Jason’s 2022 Complete Album Rankings

Jason set a new high water mark for the channel in listening to over 10,000 albums this year.

Okay, not that many. But it was nearly 300 albums. Which is pretty darn impressive.

Here’s his complete list of albums, rated by star and his entire top 100.

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

Jason’s 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

STAR

Get Rollin – Nickelback

2 STARS

Let It Be Blue – !!!

Being Funny in a Foreign Language – The 1975

The Zealot Gene – Jethro Tull

Kumoyo Island – Kikagaku Moyo

The Tipping Point – Tears for Fears

Bit By Bit – Evan J Cartwright

For You Who Are the Wronged – Kathryn Joseph

2.5 STARS

Freedom – Journey

Diamond Star Halos – Def Leppard

Gold – Alabaster DePlume

Blue Wall – Noah Guthrie

Magnificent Bird – Gabriel Kahane

19 Masters – Saya Gray

Vibrating – Collective Soul

Emotional Creature – Beach Bunny

FutureNever – Daniel Johns

World Record – Neil Young & Crazy Horse

Ugly Season – Perfume Genius

CLOSURE/CONTINUATION – Porcupine Tree

Space Force – Todd Rundgren

Impera – Ghost

Palomino – Miranda Lambert

Growing Up – The Linda Lindas

Found Light – Laura Veirs

How to Let Go – Sigrid

Midnights – Taylor Swift

Alpha Zulu – Phoenix

I Love You Jennifer B – Jockstrap

Theater – Anna Mieke

3 STARS

Never Let Me Go – Plalcebo

Running With the Hurricane – Camp Cope

Break Me Open – S. Carey

Earthling – Eddie Vedder

Memorial – Memorial

Physical Thrills – Silversun Pickups

StandArt – Tigran Hamasyan

Four – Bill Frisell

Three Sides of One – King’s X

Headful of Sugar – Sunflower Bean

Melt Away: A Tribute to Brian Wilson – She & Him

Dropout Boogie – The Black Keys

Oh To Be That Free – Michaela Anne

Volcano Volcano – Steven Lambke

What I Am – Fell Runner

Only the Strong Survive – Bruce Springsteen

Florist – Florist

Colder Streams – The Sadies

Ghost Stories – The Whitmore Sisters

Young Man – Jamestown Revival

Devolver – Ryan Adams

Light Moving Time – Babehoven

New Mythology – Nick Mulvey

Get Free – Sam Weber

Covers – Cat Power

Quitters – Christian Lee Hutson

All the Bright Coins – Simon Felic

The Garden – Basia Bulat

New Mood – Richard Edwards

Hell on Church Street – The Punch Brothers

Second Nature – Lucius

A Light for Attracting Attention – The Smile

Cool It Down – Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Weird Ears – Sean Thompson’s Weird Ears

