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Our Favorite Music from 2020

12/15/2020

 
Hello friends,

Kathryn here. Pre-Covid, I would listen to music every day on my way to work, in the office, and on my way home or to dinner with friends at a restaurant (remember when that was a thing?!). I would hear it in the halls at work (San Francisco Opera), go see concerts, or catch some live jazz. In March when everything shut down in San Francisco, I started working from home and my commute became non-existent. Concerts were cancelled. I wasn’t surrounded by music in the halls of the opera house. Instead, I went from Zoom meeting to Zoom meeting with no time in between and by the time I stopped working, all I wanted to do was eat and go to bed. So music left my daily routine for a while.

It came back to me when I decided one night in July to watch a recording from NY Phil of YoYo Ma performing Dvořák’s Cello Concerto in 1995. The music swelled up inside of me, and, however corny this sounds, I recognized that I was missing the healing power of music in my life.

Since that evening music, especially pop music, has come back into my daily life, and I’ve been catching up on some of the incredible albums that have come out this year from Phoebe Bridgers’ Punisher and Fiona Apple’s Fetch the Boltcutters to Taylor Swift’s folklore and Sarah Dooley’s Is This Heartbreak? I’m still digging into new albums from Sufjan Stevens, Perfume Genius, Lianne La Havas, HAIM, Jyoti, and Moses Sumney, along with all of the other albums the larger TIA community has been listening to.

What music have you been listening to this year? What has brought you joy or to tears? Or made you want to dance? Let me know, I’m ready to dance.

And looking towards 2021, I hope to experience some live music!

Happy listening!
Kathryn

The TIA Community's Favorite Songs of 2020

  • Ali Dineen - Hold On
  • The Chicks - Gaslighter
  • Willie Nelson - Vote 'Em Out
  • Jack Garratt - Time
  • Fiona Apple - Relay
  • Adam Blotner - I Love This Clinic (feat. Jenny Pinzari)
  • Indigo Girls - Closer to Fine
  • Our Native Daughters - Black Myself
  • Taylor Swift - I Forgot That You Existed
  • Nathan Leigh - All Our Racist Uncles
  • Zenobia Powell Perry - Tawawa House Suite (Arr. J. Gandolfi for Piano 4 Hands): Jumping Over the Broom
  • Jessica Vosk - Help / Being Alive
  • Daft Punk - Lose Yourself to Dance (feat. Pharrell Williams)
  • Daft Punk - Touch (feat. Paul Williams)
  • Cher - Happiness Is Just a Thing Called Joe
  • Taylor Swift - We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
  • Taylor Swift - Mean
  • Kesha - Praying
  • Beyoncé - Run the World (Girls)
  • Green Day - American Idiot
  • Resistance Revival Chorus - All You Fascists Bound To Lose
  • Melanie De Biasio - Sweet Darling Pain
  • John Prine - No Ordinary Blue
  • John Prine - Lonesome Friends of Science
  • Beyoncé - BLACK PARADE
  • Rufus Wainwright - Peaceful Afternoon
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The TIA Community's Favorite Albums of 2020

Albums
  • Notes on a Conditional Form by The 1975
  • Fetch the Boltcutters by Fiona Apple
  • Solo Violin Sonatas by Bach
  • The Keep Going Song by The Bengsons
  • The Lion King: The Gift by Beyoncé
  • Step to the Left by Adam Blotner
  • Punisher by Phoebe Bridgers
  • Stranger in the Alps by Phoebe Bridgers
  • Gaslighter by The Chicks
  • No Deal by Melanie De Blasio
  • Random Access Memories by Daft Punk
  • Hold On by Ali Dineen
  • Is This Heartbreak? by Sarah Dooley
  • Future Nostalgia by Dua Lipa
  • Rough and Rowdy Ways by Bob Dylan
  • American Head by The Flaming Lips
  • Midnight Organ Fight by Frightened Rabbit
  • Mia Gargaret by Margaret Gia
  • The Theatrical Death of Julie Delicious by Holychild
  • World on the Ground by Sarah Jasosz
  • Dedicated Side B by Carly Rae Jepson
  • DISCO by Kylie Minogue
  • Getting Into Knives by The Mountain Goats
  • Suite for Max Brown by Jeff Parker
  • The Tree of Forgiveness by John Prine
  • The Neon Skyline by Andy Shauf
  • Sign of the Times by Harry Styles
  • Folklore by Taylor Swift
  • Ctrl by SZA
  • how are you? By Rosenhardt
  • Unfollow the Rules by Rufus Wainwright

Musical Cast Albums
  • Hadestown
  • Jagged Little Pill
  • Six! The Musical

“All their albums, I can’t decide!” Artists
  • The Chicks
  • Sam Cooke
  • Los Panchos
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