December 22, 20205 yr Pearl Jam - Gigaton Brian Fallon - Local Honey My Morning Jacket - Waterfall II Futurebirds - Teamwork Water Liars - Roll On (recorded in 2015 but finally released) Other Lives - For Their Love The Nude Party - Midnight Manor Sylvan Esso - Free Love Sturgill Simpson - Cuttin' Grass Vol. 1 & 2 (yes, they're compilations of old songs but still great)
December 22, 20205 yr bahamas - sad hunk sturgill - cuttin grass strokes - new abnormal gorillaz - song machine vol 1 ac/dc - power up nathaniel rateliff - and its still alright dan deacon - mystic familiar hamilton leithauser - the loves of your life lori mckenna - the balladeer no particular order and only 9.
December 24, 20205 yr i'm listening to Fetch The Bolt Cutters by Fiona Apple right now because of the hype. this has to be the consensus best album of the year according to critics. the reviews are off the charts. Metacritic has it at 98 out of 100. i'm digging it a lot. Publications' year-end list appearances for Fetch the Bolt Cutters Critic/Publication List Rank Ref AllMusic AllMusic Best of 2020 N/A [48] BBC The Best Albums and Songs of 2020 N/A [49] Beats Per Minute Top 50 Albums of 2020 5 [50] Billboard Top 50 Best Albums of 2020 7 [51] Consequence of Sound Top 50 Albums of 2020 1 [52] Complex Best Albums of 2020 27 [53] Double J Top 50 Albums of 2020 2 [54] The Economist The Best Albums of 2020 N/A [55] Entertainment Weekly The 15 best albums of 2020 1 [56] Exclaim! Exclaim!'s 50 Best Albums of 2020 2 [57] Forbes The Best of Music in 2020 1 [58] The Guardian Top 50 best albums of 2020 1 [59] HUMO These are Humo's 20 best records of 2020! 4 [60] The Line of Best Fit Top 50 Albums of 2020 11 [61] The Los Angeles Times Top 10 Albums of 2020 2 [62] Louder Than War Top 50 Albums of 2020 10 [63] Metacritic Best Album of 2020 1 [64] Mojo Top 75 Albums of 2020 2 [65] The New York Times Best Albums of 2020 1 [66] NPR 50 Best Albums of 2020 2 [67] OOR End List 2020 8 [68] Paste The 50 Best Albums of 2020 1 [69] Pitchfork The 50 Best Albums of 2020 1 [70] The Plain Dealer Best Albums of 2020 2 [71] PopMatters The 60 Best Albums of 2020 2 [72] RNZ Best Of 2020: RNZ Music's Top 20 Albums 3 [73] Rolling Stone The 50 Best Albums of 2020 2 [74] The Skinny Top 10 Albums of 2020 1 [75] Slant Magazine Top 50 Albums of 2020 1 [76] Slate Best Albums of 2020 9 [77] Sonic 2020's Best Albums 8 [78] Stereogum The 50 Best Albums of 2020 1 [79] Time The 10 Best Albums of 2020 3 [80] Uproxx The Best Albums and Songs of 2020 2 [81] Vice The 100 Best Albums of 2020 5 [82] Vulture Top 10 Albums of 2020 1 [83] The Wire 50 Releases of 2020 (Rewind) 28 [84] Edited December 24, 20205 yr by Jive Turkey
December 24, 20205 yr Had a pretty thin list of 2020 releases that I enjoyed enough to revisit often. In particular, take a listen to Billy Nomates and City of the Sun. Billy Nomates - S/T Helicon - This Can Only Lead To Chaos Caroline Rose - Superstar Las Cobras - Selva The Texas Gentlemen - Floor It!!!! Tricky - Fall To Pieces City Of The Sun - Chapters I & II and Chapters III & IV NIHILS - AM/PM, Pt. 1 Eric Hilton - The Impossible Silence Annabelle Chairlegs - Gotta Be In Love Edited December 24, 20205 yr by CooterBrown
December 25, 20205 yr RTJ - RTJ 4 - hits hard as a mf Sturgill - Cuttin' Grass 1 & 2 are both terrific
