Albums of the year 2016

[FloorFiller]

I know this has already been touched on in the new music thread, but fuck it, a subject devoted entirely to lists deserves it's own thread. Post your albums/songs of the year here (and any lists you've found online that you feel are notable/worth discussing):

Albums:

1. Angel Olsen - My Woman
2. Frank Ocean - Blonde
3. Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial
4. Beyonce - Lemonade
5. Parquet Courts - Human Performance
6. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
7. Bon Iver - 22, A Million
8. Kanye West - The Life of Pablo
9. Gold Panda - Good Luck and Do Your Best
10. David Bowie - Blackstar

 

Songs: 

1. Kanye West - Father Stretch My Hands pt. 1
2. Frank Ocean - Self Control
3. Mitski - Your Best American Girl
4. Car Seat Headrest - Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales
5. Radiohead - Burn the Witch
6. Rihanna - Kiss it Better
7. Angel Olsen - Sister
8. Hamilton Leithauser and Rostam - 1000 Times
9. Touche Amore - Rapture
10. Gold Panda - Your Good Times are Just Beginning

 

could go on and on and post stuff that missed out for whatever reason, but i'm more interested to trawl through other peoples lists and hopefully mind some stuff that i might've missed. have at it!

[TheBurns]

1. Anderson.Paak - Malibu
2. Angel Olson - My Woman
3. Common - Black America Again
4. The Avalanches - Wildflower
5. Solange - A Seat at the Table
6. Roman Flugel - All the Right Noises
7. Jamie T - Trick
8. Dandy Warhols - Distortland
9. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
10. Justice - Woman

A lot of those are interchangeable depending on my mood.

 

[Homer]

My song of the year:
 

 

[FuzzyDunlop]

Album of the year - Nonagon Infinity. Only bought 4. Blackstar, Barbara Barbara and Moon shaped pool were the others

 

Best Song - Burn the witch

 

Edited December 12, 2016 by FuzzyDunlop

[The Placid Casual]

Best Album: David Bowie - Blackstar

 

Best Song: Kanye West - Ultralight Beam

[Avalon_Fields]

Terribly morbid choice, but I can't escape the thought my favourite 3 albums are all associated with death:

1. Skeleton Tree

2. You Want It Darker

3. Blackstar

 

[reflekting]

Not a vintage for me personally but 22, A Million is easily up there for my top 5 of the decade. 

1. Bon Iver - 22, A Million
2. Biffy Clyro - Ellipsis
3. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
4. Frightened Rabbit - Painting of a Panic Attack
5. Twin Atlantic - GLA
6. Bears Den - Red Earth & Pouring Rain
7. White Lies - Friends
8. Jamie T - Trick
9. David Bowie - Blackstar
10. M83 - Junk

[Winslow Leach]

Just thinking of my top albums but All Night by Chance the Rapper is definitely the banger of the year.

[Jamesyp42]

1. Bon Iver - 22, A Million
2. Childish Gambino - Awaken, My Love!
3. Brian Fallon - Painkillers
4. Mandolin Orange - Blindfaller
5. A Tribe Called Quest - We Got it from Here...
6. Frank Ocean - Blonde
7. Kaleo - A/B
8. Conor Oberst - Ruminations
9. The Wood Brothers - Paradise
10. James Vincent McMorrow - We Move

[dentalplan]

Albums:

1. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree
2. Angel Olsen - My Woman
3. David Bowie - Blackstar
4. Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition
5. Holy Esque - At Hope's Ravine
6. Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial
7. Metronomy - Summer '08
8. King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Nonagon Infinity
9. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
10. Teleman - Brilliant Sanity

Singles:

1. Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam - A 1000 Times
2. Car Seat Headrest - Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales
3. Danny  Brown - Ain't it Funny?
4. Frank Ocean - Ivy
5. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Distant Sky
6. Whitney - No Woman
7. Preoccupations - Memory 
8. Iggy Pop - Sunday
9. Prince Rama - Your Life in the End
10. Angel Olsen - Never Be Mine