At Scaramouche – Shabason & Krgovich

Crybaby – Tegan & Sara

Dawn FM – The Weeknd

Versions of Modern Performance – Horsegirl

The Line Is a Curve – Kae Tempest

I don’t know who needs to hear this… – Tomberlin

Peacock Pools – Pink Mountaintops

Blue Hours – Bear’s Den

The Zug – Yves Jarvis

Harry’s House – Harry Styles

Love Is Yours – Flasher

Take It Like a Man – Amanda Shires

Dear Irvington – Mama Magnolia

Quiet the Room – Skullcrusher

Protector – Aoife Nessa Frances

Fruit – The A’s

The Less I Knew – James Vincent McMorrow

Dripfield – Goose

I’m Not Sorry, I Was Just Being Me – King Hannah

Raw Data Feel – Everything Everything

Gulp! – Sports Team

d E a T h ~ b U g – ORANGEPURPLEBEACH

Age of Apathy – Aoife O’Donovan

Pompeii – Cate Le Bon

Centrifics – Marina Allen

Fossora – Bjork

Meet the Moonlight – Jack Johnson

How Is It That I Should Look at the Stars – The Weather Station

Deep in View – Cola

Weird Nightmare – Weird Nightmare

Pool Kids – Pool Kids

Amateurs – Laura Jean

Radiate Like This – Warpaint

Teddy and the Rough Riders – Teddy and the Rough Riders

MUNA – MUNA

Denim & Diamonds – Nikki Lane

From Capelton Hill – Stars

One Is One – Delta Spirit

3.5 STARS

After Hours – Delicate Steve

The Bible – Lambchop

Picnic in the Dark – Renata Zeiguer

Pratfall – Jackie Cohen

On the Ranch – Emily Nenni

Ants From Up Here – Black Country New Road

Like a Fable – Shintaro Sakamoto

Autofiction – Suede

REALITY – Bill Callahan

Are You Haunted? – Methyl Ethel

Two Ribbons – Let’s Eat Grandma

Blue Pastoral – Matt Dorrien

Extreme Witchcraft – EELS

Sam Jr. – Sam Jr.

The Other Side of Make-Believe – Interpol

(self-titled) – Marcus Mumford

Second Day of Spring – Companion

You Belong There – Daniel Rossen

Good and Green Again – Jake Xerxes Fussell

Order of Romance – Jesca Hoop

No Regular Dog – Kelsey Waldon

Weather Alive – Beth Orton

When the Wind Forgets Your Name – Built to Spill

Asphalt Meadows – Death Cab for Cutie

Tchotchke – Tchotchke

Under the Midnight Sun – The Cult

Hour of Green Everything – Goon

Arrangements – Preoccupations

The Jacket – Widowspeak

Roscoe’s Dream – Mapache

Altar – Jo Schornikow

Chris – Ryan Adams

Precious Thing – Allegra Krieger

PAINLESS – Nilüfer Yanya

Home, Before and After – Regina Spektor

Everything Was Beautiful – Spiritualized

The Overload – Yard Act

Ghost Electricity/Vampire Draw – Richard Edwards

One Stop Shop – twen

If I Were a Butterfly – Rayland Baxter

What Else Can She Do? – Kaitlin Butts

Invisible Pictures – Jeremy Ivey

MAHAL – Toro y Moi

Nightroamer – Sarah Shook and the Disarmers

Remember the Magic – Junatime

Present Tense – Yumi Zouma

Moonshine – Nightlands

World Wide Pop – Superorganism

FM – Ryan Adams

Outta Sight – The Sheepdogs

Once Twice Melody – Beach House

Fear of the Dawn – Jack White

Radiator – Sadurn

We’ll Become the Flowers – Eliza Edens

The Last Thing Left – Say Sue Me

In the Wild – Jasmyn

Painted Shield 2 – Painted Shield

A Bit of Previous – Belle & Sebastian

Oxy Music – Alex Cameron

Giving the World Away – Hatchie

Mac Cornish – Mac Cornish

Love the Stranger – Friendship

(watch my moves) – Kurt Vile

Palomino – First Aid Kit

Squeeze – SASAMI

Julie & Dany – Julie Doiron & Dan Placard

Warm Chris – Aldous Harding

One Day – The Cactus Blossoms

Inner World Peace – Frankie Cosmos

Sometimes, Forever – Soccer Mommy

Life on Earth – Hurray for the Riff Raff

Noon – Twain

How Do You Burn? – The Afghan Whigs

Nothing Special – Will Sheff

Inside Problems – Andrew Bird

Cave World – Viagara Boys

Reason in Decline – Archers of Loaf

Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms & Lava – King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

Sound of the Morning – Katy J Pearson

Laurel Hell – Mitski

Blue Rev – Alvvays

Magic Sign – Martin Courtney

Romeo & Juliet – Ryan Adams

Labyrinthitis – Destroyer

Entering Heaven Alive – Jack White

Changes – King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

TOP 100 ALBUMS OF 2022

100). Going Places – Josh Rouse
99. And I Have Been.. – Benjamin Clementine
98. Wellswood – Thomas Dollbaum
97. “Hello, Hi” – Ty Segall
96. Still Anyways – Anyway Gang
95. Do It All Next Week – Uni Boys
94. 89 – Charlie Gabriel
93. Hallelujah Hell Yeah – String Machine
92. God Save the Animals – Alex G
91. Avatars of Love – Sondre Lerche
90. Expert in a Dying Field – The Beths
89. SPARK – Whitney
88. Steady – Sloan
87. Old News – Will Fox
86. Bummer Year – Good Looks
85. ILYSM – Wild Pink
84. The Social Animals – Duquette Johnston
83. Household Name – Momma
82. View With a Room – Julian Lage
81. Hiding in Plain Sight – Drugdealer
80. Cub – Wunderhorse
79. Outsiders – Anna Tivel

