So, I really haven't listened to a whole buttload of albums this year, nor am I aware what's coming out, but here's what I've got so far. Listened To Fall Out Boy - American Beauty/American Psycho - 8/10 RED - of Beauty and Rage - 7/10 Papa Roach - F.E.A.R. - 4/10 Anticipated (from most hyped to least) All Time Low - Future Hearts Gemini Syndrome - TBA Hands Like Houses - TBA Deftones - TBA Incubus - Trust Fall Muse - Drones Stone Sour - Meanwhile in Burbank Coldplay - A Head Full of Dreams Breaking Benjamin - TBA Tonight Alive - TBA Skillet - TBA MuteMath - TBA Scar the Martyr - TBA (I'm optimistic about a new vocalist... But extremely skeptical overall) Gotta Get Around To Listening To Imagine Dragons - Smoke & Mirrors Sleeping With Sirens - Madness
Top Albums of 2015: Kendrick Lamar- To Pimp a Butterfly Death Cab For Cutie- Kintsugi Sleeping With Sirens- Madness Enter Shikari- The Mindsweep Modest Mouse- Strangers to Ourselves Toro Y Moi- What For? Panda Bear- Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper Imagine Dragons- Smoke+Mirrors Lupe Fiasco- Testuo and Youth Papa Roach- F.E.A.R. Top Songs of 2015: Tom DeLonge- New World Kendirck Lamar- The Blacker the Berry Kanye West- Wolves Top Music Videos of 2015: Angels and Airwaves- Tunnels Albums Looking Forward to of 2015: Confirmed for 2015: Angels and Airwaves- LP6 Angels and Airwaves- LP7 Breaking Benjamin- LP5 Blur- The Magic Whip Curren$y- Pilot Talk 3 Kanye West- So Help Me God Mumford and Sons- Wilder Mind Muse-LP7 Of Monsters and Men- LP2 Passion Pit - Kindred Rihanna- LP8 Tame Impala- LP3 Tom DeLonge- To The Stars... Tom DeLonge- LP2 Probable for 2015: Incubus- LP8 Frank Ocean- LP3 Jamie XX- Debut LP? Japanese Cartoon - M.I.L.K. Is For Pussies Metro Station- LP2 Nothing and Nobody- Debut LP Run the Jewels - RTJ3 The XX- LP3 30 Seconds to Mars- LP5 Anticipating but Skeptical about: Bullet for My Valentine- LP5
GREAT ALBUMS Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly Balthazar - Thin Walls GOOD ALBUMS ANTICIPATING GRiZ - Say It Loud Blur - The Magic Whip Muse - Drones Kanye West - So Help Me God Radiohead - TBA Deftones - TBA Massive Attack - TBA
Tier I - The Best Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly Death Grips - The Powers That B Tier II - The Great Enter Shikari - The Mindsweep Lupe Fiasco - Tetsuo & Youth Leviathan - Scar Sighted Tier III - The Good Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase. Drake - If You're Reading This It's Too Late Twentyonepilots - Blurryface All Time Low - Future Hearts Joey Bada$$ - B4.DA.$$ Tier IV - The Decent Periphery - Alpha & Juggernaut: Omega Death Cab For Cutie - Kintsugi Xibalba - Tierra Y Libertad Red - Of Beauty And Rage Fall Out Boy - American Beauty/American Psycho Tier V - The Underwhelming/Disappointing Imagine Dragons - Smoke + Mirrors Hollywood Undead - Day Of The Dead Tier VI - The Complete and Indescribable Anguish Three Days Grace - Human Papa Roach - Fear
Listened To All Time Low - Future Hearts - 9/10 Fall Out Boy - American Beauty/American Psycho - 8/10 RED - of Beauty and Rage - 7/10 Imagine Dragons - Smoke & Mirrors - 5/10 Papa Roach - F.E.A.R. - 4/10 Anticipated (from most hyped to least) Gemini Syndrome - TBA Hands Like Houses - TBA Deftones - TBA Incubus - Trust Fall Muse - Drones Stone Sour - Meanwhile in Burbank Coldplay - A Head Full of Dreams Breaking Benjamin - TBA Tonight Alive - TBA Skillet - TBA MuteMath - TBA Scar the Martyr - TBA (I'm optimistic about a new vocalist... But extremely skeptical overall) Gotta Get Around To Listening To Sleeping With Sirens - Madness
GREAT ALBUMS Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly Balthazar - Thin Walls GOOD ALBUMS GRiZ - Say It Loud The Prodigy - The Day is My Enemy ANTICIPATING Blur - The Magic Whip Muse - Drones Kanye West - So Help Me God Radiohead - TBA Deftones - TBA Massive Attack - TBA
Q1: 01. Death Grips - The Powers That B 02. Enter Shikari - The Mindsweep 03. Imagine Dragons - Smoke + Mirrors 04. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly 05. Death Grips - Fashion Week 06. Madeon - Adventure 07. The Prodigy - The Day Is My Enemy 08. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress 09. Drake - If You're Reading This It's Too Late Imagine Dragons > Kendrick. You read that right.
