Favorite Albums of 2014 Lists

Was 2014 A Good Year For Music?

Yes	26.3%	[ 5 ]
No	21.1%	[ 4 ]
Eh	52.6%	[ 10 ]
Total Votes:			[ 19 ]

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Reply with your favorites of 2014!!

Mine's lengthy and in-depth so

Top Five Singles of 2014:

1. Stay - No Devotion (and the other three singles they released)
2. Push Pull - Purity Ring
3. Pop It (feat. meesh彡☆) - ANAMANAGUCHI
4. Sleep Sound - Jamie xx
5. Inanimate Sensation - Death Grips

Honorable Mentions:

1. Hollow - Sylas
2. Mercy - Boots
3. #IDFWU - BIG SEAN

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Top Ten Albums of 2014:

1. Still Life - Dawn Golden
2. LP1 - FKA twigs
3. Worlds - Porter Robinson
4. How To Run Away - Slow Magic
5. Gone Girl - Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
6. Alone For The First Time - Ryan Hemsworth
7. The Weird And Wonderful - Marmozets
8. I Am King - Code Orange
9. From Parts Unknown - Every Time I Die
10. Hohokum Original Soundtrack - Ghostly International

Honorable Mentions:

1. Void - RL Grime
2. Strangers - RAC
3. Forever - Mystery Skulls
4. Trouble In Paradise - La Roux
5. Broke With Expensive Taste - Azealia Banks

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Mixtape of 2014:

WinterSpringSummerFall - Boots

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EPs of 2014:

Feathering A Nest - Caddywhompus
No Reason - Giraffage
Ocean Death - Baths

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Split of 2014:

Full of Hell & Merzbow - Full of Hell & Merzbow

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Discoveries of 2014 (Not 2014 releases):

Letherette - Letherette
Aleph - Gesaffelstein

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Best Deluxe Edition Albums of 2014:

1. 1989 - Taylor Swift
2. The Pinkprint - Nicki Minaj
3. All This Bad Blood - Bastille

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Three Albums I Couldn't Find A Place For 2014:

1. Our Love - Caribou
2. Keep You - Pianos Become The Teeth
3. Too Shabby - Rozwell Kid

[Dieu des hommes]

Boring for me, lots of let downs for me, list of things that somewhat stood out amongst that.

nouns - Still
Earth - Primitive and Deadly
Real Estate - Atlas
Brian Jonestown Massacre - Revelation
YOB - Clearing the Path to Ascend
The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
Comrades - Safekeeper
Aphex Twin - Syro
Mars Red Sky - Stranded in Arcadia
Keep - Hypnosis for Sleep
Big Ups - Eighteen Hours of Static
Pallbearer - Foundations Of Burden

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Dieu des hommes

Nice list!!

[burials]

it was aiight ig; everything that I found at least more than decent

Agalloch - The Serpent & The Sphere
Alcest- Shelter
Alice Nine - Supernova
Ayumi Hamasaki - Colours
Baths - Ocean Death
Boris - Noise
cinema staff - Drum,Bass,2(to)Guitars
Cities Aviv - Come To Life
clipping. -CLPPNG
Cold Cave - Full Cold Moon
Fact - Witness
The Horrors - Luminous
KAT-TUN - come Here
Letting Up Despite Great Faults - Neon
Medicine - Home Everywhere
Plastic Girl In Closet - eye cue rew see
PLASTICZOOMS - Secret Postcard
Ratking - So It Goes
Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2
Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty
Slomatics - Estron
Straightener - Behind the Scene
A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Sea When Absent
UVERworld - Ø CHOIR
ViViD - The Pendulum

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In no particular order (except for 1st and 2nd place for albums and songs)

Albums of the year

1. BLUE - iamamiwhoami (like, really, isn't just for the music, but the videos are ******** amazing + the BLUE Island is great)
2. VS. (Other People's Heartache, Pt, III) - Bastille
3. Evergreen - Broods
4. Dirty Gold - Angel Haze (aka the greatest female rap album of the ******** year)
5. 1000 Forms Of Fear - Sia
6. No Mythologies To Follow - Mø
7. Glorious - Foxes
8. The Pinkprint - Nicki Minaj
9. Otra Era - Javiera Mena
10. St. Vincent - St. Vincent

