Jason’s 2021 Complete Album Rankings

Hello. I (Jason) listened to the most albums of anyone on this channel–250 in all. Bathe in the splendor of my rankings.

If you missed it, don’t forget to check out our video for our top 10 albums of the year!

My Stars System

5 – Excellent/Personal Favorite
4.5 – Great
4 – Very Good
3.5 – Good
3 – Decent
2.5 – Average/Neutral
2 – Below Average
1.5 – Bad
1 – Very Bad
.5 – Terrible
0 – Unlistenable

The Rankings

5 Stars

1./ Glow – Alice Phoebe Lou
2./ Two Saviors – Buck Meek
3./ Jubilee – Japanese Breakfast
4./ History of a Feeling – Madi Diaz
5./ Fun House – Hand Habits

4.5 Stars

6./ Due North – Liam Kazar
7./ I Know I’m Funny haha – Faye Webster
8./ One Hand on the Steering Wheel and the Other Sewing a Garden – Ada Lea
9./ I Thought of You – Julie Doiron
10./ Butterfly 3000 – King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard
11./ New Fragility – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
12./ Seek Shelter – Iceage
13./ Cobra Poems – Daniel Romano’s Outfit
14./ Pale Horse Rider – Cory Hanson
15./ Superwolves – Matt Sweeney & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy
16./ Outside Child – Allison Russell
17./ I Don’t Live Here Anymore – The War on Drugs
18./ In Heaven – Strand of Oaks
19./ Ignorance – The Weather Station
20./ Seeking New Gods – Gruff Rhys
21./ An Overview on Phenomenal Nature – Cassandra Jenkins
22./ Things Take Time, Take Time – Courtney Barnett
23./ Child’s Play – Alice Phoebe Lou
24./ Kissing the Foe – Daniel Romano
25./ Waysides – Bedouine
26./ The Digital Age of Rome – T. Hardy Morris

4 Stars

27./ Big Sky Pipe Dream – Nordista Freeze
28./ Proper Smoker – Blunt Bangs
29./ The Pet Parade – Fruit Bats
30./ Tasjan Tasjan Tasjan – Aaron Lee Tasjan
31./ Open Door Policy – The Hold Steady
32./ Long Time Coming – Sierra Ferrell
33./ Daddy’s Home – St. Vincent
34./ Cooler Returns – Kiwi Jr.
35./ Nothing But Night – Mark Fredson
36./ Good Morning, It’s Now Tomorrow – Matt Maltese
37./ See You Next Time – Joshua Ray Walker
38./ House of Confusion – Trace Mountains
39./ Sympathetic Magic – Typhoon
40./ Fever Dreams – Villagers
41./ Big Colors – Ryan Adams
42./ Tethers – The Natvral
43./ Sweep It Into Space – Dinosaur Jr.
44./ Duly Noted – TUNS
45./ Brighter Lighting – Elijah Wolf
46./ Year of the Spider – Shannon & the Clams
47./ Love Will Be Reborn – Martha Wainwright
48./ Dark River – Lydia Luce
49./ The Monster Who Hated Pennsylvania – Damien Jurado
50./ Valentine – Snail Mail
51./ All Day Gentle Hold! – Porches
52./ Long Lost – Lord Huron
53./ Already, Always – Bess Atwell
54./ Time to Melt – Sam Evian
55./ A Comedy of Errors – Lo Talker
56./ Mercy – Natalie Bergman
57./ The Golden Casket – Modest Mouse
58./ Geist – Shannon Lay
59./ Painting the Roses – Midnight Sister
60./ Pressure Machine – The Killers
61./ Hideaway – Wavves
62./ Friends That Break Your Heart – James Blake
63./ From Dreams to Dust – The Felice Brothers
64./ Excelsior! – Johanna Samuels
65./ Dry Goods – Houseplants
66./ K Bay – Matthew E. White

