What did you listen to this year?

[Lorne Malvo]

3 hours ago, wordsfromlee said:

As I saw someone on Twitter saying, “the new Taylor Swift stuff is just Phoebe Bridgers for people who’s parents are still together”. 
 

Phoebe Bridgers is just Taylor Swift for hipsters who couldn't possibly be seen listening to a mainstream superstar.

Except she's not as good.

[wordsfromlee]

I won't bother starting a new thread as it's basically the same thing, so heres my records of the year:

Top 29 (it meant to be 30 but I messed it up and couldn't be bothered to go back and sort it out)

 

Spoiler

29. Run The Jewels - RTJ4

28. The Orielles - Disco Volador

27. ...And You Will Know US By The Trail of Dead - X: The Godless Void and Other Stories

26. Dinner Party - Dinner Party

25. Dogleg - Melee

24. Roy Ayers/Ali Shaheed Muhammad/Adrian Younge - Roy Ayers JID002

23. The Beths - Jump Rope Gazers

22. Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist - Alfredo

21. Lex Amor - Government Tropicana

20. Clipping. - Visions of Bodies Being Burned

19. Vile Creature - Glory, Glory! Apathy Took Helm!

18. Moses Boyd - Dark Matter

17. Nubya Garcia - SOURCE

16. Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Viscerals

15. Protest The Hero - Palimpsest

14. Nine Inch Nails - Ghost VI: Locust

13. Tom Misch & Yussef Dayes - What Kinda Music

12. Marlowe - Marlowe II

11. Glorious - Unashamed

10. Hayley Williams - Petals For Armor

09. Jamie Lenman - King of Clubs

08. Deftones - Ohms

07. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher

06. Bully - SUGAREGG

05. Khruangbin - Mordechai

04. Cloudkicker - Solitude

03. Nine Inch Nails - Ghost V: Together

02. Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud

01. pg.lost - Oscillate

Here's a playlist I made of some of my favourite tracks from 2020 if you want to check it out:

Considering the shit show that this year has been, there's been some great music releases.

[Devon Malcolm]

So there you go.

[SuperBacon]

Absolutely love the fact that the only one in the top 5 that aren't my 15yos is Bill fucking Hicks ?

So funny that not only do I rarely get to use the account but when I do its really only to listen to him as I fall asleep.

[ReturnOfTheMack]

Me and my wife share an account, so it's interesting to see how it comes together.

[Merzbow]

Charli had to be somewhere up there, this doesn't include most of my listening which is actual music files on my PC and phone though.

[TheBurningRed]

In my top 100 (or whatever the number actually is) of most played songs this year, bang in the middle is a chapter from the Highway Code. Clearly struggled with one aspect more than I realised. At least it wasn’t in the top 5. 

[Onyx2]

9 years on top for the Old Grey Williams Test. 

[Monkee]

I listen to Amazon Music more than Spotify.

 

 

Edited December 4, 2024 by Monkee

[Chili]

Link to my most played of 2024. I'm afraid I don't really engage with modern music, not of snobbery, I just don't really have an interest. Anyway, might be some old shite on here people enjoy. I've really enjoyed seeing what people are into tbh.

[Cousin Jim Bob]

I'm on YouTube Music and can't figure out how to do this anymore but I remember when I was on Spotify a few years ago and almost every night I would fall asleep listening to Wrestle Me quietly in my earbuds.  I found it very relaxing and amusing listening to them laughing about Mr Fuji and Lord Alfred Hayes whilst dozing off. Sometimes I would remember to take my earbuds off, sometimes my partner would wake me to take them off, loads of times though I would just wake up in the morning 5 Wrestlemanias later. I would have no clue what episode it was when I fell asleep, so I would just guess and kept re-listening to episodes.

When the yearly Spotify Wrapped thing popped up that year the first thing it says is Your Favourite Artist is Wrestle Me and you have listened to them for 850 hours! I was probably the person who listened to Wrestle Me the most in the world that year on Spotify lol.

[Statto]

No real surprises here on the artist front.

Whilst I like both songs, Country Heroes (Hank Williams III) and Act Naturally (Buck Owens) make it into the top 5 for being among the set of songs I was learning for my first public guitar/singing at the same time performance in the spring. So was Undertow (Hellbound Glory) but that would have made it in anyway. 

[WyattSheepMask]

Despite having listened to 833 artists this year, my top 5 is as predictable as ever

[The Gaffer]

Yeah not even going to grab the screenshots, easier to just say my wrapped was Brat. 

I work from home so use YouTube mostly for my weird shit/made up subgenre mood playlists. 

[BomberPat]

      

 

The first time I've had a Spotify Wrapped with nothing in the way of rock or metal breaking the top five at all. The only real surprise is that Tony Njoku song, as I honestly had no idea what it even was. Turns out it's in a playlist I use to fall asleep to, which always skews things - same reason Paul Simon is higher than I'd expect. 

Podcasts are never accurate, as I don't listen to all of them on Spotify, though it's a reasonable enough estimate, just a couple of notables missing.