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102 Sputnik LOVES // 3000_Wells

Recently binged my way up to 3000 ratings and figured a milestone was in order. Would have done an alltime top 100, but I did that on 2000 ratings and not long enough has passed since then for that list to pose many interesting developments, so instead I've pooled my favourite 102 releases from ratings #2001 to #3000 and ranked em. AND! Positivity! Set out to reorientate myself and find and lose inspo and reconnect with my basest instincts and sniff out things I've undervalued and [um] lay down 102 things I love about sputnik. These were done in a random order with varying levels of thoughtfulness and the exact levels of positivity are consequentially very inconsistent *but it's the effort that counts amirite*. Yay.
102Hiperson
bildungsroman


[deeply emotive Chinese indie]

So first and foremost, the time has come to reveal that - yes - alamo omala obama lmaoa ALAMO it is you and i love you always you are the pearl of the sputnik. Keep doing it (me) like you do
101Sleigh Bells
Texis


[noise pop / pop pop]

Love everything to do with the absolutely bizarre conjunction of users who bonded over this record lol, tryly blessed scenes
100Trophy Scars
Bad Luck


[blues / emo / post-hardcore]

Love this ridiculous fucking band and and their weirdo legacy on this site, forever real ones
99Bowery Electric
Bowery Electric


[shoegaze]

I love how big how big the features tab is and how frequently it changes. Site gains and loses identities overnight, and yet it's the same old game of roulette between the same three frequently platformed genres. It is a brand.
98Dios Trio
High On Bikes


[math rock / cute twinkly high energy midwestern shit]

and I love how small the soundoffs tab is. keep that vox pop suppressed yo
97Killing Joke
Night Time


[post punk]

Love the sputnikmusic user who makes puns and also has the sexiest ANATomy huh who could that be
96Perturbator
Dangerous Days


[synthwave / GAMING MUSIC]

You are all filthy fuckin gamers and I am convinced that this is the basis for 75% of sput's electronic predilection and I love that
95Shpongle
Tales of the Inexpressible


[psybient]

Love CalculatingInfinity, realest of the real and keeper of all the most carefully indexed, practically viable and readily available keys. A champ amongst champs, probably one of the users I have the most far-reaching and consistently great memories of. Never change
94Lovesliescrushing
Bloweyelashwish


[shoegaze / ambient]

Love being able to live life in the security that ajcollins15 will never review this album from this decade before he was born. Also love to live life in constant terror of his next wave of mockeries of the ever ailing English language the rest of us sorry pseudjournos cling to with increasingly diminishing increments of hope. Never a dull moment :[
93The Raveonettes
Chain Gang of Love


[noise rock / rock n roll / indie]

Love that city pop has a level of underground fandom that has neither waxed nor waned in any serious capacity since I swung in, save for an enjoyable upshot of Taeko Onuki ratings. Love this pasty hipster rocknroll shit album also mmm ohh we go together
92Bohren und der Club of Gore
Black Earth


[doom jazz]

"Uh Lupe Fiasco > Kanye West, you can screenshot or save or what have you, I am prepared to battle all with my robust wits and mild fury." love this probably polemic quote from sputnikmusicontrib MarsKid and hope to one day feel angry at it even though it is probably on some level true idk it's been over a decade since I heard Lupe when will people stop listening to Kanye will I be listening to Kanye more or less when this happens thank you Mars for these prompts
91Lali Puna
Faking The Books


[indietronica]

Love NEEKAFAT lmao eww what a dweeb hug me
90Limited Express (has gone?)
perfect ME


[noise fucking rock / saxophone hardcore / dub]

Love DEWI, the most chivalrous gentleman on sput who somehow plays in the most punkrawk band on the site - get your ass and/or band to the UK, and bring some dried manta with you!!! Love everyone in Dewi's nakama also, they are the BEST
89BUCK-TICK
Kyokutou I Love You


[alt rock / shoegaze / post punk]

