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hutch

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Favorite albums of 2020
« on: November 18, 2020, 08:28:01 pm »
Time for the end of year lists


So far I got


1. Strokes
2. Guided by Voices - Surrender
3. Jessie Ware
4. Pet Shop Boys - Hot spot
5. AC/DC

StoneTheCrow

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Re: Favorite albums of 2020
« Reply #1 on: November 18, 2020, 08:55:58 pm »
All thing considered, it's been a pretty good year.

Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
Wake - Devouring Ruin
Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters
Protomartyr: Ultimate Success Today
Wvrm - Colony Collapse
Fleet Foxes - Shore
Run the Jewels - RTJ4

Honorable mentions: Deftones, Lydia Loveless, Waxahatchee, Springsteen, Carcass

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Re: Favorite albums of 2020
« Reply #2 on: November 18, 2020, 09:12:57 pm »
In no order, here's 22, Maybe I will order later:

Waxahatchee
Bonny Light Horseman
Little Dragon
Strokes
My Morning Jacket
Taylor Swift
Old 97's
Bettye Lavette
Flaming Lips
Bill Callahan
Gillian Welch
Fleet Foxes
Bette Smith
Tim Heidecker
Sufjan Stevens
Drive By Truckers (The New OK)
Bruce Springsteen
Beabadoobee
Sturgilll Simpson (his bluegrass album, begrudgingly)
Hood/Cooely/Isbell
Jessie Ware
Kelley Stoltz




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Re: Favorite albums of 2020
« Reply #3 on: November 19, 2020, 09:37:12 am »
A quick scan of my favorites on Qobuz  and Bandcamp purchases here are the albums with the most repeat listens..  Will probably have some honorable mentions at some point..

CeeLo Green - CeeLo Green is Thomas Calloway
Paul Heaton \ Jacqui Abbott- Manchester Calling
Too Free - Love In High Demand
The Moons - Pocket Melodies
Don Bryant - You Make Me Feel
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Rendition Was In)
Cornershop - England Is A Garden
Semisonic - You're Not Alone
The Empty Hearts - The Second Album
The Vapors - Together
The Lathums - Fight On
Bosq - Y Su Descarga Internacional
Bad Moves - Untenable
El Goodo - Zombie
V/A - Saving For a Custom Van
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hutch

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Re: Favorite albums of 2020
« Reply #4 on: November 19, 2020, 10:10:26 am »
Oh yeah forgot Cornershop! That is on my list

kosmo vinyl

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Re: Favorite albums of 2020
« Reply #5 on: November 19, 2020, 11:24:31 am »
yeah i'm going be adding stuff here... i.e.  Jarv Is - Beyond The Pale
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Re: Favorite albums of 2020
« Reply #6 on: November 19, 2020, 11:27:35 am »
In no order, here's 21, Maybe I will order later:
Did you just listed every album you listened to or do you like all of these
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Re: Favorite albums of 2020
« Reply #7 on: November 19, 2020, 11:30:24 am »
In no order, here's 21, Maybe I will order later:
Did you just listed every album you listened to or do you like all of these

Looks like a 55 year old Killsally list.

Re: Favorite albums of 2020
« Reply #8 on: November 19, 2020, 11:32:18 am »
In no order, here's 21, Maybe I will order later:
Did you just listed every album you listened to or do you like all of these

Looks like a 55 year old Killsally list.
I was totally going to make a ref to that...so thanks for writing what I was thinking
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hutch

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Re: Favorite albums of 2020
« Reply #9 on: November 19, 2020, 04:37:14 pm »
Me too!

Re: Favorite albums of 2020
« Reply #10 on: November 19, 2020, 04:39:38 pm »
Me too!
wait, should this be on the groper thread.
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Re: Favorite albums of 2020
« Reply #11 on: November 19, 2020, 04:40:50 pm »

Space Freely

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Re: Favorite albums of 2020
« Reply #12 on: November 19, 2020, 05:45:28 pm »
In no order, here's 21, Maybe I will order later:
Did you just listed every album you listened to or do you like all of these

Looks like a 55 year old Killsally list.
I was totally going to make a ref to that...so thanks for writing what I was thinking

I did think this was an exceptional year for recorded music. Or maybe I just had more time to listen, since I went on less vacations. ;)

hutch

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Re: Favorite albums of 2020
« Reply #13 on: December 28, 2020, 12:15:10 am »
Updated

1. Strokes- The new abnormal
2. Guided by Voices - Surrender your poppy field
3. Jessie Ware
4. Pet Shop Boys - Hot spot
5. AC/DC - Power up (my favorite from this year)
6. Cornershop - England is a garden
7. Leonard Cohen - Thanks for the dance(came out very end of November 2019)
8. Roisin Murphy


May eventually make it or not; M Ward and Malkmus...probably not
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Re: Favorite albums of 2020
« Reply #14 on: December 28, 2020, 05:58:10 am »
I’m going to add The Vapors - Together to my list.. a couple of serious ear worms on this one, that I keep singing to myself
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