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The world is shocked, shocked, that 1975 missed the top ten despite having an all-timer of an album. The music scene was just that good this year! And they'll have another chance at #1 with the top albums list.

The top ten ... is gonna have to wait though. Obviously I'm out of time today, but I won't have much time at all tomorrow nor the next day either. So finishing before the new year now seems an unlikely goal, but I promise it'll be worth it when we get there!


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Happy new year!

2023 may be here, but we still aren't quite done with 2022 yet. There are still ten songs to go. The best ten in fact. That's how countdowns work.

I think I'm gonna try to knock out the entire thing today. So rather than my usual 3/4 songs at a time updates I'll just post one here and there, adding some commentary when I feel like it.

Let's gooooo.


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Fais bien attention à toi, Ton jeu, je le connais déjà



10. Libre by Angele

-I think if Angele, from Belgium, sung in English rather than French she'd be getting hyped as the new Dua Lipa by now ... or someone similiar. As is, elle est making progress in the worldwide pop scene, but isn't quite a headline pour Coachella quite yet. I feel like you don't really need to know the language well to appreciate her songs though. They're fun, they're bubbly, she's gorgeous - what else do you need from a pop star? Live your life is all you need to know about vivre libre. Which, to Angele, apparently means walking the streets of New York eating pizza .... My type of girl indeed.


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Trippers and askers, they surrounded me, all them describing how they'd like me



9. Wild by Spoon

-This song starts as a whisper, a thought in the head that maybe what we have and what is expected of us is not quite what we want or need. I love the way it grows though, shouting this call for the wild as an anthem in what should be the biggest stadiums in the world. As a 34 year-old unmarried man, I can obviously relate to “the world so wild still calls to me” (though I prefer my wild to be indoors.) I know Spoon is better known and beloved for their quirky indie style, and while I like that too, I just wanna hear them rock out and they 100% obliged on their album.


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8. Triangle by The Hu

-Shoog! This is the last song on the list that is classified as metal, but is it really? Listen to it. That's no metal. That's a cool spring breeze, directly from the Eternal Blue Sky, here to tell us that the hardships of winter are over. Mongoloian folk-metal would be a proper term for it I suppose, but definitely more of the former, but with an edge that keeps it interesting while riding throughout the lands rather than growing quickly stale around a campire. Is this what the song is actually about? I have no idea and can't even find accurate lyrics to it. Does it matter? Absolutely not, cause what I (and hopefully you too) feel when we listen to the song is what really matters.


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I gotta have you, gotta have you to myself, why would I want anybody else?



7. Jealousy by Pale Waves

-Holy wow the lighting in that music video is just as beautiful as Heather herself. I usually watch the videos for the first time while posting this and am always a bit shocked when I miss a good one like that lol. Anyways, Pale Waves have now charted four years in a row here on the Flava’d Fifty, but this is their first time in the top five (or ten.) I love the evolution of Heather, starting as the most depressing synthy goth girl (Television Romance), one who would be more at home in Nevermore Academy than youtube. Then they got a bit more grungey (Change), accepting themselves and what they desire (She’s My Religion) and have now come all the way to make an uplifting pop-punk jam. Though maybe turning your negative feelings into positive ones is as goth as you can get without cocaine. Can’t wait to see where they go next. Hopefully she can find a better best friend than jealously.


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The struggle for the right side of history, independent thought is like an eternal enemy



6. Savior by Kendrick Lamar

-Kendrick explores our society and is disappointed. This a common theme throughout his music. On Savior he looks at celebrity worship and how it made us even more toxic. And this ain't just about fellow musicians either. Actors, athletes, even local celebrities like priests and politicians. "Seen a Christian say the vaccine is the mark of the best, then he caught covid and prayed to pfizer for relief, then I caught covid and began to question Kyrie." Yet the difference between Kendrick and the rest of the world is that he includes himself in the 'part of the problem' category. "I find it just as difficult to love thy neighbor" he admits as he rebels against his own status as a role model. That kind of self-awareness is so rare and why many, including myself, consider him to be the best lyricist in the rap game right now ... and possibly ever too.


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Flava'd vs The World wrote:
8. Triangle by The Hu

Do people yell out play Baba O'Riley at their concerts like Summer of 69 at Ryan Adams ones?

