Albums of the Year: 2018!

Albums of the Year continues with our favorite, and least favorite, albums of 2018! C'mawn!
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[@RPCmuzique]

Well allll riiiiiiight! I'm not letting 2018 break me, dug around and found some cool stuff. Thanks for the great video! 1. Kamasi Washington - Heaven and Earth 2. Yves Tumor - Safe in the Hands of Love 3. Blood Orange - Negro Swan 4. Mélissa Laveaux - Radyo Siwèl 5. DJ Koze - Knock Knock 6. Shame - Songs of Praise

[@AsItShouldBePodcast]

That's the way to do it!

[@RiseAbove924]

1.The Aces - When My Heart Felt Volcanic 2. Art Brut - Wham! Bang! Pow! Let's Rock Out! 3. Bad Sounds - Get Better 4. Bishop Briggs - Church of Scars 5. Hollie Cook - Vessel of Love 6. Jain - Souldier 7. Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer 8. Lily Allen - No Shame 9. Pale Waves - My Mind Makes Noises 10. Sofi Tukker - Treehouse

[@NaughtyVampire-zf8pd]

Hi Guys. I'm posting on time for a change. 😀 Top albums of the year w/fave song listed: 1. Belly - Dove (Faceless) 2. The Fratellis - In Your Own Sweet Time (I've Been Blind) 3. Sunflower Bean - Twentytwo in Blue (Crises Fest) 4. Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel (City Looks Pretty) 5. Franz Ferdinand - Always Ascending (Lois Lane) 6. Gin Blossoms - Mixed Reality (Here Again) 7. Parquet Courts - Wide Awake! (Mardi Gras Beads) 8. Metric - Art of Doubt (Dressed to Suppress) 9. U.S. Girls - In a Poem Unlimited (M.A.H.) 10 Suede - The Blue Hour (Wastelands) Well Awwwlright! Let's see whatcha all got! Naughty/NV(G) - At Your Service 😎

[@michelewiese48]

@@NaughtyVampire-zf8pd Good morning, Naughty! I saw Sunflower 🌻 Bean open for Interpol a few years back and they sounded fantastic! I love the title track from that FF album and should listen to it in full. Belly released an album this year?! Hope you have a fab weekend!

[@NaughtyVampire-zf8pd]

@@michelewiese48 Hey Michele! I'm very happy to hear that Sunflower Bean put on a good live show. 😀 And Belly - a mere 23 years between studio albums. 🙃 Their 1993 debut was also an AOTY for me. I loved the first three Franz Ferdinand albums but their fourth studio album was a bit disappointing. The one from 2018 was a nice comeback. (Hope you enjoy it if you are able to give it a listen. Unfortunately it dropped a few spots since my latest listen but still strong.) I will certainly do my best to dive into your 2018 picks this weekend and report back. Let me know if you discover anything new from my list. (Maybe you are already familiar with them - not sure.) I am wishing you a great weekend, too, Michele. 🙂

[@michelewiese48]

@@NaughtyVampire-zf8pd I’ve heard of all of the artists on your list but only know ‘The Blue Hour’ - I listened to a Metric album a while back and enjoyed it - ‘Fantasies’ I’m probably most curious about Belly as it’s your #1, and that’s an artistic statement to come back after that much time has passed!

[@christianewen3227]

@@NaughtyVampire-zf8pd ‘Wastelands’ is a beautiful song, NVG 👏 and Belly at #1 is fantastic!

[@NaughtyVampire-zf8pd]

@@christianewen3227 Hello Christian - Thank you for the comment. 😀 Hope you are having an enjoyable/relaxing weekend. As I told Michele, Belly's 1993 debut album, Star, was also an AOTY of me (in a much more competitive year), so that make's the band a real favorite of mine - especially considering the fact they have only three studio albums. . . . I am happy to see Suede on so many of the commentors' lists! Their reunion and subsequent albums are one of the great events in post-2010 music. . . I will be sure to dive into your selections this weekend and (as I mentioned) I already have a familiarity with a few of them. . . BTW how does 2019 look for you? For me it's an even stronger year than 2018. Ok. Take care and see you later my friend. 🙂

[@alexnejako777]

This was the year i saw metric open for the pumpkins. Both bands played all their hits. Pumpkins did songs from Watchmen and Batman and robin movie soundtracks

