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Chvrches- Love Is Dead A lesser version of Every Open Eye , which was a lesser version of The Bones of What You Believe . Still a perfectly decent album, but a little on the long side (49 minutes isn't all that long, but this thing could've culled a couple of songs and been all the better for it), ...

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Pusha T- Daytona Just when I was getting scared that Kanye had lost his edge, Pusha T releases Daytona , a seven song album where every single beat sets the standard for what a "dirty" or "nasty" or "sick" beat should be. Case in point, there's a moment about thirty se...

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The Beach Boys' song "'Til I Die" is listed on this site as "Till I Die".

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Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks- Sparkle Hard Stephen Malkmus, leader of Pavement, just released what's probably the third or fourth best Pavement LP yet (no faint praise, honest), and it's not even by Pavement. Sparkle Hard is the Jicks' seventh album, and it's an immensely satisfying release. Whi...

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Beach House- 7 Just when I think that the band's sound has run its course, Beach House find a way to subtly tweak it, and in the process, open up a whole new sonic dreamworld. On the band's appropriately named seventh album, Beach House take their signature dream pop and combine it with bits of psy...

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DJ Koze- Knock Knock Lots of four on the floor beats, high bpms, and vocal and guitar loops. Yep. It's deep house. But it's fun damn it, even if the songs do tend to blend together after a while. There were times when I was listening to this album that I thought how this would make the perfect danc...

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I'll write more about the album later, but I will say that its mere existence is absolutely hilarious. So the Arctic Monkeys are propelled into indie rock icon status with their album AM and as such instantly gain a legion of new fans who fall in love with the album's hard rocking, yet also very pop...

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Jirin wrote:If you like a jazz album but can’t explain why, just say ‘It soundy good’.

If my jazz vocabulary doesn't improve before the new Kamasi Washington in late June (one of my most anticipated albums of the year) I may just do this.

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Sons of Kemet- Your Queen Is a Reptile Listen, jazz is one of those genres that I like, but I have absolutely no idea how to talk about. It's always seemed to me that in order to be able to talk about jazz with some authority, you need to have mastered at least three instruments common to the genre...

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Iceage- Beyondless While I initially wrote off Iceage as just another band of post-punk revivalists with nothing new to say, it was on their 2014 album, Plowing Into the Field of Love , that I really began to appreciate their music. That album ditched the angry young man rock of their earlier work ...

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Jon Hopkins- Singularity English electronic music artist and Maryland university namesake (kidding) Jon Hopkins returns with his first album in five years, Singularity . While Singularity isn't all that big of a departure from his previous album,the critically acclaimed release Immunity , the music...

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A third of the way through the year and this is how I'd rank all the 2018 albums I've heard so far... Great: 1. Car Seat Headrest- Twin Fantasy (Face to Face) 2. Janelle Monáe- Dirty Computer 3. A.A.L (Against All Logic)- 2012 - 2017 4. Mount Eerie- Now Only Good: 5. U.S. Girls- In a Poem Unlimited ...

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A third of the way through the year and this is my very tentative ordering of my favorite songs of the year, the creme de la creme... 1. Janelle Monáe- Make Me Feel 2. A.A.L (Against All Logic)- I Never Dream 3. Kamasi Washington- Fists of Fury 4. Car Seat Headrest- Bodys 5. Mount Eerie- Distortion ...

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Janelle Monáe- Dirty Computer Pop-funk-R&B queen, possible android, and heiress to the genius of Prince, Janelle Monáe, is back with her third studio album, Dirty Computer . Right off the bat, there are two things that separate this album from her first two. Number one, the length. The ArchAndr...

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Janelle Monáe- Dirty Computer Pop-funk-R&B queen, possible android, and heiress to the genius of Prince, Janelle Monáe, is back with her third studio album, Dirty Computer . Right off the bat, there are two things that separate this album from her first two. Number one, the length. The ArchAndr...

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Maschine_Man wrote:edit: So this is what it's come down to, huh?