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Flava'd vs The World wrote:
8. Triangle by The Hu

Do people yell out play Baba O'Riley at their concerts like Summer of 69 at Ryan Adams ones?
I remember that. Ryan Adams once stopped at a concert because of it. :funny:

The Hu are really good with crowd engagement. Obviously no one can sing along with their lyrics, so they are constantly leading chants of "Hu, Hu, Hu" or "Shoog, Shoog, Shoog" with fist bumps to go along with it. Now that you mention it though, they probably would do a killer cover of Baba O Reilly.


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Did you hear my covert narcissism I disguise as altruism like some kind of congressman?



5. Anti-Hero by Taylor Swift

-It's me, hi, I'm the problem its me. Taylor claims to never look into the mirror yet that’s exactly what she does in Anti-Hero. Yet, despite the downer lyrics, this might one of the most fun songs she has ever made. Definitely the best of her “let’s check-in and see how Taylor is doing” lead singles since Mine. Though it didn’t follow the same path as those others, the entire album functioned as the ‘I’m back’ song since we all experienced each song at the same time. Midnights at Midnight. And while I did love Evermore enough to give it #1 album of 2020, it is nice to have the old Taylor back. Her songwriting just improves as she gets older and she continues to find ways to make her words sound new and unique, even when looking backwards.


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But when I felt it, my eyes melted, the selfish are constantly profitin' off thе helpless



4. Walkin by Denzel Curry

-This isn't Denzel's first time on the Flava'd Fifty, but you'd be forgiven for not making the connection. Last time, he had Speedboat, which is a great song, but definitely more of a hype-rap track. For his new album, Denzel transition to more of a chill and conscious style of hip-hop, taking the path of Kendrick over the path of Drake. It's a risky move. Vince Staples, for example, has had middling success doing the same thing (sure he still charts but nowhere near as high.) Yet it really unlocked a side of Curry that no one saw coming. On Walkin, he starts off smooth, as calm as he can be, discussing the injustice he often sees result from the class divide. But the more he thinks the more he feels. And eventually he just lets it all out. Shouting at no one in particular, representing by his walk through the desert in the video, he can't just keep walkin with his back against the sun. He's gonna confront it head on.


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Knowing what you know just makes it harder to think straight, starting over after it all breaks



3. All Comes Crashing by Metric

-All Comes Crashing might have been my anticipated song since Linkin Park’s ‘Somewhere I Belong.’ Their previous album, Art of Doubt, had the #1, #8 and #9 songs of 2018. It was a massacre. How do you follow that up? Well, by going full on apocalyptic of course. The album really should have been named after the first track, Doomscroller. A world where our obsession with technology isn’t going to cause our downfall because it already has. Yet, even in the night before the doomsday, Metric find light in the darkness. “If all we know comes crashing down tonight, I’d be with you and there’s no one I’d rather be dying besides.” A beautiful image to conjure even if it's the last one we ever see. So yeah, my unfairly high expectations were somehow met and shattered alongside the rest.


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Like nothing matters after natural disaster, and I wonder, where's my happy ever after?



2. Weeds by Beach Bunny

-The emossaince of 2022 will be remembere for the return of My Chemical Romance, Blink 182, Paramore, etc... But, the current queen of the genre never left the throne thanks to a spectacular romantic adventure in space known as the Emotional Creature album, released in mid July. Sophomore slumps don't exist in the world of Beach Bunny. So far, since I learned of her back in the pandemic year, she has placed #1, #5 and now #2. Not too shabby. It's no wonder she has already been invited to perform on the 2023 When We Were Young fest. Despite the extraterrestrial nature of the album, Weeds is as grounded as its namesake. It's a relentlessly positive self-empowerment anthem, sung from one part of yourself to another. "The problem is you think you're only viable for love when someone makes you feel complete" is heart-breaking but then immediately by "you're a diamond, wish you could see you the way I see, you can't blossom if you keep growing gardens out of weeds." I guess that is an important part of a journey among the stars. You never know what's going to happen at the next port.


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I was expecting the Metric/Beach Bunny 1-2 punch in July to cruise to the top spots Yet it ended up not even being the best month of music in the year! Sorry to those fine gals, but the biggest threat was never each other, it was still on the horizon.

I'll post #1 about midnight ... ish. The symbolism would have been cooler yesterday but here we are. Day two of the year needs more love anyways.


