BEST ALBUMS OF 2014 Albums ranked best to least from left to right, up to down. Click on the artworks of each album to listen to the album on Rdio! Coldplay's Ghost Stories is currently #1 on this list. It has held #1 since May 15, 2014. Linkin Park's The Hunting Party is listed #6 as of September 23, 2014. It originally debuted on this list at #4. ANTICIPATING Titled (In order of Release date): Nickelback - No Fixed Address (November 4) Pink Floyd - The Endless River (November 7) Foo Fighters - Sonic Highways (November 10) Knife Party - Abandon Ship (November 10) Nicki Minaj - The Pinkprint (November 28) Rihanna - Home (November) Ninja Sex Party - Attitude City (2014) Lady Gaga - Artpop: Act II [Unconfirmed] (2014) Untitled (In Alphabetical Order): Awolnation - LP2 (2014) Florence + the Machine - LP3 (Late 2014) fun. - LP3 (Late 2014) Kanye West - LP7 (Late 2014) The Offspring - LP10 (Late 2014) The Temper Trap - LP3 (Late 2014) Starbomb - LP2 (Late 2014)
Next year is going to be insane for music. All of this plus Blink-182 And new Imagine Dragons. Hopefully new Of Monsters and Men too
TOP 10 ALBUMS OF 2014 BADBADNOTGOOD | III BROKEN BELLS | After the Disco DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979 | The Physical World FLYING LOTUS | You're Dead!# FREDDIE GIBBS & MADLIB | Piñata LIGHTS | Little Machines THE ROOTS | ...And Then You Shoot Your Cousin RUN THE JEWELS | Run the Jewels 2 THIEVERY CORPORATION | Saudade TRENT REZNOR AND ATTICUS ROSS | Gone Girl: Soundtrack from the Motion Picture GREAT ALBUMS APHEX TWIN | Syro DAMON ALBARN | Everyday Robots GOT A GIRL | I Love You But I Must Drive Off This Cliff Now KINA GRANNIS | Elements NINA PERSSON | Animal Heart PHANTOGRAM | Voices PHARRELL | G I R L RODRIGO Y GABRIELA | 9 Dead Alive TAKUYA KURODA | Rising Son SCHOOLBOY Q | Oxymoronv GOOD ALBUMS BECK | Morning Phase THE BLACK KEYS | Turn Blue BREATHE CAROLINA | Savages CHUCK INGLISH | Convertibles ††† | ††† DEVIN TOWNSEND | Casualties of Cool ED SHEERAN | X# FOSTER THE PEOPLE | Supermodel JOHN FRUSCIANTE | Enclosure KAREN O | Crush Songs KID CUDI | Satellite Flight: The Journey to Mother Moon LINKIN PARK | The Hunting Party LOST IN THE TREES | Past Life THE 1975 | The 1975 ROYAL BLOOD | Royal Blood# TYCHO | Awake CURRENTLY LISTENING CHIODOS | Devil SHINTARO SAKAMOTO | Let's Dance Raw TAYLOR SWIFT | 1989! YELLOWCARD | Lift A Sail IN QUEUE ALT-J | This Is All Yours ANTEMASQUE | Antemasque ATMOSPHERE | Southsiders DEADMAU5 | while(1<2) DELTA SPIRIT | Into the Wide IMOGEN HEAP | Sparks THE JUAN MACLEAN | In a Dream MF DOOM & BISHOP NEHRU | Nehruviandoom MOGWAI | Rave Tapes PHAROAHE MONCH | PTSD - Post Traumatic Stress Disorder TRICKY | Adrian Thaws SHINTARO SAKAMOTO | Let's Dance Raw ANTICIPATING COPELAND | Ixora FOO FIGHTERS | Sonic Highways JOEY BADA$$ | B4.Da.$$ KENDRICK LAMAR | TBA Key ^ Moved up one or several categories v Moved down one or several categories # New entry to a "Judged" category (Top, Great, Good) ! New entry to an "Un-Judged" category (Currently Listening, In Queue, Anticipating)
Damn those lists are fancy. I don't even feel like trying haha. I honestly haven't been listening to many of the new albums that have come out - been too busy catching up with great records from 2013. Great Albums 1. Behemoth - The Satanist - 9/10 2. Iceage - Plowing Into The Field of Love - 8,5/10 3. Linkin Park - The Hunting Party - 8/10 4. Swans - To Be Kind - 8/10 5. Run The Jewels - 2 - 8/10 6. Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots - 8/10 7. Black Crown Initiate - The Wreckage of Stars 8/10 8. Opeth - Pale Communication - 8/10 9. Slipknot - .5: The Gray Chapter - 8/10 Good/Decent/Average Albums 1. Flying Lotus - You're Dead! - 7/10 2. La Dispute - The Rooms Of The House - 6,5/10 3. Rise Against - The Black Market - 6,5/10 4. Manchester Orchestra - Cope - 6,5/10 5. Coldplay - Ghost Stories - 6,5/10 6. You + Me - Rose Ave - 6,5/10 7. Schoolboy Q - Oxymoron - 6,5/10 8. Sun Kill Moon - Benji - 6,5/10 9. Foo Fighter - Sonic Highways - 6/10 10. Royal Blood - Self-titled - 6/10 11. Weezer - Everything Will Be Alright In The End - 6/10 12. Angels and Airwaves - The Dream Walker - 6/10 13. Ed Sheeran - X - 5,5/10 14. One Direction - Four - 5/10
