YEAR END MEGALIST 2024!!!!

[Urbs_hott]

Ok, my Best/Favourite for 2024:

Cindy Lee- Diamond Jubilee (20)

Common & Pete Rock- The Auditorium Vol.1 (15)

Beyonce- Cowboy Carter (15)

Jessica Pratt- Here in the Pitch (15)

Jeff Parker- The Way Out of Easy (10)

Adrianne Lenker- Bright Future (5)

Helado Negro: Phasor (5)

Vampire Weekend- Only God Was Above Us (5)

Badbadnotgood: Mid Spiral (5)

Nala Sinephro: Endlessness (5)

@Rip_City

 

[Rip_City]

Submissions are now closed. No further user entries/edits will be counted.

Currently adding points altogether and double-checking for errors (releases with multiple rows, major point discrepancies, points assigned correctly for each entry, etc.). Will organize and post detailed aggregate results by noon today.

 

[Rip_City]

THE RESULTS ARE IN!​

42 users participated with 345 unique releases considered for points. Five fewer users compared to last year.


First, five honorable mentions at 20pts, but tied by each having two users awarding pts:

Rank​	Artist - Album​	Points​	Users​
50T​	Common & Pete Rock - The Auditorium Vol. 1​	20​	2​
50T​	Floating Points - Cascade​	20​	2​
50T​	Iron & Wine - Light Verse​	20​	2​
50T​	Jon Hopkins - Ritual​	20​	2​
50T​	Sabrina Carpenter - Short n' Sweet​	20​	2​

Now for what everyone participating has been waiting for:

THE N+G TOP 49 ALBUMS OF 2023​

​

Rank	Artist - Album	Points	Users
1	Kendrick Lamar - GNX	132	11
2	Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood	102	15
3	Fontaines D.C. - Romance	99	12
4	The Cure - Songs of a Lost World	98	10
5	Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown	87	7
6	MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks	84	11
7	Johnny Blue Skies - Passage Du Desir	78	8
8	Jack White - NO NAME	75	10
9	Gillian Welch & Dave Rawlings - Woodland	72	8
10	Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us	62	9
11	Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee	60	5
12	Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere	56	7
13	The Smile - Wall of Eyes	54	7
14	Charli XCX - BRAT	51	6
15	The Last Dinner Party - Prelude to Ecstasy	46	5
16	Bill Ryder-Jones - Iechyd Da	44	4
17	Nilüfer Yanya - My Method Actor	43	9
18	Los Campesinos! - All Hell	43	4
19	Rosali - Bite Down	41	4
20	Jessica Pratt - Here in the Pitch	40	4
21	Laura Marling - Patterns in Repeat	40	3
22	Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft	37	6
23	DIIV - Frog in Boiling Water	37	5
24	Beyoncé - Cowboy Carter	35	7
25	Nala Sinephro - Endlessness	34	5
26	Arooj Aftab - Night Reign	32	5
27	Kelly Lee Owens - Dreamstate	32	4
28	Father John Misty - Mahashmashana	31	9
29T	Billy Strings - Highway Prayers	30	3
29T	John Moreland - Visitor	30	3
31	The Smile - Cutouts	29	4
32	Jamie XX - In Waves	28	4
33	Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk	26	4
34	Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven	26	3
35T	The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis - The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis	25	4
35T	Yard Act - Where's My Utopia?	25	4
37	Jeff Parker - The Way Out of Easy	25	3
38T	Hinds - Viva Hinds	25	2
38T	MGMT - Loss of Life	25	2
38T	Reyna Tropical - Malegria	25	2
38T	Starflyer 59 - Lust for Gold	25	2
38T	State Faults - Children of the Moon	25	2
43	Adrianne Lenker - Bright Future	24	5
44	Michael Kiwanuka - Small Changes	23	5
45T	St. Vincent - All Born Screaming	23	4
45T	Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department	23	4
47	Godspeed You! Black Emperor - "NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD"	23	3
48	Kacey Musgraves - Deeper Well	21	3
49	Being Dead - EELS	20	3

EDIT: John Moreland 30pts, not 40

 

[Rip_City]

To further explain the above scoring,

Restricting the list to the collective top49, with everything in the top49 having over 20 pts each, except for #49 having been awarded 20pts by three different users. 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. In cases of tied pts for any release, I prioritize the number of users voting as a tiebreaker (e.g., a release with 50pts awarded between ten users will rank higher than a release with 50pts awarded between four users).

