Like last year, Rough Trade seems to be the first list out of the gate. There's 100 in the list, top 10 here:
1. Temples - Sun Structures2. The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream3. Todd Terje - It's Album Time4. Metronomy - Love Letters5. Little Dragon - Nabuma Rubberband6. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire for No Witness7. Liars - Mess8. Millie and Andrea - Drop the Vowels9. The Delines - Colfax10. Sun Kil Moon - Benji
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 15 November 2014 14:58 (ten years ago)
(*FKA twigs watch: #37)
Ha, you beat me to it. I totally forgot there was a Metronomy album.
11. Total Control - Typical System12. Caribou - Our Love13. Goat - Commune14. Wildest Dreams - Wildest Dreams15. Alvvays - Alvvays16. Royal Blood - Royal Blood17. Honeyblood - Honeyblood18. Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings - Give the People What They Want19. Ty Segall - Manipulator20. Jack White - Lazaretto21. Mac DeMarco - Salad Days22. Neneh Cherry - Blank Project23. Warpaint - Warpaint24. Tom the Lion - Sleep25. Fredie Gibbs & Madlib - Pinata26. Arca - Xen27. Avi Buffalo - At Best Cuckold28. Ultimate Painting - Ultimate Painting29. Jungle - Jungle30. The Wytches - Annabel Dream Reader31. Hookworms - The Hum32. Benjamin Booker - Benjamin Booker33. Future Islands - Singles34. The Amazing Snakeheads - Amphetamine Ballads35. Aphex Twin - Syro36. Swans - To Be Kind37. FKA twigs - LP138. Sleaford Mods - Divide and Exit39. Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds in Country Music40. Sharon Van Etten - Are We There41. The Rails - Fair Warning42. Allah-Las - Worship the Sun43. Protomartyr - Under Color of Official Right44. Beck - Morning Phase45. Real Estate - Atlas46. Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animal47. First Aid Kit - Stay Gold48. We Are Shining - Kara49. Gruff Rhys - American Interior50. Eno and Hyde - Someday World51. A Winged Victory for the Sullen - Atomos52. Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots53. Lucinda Williams - Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone54. Ratking - So It Goes55. Allo Darlin' - We Come From the Same Place56. Childhood - Lacuna57. Adult Jazz - Gist Is58. Keaton Henson - Romantic Works59. Lone - Reality Testing60. Jamie T - Carry on the Grudge61. St. Vincent - St. Vincent62. Happyness - Weird Little Birthday63. Diamond Version - CI64. Owen Pallett - In Conflict65. Alex G - DSU66. Scott Walker and Sunn 0))) - Soused67. Haley Bonar - Last War68. Badbadnotgood - III69. Smoke Fairies - Smoke Fairies70. Vikesh Kapoor - The Ballad of Willy Robbins71. Lyla Foy - Mirrors the Sky72. The Bug - Angels and Devils73. Withered Hand - New Gods74. Asgeir - In the Silence75. Actress - Ghettoville76. Ariel Pink - Pom Pom77. Fugazi - First Demo78. Andy Stott - Faith In Strangers79. Captain Beefheart - Sun Zoom Spark80. Lost on the River - The New Basement Tapes81. Girlpool - Girlpool82. Ty Segall - Singles 283. Bo Ningen and Savages - Words to the Blind84. Mark Kozelek - Sings Christmas Carols85. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Give Us a Kiss86. Dans Dans - III87. TV on the Radio - Seeds88. Thompson - Family89. David J Roch - A Cynic, A Realist, An Undertaker90. Robert Wyatt - Different Every Time - Ex Machina - Benign Dictatorships91. Bryan Ferry - Avonmore92. David Bowie - Nothing Has Changed93. Einsturzende Neubauten - Lament94. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Cellophane95. Machinedrum - Vapor City Archives96. David Bowie - "Sue (Or In A Season of Crime)" single97. Various Artists - Slowly Exploding 10 Years of Perc Trax98. Jason McNiff and the Lone Malones - God Knows Why We Dream99. Shit - Feeding Time100. Adrian Younge - Black Dynamite OST
― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, 15 November 2014 15:47 (ten years ago)
Bowie and Ferry albums and no 1989 suggests camp tri-a-tue-hard is still in session
― Bringing the mosh (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 15 November 2014 15:54 (ten years ago)
I love lists and list season, but 100 is too many. Should be a global rule to stop at like 50 or less.
― alpine static, Saturday, 15 November 2014 21:51 (ten years ago)
the fucking kozelek Christmas album is on there, instantly invalidated
― give kawhi his damn eyedrops (slothroprhymes), Saturday, 15 November 2014 23:10 (ten years ago)
that metronomy album was so so boring
― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Saturday, 15 November 2014 23:53 (ten years ago)
you should switch names with them!
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Sunday, 16 November 2014 00:04 (ten years ago)
that is a terrible list, but I do love that angel olsen record
― john wahey (NickB), Sunday, 16 November 2014 00:23 (ten years ago)
94. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Cellophane
^ the fuck is this bollocks?
― john wahey (NickB), Sunday, 16 November 2014 00:25 (ten years ago)
Psychedelic rock
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 16 November 2014 01:20 (ten years ago)
ban it
― john wahey (NickB), Sunday, 16 November 2014 01:28 (ten years ago)
why? cuz of the dumb name?
― alpine static, Sunday, 16 November 2014 02:58 (ten years ago)
geelong pride for king gizzard
― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Sunday, 16 November 2014 06:15 (ten years ago)
Wow is it already that time??!
― livid in America (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 16 November 2014 08:21 (ten years ago)
gentlemen are we are ready to receive some of the most important lists of this quarter? i can't wait to see how the professional buffs can basically just "tell it like it is" and knock it out of the park with some real best lists of the final quarter
this is a great opportunity to honor the buffs without which are making us hear so much new music, especially with social media making it so much faster, and streaming. we need to let them know "hey, we're listening"
but lets be honest, the real highlight of this season is what we we can't wait for, is how the pitchfork boys will basically take the list season to new heights. it doesnt get more better than this my liege - go get 'em boys
― fuhgeddaboudit! (missingNO), Sunday, 16 November 2014 10:53 (ten years ago)
I too remember being young, when sarcasm was like a new shiny toy.
― Fastnbulbous, Sunday, 16 November 2014 16:02 (ten years ago)
Weird Top 10. I normally like Metronomy, Little Dragon and Todd Terje but thought all those albums missed the mark.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Sunday, 16 November 2014 16:05 (ten years ago)
I don't listen to the Terje as much as I thought I would, but it's fine. I tried the others once each and never went back to them. I used to actually like both of those bands too.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 16 November 2014 16:11 (ten years ago)
It's also odd to see a list from record store employees that's nearly 100% free of metal and heavy rock.
― Fastnbulbous, Sunday, 16 November 2014 16:17 (ten years ago)
Leave Turkington alone.. let him do his thing.
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Sunday, 16 November 2014 16:21 (ten years ago)
Rough Trade doing their best to discourage new releases during the last two months of the year. Also, rating Someday World instead of High Life is messed up.
― doug watson, Sunday, 16 November 2014 17:46 (ten years ago)
They should call it "best releases since November 2013."
― billstevejim, Sunday, 16 November 2014 21:52 (ten years ago)
Never heard of Temples before but I like the record on first listen. Very derivative of 60s psych but still fun to listen to.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Sunday, 16 November 2014 22:48 (ten years ago)
Just based on a sampling, the Delines record sounds really nice
― Simon H., Sunday, 16 November 2014 22:56 (ten years ago)
Albums I rate from the RT list: War On Drugs, Todd Terje (in parts), The Delines, Caribou, Goat, Avi Buffalo, Hookworms, Future Islands, Aphex Twin, Swans, FKA Twigs, Sleaford Mods, The Rails, First Aid Kit, Lone, Actress.
Top picks: War On Drugs, Hookworms, Future Islands, Swans, Sleaford Mods, The Rails.
― mike t-diva, Sunday, 16 November 2014 23:42 (ten years ago)
I wish that War on Drugs album was more tightly crafted. I don't need 3-4 minutes of extra outro on everything.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 16 November 2014 23:46 (ten years ago)
Songlines list came out at the end of October(!): http://www.songlines.co.uk/world-music-news/2014/10/songlines-best-albums-of-2014-announced
Only album I know off it is The Gloaming, which seems to be the breakout Irish traditional album of the decade (and is very good).
― legit new threat wrt to a norman invasion (seandalai), Monday, 17 November 2014 00:06 (ten years ago)
The Gloaming's album is fantastic.
― mike t-diva, Monday, 17 November 2014 00:11 (ten years ago)
i d/l'd that Robert Plant album but never unzipped ... is it "world music" ?
― alpine static, Monday, 17 November 2014 00:48 (ten years ago)
Revolver, Classic Rock and Decibel lists might come out later this week.
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 17 November 2014 04:40 (ten years ago)
My old codger faves this year are Bryan Ferry, Rodney Crowell and Daniel Lanois and maybe Neneh Cherry and Meshell Ndegeocello if they count as old codgers at this point.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 17 November 2014 04:45 (ten years ago)
Decibel list:
1. Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden2. At The Gates - At War With Reality3. Horrendous - Ecdysis4. Triptykon - Melana Chasmata5. Godflesh - A World Lit Only By Fire6. Thou - Heathen7. YOB - Clearing the Path to Ascend8. Vallenfyre - Splinters9. Panopticon - Roads to the North10. Morbus Chron - Sweven11. Dead Congregation - Promulgation of the Fall12. Machine Head - Bloodstone & Diamonds13. Woods of Desolation - As The Stars14. Tombs - Savage Gold15. Krieg - Transient16. Iron Reagan - The Tyranny of Will17. Cult of Fire - मृत्यु का तापसी अनुध्यान18. Gridlink - Longhenna19. The Oath - The Oath20. Behemoth - The Satanist21. Agalloch - The Serpent & The Sphere22. Autopsy - Tourniquets, Hacksaws and Graves23. Primordial - Where Greater Men Have Fallen24. Beyond Creation - Earthborn Evolution25. Wreck & Reference - Want26. Teitanblood - Death27. Trap Them - Blissfucker28. Young and in the Way - When Life Comes to Death29. Mastodon - Once More 'Round the Sun30. Eyehategod - Eyehategod31. Cretin - Stranger32. Midnight - No Mercy for Mayhem33. Thantifaxath - Sacred White Noise34. Lord Mantis - Death Mask35. Mayhem - Esoteric Warfare36. Cannibal Corpse - A Skeletal Domain37. Solstafir - Otta38. Execration - Morbid Dimensions39. Incantation - Dirges of Elysium40. Floor - Oblation
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 17 November 2014 21:48 (ten years ago)
Amazed how low St Vincent is in that Rough Trade list. I think that'll be the big winner in magazine lists.
― Unsettled defender (ithappens), Monday, 17 November 2014 21:52 (ten years ago)
Funny, Decibel is dismissive of many top doom releases in reviews, but they go nuts over Pallbearer, which doesn't fit their extreme m.o. at all (though I like it, just under the Electric Wiz & Witch Mtn, which they ignored). Their list in the new Doom special issue is, as expected, completely whackadoo.
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 17 November 2014 22:22 (ten years ago)
don't claim to know how the RT list is worked out but it's the aggregate of a relatively small no. of people right? so some big hitter or other getting short shrift isn't necc. that meaningful
― proper maoist (DJ Mencap), Monday, 17 November 2014 22:24 (ten years ago)
what's noteworthy abt the Decibel doom list? semi-intrigued but no-one's uh leaked it online yet afaict
― proper maoist (DJ Mencap), Monday, 17 November 2014 22:31 (ten years ago)
genuinely thought you were talking the Racoon Tanuki list and began to get excited
― So beautiful cow (forksclovetofu), Monday, 17 November 2014 22:40 (ten years ago)
glad to see Thou that high on the Decibel list!
― alpine static, Monday, 17 November 2014 22:53 (ten years ago)
Sister Ray store list
1.Goat Commune
2.Mac DeMarco Salad Days
3.Soundcarriers Entropicalia
4.Moire Shelter
5.The War On Drugs Lost In A Dream
6.Caribou Our Love
7.Mogwai Rave Tapes
8.NehruvianDOOM S/T
9.Temples Sun Structures
10.Freddie Gibbs and Madlib Pinata
11.Andy Stott Faith In Strangers
12.Paul White Shaker Notes
13. Mike Dehnert Lichtbedingt
14. Ratking So It Goes
15. East India Youth Total Strife Forever
16.Ital Endgame
17.Fatima Al Qadiri Asiatisch
18.Alvvays S/T
19.Cheatahs S/T
20.Dean Blunt Black Metal
(And their best sellers)
1. Jack White Lazaretto
2. War On Drugs Lost In The Dream
3. Beck Morning Phase
4. Aphex Twin Syro
5. Warpaint Warpaint
6. Temples Sun Structures
7. Mogwai Rave Tapes
8. Sun Kil Moon Benji
9. Wilko Johnson & Roger Daltrey Going Back home
10. Wild Beasts Present Tense
11. Todd Terje Its Album Time
12. Swans To Be Kind
13. Black Keys Turn Blue
14. St Vincent St Vincent
15. Metronomy Love Letters
16. Horrors Luminous
17. Future Islands Singles
18. Mac De Marco Salad Days
19. Alt J This Is All Yours
20. First Aid Kit Stay Gold
― Unsettled defender (ithappens), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 10:38 (ten years ago)
Interesting that War on Drugs, Mac De Marco and Temples are the only albums where the staff overlap with their customers. It's not as if the customers are buying One Direction and Coldplay.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 11:17 (ten years ago)
Wait, there's Mogwai too.
that soundcarriers album was very nice
― nxd, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 11:18 (ten years ago)
Yeah, love Entropicalia. Haven't seen much talk about it or the band. They Lways impress me.
― afriendlypioneer, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 13:02 (ten years ago)
Yeah there's some good underdiscussed stuff on that Sister Ray list - Soundcarriers, Paul White, the Mogwai album was surprisingly decent too iirc.
― death in Skegness (seandalai), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 13:05 (ten years ago)
from the rough trade list, id assume they dont stock anything that isnt indie rock, and if they do, they dont like them much. the sister ray list at least demonstrates that they do stock other genres, and that staff may actually even like those genes.
― StillAdvance, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 14:19 (ten years ago)
Rough Trade's stock is a lot broader than that list suggests.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 15:06 (ten years ago)
Here's a Spotify playlist of what's available from the Decibel list (missing are Woods of Desolation, Cult of Fire, Primordial, Teitanblood, Cretin and Midnight):
http://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/6r9SerBKJpRR9XDbTKjmS6
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 16:40 (ten years ago)
and the entire Woods of Desolation record is streaming here:
http://www.stereogum.com/1626052/stream-woods-of-desolation-as-the-stars-stereogum-premiere/mp3s/album-stream/
top 3 metal release of 2014 for me
― alpine static, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 18:31 (ten years ago)
i didn't listen to a ton of metal this year, barely any in fact - wow this is so dope
― give kawhi his damn eyedrops (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 18:42 (ten years ago)
i DID listen to the pallbearer record, tho, and that band does not really impress me much.
That Floor album was disappointing. No room for Crowbar or Nunslaughter. I see how it is, Decibel.
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 21:28 (ten years ago)
Oh, I thought the Floor record was tremendous, too. Also Triptykon, Godflesh and Solstafir, and I'm still pondering Beyond Creation.
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 02:01 (ten years ago)
Revolver Magazine:
01 – Slipknot – “.5: The Gray Chapter“02 – At The Gates – “At War With Reality“03 – Of Mice & Men – “Restoring Force“04 – Linkin Park – “The Hunting Party“05 – Motionless In White – “Reincarnate“06 – Behemoth – “The Satanist“07 – Mastodon – “Once More ‘Round The Sun“08 – Judas Priest – “Redeemer Of Souls“09 – Machine Head – “Bloodstone & Diamonds“10 – Every Time I Die – “From Parts Unknown“11 – Godflesh – “A World Lit Only By Fire“12 – The Pretty Reckless – “Going To Hell“13 – Killer Be Killed – “Killer Be Killed“14 – ††† (Crosses) – “†††“15 – Black Label Society – “Catacombs Of The Black Vatican“16 – Black Veil Brides – “Black Veil Brides“17 – Body Count – “Manslaughter“18 – Suicide Silence – “You Can’t Stop Me“19 – Godsmack – “1000hp“20 – Triptykon – “Melana Chasmata“
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 19:52 (ten years ago)
hahahaha wow look at that thing
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 20:15 (ten years ago)
..............revolver knows that like, nu-metal died, right?
― give kawhi his damn eyedrops (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 20:29 (ten years ago)
i listened to that linkin park record, it's pretty all right. guess i'll check out their metalcore picks
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 20:34 (ten years ago)
At least Godflesh beat Godsmack.
― Tay-Tay Brooklynpants (Murgatroid), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 20:36 (ten years ago)
i listened to the slipknot one, fwiw, it was alright just not my bag anymore. a fair chunk of those bands have legit never been good tho
― give kawhi his damn eyedrops (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 20:38 (ten years ago)
slipknot record is way too long and corey taylor's lyrics are way too intelligibly terrible. though iowa has the same problems and it totally rules
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 21:07 (ten years ago)
I like a higher percentage of albums from the Revolver list (6/20) than the Decibel list (10/40).
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 22:29 (ten years ago)
"intelligibly terrible" is a great way to put it.
I'm a huge Deftones fan but that Crosses record was so boring, Team Sleep mk II
― Simon H., Wednesday, 19 November 2014 22:34 (ten years ago)
oh fuck, i just noticed the every time i die record is on the revolver list, that record kiiiicks
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 22:40 (ten years ago)
i tried with that behemoth record, but it was just too theatrical/gothy i guess
― j., Wednesday, 19 November 2014 23:16 (ten years ago)
That's a good album. I feel like Bölzer are doing something in the same ballpark (brawny melodic ritualistic spiritualistic) and doing it fresher.
― jmm, Thursday, 20 November 2014 00:57 (ten years ago)
Piccadilly Recordshttp://www.piccadillyrecords.com/counter/feature.php?feature=735
1 Jane Weaver - The Silver Globe2 BE (Garth Be) - The Seven Movements3 Horsebeach - Horsebeach4 The War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream5 Ibibio Sound Machine - Ibibio Sound Machine6 Real Estate - Atlas7 Hookworms - The Hum8 Goat - Commune9 Mac DeMarco - Salad Days10 Warpaint - Warpaint
― john wahey (NickB), Friday, 21 November 2014 10:27 (ten years ago)
Lots of things I like on the big Piccadilly list. Jane Weaver is a fun choice for #1, even if it's not one I'd go for myself.
― death in Skegness (seandalai), Friday, 21 November 2014 20:42 (ten years ago)
That Piccadilly list is pretty interesting. Gulp's album is in the top 20 and Gruff Rhys's is nowhere to be seen (Gulp is SFA's bass player).
― afriendlypioneer, Friday, 21 November 2014 23:47 (ten years ago)
Horsebeach - Horsebeach
I thought this would have been a much bigger record on ILX than it turned out to be.
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 22 November 2014 00:30 (ten years ago)
i don't get the horsebeach album, i wanted to, a lot of people whose taste i like were into it, but it just sounds like generic jangle indie guitar pop stufff to me.
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Saturday, 22 November 2014 06:51 (ten years ago)
Piccadilly always comes out with one of the more useful lists imo...
― Neil Yup (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 22 November 2014 09:42 (ten years ago)
Q magazine Top 50.
1. The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream2. Alt-J - This Is All Yours3. Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots4. Manic Street Preachers - Futurology5. Beck - Morning Phase6. St Vincent - St Vincent7. Sharon Van Etten - Are We There8. FKA twigs - LP19. Future Islands - Singles10. Aphex Twin - Syro11. Elbow - The Take Off and Landing of Everything12. Interpol - El Pintor13. Sam Smith - The Loneliest Hour14. Hamilton Leithauser - Black Hours15. The Horrors - Luminous16. Royal Blood - Royal Blood17. Mac De Marco - Salad Days18. Paolo Nutini - Caustic Love19. Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence20. Sleaford Mods - Divide and Exit21. East India Youth - Total Strife Forever22. Caribou - Our Love23. Jack White - Lazaretto24. Kate Tempest - Everybody Down25. Ed Sheeran - X26. Neneh Cherry - Blank Project27. Morrissey - World Peace Is None Of Your Business28. Kasabian - 48:1329. Jamie T - Carry on the Grudge30. Gruff Rhys - American Interior31. Mogwai - The Rave Tapes32. The Bug - Angels & Devils33. Sky Ferreira Night Time, My Time34. Wild Beasts - Present Tense35. Real Estate - Atlas36. Temples - Sun Structures37. Baxter Dury - It's a Pleasure38. Johnny Marr - Playland39. Ty Segall - Manipulator40. Grumbling Fur - Preternaturals41. The Black Keys - Turn Blue42. Robert Plant - Lullaby and… The Ceaseless Roar43. Leonard Cohen - Popular Problems44. U2 - Songs of Innocence45. Warpaint - Warpaint46. Thom Yorke - Tomorrow's Modern Boxes47. Spoon - They Want My Soul48. La Roux - Trouble in Paradise49. Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty50. Jungle - Jungle
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Monday, 24 November 2014 12:44 (ten years ago)
lol @ the top 5
― charlie h, Monday, 24 November 2014 12:47 (ten years ago)
jesus christ...
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Monday, 24 November 2014 12:49 (ten years ago)
lol @ the top 50
― lex pretend, Monday, 24 November 2014 13:10 (ten years ago)
haha
― charlie h, Monday, 24 November 2014 13:20 (ten years ago)
Mojo:
1. Beck - Morning Phase2. The War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream3. Sleaford Mods - Divide And Exit4. Jack White - Lazaretto5. St. Vincent - St. Vincent6. Steve Gunn - Way Out Weather7. Julie Byrne - Rooms With Walls And Windows8. Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots9. FKA Twigs - LP110. The Bug - Angels & Devils11. Sharon Van Etten - Are We There12. Caribou - Our Love13. Ty Segall - Manipulator14. Elbow - The Take Off And Landing Of Everything15. Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds In Country Music16. Wild Beasts - Present Tense17. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness18. Kate Tempest - Everybody Down19. Robert Plant - Lullaby And... The Ceaseless Roar20. Manic Street Preachers - Futurology21. Aphex Twin - Syro22. Future Islands - Singles23. Scott Walker & Sun O))) - Soused24. Mirel Wagner - When The Cellar Children See The Light Of Day25. Pharrell Williams - GIRL26. Sun Kil Moon - Benji27. East India Youth - Total Strife Forever28. Real Estate - Atlas29. Kasai All Stars - Beware The Fetish30. Leonard Cohen - Popular Problems31. Morrissey - World Peace Is None Of Your Business32. Temples - Sun Structures33. U2 - Songs Of Innocence34. The Black Keys - Turn Blue35. Nick Mulvey - First Mind36. Flying Lotus - You're Dead!37. Naomi Shelton & The Gospel Queens - Cold World38. Ian William Craig - A Turn Of Breath39. Mac DeMarco - Salad Days40. Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence41. Lee Gamble - KOCH42. Swans - To Be Kind43. David Kilgour & The Heavy 8s - End Times Undone44. Wilko Johnson & Roger Daltrey - Going Back Home45. Neil Young - A Letter Home46. J Mascis - Tied To A Star47. Young Fathers - Dead48. Pixies - Indie Cindy49. King Creosote - From Scotland With Love50. Dr. John - Ske-Dat-De-Dat... The Spirit Of Satch
NB: 27 of the Mojo 50 are also in the Q 50.
― mike t-diva, Monday, 24 November 2014 14:14 (ten years ago)
in what world is the Mojo top 50 more interesting than the Q one? (not that there's much in it. must be an extremely lousy year for guitar music if War on Drugs are top 2)
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Monday, 24 November 2014 14:18 (ten years ago)
24. Mirel Wagner - When The Cellar Children See The Light Of Day
whoop whoop!
― lex pretend, Monday, 24 November 2014 14:23 (ten years ago)
must be an extremely lousy year for guitar music if War on Drugs are top 2
It isn't, but since when have Mojo and Q stood for 'guitar music' as opposed to 'music that your elderly conservative dad might like'?
― emil.y, Monday, 24 November 2014 14:26 (ten years ago)
i think half my own top 10, as it currently stands, is comprised of guitar music this year
― lex pretend, Monday, 24 November 2014 14:28 (ten years ago)
xpost I know, I know. Just didn't want to miss an opportunity to dig my elbow into WoD. Still, cool to imagine Mojo readers getting into Lee Gamble. And Sleaford Mods at 3 is pretty surprising.
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Monday, 24 November 2014 14:30 (ten years ago)
they had karen gwyer in their list last year - there's always one or two things you wouldn't necessarily expect
― john wahey (NickB), Monday, 24 November 2014 14:33 (ten years ago)
and 48 or 49 you totally would tbf
i think i'm gonna feel disconnected from a lot of critics polls this year. again.
― Face facts poptimism hacks, your a scam. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 24 November 2014 14:45 (ten years ago)
"Disconnected" is a few steps better than what musicians call this time of year ("Suicidal Ideation Month")
― mango unchained (fgti), Monday, 24 November 2014 14:48 (ten years ago)
Seems a lot of people really love that snoozy Beck album
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Monday, 24 November 2014 14:57 (ten years ago)
i think the height of hilarity is that mojo managed to squeeze the dogshit pixies album on there - not that one expects anything from them other than "real" guitar music with "integrity," but, that record was actively bad. smacks of desperation.
― search datpiff, you'll find it (slothroprhymes), Monday, 24 November 2014 15:42 (ten years ago)
War on Drugs will win P&J, won't they?
― Frederik B, Monday, 24 November 2014 15:47 (ten years ago)
good lord
― maura, Monday, 24 November 2014 15:48 (ten years ago)
so... many... dudes
― maura, Monday, 24 November 2014 15:58 (ten years ago)
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― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 24 November 2014 15:58 (ten years ago)
It'll be interesting to see how much love, say, Ex Hex gets on these lists.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 24 November 2014 15:59 (ten years ago)
could it win the ilx poll though? xp
― john wahey (NickB), Monday, 24 November 2014 15:59 (ten years ago)
hell. no.
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Monday, 24 November 2014 16:06 (ten years ago)
:(
― maura, Monday, 24 November 2014 16:07 (ten years ago)
War on Drugs? I'll leave ilx if that happens.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 24 November 2014 16:07 (ten years ago)
that'd eclipse kaputt
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Monday, 24 November 2014 16:11 (ten years ago)
already pretty sure what the top 3 will be for ILM but i'm never right, so i'm probably wrong.
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Monday, 24 November 2014 16:12 (ten years ago)
not even comparable with kaputt, which may have been indie but was also total ilx catnip.
― Tim F, Monday, 24 November 2014 16:13 (ten years ago)
However, I do hope that War on Drugs makes the top 77 and Sun Kil Moon does not, because fuck Mark Kozelek.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 24 November 2014 16:17 (ten years ago)
this is going to be a year where I'm disconnected from all critics' lists but only because I don't exactly have albums to substitute
― katherine, Monday, 24 November 2014 16:19 (ten years ago)
part of me hopes War on Drugs tops Pazz & Jop albums and "War on Drugs: Suck my Cock" tops the singles.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 24 November 2014 16:20 (ten years ago)
lol
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 24 November 2014 16:22 (ten years ago)
Right now this year seems reminscent of 2011 in that there isn't really a strong a consensus pick for AOTY, and that year Tune-Yards managed to win Pazz & Jop. War on Drugs seems like the closest thing to one, with St. Vincent maybe being a runner up.
Meanwhile on ILX, I'm half expecting Taylor Swift to win the year end poll.
― MarkoP, Monday, 24 November 2014 16:22 (ten years ago)
not even comparable with kaputt, which may have been indie but was also total ilx catnip.― Tim F, Monday, November 24, 2014 4:13 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Tim F, Monday, November 24, 2014 4:13 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I meant in terms of divisiveness. I wasn't taken with it at first but I've definitely warmed to it over time.
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Monday, 24 November 2014 16:22 (ten years ago)
FKA twigs seemed like a sure-fire favorite a few months ago, but its profile has diminished a lot in just a short time based on polls I've seen so far (though the polls I've seen so far are more rock-oriented/specialized).
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 24 November 2014 16:24 (ten years ago)
FKA Twigs, St Vincent and OP are ILM locks for sure.
