musicjunkiegreg
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Deadline was last night at 23:59 PST..
YEAR END MEGALIST 2023!!!!
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DownIsTheNewUp
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That's fine. There was only one album that I would have added points to (ANOHNI). It's more about getting that final 50 cemented within this thread for "historical" purposes. And though this is the last group in the world that needs it, I always do an end of the year playlist that I'll post.
DownIsTheNewUp
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Dope to see a Butcher Brown nod. Some friends who are local jazz musicians here in Chicago dragged me to their show and they were VERY good live. I actually just listened to the album for the first time this morning because I was with that crew last night and realized I hadn't gotten to it yet. Also very good.
DownIsTheNewUp
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So here's my final 50 and the playlist.
Usually I'm digging through lists until the end of January before passing around my playlist. But this year I did such a strong job of following week to week that I feel like I should just cement it with the stuff that played a real role in my year.
Tier 1:
1) Yves Tmor: Praise a Lord Who Chews (art rock)
2) Caroline Polacheck- Desire, I Want to Turn into You (art pop)
3) Wednesday: Rat Finds God (indie rock)
Tier 2:
4) Geese: 3D Country (rock)
5) L'Rain: I Killed Your Dog (r&b)
6) Sofia Kourtesis: Madres (progressive house)
7) Billy Wood & Kenny Segal: Maps (hip-hop)
8) Yeule: softscars (art pop)
9) Janelle Monae: The Age of Pleasure (r&b)
10) ANOHNI & the Johnsons: My Back was a Bridge for You to Cross (Singer / Songwriter, Soul)
11) Aesop Rock: Intergrated Tech Solutions (hip-hop)
12) Jaimie Branch: Fly or Die Fly (jazz)
13) Danny Brown & JPEG MAFIA: Scaring the Hoes (experimental rap)
14) Bully: Change Your Mind (alt-rock)
Tier 3:
15) Chemical Brothers: For That Beautiful Feeling (electronic, dance)
16) Mitski: The Land is Inhospitable and So Are We (indie rock, singer/songwriter)
17) Paramore: This is Why (pop punk)
18) Killer Mike: Micheal (Rap)
19) Yaeji: Like a Hammer (electronic, pop, rap)
20) Foo Fighters: Here We are (alt-rock)
21) Boygenius: The Record (indie folk / rock)
22) Roisin Murphy &DJ Koze: Hit Parade (art pop, house)
23) Tigercub: The Perfume of Decay (grunge, alt-rock)
24) Navy Blue: Ways of Knowing (hip-hop)
25) Fever Ray: Radical Romantics (electronic)
26) Underscores: Wallsocket (glitch pop, indie rock)
Tier 4:
27) Corrine Baily Rae: Black Rainbows (r&b, neo-soul, garage rock)
28) Jungle: Volcano (electronic)
29) Danny Brown: Quaranta (rap)
30) Puma Blue: Holy Waters (r&b, trip hop)
31) US Girls: Bless This Mess (art pop)
32) Sufjan Stevens: Javelin (folk)
33) Amaarae: Fountain Baby (r&b)
34) The Murder Capitol: Gigi's Recovery (post-punk)
35) Butcher Brown: Solar Music (jazz, electronic, rap)
36) Clark: Sus Dog (downtempo electroic)
37) Overmono: Good Lies (Downtempo Electronic)
38) Blonde Redhead: Sit Down for Dinner (indie rock)
Tier 5:
39) Shame: Food for Worms (post-punk)
40) Sampha: Lahai (electronic, r&b)
41) Larry June + Alchemist: The Great Escape (Rap)
42) Kari Faux: Real Bitches Don't Die (rap, r&b)
43) Grian Chatten: Chaos for the Fly (folk)
44) The Armed: The Saviors (alt/noise rock)
45) Caroline Rose: The Art of Forgetting (indie rock)
46) Kaytramine: Kaytramine (rap)
47) Slowdive: Everything is Alive (shoegaze)
48) Maya Ongaku: Approach to Anima (folk, world, jazz)
49) James Holden: Imagine This is a High Demensional Space (downtempo techno)
50) Chai: Chai (art pop)
Usually I'm digging through lists until the end of January before passing around my playlist. But this year I did such a strong job of following week to week that I feel like I should just cement it with the stuff that played a real role in my year.
