The GOATs of All Time Music of 2024: Albums and Songs For You To Listen To
Many thanks to our sponsors: Red 40 and Throwing Rocks At Trains, we couldn’t do this every year without your invaluable support. As I always say, “Tonight is gonna be a good night if I have a glass of Red 40 in one hand and a bunch of rocks in the other and a train is rolling by.” I’m always saying that.
2024 was a year. And like most other years, it had months, weeks, and days. A lot of the days were between 22-24 hours long. That’s a lot of hours in one year. In one hour, you can listen to anywhere from one to four albums. So instead of taking the time to listen to that many albums, Bento Corp (with the support of Red 40 and Throwing Rocks At Trains) put together a focus group to listen to and rank a bunch of albums. And this is the final list.
If an album is not on the list, the focus group either didn’t listen to it or didn’t like it. Bento Corp will not disclose the reason for any album not being included.
With that said, everything on the list is good, some are excellent. I pulled out ten (10) that stood out especially for whatever reason (they hit the right spot at the right time usually). Otherwise, both lists are just in alphabetical order.
I have a standing rule for my albums of the year list: If you like the album art, you have to listen to it.
In the interest of sharing the music, here’s playlists:
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– Spotify
– Tidal
My Favorite Ten:
I kept returning to these albums over and over and over. Sometimes as soon as I just finished listening to them. The soundtracks to my year.
The Cure – Songs Of A Lost World
Julie – my anti-aircraft friend
Maya Ongaku – Electronic Phantoms
Nilüfer Yanya – My Method Actor
A Lot of Other Really Good Albums:
Abdullah Miniawy – NigmaEnigma أنيجم النَجم
Big Brave – A Chaos of Flowers
Blood Incantation – Absolute Elsewhere
British Murder Boys – Active Agents and House Boys
cabezadenego, Leyblack & Mbé – Mimosa
Cold Gawd – I’ll Drown On This Earth
Ex Easter Island Head – Norther
Full of Hell & Andrew Nolan – Scraping The Divine
Full of Hell – Coagulated Bliss
Future & Metro Boomin – We Don’t Trust You
Godspeed You! Black Emperor – “No Title as of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead”
Gong Gong Gong & Mong Tong – Mongkok Duel 旺角龍虎鬥
Good Sad Happy Bad – All Kinds Of Days
gum.mp3 – Black Life, Red Planet
Hattara – Ehkä me nähdään huomenna
Holy Tongue & Shackleton – The Tumbling Psychic Joy of Now
Iguana Death Cult – Echo Palace
Kendrick Lamar – GNX
Lazer Dim 700 – Keepin It Cloudy
Midwife – No Depression In Heaven
The New Romantics – One Kiss/Don’t Hear You Laughing Now
Nourished by Time – Catching Chickens
Otay:Onii – True Faith Ain’t Blind
Our Future Is An Absolute Shadow – LP
PSP Social – Second Communication
The Psychotic Monks – Talking Through Repetition
Quatuor Bozzini – Jürg Frey: String Quartet No. 4
Soshi Takeda – Secret Communication
Still House Plants – If I don’t make it, I love u
Tristwch Y Fenywod – Tristwch Y Fenywod
Various Artists – Guruguru Brain Wash 2
Wapddi – 우리의 친구 머피처럼 (Like our friend Murphy)
Whitelands – Night-bound Eyes Are Blind To The Day
Wu-Lu – Learning To Swim On Empty