If this overly dramatic copypasta ends up being my online legacy, I would have no complaints.

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The Len Barry song "1-2-3" is listed on this website as "2003-1-2".

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Saba- Care for Me The story goes like this. In February of last year, Saba's cousin, Walter Long Jr., was stabbed to death in Chicago. To describe Saba and his cousin as "close" would be something of an understatement, not only did they grow up together, as young black men in Chicago, but...

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Cardi B- Invasion of Privacy So this is what it's come down to, huh? Ten months after her chart topping single, "Bodak Yellow", Cardi B is here to put forth that time honored definitive artistic statement, the debut album. Invasion of Privacy was released last Friday and was immediately m...

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... Good list, Nick, as usual. But I confess I expected a top 1000. I'm glad you like the list! A top 1,000 is something I've wanted to do for some time, but I think it's a little beyond me currently. But hey, I should probably start gathering a list of 501 - 1,000 contenders and have something to ...

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Sweepstakes Ron wrote:
Nick wrote:298| James Brown- Fire and Rain

That's an understandable, but still hilarious, confusion to make.

What? Are you saying that you HAVEN'T heard the Godfather of Soul's stirring cover of this folk-pop classic???

Good catch though! I've edited my post to reflect the proper James.

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The Jimi Hendrix song "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" is listed on AM as "Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)".

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Unknown Mortal Orchestra- Sex & Food New Zealand based psychedelic-funk rockers Unknown Mortal Orchestra return with their fourth studio album, Sex & Food . And while the "food" part of the title may be something of a misnomer, the "sex" part is certainly here, courtesy ...

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Kacey Musgraves- Golden Hour Kacey Musgraves, along with Sturgill Simpson, is one of a small handful of modern day country artists respected by people who typically revile the genre. Myself included. I was first introduced to Musgraves through her 2013 hit "Follow Your Arrow", a truly fan...

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Various Artists- Black Panther: The Album - Music from and Inspired By Black Panther , the movie, is a solid superhero movie with great afro-futurist visuals and potent political themes concerning the role a nation has within the international community. Black Panther , the album, is a solid rap al...

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Amen Dunes- Freedom Amen Dunes, real name Damon McMahon, makes music that just feels inherently spiritual. What do I mean by "inherently spiritual"? Well for starters, the whole album is awash in fuzzy, psych-folk synths, that suggest a certain tenderness typically found in only the most ...

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Alphabetical order by artist... 1. A.A.L (Against All Logic)- I Never Dream 2. A.A.L (Against All Logic)- Some Kind of Game 3. Car Seat Headrest- Bodys 4. Car Seat Headrest- Nervous Young Inhumans 5. Cupcakke- Crayons 6. Cupcakke- Fullest 7. Janelle Monáe- Make Me Feel 8. MGMT- She Works Out Too Muc...

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Yo La Tengo- There's a Riot Going On Yo La Tengo are back with their first proper studio album since 2013, There's a Riot Going On . Named after the classic Sly and the Family Stone release, which was a powerful meditation on capital-B Big issues like race and violence and familial strife, one woul...

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Wow, I'm really shocked that the A.A.L album is nowhere to be found!

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Massive Attack- Angel
Bob Dylan- Queen Jane Approximately
Bernard Herrmann- Vertigo Prelude and Rooftop
Elton John- Levon

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Mount Eerie- Now Only So here's the story if you don't know it already. Phil Elverum, singer and songwriter behind The Microphones and Mount Eerie marries musician and illustrator Geneviève Castrée. Their life is one of happy domesticity, they have a daughter and a house and their own artistic ende...

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JohnnyBGoode wrote:For completeness there was this, though happy to carry on here

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Sorry JohnnyBGoode! I did a cursory search to see if a thread like this had been posted, but I must have missed your thread. My mistake!

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Use this as a place to dump your thoughts on the songs of 2018/post song lists/etc. Here's what I've got so far. Not too much, but I never really get to sorting out my favorite songs until the year progresses anyway. My favorite songs of the year thus far, alphabetical by artist... 1. A.A.L (Against...

