This could easily change, but here it goes: 1. Run the Jewels - RTJ4 2. Hayley Williams - Petals for Armor (Big Paramore fan, can't help it) 3. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher 4. Benjamin James - With The Wind On Our Faces 5. Spanish Love Songs - Brave Faces Everyone 6. The Weeknd - After Hours 7. Ka - Descendants of Cain 8. Higher Power - 27 Miles Underwater 9. Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters 10. Aeges - Drommen
What a great list Mark, you're like the only critic I know that likes Niall lol Here's my top 10 so far: 1. Fetch The Bolt Cutters - Fiona Apple 2. The New Abnormal - The Strokes 3. SMHOFI - Perfume Genius 4. SAWAYAMA - Rina Sawayama 5. Every Bad - Porridge Radio 6. Dedicated Side B - Carly Rae Jepsen 7. I Disagree - Poppy 8. Heartbreak Weather - Niall Horan 9. Harkin - Harkin 10. Un Canto por México - Natalia Lafourcade I haven't been listening to a lot of albums from this year because I've been catching up with releases from other years haha.
Rina Sawayama is the explosive pop album to beat in 2020. Bleed From Within's Fracture and Zelienople's Hold You Up really impressed me. After Hours dipped a little in my rankings as the year went on. Testament's Titans of Creation has some of my favorite tracks. Also highly enjoyed the latest from Sylosis, Awich, Eminem, Drive-By Truckers, Tame Impala, Lamb of God, and Trivium.
My top 15: 1. Spanish Love Songs - Brave Faces Everyone 2. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher 3. Run The Jewels - RTJ4 4. Perfume Genius - Set My Heart On Fire Immediately 5. Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters 6. Mac Miller - Circles 7. Gabe Lee - Honky Tonk Hell 8. Laura Marling - Song For Our Daughter 9. Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud 10. Code Orange - Underneath 11. Armand Hammer - Shrines 12. HMLTD - West of Eden 13. Rina Sawayama - SAWAYAMA 14. Pokey LaFarge - Rock Bottom Rhapsody 15. Charli XCX - how i'm feeling now
If I were to put my own top 15 out there it'd be: 15) Beach Bunny - Honeymoon 14) Jeff Rosenstock - No Dream 13) The Weeknd - After Hours 12) Denzel Curry & Kenny Beats - Unlocked 11) Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia 10) Armand Hammer - Shines 9) Against All Logic - 2017-2019 8) Mac Miller - Circles 7) Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist - Alfredo 6) Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters 5) RTJ - RTJ 4 4) Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts V & VI 3) Rina Sawayama - Sawayama 2) The Strokes - The New Abnormal 1) Spanish Love Songs - Brave Faces Everyone (yeah I'll gladly ride this train to the top too man)
I'm so happy I was able to put that Dzö-nga album on your schedule, and that you liked it so much! For me, Kesha's High Road is my favorite album of the year so far. I know it's not a popular opinion, but I love it basically from front to back. And I say that as someone who really hasn't been a Kesha fan before now. If I'm dancing on my own to that album, so be it.
20 best albums of the year so far , in alphabetical order: Ada Rook - 2,020 Knives Alina Baraz - It Was Divine American Aquariums - Lamentations Beach Bunny - Honeymoon Black Dresses - PEACEFUL AS HELL Dogleg - Melee Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters Freddie Gibbs and The Alchemist - Alfredo Jaime Wyatt - Neon Cross Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Reunions Jeff Rosenstock - NO DREAM Ka - Descendants of Cain Perfume Genius - Set My Heart on Fire Immediately Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher R.A.P. Ferreira - Purple Moonlight Pages Rina Sawayama - SAWAYAMA (Album of the Mid-Year) Run the Jewels - RTJ4 $ilkMoney - Attack of the Future Shocked, Flesh Covered, Meatbags of the 85 Spanish Love Songs - Brave Faces Everyone The Weeknd - After Hours
Great mid-year list Mark, here's my top 25: 1.Spanish Love Songs- Brave Faces Everyone 2. Run the Jewels- RTJ4 3.Protest the Hero- Palimpsest 4.Loathe- I Let it In and it Took Everything 5.Rina Sawayama- Sawayama 6.Backxwash- God Has Nothing to do With this, Leave him Out of it 7.Fiona Apple- Fetch the Bolt Cutters 8.Perfume Genius- Set My Heart on Fire Imediately 9.Destroyer- Have We Met 10.The Weeknd- After Hours 11. Black Dresses- Peaceful as Hell 12.Oranssi Pazuzu- Meatarin Kynsi 13.Code Orange- Underneath 14.Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit- Reunions 15.Freddie Gibbs and The Alchemist- Alfredo 16.Trivium- What the Dead Men Say 17.Afterbirth- Four Dimensional Flesh 18.R.A.P. Ferreira- purple moonlight pages 19.Envy- The Fallen Crimson 20.VENGEFUL SPECTRE- Vengeful Spectre 21.Warp Chamber- Imprelemts of Excruciation 22.Gabe Lee- Honky Tonk Hell 23.Aeges- Drommen 24.Dua Lipa- Future Nostalgia 25.Caustic Wound- Death Posture
100% agree with Comeback! It’s the slow grower to Solos immediate dazzle, but I find that it’s the one I go back to more. Quiet, haunting, beautiful; Queen Carly at her best.
