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TWG’s Favorite Faves of 2018: A Mid-Year Countdown List-A-Go-Go

The Top 10 Albums

1. Beach House - 7
   
2. Against All Logic - 2012-2017
3. Cardi B - Invasion of Privacy
4. Pusha T - Daytona
5. DJ Taye - Still Trippin’
   
6. Grouper - Grid of Points
7. Mount Eerie - Now Only
8. Mary Lattimore - Hundreds of Days
9. Nipsey Hussle - Victory Lap
10. Burna Boy - Outside

The Album That Could’ve Been #1 (Or #2, At Least)

• Migos - Culture 1.5 (curated by TWG)
  

The EP That Could’ve Made My Top Albums List

• Hatchie - Sugar & Spice
  

The Top 25 Tracks

1. Rae Sremmurd feat. Juicy J - “Powerglide”
   
2. Mitski & Xiu Xiu - “Between The Breaths”
   
3. DJDS feat. Khalid, Uncle Charlie Wilson, and Charlotte Day Wilson - “No Pain”
4. Nipsey Hussle feat. YG - “Last Time That I Checc’d”
   
5. Migos - “Gang Gang”
6. Drake - “Nice For What”
   
7. Hatchie - “Sugar & Spice”
8. DJ Taye - “Trippin’”
   
9. Sevdaliza - “Human Nature”
   
10. Beach House - “Dive”
11. BlocBoy JB feat. Drake - “Look Alive”
    
12. Janelle Monae feat. Grimes - “Pynk”
13. Childish Gambino - “This Is America”
    
14. Sophie - “Immaterial”
    
15. Dirty Projectors - “Break-Thru”
    
16. Oneohtrix Point Never - “Black Snow”
    
17. Burna Boy - “Streets of Africa”
18. Against All Logic - “Know You”
19. Titus Andronicus - “Real Talk”
    
20. Valee & Jeremih - “Womp Womp”
    
21. Dorian Electra - “Career Boy”
    
22. BLACKPINK - “DDU-DU DDU-DU”
23. Creek Boyz - “Trap Digits”
24. James Blake - “If The Car Beside You Moves Ahead”
    
25. Playboy Carti feat. Lil Uzi Vert - “Shoota”
    

The Top 2 Albums By The Body I Feel Guilty About Not Listening To Yet

1. The Body - I Have Fought Against It, But I Can’t Any Longer
   
2. Uniform &The Body  - Mental Wounds Not Healing
   

The Top 10 Films

1. You Were Never Really Here
   
2. Hereditary
   
3. Thoroughbreds
   
4. Isle of Dogs
5. The Commuter
6. A Quiet Place
   
7. Leave No Trace
8. Annihilation
9. Upgrade
10. The Incredibles 2

The Top 10 Wrestling Matches

1. Kazuchika Okada vs. Will Ospreay at NJPW 46th Anniversary Show
2. Ronda Rousey & Kurt Angle vs. Triple H & Stephanie McMahon at Wrestlemania
3. Charlotte Flair vs. Asuka at Wrestlemania
4. Andrade “Cien” Almas vs. Johnny Gargano at NXT Takeover: Philadelphia
5. Kenny Omega vs. Chris Jericho at Wrestle Kingdom 12
6. The Men’s Royal Rumble at Royal Rumble
7. Will Ospreay vs. Hiromu Takahashi at New Beginning in Osaka
8. Asuka vs. Sasha Banks at 1/29/18 Raw 
9. Will Ospreay vs. Marty Scurll vs. Hiromu Takahashi vs. KUSIDA at WrestleKingdom
10. Kazuchika Okada vs. Tetsuya Naito at Wrestle Kingdom
    Note: I am way behind on NJPW, and haven’t finished the New Japan Cup, Best of the Super Juniors, or Dominion.
    

The Top 5 Wrestling Matches I’ve Seen Live

1. Jeff Cobb vs. Joey Janela at Threemendous V
   
2. Pentagon Jr. vs. Rey Horus at Threemendous V
   
3. The Young Bucks vs. The Rascalz at Threemendous V
   
4. Pentagon Jr and Fenix vs. Willie Mack & Scorpio Sky at Bar Wrestling 12: Aunt May
   
5. DoomFly vs. Brian Cage at Bar Wrestling 12: Aunt May
   

The Top 3 Discs of SR3MM

1. SR3MM
   
2. Jxmtro
   
3. Swaecation
   

The Top 2 Cover Songs

1. Titus Andronicus - “(I’m) Like A Rolling Stone”
2. Titus Andronicus - “Where Everybody Knows Your Name > Theme From ‘Cheers’ (Live)”
3. My girlfriend singing Daniel Johnston’s “The Story Of An Artist” with warbly cat meows instead of lyrics.

The Most Convenient Things

1. Kanye deciding to drop his worst two albums in the same year as all of his worst opinions.

The Top 2 Facts That Paint A Bleaker-Than-Accurate Portrait Of My Feelings About A Certain Artist

• My favorite song on Dirty Computer is “Pynk”
  
• My least favorite song on Art Angels is “Venus Fly”

The Artist To Whom I Should Apologize For Using His Work As A Header Image

• Steve Fitch