YEAR END MEGALIST 2020!!!
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THE N+G TOP 102 ALBUMS OF 2020 (102-51)
102 | Aesop Rock - Spirit World Field Guide |
101 | Ambrose Akinmusire – on the tender spot of every calloused moment |
100 | Norah Jones - Pick Me Up Off The Floor |
99 | Nothing - The Great Dismal |
98 | Tony Allen & Hugh Masekala - Rejoice |
97 | envy - The Fallen Crimson |
96 | Helena Deland - Someone New |
95 | Honey Harper - Starmaker |
94 | John Moreland - LP5 |
93 | Kota The Friend - EVERYTHING |
92 | Lowrider - Refractions |
91 | Myrkur - Folkensage |
90 | Slift - Ummon |
89 | Stephen Malkmus - Traditional Techniques |
88 | Taylor Swift - evermore |
87 | The Flaming Lips - American Head |
86 | The Smith Street Band - Don't Waste Your Anger |
85 | Thurston Moore - By The Fire |
84 | Margo Price - That's How Rumors Get Started |
83 | Tame Impala - The Slow Rush |
82 | Doves - The Universal Want |
81 | Frankie and the Witch Fingers - Monsters Eating People Eating Monsters |
80 | Ghost Funk Orchestra - An Ode To Escapism |
79 | Bad Bunny - YHLQMDLG |
78 | Beatrice Dillon - Workaround |
77 | Boldy James - The Price of Tea in China |
76 | GoGo Penguin - GoGo Penguin |
75 | Kelly Lee Owens - Inner Song |
74 | Four Tet - Sixteen Oceans |
73 | Bad Vacation - Liza Anne |
72 | Blake Mills - Mutable Set |
71 | Charles Lloyd - 8: Kindred Spirits |
70 | Chubby and the Gang - Speed Kills |
69 | Deserta - Black Aura my Sun |
68 | Jay Electronica - Act II: The Patents of Nobility |
67 | King Buffalo - Dead Star |
66 | Krononaut - Krononaut |
65 | Moor Mother + billy woods - BRASS |
64 | Nathaniel Rateliff - And It’s Still Alright |
63 | Old 97's - Twelfth |
62 | Open Mike Eagle - Anime, Trauma, and Divorce |
61 | Sam Gendel - Satin Doll |
60 | Sloppy Joe and the Cruise - Keep On Cruisin’ |
59 | Sturgill Simpson - Cuttin' Grass Vol. 1 |
58 | The Strokes - The New Abnormal |
57 | Touche Amore - Lament |
56 | Walking Proof - Lilly Hiatt |
55 | Woodkid - S16 |
54 | Protomartyr - Ultimate Success Today |
53 | Thundercat - It Is What It Is |
52 | Roisin Murphy - Roisin Machine |
51 | Bonny Light Horseman – Bonny Light Horseman |
THE N+G TOP 102 ALBUMS OF 2020 (50-11)
50 | Rose City Band - Summerlong |
49 | Bananagun - The True Story of Bananagun |
48 | Neil Young - Homegrown |
47 | Hayley Williams - Petals for Armor |
46 | Destroyer - Have We Met |
45 | Sufjan Stevens - Ascension |
44 | clipping - Visions of Bodies Being Burned |
43 | Sylvan Esso - Free Love |
42 | Armand Hammer - Shrines |
41 | Tom Misch & Yussef Dayes - What Kinda Music |
40 | Matt Berninger - Serpentine Prison |
39 | SAULT - Unititled (Black Is) |
38 | King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - KG |
37 | Alabaster DePlume - To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals, Vol 1 |
36 | Hum - Inlet |
35 | Katie Pruitt – Expectations |
34 | Fontaines D.C. - A Hero's Death |
33 | Deftones - Ohms |
32 | Rolling Blackouts CF - Sideways To New Italy |
31 | Nubya Garcia - Source |
30 | Fleet Foxes - Shore |
29 | Bob Dylan - Rough and Rowdy Ways |
28 | Shabaka and the Ancestors - We Are Sent Here by History |
27 | Monophonics - It's Only Us |
26 | Jeff Parker - Suite for Max Brown |
25 | Andy Schauf -- Neon Skyline |
24 | Dogleg - Melee |
23 | Charli XCX - How I'm Feeling Now |
22 | The Weeknd - After Hours |
21 | SAULT - Unititled (Rise) |
20 | HAIM - Women in Music part III |
19 | Laura Marling - Song For Our Daughter |
18 | Freddie Gibbs - Alfredo |
17 | Perfume Genius - Set My Heart on Fire |
16 | R.A.P. Ferreira - Purple Moonlight Pages |
15 | Lianne La Havas - Lianne La Havas |
14 | Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Reunions |
13 | Jeff Rosenstock - No Dream |
12 | Rina Sawayama - Sawayama |
11 | Gorillaz - Song Machine |
THE N+G TOP 10 ALBUMS OF 2020
10 | Caribou - Suddenly |
9 | Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure |
8 | Yves Tumor - Heaven To A Tortured Mind |
7 | Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia |
6 | Taylor Swift - Folklore |
5 | Moses Sumney - Grae |
4 | Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud |
3 | Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher |
2 | Run the Jewels - RTJ 4 |
1 | Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters |
dhodo
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Thanks @Woob_woob!
