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The 2015 Rank'em As You Hear'em Thread

We don't get much traffic in this forum any longer but it seems a few people still use this thread so what the hell. I didn't keep up my list last year but I'm going to give it another shot in 2015(obligatory statement).

Rate your favorite music from this year by whatever method or system you desire. Keep your list in one post (edit!) and keep them in some sort of order. See the second post for my system.

Note: Please don't use a "placeholder" post if you don't actually plan on updating your list.

This thread is to post lists but feel free to discuss the music too. This is a good place to discuss albums that might not warrant their own thread.

Hopefully we can introduce each other to some good music this year!

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Album Rankings


Father John Misty -- "I Love You, Honeybear"


D'Angelo and the Vanguard: "Black Messiah"
Wilco: "Star Wars"
Kurt Vile -- "B'lieve I'm Going Down"
My Morning Jacket -- "The Waterfall"
BJÖRK -- "Vulnicura"


John Carpenter: "Lost Themes"
Kendrick Lamar: "To Pimp a Butterfly"
Blur: "The Magic Whip"
Deerhunter -- "Fading Frontier"
Sufjan Stevens -- "Carrie & Lowell"


The Dead Weather -- "Dodge and Burn"
Beach House -- "Thank Your Lucky Stars"
Bob Dylan: "Shadows in the Night"
Will Butler: "Policy"
Modest Mouse: "Strangers to Ourselves"


Belle & Sebastian: "Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance"
Faith No More -- "Sol Invictus"
Beach House -- "Depression Cherry"


Scott Weiland & The Wildabouts: "Blaster"

Quake1028

John's 2015 Album Rankings (As of 01/02/15)

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**Now Listening**

TOP 10 OF THE YEAR

maxfisher

1. Modest Mouse - Strangers to Ourselves
2. Guster - Evermotion
3. The Decemberists - What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World
4. The Dodos - Individ
5. Sleater-Kinney - No Cities to Love
6. Belle & Sebastian - Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance
7. Fall Out Boy - American Beauty, American Psycho

Still listening to:
Death Cab for Cutie - Kintsugi
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
Future of Forestry - Pages
Matt & Kim - New Glow
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress
The Mountain Goats - Beat the Champ
Josh Rouse - The Embers of Time

Oliver Clothesoff

Sleater-Kinney - No Cities to Love


Built to Spill - Untethered Moon
The Black Lamps - The Black Lamps
Them Are Us Too - Remain
Blur - The Magic Whip
Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, Sometimes I Just Sit



Marilyn Manson - The Pale Emperor


Best Coast - California Nights
Faith No More - Sol Invictus
Joanna Gruesome - Peanut Butter
Jenny Hval - Apocalypse, Girl


Colleen Green - I Want To Grow Up
Belle & Sebastian - Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance
Modest Mouse - Strangers to Ourselves


Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress





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Now Playing:
Failure - The Heart is a Monster

Upcoming:
Juliana Hatfield Three - Whatever, My Love

BinaryTB

I really enjoyed these threads, got exposed to a lot of good music. Now that everybody is gone... where did they go? Is there a subreddit or Twitter hashtag people are using to personally rank their yearly music?

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The problem for me is that I don't listen to a lot of new music so I quickly get behind. If we sticky it'll get more people to participate.

maxfisher

Wow. This may be the slowest start I've seen to one of these threads. I wonder how much of it is due to lack of interest in the thread vs being a fairly lame several months for music. I usually average 8-10 albums per month and have only picked up 6 so far. Of those, most are decent, but none have really impressed me much.

Oliver Clothesoff

It's a combo of both... and I forget to update my post if it's not sticky-ed.

hanshotfirst1138

Pageant Material- Kacey Musgraves sophomore studio record is super-slickly produced without losing its twangy country edge, tightly played, and more polished than her debut. But it doesn't quite have the twisty wordplay or thematic resonance of its predecessor. There isn't quite anything that matches the aching melancholia and clever wordplay of "Merry Go-Round" or the self-defeated "It Is What It Is." There's lot to enjoy, but I am worrying slightly that Musgraves "do your own thing and mind your own business" libertarian streak, while a worthwhile message, is too quickly becoming her stock in trade. Still, the album feels laid-back, self-assured, and warm, and sound terrific. The singles are appropriately jaunty, and there are flashes of the sadder edges that attracted me to her in the first place.

