3DD 2014 Albums of the Year Voting Thread

[Clams]

Lol, I knew someone would jump on that. Fuck it, I like her!

[beantownbubba]

Lol, I knew someone would jump on that. Fuck it, I like her!

Did you mean, "fuck her, I like it!" ?

[bovine knievel]

No Depression weighs in...

1. Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds in Country Music
2. Lucinda Williams - Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone
3. Rosanne Cash - The River and the Thread
4. Lydia Loveless - Somewhere Else
5. Ryan Adams - Ryan Adams
6. Drive-By Truckers - English Oceans
7. Hurray for the Riff Raff - Small Town Heroes
8. Old 97's - Most Messed Up
9. Chuck Prophet - Night Surfer
10. John Fullbright - Songs
11. Old Crow Medicine Show - Remedy
12. Shovels & Rope - Swimmin' Time
13. Donald Benjamin - Reborn
14. Jackson Browne - Standing in the Breach
*15. Dave & Phil Alvin - Common Ground
*15. Rodney Crowell - Tarpaper Sky
17. Parker Millsap - Parker Millsap
18. Nickel Creek - A Dotted Line
19. Lake Street Dive - Bad Self Portraits
20. First Aid Kit - Stay Gold
21. Mary Gauthier - Trouble and Love
22. Justin Townes Earle - Single Mothers
*23. Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives - Saturday Night/Sunday Morning
*23. St. Paul & the Broken Bones - Half the City
*23. The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
*26. Billy Joe Shaver - Long in the Tooth
*26. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Hypnotic Eye
*28. Nikki Lane - All Or Nothin'
*28. The Delines - Colfax
30. John Hiatt - Terms of My Surrender
31. Sunny Sweeney - Provoked
32. Zoe Muth - World of Strangers
33. Jenny Lewis - The Voyager
*34. Jason Eady - Daylight And Dark
*34. Leonard Cohen - Popular Problems
36. Otis Gibbs - Souvenirs Of a Misspent Youth
37. Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn - Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn
38. Paul Thorn - Too Blessed to Be Stressed
39. Willie Nelson - Band of Brothers
40. Jim Lauderdale - I'm a Song
41. Sweetwater String Band - River of Rhymes
42. Kelly Willis and Bruce Robison - Our Year
43. Doug Seegers - Going Down the River
44. Beck - Morning Phase
45. The Stray Birds - Best Medicine
46. JP Harris & The Tough Choices - Home Is Where the Hurt Is
*47. Hiss Golden Messenger - Lateness of Dancers
*47. Lee Bains III & the Glory Fires - Dereconstructed
*49. Hard Working Americans - Hard Working Americans
*49. Jack White - Lazaretto
*49. Various Artists - Lost on the River: The New Basement Tapes

* Indicates a tie

[cortez the killer]

Lots of sister kissing on that No Depression list.

[Duke Silver]

No Depression weighs in...

*49. Various Artists - Lost on the River: The New Basement Tapes

* Indicates a tie

No. Wait, wrong thread.

[jr29]

My top 5...

1. Jim Mize-S/T.......this thing hit me like a ton of bricks. Nothing else was even close.
2. Jimbo Mathus and the Tri State Coalition-"Dark Night Of The Soul"........"Tallahatchie" was my favorite song of the year.
3. Sturgill Simpson-"Metamodern Sounds In Country Music"
4. DBT-"English Oceans"
5. Chuck Prophet- " Night Surfer"

BTW...... Matt Patton played bass on 3 of my top 5.

A few others that would make up a top 10 or so, inpo......
Lucinda Williams- "Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone"
Rodney Crowell- "Tarpaper Sky"
Hard Working Americans- S/T
Amy Lavere- "Runaway's Diary"....... heart wrenching album
Otis Gibbs- "Ghosts Of Our Fathers"
Scott H. Biram- " Nothin But Blood"
John Fullbright- "Songs"

[dogstar]

1. Sharon van Etten - Are we there
2. King Creosote - From Scotland with Love
3. St Vincent - St Vincent
4. Centromatic - Take Pride in your Long Odds
5. Hiss Golden Messenger - Lateness of Dancers
6. Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds in Country Music
7. DBT - English Oceans
8. Doug Paisley - Strong Feelings
9. The Delines - Colfax
10. Lucinda Williams - Where the Spirit meets the Bone
11. Felice Brothers - Favourite Waitress
12. Robert Plant - Lullaby and the ceaseless roar
13. Caribou - Our Love
14. Hard Working Americans - S/T
15. Tweedy - Sukierae

Tough ranking stuff this year as although there was a lot of good music I don't think there was actually anything exceptional. Saying that my top 5 feel right but the rest are likely to move around and/or drop out as I listen to the stuff I've missed/not listened to enough.