Top Albums of 2015: Kendrick Lamar- To Pimp a Butterfly Steven Wilson- Hand. Cannot. Erase. GRiZ- Say It Loud Death Cab For Cutie- Kintsugi Sleeping With Sirens- Madness Enter Shikari- The Mindsweep Modest Mouse- Strangers to Ourselves Toro Y Moi- What For? Panda Bear- Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper The Prodigy-The Day is My Enemy Other Notable Albums: Earl Sweatshirt- I Don't Like Sh!t, I Don't Go Outside: An Album By Earl Sweatshirt Imagine Dragons- Smoke+Mirrors Lupe Fiasco- Testuo and Youth Shlohmo- Dark Red Top Songs of 2015: Tom DeLonge- New World Kendirck Lamar- The Blacker the Berry Kanye West- Wolves Steven Wilson- Happy Returns Top Music Videos of 2015: Angels and Airwaves- Tunnels Albums Looking Forward to of 2015: Confirmed for 2015: Angels and Airwaves- LP6 Angels and Airwaves- LP7 Breaking Benjamin- LP5 Blur- The Magic Whip Curren$y- Pilot Talk 3 Incubus- Trust Fall Kanye West- So Help Me God Mumford and Sons- Wilder Mind Muse-LP7 Of Monsters and Men- LP2 Passion Pit - Kindred Rihanna- LP8 Tame Impala- LP3 Tom DeLonge- To The Stars... Tom DeLonge- LP2 Probable for 2015: Frank Ocean- LP3 Jamie XX- Debut LP? Japanese Cartoon - M.I.L.K. Is For Pussies Metro Station- LP2 Nothing and Nobody- Debut LP Run the Jewels - RTJ3 The XX- LP3 30 Seconds to Mars- LP5 Anticipating but Skeptical about: Bullet for My Valentine- LP5
Currently anticipating: Shlohmo: "Dark Red" - got this one #420 A$AP Rocky: "At.Long.Last.A$AP" Drake: "Views From The 6" Kanye West: "So Help Me God" Travi$ Scott: "Rodeo"
Good: Marilyn Manson - The Pale Emperor Looking forward to: Blur - The Magic Whip Florence + The Machine - How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful Probably this year or next: Iron Maiden Graham Coxon Gorillaz I need to catch up with music news, there's a tonne I know I don't know about
To listen to: - Tom DeLonge- To the Stars (have had 1 listen) - Rae Sremmurd- SremmLife - Raekwon- Fly International Luxurious Art - Passion Pit- Kindred - Yellawolf- Love Story - Darius Rucker- Southern Style (have had 1 listen) - Matt & Kim- New Glow I think I'm forgetting more, but eventually I will get around to these albums
Julien-K - California Noir - Chapter One: Analog Beaches & Digital Cities I'm gonna buy it soon Also, I should get Blur's The Magic Whip in the mail very soon
The Best: Arcane - Known / Learned Death Grips - The Powers that B Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly Periphery - Juggernaut Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase. The Good: Dave Kerzner - New World (Deluxe / Extended Edition) Misþyrming - Söngvar elds og óreiðu Ne Obliviscaris - Hiraeth The Okay / Disappointing: Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress Madeon - Adventure Ne Obliviscaris - Sarabande to Nihil Swain (a.k.a. This Routine is Hell) - Heavy Dancing Anticipating: Between The Buried and Me - Coma Ecliptic Coldplay - A Head Full of Dreams Corelia - Debut Double Album Dream Theater - LP 13 Haken - LP 4 (?) Muse - Drones Incubus - Trust Fall Kamelot - Haven Leprous - The Congregation Run The Jewels - Meow The Jewels Run the Jewels - RTJ3 (?) Tempel - The Moon Lit Our Path Kanye West - So Help Me God
