Albums of the Year: 2020!
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- Against our better judgement we are here to relive 2020. Put on your mask and come hang out as we discuss our fave LPs of this incredible year.
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2020 was the starting point for exponential growth of my vinyl collection for some obvious reasons😅! Here my top 10:
Fontaines DC - A Hero’s Death
Bob Dylan - Rough and Rowdy Ways
Lucinda Williams - Good Souls Better Angels
Kvelertak - Splid
Sweet Reaper - Closer still
Agnes Obel - Myopia
Fake Names - Fake Names
The Good The Bad And The Zugly - Algorithm & Blues
BRKN LOVE - BRKN LOVE
Rong Kong Koma - Lebe dein Traum (indie punk rock from Berlin)
Here’s my list!
1: Chubby and the gang - speed kills
Fantastic 1977 Britishy sounding punk
2: Morons Morons - looking for danger!
Great dirty garage punk!
3. Schizos - Schizos
Great degenerate raw sounding garage punk
4. Uni Boys - it’s a tie! Between there first two albums, heavy hearty and rock n roll music.
Sort of slightly Glammy punky power pop
5. Satanic Togas - X Ray Vision
Synth punk weirdness
6. The Reflectors - First impressions
Good modern power pop!
7. Research Reactor Corp - Findings of
Very residents sounding but much more distorted and aggressive
Hello Everyone! Here we go.
My top 10 albums of 2020 with fave song:
1. The Big Moon - Walking Like We Do (A Hundred Ways to Land)
2. Wolf Parade - Thin Mind (Wandering Son)
3. The Airborne Toxic Event - Hollywood Park (All the Children)
4. Ratboys - Printer's Devil (Alien With a Sleep Mask On)
5. Beach Bunny - Honeymoon (Cuffing Season)
6. Bad Moves - Untenable (Fog is a Funny Thing)
7. Dream Wife - So When You Gonna (Rh Rn)
8. Porridge Radio - Every Bad (Sweet)
9. The Pretenders - Hate For Sale (I Didn't Know When to Stop)
10. Grimes - Miss Anthropocene (My Name is Dark)
Misc fave songs:
AC/DC - Through the Mists of Time
Cloud Nothings - An Average World
Hinds - Boy
U.S. Girls - The Quiver to the Bomb
Well awwwlright! As always lookin' forward to checkin' out the video and all yer lists.
Naughty/NV(G) - At Your Service 😎
We got one twinsie moment. That’s something. Great debut by them.
@@NaughtyVampire-zf8pd So many I haven’t heard of, Naughty and lovely to see an old fave too, with The Pretenders still doing their thing!
Thank you as always for sharing your knowledge and sending best wishes from the UK!
@@jb8280 Hey JB. Yeah. Good one. 😀
@@christianewen3227 Hey Christian! Happy Friday, my friend. 🙂 Yeah. I was pleasantly surprised that this late-era Pretenders album sounded so good.
At least three of my top 10 faves this time are UK bands - including AOTY.
Have a fantastic weekend and we will talk soon.
@@NaughtyVampire-zf8pd Happy Friday to you too, Naughty and it’s brilliant to hear of some UK bands making your list! The Pretenders are so good, aren’t they? I adore their 1980 self-titled debut to this very day ❤️🎶
REM did Draggin' The Line and it was Niiiiiiiiice
I totally get the frustration when you miss an album that woulda been on the list for sure
Hey, everyone. Yeah, I can't get into 2020 either. Indeed the end of the world. Been downhill ever since, really. I did manage, though, to get a list of FOUR albums for the year (three of which, of course, are by "legacy artists"), so here goes:
4. Rough And Rowdy Ways - Bob Dylan
3. McCartney III - Paul McCartney (Actually, Jesse McCartney. Ha, remember him? Anyway, yeah, Macca's voice isn't what it used to be, but since these are new songs and it's part of a trilogy of albums where he was basically goofing around and experimenting in his studio, it works. At least for me, it does. I actually ended up ranking it as my favorite of his proper solo albums, meaning as opposed to with anything with Wings. Yes, I liked it that much. Go figure. Could it be because it was 2020? Not ruling that out.)
