This list was originally closer to 30, so it pained me to narrow it down to just 20 (everything from 3-12 is pretty much interchangeable). Opeth The Moor Harlequin Forest The Baying of the Hounds The Lotus Eater Burden Godhead's Lament Heir Apparent The Drapery Falls The Grand Conjuration Bleak Ghost of Perdition The Leper Affinity Isolation Years Hours of Wealth Eternal Rains Will Come April Ethereal Voice of Treason Beneath the Mire Deliverance Windowpane Orchid: 0 Morningrise: 0 My Arms, Your Hearse: 1 Still Life: 2 Blackwater Park: 3 Deliverance: 1 Damnation: 1 Ghost Reveries: 7 Watershed: 3 Heritage: 0 Pale Communion: 2 Sorceress: 0 Funnily enough, even though 7 of Ghost Reveries' 8 tracks made my top 20, I wouldn't consider it my favorite record of their's, though it definitely is up there.
Daughter: 1. Human 2. Burn It Down 3. Candles 4. Youth 5. Smother 6. All I Wanted 7. No Care 8. Lifeforms 9. Amsterdam 10. Touch 11. A Hole In the Earth 12. Peter 13. Doing The Right Thing 14. Home 15. Numbers 16. Shallows 17. Tomorrow 18. Winter 19. Your Kisses 20. Run Album Distribution: His Young Heart EP- 1 Wild Youth EP- 1 If You Leave- 9 [Top 10 or top 15 album of all time for me] Not to Dissapear- 3 Music From Beyond The Storm- 3 Other- 3
Update: Crystallised Cockroach King Falling Back to Earth Earthrise The Architect Puzzle Box Visions 1985 A Cell Divides Initiate Streams Aquarium Drowning in the Flood The Endless Knot The Good Doctor Because It's There Atlas Stone Nil by Mouth Deathless Bound by Gravity Aquarius: 3 Visions: 2 The Mountain: 4 Restoration: 1 Affinity: 6 Vector: 4
I realized I haven't updated this since vertigo came out. Time to take another crack at EDEN. 1. Wake Up 2. start//end 3. rock + roll 4. icarus 5. drugs 6. take care 7. sex 8. forever//over 9. crash 10. falling in reverse 11. Interlude 12. nowhere else 13. gold 14. love; not wrong (brave) 15. Circles 16. Jupiter 17. End Credits 18. Fumes (feat. gnash) 19. float 20. about time https://open.spotify.com/user/1233297095/playlist/1M6Q2TKABwDLDGfdJGiM06?si=3Xr9IRNRQ8iVtGgIG-VAZw Bipolar Paradise - 1 End Credits - 3 i think you think too much of me - 5 vertigo - 9 singles - 2 Needless to say, but I really like vertigo. A lot.
So this Is not a band but my favorite Musician of all time: Tom DeLonge: (No Order) First Date Story of a Lonely Guy Feeling This Asthenia Down Always I'm Lost Without You Ghost on the Dancefloor Snake Charmer There Is All Systems Go Watch the World Valkyrie Missile Do It For Me Now A Little's Enough It Hurts The Adventure Rite of Spring Young London Surrender Album Distribution: Buddha- 0 Cheshire Cat- 0 Dude Ranch- 0 Enema of the State- 0 (2 when expanded to 30 songs) Take Off Your Pants and Jacket- 2 Blink-182- 5 (6 when expanded to 30 songs if you count Not Now) Neighborhoods- 2 (3 when expanded to 30 songs) Dogs Eating Dogs- 0 (1 when expanded to 30 songs) Box Car Racer- 3 We Don't need to Whisper- 5 I-Empire- 1 (4 when expanded to 30 songs) Love Part 1.- 1 (2 when expanded to 30 songs) Love Part 2.- 1 (2 when expanded to 30 songs) Stomping the Phantom Break Pedal- 0 The Dream Walker- 0 Of Nightmares- 0 Chasing Shadows- 0