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I'll post a "N&G Best of 2024" Spotify playlist soon. I need to get some sleep though and make mochi (餅; sweet glutinous rice cakes) for New Year's treats for work + for my father and I sometime after waking up, so that'll have to wait at least 24hrs. I also need to work in < 6hrs from now.

Thank you again everyone for participating in this year's edition of the MEGALIST.

 

[Fleetwood-Matt]

THE RESULTS ARE IN!​

42 users participated with 345 unique releases considered for points. Five fewer users compared to last year.


First, five honorable mentions at 20pts, but tied by each having two users awarding pts:

Rank​	Artist - Album​	Points​	Users​
50T​	Common & Pete Rock - The Auditorium Vol. 1​	20​	2​
50T​	Floating Points - Cascade​	20​	2​
50T​	Iron & Wine - Light Verse​	20​	2​
50T​	Jon Hopkins - Ritual​	20​	2​
50T​	Sabrina Carpenter - Short n' Sweet​	20​	2​

Now for what everyone participating has been waiting for:

View attachment 222938

THE N+G TOP 49 ALBUMS OF 2023​

​

Rank	Artist - Album	Points	Users
1	Kendrick Lamar - GNX	132	11
2	Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood	102	15
3	Fontaines D.C. - Romance	99	12
4	The Cure - Songs of a Lost World	98	10
5	Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown	87	7
6	MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks	84	11
7	Johnny Blue Skies - Passage Du Desir	78	8
8	Jack White - NO NAME	75	10
9	Gillian Welch & Dave Rawlings - Woodland	72	8
10	Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us	62	9
11	Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee	60	5
12	Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere	56	7
13	The Smile - Wall of Eyes	54	7
14	Charli XCX - BRAT	51	6
15	The Last Dinner Party - Prelude to Ecstasy	46	5
16	Bill Ryder-Jones - Iechyd Da	44	4
17	Nilüfer Yanya - My Method Actor	43	9
18	Los Campesinos! - All Hell	43	4
19	Rosali - Bite Down	41	4
20	Jessica Pratt - Here in the Pitch	40	4
21	Laura Marling - Patterns in Repeat	40	3
22	Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft	37	6
23	DIIV - Frog in Boiling Water	37	5
24	Beyoncé - Cowboy Carter	35	7
25	Nala Sinephro - Endlessness	34	5
26	Arooj Aftab - Night Reign	32	5
27	Kelly Lee Owens - Dreamstate	32	4
28	Father John Misty - Mahashmashana	31	9
29T	Billy Strings - Highway Prayers	30	3
29T	John Moreland - Visitor	40	3
31	The Smile - Cutouts	29	4
32	Jamie XX - In Waves	28	4
33	Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk	26	4
34	Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven	26	3
35T	The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis - The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis	25	4
35T	Yard Act - Where's My Utopia?	25	4
37	Jeff Parker - The Way Out of Easy	25	3
38T	Hinds - Viva Hinds	25	2
38T	MGMT - Loss of Life	25	2
38T	Reyna Tropical - Malegria	25	2
38T	Starflyer 59 - Lust for Gold	25	2
38T	State Faults - Children of the Moon	25	2
43	Adrianne Lenker - Bright Future	24	5
44	Michael Kiwanuka - Small Changes	23	5
45T	St. Vincent - All Born Screaming	23	4
45T	Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department	23	4
47	Godspeed You! Black Emperor - "NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD"	23	3
48	Kacey Musgraves - Deeper Well	21	3
49	Being Dead - EELS	20	3

Fun fact! Kendrick is now the first artist to win our forum AOTY twice (first in 2017 and now 2024)

 

[zomgbear]

Common & Pete Rock was not in my radar - I need to check this out!