2. Songs For General Pubic, er, For The Pubes, er, General Public - The Lemon Twigs (Are the general public and the pubes sort of the same thing? Nevermind. Yes, I agree with you Paul that they would get WAY better after this, but this is certainly a good album nonetheless.)
1. Letter To You - Bruce Springsteen (I do prefer Bruce with a band more than him on his own. Btw, that was Girls In Their Summer Clothes Paul and Tommy were referring to, which is off Bruce's 2007 album Magic, which I think is his most underrated album which I'm sure I commented about for the 2007 albums video. Letter To You is his second best of his later albums for me.)
James Hunter a white British singer with a black soulful voice. Oh, like Rick Astley? ;)
Alice Cooper had his own chocolate milk? Never knew that. Kudos to him since usually when a rock star like him releases some sort of drink, it's usually either booze or coffee. Maybe when you get to 2024, you can just let RUclips put in ad breaks at those spots, huh? Ha!
Perhaps if Cherie Currie and Joan Jett can get along despite their differing political views, they can probably make some music along with Lita, though I say without Sandy West, it certainly isn't the Runaways. And I highly doubt Jackie Fox would wanna participate as well.
SO right on about Steven Tyler. Bless him and the rest of Aerosmith.
Forgot to mention this in my comment for your favorite/least favorite vocalists video, but I just find it interesting that Crystal put Judy Garland on her least favorites list and yet put Judy at Carnegie on her list of favorite 1961 albums. Ha.
And now, it's favorite guitarists coming up. I have a no. 1 but I doubt many will like it. One reason that it isn't Hendrix (all due respect to him) but also because of some of the stuff this guitarist has been saying as of late (as well as crap he'd said many years ago which he has seen apologized for and seemed to mean it) and certain causes he's been supporting which I for one don't support nor agree with myself, but still think he is or was a dynamite guitarist. Just a warning in case I decide to put together a list of top 10 guitarists next week. Ha. See 'yas then. :)
I suspect the guitarist you’re talking about is one who does pop up in the video…but not where you’d expect
Well awlright!
Here’s my list for 2020…
1 Jarv Is - ‘Beyond the Pale’ (‘Must I Evolve?’)
2 - Muzz - ‘Muzz’ (‘Red Western Sky’)
And that’s that! Short and sweet 🍬
One of these albums I was into at the time, and the other I discovered only this year… I’m very happy I did 😊❤️🎶
Looking forward to having a nosey at all the lists in this fab community!
Best wishes,
Christian
Two? I forgot about Muzz. I have it but don’t go back to it much, much like The Strokes. Top twenty list maybe. Hope something on my top ten gets a quizzical eyebrow raise. Did you ever list to that song “Protected from the Rain” by Grandaddy? It came on randomly yesterday and man, I still love it.
@@jb8280 JB! I’ve missed you, mate! Would love to see your fave vocalist list from last week’s vid, and I do hope you’re keeping well 😊
My list would have been one had it not been for our awesome Michele! She introduced me to ‘Muzz’ earlier in the year through ‘Red Western Sky’, and I went on to listen to the album and loved it.
I’ll definitely check out your list and get my eyebrows set to do my best Roger Moore impression 😂
I did indeed listen to ‘Protected by the Rain’ and I’m pretty sure I wrote to you at the time to say how much I absolutely loved it. Having said that, the comment functionality on YT can be very temperamental, so maybe it never got through? 🤔 It’s a beautiful song and I’ve played it a good few times since you recommended it, so thank you very much indeed for such a brilliant suggestion 🙏
Have a great day and sending best wishes from the UK!
Hello Christian. I checked out Jarv Is - a great sound and nice throwback to the pinacle of Britpop. 😎 Your runner-up sounds great, too. (I believe this was Michele's top pick.) Well awwwlright . . . Later, my friend.