Love all BUCK-TICK fans on this site except jasdevi (take a bath and clean ur glasses and I shall love you outside the guise of BUCK-TICK fan), your strength and fixation give me strength and fixation. Also love that I accidentally discovered BUCK-TICK from a random sputlist from a user I have never come across again ever. Also love BUCK-TICK.
88Iosonouncane
Ira


[post industrial / post rock]

Love that people's impatience for long album lengths is gradually waning, even if this great change is mainly directed towards not particularly great records of recent! Hey, we move!
87YAYA KIM
a.k.a YAYA


[art pop / cabaret]

[comment that makes demon feel appreciated]
86Cornelius
Fantasma


[shibuya kei and every other genre also]

Love the stupid site drama hyperwar mania whateverfests that occasionally make membership so entertaining (part of me secretly believes that sputnik peaked with trebor's Tony Danza review and Rest). It has been a long time since a shit scene band staged a weigh-in here, makes me think we may have lost our way.
85Xiu Xiu
OH NO


[chamber pop (cool creep kind not flaccid artfuck kind)]

Love porcupinetheater, the most swoonable swashbuckling penchampioning enlightening ex-contrib reprobate that ever there was. Sharpen my mind and inbue me with your fire !
84Haruka Nakamura
Grace


[ambient / folk / field recordings / indietronica]

Love the inconsistent but never-not-present levels of attention that Sput users' music get - glad there can be some sort of almost-scene there. Glad to see Domestic Terminal currently deriving some form of material benefit from this even if their style of music does next to nothing for me. Love that CHAT PILE are fuckin killing it out there, cannot wait for y'all to hear their new shit next week. Yes!
83GridLink
Longhena


[grind]

something something parksungjoon curator of good recs
82Atari Teenage Riot
Delete Yourself!


[digital hardcore]

something anything ghandhilion curator of great recs. there are no other rec users no not Havey
81betcover!!
時間 (Jikan)


[alt rock + ideas]

Love feeling the beautiful feeling of there being as many album reviews that I should definitely write for valid reasons as I have energies to write them, and then proceeding to squander all available impulses on a fit of hyperproductive shitposting. Love finding those energies return anyway later on
80Orbital
Orbital 2


[techno]

Love sput's cuteweird small techno fandombubble AS GATEKEPT BY PARK, made great by Trif and fuelled by Hyperion < 3 ~TO BE CONTINUED~
79Brutal Truth
Need to Control


[grind]

Love that Boney has somehow carved out a niche of being the only person on this site not named porcupinetheater who is explicitly Into Country and has recs for and opinions about Music In General that are occasionally worth paying attention to. That accolade might be a poisoned chalice, but props for downing it
78Low
The Curtain Hits the Cast


[slowcore]

LOVE THAT SLOWCORE IS GETTING A GENRE TAG
77Low
I Could Live in Hope


[slowcore]

LOVE THAT SOME OTHER GENRES, SOME OF WHICH MATTER, ARE ALSO GETTING GENRE TAGS
76Jang Pil Soon
나의 외로움이 널 부를 때


[folk pop]

LOVE the Temple love the secret masked templepeople scurrying around in plain sight doing sneaky sexy templethings
75The Cure
The Head on the Door


[new wave]

Love that the last two yrs have seen userbase preference on zak vs. Doof (for best/worst brit boomer) take a straight 180. RIP Doof, you had a good run for a while
74Japanese Breakfast
Jubilee


[indie pop]

Tbqh love that March Madness has only ever been won by absolutely top bois for as long as I can remember and probably longer. Say what you will about sput, it has great taste in CHAMPIONS
73Lee Jung Hyun
Let's Go to My Star


[trance / k-pop]

Love Jesper he is cute OwO
72Lamp
For Lovers / 恋人へ


[shibuya kei]

Love Steak he is cute OwO
71Springtime (AUS)
Night Raver


[noise rock / post punk]

Love how the storytelling on this record was powerful enough to temporarily kill SoTD. Oof.
70Dream Dolphin
Love Eating Alien


[acid techno / breaks / new age]

