OT: Best Music of 2019
Music Geeks,
What’s the best you heard this year?
albums or songs
Mine:
Michael Kiwanuka - Kiwanuka
Foals - Everything Not Lost...Pt. 1
Black Pumas - Black Pumas
Elbow - Giants Of All Sizes
Tool - Fear Inoculum
The Raconteurs- Help Us Stranger
black midi - schlagenheim
Sam Fender - Hypersonic Missles
The Dots - Alaskalaska
December 6th, 2019 at 10:13 AM ^
Fear Inoculum for sure
December 6th, 2019 at 10:14 AM ^
I really enjoyed the new Raconteurs album. But Pop Evil's "In The Big House" deserves an honorable mention since it stands the test of time.
December 6th, 2019 at 11:19 AM ^
Love me some Raconteurs. They didn't disappoint with the long awaited release.
December 6th, 2019 at 4:23 PM ^
Thanks. I went to amazon and bought "in the big house"
December 6th, 2019 at 10:15 AM ^
Everything touched by Apollo Brown
December 6th, 2019 at 11:21 AM ^
Even me???
December 6th, 2019 at 10:22 AM ^
I've heard of one of those bands. Neat.
December 6th, 2019 at 10:33 AM ^
How have you never heard of Foal or Elbow?
December 6th, 2019 at 11:41 AM ^
I have never heard of any of them...was sure that "the day the music died" was sometime around the mid 70s. So I pulled up a random "Elbow" video... "Magnificent". Having recently returned from Loas and Vietnam...the video part was touching.
Edit: Current stuff...The Steel Wheels for excellent Bluegrass and Carrie Newcomer, singer song-writer, for thoughtful beauty.
December 6th, 2019 at 10:34 AM ^
Same here.
December 6th, 2019 at 10:43 AM ^
Boo. Nerd.
December 6th, 2019 at 10:53 AM ^
Heard of 3, myself.
December 6th, 2019 at 11:29 AM ^
Jack White leads the Raconteurs. Surely everyone knows him, especially as a native Detroiter.
December 6th, 2019 at 1:06 PM ^
Brendan Benson from Royal Oak still with him?
December 6th, 2019 at 1:29 PM ^
Yes, although neither of them call Detroit home anymore.
Jack still has his business here so he's around occasionally.
December 6th, 2019 at 4:31 PM ^
Yes he is. When I was in college I saw him do a solo acoustic set at that original Borders in A2. Solid musician.
December 6th, 2019 at 10:22 AM ^
New Post Malone and all the features on the album.
Kygo
Juice Wrld song with ellie goulding song banggs
Better with you- 3LAU
Still listen to kanye, kid rock, bobbby seeeeeggggsss. I have a wide variety man.
December 6th, 2019 at 10:25 AM ^
People like to shit-talk edm, but Kygo is awesome. I don't think I've heard a song from him that I don't like.
And he's made videos showing his process for making certain songs and it's fascinating. Definitely not easy to do.
December 6th, 2019 at 10:28 AM ^
Dude total agree! I'm not an edm guy but i can vibe to his stuff!
December 6th, 2019 at 10:36 AM ^
Alright sick, let me know when you create a catchy song based on cutting up someone's vocals in unique patterns. I get that he doesn't have to know how to play the guitar or drum, but he still has to understand music and it's definitely something the average person could not do.
December 6th, 2019 at 10:31 AM ^
New Post was good. He gets heat because some label him a “rapper” to which the purist hip hop community rightfully says “wtf”, but I don’t think he’s ever put himself strictly in that box. He just wants to make cool music with other good artists - sometimes rock, sometimes hip hop, sometimes pop. He’s undeniably catchy.
December 6th, 2019 at 10:37 AM ^
If Dr. Toboggan approves of Post, then we should all be good with Post.
December 6th, 2019 at 10:48 AM ^
I was laughing more at kygo and producers have been cutting up vocals for into beats for 30 some years. It’s great when done right, I’m just more of old school sounding street beat lover than some electronic teenie bop. Check out Detroit’s own Apollo Brown, best producer in the world right now
December 6th, 2019 at 10:58 AM ^
I never argued that Kygo was an innovator or the first person to cut vocals. My point is that he should still be appreciated for being damn good at it.
