MRRRRRRR FREEEEEEEEEWAVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEE (presses E key so hard that I hurt myself)
The final YECA! What a monumental occasion! Here's the truth (because i've been lying to you from this point): when I think of year-end time, I think of the YECA first, so this is a major deal. Yet you outline your case so well (who are these goobers who say what you wrote is too long? Red has been doing great work for this site while you were in diapers! Show some respect you GOONS!). So I have come to make my first comment and show support to a good friend of, gosh. Nearly fifteen years now. Crazy!! Briefly, your YouTube list is always superb, I love the Foo Fighters video, and the Jericho + Joey Ryan videos. And your old songs list is so great! GENO!! Thanks for continuing to talk about how great Dexys are! And ****in Jailbreak! House of Jealous Lovers, Where Did You Sleep Last Night, Beds are Burning, Everybody Knows (great write-up!), Starman, Purple Rain, and then having Tame Impala at #1. So good!
I can't promise i'll be promptly here for every update, but when I do comment, i'll make it worth your time. That is what you deserve. You're the best. And you are already making great time!! Woo-hoo!
Awww Megaman brings back a lot of memories. I haven't played in years but I definitely would do it again just for the nostalgic value
Well, if you do, fair warning: Like just about any other Mega Man, it's hard as hell. I mean, "break your controller"-level hard.
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I'm SO behind on video games its not even funny (I'm almost done with Mass Effect 3....) but I just ordered a PS4 with that Tomb Raider game and am kinda excited.
Welcome to the fold. Don't forget to try out Valiant Hearts and The Wolf Among Us.
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I need to play The Wolf Among Us, Telltale Games are pretty much the only games I play now. I'm so excited for The Walking Dead season 3
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Wolf Among Us omg, really great game all Telltale games >>>> I need TWD3 NOW
Man, I'm cautiously excited about A New Frontier. Season two wasn't quite as good as season one (which, yes, is a large hill to climb, but still), and I just hope that season three comes closer in quality to the masterpiece that is season one. Here's hoping.
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Dude! It's been too long Hope you're doing great, man. I'm definitely checking out your countdowns everyday
I'm doing...okay, I suppose. Living in America at the end of 2016 is definitely trying times. But, you know, I'm alive, so there's that, right?
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I don't play games
It's okay. We're about to get into the really good stuff, anyway.
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Your OP Sad to hear this is your final Best Of, but glad to see you're doing a ton of stuff for it! I'll miss you, father.
Now now, I never said this was going to be my final appearance in the Best Of forum! I just said that this is the final YECA. I'll still post the singles list every year, I'm sure...probably.
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MRRRRRRR FREEEEEEEEEWAVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEE (presses E key so hard that I hurt myself)
The final YECA! What a monumental occasion! Here's the truth (because i've been lying to you from this point): when I think of year-end time, I think of the YECA first, so this is a major deal. Yet you outline your case so well (who are these goobers who say what you wrote is too long? Red has been doing great work for this site while you were in diapers! Show some respect you GOONS!). So I have come to make my first comment and show support to a good friend of, gosh. Nearly fifteen years now. Crazy!! Briefly, your YouTube list is always superb, I love the Foo Fighters video, and the Jericho + Joey Ryan videos. And your old songs list is so great! GENO!! Thanks for continuing to talk about how great Dexys are! And ****in Jailbreak! House of Jealous Lovers, Where Did You Sleep Last Night, Beds are Burning, Everybody Knows (great write-up!), Starman, Purple Rain, and then having Tame Impala at #1. So good!
I can't promise i'll be promptly here for every update, but when I do comment, i'll make it worth your time. That is what you deserve. You're the best. And you are already making great time!! Woo-hoo!
DR SPA-CHEMINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN (didn't press the N nearly as hard)
I love how you referred to the awesome people who follow along on this crazy journey "goons". Now THAT is a Canadian, right there. And hey, every time you comment, IT'S AN EVENT, BROTHER. It's an event on the scale of the Dancing Digeridoo of 1922.
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Perched for the music
Don't worry, you won't have much longer to wait.
And I do mean that...as in, I'm going to post the first albums set in less than ten minutes.
Kicking off the top 20 is an old standby, a standby who I was definitely worried about in recent years. Green Day has been making music in this decade, but that music has ranged from good ("Let Yourself Go") to "I hope I never listen to this song again" ("Oh Love"). Revolution Radio doesn't quite alleviate those fears, but, for the first time since 21st Century Breakdown, I feel confident in liking the output of Billie Joe, Mike, and Tre on this record. The best moments on Revolution Radio are when the band goes fast and hard, like on "Bang Bang" and "Revolution Radio". These songs show that the old Green Day is genuinely still around and kicking. "Somewhere Now" and "Forever Now" bookend the album as two more strong points...okay, I should say, "should have been the bookends", because the actual closing track, "Ordinary World", doesn't quite work in the vein of the song it's trying to ape, "Macy's Day Parade". Actually, this particular Green Day album feels like it's looking back at many different Green Day eras, some good and some bad. In that sense, I think it works pretty well. I feel like the true "Green Day second comeback album" isn't to be found on this particular album, but I feel like it's close.