[@AllMediaReviewsPodcast]

good year! (my 2018 AOTY video probably will come sometime this fall, but here's my current (or previous) list. 1. Eldren - Miss Information Aged 2. The Family Crest - The War: Act I 3. Kindo - Happy However After 4. Grimus- Unmanageable Species 5. Esperanza Spalding - 12 Little Spells 6. Coheed and Cambria - Vaxis - Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures 7. Kimbra - Primal Heart 8. Vennart - To Cure a Blizzard Upon a Plastic Sea 9. Ours - New Age Heroine II 10. Orphaned Land - Unsung Prophets & Dead Messiahs 11. Childish Japes & Dave Vives - Salamander 12. Long Distance Calling - Boundless 13. A Dying Planet - Facing the Incurable 14. Blackbelt Eagle Scout Mother of My Children 15. Capital Cities - Solarize 13. In Vain - Currents 14. Bend Sinister - Foolish Games 15. 22- You Creating: Limb2 16. Typhoon - Offerings 17. Josh Rouse - Love in the Modern Age 18. Between the Buried and Me - Automata I/Automata II 19. Crippled Black Phoenix - Great Escape 20. Yossi Sassi & the Oriental Rock Orchestra - Illusion of Choice

[@hendrixpd1]

I am sorry you had to do this. What a year! YUUUUUUUUUUUKKKKKKK!

[@ErnestIII83]

Hello freaks, misfits and outcasts! So, yes, albums of 2018. I only have two. So, here goes: 2. Egypt Station - Paul McCartney (I did see that carpool karaoke when it aired on James Corden's show, saw it here on the KZbins and even saw the TV special they did of it as well. As someone who's been a huge Beatles/McCartney fan since 1989 or so, it was indeed a great treat and quite an emotional watch for me. Btw, there wasn't a family that lived at Paul's childhood home. It was the woman that runs it since it's owned by the National Trust. I'm sure she knew they were coming. Then again, maybe not.) 1. Come Spy With Me - Palmyra Delran and the Doppel Gang (Peters off by the second half of it, but overall, a fun listen. Yeah, frankly, my choices for this year aren't really that spectacular to me, all due respect, but there you go.) Lake Street Dive is a band I've been meaning to get into but either never had the time or been too lazy or been listening to other things or all of the above. Ha. I think they have a new album out now, actually. I mentioned the Lemon Twigs in 2016 and I know their Go To School album was released this year, but I haven't heard it yet. I did hear their next couple of albums, though. More on them when we get there. And I never heard that Janelle Monae album either, but I will one day. Perhaps the same day I listen to Lake Street Dive and the Lemon Twigs' Go To School. ;) White Denim. I prefer Blue Denim which was the "other" band the lead singer had that only I'm aware of. Haven't heard that Derek Smalls album nor that Sting/Shaggy album but I do remember when they came out. I have a feeling the Derek Smalls album might be at least a LITTLE better than Sting and Shaggy. At least with Derek, you know what you're getting yourself into. The only Kylie album I ever heard and frankly have any interest in is Fever. The one with Can't Get You Out Of My Head on it. I'm sure I mentioned it in my comment for the 2002 albums. Was never a fan of Journey (at one point, I friggin' HATED them) but I can't help but respect Steve Perry for the fact that, much like Robert Plant, he doesn't want to reunite with his old band and prefers to do his own thing whether his fans like that or not. VERY cool on his part, I must say. I seriously think Kanye needs help. God, those Reba KFC ads. Ugh... Pink Floyd did have some cool and interesting album covers. Might even do a ranking of them myself next week. Hehe. PEACE! :)

[@UniversalBlackRocker]

@@ErnestIII83 Hey my musical brother from another mother. Great two picks. Not really familiar with Palmyra Delran And The Doppel Gang...looks like I got homework to do. But with Sir James Paul McCartney...to be honest I have to check out the last couple albums from Paul because I've checked out after the album New and when Fuh You came out, it was a skip for me. But one day I will check out Egypt Station and McCartney III albums.