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

THE RESULTS ARE IN!​

42 users participated with 345 unique releases considered for points. Five fewer users compared to last year.


First, five honorable mentions at 20pts, but tied by each having two users awarding pts:

Rank​	Artist - Album​	Points​	Users​
50T​	Common & Pete Rock - The Auditorium Vol. 1​	20​	2​
50T​	Floating Points - Cascade​	20​	2​
50T​	Iron & Wine - Light Verse​	20​	2​
50T​	Jon Hopkins - Ritual​	20​	2​
50T​	Sabrina Carpenter - Short n' Sweet​	20​	2​

Now for what everyone participating has been waiting for:

View attachment 222938

THE N+G TOP 49 ALBUMS OF 2023​

​

Rank	Artist - Album	Points	Users
1	Kendrick Lamar - GNX	132	11
2	Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood	102	15
3	Fontaines D.C. - Romance	99	12
4	The Cure - Songs of a Lost World	98	10
5	Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown	87	7
6	MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks	84	11
7	Johnny Blue Skies - Passage Du Desir	78	8
8	Jack White - NO NAME	75	10
9	Gillian Welch & Dave Rawlings - Woodland	72	8
10	Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us	62	9
11	Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee	60	5
12	Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere	56	7
13	The Smile - Wall of Eyes	54	7
14	Charli XCX - BRAT	51	6
15	The Last Dinner Party - Prelude to Ecstasy	46	5
16	Bill Ryder-Jones - Iechyd Da	44	4
17	Nilüfer Yanya - My Method Actor	43	9
18	Los Campesinos! - All Hell	43	4
19	Rosali - Bite Down	41	4
20	Jessica Pratt - Here in the Pitch	40	4
21	Laura Marling - Patterns in Repeat	40	3
22	Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft	37	6
23	DIIV - Frog in Boiling Water	37	5
24	Beyoncé - Cowboy Carter	35	7
25	Nala Sinephro - Endlessness	34	5
26	Arooj Aftab - Night Reign	32	5
27	Kelly Lee Owens - Dreamstate	32	4
28	Father John Misty - Mahashmashana	31	9
29T	Billy Strings - Highway Prayers	30	3
29T	John Moreland - Visitor	40	3
31	The Smile - Cutouts	29	4
32	Jamie XX - In Waves	28	4
33	Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk	26	4
34	Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven	26	3
35T	The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis - The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis	25	4
35T	Yard Act - Where's My Utopia?	25	4
37	Jeff Parker - The Way Out of Easy	25	3
38T	Hinds - Viva Hinds	25	2
38T	MGMT - Loss of Life	25	2
38T	Reyna Tropical - Malegria	25	2
38T	Starflyer 59 - Lust for Gold	25	2
38T	State Faults - Children of the Moon	25	2
43	Adrianne Lenker - Bright Future	24	5
44	Michael Kiwanuka - Small Changes	23	5
45T	St. Vincent - All Born Screaming	23	4
45T	Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department	23	4
47	Godspeed You! Black Emperor - "NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD"	23	3
48	Kacey Musgraves - Deeper Well	21	3
49	Being Dead - EELS	20	3

Nice! Thanks for working this @Rip_City

 

[spydrwebb44]

Fun fact! Kendrick is now the first artist to win our forum AOTY twice (first in 2017 and now 2024)

Please remind me, is there a thread that succinctly catalogs the results by year?

 

[Fleetwood-Matt]

Please remind me, is there a thread that succinctly catalogs the results by year?

No current thread has every year’s results. here you can access the results of 2015 - 2021 YEAR END MEGALIST 2021!!!!!!