Top 25 Taylor Swift songs! Subject to massively change of course. No idea why I decided to make this list so early. But I decided to do it so here it is. Basically I am crazy. 7 songs from Lover were in contention to make it but ultimately only 6 of them did. I’ve listened to this album over 60 times already so I have a good sense of judgement on where these songs stand. With how many albums she has I decided to up it to 25 songs as 20 didn’t feel like a good cutoff point. This album Lover has an insane amount of high points and these high points are incredible high points. The album Lover has some of the best lyrics, vocals, and bridges of her career. Definitely my AOTY for now. MY UPDATED TAYLOR SWIFT TOP 25: 1. New Year’s Day 2. You Are In Love 3. This Love [#2 and #3 often switch spots back and forth with each other. As much as I love most of Taylor Swift songs, these 3 songs are on a whole different level to me. They blow the rest of her work out of the water.] 4. Cruel Summer 5. Eyes Open 6. Clean 7. Holy Ground 8. Begin Again 9. All Too Well 10. Out of the Woods 11. State of Grace 12. Paper Wings 13. Treacherous 14. Haunted 15. Love Story 16. I Think He Knows 17. Soon You’ll Get Better (Ft. Dixie Chicks) 18. Back to December 19. Death By A Thousand Cuts 20. Cornelia Street 21. 22 22. The Last Time (Ft. Gary Lightbody) 23. Everything Has Changed (Ft. Ed Sheeran) [I used to be a lot higher on these two songs with features but they got a little bit old for me] 24. You Belong With Me 25. Mean Album Distribution: Lover- 6 Reputation- 1 1989- 4 Red- 8 Speak Now- 3 Fearless- 2 Taylor Swift- 0 Others- 1 Playlist that extends to 47 songs: https://open.spotify.com/user/123591090/playlist/1Y2QYFCHHBdyxCMnUALzZr?si=gN8UKCl5Sa6lZgwGQ1eVEA
I'd say it's hard to even make a top 30 of her discography (excluding non-album singles, eps and so on). I cut the best songs on Lover to 9 songs, but since I dowgraded ME! and You Need To Calm Down so harshly it ended up with a score just a tiny bit higher than the 6,5 I gave to Reputation in 2017. I probably went too far on that one, but I really liked Gorgeous, ...Ready For It?, Delicate, Call It What You Want, New Year's Day and my personal favorite Getaway Car and only End Game really got under my skin as I gave it a 3/10, even though many songs of Reputation were no more than a 6/10 at best (Look What You Made Me Do was a 5, not as bad, but nothing special). From this new album I gave a 10 to Lover, Soon You'll Get Better, Cruel Summer and Afterglow, a 9 to Cornelia Street and Daylight, False God grew on me and is now probably an 8 and not more because of being too repetitive and Miss Americana also an 8, without the annoying backing vocals it would be a 10 for sure. Death By A Thousand Cuts just didn't catch my attention so much, but still a 7. The album would be more than an 8 if it was not for the 1 to ME! and the 0 to You Need To Calm Down. It has now moved closer to a 7 overall because of False God, but not quite there yet. It would actually be a great exercise to pick 30 songs of hers, but I would have an easier job I guess because I don't recall much of the debut and don't like Fearless that much, but it would be almost impossible to order them, as many of the songs with a score of 10 are 10 because there's no higher score possible, some of them could be like a 15 or so.
