The Last Dinner Party, Vampire Weekend, The Warning, Pearl Jam, St Vincent, Charlie XCX

For me, the best album of this year is bringing back all mankind by mark jones. very underrated.

Haitis Kaiyote Love Heart Cheat Code, 66 Paul Weller, Sonido Cosmico Hermanos Guiterrez, The Dream Of Delphi Bat For Lashes, Eels Time Eels, Pull The Rope Ibibio Sound Machine and St Vincent , Mdou Muctar and Lemon Twiggs I concur

Top on our list: Lola Young (This Wasn’t Meant For You), Goat Girl (Below The Waste), Kneecap (Fine Art) and Francis of Delirium (Lighthouse)

Lol, once I realized it was Worn-Tin I was looking for, and not Warren Tin (with the aid of a commenter) I REALLY dug that album. I also like the Lemon Twigs, Vampire Weekend, heard Tim Bernardes 2022 album, but want to check out the Chico Bernardes. The Nolan Potter also sounds interesting with the rest to catch up on. Great upload.

Wow, loved the Nolan Potter album (listened to it right after) -- 4.5. In this quarter, I also (and quite unexpectedly) love "Radical Optimism" by Dua Lipa also at 4.5 -- didn't see that coming at all. Best of the bunch (but I don't listen to anywhere near as much as you do) is Vampire Weekend's 5.0!

In vague order, for this quarter. Beth Gibbons-Lives Outgrown Mdou Moctar- Funeral for Justice Goblin Band- Come Slack Your Horse! Einstürzende Neubauten-Rampen (apm: alien pop music) Myriam Gendron-Mayday Landless-L​ú​ireach Jessica Pratt- Here In The Pitch Rick White And The Sadies - S/T Senyawa-Vajranala Redd Kross-S/T The Yum Yums- Poppin' Up Again The Lovely Eggs- Eggsistentialism Shannon and the Clams- The Moon Is In The Wrong Place Mountain Movers-Walking After Dark Most anticipated-The Bug Club, Nick Lowe & Los Straightjackets, Laurie Anderson, Robyn Hitchcock Most played from the first quarter: The Bevis Frond- Focus On Nature Mary Timony-Untame The Tiger Adrianne Lenker- Bright Future Stuff I need to catch up on: Richard Thompson, Lemon Twigs, Shellac, Dirty Three, Shackleton/Six Organs Of Admittance and maybe some stuff mentioned above and below.

Didn't get to Worn Tin, that sounds super cool though so I will have to check it out. Here are my quarter 2 favourites, in no particular order - Eric Slick - New Age Rage Phosphorescent - Revelator The Lemon Twigs - A Dream Is All We Know Nolan Potter - The Perils of Being Trapped Inside a Head Chico Bernardes - Outros Fios Big Search - Animal Cheer Bonny Light Horseman - Keep Me on Your Mind/ See You Free Jon McKiel - Hex Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us Crowded House - Gravity Stairs Cool lists, looking forward to seeing what the rest of the year has in store!

Jason and Joe, I've been listening to some of the interviews Geezer Butler has been doing promoting his new book. He has a lot of great stories being in Black Sabbath and I recommend listening to some of them. He's a very articulate guy. I thought of you, Jason, when he mentioned in one of them how disappointed he and Tony were in Rick Rubin's production on the final album. When asked if they'd ever work with Rubin again, Butler gave a blunt "nope."

James - Yummy is a fantastic record for a band that’s 40 years young and never seem to rest on their well earned laurels

Oh, and can't forget Loophole by Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band. Really nice.

AHHH! Not the green background! havent watched it yet thought

Beth Gibbons with the album of the year .. so far.

New Kings of Leon - Can We Please Have Fun is their best since Come Around Sundown (my fav by them and their best imo). Solid 4 star album. Check it out guys I like it more and more on each re-listen.

My 20 favorite records released from early April to the end of June. They are evenly split between aggressive albums and lighter/poppier ones: Thou - Umbilical (sludge metal; my favorite from this second quarter - it surely won’t appeal to 98% of TLM’s audience, but it’s as direct and accessible as the genre gets) Umbra Vitae - Light of Death (metalcore; features Jacob Bannon of Converge fame) High on Fire - Cometh the Storm (stoner metal) Knocked Loose - You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To (metalcore) Inter Arma - New Heaven (melodic black metal) Vredehammer - God Slayer (death metal) Ulcerate - Cutting the Throat of God (technical death metal) Ekko Astral - Pink Balloons (post-hardcore) Lip Critic - Hex Dealer (post-punk) Mdou Moctar - Funeral for Justice (psych rock) And the lighter fare: Joanna Wang - Hotel La Rut (art pop; the only discovery I’ve made from the Fantano universe so far in 2024) Shannon and the Clams - The Moon Is in the Way (indie/psych pop) Redd Kross - Redd Kross (power pop) Pillow Queens - Name Your Sorrow (indie rock; solidly constructed album…but not 5 stars) Iglooghost - Tidal Memory Exo (electronica) Iron & Wine - Light Verse (indie folk; his best album in 17 years) The Decemberists - As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again (folk rock; their best in 14 years) Charley Crockett - $10 Cowboy (country) Adeem the Artist - Anniversary (alt. country) Camera Obscura - Look to the East, Look to the West (indie pop)

