At the end of the year, the European and American music charts arrived as scheduled.
Rolling Stone magazine was chosen not only because of its old-school authority, but also because of its popular taste.
Of course, it is the American public, so one of the reasons for the recommendation of the number one Beyoncé "Lemonade" turned out to be "her anger at renunciation represents the dissatisfaction of the American people with the presidential election." The two departed geniuses of David Bowie and Leonard Cohen are nostalgic, but they are not only on the list because of nostalgia.
Hip-hop and R&B still dominate, with the only indie rock album from the "Car Seat Headrest" band, but the antithesis of the last century. Rolling Stones' electronic blues cover album and "A Moon Shaped Pool," an almost old song collection of "Radiostar," also made the list.
Is it because Rolling Stone is older and prefers the elderly, or is it because it is enough to stand out and still be the old guys?
1. Beyoncé - Lemonade
Lemonade has the power to shut everything up. The music is like fire, but the emotions are intimate, about true love, betrayal, and unabashed anger.
Whether or not Beyoncé's singing is Jay Z, Americans are willing to see it as a reflection of the year — ridiculous elections and a life surrounded by insecurity.
After its unexpected release on a Saturday night, Lemonade sprawled on radio stations of all kinds, with country, blues, R&B and hip-hop fans alike finding their favorite elements.
Most importantly, although the entire album sings about betrayal and pain, the grand music gives people hope like a phoenix nirvana, as if the ruins can really reproduce the vast mansions.
2 David Bowie - Blackstar
David Bowie left his bravest and most captivating performance on the stage of the curtain.
On his 69th birthday, "Blackstar" he gave us still sounds elusive nearly a year later, no matter how many times he hears it.
This is one of The Most Daring Discoveries of Bowie as Starman, and both the ten-minute long song of the same name and "Lazarus", which harks back in time in the emptiness, are dazzling.
Shortly after the album came out, Bowie abandoned the world to embark on his cosmic adventure, leaving the world to repeatedly taste the bittersweet, mournful and unscathed.
His last message to the world was "I Can't Give Everything Away," as moving as Heros was.
Fifty years of music did not exhaust his imagination, and people marveled that he still had so many fresh ideas. Unfortunately, there is no more David Bowie in this world, decadent and heretical, destined to be as rare as a meteor.
3、Chance the Rapper - 《Coloring Book》
Chance's album shines like the pink-orange sky on the cover.
It was impossible for the black hip-hop harry to be without heavy politics and reality, but he neutralized the bitterness with his optimistic and even jubilant music, and the use of a large number of gospel choruses added the color of magic realism.
As the last big-name musician in the world not to be absorbed by the music industry, Chance proudly sang: If there is a record company pointing fingers at my music, beware of a troublesome popping up in your company lobby. ”
4. Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial
Car Seat Headrest's retro rock contributed the best guitar riff of the year and fantastic and inconspicuous lyrics.
They are emotionally full, emotionally depressed, reminiscent of "Nirvana" that pops up in silence, intense and intimate whispers in just a thought.
5. Frank Ocean - Blonde
Chanel Orange waited four years later for his new album, which is more restrained, intimate and exploratory than his previous album.
There were no drums, medium rhythm, light chords, but once the vocals got involved, everything was different. The varied rhythm and vocals give you unexpected twists and turns in every corner, and no song ends in a regular manner at the beginning.
It was like I had overheard someone else's voice in my headphones, and it was particularly fascinating.
It's a self-immersed album that seems to be left alone in a small apartment, a keyboard, a guitar, a bunch of thoughts, asking questions about the meaning of existence, recording every stage of love.
What he seems to pursue is something fleeting, whether it's music, emotion, or lust. In White Ferrari, he rewrote The Beatles' Here, There and Everywhere, reliving a teenage getaway or a drugged fantasy.
Radiohead - "A Moon Shaped Pool"
The ninth studio album of "Radiostar" is like the afterglow of their big dream.
Many songs have been heard on various occasions, and the finale of "True Love Waits" was written in the 1990s and included in a live EP in 2001.
But the arrangement changed. Circuiting and subtle piano notes replaced the guitar. The sound of the piano seemed to be overturned ink gradually smudging the entire white paper, unconsciously erasing all traces.
A Moon Shaped Pool is a return to radiomaster's big string production. Tom York's voice floats through beautiful pianos, strings and acoustic guitars, sometimes drowning out, sometimes waking up from a dream.
Contrasts such as the alert string parts of The Numbers and the broken piano notes are scattered everywhere, ready to give you sensory stimulation at all times. But they can only temporarily and happily divert your attention, because nothingness in your bones is everywhere.
7、滚石（The Rolling Stones） - 《Blue & Lonesome》
"Rolling Stones" is a 11-year-old new album from the previous album, Blue & Lonesome, and is a cover album of old Chicago blues.
Everything tasted right, and unlike the original, the best songs were no longer the most energetic, but the smoke-filled works that lifted lightly.
The guitar flickered like an oil lamp, the harmonica gossiped about it, and Mick Jagger's voice had the affection of a phrase that had been memorized half a century ago.
The 12 songs are from the old guys warming up when they were recording new songs in the studio. Doesn't the new song feel right? Let's sing the jam old song together. Who knows what it feels like, Jagger's voice returns to his youth overnight, and the album is quickly recorded in three days.
8、坎耶·韦斯特（Kanye West） - 《The Life of Pablo》
In the mud and sand of the rap industry, Kanye West made his own "contribution" with his lack of business and lace news.
The new album "The Life of Pablo" appears rambling, without theme and ambition. The genius who once pioneered a new path with an album now stands in the midst of many mirrors he has created, each mirror of which is his former self.
This time, Kanye collaged his former self into a work, and the effect was not bad.
The strong gospel atmosphere of the first "Ultralight Beam" has been deafening, and the R&B of "30 Hours" and the blues flavor of "No More Parties in L.A." are all multi-prism flashes.
9. Leonard Cohen – "You Want It Darker"
In the last months of Cohen's life, he spent the last months of his life like an old Jew with a strong sense of family —living on the second floor of his daughter's house, unable to work in the studio, and recording his last album, "You Want It Darker," into a microphone at the dinner table with the help of his son.
Both his family and Cohen himself knew that death was imminent. Walking through this door may not be difficult for Cohen, who can see through life and death, but he must complete the work left by the world and "clean the house".
A few months before his death, he also wrote a farewell letter to Marianne, the "old lover" on his sickbed, telling her "goodbye on the road."
The song he left for us is like a golden and fertile autumn, beautiful, idyllic, and calmly greeting all kinds of silence.
The involvement of his son, producer Adam, was important. He used female and male choruses to envelop Mount Cohen's muffled voice. Organ, acoustic guitar, violin and cello run through the album, dying a little bluegrass, dyeing a little waltz, adding a mandolin, and his favorite blues, the overall feeling is calm and clear, easier to hear than the previous album "Popular Problems".
"You want it darker/I'm ready, my Lord”。 Cohen ended with the cunning and wisdom of a poet.
10、Young Thug - 《Jeffery》
Super rhythmic and expressive, unique voice, beyond the rappers' "yellow gambling" and arrogance, his fans want him to be the next Lil Wayne, and the album did not disappoint them.