[linkous]

Didn't somebody say either earlier on in this thread, or in the other albums of the year 2014 thread that DBT would be a stick on to be No 1 when all our lists were added up?

I haven't went over every one of our lists with a fine tooth comb, but that's not the impression I'm getting so far, certainly as far as we are concerned on an individual level.

[Kudzu Guillotine]

Didn't somebody say either earlier on in this thread, or in the other albums of the year 2014 thread that DBT would be a stick on to be No 1 when all our lists were added up?

I haven't went over every one of our lists with a fine tooth comb, but that's not the impression I'm getting so far, certainly as far as we are concerned on an individual level.

Someone may have posted that but I suggested leaving it off all together since it's a given that most everyone will include English Oceans on their lists in general.

[Clams]

Didn't somebody say either earlier on in this thread, or in the other albums of the year 2014 thread that DBT would be a stick on to be No 1 when all our lists were added up?

I haven't went over every one of our lists with a fine tooth comb, but that's not the impression I'm getting so far, certainly as far as we are concerned on an individual level.

Someone may have posted that but I suggested leaving it off all together since it's a given that most everyone will include English Oceans on their lists in general.

I think that was me. Reason being, it seems like our lists are all pretty diverse but the one common record on all of them is English Oceans.

[Kudzu Guillotine]

For the first time in a long while, a Truckers album won't be my number one. That doesn't mean I believe English Oceans is weak in any sense of the word, it just speaks to how strong I believe Somewhere Else and Attica! are. I don't think I've listened to any other album more often than I have those two this year.

[Smitty]

For the first time in a long while, a Truckers album won't be my number one

Same here; I'm still (and will forever be) a fanboy slut for the DBTs, but Lydia tipped the scales just a bit in her favor this year. This has been the best year for my kinda music in a long time.

[Kudzu Guillotine]

For the first time in a long while, a Truckers album won't be my number one

Same here; I'm still (and will forever be) a fanboy slut for the DBTs, but Lydia tipped the scales just a bit in her favor this year. This has been the best year for my kinda music in a long time.

Attica! had taken over my #1 spot. Then, I saw Lydia in concert. Both superb artists live and on record (as are the Truckers) but as of this typing Lydia has the upper hand.

[hanklow]

1. Lydia Loveless Somewhere Else
2. DBT English Oceans
3. Sturgill Simpson Metamodern Sounds of Country Music
4. Tom petty Hypnotic Eye
5. War on Drugs Lost in a Dream

[Luxury99]

1) Caleb Caudle: Paint Another Layer on my Heart
2) Arlo McKinley & The Lonesome Sound: S/T
3) Lydia Loveless: Somewhere Else
4) DBT: English Oceans
5) Otis Gibbs: Souviners of Mispent Youth
6) Matt Woods: With Love from Brushy Mountain
7) The Far West: Any Day Now
8) Ryan Adams: S/T
9) The Hold Steady: Teeth Dreams
10) Gators in the Sawgrass: Let Him Ride

Caleb, Arlo, & Gators in the Sawgrass were all new finds for me this year. Lydia's album might have been played the most because I probably wanted to rank it higher. Otis Gibbs and Matt Woods might be biased because I love them both so much. Check out "The Far West" if you haven't already, surprised they aren't making more lists with that album. You know the rest but overall, this was tough to compile... A pretty good year in my opinion.