3.5 Stars

67./ Cool Dry Place – Katie Kirby
68./ Aquatic Flowers – Tristen
69./ Delta Kream – The Black Keys
70./ A Beautiful Life – Heartless Bastards
71./ If Words Were Flowers – Curtis Harding
72./ Stand for Myself – Yola
73./ Smash – Caveman
74./ In These Silent Days – Brandi Carlile
75./ Alvarado – Wild Feathers
76./ Magic Mirror – Pearl Charles
77./ Head of Roses – Flock of Dimes
78./ Time in the Sun – SUSTO
79./ Squint – Julian Lage
80./ Happier Than Ever – Billie Eilish
81./ Lindsey Buckingham – Lindsey Buckingham
82./ Downhill From Everywhere – Jackson Browne
83./ Peace or Love – Kings of Convenience
84./ Daring Mind – Jihye Lee Orchestra
85./ This Is Really Going to Hurt – Flyte
86./ Ten Thousand Roses – Dori Freeman
87./ Boy From Michigan – John Grant
88./ Far In – Helado Negro
89./ Solar Power – Lorde
90./ Carnage – Nick Cave and Warren Ellis
91./ Showtunes – Lambchop
92./ Animal – LUMP
93./ Glow On – Turnstile
94./ My Morning Jacket – My Morning Jacket
95./ Blue Weekend – Wolf Alice
96./ 12 Songs About Loneliness – Bantug
97./ How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last? – Big Red Machine
98./ Flying Dream 1 – Elbow
99./ Three Colored Wall – Jordan Lehning
100./ Don’t Know What I Am – Alien Boy

— Unordered / Still 3.5 stars —

Sara Bug – Sara Bug
Lately – Lilly Hiatt
Introducing… – The Pink Stones
The Future – Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats
Local Valley – Jose Gonzalez
Home Video – Lucy Dacus
Good Woman – The Staves
The Million Masks of God – Manchester Orchestra
Dreamers are Waiting – Crowded House
Exit Wounds – The Wallflowers
Future Past – Duran Duran
BOOK – They Might Be Giants
Wilds – Andy Shauf
Popular Mechanics – Sam Outlaw
Screen Violence – Chvrches
Driver – Adult Mom
The Moon and the Stars: Prescriptions for Dreamers – Valerie June
When You See Yourself – Kings of Leon
Islomania – Islands
Changephobia – Rostam
Green to Gold – The Antlers
Ice Melt – Crumb
These 13 – Jimbo Mathus and Andrew Bird
A Billion Little Lights – Wild Pink