i i. K A U A I by Childish Gambino ii. MTV1987 by Kevin Abstract iii. CTV2 by Jaden Smith ii i. Oxymoron by ScHoolboy Q ii. Neon Icon by RiFF RAFF iii. S T N M T N by Childish Gambino iii i. Down On My Luck by Vic Mensa ii. Anna's Lament by Caleborate iii. So High by Wiz Khalifa iv. Wimme Nah by Vic Mensa v. (Untitled) by Caleborate vi. Candler Road by Childish Gambino* vii. Amor by Raury viii. Cigarette Song by Raury ix. Under Pressure by Logic x. Pop Thieves (Make It Feel Good) by Childish Gambino xi. Retro by Childish Gambino xii. Blue Ocean by Jaden Smith xiii. 3005 (Beach Picnic Version) [Secret Track] by Childish Gambino* xiv. Hell / Heroina by Kevin Abstract xv. Drugs by Kevin Abstract xvi. Tame Cab by Kevin Abstract* xvii. Pleiadian Medicine by Jaden Smith xviii. Fire by Jaden Smith xix. PCH by Jaden Smith xx. Sunday Candy by Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment xxi. Yoncé by Beyoncé, because fuck you. xxii. Fire Squad by J. Cole xxiii. Deliver by Lupe Fiasco xxiv. It Goes Through by Linkin Park
TOP 10 ALBUMS OF 2014 BADBADNOTGOOD | III BROKEN BELLS | After the Disco DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979 | The Physical World FLYING LOTUS | You're Dead! FOO FIGHTERS | Sonic Highways# FREDDIE GIBBS & MADLIB | Piñata LIGHTS | Little Machines RUN THE JEWELS | Run the Jewels 2 THIEVERY CORPORATION | Saudade TRENT REZNOR AND ATTICUS ROSS | Gone Girl: Soundtrack from the Motion Picture GREAT ALBUMS APHEX TWIN | Syro DAMON ALBARN | Everyday Robots DEADMAU5 | while(1<2)# GOT A GIRL | I Love You But I Must Drive Off This Cliff Now KINA GRANNIS | Elements NINA PERSSON | Animal Heart PHANTOGRAM | Voices PHARRELL | G I R L RODRIGO Y GABRIELA | 9 Dead Alive THE ROOTS | ...And Then You Shoot Your Cousinv TAKUYA KURODA | Rising Son SCHOOLBOY Q | Oxymoron GOOD ALBUMS BECK | Morning Phase THE BLACK KEYS | Turn Blue BREATHE CAROLINA | Savages CHUCK INGLISH | Convertibles ††† | ††† DEVIN TOWNSEND | Casualties of Cool ED SHEERAN | X FOSTER THE PEOPLE | Supermodel JOHN FRUSCIANTE | Enclosure KAREN O | Crush Songs KID CUDI | Satellite Flight: The Journey to Mother Moon LINKIN PARK | The Hunting Party LOST IN THE TREES | Past Life MF DOOM & BISHOP NEHRU | Nehruviandoom# THE 1975 | The 1975 ROYAL BLOOD | Royal Blood TAYLOR SWIFT | 1989# TYCHO | Awake IN QUEUE ALT-J | This Is All Yours ANTEMASQUE | Antemasque ATMOSPHERE | Southsiders CHIODOS | Devil COPELAND | Ixora DELTA SPIRIT | Into the Wide IMOGEN HEAP | Sparks THE JUAN MACLEAN | In a Dream MOGWAI | Rave Tapes PHAROAHE MONCH | PTSD - Post Traumatic Stress Disorder TRICKY | Adrian Thaws SHINTARO SAKAMOTO | Let's Dance Raw YELLOWCARD | Lift A Sail ANTICIPATING JOEY BADA$$ | B4.Da.$$ KENDRICK LAMAR | TBA FAVORITE TRACKS OF 2014 BROKEN BELLS | Holding On for Life DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979 | Always On FLYING LOTUS | Never Catch Me FOO FIGHTERS | Something From Nothing KENDRICK LAMAR | i KINA GRANNIS | Winter LIGHTS | Up We Go LINKIN PARK | Mark the Graves RUN THE JEWELS | Blockbuster Night Pt. I THIEVERY CORPORATION | Firelight Key ^[/b] Moved up one or several categories v Moved down one or several categories # New entry to a "Judged" category (Top, Great, Good) ! New entry to an "Un-Judged" category (Currently Listening, In Queue, Anticipating)[/QUOTE]