4 STARS

78). Time Skiffs – Animal Collective
77. Hideous Bastard – Oliver Sim
76. For the Sake of Bethel Woods – Midlake
75. Bronco – Orville Peck
74. Anaïs Mitchell – Anaïs Mitchell
73. My Boy – Marlon WIlliams
72. True North – Caroline Spence
71. If My Wife New I’d Be Dead – CMAT
70. WE – Arcade Fire
69. Rolling Golden Holy – Bonny Light Horseman
68. And In the Darkness, Heart Aglow – Weyes Blood
67. The New World – Los Colognes
66. Hawaii – Pete Yorn
65. Real Heart – Mason Jennings
64. The Bear – Walter Martin
63. Extra Medium – Izzak Opatz
62. Doggerel – Pixies
61. Wet Leg – Wet Leg
60. Too Late for Edelweiss – The Tallest Man on Earth
59. We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong – Sharon Van Etten
58. Big Time – Angel Olsen
57. Chimes at Midnight – Madrugada
56. Boat Songs – MJ Lenderman
55. Havasu – Pedro the Lion
54. Things are Great – Band of Horses
53. Hellfire – black midi
52. Shufflemania – Robyn Hitchcock
51. The Misfit – Rhett Miller
50. The Car – Arctic Monkeys
49. Revealer – Madison Cunningham
48. Bleed Out – The Mountain Goats
47. The Boy Named If – Elvis Costello
46. Desperately Imagining Someplace Quiet – Disq
45. Forgiveness – Girlpool
44. GUV IV – Young Guv
43. A Beautiful Time – Willie Nelson
42. Wild Loneliness – Superchunk
41. La Luna – Daniel Romano’s Outfit
40. High School – Tim Heidecker
39. Chloë and the Next 20th Century – Father John Misty
38. Faded Memories – William Beckmann
37. Cruel Country – Wilco
36. Reggae Film Star – Damien Jurado
35. Heartmind – Cass McCombs
34. PRE PLEASURE – Julia Jacklin
33. I Walked With You a Ways – Plains
32. Sleep Talker – Milk Jennings
31. Omnium Gatherum – King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
30. Reset – Panda Bear & Sonic Boom
29. Sore Thumb – Oso Oso
28. Honey Harper & the Infinite Sky – Honey Harper
27. Blue Skies – Dehd
26. Slow Fawn – Sam Cohen

4.5 STARS

25). Chopper – Kiwi Jr.
24. Jamie McDell – Jamie McDell
23. Neon Blue – Joshua Hedley
22. Still Life – Carson McHone
21. CAZIMI – Caitlin Rose
20. Lucifer on the Sofa – Spoon
19. Lighten Up – Erin Rae
18. Head Full of Wonder – Jason Collett
17. Pink Tiger – Apollo Ghosts
16. Skinty Fia – Fontaines D.C.
15. Listen to the Blood – The Kernal
14. Air Guitar – Sobs
13. House – Shout Out Louds
12. Sundays – Andrew Combs
11. A Legacy of Rentals – Craig Finn
10. Mil Coisas Invisíveis – Tim Bernardes
9. GUV III – Young Guv
8. All Blue – Julianna Riolino
7. Loose Future – Courtney Marie Andrews
6. With People – Diane Coffee
5. Micheal Rault – Michael Rault

5 STARS

4). Prince Daddy & the Hyena – Prince Daddy & the Hyena
3. Misadventures of Doomscroller – Dawes
2. This is a Photograph – Kevin Morby
1. Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You – Big Thief