[SwedgeAntilles]

I'm still pulling my lists together but having read through it I think it's safe to say there will be quite a bit of crossover with @FloorFiller lists. Maybe not on songs but certainly on the albums 

[EighteenSixty7]

Albums

1. Everything You've Come To Expect - The Last Shadow Puppets
2. We got it from Here... Thank You 4 Your service - A Tribe Called Quest
3. Black America Again - Common
4. Malibu - Anderson .Paak
5. Freetown Sound - Blood Orange

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• The Divine Feminine - Mac Miller
• Love & Hate - Michael Kiwanuka
• Blank Face LP - ScHoolboy Q
• 1992 - The Game
• For All We Know - Nao
• So Long Forever - Palace
• 99.9% - KAYTRANADA
• untitled unmastered. - Kendrick Lamar
• Yes Lawd! - NxWorries

 

Songs (highlights)

• Whateva Will Be - A Tribe Called Quest
• Dracula's Teeth - The Last Shadow Puppets
• Pyramids - Common
• Room In Here (feat. The Game) - Anderson .Paak
• E.V.P - Blood Orange
• We (feat. Cee-Lo Green) - Mac Miller
• Reminder  - The Weeknd
• The Juice - The Game
• Swansea (feat. Gary Numan) - Dusky
• Too Late - Tourist
• No Harm Is Done (feat. Tunji Ige) - Christine and the Queens

and more...

 

Edited December 12, 2016 by EighteenSixty7

[liamium]

16 from 16 & no order

• A Seat at the Table - Solange
• Bury Your Name - Marissa Nadler
• Freetown Sound - Blood Orange
• Crab Day - Cate le Bon
• Skeleton Tree - NC&TBS
• A Moon Shaped Pool - Radiohead
• Lines - Waclaw Zimpel
• Blackstar - Bowie
• The Midnight Sun - C Duncan
• Songs for Our Mothers - Fat White Family
• 22, A Million - Bon Iver
• Varmints - Anna Meredith
• Pop or Not - Whyte Horses
• Blonde - Frank Ocean
• My Woman - Angel Olsen
• You Want It Darker - Leonard Cohen

 

[rzwodezwo]

1 Beyoncé / Lemonade

2 Car Seat Headrest / Teens of Denial

3 Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam / I Had a Dream That You Were Mine

4 Nails / You Will Never Be One Of Us

5 Angel Olsen / My Woman

6 Jenny Hval / Blood Bitch

7 Blood Orange / Freetown Sound

8 Carly Raye Jepsen / Emotion B-Side

9 Pinegrove / Cardinal

10 Die Höchste Eisenbahn / Wer Bringt Mich Jetzt Zu Den Anderen

[Troop Dogg]

Probably my age, but I don't think I've heard anything in 2016 which I would deem worthy of 'Album Of The Year'. I enjoyed Deftones. Bowie, Mogwai and Radiohead's albums though.

[bennyhana22]

Argh!

Impossible to choose 10 from all those in a great year for me. So here's some, in no order (many being reassuringly obscure and musically snobby, as you'd expect from me...):

Tim Hecker - Love Streams

Conor Oberst - Ruminations

Ian William Craig - Centres

Aiden Knight - Each Other

Claire M Singer - Solas      (Union Chapel Organ-based Drone, anyone? Anyone?)

The Magnetic North - Prospect of Skelmersdale

James Blake - The Colour in Anything     (not least of all in tribute to his monumental headline set on WH)

Loscil - Monument Builders

Anna Meredith - Varmints

Kaitlin Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani - Sunergy

Rival Consoles - Night Melody

Sankt Otten/N - Männerfreundschaften und Metaphysik

DD Dumbo - Utopia Defeated

Sons of Noel and Adrian - Turquoise Purple Pink

Richmond Fontaine - You Can't Go Back If There's Nothing To Go Back To      (farewell to an old friend)

Kevin Morby - Singing Saw

 

Yup. A good year...