Not many albums I've listened to this year but here's my short list of them and some of my favourite songs this year Albums Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia The Weeknd - After Hours Niall Horan - Heartbreak Weather Halsey - Manic ( yeah I like this a lot) Rina Sawayama - SAWAYAMA Songs A Boogie - Blood On My Denim Dua Lipa - Levitating The Weeknd ft Doja Cat - In Your Eyes Rain On Me - Lady Gaga, Ariana Grande
Mhmm I don't know. Again we said that for "Love Me Harder" and "Cool for the Summer" top the list in 2015's Best Hits list. Anything can happen, but "Blinding Lights" will definitely be Top 5 for sure on his best hit songs of 2020
Okay...Here's My List...(so far) i'm weird so..don't be surprised if strange stuff pops up 1. Tennis - Swimmer (Very Underrated Tbh) 2. Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia (I Like To Dance) 3. Honey Harper -- Starmaker (Surprised Mark Hasn't Covered This...Seriously Amazing Singer-Songwriter Alt-Country) 4. Hayley Williams - Petals for Armor (Big Paramore Fan...So...) 5. Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters (Not A Masterpiece In My Eyes...But Still Insanely Great) 6. COIN - Dreamland (Sad Jon from ARTV Didn't Wanna Cover This One...Cause It's Really Good) 7. Carly Rae Jepsen - Dedicated Side B (It's Great) 8. Day Wave - Crush (It May Only Be An EP but...i still love it) 9. Conan Gray - Kid Krow (Definitely Not For Everyone As Mark's Review Proved But...I liked It) and lastly... 10. Drake Bell - The Lost Album (Yes It's Drake from Drake & Josh, Yes I Found It While Listening To Another Drake and Yes It Sounds Exactly Like What You Think It Would...But That's Not A Bad Thing?) Overall...this year has sucked so a majority of what i've liked has ranged from fun to emotionally potent. wow...my list is all over the place...and not a single Hip Hop Album..yikes.
1. RTJ4 2. Endless Wound- Black Curse 3. Rebirth by Blasphemy- Midnight 4. Price of tea in China- Boldy james 5. Ruin- Foretoken (this is a tiny band and rumor is that they just got signed to a label, check em out if you can! ffo: 90s swedish melodeath, old in flames, with a blackened twist) 6. Brave faces everyone- Spanish Love Songs 7. Alfredo- Freddie Gibbs + Alchemist 8. ForcesWithYou- Clear Soul Forces 9. Four Dimensional Flesh- Afterbirth 10. SAWAYAMA
Oh and for some songs: Fall From Grace- Paradise Lost Mind Freeze- Haunt The Wereworm’s Feast- Black Dahlia Murder Sacred Safe- Quelle Chris Walking in the snow- RTJ4 Revenge- ACxDCx Stench of Decay- Necrot Who’s gonna save u now- sawayama
My favorite records of the year so far: Spanish Love Songs - Brave, Faces, Everyone Boston Manor - Glue Hot Milligan - You’ll Be Fine Green Day - Father of All.... Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia Watsky - Placement Bad Cop/Bad Cop - The Ride Thick - 5 Years Behind Alkaline Trio - E.P. Hopefully I get to add Creeper’s new album to this list. My favorite song of the year is by far Aries by Gorillaz.
