How many of your favourite albums from LAST year are you still listening to THIS year?

I often ponder on the seeming arbitrary nature of listing albums at the end of the year and then, essentially, seemingly, putting them away. So, what are you still listening to from last year? What are you not listening to? Why? Is this the same every year?

I just listened to all of 'Black Masses' by Electric Wizard on my way home from my local record shop. It sounded amazing. I'm not listening to Salem so much but I could have told you that then.

Still bump Last Train to Paris occasionally, but that's about it. Notably, that came out in December.

I keep the last year's worth of acquisitions on my phone, offloading albums once a month, so I don't fall into the end-of-year trap. So I just moved off last years Killing Joke but am still grooving to the latest Wire album.

I listen to Causers of This every now and then, still manages to move me. tho I might be cheating a lil bit, I finally listened to it late last year, while the album leaked late '09 and the came out in February, so other people may be way more sick of it as of today

I still listen to Swans 'My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky' and Jane Weaver's 'The Fallen By Watchbird' as well.

don't people tend to listen to new things they like a LOT though? i know i do. and then you probably just don't need to hear them as much for a while. they are probably still good though.

i love everything on my pazz & jop list from last year, but i haven't played any of them in a while except for the locrian album cuz i had the vinyl in a box by my stereo the other night and i was drunk and i knew it would sound dope on my new old speakers.

Bob Seger · Never Mind the Bullets Here's Early Bob Seger · 30

Nina Nastasia · Outlaster · 10

The Body · All the Waters of the Earth Turn to Blood · 10

The Watson Twins · Talking to You, Talking to Me · 10 · *

Waka Flocka Flame · Flockaveli · 10

Alessandro Bosetti · Zwolfzungen · 10 · *

Locrian · The Crystal World · 5 · *

Bushman's Revenge · Jitterbug · 5 · *

Dwarr · Animals · 5 · *

Arcn Templ · Emanations of a New World · 5

like i haven't listened to the pj harvey album from this year lately cuz i think i listened to it five hundred million times after i bought it.

The Vicki Leekx mixtape still gets a monthly play. I burned it to disc and it's absolutely great for driving - you can't skip tracks or otherwise, so it pays perfect compliment to keeping your hands on the wheel as well as constantly being surprised at stuff you otherwise would've missed just playing your favorite "songs".

The Warpaint record was released last year, wasn't it? That.

^yeah. I'm still listening to that as well - not out of enjoyment, but b/c I still think I can make a certain "break-through" w/ them.. the whole "i get it now!" period. I'm on listen six... not boding well, but I'll give it another try next time I'm bored.

don't people tend to listen to new things they like a LOT though? i know i do. and then you probably just don't need to hear them as much for a while. they are probably still good though.

― scott seward, Saturday, October 1, 2011 12:45 PM Bookmark

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Yeah, I'm still getting a lot out of records released over the last five years or so... of course, some records end up slipping to the back, but admittedly there's been a few mainstays from stuff released since 2006 that I'm still listening to very regularly at the moment.

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Most of them, actually. It's more often particular songs/singles each year that I'll go nuts over and then not listen to again for years afterwards. I've grown much more choosy about the albums I champion from year to year and usually end up keeping them in regular rotation moving forward.

throughout this year i've listened to about half of my top 10 of 2010 semi-regularly, although it's all relative -- i'm not a big repeat listener so if i play something that isn't brand new more than once a month it's like a potential all-time favorite. but it helps that a couple of those came out at the very end of the year.

Yeah, I'm in the same boat as Some Dude in terms of not playing things to death.

By the way, Dude, what are those couple of things from the end of the year?

As I said on Twitter, I don't listen to many of my favorite albums from 2010 anymore, but I listen to my favorite albums from 20 years ago (some of which are way more than 20 years old, btw) all the time.

I just went back and looked at my Top 10 metal albums of 2010, and there's three or four that I immediately felt like I might enjoy listening to; the others I could safely skip.

Yeah, I'm in the same boat as Some Dude in terms of not playing things to death.

