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List. (Read the feature.). (Photo illustration by Ross May / Los Angeles Times; Jana Legler, Kevin Mazur, Gary Miller/Getty Images). Megan Thee Stallion, “Good News”Debate all you want about whether “Good News,” which follows several mixtapes and a mini-LP, represents Megan’s official debut. Isolation was unavoidable this year: Some albums embraced it, some raged against it, some tried to imagine a world without it. 6. And when she sings about lost love, she now admits that she shares both blame and regrets. Game person. The Chicks, “Gaslighter”President Trump, a cheating ex-husband, spineless country-radio programmers — the Chicks’ thrilling comeback (minus the “Dixie” but with vocal harmonies intact) accommodated all comers in vivid, funny songs about the varied systems that enable men to claim positions for which they’re not cut out. It’s not uncommon for music superstars, after decades atop their scenes, to try to demonstrate fluency in the music of prior generations to bolster their claims to contemporary authority. Moses Sumney, “Grae”As kaleidoscopic in style as Sumney’s view is of identity — “I insist upon my right to be multiple,” one interlude declares — this sprawling double album moves between R&B, pop, indie rock and electronic music as Sumney thinks through what it means to be a person with his skin, his background and his desires. (Read the interview. Film title. Sales Data + Streaming Data =GREATEST OF ALL TIME BILLBOARD 200 ALBUMS. Film cast/crew. The most sumptuous offering from a year accidentally obsessed with disco (Dua Lipa’s sleek “Future Nostalgia,” Róisín Murphy’s bold “Róisín Machine,” and Lady Gaga’s otherworldly “Chromatica” being the runners-up), the British singer and songwriter Jessie Ware’s “What’s Your Pleasure?” is a lusty feat of dance-floor escapism — an affable podcaster and happily married mother of two Cinderella-ing herself into a club vixen for a night. 1. Lili Trifilio’s voice unifies Beach Bunny’s songs. Concert venues fell silent. ), The Nigerian songwriter Burna Boy calls his music Afro-fusion, not the more specifically Nigerian term Afrobeats, and “Twice as Tall” lives up to that broader mandate with a profusion of sleek, diverse, constantly inventive grooves that traverse Africa and its diaspora. Review. 10. Film title. Taylor Swift, “Folklore”Pop’s most closely scrutinized diarist used a season of isolation to dream beyond herself. (Read the review.). Top ten lists for 2020: The year’s best movies, TV, music and more. Mikael Wood is pop music critic for the Los Angeles Times. And they mutate as they go, mingling spoken words and melody and drawing at whim on rock, jazz, show tunes, choir harmonies, chants and cheers. The debut album from the Alabama rapper Flo Milli is a fusillade of bratty taunts and bratty flirts over beats so ornery and wobbly they sound like they’ve been assembled from Tinkertoys. But even the emotional and aesthetic derring-do of her four previous albums could not prepare listeners for the shock of “Fetch the Bolt Cutters,” an achievement of bracing intensity recorded over several years, mostly in the seclusion of her Los Angeles home. On his fourth solo record, which addresses the 2018 death of his close friend Mac Miller, Thundercat keeps finding ways to personalize a trippy philosophy of healing. Film cast/crew. These songs are fresh-air triumphs of the downtrodden. (Their real name, appropriately enough: Sean Bowie.) (Read the feature.). The acts nominated include Denise Chaila, Fontaines DC, … The music mavens at the venerable Time magazine have compiled their list of the “ALL-TIME 100″ albums — unranked and broken down by decade. (Read the review. Die 500 besten Alben aller Zeiten (The Greatest Albums of All Time) ist eine im Jahr 2003 von der Musikzeitschrift Rolling Stone veröffentlichte Liste der nach ihrer Meinung bedeutendsten Alben der Populärmusik aller Zeiten. ), A triumph of willfulness, “Fetch the Bolt Cutters” is Fiona Apple proclaiming she “won’t shut up” amid a percussive clatter she created at her home: banging on pots and pans, pushing her voice to extremes, letting her dog bark. 3. That it’s also his career capstone is enraging. Not every album released in 2020 was made during the pandemic. But he has never been the thing he is in fact best suited to, which is a singer of dewy R&B. The harpsichord-kissed “Jason” is a gently heartbreaking tale of a man’s hesitant exploration and ultimate rejection of his own desires (“clumsy, shakily, he ran his hands up me”), while the melody to the upbeat, yearning “On the Floor” has a retro-60s feel. She fronts Beach Bunny, a Chicago band that toys with flickers of garage rock, pop-punk and indie rock. Boards. Featuring winning collaborations with such avant-trash producers as A.G. Cook of PC Music and Dylan Brady of 100 gecs, “How I’m Feeling Now” is hyper-carbonated pop of the highest order — like