I agree with you a lot on reputation. That album had a lot of weak songs. I also gave a 3/10 to Endgame and gave a 6/10 to both So It Goes and Don't Blame Me. The album wasn't bad to me (solid 8/10) but it was way weaker than most of her albums. I actually really like Lover. It has 3 songs I could do with out. But I think that the highs are way better than the highs on reputation and there are way more of them. There's a few bad songs but I like 15 or 16 of the 18 songs which is amazing. After 100 listens or so, my updated rankings: SS Tier: 1. Cruel Summer- 12/10 2. Paper Rings- 10/10 3. I Think He Knows- 10/10 4. Soon You'll Get Better- 10/10 S Tier: 5. Death By A Thousand Cuts- 10/10 6. Cornelia Street- 10/10 7. Miss Americana- 10/10 8. It's Nice to Have Friends- 10/10 9. Daylight- 10/10 10. You Need To Calm Down- 10/10 11. The Archer- 10/10 A Tier: 12. London Boy- 9.5/10 13. Me!- 9/10 14. Afterglow- 9/10 B Tier: 15. Lover- 8/10 C Tier: 16. I Forgot That You Existed- 7/10 D Tier: 17. The Man- 6/10 F Tier: 18. False God- 1/10
I'm not so high on the album, but it goes like this for me: I Forgot That You Existed - 6/10 Cruel Summer - 10/10 (like Lover, Cornelia Street, Soon You'll Get Better, False God and Afterglow, it could be easily over 10) Lover - 10/10 (could have been the lead single) The Man - 5,5/10 (not bad, but nothing special, don't like the lyrics all that much) The Archer - 7/10 (not so strong on this one, great lyrics, but the vocals sound too distant and that puts me off, but it's actually grown to a 7 from a 6,5, I just hadn't had many plays on it) I Think He Knows - 5/10 (one of the silliest tracks here) Miss Americana - 8,5/10 (don't like the cheerleader chants, other than that it's great song and would easily be over 10) Paper Rings - 7,5/10 (it's quite silly in some places, but I like the vocals for the most part and some of the instrumentation) Cornelia Street - 10/10 (grew from an initial 9 to a 10) Death By A Thousand Cuts -7,5/10 (I like the vocals a lot, but have some issues with some of the instrumentation, could have been a 9 otherwise) London Boy - 6/10 (not bad, but nothing really impresses me on this one) Soon You'll Get Better - 10/10 (so well done and meaningful at the same time) False God - 10/10 (grew from an initial 9/10, some of the best vocals of the entire album and I really like the jazzy vibe) You Need To Calm Down - 0/10 (nothing remotely good or catchy about this, probably her worst song, worse than Shake It Off and We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together) Afterglow - 10/10 ME! - 3/10 (it has some catchiness, but really silly and nonsensical song, the Brendon Urie feature is so out of place, he sound so bad and I feel like it was done to get streams) It's Nice To Have A Friend - 6/10 (I really enjoy most of the song, but it doesn't click totally for some reason) Daylight - 9/10 (wraps up the album on a very positive note with some great vocals and lyrics) Overall Score - 7,27/10 (if I did it right because it seems a bit high) It seems like the bad moments almost cancel out the highest moments, which are really high and it always leaves me thinking I wish I had liked this way more than I did (enough to buy on CD, but wouldn't be enough to get a vinyl of this), but I also get that the bad songs are always bad and it never changes because she always does some silly songs just to get plays (actually not on Speak Now, but ever since then) and it always undermines her albums, even 1989 suffered a bit from that with Shake It Off. I've probably gone off a bit with all those comments on every song, but I think they encapsulate my feelings on this album pretty effectively. Overall it's my 3rd Taylor Swift album behind 1989 and Speak Now until I rate Red again (will be a tiny bit higher, I think) and Fearless (I don't enjoy Fearless all that much, Kacey Musgraves does much better country in my opinion, but I think everyone somehow praises the hell out of Fearless). I had messed up all the calculations because it's a 7,27 apparently.
Yeah, I overdid it a bit. I actually found it interesting that it was easier for me to collect my thoughts on the new Tool album as opposed to the Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, but the music I listened to as been quite good, still no bad album in the 10 albums I listened too. Still a small amount though.
-Apocalyptica- [in no particular order] - At the Gates of Manala - Rage of Poseidon - Sacra - On the Rooftop with Quasimodo - Beautiful - Through Paris in a Sportscar - 2010 - Struggle - Romance - Pray - Beyond Time - Kaamos - Coma - Apprehension - Somewhere Around Nothing - Cortege - Toreador II - Grace - Ion - Psalm Songs from Albums: - Plays Metallica... (0) - Inquisition Symphony (0) - Cult (6) - Reflections (4) - Apocalyptica (0) - World's Collide (2) - 7th Symphony (7) - Wagner Reloaded (0) - Shadowmaker (0) - Misc. (1) I could have included a bunch more songs, it was tricky to cut it down to just twenty. I actually don't like most of the songs with guest vocalists, I find them pretty generic/watered down. And of course I didn't list any of their many covers. So I'm only considering their original instrumental work, which is mostly fantastic.
