I'm trying to assemble a list of my favorite albums for each year. I have every year from 1959-2022, except for one. 2019 has completely stumped me. I cannot find a single good album from that year. I'm starting to consider the possibility that it might've been the worst year in music history. Help me Anon Babble, HELP!!!
Good 2019 albums
When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? By Billie Eilish
No, anon.
Hope you like ambient
Chelsea Wolfe - Birth Of Violence
Xiu Xiu - Girl With Basket Of Fruit
Metronomy - Metronomy Forever
Car Bomb - Mordial
Dog Whistle by Show Me the Body
I put together a Top 10 list taking into account all genres.
10. Death Angel - Humanicide
9. Jimmy "Duck" Holmes - Cypress Grove
8. Bobby Rush - Sitting on Top of the Blues
7. Peter Gabriel - Growing Up Live
6. Ariana Grande - Thank U, Next
5. Tool - Fear Inoculum
4. Paul McCartney - Amoeba Gig
3. Ariana Grande - K Bye for Now (SWT Live)
2. Slayer - The Repentless Killogy (Live at The Forum in Inglewood, CA)
1. Blood Incantation - Hidden History of the Human Race
this took some doing on my part to narrow it down but you should find something here that you will like.
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I'm trying to assemble a list of my favorite albums for each year. I have every year from 1959-2022
How do people do this? I probably have less than ten albums I like from this entire century. Why would you waste this much time listening to music that probably isn't even any good?
NTA but i have top 10s and even some top 20s for every year from 1957 to the present
you don't like music as much as we do.
Why would you waste this much time listening to music that probably isn't even any good?
why would you assume that
it is good, you just haven't heard it.
it's not a waste of time at all.
there's people here who actually enjoy listening to music
That's bordering on obsession.
why would you assume that
Because I don't care for rap, for electronic music, or for indie garbage. As such, I haven't heard much music from this century that impresses me.
I don't like those genres either yet I still find plenty of new releases to enjoy every year.
Could you show me your favorite albums of the 2000's and 2010's then? I'm curious.
Bro, the hardest thing about building my list is that I can only choose ONE album per year, because there are so many great albums coming out every year. You just don't like music. Sad.
can you post your list, i want to see it
There's a good argument to be made for 2015, 16, 18, 19 23 or 24 for being the weakest for music in the past long while
This one's real good, 8/10
Picrel is 7/10
is that ai
No AI didn't exist then look it up
I like 16 HP especially Secret South but couldn't get into Wovenhand besides a couple songs. All so low energy, too repetitive and samey from song to song. Glass Eye was the only song I found that interesting and incidentally the only song that introduced a little positivity alongside the dreariness
I'm the Anon who posted this You lost me once you got to albums from the late 90's. There isn't a single album on your list from that point onwards that I think is any good, with the sole exception of The Fragile. I think your list illustrates exactly what I mean. Music from say 2004 probably isn't worth listening to if the best album that came out that year is from Green Day of all bands. That's a massive step down from the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, etc. Why would I waste my time listening to these bands when there's so much good music to explore from the 60's and 70's?
I really like Blue Pail Fever and Ain't No Sunshine. And from other albums, I like Dirty Blue, Down In Yon Forest, and Cripplegate. His songs are pretty minimalist and repetitive in a post-rock way but idk, I am easily hypnotized by David Eugene Edwards's banjo riffs. But yeah, 16 HP is better for intense country rock.
You're allowed to be wrong, listen to what you want
Ah yes I haven't listened through Blush Music but Cripplegate is their best song I've heard.
I actually don't like Blush Music. Too much meandering pretentious post-rock dead air for me. But Cripplegate is good.
There's some trashy bands like Green Day yeah, but I don't see how you could listen to Brand New, Extremoduro, or Omnipotent Youth Society and not think they're as valid rock bands as Led Zeppelin.
Only after 1994 there start to be some interesting picks beyond the pitchfork concensus
How could you possibly think Brand New is at all comparable in quality to Led Zeppelin? One band changed music forever and the other is some emo garbage for faggots whose balls haven't dropped yet. This is like if you put Wes Anderson on the same level as Kubrick or Hitchcock. Or if you said that Jackson Pollock was as great as Rembrandt. This is ridiculous.
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Your problem is thinking Led Zeppelin is high art by any means. It was considered dumb trashy sleazy rock n' roll even at the time it came out, which is why Led Zeppelin was never critically acclaimed during their "prime". If you genuinely think Led Zeppelin is the Kubrick or Hitchcock of music, or even of rock music, you are underaged. Led Zeppelin is about as high art as Alice Cooper or Twisted Sister.
Throw this banger on, see what happens.
I feel like I'm being gaslit right now. I can understand up until at the latest the early mid-2010s, mostly because of the indie scenes pumping out the good shit and keeping things alive, while the more popular indie bands of the previous decade became trendier and tried to replicate 'the current sound', but it feels like there's been no noteable music and it feels like indie has died in the 2020s, and I just find myself just waiting for artists who have been making music for the past 20-30 years to put out another new record. How in the fuck and where in the fuck are you guys finding the new music?
2016 was the last solid year for music. Ever since then, pickings have gotten slimmer and slimmer.
FKA TWIGS – MAGDALENE
Cate Le Bon – Reward
Solange – When I Get Home
Tool – Fear Inoculum
Holly Herndon – Proto
Sleater-Kinney – The Center Won't Hold
Flaming Lips – King's Mouth
Angel Olsen – All Mirrors
Le Butcherettes – bi_MENTAL
Jenny Hval – The Practice Of Love
Blaenavon – Everything That Makes You Happy
These New Puritans – Inside The Rose
Lana Del Rey – Norman Fucking Rockwell
Tegan And Sara – Hey, I'm Just Like You
Opeth – In Cauda Venenum
Jessica Pratt – Quiet Signs
Aldous Harding – Designer
Sharon Van Etten – Remind Me Tomorrow
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Ghosteen
William Doyle – Your Wilderness Revisited
Not my favorite year, but this album is very nice.
black midi - schlagenheim
king gizzard - infest the rats nest + fishing for fishies
thee oh sees - face stabber
lightning bolt - sonic citadel
haha le epic reddit bands i know. was prepared to list a bunch of great albums but yea you were right, kind of a weak year really
I mean like I said, 15, 16, 19, 23 and 24 were all really weak years for music but you absolutely lose the plot when you start claiming that in the wide world of music "they just stopped making music anymore" We're all basing it off the select few artists we listen to. OP is very much aware that he doesn't know of music he likes (on an album basis that is) from 2019 so he asked for it because of course it exists.
How in the fuck and where in the fuck are you guys finding the new music?
Come on. Literally here. I know mu is bad but if you actually take the time people are still posting good stuff including in response to the "music is soul dead" threads. Spotify. Youtube. RYM. The usual fucking suspects
i know what the best album is from 1949 to 2024.
the best album of 2019 is Hidden History of the Human Race by Blood Incantation
starts to fall apart in the mid 90s
every 'albums of the year' list i see, i agree on the established classics early on but then for roughly the last 30 years it's always stuff that i either disagree on/don't like or haven't heard of.
what's interesting is that people always pick different albums for the 00s and 10s. there's nothing that is locked in or set in stone like previous decades.
The only good music in the 21st century is alt, and alt is extremely broad and niche. The wild west of music. It's almost like every artist is tailor-made for the individual, as opposed to there being monolithic subcultural "scenes" and pantheons of must-listens like the big four of thrash or of grunge. It makes finding good music a real pain in the ass.