but need to listen to it more. I have FNM on another different list.
I listened to a TON of thrash metal in 2015, but most of it was made in the 80s, 90s, and earlier this century. But I did still manage to listen to quite a few current metal bands, and these were my favorites.
My top 10 Favorite Heavy/Metal Releases:
https://www.mixcloud.com/killsaly/dragged-to-hell-favorite-heavymetal-albums-of-2015/
Noisem - Blossoming Decay
Genocide Pact - Forged Through Domination
Cult Leader - Lightless Walk
Corrections House - How to Carry a Whip
Kowloon Walled City - Grievences
Fight Amp - Constantly Off
Kylesa - Exhausting Fire
The Body and Thou - You, Whom I Have Always Hated
Locrian - Infinite Dissolution
Liturgy - the Ark Work
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From indie pop, to shoegaze, to experimental, to feminist punk; Baltimore had a solid 2015. I look forward to seeing what others have enjoyed.
My 10 Favorite Baltimore releases:
https://www.mixcloud.com/killsaly/dragged-to-hell-2015-baltimore-mix/
Romantic States - Romantic States
Sweepstakes - Tongues Out
Holy Ghost Party - Bayou Music
Blacksage - Basement Vows
Expert Alterations - You Can't Always Be Liked
Natural Velvet - She Is Me
Wildhoney - Sleep Through It
Thrushes - Exposing Seas
War on Women - War On Women
Dope Body - Kunk
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1) Charlatans -- Modern Nature (beautifully-recorded, superb songs, totally underrated...the one LP I'm not tired of listening to yet)
2) Best Coast -- California Nights
3) Wire -- Wire
4) Eagles of Death Metal -- Zipper Down
5) Peaches -- Rub
6) Sleater-Kinney -- No Cities to Love
7) Marilyn Manson -- The Pale Emperor
8 ) Nicolas Godin -- Contrepoint
9) Gaz Coombes -- Matador
Honorable mention: Death Cab for Cutie -- Kintsugi (far from great, but the good songs are great)
Biggest disappointment: Belle and Sebastian -- Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance (probably their first outright clunker...I hate it when bands get bored with their sound and then lose everything that's special about them in the first place. The songwriting also suffered too.)
Best reissue: Air -- The Virgin Suicides (the live LP alone was worth getting)
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Wow, I was going to start this thread today but you beat me to it.
Can we all agree to keep your list at a maximum of 10? After that, most people's eyes start glazing over. Save your list of 50 for your email to your pretend significant other. :D
Here's my top 10, in order:
1. Jason Isbell, Something More than Free
2. Ashley Monroe, The Blade
3. Drive By Truckers, It's Great to Be Alive
4. Courtney Barnett, Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
5. New Order, Music Complete
6. Father John Misty, I Love You, Honeybear
7. Natalie Prass, Natalie Prass
8. Dwight Yoakam, Second Hand Heart
9. Ryan Adams, 1989
10. Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard, Django and Jimmy
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Biggest disappointment: Belle and Sebastian -- Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance (probably their first outright clunker...I hate it when bands get bored with their sound and then lose everything that's special about them in the first place. The songwriting also suffered too.)
I agree about it being a huge disappointment and they got bored with their sound but are we not counting Storytelling as a clunker?
Best reissue: Air -- The Virgin Suicides (the live LP alone was worth getting)
100% concur. Honorable mention to the Promise Ring first three LP reissues.
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Autre Ne Veut - Age of Transparency
7. Natalie Prass, Natalie Prass
Two of the most under talked-about LPs of year. Great.
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Biggest disappointment: Belle and Sebastian -- Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance (probably their first outright clunker...I hate it when bands get bored with their sound and then lose everything that's special about them in the first place. The songwriting also suffered too.)
I agree about it being a huge disappointment and they got bored with their sound but are we not counting Storytelling as a clunker?
Best reissue: Air -- The Virgin Suicides (the live LP alone was worth getting)
100% concur. Honorable mention to the Promise Ring first three LP reissues.
I never understood the hate for Storytelling and for Fold Your Hands Child. I think there are some solid tunes on both of them. I look at Storytelling as more like a score than an actual LP worth of album material. It could have made totally solid EP/mini-LP worth of material with some editing. FYHCYWLAP is actually the most underrated B&S record.
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I never understood the hate for Storytelling and for Fold Your Hands Child. I think there are some solid tunes on both of them. I look at Storytelling as more like a score than an actual LP worth of album material. It could have made totally solid EP/mini-LP worth of material with some editing. FYHCYWLAP is actually the most underrated B&S record.
I give FYHC a pass because it has three of their absolute best songs: Woman's Realm, The Model, and Family Tree. That said, I have to admit half of that album's tracks I would never want to hear again. So I can maybe meet you half way on that LP.