Tier 1:
1) Yves Tmor: Praise a Lord Who Chews (art rock)
2) Caroline Polacheck- Desire, I Want to Turn into You (art pop)
3) Wednesday: Rat Finds God (indie rock)
Tier 2:
4) Geese: 3D Country (rock)
5) L'Rain: I Killed Your Dog (r&b)
6) Sofia Kourtesis: Madres (progressive house)
7) Billy Wood & Kenny Segal: Maps (hip-hop)
8) Yeule: softscars (art pop)
9) Janelle Monae: The Age of Pleasure (r&b)
10) ANOHNI & the Johnsons: My Back was a Bridge for You to Cross (Singer / Songwriter, Soul)
11) Aesop Rock: Intergrated Tech Solutions (hip-hop)
12) Jaimie Branch: Fly or Die Fly (jazz)
13) Danny Brown & JPEG MAFIA: Scaring the Hoes (experimental rap)
14) Bully: Change Your Mind (alt-rock)
Tier 3:
15) Chemical Brothers: For That Beautiful Feeling (electronic, dance)
16) Mitski: The Land is Inhospitable and So Are We (indie rock, singer/songwriter)
17) Paramore: This is Why (pop punk)
18) Killer Mike: Micheal (Rap)
19) Yaeji: Like a Hammer (electronic, pop, rap)
20) Foo Fighters: Here We are (alt-rock)
21) Boygenius: The Record (indie folk / rock)
22) Roisin Murphy &DJ Koze: Hit Parade (art pop, house)
23) Tigercub: The Perfume of Decay (grunge, alt-rock)
24) Navy Blue: Ways of Knowing (hip-hop)
25) Fever Ray: Radical Romantics (electronic)
26) Underscores: Wallsocket (glitch pop, indie rock)
Tier 4:
27) Corrine Baily Rae: Black Rainbows (r&b, neo-soul, garage rock)
28) Jungle: Volcano (electronic)
29) Danny Brown: Quaranta (rap)
30) Puma Blue: Holy Waters (r&b, trip hop)
31) US Girls: Bless This Mess (art pop)
32) Sufjan Stevens: Javelin (folk)
33) Amaarae: Fountain Baby (r&b)
34) The Murder Capitol: Gigi's Recovery (post-punk)
35) Butcher Brown: Solar Music (jazz, electronic, rap)
36) Clark: Sus Dog (downtempo electroic)
37) Overmono: Good Lies (Downtempo Electronic)
38) Blonde Redhead: Sit Down for Dinner (indie rock)
Tier 5:
39) Shame: Food for Worms (post-punk)
40) Sampha: Lahai (electronic, r&b)
41) Larry June + Alchemist: The Great Escape (Rap)
42) Kari Faux: Real Bitches Don't Die (rap, r&b)
43) Grian Chatten: Chaos for the Fly (folk)
44) The Armed: The Saviors (alt/noise rock)
45) Caroline Rose: The Art of Forgetting (indie rock)
46) Kaytramine: Kaytramine (rap)
47) Slowdive: Everything is Alive (shoegaze)
48) Maya Ongaku: Approach to Anima (folk, world, jazz)
49) James Holden: Imagine This is a High Demensional Space (downtempo techno)
50) Chai: Chai (art pop)
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scotthilk
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Following!
Rip_City
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THE RESULTS ARE IN!
47 users participated with 347 unique releases considered for points. Six fewer users compared to last year.
Restricting the list to the collective top50, with everything in the top50 having over 20 pts each. I find this to be more valuable as this requires at least two users to distribute points as opposed to a 20pt entry possibly being awarded by a single user.