Love that Song of the Day is back! One of sput's best collaborative traditions, not to be taken for granted! Huge kudos to Pangea for resurrecting it
69The Prodigy
Experience


[breaks]

Love that Sinternet somehow defeated the JeffreyBigglestein and his gang of who(???)s without a single instance of direct confrontation, and also love that he chose to leave the majority of Leddsledd's decent taste inclinations intact during their Versailles sessions. Love also also that no-one else was spared in the slightest.
68Bruce Springsteen
Nebraska


[americana]

Love Drifter! He is so cute and mostly unspoiled! Have never come across someone so a) over this site b) present c) wholesome in presence, but this is wasted on me because I'm over it. Love the children of his fertile chicken society also.
67Faye Wong
Fable


[art pop / downtempo]

Love BLOC the only sput rymboi real enough to have rated this 50% masterpiece
66The For Carnation
The For Carnation


[slowcore]

Love Icebloom when he POSTS and posts indie sadunclecore not indie dadcore huh nice good
65Blue Planet Corporation
Blue Planet


[goa trance]

Love that trance is the most underdiscussed electronic genre on sput by a steep margin. Love how UnCool trance is. Loving trance and anyone cool enough to love it
64Dream Dolphin
Atmospheric Healing


[new age / ambient trance]

Love how 99% of this site gives absolutely zero fucks for new age. This is sad!!! but more inexplicably cogent than it is sad somehow
63Kendrick Lamar
To Pimp a Butterfly


[hip-hop]

Ditto 53 but for this. Love that this came out around the same time as Holy Vacants and, sput being sput, it was the latter hype train I cashed in on instead. No regrets but damn y'all have lead me down some rabbitholes in this time.
62Discordance Axis
The Inalienable Dreamless


[grind]

Love all grind fans on sput. Potentially my fav realm of the heavysput community
6116 Horsepower
Sackcloth 'n' Ashes


[gothic fuckin country]

Love the meme of this site's recentish country/country-pop/emo country/nu-alt-country takeover, and how a handful of worthy souls here have stepped up to the occasion and proven to me that in spite this evidence to the contrary, good country does after all exist. Love and despair for the trash others have platformed here
60Blanck Mass
World Eater


[electro post industrial vvvoom]

Love that I stole this when it was originally Pon's secret santa and love that I don't believe he has ever consumed it because he is extremely lovably shit :] x
59Michael Jackson
Thriller


[music]

Love Yolove Yolove Yolove Yolove Yolove Yolove Yolove Yolove Yolove Yolove Yolove Yolove Yolove Yolove Yolove Yolove Yolove Yolove Yoylove Yoylove Yoylove Yoyolove 良いお年を!!!!!!
58Moreru
itsunohini...


[noisecore]

love yall and your emo bullshit
57Piana
Muse


[glitch pop / ambient pop]

Love Ayumi Hamasakigate and both Steak and Arche for the good work they did for it (three cheers for 評価boi). Love both individually also !
56Hybrid (UK)
Wide Angle


[breaks]

TRIFOLIUM WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY *HEART*
55Asian Glow
Stalled Flutes, means


[emo]

Love is a mixtape
54Trophy Scars
Darkness, Oh Hell


[post bluescore]

Love minushuman - where is that beautiful fella and how is he doing?
53Burial
Untrue


[garage]

Love how specifically I remember Kindred sitting on the features tab when I first joined the site and how for whatever reason I never jammed it until last year, probably because it had the weight of 10 yrs of mythology-I-had-seen-form-in-real-time hanging over it and I didn't need to hear any real music to validate that further - yet it lived up!! Untrue is good too.
52Fushitsusha
Live II


[very noise rock]

Love that this site grew out of metal/skramz fandoms but that an enjoyable proportion of the userbase still gets freaked around immodest feedback/noise levels and overt lack of structure. m/ poser fucks
51Mondo Grosso
Big World


[jpop (all of them)]