Only recently listening to the great albums of 2020 (Race between 'Brave Faces Everyone' & 'RTJ4' for the best), so instead of albums, here are a bunch of tracks from different albums up for contention for my best songs list in no particular order: 'Desole' - Gorillaz ft. Fatoumata Diawara (Song Machine, Ep. 2) 'Momentary Bliss' - Gorillaz ft. slowthai & Slaves (Song Machine, Episode 1) '10k Hours' - Jhene Aiko ft. Nas (Chilombo) 'She' - Floral Tattoo (You Can Never Have A Long Enough Head Start) 'Trillionaire' - Future ft. YoungBoy Never Broke Again (High Off Life) 'PTSD' - G Herbo ft. Juice WRLD, Chance The Rapper, & Lil' Uzi Vert (PTSD) 'Faith' - The Weeknd (After Hours) 'More Hearts Than Mine' - Ingrid Andress (Lady Like) 'Righteous' - Juice WRLD (The Outsiders) 'Phone Bill' - Boldy James & The Alchemist (The Price Of Tea In China) ''Cosmic'.m4a' - Denzel Curry & Kenny Beats (UNLOCKED) 'Trouble With Forever' - Little Big Town (Nightfall) 'Resentment' - Kesha ft. Sturgill Simpson, Brian Wilson, & Wrabel (High Road) 'Run' - Joji (Nectar) 'Losers 2' - Spanish Love Songs (Brave Faces Everyone) 'The Song Of Hiawatha' - Dzo-nga (Thunder In The Mountains) 'Nice To Meet Ya' - Niall Horan (Heartbreak Weather) 'Houdini Didn't Like Spiritualists' - Terry Allen & The Panhandle Mystery Band ft. Shannon McNally (Just Like Moby Dick) 'Levitating' - Dua Lipa (Future Nostalgia) 'RASCAL' - RMR (DRUG DEALING IS A LOST ART) 'Level Of Concern' - twenty one pilots (Single) 'a few words for the firing squad (radiation)' - Run The Jewels ft. Matt Sweeney & A$AP Ferg (RTJ4) 'One Night Standards' - Ashley McBryde (Never Will)
I haven't listened to a ton of albums this year and I'm pretty behind on Mark's country recommendations (which are usually fantastic), but here's my list so far: 1. RTJ 4 - Run The Jewels 2. SAWAYAMA - Rina Sawayama 3. Punisher - Phoebe Bridgers 4. After Hours - The Weeknd 5. Fetch The Bolt Cutters - Fiona Apple
Best Albums So Far Of 2020: 15. Selena Gomez- Rare 14. My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising Soundtrack 13. Niahl Horan- Heartbreak Weather 12. Hayley Williams- Petals For Armor 11. Louis Tomlinson- Walls 10. Mandy Moore- Sliver Landings 9. Dan Mason- Forever Nothing 8. Charli XCX- How I'm feeling now 7. Kesha- The High Road 6. The Weeknd- After Hours 5. Poppy- I Disagree 4. Run The Jewels- RTJ4 3. Dua Lipa- Future Nostagia 2. Tame Impala- The Slow Rush 1. Nostraightanswer- specters
My top 5 so far: 1. Run the Jewels- RTJ4 2. Protest the Hero- Palimpsest 3. Code Orange- Underneath 4. Riz Ahmed- The Long Goodbye 5. Spanish Love Songs- Brave Faces Everyone EDIT: 69th comment oh yeah
Best Songs So Far Of 2020 15. Nostraightanswer- Till The World Stops Burning 14. Sam Smith- To Die For 13. Steven Universe- I'd Rather Be Me (With You) 12. Dua Lipa- Hallucinate 11. Lady Gaga & Elton John- Sine From Above 10. Kesha, Strugill Simpson, Brian Wilson & Wrabel- Resentment 9. Demi Lovato- Anyone 8. The Weeknd- Blinding Lights 7. STARRYSKY- Aelita 6. Aly & AJ- Attack On Panic 5. Nostraightanswer- lies in their blood 4. Run The Jewels- walking in the snow 3. Tame Impala- One More Year 2. Dixie Chicks- Gaslighter 1. ALI- Wildlife
Top 5 hip-hop albums of the year so far: 1. Run The Jewels - RTJ4 2. Quelle Chris & Chris Keys - Innocent Country 2 3. Royce da 5'9" - The Allegory 4. Rjd2 - The Fun Ones 5. Skyzoo & Dumbo Station - The Bluest Note
No one asked but my top few albums are: 1. SAWAYAMA - Rina Sawayama (get on the Rina train y'all) 2. RTJ4 - Run The Jewels (there was so much of the album that is strikingly relevant today) 3. Alfredo - Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist (I just found myself repeating this over and over) 4. The New Abnormal - The Strokes (I found it a nice return to what they are good at, but I can understand why some won't like it as much) 5. Neo Zone - NCT 127 (k-pop, but seriously probably some of the best pop instrumentation and production I've heard this year and should be given a listen)
Unless you add "Hit" to that title, Blinding Lights shouldn't be eligible. Can you really call a song that dropped in 2019 one of the best songs of 2020?
@@mariokarter13 It was on an album that came out in 2020 which is why Mark counts it. Same thing for "When the Party's Over" which came out in 2018 but its album came out in 2019 so it qualified for his 2019 list.
@Dog-Ears with Dylan Does not correlate to being on this list specifically. Although I'm shocked "911" is not on here, you'll see his opinion on "Rain On Me" when it inventively makes the Best Hit Songs list of 2020.