TrainFan73
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DownIsTheNewUp
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Solid communal list guys
TenderLovingKiller®
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Yeas, Thanks for compiling all of this. Appreciate ya!
Rip_City
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If anyone cares about a Topsters2 chart...here it is:
Using no album titles on right to make for a larger chart. I've also added a "tiered" list, using spoiler tag to save space:
Using no album titles on right to make for a larger chart. I've also added a "tiered" list, using spoiler tag to save space:
Tier 1
1. Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters
2. Run the Jewels - RTJ4
3. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
4. Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud
5. Moses Sumney - græ
6. Taylor Swift - FOlKlORE
7. Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia
8. Yves Tumor - Heaven to a Tortured Mind
9. Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure?
10. Caribou - Suddenly
Tier 2
11. Gorillaz - Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez (Deluxe)
12. Rina Sawayama - Sawayama
13. Jeff Rosenstock - NO DREAM
14. Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit - Reunions
15. Lianne La Havas - Lianne La Havas
16. R.A.P. Ferreira - purple moonlight pages
17. Perfume Genius - Set My Heart On Fire Immediately
18. Freddie Gibbs - Alfredo
19. Laura Marling - Song For Our Daughter
20. HAIM - Women In Music Pt. III
21. Sault - UNTITLED (Rise)
22. The Weeknd - After Hours
23. Charli XCX - How I'm Feeling Now
24. dogleg - Melee
25. Andy Shauf - The Neon Skyline
26. Jeff Parker - Suite for Max Brown
27. Monophonics - It's Only Us
28. Shabaka And The Ancestors - We Are Sent Here by History
Tier 3
29. Bob Dylan - Rough and Rowdy Ways
30. Fleet Foxes - Shore
31. Nubya Garcia - Source
32. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Sideways to New Italy
33. Deftones - ohms
34. Fontaines D.C. - A Hero's Death
35. Katie Pruitt - Expectations
36. Hum - Inlet
37. Alabaster Deplume - To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1
38. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - KG: Volume 2
39. Sault - Untitled (Black Is)
40. Matt Berninger - Serpentine Prison
41. Tom Misch - What Kinda Music
42. Armand Hammer - Shrines
43. Sylvan Esso - Free Love
44. clipping. - Visions of Bodies Being Burned
45. Sufjan Stevens - The Ascension
46. Destroyer - Have We Met
47. Hayley Williams - Petals For Armor
48. Neil Young - Homegrown
49. Bananagun - The True Story of Bananagun
50. Rose City Band - Summerlong
51. Bonny Light Horseman - Bonny Light Horseman
52. Róisín Murphy - Róisín Machine
53. Thundercat - It Is What It Is
54. Protomartyr - Ultimate Success Today
55. Woodkid - S16
56. Lilly Hiatt - Walking Proof
57. Touché Amoré - Lament
58. The Strokes - The New Abnormal
Tier 4
59. Sturgill Simpson - Cuttin' Grass - Vol. 1 (Butcher Shoppe Sessions)
60. Sloppy Joe and the Cruise - Keep on Cruisin'
61. Sam Gendel - Satin Doll
62. Open Mike Eagle - Anime, Trauma and Divorce
63. Old 97's - Twelfth
64. Nathaniel Rateliff - And It’s Still Alright
65. Moor Mother - BRASS
66. Krononaut - Krononaut
67. King Buffalo - Dead Star
68. Jay Electronica - Act II: Patents of Nobility
69. Deserta - Black Aura My Sun
70. Chubby and The Gang - Speed Kills
71. Charles Lloyd - 8: Kindred Spirits (Live From The Lobero)
72. Blake Mills - Mutable Set
73. Liza Anne - Bad Vacation
74. Four Tet - Sixteen Oceans
75. Kelly Lee Owens - Inner Song
76. GoGo Penguin - GoGo Penguin
77. Boldy James - The Price Of Tea In China
78. Beatrice Dillon - Workaround
79. Bad Bunny - YHLQMDLG
80. Ghost Funk Orchestra - An Ode To Escapism
81. Frankie and the Witch Fingers - Monsters Eating People Eating Monsters...
82. Andy Williams - The Universal Want
83. Tame Impala - The Slow Rush
84. Margo Price - That's How Rumors Get Started
85. Thurston Moore - By The Fire
86. The Smith Street Band - Don't Waste Your Anger
87. The Flaming Lips - American Head
88. Taylor Swift - evermore
89. Stephen Malkmus - Traditional Techniques
90. SLIFT - Ummon
91. Myrkur - Folkesange
92. Lowrider - Refractions
93. KOTA The Friend - EVERYTHING
94. John Moreland - Lp5
95. Honey Harper - Starmaker
96. Helena Deland - Someone New
97. Envy - The Fallen Crimson
98. Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela - Rejoice
99. Nothing - The Great Dismal
100. Norah Jones - Pick Me Up off the Floor
1. Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters
2. Run the Jewels - RTJ4
3. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
4. Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud
5. Moses Sumney - græ
6. Taylor Swift - FOlKlORE
7. Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia
8. Yves Tumor - Heaven to a Tortured Mind
9. Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure?