@ykmgeedee

22 күн бұрын

Cometh the Storm and Funeral for Justice got it goin' on!

@SomeSong2

22 күн бұрын

Great picks!

Middle Kids- Faith Crisis Pt 1 Mia Dyson- Tender Heart Jess Locke- Real Life Angus & Julia Stone- Cape Forestier Crowded House- Gravity Stairs

My top albums of the year so far: Brie Stoner - Me Veo Andra Day - Cassandra Viniloversus - Mi Mejor Enemigo Marcus King - Mood Swings Gary Clark Jr. - JPEG Raw Kali Uchis - Orchideas

So far for me: Idles - Tangk Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us Vera Sola - Peacemaker J Robbins - Basilisk The Smile - Wall Of Eyes The Sorcerers - I Too Am A Stranger Kneecap - Fine Art Young Jesus - The Fool Revival Season - Golden Age Of Self-Snitching

Respect for that Charli pic. After seeing the stylez this video went for I would have been miiiighty disappointed if it was on neither of your lists. It does get better with every listen, I’ve found that too. It’s so consistently good. Album of year so far. You are of course wrong about one thing though, as Pop 2 is her greatest album, and a pop masterpiece. But I would say this is probably her *second* best, which is no mean feat given her catalogue. Give How I’m feeling now a listen too, as it has some similar vibes, though Brat is a bit more restrained.

@TastesLikeMusic

22 күн бұрын

Oh I’ve listened to them all, trust me. Pop 2 and How I’m Feeling Now are a little too annoying (aka too Hyper) to be great. - Joe

Paul Weller - 66 Samuel Rosa - Rosa 😱🔥🔥🔥

10 favorites from Q2 in no real order: Mach-Hommy - #RICHAXXHAITIAN Dehd - Poetry Vince Staples - Dark Times Lupe Fiasco - Samurai Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us James Blake & Lil Yachty - Bad Cameo Mdou Moctar - Funeral for Justice Nia Archives - Silence is Loud Jessica Pratt - Here in the Pitch RM - Right Place, Wrong Person 10 favorites from Q1 in no real order: Last Dinner Party - Prelude to Ecstasy Matt Champion - Mika's Laundry Mk.gee - Two Star and the Dream Police Hurray for the Riff-Raff - The Past is Still Alive IDLES - Tangk Yard Act - Where's My Utopia Vera Sola - Peacemaker Friko - Where We've Been, Where We Go From Here 1999 Write the Future - Hella Yard Act - Where's My Utopia

1. Heavy Temple - Garden of Heathens 2. Crypt Sermon - The Stygian Rose 3. The Hazytones - Wild Fever 4. Achelous - Tower of High Sorcery 5. Riot V - Mean Streets 6. Attic - Return of the Witchfinder 7. Portrait - The Host 8. Scavenger - Beyond the Bells 9. Attacker - The God Particle 10. Black Country Communion - V and since I missed the first qt: 1. Saxon - Hell, Fire and Damnation 2. Judas Priest - Invincible Shield 3. Mega Colossus - Showdown 4. The Obsessed - Gilded Sorrow 5. Traveler - Prequel to Madness 6. The Black Crowes - Happiness Bastards 7. Bruce Dickinson - The Mandrake Project 8. Iron Curtain - Savage Dawn 9. Blaze Bayley - Circle of Stone 10. Midnight - Hellish Expectations

Love the thumbnail

Have listened to half of what you suggested here, so have some work to do, which is what I want! (Favorite second quarter LP is Vampire Weekend)

Great to see Mdou Moctar's superb album Funeral for Justice mentioned by Joe.

@johnlefsky8731

22 күн бұрын

Great live. I saw them in 2019 and am seeing them again in October.

Will have to give Chico Bernardes another shot… and haven’t heard Worn Tin or Way Dynamic, but color me intrigued. Interested in your take on maybe my favorite of the quarter besides Twigs, Joanna Wang. Also The Flamboyant Train - very AI-ish, but I keep coming back.