I only have 5 1 Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin 2 Cryptic Shift - Visitations from Enceladus 3 Protest The Hero - Palimpsest and Code Orange - Underneath 4 Wormhole - The Weakest Among Us 5 Sepultura - Quadra Other album from bands Sylosis Caligula Horse Symbolik Ulcerate Fiona Apple Testament Havok Afterbirth
My Top 15 Midyear Lil Uzi Vert- Eternal Atake Don Toliver- Heaven or Hell Future- High Off Life YSN Flow- Flow $ZN Key Glock- Yellow Tape Gunna- WUNNA BigBabyGucci- Teen Spirit (an underrated album EVERYONE needs to listen to please do) Rod Wave- Pray 4 Love Lil Gotit- Hood Baby 2 Fredo Bang- Most Hated Lil Baby- My Turn Duke Deuce- Memphis Massacre 2 Lil Wayne- Funeral RMR- DRUG DEALING IS A LOST ART EP Comethazine- Pandemic
As of late May 2020, he completed part 1 of 3 for his "Top 50 Best Albums of the 2010s Decade" list, that part taking 5 months alone. It will be quite a while until the full list is completely refined: twitter.com/SpectrumPulse/status/1264983616569905152
@@ahri3887 I was just listening to the whole album and I gotta say Punisher is a great great song too. Kyoto and Chinese Satellite are highlights for me.
Any particular reason that you're not listing your favorite songs from each album anymore? I used to find those useful, let me sample the album to see if I would like it all the way through
I'm surprised Just Like Moby Dick isn't on the list even for individual songs. I really dig that album, especially Houdini Didn't Like the Spiritualist
Out of the ballads on High Road, Resentment might be my least favorite, I prefer Cowboy Blues and Chasing Thunder, it’s still absolutely amazing though.
Jhene Aiko: *Literally takes a fat, steaming shit* Mark: "It has such an emotional potency that I could have never found anywhere else. There are so many textures and layers to unravel and learn more about as I listen to it more and more; in other words, its a strong 8 out of 10 and definitely a recommendation"
I'm left thinking he alluded that mainstream hip-hop this year kinda struggled and despite positive reviews from the underground, none are touching the power of RTJ. Also, why not troll those white boys propping Lil Uzi Vert.
I'm actually sad that Dylan Slocum's voice doesn't work for me. I see how it might work for other people, but those little mid-syllable flutters he does are really distracting and I don't particularly love his overall sound, either. Shame, because SLS sounds like a really good band, but I can kind of picky about lead singers.
Going by that list, 2020 has not been a good year. Not a single album that challenges the listener and/or shows us a new direction. Mainstream and mediocrity prevail.
I don't think he hates Em. I think he's tired of being disappointed for an artist who held promise over 3 consecutive albums. I feel for him. To have someone introduce you to a specific art form and to be connected to their music to get through dark times in your childhood and adolescent, it hits man. For me, I just got into Em's music and I'm left thinking that no one is talking about his new album as we speak even the fact that "Godzilla" made the year-end list.
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I agree that Niall Horan is criminally underrated.
Very...Flicker may have not won me over but Heartbreak Weather certainly did.
Yeah he’s the best 1d member
Agreed, I am happy to see his growth as an artist post 1D
This could easily change, but here it goes:
1. Run the Jewels - RTJ4
2. Hayley Williams - Petals for Armor (Big Paramore fan, can't help it)
3. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
4. Benjamin James - With The Wind On Our Faces
5. Spanish Love Songs - Brave Faces Everyone
6. The Weeknd - After Hours
7. Ka - Descendants of Cain
8. Higher Power - 27 Miles Underwater
9. Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters
10. Aeges - Drommen
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What a great list Mark, you're like the only critic I know that likes Niall lol
Here's my top 10 so far:
1. Fetch The Bolt Cutters - Fiona Apple
2. The New Abnormal - The Strokes
3. SMHOFI - Perfume Genius
4. SAWAYAMA - Rina Sawayama
5. Every Bad - Porridge Radio
6. Dedicated Side B - Carly Rae Jepsen
7. I Disagree - Poppy
8. Heartbreak Weather - Niall Horan
9. Harkin - Harkin
10. Un Canto por México - Natalia Lafourcade
I haven't been listening to a lot of albums from this year because I've been catching up with releases from other years haha.
Great list
Rina Sawayama is the explosive pop album to beat in 2020. Bleed From Within's Fracture and Zelienople's Hold You Up really impressed me. After Hours dipped a little in my rankings as the year went on. Testament's Titans of Creation has some of my favorite tracks. Also highly enjoyed the latest from Sylosis, Awich, Eminem, Drive-By Truckers, Tame Impala, Lamb of God, and Trivium.
