2020 is coming to an end and the time has come to go back and remember the good and bad things happened this year. Albums, songs, films and much more, below you will find the choices of our staff.
In the next days we will publish, exclusively for our site, the choices of a member of a little Seattle group… stay tuned!
LUCA VILLA
Top 5 albums
IDLES – Ultra Mono
Pearl Jam – Gigaton
Fontaines D.C. – A Hero’s Death
The Strokes – The New Abnormal
Bruce Springsteen – Letter To You
Top 3 songs
Pearl Jam – Dance of the Clairvoyants
IDLES – Grounds
Michael Stipe & Big Red Medicine – No Time For Love Like Now
One album that helped you through 2020
IDLES – Joy as an Act of Resistance
Fav. movie
The Hunt
Fav. TV series
Homeland
Fav. book
Joe Pearson – Art of Do The Evolution
Best 2020 moment
Seeing my daughter dance Deaf Charlie first song while Trump was going to lose the elections + PJOL Livestream Fest!
Worst 2020 moment
Understanding that our life would never be the same for a fuckin’ long time
DARIA MORETTI
Top 5 albums
Pearl Jam – Gigaton
IDLES – Ultra Mono
Bruce Springsteen – Letter to You
Mark Lanegan – Straight Songs of Sorrow
Brian Fallon – Local Honey
Top 3 songs
Pearl Jam – Dance of the Clairvoyants
IDLES – Grounds
Bruce Springsteen – Letter to You
One album that helped you through 2020
Pearl Jam – No Code
Fav. movie
David Lynch – What Did Jack Do?
Fav. TV series
The Crown
Fav. book
Mark Lanegan – Sing Backwards and Weep: A Memoir
Best 2020 moment
5/18 – end of lockdown
Worst 2020 moment
3/9 – beginning of lockdown
GIOVANNI PORCARI
Top 5 albums
Pearl Jam – Gigaton
Greg Dulli – Random Desire
Neil Young – Return to Greendale
Mark Lanegan – Straight Songs Of Sorrow
Bob Dylan – Rough and Rowdy Ways
Top 3 songs
Pearl Jam – Never Destination
Greg Dulli- A Ghost
Mark Lanegan – At Zero Below
One album that helped you through 2020
Pearl Jam – Ten
Fav. movie
Hillbilly Elegy
Fav. TV series
How to Get Away with Murder
Fav. book
Alberto Casiraghi – La natura sa quasi tutto
Best 2020 moment
When my 5 year old grandson welcomed me home saying: hey uncle, sci or enti chenvas (Sheets of empty canvas)
Worst 2020 moment
When they told me that there is not much hope for my mother
SERENA MARSILI
Top 5 albums
Pearl Jam – Gigaton
Eels – Earth to Dora
Fleet Foxes – Shore
Alanis Morissette – Such Pretty Forks in the Road
Fiona Apple – Fetch the Bolt Cutters
Top 3 songs
Father John Misty – Anthem (Leonard Cohen cover)
Michael Stipe – No Time For Love Like Now
Pearl Jam – Seven O’ Clock
One album that helped you through 2020
Frank Turner – Tape Deck Heart
Fav. TV series
Tales of The Loop
Best 2020 moment
Eddie Vedder surprising Glen Hansard during his first Instagram livestream
Worst 2020 moment
The lockdown
LAURA FACCENDA
Top 5 albums
Biffy Clyro – A Celebration Of Endings
Bruce Springsteen – Letter To You
Phoebe Bridgers – Punisher
Another Sky – I Slept On The Floor
Pearl Jam – Gigaton
Top 3 songs
Biffy Clyro – Space (Orchestral Version. Live at Abbey Road Studio)
Dallas Green – Rain When I Die (Alice in Chains cover)
Nothing But Thieves – Impossible
One album that helped you through 2020
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Live 1975 – 85
Fav. movie
18 Regali
Fav. TV series
High Fidelity
Fav. book
Valeria Sgarella – Seattle. La città, la musica, le storie
Best 2020 moment
Welcoming home my cat, Noah
Worst 2020 moment
When I realized that distance could become (my) comfort zone
BERNARD SHAKEY
Top 5 albums
Fiona Apple – Fetch the Bolt Cutters
The Dream Syndicate – The Universe Inside
IDLES – Ultra Mono
Nothing But Thieves – Moral Panic
Neil Young – Homegrown
Top 3 songs
Fiona Apple – Shameika
IDLES – Model Village
Nothing But Thieves – Impossible
One album that helped you through 2020
Jeff Buckley – Grace
Fav. movie
Volevo Nascondermi
Fav. TV series
Space Force
Fav. book
Zerocalcare – Scheletri
Best moment in 2020
No
Worst moment in 2020
The first listen of Foo Fighters’ Shame Shame
HENRY RUGGERI
Top 5 albums
Marilyn Manson – We Are Chaos
Rolling Stones – Goats Head Soup (Reduxe)
Biffy Clyro – A Celebration of Endings
Bring Me The Horizon – Post Human Survaival Horror
AC/DC – PWRϟUP
Top 3 songs
The Strokes – Bad Decisions
The 1975 – People
Marilyn Manson – Infinite Darkness
One album that helped you through 2020
Ramones – It’s Alive (the best record ever!)
Fav. movie
Jojo Rabbit
Fav. TV series
The Queen’s Gambit
Fav. book
Anton Corbijn – Depeche Mode
Best 2020 moment
Working in Paris for Ermenegildo Zegna and Fear of God was perhaps the highest point of the year, but I liked everything of this so strange 2020 for a thousand of reasons!
Worst 2020 moment
I don’t remember having any