Special mentions to Dollhouse EP by Melanie Martinez, Worlds Apart EP by Seven Lions and Opulence EP by Brooke Candy

Songs of the year

1. Weapon - Bastille VS. Angel Haze VS. F*U*G*Z* VS. Braque
2. shadowshow - iamamiwhoami
3. Worlds Apart - Seven Lions & Kerli
4. Otra Era - Javiera Mena
5. Froot - Marina And The Diamonds
6. Sober - Broods
7. vista - iamamiwhoami
8. Remains - Bastille VS. Rag N' Bone Man VS. Skunk Anaise really wish this was a Bastille VS. To Kill A King
9. Chandelier - Sia
10. Sweet Despair - Cher Lloyd
11. Immortal - Marina And The Diamonds
12. Angels & Airwaves - Angel Haze
13. Feel Yourself (Alcohol) - Brooke Candy ft. Cory Enemy
14. Dead Air - CHVRCHES
15. Holding Onto Heaven - Foxes

Albums I'm expecting this year

1. Untitled - Bastille (coming out in september yasssss)
2. Froot - Marina And The Diamonds
3. Untitled - CHVRCHES
4. #R8 - Rihanna
5. Mannequin Factory - Porcelain Black
6. Untitled - Kesha
7. Untitled - Natalia Kills
8. Untitled - Kerli
9. Everything Is Bullshit Untitled - Sky Ferreira
10. Feline - Ella Eyre

Great albums I discovered this year (from 2013 and before)

1. The Bones Of What You Believe - CHVRCHES
2. Cannibals With Cutlery - To Kill A King
3. kin - iamamiwhoami
4. bounty - iamamiwhoami
5. The Night The Sun Came Up - Dev

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The Last Dancer

I FORGOT ANGEL HAZE GOSH
Also I think I'm going to start listening to iamamiwhoami

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I FORGOT ANGEL HAZE GOSH
Also I think I'm going to start listening to iamamiwhoami

If you're into synthpop and that s**t, you def should try them.
I suggest these songs if you want to get into them (yeah, their songtitles are weird):

[zxcvc]

Angel Haze is straight garbage. Her flow and lyricism are corny. Werkin Girls and On the Edge are the only quality tracks from her.

1. Azealia Banks - Broke With Expensive Taste
2. Arca - Xen
3. FKA Twigs LP1
4. SOPHIE - Lemonade (Does this count? Her entire soundcloud stream is AMAZING)

2014 was alright.

[hit vibes]

Honestly I've been down with all these lists so far. Especially happy to see my girl FKA twigs getting some love.
She had one of the best concerts of the year. Bested only by Porter Robinson's Worlds Tour. But the pictures I got of her definitely made it worthwhile.

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camuses

Angel Haze is straight garbage. Her flow and lyricism are corny. Werkin Girls and On the Edge are the only quality tracks from her.

Her verses in Bastille's Weapon are great, and can't rap be corny? It's her way to be different and tell her history at least she doesn't attack people, but if that's your opinion... sweatdrop

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The Last Dancer

camuses

Angel Haze is straight garbage. Her flow and lyricism are corny. Werkin Girls and On the Edge are the only quality tracks from her.

Her verses in Bastille's Weapon are great, and can't rap be corny? It's her way to be different and tell her history at least she doesn't attack people, but if that's your opinion... sweatdrop

Her bars are corny as hell.

Right now your voice is a weapon
Wake up to stars in the sky
Watch light revolve with your mind
Watch all the storms rising
And put all your palms in the sky
No more falling to pressure
No more failing acceptance
Throw all your hells towards the heavens
Cuz your voice is a weapon
I feel like I'm listening to a black pastor in 1963 in Montegomery, Alabama trying to rally me to support the Civil Rights movement. Corny.

