Very good list, does not matter if we agree on your picks or not. Two albums that blew me away from that year are Lost in the Dream by The War on Drugs and the self-titled Warpaint album. Lydia Loveless sounds like the kind of artist I would love, so I am surely going to check her out. I bought that Tune-Yards album last year, and I am still trying to get into it, but I know that once I do, I will get hooked. Anyways, thanks for another great post, and happy holidays to you and your loved ones
Lost in the Dream would still be in my Top 20. I had it on the shelf behind me, but my ugly mug was covering it up. I loved that album back then and listened to it so much. Ten years removed, it kind of sounds trendy. Also, Live Drugs almost ruined all the studio output for me. What a great live recording! Truly captures the band in my opinion. That Warpaint album is really good. Their best in my opinion. Tune-Yards can take a bit to get into, but don't feel like you have to work too hard at it. It's totally okay if they don't click. Thanks for hanging! Cheers! ✌
@@wax_n_wine I think you’d really dig this Lydia Loveless album, Alexander. Maybe even the one she followed it up with more. Hope you’ve had a wonderful holiday season so far, man. Cheers! ✌🏻
Thank you for the journey and the struggle in narrowing this list down to 10, and applying astute critical thinking to them to see that they still hold their own. I'm liking this 10/20/30 year retrospective, am thinking it will help put the great music of this year into some context, perhaps even lineage. We had wildly different 2014s, though i don't think i could fill a top 10. Metamodern Sounds would be right up there. Spent my birthday trip listening to it! And to think on my first listen 5 years ago i thought his twang was 'a bit full on'😂🤠love your work sir, bring on 2004!
Well, Dean. The 20 and the 30 won’t be happening before the end of this year. Maybe I’ll still post them anyway. Two great years for music, so worth discussing. Surprised I wasn’t killed more in the comment section for not having The War On Drugs in my 10 faves. I’ll have your aversion to twang eliminated by the end of 2025! 😂😎 Cheers, Dean! ✌🏻
My partner got me into Sylvan Esso some. Saw them at red rocks and while I felt like the venue didn’t really worked for their type of music, they pulled it off somehow. Amazing how just two people can keep 9000 people entertained. Nice list!
@@soundofminder Amelia Meath is one hell of a performer. She puts it all out there. Never knew she had that kind of presence in her going back to her Mountain Man days. They also did tours with a huge band of fellow musicians based in North Carolina. Sorry for the slow response, Thijs. HoliDAZE.
hi mate, came across your channel becuase the thumbnail featured the brilliant Sturgill Simpson, no one (including me) ever seems to mention him in VC circles, he is such a great artist. i have all of his albums, his new one under the name Johnny Blue Skies is great too, will probably rate highly in my end of '24 list too. all subbed up and ready take a further delve into your channel in 2025 have a great Christmas and Happy New Year to you and yours - Lloyd
@@LloydBoonworldofmusic2 Thanks for the sub and the kind comment. Yeah, Sturgill is the man. Sorry for the slow response. The holiday madness crept up on me. Onward into 2025! Cheers! ✌🏻
Howdy Jon! Cool list. I’ve only heard of.a few of these but don’t know any of the music. I don’t think I bought any physical media in 2014. I didn’t get back into the game until 2016.
Ok ok I’m up! What’s so important at this time of day...☕️👋🏻cheers brother Jon....watching 😳 Lydia Loveless sounded intriguing, and the Black Messiah too!!👏🏻 happy happy 🎄🥳to you and the fam🙏🏻✨🎶🎄
Hi Lis! How early do you get up usually? And why on earth would you want to listen to my boring voice first thing in the morning. There's not enough coffee in the world! 🤣☕☕☕☕☕☕☕☕ More lists of albums coming. I'd like to promise less sad bastard, but no can do! It is holiday time for sure. Busy busy busy. These kiddos are going to run me into the ground. Sam's second basketball game is this Saturday. Hope you're having a great week! ✌
@ yep I’m up usually around 4am but Im down for the night early too......good luck to ⛹️♂️🏀 Sam! Cheering him on in spirit..(the Christmas🎄 spirit of course) first thing in the morning!!! yes sir ☕️ and why not I say I say? Green eggs and ham are on the way ☺️🤪✊🏻 oh lord (I’m not getting enuff sun ☀️) good grief🙄
That Real Estate we listened to a ton. In fact it's the first album that my son really latched on to at the age of 3, so that's why it's the only Real Estate album I've kept. Holds up well! For my money I'll go with Grouper's "Ruins", s/t album by Morgan Delt and "Sunbathing Animal" by Parquet Courts.
