Other Top 5 Movies and Albums 2020

[Dirty Schwein]

Normally these are different threads but as this year has been a shit-show maybe it's worth trying to come up with it on one thread?

Movies:

1. 1917
2. JoJo Rabbit
3. Time To Hunt
4. Invisible Man
5. Blue Story

Albums:

1. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? (Dominic Fike)
2. Nectar (Joji)
3. After Hours (The Weeknd)
4. How Still The River (Jamie Scott)
5. Music To Be Murdered By (Eminem)

 

[Solius]

Didn't JoJo Rabbit and 1917 both come out last year?

 

[Solius]

Has been feck all new media really this year.

Albums:

1. Tame Impala - The Slow Rush
2. Glass Animals - Dreamland
3. brakence - punk2
4. Khruangbin - Mordechai
Struggling for a 5th

 

[Nickosaur]

Going to be tough to name any films from 2020.

So I'll do 10 albums instead in no particular order.
Adrienne Lenker - songs + instrumentals
Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
The Strokes - The New Abnormal
Bob Dylan - Rough and Rowdy Ways
Haim - Women In Music Pt III
Run The Jewels - RTJ4
Grimes - Miss Anthropocene
Gorillaz - Strange Timez
Bright Eyes - no idea what the album was called
Sufjan Stevens - The Ascension

 

[FrankDrebin]

I could do a top 5 films I've watched this year but the majority of them weren't produced or released this year so I'm just wasting time writing this.

 

[sullydnl]

Haven't seen many new films this year but there was tonnes of music, thank god.

 

[Kazi]

1. Folklore
2. Evermore

 

[R.N7]

Films:

1. The Woman Who Ran (Hong Sang-soo)
2. The Brilliant Biograph: Earliest Moving Images of Europe (1897-1902)
3. Last Year at Dachau (Mark Rappaport)
4. Days (Tsai Ming-Liang)
5. Undine (Christian Petzold)

Albums...Khruangbin, I guess.

 

[Vidyoyo]

Films:

1. The Woman Who Ran (Hong Sang-soo)
2. The Brilliant Biograph: Earliest Moving Images of Europe (1897-1902)
3. Last Year at Dachau (Mark Rappaport)
4. Days (Tsai Ming-Liang)
5. Undine (Christian Petzold)

Albums...Khruangbin, I guess.

Did you watch that on MUBI?

 

[Bosws87]

I've been stuck in the 80's/90's for music since birth, people listen to new music you wild lot.

 

[Dirty Schwein]

Didn't JoJo Rabbit and 1917 both come out last year?

They were released in 2020 in the UK.

 

[R.N7]

Did you watch that on MUBI?

Nah, by other, ermm, means.

 

[Rooney in Paris]

You rascal you

 

[Eckers99]

Thank feck it's been such a good year for music. The following have helped keep me sane in 2020...

Bob Dylan - Rough And Rowdy Ways
The Avalanches - We Will Always Love You
Sault - Untitled (Black is)
Billy Nomates
Fiona Apple - Fetch The Bolt Cutters
Thurston Moore - By The Fire
Tricky - Fall To Pieces
Fontaines DC - A Hero's Death
Soccer Mommy - Color Theory
Grimes - Miss Anthropocene
Nick Cave - Idiot Prayer
Bill Callahan - Gold Record
Angel Olsen - Whole New Mess
Neil Young - Homegrown

Been a difficult year for films but I enjoyed:

Parasite
Portrait Of A Lady On Fire
Mank
I'm Thinking Of Ending Things

 

[Olly Gunnar Solskjær]

Gleemer - Down Through
Nothing - The Great Dismal
Deftones - Ohms
Castlebeat - Melodrama
Soccer Mommy - color theory

Not in any order really.

 

[Ish]

Been a crappy year for movies & ive been busy working and studying. But here’s a few of what I watched:

Tenet
I’m thinking of ending things
Palm Springs
Da 5 Bloods

Don’t really have a number 1. Maybe WW could be a late contender.

 

[ha_rooney]

My favourite films of the year:

Jojo Rabbit
Palm Springs
Trial of the Chicago 7
1917
Soul

 

[Castia]

Honestly feels like 3 years ago since I watched 1917 in cinema

 

[entropy]

Angel Olson - All Mirrors
Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters
Perfume Genius - Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
Rina Sawayama - Sawayama
Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure

 

[Acole9]

Don't think I've seen any films in 2020 apart from the latest Borat one and I'm not sure that counts.