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Monday, 24 November 2014 16:25 (ten years ago)
not sure what the consensus is with TSwift. I'm not a follower, but I liked 'Shake It Off' quite a bit and I'm surprised ILM fans weren't so keen on it.
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Monday, 24 November 2014 16:26 (ten years ago)
we've got other T-Swift singles to think about.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 November 2014 16:27 (ten years ago)
― Frederik B, Monday, November 24, 2014 10:47 AM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
St. Vincent, albumsTaylor, singles
book it.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 24 November 2014 16:27 (ten years ago)
The thing I can imagine War on Drugs doing the best in is Readers Polls.
― MarkoP, Monday, 24 November 2014 16:28 (ten years ago)
st vincent seems about as consensus an album as there's been
taylor, surely not? so many critics hate that single
― lex pretend, Monday, 24 November 2014 16:33 (ten years ago)
Yeah I think Whiney's right. War on Drugs and FKA twigs for the Top 5.
I don't much like Shake It Off but there hasn't been a Get Lucky/Call Me Maybe this year so I don't know what else would be #1.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Monday, 24 November 2014 16:34 (ten years ago)
https://soundcloud.com/thequietus/girl-band-why-they-hide-their
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 24 November 2014 16:36 (ten years ago)
there hasn't been a Get Lucky/Call Me Maybe this year
For a while it seemed like Pharrell's "Happy" would never go the fuck away, so I'm glad it finally did.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 24 November 2014 16:38 (ten years ago)
"happy" hasn't gone the fuck away nearly enough, but it's 2013 (and it's not like it only exploded this year, it was huge on release and just never fucked off)
in terms of ubiquitous commercial success the song of 2014 is obviously "fancy" but no one really reps for it among critics. oh and that fucking meghan trainor atrocity as well
― lex pretend, Monday, 24 November 2014 16:40 (ten years ago)
also "rude"
― katherine, Monday, 24 November 2014 16:41 (ten years ago)
Oh god
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 24 November 2014 16:42 (ten years ago)
this not being on Spotify might knock it out of the top spot (kind of like Beyonce last year--though that came out way late in the year too)
― ILoveMeconium (President Keyes), Monday, 24 November 2014 16:43 (ten years ago)
i have still managed to avoid hearing the entirety of "rude" :)
"hideaway" maybe? not in any other year but it was pretty ubiquitous and people seemed weirdly invested in kiesza as an artist rather than one hit wonder
― lex pretend, Monday, 24 November 2014 16:43 (ten years ago)
huh, I thought it was the opposite in just about every way (only ubiquitous among critic/indie-types, no one giving a shit about kiesza as an artist)
― katherine, Monday, 24 November 2014 16:44 (ten years ago)
Anybody other than me voting for Lana this year?
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 24 November 2014 16:44 (ten years ago)
i feel like if t-swift's previous couple of albums didn't come near topping the ilx poll, this won't either. sure she's increased her mainstream fanbase but i think in ilx terms it's pretty much the same
― lex pretend, Monday, 24 November 2014 16:44 (ten years ago)
oh yeah i meant "critics" when i said people! the actual public see her for the natural one hit wonder she is
― lex pretend, Monday, 24 November 2014 16:45 (ten years ago)
By a Get Lucky/Call Me Maybe I mean a massive hit with critical love. I didn't see writers going crazy for Fancy, Problem or Happy on that level. Feels like 1989 came along just in time to allow critics to overlap with the general public. No idea what will be the ILX #1.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Monday, 24 November 2014 16:46 (ten years ago)
There's still time for Alex from Target to cut a single.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 24 November 2014 16:47 (ten years ago)
Someone who knows more about this feel free to correct me but my sense is that of the dad mags mojo has always covered more weird/interesting stuff than q? Obv both lists are kind of lol but mostly males you didn't know had an album out this year, but I'm surprised at anyone being "I never thought I'd see the day" about q being the more boring of the two, I mean it's q
― why do I hate that thing (excluding imago, marcos) (wins), Monday, 24 November 2014 16:57 (ten years ago)
Of the UK polls, Q's always carries the most pronounced whiff of Editorial Adjustment.
― mike t-diva, Monday, 24 November 2014 17:00 (ten years ago)
That's definitely one of my favorite records of the year
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 24 November 2014 17:02 (ten years ago)
I imagine a situation where every Mojo writer is stuck for new albums somewhere between #15-20 and just going "ah fuck it, Jack White and Beck". Sleaford Mods winning would have been hilarious just to imagine their reaction.
― Matt DC, Monday, 24 November 2014 17:06 (ten years ago)
― katherine, Monday, November 24, 2014 11:41 AM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Anyone who votes for "Rude" should lose their right to ever have opinions about music ever again.
― MaudAddam (cryptosicko), Monday, 24 November 2014 17:23 (ten years ago)
thought for sure Sia would top critics singles polls
― ILoveMeconium (President Keyes), Monday, 24 November 2014 17:25 (ten years ago)
I always forget sleaford mods are an actual thing, I think of them as that comedy band who had that album a couple of years ago that I listened to twice but then apparently they have like 20 albums and people are really into them and I'm like... ok
― why do I hate that thing (excluding imago, marcos) (wins), Monday, 24 November 2014 17:26 (ten years ago)
I bet they are well caustic in interviews
wonder if they have an opinion on band aid
xxxpost it should be chandelier is amazing
― search datpiff, you'll find it (slothroprhymes), Monday, 24 November 2014 17:31 (ten years ago)
(so is much of that sia record imo)
is there a consensus beyonce single
― katherine, Monday, 24 November 2014 17:34 (ten years ago)
i presume it's drunk in love but should be flawless obvs
― Face facts poptimism hacks, your a scam. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 24 November 2014 17:37 (ten years ago)
flawless or partition would be personal choice but drunk in love prob still has legs
― search datpiff, you'll find it (slothroprhymes), Monday, 24 November 2014 17:37 (ten years ago)
What about Rather Be for singles?
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Monday, 24 November 2014 17:38 (ten years ago)
the 2014 hot 100 #1 chart looks pretty dire
― Face facts poptimism hacks, your a scam. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 24 November 2014 17:43 (ten years ago)
I've been keeping a shortlist of my fave singles that needs cleaning up, but what's in there now:20syl / Oddisee - Ongoing ThingAlpoko Don / Scarface - Set the Record StraightAphex - minipops 67Basement Jaxx- Mermaid of SalinasBig Von / Keak the Sneak / Jacka - WindowsChronixx - Here Comes TroubleClean Bandit / Jess Glynne - Rather Be (The Magician Remix)Danity Kane - LemonadeDJ Quik - Bacon's GrooveDJ Quik - Fuck All NightDJ Rashad - Somethin' Bout the Things You DoDolly Parton - Don't Think TwiceE-40 - ChoicesFKA Twigs - PendulumIamSu - Hipster GirlsJazmine Sullivan - DumbJazmine Sullivan - Forever Don't LastJustin Bieber - All That MattersMO / K Koke - For a MinuteMary J - Whole Damn YearMichael J - XscapeNenad Markovic - Weather VibesOwen Pallett - Song for Five and SixPopcaan - Everything NicePrince - U KnowPSY / Snoop - HangoverRoyksopp / Robynn - Do It AgainRoyksopp / Robynn - MonumentRun the Jewels - Close Your Eyes and Count to FuckRun the Jewels - CrownSchoolboy / Kendrick - Collard GreensSevyn Streeter (album version, solo) - nEXTSnootie Wild - Made MeT-Pain / BOB - Up DownTinashe and Blood Orange - BetTove Lo - My GunTrey and Biebs - Foreign Remixtune yards - Water FountainYemi Marie - Love BopYG / Kendrick - Really Be Smokin n' DrinkinYoung Thug - Stoner
― Face facts poptimism hacks, your a scam. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 24 November 2014 17:56 (ten years ago)
There's a thread for that: Rolling fave tracks + albums 2014
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 24 November 2014 17:58 (ten years ago)
ah, sorry.
― Face facts poptimism hacks, your a scam. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 24 November 2014 18:00 (ten years ago)
Also the Robyn who sings with röyksopp only has one n!
― why do I hate that thing (excluding imago, marcos) (wins), Monday, 24 November 2014 18:02 (ten years ago)
i'm surprised i got royskskskskopp right
― Face facts poptimism hacks, your a scam. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 24 November 2014 18:05 (ten years ago)
American Songwriter
1. Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sound in Country Music2. The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream3. Strand of Oaks - Heal4. Taylor Swift - 19895. Ryan Adams - Ryan Adams6. Hurray for the Riff Raff - Small Town Heroes7. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire for No Witness8. Hiss Golden Messenger - Lateness of Dancers9. John Fullbright - Songs10. First Aid Kit - Stay Gold11. Marianne Faithful - Give My Love to London12. Ty Segall - Manipulator13. Robert Ellis - The Lights from the Chemical Plant14. Lera Lynn - The Avenues15. Conor Oberst - Upside Down Mountain16. Perfume Genius - Too Bright17. The Felice Brothers - Favorite Waitress18. Lee Ann Womack - The Way I'm Livin'19. Mac DeMarco - Salad Days20. Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues21. St. Vincent - St. Vincent22. Ex Hex - Rips23. Matthew Ryan - Boxers24. Leonard Cohen - Popular Problems25. Jenny Lewis - The Voyager26. Rosanne Cash - The River & the Thread27. Tweedy - Sukierae28. Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - Wig Out at Jagbags29. Justin Townes Earle - Single Mothers30. Angeleena Presley - American Middle Class31. Spoon - They Want My Soul32. Miranda Lambert - Platinum33. Jack White - Lazaretto34. Adam Faucett - Blind Water Finds Blind Water35. Eric Church - The Outsiders36. Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Hypnotic Eye37. Bahamas - Bahamas Is Afie38. Old 97s - Most Messed Up39. Warpaint - Warpaint40. Hozier - Hozier41. Doug Paisley - Strong Feelings42. Real Estate - Atlas43. Old Crow Medicine Show - Remedy44. Rodney Crowell - Tarpaper Sky45. Jesse Winchester - A Reasonable Amount of Trouble46. Beck - Morning Phase47. The New Pornographers - Brill Bruisers48. Jessica Lea Mayfield - Make My Head Sing49. Drive By Truckers - English Oceans50. Sharon van Etten – Are We There?
― Dan S, Monday, 24 November 2014 20:09 (ten years ago)
Sturgill Simpson! Best list so far.
― Tay-Tay Brooklynpants (Murgatroid), Monday, 24 November 2014 20:10 (ten years ago)
how is SVE only 50 only a list that is (presumably) mostly contingent on "integrity" and "songcraft" and all that
do appreciate the love for sturgill tho
― search datpiff, you'll find it (slothroprhymes), Monday, 24 November 2014 20:21 (ten years ago)
Yeah, I find the ordering of that list kinda inexplicable but w/e
― Tay-Tay Brooklynpants (Murgatroid), Monday, 24 November 2014 20:24 (ten years ago)
Remake/Remodel - I remember a couple of years ago you were asking "where's this year's 212/Video Games?" at a point when 'Call Me Maybe' had been out for months. Sometimes these things only crystallise at the point at which they become ubiquitous near the top of end-of-year lists. Although it was obvious 'Get Lucky' would be one of those from day one.
'Rather Be' is probably the closest in British chart terms but it doesn't quite feel like it has either the colossal globe-straddling megahit status or the critical traction to qualify.
As it stands, 2014 feels more like 2008, when pop-oriented critics were asking where was that year's 'Umbrella' while willfully ignoring Katy Perry becoming massive in the background. Except for 'I Kissed A Girl' it's probably 'Happy' or 'All About That Bass'. Taylor could have trumped both but she bungled her first single. And the comeback single is usually the one people care about, give or take a 'Super Bass' here or there.
― Matt DC, Monday, 24 November 2014 20:33 (ten years ago)
Also I don't really feel like the Sharon van Etten album is particularly noteworthy if you're judging it on 'old fashioned songcraft' as that list presumably is, but then there are shonkier records higher up the list.
Did that Warpaint album really come out this year?
― Matt DC, Monday, 24 November 2014 20:36 (ten years ago)
Yeah, in January.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 24 November 2014 20:37 (ten years ago)
still fucking love that Warpaint album
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Monday, 24 November 2014 20:39 (ten years ago)
Justin Townes Earle
lol did someone just make up a singer songwriter
― why do I hate that thing (excluding imago, marcos) (wins), Monday, 24 November 2014 20:43 (ten years ago)
Nope, he is Steve Earle's progeny.
― Tay-Tay Brooklynpants (Murgatroid), Monday, 24 November 2014 20:47 (ten years ago)
Steve's son, named after the obvious influence.
― ƋППṍӮɨ∏ğڵșěᶉᶇдM℮ (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 24 November 2014 20:47 (ten years ago)
oops xpost
thx guys I did guess but thx
― why do I hate that thing (excluding imago, marcos) (wins), Monday, 24 November 2014 20:48 (ten years ago)
:-)
idk what's going to win on ILX this year, never mind in places I don't pay attention to. The main thing I think about when reading these lists is how much music gets released every year and what a small proportion I ever hear - 2 of the American Songwriter picks, maybe 8 from the Mojo list?
― death in Skegness (seandalai), Monday, 24 November 2014 21:00 (ten years ago)
The American Songwriter list looks like it should have Steve Gunn on it.
― Evan, Monday, 24 November 2014 21:04 (ten years ago)
I bet the readership isn't pleased by #4.
― Tay-Tay Brooklynpants (Murgatroid), Monday, 24 November 2014 21:06 (ten years ago)
Nah, AS has covered a lot of pop/crossover in the past.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 24 November 2014 21:07 (ten years ago)
also I thought "good songwriter" has been the least controversial line item on the TSwift resume for years now
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Monday, 24 November 2014 21:09 (ten years ago)
eoy seems p ripe for bloc voting ententes this year. i suggest a dej loaf coalition, turn ilx to some macaroni
― r|t|c, Monday, 24 November 2014 21:10 (ten years ago)
rtc I will donate £2/mo to your cause
― why do I hate that thing (excluding imago, marcos) (wins), Monday, 24 November 2014 21:12 (ten years ago)
― Matt DC, Monday, 24 November 2014 20:36 Bookmark
idk what it is but singles-wise i am rly feeling this about everything... big hits from six months ago seem irrelevant by a couple of years
― r|t|c, Monday, 24 November 2014 21:13 (ten years ago)
xp argh i once did telephone fundraising over xmas one year dont give me flashbacks
― r|t|c, Monday, 24 November 2014 21:14 (ten years ago)
I had this thought about "crying for no reason" today! xp
― why do I hate that thing (excluding imago, marcos) (wins), Monday, 24 November 2014 21:15 (ten years ago)
yeah totes. basically like anything off the duke dumont thread is dead
― r|t|c, Monday, 24 November 2014 21:18 (ten years ago)
lol shame u xp'd there cos 'crying for no reason' is actually a perfect analogy to telephone fundraising now u mention it, just the right coercive cocktail of disposibility and portent
― r|t|c, Monday, 24 November 2014 21:22 (ten years ago)
dgmw I don't care overmuch, my playlist of ~15 songs shifts at a tectonic rate these last few years (the rush of last year was a blip in this regard)
― why do I hate that thing (excluding imago, marcos) (wins), Monday, 24 November 2014 21:23 (ten years ago)
Honestly, wrt to that American Songwriter list, I don't know how Strand of Oaks is #3 because he spends half of the album singing out of tune.
I mean, I'm not talking about subjective tastes, because I understand that, but I just finished listening to it. Some tracks are really good, but his singing is quite off on a number of them.
― ∞, Monday, 24 November 2014 21:24 (ten years ago)
maybe he writes good songs?
(idk who Strand of Oaks is)
― death in Skegness (seandalai), Monday, 24 November 2014 21:30 (ten years ago)
Actually, that's the only reason it's on my list, but it is really low on it. #3 just seems suspiciously high?
― ∞, Monday, 24 November 2014 21:36 (ten years ago)
It's not the American Singer-Songwriter list.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 24 November 2014 21:43 (ten years ago)
some of those ppl aren't even american
― why do I hate that thing (excluding imago, marcos) (wins), Monday, 24 November 2014 21:45 (ten years ago)
There aren't enough American songwriters anymore to fill the list. "We used to write shit in this country" iirc
― death in Skegness (seandalai), Monday, 24 November 2014 21:47 (ten years ago)
they just don't get coverage anywhere
― katherine, Monday, 24 November 2014 22:30 (ten years ago)
Hiss Golden Mssngr is definitely the best record I'm gonna under-rate when I make my list
― alpine static, Monday, 24 November 2014 22:38 (ten years ago)
it's always bizarre to me that these lists come out in november/early december rather than, i dunno, march , by which point at least people might legitimately claim to have digested some if not most of the designated "major" releases of the previous year. myself, i'm still absorbing a lot of high-profile stuff from 2012 (if not 1972).
― I dunno. (amateurist), Monday, 24 November 2014 22:43 (ten years ago)
i guess people want these lists out in time for Xmas shopping?
has FACT mag released any lists yet? those tend to be worthwhile imo.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Monday, 24 November 2014 22:44 (ten years ago)
I had not listened to Strand of Oaks because the name and the appearance of the singer made me think it would be some Bon Iver shit. I'm pleasantly surprised it's absolutely NOT that.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 24 November 2014 22:44 (ten years ago)
there are some genres for which i just wait until some of the more insider-y year-end lists to even bother searching for stuff, since i don't have enough time to scour around otherwise. i tend to discover a lot of great hip=hop when the lists come out, for example.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Monday, 24 November 2014 22:46 (ten years ago)
ILX poll respects the (Gregorian) calendar year.
― death in Skegness (seandalai), Monday, 24 November 2014 22:53 (ten years ago)
"I remember a couple of years ago you were asking "where's this year's 212/Video Games?" at a point when 'Call Me Maybe' had been out for months."
Ha, I'm an idiot then, Matt DC, because I loved Call Me Maybe. I don't remember saying that at all.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 11:32 (ten years ago)
oof, the american songwriter list might be the closest to my own so far (and maybe at all this year) - t-swift, angaleena presley, miranda lambert, lee ann womack, and more than a few that i'd like to hear but haven't yet (is the leonard cohen good?)
As it stands, 2014 feels more like 2008, when pop-oriented critics were asking where was that year's 'Umbrella' while willfully ignoring Katy Perry becoming massive in the background.
i think it's probably a mistake to always assume that the most popular song of the year are going to be the best, or even good, as "i kissed a girl" and "all about that bass" amply demonstrate. let us wilfully ignore them!
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 11:42 (ten years ago)
The deep-house end of pop / pop end of deep house shouldn't be ignored either. not sure how popular things like Zhu, Gorgon City, Wankelmut and all them lot are in the US but the UK mainstream is loving that AFAIK
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 11:49 (ten years ago)
The Leonard Cohen album is good but feels a bit like a lesser Old Ideas, although its best moments are very good indeed.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 12:24 (ten years ago)
(Old Ideas is one of my favourite records of the past five years so that possibly reads as more negative than it actually is)
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 12:25 (ten years ago)
Have there been many other 'institutional artist returns/still has it' albums this year? Soused obviously, but it's not really a return for Walker. I recall the last couple of years have been marked by a number of surprise excellent albums by older artists returning to the fray.
I should really check out more recent Cohen.
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 12:28 (ten years ago)
lee ann womack!
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 12:31 (ten years ago)
and there have been a ton of less institutional but certainly veteran artists who "still have it" (or got back to it) - miranda lambert, gangsta boo, meshell ndegeocello, even tori amos
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 12:32 (ten years ago)
kate bush live bootleg ftw
― john wahey (NickB), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 12:34 (ten years ago)
That's quite a broad definition of veteran there.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 13:07 (ten years ago)
Neneh cherry! Tbf I think every year this is remarked upon tho, it's a lil patronising & ageist
― why do I hate that thing (excluding imago, marcos) (wins), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 13:09 (ten years ago)
pink floyd and aphex have been the headline comebacks i guess
― john wahey (NickB), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 13:14 (ten years ago)
That Pink Floyd album must be shit not to make either the Q or Mojo list. I know it only came out like a week ago but you'd expect Q in particular to just hold a slot open for it.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 13:18 (ten years ago)
I heard a little on spotify, it was hilarious for a minute then just dulllllllllll
― why do I hate that thing (excluding imago, marcos) (wins), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 13:21 (ten years ago)
ultimate classic rock webzine are still to play their hand fyi xp
― john wahey (NickB), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 13:24 (ten years ago)
u2 ought to put their album back into everyone's itunes all over again, just to remind all the voters they're still out there
― john wahey (NickB), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 13:26 (ten years ago)
Robert Plant's album is very good. I like Bryan Ferry's as well but that's basically just another Bryan Ferry album. The Pink Floyd album was never meant to be a comeback.
I got curious about how many uncontested critic/Top 40 unifiers there have been in the past 10 years, ie Top 3 Billboard and Top 3 Pazz & Jop, and it's not as many as I thought: Gold Digger, Since U Been Gone, Umbrella, What You Know, Single Ladies, Empire State of Mind, Fuck You, Rolling in the Deep, Call Me Maybe, Get Lucky and Royals.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 13:27 (ten years ago)
The Judas Priest album was well-received as well.
― jmm, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 13:27 (ten years ago)
Sonic (Sweden)
1. The War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream2. Lykke Li - I Never Learn3. FKA Twigs - LP14. Caribou - Our Love5. First Aid Kit - Stay Gold6. Kindness - Otherness7. Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds In Country Music8. Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots9. Flying Lotus - You're Dead!10. Sharon Van Etten - Are We There11. Sun Kil Moon - Benji12. Aphex Twin - Syro13. Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 214. Ison & Fille - Länge leve vi15. Hollie Cook - Twice16. Lorentz - Kärlekslåtar17. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Pinata18. Mac DeMarco - Salad Days19. Hurray For The Riff Raff - Small Town Heroes20. Jessie Ware - Tough Love21. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness22. Kevin Gates - By Any Means23. Rosanne Cash - The River & The Thread24. Tinashe - Aquarius25. Doug Paisley - Strong Feelings
― TTAGGGTTAGGG (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 15:22 (ten years ago)
That War On Drugs album had better sound like chocolate ice cream...
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 15:26 (ten years ago)
More like flat Michelob.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 15:35 (ten years ago)
war on drugs is like a scene in an 80s teen movie where a half-size springsteen-bot goes out of control on the dancefloor and vigorously starts dry humping everyone's legs
― john wahey (NickB), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 15:54 (ten years ago)
your 80s was markedly different from mine
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 15:57 (ten years ago)
I'm not sure about the whole War on Drugs album but Red Eyes is one the songs of the year no doubt. I guess a lot of people are desperately craving non-shitty anthemic rock.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 16:01 (ten years ago)
Yeah I love it and its one of my favourites of the year but it does hit several comfort-food bases at once. Given how little rock music I have time for these days that's probably the main reason.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 16:09 (ten years ago)
the sum total of my knowledge about war on drugs (and sun kil moon) is that absolutely laughably pathetic diss track. rock is dead, i don't care
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 16:15 (ten years ago)
FWIW i really like the Benji album, despite never having knowingly heard anything else by Kozelek
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 16:20 (ten years ago)
the sum total of my knowledge about war on drugs (and sun kil moon) is that absolutely laughably pathetic diss track. rock is dead, i don't care― lex pretend, Tuesday, November 25, 2014 4:15 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― lex pretend, Tuesday, November 25, 2014 4:15 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
The diss track was by SKM wasn't it? Unless did WoD do a response song? Anyway, lol at saying 'rock is dead' based on a single phoned-in joke song by an egomaniac with a bee in his bonnet about stage sound issues.
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 16:26 (ten years ago)
― I dunno. (amateurist), Monday, November 24, 2014 10:44 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
they got ahead of everyone and did their best Albums/Tracks of the decade so far a couple of weeks ago
wut won
― Number None, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 16:48 (ten years ago)
ha
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 16:48 (ten years ago)
There was so much parochial bullshit in that Fact list.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 16:50 (ten years ago)
less institutional but certainly veteran artists who "still have it"
they're not Cohen or Judas Priest, but I think the new Old 97s album falls into this category. I loved their output from '96-'01, didn't care for anything after that. but their new one sounds like it could be a lost record from their heyday. i can't even believe how good it is; it's truly shocking. if shuffling Texas roots-rock songs about becoming a creepy old man with a thing for recreational drug use is your thing, then "Most Messed Up" is your thing.
― alpine static, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 16:51 (ten years ago)
lol it's so sad that fact followed p4k's lead on that one ;_;
― dyl, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 16:51 (ten years ago)
I feel like I'm actually gonna have to listen to at least some of that War on Drugs album now, even though I don't give a shit about it at all.
And why has everyone seemed to have forgotten about Against Me!?
― MaudAddam (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 16:53 (ten years ago)
The first of Lex's EOTY "I know nothing about this but I know it's awful" posts is like the first window on an advent calendar.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 16:53 (ten years ago)
The War on Drugs album isn't terrible, but half the songs go on extended tangential outros for whatever the fucking reason and it ruins it for me. Chop the tails off those songs and the whole album would be better for it.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 17:00 (ten years ago)
i bet i'll prob end up loving bloody War on Drugs now if I listen to it.
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 17:00 (ten years ago)
I feel like that about every record on here
― saer, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 17:00 (ten years ago)
war on drugs album is good - but it is also p overrated and most of the criticisms against it thus far (sounds too much like boomer/80s rock, various songs are overlong) are completely understandable.
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 17:04 (ten years ago)
The Fact half-decade list was at least interesting
The War on Drugs seems to be a very big deal with all of these publications. I wouldn't have thought it would be likely to top P&J but now I'm beginning to wonder
― Dan S, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 17:05 (ten years ago)
huh War on Drugs doesn't sound anything like I thought it would
I guess ppl in 2014 really missed David Gray?
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 17:06 (ten years ago)
that is theeeee weirdest comparison i've heard so far! the biggest ref point/complaint seems to be like, dire straits & shit of that nature
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 17:07 (ten years ago)
yeah i don't really care what the #1 slot is or if some of the choices are a little challopsy. i just like to have some decent recommendations and i can sort it out myself.
xpost
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 17:07 (ten years ago)
I mostly going off of the dude's voice
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 17:07 (ten years ago)
referring to FACT mag list
decent recommendations = not the same shit that everybody puts in their lists/stuff everyone has already heard
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 17:08 (ten years ago)
DJP sort of nailed it there with the David Gray voice comparison.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 17:09 (ten years ago)
xp Yeah, FACT's contrarianism can be comical but it leads me to new things in a way that a more conventional list wouldn't.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 17:17 (ten years ago)
Relistening to this TWoD album again for the first time in a while, I find it's a very timid record. They're scared to go the full Don Henley or the full Dire Straits or the full Daniel Lanois or whatever other styles they're trying to bite and in the end it just sounds like a little bit of each of those things but in a bad way.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 17:23 (ten years ago)
Not a *bad way, but an *unsatisfying way.
tbh i have less and less interest each passing year in what albums might be "best"/"better" and i've always been skeptical of critics' attempts to render coherent narratives of the chaos of a year's worth of music. those narratives can be important but the first drafts are not usually very compelling (i.e. we probably need some distance before we can make sense of it all). i'm happy just to kind of dip my toe in the stream and find some things that appeal to me.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 17:25 (ten years ago)
It's probably because they're mixing all that with the ambient/spacerock/droney elements which prevent them going full on AOR, but I've gone into this on their own thread.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 17:26 (ten years ago)
, FACT's contrarianism can be comical but it leads me to new things in a way that a more conventional list wouldn't.
what makes it contrarian or non-conventional? its not really my thing, but it just seems like a list of the records they feature on their site as far as i can tell
― saer, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 17:29 (ten years ago)
what makes it contrarian
"I Miss You" being the Beyonce pick
― Number None, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 17:56 (ten years ago)
that's a great song tho
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 17:59 (ten years ago)
every time I see "Dire Straits" as a referent in the same sentence as War on Drugs I wonder if the writer means "the synthy parts of late eighties Cure + Billy Idol echo"
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 17:59 (ten years ago)
no, there's a definite twangy thing going on, but obviously it's at a bit of a lower skill level
― john wahey (NickB), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 18:02 (ten years ago)
I tended to hear it as much in the wheedling of dude's 'Why can't I be Dylan' voice.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 18:13 (ten years ago)
^^^otm - dylan vocal bites, where would indie duderock be without them
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 18:14 (ten years ago)
where would indie duderock be without them
where it is now: dead, like all rock music.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 18:16 (ten years ago)
you're so folksy, I'd do anythingape you from the scoops to where the pitch beginsyou're so precious, you're so right as rainyou make me make me revisit the highway again
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 18:17 (ten years ago)
War of Drugs > Bob Dylan
:mic drop:
― jaymc, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 18:25 (ten years ago)
xxpost thought it was p clear that was not a serious statement or one meant to laud indie duderock
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 18:30 (ten years ago)
where would indie duderock be without themwhere it is now: dead, like all rock music.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Tuesday, November 25, 2014 12:16 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lmao i love the inherent patting of self on back whenever someone says "rock is dead"
so hip now with it and wow
― i did it all for the 'nuki (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 18:35 (ten years ago)
The reason why I like WOTD is the same reason it's hard to say anything new about them. It's such a simple idea - blue-collar space-rock, aka what if Tom Petty and Bruce Horsby dug krautrock? It appeals to the same part of me that likes dance re-edits of Springsteen or Spiders (Kidsmoke) by Wilco or Balearic. I'm not sure I've discovered any great depths beyond that simple idea so it feels slightly lacking as an album of the year but for me the pleasure's instant.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 18:38 (ten years ago)
it has certain combinations of sounds that remind me of certain FM rock radio memories while placing them in a slightly skewed context
― i did it all for the 'nuki (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 18:42 (ten years ago)
there's a definite twangy thing going on, but obviously it's at a bit of a lower skill level
Yeah, TWoD owes a lot more to Knopfler's rhythm playing than his lead playing.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 18:43 (ten years ago)
War On The Drugs?