By the way, Dude, what are those couple of things from the end of the year?

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, October 1, 2011 6:40 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark

diddy-dirty money and jazmine sullivan from november/december, also still listen to the butch walker, superchunk and waka flocka from earlier in the year

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Still listen to these fairly often, the two that I connected with best on an emotional level to start with:

Oneohtrix Point Never - Returnal
Sun Kil Moon - Admiral Fell Promises

sometimes i'm so overwhelmed and exhausted with the amount of new music i'm exposed to, plus the old music i discover or re-discover, that it's easiest to move past last year's favorites quickly.

having said that, i still listen to my top four from 2010 -- Grinderman; Gil Scott-Heron; Kanye West; How To Dress Well -- a lot.

i just bought admiral fell promises tonight!

Nice choice! Lots of people weren't so keen on it compared to the previous albums, but I think that nylon-string guitar is really pretty.

Emeralds - Does It Look Like I'm Here

i still listen to flockavelli regularly despite also struggling to keep up with the like six albums worth of material out this year that i also listen to & other brick squad trax/tapes. its probably one of my favourite albums of all time though & helped me get through a really hard breakup/winter. still listen to twin shadow, arp, ben klok berghain, sex church, earl every once in a blue moon. havent listened to yelawolf, e-40, the-dream once

Ty Segall - Melted - and not just b/c I'm seeing him tonight (Goodbye Bread is pretty dang good, too, though).

still listening to Rangda, Swans, Neil Young, Faun Fables - all within the last week. within the last few months, maybe Emeralds, Sun City Girls, Ariel Pink.

not listening to Chemical Brothers, that Michael Hurley "Blue Hills" LP, Have One On Me, Tonetta, or that last Legendary Pink Dots which I really should revisit.

ariel pink
beach house

my top 3 albums last yr were taylor swift, the-dream & diddy-dirty $ -- listened to all SO MUCH til maybe the beginning of summer 2011. now i still prob listen to at least a track from each every week but not nearly as much

also i nvr discovered warpaint til 2011 & listen to that a lot, still

Hmm...

1. Tallest Man On Earth (frequently)
2. Broken Social Scene (not enough to justify its 2nd place slot, in retrospect)
3. Drake (still plenty)
4. Das Racist (haven't played in a while aside from two fave tracks)
5. LCD Soundsystem (once or twice in the last few months, but yeah, I overrated it a tad)
6. Ryan Bingham (not as often as #s 3 & 5, but enough to know it maybe should've ranked even higher)
7. Owen Pallett (played a few times this year; was a very early '10 release, so heard it more than most of the others last year)
8. Erykah Badu (maybe played once in the last few months)
9. The Paperbacks (gave it good but not great review upon it's release; grew upon me enough through the year to make my top 10; has grown on me even more since)
10. Laura Marling (played a handful of times this year, but not lately as I've had a new one by her to concentrate on)

Of course, replayability isn't the only criteria for what makes an album great, and even the ones that I haven't played much this year hardly embarrass me now. But yeah, this is a useful exercise for seeing how albums you were caught up with in the moment sound a year or so down the road.

5, 3 of them regularly

just flockaveli and how to dress well's love remains. i took returnal for a spin once, too.

I'm listening more to my early '10 releases - mostly because it's now been almost 2 years and I'm no longer sick of them.

Most of my favorite singles from 2010 were snuck onto 2011 mixes.. Besides those, I didn't get sick of the Merchandise album until maybe a month ago, but that seems recent.. I didn't listen to Flockaveli until December so it doesn't seem old yet. Every month or so I've been coming back to No Age, Happy Birthday, Caribou, Earl & Bastard... I still listen to Beak> very often.

