Best Albums of 2014

Easy. Two standout candidates.

St. Vincent - St. Vincent



FKA Twigs - LP1



Job done. But then again my taste in music is wholly unrelated to pretty much everyone else on the forum, so make of it what you will.

What...Christopher Lee's new Christmas songs aren't moving y'all?

Man so much good stuff to check out here. You may have noticed I'm a bit of a slut musically. I'll leach off of everyone (I have very open taste and like most types of music).

Clearly I need to pick up that St. Vincent disc.. it sounds better than the first two (although I still haven't heard a track as awesome as Paris is Burning).

Jeff... you removed that folksy band from your first post.. I liked that stuff man.. also that John Carpenter track was pretty cool too. Chromeo was fun too as was that punk band... Swingin' Utters... I'm not a punk fan but I've been trying to get into it lately. I figure it's just a matter of commitment and I'll come around eventually. I managed to get into black metal after all, why not punk?

Run the Jewels 2 is something I was looking at already so it's cool to see it on here, I'm going to listen that one some more and get a grip on it.

Listend to a bit of the new D'angelo album.. sounds like a good time, I'm going to listen to that some more as well.

Maybe I need to break down and listen to Jack White or a White Strypes album at some point. I like him well enough but the only album of his I own is the Loretta Lyn one that he produced and played on some years ago.. it's great actually and I liked him on the Cold Mountain soundtrack too.

Spoons sounded like a fun pop rock outfit.

and lots more to check out too. Thanks everyone ... keep posting and I'll keep checking it out.

Here's a couple more video's from my list:

Thile and Meyer ... this guys bass playing is unbelievable... but it's more his compositions that really draw me in. Very classical, modern and American all at once. Obviously Thile is a huge influence on me as a mandolin player.



The crayzily prolific Ty Seagull



Billy Joe Shaver



Future Islands - this track is nice because it still has the silly synth pop thing going on that the album has but in the chorus there is a wicked good metal scream for no apparent reason.



Edit-shameless plug- oh... and a sweet little song I wrote for my son and is on our new album Dangerfield

JonJacob wrote: Jeff... you removed that folksy band from your first post.. I liked that stuff man..

I removed it because I was being mean and bitter towards a band, and this is supposed to be a joyful thread celebrating the best music of 2014.

The tracks I had posted were 'Union Painter', 'My Son', and 'Six Riders' from the Dirty River Boys.

It's cool that folks post links but thinking how we've talked about connecting with music has a lot to do with discovery and mindset when you are first exposed to it.

I first encountered the Dirty River Boys in an old, wooden dancehall in central Texas, so to me their music puts me in a very specific frame of mind. To someone else, they may be 'ho-hum, it's just some country-folk band'.

Anyway, you're a music slut so hopefully it'll be easier for you to enjoy these bands we've posted.

One album I forgot about that I really enjoyed was Tune-Yards' Nikki Nack, which I listened to a whole lot then kind of set aside after some other stuff came out.