Jeff Ament & John Wicks, who formed Deaf Charlie this year, have listed their favorite 2020 albums, the songs they have listened to the most and much more exclusively for our site.
JEFF AMENT
2020 Top 5 albums
IDLES – Ultra Mono
Car Seat Headrest – Making a Door Less Open
Phoebe Bridgers – Punisher
Rolling Stones – Goats Head Soup reissue
Grandaddy – Sophtware Slump… on a wooden piano
Others:
Chicano Batman – Invisibile People
Painted Shield – Painted Shield
Perfume Genius – Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
Deep Sea Diver – Impossible Weight
2020 best songs
IDLES – Grounds
Phoebe Bridgers – Kyoto
Fav. 2020 movie
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Fav. 2020 TV series
The Social Dilemma
Mrs. America
Lovecraft Country
Fav. 2020 books
Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden
The Cold Millions by Jess Walter
Best moment in 2020
Rehearsals in early March & making Deaf Charlie music the rest of the year
JOHN WICKS
2020 Top 5 albums
IDLES – Ultra Mono
The Murder Capital – When I Have Fears (2019, sorry)
Chicano Batman – Invisible People
Perfume Genius – Set My Heart On Fire Immediately
Shabaka and The Ancestors – We Were Sent Here By History
2020 best songs
The 1975 – People
Extroverted Kid – Lokoy and Flipflop
Tame Impala – It Might Be Time
Fav. 2020 movie
John Lewis – Good Trouble
Fav. 2020 TV series
On Point
Fav. 2020 book
The Practice by Seth Godin
Best moment in 2020
Celebrating Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ election win with my family
Born in Reggio Emilia in 1980. He created pearljamonline.it in 2001 and wrote the first edition of “Pearl Jam Evolution” in 2009 along with his wife Daria. Since 2022, he is behind 2 podcasts: “Pearl Jam dalla A alla Z” and “Fuori Orario Not Another Podcast”. He has collaborated with Barracuda Style, HvsR, Rolling Stone, Rockol and Il Fatto Quotidiano. He continues relentlessly to try to find “beautiful melodies that say terrible things”.
Favorite song: Present Tense
Favorite album: No Code
Favorite bands/artists other than PJ: Tom Waits, Soundgarden, Ramones, Bruce Springsteen, IDLES, Fontaines D.C., The Murder Capital, Mark Lanegan, Cat Power, R.E.M.