Bloomers Best Of 2015: Complete. Thank you! - Page 36

AshleeSimpsonFan

Love Macklemore and Twenty One Pilots so much

and Selena is alright for me

Sam Smith tho

Legend E

Let me not comment on that worst list...

Jackie and The Desired Effect making the albums list

Ivan_brit

I agree With Miley!! After Bangerz she release this messy irrelevant era

Here my Countdown:
http://atrl.net/forums/showthread.php?t=916889&page=13

Changes

I'm digging this Ecstatic Vision. If I saw that album cover I probably would've checked it out too.

Admiral Bobbery

I do have to agree with you about Alive. I like her in general but that song is just not good and while I can jam to Hey Mama get your general points. I do agree with what you had to say about Selena in that opening paragraph, though as for GFY I find it too boring to really be bad.

Regina George

I hate Good for ya too! I did like it at the end but the video was gross

Bloomers

Thanks for checking out my worst of everyone. I didn't mean any offense or anything with it. I hope none was taken.

Top Songs and Albums will continue now!

Also, don't forget to vote for Lana's Music To Watch Boys to here:
http://atrl.net/forums/showthread.php?t=874059&page=69

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20: Janet Jackson - Well Traveled

My second favorite off of Janet's comeback album, I think this one is a really mature substantive song, that a younger artist wouldn't be able to pull off. I really love how this song is a celebration of life and all the experiences that come with age and living; it doesn't look back, but optimistically forward. The song also acknowledges that,as experienced as somebody is in life, there is always more to experience and more room to grow. I found myself with a similar mentality this year, so it clicked with me in a big way. There's really not enough songs like this; honestly, you can look back with regrets and cling on to days that will never repeat, or you can move forward, confident in the things that have helped shape you, and look forward to all the things that life can bring.

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19: Yelawolf - Devil In My Veins

I like Yelawolf, I think he's pretty underrated as a rapper and as an artist. He is kind of the South's answer to Eminem, but that's pretty unique in itself. He's put out some great fusions of country music and hip-hop and has made some excellent commentary on class struggles in the US, I will go to bat for Slumerican Shitizen being one of the best songs of the decade.

Devil In My Veins is something completely different from him. He left the hip-hop behind entirely on this one and recorded a country ballad, one of the most quietly stunning ones also. Yelawolf sings about addiction and not being able to overcome it; he's only accompanied by a gloomily strummed guitars and ghostly backing singers.

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18:Kendrick Lamar - The Blacker The Berry

It's not an easy listen, but you just have to listen to this one.

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17: Ciara - I Bet

This one doesn't hit you right away. There's a delicately strummed guitar, a sense of vague heartbreak, and not much else. It's a prickly ballad though and there's more to it than you might think with just a passive listen, it's not completely heartbrokenly sad, or a celebratory put down; it has elements of both and with personality to spare. Ci uses parts of the song to launch an attack on her ex and his girl with the silicon ass, even going as far as to include backing vocals b a Future soundalike. "I can take care of myself and I can find someone to do it too, baby." she Ci-ngs and you believe her, "Right now it’s killing me 'Cause now I have to find someone else When all I wanted was you." she closes out the song. She makes it known that she's been hurt, and is heartbroken, but also makes it known that she will move on. I Bet is a more emotionally nuanced than most songs of a similar style, something only Ciara could pull off. .

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16: Father John Misty - Bored In The U.S.A.

I dropped the ball when making my best of. I completely overlooked Father John, when making my list and had to toss out a song to make room for him. A couple of his songs deserved to be here: the hilarious Chateau Lobby and gorgeous the title track are my favorites, but I goofed and decided not to look back and edit the list. I did find a place for Bored In The USA though; it's equally funny and cutting, satrical and truthful. It's delivered like a slow burner in a musical (delivered with a straight face and a gentlemanly tone), complete with canned laughter. Save us president jesus. .

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Album Hints for the next set:
20: The debut album by an artist that has appeared here twice!
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jose168

I bet and TBTB are SO SO GOOD. so is good for you though, see the light!

Tom Vercetti

Surprised to see Well traveled. It's a decent track really.

Blacker The Berry is so intense. I love it.

I bet is nice, & the Father John track is effective.

sumthintoxic82

Jackie was great...maybe not as much as her last album but still good

The Desired Effect is just

an OUTSTANDING return for Brandon!! It just flows well together

Miley...I agree

Alive...semi agree...the song is whatever, but I kinda like the way she sings on this song

TOTALLY AGREE ABOUT GOOD FOR YOU

I never saw the hype, I tried SO HARD to get on board, but I cant...

Well Traveled is nice, but there are better tracks

and I Bet is nice as well, but one of my least favs from Ciara

Topmaster 2

LOL I can't stand Yelawolf but in that cover he looks hot

Speaking of hot people... Father John Misty

I love his new album is a masterpiece

Ciara is so cute I like her

Your hints

I'm very dumb trying to figure it out all of them

TRF.