Also, you're acting like Azealia's beefing affects her music. She's really unique and the only people I can see as competition for her are Princess Nokia, Njenna Redd Foxxx, and Noname Gypsy. Nas repped her music for a reason.
I'd say give her album a chance, but you jumped right onto her aggression so I don't think you'd be open-minded enough to do so.

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camuses

Her bars are corny as hell.

Right now your voice is a weapon
Wake up to stars in the sky
Watch light revolve with your mind
Watch all the storms rising
And put all your palms in the sky
No more falling to pressure
No more failing acceptance
Throw all your hells towards the heavens
Cuz your voice is a weapon
I feel like I'm listening to a black pastor in 1963 in Montegomery, Alabama trying to rally me to support the Civil Rights movement. Corny.

Also, you're acting like Azealia's beefing affects her music. She's really unique and the only people I can see as competition for her are Princess Nokia, Njenna Redd Foxxx, and Noname Gypsy. Nas repped her music for a reason.
I'd say give her album a chance, but you jumped right onto her aggression so I don't think you'd be open-minded enough to do so.

I think Angel's album is great and really gives a message unlike some other rappers just talking about sex and drugs and s**t, though I can't really talk since I'm not really into rap.
Ps: I already heard Azealia's album and I don't like it at all, I guess everyone has different tastes

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The Last Dancer

camuses

Her bars are corny as hell.

Right now your voice is a weapon
Wake up to stars in the sky
Watch light revolve with your mind
Watch all the storms rising
And put all your palms in the sky
No more falling to pressure
No more failing acceptance
Throw all your hells towards the heavens
Cuz your voice is a weapon
I feel like I'm listening to a black pastor in 1963 in Montegomery, Alabama trying to rally me to support the Civil Rights movement. Corny.

Also, you're acting like Azealia's beefing affects her music. She's really unique and the only people I can see as competition for her are Princess Nokia, Njenna Redd Foxxx, and Noname Gypsy. Nas repped her music for a reason.
I'd say give her album a chance, but you jumped right onto her aggression so I don't think you'd be open-minded enough to do so.

I think Angel's album is great and really gives a message unlike some other rappers just talking about sex and drugs and s**t, though I can't really talk since I'm not really into rap.
Ps: I already heard Azealia's album and I don't like it at all, I guess everyone has different tastes

Lmao, well, I can't change your garbage taste. rolleyes

EDIT: LMAO WAIT WHAT. Broke with Expensive Taste is literally the most eclectic rap albums of the year.

I honestly doubt you heard it. You can't listen to that album and find nothing you like.

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camuses

The Last Dancer

Taste is subjective, I wouldn't call anyone's taste garbage. Not even those that listen exclusively to country (even though I think it's the worst genre of music).
While I love Broke With Expensive Taste I can understand why people don't like it. I think that those who don't enjoy it are definitely missing out on a work of real art and I would strongly suggest a focused relisten for them. So Dancer I'd say listen to it, I'm even gonna provide a link here for your listening enjoyment.
I can also appreciate those who don't appreciate Angel Haze's bars because I think that you're right camuses. Her lines are incredibly corny but by doing that it offers some type of nostalgic quality for me as if she fit into the 80s positive rap movement where it was about empowerment and love for one another and identity of the black community. While I was never apart of that community and will never be I love to see people stand together and I believe the black community needs it now quite badly with all the murders that are going around currently.
I hope both of you can at least appreciate that people are appreciating music rather than trying to destroy it even though you don't agree with each other's tastes.

[SamWeiki]

Sanctuary - The Year the Sun Died (Their first album in 20 years, and it's about the coolest thing I've heard all year)
Tesla - Simplicity
Judas Priest - Redeemer of Souls
Marty Friedman - Inferno
Kix - Rock Your Face Off
Yes - Heaven & Earth
Overkill - White Devil Armory
Exodus - Blood In Blood Out
Ronny Munroe - Electric Wake
Black Label Society - Catacombs of the Black Vatican

My favorite song from the whole year: Discordia by Glen Drover and Todd La Torre.