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So I've been tryin' hard to open up, when I lost someone it hit me rough, I paid to toughen up in therapy, she said to me, "Soften up"



1. Surrender My Heart by Carly Rae Jepsen

-October 22, 2022 - forever dubbed the Apopalypse ... by only me. For most people, it was day that Midnights came out. I admit I listened to that one first, and expected it to like it more. Surrender My Heart just happens to be the first song on Carly's album and it was on right from the start. It is the beginning of something, yet also the end of something while still launching a new beginning. Cycles and shit. I don't think 2022 was the greatest year for anyone, lots of bad happened all around the world (and personally as well), and it'd be easy to give up hope. Surrender My Heart is about looking ahead though. "The benefit of all the broken hearts that I broke before they could break me Is a little bit of life regrets I won't bring that mess to you when you're with me." You don't even need a particular someone or something to surrender it to, just the idea that it may happen is enough. I think that feeling is perfectly encapsulated in this song. The dreams of a better future is the best cure for what's plagued us in the past. And that big feeling and those big dreams deserved the big music video that I know she had so much fun making. So that's why Surrender My Heart is the number one song of 2022.

I wanna be open, I wanna be honest with you


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We did it! Thanks for tuning in once again! Hope everyone enjoyed atleast some of it. :D

Crazy how fast the years go by when you put them to music.

Album list will be up at some point.

Not tonight. :P


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Boo at The Loneliest Time (my 2nd favorite song from her after I Want You In My Room) not being the CRJ pick

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Boo at The Loneliest Time (my 2nd favorite song from her after I Want You In My Room) not being the CRJ pick
Well see, what happened was, we reached the moon. But lost in space we found ourselves there all too soon. :P

The Loneliest Time was my 13th most played song of the year, sixth for Carly after SMH, Beach House (which would have been my next choice for #1 is SMH didn't exist), Talking To Yourself, Western Wind (which came out way earlier than the others to be fair) and Joshua Tree. Great song but not quite #1 of the year material.

I'm gonna post albums list soon. Which is the top prize of the year as anyone who knows me has read before (euther here or in the grammys threads.) Still struggling to decide on some placements. Not quite as easy to listen to them all again as I'm writing like it like with the songs, which is why I do those in a long-form list and albums all at once. Plus the lists are very similiar, so it'd be redundant to do it twice.


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1. Being Funny In A Foreign Language - The 1975
2. The Loneliest Time - Carly Rae Jepsen
3. Emotional Creature - Beach Bunny
4. Melt My Eyez, See My Future - Denzel Curry
5. Lucifer On The Sofa - Spoon
6. Midnights - Taylor Swift
7. King’s Disease 3 - Nas
8. CMAT - CMAT
9. Mr. Morale and The Big Steppers - Kendrick Lamar
10. Love Sux - Avril Lavigne
11. Rumble of Thunder - The Hu
12. Nonante-Cinq - Angele
13. In The Wild - The Interrupters
14. Diasphora Problems - Soul Glo
15. No Thank You - Lil Simz
16. Rogue Carpet Disaster - Static Dress
17. Crash - Charli XCX
18. Formentera - Metric
19. In Dimes We Trust - Mike Dimes
20. Into The Blue - Broken Bells
21. Premonition - White Lung
22. Nymph - Shygirl
23. Gold Mouf - Lute
24. Mercury - The Range
25. Rennaisance - Beyonce
26. Framing My Perception - The GFM Band
27. Hello, Hi - Ty Segall
28. WE- Arcade Fire
29. Get Fucked - The Chats
30. Surrender - Maggie Rogers
31. Dawn FM - The Weeknd
32. Steady - Sloan
33. Jackpot Juicier - Dance Gavin Dance
34. Never Let Me Go - Placebo
35. Apocalypse Porn - A Wilhelm Scream
36. Learning To Be Happy - Kayleigh Goldsworthy
37. Cool It Down - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
38. Expert In A Dying Field - The Beths
39. SZNZ - Weezer
40. Pirates - Visions of Atlantis
41. Everything Is Fine (I’m Only On Fire) - Anna Shoemaker
42. Fear Of The Dawn - Jack White
43. Assassine - Celeste
44. Voyeurist - Underoath
45. The Unraveling Of The Pup The Band - Pup
46. $oul $old $eperately - Freddie Gibbs
47. It’s Almost Dry - Pusha T
48. Farm To Table - Bartees Strange
49. Household Name - Momma
50. Wet Leg - Wet Leg
?. SOS - SZA