Love all the people I've hung with in person from Sput - I always find it a little awkward at first putting a face to a username, but everyone I've met has uniformly been absolutely great to be around irl (too bad all of you are in other continents :((( UK gang where are you !!!)
50Rolo Tomassi
Where Myth Becomes Memory


[math postcore]

With the exception of a few anomolous dipshits and a few less anomolous hangouts (most of which are core- or warpedtour- adjacent HMMM), I love that Sputnik is a vastly more open minded, accepting and (uh I guess) progressive place than it was when I originally joined. I love that homophobia is out, that transphobic users are mostly viewed as shitstains on the community and that, well, if misogyny is proving a tougher fever to sweat than it might be for ye olde hive of boydisasters, then at least the playing field has shifted in the right direction - and I love this especially because absolutely none of it would have been conceivable back in the golden age of KILLposting (pure as that man's heart may have been). I feel this is something that has shifted particularly visibly over the last 3ish years (thanks #whorecoregate), and it's a relief to be writing on a platform where we're no longer promoting fascists and objectifying women on the very top level. No time for self-congratulation though - onwards and upwards.
49Kasra
Ski Mask


[drum and bass]

Love how precocious Ryus' sputcareer has been since day one, and how this energy is now split between solid recs, cringeposting on perceived cringe, and candidposting on Bladee. Invested in the futures of all three of these avenues
48Dream Dolphin
月の癒し、海の魔法


[acid trance]

Love that the Saga of Tentenko taught me not to bother repeating the same strategy for Dream Dolphin. Also don't love this because she was a legitimately great artist :[
47Nick Cave and Warren Ellis
Carnage


[chamber cinema songwritery stuff]

Have a few reservations about this, but mostly love how much of a constant this site was for me either side of my moves from the UK to Japan and back again. Community interaction = yes yes, but also those two years were probably the least creative period of my life so far in most regards, and it was a blessing to channel some measure of that energy into however many reems of backhanded prose. Thanks for weathering my drone.
46Citrus
Pits Are the Pits (25 Gold = Rare = Debris...


[shibuya kei / twee pop]

(*sigh*) I LOVE HAVEY for this record and this record alone yes that is all there is to this please look away. Your list was deeply funny and stirred my funnynerves. Now fuck off back to the cosmos
45Low
Things We Lost in the Fire


[slowcore]

Love (and am also quite sad) that sput disappearing from the Wayback Machine means that so much of our past awfulness can lie buried forever. Had a purge of a few of my older lists and comments, and yikes baby yikes
44Flipper's Guitar
Doctor Head's World Tower


[shibuya kei]

Love that 2020s sput's version of the early '10s "Bruh im metal for life but dont get me wrong bjork is a goddess" is "I will listen to milquetoast contemp indie shite all day every day, but you cannot touch me for my personality is sourced 110% wholesale from Pet Sounds and I will never draw a correlation between cornballs past or present lest I crumble in to hipsterish nothing dust". Also deeply hate this.
43Wolves in the Throne Room
Two Hunters


[atmoblack]

Love that time someone made a cereal list and each and every commenter had a sufficiently dreadful take to nearly put me off breakfast full stop for life
42Masakatsu Takagi
Kagayaki


[neoclassical new age chamber stuffs]

Love listening to music in my sleep - the only discourse to be had on this is Not Interesting, but there's still not enough of it!!
41George Harrison
All Things Must Pass


[rock]

Love Jom, the cool dad I never knew I needed. No elaborate :[
40Takeshi Terauchi and the Bunnys
This Is Terauchi Bushi


[surf rock]

Love that feeling you get when you unearth a forgotten gem with (usually) 50-200 ratings on rym, head over to Sput and find that it barely exists. Viva viva
39Skee Mask
Pool


[IDM / techno / breaks]

Love the righteous gang of good bois who came together last year to put this enormous biggood album on the traditionally unreadably awful Users' List. Great work yall, special props to Ryus for sustained plugging
38Astrobrite
Pinkshinyultrablast


[shoegaze]