Storytelling, I haven't listened to a track on that in YEARS. Definite clunker status in my book.
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Everything Everything ? Get to Heaven
Capsule ? Wave Runner
Grimes ? Art Angels
Erykah Badu ? Buy You Cain?t Use My Phone
Vince Staples ? Summertime?06
The Prodigy ? The Day is My Enemy
Protomartyr - The Agent Intellect
Metz ? II
Cemetary ? Wind & Shadows
Kendrick Lamar ? To Pimp a Butterfly
I'd say this is my list, roughly in order. My biggest issue/challenge was the fact that I listened to Kpop more than any other genre this year, but I was usually listening to my 160 song (and counting) mix. So individual albums didn't really pop out as much. That said, some of them did and I'll probably make a top 10 Kpop albums list that will be of interest to approximately no one.
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Can we all agree to keep your list at a maximum of 10? After that, most people's eyes start glazing over. Save your list of 50 for your email to your pretend significant other. :D
No.
How about you do not post about your wife or child anymore? Thanks!
I am breaking mine up into small, genre-specific lists. If you do not want to read them, then do not have to read them.
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How about you do not post about your wife or child anymore? Thanks!
Of all the things Rhett posts about that no one likes, I don't think his wife or child makes the top three.
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How about you do not post about your wife or child anymore? Thanks!
Of all the things Rhett posts about that no one likes, I don't think his wife or child makes the top three.
TAN: spinoff thread for our top 10 lists about Rhett topics we never want to hear again!?
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Can we all agree to keep your list at a maximum of 10? After that, most people's eyes start glazing over. Save your list of 50 for your email to your pretend significant other. :D
No.
How about you do not post about your wife or child anymore? Thanks!
I am breaking mine up into small, genre-specific lists. If you do not want to read them, then do not have to read them.
What about what I said do you object to?
If you make a list of 50 albums, it becomes more of an exhaustive list of everything you liked, rather than a list of favorites. Am I wrong?
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the fact that I listened to Kpop more than any other genre this year, but I was usually listening to my 160 song (and counting) mix.
Don't you know that Kpop causes cancer and gets you profiled by the NSA
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If you make a list of 50 albums, it becomes more of an exhaustive list of everything you liked, rather than a list of favorites. Am I wrong?
There are no rules in this thread. I LIKED way more than 50 releases in 2015. About 200 actually.
So yes, you are wrong.
Do you see SPIN just list 10 albums on their year end list? Consequence of Sound? Pitchfork? No.
And before you say, "those are organizations, you are but a man"; I run a music blog, so why would I not have a comprehensive list of my favorite music of the year?
If you do not want to read my 10 Favorite hip-hop list or my 20 favorite everything else list, then skip my next post...
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If you make a list of 50 albums, it becomes more of an exhaustive list of everything you liked, rather than a list of favorites. Am I wrong?
I agree with you, actually. The difference, however, is I will just jump to ~#10 on Killsaly's list instead of complaining he had the audacity to list > 10.
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If you make a list of 50 albums, it becomes more of an exhaustive list of everything you liked, rather than a list of favorites. Am I wrong?
There are no rules in this thread. I LIKED way more than 50 releases in 2015. About 200 actually.
So yes, you are wrong.
Do you see SPIN just list 10 albums on their year end list? Consequence of Sound? Pitchfork? No.
And before you say, "those are organizations, you are but a man"; I run a music blog, so why would I not have a comprehensive list of my favorite music of the year?
If you do not want to read my 10 Favorite hip-hop list or my 20 favorite everything else list, then skip my next post...
Of course there are no rules, you can dominate this thread just like you dominate every other music related thread. I would think that people visiting your blog are visiting because of you specifically and might be more keen on reading your exhaustive list. Whereas here it seems it's more of a democracy where people indulge strangers and aquaintences by politely reading their lists.
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So I am politely breaking them up into small lists.
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Save your list of 50 for your email to your pretend significant other.
And what was that supposed to mean?
Of course there are no rules, you can dominate this thread just like you dominate every other music related thread.
Thanks?
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I have to agree that a Top Ten is best for these kinds of threads. Because for 99.9% percent of the population, there's probably not a lot of thought between what placed at #22 and what landed at #28. Too many of the loooong lists tend to morph into "Here are all the albums I listened to this year."
Ten is good because it requires some discipline, some hard choices, some gnashing of teeth. Nothing wrong with a honorable mentions list either.
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Discipline? I have been working on mine since mid-October...
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. (sorry Sidehatch)
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So I am politely breaking them up into small lists.
hey . . . freely, he is being polite about the spacing of it. its pretty much a given that kill,sally likes a lot of music. I would post another list, due that my first list was just from looking at mainstream releases of 2015. im sure I can be hipster enough to like some more things.
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Do it.
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Save your list of 50 for your email to your pretend significant other.