@TastesLikeMusic

20 күн бұрын

Haven’t heard but intrigued. - Joe

Yes - St. Vincent (and Vampire Weekend)!! The new Camera Obscura (Look to the East, Look to the West), Arooj Aftab (Night Reign) and DIIV (Frog in Boiling Water) also excellent! Still getting into the new Beth Gibbons. (Sorry guys, but Portishead are brilliant.) Mannequin Pussy from earlier in the year is album of the year for me

Worn-Tin doesn't do himself any favors by not writing titles on his album cover. I'm busy trying to look up Warren Tin. Good though.

Haven't gotten around to listening to as much as you guys, but a couple of albums stand out for me so far this year. Radical Optimism - Dua Lipa Rapture - Anette Olzon. Love your work and look forward to your videos. Thanks guys.

I think Project Gemini's Colours & Light came out first week of April and The Cosmic Dead's Infinite Peaks following week. Both kinda trippy instrumental-centered psych. I like Joe's mention Mdou Moctar's Funeral for Justice, it's so much more inventive than most product out out there.

Album I agree wit: Vampire Weekend Album I’ll check out: Nolan Potter Best album so far this year: Beth Gibbons Album I’m most looking forward to: Nick Cave

@gregdale1066

22 күн бұрын

@@michaelbushell4356 im with yu on that new nick cave. That frogs track is great and lets the bad seeds stretch out a bit .

Album best so far this year 1. The Last Dinner Party Party Prelude to Ecstasy 2. charli xcx brat 3. vampire weekend Only God Was Above Us 4. Beth Gibbons Lives Outgrown 5. Molly Lewis On The Lips 6. Everything Everything Mountainhead 7. St. Vincent All Born Screaming

Wow Joe, ‘A Dream is All We Know’ might be the first album that’s so good it’s bad! lol; it’s so awesome, my favorite from them! Anyway, yeah, we definitely have a lot of the same albums so far: MkGee, Lucky Day, Nolan Potter, etc., and I didn’t think I would even like the Charli XCX at all based on how everyone’s raving about it and how it and that cover photo and parodies of it are now EVERYWHERE…but I do. I like it 😊

2nd Quarter In no particular order: Buffalo Tom - Jump Rope Pearl Jam - Dark Matter Black Country Communion - V Dead Ghosts - Hippie Flippin’ Leave’s Eyes - Myths of Fate Jesse Dayton - The Hardway Blues Collective Soul - Here To Eternity The Watchers - Nyctophilia Phosphorescent - Revelator Tom Ciurczak - I Ain't Ever Growing Up, Vol. II The Black Keys - Ohio Players Sugaray Rayford - Human Decency Eels: EELS TIME! Johnny Cash - Songwriter White Dog - Double Dog Dare Pillow Queens - Name Your Sorrow St. Vincent - All Born Screaming Shannon and the Clam - The Moon is in the Wrong Place

@bengalgangster

22 күн бұрын

great list deb💜💜

@weirddebbiem1619

22 күн бұрын

@@bengalgangster Thank you, bengal. 🎶💜💜

@maryannappiagyei4277

22 күн бұрын

Album best so far this year 1. The Last Dinner Party Party Prelude to Ecstasy 2. charli xcx brat 3. vampire weekend Only God Was Above Us 4. Beth Gibbons Lives Outgrown 5. Molly Lewis On The Lips 6. Everything Everything Mountainhead 7. St. Vincent All Born Screaming 8 Rapsody please don’t cry

My top 3 is Billie Eilish, Pet Shop Boys and MGMT, but this has been a very good year for albums so far. One of the best in recent memory.

The Warning: Keep Me Fed Vince Staples: Dark Times (G)I-DLE: 2 Lupe Fiasco: Samurai Taylor Swift: The Tortured Poets Department Knocked Loose: You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To Johnny Cash: Songwriter

Once again, we seem to swim in mainly different music streams. Here are my favorite albums from 2nd quarter, 2024: 1. Barock Project-Time Voyager 2. Guster-Ooh La La 3. Bend Sinister-Mostly Great Things 4. IZZ-Collapse the Wave 5. Mándoki Soulmates-A Memory of Our Future 6. Rick Miller-One of the Many 7. Airbag-The Century of the Self 8. The Decemberists-As it Ever Was, So It Will Be Again 9. Crowded House-Gravity Stairs 10. Kaipa-Sommargryningsljus 11. Returned to the Earth-Stalagmite Steeple Lots of other good stuff too. I did like the Lemon Twigs and Vampire Weekend somewhat, but they did not make my Top 25. Most of the rest of what you mentioned I haven’t heard.