3 Stars

Motorheart – The Darkness
Pins and Needles – Natalie Hemby
Afraid of Nothing – Harrison Whitford
Doomin’ Sun – Bachelor
Vanities – WH Lung
Family Album – Lia Ices
Try Harder – Aerial East
Death of a Cheerleader – Pom Pom Squad
The Shadow I Remember – Cloud Nothings
Strangerlands – Loup Garoux
How Many Times – Esther Rose
Sad and Beautiful World – Jesse Malin
Catspaw – Matthew Sweet
Home – Rhye
Endless Arcade – Teenage Fanclub
The Incredible Heat Machine – TK & The Holy Know-Nothings
Queens of the Summer Hotel – Aimee Mann
Thirstier – TORRES
Vincent Neil Emerson – Vincent Neil Emerson
Little Oblivions – Julien Baker
Leave Love Out of This – Anthonie Tonnon
The Last Exit – Still Corners
Build a Problem – Dodie
Star-crossed – Kacey Musgraves
Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night – Bleachers
New Day With New Possibilites – Sonny and the Sunsets
Electro Melodier – Son Volt
Raise the Roof – Plant/Krauss
Reason to Live – Lou Barlow
Notes With Attachments – Blake Mills & Pino Palladino
Sucker Supreme – Rosie Tucker
Heaven’s Just a Flight – Caroline Kingsbury
Laura Stevenson – Laura Stevenson
Sympathy for Life – Parquet Courts
A Beginner’s Mind – Sufjan Stevens & Angelo DeAugustine
Collapsed in Sunbeams – Arlo Parks
The Sound of Yourself – Mac McCaughan
Buds – OVLOV
30 – Adele
Arlene – Rodeola
The Day the Earth Stood Still – Willie Nile
Any Shape You Take – Indigo De Souza
SOUR – Olivia Rodrgio
Music of the Spheres – Coldplay
Van Weezer – Weezer
Daddy’s Country Gold – Melissa Carper
Under the Pepper Tree – Sara Watkins
Strawberry Mansion – Langhorn Slim
The Wide, Wide River – James Yorkston
That’s Life – Willie Nelson
Earth Man Blues – Guided By Voices
The Ballad of Dood & Juanita – Sturgill Simpson
Non-fiction – NOV3L
Bright Green Field – Squid
Always Something-UV – TV
New Long Leg – Dry Cleaning
If I Could Make It Go Quiet – Girl in red
Blue Heron Suite – Sarah Jarosz
Roses – The Paper Kites
Peacemeal – Ron Gallo
Landlady – Landlady
Somewhere – Sun June
Uppers – TV Priest
Super Monster – Claud
Circuit Boredom – Ben Kweller
Other You – Steve Gunn
Half Drunk Under a Full Moon – The Fratellis
Pohorylle – Margo Cilker
Twin Plagues – Wednesday
Peace Meter – Marissa Paternoster
Path of Wellness – Sleater Kinney
It’s Not Them. It Couldn’t Be Them. It is Them! – Guided By Voices

2.5 Stars

Standing in the Doorway – Chrissie Hynde
True Love – Hovvdy
Medicine at Midnight – Foo Fighters
Monthly Friend – Wyldest
Bodies of Water – Moontype
Better Way – Casper Clausen
Entertainment, Death – Spirit of the Beehive
Fake Fruit – Fake Fruit
For the First Time – Black Country, New Road
Quietly Blowing It – Hiss Golden Messenger
It Won’t Always Be Like This – Inhaler
Inked In Red – Vision Video
…Sings the Classics – Pete Yorn
Still Woman Enough – Loretta Lynn
Watchhouse – Watchhouse
…Are the Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings – The Besnard Lakes
Homebodies – Lee Pardini
Vulture Prince – Arooj Aftab
Heaven on the Faultline – Alex Bleeker
Grapefruit Season – James Vincent McMorrow
The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows – Damon Albarn
Chemtrails Over the Country Club – Lana Del Rey
American Siren – Emily Scott Robinson
Gold-Diggers Sound – Leon Bridges
Today We’re the Greatest – Middle Kids
J.T. – Steve Earle and the Dukes
The Quest – Yes
A Color of the Sky – Lightning Bug
Soberish – Liz Phair
What’s Growing – Wurld Series
WINK – CHAI
The Battle at Garden’s Gate – Greta Van Fleet
Afrique Victime – Mdou Moctar
For Free – David Crosby
Slappers, Bangers, and Certified Twangers, Vol. 1 – American Aquarium
In Another World – Cheap Trick
Detroit Stories – Alice Cooper
Senjutsu – Iron Maiden

2 Stars

Blue Banisters – Lana Del Rey
Twin Shadow – Twin Shadow
Jassbusters Two – Connan Mockasin
Life is Not a Lesson – Glitterer
Introducing… – Aaron Frazer
Queen of My World – Bat Fangs
Course in Fable – Ryley Walker
Saturday Night, Sunday Morning – Jake Bugg
Sob Rock – John Mayer
Merlynn Belle – Tele Novella
Before Sunrise – Nana Yamato
A View From the Top of the World – Dream Theater
Lily We Need to Talk Now – Lily Konigsberg
As the Love Continues – Mogwai

1.5 Stars

OK Human – Weezer

1 Star

Voyage – ABBA