I'll have you know it looks like this now: Haken: Crystallised Veil Falling Back to Earth Cockroach King Nil by Mouth 1985 Earthrise Bound by Gravity Because It’s There Earthlings The Architect Streams Visions Atlas Stone The Endless Knot Aquarium Insomnia Somebody Puzzle Box In Memoriam Aquarius: 2 Visions: 2 The Mountain: 6 Affinity: 5 Restoration: 2 Vector: 3
Periphery Stranger Things Satellites Garden in the Bones Catch Fire The Bad Thing The Way the News Goes... Reptile 22 Faces Lune Alpha Blood Eagle Psychosphere It's Only Smiles Scarlet Heavy Heart Flatline Priestess Pale Aura Absolomb The Gods Must Be Crazy! Periphery I: 0 (still haven't heard all of it though) Periphery II: 2 Clear (EP): 1 Juggernaut: Alpha: 4 Juggernaut: Omega: 3 Periphery III: 5 Periphery IV: 5
--Gojira-- In no particular order: - The Shooting Star - Silvera - Stranded - Magma - Low Lands - Ocean Planet - Backbone - From the Sky - The Heaviest Matter of the Universe - Flying Whales - From Mars / To Sirius - Explosia - L'Enfant Sauvage - Liquid Fire - Mouth of Kala - The Gift of Guilt - Born in Winter - Vacuity - Oroborus - A Sight to Behold Albums: Terra Incognita (0) The Link (0) From Mars To Sirius (6) The Way of All Flesh (3) L'Enfant Sauvage (6) Magma (5)
Spanish Love Songs (No order): Concrete Mexico Vermont Remainder Brighter Day Sequels, Remakes, & Adaptations Buffalo Buffalo Otis / Carl The Boy Considers His Haircut Joana, In Five Acts Beer & NyQuil (Hold It Together) It's Not Interesting Aloha to No One Routine Pain Self-Destruction (As a Sensible Career Choice) Generation Loss Kick Losers Optimism (As a Radical Life Choice) Losers 2 Dolores Brave Faces, Everyone Album Distribution: Giant Sings the Blues- 5 Schmaltz- 8 Brave Faces Everyone- 9 One day I want to sit down and order this but for now I am too busy.
Making this list was really fucking hard. They have so many good songs and records that to narrow it down to 20 feels wrong. This list was more like 30 before whittling it down (Brave New World would have had a much bigger presence). Iron Maiden: The Evil that Men Do Infinite Dreams Wrathchild Fear of the Dark Seventh Son of a Seventh Son The Trooper 2 Minutes to Midnight Wasted Years Powerslave Rime of the Ancient Mariner The Number of the Beast Flash of the Blade Moonchild Brave New World Run to the Hills Hallowed Be Thy Name Prowler Aces High The Clairvoyant Phantom of the Opera Iron Maiden: 2 Killers: 1 The Number of the Beast: 3 Piece of Mind: 1 Powerslave: 5 Somewhere in Time: 1 Seventh Son of a Seventh Son: 5 No Prayer for the Dying: 0 Fear of the Dark: 1 The X Factor: 0 Virtual XI: 0 Brave New World: 1 Dance of Death: 0 A Matter of Life and Death: 0 The Final Frontier: 0 The Book of Souls: 0 Pretty obvious what my 2 favorite records of their's are.
Linkin Park not in order Papercut Waiting For the End Breaking the Habit Final Masquerade Pushing Me Away Easier to Run My December In Pieces The Little Things Give You Away Crawling With You No More Sorrow Valentine's Day Lost in the Echo Burning in the Skies When They Come For Me Numb In the End The Catalyst One More Light
Linkin Park 1. The Little Things Give You Away 2. Waiting for the End 3. Sharp Edges 4. Final Masquerade 5. POWERLESS 6. Blackout 7. Leave Out All The Rest 8. ROADS UNTRAVELED 9. Krwlng 10. One More Light 11. Guilty All the Same 12. Breaking the Habit 13. No More Sorrow 14. Sorry for Now 15. Shadow of the Day 16. Iridescent 17. My December 18. Nobody Can Save Me 19. Easier to Run 20. Halfway Right - Hybrid Theory: 1 Reanimation: 1 Meteora: 2 Minutes to Midnight: 4 A Thousand Suns: 3 Living Things: 2 Recharged: 0 The Hunting Party: 2 One More Light: 5 those ratios are about right