Episode 10: 2021 Favorites

Lydia and I got behind the mics one last time this year to discuss our favorite albums, games, TV shows, movies, and more. What was your favorite album of the year? Favorite TV show? Movie?

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Shaun's Favorites of 2021
Favorite games
Guardians of the Galaxy
Disco Elysium: The Final Cut
 
Played hundreds of hours
Pokemon Unite
League of Legends: Wild Rift
played a lot of Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Top 10 Albums of the Year/favorite albums of the year (released in 2021)

1. Every Time I Die - Radical

2. Turnstile - Glow On

3. Home is Where - I Became Birds

4. Tash Sultana - Terra Firma

5. Sam Gellaitry - IV

6. Angel Dust - YAK: A Collection of Truck Songs

7. Tyler, the Creator - CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST

8. Foxing - Draw Down the Moon

9. Citizen - Life in Your Glass World
10. Tigers Jaw - I Won’t Care How You Remember Me

Honorable Mentions

Sithu Aye - Senpai III

Glitterer - Life Is Not a Lesson

Xenia Rubinos - Una Rosa

Rufus Du Sol - Surrender

Explosions in the Sky - Big Bend

Manchester Orchestra - The Million Masks of God

AFI - Bodies

Gojira - Fortitude

Doja Cat - Planet Her

Land of Talk - Calming Night Partner EP

The World is a Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid to Die - Illusory Walls

CloZee - Nouvelle Era EP

Kacy Musgraves - star-crossed

LSDream - Peace Love & Wubz

Knocked Loose - A Tear in the Fabric of Life

Angel Du$t - Bigger House

Ravenscoon - Rapid Eye Movements EP

Trippie Redd & Travis Scott - Pegasus

Architects - For Those That Wish To Exist

Trippie Redd - Trip At Knight

LIVE AND REISSUES

Anthony Green - Live at Studio 4

Radiohead - Kid A Mnesia

Minus the Bear - Farewell (Live)

Home Is Where - Home Is Where on Audiotreee

Seahaven - WFX (Tens years of Winter Forever)

Shoutout to music that had an imprint on me this year— released anytime

1. East Forest & Ram Dass - Ram Dass (2019)

2. Rufus Du Sol - Live from Joshua Tree

 - Satsang, CloZee, LSDream

Lots of video game music - Ambient, time traveling, nostalgia, repeat for hours to focus

 Spiritfarer OST

 Catherine 

 Persona 5

 Animal Crossing: New Horizon

 Stardew Valley

Favorite TV shows
Succession
Arcane
Mare of Easttown
Loki
White Lotus
Squid Game
Midnight Mass
Love on the Spectrum

Watched this year that made an imprint
Cowboy Bebop - original anime
Rewatch of Breaking Bad
Better Call Saul - From beginning and caught up
Jersey Shore
True Detective - season 1
Scenes from a Marriage

Favorite movies
Dune
Godzilla VS King Kong
Bad Trip
 
Watched this year that made an imprint
Rewatch of 20-something of the 27 Marvel movies
SLC Punk, Jackass movies, Ram Dass's Going Home, Arrival, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Interstellar
Underwater

Favorite concerts
10/28- Satsang / Tim Snider and Wolfgang Timber (DSM: Wooly's - Thursday)
11/7- Every Time I Die / '68 (IC: Gabes - Sunday)
10/31- CloZee / Of the Trees (MN: The Fillmore - Sunday)
5/28- A-Trak (MN: The Union Rooftop - Friday - Lyd's bday)

Favorite festivals
 12/10- 'Tid the Season - Every Time I Die / TBA (NY: Buffalo Riverworks - Friday)
 12/11- 'Tid the Season - Every Time I Die / TBA (NY: Buffalo Riverworks - Saturday)
 6/18- Voyage Music Festival - CloZee / LSDream / Rome in Silver / Veil / Orenda (WY: Tyson Bison Ranch - Friday)
 6/19- Voyage Music Festival - CloZee w/ Android Jones / Inzo / Tripp St. / Notlo/ Comisar (WY: Tyson Bison Ranch - Saturday)
 9/3- North Coast Music Festival - Kaskade / Louis the Child (IL: Bridgeview - Friday)
 9/4- North Coast Music Festival -  Griz / Ganja White Night (IL: Bridgeview - Saturday)
 9/5- North Coast Music Festival -  Zeds Dead / Rezz / Tycho (IL: Bridgeview - Sunday)
 7/3- Zeds Dead (CO: Red Rocks - Saturday)
 8/27- Kosmic Kingdom - Liquid Stranger / LSDream / Jantsen / Johnny Rage(DSM: Sleepy Hollow - Friday)
 8/28- Kosmic Kingdom - Liquid Stranger / Rusko / Yheti / Smith. / Tvboo / Tsuruda / (DSM: Sleepy Hollow - Saturday)

Lydia's Favorites of 2021
Albums
The Elovaters - Castles
Iya Terra - Ease & Grace
LSDream - Peace, Love, and Wubz
Mersiv - Pretty Dark Loud
Satsang - All Right Now
Turnstile - Glow On
Griz - Rainbow Brain
Angel Dust - Bigger House EP
Sam Gellaitry - IV
Ravenscoon - Rapid Eye Movements
Jack Kays - My Favorite Nightmares

Music that made an impact (not released in 2021)
Satsang - Story of You
The Comfort - What It Is To Be

TV Shows
Maid
Succession
White Lotus
What We Do in the Shadows
Mare of Easttown
I Think You Should Leave

Movies
Old
Dune
Bad Trip
The Green Knight
Bo Burnhams' Inside

Concerts
LSDream - North Coast Music Festival
Satsang - Wooly's
Prof

Festivals
Voyage
North Coast