top 20 albums of 2018
Dec. 20th, 2018 04:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonlady7ok so the Onion A.V. Club puts out their annual best-of things every year? and this year they released a list of their top 20 musical albums of the year. Fine, ok.
Well, Dude decided to make a playlist on Google Play (they had a Spotify playlist, which I can't find now; we don't use Spotify so) and I was listening to it on shuffle at work.
My coworker, who cares deeply about music, decided today that we have to listen to each and every album individually in its totality, and I quote, as self-punishment "to make up for everything bad we did this year".
friends, some of these albums, I mean
they're bad.
I hate to be like You Dern Kids but for fukken real, some of these albums fucking suck.
So it's good for the brain to just. Power through.
I have decided that Pusha T. sounds just like 2012 Kanye West, though. (Was that the year Ye was good? I think it was. I could be wrong.) And I don't know if that's just that I don't listen to enough rap? I listen to some, but maybe I'm wrong and Kanye is a category, not an individual, and I'm ascribing things to him that are more universal than I assumed. I don't know, but the cadences and even some of the phrasing, it's just very 2012 Kanye.
I am Not A Fan of Let's Eat Grandma. That album is a brutal slog-fest of sugary vocals and, fucking, description-defying boringness. I'm sorry, if you like it. Maybe it's quite good, I just can't get over how thoroughly not for me it is. So.
Also, The Armed? Real bad. I'm just going to stand by that, they're really bad.
*fogey shakes cane*
So far the redeeming joy of a couple of these albums is that they're hella short. Sam Wilkes' album is half an hour long, thank fuck.
Well, Dude decided to make a playlist on Google Play (they had a Spotify playlist, which I can't find now; we don't use Spotify so) and I was listening to it on shuffle at work.
My coworker, who cares deeply about music, decided today that we have to listen to each and every album individually in its totality, and I quote, as self-punishment "to make up for everything bad we did this year".
friends, some of these albums, I mean
they're bad.
I hate to be like You Dern Kids but for fukken real, some of these albums fucking suck.
So it's good for the brain to just. Power through.
I have decided that Pusha T. sounds just like 2012 Kanye West, though. (Was that the year Ye was good? I think it was. I could be wrong.) And I don't know if that's just that I don't listen to enough rap? I listen to some, but maybe I'm wrong and Kanye is a category, not an individual, and I'm ascribing things to him that are more universal than I assumed. I don't know, but the cadences and even some of the phrasing, it's just very 2012 Kanye.
I am Not A Fan of Let's Eat Grandma. That album is a brutal slog-fest of sugary vocals and, fucking, description-defying boringness. I'm sorry, if you like it. Maybe it's quite good, I just can't get over how thoroughly not for me it is. So.
Also, The Armed? Real bad. I'm just going to stand by that, they're really bad.
*fogey shakes cane*
So far the redeeming joy of a couple of these albums is that they're hella short. Sam Wilkes' album is half an hour long, thank fuck.
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Date: 2018-12-21 04:45 am (UTC)Why? Because I'd never heard of Let's Eat Grandma, so I looked them up and took a listen. And really like it!
;)
But modern music in general, let me join you in the cane-shaking.
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Date: 2018-12-21 06:51 pm (UTC)Taste is so subjective, though. I just can't figure out how anyone thinks The Armed are good in any way, though.
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Date: 2018-12-22 02:35 am (UTC)