The Best Behemoth – The Satanist Black Crown Initiate - The Wreckage of Stars Coldplay – Ghost Stories Hans Zimmer - Interstellar OST Linkin Park - The Hunting Party Opeth - Pale Communion Scar Symmetry - The Singularity (Phase I - Neohumanity) Run the Jewels – Run the Jewels 2 Swans - To Be Kind U2 – Songs of Innocence The Good Anathema - Distant Satellites Angel Vivaldi - Away With Words, Pt. 1 Animals as Leaders – The Joy of Motion The Contortionist – Language ††† - ††† Deadmau5 – While(1<2) Hozier - Hozier Julian Casablancas+The Voidz – Tyranny Killer Be Killed - Killer Be Killed Royal Blood - Out of the Black Thom Yorke – Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes Transatlantic – Kaleidoscope Wolves in the Throne Room – Celestite The Okay / Disappointing Cloudkicker - Little Histories Haken - Restoration Pink Floyd - The Endless River Slipknot - .5: The Gray Chapter Anticipating Dave Kerzner - New World Stuff I Still Need to Check Out Bloodbath - Grand Morbid Funeral Casualties of Cool - Casualties of Cool Fallujah - The Flesh Prevails Flying Lotus - You're Dead! Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel Tempel - On the Steps of the Temple
[table="Width: 750"] ARTIST TITLE Albums - Tier 1: FKA twigs "LP1" Knife Party "Abandon Ship" Stwo "Ninety Two" Albums - Tier 2: Banks "Goddess" Deadmau5 "while(1<2)" The Glitch Mob "Love Death Immortality" Linkin Park "The Hunting Party" Various Artists "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1" (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) EPs: Kid Smpl "Silo Tear" Shlohmo & Jeremih "No More"[/table] EDIT: yeah, ^ this is final.
BEST ALBUMS OF 2014 Angels and Airwaves- The Dream Walker Death From Above 1979- The Physical World Taylor Swift- 1989 Foo Fighters- Sonic Highways You+Me- Rose Ave. Knife Party- Abandon Ship Linus Young- Category 5 Run the Jewels- Run the Jewels 2 Finch- Back to Oblivion Ed Sheeran- X Order could change GOOD Any Given Day- My Longest Way Home Augustana- Life Imitating Life Ariana Grande- My Everything Blake Shelton- Bringing Back the Sunshine Crosses- +++ Dan+Shay- Where It All Began The Fray- Helios Free Throw- Those Days Are Gone Gaslight Anthem- Get Hurt Hunter Hayes- Storyline Isaiah Rashad- Cilvia Demo Kina Grannis- Elements Kenny Chesney- The Big Revival Lana Del Rey- Ultraviolence Lee Brice- I Don't Dance McCafferty- Beach Boy Me vs Hero- I'm Completely Fine The Obsessives- Manners Royal Blood- Royal Blood Sadistik- Ultraviolet Sam Smith- In the Lonely Hour Schoolboy Q- Oxymoron The Script- No Sound Without Silence Sppon- They Want My Soul SPORT- Bon Voyage Sports.- We'll Get to it Eventually 5 Seconds of Summer- 5 Seconds of Summer Good but disappointing The Griswolds- Be Impressive Linkin Park- The Hunting Party Modern Baseball- You're Going to Miss it All Rise Against- The Black Market Disappointing Interpol- El Pintor Lecrae- Anomaly Meg Myers- Make a Shadow Panucci's Pizza- All of my Friends are Familiar and the Steps I Took to Realize This. Still to listen to: Ariel Pink- Pom Pom Atmosphere- Outsiders Beck- Morning Phase Chiodos- Devil Freddie Gibs and Madlib- Pinata (yes, I've been pushing this off for a while, will get to it soon) J. Cole- 2014 Forest Hill Drive MF Doom and Nehru- Nehruviandoom Panda Bear- Mr. Noah Pharoahe Monch- PSTD The Roots - ...& Then You Shoot Your Cousin Tim McGraw- Sundown Heaven Town Train- Bulletproof Picasso Vance Joy- Dream Your Life Away Vic Mensa- Street Lights Yellowcard- Lift a Sail Most Anticipated: NONE
Best Albums of 2014 01. Grouper - Ruins 02. Swans - To Be Kind 03. Sharon Van Etten - Are We There 04. St. Vincent - St. Vincent 05. Behemoth - The Satanist 06. Run the Jewels - Run The Jewels 2 07. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire for No Witness 08. Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else 09. Godflesh - A World Lit Only By Fire 10. Flying Lotus - You're Dead! Honorable Mentions: Every Time I Die - From Parts Unknown Ty Segall - Manipulator Trap Them - Blissfucker Mastodon - Once More 'Round the Sun Lykke Li - I Never Learn Beck - Morning Phase Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Piñata At the Gates - At War with Reality Warpaint - Warpaint