A few honorable mentions also above 20pts:
Rank | Artist - Album | Points |
51 | Cat Power - Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert | 22 |
52 | Feist - Multitudes | 21 |
53 | WITCH - Zango | 21 |
Now for what everyone participating has been waiting for:
THE N+G TOP 50 ALBUMS OF 2023 |
Rank | Artist - Album | Points |
1 | boygenius - the record | 107 |
2 | Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit - Weathervanes | 101 |
3 | Wednesday - Rat Saw God | 100 |
4 | billy woods & Kenny Segal - Maps | 91 |
5 | Aesop Rock - Integrated Tech Solutions | 87 |
6 | Slowdive - everything is alvie | 84 |
7 | Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want to Turn Into You | 79 |
8 | Sufjan Stevens - Javelin | 71 |
9 | JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown - Scaring the Hoes | 70 |
10 | Olivia Rodrigo - GUTS | 69 |
11 | Yves Tumor - Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds) | 66 |
12 | El Michels Affair & Black Thought - Glorious Game | 58 |
13 | Everything But The Girl - Fuse | 56 |
14 | Kali Uchis - Red Moon in Venus | 54 |
15 | James Brandon Lewis - Eye of I | 53 |
16 | Lana Del Rey - Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd | 51 |
17 | Julie Byrne - The Greater Wings | 50 |
18 | King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - PetroDragonic Apocalypse | 50 |
19 | 100 gecs - 10,000 gecs | 49 |
20 | Carly Rae Jepsen - The Loveliest Time | 49 |
21 | Hania Rani - Ghosts | 48 |
22 | Blur - The Ballad of Darren | 44 |
23 | RAYE - My 21st Century Blues | 44 |
24 | Geese - 3D Country | 41 |
25 | Young Fathers - Heavy Heavy | 41 |
26 | Jessie Ware - That! Feels! Good! | 40 |
27 | Sigur Rós - Átta | 40 |
28 | Mitski - The Land is Inhospitable and So Are We | 39 |
29 | Yo La Tengo - This Stupid World | 39 |
30 | Kelela - Raven | 37 |
31 | yeule - saftscars | 35 |
32 | Bully - Lucky for You | 34 |
33 | Paramore - This is Why | 32 |
34 | 東洋 - Stray Birds From the Far East | 32 |
35 | Romy - Mid Air | 31 |
36 | home is where - the whaler | 30 |
37 | Jeff Rosenstock - HELLMODE | 30 |
38 | PJ Harvey - I Inside the Old Year Dying | 30 |
39 | Janelle Monae - The Age of Pleasure | 28 |
40 | Sampha - Lahai | 27 |
41 | Sofia Kourtesis - Madres | 27 |
42 | The Murder Capital - Gigi's Recovery | 27 |
43 | Genesis Owusu - STRUGGLER | 26 |
44 | Hotline TNT - Cartwheel | 26 |
45 | Alva Noto - HYbr:ID II | 25 |
46 | Jaimie Branch - fly or die, fly or die, fly or die ((world war)) | 25 |
47 | Ratboys - The Window | 25 |
48 | The National - Laugh Track | 24 |
49 | Militarie Gun - Life Under the Gun | 23 |
50 | William Tyler & The Impossible Truth - Secret Stratosphere | 23 |
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Rip_City
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Thank you to everyone for participating in this year's edition of the year-end megalist. Thank you to @Woob_woob for allowing me to take over the reins once more.
In addition, here is a Spotify playlist of the top50 albums in descending order for those who want a sampler of the two most streamed songs (Spotify statistics) from each record:
In addition, here is a Spotify playlist of the top50 albums in descending order for those who want a sampler of the two most streamed songs (Spotify statistics) from each record:
musicjunkiegreg
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Thanks once again this year for doing this, @Rip_City!
Nee Lewman
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Same here. Thanks @Rip_City
RowBearToe
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I heard them via NPR's New Music Friday, but yeah, love that album! Very diverse in the number of genres and styles they span. Glad you're enjoying them too! I bet that show was amazing!
DownIsTheNewUp
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Side note, that Gorillaz album is
Were the # of people who voted similar to last year? I feel like this is the best my pet albums have ever done on this list (dating back to 2016).
Were the # of people who voted similar to last year? I feel like this is the best my pet albums have ever done on this list (dating back to 2016).
Nee Lewman
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I saw them open for Kamasi Washington, they were pretty awesome. I somehow missed that the had put a new one out, will check it out.
RowBearToe
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Haven't heard of them before, I'll definitely check them out. Thanks!
Nee Lewman
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Turbo
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I'd love to see the number of times points were given to any given album. Is that possible? For example, I imagine certain albums got a lot of mentions but for a low amount of points so didn't break through the list (for example, I believe Gorillaz got 5-6 mentions but didn't break 20pts). Anyway, just a curiosity because there are probably some underrated gems in there.
Rip_City
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I don't know if you (or anyone here) can see my 2023 MEGALIST spreadsheet, but there's the link.
EDIT: I've hyperlinked this on the first post of this thread as well.
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Turbo
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Thanks, I looked it up and it seems like the "COUNTA" function does what I asked. I may have a bit of time later and could add a column with that data. I'll get in touch when time opens up on my end.
EDIT: oh, it's already at the end of each row.
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