@@seekingathread I’ve never been able to get into Sunbathing Animal as much as the other Parquet Courts albums. Good call on Grouper. Atlas holds up really well. A timeless album, me thinks. Sorry for the slow response. Holidaze…
@@hillbillypillars If you haven’t already, I’d recommend her album Indestructible Machine from 2011. Much rawer alt-country. In the vain of early Old 97s. Sorry for the slow response. Holiday madness snuck up on me! Cheers!
1. Attica - Wussy 2. Colfax - The Delines 3. Metamodern Sounds in Country Music - Sturgill Simpson 4. Leuven Letters - Courtney Marie Andrews 5. Burn Your Fire for No Witness - Angel Olsen 6. Berkeley to Bakersfield - Cracker 7. Lost in the Dream - The War On Drugs 8. Stay Gold - First Aid Kit 9. Morning Phase - Beck 10. Heal - Strand of Oaks 11. Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone - Lucinda Williams 12. Anyway - Immigrant Union
Lost in the Dream has lost some of its effect on me over the last 10 years. That Angel Olsen album is fantastic and would definitely be in my Top 15 of the year. Cheers! ✌🏻
There’s a fancy looking 10 year press of RTJ2 I just saw. I need to listen to the new re recording of the Lydia album she did this year for the anniversary. Don’t know if it’ll top the original of course but I would listen to her sing the phone book. I wish there was music as fun as tUnEyArDs in 2024.
Hi Jon - What I remember most about 2014 musically was finding that U2 album on my phone. Radiohead never forced themselves on you U2 did. Saudade by Thievery Corporation was my AOTY. Like the plastic bag blowing in the wind opening. I'm convinced that 3 minute scene in American Beauty is why it won 8 Academy Awards. People get very passionate about their dislike of the inanimate object but they miss the point 👉 .. In my opinion .. & as The Dude says " Well , That's Just Like Your Opinion Man "
@@davidellis5141 I sat there for hours in that parking lot to capture that one beautiful moment, David. Dedication. Commitment to the craft. That’s what I’m all about. Yes! How could I forgot the U2 album nobody asked for? Thanks for not calling me an idiot for leaving out The War On Drugs. ✌🏻
Yikes! A look at my albums from 2014 shows lots of reissues, but few new releases.That said, Busman's Holiday's debut A Long Goodbye and Andrew Bird's album of Handsome Family covers are both firm favourites of mine today. I'm not sure you should be using the word Bratty to describe something from 2014, it sounds too 2024.
It’s just proof, Brat™️ existed long before Charli XCX. 😎 This comment reminds me that I need to finish watching that best music of the 21st Century video from you and John. Probably could count on one hand the amount of albums you two picked from 2010 on. 😂 I’m a huge Andrew Bird fan, but I’ve never been one for covers/tribute albums all that much. That one was good though. Cheers, Hedley ✌🏻
As usual you take a VC tradition and totally warp it. It’s had to take a list from 2014 serious she there is no Ariana Grande. I really don’t get that. Also RSD did release a Doors album. I had that Lotus album, but you know…most of 2014 disappeared. Tinarwen was one of my favorite albums and that is one of my favorite Spoon albums. Still having a hard time understanding there is no Ariana Grande.
@@stevecarlsonvinylcommunity9147 I can’t have every Spoon album in a Top Ten list, Steve. It would’ve been #11. 😄 I was not aware of Tinariwen back then, but I have streamed that album since. My kids aren’t even into Ariana Grande that much. ✌🏻
I did really like the use of videos as a sample. Someday I will figure that out
Hey Jon- Real Estate and Alvvays for the win! Love both of those albums. I look forward to rest of your ranking videos. Take care, Matt
It was fun going back and revisiting these. Also a reminder of how I have too much music. Cheers, Matt! ✌
Great list thanks Jon….love the tree 🌲
Cheers, Kimbo! ✌
Very good list, does not matter if we agree on your picks or not. Two albums that blew me away from that year are Lost in the Dream by The War on Drugs and the self-titled Warpaint album. Lydia Loveless sounds like the kind of artist I would love, so I am surely going to check her out. I bought that Tune-Yards album last year, and I am still trying to get into it, but I know that once I do, I will get hooked. Anyways, thanks for another great post, and happy holidays to you and your loved ones
Lost in the Dream would still be in my Top 20. I had it on the shelf behind me, but my ugly mug was covering it up. I loved that album back then and listened to it so much. Ten years removed, it kind of sounds trendy. Also, Live Drugs almost ruined all the studio output for me. What a great live recording! Truly captures the band in my opinion. That Warpaint album is really good. Their best in my opinion. Tune-Yards can take a bit to get into, but don't feel like you have to work too hard at it. It's totally okay if they don't click. Thanks for hanging! Cheers! ✌
Always enjoy you putting it out there. Great choices and had never even heard of Lydia Loveless.