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 18:44 (ten years ago)
i don't think anyone's saying war on drugs dude is notting hillbillies material! big knopf is a monster
― i did it all for the 'nuki (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 18:45 (ten years ago)
lmao i love the inherent patting of self on back whenever someone says "rock is dead"so hip now with it and wow
i mean, it kinda is, or at least on life support...i don't really have any positive or negative opinions on that fact tho, and good bands that play rock music are still good bands obvs, i do believe war on drugs is one of them
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 18:53 (ten years ago)
it really isn't.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 18:54 (ten years ago)
I don't know what "rock is dead" even means but it sure sounds cool to say.
― Evan, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 18:54 (ten years ago)
I saw an "ART IS DEAD" sign in someones window. I don't know what that means either, though I bet that person is pretty edgy.
― Evan, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 18:56 (ten years ago)
yeah i'm not sure either. "rock" has become many things; i feel like a lot of the music i listen to wouldn't exist without "rock" but some people here might not consider it "rock."
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 18:56 (ten years ago)
the whole notion of relevance seems really boring to me and less and less important when everything's just a big mess on the internet and spotify now
if there are good bands then it's not dead or if it is dead and there are still good bands then who cares if it's "dead"? i don't care about big outsized bono/woodstock notions about rock having to be big or an important cultural force
― i did it all for the 'nuki (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 18:57 (ten years ago)
this is likely the only time I will say this but for the love of all that is good and holy, won't someone post another list
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 18:58 (ten years ago)
xxxpost all around boston someone has been spraypainting NOT ART on things lately, throughout somerville & cambridge, both v edgy places in the minds of many residents, as anyone who lives here will know. to be fair, i loled
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 18:58 (ten years ago)
shakedown otm
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 18:59 (ten years ago)
Top 10 Cool Rock Bands Of 2014
1 The War on Drugs2 Crazy Eyes from Orange is the New Black3 The Pizza Underground4 Pallbearer5 Blue Oyster Cult6 ESPN 30 For 30 - Rand University7 Mr. Pibb8 Sleaford Mods9 Ricky Rubio10 Old Fashioned Minnesota Grape Salad
― i did it all for the 'nuki (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 19:01 (ten years ago)
Now would be the perfect moment to drop the Classic Rock list but tragically it isn't out yet.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 19:01 (ten years ago)
^^^ ha ditto
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 19:01 (ten years ago)
RICKY RUBIO DROPPED AN ALBUM??? WHY WASN'T I TOLD i figured he'd put his time on the t-wolves injury list to good use
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 19:03 (ten years ago)
if you only hear one release this year, make sure it's Old Fashioned Minnesota Grape Salad
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 19:04 (ten years ago)
Isn't that pop?
― Evan, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 19:06 (ten years ago)
more like neo-slowsaladcore
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 19:06 (ten years ago)
pop is dead.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 19:06 (ten years ago)
Oh never mind I misread that as "grape soda"
And Mr. Pibb was right there.
― jmm, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 19:08 (ten years ago)
the truck just came out of nowhere
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 19:08 (ten years ago)
rip pop you had a good run but austerlitz was bound to win in the end
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 19:10 (ten years ago)
it'll be back around, say, 2025.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 19:10 (ten years ago)
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/27865379/Pop+Is+Dead+Pop.jpg
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 19:18 (ten years ago)
looolllllllllll
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 19:19 (ten years ago)
rock is dead has been said since before anyone on ilx was born. Unless anyone was born before buddy holly died
― strychnine, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 19:24 (ten years ago)
where did Aimless go
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 19:25 (ten years ago)
to create the happy days stageshow
― strychnine, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 19:25 (ten years ago)
― Evan, Tuesday, November 25, 2014 1:56 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0691002991/ref=redir_mdp_mobile/191-3869359-1421625
― Treeship, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 19:29 (ten years ago)
6 ESPN 30 For 30 - Rand University
― Face facts poptimism hacks, your a scam. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 19:31 (ten years ago)
Not Art guy sounds like a complete tool. He was doing this to people's houses? http://wgbhnews.org/post/meet-man-behind-not-art
― jmm, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 19:34 (ten years ago)
I'd be in favor of it if he started spraypainting that on people.
― Treeship, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 19:36 (ten years ago)
"We're so sick of seeing Picassos sell for millions of dollars just because they say Picasso. You know, people aren't looking at the art any more, they're looking at the signature. And "Not Art" in itself is a signature."- bob marley
― Face facts poptimism hacks, your a scam. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 19:37 (ten years ago)
This sounds like a neutered version of yellowism
― Treeship, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 19:38 (ten years ago)
If he posted "not art" on a famous work, say starry night or even better the mona lisa he would be on to something (something = footnote mention in art history books)
― Treeship, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 19:39 (ten years ago)
NME
50 | Julian Casablancas + The Voidz | Tyranny49 | Interpol | El Pintor48 | Temples | Sun Structure47 | Gruff Rhys | American Interior46 | Twin Peaks | Wild Onion45 | Honeyblood | Honeyblood44 | Perfect Pussy | Say Yes To Love43 | Freddie Gibbs and Madlib | Pinata42 | Hookworms | The Hum41 | Manic Street Preachers | Futurology40 | Bombay Bicylce Club | So Long, See You Tomorrow39 | Protomartyr | Under Color of Offical Right38 | Alt-J | This Is All Yours37 | Thom Yorke | Tomorrow's Modern Boxes36 | Goat | Commune35 | Parquet Courts | Sunbathing Animal34 | Sun Kil Moon | Benji33 | Wild Beasts | Present Tense32 | Childhood | Lacuna31 | Sharon Van Etten | Are We There30 | Warpaint | Warpaint29 | Alvvays | Alvvays28 | Morrissey | World Peace Is None Of Your Beeswax27 | Jungle | Jungle26 | Perfume Genuis | Too Bright25 | Lana Del Ray | Ultraviolence24 | Angel Olsen | Burn Your Fire For No Witness23 | Kasabian | 48:1322 | Swans | To be Kind21 | FKA Twigs | LP120 | Jack White | Lazaretto19 | Royal Blood | Royal Blood18 | Kate Tempest | Everybody Down17 | Todd Terje | It's Album Time16 | Iceage | Plowing Into The Field Of Love15 | Eagulls | Eagulls14 | Run The Jewels | RTJ213 | Damon Albarn | Everyday Robots12 | DFA 1979 | The Physical World11 | Future Islands | Singles10 | Ex Hex | Rips09 | Sleaford Mods | Divide and Exit08 | Jamie T | Carry On The Grudge07 | Merchandise | After The End06 | La Roux | Trouble In Paradise05 | Caribou | Our Love04 | Aphex Twin | Syro03 | The War On Drugs | Lost In the Dream02 | Mac DeMarco | Salad Days01 | St. Vincent | St. Vincent
― Mitchell Stirling, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 09:09 (ten years ago)
Uncut
75 RICHARD THOMPSON : Acoustic Classics74 TEMPLES : Sun Structures73 DAVE & PHIL ALVIN : Common Ground72 DAN MICHAELSON : Distance 71 BOB MOULD : Beauty & Ruin70 FIRST AID KIT : Stay Gold69 GULP : Season Sun68 LYDIA LOVELESS : Somewhere Else67 PERFUME GENIUS : Too Bright66 THURSTON MOORE : The Best Day65 THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS : Brill Bruisers64 KING CREOSOTE : From Scotland With Love63 GAZELLE TWIN : Unflesh 62 PAOLO NUTINI : Caustic Love61 AFGHAN WHIGS : Do To The Beast60 FRAZEY FORD : Indian Ocean 59 RODDY FRAME : Seven Dials58 JAMIE T : Carry On The Grudge57 THE DELINES : Colfax56 ANGEL OLSEN : Burn Your Fire For No Witness55 SCOTT WALKER AND SUNN O))) : Soused 54 TOM PETTY : Hypnotic Eye 53 GOAT : Commune 52 LIARS : Mess 51 JENNY LEWIS : The Voyager50 WILD BEASTS : Present Tense49 ROBYN HITCHCOCK : The Man Upstairs48 MORRISSEY : World Peace Is None Of Your Business47 ALLAH-LAS : Worship The Sun46 WILLIE WATSON : Folk Singer, Vol. 145 KATE TEMPEST : Everybody Down44 THOM YORKE : Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes 43 EAST INDIA YOUTH : Total Strife Forever42 MOGWAI : Rave Tapes41 MARK LANEGAN BAND : Phantom Radio40 LEE BAINS III & THE GLORY FIRES : Dereconstructed39 FUTURE ISLANDS : Singles 38 FENNESZ : Bécs 37 WILLIE NELSON : Band Of Brothers36 LA ROUX : Trouble In Paradise35 DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS : English Oceans34 CHRIS FORSYTH & THE SOLAR MOTEL BAND : Intensity Ghost33 STURGILL SIMPSON : Metamodern Sounds In Country Music32 MERCHANDISE : After The End31 TUNE-YARDS : Nikki Nack30 SPOON : They Want My Soul29 JACK WHITE : Lazaretto 28 THE BLACK KEYS : Turn Blue27 BEN WATT : Hendra26 STEVE GUNN : Way Out Weather25 SLEAFORD MODS : Divide And Exit24 TWEEDY : Sukierae 23 ARIEL PINK : Pom Pom22 BECK : Morning Phase21 EARTH : Primitive And Deadly20 STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS : Wig Out At Jagbags19 HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF : Small Town Heroes18 SWANS : To Be Kind17 LUCINDA WILLIAMS : Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone16 GRUFF RHYS : American Interior15 ROSANNE CASH : The River & The Thread 14 REAL ESTATE : Atlas 13 TY SEGALL : Manipulator12 CARIBOU : Our Love11 TOUMANI DIABATÉ & SIDIKI DIABATÉ : Toumani & Sidiki10 SUN KIL MOON : Benji 09 ST VINCENT : St Vincent08 DAMON ALBARN : Everyday Robots07 HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER : Lateness Of Dancers06 ROBERT PLANT lullaby and… The Ceaseless Roar05 SHARON VAN ETTEN : Are We There04 FKA TWIGS : LP103 APHEX TWIN : Syro02 LEONARD COHEN : Popular Problems01 THE WAR ON DRUGS : Lost In The Dream
I always enjoy the obligatory, core-pandering placements at the tail-end of the NME list - Interpol and Casablancas this year.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 09:40 (ten years ago)
like the tail-end splatters of a comet of shit
― john wahey (NickB), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 09:52 (ten years ago)
Also Thom Yorke at #37 with an album precisely no one was enthusiastic about.
'Syro' has been near the top of virtually every list.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 10:10 (ten years ago)
at least the NME picked a decent number 1, I'll give them credit for that.
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 10:15 (ten years ago)
i don't know who Mac Demarco is. Think there was a guy who used to work in my office called M4tt Demarco so maybe that's why?
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 10:16 (ten years ago)
Can we now have the obligatory bit where people complain about the lack of hip-hop and R&B in the Uncut list?
― Unsettled defender (ithappens), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 10:17 (ten years ago)
Actually, Twigs at 4 in he Uncut list is pretty jaw dropping. Related to the departure of Allan Jones?
― Unsettled defender (ithappens), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 10:18 (ten years ago)
Only one mention of Mercury Award winners Young Fathers in this whole thread.
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 10:18 (ten years ago)
It's because no one cares about them.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 10:21 (ten years ago)
NME Tracks
50 | Alt-J | Hunger Of The Pine49 | David Bowie | Sue (Or In A Season of Crime)48 | Ariel Pink | Put Your Number In My Phone47 | Gruff Rhys | American Interior46 | Flying Lotus | Never Catch Me (feat. Kendrick Lamar)45 | Sun Kil Moon | Ben's My Friend44 | Juce | Call You Out43 | SBTRKT | New Dorp New York (feat. Erza Koenig)42 | Ex Hex | Hot and Cold41 | La Roux | Uptight Downtown40 | Sleater-Kinney | Bury Our Friends39 | Protomartyr | Scum, Rise!38 | Morrissey | Kiss Me A Lot37 | Sharon Van Etten | Every Time The Sun Comes Up36 | Noel Gallagher's Flying Birds | In The Heat of The Moment35 | Manic Street Preachers | Futurology34 | The War On Drugs | Under The Pressure33 | Death From Above 1979 | White Is Red32 | Lana Del Ray | Ultraviolence31 | Cherry Glazerr | Had Ten Dollaz30 | Perfume Genuis | Queen29 | Slaves | Where's Your Car Debbie?28 | Interpol | All The Rage Back Home27 | Taylor Swift | Shake It Off26 | Mac DeMarco | Passing Out Pieces25 | Warpaint | Disco//Very24 | St. Vincent | Prince Johnny23 | Damon Albarn | The Selfish Giant22 | Run The Jewels | Close Your Eyes (And Count To Fuck)21 | Jamie T | Love Is Only A Heartbeat Away20 | Honeyblood | Super Rat19 | Alvvays | Archie, Marry Me18 | Aphex Twin | minipops 67 (Source field remix)17 | Iceage | The Lord's Favourite16 | Shamir | I Know It's A Good Thing15 | Kate Tempest | Marshall Law14 | Jack White | Lazaretto13 | Jungle | Busy Earnin'12 | Merchandise | Little Killer11 | Lana Del Ray | West Coast10 | Mac DeMarco | Chamber of Reflection09 | Royal Blood | Little Monster08 | Jamie T | Zombie07 | St. Vincent | Digital Witness06 | Kasabian | Eez-eh05 | Run The Jewels | Blockbuster Night Pt. 104 | The War On Drugs | Red Eyes03 | Fat White Family | Touch The Leather02 | Caribou | Can't Do Without You01 | Future Islands | Seasons (Waiting On You)
― Mitchell Stirling, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 10:22 (ten years ago)
^^^ Rock is dead.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 10:23 (ten years ago)
And they come good with their number one single too.
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 10:25 (ten years ago)
11 | Lana Del Ray | West Coast
how is it that even now no professional publication seems able to spell this woman's name right
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 10:41 (ten years ago)
the new missy elliott
no Horrors album in the NME list? baffling.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 10:46 (ten years ago)
boy am i missing something re that Caribou album/ band.
no horrors - that is weird... it's a good album!
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 10:47 (ten years ago)
I think this is probably just one spelling mistake that is being replicated by the autofill of my spreadsheet.
― Mitchell Stirling, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 10:48 (ten years ago)
Erza KoenigPerfume Genuis
I think you do it on purpose.
― nashwan, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 11:18 (ten years ago)
so much empty music AARRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGhhhhhhhhhh
― Raccoon Tanuki, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 11:23 (ten years ago)
UK consensus picks - there are 12 albums which appear in the Q, Mojo, Uncut and NME Top 50s: Aphex Twin, Caribou, FKA Twigs, Future Islands, Jack White, Kate Tempest, Morrissey, Sharon Van Etten, Sleaford Mods, St. Vincent, The War On Drugs, Wild Beasts.
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 12:10 (ten years ago)
When people look back in 20 years time at these lists they will have the same reaction for Sleaford Mods as we do now at 90s lists with Carter USM.
― strychnine, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 12:17 (ten years ago)
Carter USM had a number one album and headlined Glastonbury, that's the bit that makes them baffling. Sleaford Mods is more like some random Fall album placing.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 12:21 (ten years ago)
In the absence of a consensus rap pick, Aphex Twin easily wins the genre tokenism award this year
― Simon H., Wednesday, 26 November 2014 12:24 (ten years ago)
what genre is that?
― anvil, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 12:27 (ten years ago)
EDM
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 12:36 (ten years ago)
feel like the gibbs/madlib album is the consensus rap pick thus far as it's def on the lists that historically have paid lip service at best to the genre, so it'll prob be on the more wide-ranging lists as well
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 12:51 (ten years ago)
I'm with NehruvianDOOM all the way as rap album of the year.
― Raccoon Tanuki, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 13:09 (ten years ago)
the guardian list begins...http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/nov/26/-sp-the-best-albums-of-2014
40. Tricky - Adrian Thaws39. Sharon Van Etten - Are We There38. Toumani Diabate and Sidiki Diabate - Toumani & Sidiki37. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Pinata36. Ex Hex - Rips35. Peggy Seeger - Everything Changes34. Jamie T - Carry on the Grudge33. Scott Walker and Sunn O))) - Soused32. Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty31. Leonard Cohen - Popular Problems
― john wahey (NickB), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 14:22 (ten years ago)
kinda promising but they should learn how to spell sunn though for real
When is THE WIRE playlist coming out?
― soltolina, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 14:37 (ten years ago)
Amazed at the NME having such great number ones on both their lists.
Agree that it's pretty shocking they didn't find room for The Horrors. Especially when they got Interpol and Julian Casablancas in there.
I know it's too easy to mock the NME these days but they really should be ashamed for having that Kasabian single so high. I saw them dong it on Jools Holland and it reminded me of something from Nathan Barley.
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 14:38 (ten years ago)
Always annoys me how these lists come out earlier and earlier every year. Each publication wants their list to be the first one, so that readers/clickers won't bother reading any others. But there's a whole month to go.
― rising stones cross (anagram), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 14:53 (ten years ago)
Any major lists left to declare?
― strychnine, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 14:57 (ten years ago)
Kasabian sound and look like what would happen if Noel Fielding and Robbie Williams formed a band.
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 14:59 (ten years ago)
well, didn't noel f join kasabian on stage at glastonbury ?
― mark e, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 15:02 (ten years ago)
i wouldn't know
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 15:05 (ten years ago)
wtf with this War On Drugs garbage
― sleeve, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 15:07 (ten years ago)
Right? Legalize it.
― Evan, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 16:16 (ten years ago)
how many of the publications that failed to put beyoncé on their lists last yr due to timing are going to ignore it this year too
― dyl, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 16:23 (ten years ago)
man I love that Shabazz Palaces album
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 16:37 (ten years ago)
it's really good, I should jam that on our Thanksgiving road trip tonight
― sleeve, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 16:38 (ten years ago)
beyonce - validated commercially, slagged critically because RELEASING IN LATE DECEMBER WTF
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 16:43 (ten years ago)
What's so vital in January and February that all the mags and websites have to publish lists in November and December before everything's even been released/digested? I sort of get it. No one wants to kick off a new year thinking about the last one, but Beyonce is getting snubbed and it ain't right.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 16:49 (ten years ago)
(Personally speaking the album would've had a better shot on a Top Ten list of mine had she released in October or November.)
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 16:50 (ten years ago)
As I wrote above, imo it's less about not wanting to think about the old year in Jan/Feb, and more about the websites all wanting to get their clickbait in as early as possible.
xp
― rising stones cross (anagram), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 16:52 (ten years ago)
beyoncé is not getting "snubbed" as though she needs the validation of an EOY list
beyoncé is showing up EOY lists and the clickbaity desperation of their timing
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 16:54 (ten years ago)
i mean EOY lists are meant to be historical artefacts more than anything else. EOY lists from way back in the day like the 90s still get pulled up whereas individual reviews don't. in 20 years if anyone pulls up the 2013 lists and sees no beyoncé it'll just render that list a little more meaningless
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 16:56 (ten years ago)
Beyoncé don't need EOY, EOY needs Beyoncé. And anyway, she'll show them EOD.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 17:09 (ten years ago)
i don't think beyoncé really cares about eoy critics lists (she's not solange), her eyes have always been on the long game of scooping the grammy aoty award. that's the reason she's releasing the otherwise pointless platinum edition now and putting the album on spotify and videos on youtube so as to give the album momentum before votes are cast. whether nme or p4k have it on a list is pretty small fry.
― prolego, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 17:29 (ten years ago)
Putting Beyonce in a 2015 list would be so so lame.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 17:30 (ten years ago)
Err, I mean 2014.
I think Beyonce should release a slightly different version of that album every year just so it can be put on EOY lists
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 17:35 (ten years ago)
Collab with Annie
― strychnine, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 17:38 (ten years ago)
bEOYncé
― jmm, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 17:40 (ten years ago)
Also Caribou is a way more tokenistic pick than Aphex. RDJ is at least extraordinary at what he does.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 17:41 (ten years ago)
― strychnine, Wednesday, November 26, 2014 6:17 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Matt DC, Wednesday, November 26, 2014 6:21 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i mean...like who cares? who the hell knows what we'll think about anything in 20 years! the sleaford mods might have short shelf life but i love it right now, it's just real ragged and raw and different, feels fresh right now. it's just a drag way to look at music and life, like trying to be this remote "objective" opinion based on how something will hypothetically age or not age well...like some music is meant to be right now and immediate and some doesn't last but a lot of thrown together "trash" music that seemed like a gimmick lasted forever too! so who knows? but anyway better the mods than another dumb haircut band from england imo
― i did it all for the 'nuki (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 18:17 (ten years ago)
i still kinda rep for 30-something actually too
― i did it all for the 'nuki (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 18:18 (ten years ago)
*applause* (xp)
― sleeve, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 18:19 (ten years ago)
mods dont have haircuts?
― strychnine, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 18:19 (ten years ago)
xxp the jay-z song??
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 18:20 (ten years ago)
who the hell knows what we'll think about anything in 20 years!
This x 1000.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 18:22 (ten years ago)
One guy has a England guy haircut, the other wears hats all the time probably bald, either way my point stands
― i did it all for the 'nuki (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 18:34 (ten years ago)
I was pretty sure 20 years ago that in 20 years that Primus would still be central to my interests. Projections are worthless.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 18:35 (ten years ago)
― i did it all for the 'nuki (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, November 26, 2014 1:34 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Not so fast, I think there might be something to this mod haircut counterpoint that you can't handle.
― Evan, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 18:41 (ten years ago)
Goddammit, I just pulled up Sailing the Seas of Cheese on Spotify and now I'm getting into it. Primus no longer central to my interests, but I can't use them as a punchline either.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 18:51 (ten years ago)
Johnny I think it's finally time to step up to Frog Brigade
― i did it all for the 'nuki (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 18:53 (ten years ago)
Frizzle Fry is the Primus Sweet spot IMO
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 18:54 (ten years ago)
i don't know if it's 'clickbait' as much as it is 'vestigial adherence to the structures of print media, which required lead times'
― maura, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 19:08 (ten years ago)
Primus? dear god
― strychnine, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 19:08 (ten years ago)
do they even still exist?
― strychnine, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 19:09 (ten years ago)
like strychnine
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 19:12 (ten years ago)
as long as gathering of the vibes & related festivals still exist (so, neo-hippies), les claypool will at least make a living idk about the other dudes
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 19:13 (ten years ago)
Maura OTM. As this thread shows, print mag EOY lists still come out late November so that's the season for it.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 19:17 (ten years ago)
Primus' audience is a Venn diagram of jam band fans, '90s alt rock radio stalwarts, and guitar magazine tech heads, a literal perfect storm of dude loyalty
they will play sold out mid-sized theater gigs until God shuts the lights out the Earth
― i did it all for the 'nuki (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 19:32 (ten years ago)
on tour now, see them Decemeber 6 at Rockfest in Santiago, Chile!
― i did it all for the 'nuki (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 19:33 (ten years ago)
part of the reason beyonce's album got so much press about OMG NEW MODEL IS MUSIC CHANGING is because no one had early copies and they needed immediate articles. iirc there was a rush to immediate judgement on most of the tracks and tempest in a teapot responses galore; I remember 99 thinkpieces on eat the cake anna mae alone. some of the subtext, to my eyes, was a bit of panic on the part of press that recognized the stealth release as an open declaration of the method of negotiation and scheduling with press for cover pieces and review as unnecessary for artists of a certain level. that there's only a score of artists at that level is sort of beside the point; that score provide the biggest reason to buy the magazine/click the article/buy the paper. it would not surprise me if the eoy round ups focus more on the method of release for Bey than the release itself.
BTW, the decision on her part to put the re-release and new material on spotify suggests that she and her team get that, at $26, the platinum edition is selling for the packaging/DVD/calendar as much as anything and that in this case (unlike the initial release), the music is NOT the commodity... it's pack-in.
― Face facts poptimism hacks, your a scam. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 19:54 (ten years ago)
Not a lot of Katy B and Jessie Ware so far, I would agree their new albums are not as good as their debuts but good enough to place higher than freakin Kasabian or Damon Albarn.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 20:07 (ten years ago)
as of next week on the charts bey's streams will count toward album sales too lol, so i guess that helps?
― dyl, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 20:48 (ten years ago)
I saw Primus this year and it was p good
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 20:52 (ten years ago)
Always annoys me how these lists come out earlier and earlier every year.
― rising stones cross (anagram)
It's really silly. There'll be a load of decent releases in December no doubt.
― millmeister, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 21:00 (ten years ago)
eyes peeled for my "best of 2015" list, coming this March
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 21:12 (ten years ago)
let's just vote on the best of the 2020s right now. that arbre mort comeback album is surprisingly consistent don't you think?
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 21:14 (ten years ago)
I know it's gauche but I have to remind everyone that my madrigal re-imaginings of Nickelback songs is on its fifth reprinting before we start voting
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 21:15 (ten years ago)
I have a song I haven't even done the vocals for, so.
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 21:18 (ten years ago)
I remember 99 thinkpieces on eat the cake anna mae alone.
not to mention the 50 or so on eat the cake "anime"
― Number None, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 23:27 (ten years ago)
Would've thought katy and jessie would be high up on the Graun's list but who really knows.
― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 23:31 (ten years ago)
― the farakhan of gg (DJP
how much did it cost to book Sting to imagine them onstage?
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 23:33 (ten years ago)
Damn I had forgot about Sting's lute phase
― i did it all for the 'nuki (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 27 November 2014 00:11 (ten years ago)
I'm still disappointed he never started a band called Lutepack.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 27 November 2014 00:20 (ten years ago)
I've come around to the Jessie Ware album in a big way (minus two tracks) but tbrr I think that "Champagne Kisses" is going to slay in the ILM trax poll.
― death in Skegness (seandalai), Thursday, 27 November 2014 03:45 (ten years ago)
I'm fond of the album, but if there were a fire and I could only save one track it would be "Sweetest Song".
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 27 November 2014 03:48 (ten years ago)
Couple of points to make regarding year end lists, It's not even December yet, and ok that was too obvious , second that Decibel left off the fantastic Judas Priest album Redeemer of Souls!!
Does December not count any more or does it just get rolled into next year? Last year, one of my favorite Hip Hop albums, Because the Internet, got short shrift due to it's december release.
― IckyMetal, Thursday, 27 November 2014 04:17 (ten years ago)
I've got at least one track on my personal 2014 faves that came out in mid-December last year. I don't write for any publications so don't have deadline problems but in any case there's no way I could sufficiently process the record in that short amount of time to et a realistic feel for how it stacks up to songs or albums I'd lived with for months.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Thursday, 27 November 2014 04:53 (ten years ago)
As this thread shows, print mag EOY lists still come out late November so that's the season for it.
But this isn't because of print deadlines, it's because the publication (whether mag, website or whatever) wants theirs to be the only one that people read/talk about/care about. If they get their EOY list in first then (or so the thinking goes) punters won't bother with any others. Same reason why shops start selling Christmas stuff earlier every year - you buy your Christmas crackers from the first place you see them.