@@NaughtyVampire-zf8pd Hey, Naughty!
Great to hear from you, my friend and I hope you are getting all set for the weekend.
I am so pleased you listened to Jarv Is, which does indeed hark back to the halcyon days of Britpop. It is, in my opinion, a high point of Mr Cocker’s late-period career.
As for ‘Muzz’, it was Michele who introduced me to that album during one of our conversations earlier this year. I went on to listen to the whole album after discussing ‘Red Western Sky’ and I was very taken by it.
Always great to hear from you and looking forward to catching up again soon!
@@christianewen3227 Very nice! Showcasing a couple of my favorite songwriters and singers (ever) for 2020. 👏❤️🎶
2019 was so bad, I called in sick for that one. 2020 was a bit better. I cobbled together a complete list. Stuff I liked the and/or still listen to now(typically the top 3)…
HMs:
Gorillaz - Song Machine
Yves Tumor - Heaven to a Tortured Mind
Sports Team - Deep Down Happy
The Innocence Mission - See You Tomorrow
Haim - Women in Music III
10. Morrissey - I am not a Dog on a Chain
9. The Weeknd - After Hours
8. Working Men’s Club - s/t
7. Nation of Language - Introduction/Presence
6. Fontaines D.C. - A Hero’s Death
5. Porridge Radio - Every Bad
4. Doves - The Universal Want
3. Perfume Genius - Set Fire to my Heart…
2. The Flaming Lips - American Head
1. Tame Impala - The Slow Rush
@@jb8280 DOVES!!! 🕊️ The eyebrows have been well and truly raised, mate! I didn’t know they had an album out in 2020, so that’s one I’ll have to check out when I get some time. There’s other names I recognise too - even a few old faves - so this looks, as always, to be an excellent list 👍🏻👍🏻
@@jb8280 Hi JB! Love your list. You always manage to find cool stuff with those ears of yours. Hope you continue to list fave albums for the rest of the 2020s. I think I’ve mentioned this before, but if you haven’t heard it, please listen to “Your Body Changes Everything” Boy Harsher/Perfume Genius mashup immediately!
I’m well aware of that remix. I’m actually not a fan. There is something about the key or something. The time of their layers don’t match the darker tone of PG’s lower register vocal. I don’t think it meshes well. I like them both of course, but that mix not so much.
“Carousels” is the Doves track to start with. It signifys they are back!!!!
Time? Tone. Tone of their layers…
My Top 10 Albums of 2020!
1. The Reflectors - First Impression (newcomers to my rankings! Expect more of them in the future! ;D)
2. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
3. The Beths - Jump Rope Gazers
4. The Yum Yums - For Those About to Pop!
5. Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters
6. Young Gun Silver Fox - Canyons
7. Haim - Women in Music Pt. III
8. Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings - Just Dropped In…
9. Adrianne Lenker - songs
10. Jessie Ware - What’s Your Pleasure?
Honorable mentions:
Blue Öyster Cult - The Symbol Remains
The James Hunter Six - Nick of Time
Los Retros - Everlasting
Perfume Genius - Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
Bob Dylan - Rough and Rowdy Ways
Thundercat - It is What it is
Future Islands - As Long as You Are
Dishonorable mentions:
Taylor Swift - Folklore
Meghan Trainor - TREAT MYSELF
Theory of a Deadman - Say Nothing
Justin Bieber - Changes
Danzig - Danzig Sings Elvis
Bon Jovi - Bon Jovi 2020 (I agree with the politics on it, but gawd it seems so hokey and forced)
Worst of the year:
Psycho Sexual - Torch the Faith (Another one of the worst albums I’ve ever heard. Made by the former drummer of Five Finger Death Punch, and it’s gross and creepy and horrible…gawd it sucks ass!)
Interesting stuff!