@@wax_n_wine I think you’d really dig this Lydia Loveless album, Alexander. Maybe even the one she followed it up with more. Hope you’ve had a wonderful holiday season so far, man. Cheers! ✌🏻
Thank you for the journey and the struggle in narrowing this list down to 10, and applying astute critical thinking to them to see that they still hold their own. I'm liking this 10/20/30 year retrospective, am thinking it will help put the great music of this year into some context, perhaps even lineage. We had wildly different 2014s, though i don't think i could fill a top 10. Metamodern Sounds would be right up there. Spent my birthday trip listening to it! And to think on my first listen 5 years ago i thought his twang was 'a bit full on'😂🤠love your work sir, bring on 2004!
Well, Dean. The 20 and the 30 won’t be happening before the end of this year. Maybe I’ll still post them anyway. Two great years for music, so worth discussing. Surprised I wasn’t killed more in the comment section for not having The War On Drugs in my 10 faves. I’ll have your aversion to twang eliminated by the end of 2025! 😂😎 Cheers, Dean! ✌🏻
My partner got me into Sylvan Esso some. Saw them at red rocks and while I felt like the venue didn’t really worked for their type of music, they pulled it off somehow. Amazing how just two people can keep 9000 people entertained. Nice list!
@@soundofminder Amelia Meath is one hell of a performer. She puts it all out there. Never knew she had that kind of presence in her going back to her Mountain Man days. They also did tours with a huge band of fellow musicians based in North Carolina. Sorry for the slow response, Thijs. HoliDAZE.
hi mate, came across your channel becuase the thumbnail featured the brilliant Sturgill Simpson, no one (including me) ever seems to mention him in VC circles, he is such a great artist. i have all of his albums, his new one under the name Johnny Blue Skies is great too, will probably rate highly in my end of '24 list too.
all subbed up and ready take a further delve into your channel in 2025
have a great Christmas and Happy New Year to you and yours - Lloyd
@@LloydBoonworldofmusic2 Thanks for the sub and the kind comment. Yeah, Sturgill is the man. Sorry for the slow response. The holiday madness crept up on me. Onward into 2025! Cheers! ✌🏻
Howdy Jon! Cool list. I’ve only heard of.a few of these but don’t know any of the music. I don’t think I bought any physical media in 2014. I didn’t get back into the game until 2016.
I was 99% vinyl for physical media by 2014. Was still buying a lot of CDs in 2010, but by 2011 vinyl was what I was taking home. Cheers, Bill! ✌
great selection i have noted all but real estate that i have
Thanks, John. 2014 produced some great music. Was hard to narrow it down to 10.
Ok ok I’m up! What’s so important at this time of day...☕️👋🏻cheers brother Jon....watching 😳
Lydia Loveless sounded intriguing, and the Black Messiah too!!👏🏻 happy happy 🎄🥳to you and the fam🙏🏻✨🎶🎄
Hi Lis! How early do you get up usually? And why on earth would you want to listen to my boring voice first thing in the morning. There's not enough coffee in the world! 🤣☕☕☕☕☕☕☕☕ More lists of albums coming. I'd like to promise less sad bastard, but no can do! It is holiday time for sure. Busy busy busy. These kiddos are going to run me into the ground. Sam's second basketball game is this Saturday. Hope you're having a great week! ✌
@ yep I’m up usually around 4am but Im down for the night early too......good luck to ⛹️♂️🏀 Sam! Cheering him on in spirit..(the Christmas🎄 spirit of course) first thing in the morning!!! yes sir ☕️ and why not I say I say? Green eggs and ham are on the way ☺️🤪✊🏻 oh lord (I’m not getting enuff sun ☀️) good grief🙄
I really enjoyed the wind in the parking lot. I don't like any of your picks besides Atlas, which is my personal all-time top 10. You seem very kind.
