Sunday, November 14, 2021

Memorializing

 2020 was the year that I made the transition from buying CDs (I've bought two this year) to listening to music almost exclusively via streaming.  It's scrambled my brain a bit, to be honest.  I've had to force myself to dedicate time to listening to full albums, because it's so enticing to come up with another playlist; another quest for the perfect segue between songs.  There are albums on the list below where I can't remember a single song.  That's not great, obviously - so for my 2021 sidebar list, I'm going to include only those albums that truly sunk in, that I've gone back to on a regular basis.  

The 2020 list:

  • Starting Over - Chris Stapleton
  • Generations - Will Butler
  • Hey Clockface - Elvis Costello
  • Love is the King - Jeff Tweedy
  • Uncivil War - Shemekia Copeland
  • On My Own - Lera Lynn
  • Letter to You - Bruce Springsteen
  • Serpentine Prison - Matt Berninger
  • Cuttin' Grass, Vol. 1 - Sturgill Simpson
  • Speed, Sound, Lonely kv (EP) - Kurt Vile
  • Good Luck With Whatever - Dawes
  • As Long As You Are - Future Islands
  • Alone Together Sessions - Hayes Carll
  • The New OK - Drive-By Truckers
  • What Is There - Delta Spirit
  • Aftermath - Elizabeth Cook
  • Hearts Town - The War and Treaty
  • Daughter - Lydia Loveless
  • The Ascension - Sufjan Stevens
  • Shore - Fleet Foxes
  • Long Violent History - Tyler Childers
  • Shallow Graves - India Ramey
  • Blackbirds - Bettye Lavette
  • Die Midwestern - Arlo McKinney
  • The Beautiful Madness - Jerry Joseph
  • Twelfth - Old 97's
  • Total Freedom - Kathleen Edwards
  • Xoxo - The Jayhawks
  • The Dirt and the Stars - Mary Chapin Carpenter
  • Such Pretty Forks in the Road - Alanis Morrisette
  • Made of Rain - The Psychedelic Furs
  • The Balladeer - Lori McKenna
  • Old Flowers - Courtney Marie Andrews
  • folklore - Taylor Swift
  • Hate for Sale - Pretenders
  • The Waterfall II - My Morning Jacket
  • Gaslighter - The Chicks
  • All the Good Times - Gillian Welch, David Rawlings
  • That's How Rumors Get Started - Margo Price
  • What's Your Pleasure? - Jessie Ware
  • On the Road: A Tribute to John Hartford
  • Women in Music Part III - HAIM
  • No Dream - Jeff Rosenstock
  • Homegrown - Neil Young
  • Rough and Rowdy Ways - Bob Dylan
  • Punisher - Phoebe Bridgers
  • Built to Spill Plays the Songs of Daniel Johnston
  • Self Made Man - Larkin Poe
  • Introduction, Presence - Nation of Language
  • All Visible Objects - Moby
  • World on the Ground - Sarah Jarosz
  • Dreaming Again - Lizzy Long
  • RTJ4 - Run the Jewels
  • Spider Tales - Jake Blount
  • Folk 'n Roll Vol. 1 - J.S. Ondara
  • A Different War - Daniela Cotton and the Church Boys
  • Danzig Sings Elvis
  • Neon Cross - Jaime Wyatt
  • Tessy Lou Williams
  • Dedicated Side B - Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Chromatica - Lady Gaga
  • Cold Water - Medhane
  • Copy That - Sara Evans
  • how i'm feeling now - Charli XCX
  • Going to the Movies - Mark Fredson
  • Reunions - Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
  • Beautiful and Strange - Chelsea Williams
  • Bad Luck - Sylvia Rose Novak
  • The Way It Feels - Maddie & Tae
  • Invisible People - Chicano Batman
  • We Still Go to Rodeos - Whitney Rose
  • Alphabetland - X
  • Future Nostalgia - Dua Lipa
  • Lamentations - American Aquarium
  • Walking Proof - Lilly Hiatt
  • Fetch the Bolt Cutters - Fiona Apple
  • The New Abnormal - The Strokes
  • Mama's Biscuits - Kirby Heard
  • Never Will - Ashley McBryde
  • The Family Songbook - The Haden Triplets
  • Saint Cloud - Waxahatchee
  • Gigaton - Pearl Jam
  • Anybody Out There - Sadler Vaden
  • Your Life is a Record - Brandy Clark
  • Expectations - Katie Pruitt
  • The Dream - Hailey Whitters
  • Saturn Return - The Secret Sisters
  • Honeymoon - Beach Bunny
  • color theory - Soccer Mommy
  • Open Book - Kalie Shorr
  • Miss Anthropocene - Grimes
  • The Unraveling - Drive-By Truckers
  • County Squire - Tyler Childers