― rising stones cross (anagram), Thursday, 27 November 2014 09:24 (ten years ago)
But nobody only pays attention to one publication these days - it's an aggregate thing. Nobody on the publications thinks that theirs is the only list that people will talk about. Weirdly, the increasing earliness is because the likes of the Guardian and NME have moved to coincide with the monthlies in late November. They used to wait till a fortnight before Christmas but now there's a scrum.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Thursday, 27 November 2014 09:49 (ten years ago)
Although the Guardian's different because it rolls out so slowly - it took two weeks last year.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Thursday, 27 November 2014 09:50 (ten years ago)
the list i filed to the guardian weeks ago looks hilariously out of date already
― lex pretend, Thursday, 27 November 2014 09:53 (ten years ago)
Same here. I don't know why we had to file a full month before the rollout. I don't think I'd have added many new releases but I've changed my mind plenty.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Thursday, 27 November 2014 10:01 (ten years ago)
a full month starting before a rollout that itself starts in NOVEMBER, in an era when big releases are more slanted towards Q4 than ever
the album that's belatedly gaining steam to be my AOTY had been out a couple of weeks at that point but isn't even in the top 10 i filed!
― lex pretend, Thursday, 27 November 2014 10:03 (ten years ago)
I'd be all in favour of the Guardian's list staying in late Dec. But we do roll out gradually - starting this week means the No 1 gets revealed on Dec 12. I had to argue against a Dec 5 finish date this year: the thing is we're not just competing against the other music lists, but against all the other end of year stuff that will appear in the Guardian. If we leave till the week before Christmas, we won't get any play on the main website.
The weird thing is how much it has changed. I did the first Guardian end of year list in 2007, in the old Film&Music section, and no one gave a shit. Within three years it had started to become the two-week behemoth you see now.
Oh, and you had to file early because we needed to consult with the department that has overseen every department's end of year lists this year. They wanted a unified look, which meant getting the copy in early so they could start deciding the formats and sorting it all out.
― Unsettled defender (ithappens), Thursday, 27 November 2014 10:04 (ten years ago)
But Dorian, Lex, you want to moan about it? Moan to me.
― Unsettled defender (ithappens), Thursday, 27 November 2014 10:05 (ten years ago)
the album that's belatedly gaining steam to be my AOTY had been out a couple of weeks at that point but isn't even in the top 10 i filed
Kind of interested in what this is.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 27 November 2014 10:44 (ten years ago)
tinashe (didn't even think it was that special for weeks after first hearing)
― lex pretend, Thursday, 27 November 2014 10:49 (ten years ago)
Yes!
― Frederik B, Thursday, 27 November 2014 12:57 (ten years ago)
Poll running earlier this year so it finishes before xmasAll welcome to nominate/vote etc~~~ End Of Year ILM Metal - Albums & Tracks Poll- Nominations 2014 (Ends friday11.59pm UK time Dec 5th) ~~~
― Cosmic Slop, Thursday, 27 November 2014 13:02 (ten years ago)
Norman Records Top 50
1. Bracken - Exist/resist2. Ian William Craig - A Turn of Breath3. The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Revelation4. Last Ex - Last Ex5. Swans - To Be Kind6. Virginia Wing - Measures of Joy7. Morgan Delt - Morgan Delt8. Kate Tempest - Everybody Down9. Ought - More Than Any Other Day10. Memory Drawings - There Is No Perfect Place11. Neneh Cherry - Blank Project12. Sleaford Mods - Divide and Exit13. Scott Walker and Sunn O))) - Soused14. Tape - Casino15. Grouper - Ruins16. Ty Segall - Manipulator17. Mohammad - Lamnè Gastama18. Aphex Twin - Syro19. Timber Timbre - Hot Dreams20. Goat - Commune21. Fennesz - Bécs22. Perfect Pussy - Say Yes To Love23. EIAFUAWN - Birds In The Ground24. Shellac - Dude Incredible25. A New Line (Related) - S/T
https://www.normanrecords.com/features/top-fifty-2014.php
― death in Skegness (seandalai), Thursday, 27 November 2014 13:06 (ten years ago)
Nice to see shoutouts for Tape, Ex-Easter Island Head, Soundcarriers, Jon Mueller's Death Blues on the full Norman Records list.
― death in Skegness (seandalai), Thursday, 27 November 2014 13:08 (ten years ago)
The absence of Owen Pallett's In Conflict in these lists (#64 on Rough Trade, thats it) is baffling. It was my #1 any time I was asked to vote and I thought I was going to be in good company but no.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Thursday, 27 November 2014 13:43 (ten years ago)
Yeah, no OP, no Sunny Day in Glasgow, no YG (though it's not that kind of lists yet). I am out of touch with consensus, more than I think I am. But I realize that every year.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 27 November 2014 13:48 (ten years ago)
i keep waiting for the uk music press to have a country epiphany. when it comes 3 years late i'll probably be extremely annoyed
― lex pretend, Thursday, 27 November 2014 14:14 (ten years ago)
no doubt.
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Thursday, 27 November 2014 14:18 (ten years ago)
10. Memory Drawings - There Is No Perfect Place
Woah I went to a Timberwolves game with a guy in this band w a mutual friend
― i did it all for the 'nuki (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 27 November 2014 14:25 (ten years ago)
That's the band with someone from Hood in them right?
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Thursday, 27 November 2014 14:29 (ten years ago)
yes I guess: "Memory Drawings is the project of Minneapolis hammered dulcimer player Joel Hanson, Hood co-founder Richard Adams and former Lanterns on the Lake violinist Sarah Kemp"
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Thursday, 27 November 2014 14:38 (ten years ago)
Unsurprising but love seeing Norman Recs sticking with the Hood shout outs. Both the Bracken and Memory Drawings albums are great.
The absence of Owen Pallett's In Conflict in these lists (#64 on Rough Trade, thats it) is baffling. ― Re-Make/Re-Model, donderdag 27 november 2014 14:43 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Re-Make/Re-Model, donderdag 27 november 2014 14:43 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^^ Can only co-sign this. Truly baffling.
― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Thursday, 27 November 2014 14:45 (ten years ago)
To be fair Lex, Uncut writes about a lot of country. Just not the country that you're interested in.
― Unsettled defender (ithappens), Thursday, 27 November 2014 14:48 (ten years ago)
Kacey Musgraves was in a few lists last year but not as many as I'd hoped. Most country artists you like, Lex, don't play very big venues and even then the crowd is mostly expats. I think most Brits can't get past the sound of modern country so I really don't think there's going to be, say, a Miranda Lambert epiphany but maybe Kacey's next record could do it.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Thursday, 27 November 2014 15:01 (ten years ago)
Great to see Kogumaza sneak into the Norman list. I'd actually forgotten that album came out this year, it will now be in mine.
― emil.y, Thursday, 27 November 2014 15:03 (ten years ago)
Oh wow I didn't know the Hood guy was in that! It was just my friend Joel plays in a band
― i did it all for the 'nuki (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 27 November 2014 15:20 (ten years ago)
Well, modern country (not alt!) is what I meant. Brits can get past trad country sounds when it's old established stars but not the relatively less heavy country signifiers of Angaleena Presley or Miranda Lambert? Or Lee Ann Womack if we're talking established names even. When Dolly played Glastonbury there was so much love for her which was great but zero interest in who her current equivalents might be
― lex pretend, Thursday, 27 November 2014 15:20 (ten years ago)
Well if you knew the sales numbers on that OP record you'd know that basically nobody bought and/or listened to it *wipes away single tear* *accepts another film score gig*
― mango unchained (fgti), Thursday, 27 November 2014 15:22 (ten years ago)
Whaaaaa, really? Boo everybody.
― emil.y, Thursday, 27 November 2014 15:40 (ten years ago)
Damn, I just can't understand that! Reviews were good, too right? People suck :(
― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Thursday, 27 November 2014 15:42 (ten years ago)
ya rly.
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Thursday, 27 November 2014 15:44 (ten years ago)
It's high in my top ten eyol, will campaign more.
― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Thursday, 27 November 2014 15:50 (ten years ago)
Rock was first declared dead on May 26, 1957, by a trio of 'experts' who mainly were just trying to wish it away. Someone's always trying to kill rock, but it's probably more accurate to say it's undead, hanging out in your basement, smoking bowls, eating your food and watching Italian horror movies (Truckfighters, Spiders, Electric Wizard, Witch Mountain, Slough Feg, Pallbearer, Blues Pills, Castle, The Oath, Wo Fat, The Skull, Earth, Serpent Venom, Brimstone Coven, Satyress, Mansion, Purson, Goat, etc.)
Lots of interesting things to check out on Norman list. Guardian list was good last year, will have to see in next couple days.
Random thought, tUnE-yArDs totally dominated lists in 2011, while her second album was ignored. Personally I think both aren't bad, but gradually become more irritating. I guess the total absence of Nikki Nack this year shows, what? Does it confirm they were all fickle bandwagon-jumping lemming MFers?
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 27 November 2014 15:52 (ten years ago)
I actually think that front-to-back Nikki Nack is probably a better album than the last one, but the standout tracks on Whokill elevated it into the mainstream/critical consciousness.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 27 November 2014 15:54 (ten years ago)
i tried listening to nicki nack and it was grating. i think i forgave her first album as 'grating but clever' and so is this one, but there's only so much grating i can take. a bit like fiery furnaces when they were popular - okay for one or two albums, kind of tiresome when the initial interest wanes.
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Thursday, 27 November 2014 15:57 (ten years ago)
People are stupid, fgti. It's not too late to start a newsworthy beef with The War on Drugs though.
xp to Lex. Dolly's a special case and I don't think most of the people who adored her at Glastonbury had bought her latest record.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Thursday, 27 November 2014 15:58 (ten years ago)
Whokill was actually the second album, but I'm a pedant.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 27 November 2014 15:59 (ten years ago)
Hopefully when Owen lands in the ILM end of year top 10 that will help undo the wrong of him missing out in these critic's lists.
Another one that I'm shocked hasn't appeared in one single list yet is The Juan Maclean album. Knowing that will also do well in our list makes me really love this place.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 27 November 2014 16:03 (ten years ago)
DFA had quite a few disappointing years, so the fact they were absolutely killin' it in 2014 might have been overlooked by a lot of people.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 27 November 2014 16:05 (ten years ago)
Yeah the Juan album is terrific. More consistent than the Todd Terje one, which seems to have placed highly on the basis of the singles.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Thursday, 27 November 2014 16:06 (ten years ago)
In a year where for the first time in eons I feel like one of the "everything sucked" crew, "In Conflict" is one of the few albums that does not leave me remotely conflicted. It's great, and inexplicable to be left off any list.
I feel like lists that stretch out to 100 or even 50 hedge so many bets they are useless. But hats off, I guess, to anyone who can find more than 25 albums each year they actively love. I'd love to get a follow-up list of how many listed albums writers still regularly listen to in 2015.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 27 November 2014 16:10 (ten years ago)
i don't get the love for the todd terje record at all. juan maclean was really solid.
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 27 November 2014 16:11 (ten years ago)
I thought The Future Will Come did quite well in the critic's lists but could be remembering that wrong. It's a shame as This is Happening did so well a few years ago and as much as I like that album, In a Dream is such a better record.
Really interested to see how Todd Terje does in our end of year list. Think it could be like Daft Punk last year when the thread had quite a lot of people saying how disappointed they were with the album but it still manages to make the top three.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 27 November 2014 16:13 (ten years ago)
I don't think that still listening to an album the following year has any bearing on how good it is. eg Let England Shake was my favourite album of 2011 and probably in my Top 10 since 2000 but I haven't heard it in ages because I played it to death and there's so much new music to listen to.
Every year I have maybe five albums I'm obsessed with, another half a dozen I deeply love and then the rest of my Top 25 is stuff that's somehow flawed or incomplete.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Thursday, 27 November 2014 16:16 (ten years ago)
josh otm with the bit about regular listening of albums ppl (critics or otherwise) put on their end of year lists - of the stuff that made mine last year I find myself coming back to a bunch of rap albums (yeezus, OLD, a$ap ferg) p often and not a whole lot else w much regularity aside from Beyoncé and, as a huge/odd contrast, deafheaven.
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 27 November 2014 16:17 (ten years ago)
Terje album places are mostly willfulness off the back of Norse, and the convenience of it for 'representing' that kind of thing.
The last Juan Maclean was largely ignored too so no reason why this wouldn't be either in that respect. Not much interest out there in DFA disco unless Murphy (remembering Nancy saying how amazing that last Holy Ghost album was but still struggling to hear that here too tbh).
― nashwan, Thursday, 27 November 2014 16:19 (ten years ago)
xpost I always think I do well if my top 25 is full of albums I'd rate as 8/10 or higher. Think I manage it but this year I seem to have heard a lot of things that are solid 7/10s. I'll probably go back to some of them close to voting and see if anything go up in my estimation. That happened with the Charli XCX album last year and it ended up in my top five.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 27 November 2014 16:20 (ten years ago)
at the same time I stand by all the things I put on said list, including having the latest arctic monkeys album & lorde's debut record in my top 10
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 27 November 2014 16:20 (ten years ago)
ha! funny that you mention charli bc I didn't place true romance on my top 25 or whatever but I listened to it a ton both last year and throughout this year
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 27 November 2014 16:22 (ten years ago)
It's a real shame Ian Crause's solo album is getting ignored. If you don't trust my judgement you can trust Ned's!
― Cosmic Slop, Thursday, 27 November 2014 16:23 (ten years ago)
― nashwan, Thursday, November 27
It just seems so odd that magazines like the NME wouldn't be desperate for music like that considering how much they pushed The Rapture and Friendly Fires back in the day. The Young Galaxy album from last year is another one that seems like it was ignored despite being something that would be right up their street.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 27 November 2014 16:24 (ten years ago)
Most DFA stuff feels like the bands in question going through the motions somewhat and the last Juan Maclean and Holy Ghost records are particular examples of that. Neither are exactly bad but just not exciting either.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 27 November 2014 16:25 (ten years ago)
I mean most new DFA stuff, it just feels like the wrong time for music like that now.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 27 November 2014 16:26 (ten years ago)
less of a barrier for Metronomy and Caribou somehow
― nashwan, Thursday, 27 November 2014 16:29 (ten years ago)
Noted Johnny Fever, I forgot about BiRd-BrAiNs, which is similar to the other two. It must be the strength of just a couple tracks that caught peoples' attention who thought, this is weird and different, to the top o' the list it goes!
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 27 November 2014 16:30 (ten years ago)
The Juan Maclean, Shit Robot, Sinkane and Museum of Love albums are all hovering around my end-of-year list. That's the most DFA content that I've liked in a single year since...well, a long time ago.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 27 November 2014 16:32 (ten years ago)
The Dedication's "I Ain't Gonna Tell You" was the secret best DFA disco jam of 2014 imo
― death in Skegness (seandalai), Thursday, 27 November 2014 16:35 (ten years ago)
Caribou isn't really like the DFA bands at all. The continued love for Metronomy makes no sense to me though.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 27 November 2014 16:36 (ten years ago)
Surprised the NME left out Metronomy this year. Along with The Horrors it's most surprising omission on their list considering how much they loved their last two albums (Last one was number two on their 2011 list) It was a really crap album but when does that ever make a difference to the NME.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 27 November 2014 16:38 (ten years ago)
Oooh, this is dope.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 27 November 2014 16:40 (ten years ago)
Horrors and Metronomy were both big duds after career highs. Just when they needed to nail it they didn't have the songs. The Wild Beasts record was great though - I thought it would make more of a splash.
Re: DFA, bear in mind the simple fact of changing staff at magazines. Maybe the NME just doesn't have a dance cheerleader in the office at the moment. Weak year for crossover electronic albums anyway - there wasn't a Glass Swords or Immunity this year so only Caribou, Terje and Aphex are getting on to these lists.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Thursday, 27 November 2014 16:47 (ten years ago)
Rustie's new one just died didn't it?
Both Temples and Hookworms appear to be the go-to token psych albums, on at least six lists so far. I really thought Les Big Byrd - They Worshipped Cats would have been that album, but just wasn't that easily available I guess.
The light psychedelic freakout on Sturgill Simpson's "It Ain't All Flowers" seems to have people slavoring. The Dec 6 show at Thalia sold out and people are paying $175 on up for scalped tix on Craigslist. A friend looking for tix was a bit offended when I teased that this new meta-alt country has struck gold with the dad rock audience. I like the idea of reviving some psychedelic country, and Simpson seems skilled enough, but can't quite get on board.
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 27 November 2014 16:52 (ten years ago)
― Re-Make/Re-Model
I thought The Horrors album was great the first time I heard but after about three plays I realised like you say that the songs just weren't there. Nice production but not a lot else. Funny you mention Wild Beasts. This was the first album of theirs I didn't completely fall in love with. They did an interview before it came out saying how they wanted to do something really different and it got my hopes up. Sadly it just sounded like more of the same to me and this was the time they really needed to take some big risks. Still think the first three albums are close to being perfect.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 27 November 2014 16:53 (ten years ago)
checking out clips of that Ian William Craig records - just voice and tape. Very cool.
― Simon H., Thursday, 27 November 2014 16:55 (ten years ago)
I really liked the Horrors album, and I wasn't a huge fan of anything other than Sea Within A Sea before then. It definitely bears repeat listens. It made me go to their debut album and I'm surprised at firstly how different it sounds, and secondly how much better it sounds compared to a lot of UK landfill indie from that era.
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Thursday, 27 November 2014 16:56 (ten years ago)
I adore the new Juan Maclean but I can't think why anyone who didn't have any emotional connection to prime dfa era having a reason to care. It's executed brilliantly but it's v much comfort food rather than doing anything new. That's not a criticism but I never expected it to get traction
― lex pretend, Thursday, 27 November 2014 17:03 (ten years ago)
Though it's more bloody exciting than bloody caribou that's for sure
― lex pretend, Thursday, 27 November 2014 17:04 (ten years ago)
"Pleasant" is one of the most backhanded compliments there is in music, but that's what the Caribou album is. I've only listened to it a handful of times, tbh, but I put it on when I want wallpaper with a beat.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 27 November 2014 17:06 (ten years ago)
wow – sort of relieved to see that. everyone on the Caribou thread was fawning over the new release and i just didn't get it.
― AKA Thermo Thinwall (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 27 November 2014 17:10 (ten years ago)
- i think whokill is WAY preferable to nikki nakk, not a fan of the latter. Water Fountain deserves love on singles lists.- Owen P's new album deserves a spot on most eoy lists; I'm afraid its long past release date tarnishes it for those who should show it the most love. it'll be on mine.- surprised no one is pointing out the biggest reason publications print best of lists in early december: it's to help sell product, which helps sell advertising
― Face facts poptimism hacks, your a scam. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 27 November 2014 17:23 (ten years ago)
Rustie's new one just died didn't it? --Re-Make/Re-Model
I actually liked the new rustie a lot - to be fair a good amount of my initial attention came from the danny brown connection but I dug the whole thing.
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 27 November 2014 17:24 (ten years ago)
I'll be perfectly content with DFA fading into critical irrelevance but still popping out a Juan Maclean album and a couple of singles on the regular.
― death in Skegness (seandalai), Thursday, 27 November 2014 17:27 (ten years ago)
But hats off, I guess, to anyone who can find more than 25 albums each year they actively love. I'd love to get a follow-up list of how many listed albums writers still regularly listen to in 2015.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, November 27, 2014 4:10 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
agree w/remake re: listening to albums the following year. my albums list tends to come to a natural close at 25-30, from the ones i obsess over to the ones i really enjoy to the ones that i feel have something about them that makes them worthwhile listening despite being either patchy or lacking in popthrill highlights
― lex pretend, Thursday, 27 November 2014 17:34 (ten years ago)
xpost It's the same for me with that Caribou album. I thought it was a pretty big step down from the last two. Can't really remember much about it now.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 27 November 2014 17:37 (ten years ago)
for me this year has been about trying to listen predominantly to the contemporary in as wide an array as I come in contact with. it's drinking out or a fire hydrant.
― Face facts poptimism hacks, your a scam. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 27 November 2014 17:37 (ten years ago)
it's been as solid a year as ever for dance/electronic albums - francis harris/frank & tony, call super, kassem mosse, leon vynehall, mark barrott, young marco also in/around my final list - though zero of those are crossover-friendly AND BETTER FOR IT
― lex pretend, Thursday, 27 November 2014 17:39 (ten years ago)
lex pretend how about rock?
― strychnine, Thursday, 27 November 2014 17:51 (ten years ago)
i don't care about rock
― lex pretend, Thursday, 27 November 2014 17:52 (ten years ago)
did you hear/like the Swans album this year, lex?
― Cosmic Slop, Thursday, 27 November 2014 18:13 (ten years ago)
what - no Kiasmos?!
― AKA Thermo Thinwall (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 27 November 2014 18:16 (ten years ago)
I didn't even know (or, tbh, care) that Caribou were still putting out records until they started showing up on these lists.
― MaudAddam (cryptosicko), Thursday, 27 November 2014 23:11 (ten years ago)
lol lex would hate swans so much
― Simon H., Thursday, 27 November 2014 23:19 (ten years ago)
or notILM'S TOP 77 TRACKS of 2010
― rob, Thursday, 27 November 2014 23:28 (ten years ago)
he liked the last album iirc
― Cosmic Slop, Thursday, 27 November 2014 23:29 (ten years ago)
or a track then
the first of the EOTY "I know nothing about Lex's tastes but I know he'll think this is awful" posts is like the 23rd or so window on an advent calendar
― proper maoist (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 27 November 2014 23:33 (ten years ago)
lol given his feelings on rock and pompousness I can't see him getting into say "Bring the Sun/Toussaint L'Ouverture"
― Simon H., Thursday, 27 November 2014 23:54 (ten years ago)
The thing about Tune-yards for me is that whokill did that loop-thingy better than almost everyone - op excepted - and was definitely better at making it pop. Saw them live in 2012, was unlike anything I've ever seen, four people of which two played saxophone. Nikki Nack is a fine record, but it sounds much more conventional, synths and overdubs. But whokill sounded new.
― Frederik B, Friday, 28 November 2014 00:16 (ten years ago)
I'm obviously in the minority in preferring Nikki Nack to whokill, though I'm not really sure I could articulate why. More percussion and less ukelele, maybe?
― MaudAddam (cryptosicko), Friday, 28 November 2014 01:42 (ten years ago)
I prefer Nikki Nack to Whokill too. They don't really sound that different to me though, so I'm also a bit baffled about the stark difference in critical reception, but not that baffled, because critical taste is as fickle as anything.
― o. nate, Friday, 28 November 2014 03:32 (ten years ago)
next-to-last is everyone going "omg i actually agree with lex about something for once!!" all week in the countdown thread before it's revealed that lex is actually ranked first on the similarity metric
― dyl, Friday, 28 November 2014 03:34 (ten years ago)
god forbid a year pass where we talk about any record as much as we talk about lex and/or louis in these threads
― some dude, Friday, 28 November 2014 03:58 (ten years ago)
I don't believe in miracles.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 28 November 2014 04:29 (ten years ago)
― i did it all for the 'nuki (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 28 November 2014 04:29 (ten years ago)
U sexy thang
― Face facts poptimism hacks, your a scam. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 28 November 2014 04:44 (ten years ago)
What is and isn't a "crossover album" in dance terms is largely dependent on PR these days, particularly whether they bother to promote the record to non-dance journalists. There's no reason why someone like Mark Barrott couldn't generate a bit of buzz with the right climate and tailwind behind it, given how obviously accessible his music is. Frances Harris and Kassem Mosse less so, but hey if Andy Stott could manage it.
Very few of these albums actually cross over (ie sell records), even the ones that get rock press love.
― Matt DC, Friday, 28 November 2014 10:37 (ten years ago)
Caribou certainly seems to appeal to a kind of listener who likes the emotional mooniness of post-Kompakt dance music but with a more organic sound palette. Personally I quite like that album but I can't imagine ever finding his drippy "I can't live without yooooooooooou" vocals emotionally moving.
― Matt DC, Friday, 28 November 2014 10:40 (ten years ago)
I wonder what it's like being an artist whose last album was all over EOY lists and whose new one, which might be equally good or better, just evaporates eg Rustie and Tune-Yards this year. Not to overstate the importance of critics but it must be quite disorientating to lose their enthusiasm in that way. Meanwhile, average albums by Jack White and Damon Albarn (and arguably Beck, although some people genuinely think it's his best) are getting more praise than they deserve. Weird year.
The geek in me would love to read a behind-the-scenes story about how (a) an anticipated follow-up collapses and (b) a low-key record gathers crossover momentum. It's not solely about quality is it? Often there's some decisive factor - timing, marketing, whatever - that's not obvious to the listener.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Friday, 28 November 2014 10:48 (ten years ago)
You don't find Silver at all moving, Matt DC? It kills me.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Friday, 28 November 2014 10:49 (ten years ago)
i was quite surprised by the scale of rustie's crit-love last time - i loved glass swords but it never felt like a canon-friendly album (or sound) (or artist - rustie's never been marketed as a One Of A Kind Auteur). i think consensus is that the new one's a bit of a fall-off, the same formula but less good, and where other acts often get a tail of support for slightly-less-good takes on their formula (as a vote of support for the formula itself) it doesn't surprise me that rustie doesn't get that.
― lex pretend, Friday, 28 November 2014 10:53 (ten years ago)
do music journalists even write about the importance of PR machines these days? not just offhand comments but actual detail about which artists get PRed to which journalists and in what terms. i'm pretty bad at predicting crossover artists based on music, but it's much easier if you base it on press releases
what are some recent low-key records that weren't heavily PRed/didn't get much attention on release that have crossed over?
― lex pretend, Friday, 28 November 2014 10:56 (ten years ago)
I do like it but that's really in spite of the vocals - I really wish he'd work with more external vocalists because there's a chord change in that particular song that really does slay me.
― Matt DC, Friday, 28 November 2014 10:57 (ten years ago)
People are less likely to tolerate a drop off in quality when the music is really brightly coloured and in your face and hyper. An average mopey album can usually get a free pass on atmosphere alone but having megacompressed sugary Nintendo synths flying at you is just going to be annoying if you don't have the tunes to back them up.
― Matt DC, Friday, 28 November 2014 11:01 (ten years ago)
as much as i loved glass swords, it's a pretty exhausting listen and not really something i either need or want another helping of. possibly the same applies to tune-yards?
ha xp!
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Friday, 28 November 2014 11:03 (ten years ago)
I mean in contrast to someone like Burial who people will probably end up dutifully voting for every single time he releases a record.
― Matt DC, Friday, 28 November 2014 11:05 (ten years ago)
The Guardian so far...
http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicb ... ms-of-2014
30. East India Youth - Total Strife Forever29. Ariel Pink - Pom Pom28. Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots27. Kindness - Otherness26. Tinashe - Aquarius25. Actress - Ghettoville24. Banks - Goddess23. Hurray for the Riff Raff - Small Town Heroes22. Merchandise - After the End21. Ratking - So It Goes
20. Owen Pallett - In Conflict19. Jhene Aiko - Souled Out18. Jenny Lewis - The Voyager17. Young Fathers - Dead16. Wild Beasts - Present Tense15. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness14. Future Islands - Singles13. Kate Tempest - Everybody Down12. Taylor Swift - 198911. Mac DeMarco - Salad Days
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Friday, 28 November 2014 11:18 (ten years ago)
oops: http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/nov/26/-sp-the-best-albums-of-2014
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Friday, 28 November 2014 11:19 (ten years ago)
really happy to see Angel Olsen doing well in lots of these
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Friday, 28 November 2014 11:20 (ten years ago)
about time In Conflict showed up
― Cosmic Slop, Friday, 28 November 2014 11:27 (ten years ago)
lookin good that listi did enjoy the jhene aiko record
― nxd, Friday, 28 November 2014 11:37 (ten years ago)
Surprised Taylor didn't make the Guardian Top 10. Must be St Vincent, FKA twigs, Caribou, Aphex, Lana Del Rey and War on Drugs but I can never predict the whole thing.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Friday, 28 November 2014 11:47 (ten years ago)
did aphex fans like the aphex album? (i've never heard an aphex track and saw little reason to change that)
― lex pretend, Friday, 28 November 2014 11:59 (ten years ago)
Run The Jewels surely, which will mean there's a lot more hip hop than most of the mainstream lists so far. xp
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Friday, 28 November 2014 11:59 (ten years ago)
Lex I think there's actually quite a lot of Aphex stuff that you would really like (and a proportion you would hate) - a lot of the artists you've repped for in the last few years sound like one or another aspect of his sound.
