My 7 Favorite Albums of 2015 + 60 More

This was far and away my favorite album of 2015:

Courtney Barnett

• Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit

This is far and away my second favorite album of the year:

• Bully - Feels Like

And, what the heck, 3 through 7 are:

• Christopher Owens - Chrissybaby Forever
• Wilco - Star Wars
• Mac Demarco - Another One
• Robert Pollard - Faulty Superheroes
• Twerps - Range Anxiety

Bully

The "Best of the Rest," in mostly no particular order (not because I'm lazy, more because there is just so much music being released all the time that this is one year I was unable to keep up to date):

Second Tier

• Alpaca Sports - When You Need Me the Most
• Astronauts, Ltd. - Mind Out Wandering
• Best Coast - California Nights
• Belle and Sebastian - Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance
• Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Style
• Cheatahs - Mythologies
• Desaparecidos - Payola
• Jason Isbell - Something More Than Free
• The Juliana Hatfield Three - Whatever My Love
• King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Paper Mache Dream Balloon
• Laura Stevenson - Cocksure
• Mac Mccaughan - Non-Believers
• Mikal Cronin - MCIII
• Moon Types - Know the Reason
• Palehound - Dry Food
• Ricked Wicky - I Sell the Circus
• Ricked Wicky - King Heavy Metal
• Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - The High Country
• Yo La Tengo - Stuff Like That There

Third Tier

• Albert Hammond Jr. - Momentary Masters
• B.C. Camplight - How to Die in the North
• Beirut - No No No
• Ben Lee - Love is the Great Rebellion
• Built to Spill - Untethered Moon
• Chris Stamey - Euphoria
• The Decemberists - Florasongs
• Destroyer - Poison Season
• Diamond Rugs - Cosmetics
• Ducktails - St. Catherine
• The Foxymorons - Fake Yoga
• Iron and Wine and Ben Bridwell - Sing Into My Mouth
• Jeff the Brotherhood - Wasted On the Dream
• Joanna Gruesome - Peanut Butter
• Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
• Lou Barlow - Brace The Wave
• Low - Ones and Sixs
• Modest Mouse - Strangers to Ourselves
• The Monochrome Set - Spaces Everywhere
• My Morning Jacket - The Waterfall
• Parquet Courts - Monastic Living
• Robert Forster - Songs to Play
• Seth Avett & Jessica Lea Mayfield - Sing Elliot Smith
• Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
• Surfer Blood - 1000 Palms
• Swervedriver - I Wasn't Born to Love You
• Wavves - V
• Wire - Wire

Best Reissues

• Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
• Velvet Underground - Loaded
• Paul McCartney - Pipes of Peace and Tug of War

Biggest Letdown 

• Tame Impala - Currents

Singles That Are Hard to Argue Against

• Carly Rae Jepsen "I Really Like You"
• Dawes "Things Happen"
• Madonna "Ghost Town"
• Rihanna, Kanye West & Paul McCartney "Fourfiveseconds"
• Snoop Dogg and Stevie Wonder "California Roll"
• The Weeknd "I Can't Feel My Face"