YEAR END MEGALIST 2020!!!

Lee Newman said:
I mean isn’t there a bunch of unreleased stuff on it?
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Joe Mac said:
From the tapes from the sessions back then. If we had a “top reissues” I’m with you, it’s one of my favourite purchases this year, loved every minutes of it. I’d have said the same about The Beatles and Esher Sessions and the recent Prince reissues, for other examples.

I don’t think that a 94 album from a legacy artist deserves to take kudos and focus from current artists and works. That’s my view though. As I said we don’t tend to be hugely stringent with rules around here.
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I think if it was just the unreleased stuff I'd consider it for this year, but instead it's being treated more like bonus material to the existing album, so not eligible.
 
NathanRicaud said:
Lido Pimienta though.......I guess it looks like you will list her which makes me want to list her too, but who else is going to list her!?!? Maybe @alspriet if he decides to participate in this, but apart from that...🤷‍♂️🙈
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Nah, there are many albums that got a lot more plays. She'll be somewhere in my top 30, but I'll probably be giving 5 records 20 points, or 10 records 10 points or something like that
 
My Favourite Albums from 2020:
  1. Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit – Reunions (18 points)
  2. Ambrose Akinmusire – on the tender spot of every calloused moment (14)
  3. Fleet Foxes – Shore (10)
  4. Taylor Swift – folklore (10)
  5. Haim – Women in Music, Pt III (5)
  6. Immanuel Wilkins – Omega (5)
  7. John Moreland – LP5 (5)
  8. Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela – rejoice (5)
  9. Phoebe Bridgers – Punisher (5)
  10. Sturgill Simpson – Cuttin’ Grass, Vol. 1 (5)
  11. Rose City Band – Summerlong (2)
  12. Dua Lipa – Future Nostalgia (2)
  13. Chris Stapleton – Starting Over (2)
  14. Hannah Georgas – All That Emotion (2)
  15. The Killers – Imploding the Mirage (2)
  16. Jeff Parker – Suite for Max Brown (1)
  17. Margo Price – That’s How Rumors Get Started (1)
  18. Fiona Apple – Fetch the Bolt Cutters (1)
  19. Songhoy Blues – Optimisme (1)
  20. Run the Jewels – RTJ4 (1)
  21. Moses Sumney – græ (1)
  22. Shabaka and the Ancestors – We Are Sent Here By History (1)
  23. Thundercat – It Is What It Is (1)
 
20 - Taylor Swift - Folklore
20 - Fiona Apple - Fetch The Bolt Cutters

10 - Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit - Reunions
10- Margo Price - That's How Rumors Get Started
10 - Norah Jones - Pick Me Up Off The Floor
10 - Matt Berninger - Serpentine Prison

5 - Doves - The Universal Want
5 - Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud
5 - Monophonics - It's Only Us
5 - Courtney Marie Andrews - Old Flowers
 
I gave Anna McClelland's I Saw First Light only 2 points on my best-of list because, well, it's tough to compete with the likes of Taylor Swift, Fiona Apple, Phoebe Bridgers, etc. But I'm really glad to have stumbled upon this album/artist I'd never heard of. And I can't stop listening to the first track from her record (link below). It's not every day you find this kind of bedroom-leaning indie pop with a reed instrument and a fucking string section in the mix!

Hoping to maybe turn someone on to an artist they haven't heard of, kind of a cross between Phoebe Bridgers and Snail Mail would be the best I can do to 'categorize' it.

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15 - Caribou - Suddenly
15 - Honey Harper - Starmaker
10 - Greyhounds - Primates
10 - John Moreland - LP5
10 - Tame Impala - The Slow Rush
5 - Poolside - Low Season
5 - Andy Shauf - The Neon Skyline
5 - Delta Spirit - What Is There
5 - The 1975 - Notes On A Conditional Form
5 - Nathaniel Rateliff - And It’s Still Alright
5 - Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
5 - Eric Hilton - Infinite Everywhere
5 - Taylor Swift - folklore
 
So here is my take on 2020, hope you enjoy, I did!

1. Laura Marling - Song For My Daughter 20 points
2. Haim - Women In Music, Part III 18 points
3. Sault - Untitled (Rise) 15 points
4. Moses Sumney - Grae 12 points
5. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher 10 points
6. Gorillaz - Song Machine Season One 8 points
7. Bob Dylan - Rough & Rowdy Ways 5 points
8. Sault - Untitled (Black Is) 4 points
9. Jehnny Beth - To Love Is To Live 3 points
10. Bruce Springsteen - A Letter To You 2 points

11. James Dean Bradfield - Even In Exile 2 points
12. Fontaines D.C. - A Hero’s Death 1 point

Top 20 Outside Points

13. Bonny Light Horseman
14. Liam Gallagher - MTV Unplugged
15. Doves - The Universal Want
16. The Electric Soft Parade - Stages
17. Taylor Swift - Folklore
18. Matt Berninger - Serpentine Prison
19. Idles - Ultra Mono
20. Taylor Swift - Evermore