Most Aphex fans were behind the album although there was also a proportion of people who were hoping he'd drop something totally out-of-the-blue like his best 90s albums. It's him doing what he does really well (ie 'ticks every box except make a completely new box').
― Matt DC, Friday, 28 November 2014 12:20 (ten years ago)
did aphex fans like the aphex album? (i've never heard an aphex track and saw little reason to change that)― lex pretend, Friday, November 28, 2014 11:59 AM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― lex pretend, Friday, November 28, 2014 11:59 AM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Big fan here, but after about a week of hoping Syro would somehow reveal itself beyond my first listen I found it didn't do much else to win me over; excellent sound design notwithstanding. I know a lot of people appreciated it as a no-nonsense Aphex album, but I happen to be quite a big fan of nonsense and this crystallisation of his sound just felt a bit tired-out to me. There are a couple of tracks that stand out but on the whole I couldn't really discern much between the individual tunes and the whole thing goes by in one superficially impressive blur. YMMV of course - if you've never heard Aphex at all and champion consistency over eclecticism, I'd say it was the one to check out simply because the production sounds more up to date than the older stuff. But it's not my favourite, no.
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Friday, 28 November 2014 12:34 (ten years ago)
Havent heard the Aphex Twin record, like plenty artists he has some good records and some poor ones
Problem with people like him is preconception, people hear it differently because of the name on the sleeve so the music is judged differently. Of course this happens to most artists with any longevity, but more so those with a gap (real or imagined) - probably happens less with singles than albums though
― saer, Friday, 28 November 2014 13:04 (ten years ago)
Clever of him to make such a pleasurable, accessible album that, I reckon, will charm new listeners more than it impresses old ones.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Friday, 28 November 2014 13:31 (ten years ago)
No Neneh Cherry in the Guardian list, unless she's made the top ten which is far from impossible given some of the other albums in there.
― Matt DC, Friday, 28 November 2014 13:59 (ten years ago)
I'm surprised Everyday Robots is sowing up in so many lists. I haven't bothered to listen yet. Is the rest much better than the horrid "Mr. Tembo"?
― afriendlypioneer, Friday, 28 November 2014 14:22 (ten years ago)
haven't heard it either but i'm willing to bet it's little better than utter guff.
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Friday, 28 November 2014 14:25 (ten years ago)
Yes. The rest is soft, pretty and a bit dull rather than jaunty and unbearable.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Friday, 28 November 2014 14:25 (ten years ago)
I'm wondering which list will be a more facile explosion of sop-to-the-boomer-readership rockist bullshit - the NME list or rolling stone
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Friday, 28 November 2014 14:55 (ten years ago)
you misspelled "uncut"
― don't ask me why i posted this (electricsound), Friday, 28 November 2014 14:58 (ten years ago)
lol either or the shot still basically works
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Friday, 28 November 2014 14:59 (ten years ago)
NME for sure. Rolling Stone has been doing a particularly desperate version of the "we like what the kids like!" dance recently.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 28 November 2014 14:59 (ten years ago)
glad to see tinashe made the guardian list
rly bummed that YG hasn't shown up on any lists as yet. also, as expected, literally everyone forgot about oxymoron
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Friday, 28 November 2014 15:02 (ten years ago)
have they? RS, I mean. I seem to remember them squeezing a complete horseshit paul mccartney solo record in the top 5 last year, and their perennial 5 star reviews of U2 albums (ty david fricke :/) are just.....wut? to me.
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Friday, 28 November 2014 15:05 (ten years ago)
― MaudAddam (cryptosicko),
I love the album, looked like a surefire top ten in May, but this is a year that I love a lot of albums and this last quarter's been terrific.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 28 November 2014 15:07 (ten years ago)
well someone liked the albarn album...
Gaffa Magasin (Denmark) - Årets album 2014
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Friday, 28 November 2014 15:10 (ten years ago)
rolling stone is an unapologetically boomer magazine.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Friday, 28 November 2014 15:11 (ten years ago)
I find tuneyards to be more or less unlistenable critic-bait snake oil...but I admit water fountain is catchy as fuck (altho I know this mostly bc it showed up in a bunch of commercials & trailers recently)
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Friday, 28 November 2014 15:11 (ten years ago)
Fricke looks like a really nice guy but someone should do something about those five star reviews.
I seem to remember they used to be somewhat more cautious about giving five stars. Like, 15 years ago, it was hard to see that kind of review outside of the reissues section. The first 5 star review I remember seeing and thinking "man, these guys are high as a kite" was what Jann Wenner perpetrated for Mick Jagger's Goddess in the Doorway.
― cpl593H, Friday, 28 November 2014 15:15 (ten years ago)
I mean they still are somewhat liberal in their use of them unless it's a boomer rock record - like I can't recall anything that earned 5 stars in the past 10 yrs and didn't meet that criteria apart from two kanye albums (late registration and twisted fantasy) but correct me if I'm wrong.
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Friday, 28 November 2014 15:28 (ten years ago)
I'm wondering which list will be a more facile explosion of sop-to-the-boomer-readership rockist bullshit
Making an educated guess that the boomer readership of the NME is basically zero.
― Matt DC, Friday, 28 November 2014 15:49 (ten years ago)
I suppose a better NME stereotype would be a certain crusty segment of gen xers - the attitudes toward music in both are more or less similar tho I would think even if the bands are different
but what do I know I'm a yung millennial ijit
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Friday, 28 November 2014 16:12 (ten years ago)
who does read the NME these days exactly?
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Friday, 28 November 2014 16:20 (ten years ago)
It's almost entirely under 25s plus a residue of Paleolithic Oasis/Roses fans is my guess.
― Matt DC, Friday, 28 November 2014 16:27 (ten years ago)
i honestly can't bring myself to imagine someone currently under 25 purchasing, without irony, a copy of a weekly music paper in 2014.
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Friday, 28 November 2014 16:32 (ten years ago)
I cant imagine anyone over 25 buying NME
― Cosmic Slop, Friday, 28 November 2014 16:33 (ten years ago)
yeah but they never did.
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Friday, 28 November 2014 16:40 (ten years ago)
not true
― Cosmic Slop, Friday, 28 November 2014 16:41 (ten years ago)
up until conor mcnicholas' reign of landfill terror plenty did then they branded the mag for teenagers
― Cosmic Slop, Friday, 28 November 2014 16:43 (ten years ago)
that guy.
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Friday, 28 November 2014 16:49 (ten years ago)
i wonder if there's a way of quantifying exactly how much he was responsible for messing up the UK music landscape? I can imagine it's considerable.
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Friday, 28 November 2014 16:50 (ten years ago)
― Matt DC, Friday, November 28, 2014 4:40 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Caribou isn't really a dance/electronic act anyway, audience is mostly indie even if new stuff is more dance , he's on Merge ferchrissakes
― i did it all for the 'nuki (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 28 November 2014 16:59 (ten years ago)
xp now that IS overstating the inportance of critics
― why do I hate that thing (excluding imago, marcos) (wins), Friday, 28 November 2014 17:01 (ten years ago)
Surprised by the lack of Spoon on these particular lists.
― Darvin H.A.M. (AlexPh), Friday, 28 November 2014 17:47 (ten years ago)
Spoon have never done well on the UK lists. Think Stylus was the place I remember seeing them do well. Have no idea why the NME in particular never got behind them.
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 28 November 2014 17:50 (ten years ago)
I'll try predicting the Guardian Top 10: St Vincent, The War on Drugs, FKA twigs, Aphex Twin, Sun Kil Moon, Caribou, Beck, Run the Jewels, Lana Del Rey, Sleaford Mods/YG (depending on strength of respective constituencies).
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Friday, 28 November 2014 18:50 (ten years ago)
I just tried listening to sleaford mods and I'm sorry but what the stir fried fuck even is this
like did y'all in the UK really miss the streets that much that this is catching on??
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Friday, 28 November 2014 19:05 (ten years ago)
Young Gods have already featured, Dorian, so they won't be in the top 10.
― Unsettled defender (ithappens), Friday, 28 November 2014 19:25 (ten years ago)
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Friday, 28 November 2014 12:34 (6 hours ago) Permalink
the album was a big treat for those anticipating a studio release of several tracks that have appeared in his live sets from the last seven years. one of the album's best attributes is its inconsistency.. it's like a hodgepodge/grab bag of styles, well-realized tracks, a couple sort of leftover-sounding (180 dB, aisatsana) tracks, and a few dense workouts with good twists and turns. there's no definite aesthetic or obvious coherence, and it takes a little time to unpack. pretty well-satisfying, imo
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Friday, 28 November 2014 19:25 (ten years ago)
xxpost
It's mostly people from the middle class that think of Midlanders as some kind of strange exotic species that are singing sleaford mods' praises, I've gathered. If I want that kind of 'wit' I just listen into some drunk old fart's conversation down the pub. The backing tracks are nothing to be fussed about either.
idgi and I'm probably in their target audience or something
― ultros ultros-ghali, Friday, 28 November 2014 19:27 (ten years ago)
xpost The NME circulation is so low nowadays that I would bet an enormous tranche of its readership is industry and other media. I bet the major labels alone account for a big chunk of what remains. As to the rest, I'd be surprised if under 25s comprised a majority if those readers. I would have thought old readers who've never really considered giving it up, regardless of what's in it, still turn out for it.
― Unsettled defender (ithappens), Friday, 28 November 2014 19:28 (ten years ago)
SOrry Dorian, what am I thinking about? I was reading about Young Gods earlier and got them and Young Fathers mixed up in my mind. Of course the Young Gods haven't featured and won't feature in the Guardian list.
xpost Some projection there in why Sleaford Mods are getting praised, perhaps? You know there are middle class people in the East Midlands, don't you? And you know that there are working class people in the south?
― Unsettled defender (ithappens), Friday, 28 November 2014 19:31 (ten years ago)
r|t|c wrote this on thread Sleaford Mods on board I Love Music on 07-Mar-2014clean bandit for ponces
― r|t|c, Friday, 28 November 2014 19:33 (ten years ago)
very much so
from that guardian article they themselves seem to be ex office worker petit bourgeoisie types trading as minatory lumpens
― نكبة (nakhchivan), Friday, 28 November 2014 19:40 (ten years ago)
realness mary queen of scots
― نكبة (nakhchivan), Friday, 28 November 2014 19:41 (ten years ago)
I mean I don't buy their schtick either
― ultros ultros-ghali, Friday, 28 November 2014 19:45 (ten years ago)
encouraged by the high placing of Wild Beasts on the Guardian list, great album that I was worried would be overlooked
― quan voice (voodoo chili), Friday, 28 November 2014 19:46 (ten years ago)
I'd buy the guardian if they started covering the young gods
― Cosmic Slop, Friday, 28 November 2014 20:03 (ten years ago)
Before ILX can confirm that they are for real Sleaford Mods must release all information about their educational background, jobs to date, parents' earnings, size of childhood homes, etc. Likewise their fans.
Their Twitter feed suggests they're pretty big with geezers btw.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Friday, 28 November 2014 20:07 (ten years ago)
It looks to me like NME have consciously re-aligned themselves towards older readers this year; their strapline is now "the past, the present and the future of music".
― mike t-diva, Friday, 28 November 2014 20:09 (ten years ago)
aka Damon Albarn
― Number None, Friday, 28 November 2014 20:24 (ten years ago)
YG album should get more love
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 28 November 2014 20:37 (ten years ago)
I love Sleaford Mods & fwiw I have know idea what you guys are taking about
― i did it all for the 'nuki (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 28 November 2014 20:40 (ten years ago)
I swear half of uk ppl talking about music is just throwing around regional/class insults
"God I'm sure this is great if you're stuck in a student disco in East Broughtingham wearing five year old Adidas trainers and the DJ is an accounting student from Yorkditch who drives a Volvo van and eats 4 packets of crisps a night while imagining he was Mark Ronson"
― i did it all for the 'nuki (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 28 November 2014 20:46 (ten years ago)
pip pip
― Face facts poptimism hacks, your a scam. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 28 November 2014 20:51 (ten years ago)
reminds me of someone
― Cosmic Slop, Friday, 28 November 2014 21:01 (ten years ago)
You Americans have always loved turgid UK OI! type music, now the British are falling for this pub-rock crap as well. "wowsers he just fucking said jobseekers allowance! over a rumbling bassline, edgy!"
― xelab, Friday, 28 November 2014 21:06 (ten years ago)
I forgot to submit a ballot for The Wire's poll this year, so it will probably have fewer metal albums buried in its lower reaches than usual.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 28 November 2014 21:06 (ten years ago)
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Friday, November 28, 2014 12:37 PM
― alpine static, Friday, 28 November 2014 21:22 (ten years ago)
You Americans have always loved turgid UK OI! type music
Yeah true it does rule
― i did it all for the 'nuki (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 28 November 2014 21:23 (ten years ago)
I can recall being in thrall to 70's US gutterpunk bands like The Electric Eels, Crime and DMZ in my youth that are so much better.
― xelab, Friday, 28 November 2014 21:49 (ten years ago)
cntl+f Tinashe uhhh wtf
― mango unchained (fgti), Friday, 28 November 2014 21:58 (ten years ago)
i will ride for 'bet on it' as a legit singles contender.
― Face facts poptimism hacks, your a scam. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 28 November 2014 22:06 (ten years ago)
For serious tho lex you would totally love 'Selected Ambient Works 85-92'.
― Tim F, Friday, 28 November 2014 22:47 (ten years ago)
Please can someone link me to a thread which is just Americans doing outlandish impressions of British people?
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Friday, 28 November 2014 23:59 (ten years ago)
keep the meme alive: Pippa's Arse
― ✓ out this insane nakh yall (gr8080), Saturday, 29 November 2014 01:26 (ten years ago)
That's just British people arguing about Americans doing impressions of British people though
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Saturday, 29 November 2014 09:01 (ten years ago)
does like an oasis or stone roses fan forum count as americans doing bad impressions of brits? I mean I know that's a different #level but still
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Saturday, 29 November 2014 13:05 (ten years ago)
Offering a new target for your derision:
Telegraph: Best 50 albums of 2014
50 One Direction - Four49 Bombay Bicyle Club - So Long, See You Tomorrow48 George Ezra - Wanted On Voyage47 Lily Allen - Sheezus46 Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness45 Tom Hickox - War, Peace & Diplomacy44 Sia - 1000 Forms of Fear43 First Aid Kit - Stay Gold42 Pharrell - Williams Girl41 Coldplay - Ghost Stories40 Simone Felice - Strangers39 Thom Yorke - Tomorrow's Modern Boxes38 Manic Street Preachers - Futurology37 Rumer - Into Colour36 Alt-J - This Is All Yours35 Neneh Cherry - Blank Project34 King Creosote - From Scotland With Love33 Sam Smith - In the Lonely Hour32 Teleman- Breakfast31 Jessie Ware - Tough Love30 Bryan Ferry - Avonmore29 Jenny Lewis - Voyager28 ?27 Caribou - Our Love26 Mary J Blige - The London Sessions25 Kate Tempest - Everybody Down24 Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots23 La Roux - Trouble in Paradise22 Robert Plant - Lullaby and... The Ceaseless Roar21 Lia Ices - Ices20 Paolo Nutini - Caustic Love19 Lucinda Williams- Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone18 Prince Art - Official Age17 FKA Twigs - LP116 St Vincent - St Vincent15 Royal Blood - Royal Blood14 U2 - Songs of Innocence13 Hozier - Hozier12 Beck - Morning Phase11 The Black Keys - Turn Blue10 Future Islands - Singles09 The War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream08 Elbow - The Take Off and Landing of Everything07 Damien Rice - My Favourite Faded Fantasy06 Jamie T - Carry the Grudge05 Taylor Swift - 198904 Jack White - Lazaretto03 Prince and 3rdeyegirl - Plectrumelectrum02 Leonard Cohen - Popular Problems01 Ed Sheeran - X
― TTAGGGTTAGGG (Sanpaku), Saturday, 29 November 2014 17:27 (ten years ago)
Lots not great about that but you can't hate a list that has WoD at 9 and Prince at 3
― FB needs sb (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 29 November 2014 17:41 (ten years ago)
they couldn't award just any album position no. 28
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Saturday, 29 November 2014 17:41 (ten years ago)
that 3rdeyegirl record is garbage so yeah i can
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Saturday, 29 November 2014 17:42 (ten years ago)
Prince Art at number 18 is a bold choice for a debut
― Face facts poptimism hacks, your a scam. (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 29 November 2014 17:44 (ten years ago)
lol uhhh is the ed sheeran album decent?
― dyl, Saturday, 29 November 2014 17:44 (ten years ago)
it has its supporters here, i found it very uneven if tolerable
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Saturday, 29 November 2014 17:45 (ten years ago)
is it just me or are the early return indie/pop mags disregarding hip hop even more than usual this year?
― Face facts poptimism hacks, your a scam. (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 29 November 2014 17:45 (ten years ago)
Prince! Lol Pharrell's Girl. Well, it is a fairly accurate picture of what's regarded in the mainstream pop world, with exceptions like Leonard Cohen. I'm can't get into Cohen's recent albums, but I did go see him with a friend a couple years ago, and he was pretty magnificent. He was a singin, dancin' machine for nearly four (4) hours, with only like a 10 minute break! We can only dream of having that kind of energy in our 70s.
― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, 29 November 2014 17:47 (ten years ago)
xpost: yes
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Saturday, 29 November 2014 18:01 (ten years ago)
Sorry about a couple of misplaced hyphens in that Telegraph list. Shouldn't try to parse lists before caffeine kicks in.
― TTAGGGTTAGGG (Sanpaku), Saturday, 29 November 2014 18:10 (ten years ago)
oh don't mind me.
― Face facts poptimism hacks, your a scam. (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 29 November 2014 18:21 (ten years ago)
^^^^i was agreeing with you my bad if it seemed unclear
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Saturday, 29 November 2014 18:24 (ten years ago)
no, sorry - I meant don't mind my - pedantic hyphen call out
but yeah, not much hip hop anywhere to be seen here.
― Face facts poptimism hacks, your a scam. (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 29 November 2014 18:38 (ten years ago)
These lists are giving my dysentery
― kornrulez6969, Saturday, 29 November 2014 19:11 (ten years ago)
Not much hip-hop anywhere, but at the same time everyone seems to agree it was a lousy year for hip-hop albums, right? I'd rather them make the lists they believe to be correct than elevate a rap album for looks. (Not saying they shouldn't / couldn't have dug deeper into hip-hop.)
― alpine static, Saturday, 29 November 2014 20:12 (ten years ago)
yeah, i don't agree with "it was a lousy year for hip hop"
― Face facts poptimism hacks, your a scam. (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 29 November 2014 20:14 (ten years ago)
i have several hip-hop albums i like, but everywhere I look ppl are saying it was a good year for songs, terrible for albums.
― alpine static, Saturday, 29 November 2014 20:20 (ten years ago)
i dunno maybe i'm looking in the wrong places - and again, i don't necessarily agree - but i think i saw that discussion happening on ilm
― alpine static, Saturday, 29 November 2014 20:21 (ten years ago)
also, you left off the word "albums"!
― alpine static, Saturday, 29 November 2014 20:26 (ten years ago)
I'm a believer that unless you're a specialist in a musicological field (and likely not even then!), you're not in a good position to levy blanket judgment across an entire field of achievement. It's just too subjective unless you chop it up regionally (was it a bad year for New York-based hip hop artists?), stylistically (was it a good year for technical rap?) or financially (how were sales in Q4?).A quick flip thru my best of for the year folder suggests at least twenty to thirty albums and at least a hundred singles that I consider hip hop and that I really enjoyed. Is that a bad year? It's not a bad year for me.
― Face facts poptimism hacks, your a scam. (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 29 November 2014 20:39 (ten years ago)
I'm gonna gank Spottie's hip hop playlists on Spotify (one for quality and for quantity) and post them here... I could easily take all of 2015 exploring this stuff alone!http://open.spotify.com/user/theshipment/playlist/3vHZAnvl134kijHL5Z0roNhttp://open.spotify.com/user/theshipment/playlist/2Hkan09bsPFtNN39CsAyki
― Face facts poptimism hacks, your a scam. (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 29 November 2014 20:41 (ten years ago)
xpost nope, not a bad year. just saying, maybe the lack of hip-hop on these indie/pop mag lists reflects the general consensus, that's all. i generalized too much in my initial post.
― alpine static, Saturday, 29 November 2014 20:47 (ten years ago)
i get where you're coming from. I guess if there's less hip hop in the indie/pop world's end tally i might suggest that 2014 was a year where those worlds started to diverge more radically than in the past.
― Face facts poptimism hacks, your a scam. (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 29 November 2014 20:56 (ten years ago)
like pitbull, pharrell, iggy, juicy j and em were all absolutely at peak popularity and represented half of the year's #1 pop singles but, with the arguable exception of iggy, none of them really represent contemporary hip hop
― Face facts poptimism hacks, your a scam. (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 29 November 2014 21:00 (ten years ago)
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib, Shabazz Palaces, Ratking and Young Fathers all in the Guardian top 40 so far with surely Run The Jewels to come, so that's not too bad for a newspaper list (whether you think those are the right records or not).
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Saturday, 29 November 2014 21:03 (ten years ago)
if you went by lists then it might suggest that its a weak year for lots of genres whether it be indie centric lists or the guardian or ilx eoy polls. They have never covered everything. You cant base the state of any music on these lists. They are snapshots of a small amount of voters.
― Cosmic Slop, Saturday, 29 November 2014 21:03 (ten years ago)
the current top 25 R&B/hip hop list features a plethora of young breakthrough artists that i think a casual listener of rap (which i'm gonna strawman the average indie/pop type being) just won't be familiar with: bobby shmurda, i love makonnen, rae sremmurd, young thug, rich homie quan, dej loaf
― Face facts poptimism hacks, your a scam. (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 29 November 2014 21:06 (ten years ago)
i dunno, i think if the average indie/pop type being is on the internet, shmurda, thugger and rhq are pretty inescapable
i was gonna ask what "credible" rap album the big big outlets were gonna put in their top 10s this year, a la Kanye whenever he releases something or Kendrick in 2012 because I just don't see it being YG or Gibbs (or this particular Shabazz album, tbh) and then I remembered Run the Jewels. that solves everything.
― alpine static, Saturday, 29 November 2014 21:15 (ten years ago)
I feel like one or both of the vince staples releases could make some lists (coldchain 2 and hell can wait)
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Sunday, 30 November 2014 01:15 (ten years ago)
In my top 30 there's maybe 3-5 rap albums that were solid or close to it, but none of them are consensus picks, and that MIGHT be the issue in 2014 - few consensus picks, even though critics have their favorites.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 30 November 2014 03:00 (ten years ago)
I'm thinking Kanye will either drop on Dec 25 or wait until next year. Nicki may wait too.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 30 November 2014 03:01 (ten years ago)
I think I wi spontaneously explode if ye drops on xmas day
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Sunday, 30 November 2014 04:09 (ten years ago)
*will
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Sunday, 30 November 2014 04:56 (ten years ago)
For real though anyone voting for that not-bad-not-great Jack White album isn't going to great lengths to disguise their fundamental disconnection from current music.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 30 November 2014 10:46 (ten years ago)
most popular rap sucks, most crit rap isnt that popular
― deej loaf (D-40), Sunday, 30 November 2014 12:03 (ten years ago)
Feel like Run The Jewels is a decent chance for a top 10 placing on the more indie oriented sites lists. If not top 5.
― TheMenzies, Sunday, 30 November 2014 14:10 (ten years ago)
Just like most genres then. They all seem to thrive without crossover success too
― Cosmic Slop, Sunday, 30 November 2014 14:14 (ten years ago)
I do think this is kind of an interesting exercise. If you look back at, say, Xgau's top 10 in, say, 1982 - or top 20, even - you can quibble at the rankings, but I don't think any of the records are bad, per se, and a couple of them have long been justifiably branded for the ages masterpieces. Then again, we've had several decades to get used to them or canonize them. I do wonder what, from this year, say, that future music nerds will deem worth digging up in several years. Will kids in 2034 be writing essays about U2's overlooked distributed for free masterpiece that no one ranked at the end of the year? Will they talk about Taylor Swift's "1989" the same way we talk about "Tusk?" Remind me to set my alarm for 20 years so that I don't sleep through the poll roll-outs.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 30 November 2014 14:23 (ten years ago)
they will almost certainly be talking about Taylor, idk if they'll be comparing 1989 to tusk or any other fleetwood album tho. I highly doubt of all the U2 albums that could last 20 or even 30+ more years, songs of innocence is gonna be the one
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Sunday, 30 November 2014 14:29 (ten years ago)
Those were just random examples. U2 will be talked about, at least in passing. Taylor, dunno. But again, just random examples.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 30 November 2014 14:48 (ten years ago)
Recently there was a discussion of SPIN's 1991 poll. They may have posted it on their site. There was a conspicuous absence of Slint - Spiderland, MBV - Loveless and Talk Talk - Laughing Stalk. The stature of the first two have grown for sure, with Slint having a couple of successful sold out reunion tours and box set reissue, and My Bloody Valentine can be considered a classic, but not necessarily in the mainstream. 23 years later I still have no idea if more people know about late period Talk Talk, probably more in the UK. Genre classics like The Obsessed - Lunar Womb (Trouble's Manic Frustration still seems ignored), Melvins - Bullhead, The Jesus Lizard - Goat (not so much Halo of Flies), Monster Magnet - Spine of God and Coroner - Mental Vortex are well regarded within those circles, but I don't know that you could say that "people are talking about them." So it doesn't really matter to me whether anyone will be talking about Taylor Swift or not.
― Fastnbulbous, Sunday, 30 November 2014 16:33 (ten years ago)
nor should it, necessarily. I remain continuously flummoxed, mostly in a good way, by what has stood the test of time and what hasn't.
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Sunday, 30 November 2014 16:57 (ten years ago)
Heed the words of Sammy Hagar: time will tell whether we pass the test of time.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 30 November 2014 18:05 (ten years ago)
― Matt DC, Sunday, November 30, 2014 5:46 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
23 years later I still have no idea if more people know about late period Talk Talk, probably more in the UK.
― Fastnbulbous, Sunday, November 30, 2014 11:33 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
"probably"
― benbbag, Sunday, 30 November 2014 18:42 (ten years ago)
Well, history is written by the winners, right? One of the better points made in Amanda Ps excellent book (if you haven't read it) Do Not Sell at any Price is that the only reason Robert Johnson became the template for so much British blues-rock is because his stuff was the best reissued and circulated. But Johnson was by no means the most popular or originally best distributed blues act.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 30 November 2014 18:53 (ten years ago)
From the metal poll thread though its not really a question about metal per se, just one of the examples along with hip hop. I'm sure there's other genres that it applies to.
I'm somewhat surprised the Mastodon album hasn't featured in non-metal EOY lists like the last one. It's good enough and got good reviews inmost places.Maybe metal isn't as in fashion as it was the past 5 years? Noticed a lack of metal and hip-hop this year in lists.Has critical coverage started getting narrower?― Cosmic Slop,mastodon's two late-aughts albums both ended up on multiple general albums lists with high rankings in several instances. skye was #3 in bloody time magazine!! and those are definitely full-stop metal albums.flash forward to 2012 - the latest converge album was #1 on most metal/hard rock only lists and got me, before that point not a huge metal/hardcore guy aside from occasional mastodon dalliances - deep in love with that band and exploring a lot of really hard shit I wouldn't have previously explored. but it got little to no love from many general albums lists. and then the next year deafheaven is adored by tons of people who aren't traditionally into metal. it's impossible to predict― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes),
Has critical coverage started getting narrower?
― Cosmic Slop,
mastodon's two late-aughts albums both ended up on multiple general albums lists with high rankings in several instances. skye was #3 in bloody time magazine!! and those are definitely full-stop metal albums.
flash forward to 2012 - the latest converge album was #1 on most metal/hard rock only lists and got me, before that point not a huge metal/hardcore guy aside from occasional mastodon dalliances - deep in love with that band and exploring a lot of really hard shit I wouldn't have previously explored. but it got little to no love from many general albums lists. and then the next year deafheaven is adored by tons of people who aren't traditionally into metal. it's impossible to predict
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes),
so has critical coverage started getting narrower?
― Cosmic Slop, Sunday, 30 November 2014 19:41 (ten years ago)
XFM: http://www.xfm.co.uk/new-music/best-2014/50-best-albums-2014
^ a tedious click-fest filled with dull albums and dismal blurb
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Monday, 1 December 2014 00:04 (ten years ago)
Jimi Goodwin - OdludekThe Doves man goes solo with an appealing set of gentle songs.