Besides that 2022 - 2024 just have to go to that year’s thread

 

[spydrwebb44]

Seems it would be very worthwhile to streamline them and add results each year once they're available.

Of course, I'm speaking matter of factly so it's not as I don't already understand how much an undertaking this already is. Thank you, Rip_City.

 

[Nee Lewman]

Seems it would be very worthwhile to streamline them and add results each year once they're available.

Of course, I'm speaking matter of factly so it's not as I don't already understand how much an undertaking this already is. Thank you, Rip_City.

Part of the problem is that the original list maker is not very active anymore.

 

[Nee Lewman]

Half my list made the megalist, that’s cool! Waxahatchee had the most people vote for it, also cool.

 

[Joe Mac]

Glad to see a Dublin band up there in that top 3, I really think Romance was a step towards the big leagues for the Fontaines lads. Favourite is probably my, ahem, favourite tune of the year.

Also glad to see my favourite album of the year up in 16th and that other people enjoyed it as well.

 

[ByersVinyl]

Well you learn a little something every day.
I saw Bill Ryder-Jones support Beth Gibbons earlier in the year, and the name popped out here, so I googled him, I actually did a quick Spotify look at the time.
Turns out he is also of The Coral who I always thought were far better than their young years when they first came out with a bang. Just never put 2+2 together. So if The Coral passed u by and you like indie pop folk rock - they did it very well at the start, no idea how they developed passed first two albums tbh.

 

[spydrwebb44]

This event proves every year that I have very different tastes than the group, and that's OK.

The last 5 years of this process I was able to say four of my albums made the top 20, never closer. And to be clear, that's 4 total in 5 years, not 4 each year.

 

[Joe Mac]

Well you learn a little something every day.
I saw Bill Ryder-Jones support Beth Gibbons earlier in the year, and the name popped out here, so I googled him, I actually did a quick Spotify look at the time.
Turns out he is also of The Coral who I always thought were far better than their young years when they first came out with a bang. Just never put 2+2 together. So if The Coral passed u by and you like indie pop folk rock - they did it very well at the start, no idea how they developed passed first two albums tbh.

They sort of faded from the mainstream and made a lot of pleasant indie folk pop for a while and then all of a sudden in 2021 returned with an utterly fantastic double album “Coral Island” and have just kept the standard high with the next couple that both came out in 2023!

Bill left the coral a while ago, he struggled with agoraphobia and depression at times. He’s a brilliant guitarist though and did a lot of session work, memorably on the Arctic Monkeys AM. He’s been making a series of increasingly better solo albums as the years went by, peaking with last years album, which was my album of the year.

 

[ByersVinyl]

They sort of faded from the mainstream and made a lot of pleasant indie folk pop for a while and then all of a sudden in 2021 returned with an utterly fantastic double album “Coral Island” and have just kept the standard high with the next couple that both came out in 2023!

Bill left the coral a while ago, he struggled with agoraphobia and depression at times. He’s a brilliant guitarist though and did a lot of session work, memorably on the Arctic Monkeys AM. He’s been making a series of increasingly better solo albums as the years went by, peaking with last years album, which was my album of the year.

That fits in with my perception of the artist, appeared gentle and appreciative of his audience.
And FYI
BBC Concert Orchestra
Ryder-Jones will perform with the BBC Concert Orchestra on BBC Radio 3's Unclassified Live on January 23, 2025

 

[Joe Mac]

That fits in with my perception of the artist, appeared gentle and appreciative of his audience.
And FYI
BBC Concert Orchestra
Ryder-Jones will perform with the BBC Concert Orchestra on BBC Radio 3's Unclassified Live on January 23, 2025

I’ll have to find a way of listening to that!

 

[Nee Lewman]

Probably should have given the Common Pete Rock another listen. The second pass through is much more pleasant than the first. I still think it’s a nostalgia bomb but it’s better than I remember.

 

[jt4527]

Great work, thanks @Rip_City