[@ErnestIII83]

@@UniversalBlackRocker McCartney III was REALLY good, I thought. Yeah, his voice isn't what it used to be, but since they're new songs and not any of his older songs, it worked for me. Ha. Understandable about Fuh You, but in the end, I figured it wasn't any different from him naming one of his albums Kisses On The Bottom. 😁

[@UniversalBlackRocker]

@@ErnestIII83 Since I'm chilling the next couple days, I'll check those albums out. Oh I forgot about Kisses From The Bottom album. Guess Paul saw how the Rod Stewart's Great American Songbook albums became popular. But then again, at least Paul didn't go that far by doing a song with Will.I.Am and Jennifer Lopez like his buddy did... Mick!! Oh yeah, he did do a song with two artists I can't stand, Rihanna and Kanye...ugh!

[@ErnestIII83]

@@UniversalBlackRocker Oh, EVERYBODY was cashing in on that Great American Songbook bandwagon after Rod did so well with it. Yeah, Paul collaborating with Kanye and Rihanna was quite weird.

[@UniversalBlackRocker]

@@ErnestIII83 And who can ever forget that whole "Kanye made Paul famous" commentary? I still find it hilarious that these TikTok kids didn't know about the guy who gave us Good Day Sunshine and With A Little Luck lol

[@neurophile]

My favorite 2018 album : Jeremy Dutcher - Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa (not in french as usual) least favorite : Fall Out Boy - Mania !

[@dumbguydepot304]

16 Magazine shirt???? Very cool!!! Crystal mentioned Joe Satriani and polyrhythms in one show!?!? Solid list. The 'International Lover' story left your viewers with a lot of questions. Firepower is a really good post Painkiller album w a good/tight production. Rob sounds great with very few heavily pitch adjusted/cheesy screams if any Kylie Minogue - Aphrodite is an excellent album with some poppy goodness. That was her last decent album. Yeah that was a weak 2000's Ace effort. I didn't buy it.... bought the previous ones. The back and forth format with a year then the next week like 'Pink Floyd Album Covers'. It is more enjoyable for sure. I'm on 1974 going to tape an episode for best songs. The albums I had to stop in 2015 for my mental health lol. The songs are way easier.

[@AsItShouldBePodcast]

How do you feel about the new Ace album? So far it seems a bit weak as well, but need to give it another shot

[@PapaNicksMusic]

Ok, I struggled to fill out my top ten for 2018. How much did I struggle? I almost put Spaceman on here… Luckily, I found some other better albums. I’ve got ten albums here, but I can only stand by my top three, if I’m being honest. Ready? Here we go! 10. Beautiful Life, Rick Astley 9. Wildness, Snow Patrol 8. Down the Road Wherever, Mark Knopfler 7. A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships, The 1975 6. Out of the Blues, Boz Scaggs 5. Television Themes, Matt Barry 4. Look Now, Elvis Costello & the Imposters 3. Egypt Station, Paul McCartney 2. AM Waves, Young Gun Silver Fox 1. Surf Music, Paul Williams That Paul Williams album is fantastic. It isn’t the Paul Williams you’re thinking of. This is Paul Williams, the comedian from New Zealand. I was introduced to this music when I watched my favorite comedian James Acaster’s brilliant show, Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999. (Acaster uses clips from some of these songs in the interludes of that show.) The album is fantastic, and I LOVE it, but I’m also willing to bet actual folding money that all three of y’all will HATE it…

[@AsItShouldBePodcast]

Have you heard the AI "young McCartney" version of I Don't Know from Egypt Station? I'm not an advocate for the awfulness that AI will inevitably usher in but I must say it was incredible to hear McCartney's young voice on what I consider one of his very best late period songs.

[@PapaNicksMusic]

@@AsItShouldBePodcast I haven’t heard it, so I’ll be tracking it down….

[@AsItShouldBePodcast]

@@PapaNicksMusic There are a couple up at the moment. This is the good one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gZDLqnaHrJh6ncU

[@PapaNicksMusic]

@@AsItShouldBePodcast Wow. I still like the original-I think the age in his voice fits well-but this is good…

[@NaughtyVampire-zf8pd]

Hello Papa Nick. Another interesting list! 😀 I'm familiar with almost all these artists - if not the particular albums. I will certainly try to give them a listen - especially your top pick. (Yeah . . It wasn't the Paul Williams I was thinking of . . .) Talk to you later Papa Nick.