This thread needs to be stickied. TOP ALBUMS OF 2015 (RANKED) KENDRICK LAMAR | To Pimp A Butterfly BADBADNOTGOOD & GHOSTFACE KILLAH | Sour Soul KAWEHI | Evolution LUPE FIASCO | Tetsuo and Youth JOEY BADA$$ | B4.DA.$$ TOP SONGS OF 2015 (ALPHABETICAL) KAWEHI | Corporation Disco Party (Stream) KENDRICK LAMAR | Wesley's Theory (feat. George Clinton & Thundercat) (Stream) BADBADNOTGOOD & GHOSTFACE KILLAH | Six Degrees (feat. Danny Brown) (Stream) LUPE FIASCO | Body of Work (feat. Troi & Terrace Martin) (Stream) MUSE | Dead Inside (Stream) CARLY RAE JEPSEN | All That (Stream)
GREAT ALBUMS Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly Balthazar - Thin Walls Blur - The Magic Whip Johnny Jewel - Lost River (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) GOOD ALBUMS GRiZ - Say It Loud The Prodigy - The Day is My Enemy Shlohmo - Dark Red LISTENING TO Alabama Shakes - Sound & Color Toro Y Moi - What For? ANTICIPATING Modestep - London Road Muse - Drones The Chemical Brothers - Born in the Echoes Kanye West - So Help Me God Radiohead - TBA Deftones - TBA Massive Attack - TBA
For Quarter 2, here's my stats (I wrote up a wrap up of Q1 on my Tumblr) Looking Forward To Breaking Benjamin - Dark Before Dawn Deftones Incubus - Trust Fall (Side A) Kwabs - Love + War Muse - Drones Steve Aoki - Neon Future II Stone Temple Pilots Years & Years - Communion Listened (In Q2) East India Youth - Culture Volume Fireflight - Innova Foo Fighters - Songs From The Laundry Room Halestorm - Into The Wild Life Hiatus Kaiyote - Choose Your Weapon Portico - Living Fields Stone Sour - Meanwhile In Burbank 10 Years - From Birth To Burial Q2 has been a bit slow for me lately. Top 10 Albums of 2015 10. Lightning Bolt - Fantasy Empire 9. Purity Ring - Another Eternity 8. Liturgy - The Ark Work 7. Periphery - Juggernaut: Alpha 6. Joey Bada$$ - B4.DA.$$ 5. Zs - Xe 4. Darlia - Petals 3. Halestorm - Into The Wild Life 2. 10 Years - From Birth To Burial 1. Fall Out Boy - American Beauty/American Psycho
BEST OF 2015: (In no order) Lupe Fiasco - Tetsuo & Youth Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell ANTICIPATING: MuteMath - Vitals Japanese Cartoon - M.I.L.K. Is For Pussies Tame Impala - Currents Ratatat - Magnifique Robert Glasper - Covered The Arcs - Yours, Dreamily Jedi Mind Tricks - The Thief & the Fallen Incubus - TBH
GREAT ALBUMS Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly Balthazar - Thin Walls Blur - The Magic Whip Johnny Jewel - Lost River (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) GOOD ALBUMS GRiZ - Say It Loud The Prodigy - The Day is My Enemy Shlohmo - Dark Red Alabama Shakes - Sound & Color Toro Y Moi - What For? Modestep - London Road Jamie XX - In Colour ANTICIPATING Muse - Drones Refused - Freedom The Chemical Brothers - Born in the Echoes Kanye West - So Help Me God Radiohead - TBA Deftones - TBA Massive Attack - TBA