Remember that thing Ryus discovered that we've all forgotten about where you can filter your ratings chart with artwork images mmm yeah LOVED that!!
37Xploding Plastix
Amateur Girlfriends Go Proskirt Agents


[big beat]

Love the participant gangpeople of every discord-patented MUSIC PARTY i've been around for, enjoyed each and all and every! good jams good folks
36Thinking Plague
Moonsongs


[avant prog / RIO]

Love zany floaty moonboi robertsona his thoughts are crepuscular rays through ur mindsmoke catch them if you can
35The Flashbulb
Kirlian Selections


[breakcore]

Love shapes and squares of many different sizes who the fuck is normaloctagon
34Bowery Electric
Beat


[trip hop / shoegaze / ambient]

Love this site's undying devotion to trip-hop. Probably the most open gateway for rockists getting into electronic music - well to everyone keeping it open
33Paik
Satin Black


[shoegaze]

Love shoegaze love how many gazers of completely different sets of interest sput has love every shoegaze thread that isn't Loveless
32Material Girl
i85mixx21-22


[experimental hip-hop]

Love anyone this record spoke to
31xanopticon
Liminal Space


[breakcore]

LOVE THE DELETE BUTTON
30D'Angelo
Black Messiah


[soul]

Love JUSTJOE forever and always now and forever always where are you why did you kill me in my dream last night
29The Wrens
The Meadowlands


[indie]

Love every sadboi except
28Jang Pil Soon
Soony 6


[folk pop / downtempo]

Loved and sometimes still love pushing archival write-ups for albums that never really had any kind of following here. It's exhausting in the long run and inconsistently rewarding, but I've spent enough time on staff directing a significant chunk of my output to stuff that anyone could tell was always going to get attention here. Unless they particularly grab me (upcoming Chat Pile!!!) or need taking down a peg, I want to spent less time covering the same Online Music Happenings that are happening everywhere else on the internet at the same time. I think it can be interesting/worthwhile if we as a site have a distinctly different take on them (e.g. any Windmill scene review not written by Rowan), but I'm not vibing being the boi to rep that quite as much. More exploration, more important archival writes and better, nicher musicpromo to come hopefully
27Belvedere
Fast Forward Eats the Tape


[skate punk / melodic hxc]

Love snotty techy skate punk mmmyesduh
26Black Sabbath
Master of Reality


[metal]

Black Sabbath Master of Reality Love what metal did for my character development. Tbqh where would any of us be without metal. There can be no personality until you have metaled and then grown out of it
25Cynic
Focus


[progtechdeth]

Love that Cynic and Rush bandwagoning here isn't nearly as insufferable as it was 10 years ago. Cannot wait to see this treatment spread to Opeth!
24Burial
Kindred


[garage]

Love the constant looming suspense of a random site crash
23Teenage Jesus and the Jerks
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks


[no wave / noise rock]

Love that the sput charts aren't weighted by votecount, meaning 1) it's easy to find random gems (/underrepresented scene-definers) from the charts and 2) the more you hype something with low votes that you found, the higher the chance of an immediate average drop and subsequent decharting. It's a precarious life, seize it while it lasts.
22Joni Mitchell
Blue


[folk]

Love that this skramzy sweaty boi-site has pushed me towards a small handful of music albums I can bond with mum over yes thank you
21The Field
From Here We Go Sublime


[min techno]

Love that electronic entryism is (very slowly) on the UP here
20Wipers
Youth of America


[punk / post punk / noise rock]

Love the little shit who recommened me this very great album, I believe some call him """Pheromone"""
19The Prodigy
Music for the Jilted Generation


[breaks]

Love the Build-an-Album game (big kudos to Mars for sustaining that shit, and pour one out to Storm for quitting while he was ahead on his), and LOVE that this forcibly exposed an encouraging proportion of the site to the wonders of breaks. Love breaks!
18The Beatles
Magical Mystery Tour


[psych pop]

Love Sput Beatlemania and am continually a little confused that it's as existent as it is, but hooray for that! The Fab Four far surpass Radiohead as the best debateband in rock, always enjoy Beatles threads
17Trophy Scars
Astral Pariah


