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Jackson

I loved seeing the many recent lists with Julia Holter toward the top, but unfortunately there seems to be no consensus on her best songs or albums. I could see Have You in My Wilderness placing well but the rest will probably be impacted by vote splitting. Run the Jewels is another artist splitting...

Jackson

Well, this is my borrowed list, with items directly stolen from other user lists, including sonofsamiam and Dan but also Bonnielaurel or panam. But mostly from the list of my friend Pepe (more about this later)... There have been a lot of quality lists posted over the past couple of days so it's ha...

Jackson

I loved Jessie Ware's new album What's Your Pleasure on first listen. It's definitely her best album since Devotion, and it's probably even better than that album. Starting off with an extended version of my SOTY to date "Spotlight", it's 12 tracks of straight late 70s-inspired, immaculately produce...

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Jackson

I enjoyed the surprise singles from Annie and Fiery Furnaces today. Talk about two artists I didn't expect anything from in 2020! Annie announced a new album too after mostly sitting out the 2010s.

Jackson

Good top 2. I love High Water, I wrote a paper about that song in a Bob Dylan seminar I took my freshman year of college.

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Jackson

A 150 song list less than six months into the year is impressive! AMF users continue to one-up themselves on list length. Because it's high on a couple of users' lists, I have to ask...what is so great about Bob Dylan's Murder Most Foul? I love the concept of a 17-minute Dylan song about the Kennedy...

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Jackson

Denzel Curry and Terrace Martin's new protest song "Pig Feet" seems destined to be one of the tracks of the year. Martin produced many of the tracks on To Pimp a Butterfly, and this song would feel at home on that album (even including a Kamasi Washington feature!). The song is tearing up the RYM si...

Jackson

Jackson

I've been listening almost exclusively to 2010s music for the last year and a half. As I kept digging in and discovering or re-discovering albums, it was really hard to stop and call a list "final," but I had to cut myself off at some point... 1 | Swans | The Seer | 2012 2 | Julia Holter | Loud City...

Jackson

My top five for the year are: Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters Christine & The Queens - La vita nuova (EP) Charli XCX - how i'm feeling now Yves Tumor - Heaven to a Tortured Mind Magdalena Bay - A Little Rhythm and a Wicked Feeling (EP) Somewhere after that, pending further listens, are these: A...

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A pick from every year of the 2010s: 2019: Aldous Harding - The Barrel 2018: Hatchie - Sure 2017: Sufjan Stevens - Mystery of Love 2016: Car Seat Headrest - Vincent 2015: Wolf Alice - Moaning Lisa Smile 2014: Cloud Nothings - I'm Not Part of Me 2013: Queens of the Stone Age - I Appear Missing 2012: ...

Jackson

New Run the Jewels album was a blast on first listen. There might not be a more consistent artist out there.

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Jackson

The Mcch Debut for the Charli XCX album is way too low! Should be an easy top ten.

Jackson

Kate Tempest's Everybody Down came before the excellent Let Them Eat Chaos, right?

Jackson

Albums:

Swans over Anais Mitchell as my favorite two go head to head. Pass on the others.

Songs:
Shutterbug
Round and Round
Dancing on My Own
Limit to Your Love
Odessa
Tightrope
Rolling in the Deep
Monster

Jackson

I'm also really loving the new Charli XCX album, which continues her blend of catchy exuberance with the avant-pop of artists like SOPHIE and 100 gecs. Yeah I like the new Charli too. I'm a fan of hers, as well as Sophie's. Edit: Liking 1000 gecs too. Thanks for the recommendation! How I'm Feeling ...

Jackson

Charli XCX - forever

Jackson

This is probably the biggest event release since Fiona's album dropped. Early reviews would place this as Perfume Genius' best album (92 Metascore, 8.8 ADM). Singles Describe and On the Floor were excellent and sound even better in the context of the album.

Jackson

prosecutorgodot wrote: ↑
Fri May 15, 2020 5:27 am
After listening to this, I really wonder how anyone could want more from a folky singer-songwriter album.

That's how I feel about almost all of Marling's 2010s albums! She is on another level.

Jackson

Jirin wrote: ↑
Thu May 07, 2020 2:30 am
14. Alien Nosejob - Suddenly Everything Is Twice As Loud

This is one of those that I need to hear just to see what an artist called "Alien Nosejob" sounds like!

Jackson

Joanna Newsom's Have One on Me is on Amazon but not Spotify. I don’t think any Joanna Newsom or Jay Z are Spotify but wasn’t aware any were on Amazon. Jay-Z has been on Spotify for a few months now, at least in these parts. What happened to his Tidal? According to this poll, apparently it's not doi...

Jackson

The UK has had so many more interesting #1s than the US chart. It is incredible that songs like Setting Sun and Uptown Top Ranking topped the charts. Even Get Lucky and Bad Romance weren't US #1s.