@MattOLearyMusic

21 күн бұрын

Prog, represent ✊

@TastesLikeMusic

21 күн бұрын

Could use some more prog listens myself. - Joe

Fairly surprising Jason hasn’t got the new Waxahatchee on his list. I really like it. I’m liking; Lemon Twigs Vampire Weekend Waxahatchee Middle Kids St Vincent Future Islands Camera Obscura(think Kram would be liking it) Real Estate Last Dinner Party Ducks Ltd

@maryannappiagyei4277

22 күн бұрын

Artist of year for so year 1. The Last Dinner Party 2. Rapsody 3. Green Day 4. Yard Act 5. the smile 6. vampire weekend 7. ScHoolboy Q 8. Everything Everything 9. Lupe Fiasco

@TastesLikeMusic

21 күн бұрын

I’ve got Waxahatchee at a low 4 stars. It’s very good, just kind of safe and not all that exciting.

@joachimb5721

20 күн бұрын

@TastesLikeMusic I agree. This can be said about the new Phosphorescent album as well, though.

Cowboy Carter and the Last Dinner Party album are still in my top 5 haha. ✌🏼🎧

@yedgim8172

22 күн бұрын

But also Hyperdrama by Justice, People Who Aren't There Anymore by Future Islands and Hit Me Hard and Soft by Billie Eilish. Aurora is number 6, then The Smile, etc..

So far I'm enjoying The Last Dinner Party the most - they are sooo good - but appreciated Nolan Potter in this batch. Mdou Moctar are great and may be inventing a new genre: world rock. Eric Slick has a nice 80s style video that was fun to watch. Steve Martin said that you can't play a sad song with a banjo, but he never played alongside Tracyanne Campbell. And speaking of sad, Vampire Weekend endorsed Bernie Sanders in 2020 ( best Sanders video with Jack White titled Trump's Worst Nightmare still on youtube, like a fossilized wish image ) but this week, after Biden crawled his way through the debate with the now prosecution-immune former president, Sanders said: "One bad night should not erase a very strong record." Did the Lemon Twigs put out a strong record? Some believe so.

There’s a great aoty contender available here on KZread called ‘diamond jubilee’ by Cindy Lee 👌

@TastesLikeMusic

21 күн бұрын

Lots of people think that, but I wasn’t too impressed. And it’s wayyyyy too long. - Joe

Amazed that anyone over the age of 23 likes Brat.

@bwpm1467

2 күн бұрын

I think it's unlistenable. A whole album of being shouted at via autotune.

Lives Outgrown is AOTY currently.

Yeah Brat was kind of interesting that way, the first time I listened to it I kind of wrote it off and thought Fantano was full of shit and I only liked a few songs but of all the albums I listened to so far this is the one I kept going back to the most. And now I like over half the album like von Dutch, 365, sympathy is a knife, B2b, club classics sometimes, talk talk, mean girls sometimes, and maybe like a couple others, anyways they are in my playlist for sure. There are still a few tracks that don’t do much musically for me but add to the concept or overall theme of brat, so I suppose I can see why Anthony gave it a 10 but I don’t think I can go there. Definitely by far the best pop album this year though, or maybe you are right the best in a while, atleast the best pop album since the past few years. Worth the hype? Well maybe🤷‍♂️😀for the most part anyways as far as club classics goes. Yeah probably my favourite from Charlie and I’m glad she didn’t lean to much into hyper pop which I’m also not a fan of(except 100 gecs, I know they are obnoxious but man they hurt my head in the best of ways…..please send help!)

here are some of my quarter 2 albums not in order the black keys/ohio players phospherescent/ relavator pearl jam /dark matter eric slick/new age rage slash/orgy of the damned collective soul/here to eternity the watchers/nyctophilia buffalo tom/jump rope eels/time black country communion/V guided by voices /strut of kings none of these will be AOTY tho all 4 star range

@weirddebbiem1619

22 күн бұрын

Excellent list, bengal. We have eight in common. Cool! 😎 🎶💜💜

@bengalgangster

22 күн бұрын

@@weirddebbiem1619 thanx deb , nice we have so many matches💜💜

@weirddebbiem1619

22 күн бұрын

@@bengalgangster You're welcome, bengal. Yes, so cool we have that many matches. 🎶💜💜

another great video gents - will be checking out a few of these... my AOTY (so far) would be Yours Until the War is Over by Amigo The Devil =) check it out if you havent already

Allegedly, these are your favourite pieces of musical ‘art’ of 2024 so far !!! Yet, you cannot raise one iota, a semblance or even a single atom of ecstatic enthusiasm for any of them !! 😢 ‘If’ you truly enjoyed them, how about telling your staid, weary faces !!! If the glory of true music appreciation causes you so much joyless angst, please stop. Modern music is, at best, deep state remedial madness contrived to further retard the masses, So, the music business today, is exactly and only that. Therefore, as an art form, music may not be dead, but, it’s FIGHTING FOR ITS LIFE !!!!!