My top 15:
1. Spanish Love Songs - Brave Faces Everyone
2. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
3. Run The Jewels - RTJ4
4. Perfume Genius - Set My Heart On Fire Immediately
5. Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters
6. Mac Miller - Circles
7. Gabe Lee - Honky Tonk Hell
8. Laura Marling - Song For Our Daughter
9. Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud
10. Code Orange - Underneath
11. Armand Hammer - Shrines
12. HMLTD - West of Eden
13. Rina Sawayama - SAWAYAMA
14. Pokey LaFarge - Rock Bottom Rhapsody
15. Charli XCX - how i'm feeling now
If I were to put my own top 15 out there it'd be:
15) Beach Bunny - Honeymoon
14) Jeff Rosenstock - No Dream
13) The Weeknd - After Hours
12) Denzel Curry & Kenny Beats - Unlocked
11) Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia
10) Armand Hammer - Shines
9) Against All Logic - 2017-2019
8) Mac Miller - Circles
7) Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist - Alfredo
6) Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters
5) RTJ - RTJ 4
4) Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts V & VI
3) Rina Sawayama - Sawayama
2) The Strokes - The New Abnormal
1) Spanish Love Songs - Brave Faces Everyone (yeah I'll gladly ride this train to the top too man)
I'm so happy I was able to put that Dzö-nga album on your schedule, and that you liked it so much!
For me, Kesha's High Road is my favorite album of the year so far. I know it's not a popular opinion, but I love it basically from front to back. And I say that as someone who really hasn't been a Kesha fan before now. If I'm dancing on my own to that album, so be it.
re: camera layout: maybe put it a tiny bit to the left, the angle is good!
Niall Horan is fantastic artist
20 best albums of the year so far
, in alphabetical order:
Ada Rook - 2,020 Knives
Alina Baraz - It Was Divine
American Aquariums - Lamentations
Beach Bunny - Honeymoon
Black Dresses - PEACEFUL AS HELL
Dogleg - Melee
Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters
Freddie Gibbs and The Alchemist - Alfredo
Jaime Wyatt - Neon Cross
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Reunions
Jeff Rosenstock - NO DREAM
Ka - Descendants of Cain
Perfume Genius - Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
R.A.P. Ferreira - Purple Moonlight Pages
Rina Sawayama - SAWAYAMA
(Album of the Mid-Year)
Run the Jewels - RTJ4
$ilkMoney - Attack of the Future Shocked, Flesh Covered, Meatbags of the 85
Spanish Love Songs - Brave Faces Everyone
The Weeknd - After Hours
Whenever you say 'Fetch The Bolt Cutters' I hear 'Vegetable Cutters'. Not sure why it matters but its sorta funny
Thanks a lot for the Katie Pruitt recommendation, Mark! Just finished her debut album and I am BLOWN AWAY.
Great mid-year list Mark, here's my top 25:
1.Spanish Love Songs- Brave Faces Everyone
2. Run the Jewels- RTJ4
3.Protest the Hero- Palimpsest
4.Loathe- I Let it In and it Took Everything
5.Rina Sawayama- Sawayama
6.Backxwash- God Has Nothing to do With this, Leave him Out of it
7.Fiona Apple- Fetch the Bolt Cutters
8.Perfume Genius- Set My Heart on Fire Imediately
9.Destroyer- Have We Met
10.The Weeknd- After Hours
11. Black Dresses- Peaceful as Hell
12.Oranssi Pazuzu- Meatarin Kynsi
13.Code Orange- Underneath
14.Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit- Reunions
15.Freddie Gibbs and The Alchemist- Alfredo
16.Trivium- What the Dead Men Say
17.Afterbirth- Four Dimensional Flesh
18.R.A.P. Ferreira- purple moonlight pages
19.Envy- The Fallen Crimson
20.VENGEFUL SPECTRE- Vengeful Spectre
21.Warp Chamber- Imprelemts of Excruciation
22.Gabe Lee- Honky Tonk Hell
23.Aeges- Drommen
24.Dua Lipa- Future Nostalgia
25.Caustic Wound- Death Posture
Yes the afterbirth record kills
Great technical death metal album by Afterbirth you should check Wormhole absolute killer record
@@DashieNegan41 I heard Wormhole, it was pretty good too
100% agree with Comeback! It’s the slow grower to Solos immediate dazzle, but I find that it’s the one I go back to more. Quiet, haunting, beautiful; Queen Carly at her best.
Not many albums I've listened to this year but here's my short list of them and some of my favourite songs this year
Albums
Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia
The Weeknd - After Hours
Niall Horan - Heartbreak Weather
Halsey - Manic ( yeah I like this a lot)
Rina Sawayama - SAWAYAMA
Songs
A Boogie - Blood On My Denim
Dua Lipa - Levitating
The Weeknd ft Doja Cat - In Your Eyes
Rain On Me - Lady Gaga, Ariana Grande
Basically confirms that Blinding Lights will be his favorite hit song this year
Mhmm I don't know. Again we said that for "Love Me Harder" and "Cool for the Summer" top the list in 2015's Best Hits list. Anything can happen, but "Blinding Lights" will definitely be Top 5 for sure on his best hit songs of 2020
It might be Everything I Wanted, since the album that's from isn't out yet
@@felixcroc It's actually on the reissue for the recent album.
