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So I wasn't sure if I should start a thread in Bang and Clatter about this topic as I didn't want to seem like I was using up too much space in the forum since I'm still a "newbie".

I really love making lists and at the end of every year I usually reflect back on the music and rank the albums I've purchased.

Thanks for reading guys :)

Here is a list of the albums I bought this year ranked in order of my Top 20 of 2014:

#1 U2 - Songs Of Innocence

#2 Bruce Springsteen - High Hopes

#3 Spoon - They Want My Soul

#4 The War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream

#5 Beck - Morning Phase

#6 The Black Keys - Turn Blue

#7 Pink Floyd - The Endless River

#8 Interpol - El Pintor

#9 Coldplay - Ghost Stories

#10 Embrace - Embrace

#11 Jack White - Lazaretto

#12 Rise Against - The Black Market

#13 Weezer - Everything Will Be Alright In The End

#14 The Arkells - High Noon

#15 The Gaslight Anthem - Get Hurt

#16 Big Wreck - Ghosts

#17 Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence

#18 Morrissey - World Peace Is None Of Your Business

#19 Future Islands - Singles

#20 Lykke Li - I Never Learn
 
Out of 209 albums:

1. The War on Drugs – Lost in the Dream
2. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Piñata
3. Beck – Morning Phase
4. St. Vincent - St. Vincent
5. Wild Beasts – Present Tense
6. Sun Kil Moon – Benji
7. The Antlers - Familiars
8. Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues
9. Spoon - They Want My Soul
10. A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Sea When Absent
11. Flying Lotus - You’re Dead!
12. Total Control - Typical System
13. Run the Jewels - RTJ2
14. The Soundcarriers - Entropicalia
15. Have a Nice Life – The Unnatural World
16. Isaiah Rashad – Cilvia Demo
17. BADBADNOTGOOD - III
18. Nothing - Guilty of Everything
19. Aphex Twin - Syro
20. Ought - More Than Any Other Day

I give everything I loved throughout the year re-listens in December, so I don't expect that order to stay the same, but I do think all of these are great records.
 
Based on what's on your list, I really think you should check out Wild Beasts (if you liked the chill soundscapes of Endless River and Ultraviolence) and Against Me (Gaslight Anthem, Rise Against) if you haven't already.
 
Thanks, I will check out Wild Beasts. Already a fan of Against Me! I only own New Wave and White Crosses though. I must have missed Transgender Dysphoria Blues this year but have just ordered it through Amazon after giving it a sample listen.

Side note: Enjoyed Against Me! on a punk rock bill with Rancid, My Chemical Romance and Blink 182.

Any others on the list I should look at?
 
Can't speak highly enough of Against Me live. I hadn't heard a note of their music before seeing them and immediately dug into their discography.

I totally missed that Future Islands was on your list, I'll add an exclamation point next to my Wild Beasts recommendation. Sonically, they have a lot in common. Also from the list, The Antlers, especially their Burst Apart album.
 
The Antlers.....love that name for a band. Very cool. Burst Apart is a interesting album title that calls for a closer look. I am listening to Wild Beasts right now and your right, I do like it and feel it matches with some of the titles on my list. Thanks again.
 
Well, I haven't quite got 209, but I've done 120 and these are my favourites thus far - and I'll go on a serious listening binge some time in December I'm sure.

Alphabetical order rather than ranked:

Alcest: Shelter
Agalloch: The Serpent and the Sphere
The Casket Girls: True Love Kills the Fairy Tale
Cheatahs: Cheatahs
La Dispute: Rooms of the House
DZ Deathrays: Black Rat
Eagulls: Eagulls
EMA: The Future's Void
Helms Alee: Sleepwalking Sailors
The Hotelier: Home, Like No Place Is There
Hundreds: Aftermath
Jakob: Sines
Kerretta: Pirohia
Little Daylight: Hello Memory
Lykke Li: I Never Learn
Maybeshewill: Fair Youth
Ne Obliviscaris: Citadel
Nothing: Guilty of Everything
Phantogram: Voices
Robert Scott: The Green House
Shihad: FVEY
Sleepmakeswaves: Love of Cartography
A Sunny Day in Glasgow: Sea When Absent
Tuber: Desert Overcrowded
White Lung: Deep Fantasy
Wolvhammer: Clawing Into Black Sun

It's been a damn good year.
 
I'd like to answer the question in two ways if I may:

firstly in my normal voice, and then in a kind of silly high-pitched scream which I developed.
 
I've listened to a grand total of 3 albums.

1. U2 - Songs of Innocence
2. Tori Amos - Unrepentent Geraldines
3. Temples - Sun Structures

Will be getting The Endless River very soon.
 
