B&C's 2016 Albums of the Year AKA End of Times Soundtrack

[Mack_Again]

Alright let's do this.


2. Alcest: Kodama - 13

 

[Imperor]

[Blank Face] got some from me and would have been on Imperor's list too I suspect. Great album.

Darn tootin'. Threw this together somewhat haphazardly and regret that I couldn't get Jenny Hval, Jessy Lanza, Nicolar Jaar, Solange, Sturgill, and many more on here. I also deliberately avoided EPs and "outtakes" joints, which eliminated CRJ, Kendrick, and Vinnie Stapes from contention. What a wonderful year for music and horrid year for everything else.

1. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool (12)
2. A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It From Here, Thank You 4 Your Service (11)
3. David Bowie - Blackstar (11)
4. Frank Ocean - Blonde (10)
5. Kanye West - The Life of Pablo (10)
6. Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial (8)
7. Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition (8)
8. Angel Olsen - My Woman (8)
9. Blood Orange - Freetown Sound (7)
10. ScHoolboy Q - Blank Face (5)
11. Chairlift - Moth (4)
12. Anderson Paak - Malibu (3)
13. Beyonce - Lemonade (1)
14. Yumi Zouma - Yoncalla (1)
15. Pusha T - Darkest Before Dawn (1)

 

[gump]

First vote for Freetown Sound, which is surprising. I thought it would receive some more support (even though it didn't make it to my top-15).

 

[lazarus]

Imperor lives!

Rumors of his demise have been greatly exaggerated.

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

Impy, how's your life? Pull up a chair and stay awhile.

 

[Mack_Again]

(I have to credit Mack for bringing A weird Exits back to my attention for this list.)

thanx fro the shoutout, i actually looked into the bad after checking out King Gizzard.

 

[Axver]

Finding out that there's a band called Mint Julep made my day. I hope they come from Kentucky.

Afraid not, based in Portland. Broken Devotion is a great synthpop album.

If Axver fabricated half the names on his list, would anyone here even know?

Some of you should check them out and let me know how awesome/fabricated they really are.

 

[gump]

So this thread got me thinking: 70% the decade (2010-2019) is now behind us. What are your favorite records so far? I haven't put that much thought into it, but here's my quick initial list (in no particular order, except that MBDTF is most likely the album of the decade):

Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly (good kid should probably make this list too, but keeping it to one per artist)
Tame Impala - Lonerism
Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
Beach House - Bloom
D'Angelo - Black Messiah
Carly Rae Jepsen - EMOTION

No 2016 albums in the list, but mostly because of recency, I think. I could see an argument for Lemonade, Blackstar, A Seat At The Table and AMSP for the top-10.

Edit: I can't believe The Suburbs or High Violet/Trouble Will Find Me aren't there, but I'm not sure which album should make room for them. Also, I originally forgot about Black Messiah, and had Kaputt on the list instead.

Edit 2: Ugh, I hate my list already for what it is missing. Maybe I need a top 20.

 

[iron yuppie]

Good question. The two at the top for me are Carrie & Lowell and Push the Sky Away. Those would both be in my top ten or fifteen albums ever.

 

[gump]

Yeah, I think Carrie & Lowell will be near the top of most lists by the end of the decade. Somehow, it has only gained in acclaim and emotional resonance since its release. A rare feat, since it was already pretty much universally liked from day 1.

 

[cobl04]

MBDTF, Kaputt, In Rainbows, TWFM would be my top four (not in that order).

 

[gump]

In Rainbows? As in the 2007 Radiohead album?

 

[cobl04]

oh whoops

 

[Axver]

Good idea. Hmm, I don't think I can make a ranking, but here's an alphabetical list of a rough top twenty, also sticking to only one album per artist:

Alcest: Shelter (2014)
Caspian: Waking Season (2012)
Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas: Mariner (2016)
Eagulls: Eagulls (2014)
Film School: Fission (2010)
Grimes: Art Angels (2015)
The Hotelier: Home, Like Noplace Is There (2014)
The Hundred in the Hands: The Hundred in the Hands (2010)
Infinite Void: Infinite Void (2012)
The Joy Formidable: The Big Roar (2011)
Marnie: Crystal World (2013)
Pinback: Information Retrieved (2012)
Priest: Priest (2015)
Purity Ring: Another Eternity (2015)
Save Ends: Warm Hearts, Cold Hands (2013)
Thrushes: Exposing Seas (2015)
Turnover: Peripheral Vision (2015)
Unison: Unison (2011)
White Lung: Deep Fantasy (2014)
Wolf Alice: My Love Is Cool (2015)

Without question I think 2015 is the best year of the decade, if not for much longer.

