Bloomers Best Of 2015: Complete. Thank you! - Page 39

jose168

poot for the summer is SO good, if only there wasnt an infinitely superior version released the same year

Brando

The Blacker The Berry is not an easy listen true, but it's just perfect.
Never managed to get into Father John

Brandom Flowers... hmm I tried a few times, didn't work. The Small Town Boy is sacred for me, don't like how he integrated it into I Can Change, but I'm listening to the other tracks you posted there as I type, maybe something will hit.

TRF.

Also, yay, "Poot for the Summer" and "Bitch Better Have My Anti"!

Honestly, TRF.

Superpower

Masterpiece of a Lifetime missing the top10

But higher than Legend

Brandon

BBHMM + AOAL

Poot

Admiral Bobbery

Poot

Love the song though. Also really like BBHMM and Coldplay's single.

Bloomers

Replies (Dont Tell Your Mother)

Replies 2 (Were Poot For The Summer)

Bloomers

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15. Jazmine Sullivan - Reality Show

Reality Show is a classically inspired R&B album, which was a very refreshing thing this last year. The fact that the album was a classically inspired R&B album no doubt helped the album stick out in a year when it seemed everyone started to hop on the PBR&B bandwagon, but it would have stuck out as a quality album in just about any recent year. I call it a classically inspired album, because the album, while referencing some classic R&B albums in sound, is pretty much a modern album. Jazmine makes as many references to pop culture as some rap album, referencing Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar, lyrically and musically referencing everyone from After 7's Ready Or Not on Let It Burn, to Darkside's Paper Trails on Stupid Girl, and it's interesting that she does make all these references throughout the album, it's interesting commentary that we all are kind of influenced by our past, but still shaped by the present. It's a really cool album that fits right into the present even if if it's mostly influenced by the past.

I think the album cover sums up the album the best. It's comfortable looking, lived in, and while the title references the modern concept of the Reality Show, it wouldn't be possible without the old-fashioned tv on the cover.

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14. Nothing But Thieves - Nothing But Thieves

This was definitely my favorite debut rock album of the year, and possibly of the decade. The Thieves really stole my heart with this one

and I really haven't been this crazy about a mainstream rock group since.... I can't remember, it's been awhile. These guys are often related to Muse, but I don't quite see that. They go for the musical bombast occasionally, and the frontman does often go for those dramatic high notes. Muse is more often concerned with sci-fi subjects and paranoia, Starlight and MK Ultra.

The Thieves are definitely earth bound and almost cover as much gloomy introspective territory as Drake. If I were to go the reductive route and compare them with a similar sounding British band, I would say they tap in to the same vein as The Bends era Radiohead (The NBT frontman's ghostly wail is definitely from the same line as Thom Yorke's) and Parachutes/A Rush Of Blood to The Head era Coldplay (sorry prezli), but the Thieves definitely have a unique character already.

The Thieves rock harder than Radiohead and Coldplay ever have: songs like Trip Switch ride an outright groove and even the gloomier more meditative tracks can gradually boil over and explode like If I Get High. I had to import this one since I loved their EP so much and the US release date was delayed until sometime in 2016; they also were one of the signs, that for me at least, suggested rock might be making some type of creative comeback which is very exciting, and something I will be looking forward to in 2016.

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13. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Buttefly

I have conflicted feelings about this record and about Kendrick in general. On the one hand, he is obviously one of the best technical rappers out there (if not the best), I love his ambition and how he is pushing everyone to put out their best work to be able to compete with him; however, at the same time, I think that he just goes too far sometime, too overly technical to the point that his music, while impressive, just stops being enjoyable and relatable.

One of the things I most often read about To Pimp A Butterfly, was breathless praise about how he addressed race relations on the album, which is something that is unfortunately still a very serious issue in the country in 2015 and 2016. He tackles the various issues very well, but at some point, the album just wears on me. "Yes Kendrick, good point Kendrick, I agree with you Kendrick. Good observation Kendrick. Interesting sample Kendrick" I find myself thinking as I listen to the album. It's a very powerful album in small doses, but just gets too overly technical and redundant in one listen. That's not to say he needs a couple EDM tracks worked into the track list or a pop feature, there's just a point that it feels more like sitting through a college lecture than a relatable album. I think back to my favorite album of 2012, the criminally slept on R.A.P. Music by Killer Mike, and how he effectively and brutally dismantles the Regan administration in 4 minutes and it just feels more passionate. Then I think back to Good Kid Mad City and how even though the album doesn't tackle race as an issue as much as To Pimp A Butterfly, but it often is a more powerful album, as GKMC tells its story, you can relate to Kendrick on a personal level as he explores his Compton: he sneaks out at night, there's violence, his domestic situation isn't the best, his dad wants his car back. You really get a feel for life in that album, and I just found GK more effective in relating to Kendrick and the youth of Compton, or any community really.