Mordred

Album Rankings


Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
Meg Myers - Sorry


Tempel - The Moon Lit Our Path
Of Monsters and Men - Beneath the Skin
Highly Suspect - Mister Asylum


Enslaved - In Times
Sayak Striker - Never Surrender
Tribulation - The Children of the Night
Local H - Hey, Killer
Leprous - The Congregation
Third Eye Blind - Dopamine
Enforcer - From Beyond
Between the Buried and Me - Coma Ecliptic
Callisto - Secret Youth
Disasterpeace - It Follows
Frank Turner - Positive Songs for Negative People
Wild Throne - Harvest of Darkness
God Is an Astronaut - Helios | Erebus
Christian Mistress - To Your Death
We Lost the Sea - Departure Songs


Red - Of Beauty and Rage
Toundra - (IV)
Lights & Motion - Chronicle
Ufomammut - Ecate
Minsk - The Crash and the Draw
Torche - Restarter
10 Years - From Birth to Burial
And So I Watch You From Afar - Heirs
Eschar - Nova
Mumford & Sons - Wilder Mind
Royal Thunder - Crooked Doors
Faith No More - Sol Invictus
Elder - Lore
August Burns Red - Found in Far Away Places
The Night Flight Orchestra - Skyline Whispers
Florence + the Machine - How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
Kacey Musgraves - Pageant Material
The Sound of Rescue - Aperture
té - 其れは、繙かれた『結晶』の断片。或いは赫奕たる日輪の残照。
Ghost - Meliora
The Weeknd - Beauty Behind the Madness
Iron Maiden - The Book of Souls
Riverside - Love, Fear and the Time Machine
Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss
JEFF the Brotherhood - Wasted on the Dream
Lucifer - Lucifer I
Deafheaven - New Bermuda
Graveyard - Innocence & Decadence
Kylesa - Exhausting Fire
Satan - Atom by Atom
Caspian - Dust and Disquiet
Joe Satriani - Shockwave Supernova
The Sword - High Country


Guster - Evermotion
Periphery - Juggernaut: Alpha/Omega
Manilla Road - The Blessed Curse
Imagine Dragons - Smoke + Mirrors
Brandi Carlile - The Firewatcher's Daughter
Scorpions - Return to Forever
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Chasing Yesterday
Mark Knopfler - Tracker
Nils Frahm - Solo
Three Days Grace - Human
Sannhet - Revisionist
Halestorm - Into the Wild Life
obe - Exit Planet Crust [EP]
Houndmouth - Little Neon Limelight
Maná - Cama incendiada
All That Remains - The Order of Things
Godspeed You! Black Emporer - Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress'
Apocalyptica - Shadowmaker
SPOIWO - Salute Solitude
Marriages - Salome
Pyramids - A Northern Meadow
Misþyrming - Söngur heiftar
My Morning Jacket - The Waterfall
Muse - Drones
High on Fire - Luminiferous
Breaking Benjamin - Dark Before Dawn
Citizen - Everybody Is Going to Heaven
Helloween - My God-Given Right
Carly Rae Jepsen - E•MO•TION
The Darkness - Last of Our Kind
MS MR - How Does It Feel
Symphony X - Underworld
Mutoid Man - Bleeder
Rhett Miller - The Traveler
Sulphur Aeon - Gateway to the Antisphere
Joy Williams - Venus
Nile - What Should Not Be Unearthed
Slayer - Repentless
Toadies - Heretics
Metric - Pagans in Vegas
TesseracT - Polaris
Vattnet Viskar - Settler
Lana Del Rey - Honeymoon
Shinedown - Threat to Survival
Royal Hunt - Devil's Dozen
Ryan Adams - 1989
Huntress - Static
Bring Me the Horizon - That's the Spirit
David Gilmour - Rattle That Lock
Kurt Vile - b'lieve i'm goin down...
Armored Saint - Win Hands Down
Chris Cornell - Higher Truth
Coheed and Cambria - The Color Before the Sun
Archivist - Archivist
Silversun Pickups - Better Nature
Demi Lovato - Confident
Metal Allegiance - Metal Allegiance
Uncle Acid and The Deabeats - The Night Creeper


Kreng - The Summoner
UFO - A Conspiracy of Stars
Motor Sister - Ride
Tom Cochrane - Take It Home
Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase.
Alabama Shakes - Sound & Color
Thee Oh Sees - Mutilator Defeated at Last
Jorn Lande & Trond Holter - Dracula: Swing of Death
Brandon Flowers - The Desired Effect
toe - HEAR YOU
P.O.D. - The Awakening
KEN mode - Success


Robert Earl Keen - Happy Prisoner: The Bluegrass Sessions
Modest Mouse - Strangers to Ourselves
George Lynch - Shadow Train
Wilco - Star Wars


Karyn Crisis' Gospel of the Witches - Salem's Wounds
Sigh - Graveward


Buckethead - Vacuum


Circle J - Year of the Goat


Liturgy - The Ark Work

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