December 28, 20204 yr Tom Petty- Wildflowers and All the Rest...there's an album worth of new material here, I'm counting it. Neil Young- Homegrown Nude Party- Midnight Manor Alex Maas- Luca Frankie and the Witch Fingers- Monsters Eating People Eating Monsters Fiona Apple- Fetch the Bolt Cutters Killer Whale- Tastes Like Yesterday Deftones- Ohms Other Lives- For Their Love Rickshaw Billie's Burger Patrol- Burger Babes From Outer Space
December 28, 20204 yr I never listen to enough full albums, but did grab & enjoy these in 2020: Fontaines D.C. - A Hero's Death Bartees Strange - Live Forever Boy Harsher - Careful Orville Peck - Show Pony (EP) Frank Ene - No Longer (EP) I trust the buzz on Taylor Swift and Sturgill, just haven't gotten to them yet
December 28, 20204 yr Crap ton of albums I really liked this year. The Top 10: Sturgill - Cuttin' Grass Vol 1 Lilly Hiatt - Walking Proof Jaime Wyatt - Neon Cross American Aquarium - Lamentations Drive-By Truckers - The Unraveling Kyle Nix - Lightning on the Mountain & Other Short Stories Lydia Loveless - Daughter Country Westerns - Country Westerns Arlo McKinley - Die Midwestern Brennen Leigh - Prairie Love Letter Honorable Mention: William Elliot Whitmore - I'm With You Gregg Hall & The Wrecking Ball - True Story Sturgill - Cuttin' Grass Vol 2 Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud Jesse Daniel - Rollin' On Old 97's - Twelth Margo Price - That's How Rumors Get Started Dawes - Good Luck With Whatever Corb Lund - Agricultural Tragic Mike & The Moonpies - Touch of You: The Lost Songs of Gary Steward John Baumann - Country Shade Waylon Payne - Blue Eyes, The Harlot, The Queer, The Pusher, and Me The Panhandlers - The Panhandlers Futurebirds - Teamwork Edited December 28, 20204 yr by Al_4_ISU
January 16, 20214 yr Missed this thread. Was always one of my favorites on TOS. 1. Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters 2. Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud 3. Perfume Genius - Set my Heart on Fire Immediately 4. Fleet Foxes - Shore 5. Adrianne Lenker - songs 6. Phoebe Bridges - Punisher Big Drop off... 7. Yves Tumor - Heaven To a Tortured Mind 8. Jeff Tweedy - Love is The King 9. Moses Sumney - grae 10. Taylor Swift - folklore
January 16, 20214 yr 1. the strokes - the new abnormal 2. the airborne toxic event - hollywood park 3. jason isbell - reunions 4. sturgill simpson - cuttin' grass vol 1. 5. fleet foxes - shore 6. taylor swift - evermore 7. matt berninger - serpentine prison 8. tame impala - the slow rush 9. taylor swift - folklore 10. nada surf - never not together
January 16, 20214 yr 27 minutes ago, BigOrange1 said: 1. the strokes - the new abnormal 2. the airborne toxic event - hollywood park 3. jason isbell - reunions 4. sturgill simpson - cuttin' grass vol 1. 5. fleet foxes - shore 6. taylor swift - evermore 7. matt berninger - serpentine prison 8. tame impala - the slow rush 9. taylor swift - folklore 10. nada surf - never not together Love the National, but I just could not get into Matt’s album. I need to revisit.
January 18, 20214 yr On 1/16/2021 at 12:49 PM, Reynolds Woodcock said: Love the National, but I just could not get into Matt’s album. I need to revisit. i'd recommend starting with this one:
March 25, 20214 yr On 1/16/2021 at 12:21 PM, BigOrange1 said: 5. fleet foxes - shore upon further reflection, i probably ranked this on too low. might be #1 or #2.
March 25, 20214 yr On 12/22/2020 at 1:29 PM, NOMAAA said: bahamas - sad hunk Been jamming this lately, It was a much better listen on the beach in the sun.
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