I can't stand FJM. The Blacker the Berry is a masterpiece, however. And #16... Garden... of Delete?

Honestly, TRF.

holocene

All the other sings getting paragraphs of text but The Godlier The Berry getting a mere sentence.

Also, not TWENTY FOUR

At least we agree about Art Deco being third best on the album. ..... 24, I can't.

Selegend never had a shot with you, though, being the Mexican Madonna and everything.

Oxygen

Not you going in on Good For You

But YAAAASS @ Downtown being there.

AshleeSimpsonFan

First time that I listen to Devil In My Veins, is good! Yelawolf always released good stuff

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20.Andrew Combs - All These Dreams

This album was probably my favorite discovery of the year. Andrew Combs is a singer-songwriter type that does old fashioned folk-pop. Out of all the albums I listened to this year, I would relate the album to Sufjan Stevens's Carrie & Lowell the most; except where Carrie & Lowell is introspective, gloomy, and haunted, isolated in the country out of the need to use the loneliness of folk music for introspection, All These Dreams is brighter and poppier. There are moments of heartbreak and sadness on the album, and a certain sense of melancholy that surrounds some of these songs, but none of the gloominess and ultraviolence of the Sufjan album; instead, the melancholy comes from Andrew's slow gentlemanly drawl and the tendency for the songs to feel as if they were made to pass time that would otherwise be spent not doing very much at all.

This is one of the albums I found myself coming back to the most through the year, because, at it's core, it is a pop album with some very solidly constructed songs. Long Gone Lately is one of those songs with a chorus so familiar that you feel you've heard a million times on the first listen; Strange Birds feels like a musical number from a classic movie, with one of the catchiest whistled hooks of the year, and there are a couple of the songs that just feel like a lazy late afternoon spent laying around doing nothing in particular, like Suwannee County. It's a great listen, probably the album I would recommend the most from this list.

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19. A$AP Rocky - AT.LONG.LAST.A$AP

Rocky delivered with his second album. It wasn't the most successful commercially, but, that's probably to be expected considering the slow, almost psychedelic flow of the album. The lack of commercial success was disappointing, it's his best work yet. It's one of those albums that slowly creeps up on you with each repeated listen. This is the guy that once said "*****, money, weed is all I really need," and that motto is clearly evident on this album, but it's all in excess here to the point that those things feel like they have become addictions and then morphed into dependencies, and life is impossible to live without them. The A$AP Mob lost one of their founding members before the recording of this album, and the album does definitely feel haunted through all the murkiness and haze (even the cover is a picture of Rocky with the late A$AP Yam's birthmark).

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18. Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear

I don't think I've ever laughed so much while listening to a "serious" album. At it's face value, I Love You, Honeybear is a lush folk-rock album, and it's a great listen on that level. There are swooning strings, sun-dabbled melodies, everything to make the album appealing to the ears; there's really nothing on the surface of the album that would make your parent give the album a side eye, or sound out of place in the Jackson Browne and Linda Ronstadt record collection they own.

It's only a closer listen (or look at the that ridiculous cover which seems to be normal upfront, but also features what seems to be the Zodiac killer, a multi-eyed owl, and Aztec art on closer look) that the album's mischievous personality comes through. You catch a couple strange lyrics and listen more closely and you hear things like: "I wanna take you in the kitchen / Lift up your wedding dress someone was probably murdered in" and "She says, like literally, music is the air she breathes And the malaprops make me want to ****ing scream, I wonder if she even knows what that word means" and you realize it might be satirizing modern life, but then some things feel a little too on the nose (like the audience in Born In The USA), and you realize this guy is just ****ing with you throughout the whole album under the guise of a satirist using any excuse to deliver a dry lyric, musical joke, or anything to throw you off (that joke on the fourth track where he imitates a record skipping, gets me every time).

Side note: the album packaging was my favorite this year, complete with pop-ups!

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17. Grimes - Art Angels

The album cover really does look like a classic Nintendo 64 Game. She also made a really great pop album. Mostly everyone else agrees, so it basically speaks for itself.

Yes I am taking the lazy way out with this write-up, but you know who wasn't lazy? Grimes! She wrote and produced the whole thing herself!

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16. Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden Of Delete

I kind of skipped over OPN's 2013 album, R Plus 7, but I've been a fan of most of his other albums. This one was a lot more aggressive and raw feeling than Replica (his 2011 album and the last I've listened to by him).

Oneohtrix Point Never makes instrumental electronic music, but the music has a certain personality that's hard to describe. It's near cinematic, but less the soundtrack to a movie and more like someone took a movie, digitized it, and converted it to music... or something. I don't really know. It's a cool listen though and Mutant Standard is a wild ride.

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Hints for songs 15-11

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12. A common gang sign!

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ReachOut

13. ANTi

Mark Rih

13. Rhenna is coming

Yas @ I Bet #17