Discussion: This Was 2015 Part 2: Winner Revealed

Tom Vercetti

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Welcome folks. I'm Tom Vercetti and this is my first rate so go easy on me if something out of the ordinary happens. I'll be continuing the This Was 2015 saga that happened earlier in the year. Where we left off, five acclaimed albums were dissected track by track to determine the supreme song out of that bunch. Well here, it's the same deal with some additions. There are six extra acclaimed albums from 2015 that were needed to be dissected as well. To me, music variety is important. The albums that were chosen each have a different sound/atmosphere to them, to make the rate a bit more interesting. They all rated fairly high on Pazz & Jop, along with metacritic receipts & Pitchfork BNM categories. In this rate, we're looking at the recent albums from these exceptional artists; Tame Impala, Sufjan Stevens, Father John Misty, Björk, Miguel, & last but not least, Vince Staples. Below are the albums & its tracks that will be ranked;

1. Let It Happen
2. Nangs
3. The Moment
4. Yes I'm Changing
5. Eventually
6. The Less I Know the Better
7. Past Life
8. Disciples
9. Cause I'm A Man
10. Reality In Motion
11. Love/Paranoia
12. New Person, Same Old Mistakes

1. Death With Dignity
2. Should Have Known Better
3. All of Me Wants All of You
4. Drawn to the Blood
5. Fourth of July
6. The Only Thing
7. Carrie & Lowell
8. Eugene
9. John My Beloved
10. No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross
11. Blue Bucket of Gold

1. I Love You, Honeybear
2. Chateau Lobby #4 (in C for Two Virgins)
3. True Affection
4. The Night Josh Tillman Came To Our Apt.
5. When You’re Smiling and Astride Me
6. Nothing Good Ever Happens At the Goddamn Thirsty Crow
7. Strange Encounter
8. The Ideal Husband
9. Bored In The USA
10. Holy Sh*t
11. I Went To The Store One Day

1. Stonemilker
2. Lionsong
3. History of Touches
4. Black Lake
5. Family
6. Notget
7. Atom Dance
8. Mouth Mantra
9. Quicksand

1. A Beautiful Exit
2. Deal
3. The Valley
4. Coffee
5. NWA (Feat. Kurupt)
6. Waves
7. Whats Normal Anyway
8. Hollywood Dreams
9. …goingtohell
10. Flesh
11. Leaves
12. Face The Sun
13. gfg
14. destinado a morir
15. Simple Things
16. damned

1. Lift Me Up
2. Norf Norf
3. Birds & Bees
4. Loca
5. Lemme Know
6. Dopeman
7. Jump off the Roof
8. Señorita
9. Summertime
10. 3230
11. Surf
12. Might Be Wrong
13. Get Paid
14. Street Punks
15. Hang N Bang
16. C.N.B.
17. Like It Is

Your job is to rate the majority of the 76 tracks from 1 to 10. Demicals to the tenth place are allowed of course. I will also allow only one 11 and only one 0 out of the entire rate, so use them wisely if you see a track that you either cannot stand or is your song of the decade, it's up to you. Comments aren't required but they are encouraged for some possibly entertaining commentary. Oh yeah, no trolling btw. This means there shouldn't be an album with only 1's & 2's with the other album's track scores rated high. I want the results to be as accurate as possible.

Now since there's other rates going on, as well as possibly School and other major music releases happening, I'm going to set a flexible deadline to September 25th to rate all of the songs & pm me them. That's six weeks from now (think of it as one album a week). I could allow a minor extension if needed as well. Some people may be familiar with the albums already, while some may not. I encourage everyone who stops by here to try to listen to them if you have not already. I provided youtube playlist links on each of the first tracks of the albums (which I hope works btw). They're all accessible on Spotify/Apple Music, etc as well. Have fun.

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Participants

Tom Vercetti

Full countdown

Thanatos

Yas! Part 2!
I´m in! 6 new albums to listen to

alkralkra

Wasnt Vulnicura supposed to be in my part 3?

Tom Vercetti

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Originally posted by alkralkra

Wasnt Vulnicura supposed to be in my part 3?

All I know is that Ace approved those albums to be in this rate.

conatus

I am so doing this. I pretty much know all the albums well except for Father John Misty's and Vince's, so it won't take me long.

alkralkra

Other than Sufjan Stevens

I know these albums are good.

supaspaz

Still no Chris Stapleton.

Vilppu

Gives me a reason to re-visit Vince and Sufjan, their albums, I kind of paid then dust.

Not Let It Happen vs. Black Lake though, how am I supposed to choose my 11

Tom Vercetti

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Originally posted by supaspaz

Still no Chris Stapleton.

I actually liked his album. Maybe for the future hopefully.

AlexisNeiers

dd I forgot to include Vince in the banner

Gonna edit it this Monday when I'm back

Excited for the rate, I love all those albums

Paul McCutie

i'll do it

conatus

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Originally posted by Vilppu

Gives me a reason to re-visit Vince and Sufjan, their albums, I kind of paid then dust.

Not Let It Happen vs. Black Lake though, how am I supposed to choose my 11

Give it to The Less God Knows The Better instead.

Chemical X.

Idk any of these! Time to expand my horizons

Tom Vercetti

I already know my 11

Vilppu

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Originally posted by conatus

Give it to The Less God Knows The Better instead.

Nope but it's def getting a 10.

Kang.

Wow! 6 albers better than TPAB!

Ace Reject

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Originally posted by Kang.

Wow! 6 albers better than TPAB!

Sufjan is better than no one!

alky, SCREAM at me in PM please!

Avariko

So doing!

collin

Totally doing this.