[Duke Silver]

Rearranged mine for the 3rd and hopefully final time, prompted by:

"Attica!" clicking

Finally getting around to listening to "Benji"

Accepting how fucking good HEAL is

Realizing that other than Grand Canyon I really don't like any of the PH songs on EO

[Tequila Cowboy]

This is by far the hardest year end list I've ever written. There are at least ten more records I really enjoyed this year and at least ten that I haven't given a full listen to yet. My top six are almost interchangeable as are the ten after that. All that being said this was the finest year of music I can remember to the point that I couldn't keep up. Anyway here goes nothin' :

****Edited and reposted (previous post deleted) on 12/23******

I swore I was just going to leave this as is. Back when I wrote record reviews as a sideline I was told by an editor that any albums that come out after 11/15 cannot be considered for lists and if a good one gets snubbed it the artist and/or labels fault for releasing it in "no man's land". Cracker From Berkeley to Bakersfield came out on 12/9 and is too damned good to leave off so I'm breaking that rule. In fact it cracked my top 5. I also moved a few in order at the bottom.
Albums of the Year

1. Lydia Loveless- Somewhere Else
2. Caleb Caudle- Paint Another Layer on My Heart
3. The War on Drugs- Lost in the Dream
4. Drive-By Truckers- English Oceans
5. Cracker- From Berkeley to Bakersfield
6. Sturgill Simpson- Metamodern Sounds in Country Music
7. Water Liars- S/T
8. Centro-Matic- Take Pride In Your Long Odds
9. Benjamin Booker- S/T
10. Lee Bains & The Glory Fires- Dereconstructed
11. Jimbo Mathus- Dark Night of The Soul
12. Rosanne Cash- The River and the Thread
13. Sun Kil Moon- Benjie
14 Hurray For the Riff Raff- Small Town Heroes
15. St. Paul & the Broken Bones- Half the City
16. The Delines- Colfax
17. Fire Mountain- All Dies Down
18. Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers- Hypnotic Eye
19. Israel Nash- Rain Plains
20. J. Mascis- Tied to A Star
21. Tweedy- Sukierae
22. Hard Working Americans- S/T
23. Wussy- Attica!
24. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire for No Witness
25. Leo Welch- Sabougla Voices

[dime in the gutter]

in order. or close enough.

1. farmers corner/wooden wand
2. there's a blue bird/anders parker
3. strong feelings/doug paisley
4. metamodern/sturgill simpson
5. manipulator/ty segall
6. colfax/delines
7. night surfer/prophet
8. hypnotic eye/tom petty
9. rain plans/israel nash
10. dancin with wolves/natty child
11. somewhere else/lydia loveless
12. lateness of dancers/hgm
13. trails and passes/greenleaf
14. english oceans/dbt

per the norm....lots i did not get to hear. mostly spent my year listening to kinks and stoner metal.

perhaps a write up later.....just wanted to get these in prior to 12/27 deadline.


edit to add: manipulator/ty segall at #5.

[Bill in CT]

1. DBT - English Oceans
2. Bohren & Der Club of Gore - Piano Nights
3. Yob - Clearing the Path to Ascend
4. Opeth - Pale Communion
5. All Them Witches - Lightning At The Door
6. Hiss Golden Messenger - Lateness of Dancers
7. Nocturnal Poisoning - Doomgrass
8. Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds In Country Music
9. Godflesh - A World Lit Only By Fire
10. Hard Working Americans - s/t
11. Morbus Chron - Sweven
12. Triptykon - Melana Chasmata
13. Natural Child - Dancin' With Wolves
14. Judas Priest - Redeemer of Souls
15. Overkill - White Devil Armory
16. Electric Wizard - Time To Die
17. Agalloch - The Serpent & the Sphere
18. Eyehategod - s/t
19. Goatwhore - Constricting Rage of the Merciless
20. Witch Mountain - Mobile of Angels
21. Chris Robinson Brotherhood - Phosphorescent Harvest
22. Thou - Heathen
23. J Mascis - Tied To A Star
24. Lydia Loveless - Somewhere Else
25. Pallbearer - Foundations Of Burden

[emandrisdad]

1 The Successful Failures- Captains of Industry, Captains of War. I thought the new Sloan was a shoe in for my #1 but this September release that I only discovered in November beat it out. Power pop
bliss. To my ears at least.

