Please feel free to let me know what albums stuck out to you most this year, or if there's anything wrong with mine. A Spotify playlist is also available at the end if that's of interest to you. Formatting for this is a little different than previous years, as the old ones looked fine on desktops but a nightmare to view on mobile. Basically, take all this with a grain of salt. : Eurythmics, : Sweet Dreams ( ), : 04:20, : 7.94, : 256 kbit/sec, : mp3. This is just a loose ranking based on relative enjoyment, not a concrete "4 is better than 5" type listing, if that makes any sense at all. Keep in mind this is not a definitive "best of" ranking, rather a purely personal "favourites" list.
Below is a list of a few albums that definitely had that impact on me. For all the downsides that came with it, this year did bring a plethora of amazing music to the table, with so many albums being the only thing that made it semi-bearable. It's not easy to use "best of" and "2020" in the same sentence, but for the sake of tradition we will. If you're looking for just the essentials, Discography 1991-1993, 落とす死, 2nd LP, and Dropdead 2020 have you covered, but start with 落とす死. If you want to make your life a little easier though, their Bandcamp or any major streaming service is the place to be. I didn't include the new Bandcamp/streaming releases, inside put together as many individual releases as I could for this to include both sides of splits, individual artwork and track listings, etc.
The name sounds like an update on their old sound, when in reality is just a stark reminder of the messages they've been espousing since the early 90's, and keeps in line with the tried-and-true sound that they both defined and continue to perfect, reminding us why there is no other band quite like the one, the only, Dropdead. They technically began in 1989 under the name Hellocaust, but after a few sound and line-up changes settled on the Dropdead we all know and love in 1991. They released compilations that contain their early material, and long-spanning "mid" material, right up until the modern era and release of Dropdead 2020, their most recent album. Dropdead are a four-piece hardcore/powerviolence band from Providence, Rhode Island that began in 1991. Having said that, with the most recent release of a new LP (their first official full-length since 1998), their Bandcamp has made it much easier to access all their material. They've put out multiple splits, multiple recordings of the same songs, and numerous releases all inexplicably left as self-titled, no matter the years and track listing differences that span between them. Despite being one of the most notable names in powerviolence and hardcore, their discography remains a fucking nightmare to try and cobble together.