But October is just about that time of the year when all of these start to feel played out.. In January they will seem ancient.

still playing diddy dirty money, ke$ha, we love, ciara and night slugs. not listened to earl sweatshirt, kanye or speak now in a while

This was my end of year/Xmas compilation:

1. brave timbers - i'll always come back to this place (epic 45 remix)
2. the declining winter - leave
3. happenstance -the one eyed king
4. amiina - over and again
5. the album leaf - summer fog
6. his name is alive - st michael
7. olafur arnalds - Þú ert sólin
8. codes in the clouds - the distance between us (nils frahm remix)
9. drivan -som en laderlapp
10. isan - channel 10
11. luke abbott - holkham drones
12. pantha du prince - stick to my side (lawrence version)
13. james blake - klavierwerke
14. four tet - angel echoes
15. sean carey - in the dirt
16. hurts - wonderful life
17. the declining winter - official world cup theme 2010

I'd say i've played declining winter, album leaf and luke abbott a bit and isan a lot beyond january. actually, playing the cd just now and i'd *forgotten* about a lot of lovely stuff. my listening habits might be distorted a bit by having been a journalist in the past and having had to listen to new things out of necessity.

I do wonder how many MBDTF fans still play it frequently even a year later.

Bump for Monday lunchtime.

My top ten from last year:

1. Janelle Monae - Archandroid (listened to this a lot as spring turned to summer)
2. Deerhunter - Halycon Digest (have pulled this out at least once a month)
3. Agalloch - Marrow of the Spirit (not much, but probably will this winter, seems fitting for that time of year)
4. Nachtmystium - Addicts: Black Meddle Pt. II (not much, been spending time with their back catalog)
5. Warpaint - The Fool (at least once a month for this one too)
6. Rangda - False Flag (have pulled it out a couple times, but I need to be in a specific mood for it - not a knock in the least, btw)
7. The Drums - The Drums (not really, with the new album out now)
8. Bottomless Pit - Blood Under the Bridge (a couple times, but more time spent with old Silkworm)
9. Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma (really intense week with this over the summer but, other than that, not really)
10. Kylesa - Spiral Shadow (at least once a month probably)

Charlotte Gainsbourgh - IRM
Tift Merritt - See You on the Moon
Ray Wylie Hubbard - A: Enlightenment...
Ryan Bingham - Junky Star
Merle Haggard - I Am What I Am
& Warpaint and Kylesa as well. I had Kylesa out just yesterday.

Still playing: John Grant, Rumer, Jackie Leven, Eliza Carthy/Norma Waterson. The rest are dormant for now.

Have listened to this year from time to time, though not nearly as much as last year: Janelle Monae, Marina & the Diamonds, Daddy Yankee.

So that's the top of my list from last year.

Have listened to recently and enjoy more than I did last year: Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma.

Have dipped back into some of the others but not a whole lot. Now that you mention it, this might be a good time to put on the Khaled Abdul Rahman CD from last year.

Also, scott on the mark.

Like a sniper from an identified special forces unit.

I still listen to last year's Of Montreal album pretty regularly

Still playing Nik Bartsch, Slow Six, Nest, Big Big Train, and Flow & The Mingos. Less so with Emeralds, Nels Cline Singers and Yann Tiersen.

Nest

Nice! Assuming that you're talking about the Deaf Center related one, I think they have a new record out now.

Demdike Stare (2009 maybe), Joanna Newsom, Agalloch, Swans, Erykah Badu, all the time. But I haven't been up on this year's releases.

Yeah, that's the one. Retold on the Serein label. I think it was an earlier EP plus extra material. Haven't heard their new one yet.

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hardly any. i have a tendency to burn out on my faves

My top 10 from last year's EOY:

Four Tet - There is Love in You
Caribou - Swim
Lindstrøm & Christabelle — Real Life Is No Cool
Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh
Nina Nastasia - Outlaster
Charlotte Gainsbourg - IRM
Forest Swords - Dagger Paths
Tape and Bill Wells - Fugue
Guido - Anidea
Mulatu Astatke - Mulatu Steps Ahead

Four Tet, Caribou, L+C, Guido still on regular rotation, it's been a while since I listened to the others.

like even the album i consider my favorite from this year i played so much in the winter and spring and have barely gone back to it since