Best: Behemoth- The Satanist Aborted- Necrotic Manifesto Linkin Park- The Hunting Party Goatwhore- Constricting Rage of the Merciless Misery Index- The Killing Gods Septicflesh- Titan Ringworm- Hammer of the Witch Fallujah- The flesh prevails Electric Wizard- Time to Die Slipknot- .5 The Gray Chapter Ne Obliviscaris- Citadel Black Crown Initiate- The Wreckage of Stars Good: Devin Townsend Project- Z2 Revocation- Deathless At the Gates- At War with Reality Inferi- The Path of Apotheosis Cannibal Corpse- A Skeletal Domain Inanimate Existence- Never Ending Cycle of Atonement Dark Tranquility- Construct Tryptikon- Melana Chasmata Animals as Leaders- Joy of Motion Allageaon- Elements of the Infinite Agalloch- The Serpent and The Sphere Epica- The Quantum Enigma Wolves in the Throne Room- Celestite Casualties of Cool- eponymous Killer be Killed- Eponymous Ok/disappointing: Anaal Nathrakh- Disideratum Alcest- Shelter Down- The Purple EP part II Burzum- The Ways of Yore Exodus- Blood In, Blood Out
Tied First (9/10): John Butler Trio - Flesh & Blood Rodrigo y Gabriela - 9 Dead Alive (8/10) Chris Letchford - Lightbox Opeth - Pale Communion Mutefish - 360 Hangovers [EP] Down - IV part 2 [EP] (7.5/10) Mick Flannery - By the Rule Linkin Park - The Hunting Party Hozier - Hozier (7/10) Machine Head - Bloodstone & Diamonds
GREAT ALBUMS ††† - ††† (Crosses) Timber Timbre - Hot Dreams Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots The Black Keys - Turn Blue Novastar - Inside Outside Linkin Park - The Hunting Party Royal Blood - Royal Blood Alt J - This Is All Yours Thom Yorke - Tomorrow's Modern Boxes Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Gone Girl OST Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 2 Linus Young - Category 5 Kele - Trick Moth Equals - Sick Puppy The War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream St. Vincent - St. Vincent GOOD ALBUMS Liars - Mess Foster The People - Supermodel Tycho - Awake Pharrell - Girl The Roots - …And Then You Shoot Your Cousin Mø - No Mythologies To Follow Phantogram - Voices Jack White - Lazaretto Gerard Way - Hesitant Alien SBTRKT - Wonder Where We Land Flying Lotus - You're Dead! Foo Fighters - Sonic Highways Knife Party - Abandon Ship Death from Above 1979 - The Physical World Mogwai - Rave Tapes
Final 2014 List Top Ten List 10. Foo Fighters - Sonic Highways [thumb]http://images.modlife.com.s3.amazonaws.com/custom/foofighters/assets/img/splash/sonichighways.jpg[/thumb] 9. Scar Symmetry - The Singularity (Phase I - Neohumanity) [thumb]http://www.metalinjection.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Scar-Symmetry-The-Singularity-Neohumanity.png[/thumb] 8. Coldplay - Ghost Stories [thumb]http://img.buzznet.com/assets/imgx/2/1/3/6/9/6/3/5/orig-21369635.jpg[/thumb] 7. Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 2 [thumb]http://hiphop-n-more.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/run-the-jewels-2-artwork.jpg[/thumb] 6. Swans - To Be Kind [thumb]http://theobelisk.net/obelisk/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/swans-to-be-kind.jpg[/thumb] 5. Behemoth - The Satanist [thumb]http://www.metalblade.com/us/covers/Behemoth-TheSatanist.jpg[/thumb] 4. Hans Zimmer - Interstellar OST [thumb]http://filmmusicreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/interstellar.jpg[/thumb] 3. Flying Lotus - You're Dead! [thumb]http://musicpickings.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/flying_lotus_youre_dead.jpg[/thumb] 2. Opeth - Pale Communion [thumb]http://gunshyassassin.