Okay...Here's My List...(so far)
i'm weird so..don't be surprised if strange stuff pops up
1. Tennis - Swimmer (Very Underrated Tbh)
2. Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia (I Like To Dance)
3. Honey Harper -- Starmaker (Surprised Mark Hasn't Covered This...Seriously Amazing Singer-Songwriter Alt-Country)
4. Hayley Williams - Petals for Armor (Big Paramore Fan...So...)
5. Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters (Not A Masterpiece In My Eyes...But Still Insanely Great)
6. COIN - Dreamland (Sad Jon from ARTV Didn't Wanna Cover This One...Cause It's Really Good)
7. Carly Rae Jepsen - Dedicated Side B (It's Great)
8. Day Wave - Crush (It May Only Be An EP but...i still love it)
9. Conan Gray - Kid Krow (Definitely Not For Everyone As Mark's Review Proved But...I liked It)
and lastly...
10. Drake Bell - The Lost Album (Yes It's Drake from Drake & Josh, Yes I Found It While Listening To Another Drake and Yes It Sounds Exactly Like What You Think It Would...But That's Not A Bad Thing?)
Overall...this year has sucked so a majority of what i've liked has ranged from fun to emotionally potent.
wow...my list is all over the place...and not a single Hip Hop Album..yikes.
I’m glad someone liked the Drake Bell record too!
@@Karthik_Tiruv99 ohh finally...yeah i liked it
Miss Anthropocene is probably my album of the year so far, please someone tell me I'm not a idiot.
You're Not. Like What You Like.
I take a wild guess and say that Spanish Love Songs will be somewhere on the list. Maybe like in top 5, just a gut feeling, you know)
Feel like it'll just barely beat Southside for the top spot
It's his #1. It's the album of the year.
I like the new angle. Spanish Love Songs- Brave Faces Everyone is a top AOTY for sure.
Just judging from the album covers on the thumbnail, this ought to be good. Also, my no. 1 so far is probably Porridge Radio - Every Bad
1. RTJ4
2. Endless Wound- Black Curse
3. Rebirth by Blasphemy- Midnight
4. Price of tea in China- Boldy james
5. Ruin- Foretoken (this is a tiny band and rumor is that they just got signed to a label, check em out if you can! ffo: 90s swedish melodeath, old in flames, with a blackened twist)
6. Brave faces everyone- Spanish Love Songs
7. Alfredo- Freddie Gibbs + Alchemist
8. ForcesWithYou- Clear Soul Forces
9. Four Dimensional Flesh- Afterbirth
10. SAWAYAMA
Oh and for some songs:
Fall From Grace- Paradise Lost
Mind Freeze- Haunt
The Wereworm’s Feast- Black Dahlia Murder
Sacred Safe- Quelle Chris
Walking in the snow- RTJ4
Revenge- ACxDCx
Stench of Decay- Necrot
Who’s gonna save u now- sawayama
Mark talking about music he loves is my favorite Mark
My favorite records of the year so far:
Spanish Love Songs - Brave, Faces, Everyone
Boston Manor - Glue
Hot Milligan - You’ll Be Fine
Green Day - Father of All....
Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia
Watsky - Placement
Bad Cop/Bad Cop - The Ride
Thick - 5 Years Behind
Alkaline Trio - E.P.
Hopefully I get to add Creeper’s new album to this list. My favorite song of the year is by far Aries by Gorillaz.
Green Day was awful
Dashie41 I liked it a bunch personally. Not their best by mile though.
Only recently listening to the great albums of 2020 (Race between 'Brave Faces Everyone' & 'RTJ4' for the best), so instead of albums, here are a bunch of tracks from different albums up for contention for my best songs list in no particular order:
'Desole' - Gorillaz ft. Fatoumata Diawara (Song Machine, Ep. 2)
'Momentary Bliss' - Gorillaz ft. slowthai & Slaves (Song Machine, Episode 1)
'10k Hours' - Jhene Aiko ft. Nas (Chilombo)
'She' - Floral Tattoo (You Can Never Have A Long Enough Head Start)
'Trillionaire' - Future ft. YoungBoy Never Broke Again (High Off Life)
'PTSD' - G Herbo ft. Juice WRLD, Chance The Rapper, & Lil' Uzi Vert (PTSD)
'Faith' - The Weeknd (After Hours)
'More Hearts Than Mine' - Ingrid Andress (Lady Like)
'Righteous' - Juice WRLD (The Outsiders)
'Phone Bill' - Boldy James & The Alchemist (The Price Of Tea In China)
''Cosmic'.m4a' - Denzel Curry & Kenny Beats (UNLOCKED)
'Trouble With Forever' - Little Big Town (Nightfall)
'Resentment' - Kesha ft. Sturgill Simpson, Brian Wilson, & Wrabel (High Road)
'Run' - Joji (Nectar)
'Losers 2' - Spanish Love Songs (Brave Faces Everyone)
'The Song Of Hiawatha' - Dzo-nga (Thunder In The Mountains)
'Nice To Meet Ya' - Niall Horan (Heartbreak Weather)
'Houdini Didn't Like Spiritualists' - Terry Allen & The Panhandle Mystery Band ft. Shannon McNally (Just Like Moby Dick)
'Levitating' - Dua Lipa (Future Nostalgia)
'RASCAL' - RMR (DRUG DEALING IS A LOST ART)
'Level Of Concern' - twenty one pilots (Single)
'a few words for the firing squad (radiation)' - Run The Jewels ft. Matt Sweeney & A$AP Ferg (RTJ4)
'One Night Standards' - Ashley McBryde (Never Will)
So proud of Gabe Lee! Probably the only album I've ever liked "Before it was cool"
I wish I could say me too but I owe Grady for that one.