And what was that supposed to mean?[/b]
Of course there are no rules, you can dominate this thread just like you dominate every other music related thread.
Thanks?
That was a joke. As in "someone who devotes a lot of time listening to music is probably less likely to have a significant other who demands their time and attention". Just a joke, not an insult, as there's absolutely nothing wrong with not having a significant other. And a joke because it's not a statement of fact, but rather words that play off stereotypes, as jokes sometimes do.
Didn't think the joke was funny? I am absolutely crushed. At least my wife and daughter think I'm funny. Oh, and by the way, I'll be back with my wife and daughter's top 10 lists on Monday. Hint: Taylor Swift might be there.
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You know what's sad... I don't think I have a top ten list this year.
Le sigh.
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You know what's sad... I don't think I have a top ten list this year.
Le sigh.
Weren't there any kiddie albums on the Yada playlist this year?
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My favorite hip-hop releases of 2015:
https://www.mixcloud.com/killsaly/dragged-to-hell-2015-favorite-hip-hop-mix/
STS x RJD2 - STS x RJD2
Black Zheep DZ - Mirror, Mirror
Shark Tank - Don't Fuck With Us
Sortahuman - SORTAHUMAN4LIFE
Death Grips - Jenny Death
JPEGMAFIA - communist slow jams
Drake - If You're Reading This It's Too Late
BLVCK CEILING - Trap Magic
Young Thug - Slime Season 2
Junglepussy - Pregnant with Success
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You know what's sad... I don't think I have a top ten list this year.
Le sigh.
Hasn't been a banner year as far as I'm concerned. 1st pass:
Courtney Barnett
Tame Impala
Clutch
Killing Joke
Noisem
Father John Misty
Grimes
Protomartyr
Hmmm. Stuck at eight. For now.
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You know what's sad... I don't think I have a top ten list this year.
Le sigh.
Weren't there any kiddie albums on the Yada playlist this year?
Not big on the kiddie tunes in this casa, maybe a bit of Curious George jamz and the godforsaken Frozen soundtrack.
You know what's sad... I don't think I have a top ten list this year.
Le sigh.
Hasn't been a banner year as far as I'm concerned. 1st pass:
Courtney Barnett
Tame Impala
Clutch
Killing Joke
Noisem
Father John Misty
Grimes
Protomartyr
Hmmm. Stuck at eight. For now.
Indeed... I've listened to a TON of new music this year, but nothing I'd say is a top ten album or anything that's received a ton of consistent play. My barometer for "top" albums is how often I continue to listen to them or will I come back and listen to them again... very few for 2015!
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I have to agree that a Top Ten is best for these kinds of threads. Because for 99.9% percent of the population, there's probably not a lot of thought between what placed at #22 and what landed at #28. Too many of the loooong lists tend to morph into "Here are all the albums I listened to this year."
Ten is good because it requires some discipline, some hard choices, some gnashing of teeth. Nothing wrong with a honorable mentions list either.
in general i agree with you, but i'll give a pass to killsaly. have you seen how many albums that guys listens to???
and i appreciate the breakdown by genre. i like electronic but generally don't bother much with hip hop, so this let's me hone in on what i'd actually listen to.
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My last list, best of the rest. I broke this into two parts; the first being noisy rock like shoegaze, post-punk, and noise rock and the second part is a bit more mellow (though I did stick FNM and Killing Joke on this one).
https://www.mixcloud.com/killsaly/dragged-to-hell-2015-best-of-rest-noisy-mix/
Dilly Dally - Sore
Helen - The Original Faces
Pinkshinyultrablast - Everything Else Matters
Swervedriver - I Wasn't Born to Lose You
Potty Mouth - Potty Mouth EP
Pleasure Leftists - the woods of heaven
METZ - II
Static Daydream - Static Daydream
Tamaryn - Cranekiss
American Wrestlers - American Wrestlers
https://www.mixcloud.com/killsaly/dragged-to-hell-best-of-the-rest-2015/
SPORTS - All of Something
Colleen Green - I want to Grow Up
Chastity Belt - Time to Go Home
Shannon And The Clams - Gone by the Dawn
Placebo - MTV Unplugged
Justin Bieber - Purpose
Low - Ones and Sixes
Royal Headache - High
Faith No More - Sol Invictus
Killing Joke - Pylon
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in general i agree with you, but i'll give a pass to killsaly. have you seen how many albums that guys listens to???
and i appreciate the breakdown by genre. i like electronic but generally don't bother much with hip hop, so this let's me hone in on what i'd actually listen to.
I thought it was a good way to approach it this year.
And what can I say, I love listening to music. I love discovering music old and new. It has been a passion of mine since I was 12.