2 Sloan- Commonwealth
3 Old 97s- Most messed up
4 The Both- S/T
5 Spoon- They Want My Soul
6 The War On Drugs- Lost in the Dream
7 Sturgill Simpson- Metamodern Sounds.....
8 Gov't Mule- Dark Side of the Mule
9 Railroad Earth- Last of the Outlaws
10 Conrad Herwig- The Latin Side of Joe Henderson. Had to get some jazz in there.

Truth be told English Oceans is in reality in my 10 favorites but, I they don't need anymore votes .

[cortez the killer]

Kudzu got to the brewmaster.

[emandrisdad]

Kudzu got to the brewmaster.

You lost me Cortez. But that doesn't take much. Just ask Clams.

[beantownbubba]

I may have to do some last minute shuffling. The more i listen to that War on Drugs album the less I like it. Several candidates to move up, especially Strand of Oaks. Still waiting for inspiration to strike on Attica.

[Kudzu Guillotine]

I swore I was just going to leave this as is. Back when I wrote record reviews as a sideline I was told by an editor that any albums that come out after 11/15 cannot be considered for lists and if a good one gets snubbed it the artist and/or labels fault for releasing it in "no man's land". Cracker From Berkeley to Bakersfield came out on 12/9 and is too damned good to leave off so I'm breaking that rule.

You already know how I feel about this but there are some rules that need breaking. Isn't that D'Angelo album (released 12.15) also generating a lot of hubbub?

[RolanK]

I may have to do some last minute shuffling. The more i listen to that War on Drugs album the less I like it. Several candidates to move up, especially Strand of Oaks. Still waiting for inspiration to strike on Attica.

When I got the WoD album I was all wow! about it and listened to it repeatedly, but it started fading after a few weeks. Then I saw them live and thought they were just OK. After that, only had a few listens. It's not gonna end up on my list. Have tried to get into that Wussy album as well, but can't really say I get what all the fuzz is about. A few albums that has popped up on peoples list may make it in though, Delines and Amy Grant. The Otis Gibbs album has been played a lot lately as well.

[Zip City]

I liked War on Drugs better under their original name: Flock of Seagulls

[Tequila Cowboy]

I may have to do some last minute shuffling. The more i listen to that War on Drugs album the less I like it. Several candidates to move up, especially Strand of Oaks. Still waiting for inspiration to strike on Attica.

When I got the WoD album I was all wow! about it and listened to it repeatedly, but it started fading after a few weeks. Then I saw them live and thought they were just OK. After that, only had a few listens. It's not gonna end up on my list. Have tried to get into that Wussy album as well, but can't really say I get what all the fuzz is about. A few albums that has popped up on peoples list may make it in though, Delines and Amy Grant. The Otis Gibbs album has been played a lot lately as well.

The funny thing about the War on Drugs record to me is that I understand the excitement wearing off but to me that's one of its charms. I don't think I've gone a weeke without listening since it came out. It's like an old sweater now, I put it in when I can't think of anything else and it suffices just fine. To me that's almost the definition of a great record.

[linkous]

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[linkous]

I liked War on Drugs better under their original name: Flock of Seagulls

One of the funniest things I have read for a while


War on Drugs album shows up at No2 in the Pitchfork readers poll twice: "Best album" and "Most overrated album" category.

http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lis ... l-results/

At first glance the best album results read just like pretty much every other published list out there.

On the subject of War on Drugs. One of my closest friends, who I've known since 1972, and who just happens to be the most knowledgable person I know on the subject of music(and I am including respected music journalists here), detests this album. This proves absolutely nothing of course, but in my experience he's not often wrong (all the while acknowledging that music is probably the most subjective subject it is possible to discuss)

[Kudzu Guillotine]

I may have to do some last minute shuffling. The more i listen to that War on Drugs album the less I like it. Several candidates to move up, especially Strand of Oaks. Still waiting for inspiration to strike on Attica.

When I got the WoD album I was all wow! about it and listened to it repeatedly, but it started fading after a few weeks. Then I saw them live and thought they were just OK. After that, only had a few listens. It's not gonna end up on my list.

Funny, seeing them live prior to hearing any of their recorded music is what helped them to click with me. That said, though I've liked what I've heard from the new record, I haven't felt compelled to purchase it.

Have tried to get into that Wussy album as well, but can't really say I get what all the fuzz is about.