I think there are a lot of things I listened to this month that I forgot to update through last.fm, but this is a valid sampling that makes me look a lot cooler

october

ah fuck, I forgot november. anyways, here's december

and here's a 10x10 for 2022

:|

okay top 100 artists. I guess it's pretty normal, but it's funny seeing the first 10 or so being artists I listened to on repeat, and then the rest as a result of listening to one or two albums all the way through once. (with the exception of the Revue Starlight artists peppered in there, where I listened to like 2-3 songs over and over)

also I tried to use openscrobbler to get things when I listened on vinyl or cassette, but I forgot probably like half of the time

I probably should be making new threads for this each year, but instead you get giant thread. here's january top 25 and top 50

february, top 25 and top 50. I know it's silly to include both, but I like the 5x5 square

smarch. listened to the new 100 gecs approximately a hundred times and it got me in a hyperpoppy mood

april

may. 5x5 and 10x10

june, a day late

july. yup.

august. I generated these on the first, sent them to myself, and forgot to actually post them

september

october. unfortunate that I listened to a couple regina albums like two days before finding out she's wildly zionist

november

@prumm oh what website is this

@inarguableaxis it pulls the info from last.fm, so you have to set that to scrobble from wherever you listen to music to get this to work https://www.tapmusic.net

@prumm thank you!

@prumm hey that's me!!!!

@Aleums :D

@prumm ☝️ lesbian

@Aleums what is the truth

@prumm both can be true

@prumm pointing at the abrahammer and pawgchamping

@turntechcatfish you did that!! :3 I really liked it, I was jamming out at my desk in a way I usually don't with mashup stuff

@prumm burn pygmalion =:D

@cormoranthine hehehe if you scroll through the thread, Burn Pygmalion shows up at least every other month for like two years lmao

@prumm based as hell =:)

@cormoranthine ...okay I actually scrolled through and that might have been too bold a claim, but it does show up on a lot of them. lmao

@prumm immediately drawn to the golf themed VW album. i have to listen.

@boobs_idiot that's by Equip! he's a local vaporwave-adjacent artist that I like a lot. soundtrack to a fake golf snes game https://worldofequip.bandcamp.com/album/golfworld

and he also did one for a fake horse jockey game https://worldofequip.bandcamp.com/album/jockey-jams

@prumm what do u think of the yaeji album

@Aleums I like it a lot!! I actually saw her perform in Chicago last month so I got the double EP on vinyl. it's sort of different from her newer album but I like both

@prumm have I ever told you you have great fucking taste

@Aleums thank you! I'm trying not to be genuinely surprised by the compliment, haha

@prumm it's good shit!! I'm not emotionally affected by mitski in that way but there's lots of cool stuff I recognize here and lots of things I've heard really good things about. also there's lots of different kinds of things which I always admire

@prumm were there any standouts that really impressed you this year, or things you thought you would like but were disappointing?

@Aleums disappointing: Jubilee by Japanese Breakfast (actually from 2021 but whatever.) I saw her live in 2018 and her previous albums are decent. this newest one was nominated for a grammy, but for some reason it just completely washes off of me to the point that I can only recall like one song. I think she gets frequently compared to Mitski, but notably I feel like her music has zero anger and relatively low intensity. they're just like... generic indie pop with a few catchy disco vibes

@prumm I feel the same for sure. my favourite of her songs have been the forgettable shoegazey ones, which I can get elsewhere

@Aleums my thoughts exactly! there are a lot of artists I get into whose early albums are shoegazey or otherwise have lo-fi noise rock-ish crunch, and then as they get bigger and more popular they sound more clean and poppy in a way that's less interesting to me. it's funny that Laurel Hell was my most listened album this year, because it really exemplifies this trend and I was a little disappointed. it did come out when I was feeling peak divorced though, so props to her for the timing

@prumm have you ever heard tanukichan? It's pretty generic nugaze but its very well produced and the songs are quite nice. Would fit along with some of the other stuff here

@Aleums the name sounds familiar enough that I've probably listened to a couple songs before, but I'll definitely check it out

@Aleums standouts: Darklife by death's dynamic shroud, really interesting to see the different approaches they take for each album
-Piano Miniatures by Henning Schmiedt. did not expect this one to stick with me like it did. kinda ambient solo piano music. the artist describes it as "music as if viewed under a microscope: small film scores, mini sonatas, songs, tiny symphonies."
-Sen Morimoto (self-titled) is from 2020, but a remix album came out this year called Sean Motorolla. both really good

@prumm nice I will have to check these out