December 6th, 2019 at 10:23 AM ^
Libertad 548
December 6th, 2019 at 10:23 AM ^
Probably not the right demographic for this specific group but there’s a song called Arabesque that is my song of the year.
December 6th, 2019 at 10:27 AM ^
Romeo Santos cut a really cool album “Utopia” where he featured a lot of bachata legends. Romeo took bachata pop and now he’s trying to gas up a lot of the older bachata artists that inspired him.
I love Young Thug so I thought So Much Fun was really, well, fun.
I actually thought Chance’s album was kind of a flop. A couple good tracks, but he hasn’t really grown beyond Coloring Book. I love Coloring Book, don’t get me wrong, I just wanted something a little different I guess.
Oh, and I’ll be the unpopular opinion guy: Kanye’s album is good. I legitimately enjoy it, more than Ye, for sure. Probably more than Yeezus too.
Edit: completely forgot Tee Grizzley’s Scriptures and Sada Baby’s Whoop Tape. Both heavy in the rotation in 2019.
December 6th, 2019 at 11:17 AM ^
Kanye’s gospel album is legit, heavy rotation right now. Even the kids know the lyrics to Hands On.
December 6th, 2019 at 11:28 AM ^
I still like me some Kanye music.
December 6th, 2019 at 1:03 PM ^
Want an unpopular opinion? I really like 21 pilots.
<ducks and heads for exit>
Cheers.
December 6th, 2019 at 10:29 AM ^
The "Wasteland, Baby" album, by Hozier, is sublime. The depth of sound he achieves is unbelievable.
December 6th, 2019 at 11:22 AM ^
This is on my list for album of the year. Honestly it put Hozier on my radar... previously I only knew the overplayed "Take Me to Church". After hearing the album (and "Movement" specifically) I went and saw him at Chicago Theatre. Just WOW!
December 6th, 2019 at 4:45 PM ^
Hozier live is unreal.
December 6th, 2019 at 10:30 AM ^
December 6th, 2019 at 10:31 AM ^
Michael Kiwanuka - Kiwanuka
Freddie Gibbs/Madlib - Bandana
FKA Twigs - Magdalene
Anderson .Paak - Ventura
JPEGMafia - All My Heroes Are Cornballs
December 6th, 2019 at 10:38 AM ^
What I enjoy about this is list is that if I had never heard of Anderson .paak I would have no idea which side was the artists and which side was the song titles
December 6th, 2019 at 10:44 AM ^
FKA twigs is great. Surprised more don’t know her music here.
December 6th, 2019 at 10:32 AM ^
Purple Mountains - Purple Mountains
Sturgill Simpson - SOUND & FURY
Craig Finn - I Need a New War
December 6th, 2019 at 11:19 AM ^
kb
Freud loved pink mountains better
December 6th, 2019 at 11:25 AM ^
Matte Kudasai -
Ha ha. For sure. Definitely staring in to the void.
If you haven't already, check the First Aid Kit cover of 'Random Rules'. So good.
December 6th, 2019 at 10:33 AM ^
There hasn't been any good music released since 1995.
/my lawn, etc.
December 6th, 2019 at 10:35 AM ^
Lizzo - Truth Hurts
December 6th, 2019 at 12:42 PM ^
You forgot the /s
December 6th, 2019 at 1:42 PM ^
Song is a banger. Don't @ me.
December 6th, 2019 at 10:35 AM ^
Not new but I have recently developed a taste for Johnny Cash. Maybe it's because so many of his songs are in commercials now. I'm not really into country but I just find his songs to be so raw but elegant in their own way. Very moving stuff.
December 6th, 2019 at 10:35 AM ^
latest song by the group where the lead singer is brian's doppelganger
/s
December 6th, 2019 at 11:00 AM ^
Not his doppelgänger, which explains why Brian has been mailing it in.
December 6th, 2019 at 10:35 AM ^
Fear Inoculum for me.
That concert was a true life experience. I have never seen anyone play and sound like that live. The no cell policy they enforced was as satisfying as sipping 18 year old single malt.
I really liked Whitechapel's album The Valley
Slipknot's album was solid, but don't spend 2 years telling me it's the hardest stuff you've written since Iowa. Comparing it to one of the heaviest albums of my entire lifetime did nothing but give me unattainable expectations.