a can of seltzer that’s so stingingly fizzy it makes you tear up a little on the way down. The ever cryptic, ever exploratory electronic duo Autechre greeted 2020 with something approaching moderation and introspection, releasing a single CD (as opposed to the marathon “NTS Sessions” from 2018) with 11 tracks that usually accept the regularity of a beat. Genre. The weirdo-pop futurist Charli XCX got to the quarantine album before it became a cliché, and elevated it to something far more expansive and searching than thematic gimmickry. Site. (Read the review.). Clockwise from left: Rina Sawayama, Fiona Apple, Moses Sumney and Sufjan Stevens. Top Albums | | | | of All-time. The collection features 19 tracks recorded and performed based on extensive research by Mohsen Sharifian, an expert on the folk music of southern Iran who is also a neyanban virtuoso. It’s regal, an announcement of an alpha figure asserting his primacy. ), On “Folklore,” Taylor Swift puts away childish things like pure pop clarity and scoring easy points. “No Dream” is a frayed manual for how to be an independently thinking and not-completely-jaded person in a world of faceless sans-serif corporations (exemplary song title: “***BNB”), anesthetizing bad news and all manner of everyday late-capitalist insanity. (Read the review. Her fifth album is loose and uproarious, veering from reverent art-pop to tone poetry to cabaret to scream therapy. Top albums of all-time Top albums of 2021 Top albums of 2020 Top albums of 2010s. The exciting thing to think about is how young she still is. Times Music Genre List. 2. ), “Grae” demands to be heard as a rhapsodic whole, a suite of songs and fragments continually dissolving and rematerializing around Moses Sumney’s otherworldly voice. 8. Here are the 10 that stood out, along with 10 runners-up from a year with more listening time than most. Es erschien als Doppelalbum am 30. Victory is not assured. Ware revels in the textures of the producer James Ferraro’s showroom of vintage synths, conjuring the no-wave cool of ESG as deftly as the glimmer of Minneapolis funk. EPs, box sets, and compilations were not considered. ), Every song on the Long Island punk lifer Jeff Rosenstock’s pummeling “No Dream” goes to 11, and then somehow finds a 12. Boards. Lili Trifilio writes chirpy songs about awful sadness. The puffed chests. The general tone is thoughtful and consonant but with jittery undercurrents, fitting for a year of quarantine. The Chicks made a thrilling comeback in 2020. What’s clear from this nonstop barrage of hooks and boasts and punchlines is that the 25-year-old rapper knows the world’s eyes are finally on her. “What if I told you I feel like I know you, but we never met?” she wonders on the flickering title track. The songs avenge and exorcise all sorts of slights and traumas, distant and recent, mixing spite with amusement. On “Folklore” she is swathed in acoustic instruments and Minimalistic patterns within patterns. Thundercat, Taylor Swift and Fiona Apple. His full-length debut album nailed the transition — it’s mischievous, sinister and loose. Yet here they are greeting middle age with an album of gorgeous and empathetic sad-dad jams about what happens when the party ends. 9. RIAA Certification . Lil Uzi Vert’s “Eternal Atake” is a statement that could only have come from his unique creative mind. Metal Machine Music, Lou Reed (1975) An album consisting entirely of guitar feedback loops, ranked No. ), Haim’s playfully acronym-ed “WIMP III” feels like a trip through the radio dial during one of those fleeting years in the mid-90s when — by some sort of clerical error or rip in the space-time continuum — the airwaves were dominated by an eclectic variety of female musicians. Deities; Festival; Mantras; Chants; Ganesh Utsav Songs & Bhajans; Original Motion Picture Soundtrack “Folklore” isn’t a perfect album (though to be fair, neither was “Red”), nor is it Swift’s best (which is “Red”), but its focus on craft and emotional world-building feels like a perfect move for her right now — an eternally sharp songwriter returning to the whetstone. Tweet. What if the guy who wrote great, smart party songs also excelled at devastating heartbreak anthems? 2. List. ADVERTISEMENT. Diamond. What if the soft-focus blur preferred by the rest of the town didn’t make an album like this such a shock? Unlike either "Ohio" or 2006's Living with War, Neil didn't write new protest songs this time around. Discover music on Discogs, the largest online music database. After an eight-year break during which her legend only grew, Apple returned right as the world was tipping into chaos; nothing about the music suggests she was surprised. Review. 