[@michelewiese48]

My top 10 albums of 2018: (*and fave tracks) Holy Moly, I ❤️ this year! 1. Lord Huron - Vide Noir (Ancient Names (Part One)) 2. Interpol - Marauder (NYSMAW) 3. IAMX - Alive In New Light (Break The Chain) 4. Jonathan Bree - Sleepwalking (F*ck It) 5. MGMT - Little Dark Age (title track) 6. Suede - The Blue Hour (All the Wild Places) 7. Father John Misty - God’s Favorite Customer (Hangout at the Gallows) 8. Anna Calvi - Hunter (As a Man) *TIE* Emma Ruth Rundle - On Dark Horses (Darkhorse) 9. Dead Can Dance - Dionysus (Dance of the Bacchantes) 10. Cobra Man - Toxic Planet (Bad Feeling) ***Tommy, I recommend this one to you!***

[@NaughtyVampire-zf8pd]

Suede! . . . . MGMT a "bubbling under" for me this year . . . Several unfamiliar ones I will look into here.

[@michelewiese48]

@@NaughtyVampire-zf8pd Hi Naughty! Yes, that Suede album is beautiful. The video for MGMT’s “Little Dark Age” has got to be one of my favorite music videos ever! 🦇 🕯️ 🍎 Hope you find something you like from my other selections. 😊

[@tommyvonvoigt5240]

Which one, Cobra Man? I’ll check it out tonight :)

[@michelewiese48]

@@tommyvonvoigt5240 Yes! Hope you dig it! 🔥 🌎

[@jb8280]

Three twinsie moments. I think that’s healthy. ;)

[@jb8280]

2018...damn, another year of meh. I managed to cobble ten or so, but uh....yeah. HMs: Public Access TV - Street Safari Melody's Echo Chamber - Bon Voyage The Rolling Blackouts - CF Hope Downs Boy Azooga - 1-2-Kung Fu 10. Suede - The Blue Hour 9. The Coral - Move Through the Dawn 8. Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base... 7. Yves Tumor - Safe in the Hands of Love 6. The Vaccines - Combat Sports 5. MGMT - Little Dark Age 4. Young Fathers - Cocoa Sugar 3. Spiritualized - And Nothing Hurt 2. Iceage - Beyondless 1. Interpol - Marauder

[@michelewiese48]

@@jb8280 Your #1 put a big fat smile on my face! “Like Prince sang in Tennessee I wanna drive with you down there To Alphabet street And we can whisper with the stars Like when the world began And we can leak some beliefs skyward”

[@christianewen3227]

@@jb8280 What a great list, mate! I totally forgot about ‘Move Through the Dawn’ being released in 2018, but I really should have checked, and awesome you have Interpol at #1! A certain Michele will be very pleased indeed about that! (UPDATE - yep, just read her post to you… she’s chuffed 😆)

[@jb8280]

You’re funny. You do know what Alphabet Street is about, right? I’m sure Crystal can tell you. It’s a great album. The one I listen to still…but still a far cry from the perfection that is Turn on the Brigjt Lights…;)

[@jb8280]

Bright Ugh

[@christianewen3227]

@@jb8280 I’m funny? Funny how? Don’t worry - I’m not going to go all ‘Joe Pesci in ‘Goodfellas’ on you’ 😆😉 If @djcrystalclear8169 would like to explain what ‘Alphabet Street’ is all about, I’m all ears! 👂👂 Yes, ‘Turn on the Bright Lights’ is one of the greatest albums of all time - no question mate, so we’re on the same page with that one 📕

[@christianewen3227]

Hiya, everyone! Here’s the list I managed to cobble together for 2018. Not an especially rich tapestry, in the grand scheme of things, but I was genuinely enjoying these sounds some six years back… 1 - Go-Kart Mozart - ‘Mozart’s Mini-Mart’ (‘When You’re Depressed’) 2 - Suede - ‘The Blue Hour’ (‘Flytipping’) 3 - IDLES - ‘Joy as an Act of Resistance’ (‘Never Fight a Man with a Perm’) 4 - Manic Street Preachers - ‘Resistance is Futile’ (‘International Blue’) I look forward to, as always, seeing the picks of our esteemed hosts and those of my fave AISB community members! Best wishes, Christian

[@AsItShouldBePodcast]

I've never heard "Never Fight a man with a Perm" but those are indeed words to live by

[@christianewen3227]

@@AsItShouldBePodcast Absolutely!