Taylor Swift - Speak Now (all the time)
Javiera Mena - Mena (less)
Vampire Weekend, Contra (less)
Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty (last week)
The-Dream, Love King (less)
Rick Ross - Teflon Don (all the time)
Against Me!, White Crosses (all the time)
Curren$y, Pilot Talk II (all the time)
LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening (on Sunday)
Four Tet, There Is Love in You (usually before bed)

didn't really have an albums list for last year but wrt tracks and i was way more focussed on tracks its was

nicolas jaar - wouh listened to this yesterday and the song that followed it on this single today
jamie woon - night air cant remember the last time i played this
lindstrom and christabelle - keep it up got mad into this album again around march april but haven't really played it since maybe may, lovesick maybe more than this which is funny bc it was never one i cared about
four tet - love cry listened to this like last week
bear in heaven - you do you (studio remix) listened to this before going out last friday
how to dress well - decisions (feat. yuksel arslan) listened to this the last song before i opened this thread
anonym - trust me listened last like a month ago
ost & kjek - mosambique travelplan listened tonight
james blake - limit to your love can't remember, this i s more a token one based on how i played it a lot staying w/ friends in new york last year and how we knew how much we were enjoying life as it was happening
drake - fireworks (deadboy slo mo house remix) probably last listened to this in like january

ooh I'm gona have to check out that new Against Me, thanx Alfred

Ten dope as fuck albums from '10 that I can't get enough of:

Anika - s/t
White Moth - s/t
Tame Impala - Innerspeaker
Sungod - The First Matter
New Young Pony Club - The Optimist
Gonjasufi - A Sufi and a Killer
Electric Wizard - Black Masses
Bardo Pond - s/t
Erykah Badu - NuAmerykah pt 2: Return of the Ankh
Pocahaunted - Make It Real

I'm still digging Spoon's Transference, Autechre's Oversteps, sometimes the Big Boi and Janelle albums - oh and of course Badu.

unfashionable on ILM or not, bon iver rules for sunday evening drives in the countryside

My top ten for 2010 was:

10. Voice of the Seven Thunders – Voice of the Seven Thunders
9. Lindstrøm & Christabelle – Real Life is No Cool
8. Steve Mason – Boys Outside
7. Menomena – Mines
6. Laura Marling – I Speak Because I Can
5. Spoon – Transference
4. LCD Soundsystem – This is Happening
3. Owen Pallett – Heartland
2. Caribou – Swim
1. Four Tet – There is Love in You

I've not listened to VOTST in a while, probably a year. Likewise Menomena, Steve Mason, and the Lindstrom & Christabelle & LCD albums as a whole (though I've dug individual tracks out of the latter two).

I had a little obsession with Heartland a couple of weeks ago and listened to it about 6 or 7 times in just a couple of days. Likewise I dug Transference out for a couple of spins too.

The Laura Marling I feel like I've played, but that's probbaly because we saw her live, and there was a new album to get to grips with too.

Four Tet and Caribou I've listened to every couple of months or so, especially around ATP landmarks (getting tickets, seeing the line-up, week before we went, etc).

Heartland is forever on my ipod and is truly great album. I will probably still love it in ten years time. And to think I was underwhelmed when I first played it.

my top 10 of 2010:

Massive Attack - Heliogoland
Owen Pallett - Heartland
Janae Monae - The Archandroid
Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot
Underworld - Barking
Abe Vigoda - Crush
Sleigh Bells - Treats
We Love - We Love
These New Puritans - Hidden
Vampire Weekend - Contra

The only one I never play anymore is Abe Vigoda.

out of these:

Mount Kimbie, Crooks & Lovers
James Blake, CMYK
Baths, Cerulean
Fantastic Mr. Fox, Evelyn
Gaslamp Killer, Death Gate
Erykah Badu, Nu-Amerykah pt 2
Spirituals, s/t
LCD Soundsystem, This Is Happening
James Blake, Klavierwerke
Dave King, Indelicate

i still throw on the blake, kimbie, mr fox, and lcd soundsystem every few months. the badu too but never as a whole record...i usually reach for "love".