Atlas is a fantastic album indeed. Don't let appearances fool you. I'm evil. 🤣 Cheers!
love that sturgill simpson album, jon!!
@@David-j5h4r It’s an all-timer! Cheers, David. ✌🏻
I guess I'm gonna have to sub, if you're gonna wear Spoon shirts and open with Merbow clips😂
@@Shawn_at_Vinyl_Minimalist Patreon is 2 cents per week.
That Real Estate we listened to a ton. In fact it's the first album that my son really latched on to at the age of 3, so that's why it's the only Real Estate album I've kept. Holds up well! For my money I'll go with Grouper's "Ruins", s/t album by Morgan Delt and "Sunbathing Animal" by Parquet Courts.
@@seekingathread I’ve never been able to get into Sunbathing Animal as much as the other Parquet Courts albums. Good call on Grouper. Atlas holds up really well. A timeless album, me thinks. Sorry for the slow response. Holidaze…
Gonna check out the Lydia Loveless rec!
@@hillbillypillars If you haven’t already, I’d recommend her album Indestructible Machine from 2011. Much rawer alt-country. In the vain of early Old 97s. Sorry for the slow response. Holiday madness snuck up on me! Cheers!
1. Attica - Wussy
2. Colfax - The Delines
3. Metamodern Sounds in Country Music - Sturgill Simpson
4. Leuven Letters - Courtney Marie Andrews
5. Burn Your Fire for No Witness - Angel Olsen
6. Berkeley to Bakersfield - Cracker
7. Lost in the Dream - The War On Drugs
8. Stay Gold - First Aid Kit
9. Morning Phase - Beck
10. Heal - Strand of Oaks
11. Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone - Lucinda Williams
12. Anyway - Immigrant Union
Lost in the Dream has lost some of its effect on me over the last 10 years. That Angel Olsen album is fantastic and would definitely be in my Top 15 of the year. Cheers! ✌🏻
There’s a fancy looking 10 year press of RTJ2 I just saw. I need to listen to the new re recording of the Lydia album she did this year for the anniversary. Don’t know if it’ll top the original of course but I would listen to her sing the phone book. I wish there was music as fun as tUnEyArDs in 2024.
@@broke.on.records I haven’t listened to the re-recording by Lydia yet. All piano, right? I can’t imagine “Head” on solo piano.
Hi Jon - What I remember most about 2014 musically was finding that U2 album on my phone. Radiohead never forced themselves on you U2 did. Saudade by Thievery Corporation was my AOTY. Like the plastic bag blowing in the wind opening. I'm convinced that 3 minute scene in American Beauty is why it won 8 Academy Awards. People get very passionate about their dislike of the inanimate object but they miss the point 👉 .. In my opinion .. & as The Dude says " Well , That's Just Like Your Opinion Man "
@@davidellis5141 I sat there for hours in that parking lot to capture that one beautiful moment, David. Dedication. Commitment to the craft. That’s what I’m all about. Yes! How could I forgot the U2 album nobody asked for? Thanks for not calling me an idiot for leaving out The War On Drugs. ✌🏻
Yikes! A look at my albums from 2014 shows lots of reissues, but few new releases.That said, Busman's Holiday's debut A Long Goodbye and Andrew Bird's album of Handsome Family covers are both firm favourites of mine today.
I'm not sure you should be using the word Bratty to describe something from 2014, it sounds too 2024.
It’s just proof, Brat™️ existed long before Charli XCX. 😎 This comment reminds me that I need to finish watching that best music of the 21st Century video from you and John. Probably could count on one hand the amount of albums you two picked from 2010 on. 😂 I’m a huge Andrew Bird fan, but I’ve never been one for covers/tribute albums all that much. That one was good though. Cheers, Hedley ✌🏻
As usual you take a VC tradition and totally warp it. It’s had to take a list from 2014 serious she there is no Ariana Grande. I really don’t get that. Also RSD did release a Doors album. I had that Lotus album, but you know…most of 2014 disappeared. Tinarwen was one of my favorite albums and that is one of my favorite Spoon albums. Still having a hard time understanding there is no Ariana Grande.
@@stevecarlsonvinylcommunity9147 I can’t have every Spoon album in a Top Ten list, Steve. It would’ve been #11. 😄 I was not aware of Tinariwen back then, but I have streamed that album since. My kids aren’t even into Ariana Grande that much. ✌🏻