Honourable Mentions (In No Particular Order)

Les Amazones d’Afrique - Amazones Power
Tame Impala - The Slow Rush
Monophonics - It’s Only Us
Hilary Woods - Birthmarks
The Strokes - The New Abnormal
Fiona Apple - Fetch The Bolt Cutters
Angel Olsen - A Whole New Mess
Arctic Monkey - Royal Albert Hall

Disappointments

Thundercat - It Is What It Is

A bit too mannered for a Thundercat album for me, I hope he brings back the chaos next time

Sufjan Stevens - The Ascension
Bright Eyes - Down In The Weeds, Where The World Once Was

Both are a little long and a little one paced which sadly means that, although not bad, they are a bit boring.

Not Had A Chance To Listen To Properly Yet

McCartney - III
Kelly Lee Owens - Inner Song
 
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Joe Mac said:
So here is my take on 2020, hope you enjoy, I did!

1. Laura Marling - Song For My Daughter 20 points
2. Haim - Women In Music, Part III 18 points
3. Sault - Untitled (Rise) 15 points
4. Moses Sumney - Grae 12 points
5. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher 10 points
6. Gorillaz - Song Machine Season One 8 points
7. Bob Dylan - Rough & Rowdy Ways 5 points
8. Sault - Untitled (Black Is) 4 points
9. Jehnny Beth - To Love Is To Live 3 points
10. Bruce Springsteen - A Letter To You 2 points

11. James Dean Bradfield - Even In Exile 2 points
12. Fontaines D.C. - A Hero’s Death 1 point

Top 20 Outside Points

13. Bonny Light Horseman
14. Liam Gallagher - MTV Unplugged
15. Doves - The Universal Want
16. The Electric Soft Parade - Stages
17. Taylor Swift - Folklore
18. Matt Berninger - Serpentine Prison
19. Idles - Ultra Mono
20. Taylor Swift - Evermore

Honourable Mentions (In No Particular Order)

Les Amazones d’Afrique - Amazones Power
Tame Impala - The Slow Rush
Monophonics - It’s Only Us
Hilary Woods - Birthmarks
The Strokes - The New Abnormal
Fiona Apple - Fetch The Bolt Cutters
Angel Olsen - A Whole New Mess
Arctic Monkey - Royal Albert Hall

Disappointments

Thundercat - It Is What It Is

A bit too mannered for a Thundercat album for me, I hope he brings back the chaos next time

Sufjan Stevens - The Ascension
Bright Eyes - Down In The Weeds, Where The World Once Was

Both are a little long and a little one paced which sadly means that, although not bad, they are a bit boring.

Not Had A Chance To Listen To Yet

McCartney - III
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Happy to see the JDB album on a list! My copy arrived at my house right after I left home for 4 months so I still haven't got a chance to listen to it.
 
duke86fan said:


This made me laugh

We can probably write something for the missing albums like

"Moses sumney - grae: somehow you got more extroverted during the pandemic, doesn't mean you are any less lonely or gay, but at least you are more energetic"
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Laura Marling — Song For Our Daughter: You were a Gifted Kid until adulthood hit and you burned out, but you gradually found meaning on your own terms, it just took your entire 20s. Now you want kids, but you’re concerned about raising agoraphobic children in a post-pandemic world.

Are they stalking me? Other than the last line that’s freaky!
 
Hollywood said:
I'm facing the same problem this year especially after The Avalanches and T-Swift's second surprise album drop of 2020 threw a wrench into my compiled list 😕
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I won't lie, the new Avalanches has kind of made me do a double take as well. I doubt it will make the cut since it's just too new for me to really put into context for the whole year, but it's definitely an honorable mention
 
gaporter said:
I won't lie, the new Avalanches has kind of made me do a double take as well. I doubt it will make the cut since it's just too new for me to really put into context for the whole year, but it's definitely an honorable mention
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The Avalanches has made the cut ✂️ for me and it's currently sitting in my top 20.
 
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10 Phoebe Bridgers – Punisher
10 Bonny Light Horseman – Bonny Light Horseman
10 Waxahatchee – Saint Cloud
10 Katie Pruitt – Expectations
10 Taylor Swift – Folklore
10 SAULT – Untitled (Rise)
5 Fleet Foxes – Shore
5 SAULT – Untitled (Black Is)
5 Kevin Morby – Sundowner
5 Lydia Loveless – Daughter
5 Run The Jewels – RTJ4
5 Nubya Garcia – SOURCE
5 Caribou – Suddenly
5 Sturgill Simpson – Cuttin' Grass - Vol. 2 (Cowboy Arms Sessions)
 
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