Favorites
U2 - Songs of Innocence
Coldplay - Ghost Stories
Spoon - They Want My Soul
Foo Fighters - Sonic Highways

Others
Imogen Heap - Sparks
Taylor Swift - 1989

Still have a few more to check out.
 
The official one has been popping up pretty early into December, lately, I feel like, but yeah, I don't think RBW realized we do one each year.

So, I'm not going to post my list, because we're so close to the end, and I don't wanna have spoilers :panic:.

But, I will second how absolutely fantastic Against Me!'s album is.
 
I don't mind this thread. This'll help me discover some albums that could end up in my "official" list. I've listened to about 60 albums so far. These are all my 4*+ albums:

Arsenal - Furu
Ben Frost - AURORA
Cheatahs - Cheatahs
Elbow - The Take Off and Landing of Everything
Eno & Hyde - High Life
Interpol - El Pintor
Karen Gwyer - New Roof
La Dispute - Rooms of the House
Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence
Mogwai - Rave Tapes
Nothing - Guilty of Everything
Oscar and the Wolf - Entity
Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2
Spoon - They Want My Soul
Thom Yorke - Tomorrow's Modern Boxes
Aphex Twin - Syro
Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else
Sun Kil Moon - Benji
The Antlers - Familiars
The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
 
1.War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream

My play count on this album would be hovering around the 100 mark and still I never tire of it.

Could be in my top five of all time.


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1. U2 Songs of Innocence
2. Beck Morning Phase
3. Todd Terje It's album time
4. The Black Keys Turn Blue
5. The War on Drugs Lost in the dream
6. Elbow The Take off and landing of everything
7. Ty Seagall Manipulator
8. Spoon They want my soul
9. Aphex Twin Syro
10. Eno and Hyde High Life
 
So far...

Ariel Pink - pom pom
El-P & Killer Mike - Run the Jewels 2
The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
Spoon - They Want My Soul
Prince - Art Official Age
Jenny Lewis - The Voyager
St. Vincent - St. Vincent
Mac DeMarco - Salad Days
Ex Hex - Rips
Ryan Adams - Ryan Adams
Angel Olson - Burn Your Fire for No Witness
The New Pornographers - Brill Bruisers
Todd Terje - It's Album Time
Real Estate - Atlas
TV Girl - French Exit
 
Agreed.

I've heard every album on LMP's list except for TV Girl. Never heard of them. I like enough of LMP's albums that I think I'll give it a shot.
 
1.War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream

My play count on this album would be hovering around the 100 mark and still I never tire of it.

Could be in my top five of all time.


Sent from a barge floating through the docks of Dublin

Love this album too. The vinyl version sounds great and I love the MP3 download card for iPod's.
 
Some of the best albums of 2014 sank into oblivion without many people acknowledging them. For instance, the dream pop and post-rock band from Iceland, Low Roar put out a great album called, 0, this year. Also the dream pop band from Finland, Delay Trees put out a great album, Readymade. Speaking of dream pop, Pure X and Alcest also put out great dream pop albums. This year has gone to dream pop in my opinion. The more popular choices dream pop this year are The War On Drugs and Real Estate which were great but I personally prefer the deeper cuts a little more.

Please check out this videos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spNn3Lxn6o0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UN9MSbigVg
 
1 10 Reasons To Exist - U2
2 Songs Of Ascent - U2
3 Sirens - U2

What a great year in music!


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Dunno about the order, but these are probably my favorite 10 albums of the year:

Elbow - The Takeoff and Landing of Everything
First Aid Kit - Stay Gold
Hozier - Hozier
Jungle - Jungle
Mr. Little Jeans - Pocketknife
Sia - 1000 Forms of Fear
St. Vincent - St. Vincent
Tove Lo - Queen of the Clouds
Tycho - Awake
The War On Drugs - Lost In the Dream


U2 would probably make the cut if I hadn't decided to just cut it off at 10 for the sake of brevity.

Biggest Disappointments:

Coldplay - Ghost Stories
Royksopp and Robyn - Do It Again (I thought I was going to like that EP a lot more.)
 
The Jenny Lewis & Ryan Adams make for a great one-two punch considering Adams' Yoda-like involvement in producing The Voyager. The stories that Lewis tells on this Grantland pod are bonkers: http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/the-andy-greenwald-podcast-jenny-lewis/

Agreed.

I've heard every album on LMP's list except for TV Girl. Never heard of them. I like enough of LMP's albums that I think I'll give it a shot.

TV Girl is if Washed Out and a non-insufferable Vampire Weekend had a sexy baby. This is the jam of the record:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAaiFs3zT_k
 
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