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/opethpalecommunioncover_638.jpg[/thumb] 1. Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel [thumb]http://f1.bcbits.com/img/a4040339498_10.jpg[/thumb] Honorable Mentions Bent Knee - Shiny Eyes Babies Black Crown Initiate - The Wreckage of Stars The Devin Townsend Project - Z² Linkin Park - The Hunting Party U2 – Songs of Innocence The Good Anathema - Distant Satellites Angel Vivaldi - Away With Words, Pt. 1 Animals as Leaders – The Joy of Motion The Contortionist – Language ††† - ††† Dave Kerzner - New World Deadmau5 – While(1<2) Hozier - Hozier Julian Casablancas+The Voidz – Tyranny Killer Be Killed - Killer Be Killed Pink Floyd - The Endless River The Roots - ...And Then You Shoot Your Cousin Royal Blood - Out of the Black Thom Yorke – Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes Transatlantic – Kaleidoscope Wolves in the Throne Room – Celestite The Okay / Disappointing Bloodbath - Grand Morbid Funeral Cloudkicker - Little Histories Haken - Restoration Slipknot - .5: The Gray Chapter
Ok, I suppose I've squeezed everything in. Let's do a top 10. 10. Goatwhore- Constricting Rage of the Merciless Sick riffage, a lot of fun. Same album as the last two minus a few songs. 9. Devin Townsend Project- Z2 Two albums of awesome music. My only complaint is that Sky Blue is kind of in two halves and that I didn't get the Dark Matters CD without dialogue. 8. Linkin Park- The Hunting Party A rock album with both unheard of and generic elements. 7. Black Crown Initiate- The Wreckage of Stars Heavy, technical, emotional. A unique band within the scene. 6. Electric Wizard- Time to Die Fucking Electric Wizard brah. The usual slight stray from the usual sound. Best band to listen to when you're stoned. Period. 5. Slipknot- The Gray Chapter Maybe not the return I would have liked better than some will tell you though. Catchy, heavy, sometimes fun, sometimes emotional. 4. Fallujah- The Flesh Prevails A death metal record I've never heard before. The use of synths makes for a great atmosphere. Yet they keep it heavy. Hope they keep doing good. 3. Ne Obliviscaris- Citadel This could be number 2. I just wish the atmosphere was kept during the heavy bits. When this record is soft, it's perfect. 2. Septicflesh- Titan Well written, composed, mixed... Everything. Can't find much to complain about with this one. 1. Taylor Swift... Ah shit. Sorry Tay tay. I gotta bump ya. Fucking Behemoth! The Satanist. This record is perfect. Best extreme metal album of the last decade. It takes away the wall of sound and fills the space with Symphony, unique vocals, spoken word and atmosphere. This album doesn't walk the same beaten lyrical path that is the usual satanic stuff. This is a serande to Satan. A gospel to Satan. Nergal is one the smartest guys in Metal. Guy is a fucking genius. The drummer, Inferno, his performance on this album is insane. It's like rhythmic thunder! I got half way through talking about it and had to put it on! Lol. All this is helped by the fact that their best live show in death metal. I would say metal in general if it weren't for watain and gwar. Anyways, it's gonna be a while before I love an album like this again.
In The Absence Ov Light, gawd that song. That transition from the spoken word to the all out heavy, gives me an instant woody every time. I wanted to include The Wreckage Of Stars in my top 10, but it didn't blow me away as much as other Metal records have this year (Citadel, The Satanist).
I think I should've put Z2 over Misery Index. Might fix that lol. But yeah, I am genuinely in love with The Satanist. It's been a while since I've liked an album like this. Edit: Put Townsend in at 8. Sorry Misery Index lol.
my album of the year, also features song of the year. MTV1987 by Kevin Abstract Tame Cab by Kevin Abstract