The Doves man goes solo with an appealing set of gentle songs.
thanks guys, sounds awesome
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Monday, 1 December 2014 00:05 (ten years ago)
Lonely The Brave - The Day's WarProof - if needed - that rock isn't dead.
Proof - if needed - that rock isn't dead.
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Monday, 1 December 2014 00:10 (ten years ago)
that list is like 80% 'I didn't realise they were still going'
― soref, Monday, 1 December 2014 10:01 (ten years ago)
The Quietus Albums Of The Year 2014
ONE: Gazelle Twin - UNFLESH (Anti Ghost Moon Ray)TWO: Scott Walker & Sunn O))) - Soused (4AD)THREE: Swans - To Be Kind (Mute)FOUR: East India Youth - TOTAL STRIFE FOREVER (Stolen)FIVE: The Bug - Angels & Devils (Big Dada)SIX: Grumbling Fur - Preternaturals (TQPC)SEVEN: Katie Gately - Pipes (Blue Tapes)EIGHT: Manic Street Preachers - Futurology (Sony)NINE: Perc - The Power And The Glory (Perc Trax)TEN: Jenny Hval & Susanna - Meshes Of Voice (SusannaSonata)ELEVEN: FKA twigs - LP1 (Young Turks)TWELVE: Zamilska - Untune (self-released)THIRTEEN: Inner City Ensemble - Black/White (Instant Classic)FOURTEEN: Cooly G - Wait ‘Til Night (Hyperdub)FIFTEEN: Blacknecks - 006 (self-released) SIXTEEN: English Heretic - The Underworld Service (self-released)SEVENTEEN: Freddie Gibbs and Madlib - Piñata (Madlib Invasion)EIGHTEEN: OAKE - Auferstehung (Downwards)NINETEEN: Grouper - Ruins (Kranky) TWENTY: Kemper Norton - Loor (Front And Follow)TWENTY ONE: Maurice Louca - Benhayyi Al-Baghbaghan (Nawa)TWENTY TWO: Andy Stott - Faith In Strangers (Modern Love)TWENTY THREE: EEK ft. Islam Chipsy - Live At The Cairo High Cinema Institute (Nashazphone)TWENTY FOUR: Jane Weaver - Silver Globe (Bird)TWENTY FIVE: Daniel Patrick Quinn - Acting The Rubber Pig (self-released)TWENTY SIX: The Body - I Shall Die Here (RVNG Intl.)TWENTY SEVEN: Chrononautz - Public Domain Fuckover Series #1-6 (self-released)TWENTY EIGHT: Pharmakon - Bestial Burden (Sacred Bones)TWENTY NINE: Tweedy - Sukierae (dBpm Records)THIRTY: Objekt - Flatland (PAN)THIRTY ONE: Jar Moff - Financial Glam (PAN)THIRTY TWO: Willie The Kid & Bronze Nazareth - The Living Daylights (Embassy)THIRTY THREE: Lorenzo Senni - Superimpositions (Boomkat)THIRTY FOUR: Electric Wizard - Time To Die (Spinefarm)THIRTY FIVE: Klara Lewis - ETT (Editions Mego) THIRTY SIX: Kassem Mosse - Workshop 19 (Workshop)THIRTY SEVEN: Extreme Precautions - Precaution One (In Paradisum)THIRTY EIGHT: Kasai Allstars - Beware The Fetish (Crammed Discs)THRITY NINE: Arabrot - I Modi (Fysisk Format)FORTY: Einsturzende Neubauten - Lament (BMG)FORTY ONE: The Inward Circles - Nimrod (self-released)FORTY TWO: Bohren & Der Club Of Gore - Piano Nights (Ipecac)FORTY THREE: Future Islands - Singles (4AD)FORTY FOUR: Consumer Electronics - Estuary English (Dirter)FORTY FIVE: BONG - Stoner Rock (Ritual)FORTY SIX: Nisennenmondai - N (BLAST First (petite))FORTY SEVEN: Wild Beasts - Present Tense (Domino)FORTY EIGHT: Olga Bell - Krai (One Little Indian)FORTY NINE: Cut Hands - Festival Of The Dead (Blackest Ever Black)FIFTY: Xiu Xiu - Angel Guts, Red Classroom (Bella Union)FIFTY ONE: Actress - Ghettoville (Werkdiscs)FIFTY TWO: YOB - Clearing The Path To Ascend (Neurot)FIFTY THREE: Owen Pallett - In Conflict (Domino)FIFTY FOUR: Puce Mary - Persona (Posh Isolation)FIFTY FIVE: DonChristian - Renzo Piano (Camp & Street)FIFTY SIX: Ibibio Sound Machine - Ibibio Sound Machine (Soundway)FIFTY SEVEN: Lee Gamble - KOCH (PAN)FIFTY EIGHT: Leyland Kirby Presents V/Vm - The Death Of Rave (A Partial Flashback) (History Always Favours The Winners)FIFTY NINE: Laibach - Spectre (Mute)SIXTY: Shellac - Dude Incredible (Touch And Go)SIXTY ONE: Heterotic - Weird Drift (Planet Mu)SIXTY TWO: Liars - Mess (Mute)SIXTY THREE: Stein Urheim - Stein Urheim (Hubro)SIXTY FOUR: Ekoplekz - Unfidelity (Planet Mu)SIXTY FIVE: St. Vincent - St. Vincent (Loma Vista)SIXTY SIX: Sunn O))) & Ulver - Terrestrials (Southern Lord)SIXTY SEVEN: Russell Haswell - 37 Minute Workout (DIAGONAL)SIXTY EIGHT: Noura Mint Seymali - Tzenni (Glitterbeat)SIXTY NINE: Stephen O'Malley, Oren Ambarchi & Randall Dunn - Shade Themes From Kairos (Drag City)SEVENTY: Apollo Brown - Blasphemy (Mello Music Group)SEVENTY ONE: The Budos Band - Burnt Offering (Daptone)SEVENTY TWO: Anat Ben David - MeleCh (self-released)SEVENTY THREE: Yvette - Process (Godmode)SEVENTY FOUR: milo - a toothpaste suburb (Hellfyre Club)SEVENTY FIVE: Merkabah - Moloch (Instant Classic)SEVENTY SIX: Wrangler - LA Spark (Memetune)SEVENTY SEVEN: Ronika - Selectadisc (Record Shop)SEVENTY EIGHT: Bing & Ruth - Tomorrow Was The Golden Age (Happy Talk)SEVENTY NINE: Azealia Banks - Broke With Expensive Taste (Prospect)EIGHTY: DJ Q - Ineffable (Local Action)EIGHTY ONE: The Soft Pink Truth - Why Do The Heathen Rage? (Thrill Jockey)EIGHTY TWO: Vince Staples - Hell Can Wait (Def Jam Recordings)EIGHTY THREE: Tinariwen - Emmar (ANTI-)EIGHTY FOUR: The Juan Maclean - In A Dream (DFA)EIGHTY FIVE: Aphex Twin - Syro (WARP)EIGHTY SIX: Toumani & Sidiki Diabate - Toumani & Sidiki Diabate (World Circuit)EIGHTY SEVEN: Selim Lemouchi & His Enemies - Earth Air Spirit Fire Water (Van)EIGHTY EIGHT: Behemoth - The Satanist (Nuclear Blast)EIGHTY NINE: Wrekmeister Harmonies - Then It Came Down (Thrill Jockey)NINETY: Fumaca Preta - Fumaca Preta (Soundway)NINETY ONE: Scott Miller, Lee Camfield & Merzbow - No Closure (Cold Spring)NINETY TWO: Black Rain - Dark Pool (Blackest Ever Black)NINETY THREE: Anthroprophh - Outside The Circle (Rocket)NINETY FOUR: Adult Jazz - Gist Is (Spare Thought)NINETY FIVE: Godflesh - A World Lit Only By Fire (Avalanche)NINETY SIX: Obake - Mutations (Rare Noise)NINETY SEVEN: Clark - Clark (WARP)NINETY EIGHT: Joseph Curwen - Shunned House (City)NINETY NINE: Echoes Of Yul - Tether (Zoharum)ONE HUNDRED: Good Throb - Fuck Off (self-released)
― Doran, Monday, 1 December 2014 10:30 (ten years ago)
Read this as:
EIGHT: Manic Street Preachers - Futurology (Sorry)
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Monday, 1 December 2014 10:36 (ten years ago)
beautiful choice of number one! also love katie gately and jenny hval & susanna in the top 10 (thought the gately was 2013 though?)
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Monday, 1 December 2014 10:40 (ten years ago)
Yeah, Gately was 2013. There was a massive bit of dissonance for us here as we were some of the only people to write about Pipes when it first came out but then didn't include it in the chart probably because it was a tape and only had two tracks.
But it deserves people to hear about it - you have to bear in mind it only sold something like 1-200 copies in 2013 and it has been reissued this year and still remains one of the most unique and praiseworthy pieces of music out there.
Basically I felt guilty for not including it in my ballot the year before!
― Doran, Monday, 1 December 2014 10:54 (ten years ago)
Some really good choices here. Great to see Objekt, Owen P, Katie Gately, Swans and ooh, didn't realise there was an Arabrot release this year? Haven't listened to Unflesh enough to work out if it deserves AOTY but from what I've heard, it's def a good album, like a deconstructed (as in eviscerated) Cocteau Twins or something.
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Monday, 1 December 2014 10:58 (ten years ago)
if anything deserves a bit of rule bending it's definitely pipes. approved! *stamps card*
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Monday, 1 December 2014 11:04 (ten years ago)
Dutch mag Oor (bit like Mojo/Q):
1. The War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream2. Typhoon - Lobi Da Basi3. Spoon - They Want My Soul4. Swans - To Be Kind5. Damien Rice - My Favorite Faded Fantasy6. Temples - Sun Structures7. Moodymann - Moodymann8. Beck - Morning Phase9. Avi Buffalo - At Best Cuckold10. Alt-J - This Is All Yours11. Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots12. Real Estate - Atlas13. Flying Lotus - You're Dead!14. FKA Twigs - LP115. St. Vincent - St. Vincent16. Jack White - Lazaretto17. The Acid - Liminal18. Reigning Sound - Shattered19. Moss – We Both Know The Rest Is Noise20. Sun Kil Moon - Benji21. Perfume Genius - Too Bright22. Future Islands - Singles23. Cloud Nothings - Here And Nowhere Else24. The Black Keys - Turn Blue25. Royal Blood - Royal Blood
― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Monday, 1 December 2014 12:38 (ten years ago)
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, November 30, 2014 12:53 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
hmm i haven't read her book but this is the primary thesis of elijah wald's book 'escaping the delta', which was written before hers: The neo-ethnic movement was nourished by a spate of LP reissues that for the first time made it possible to find hillbilly and country blues recordings in white, middle-class, urban stores. The bible was Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music...Smith was specifically interested in the oldest and most-rural sounding styles, and set a pattern for any future folk-blues reissue projects by intentionally avoiding any artist who seemed consciously modern or commercial...
Far from balancing this taste, the other record collectors tended to be even more conservative. Much as they loved the music, they were driven by the same mania for rarity that drives collectors of old stamps or coins, and many turned up their noses at Jefferson or the Carters, since those records were common. To such men, the perfect blues artist was someone like Son House or Skip James, an unrecognized genius whose 78s had sold so badly that at most one or two copies survived. Since the collectors were the only people with access to the original records or any broad knowledge of the field, they functioned to a great extent as gatekeepers of the past and had a profound influence on what the broader audience heard. By emphasizing obscurity as a virtue unto itself, they essentially turned the hierarchy of blues-stardom upside-down: The more records an artist had sold in 1928, the less he or she was valued in 1958.
― deej loaf (D-40), Monday, 1 December 2014 12:58 (ten years ago)
x-post re Quietus list-
TWENTY THREE: EEK ft. Islam Chipsy - Live At The Cairo High Cinema Institute (Nashazphone)
Not on Spotify or available from Amazon, so where do I find/get it
― curmudgeon, Monday, 1 December 2014 14:08 (ten years ago)
Line Of Best Fit - Albumshttp://www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/articles/top-fifty-albums-2014
Lost in the Dream is without a doubt, one of the most impressive records this decade and we're proud to name it as our album of the year
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Monday, 1 December 2014 14:11 (ten years ago)
http://www.steelforbrains.com/post/103989943657/rb-best-of-2014
― Cosmic Slop, Monday, 1 December 2014 14:18 (ten years ago)
Bleep - Top Albums of 2014 https://bleep.com/end-of-year-roundup-2014
Aphex Twin – SyroCaribou – Our LoveClap! Clap! – Tayi BebbaObjekt – FlatlandLone – Reality TestingSlackk – Palm Tree FireHieroglyphic Being And The Configurative Or Modular Me Trio – The Seer Of Cosmic VisionsDean Blunt – Black MetalFatima Al Qadiri – Asiatisch Arca – Xen
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Monday, 1 December 2014 14:42 (ten years ago)
i assumed that was r&b
― strychnine, Monday, 1 December 2014 14:44 (ten years ago)
Is War on Drugs just a snowball effect at this point? Later lists being influenced by earlier ones?
― jmm, Monday, 1 December 2014 14:45 (ten years ago)
that arca album is weird, like an album of intro tracks or something.
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Monday, 1 December 2014 14:49 (ten years ago)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-best-music-of-2014-young-thug-aphex-twin-charli-xcx-and-more/2014/11/25/521944f6-71d4-11e4-8808-afaa1e3a33ef_story.html
Not strictly albums, plus multiple items for some slots
1. Young Thug-singles and mixtapes2. Sam Hunt-Montevallo3. Just About Everything Produced by DJ Mustard4. Miranda Lambert-Platinum/Eric Church-The Outsiders/Sturgill Simpson-Metamodern Sounds in Country Music5. Aphex Twin-Syro6. Dej Loaf-"Try Me" song7. Popcaan-Where We Come From8. Hiss Golden Messenger-Lateness of Dancers9. Rae Sremmurd, Bobby Shmurda- rap hits10. Math rock-Naomi Punk-Television Man and Horse Lords-Hidden Cities
― curmudgeon, Monday, 1 December 2014 14:50 (ten years ago)
Forgot 11 & 12 of Chris Richards' Washington Post list
11. Lori McKenna-Numbered Doors
12. Charlie XCX- Sucker
― curmudgeon, Monday, 1 December 2014 14:52 (ten years ago)
I made a Spotify playlist with everything available in the US from that Quietus list:
http://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/2pjput49RnkvbaGyBxJA8C
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 1 December 2014 15:04 (ten years ago)
Paste's is up...
http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2014/12/the-50-best-albums-of-2014.html
― GM, Monday, 1 December 2014 15:45 (ten years ago)
Thanks! Quietus usually does a good job being balanced and not TOO pretentious. But Manic Street Preachers? That's a surprise. I had no idea there was a new Einsturzende Neubauten. Apparently a sober meditation on WWI, surprised it wasn't ranked high by more publications. People love that serious shit. Gazelle Twin, hrm. It didn't do much for me last time I listened, am revisiting. I'm trying to imagine Soused on heavy rotation on anyone's playlist and I can't. They chose Electric Wizard and YOB over Pallbearer, and that makes sense with their aesthetic. A few other heavy things, The Body, Arabrot, which I thought was just a minor EP release, will have to check out. A few things I don't recognize, am hoping there's a pleasant surprise in there somewhere.
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 1 December 2014 15:47 (ten years ago)
Rolling Stonehttp://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/50-best-albums-of-2014-20141201
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Monday, 1 December 2014 15:56 (ten years ago)
Awesome #1.
― jmm, Monday, 1 December 2014 15:57 (ten years ago)
:)
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Monday, 1 December 2014 16:00 (ten years ago)
Rolling Stone full albums list:
01 U2 - Songs of Innocence02 Bruce Springsteen - High Hopes03 The Black Keys - Turn Blue04 St. Vincent - St. Vincent05 Miranda Lambert - Platinum06 Charli XCX - Sucker07 Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence08 Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 209 Mac DeMarco - Salad Days10 Taylor Swift - 198911 Flying Lotus - Youre Dead!12 Foo Fighters - Sonic Highways13 Ought - More Than Any Other Day14 Weezer - Everything Will Be Alright in the End15 Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues16 FKA Twigs - LP117 Jenny Lewis - The Voyager18 Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds in Country Music19 Jackson Browne - Standing in the Breach20 Sharon Van Etten - Are We There21 Eric Church - The Outsiders22 Skrillex - Recess23 War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream24 Leonard Cohen - Popular Problems25 YG - My Krazy Life26 Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Hypnotic Eye27 Alt-J - This Is All Yours28 Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animal29 Spoon - They Want My Soul30 Thom Yorke - Tomorrows Modern Boxes31 Young Thug and Bloody Jay - Black Portland32 Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots33 The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger - Midnight Sun34 Prince - Art Official Age35 Lenny Kravitz - Strut36 Alvvays - Alvvays37 Benjamin Booker - Benjamin Booker38 Hurray for the Riff Raff - Small Town Heroes39 Caribou - Our Love40 Jack White - Lazaretto41 Aphex Twin - Syro42 Perfume Genius - Too Bright43 Future - Honest44 Interpol - El Pintor45 EMA - The Futures Void46 Tweedy - Sukierae47 Gary Clark Jr. - Gary Clark Jr. Live48 Coldplay - Ghost Stories49 Tinariwen - Emmaar50 Yob - Clearing the Path to Ascend
lmaooo
― deej loaf (D-40), Monday, 1 December 2014 16:01 (ten years ago)
are they fucking kidding
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Monday, 1 December 2014 16:03 (ten years ago)
i mean, obviously what were we expecting, but i still find myself kiiiind of shocked by that
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Monday, 1 December 2014 16:04 (ten years ago)
If there were such thing as a peer-reviewed license to review music, RS's would be revoked.
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 1 December 2014 16:05 (ten years ago)
i hope u2 and springsteen fans check out that YOB album :)
― Cosmic Slop, Monday, 1 December 2014 16:06 (ten years ago)
i am a huge springsteen fan and i thought high hopes was garbage
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Monday, 1 December 2014 16:09 (ten years ago)
curmudgeon that record appears to be quite rare, unfortunately:
http://www.discogs.com/EEK-Live-At-The-Cairo-High-Cinema-Institute/release/5355219
total collector-scum label (I say that with love):
http://www.discogs.com/label/72950-Nashazphone
― sleeve, Monday, 1 December 2014 16:11 (ten years ago)
I'm still amazed they actually went there.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 1 December 2014 16:32 (ten years ago)
That Rolling Stone list feels kind of random at times, and quite amusing to see War on Drugs a little futrther down than most at 23, behind a Skrillex album.
― MarkoP, Monday, 1 December 2014 16:35 (ten years ago)
"You're not Dire Straits enough for us yet, boys."
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 1 December 2014 16:37 (ten years ago)
Had totally forgotten Fricke had given 4.5 stars to Springsteen's "stay busy" release.
― cpl593H, Monday, 1 December 2014 16:38 (ten years ago)
That's Fricke at his Frickest.
the rolling stone list is no more embarrassing than almost every other one posted itt so far
― lex pretend, Monday, 1 December 2014 16:40 (ten years ago)
* opens window *
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Monday, 1 December 2014 16:40 (ten years ago)
Hahaha with that top three the Quietus are really making no bones about being massive goths are they?
― Matt DC, Monday, 1 December 2014 16:41 (ten years ago)
b-but Run The Jewels at #8! Tokenism!
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 1 December 2014 16:42 (ten years ago)
xpost did they ever?
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Monday, 1 December 2014 16:43 (ten years ago)
I was about to say, there's a reason I'm happily settled in there.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 1 December 2014 16:44 (ten years ago)
I suppose the Popjustice list will somehow manage to find a way to up the ante in this particular category.
― cpl593H, Monday, 1 December 2014 16:45 (ten years ago)
xpost in all seriousness, i quite like the way the quietus have now, quite unabashedly, started to carve out their own particular niche, influencing that musical area as much as they draw from it while still covering stuff from all over the shop.
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Monday, 1 December 2014 16:45 (ten years ago)
i will say one thing for the RS list - it's the first to include YG lol
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Monday, 1 December 2014 16:47 (ten years ago)
49 Tinariwen - Emmaar
^^wish this was getting more love :-\
― ✓ out this insane nakh yall (gr8080), Monday, 1 December 2014 16:48 (ten years ago)
otm, amazing album
― Lorde 2Pac Beck Mashup (crüt), Monday, 1 December 2014 16:51 (ten years ago)
remove the top 3 of the Rolling Stone list and I don't think it's that bad, as good as lot of lists....
― i did it all for the 'nuki (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 1 December 2014 16:54 (ten years ago)
The Tinariwen is great, but I think their consistency works against them. Easy to take for granted, too hard for most to differentiate one from the other, imo.
If you give the new U2 album five stars, it better top your list. That's commitment.
I forgot the Bruce came out this year or even existed, honestly. In fact, I was about to say it was good, since it popped up on shuffle the other day, but as I type this I realize it was actually "Wrecking Ball" that popped up. "Wrecking Ball" is great. "High Hopes" - the non covers titles barely ring a bell. Def. down there with "Working on a Dream" for a why-bother release.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 1 December 2014 16:54 (ten years ago)
49 Tinariwen - Emmaar^^wish this was getting more love :-\― ✓ out this insane nakh yall (gr8080), Monday, December 1, 2014 4:48 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― ✓ out this insane nakh yall (gr8080), Monday, December 1, 2014 4:48 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yes! Saw them live over the summer and it was transcendental.
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Monday, 1 December 2014 16:57 (ten years ago)
Magnet magazineBest Of 2014: Hip Hophttp://www.magnetmagazine.com/category/best-of-2014/
1 Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Piñata (Madlib Invazion)2 Flying Lotus - You’re Dead! (Warp)3 FKA Twigs - LP1 (XL)4 Childish Gambino - STN MTN/Kauai (self-released)5 Staik Selektah - What Goes Around (Duck Down Music)6 Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty (Sub Pop)7 Busdriver - Perfect Hair (Big Dada)8 Militia - Deluxe Cigars (self-released)9 Rapsody - Beauty And The Beast (JAMLA, Empire)10 Vince Staples - Hell Can Wait (Def Jam)
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Monday, 1 December 2014 17:01 (ten years ago)
That Magnet top four is quite something.
― Matt DC, Monday, 1 December 2014 17:02 (ten years ago)
ONE OF THOSE (FOUR) THINGS IS NOT LIKE THE OTHERSSSSSSSSSSS
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Monday, 1 December 2014 17:04 (ten years ago)
"High Hopes" is OK for an odds and ends album but not more than that, really.
― cpl593H, Monday, 1 December 2014 17:04 (ten years ago)
Oh, RollingStones paws
When I see that U2 album at the top of the page I don't even wanna look at the rest
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 1 December 2014 17:14 (ten years ago)
Popmatters Top 75 Songs:http://www.popmatters.com/feature/188623-the-75-best-songs-of-2014/
― MarkoP, Monday, 1 December 2014 17:25 (ten years ago)
Yup, Tassili was the first Tinariwen album I heard, and I was like, "Wow, where has this been all my life?" Emmaar is definitely good, but there's nothing surprising about it.
― jaymc, Monday, 1 December 2014 17:27 (ten years ago)
it's still better than most music released this year, being "surprising" is irrelevant
― Lorde 2Pac Beck Mashup (crüt), Monday, 1 December 2014 17:41 (ten years ago)
#2 placing is hilarious but I really like half of High Hopes: Down in the Hole, The Wall, Dream Baby Dream, Hunter of Invisible Game and the new versions of American Skin and Tom Joad. I like eerie Springsteen.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Monday, 1 December 2014 17:42 (ten years ago)
i'm absolutely not on board with everything on the list but the popmatters singles seems closest to my sensibilities thus far
― Face facts poptimism hacks, your a scam. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 1 December 2014 17:42 (ten years ago)
its good some good picks thus far (on like page 3) and i will try not to consider it blasphemous that "move that dope" is only #75
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Monday, 1 December 2014 17:48 (ten years ago)
*got some
For whatever reason I decided to read the blurb for "Water Fountain" and this:
Merrill Garbus’ opening hook sets the tone for the playful jungle bass
um
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Monday, 1 December 2014 18:01 (ten years ago)
Also the fact that the writer thinks w h o k i l l was her debut record. Where's fact checkin' cuz?
― ƋППṍӮɨ∏ğڵșěᶉᶇдM℮ (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 1 December 2014 18:03 (ten years ago)
no Run the Jewels on that Magnet hip-hop list is dumber than U2 at the top of the Rolling Stone list. YG, too, but I don't expect Magnet to list YG.
― alpine static, Monday, 1 December 2014 18:03 (ten years ago)
Sure, I'm just saying that I probably underrate it for that reason.
― jaymc, Monday, 1 December 2014 18:05 (ten years ago)
pretty into the washington post list
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 1 December 2014 18:06 (ten years ago)
EIGHT: Manic Street Preachers - Futurology (Sony)
oh yeah i got to check this out. singles were dispiriting but uh green gartside guests
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 1 December 2014 18:08 (ten years ago)
yeah, washington post list also has some smart moves
― Face facts poptimism hacks, your a scam. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 1 December 2014 18:10 (ten years ago)
there are some truly perplexing picks on the popmatters list tbh
― dyl, Monday, 1 December 2014 18:11 (ten years ago)
that Rolling Stone list really reshapes what we thought we knew about whiney, doesn't it
― alpine static, Monday, 1 December 2014 18:18 (ten years ago)
still seems incredible to me that the washington post pay the guy from q and not u to enthuse about rae sremmurd. what a world.
― ogmor, Monday, 1 December 2014 18:48 (ten years ago)
Post list is good/inspiring. "Young Thug -- singles and mixtapes" at #1 makes so much more sense than putting Black Portland in at #37 or whatever.
― rob, Monday, 1 December 2014 18:53 (ten years ago)
For whatever it's worth, all the MAGNET lists are due in in mid-October. When did RTJ2 come out?
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 1 December 2014 18:56 (ten years ago)
So which will be the first list with BABYMETAL?
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 1 December 2014 19:01 (ten years ago)
Soon, Fastnbulbous. Very soon. ;-)
― A. Begrand, Monday, 1 December 2014 19:04 (ten years ago)
*opens Popmatters, sees "All About That Bass", closes tab*
― boxedjoy, Monday, 1 December 2014 19:23 (ten years ago)
i was thinking that suuuurely the U2 and springsteen albums this year were too shitty to warrant the usual automatic top of the list billing for RS, but apparently not.
Charli XCX - not released for 2 weeks - in its top 10 is pretty odd.
― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Monday, 1 December 2014 20:42 (ten years ago)
Maybe the label took out a lot of advertising?
― Cosmic Slop, Monday, 1 December 2014 20:47 (ten years ago)
i'm sure they have an advanced copy and liked it
― i did it all for the 'nuki (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 1 December 2014 20:49 (ten years ago)
It was originally supposed to be out in September, so advance copies have been out there for forever.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 1 December 2014 20:49 (ten years ago)
then why cant i find a leak of sucker :[
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Monday, 1 December 2014 21:54 (ten years ago)
(i'm sure its somewhere but havent had the time for a deep dive)
Oh, I don't think it's leaked anywhere. People with copies have held on tightly it appears.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 1 December 2014 21:55 (ten years ago)
so no succour for you
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Monday, 1 December 2014 21:57 (ten years ago)
ugh whatever ill wait two weeks like a normal person
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Monday, 1 December 2014 21:58 (ten years ago)
I've been enjoying the Kemper Norton and Maruice Louca albums recently, glad to see them hit the big time on the (vmic) Quietus list.
― death in Skegness (seandalai), Monday, 1 December 2014 22:47 (ten years ago)
http://www.uncut.co.uk/blog/uncut-editors-diary/the-154-best-albums-of-2014-a-very-personal-list
Huge list of stuff. I usually look up a lot of the things on Mulvey's lists, but I'm noticing a fair bit of shit I know I don't like.