10. Caribou - Suddenly
Tier 2
11. Gorillaz - Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez (Deluxe)
12. Rina Sawayama - Sawayama
13. Jeff Rosenstock - NO DREAM
14. Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit - Reunions
15. Lianne La Havas - Lianne La Havas
16. R.A.P. Ferreira - purple moonlight pages
17. Perfume Genius - Set My Heart On Fire Immediately
18. Freddie Gibbs - Alfredo
19. Laura Marling - Song For Our Daughter
20. HAIM - Women In Music Pt. III
21. Sault - UNTITLED (Rise)
22. The Weeknd - After Hours
23. Charli XCX - How I'm Feeling Now
24. dogleg - Melee
25. Andy Shauf - The Neon Skyline
26. Jeff Parker - Suite for Max Brown
27. Monophonics - It's Only Us
28. Shabaka And The Ancestors - We Are Sent Here by History
Tier 3
29. Bob Dylan - Rough and Rowdy Ways
30. Fleet Foxes - Shore
31. Nubya Garcia - Source
32. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Sideways to New Italy
33. Deftones - ohms
34. Fontaines D.C. - A Hero's Death
35. Katie Pruitt - Expectations
36. Hum - Inlet
37. Alabaster Deplume - To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1
38. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - KG: Volume 2
39. Sault - Untitled (Black Is)
40. Matt Berninger - Serpentine Prison
41. Tom Misch - What Kinda Music
42. Armand Hammer - Shrines
43. Sylvan Esso - Free Love
44. clipping. - Visions of Bodies Being Burned
45. Sufjan Stevens - The Ascension
46. Destroyer - Have We Met
47. Hayley Williams - Petals For Armor
48. Neil Young - Homegrown
49. Bananagun - The True Story of Bananagun
50. Rose City Band - Summerlong
51. Bonny Light Horseman - Bonny Light Horseman
52. Róisín Murphy - Róisín Machine
53. Thundercat - It Is What It Is
54. Protomartyr - Ultimate Success Today
55. Woodkid - S16
56. Lilly Hiatt - Walking Proof
57. Touché Amoré - Lament
58. The Strokes - The New Abnormal
Tier 4
59. Sturgill Simpson - Cuttin' Grass - Vol. 1 (Butcher Shoppe Sessions)
60. Sloppy Joe and the Cruise - Keep on Cruisin'
61. Sam Gendel - Satin Doll
62. Open Mike Eagle - Anime, Trauma and Divorce
63. Old 97's - Twelfth
64. Nathaniel Rateliff - And It’s Still Alright
65. Moor Mother - BRASS
66. Krononaut - Krononaut
67. King Buffalo - Dead Star
68. Jay Electronica - Act II: Patents of Nobility
69. Deserta - Black Aura My Sun
70. Chubby and The Gang - Speed Kills
71. Charles Lloyd - 8: Kindred Spirits (Live From The Lobero)
72. Blake Mills - Mutable Set
73. Liza Anne - Bad Vacation
74. Four Tet - Sixteen Oceans
75. Kelly Lee Owens - Inner Song
76. GoGo Penguin - GoGo Penguin
77. Boldy James - The Price Of Tea In China
78. Beatrice Dillon - Workaround
79. Bad Bunny - YHLQMDLG
80. Ghost Funk Orchestra - An Ode To Escapism
81. Frankie and the Witch Fingers - Monsters Eating People Eating Monsters...
82. Andy Williams - The Universal Want
83. Tame Impala - The Slow Rush
84. Margo Price - That's How Rumors Get Started
85. Thurston Moore - By The Fire
86. The Smith Street Band - Don't Waste Your Anger
87. The Flaming Lips - American Head
88. Taylor Swift - evermore
89. Stephen Malkmus - Traditional Techniques
90. SLIFT - Ummon
91. Myrkur - Folkesange
92. Lowrider - Refractions
93. KOTA The Friend - EVERYTHING
94. John Moreland - Lp5
95. Honey Harper - Starmaker
96. Helena Deland - Someone New
97. Envy - The Fallen Crimson
98. Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela - Rejoice
99. Nothing - The Great Dismal
100. Norah Jones - Pick Me Up off the Floor
NathanRicaud
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I’m so happy for us that Jessie Ware’s What’s Your Pleasure? made it into the top #10!!!
It was also really nice seeing Lianne La Havas do very well and see Yves Tumor get some strong recognition, also landing in the top #10!
NathanRicaud
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gaporter