I haven't listened to a ton of albums this year and I'm pretty behind on Mark's country recommendations (which are usually fantastic), but here's my list so far:
1. RTJ 4 - Run The Jewels
2. SAWAYAMA - Rina Sawayama
3. Punisher - Phoebe Bridgers
4. After Hours - The Weeknd
5. Fetch The Bolt Cutters - Fiona Apple
Best Albums So Far Of 2020:
15. Selena Gomez- Rare
14. My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising Soundtrack
13. Niahl Horan- Heartbreak Weather
12. Hayley Williams- Petals For Armor
11. Louis Tomlinson- Walls
10. Mandy Moore- Sliver Landings
9. Dan Mason- Forever Nothing
8. Charli XCX- How I'm feeling now
7. Kesha- The High Road
6. The Weeknd- After Hours
5. Poppy- I Disagree
4. Run The Jewels- RTJ4
3. Dua Lipa- Future Nostagia
2. Tame Impala- The Slow Rush
1. Nostraightanswer- specters
Love that you put Walls. So underrated.
My top 5 so far:
1. Run the Jewels- RTJ4
2. Protest the Hero- Palimpsest
3. Code Orange- Underneath
4. Riz Ahmed- The Long Goodbye
5. Spanish Love Songs- Brave Faces Everyone
EDIT: 69th comment oh yeah
I'm glad someone liked Code Orange and Protest The Hero
Best Songs So Far Of 2020
15. Nostraightanswer- Till The World Stops Burning
14. Sam Smith- To Die For
13. Steven Universe- I'd Rather Be Me (With You)
12. Dua Lipa- Hallucinate
11. Lady Gaga & Elton John- Sine From Above
10. Kesha, Strugill Simpson, Brian Wilson & Wrabel- Resentment
9. Demi Lovato- Anyone
8. The Weeknd- Blinding Lights
7. STARRYSKY- Aelita
6. Aly & AJ- Attack On Panic
5. Nostraightanswer- lies in their blood
4. Run The Jewels- walking in the snow
3. Tame Impala- One More Year
2. Dixie Chicks- Gaslighter
1. ALI- Wildlife
Luv how Blinding lights is in here
Top 5 hip-hop albums of the year so far:
1. Run The Jewels - RTJ4
2. Quelle Chris & Chris Keys - Innocent Country 2
3. Royce da 5'9" - The Allegory
4. Rjd2 - The Fun Ones
5. Skyzoo & Dumbo Station - The Bluest Note
Good list
I missed it but great video!
No one asked but my top few albums are:
1. SAWAYAMA - Rina Sawayama (get on the Rina train y'all)
2. RTJ4 - Run The Jewels (there was so much of the album that is strikingly relevant today)
3. Alfredo - Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist (I just found myself repeating this over and over)
4. The New Abnormal - The Strokes (I found it a nice return to what they are good at, but I can understand why some won't like it as much)
5. Neo Zone - NCT 127 (k-pop, but seriously probably some of the best pop instrumentation and production I've heard this year and should be given a listen)
Calling it now: Blinding Lights and Physical will be on the list
And don't even get me started on Honky Tonk Hell and Reunions!!!!!!!
Guess i was wrong about Physical. Ah well, Love Again is still deserving
Unless you add "Hit" to that title, Blinding Lights shouldn't be eligible.
Can you really call a song that dropped in 2019 one of the best songs of 2020?
@@mariokarter13 It was on an album that came out in 2020 which is why Mark counts it.
Same thing for "When the Party's Over" which came out in 2018 but its album came out in 2019 so it qualified for his 2019 list.
@Dog-Ears with Dylan Does not correlate to being on this list specifically. Although I'm shocked "911" is not on here, you'll see his opinion on "Rain On Me" when it inventively makes the Best Hit Songs list of 2020.
I like the angle but maybe you could make the album covers a bit smaller
1. Another Country - Dreamcrusher
2. More Songs about Drowning - Cremation Lily
3. Systema Munditotius vol. 1 - Jeremiah Cymerman
4. 2017-2019 - Against All Logic
5. Fortunate Isolation - Borusiade
6. Ghostophonia - Silent Strike and Makunouchi Bento
7. Endless Detainment - Serpent Column
8. Scramblers - Container
9. Sparta - Psalm Zero
10. Gentle Grip - Public Practice
11. Panopticon! - Dreamcrusher
12. Cenizas - Nicolas Jaar
13. True Opera - Moor Jewlery
14. III - Auscultation
15. Negro - Pink Siifu
When Mark puts your four favorite albums of the year so far in the honorable mentions.