-The 1975 have been killing it for the last decade, but the one issue with their albums was always the same - too much filler whether it be interludes or other weird stuff. Enter Jack Antonoff, producer of the year, and together they make a tight and compact album, which not only has no skippable songs on it, but no skippable seconds. Even the opening track, which they always name The 1975, is one of the best songs they've made compared to last album where The 1975 was just Greta Thornberg's famous speech put to a beat. From there they rip off a stretch of Happiness, Looking For Somebody To Love, Part of the Band, Oh Caroline and I'm In Love With You, all also among the best songs they ever made. There's just too much there to deny the top prize of 2022, even though it does feel like a betrayal of my beloved Carly. She has a case to make though, her grievances are no unwarranted. According to my apple replay, TLT had a whopping 234 more plays than BFiaFL. Even accounting for the extra four songs on TLT, that is a huge difference. I dunno how to properly explain it, but here we have a difference between the album with the best songs (Carly) and the overall best album (1975.) I went back and forth a million times, but I think I settled on the right choice. Both will probably end up amongst my all-time favorites in a few years though. I think we'll also remember this as one of the greatest years for both pop and hip-hop too.

I just listened to SZA's album on New Years so I didn't know how to rank it, thus the ?. It was pretty damn good though.


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Forgot the full song list!

1. Surrender My Heart - Carly Rae Jepsen
2. Weeds - Beach Bunny
3. All Comes Crashing - Metric
4. Walkin - Denzel Curry
5. Anti-Hero - Taylor Swift
6. Savior - Kendrick Lamar
7. Jealousy - Pale Waves
8. Triangle - The Hu
9. Wild - Spoon
10. Libre - Angele
11. Part of the Band - The 1975
12. In The Mirror - The Interrupters
13. Every Bottle Is My Boyfriend - CMAT
14. Atonement - Conquer Divide
15. Rotoscope - Spiritbox
16. Dare To Love Me - Avril Lavigne
17. Thun - Nas
18. Sweet - Static Dress
19. Pup The Band… - Pup
20. Here Ever After - Red Hot Chili Peppers
21. Little Bit of Love-Weezer
22. Beg For You - Charli XCX
23. Damn Excuses - Underoath
24. Coming Correct Is Cheaper - Soulglo
25. Lookout Kid - Arcade Fire
26. Pushin P - Gunna
27. Jiggalo - Mike Dimes
28. Loved You A Little - The Maine
29. Call Me Little Sunshine - Ghost
30. Why So Toxic - GFM
31. We Dont Talk About Bruno - Encanto
32. Love on the Run - Broken Bells
33. Firefly - Shygirl
34. Here To Forever - Death Cab For Cutie
35, GED - Lute
36. Wolf - Yeah Yeah yeahs
37. Strangers - Dangermouse, Black Thought, Run The Jewels, A$AP Rocky
38. Cuff It - Beyonce
39. De tes yeux bleus perles - Celeste
40. Take My Breath - The Weeknd
41. Date Night - White Lung
42. Gorilla - Little Simz
43. Master The Hurricane - Visions of Atlantis
44. Want Want - Maggie Rogers
45. The Dying Song - Slipknot
46. Pyramiden - Syk
47. Chaise Longue - Wet Leg
48. Magic - Vince Staples
49. This Is Why - Paramore
50. Permanent Rebellion - LS Dunes


And that does it for another year.


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I still feel a little guilty over snubbing my beloved Carly, but then again both albums were equal, and if I start changing things then we'll have to look back at previous years too. Has the Beartooth album held up better than Halsey or Spiritbox? I don't wanna make that decision.

So instead of tinkering with something I already did, I think it's time to start the FFXII and it just so happens that I'll have alot of free time time over the next week thanks to the Cavs being humiliated and getting knocked out so quickly. I'm not sure what to do though. The 70s were next up but my preliminary list is so samey, at least 90% dad rock songs. And if I'm gonna be samey might as well just do a list for a single artist, like say Miss Jepsen as a make-up for the snub earlier in the year? Or, since I started doing lists in 2003, maybe it'd be cool to do a list for just the year 2002. I was also thinking all-time best albums, but I think it would take awhile to put that one together since I'd have to re-listen to all 50+ to be accurate.

I dunno, I might not do anything at all. I don't expect a response or any interest, this is just brainstorming out loud.


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Just do the 70s dad rock list

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Shack wrote:
Just do the 70s dad rock list
Deal!

I was perhaps being a bit dismissive of the decade too. There's some interesting things happening at the end with punk, alternative, disco and hip-hop all starting out. It was just obviously dominated by British dudes ... or was it??? We shall find out ... After one more quick run through.


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