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

Speak Now (2010)

 

[iron yuppie]

My albums of the year have been:

2010: The National, High Violet
2011: Radiohead, The King of Limbs
2012: Beach House, Bloom
2013: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Push the Sky Away
2014: Wild Beasts, Present Tense
2015: Sufjan Stevens, Carrie & Lowell
2016: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Skeleton Tree

 

[gump]

Good call on Grimes, Ax. Art Angels would probably make it somewhere between 10-20 on my list.

 

[Mack_Again]

Oneohtrix Point Never album from 2015 was pretty amazing as well

 

[cobl04]

MBDTF, Kaputt, In Rainbows, TWFM would be my top four (not in that order).

Top five, in order:

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Kaputt
Bon Iver, Bon Iver
Trouble Will Find Me
The Age of Adz



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[nielsgov]

Top five, in order:

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Kaputt
Bon Iver, Bon Iver
Trouble Will Find Me
The Age of Adz



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No Kendrick?

 

[lazarus]

Off the top of my head/browsing thru artists I have on my phone, in no order:


LCD Soundsystem - This is happening
Cat Power - Sun
Los Campesinos! - Romance Is Boring
Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
Kanye - MBDTF
M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
Johnny Foreigner - You Can Do Better
Passion Pit - Gossamer
Wolf Alice - My Love Is Cool
Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion

 

[cobl04]

Ahhhh shit. Well I take mine back. Kendrick, LCD and Romance is Boring all gotta fit in there.


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[nielsgov]

In no order.

Kanye West - MBDTF
Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid M.A.A.D. City
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
Boards Of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
The National - Trouble Will Find Me
Destroyer - Kaputt
Run the Jewels - RTJ 2
Alt-J - An Awesome Wave
Sufjan Stevens - Age of Adz
Queens of the Stone Age - Like Clockwork

 

[Lancemc]

In rough order:

Kanye - Yeezus
CRJ - EMOTION
Grimes - Art Angels
Run the Jewels - RTJ2
Beyoncé - Beyoncé
LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening
Daft Punk - RAM
Janelle Monae - the ArchAndroid
D'Angelo - Black Messiah
St. Vincent - St. Vincent
Dirty Prijectors - Seing Lo Magellan
FKA Twigs - LP1
Grimes - Visions
Solange - A Seat at the Table
Aphex Twin - Syro

 

[cobl04]

I like you.


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[cobl04]

I like you.


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This was directed at Niels, not Lance, I'd like to make that abundantly clear.


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[Lancemc]

Nobody would be confused

 

[cobl04]

This is so us


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[nielsgov]

Here goes my top 15 for 2016. The top three are set in stone. The rest was very difficult.

1. Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial (15)
Favorite track: Drunk Drivers / Killer Whales

2. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool (12)
Favorite track: Present Tense

3. Pinegrove - Cardinal (12)
Favorite track: Old Friends

4. Kendrick Lamar - untitled unmastered (10)
Favorite track: Untitled 2

5. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree (8)
Favorite track: I Need You

6. Okkervil River - Away (8)
Favorite track: Frontman in Heaven

7. TaxiWars - Fever (6)
Favorite track: Soliloque (Sans Issue)

8. Wild Beasts - Boy King (5)
Favorite track: Eat Your Heart Out Adonis

9. The Avalanches - Wildflower (5)
Favorite track: Because I'm Me

10. Warhaus - We Fucked A Flame Into Being (4)
Favorite track: I'm Not Him

11. Tim Hecker - Love Streams (4)
Favorite track: no idea

12. David Bowie - Blackstar (4)
Favorite track: Lazarus

13. Kanye West - The Life of Pablo (4)
Favorite track: FML

14. Wilco - Schmilco (2)
Favorite track: If I Ever Was A Child

15. Moderat - III (1)
Favorite track: Eating Hooks

 

[nielsgov]

This was directed at Niels, not Lance, I'd like to make that abundantly clear.


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I thought including Alt-J would be enough for you to hate my list.