I dig the reflectors pick, have you heard their new one? It’s actually the one that got me into the band. It’s a top ten so far for me in 2024
@@robforzese5496 As a matter of fact, I have! And, you bet your ass it’s going on my 2024 list! :3
Reflectors yeah!!! Been meaning to check out yum yums
Nothing to do with 2020... but one cannot argue with the new Bruno Gaga colab... and was Silk Sonic 2021 or 2022
album-wise? hmmmmmm 🤔🤔🤔🤔.... pretty sure Tommy and Crystal are gonna be bigging that offering up!
I have album lists from 1978 - 1994 and then we have a huge gap until yes 2020, I will fill in those years, they are all years where I bought albums more than most of the years I have lists. So anyway , not sure this list will mean much to you guys never know.
1 Fake It Flowers beabadoobee
2 Sex, Death & the Infinite Void Creeper (One for Tommy!!)
3 Brave Faces Everyone Spanish Love Songs
4 A Celebration of Endings Biffy Clyro
5 Never Not Together Nada Surf
6 In Sickness & in Flames The Front Bottoms
7 Seeking Thrills Georgia
8 Women in Music Pt. III HAIM
9 Zeros Declan McKenna
10 Sideways to New Italy Rolling Blackouts C.F.
Looking at other posters The 1975, Phoebe Bridgers, Tame Impala made my top 20
that Alice Cooper ad was insane
like a covid fever dream
Right?
I saw Cherie Currie at a street fest 20 yrs ago and her voice sounded good, nice to know she wrote some good music since then. Dig Daniel Romano's Outfit, and yet that one is at #222 on my list. James Hunter is great, #728, Young Gun Silver Fox, is, uh, #1090. It's pretty good! Dua Lipa #1335, so I have some reservations, but still not bad. Just goes to show that there's, like every year, a lot of good music. I don't expect y'all to be into the heavy psych prog of Motorpsycho and Elder, but there's tons of great albums and I guarantee you're missing more than just ten albums (unless you're talking about candidates for your top 10).
1. Motorpsycho - The All Is One
2. Elder - Omens
3. The Sonic Dawn - Enter The Mirage
4. Molassess - Through The Hollow
5. Colour Haze - We Are
6. Protomartyr - Ultimate Success Today
7. Spectres - Nostalgia
8. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Sideways To New Italy
9. Custard Flux - Oxygen
10. Spirit Adrift - Enlightened in Eternity
11. Coriky - Coriky
12. Elephant Stone - Hollow
13. Bambara - Stray
Slift - Ummon
Rick Hromadka - Better Days
Nothing - The Great Dismal
Algiers - There Is No Year
Lord Buffalo - Tohu Wa Bohu
Transit Method - The Madness
Causa Sui - Szabodelico
Sweven - The Eternal Resonance
We Here Now - The Chikipunk Years EP
All Them Witches - Nothing As the Ideal
Gulch - Impenetrable Cerebral Fortress
Vincas - Phantasma
The Blinders - Fantasies of a Stay at Home Psychopath
The Pink Moon - Cosmic Heart Attack
The Primevals - Second Nature
Ulcerate - Stare Into Death And Be Still
Pottery - Welcome To Bobby’s Motel
Bubblin' Under: Lucifer, Rose City Band, Fassine, Katie Gately, The Resonars.
Paulcore: The Sonic Dawn, Rick Hromadka, Elephant Stone, Pink Moon, The Resonars, Paul Molloy, The White Kites, Mother Island, The Hanging Stars, Emil, White Denim, The Galileo 7. Rick Hromadka is the guy behind LA power pop band Maple Mars, Paul Molloy is from The Coral, Emil is from The Sonic Dawn.
Crystalcore: Protomartyr, Spectres, Nothing, Algiers, We Here Now, Shopping, SAULT.
Tommycore: Spirit Adrift, Lucifer, Eternal Champion, High Spirits, Wytch Hazel.
I don't normaly waste time on the negative but I will mention, since someone else mentioned Danzig Sings Elvis, that it's on the bottom of my list along with The 1975 - Notes on a Conditional Form.