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Andrew W.K.- You're Not Alone You're Not Alone is party god Andrew W.K.'s first album since his 2009 collection of covers from the Gundam anime franchise, Gundam Rock . In the time since then W.K. has hosted a television show (Destroy Build Destroy), became a motivational speaker, and has turned in...

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Titus Andronicus- A Productive Cough On their latest album, A Productive Cough , Patrick Stickles and co. finally consummate their decade long love affair with New Jersey demigod Bruce Springsteen. Opening song "Number One (In New York)" begins with twinkling pianos and ends with a mournf...

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Superorganism- Superorganism If you put an album of pretty standard, albeit enjoyable indie pop, through a futuristic machine that twisted it and pulled it apart and broke it down and reassembled it so that it was 95% the same as the original, it may sound something like the self-titled release by ...

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David Byrne- American Utopia David Byrne, famed singer of the Talking Heads, is back with his first non-collaborative studio album in 14 years, American Utopia . The music here is trademark Byrne, with the slick, jangly rock that he perfected on those first couple of Talking Heads albums. But the l...

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Elf rose 250 spots on the 21st century list...huh? I went to check this out (because I think Elf is awesome) and saw that the movie is listed as German. How can this be? Elf was directed by an American, distributed by an American company, stars American actors, was filmed in America, and is entirel...

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Car Seat Headrest- Twin Fantasy (Face to Face) The story of Twin Fantasy is one told many times over, but it's just so damn inspiring that I have to tell it again. It goes something like this. 19 year old bedroom rock musician Will Toledo, the wunderkind behind Car Seat Headrest, releases five full...

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U.S. Girls- In a Poem Unlimited U.S. Girls is the moniker of Canadian-American artist Meghan Remy, who has been making music under that name for over a decade now. In that time she's released eight albums, quite the feat indeed, although I must confess that this is the first of her albums to grab m...

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Just saw Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds in Boston last week (and it was a great show too!)

Now I have tickets to see Radiohead in Boston in July! Super excited!!

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I am kicking myself over and over for not having heard "In Undertow" before this poll. I discovered it when it placed so high here. Had I heard it before I submitted my list it would've made my top 5 songs of the year for sure.

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Thanks for putting this on, notbrianeno! And a big congratulations to LCD Soundsystem!

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Don't think I had ever listened to as many albums on their release dates, but Car Seat Headrest, Ought, US Girls and Superchunk albums are all well worth the spin ! Car Seat Headrest's Twin Fantasy is a fascinating case - it's a complete re-recording of the 2011 CSH album of the same name, which wa...

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Freak Out/Starry Eyes Give It Up Movement Other Voices Yr City's a Sucker 45:33 (part 1) 45:33 (part 2) 45:33 (part 3) 45:33 (part 4) 45:33 (part 5) 45:33 (part 6) Black Screen Bye Bye Bayou Change Yr Mind Hippe Priest Bum-Out Oh You (Christmas Blues) Pow Pow Pulse (v. 1) Somebody's Calling Me Thril...

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Wow. Even after all that, Brand New make it in the top 25. I can't speak for anyone else, but to me, Jesse Lacey's (admittedly horrible) actions have zero effect on how I judge his music. When it comes to evaluating his art, Lacey's moral character is as relevant to me as what his favorite breakfas...

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A very, very tentative list... 1| Pulp Fiction ...... (Quentin Tarantino, 1994) 2| Vertigo ...... (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958) 3| Spirited Away ...... (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001) 4| Koyaanisqatsi ...... (Godfrey Reggio, 1982) 5| Rear Window ...... (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954) 6| Boogie Nights ...... (Paul Thomas...

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There's one album I expected to end up pretty low and that still haven't showed up. As strange as it might seem, I will be both a hater and happy it does quite well : while some albums on the bottom of my list I find pretty bad or just boring/self indulgent, this one I just can't connect with but s...

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