The 2018 end of the year music lists thread

Sputnikmusic Best Albums of 2018 link: https://www.sputnikmusic.com/best/albums/2018/

Sputnikmusic Best Albums of 2018 link: https://www.sputnikmusic.com/best/albums/2018/

Ha, the slug band at number 2.

This sounds VERY similar to These New Puritans!

― imago, Wednesday, December 5, 2018 3:56 PM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It kind of does!

at the moment the Number 1 rated album is: MewithoutYou

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Ha, the slug band at number 2.

That album rips tbf

another ranking community website, Metal Storm

current top 20:

Metal Storm Top 20 albums of 2018
http://metalstorm.net/bands/albums_top.php?album_year=2018

1 Amorphis Queen Of Time
8.75 | 606

2 Judas Priest Firepower
8.55 | 555

3 Riverside Wasteland
8.54 | 207

4 Shylmagoghnar Transience
8.44 | 194

5 Night Verses From The Gallery Of Sleep
8.43 | 94

6 Antimatter Black Market Enlightenment
8.42 | 66

7 The Ocean Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic
8.42 | 141

8 Rivers Of Nihil Where Owls Know My Name
8.41 | 265

9 Slugdge Esoteric Malacology
8.36 | 249

10 Necrophobic Mark Of The Necrogram
8.34 | 247

11 Omnium Gatherum The Burning Cold
8.29 | 239

12 Manticora To Kill To Live To Kill
8.28 | 64

13 Obscura - Diluvium
8.28 | 196

14 Panopticon The Scars Of Man On The Once Nameless Wilderness
8.27 | 93
15 Immortal Northern Chaos Gods
8.26 | 268
16 Harakiri For The Sky Arson
8.21 | 184

17 Alkaloid Liquid Anatomy
8.21 | 173

18 Sear Bliss Letters From The Edge
8.20 | 90

19 Thy Catafalque Geometria
8.20 | 133

20 Michael Romeo War Of The Worlds, Pt. 1
8.19 | 129

for those who were asking about lindsay zoladz: https://www.theringer.com/music/2018/12/5/18126370/best-songs-2018-ariana-grande-lady-gaga-bradley-cooper-ella-mai-the-1975-travis-scott-drake

10. Camp Cope, “The Opener”
9. J Hus, “Scene”
8. Ella Mai, “Boo’d Up”
7. Unknown Mortal Orchestra, “American Guilt”
6. Teyana Taylor, “Rose in Harlem”
5. Kacey Musgraves, “High Horse”
4. Ariana Grande, “thank u, next”
3. Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper, “Shallow” *omg really?*
2. Travis Scott ft. Drake, “SICKO MODE”
1. The 1975, “Love It If We Made It”

decent list

has boo’d up topped any tracks lists yet ? p undeniable

“High Horse” isn’t even the best song on that (somewhat overrated, in my esteemed and respected opinion) album... I heard it in the supermarket the other day, it fit right in.

(And I don’t usually do “overrated,” but we are literally talking about ratings/rankings here; so I’ll allow it)

Boo’d Up is probably hurt by the fact it came out in early 2017

I don’t actually think the NPR list is quite as boring as I expected tbh... aside from the awful number one it’s somehow the only list I’ve seen with “drip too hard” on it so far like what

Someone on Twitter pointed out how weird it is they seem to have completely ignored The Internet’s album on their albums list, like that’s tailor made for npr

High horse is awesome, not my personal fav on the album exactly but cmon

Npr list also had King’s dead... Troye Sivan .... phonte, Doja cat... there’s definitely some corny selections — it is NPR and it’s impossible to forgive that number one — but overall could be way worse

some good things in here imo...

Vinyl Factory - Our 20 favourite 12″s and EPs of 2018
https://thevinylfactory.com/features/best-12s-and-eps-of-2018/

Complex - The Best Albums of 2018
https://www.complex.com/music/best-albums-2018/

thanks for that Vinyl Factory link, gonna explore that later

FACT - The best UK rap of 2018
https://www.factmag.com/2018/12/05/best-uk-rap-2018/

i actually really liked the npr songs and albums lists this year, unexpected

i'm sure i'll be looking through that vinyl factory list, loving everything and not buying anything because $

would've preferred if lucy had been no. 1 on the songs list of course, i'm with everyone who thinks "this is america" is a video, not a song xp

dengue dengue dengue album rules

xps though i should do a fxhe order and get the norm talley record

most of it's on spotify tbh map, it's not primarily a list about the vinyl object xps

ta

had never heard of Hatis Noit before, but that one's pretty nice

Compared to last year's tail-end scramble, I did a better job of keeping up with new releases in 2018, but I still feel overwhelmed whenever I see a new list come out. FOMO's a bitch.

Did not expect to see 'Pat Earrings' (a line that will make zero sense to anyone outside the UK) on that FACT list.

yeah cover of that is hilarious

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/512x512/p05w25c3.jpg

article actually lists it as 'pet earrings', think it's by a us writer?

xp amazing

It's been a jam of mine all year but the rapping is probably the worst thing about it.

beautiful cover.

boo’d up might have come out in 2017 but it’s def a 2018 track. D-40 probably right tho

funny how these things work. culture II feels like it came out an age ago. might as well have been a 2017 record

D-40 has been going down this pedantic wormhole since, like, "Still Tippin'." Ignore.

Complex: "But Earl treats the lo-fi nature of the process in the same way that Guided by Voices did in their heyday"

lol was not expecting that one

Complex list is decent but the ordering is bonkers to me.

Also, am I alone in thinking that the Tierra Whack album seems to be getting more shine than it deserves? Maybe I'll revisit it today but I didn't really like it much when I first listened.

I agree. As a calling-card EP it shows a lot of promise, but aoty is a big stretch

Vinyl Factory list is awesome. Love their taste.

TW probably my favourite rap album of the year tbf

yours, a committed and knowledgeable rap fan

Glad to see the Yob record place so low on the Noisey list. Yob sucks, and I don't understand why so many critics worship them. Sure, the dude almost died and that's a good feature hook, but it doesn't make their music interesting.

― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, December 5, 2018 5:59 AM (three hours ago)

O_O

tbf I've never got Yob either

tbf they're one of the best heavy bands on the planet

Nah, he's right.

2xp

Yob sucks, and I don't understand why so many critics worship them

it's unperson, you can replace "yob" in this construction with like... most bands

i don't love yob but i respect what they're doing

who da fuq is yob

xxp ok, fine, but in this particular case that is an laughably terrible opinion.

xp a metal band