Impressive list as usual, Fast. 😀
While I agree that there is always--ALWAYS--good music, I'm starting to run on fumes for my list... I don't know how many more full lists I'll be able to crank out.... You want proof? Here's my top ten for 2020:
10. McCartney III, Paul McCartney (see what I mean?)
9. In the Key of Joy, Sergio Mendes
8. Migration Stories, M Ward
7. Phantom Birds, Matt Barry
6. Agora, Bebel Gilberto
5. Notes on a Conditional Form, The 1975
4. Hey Clockface, Elvis Costello
3. Apart Together, Tim Minchin
2. I’d Rather Lead a Band, Loudon Wainwright III
1. Canyons, Young Gun Silver Fox
Bebel Gilberto could sing the phone book and she'll make my top ten. Just so you know...
I feel like you're STILL doing better than I am!
@@tommyvonvoigt5240😂
My top 10 albums of 2020:
(*and fave tracks)
We’re still living in this year’s shadow, but
music brought so much light to my little world. 🤍
1. Muzz - Muzz (Red Western Sky)
2. Choir Boy - Gathering Swans (Complainer)
3. The Strokes - The New Abnormal (Eternal Summer)
4. IAMX - Echo Echo (Surrender - Acoustic)
5. HMLTD - West Of Eden (To the Door)
6. Rufus Wainwright - Unfollow the Rules (Damsel In Distress)
7. Jonathan Bree - After The Curtains Close (Kiss My Lips - feat. Princess Chelsea)
8. Glass Animals - Dreamland (Waterfalls Coming Out Your Mouth)
9. Public Memory - Ripped Apparition (Midsummer Shadow)
10. Nation Of Language - Introduction, Presence (On Division St) TIE 👔 Future Islands - As Long As You Are (For Sure)
HMs:
1. Jessie Ware - What’s Your Pleasure? (title track)
2. Run The Jewels - RTJ4 (JU$T)
3. The Killers - Imploding The Mirage (My Own Soul’s Warning)
4. Rey Pila - Velox Veritas (Let It Burn)
5. Working Men’s Club - Working Men’s Club (Valleys)
Songs:
Trevor Something - Devil In Disguise
Alison Mosshart - It Ain’t Water
Angel Olsen - All Mirrors (Johnny Jewel remix)
La Femme - Cool Colorado
AWOLNATION - The Best (feat. Alice Merton)
TRZTN - Black Exit (feat. Paul Banks)
PVRIS, 070 Shake - Use Me
Deeper - Esoteric
Ela Minus - dominique
The Flaming Lips - My Religion Is You
Orville Peck - Summertime
MARINA - Man’s World
Chromatics - Teacher
ADULT. - Why Always Why
Cage The Elephant - Broken Boy (feat. Iggy Pop)
Starbender - Holy Mother
Destroyer - Cue Synthesizer
Mark Lanegan - Skeleton Key
IDLES - Grounds
Jarvis Cocker - Sometimes I Am Pharaoh
Black Lips - Get It On Time
All Them Witches - Saturnine & Iron Jaw
Ulver - Machine Guns and Peacock Feathers
At least we know about Nation of Language. Great start. Their third album got some notice…I wish they expand their sound a bit. Deeper wider more layers…
@@jb8280 Hi JB! ‘Strange Disciple’ was my favorite release last year. I love it! Missed you last time, glad you’re back. 😊
@@michelewiese48 Well I have one in common with you from my grand list of two, Michele 😉
A good number of names I recognise, but not at all familiar with the albums. I shall have a think as to which I will select for the weekend’s assignment, and report back anon 😊👍🏻
I can tell from what bits and pieces I have heard by these bands/artists - and from all your previous lists - that this is a very carefully curated selection, straight from the musical heart ❤️🎶
Hi Michele. Impressive album/song lists for 2020! 😀 About 80% unfamiliar territory . . . As always, i will get back to you after listening to your selections. No sames but the Killers album may also have been an HM for me if I had some more time with it. Talk to you later! Naughty. 😎
@@NaughtyVampire-zf8pd Good morning, Naughty! Thank you! The emotional weight of 2020 definitely plays a part in the affection I have for these albums. I hope you hear something new that inspires you. I respect The Killers for their ability to really change it up musically even if I don’t love everything they’ve done. “My Own Soul’s Warning” is an uplifting anthem whenever I hear it. Hope you have a great weekend!