[blues rock / gothic country]

Love the Best New Music tab and all the damage I've wrought on it. HATE that it only goes back for 99 pages, meaning that every time something is added to BNM, something is bumped off! Not cool!
16Fushitsusha
Live I


[noise rock / psych]

Love how literally nobody here cares about live albums. Also no!
15Pig Destroyer
Terrifyer


[grind]

Love that half the site is down with literally anything, on the sole stipulation that it contains literal boatloads of *riffs*. Also occasionally love riffs.
14Dream Dolphin
The Seventh Dream


[breakbeat hardcore / drum and bass]

Love that Sput as a whole is a half-step behind every other weird self-cannibalising online music hype circuit out there, giving our hype (for better or worse) a vaguely specific flavour of its own. Everyone who has ever dredged a Fantano rating into otherwise respectable threads (especially the people who bitch about his entire personality and platform when it's negative but post innocuous comments anyway when it's post), you are on the wrong side of this. Don't ruin a good thing
13Underworld
dubnobasswithmyheadman


[techno]

Love that this classic badass sleazetease of an album had absolutely NO REVIEW until literally 2020 what in the hell. Love that *some* people are being vaguely slowly definitely proactive at filling database gaps like this, keep plugging them holes!
12Doss
Doss


[trance]

Love the (heart)(hard)(core) staff picky-poptimist gang, by which I mean granite and Wines and their stupendous student union representative BlushHip and sometimes sona when he IS cool enough 4 school! You are ALL handsome and righteous
11John Coltrane
My Favorite Things


[jazz]

Love the carnage that SputRoyale has strewn over its 2 years of misery, boy I cannot wait to see how much worse this year will be
10Hartfield
True Color, True Lie


[shoegaze / dream pop]

Love that some peeps here do genuinely deep knowledge of certain scenes/styles, and are usually their best, most approachable selves if you hit them up on the topic in good faith. Love also how some of these folks are also perfectly capable of snarky hellfire when occasional calls - love sixdegrees
9Hallucinogen
Twisted


[goa trance]

Love + respect how much y'all stick together when someone kicks the hornet's nest. Half the reason I've spend so much time doing exactly that is (probably) that there's almost as much give as there is take, and plenty of both. Yes yes
8Shiner
Lula Divinia


[post-hardcore / math rock]

I love how tenacious fandoms around specific cult classics can be here - love Shiner yes
7Brian Eno
Ambient 1: Music For Airports


[AMBIENT]

I love how erratic sput news coverage is
6Les Rallizes Denudes
'77 Live


[noise rock / psych]

and I love my shoutbox and all of your shoutboxes
5Arab Strap
As Days Get Dark


[indie / slowcore]

I actually love everyone here
4Oxbow
An Evil Heat


[noise rock]

especially love anyone who believed 5
3Seiko Oomori
Kintsugi


[j-pop]

This is too complicated to be a *love*, but I can't imagine the last few years or my whole experience of Japan/Japanese without their intersection with the reckless talent, intense performance style, tearaway lyricism, inspirationally desperate songwriting and ultimately irresponsible ambitions of Oomori Seiko, and in turn the intersection this has had with my writing here - probably over 10k words without ever feeling like I ever nailed *it*. The upshot is the handful of people here who did grasp *it* in spite of my clumsy writing or the ongoing dumpster fire, by no means specific to this site, of people shrugging off the fierce ideas of uncompromising [female] artists because they are articulated in unknown languages, both literal and stylistic, by a voice entirely indifferent to whatever passes as pleasing tonality in the Anglosphere. For anyone who heard it for what it was, I guess it was worth it. Greatest songwriter of our time - hope she gets her shit together from these last couple of years.
2David Bowie
Station to Station


[cocaine musics]

mmmmtvc-one-fiveHERBIE CHROST I love you
1Yeule
Glitch Princess


[glitch pop / ambient pop / noise pop / emo]

...and just when you thought I'd forgotten Mort, I
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