Aktivator's year in Review (2014)

Aktivator

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Amazing I've been making an end of year list for the past 15 years!


Top Photos of 2014 - Non Concert

top concerts of 2014


total live shows in 2014
44 Shows
77 Bands

Bands we saw 3 times in 2014:
Tori Amos
St Vincent

Bands we saw twice in 2014
Cibo Matto
Interpol
Joseph Arthur
Neil young
Neutral Milk Hotel

Favorite shows of 2014
1, King Crimson - Best Buy Theatre
2, Neil Young - Carnegie Hall
3, Neutral Milk Hotel - Capital Theatre, Port Chester, NY
4, Tori Amos - Beacon Theater
5, Interpol - Bowery Ballroom
6, Kraftwerk - United Palace
7, Elbow - Webster Hall
8, Bruce Springsteen - Albany
9, St Vincent - Terminal 5
10, California Guitar Trio - Town Crier
11, Slowdive - Terminal 5
12, Afghan Whigs - Music Hall of Williamsburg
 

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I listen close to 200 albums this year. While the order doesn't mean much for me I tend to put some order to it. I added the genre (although please don't argue about my opinion its really just to help someone who doesn't know).


Top albums of 2014

1. Elbow - The Take off and Landing of Everything (Indie Rock/Art Rock)
2. War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream (Indie Rock)
3. St Vincent - St Vincent (Art Pop/Indie Pop)
4. Interpol - El Pintor (Post Punk Revival)
5. The Antlers - Familiars (Dream Pop/Art Pop)
6. Beck - Morning Phase (Alt Rock)
7. Tori Amos - Unrepentant Geraldines (Singer/Songwriter)
8. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness (Singer/Songwriter)
9. Cibo Matto - Hotel Valentine (Art Pop)
10. Temples - Sun Structure (Neo-Psychodelia)
11. IQ - The Road of Bones (Prog Rock)
12. LCD SoundSystem - The Long Goodbye: LCD Soundsystem Live at Madison Square Garden (Dance - Punk)
13. Sia - 1000 Forms of Fear (Indie Pop)
14. Gruff Ryms - American Interior (Neo-Psychodelia)
15. Damien Rice - My Favourite Faded Fantasy (Singer/Songwriter)
16. Real Estate - Atlas (Indie Rock)
17. Caribou - Our Love (Indietronica)
18. *Ty Segall - Manipulator (Garage Rock)
19. Lana Del Ray - Ultraviolence (Dream Pop)
20. Gazpacho - Demon (Prog Rock)
21. J Mascis - Tied to a Star (Singer/Songwriter)
22. Jack White - Lazaretto (Blue Rock)
23. The Raveonettes - Pe'Ahi (Noise Pop/Dream Pop)
24. Klaus Johann Grobe - Im Sinne der Zeit (Krautrock)
25. Kayo Dot - Coffins on Io (Prog Rock/Art Rock)
26. Jenny Lewis - Voyager (Pop Rock)
27. Lykke Li - I Never Learn (Art Pop/Indie Pop)
28. Swans - To Be Kind (Noise Rock)
29. Mogwai - Rave Tapes (Post Rock)
30. Spoon - They Want My Soul (Indie Rock/Pop)
31. Ex Hex - Rips (Indie Rock)
32. Sun Kil Moon - Benji (Singer/Songwriter)
33. Cymbals Eat Guitars - LOSE (Indie Rock)
34. u2 - Songs of Innocence (Pop Rock)
35. Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animal (Indie Rock)
36. Eagulls - Eagulls (Post Punk)
37. Wye Oak - Shriek - Shriek (Indie Pop)
38. Peter Hammill/Gary Lucas - Other World (Prog Rock-Neo Folk)
39. Real Estate - Atlas (Dream Pop/Indie Rock)
40. Protomartyr* - Under Color of Official Right (Post Punk/Garage Rock)
41. Quilt - Held in Splendor (Neo-Psychodelia)
42. Hookworms* - The Hum (Noise Rock)
43. Trigger Hippy - Trigger Hippy (Roots Rock)
44. Julian Casablancas + The Voidz - Tyranny (Indie Pop)
45. Pink Floyd - The Endless River (Space Rock)
46. Warpaint - Warpaint (Dream Pop)
47. The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger - Midnight Sun (Neo-Psychodelia)
48. Broken Bells - After the Disco (Indie Pop)
49. The Pineapple Thief - Magnolia (Alt Rock/Prog Rock)
50. Alt J - This Is All Yours (Indie Pop)
51. La Roux - Trouble In Paradise (Syth Pop)
52. First Aid Kit - Stay Gold (Indie Folk)
53. Badbadnotgood* - III (Jazz Fusion)
54. Ryan Adams - Ryan Adams (Singer/Songwriter)
55. Joan Osborne - Love and Hate (Singer/Songwriter)
56. Charli XCX - Sucker (Electropop)
57. Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots (Art Pop)
58. LUCINDA WILLIAMS - Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone (Americana/Alt Country)
59. Radiator Hospital - Torch Song (Indie Rock)
60. Rival Sons - Great Western Valkyrie (Hard Rock)
 

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I always love reading these threads by you, @Aktivator, although I always do so with a slight sense of envy of some of the gigs you've attended.

As for your "Top albums of 2014”, it's a damn good list. Many of those albums would also be on my list. Some a little higher, some a little lower, but regardless, compliments for your excellent taste.
 

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