― afriendlypioneer, Monday, 1 December 2014 22:55 (ten years ago)
The only uncut is Robbie unkut
― deej loaf (D-40), Monday, 1 December 2014 22:56 (ten years ago)
Consensus watch:
14 polls:The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
13 polls:Caribou - Our LoveFKA Twigs - LP1
12 polls:Mac De Marco - Salad Days
11 polls:Future Islands - SinglesSharon Van Etten - Are We ThereSt Vincent - St VincentAphex Twin - Syro
10 polls:Swans - To Be KindJack White - LazarettoDamon Albarn - Everyday Robots
9 polls:Temples - Sun StructuresReal Estate - AtlasAngel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No WitnessBeck - Morning Phase
8 polls:East India Youth - Total Strife ForeverSun Kil Moon - BenjiTy Segall - Manipulator
(poll placings below #50 are discounted, as are single-voter polls)
― mike t-diva, Monday, 1 December 2014 23:29 (ten years ago)
the consensus list is the worst of the lot!
― lex pretend, Monday, 1 December 2014 23:32 (ten years ago)
You forgot U2... It's album of the year?
― Evan, Monday, 1 December 2014 23:32 (ten years ago)
i have listened to and enjoyed three albums on the consensus list (aphex and twigs and beck) and need to get around to caribou and new swans.i tried and disliked the jack white album.i tried and had little interest in the van etten album.The rest is all stuff that i haven't even cracked.
― Face facts poptimism hacks, your a scam. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 1 December 2014 23:38 (ten years ago)
Of the ones you didn't mention, I'd probably steer you towards the St. Vincent...but even that is an "if you get around it" recommendation.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 1 December 2014 23:41 (ten years ago)
is it substantially different than her earlier work?
― Face facts poptimism hacks, your a scam. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 1 December 2014 23:51 (ten years ago)
i'm listening to war on drugs now and it's agreeable i-am-indie-i-am-sad stuff; not entirely clear why this gets to be standard bearer but whatever
― Face facts poptimism hacks, your a scam. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 1 December 2014 23:52 (ten years ago)
cuz it sounds like 80s stuff that hasn't been updated before.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Monday, 1 December 2014 23:56 (ten years ago)
(don't get me wrong; i like the record)
Substantially? Nah. There's a bigger interest in cold robotic-ness, though, which surprisingly works in her favor.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 00:04 (ten years ago)
The internet was a fun place to be after her SNL performance last May. "WTF was THAT?" said people who weren't expecting it.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 00:05 (ten years ago)
lol, i just found the kozelek beef for WOD
i'm unlikely to ever connect with annie's work i think
― Face facts poptimism hacks, your a scam. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 00:05 (ten years ago)
That Horse Lords track on the WaPo list is pretty great.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 03:45 (ten years ago)
Stereogum: http://www.stereogum.com/1721100/the-50-best-albums-of-2014/list/
50. Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animal (What's Your Rupture?)49. St. Vincent - St. Vincent48. TOPS - Picture You Staring47. Thou - Heathen46. Spoon - They Want My Soul45. You Blew It! - Keep Doing What You're Doing44. Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds In Country Music43. LVL Up - Hoodwink'd42. Triptykon - Melana Chasmata41. Vince Staples - Hell Can Wait40. Tinashe - Aquarius39. Caribou - Our Love38. Horrendous - Ecdysis37. Mitski - Bury Me At Makeout Creek36. The Men - Tomorrow's Hits35. Flying Lotus - You're Dead34. How To Dress Well - "What Is This Heart?"33. Aphex Twin - SYRO32. Future Islands - Singles31. Ty Segall - Manipulator30. Todd Terje - It's Album Time29. Ariel Pink - pom pom28. Fucked Up - Glass Boys27. Cloud Nothings - Here And Nowhere Else26. Jessie Ware - Tough Love25. Woods Of Desolation - As The Stars24. Chumped - Teenage Retirement23. Perfume Genius - Too Bright22. Taylor Swift - 198921. Young Thug, Birdman, & Rich Homie Quan - Rich Gang: Tha Tour Part 120. Strand Of Oaks - Heal19. Real Estate - Atlas18. Eric Church - The Outsiders17. Jenny Lewis - The Voyager16. EMA - The Future's Void15. YG - My Krazy Life14. Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues13. Swans - To Be Kind12. Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence11. YOB - Clearing The Path To Ascend10. Merchandise - After The End09. FKA Twigs - LP108. Nux Vomica - Nux Vomica07. Sharon Van Etten - Are We There06. White Lung - Deep Fantasy05. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness04. Wye Oak - Shriek03. Sun Kil Moon - Benji02. The War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream01. Run The Jewels - RTJ2
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 15:38 (ten years ago)
20. Strand Of Oaks - Heal
^don't really know this band but i heard one song on the radio and it really irritated me because the song COMPLETELY bit the "ah ha ha ha ha ha" end riff from "We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful" by Morrissey
― i did it all for the 'nuki (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 15:40 (ten years ago)
Nice to see the Wye Oak album so high. That was in my Top 10 for a while.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 15:49 (ten years ago)
also nice to see another Against Me placing, the RS list is LOL but at least they had AM at #15
― sleeve, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 15:52 (ten years ago)
noticeable dearth of britishes on that list
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 15:52 (ten years ago)
why does stereogum hate bloodsausage
Nux Vomica is a cool pick for the top 10.
― jmm, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 15:52 (ten years ago)
this is the first list that i have few quibbles with throughout, def gotta check out the metal albums i overlooked & glad vince got some love
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 15:55 (ten years ago)
I salute them for having a top 50 list that's at least more interesting than most of the others so far.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 15:55 (ten years ago)
(Thus far LDR is the only album in my Top Ten that shows up on any lists whatsoever)
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 15:56 (ten years ago)
LDR is 40% tolerable, 60% abominable though
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 15:58 (ten years ago)
stereogum list has more albums i like on it than most but it's hardly interesting, it just skews indie and indie-friendly versions of other genres. it's got a bit of pop and a bit of r&b and a bit of rap but you KNOW the sort of pop, r&b and rap that would never show up there in a million years, it's all preset values
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 15:58 (ten years ago)
my entire use of LDR these days is as raw material for amazing house remixes
<i>Broke With Expensive Taste</i> needs more love
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 16:01 (ten years ago)
lex could you give some examples? i def can see what you mean, am just curious
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 16:02 (ten years ago)
pop - one direction, cher lloyd (in the same way the equivalent list a few years ago would never have countenanced t-swift; the reason she's there isn't because she's magically improved but because her popularity and positioning have changed)
r&b - toni braxton, mjb, k michelle (yes i know it's only just out but it's the type of r&b not specific albums as such)
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 16:05 (ten years ago)
But is Eric Church appearing at 18 a typical Indie-friendly choice? I haven't been paying enough attention to his stuff to know.
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 16:05 (ten years ago)
basically when indie sites throw a sop to other genres it's less about quality and more how examples of those genres are positioned vis-à-vis the indie audience and as such very boring and mildly offensive
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 16:06 (ten years ago)
i would push back a bit on tay - red made some best-of lists that you wouldn't expect IIRC - but can def agree re: their treatment of r&b. eric church is an interesting case as well tho. i haven't listened to the whole album but listened to the singles; happened to like them but did not expect him to be the critics' darling he's become outside of nashville
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 16:12 (ten years ago)
that eric church album sucks. any list that includes it especially as the highest placing country record is suspect/playing catch-up imo
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 16:19 (ten years ago)
cool to see nux vomica in a top 10 but weird to see it place several orders higher than triptykon
Yeah, the Church album is terrible. (I admit, my experience with him is limited to that one and the one before it, but holy shit what a dropoff in quality between the two.)
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 16:22 (ten years ago)
Stereogum has strong feelings about Deafheaven and Marrow of the Spirit, I can see how Nux Vomica would appeal.
― jmm, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 16:23 (ten years ago)
i don't see a connection beyond long-ass songs
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 16:25 (ten years ago)
I don't honestly see the difference between the stereogum list and most of the other lists in this thread.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― emil.y, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 16:25 (ten years ago)
glad someone said it.
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 16:26 (ten years ago)
keepin it 100, truth 2 power
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 16:34 (ten years ago)
The Babyface-Braxton album hasn't left rotation in my place; I'm tempted to put it at the top thanks to overplay.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 16:37 (ten years ago)
I'm way more interested in singles/tracks list. Albums lists are pretty much always going to resemble each other unless it's from a specialty publication (even our ILM list will have a ton of what's in this thread). Song lists are where you can get into some real differences.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 16:38 (ten years ago)
would like to see J-Hud's album on a few lists.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 16:39 (ten years ago)
preset values, imagine
― why do I hate that thing (excluding imago, marcos) (wins), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 16:40 (ten years ago)
I wouldn't bother reading it but the headline made me laugh:
9 albums from 2014 that blow U2's Songs of Innocence out of the waterhttp://www.vox.com/2014/12/2/7319253/best-music-2014
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 16:54 (ten years ago)
9 whole albums!
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 16:55 (ten years ago)
one of them is the Foo Fighters though so it's technically only 8
I would rather listen to Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever: Official Soundtrack than the new U2 album
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 16:57 (ten years ago)
Metacritic aggregates the EOY lists: http://www.metacritic.com/feature/critics-pick-top-10-albums-of-2014
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 16:58 (ten years ago)
just realized you were talking about the post-rockiness of these records, so yeah, otm. haven't listened to the nux vomica in a few months and it's considerably grindier in memory
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 17:06 (ten years ago)
Textura Top 40 http://www.textura.org/reviews/2104top10s.htm
01. Julia Wolfe: Steel Hammer (Cantaloupe Music)02. Maria Schneider Featuring Dawn Upshaw: Winter Morning Walks (Artistshare)03. Lenzman: Looking At The Stars (Metalheadz)04. Brooklyn Rider: The Brooklyn Rider Almanac (Mercury Classics)05. CYNE: All My Angles Are Right (Hometapes)06. Vicky Chow: Tristan Perich: Surface Image (New Amsterdam Records)07. David Lang: Love Fail (Cantaloupe Music)08. yMusic: Balance Problems (New Amsterdam Records)09. Maya Beiser: Uncovered (Innova Records)10. Wadada Leo Smith: The Great Lakes Suites (Tum Records)11. Michael Nyman: Symphony No 11: Hillsborough Memorial (Mn Records)12. Christopher Tignor: Thunder Lay Down In The Heart (Western Vinyl)13. Michael Robinson: Lucknow Shimmer / Hummingbird Canyon (Azure Miles Records)14. Alexander Turnquist: Flying Fantasy (Western Vinyl)15. Jane Ira Bloom: Sixteen Sunsets (Outline)16. Marvin Ayres: Ultraradian Rhythms (Wall Of Waves / Market Square)17. Brock Van Wey: Home (Echospace Detroit)18. Octet Ensemble: Scatter My Ashes (Belarca Records)19. Hammock: Oblivion Hymns (Hammock Music)20. Emilia Martensson: Ana (Babel)21. Stein Urheim: Stein Urheim (Hubro)22. Death Blues: Ensemble ( Rhythmplex )23. Ken Thomson: Thaw (Cantaloupe Music)24. Bruno Sanfilippo: ClarOscuro (Ad21)25. Mary Halvorson: Reverse Blue (Relative Pitch Records)26. Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble: Intergalactic Beings (FPE Records)27. 36: Dream Tempest (3six Recordings)28. Maxwell August Croy And Sean Mccann: I (Students Of Decay)29. Robert Hood: M-Print: 20 Years Of M-Plant Music (M-Plant)30. Ken Thomson And Slow/Fast: Settle (NCM East Records)31. Dday One: Dialogue With Life (The Content (L)Abel)32. Mark Lomax Trio: Isis And Osiris (Inarhyme Records)33. P.J. Philipson: Peaks (Little Cracked Rabbit)34. Ian William Craig: A Turn Of Breath (Recital)35. Mark Templeton + Kyle Armstrong: Extensions (Graphical)36. Grouper: Ruins (Kranky)37. Neil Leonard: For Kounellis (Gasp Records)38. Girma Yifrashewa: Love And Peace (Unseen Worlds)39. Carl Hultgren: Tomorrow (Blue Flea)40. David Pritchard: Among The Missing (Morphic Resonance)
― millmeister, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 17:07 (ten years ago)
...and compilations
01. VA: Platinumbreaks Vol 4 (Metalheadz)02. VA: Emerging Organisms Vol 5 (Tympanik Audio)03. VA: Aphelion (Token)04. VA: Total 14 (Kompakt)05. Maya Jane Coles: Fabric 75 (Fabric)06. VA: Future Disco 7 (Needwant)07. VA: 7 Years Of Outcross Records (Outcross Records)08. VA: Anomalie3 (Gravite)09. VA: 15 Shades Of White (Dronarivm)10. VA: The Silence Was Warm Vol. 5 (Symbolic Interaction)
that Hammock album is great but I never listen to it
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 17:08 (ten years ago)
I think part of the clickbait strategy is picking a random number (9, 13, 28) so it feels less like a curated list and more like a conversation.
xposts
― Evan, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 17:09 (ten years ago)
I thought Spoon would be much higher on all the indie leaning lists.
― Evan, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 17:10 (ten years ago)
Just relistened the other day. Still great, they remain an astoundingly underrated act.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 17:13 (ten years ago)
26. Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble: Intergalactic Beings (FPE Records)
oooh, wanna hear this
― sleeve, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 17:16 (ten years ago)
― Evan, Tuesday, December 2, 2014 12:10 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i found myself nonplussed by it aside from the first single and "rent i pay"
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 17:28 (ten years ago)
I'm not particularly invested in the album myself either. I was just expecting it to show up more often.
― Evan, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 17:29 (ten years ago)
gotcha. yeah it is definitely catnip to those people, what gives
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 17:30 (ten years ago)
"those people"
― i did it all for the 'nuki (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 17:44 (ten years ago)
I could support marginalizing Spoon fans in 2014 with total derision.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 17:45 (ten years ago)
ilx jumping over itself to make sure everyone knows it doesn't have indie cooties: an xmas tradition since 2001
― i did it all for the 'nuki (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 17:46 (ten years ago)
― i did it all for the 'nuki (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, December 2, 2014 12:44 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
are you seriously gonna zing me for this jesus fucking christ
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 17:47 (ten years ago)
wait, i already know the answer to that
chill out man
― i did it all for the 'nuki (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 17:48 (ten years ago)
but in the interests of not being a glib total dick, i'll clarify: I meant more the editors/listmakers/whatever who would include that record on a list just to check off a box even if it was meh (which it isn't in this case, just wasn't something i loved like previous spoon records)
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 17:50 (ten years ago)
CTRL + F: Isaiah Rashad "not found." What gives?
― quan voice (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 17:50 (ten years ago)
released early in the year, easily forgot (tbf i haven't listened since it came out) but it was pretty impressive! i feel the same way about oxymoron but that was underrated from the jump imo
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 17:53 (ten years ago)
...would include that record on a list just to check off a box even if it was meh
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, December 2, 2014 12:50 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This is what I'm talking about. I feel like I'm seeing other albums that I suspect are in lists for this reason, yet not Spoon who I'd expect. But maybe that whole premise is pure cynicism about the list making process.
― Evan, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 18:09 (ten years ago)
It's kind of exciting that I haven't even HEARD of anything on that Textura list
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 18:15 (ten years ago)
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, December 2, 2014 11:28 AM (47 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 18:16 (ten years ago)
Isaiah R will get a slot in my top singles, but the album...eh. Bad year for Black Hippy.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 18:18 (ten years ago)
I didn't really like These Days... but I feel like I'm one of the only ones who remembers that Oxymoron even came out this year and still bangs, despite that painful Prescription-Oxymoron to The Purge stretch.
― quan voice (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 18:21 (ten years ago)
Oxymoron did have a couple bangers, didn't it? But maybe it tried to be too many things to too many audiences.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 18:23 (ten years ago)
have heard quite a few of them but yes, i do like lists where it feels like you've just lifted up a rock and found umpteen new species of fauna below
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 18:23 (ten years ago)
OTM
― sleeve, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 18:24 (ten years ago)
btw Nicole Mitchell rules, all 3 albums I've heard are great AACM-influenced psychedelic jazz
― sleeve, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 18:25 (ten years ago)
it's heartbreak when you find out they're all actually spoon spin-offs xp
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 18:25 (ten years ago)
these days was wild boring, if not abjectly bad. Oxymoron is really, really good. it's got holes ("studio," the bonus tracks) but it works across the 12 proper tracks more or less.
i actually like "prescription" as far as intense personal black hippy tracks go it's no "sing about me" or "m.A.A.d city", but i bought it.
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 18:27 (ten years ago)
I loved Oxymoron a lot and played "Los Awesome" to death this year
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 18:31 (ten years ago)
"Los Awesome" is a ton of fun, agreed
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 18:34 (ten years ago)
i liked oxymoron at first but i've really cooled off on it and am not feeling it much anymore. still like the isaiah rashad album tho.
xps to a million posts above, it is wholly predictable that an indie-leaning list would include the eric church album considering the main reason it appears to have caught those ppl's attn in the first place was its overbearing rock-rebel posturing
― dyl, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 18:39 (ten years ago)
Isaiah Rashad is definitely great. Don't know yet where it will fall in my personal rankings, but it will be there.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 18:40 (ten years ago)
holy shit at Nux Vomica on that Stereogum list! good on the 'gum for that one.
you know there was some discussion at HQ about that one vs. Woods of Desolation. "well, we put a post-rock-y metal album way up high last year, let's go crustier this year" ... no Deafheaven last year, I bet WoD is 9 and Nux Vomica is 25 or w/e
srsly, tho, I appreciate Stereogum's metal coverage in general.
― alpine static, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 18:51 (ten years ago)
what is textura
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 19:14 (ten years ago)
There's a Platinum Breakz 4?!
― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 19:30 (ten years ago)
is anyone other than glenn gonna build spotify lists for this stuff or should i volunteer
― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 19:39 (ten years ago)
xxxpost out of all the metal records i have caught up on today based on finding them in various EOY lists/on the metal polling thread, nux vomica is my favorite thus far i think
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 19:57 (ten years ago)
Magnet - Best Of 2014: Noisehttp://www.magnetmagazine.com/category/best-of-2014/
MAGNET’s Raym0nd Cumm1ngs picks the best noise releases of the year
1 Yellow Tears Golden Showers May Bring Flowers (Septic World International)2 Bloodeath Bloodeath (Totally Gross National Product)3 Philip White Documents (Infrequent Seams)4 Zaimph & Yek Koo L’intérieur de la Vue (Obsolete Units)5 Pharmakustik + Tanner Garza Pleuraraum (Jehu & Chinaman)6 Diaphragmatic Fear Biters (Alien Passengers)7 Good Area Pronunciation (Hanson)8 Bob Bellerue Cure The Antidote (Los Discos Enfantasmes)9 White Suns Totem (The Flenser)10 Barrier Of Broken Leaves Spite (Turmeric Magnitudes)
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 20:30 (ten years ago)
Paste Magazine - The 50 Best Songs of 2014http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2014/12/the-50-best-songs-of-2014.html
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 20:33 (ten years ago)
glad "Collard Greens" made it.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 20:34 (ten years ago)
singles lists that include fka twigs but not beyonce need to have some special kind of code that alerts readers prior to reading
― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 20:34 (ten years ago)
which is not to say pendulum won't make my list but rating it without acknowledging the gifts of flawless or haunted seems myopic
― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 20:36 (ten years ago)
I am now knowingly listening to Sylan Esso for the first time just to see what the deal is. I already hate this woman's voice.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 20:37 (ten years ago)
Sylvan, even.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 20:38 (ten years ago)
I'm kind of surprised that there was only one single off of the Phantogram album and that that single wasn't "Howling at the Moon"
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 20:41 (ten years ago)
I don't know, you guys, this sure doesn't sound like it's the best song of 2014, but I'm sure Paste writers are all congratulating themselves at this moment for throwing a curveball like that.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 20:41 (ten years ago)
xxxxpost i think the lack of beyonce prob stems from people having no fucking clue whether to stick the beyonce album or its songs on 2014 lists for like, technicality reasons
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 20:42 (ten years ago)
what in the name of god is this ages and ages garbage
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 20:47 (ten years ago)
xp maybe? but in a rich year for daring r&B/indie hybrid singles, turning twigs into the defacto blanket token representative suggests a lack of listening
― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 20:50 (ten years ago)
How exactly does it follow that liking FKA twigs means you must also like Beyonce? (I mean, I like both of them but that is because I'm a gothy dude who likes R&B; they're doing distinctly different things, IMO equally well, and liking one is only tangentially related to liking the other)
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 20:51 (ten years ago)
some special kind of code that alerts readers prior to reading
PASTE didn't tip you off on its own?
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 20:52 (ten years ago)
ahh the Magent list is a little messed up - went straight to the top 10 and #1 & 4 both came out last year and for #6 they picked pretty much the worst track on the New Pornographer's album!
― AKA Thermo Thinwall (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 20:53 (ten years ago)
i'm excited to check out the Textura list & Raymond's noise list
― Lorde 2Pac Beck Mashup (crüt), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 20:54 (ten years ago)
sylvan esso is like someone setting out to make a less-annoying tune-yards and ending up with something just as annoying as tune-yards
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 20:55 (ten years ago)
(also it's hilarious to frame your argument as "people listing FKA twigs have no imagination when it comes to R&B; where's the Beyonce?")
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 20:56 (ten years ago)
lol true
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 20:57 (ten years ago)
so funny that "habits" is on quite a few 2014 lists but everyone was like UM WUT when i tried to pass that song around all 2013!
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 20:59 (ten years ago)
i don't necessarily think the mark of a good or interesting list is agreeing with all the picks
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 21:00 (ten years ago)
the top three on the paste list are an abortion
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 21:01 (ten years ago)
Norway's biggest and 3rd biggest newspaper - Norwegian albums of the year:
Aftenposten:1. Emilie Nicolas: Like I'm a warrior2. Todd Terje: It's album time3. Highasakite: Silent treatment4. Motorpsycho: Behind the sun5. Thea Hjelmeland: Solar plexus6. Store P: Regnmannen7. Torgeir Waldemar: Torgeir Waldemar8. Sandra Kolstad: Zero gravity state of mind9. Ida Jenshus: Let it go10. The Dogs: The tears are voodoo
Dagbladet:1. Highasakite, «Silent treatment»2. Emilie Nicolas, «Like I’m a Warrior»3. Ida Jenshus, «Let it go»4. Kaja Gunnufsen, «Faen Kaja»5. Röyksopp & Robyn, «Do it Again»6. Store P, «Regnmannen»7. In the Country & Frida Ånnevik, «Skogenes sang»8. Silja Sol, «På Hjertet»9. Jenny Hval & Susanna, «Meshes of Voice»10. Todd Terje, «It’s Album Time»
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 21:02 (ten years ago)
Tove Lo still seems to have the same profile in 2014 as she did in 2013 imo, except there's an album to go along with the singles now.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 21:04 (ten years ago)
Emilie Nicolas, «Like I’m a Warrior»
I just happened across this album over the tgiving holiday weekend. I'd had "Pstereo" in my Spotify best of the year list for a long time, but I didn't know there was a full LP. Unfortunately, except for one other song, it's pretty boring. :(
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 21:06 (ten years ago)
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TeqXUzaZ3c0/UzsavUd7YYI/AAAAAAAAAv8/SM01eQ_OkDI/s1600/901621_253611454810172_537879534_o.jpg
Det er sterke retro-vibber over garasjerocken til oslobandet The Dogs
― نكبة (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 21:06 (ten years ago)
xxxxxp nobody's saying you HAVE to like bey if you like twigs (though i'm hard pressed to think of anyone i've spoken to, gothy dude into R&B or otherwise, who is familiar with twigs and doesn't). FKATs points about the incipient racism of amalgamating all black singer/songwriters as R&B performers aside; her music and bey's album from this year are at least tangentially musically related i'll cop that bey is maybe not the most apt choice of comparison (though recent repeat listening of haunted is illuminating the connections) but she's among the ten biggest performing artists in the world, you'd think they might have noticed her work or ANYONE else's working that currently zeitgeisty 'radiohead quiet storm' soundmore to the point, there's a host of other voices in the same/adjoining lanes that appear to be getting sidelined regardless (or more likely because of) popularity in favor of the more indie leaning choicewhat i'm reacting to is musical tokenism and maybe a bit of the universal bey snubbing in the early ballots.
― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 21:06 (ten years ago)
― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 21:07 (ten years ago)
i like Ages and Ages, but am too lazy to go find, copy and paste the shrug guy emoticon
― alpine static, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 21:08 (ten years ago)
Indie leaning magazine/website favors indie leaning music from genres outside the main indie continuum. News at 11.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 21:09 (ten years ago)
xpost (to me): that said, they've never released anything that comes anywhere close to "Archie, Marry Me"
― alpine static, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 21:10 (ten years ago)
xp hey if i don't tilt at a windmill or two i lose my grumpy old hipster credentials for 2015
― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 21:10 (ten years ago)
wait, i just realized call all destroyer called "Archie, Marry Me" an abortion!
― alpine static, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 21:11 (ten years ago)
wow destroyer you weren't fuckin kidding
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 21:11 (ten years ago)
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, December 2, 2014 10:06 PM (3 minutes ago)
Nobody Knows is great, Grow Up also sounds good to me, the repetition works really well as a check on the song becoming trite nostalgia. Haven't really sat down with the album otherwise.
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 21:13 (ten years ago)
alvvays is OK i guess but idk how it superseded a lot of stuff on that list (or off it!) this ages & ages song is kinda wack
really dreading sylvan esso given the zings upthread
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 21:13 (ten years ago)
That Sylvan Esso thing is atrocious.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 21:14 (ten years ago)
I like Alvvays, though they have better songs than that one. Now I'm listening to Ages and Ages and I might actually hate it more than the Sylvan Esso one. Eesh.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 21:16 (ten years ago)
what. the. fuck. is. this.
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 21:18 (ten years ago)
I refuse to visit paste again. Which horrid Ages and Ages song did they pick?
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 21:18 (ten years ago)
"Divisionary (Do the Right Thing)"
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 21:18 (ten years ago)
destroyer, so otm when describing esso as a more annoying tuneyards, a thing i didn't think was possible. does she have the cultural appropriation tourism issue garbus has or nah?
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 21:19 (ten years ago)
Thanks JF off to make myself puke in my mouth.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 21:19 (ten years ago)
Made it a minute in. That's some dire shit.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 21:22 (ten years ago)
Didn't really care much for the Sylvan Esso song that Paste gave number 1 to, but I don't mind the other song I've heard of hers, "Coffee".
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 21:24 (ten years ago)
― Lorde 2Pac Beck Mashup (crüt), Tuesday, December 2, 2014 2:54 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
thank you sir
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 21:27 (ten years ago)
I liked the FKA Twigs album a lot, though I need to spend more time with it - it's one of those things where I need to be in the right mood (same with Beyonce's album, actually).
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 21:28 (ten years ago)
Here are a bunch of the things from the Textura list:
http://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/6oD6W0OgTAIDPUAcT5EtWv
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 21:47 (ten years ago)
gracias
― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 21:47 (ten years ago)
count me as another of the "ANOTHER WORLD" adventurers with like 50% of that textura listThis steel hammer album is instantaneously awesome
― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 21:49 (ten years ago)
you guys, hate Sylvan Esso and Ages and Ages as much as you like, I get it, but that Alvvays album is AMAZING, top to bottom
― alpine static, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 21:54 (ten years ago)
27. 36: Dream Tempest (3six Recordings)
^ this is really lovely FYI
― Lorde 2Pac Beck Mashup (crüt), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 22:08 (ten years ago)
okay, i have to reiterate how beautiful the first track on this Julia Wolfe album is and everyone with a passing interest in reich should play ithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGVEiO8bwtI
― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 22:38 (ten years ago)
Cosmopolitan - The 20 Best Albums of 2014http://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/music/a33585/best-albums-of-2014/
1. Taylor Swift, 19892. Ariana Grande, My Everything3. Azealia Banks, Broke With Expensive Taste4. Miranda Lambert, Platinum5. First Aid Kit, Stay Gold6. Tinashe, Aquarius7. Lana Del Rey, Ultraviolence8. Kelis, Food9. Lykke Li, I Never Learn10. Beyoncé, BEYONCÉ Platinum Edition11. One Direction, Four12. Ex Hex, Rips13. Jessie Ware, Tough Love14. Various Artists, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 115. Angel Olsen, Burn Your Fire for No Witness16. Dolly Parton, Blue Smoke17. Jenny Lewis, The Voyager18. FKA twigs, LP119. Perfume Genius, Too Bright20. St. Vincent, St. Vincent
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 22:39 (ten years ago)
pleased to see love for dolly and azealia and tinashe and miranda
― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 22:42 (ten years ago)
best list so far by miles!