@TastesLikeMusic

22 күн бұрын

You probably tell your waitress to smile more.

@TastesLikeMusic

22 күн бұрын

Too tired to smile. - Joe

@windyhillbomber

19 күн бұрын

No one can see you smile in space

Guys, may I ask, are you gonna review the new Lake Street Dive album?

@TastesLikeMusic

22 күн бұрын

Not on the channel but I will give it a listen. - Joe

Beth Gibbons and Jessica Pratt is my two favorites!

Bonny Light Horsemen !

@echosmyron1278

22 күн бұрын

That one put me to sleep…

@gregdale1066

21 күн бұрын

@@echosmyron1278 yea you probably don’t want to put it on at the gym but it checks all the boxes for me.

How many Prince albums are you counting?

@TastesLikeMusic

19 күн бұрын

Too many to count.

1. Hurray for the Riff Raff - The Past is Still Alive 2. Adrianne Lenker - Bright Future 3. La Luz - News of the Universe 4. Mac Cornish - Never Made Much of a Lover 5. The Black Crowes - Happiness Bastard 6. Heartless Bastards & Special Guest Artists - Winter in the Blood 7. The Bevis Frond - Focus on Nature 8. Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood 9. Phosphorescent - Revelator 10. Pearl Jam - Dark Matter 11. Trummors - 5

@maryannappiagyei4277

22 күн бұрын

Album best so far this year 1. The Last Dinner Party Party Prelude to Ecstasy 2. charli xcx brat 3. vampire weekend Only God Was Above Us 4. Beth Gibbons Lives Outgrown 5. Molly Lewis On The Lips 6. Everything Everything Mountainhead 7. St. Vincent All Born Screaming

1. ⁠Willi Carlisle - Critterland 2. ⁠Knocked Loose - You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To 3. High on Fire - Cometh The Storm 4. Judas Priest - Invincible Shield 5. Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood 6. BRAT 7. Roc Marciano - Marciology 8. Lupe Fiasco - Samurai 9. Justice - Hyperdrama 10. $uicideboy$- New World Depression

3 albums this year you guys didn't mention that I would. Pearl Jam - Dark Matter. Their best since Yield, imo. Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown. And MGMT - Loss Of Life. It's a near perfect album, imo with timely mature lyrics, great tunes, and production. It's an easy 4.5 stars for me, maybe 5. The only thing I've heard better this year is by The Smile. Stuart

@TastesLikeMusic

22 күн бұрын

Pearl Jam just missed out on a mention. MGMT is solid but not quite AOTY material. Not a fan of Beth Gibbons at all. -Jason

@suartgilmour4540

22 күн бұрын

@TastesLikeMusic Aye, will agree to disagree, lol. Glad yous mentioned Phosphorescent, St Vincent and Vampire Weekend. 3 great albums

Vroom, Vroom … after listening to ‘BRAT’ Allie X is still the reigning synth pop/dance queen of 2024 with ‘Girl With No Face’ Better lyrics, better beats, better hooks. “Hail Satan, at least he keeps a promise. Big Brother’s always out of office.” - Weird World “Oh, what a shame Don't you agree? Wasting your time sleeping on me” - You Slept On Me

@TastesLikeMusic

18 күн бұрын

I disagree. But I still liked the Allie X. - Joe

@michelewiese48

18 күн бұрын

@@TastesLikeMusic Good morning! You do you, Joe! People still need to hear it if they haven’t.

Where's Dark Matter by Pearl Jam?

@TastesLikeMusic

21 күн бұрын

Not in my top 25. - Joe

@contayjuslovesonedirection1817

21 күн бұрын

@TastesLikeMusic it's a great album though, I think it's thier best since Vitalogy

Below the Waste by Goat Girl

@SomeSong2

22 күн бұрын

I need to listen to that.

@pequalsa

22 күн бұрын

@SomeSong2 the songs aren't quite as instantly grabbing as On All Fours, but the overall album flow builds a great atmosphere/mood. After the first 2 singles came out, I was a bit concerned I wouldn't like the album as they sounded more like their debut than On All Fours. Fortunately, they really seemed to put some of the rawness of debut into what they learned/created with On All Fours, mixed a lot of other elements to create something on a different level. It is one that definitely takes a few listens to start getting.