any albums that are receiving praise that you refuse to even check out?

i see no reason to check out the taylor swift album. she just doesnt do it for me.

im also very hesitant to check out the billie eilish album. if i end up liking it how would i look listening to it?? lol

i did listen to lizzo, i had no idea who she was and had not heard any hype on her when i did.

country in general is a skip.

were you pleasantly surprised by any album this year that you were hesitant to listen to?

I'm mad "get off my lawn!" tho. "New" albums for me are almost always pre-1978 bands that I've never heard before.

i definitely had a few years where i was just focused on discovering old music. i would basically only listen to new albums by groups past their prime lol

I think they were 2018.

i wouldn't say i HATED, i just didn't expect much. i only knew of dude as a scammer. i had heard ONE song of his previously, that was basically about scamming. he just seemed like more of a joke/gimmick act based on his history.

but nah, he put out a great album. musically diverse, lighthearted/fun at times, serious at times. he can actually put bars together. good ear for beats. good guest spots.

>i wouldn't say i HATED, i just didn't expect much. i only
>knew of dude as a scammer. i had heard ONE song of his
>previously, that was basically about scamming. he just seemed
>like more of a joke/gimmick act based on his history.
>
>but nah, he put out a great album. musically diverse,
>lighthearted/fun at times, serious at times. he can actually
>put bars together. good ear for beats. good guest spots.


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and 5 would shock the hell out of me.

these last two years have had some great releases.

- I played Kaytranada in full but got stuck on Freefall & Culture and haven't listened to the whole thing again

- Played Ventura when it dropped but not again

- Played most of the new Glasper 'mixtape'. Only repeated Treal and Gone.

- I may or may not have finished May The Lord Watch. Maybe once...

- Was Solange this year? I think I listened to that once.

i accidentally heard On God, liked it, and was legit angry when I realized it was him.

i really wanted to not hear a second of any of his new music

i'm angry that song is so fire

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i didnt listen to it expecting to like it or to support him. just curious to what it would sound like.

"Follow God" played on the radio. after a while I had a sneaky suspicion I was being "Ye'd" and I was so pi$$ed when the DJ said

"...that was the NEW Ye'.."

I really wanted to punch my radio in the face.

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im still mad over that shit

I feel the exact same way

There's no coming back at this point, he's....Gone

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Really shoulda not done that.

Ellish has maybe one song on there, but I just dont believe her. Like...she's Hot Topic spooky girl.

Lizzo was mad forgettable. Didn't realize her song was the theme song for an ESPN show I listen to on the way home, so I was already through with that one (It aint my fault that im out here getting loose or whatever)



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Which is much to my surprise.

First Kanye album to stay in my rotation for this long since college dropout.



"Get ready....for your blessing....."
"Bury me by my Grand-Grand and when you can come follow me"

"Get ready....for your blessing....."
"Bury me by my Grand-Grand and when you can come follow me"

Regardless of content - his songs are too often musically boring now, and he’s a guy that I just don’t care what he has to say anymore. College Dropout through Watch the Throne, I cared. He lost me with Yeezus, kinda get me back on like 1/3 of Pablo, and then lost me again. He’s just not funny or witty or insightful or entertaining anymore, his heartfelt songs don’t hit home anymore

But his *music* was always interesting.

That hasn't been the case since, like you said, before Yeezus. And I personally find Watch the Throne hella overrated. But that's just me it appears.


>Regardless of content - his songs are too often musically
>boring now, and he’s a guy that I just don’t care what he
>has to say anymore. College Dropout through Watch the Throne,
>I cared. He lost me with Yeezus, kinda get me back on like
>1/3 of Pablo, and then lost me again. He’s just not funny
>or witty or insightful or entertaining anymore, his heartfelt
>songs don’t hit home anymore

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It was the last time I went into a Kanye album excited and expecting it to be good. And it was reasonably good so I wasn’t disappointed.

Something about it's newness combined with its Best of Decade hype has me too jaded to give it room for at least another 6-8 months


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not even due to hype. there are things that are gonna be missing, but overall, I am very pleased with this year.

We got 1/2 of The 4 Horsemen (Toro Dogg, Thundercat, Kendrick, Tyler), the first time since 2013 that we've not had all 4. However, IGOR definitely is an AOTY candidate

a new fucking Gang Starr album with JERU on it

...no really, JERU on a Gang Starr album. in 2019.

Brittany Howard's album was flames.

A lot of pleasant surprises (like that Pete Rock/Skyzoo joint)

The rise of them brothers from Buffalo

Kaytranada sneaking one in before the year is over

the GOAT expanded edition of the GOAT Prince era album, atop another collection of Prince unreleased oddities

I discovered an album from 2018 that I played like it was new (Brandon Coleman's Resistance)

at least in this regard... it's been good for me

Yes, I'm mad. Let's move on.

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hasn't had an album that i'm pleased with.
But Decembers are typically a slow month for new releases anyway.
BUBBA hasn't really hit me yet....


"Get ready....for your blessing....."
"Bury me by my Grand-Grand and when you can come follow me"

If your album has cat noises I skipped it.

If your album has references to pills I skipped it.

No Kanye, no lil anything, no Daniel Hernandez, no stripper music.

No empathy for white misery (c) BDot

"root for everybody black haters say that's crazy, wow..."

And even though I like her and am glad the album is doing well but.... yeah I can be honest that it is me “hating” to an extent because people got so overboard with the hype at the expense of everything else out, that it was annoying. I’ll listen eventually. But there were so many good-great rap albums in the second half of 2019 that it’s been hard to have time for much else.

Freddie Gibbs/Madlib - Bandana
Benny the Butcher - The Plugs I Met
Little Brother - May the Lord Watch
Skyzoo/Pete Rock - Retropolitan
Conway the Machine - Look What I Became
Smoke DZA/Benny the Butcher/Pete Rock - Statue of Limitations
Von Pea - City for Sale
Gangstarr - One Of the Best Yet
Black Moon - Rise of Da Moon
Griselda - WWCD

The only albums that I heard in its entirety from that list were Bandana, and One Of the Best Yet.

I heard a few tracks from Rise of Da Moon. I have heard no other rap records. I haven’t been all that interested in hearing anything else.

For context, here's a list of actual new release vinyl I've purchased this year:

tyler
nicole bus
sir
snoh aalegra
lizzo
khruangbin
Daniel caesar
goldlink

so, I'm not just a new music hater.

but that kay album? I dont know what everyone else is hearing.

I went to it initially because of Durand Bernarr, buteven that joint *shrugs*...I'd rather just hear the acapella.