I had fun getting these together, and making all of the mixes. I really enjoy doing stuff like this. Sorry if mine is a bit extreme compared to others. But I do not admonish anyone for being obsessed with beer or baseball... I made the mixes pretty short and thought they might be a good way to introduce people to new artists. I am doing paragraph writeups for all of these on my blog, but am not finished, and will post links if anyone is interested when finished with them.
I left a lot of stuff I really dug off of this. I loved the new New Order and Duran Duran albums. I loved the new Wolf Eyes. I really did not just list EVERY album I got in 2015. These 60 items are like maybe a quarter of new albums for me in 2015...
I might do a Top 10 total list... I hadnt thought about that one though. Best of across all my lists..
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METZ - II
Royal Headache - High
Add these to my list, I guess. Royal Headache's is good for sure. Metz II is ok but too much like the 1st and not as good, imo.
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I need to see METZ live one of these days...
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I forgot about the Swervedriver LP. That belongs on my list too.
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I need to see METZ live one of these days...
The show they played at the Red Palace (RIP) was such a killer. I had tickets to see their recent 9:30 show but my son got incredibly ill an hour before I was supposed to leave and I chose to stay home. I was really looking forward to hearing them with the 9:30 sound system.
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I forgot about the Swervedriver LP. That belongs on my list too.
Did you go to their Ottobar show for it?
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By far, my favorite album this year was Chris Stapleton - Traveller.
I also enjoyed:
Leon Bridges - Coming Home
Jason Isbell - Something more than Free
Justin Bieber - Purpose
Belle and Sebastian - Girls in Peacetime want to Dance
Ryan Adams - 1989
Kacey Musgraves - Pageant Material
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Justin Bieber - Purpose
I thought this was such a solid pop album and was surprised at how much I liked it. I probably listened to it more than anything else since it came out (only five or six times but still).
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By far, my favorite album this year was Chris Stapleton - Traveller.
I also enjoyed:
Leon Bridges - Coming Home
Jason Isbell - Something more than Free
Justin Bieber - Purpose
Belle and Sebastian - Girls in Peacetime want to Dance
Ryan Adams - 1989
Kacey Musgraves - Pageant Material
Yes to that Leon Bridges album... rull good.
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I like your list....
lists, make me upset. but here's my list, anyway.
marilyn manson pale emperor
Bjork vulnicura
Madonna rebel heart
prodigy day is my enemy
sufjan stevens carrie and Lowell
hot chip why make sense
faith no more sol invictus
Shamir ratchet
neil young the monsanto years
tame impala currents
omar souleyman Bahdeni Nami
Robyn & La Bagatelle Magique love is free
beach house depression cherry
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I forgot about the Swervedriver LP. That belongs on my list too.
Did you go to their Ottobar show for it?
Sadly I missed them this time around. Really solid LP. I liked it more than I thought I would.
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I forgot about the Swervedriver LP. That belongs on my list too.
Did you go to their Ottobar show for it?
Sadly I missed them this time around. Really solid LP. I liked it more than I thought I would.
It was loud with lots of pedals.
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They're coming in January...but oh wait... You tend to only see the local bands....
I need to see METZ live one of these days...
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I'm not only into "local" bands.
And I know they are coming;
1. I might be Out of town
2. I avoid the Rock and roll hotel
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9) Gaz Coombes -- Matador
I'm liking this one as well, also be sure to checkout Vangoffey "'Take Off Your Jacket & Get Into It' Danny's first solo. It reminds me of the late 70s UK new wave bands with Britpop cheek.
and the charlantans record has a bit of a Belle & Sebastian feel to it.
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9) Gaz Coombes -- Matador
I'm liking this one as well, also be sure to checkout Vangoffey "'Take Off Your Jacket & Get Into It' Danny's first solo. It reminds me of the late 70s UK new wave bands with Britpop cheek.
and the charlantans record has a bit of a Belle & Sebastian feel to it.
The Charlatans LP is the most richly balanced thing they've ever done. When you listen to it on a warm day when the sun is setting, everything just feels right with the world. Maybe not the best songs they've ever written, but when you listen to the entire thing from start to finish and the way it flows, it's probably the best-sounding LP they've ever done and it's easy to listen to all of it without skipping a song.
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I'm not only into "local" bands.
And I know they are coming;
1. I might be Out of town
2. I avoid the Rock and roll hotel
I do too, and I really want to see Metz. But I'm never going to rock and roll hotel ever again.
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By far, my favorite album this year was Chris Stapleton - Traveller.
I also enjoyed:
Leon Bridges - Coming Home
Jason Isbell - Something more than Free
Justin Bieber - Purpose
Belle and Sebastian - Girls in Peacetime want to Dance
Ryan Adams - 1989
Kacey Musgraves - Pageant Material
I left off Anderson East - Delilah. Major oversight on my part.
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i enjoyed:
alvvays s/t
courtney barnet
ryan adams - 1989
titus andronicus
chvches