Rolling Stone - Best 100 Albums of 2024

[Lord Rother]

I've never heard of 80 of the artists in the list.

I've played 3 of the albums.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/musi ... 235032268/

[robertff]

I’m the same Lord but I really don’t care.

Music just isn’t the same anymore for our/my generation, the end of year lists would once be filled with the names of bands who would last for more than a couple of albums and not just individuals, who end up fading into obscurity. Okay so some bands faded pretty quickly but where’s the inventiveness, the innovation? Sadly, today’s music just isn’t made for us.

Good to see The Smile and The Cure in there (I could only see the top 50) but it won’t be long before we don’t see any familiar names. Frankly I’m amazed when I see a record I’ve bought ending up in an end of year list.

Record Collector mag. printed their end of year list best of and I’ve got three of them, or will have after Christmas (one to come) and in the best of reissues I’ve only got two, which surprised me, mind you I already had quite a few of the records before they were reissued.

We were born in an era when music really mattered to us, or perhaps I should say I was, and that music has stayed with us and we stick with it and if necessary try to find old and new music like it. For some the time span is quite condensed, for me new music really stopped being that interesting around the 2010s or even shortly before that, bar the odd one or two records. I don’t like most of today’s music but then I don’t suppose young people would much like the music I like, which is probably as it should be.

It can’t be a good thing though when my children who are aged between 35 and 43 already think most of today’s music is rubbish.

Big business and dire talent shows killed it.

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[ChrisB]

Smile, Cure, Last Dinner Party, Nick Cave, Vampire Weekend, Fontaines D C......think that's it. However, looks like I'm top of the hip list
Mojo and Uncut similar numbers, and mainly same releases. Ive got Jack White's latest (winner in Mojo), and I'm bemused as it's good, but best of year?????

[mudshark]

My daughter plays the Beyonce album, and I like it. My other daughter plays the Billy Eilish album, and I like it more.
I've bought Passage Du Desir, which is really good, as is the Gillian Welch album (but damn near all her albums are good).
The Cure is in the house. It's a Xmas present for the wife, so I've not heard it yet. I'm going to check out St. Vincent's album.
Besides these I own Koe Wetzel (#95 - True Texas), Charley Crockett (#89 - nice) and Maggie Rose (not as good as I hoped).
So quite a bit of Americana, which you guys in Blighty don't get, literally and figuratively.

I subscribe to RS, so read their reviews quite often. But like you guys, I don't know the bulk of what's mentioned in this list.
There's even a hitherto unknown Welsh troubadour in there. A certain Johnny Cale with POPtical illusion (#57).

[copehead]

I've never heard of 80 of the artists in the list.

I've played 3 of the albums.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/musi ... 235032268/

Lightweight

I've never heard of 84

I've never heard a second of any of the music on the list.

But I was considering buying the Jack White and John Cale albums and I'd listen to Fontaines DC

I keep forgetting you can actually listen to albums online before committing these days

[The Fish]

Own - 20
Not heard of - 51

[Walk In My Shadow]

I'm familiar with some of the names without hearing any of their music.

Robertff wrote what I think is the correct summary of today's music.

I don't care about this nowadays music anymore although I probably bought 100 albums this year.
None of those will ever end up in any Top 100 but I like/love the ones I bought.

[Andrews Sisters Conundrum]

I’m the same Lord but I really don’t care.

why are you calling him 'Lord'?

[robertff]

I’m the same Lord but I really don’t care.

why are you calling him 'Lord'?

It’s shorter than Lord Rother.


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[pcqgod]

I own the ones by Kim Gordon and The Marias. Have heard the one by Taylor Swift. I imagine I would like the one by Chappell Roan if I cared enough to check it out.

[C]

I’m the same Lord but I really don’t care.

why are you calling him 'Lord'?

Because that’s his name Andrews

Tosser



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[Andrews Sisters Conundrum]

silly old prick

[C]

silly old prick

[John_K]

The Nick Cave album was placed at 97..?

[Hightea]

yikes they get farther and father from me.
top 10 except MJ are not my cup of tea although I like some of Charli XCX

Laura Marling,Patterns in Repeat
Gilliam Welsh & Rawlings,Woodland
The Smile,Wall of Eyes
Andrianne Lenker,Bright Future
Pure Reason Revelution-Coming up Consciousness,
The Cure,Songs of a Lost World
Jack White,No Name
Goodspeed You! Black Emporer,No title
Beth Gibbons,Lives Outgrown
Father John Misty,hmashana
Kamasi Washington,Fearless Movement
MJ Lenderman,Manning Fireworks
Colin Steson,The Love It took to Leave You
Billy Strings ,Hyway Prayers
Sadness,I Want Make Something As Beatiful as You
Fievel Is Guque,Rong Weicknes
Andrew Bird,Cungingham Bird
The Last dinner party,Prelude to ecstacy
Big Big train,The Likes of Us
Liam Gallagher & John Squire,
David Gilmour,luck and strange
Amanda Fish,Kingdom
ilufer Yanya,y Method Actor
MJ Lenderman,Manning Fireworks
Pearl jam,Dark Matter
Khruangbin,A LA SALA
St Vincent,All Born Screaming
Sleater-Kinney,,Little Rope
Soccor Mom,Evergreen
Kim Deal,The Collective
Waxahatchee,Tigers Blood

[pcqgod]

I own the ones by Kim Gordon and The Marias. Have heard the one by Taylor Swift. I imagine I would like the one by Chappell Roan if I cared enough to check it out.

Oh, I have the new Dua Lipa album, assuming it's on the list. Not gonna check again.