YEAR END MEGALIST 2024!!!!

🎅 AOTY LIST ALERT 🎅

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Click that link to go to my AOTY blog post. I spent many, many hours on that one, so if you're willing to read through it all, you're the real G.O.A.T.

I hope you all have a Merry Christmas and a safe and Happy New Year. As always, it's been a pleasure this year and I look forward to another one very soon in 2025!

(I will post my point allocation at a later date - by the 31st, mind you - this way everyone has a chance to check out my list without the point allocation giving it away)
 
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Here is my list for 2024:

1. “Viva Hinds” - Hinds (20 points)
2. “Passage Du Desir” - Johnny Blue Skies (10 points)
3. “Songs of a Lost World” - The Cure (10 points)
4. “All Born Screaming” - St. Vincent (5 points)
5. “$10 Cowboy” - Charley Crockett (5 points)
6. “Manning Fireworks” - MJ Lenderman (5 points)
7. “Tigers Blood” - Waxahatchee (5 points)
8. “Memory of a Day” - Phantogram (5 points)
9. “Smoke & Fiction” - X (5 points)
10. “Memoir of a Sparklemuffin” - Suki Waterhouse (5 points)
11. “Nobody Loves You More” - Kim Deal (5 points)
12. “Small Changes” - Michael Kiwanuka (3 points)
13. “Bright Future” - Adrianne Lenker (3 points)
14. “Cowboy Carter” - Beyonce (2 points)
15. “No Name” - Jack White (2 points)
16. “Little Rope” - Sleater-Kinney (2 points)
17. “Lived Here For a While” - Good Looks (2 points)
18. “Power” - illuminati hotties (2 points)
19. “American Primitive” - Old 97’s (2 points)
20. “Sugarcoat” - Blushing (2 points)

@Rip_City

 
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The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis (15)
Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood (15)
Gillian Welch - Woodland (15)
Fergus McCreadie - Stream (15)

Malcolm Jiyane Tree-o - True Story (10)
Ezra Collective - Dance, No One's Watching (7)
Beyoncé - Cowboy Carter (7)
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Chain of Light (7)

The Smile - Wall Of Eyes (5)
James Brandon Lewis Quartet - Transfiguration (4)

@Rip_City
 
Great year with a lot of albums in consideration but here is my list. Thanks for doing this @Rip_City.

Knocked Loose: You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To - 10
Magdalena Bay: Imaginal Disk - 9
Kendrick Lamar: GNX - 8
Geordie Greep: The New Sound - 8
Justice: Hyperdrama - 7
JPEGMAFIA: I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU - 6
The Smile: Cutouts - 6
Charli xcx: BRAT - 6
Fontaines D.C.: Romance - 5
Full of Hell: Coagulated Bliss - 4
Beyonce: COWBOY CARTER - 4
Porter Robinson: SMILE!:D - 4
Baby Rose, BADBADNOTGOOD: Slow Burn - 4
Father John Misty: Mahashmashana - 3
Fat Dog: WOOF. - 3
Mk.gee: Two Star & The Dream Police - 3
Mannequin Pussy: I Got Heaven - 3
Adrianne Lenker: Bright Future - 3
serpentwithfeet: GRIP - 2
Yard Act: Where's My Utopia - 2
 
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🎅 Point Allocation for AOTY 2024🎅

Well, my blog post has been up for 2 days now. To those who checked it out, I thank you!

(20) Kanonenfieber - Die Urkatastrophe
(17) Jon Hopkins - Ritual
(15) Opeth - The Last Will and Testament
(12) Bent Knee - Twenty Pills Without Water
(10) Ulcerate - Cutting The Throat Of God
(7) The Cure - Songs Of A Lost World
(7) Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown
(4) Julia Holter - Something In The Room She Moves
(4) Arab Strap - I'm totally fine with it 👍 don't give a fuck anymore 👍
(4) Aquilus - Bellum II

Huge shout out once again this year to @Rip_City for handling this year end mega list and the tallying of the allocated points. Always professionally and promptly done, and around the holidays to boot! Thanks again, man!
 
zomgbear said:
@Rip_City What would you say for something like Childish Gambino - Atavista for 2024?
It officially released in 2024 but there's like a rough copy version unofficially released in 2020. Atavista has some track changes and changes to mixing & everything.
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I believe that the rerecorded "Taylor's Version" albums have been eligible for the megalists in the past, so I say if those count then something like this should too.
 