I do like To Pimp A Butterfly, especially in smaller doses, it just wasn't my favorite album. I also still think that i, is the best song on the album. On that one, Kendrick's fired up, it's a celebratory track, it's a conflicted track. Kendrick states that he loves himself, but makes sure you know of the constant struggle happening around him and within him that is a constant threat to that, and as I hear him run through his thoughts and feelings, I feel for him and hear him when he talks about himself and his surroundings on i, on a more personal level than I do on the majority of the album.

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12. Miguel - Wildheart

I love the earthy, hazy atmosphere of this whole album. Just the music itself, feels downright sexy and sweaty at times; I mean, NWA, coffee, FLESH, that steamy atmosphere runs through the whole course of whole album really. It can be almost too carnal at times, but it's all part of the journey of the album; but, there are some romantic songs filled with wanderlust and a thirst for travel like leaves and waves that make this less an album less about sex and more about desire and adventure.

Wildheart was one of the most consistent listens of the year for me, and one of the most enjoyable. That being said, no album frustrated me as much as this album's randomly capitalized and non-capitalized song titles.

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11. Neon Indian - Vega Intl. Night School

This whole album just seems to get by on a cool aquatic neon pulse and often feels like some alien version of pop music than anything terrestrially based. You can't even really hear the lyrics a lot of the time, and yet, the gooey amorphous pop of this album just sticks with you like some delicious gummy candy that gets stuck in your teeth. The album is one of the most unique and enjoyable pop albums of the year though.

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Alright, I am finally at my top 10 albums and singles. I'm not quite sure how I'll reveal them right now, but I think tomorrow I might acknowledge some of my favorite mixtapes and EPs of the year and then reveal my top 10 songs.

For now though, here are some facts about my top 10 songs for fun.

3 songs in the top 10 are by artists that haven't charted a song yet on my song list.
2 songs are by artists that have had at least 2 songs chart.
1 song is by an artist that hasn't released their debut album yet in the US.
Drake is in the top 10, but will he be number 1? An artist that blocked him on the Hot 100 is here.
My most played song is in the top 10

Tom Vercetti

This album set

I just touched up on Jazmine's album. One of my favorite R&B albums of 2015 definitely.

Nothing but Thieves I still got to get up on that. I'm the worst when it comes to procrastination

, but I like the songs though.

TPAB charted

. What a potential classic it is.
Rooting for Kendrick's grammy wins

Wildheart, another excellent R&B album. We got different highlights but they're all dope either way

Neon Indian & Slumlord

Calvin McHobbes

Looks we both came down on the great, but not a classic side of Pimp.

Poot Lovato feels like an inside that i dont understand.

feelslikeadream

Yay Wildheart!!! Did you see the video I took at his concert where he was grinding the air?

Gabriel_Spears

Kendrick's album was good

holocene

I agree wholeheartedly with the Wildheart write-up. Is Miguel our new Ariana?

I like Kendrick's album and I'm allowed to say that because I still listen to it.

Topmaster 2

Nothing But Thieves + Neon Indian = Perfection

Annie needs an official music video, tho.

M A R N ✮

dunno this set

MP2K

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The fact that the album was a classically inspired R&B album no doubt helped the album stick out in a year when it seemed everyone started to hop on the PBR&B bandwagon

Yeah, Jazzy balanced it out for me. I still haven't listened to many traditional R&B albus in 2015 though.
Great TPAB summ. it grew on me tremendously. Miguel

I want to check out Neon Indian again.

sumthintoxic82

Adventure of A Lifetime

We both NEARLY placed it in the same position (#13 on mine)

Love this single for than any from the last era, but liked that album more than this one...

Wildheart was good, but his last album >>>

prézli

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This was definitely my favorite debut rock album of the year, and possibly of the decade.

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P.S. Yes, praise my taste.

prézli

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dunno this set

Khm, flop, khm.

prézli

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Originally posted by Tom Vercetti

Nothing but Thieves I still got to get up on that. I'm the worst when it comes to procrastination

, but I like the songs though.

indeed.