So on to albums it is:

1. Deftones - Ohms

2. Code Orange - Underneath

3. Biffy Clyro - A Celebration of Endings

4. Creeper - Sex, Death & the Infinite Void

5. Loathe - I Let It in and It Took Everything

 

[Kristjan]

Films?.. meh


Albums in order:

Róisín Murphy - Róisín Machine

Ólafur Arnalds - some kind of peace

The Avalanches - We Will Always Love You

Caribou - Suddenly

Harald Björk - Håll om mig

 

[Drawfull]

Hard to come up with 5 movies, but in no particular order:

Tenet (I'm still marmite with it, but I love the soundtrack)
Just Mercy
Unhinged
Bad Boys for Life
1917

 

[UnrelatedPsuedo]

Music
- I See - Cam Cole
- The Bonny - Gerry Cinnamon
- Live at The Royal Albert Hall - Arctic Monkeys
- Folklore - Taylor Swift
- We will always Love You - The Avalanches

Movies have had a rough year. Parasite blew me away though. Only got to it in November. Worthy of all the praise.

Edit : Palm Springs was the most enjoyable movie I saw this year. The King of Staten Island was also fun as hell.

 

[Kazi]

Soul is #1 for sure

 

[Havak]

I'm not sure if I even watched 5 movies released in 2020.

1. Soul
2. Onward

 

[jderbyshire]

Films (released in UK this year):

1. Uncut Gems
2. The Assistant
3. Shithouse
4. Waves
5. Parasite

Albums... the only one I've really liked this year is that Adrianne Lenker one.

 

[Heardy]

Films?.. meh


Albums in order:

Róisín Murphy - Róisín Machine

Ólafur Arnalds - some kind of peace

The Avalanches - We Will Always Love You

Caribou - Suddenly

Harald Björk - Håll om mig

Another Olafur Arnalds fan! Don’t see many! Really liked Some Kind of Peace, but think I preferred Re:member - totally different discussion mind as not released this year of course.

 

[OnlyTwoDaSilvas]

I can't remember of a film released this year that I watched other than Borat.

Great year for new music though, I've got a playlist on Spotify of everything I've checked out which came out this year, and it's massive. I'll need to try and trim it down.

 

[dumbo]

Waves
Parasite
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Bacurau
Space Dogs

Ka - Descendants of Cain
Aesop Rock - Spirit World Field Guide

 

[sullydnl]

Think the only film I saw from 2020 was Tenet, which I quickly lost interest in.

Thanks to the switch to WFH I listened to a lot of new albums though. Favourites:

Spoiler

Rina Sawayama - Sawayama
Jeff Rosenstock - No Dream
BC Camplight - Shortly After Takeoff
Adrianne Lenker - Songs
Charli XCX - How I'm Feeling Now
Fiona Apple - Fetch The Bolt Cutters
Poppy - I Disagree
Yves Tumor - Heaven To A Tortured Mind
PVRIS - Use Me
Perfume Genius - Set My Heart On Fire Immediately
Moor Jewlery - True Opera
Gleemer - Down Through
Dorian Electra - My Agenda
Working Men's Club - Working Men's Club
The Strokes - The New Abnormal
Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
Gorillaz - Strange Timez
Ela Minus - Acts of Rebellion
Dogleg - Melee
Kelly Lee Owens - Inner Song
Sufjan Stevens - The Ascension
Nothing - The Great Dismal
Special Interest - The Passion Of
Katie Malco - Failures
Caribou - Suddenly
Christian Lee Hutson - Beginners
The Innocence Mission - See You Tomorrow
Coriky - Coriky
Andy Shauf - The Neon Skyline
Godcaster - Long Haired Locusts
Momma - Two of Me
Katie Von Schleicher - Consummation
Crack Cloud - Pain Olympics

Biggest disappointments were probably the albums by Tame Impala and US Girls, both of which were drop offs in quality from their previous albums.

 

[Kristjan]

Another Olafur Arnalds fan! Don’t see many! Really liked Some Kind of Peace, but think I preferred Re:member - totally different discussion mind as not released this year of course.

Yes, Re:member is better
His concert at Harpa in Reykjavík in 2018 was one of the best gigs I've been to. Totally mesmerizing.

 

[LoveInTheAsylum]

Don't think I've even watched enough 2020 releases to make a top 5. First Cow is definitely my favourite that I've seen.

According to last.fm my 5 most listened albums are:
Momma - Two of me
Tricot - 10
Waveless - Sugartree
Tricot - Makkuro
Lomelda - Hannah

The Momma album that sullydnl also listed is by far my favourite - I can't remember an album with as many immediate songs since Alvvays' s/t. If I thought harder about it, some of Adrianne Lenker, Protomartyr, Cafe Racer, Holy Wave, Kairon irse, Nels Cline Singers or No Joy might make it into a top 5.

No long plays, but Katarzyna Wiktorski has also put out some great music this year.
https://katarzynawiktorski.bandcamp.com/

Spoiler: pique & peace

 

[Minkaro]

Films:

Parasite
Onward
Soul
Tenet
Bad Boys for Life

Albums:

Brian Fallon - Local Honey
Eric Clayton - A Thousand Scars
Demons & Wizards - III
Psychotic Waltz - The God-Shaped Void
Ayreon - Transitus