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VSN 2013 Albums of the Year Lists/Discussion Thread

MvP

MvP

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As discussed in the chatbox, we (Woy and I, maybe Nahste) decided this year it would be easier to make one megathread of everyone's album lists instead of having a dozen individual threads like in previous years. Seeing as we are not Complex.com, there is no need for one-album-per-post in here, just straight-up lists and discussion. Other than that there are no rules to this shit: you can rank as many albums as you want, write blurbs in Pitchfork vernacular, do honorable mentions, link songs on Youtube..whatever. If we get a lot of submissions in I will do some math and come up with the official VSN top 10 list but hopefully I'll be employed by then and won't have time to do that.

My list will be posted later tonight to start things off.
 
MvP's Favorite Albums of 2013

**in parentheses are my three favorite songs from the album, in order**

20. Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience Pt.2 (True Blood, Amnesia, Take Back The Night)

19. Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience Pt.1 (Tunnel Vision, Spaceship Coupe, Don’t Hold The Wall)

18. Ghostface Killah - Twelve Reasons to Die (I Declare War, Rise of the GF Killah, Blood on the Cobblestones)

17. James Blake - Overgrown (I Am Sold, Retrograde, Life Round Here)

16. Childish Gambino - Because The Internet (telegraph ave., zealots of stockholm, life: the biggest troll)

15. Earl Sweatshirt - Doris (Burgundy, Sunday, Chum)

14. Jason Isbell - Southeastern (Live Oak, Flying over Water, Cover Me Up)

13. Action Bronson - Blue Chips 2 (Rolling Thunder, 9/24/13, Contemporary Man)

12. Pusha T - My Name Is My Name (Nosetalga, Numbers on the Board, King Push)

11. Chance the Rapper - Acid Rap (Acid Rain, Pusha Man, Everybody’s Something)

10. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories (Touch, Doin’ It Right, Lose Yourself to Dance)

9. Kelela - Cut 4 Me (Keep It Cool, Do It Again, Bankhead)

8. Danny Brown - Old (Torture, 25 Bucks, The Return)

7. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City (Hannah Hunt, Ya Hey, Don’t Lie)

6. Autre Ne Veut - Anxiety (Ego Free Sex Free, Play by Play, Gonna Die)

5. Drake - Nothing Was The Same (Worst Behaviour, The Language, Tuscan Leather)

4. Lorde - Pure Heroine (Team, A World Alone, White Teeth Teens)

3. Nine Inch Nails - Hesitation Marks (Various Methods of Escape, I Would For You, Copy of A)

2. Killer Mike & El-P - Run The Jewels (Sea Legs, Banana Clipper, Run The Jewels)

1. Kanye West - Yeezus (New Slaves, Blood on the Leaves, I’m In It)​

 

Albums I considered for this list:

Inspectah Deck + 7L & Esoteric - Czarface
Mac Miller - Watching Movies With The Sound Off
Disclosure - Settle
A$AP Rocky - Long.Live.A$AP
Tyler the Creator - Wolf
Statik Selektah - Extended Play
TREE - Sunday School II
Jay Z - Magna Carta Holy Grail
Action Bronson - Saaab Stories
Kid Cudi - Indicud
Tyler the Creator - Wolf
Joe Budden - No Love Lost
Talib Kweli - Prisoner of Conscious
J.Cole - Born Sinner
Kevin Gates - Stranger Than Fiction
Joey Bada$$ - Summer Knights
Janelle Monae - The Electric Lady
Juicy J - Stay Trippy
The Weeknd - Kiss Land
No Malice - Hear Ye Him
A$AP Ferg - Trap Lord
Mayer Hawthorne - Where Does This Door Go
John Legend - Love In The Future
The Foreign Exchange - Love In Flying Colors
Jared Evan - Boom Bap & Blues
The National - Trouble Will Find Me
John Mayer - Paradise Valley
Party Supplies - Tough Love
CHVRCHES - The Bones of What You Believe
Filter - The Sun Comes Out Tonight
Queens of the Stone Age - …Like Clockwork
Dave Grohl - Sound City
How to Destroy Angels - Welcome Oblivion
Kavinsky - Outrun
Washed Out - Paracosm
Deltron 3030 - Event II
Charles Hamilton - Substance Abuse
RJD2 - More Is Than Isn't
Local Natives - Hummingbird
Arcade Fire - Reflektor
Black Milk - No Poison No Paradise
Shad - Flying Colours
Pearl Jam - Lightning Bolt
Darkside - Psychic
MS MR - Secondhand Rapture
Lloyd Banks - F.N.O. (Failure’s No Option)
Eminem - MMLP2
David Bowie - The Next Day
 
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Part 1...I'll post more later.

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Top 15 Hip Hop Releases of 2013


1. Old - Danny Brown
 

2. BetterOffDEAD - Flatbush Zombies
 

3. Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels
 

4. Acid Rap - Chance The Rapper
 

5. Blue Chips 2 - Action Bronson
 

6. Trap Lord - A$AP Ferg
 

7. Summer Knights - Joey Bada$$
 

8. Yeezus - Kanye West
 

9. Innanet Tape - Vic Mensa
 

10. Owl Pharaoh - Travi$ Scott
 

11. My Name is My Name - Pusha T
12. Long Live A$AP - A$AP Rocky
13. Cozmik - Dillon Cooper
14. New Jet City - Curren$y
15. Saab Stories - Action Bronson

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Overall, Lorde - Pure Heroine is my AOTY
 
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Volcano Choir is that good good

I also think I'm one of the few that just can't get into HAIM
 
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Sad, I've only listened to less than a handfull of albums this year:

the 2 JT albums (loved)
Czarface by Inspecktah Deck, 7L, & Esoteric (very good)

Been meaning to get to: Lorde, Eminem, Action Bronson, Childish Gambino, Ghostface Killah, Kanye West, etc.
 
Larry killed it in here....

But fuck you all for not mentioning The National's new album.

Edit- I really don't get the Haim love. :pokerface:
 
Forgot about The National, that's definitely one, I'm sure there's a few others I've forgotten I just haven't really gone through and looked yet.

I wasn't sold on Haim right away, but the album convinced me, it's not groundbreaking or anything but it's definitely one of the better albums beginning to end I've heard this year.
 
I was a Gambino hater up until this album but I enjoyed it as an experience with the whole screenplay/video thing that supplemented it. His rapping skills are still below average but he made up for it with the production and storytelling.

The second half of the James Blake album is poor. If it was on par with the first half it would have easily been in my Top 10.
 
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