Ben

[Gucci Piggy]

18 minutes ago, bennyhana22 said:

Drone

2015.

[Gucci Piggy]

As usual I've not really listened to many new albums because I cba.

1. Anderson .Paak - Malibu

2. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree

3. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool

4. Bon Iver - 22, A Million

5. Local Natives - Sunlit Youth

Just started listening to the Angel Olsen album though and that's a banger and would probably be in there after more listens.

 

Songs:

1. Car Seat Headrest - Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales

2. Mitski - Your Best American Girl

3. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - I Need You

4. Bon Iver - 33 "GOD"

5. A Tribe Called Quest - We the People...

 

Edit: Oh did LUH release that song this year that is basically the same as Kerou's Lament by Ellery James Roberts because that's the best song of all time.

Also the Untitled 2 performance on whatever American TV show it was on is the best song of all time.

I'll probably do another one of these after the year ends and I've actually made a concerted effort to listen to things.

Edit 2: Our playlist at work last night played Car Seat Headrest > Angel Olsen. Is one of you my boss?

Edited December 12, 2016 by Will-2609

[rzwodezwo]

1 hour ago, rzwodezwo said:

1 Beyoncé / Lemonade

2 Car Seat Headrest / Teens of Denial

3 Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam / I Had a Dream That You Were Mine

4 Nails / You Will Never Be One Of Us

5 Angel Olsen / My Woman

6 Jenny Hval / Blood Bitch

7 Blood Orange / Freetown Sound

8 Carly Raye Jepsen / Emotion B-Side

9 Pinegrove / Cardinal

10 Die Höchste Eisenbahn / Wer Bringt Mich Jetzt Zu Den Anderen

forgot Nicolas Jaar's new record, what a banger

[JoostEmpty]

1 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds — Skeleton Tree
2 Car Seat Headrest — Teens Of Denial
3 Drive-By Truckers — American Band
4 Jamie T — Trick
5 The Hotelier — Goodness
6 Angel Olsen — My Woman
7 A Tribe Called Quest — We got it from Here... Thank You 4 Your service
8 Canshaker Pi — Canshaker Pi
9 Parquet Courts — Human Performance
10 Kate Tempest — Let Them Eat Chaos

[dentalplan]

27 minutes ago, Will-2609 said:

Edit 2: Our playlist at work last night played Car Seat Headrest > Angel Olsen. Is one of you my boss?

Has your boss played any Swans?

[Gucci Piggy]

27 minutes ago, dentalplan said:

Has your boss played any Swans?

No it isn't in his best interests to evacuate the building of anyone other than deaf people.

Saying that, Dead Inside is sometimes on.

[The Placid Casual]

8 minutes ago, Will-2609 said:

No it isn't in his best interests to evacuate the building of anyone other than deaf people.

[dentalplan]

12 minutes ago, Will-2609 said:

No it isn't in his best interests to evacuate the building of anyone other than deaf people.

Saying that, Dead Inside is sometimes on.

Tbf the deaf peeps are probably Swans fans who saw them without a pair of earplugs.

[Mezhyp1]

Songs  

1. Midland - Final Credits 
2. Solange - Don't Touch My Hair 
3. A Tribe Called Quest - Whateva Will Be 
4. Childish Gambino - Me and Your Mamma
5. James Blake ft. Bon Iver - I Need A Forest Fire

Albums 

1. Solange - Seat at the Table 
2. A Tribe Called Quest - We got it from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service 
3. James Blake - The Colour In Anything 
4. Bon Iver - 22, A Million 
5. Frank Ocean - Blond

I never expected Konnichiwa to be knocked out the list but its been a very very strong year for music. Many thanks to Midland for creating probably the single best dance floor track i've ever heard in my life 

 

Edited December 14, 2016 by Mezhyp1