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My 50 favorite albums of 2014

War on Drugs is definitely dad rock. Blast that shit in your Ford Explorer between taking your kids to football practice.
 
I only bought 29 albums this year, and my least favorite is the War on Drugs.

Sturgill Simpson's "Metamodern Sounds in Country Music" is my top, followed by Hard Working Americans, Shovels & Rope "Swimmin' Time", Lee Bains III & the Glory Fires' "Dereconstructed", DBT "English Oceans", and the Black Keys' "Turn Blue" to round out the top five (uh, six).
 
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I'm glad St Vincent could provide some cred to Rolling Stone's top 10.
 
Turn Blue is the my 2nd least favorite album that I purchased this year, after Ray LaMontagne's Supernova. They are both weak callbacks to an already shitty musical era.
 
Rancid's latest, ...Honor is All We Know, might be the only album released in 2014 that I've bought, so I guess I'll go with that as my best of the year.

(It kicks ass and tentatively I think it's their best since Life Won't Wait)
 
St Paul and the Broken Bones debut album Half City is great
 
I listened to far fewer albums than Townie (around 60 when all's said and done), but here's my top 35 (basically, right before the cutoff for where I stopped liking the album):

1.) Modern Baseball: You're Gonna Miss It All
2.) Cymbals Eat Guitars: Lose
3.) Mac Demarco: Salad Days
4.) Parquet Courts: Sunbathing Animal
5.) Run the Jewels: Run the Jewels 2
6.) Angel Olsen: Burn Your Fire for No Witness
7.) Iceage: Plowing Into the Field of Love
8.) Ab-Soul: These Days…
9.) Mas Ysa: Worth
10.) Lana Del Rey: Ultraviolence
11.) The New Pornographers: Brill Bruisers
12.) SBTRKT: Wonder Where We Land
13.) Alvvays: Alvvays
14.) Real Estate: Atlas
15.) Spoon: They Want My Soul
16.) Ought: More Than Any Other Day
17.) St. Vincent: St. Vincent
18.) Dads: I'll Be the Tornado
19.) Foxygen: …And Star Power
20.) S. Carey: Range of Light
21.) Azealia Banks: Broke with Expensive Taste
22.) Ty Segall: Manipulator
23.) Perfume Genius: Too Bright
24.) tUnE-yArDs: Nikki Nack
25.) Alt-J: This is All Yours
26.) The Antlers: Familiars
27.) Avi Buffalo: At Best Cuckold
28.) Literature: Chorus
29.) Ex Hex: Rips
30.) ScHoolboy Q: Oxymoron
31.) Dum Dum Girls: Too True
32.) TV on the Radio: Signs
33.) Ariel Pink: Pom Pom
34.) Landlady: Upright Behavior
35.) Death from Above 1979: The Physical World

A lot of overlap with Townie's list, I guess. I don't have any ambient or electronic stuff, because I don't really like ambient or electronic stuff.

We should do a favorite songs thread at some point this month.
 
RedSoxFaithful said:
I listened to far fewer albums than Townie (around 60 when all's said and done), but here's my top 35 (basically, right before the cutoff for where I stopped liking the album):

1.) Modern Baseball: You're Gonna Miss It All
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These guys sound like a cross between Blink-182 and the band who did the theme song for Big Bang Theory.

Dude, I'm totally not getting this. Even if they had a song I like it would be over in two minutes.
 
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Biff, did you end up getting to the School of Language album? I sometimes feel like I'm the only one who likes the Field Music guys and their offshoots, but I love them so hard.
 
I gave it a listen on the Spotify. Good for chilling, but I doubt the wife would like it. Probably not going to travel to see them on tour.
 
For an old guy Jackson Browne can still write interesting and pertinent lyrics. You should give it a try.
 
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I gave it a listen on the Spotify. Good for chilling, but I doubt the wife would like it. Probably not going to travel to see them on tour.
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I don't think they often leave England, and rarely even venture from Sunderland, so you don't have to worry about it.

When they were touring I somehow missed seeing them (before I really knew about them) even though they opened for two bands in close succession that I did see -- they just either left the tour or joined up the day/city before/after I saw them, I think on a Menomena tour and maybe Midlake. It was...unfortunate.
 
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