OS' Best Album of 2014

[Watson]

It's December, which means it's time for these lists to start rolling out. So, what 10 albums did you enjoy the most this year?


If we get enough submissions, I'll tally all of them up and form a crowdsourced list.

My Top 10:

#10: Goddess- BANKS
Best Song: Warm Water

#9: The Belt- In The Valley Below
Best Song: Stand Up

#8: This Is All Yours- ∆ (alt-J)
Best Song: Left Hand Free

#7: Oxymoron- ScHoolboy Q
Best Song: Collard Greens (Ft. Kendrick Lamar)

#6: Lazaretto- Jack White
Best Song: High Ball Stepper

#5: After The Disco- Broken Bells
Best Song: Leave It Alone

#4: The Physical World- Death From Above 1979
Best Song: Virgins

#3: Turn Blue- The Black Keys
Best Song: Gotta Get Away

#2: French Exit- TV Girl
Best Song: Birds Don't Sing

#1: Run The Jewels 2- Run The Jewels
Best Song: Blockbuster Night Part 1

Honorable Mentions: Lost In The Dream- The War On Drugs, Our Love- Caribou, Hold My Home- The Cold War Kids, To Be Kind- Swans


So what's your top 10?

[Madman55]

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Off the top of my head...

Arch Enemy - War Eternal
Best Song: War Eternal

Billy Talent - Hits
Best Song: Kingdom of Zod

The Balconies - Fast Motions
Best Song: Boys and Girls

Behemoth - The Satanist
Best Song: Blow Your Trumpets Gabriel

Glorious Sons - The Union
Best Song: White Noise

Jack White - Lazaretto
Best Song: High Ball Stepper

Judas Priest - Redeemer of Souls
Best Song: Dragonaut

Rival Sons - Great Western Valkyrie
Best Song: Electric Man

[nate1986]

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Jack White: Lazeretto
Blake Shelton: bringing back the sunshine
Slipknot: the grey Chapter
Brad Paisley: moonshine in the trunk
Bastille: all this bad blood
Hozier: Hozier
Nickleback: No Fixed Address

Hozier, Blake and Slipknot i enjoyed the most, Nickelbacks new album was a bit of a let down besides Edge of a revolution and what are you waiting for

[Fresh Tendrils]

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[JMD]

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Evergrey - Hymns For The Broken
Novembers Doom - Bled White
Opeth - Pale Communion

[JazzMan]

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I probably put waaaay too much thought into this... But here's my list. Some sleepers on this list in Foxy Shazam's Gonzo and Drake Bell's Ready Steady Go.

#1: Supermodel - Foster The People
Best Song: Goats In Tree

#2: Gonzo - Foxy Shazam
Best Song: Poem Pathetic

#3: Lazaretto - Jack White
Best Song: Entitlement

#4: Turn Blue - The Black Keys
Best Song: Bullet In The Brain

#5: .5: The Grey Chapter - Slipknot
Best Song: Skeptic

#6: Kauai - Childish Gambino
Best Song: Retro [ROUGH]

#7: Benji - Sun Kil Moon
Best Song: Carissa

#8: Sonic Highways - Foo Fighters
Best Song: Something From Nothing

#9: Everything Will Be Alright in the End - Weezer
Best Song: Cleopatra

#10: Ready Steady Go! - Drake Bell
Best Song: Bitchcraft

Honorable Mention:
The Black Market - Rise Against
Best Song: Zero Visibility

Tribute - John Newman
Best Song: Love Me Again

G I R L - Pharrell Williams
Best Song: Hunter

STN MTN - Childish Gambino
Best Song: All Ya'll

[Godspeed]

Re: OS' Best Album of 2014

I haven't listened to much from this year, but here's my top five.

1. Swans - To Be Kind
2. Mogwai - Rave Tapes
3. Death Grips - Niggas on the Moon
4. Have a Nice Life - The Unnatural World
5. Sun Kil Moon - Benji

[Godspeed]

Re: OS' Best Album of 2014

#10: Ready Steady Go! - Drake Bell
Best Song: Bitchcraft

Nah, man, "I Won't Stand in Your Way" is best.

[JazzMan]

Re: OS' Best Album of 2014

Nah, man, "I Won't Stand in Your Way" is best.

Though I kind of agree, I wanted to put one of his original songs as his best instead of a cover song.

[AndreTheTruth]

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There was a few albums that i didn't grab as of late (Under Pressure Cadillactica etc.), but Here's my top 10 best albums of 2014.

#1: Run The Jewels 2 - Run The Jewels
Best Song: Oh My Darling Don't Cry

#2: Searching Sylvan - QuESt
Best Song: Struggle Rapper

#3: Black Hystori Project - CyHI The Prynce
Best Song: Mandela

#4: Clockwork Indigo (EP) - Clockwork Indigo
Best Song: Benefit Concert

#5: House Rules - Slaughterhouse
Best Song: Offshore

#6: Days Before Rodeo - Travi$ Scott
Best Song: Zombies

#7: The Water[s] - Mick Jenkins
Best Song: Black Sheep

#8: Strangeulation - Tech N9ne
Best Song: Fear

#9: Faces - Mac Miller
Best Song: Polo Jeans

#10: Shyne Coldchain Vol. 2 - Vince Staples
Best Song: Earth Science

Honorable Mention:

#1: Animated - VI Seconds
Best Song: Sirens

#2: Amerikkkans Most Blunted - Trizz & Chuuwee
Best Song: Here I Am

#3: $hut Your Mouth - Murs
Best Song: Justin Bieber'$ Black Baby

#4: Blak And Blu - Gary Clark Jr.
Best Song: Things Are Changin

#5: Week of K.R.I.T. - Big K.R.I.T.
Best Song: Egyptian Cotton

[racerx]

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Evergrey - Hymns for the Broken
Sinbreed - Shadows
Vanishing Point - Distant is the Sun
Primal Fear - Delivering the Black

[ImTellinTim]

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I'm going to include some from 2013 because I don't keep up enough to have much of a list from just 2014.

(not necessarily in order)

King Tuff - Black Moon Spell
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We Were Promised Jetpacks - Unravelling
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Spoon - They Want My Soul
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Wavves - Afraid of Heights
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Bass Drum of Death - Rip This
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Brothers Burn Mountain - A Thread Through the Night
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Jack White - Lazaretto
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Beck - Morning Phase
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Mac Demarco - Salad Days
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Turn Blue really, really disappointed me as an album, btw.

[LionsFanNJ]

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Hmm I dont think I listened to ten new albums this year but I did listen to five and they're still in rotation

Brody Dalle - Diploid love
Lana del Rey - Ultraviolence
Electric Wizard - Time to Die
Skyzoo + Torae - the Barrel Brothers
Step Brothers (Alchemist and Evidence) - Lord Steppington

It annoys me I missed a few albums. Like Crowbar's new one, MF DOOM/Neru's collab and Slipknot. Swore slipknot was done. But im wrong.

[Madman55]

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Still got a couple recent ones to check out, notably ACDC's Rock or Bust and Foo Fighter's Sonic Highways

[Watson]

Re: OS' Best Album of 2014

Still got a couple recent ones to check out, notably ACDC's Rock or Bust and Foo Fighter's Sonic Highways

"AC/DC made millions of dollars off of songs either about rocking or getting ready to rock."