Well awwright...hello my fellow music lovers! Happy Thursday to y'all!! So what are we talking about today...oh no! 2020...ugh!! I can go through this. I've made it in the 2000s and 2010s, I can go through 2020. So today I have 1 honorable mention and my top 5 (it's 2020, I needed something to put on my list.) Oh and my worst of 2020 as well. So let's go through this together...
Honorable Mention:
Eminem - Music To Be Murdered By (though some songs are meh but like AC/DC, it came out of nowhere and everyone was talking about it)
My Top 5:
5. Melanie C - Melanie C (yes I put Sporty Spice on my list but it is a great album.)
4. Huey Lewis & The News - Weather (Amazing album)
3. Sparks - A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip (love those Mael brothers)
2. The Psychedelic Furs - Made In Rain (I agree with everything you said Paul)
And my number one album of 2020 is:
1. The Weeknd - After Hours (now I'm not the biggest fan of The Weeknd but with this album really blew my mind when he was going for the 80s New Wave sound. Especially with Blinding Lights).
Now onto my all time favorite, the worst of 2020:
Danzing - Danzig Sings Elvis
Anything by Taylor Swift
Anything by Meghan Trainor
Anything by Ariana Grande
Lil Wayne - Funeral
Anything by Theory
Anything by BTS (ugh!)
And the worst of 2020 goes to:
ANYTHING BY MEGAN THEE STALLION (I CANNOT STAND HER! She's not beautiful, she's terrible, she's garbage...why is she famous? Trust me, I have more female rappers in the next couple years I will discuss not in a good way).
Glad I got that out of my chest. That's my list and can't wait to see everyone's picks of 2020 (good luck lol)
How did I miss Sparks?
I need a nap😫
@@djcrystalclear8169 It's okay homie. I didn't know that they came out with an album in 2020 until I was doing my homework last weekend.
@@UniversalBlackRocker Hope you have had a great week, my friend! Great to see your list and excellent news that both Sparks and The Psychedelic Furs released albums in 2020!
Best wishes,
Christian
@@christianewen3227 Hey Christian my friend!! Didn't really have a great week but was happy to be here with y'all though. Thank you so much. I knew about the Furs album but with Sparks, around last weekend I was digging up what was released around 2020 and saw their name, listening to the album and they blew me away. Cheers, Damar
@@UniversalBlackRocker Hey, Damar! Great to hear from you, my friend and many thanks for taking the time to write back 🙏
I am sorry to hear your week wasn’t the best, but hearing you’re happy to be here, on AISB, with your community of fellow music fans, makes me happy too 😊 Let’s hope next week is a better one 👍🏻
Sparks are such a special band! Their consistency levels over so many years is truly remarkable, and I am delighted they made your list for 2020.
Best wishes,
Christian
My favorite 2020 album :
Myrkur - Folkesange
least favorite : Anvil - Legal At Last !
The Beths, I wanna check that out!
having grown up in the 60s and 70s, then being an adult thru the 80s and 90s-i really haven't heard much that impressed me in this or the last decade. damn shame. seems like there aren't many musicians anymore just computerized crap. so sad.
but i do enjoy you guys, i have found a little hope in stuff you have mentioned.
You guys need a 20 something/low 30s year old intern doing list with y'all, for real.
He’s camera shy.
We told them all to get off our lawn and now they just try to shout their favorite albums from the sidewalk but we can't hear them clearly enough