[@jb8280]

Well, one is better than none. I spaced on the Manics, but I never really listen to that album. 90% on my Manics time is Gen Terrorists still…lol. The rest is Everything Must Go or B-Sides & Singles. BTW…heard the new Primals track? Love Insurrection. It’s a smooth Happy Mondays if they were sober, 90s banger!!!

[@michelewiese48]

@@christianewen3227 IDLES do not feck around! “Concrete to leather!” Christian, isn’t ’The Blue Hour’ gorgeous?! 😍 I’m torn this time between Lawrence and the Manics. I’d like you to choose for me, pretty please.

[@NaughtyVampire-zf8pd]

Hello Christian! No surprise that you, Michele, and i all have Suede on our lists. (Each of us have different fave songs . . . which is interesting.) As I recall Manic Street preachers have appeared with some regularity on past lists of yours. Idles is bubbling under (sorry!) for me and I wil certainly have to check into your top pick. Wishing you an excellent weekend, my friend. 😀

[@robforzese5496]

I didn’t go deep into this year yet but so far my favorite would be 12 by Sloan (Top 5 Sloan album for me)

[@djcrystalclear8169]

PAULCORE!

[@robforzese5496]

@@djcrystalclear8169Crystal, speaking of bad rap music this year you definitely forgot the worst one… Lil Xan. Yikes that album was terrible

[@UniversalBlackRocker]

Well awwright... what's up my musical family, friends and homies. So what are we doing today? Ooh, 2018...sigh! Boy, the next 5 years will be trash and this is definitely the beginning. So no mentions today and I have top 4 and my worst. Shall we begin? (If only I had another person said, "Yes Lisa" and that would make my day) My Top 4: 4. En Vogue - Electric Cafe (Shout out to my friend Rhona Bennett) 3. J. Cole - KOD 2. Kendrick Lamar & Various Artists - Black Panther: The Album And my number one album of 2018 goes to: 1. Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer (Love this album..."I Like That", "Make Me Feel", "Pynk"...even the film based on the album was amazing with Tessa Thompson. This should've won the Grammys Album Of The Year.) Now my worst: Anything by Doja Cat (blech) Anything by Camila Cabello Anything by Migos Anything by 6ix9ine (blech) Anything by Tory Lanez Anything by Lil Yachty Stone Temple Pilots - Stone Temple Pilots Anything by Twenty One Pilots Anything by Fall Out Boy I could go on and say mostly anything and everything in 2018 but it'll be obvious but the worst of 2018 goes to: Anything by Cardi B!!! (And there's more worst to come especially another female rapper that Cardi collaborated that I cannot stand) So that's my list of 2018. But I will say in 2019, I do have a surprise for my number one list and it's someone who came out with an album that definitely puts a smile on my face. Who is it? Y'all gonna have to wait and see. Can't wait to see everyone's lists.

[@djcrystalclear8169]

YES LISA!

[@UniversalBlackRocker]

@@djcrystalclear8169 Aye!! You've definitely made my day homie!!

[@NaughtyVampire-zf8pd]

Hello Damar/UBR! How are you my friend? 😀 Janelle Monae a bubbling under for me . . . I enjoyed the film. Later.

[@UniversalBlackRocker]

@@NaughtyVampire-zf8pd Hello NVG!! I'm hanging in there and how are you my friend?. Love this comment. It's short and simple 😄 Later my friend

[@michelewiese48]

@@UniversalBlackRocker Good morning, Damar! ‘Dirty Computer’ didn’t quite crack my top 10 but there was heavy competition this year! I still love it - the closing track “Americans” is amazing! (Reminds me of Prince!) I would’ve had so many HMs if I chose to list them for 2018. I hope you have a fantastic weekend!

[@karenmandeville7116]

i think it's telling that after 2000, seems like music really went downhill. so glad i grew up in the 60s and 70s when music was good and real.

[@michelewiese48]

@@karenmandeville7116 It really is telling from a personal perspective. I’ve found music that resonates with me from every year I’ve explored. Each of us has a unique experience.

[@Blaine-O]

No love for Dr.Dog ? I thought you would dig them , Crystal !

[@jb8280]

I think their name prevents further interest. I have a few of their 00s albums, but man I hate their name.