I keep coming back to Spanish Love Songs too.
You do love your country. It’s practically a best country list.
I only have 5
1 Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin
2 Cryptic Shift - Visitations from Enceladus
3 Protest The Hero - Palimpsest and Code Orange - Underneath
4 Wormhole - The Weakest Among Us
5 Sepultura - Quadra
Other album from bands
Sylosis
Caligula Horse
Symbolik
Ulcerate
Fiona Apple
Testament
Havok
Afterbirth
My Top 15 Midyear
Lil Uzi Vert- Eternal Atake
Don Toliver- Heaven or Hell
Future- High Off Life
YSN Flow- Flow $ZN
Key Glock- Yellow Tape
Gunna- WUNNA
BigBabyGucci- Teen Spirit (an underrated album EVERYONE needs to listen to please do)
Rod Wave- Pray 4 Love
Lil Gotit- Hood Baby 2
Fredo Bang- Most Hated
Lil Baby- My Turn
Duke Deuce- Memphis Massacre 2
Lil Wayne- Funeral
RMR- DRUG DEALING IS A LOST ART EP
Comethazine- Pandemic
13 is my favorite number...but i had to give a like and make it 14
The new camera angle is...okay.
2010s top albums list please
As of late May 2020, he completed part 1 of 3 for his "Top 50 Best Albums of the 2010s Decade" list, that part taking 5 months alone. It will be quite a while until the full list is completely refined: twitter.com/SpectrumPulse/status/1264983616569905152
Your Niall Horan pick is getting no discourse or controversy from me. It's a good album. He's a good artist. 🤷
I like this camera angle
Punisher by Pheobe Bridgers is my #1 so far, haven't heard an indie album that compelling in years.
I Know the End is soty material
@@elyy0345 I think ICU just edges it out for me on a personal level but they're both very likely to place in my top 10
@@ahri3887 I was just listening to the whole album and I gotta say Punisher is a great great song too. Kyoto and Chinese Satellite are highlights for me.
Genuinely surprised murder most foil didn't make the songs list
Just based on how much you did seem to like that cut
Any particular reason that you're not listing your favorite songs from each album anymore? I used to find those useful, let me sample the album to see if I would like it all the way through
I'm surprised Just Like Moby Dick isn't on the list even for individual songs. I really dig that album, especially Houdini Didn't Like the Spiritualist
Out of the ballads on High Road, Resentment might be my least favorite, I prefer Cowboy Blues and Chasing Thunder, it’s still absolutely amazing though.
Under the Table is the song of the year and I won't shut up!
Uh, yeah!
Jhene Aiko: *Literally takes a fat, steaming shit*
Mark: "It has such an emotional potency that I could have never found anywhere else. There are so many textures and layers to unravel and learn more about as I listen to it more and more; in other words, its a strong 8 out of 10 and definitely a recommendation"
"i dare you to show me better rap music in 2020."
brb, making an album as my alter ego, lil tax evader...
I'm left thinking he alluded that mainstream hip-hop this year kinda struggled and despite positive reviews from the underground, none are touching the power of RTJ. Also, why not troll those white boys propping Lil Uzi Vert.
BLACKENED 2020
I'm actually sad that Dylan Slocum's voice doesn't work for me. I see how it might work for other people, but those little mid-syllable flutters he does are really distracting and I don't particularly love his overall sound, either. Shame, because SLS sounds like a really good band, but I can kind of picky about lead singers.
STROKES STROKES STROKES STROKES STROKES
bro whole lotta red isnt even out you can’t put it at all 15 spots
LOOK AT ALL THESE $LAVEMASTER$ POSIN' ON YO DOLLAR
niall horan above fiona apple yeah BYE!
I don't listen to either artist, but Fiona Apple has the longetivity, Niall doesn't. But, it's his opinion I guess.
vegetable cutters
what percentage of this is country music.. just wanna know so i can complain about bias
Going by that list, 2020 has not been a good year. Not a single album that challenges the listener and/or shows us a new direction. Mainstream and mediocrity prevail.
MTBMB shoulda been on here but Mark hates Marshal to the point he tweeted out wanting Joe Budden to end his career.
I don't think he hates Em. I think he's tired of being disappointed for an artist who held promise over 3 consecutive albums. I feel for him. To have someone introduce you to a specific art form and to be connected to their music to get through dark times in your childhood and adolescent, it hits man.
For me, I just got into Em's music and I'm left thinking that no one is talking about his new album as we speak even the fact that "Godzilla" made the year-end list.