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I believe that the rerecorded "Taylor's Version" albums have been eligible for the megalists in the past, so I say if those count then something like this should too.
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Ok what about something like sza sos deluxe: lana where she tacks an entire full album worth of material to her Sos album released in 2022 but the original songs are unchanged. I don't know why she didn't just release it separately lol
 
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Ok what about something like sza sos deluxe: lana where she tacks an entire full album worth of material to her Sos album released in 2022 but the original songs are unchanged. I don't know why she didn't just release it separately lol
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Now that I'm less sure of. I feel like if it's an album's worth of new/previously unreleased material it should probably count regardless of the release method. But then again that might open the door to weird abnormalities that don't fit within @Rip_City's constraints for what counts towards the megalist so who's to say?
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gaporter said:
Now that I'm less sure of. I feel like if it's an album's worth of new/previously unreleased material it should probably count regardless of the release method. But then again that might open the door to weird abnormalities that don't fit within @Rip_City's constraints for what counts towards the megalist so who's to say?
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Just not going to include it. This is what she gets for releasing albums at the end of December lol ...
 
zomgbear said:
@Rip_City What would you say for something like Childish Gambino - Atavista for 2024?
It officially released in 2024 but there's like a rough copy version unofficially released in 2020. Atavista has some track changes and changes to mixing & everything.
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I would prefer officially released music be considered for the purposes of these lists.
So yes, this would be acceptable.
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Ok what about something like sza sos deluxe: lana where she tacks an entire full album worth of material to her Sos album released in 2022 but the original songs are unchanged. I don't know why she didn't just release it separately lol
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I'll say that this is unacceptable. Most of SOS has been available to the public on physical/streaming in prior years.
If this deluxe edition's original tracks are completely unchanged, as I understand it, then this will be off limits for consideration.
As a counterpoint, The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology by Taylor Swift was released this year, but so was the base album.
 
Rip_City said:
I'll say that this is unacceptable. Most of SOS has been available to the public on physical/streaming in prior years.
If this deluxe edition's original tracks are completely unchanged, as I understand it, then this will be off limits for consideration.
As a counterpoint, The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology by Taylor Swift was released this year, but so was the base album.
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Absolutely agree with you here. If SZA wanted to be considered for our megalist she should have thought twice before going the deluxe album route and just release LANA as her third album!
 
🎅SURPRISE CHRISTMAS PRESENT🎅

I wasn't sure where to share this, so I thought I would just share it here.
I was just thinking that we are now half way through the 2020s already.. So I made a list of my Top25 albums of the 2020s so far (2020 - 2024).

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1. Low - HEY WHAT (2021)
2. Kanonenfieber - Die Urkatastrophe (2024)
3. Fiona Apple - Fetch The Bolt Cutters (2020)
4. Ethel Cain - Preacher's Daughter (2022)
5. Jon Hopkins - Ritual (2024)

6. Wilderun - Epigone (2022)
7. Opeth - The Last Will And Testament (2024)
8. Kanonenfieber - Menschenmühle (2021)
9. clipping. - Visions Of Bodies Being Burned (2020)
10. Spellling - The Turning Wheel (2021)

11. Little Sims - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert (2021)
12. billy woods & Kenny Segal - MAPS (2023)
13. Tyler, The Creator - Call Me If You Get Lost (2021)
14. Bent Knee - Twenty Pills Without Water (2024)
15. Snowpoet - Wait For Me (2021)

16. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher (2020)
17. Perfume Genius - Set My Heart On Fire Immediately (2020)
18. Ulcerate - Cutting The Throat Of God (2024)
19. LLNN - Unmaker (2021)
20. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Petrodragonic Apocalypse... (2023)

21. Ulcerate - Stare Into Death And Be Still (2020)
22. Squid - Bright Green Field (2021)
23. A.A. Williams - As The Moon Rests (2022)
24. Run The Jewels - RTJ4 (2020)
25. RAYE - My 21st Century Blues (2023)
 
20 - Crippling Alcoholism - With Love From a Padded Room
15 - Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown
10 - Castle Rat - Into the Realm
10 - Los Campesinos! - All Hell
10 - Pallbearer - Mind Burns Alive
10 - Jack White - No Name
10 - DIIV - Frog in Boiling Water
2 - Nilüfer Yanya - My Method Actor
2 - Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere
2 - Osees - SORCS 80
2 - The Cure - Songs of a Lost World
1 - The Hard Quartet - S/T
1 - Fleet Foxes - Live on Boston Harbor
1 - Collective Soul - Here To Eternity
1 - Mount Erie - Night Palace
1 - Chat Pile - Cool World
1 - Cursive - Devourer
1 - The Neptune Power Federation - Goodnight My Children

@Rip_City
 
I'm not sure if I'll have any more time before the deadline to re-listen to anything else this year, so:

Best of 2024! The Final List!
  1. Alva Noto — Xerrox Vol 5 (20 pts)
  2. BIG | BRAVE — A Chaos Of Flowers (15 pts)
  3. Sarah Davachi — The Head As Form’d In The Crier’s Choir (10 pts)
  4. Lustmord — Much Unseen Is Also Here (8 pts)
  5. Wanderwelle — Wat gebeurde er met sergeant Massuro? (8 pts)
  6. Touché Amoré — Spiral in a Straight Line (8 pts)
  7. Spirit Of The Beehive — You’ll Have To Lose Something (6 pts)
  8. Alva Noto — HYbr:ID III (6 pts)
  9. Richard Chartier — On Leaving (4 pts)
  10. Akira Kosemura & Lawrence English — Selene (4 pts)
  11. Godspeed You! Black Emperor — "NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD" (3 pts)
  12. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds — Wild God (3 pts)
  13. Chat Pile — Cool World (pts) (2 pts)
  14. Town of Lake — Lilac (2 pts)
  15. TenHornedBeast — Capra Hircus (1 pt)

@Rip_City
 
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