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Okay, let's get this out of the way right now: I still like "Monarchy of Roses" more than any song off of The Getaway...but I think that The Getaway is miles better than I'm With You. Five years later, I just cannot stand I'm With You. It feels like RHCP are going through growing pains without John Frusciante, and Rick Rubin is not helping matters on the production. It was even, dare I say it, boring. A RHCP album and "boring" should never, EVER go together. So that should mean that I dislike The Getaway even more, because, somehow, it's more laid back than I'm With You. There's two huge differences between the two albums, though. First, Josh Klinghoffer has come into his own as the Peppers' post-Frusciante guitarist. The main attraction of RHCP remains the bass licks of the Bass God, Flea, and he's as potent as ever here, but Klinghoffer is up to the task of matching the Bass God and adds his own tight flair to the Peppers sound, which helps immensely. Second, Danger Mouse...just...Danger Mouse on production. What a difference a producer change can make. The Peppers just feel more alive than they did on I'm With You, particularly on "Goodbye Angels", where, after being worn down by the Peppers in recent years, I was genuinely floored by how lively and flat-out insane the end of the song was. I don't know if the Peppers are "back", but they're on their way, at the very least.
2014 was the year that I realized that Korn wasn't one of my favorite bands anymore. I still like them and appreciate them for the role that they played in my growth as a music fan, but the band just doesn't have the same pull with older me as they did with younger me. I will say this, though: If I was a teen all over again, The Serenity of Suffering would have been my favorite album of the year by a mile. (Then again, certain other albums on this list probably wouldn't have made the list, either...hmm...) The Serenity of Suffering is the best, most complete album Korn has made in over a decade. If this album had come out five years ago, I would have lost my mind at how good it was. Today, I just recognize it as a strong album, but an album I just cannot connect to in the way that I used to. In particular, "Black Is The Soul" is a must-listen if you've ever been a fan of Korn. It's easily one of the best songs Korn has made since 2000.
Kings of Leon are just who they are going to be, at this point. They're a solid Southern rock band that has a tendency to try to shoot for arena rock at times. Sometimes, those ambitions resulted in strong material (see: "Closer", "Wait For Me"). Other times...well, the majority of Mechanical Bull did nothing for me. One reason that I love Walls in comparison to their two most recent albums is that, not only do Kings of Leon actually try new things, but they have refined their core sound to a science. "Find Me" and "Waste a Moment" are two of Kings of Leon's best faster-paced songs, while "WALLS" is perhaps the band's best-ever closing track. I also realize that Kings of Leon are not very popular among a certain crowd on ATRL. And to those people, I say...eh, I like Kings of Leon quite a bit, and I like this album quite a bit. (Yeah, I'm not very good at throwing shade anymore.)
Well...that didn't take long, did it, Highly Suspect? The Boy Who Died Wolf doesn't have the same immediacy to it that made Mister Asylum such a huge kick to the balls of the rock establishment. It's much more laid back and brooding, but, in turn, they've replaced mid-tempo beasts with slow-burning powerhouses, and the result is pretty strong all the same, especially on the best tracks. "My Name Is Human" was the perfect choice for first single, a song that showcased how much different things were going to be on Highly Suspect's second album, but it also has the roughness and tenacity that helped to make "Lydia" one of my favorite songs of last year. "Wolf"..."Wolf" is just incredible. It's the culmination of the entire album, and it's only fitting that such a wonderful song is the closer here. Deep down, I probably liked Mister Asylum as a whole more, but the strongest points of The Boy Who Died Wolf are perhaps even stronger than their previous effort. I still have high hopes for Highly Suspect, and I hope that the third album will fully realize that potential.
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This was a decidedly Red-esque first albums set, and the next set...looks to be similarly Red-esque. The Top 10 is when this list gets a little nutty in comparison to past years, but, until then, 15-11 is up next! In that set is an artist with a former YECA #1 album, the inspiration for my SN, the most consistent band in all of rock releasing yet another solid album, the final album of a YECA staple, and an album I don't think I could have predicted if my name was Nostradamus. See you all then.
WALLS was the first KOL album I've listened in full and it worked for me. I wasn't really expecting much anyway.
Waste a Moment somehow became one of my favorite songs this year, now that's unexpected.
I agree 'The Getaway' was much better than 'I'm With You'. Not really saying much though. And while I do feel like Green Day's new album has more punch than their previous one(s), it still nowhere near close 'American Idiot'.