2. Limiting? She remakes Charles Mingus, the earthiest jazz avant-gardist, on a few tracks, nodding toward an inspiration. Drew Anthony Smith for The New York Times. On this understated album, he finally arrives at his sweet spot. Only albums with seven or more reviews were eligible. (Read the profile; hear the Popcast. What if the most innovative mainstream Nashville performer was also the most reverent of tradition? Clockwise from center: BET, via Associated Press; Chad Batka for The New York Times; Evans Richardson; Amy Harris/Invision, via Associated Press, Sufjan Stevens addresses a convergence of crises on “The Ascension.”, Chris Pizzello/Invision, via Associated Press, Moses Sumney explores loves and longing on “Grae.”, Elizabeth Weinberg for The New York Times, Bob Dylan proved he’s still able to bristle with the best of them on “Rough and Rowdy Ways.”, Burna Boy brought his politically minded Afrobeats worldwide with “Twice as Tall.”, Amy Sussman/Getty Images for Warner Music, Georgia Anne Muldrow is an impressive one-woman band on “Mama, You Can Bet!”, Sam Hunt retreated from music after his 2014 debut, and returned with “Southside.”, Rina Sawayama mines an eclectic group of genres on “Sawayama.”, Daniyel Lowden-Stoole for The New York Times, Killer Mike and El-P returned with another volley of smart, sassy, political hip-hop on “RTJ4.”. Artists. 2 in the 1991 book The Worst Rock 'n' Roll Records of All Time by Jimmy Guterman and Owen O'Donnell. Dancing nimbly between complex, jazzlike arrangements and the crude beauty of playground chants, Apple narrates a vivid journey about confronting and finally transcending past trauma — the schoolyard bullies of “Shameika”; the music-industry gaslighting described on the title track; the sexual assault addressed so searingly on the unforgettable “Newspaper” and “For Her.” Apple’s voice is a muscular instrument, heaving and surging under the weight of all she’s excavating before fluttering away, light as a butterfly. Buy and sell music with collectors in the Marketplace. Yet for all its experimentation with point of view, “Folklore” — recorded remotely in quarantine with fresh collaborators including Bon Iver and the National’s Aaron Dessner — retains the intimate air of introspection, a songwriter’s trick as enchanting as Swift’s newly complicated melodies. - Best Ever Albums score: 15,415 - Best Ever Albums user rating: 80 - Rank all-time: #111 - Rank in decade: #21 - Rank in year: #5 - Year: 1994 “Definitely Maybe” was the debut album of Britpop’s Oasis, with brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher shaking up a music scene filled with grunge sounds at the time. Adele--Two Weeks Ago--Last Week. Fiona Apple, “Fetch the Bolt Cutters”It takes a master of texture to make a record that sounds like it’s falling apart — and a person of extreme emotional fortitude to make one that digs up so much trauma. Bob Dylan, “Rough and Rowdy Ways”Split between bloodthirsty rockers and so-pretty-they-hurt ballads, Dylan’s 39th studio album showcases a lifelong tunesmith who’s only found more things to write about — from sex and violence to history and botany (!) The Times discography and songs: Music profile for The Times, formed 1980. 5:35 PREVIEW Mermaid. (Read the review. Common charts. The album entitled “Music of Kish Island” is the 77th collection of the regional music of Iran that has been released by the Mahoor Institute of Culture and Arts. 2011 Preview SONG TIME Battle for Light. Sign o the Times (stilisiert als Sign \"\" the Times; englisch für Zeichen der Zeit) ist das neunte Studioalbum des US-amerikanischen Musikers Prince. Custom charts. V/A releases. (Read the feature. You may also like: Richest country music stars. Seattle Times music writer We asked local music journalists, radio hosts and scene-watchers to help us choose the best Washington state albums of the year, the results of which you can read here . Five women take the top 3 spots, with Taylor Swift’s quarantine album leading our year’s best. (Read the review. Sie beruht auf der Abstimmung von 273 Musikern, Kritikern und Plattenfirmen. Katie Crutchfield, who records as Waxahatchee, released an album featuring some of her most evocative lyrics. 21 Savage and Metro Boomin, “Savage Mode II”; Benny the Butcher, “Burden of Proof”; Natanael Cano, “Trap Tumbado”; The Chicks, “Gaslighter”; City Girls, “City on Lock”; Code Orange, “Underneath”; Conway the Machine, “From King to a God”; Drake, “Dark Lane Demo Tapes”; Freddie Gibbs and the Alchemist, “Alfredo”; Ariana Grande, “Positions”; Hardy, “A Rock”; Haux, “Violence in a Quiet Mind”; Ian Isiah, “Auntie”; Junior H, “Atrapado en un Sueño”; King Von, “Levon James”; Lil Durk, “Just Cause Y’all Waited 2”; Lauren Mascitti, “God Made a Woman”; John Moreland, “LP5”; Jessie Reyez, “Before Love Came to Kill Us”; Dua Saleh, “Rosetta”; Sunday Service Choir, “Jesus Is Born”; Myke Towers, “Easy Money Baby”; Jessie Ware, “What’s Your Pleasure?”; Waxahatchee, “Saint Cloud”; The Weeknd, “After Hours”; Hailey Whitters, “The Dream”; YoungBoy Never Broke Again, “Top”. “I knew everything when I was young,” Swift sings. 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