Jackson

I use Spotify because it has the vast majority of the albums I want to listen to. For a handful it does not I might use Amazon. But the only two I can think of are Lucinda Williams - Ghosts of Highway 20 and Roy Harper - Man And Myth. I only wish it had a greater selection of foreign language rock....

Jackson

That's Not Me with only three votes is absurd!!

Jackson

My songs of the year so far are something like: Tier 1 Jessie Ware - Spotlight Christine & The Queens - La vita nuova (feat. Caroline Polachek) These two instant classics came out on the same day in February and will be battling for my SOTY all year. Tier 2 070 Shake - Guilty Conscience Caribou - Ne...

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prosecutorgodot wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 30, 2020 7:24 pm
Hey, maybe with the high ranking people will finally stop sleeping on Rina?

I just discovered her earlier this year and like this album. It's interesting to see someone putting a modern twist on late 90s/early 00s pop after a decade of pop that was heavily focused on revisiting the 80s.

Jackson

How does 93.1 compare to the highest scores ever in this MCCH ranking?

EDIT: I just found the links to the archived rankings. Looks like Fetch the Bolt Cutters is second in the history of the chart to To Pimp a Butterfly's 94.2 score.

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Jackson

I thought this had to be the latest that a notable artist hit their peak in terms of albums (10+ years from their debut is fairly uncommon, unless you maybe include the artist's previous groups, if they recorded). But that might be Nick Cave with Skeleton Tree, 32 years from From Her to Eternity, n...

Jackson

There are plenty of Arcade Fire, Kanye, and LCD Soundsystem tracks to choose from on that list (not that I expected any differently). This should be fun; I'm looking forward to seeing what albums made it.

Jackson

Just had another listen to the new Fiona Apple album. I think my favorites are "Shameika" and "Heavy Balloon", so you can throw those songs on my favorites list as well. I think FTBC tracks are going to split votes like crazy this year, especially since there weren't any singles released prior to t...

Jackson

[/quote] It's because Fiona Apple and Sleater-Kinney have been mostly American critical favorites throughout their careers. The praise in the UK and the rest of the world for those artists haven't been as euphoric as in the US. Hopefully that will change soon - The Idler Wheel will definitely hit th...

Jackson

So in about a year time, she will have 5 albums out of 5 in the AM top 2000 which is quite a feat, especially for someone whose name doesn't seem to appear much in discussion about major artists. There aren't that many artists who have 100% of their discography in AM (though yes, it is a bit easier...

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ordinaryperson wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 21, 2020 4:03 pm
Less than 24 hours before the deadline to get your nominations in ends.

You got mine, right?

Jackson

Absolutely adore the album but I'm worried the universal adulation + the Pitchfork 10 is sparking a hype backlash movement. In the age of the internet, everything gets a backlash movement. I guess the question is how strong will it be; the album's rating is sitting at 4.16 on rateyourmusic with 280...

Jackson

Three listens in and I am a big fan of this album. It's an improvement in all ways from the already excellent Idler Wheel - most notably in its memorable melodies and the sense of excitement and intensity that flows through the songs. I can't help but notice that many of the songs feature the layere...

Jackson

This is an aside, but the way Pitchfork wields its "perfect score" is so strange. For a new release, it's almost impossible to achieve, even for a release like To Pimp a Butterfly (which, as we know, eventually outranked MBDTF on their end of decade list). But for any re-release of a notable album t...

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Jackson

I've been listening to some of these due to my album of the month project and just got around to Shabaka And The Ancestors. I figured it would be the case and, surprise, Shabaka Hutchings is also involved in Sons of Kemet and The Comet is Coming. I feel like he is proving himself as a master in a w...

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Jackson

A new album from Laura Marling is always welcome. Song for Our Daughter is yet another solid, if unspectacular, album in one of the most consistent careers of the last decade. It looks like this may be getting the best reviews of her career (91 on Metacritic, 8.6 on ADM) so perhaps I need to revisit...

Jackson

WOW. When is the book coming out?

Jackson

My top 500 songs of the decade. I have had a blast making this, uncovering new gems and rediscovering my appreciation for old ones in a process that started around this time last year. This decade is massively deep and I could have spent three more months going down this rabbit hole, but it's time ...

Jackson

I'm enjoying the Yves Tumor album as well. There's something about his style that's very accessible while still fitting into the "weird" bucket. At only 36 minutes for 12 songs with no dead spots, it just flies by. Worthy follow-up to Safe in the Hands of Love, which was one of my favorites of 2018....

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Jackson

Anyone who wanted to see this probably crunched the numbers long ago but I was interested to find out, so here's the 2010-16 counterpart of Nick's AM vs EOD analysis: 10. Caribou - Swim (#214) 6. Swans - The Seer (#131) 8. Beach House - Bloom (#130) 5. Arcade Fire - Reflektor (#254) 7. The National...

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