Favorite Music of 2013: A Late List of Lists Because, You Know, Life

Sometimes I make lists of lists. I did one in 2011. I did one in 2012. So, hey. “Tradition.”

As always, these lists are not in order.

The Unofficial Album of the Year

• Neutral Milk Hotel – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

Favorite Albums From 2013

• Soulcrate Music – “Welcome Back From Wherever You’ve Been
• Daft Punk – Random Access Memories
• Russian Circles – Memorial
• Queens of the Stone Age – Like Clockwork
• Justin Timberlake – The 20/20 Experience
• XXX – XXX

Favorite Albums From Before 2013 That I Didn’t Pay Attention To Until 2013

• Morphine – Cure For Pain
• Uncle Tupelo – No Depression
• Mogwai – Young Team
• Big Star – #1 Record
• Daft Punk – Alive 2007

Albums From My “Favorite Albums From 2012″ List That I Haven’t Listened To Since 2012

• Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – The Heist
• Heartless Bastards – Arrow

Albums From My “Favorite Albums From 2011″ List That I STILL Haven’t Listened To Since 2011

• tUnE-YarDs – whokill
• Bon Iver – Bon Iver

Genres I Didn’t Fully Understand Because I Didn’t Pay Attention To Genres, Apparently (In Order of How Much I’ve Listened To Them)

• Post-Metal
• Post-Rock
• Alt-Country
• Shoegaze

Bruce Springsteen Records I Ended Up With This Year

• The Wild, The Innocent and the E Street Shuffle
• Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.
• Nebraska
• Live / 1975-85

Best Vinyl Acquisitions (Non-Springsteen Edition)

• Threadbare – Feeling Older Faster
• Whirlpool – Liquid Glass
• Hot Water Music – Live in Chicago
• Built to Spill – Live
• They Might Be Giants – Apollo 18

Album I’m Embarrassed I Purchased But Haven’t Yet Listened To

• Kanye West – Yeezus