Author Topic: Favorite Releases of 2015  (Read 13649 times)

StoneTheCrow

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Re: Favorite Releases of 2015
« Reply #30 on: December 11, 2015, 04:33:31 pm »
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.

Yada

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Re: Favorite Releases of 2015
« Reply #31 on: December 11, 2015, 05:07:02 pm »
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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Re: Favorite Releases of 2015
« Reply #32 on: December 11, 2015, 05:16:21 pm »
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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Re: Favorite Releases of 2015
« Reply #33 on: December 11, 2015, 05:22:38 pm »
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

killsaly

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Re: Favorite Releases of 2015
« Reply #34 on: December 11, 2015, 05:23:42 pm »
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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StoneTheCrow

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Re: Favorite Releases of 2015
« Reply #35 on: December 11, 2015, 05:44:48 pm »
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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Re: Favorite Releases of 2015
« Reply #36 on: December 11, 2015, 05:49:35 pm »
I need to see METZ live one of these days...
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bearman🐻

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Re: Favorite Releases of 2015
« Reply #37 on: December 11, 2015, 05:55:27 pm »
I forgot about the Swervedriver LP. That belongs on my list too.

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Re: Favorite Releases of 2015
« Reply #38 on: December 11, 2015, 05:59:31 pm »
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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Re: Favorite Releases of 2015
« Reply #39 on: December 11, 2015, 06:02:30 pm »
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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Re: Favorite Releases of 2015
« Reply #40 on: December 11, 2015, 06:03:50 pm »
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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killsaly

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Re: Favorite Releases of 2015
« Reply #41 on: December 11, 2015, 06:12:14 pm »
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).

Yada

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Re: Favorite Releases of 2015
« Reply #42 on: December 11, 2015, 06:13:38 pm »
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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Re: Favorite Releases of 2015
« Reply #43 on: December 11, 2015, 08:12:34 pm »
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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bearman🐻

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Re: Favorite Releases of 2015
« Reply #44 on: December 11, 2015, 08:22:23 pm »
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.