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I was happy to see those placements - but also Gorillaz, Rina Sawayama and Jeff Rosenstock all bubbling just under the top 10 and numbers 11, 12 and 13 respectively is also amazing! Very glad to see them all represented at all, let alone so high up ^_^@gaporter - You must be loving the Needles&Grooves top #10 album list of 2020 with Caribou, Yves Tumor, Dua Lipa and Taylor Swift all making it in there!
And Hayley Williams at 47 is also a nice surprise, considering I felt like the only person all year who really loved that album haha
NathanRicaud
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Mmmmmm yes! I was so happy to see them three albums place so high too! I love that I’ve got all those three albums on vinyl too; and good looking colour variants as well!
Not a fan of that Hayley Williams album but that’s cool she snuck into the top 50!
gaporter
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what did i do to make @Rip_City angry 
I get not many people seemed to care for it and if I'm trying to look at it from a more "objective" standpoint I can admit it's not a perfect album and has some problems. But it has this sort of personal resonance with me that I haven't been able to shake all year - I kept coming back to it and feeling more of a connection to it each time. I won't bore anyone with my reasoning as to why it struck such a chord with me this year but at the end of the day, my list reflects nothing but my own personal feelings/experiences/what have you. Others may feel as though there's more "deserving" albums to take the spot but I put the album so high on my list because that's just honestly how I felt
i assume it has to do with this ^ lol
I get not many people seemed to care for it and if I'm trying to look at it from a more "objective" standpoint I can admit it's not a perfect album and has some problems. But it has this sort of personal resonance with me that I haven't been able to shake all year - I kept coming back to it and feeling more of a connection to it each time. I won't bore anyone with my reasoning as to why it struck such a chord with me this year but at the end of the day, my list reflects nothing but my own personal feelings/experiences/what have you. Others may feel as though there's more "deserving" albums to take the spot but I put the album so high on my list because that's just honestly how I felt
Rip_City
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what did i do to make @Rip_City angry
i assume it has to do with this ^ lol
I get not many people seemed to care for it and if I'm trying to look at it from a more "objective" standpoint I can admit it's not a perfect album and has some problems. But it has this sort of personal resonance with me that I haven't been able to shake all year - I kept coming back to it and feeling more of a connection to it each time. I won't bore anyone with my reasoning as to why it struck such a chord with me this year but at the end of the day, my list reflects nothing but my own personal feelings/experiences/what have you. Others may feel as though there's more "deserving" albums to take the spot but I put the album so high on my list because that's just honestly how I felt
Shouldn't apologise for liking what you like. My three top albums, and they were a long way clear of the rest for me too, are floating 19-21, and I struggle to identify with 6 of the top 10, but at the end of the day thats kinda irrelevant because all that matters is the enjoyment I take out of them, this is nothing more than a bit of fun!
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Hollywood
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I actually preferred Rise over Black Is but both are excellent!
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Its true, both are excellent. All four of their albums are excellent.I actually preferred Rise over Black but both are excellent!