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Showing posts with label pop culture review. Show all posts

Monday, December 2, 2024

2024 Pop Culture Review

        So towards the end of 2023 I did a recap of my favorite movies, songs, and albums of the year, and figured it made sense to do the same for 2024 now. Obligatory “some of these artists are questionable people,” etc.

        With that out of the way, here we go:

TOP 10 FILMS

1.Dune: Part Two

2.Alien: Romulus

3.Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

4.Inside Out 2

5.South Park: The End of Obesity

6.Civil War

7.Young Woman and the Sea

8.Arthur the King

9.Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

10.The Fall Guy


TOP 10 SONGS

1.Teddy Swims - “Bad Dreams”

2.Linkin Park - “Two Faced”

3.Lenny Kravitz - “Blue Electric Light”

4.Jerry Cantrell - “Vilified”

5.Jack White - “Bombing Out”

6.Billie Eilish - “Birds of a Feather”

7.Sabrina Carpenter - “Espresso”

8.South Arcade - “How 2 Get Away with Murder”

9.Pearl Jam - “Dark Matter”

10.Michael Schenker Group - “Love to Love”


TOP 3 ALBUMS

GOLD: Linkin Park - From Zero

SILVER: Jack White - No Name

BRONZE: The Smashing Pumpkins - Aghori Mhori Mei


        Welp, here’s to another year!


Peace!


UPDATE: I’m just gonna list my Top 5 favorite films of every year here going forward (even though I don’t really watch many new movies these days):


2025

1.Thunderbolts

2.Superman

3.The Fantastic 4: First Steps

4.Jurassic World Rebirth

5.Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning


2026

1.The Odyssey (Nolan’s)

2.Hoppers

3.Toy Story 5

4.The Devil Wears Prada 2

5.Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu*

*At least Grogu is cute...


Related: List Repository

Related: My Top 5 Favorite Albums Per Year, 1986-2024

Saturday, December 9, 2023

2023 Pop Culture Review

  So last year I did posts for my favorite albums of the last 60 years, my top 5 films from 1977-2022, and my top 10 favorite songs from 1967-2022. Now that 2023 is almost over, I figured it only made sense to keep the tradition going and do it all again for this year. Same rules still apply (only one song per album not counting b-sides, etc.), except I’m getting rid of the “only one film per franchise can be #1” rule from this point onward. And even though I’ve said this before, just to clarify, I know some of these artists are shitty people in real life, but I still like their art. It is what it is.

…Well, here you go:


TOP 5 FILMS

1.Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3

2.Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

3.Oppenheimer

4.Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

5.John Wick: Chapter 4


TOP 10 SONGS

1.The Orwells - “Friendly Fire (Alternate Version)”

2.The Orwells - “Bar Fly”

3.Linkin Park - “More the Victim”

4.Royal Blood - “Supermodel Avalanches”

5.Royal Blood - “Shiner in the Dark”

6.Dua Lipa - “Dance the Night”

7.Dua Lipa - “Houdini”

8.Lenny Kravitz - “TK421”

9.Teddy Swims - “Lose Control”

10.Guns N’ Roses - “Perhaps”


BEST ALBUM

Foo Fighters - But Here We Are


Congrats to Lenny Kravitz for finally making onto one of these lists for the first time ever (his daughter Zoe technically made last year’s songs list as a co-writer of Taylor Swift’s “Lavender Haze”). Also, I must admit that “Area Codes” by Kaliii almost made the song list for this year too.


…Well, that’s just about gonna do it for me.


Peace!


Related: Top 3 Albums Per Year

Related: My Top 10 Films Per Year, 1996-2023

Related: 2024 Pop Culture Review

Related: List Repository