― prolego, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 22:42 (ten years ago)
yeah p solid. wouldn't rank taylor that high above everything for 1989, tho, not with tinashe and miranda lambert and lykke and bey that far behind her
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 22:45 (ten years ago)
Even though there are a few things on there I hate or at least don't care about, I think I agree.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 22:45 (ten years ago)
i love that ilx hivemind taste intersects most closely w/ cosmo
― Mordy, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 22:46 (ten years ago)
(if it was red, different story, i'd understand a top 5 placement)
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 22:46 (ten years ago)
yeah look at us wusses ugh amirite
Least amount of dudes yet
― Evan, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 22:46 (ten years ago)
despite the numbering, the cosmo list does say "in no particular order"
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 22:47 (ten years ago)
no i don't really associate cosmo w/ wussiness but maybe if i were being uncharitable a kind of rote superficiality? idk anything about their music crit nb and i like plenty of artists on that list just that i've seen a cosmo cover before in my life
― Mordy, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 22:47 (ten years ago)
whoever built that list is gonna be fun to hang out with
― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 22:48 (ten years ago)
nahhhh
― Lorde 2Pac Beck Mashup (crüt), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 22:49 (ten years ago)
Is that a list just by Eliza Thompson or did they poll the Cosmo staff? Just curious.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 22:49 (ten years ago)
like c'mon, this is at least a little lol that this is the magazine that closely lines up w/ ilx critical darlings
http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1295625/thumbs/o-COSMO-COVERS-570.jpg?1
― Mordy, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 22:50 (ten years ago)
no worries mordy i was kidding & yr assumption is understandable
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 22:50 (ten years ago)
(nb i love carrie underwood)
and i hate one direction pretty thoroughly so i dont have full credentials for the pop quadrant of my listening brain, fwiw
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 22:53 (ten years ago)
https://twitter.com/thompsonplaid/status/527866562628165632i stand by my hypothesis
― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 22:54 (ten years ago)
A Surefire Technique That Takes You Both Over the Edge Simultaneously
^ David Fricke is writing slash articles for them now?
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 22:54 (ten years ago)
xp and based on that twitter, that list is like 85% her. let's get her on ilx plz
― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 22:56 (ten years ago)
Cosmo Bandesman
― نكبة (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 22:57 (ten years ago)
xxp she digs sleater kinney...
that's a little surprising
https://twitter.com/thompsonplaid/status/539903968483102720
let's see, out of 1,866 followers, one person retweeted and zero favourited it
― ∞, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 23:02 (ten years ago)
That cosmo list is excellent; all jokes, reservations, whatever much less so. Very telling, these "oh no we're like GIRLS" reactions. Btw how is a women's magazine more superficial than any of the desperate and hidebound music outlets itt? Beyond the covers cosmo, elle etc publish much more ~srs features than fucking stereogum
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 23:37 (ten years ago)
tbf Mordy is the source of that ugliness which is pretty expected at this point.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 23:39 (ten years ago)
Particularly nice to see the kelis and miranda lambert albums there; former seems to have been completely forgotten, latter I thought had a lot of support but of course lambert's positioning is all wrong for any serious music publication to acknowledge her!
Xp indeed
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 23:41 (ten years ago)
i couldn't do anything with the kelis album unfortunately. i tried!
― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 23:43 (ten years ago)
Jerk Ribs still sounds great to me, but yeah...the rest of it faded away quick.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 23:45 (ten years ago)
It's not one to return to in the winter even if you like it I guess
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 23:47 (ten years ago)
Time Magazine - Top 10 Best Albumshttps://time.com/3613540/top-10-best-albums/
1. LP1, FKA twigs2. St. Vincent, St. Vincent3. Alt-J, This Is All Yours4. 1989, Taylor Swift5. Too Bright, Perfume Genius6. Ultraviolence, Lana Del Rey7. Transgender Dysphoria Blues, Against Me!8. The Voyager, Jenny Lewis9. Ryan Adams, Ryan Adams10. Broke With Expensive Taste, Azealia Banks
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 23:50 (ten years ago)
i also earmarked jerk ribs and biscuits and gravy but mostly out of respect
― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 23:51 (ten years ago)
Time Magazine - Top 10 Worst Songshttps://time.com/3613505/top-10-worst-songs/
1. “Rude,” Magic!2. “Literally, I Can’t,” Redfoo, Lil Jon, Enertia McFly3. “Masterpiece,” Jessie J4. “Sun Daze,” Florida Georgia Line5. “All About That Bass,” Meghan Trainor6. “Wiggle” by Jason Derulo feat. Snoop Dogg7. “Summer,” Calvin Harris8. “Black Widow,” Iggy Azalea feat. Rita Ora9. “Brooklyn Girls,” Catey Shaw10. “L.A. Love (La La),” Fergie
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 23:56 (ten years ago)
No arguments there. All of those songs are terrible.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 00:04 (ten years ago)
That Cosmo list is shit and anyone who says Cosmo is genuinely representative of "girls" and not part of the fucking problem is, well, part of the fucking problem.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 00:09 (ten years ago)
lol srsly but i can't wait for lex to defend the ten best ways to stick yr finger in yr boyfriend's anus
― Mordy, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 00:11 (ten years ago)
that TIME album list isn't embarrassing
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 00:13 (ten years ago)
I don't like FKA Twigs and don't understand Ryan Adams and think the Jenny Lewis is embalmed studio rock but yes on Against Me!, Azealia Banks, and Swift. Didn't expect Perfume Genius, whom I can't stand but didn't expect to be on TIME's radar.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 00:14 (ten years ago)
1. Taylor Swift, 1989 - There's some good and some bad on this album. 2. Ariana Grande, My Everything - No.3. Azealia Banks, Broke With Expensive Taste - Yes, absolutely! I had no idea it would be this good.4. Miranda Lambert, Platinum - Whatever, she's alright.5. First Aid Kit, Stay Gold - Strong first half, at least.6. Tinashe, Aquarius - Great!7. Lana Del Rey, Ultraviolence - People still like her. That doesn't bother me.8. Kelis, Food - Jerk Ribs > everything else.9. Lykke Li, I Never Learn - I love this one.10. Beyoncé, BEYONCÉ Platinum Edition - This was my #1 album from 2013. Still love it.11. One Direction, Four - I haven't listened to this, but I like some 1D songs.12. Ex Hex, Rips - I actually wish I liked this more.13. Jessie Ware, Tough Love - Better than her debut. There, I said it!14. Various Artists, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 - Is Lorde on this? No thanks.15. Angel Olsen, Burn Your Fire for No Witness - I'm fine with this. Hardly ever listen to it.16. Dolly Parton, Blue Smoke - Dolly, always.17. Jenny Lewis, The Voyager - It's no Rabbit Fur Coat, but what is.18. FKA twigs, LP1 - YES!19. Perfume Genius, Too Bright - I have to be a mood, but when I am this is wonderful.20. St. Vincent, St. Vincent - I like it more each time I play it (which isn't often).
So no, the whole list isn't shit. Maybe only a tiny little bit of it is.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 00:17 (ten years ago)
things i like are great and things you like are shit and let em all go to hell except cave 76
― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 00:18 (ten years ago)
Did Hitler write these lists?
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 00:20 (ten years ago)
― emil.y, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 00:09 (8 minutes ago) Permalink+1/otm/imo
― ∞, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 00:22 (ten years ago)
Looks like TIME and I agree on two albums, at almost the same spots! Weird.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 00:22 (ten years ago)
12. Ex Hex, Rips - I actually wish I liked this more.
yeah
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 00:23 (ten years ago)
I just get really mad at dudes on the internet telling me what women are and what they identify with. Is it fun erasing people's experience of womanhood? Because it isn't fun for me.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 00:30 (ten years ago)
idk is there any of that itt? As a man, my radar might not be as finely tuned into certain language or whatever, but I honestly don't think anyone made a point about Cosmo speaking for ALL WOMEN.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 00:32 (ten years ago)
The only objectionable thing I saw was Mordy basically saying "lol @ you guys like chick music".
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 00:35 (ten years ago)
there's a bunch of great records on that cosmo list!
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 00:36 (ten years ago)
I like 3-4 of the albums on that list; most of the others I just haven't heard (or aren't my bag).
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 00:37 (ten years ago)
I don't like FKA Twigs
*displays "i'm with alfred" shirt*
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 00:39 (ten years ago)
The problem being that it isn't even necessarily ~chick music~, as members of either gender are testifying
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 00:39 (ten years ago)
lol johnny fever u didn't see me say anything of the sort keep trolling :)
― Mordy, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 00:48 (ten years ago)
"10. Beyoncé, BEYONCÉ Platinum Edition - This was my #1 album from 2013. Still love it."
lol but the Cosmo list entry is definitely for the bonus EP on the new re-release that has 2 new songs and some stupid remixes
― some dude, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 00:52 (ten years ago)
you take that back about the flawless remix sir that shit is fire
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 00:53 (ten years ago)
big fan of the standing on the sun remix here.and ring off is a pretty great track!
― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 01:05 (ten years ago)
8/8 NEVER FORGET
http://michaelceramusic.bandcamp.com/releases
Kidding! (Or am I?)
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 02:17 (ten years ago)
I admit with chagrin that after not connecting with Rewind the Film at all, I hadn't bothered to track down Manic Street Preachers Futurology until now. This was a judgment error.
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 02:22 (ten years ago)
Oh, wow, this Brooklyn Rider album! Another amazing thing I had never heard of before seeing it on one of these lists (Textura).
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 02:55 (ten years ago)
cosmo list is not terrible. also the miguel/chemical brothers track is great and i hope they collaborate again
― maura, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 03:12 (ten years ago)
lol sometimes i feel like when it comes to year-end stuff i really identify with dudes like johnny fever and forksclovetofu
― jaymc, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 05:43 (ten years ago)
1. Taylor Swift, 1989 - I need to spend more time with this. Lead singles are good, though, including "Shake It Off" -- apart from the embarrassing rap, it's pretty good!2. Ariana Grande, My Everything - I thought her first album was Great. This is a step down, but I love all of the singles. Thought "Problem" would be my favorite -- such an iconic summer song -- but "Love Me Harder" is something I play over and over again 3. Azealia Banks, Broke With Expensive Taste - This is good, but I have to say, when "212" comes on, I immediately perk up. Like it's obviously still the standout. "Chasing Time" is really good, though. Wtf to the Ariel Pink cover/remake4. Miranda Lambert, Platinum - Can't bring myself to listen to this, even tho I've def liked M. Lambert songs in the past5. First Aid Kit, Stay Gold - Don't know anything about them6. Tinashe, Aquarius - Really fucking solid. Prob unfair to compare her to Jhene Aiko, but I thought the Tinashe album was much better.7. Lana Del Rey, Ultraviolence - Kind of confused about her critical standing.8. Kelis, Food - Kelis seems like good people, but I haven't given this more than a single spin.9. Lykke Li, I Never Learn - This was a bit of a disappointment, but "No Rest for the Wicked" is classic Lykke Li10. Beyoncé, BEYONCÉ Platinum Edition - lol okay11. One Direction, Four - Huh. Should I listen to this? I have def spent time w/One Direction in my life12. Ex Hex, Rips - Great album. Maybe it's because I don't listen to a lot of power-pop and thus don't recognize it as fairly standard for the genre (iirc, n/a thought it sounded rote), but this album does it for me.13. Jessie Ware, Tough Love - Man. I sincerely think that "Imagine It Was Us" is one of like the best-ever songs of the decade, which makes this one of the biggest disappointments of 2014 for me14. Various Artists, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 - Feel weird listening to soundtracks before I see the movie, so I will withhold judgment until I do ... Chvrches was my favorite album of 2013, though, so I'm eager to hear it.15. Angel Olsen, Burn Your Fire for No Witness - This was kind of boring, iirc?16. Dolly Parton, Blue Smoke - Good for Dolly. Don't care too much, though.17. Jenny Lewis, The Voyager - I like Jenny Lewis best in Fleetwood Mac/soft disco mode (e.g., Rilo Kiley's "Dreamworld"), so I'm glad there's a little of that here (like the first track). "Just One of the Guys" is for sure catchy, but it's also kind of annoyingly twee.18. FKA twigs, LP1 - Good but in this austere way that I admire more than love. That one harmonic voice in "Pendulum," though.19. Perfume Genius, Too Bright - Need to listen to this with closer attention.20. St. Vincent, St. Vincent - Actually, St. Vincent is the classic example of someone I admire more than love. There are songs of hers that I like a lot -- at least a couple per album -- and she was kind of amazing at Pitchfork Fest this year, maybe the highlight -- but she's never going to rank in a top 10 of mine.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 05:59 (ten years ago)
sorry to get all dog latin or w/e
― Mordy, Tuesday, December 2, 2014 7:11 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
wait what's wrong with listing 10 ways of fingering your boyfriend
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 3 December 2014 06:00 (ten years ago)
i'm all ears
― jaymc, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 06:01 (ten years ago)
granted i have not had sex with you mordy but i'm gonna go out on a limb and say you are prob someone who could pick up some sex tips from cosmo
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 3 December 2014 06:01 (ten years ago)
1. Taylor Swift, 1989 - I need to spend more time with this......4. Miranda Lambert, Platinum - Can't bring myself to listen to this, even tho I've def liked M. Lambert songs in the past5. First Aid Kit, Stay Gold - Don't know anything about them...11. One Direction, Four - Huh. Should I listen to this?......14. Various Artists, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 - Feel weird listening to soundtracks before I see the movie, so I will withhold judgment until I do...19. Perfume Genius, Too Bright - Need to listen to this with closer attention...
― jaymc, Wednesday, December 3, 2014 12:59 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 06:06 (ten years ago)
The point for the Cosmo list is surely that it's not a music / arts publication, it's a fashion magazine. It would be suprising to get a good list from Nuts, What Car or Viz too.
That also explains why it's fairly decent - it seems to be the work of one person rather than a committee.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 06:06 (ten years ago)
the point about the cosmo list is that it lists a bunch of good pop and R&B albums where everything other list in this thread is a roster of sad men and women who play guitars
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 3 December 2014 06:08 (ten years ago)
hi whiney what's up i already apologized. i am not a professional music critic. so maybe i shouldn't have made the post at all. sorry! just typing random stuff. i can take it to google docs, though. my bad.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 06:09 (ten years ago)
like whoa out of 20 albums released in 2014, i have not heard six of them, what the fuck, why bother posting
― jaymc, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 06:10 (ten years ago)
the One Direction album is def EOY list-worthy
― Bro With Extensive Taint (some dude), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 06:10 (ten years ago)
will check it out. i have researched & written about one direction.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 06:11 (ten years ago)
jesus christ
― jaymc, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 06:20 (ten years ago)
if it makes u feel any better i have been listening to run the jewels nonstop for the last couple of days despite not really digging their whole aesthetic beyond an appreciation for technique.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 06:22 (ten years ago)
are ppl talking about dj quik anywhere
― jaymc, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 06:23 (ten years ago)
jay, i'm not teasing you because you haven't heard records, man!
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 06:27 (ten years ago)
it's cool
― jaymc, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 06:28 (ten years ago)
so what was that post about then? genuinely curious
― alpine static, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 07:19 (ten years ago)
The 20 best reissues of 2014 according to FACT. As usual some interesting choices.
01. LEWIS - L’amour (Light in the Attic)02. snd - TPlay (snd)03. Z - Visions of Dune (InFiné)04. STEVE ROACH - Structures from Silence (Projeckt)05. SOULS OF MISCHIEF - 93 ’til Infinity (Get on Down)06. MUSLIMGAUZE - Chasing the Shadow of Bryn Jones 1983-88 (Vinyl on Demand)07. TRANSLLUSION - The Opening of the Cerebral Gate (Tresor)08. INGRAM MARSHALL - Fog Tropes // Gradual Requiem (Arc Light Editions)09. VARIOUS - Suburban Base Records: The History Of Hardcore, Jungle, Drum & Bass: 1991-199 (Suburban Base)10. GRUPPO DI IMPROVVISAZIONE NUOVA CONSONANZA - The Feed-Back (Schema)11. DONATO DOZZY & NUEL - The Aquaplano Sessions (Spectrum Spools)12. V/VM - The Death of Rave (A Partial Flashback) (History Always Favours the Winners)13. HELM - Impasse (New Images)14. STEPHEN DAVID HEITKOTTER - Black Orckid (Now-Again)15. RALPH JONES - Slumber Party Massacre (Death Waltz Recording Company)16. CHARLES HAYWARD - Smell of Metal (ΚΕΜΑΛ)17. WILLIAM BASINSKI - Melancholia (Temporary Residence)18. 18. BLACK ZONE MYTH CHANT - Straight Cassette (Laitdbac)19. VARIOUS - Bombay Disco (Cultures of Soul)20. OFFICER! - Dead Unique (Blackest Ever Black)
― millmeister, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 09:45 (ten years ago)
i always forget that reissues are a thing. i'm surprised fact didn't rep for the katie pearl album, though i guess an unreleased album finally emerging 10 years late isn't a REissue. that lewis album was a fucking bore though
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 09:48 (ten years ago)
yeh the lewis album was kinda dull but the whole story itself i found really fun
― nxd, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 10:05 (ten years ago)
10. GRUPPO DI IMPROVVISAZIONE NUOVA CONSONANZA - The Feed-Back (Schema)
My (and possibly no one else's) idea of fun.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 10:06 (ten years ago)
Can we rank 10 ways to finger yr boyfriend, I feel that unlike everything else ITT that conversation might still be interesting/useful to me in six months time.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 10:12 (ten years ago)
playing the long game, eh Tim?
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 10:35 (ten years ago)
Some choice writing in the Paste list:
"From the second someone turns the gain on the fuzz pedal all the way up on “Black Moon Spell,” the opening track off King Tuff’s new album, it’s pretty obvious that both speakers and minds are about to be blown."
"It’s something new. It’s music. And, it’s beautiful."
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 11:05 (ten years ago)
i always forget that reissues are a thing. i'm surprised fact didn't rep for the katie pearl album, though i guess an unreleased album finally emerging 10 years late isn't a REissue
It'll definitely be high up in their albums list proper
― Number None, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 11:39 (ten years ago)
the point about the cosmo list is that it lists a bunch of good pop and R&B albums where everything other list in this thread is a roster of sad men and women who play guitars --J0rdan S.
I MEAN, one can argue the Cosmo list is mostly sad ladies who sometimes play guitars...but obviously I know what you meant
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 12:52 (ten years ago)
how dare people like guitar music in this day and age
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 13:05 (ten years ago)
Some good stuff on that reissue list, but Luciano Cilio's Dell'universo assente is a glaring omission.
― xelab, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 13:10 (ten years ago)
Yes, the entire point of my post was whether or not the list is bad (because I so blatantly loved all the other lists in this thread), please make lists showing me that you like the records on it, that'll disprove that claim entirely, and not whether you're a bunch of fucking sexist dickwads.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 13:34 (ten years ago)
I noticed no one bothered replying to emil.y's post except jf and mordy
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 13:41 (ten years ago)
Well, to be honest not replying would have been fine. Replying and MISSING THE POINT ENTIRELY is a lot less fine, and a bit... mansplaining the list for me, thanks. "No no no, I think you'll find *I* like this, therefore your whole post is misguided, little miss, you just sit right there".
― emil.y, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 13:46 (ten years ago)
AV Club's Least Essential Albums of 2014
― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 13:50 (ten years ago)
but no one actually said cosmo or its list spoke for all women. it codes female by dint of having by far the largest proportion of female artists of any list, many from genres with high proportions of female artists and fans. in light of that mordy reacting with some shit about how lol rote and superficial it was (not a complaint directed at any other list so far) seemed pretty sexist.
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 13:52 (ten years ago)
That Pixies album alternated between the inconsequential and the plain terrible.
― cpl593H, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 13:56 (ten years ago)
So far my takeaway from these lists is that only about 3 people still care about Lamb 😞
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 14:01 (ten years ago)
11. One Direction, Four - Huh. Should I listen to this? I have def spent time w/One Direction in my life
yes!
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 14:07 (ten years ago)
Camaraderie at Arms Length is OTM. Cosmo isn't a music magazine, it's a lifestyle magazine aimed at a particular audience of women and that's why it initiated a bit of a LOL. It's wrong to assume this is the music that 'women' like. It's also wrong to assume that this is the music that 'Ilxors' like.
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 14:08 (ten years ago)
Itemizing a list of 20 records with reasons I like or dislike them is now mansplaining? jeezus.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 14:18 (ten years ago)
mordy reacting with some shit about how lol rote and superficial it was (not a complaint directed at any other list so far)
"preset values", "boring", "embarrassing" (you), "all these lists are the same, ehhh", "music for conservative dads" (paraphrasing myself)
I would say those things are reasonably similar to "lol rote and superficial", and that's just us two. What Mordy actually said was it's funny that Cosmo is the list most aligned with the ilx hivemind. It is at least mildly noteworthy if true that a dedicated music site shares the most taste with a publication more known for sex tips and beauty advertising than its music coverage. When you equate that with "oh no we're like GIRLS", it certainly LOOKS like you're saying girls = love sex tips and beauty advertising, conform entirely to this construction of gender normativity, must ringfence this forever because this is what girls are like. It is frustrating.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 14:18 (ten years ago)
Ignoring the main point of a post in order to provide a carefully constructed argument for why the irrelevant part of a post is wrong is kind of mansplainy, yeah.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 14:21 (ten years ago)
Tbh, I didn't even see your post, emil.y, I just wandered in this thread last night and saw Johnny Fever's post and was inspired to do the same. Apologies for any offense caused.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 14:25 (ten years ago)
You blazed in and the first words of your first post on the subject were "That Cosmo list is shit..." I can't IMAGINE why that might put anyone on the defensive and possibly overlook the second half of your post!
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 14:26 (ten years ago)
I do regret going "but it's shit", to be honest. I think pretty much all of these lists are shit so it's not noteworthy that I also think this one is shit. But that was a reaction against other people going "noooo must defend the Cosmo list it's amaaazing".
― emil.y, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 14:29 (ten years ago)
the reaction to most of these lists has been that they're shit. if you think a list's shit, it's fair enough to say.
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 14:31 (ten years ago)
Juno Plus Re-issues. Some over with the Fact chart.http://www.junodownload.com/plus/2014/12/03/best-of-2014-reissues-and-archival-releases/
1. Gigi Masin – Talk to the Sea (Music From Memory)2. Vangelis Katsoulis – The Sleeping Beauties: A Collection of Early and Unreleased Works (Into The Light)3. Lewis – L’amour/Romantic Times (Light In The Attic)4. Roland Young – Hearsay I-Land (Palto Flats)5. Donato Dozzy and Nuel – The Aquaplano Sessions (Spectrum Spools)6. Psyche - Re-Membering Dwayne (Dark Entries)7. Z AKA Bernard Szajner – Visions of Dune (InFiné)8. K. Leimer – A Period of Review (Original Recordings: 1975 – 1983) (RVNG Intl)9. Tom Ellard – ’80s Cheesecake (Dark Entries)10. Dat Oven – Icy Lake (Fade To Mind/Night Slugs)
― millmeister, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 14:35 (ten years ago)
Some *overlap with the Fact chart.
― millmeister, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 14:36 (ten years ago)
Gorilla vs Bearhttp://www.gorillavsbear.net/2014/12/02/gorilla-vs-bears-albums-of-2014/
1. Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty2. Grouper - Ruins3. Ariel Pink - Pom Pom4. Tops - Picture You Staring5. Burial - Rival Dealer6. Doss - Doss + remixes7. Lewis - L'Amour/Romantic Times8. Freddie Gibbs and Madlib - Pinata9. Fear of Men - Loom10. Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence11. Andy Stott - Faith in Strangers12. Flying Lotus - You're Dead!13. Mark Barrott - Sketches from an Island14. Yumi Zouma - Yumi Zouma15. Leon Vynehall - Music for the Uninvited16. Sharon Van Etten - Are We There17. Ana Caprix - For Seven Nights This Island Is Ours18. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire for No Witness19. DJ Dodger Stadium - Friend of Mine20. Panda Bear - Mr Noah21. Recycle Culture - Drown Me Up22. Jessie Ware - Tough Love23. Johnny Jewel - Rarities & Unreleased24. Tinashe - Aquarius25. Beverly - Careers26. Mica Levi - Under the Skin27. Alvvays - Alvvays28. Sales - Sales29. Viet Cong - Cassette30. The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream31. Vesuvio Solo - Favors32. Schoolboy Q - Oxymoron33. Mr Twin Sister - Mr Twin Sister34. Korallreven - Second Comin'35. You'll Never Get to Heaven - Adorn
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 14:36 (ten years ago)
xps It was just a timing issue. We've all been picking apart all these lists, and then one comes along that resembles something we'd actually make (at least in part) and there was cause for celebration. Then Mordy, then slothroprhymes' tongue-in-cheek reaction to Mordy, then lex...then I don't know. It's tough now to remember what I was thinking last night when this unfolded.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 14:40 (ten years ago)
GvsB still reliably digs a little deeper than all the other big indie bloggers. Big props for capping it off with You'll Never Get to Heaven's Adorn, which is a wonderful little EP.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 14:42 (ten years ago)
I'm actually quite surprised the Kelis album hasn't figured in more lists, even lurking around the 30s somewhere.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 14:43 (ten years ago)
The Guardian continues the slow roll: http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/nov/26/-sp-the-best-albums-of-2014
8 Beck - Morning Phase9 Flying Lotus - You're Dead10 Sleaford Mods - Divide And Exit
Nothing too exciting though the FlyLo is growing on me. I was a fan of earlier ones, just hadn't been in the mood for a while. Beck and Sleaford Mods can suckit though.
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 14:51 (ten years ago)
I just remembered that it was the NPR list, not the Guardian's, that I thought was pretty good last year.
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 14:57 (ten years ago)
did Rival Dealer really come out this year...? Damn.
Anyway, Ariel Pink notwithstanding the GvsB isn't too bad.
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 14:59 (ten years ago)
there are evidently more profound consonances between ilm ideology and cosmo ideology, nevermind the apparent gender polarity
― نكبة (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 15:08 (ten years ago)
rival dealer was late last year but mighta missed some 2013 lists
― nxd, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 15:14 (ten years ago)
wasn't it on the ilx list or am i imagining it?
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 15:22 (ten years ago)
maybe on both lists
― nxd, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 15:22 (ten years ago)
deff on one at least
― nxd, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 15:23 (ten years ago)
ah yes so it seems (74th for the title track and 30th on the album chart)
― nxd, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 15:26 (ten years ago)
If they were sensible and did these charts at the end of the year, they wouldn't need to pick up these late 2013 releases in the first place.
― millmeister, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 15:30 (ten years ago)
p much any given publication has a lot more to lose from waiting until the end of the year to do all this crap than they do from possibly missing out on one or two releases
― proper maoist (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 15:34 (ten years ago)
uh oh:http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/50-best-songs-of-2014-20141203
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 15:46 (ten years ago)
No Depression - Top 10 albums:http://nodepression.com/top-10-albums-list/2014-0
1. Sunny Sweeney - Provoked2. Carolina Story - Chapter Two3. Marcia Ball - The Tattooed Lady and the Alligator Man4. Cowboy Jack Clement - For Once and For All5. The Levon Helm Band - The Midnight Ramble Session 36. The Hayden Triplets - The Hayden Triplets7. The Levon Helm Band - The Midnight Ramble Session 38. Paul Thorn - Too Blessed to Be Stressed9. Justin Townes Earle - Single Mothers10. Lee Ann Womack - The Way I'm Livin'
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 15:49 (ten years ago)
I like #7, #5 is shit
― Lorde 2Pac Beck Mashup (crüt), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 15:55 (ten years ago)
bout the same for me,
― saer, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 15:55 (ten years ago)
so far only one (1) point in the RS songs list favor - it includes 0 to 100
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 15:59 (ten years ago)
oh shit, that's just some dumb forum post xps
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 16:00 (ten years ago)
i thought it looked a bit low-key
xxxp to myself ok its actually not too terrible overall, certainly runs circles around the albums list
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 16:03 (ten years ago)
I'm tight with the Juno Plus list of best reissues. Also agreeing with their comment re Gigi Masin's Talk To The Sea
wasn’t just the best reissue project of the year – it was better than most albums of new music released in 2014
― doug watson, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 16:17 (ten years ago)
i posted this in the sleater kinney thread by mistake but:
Trapt - The Acoustic Collection is a real doozy from that AV Club least essential list
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 16:18 (ten years ago)
I'm tight with the Juno Plus list of best reissues. Also agreeing with their comment re Gigi Masin's Talk To The Sea― doug watson
― doug watson
It's been sitting in my Bandcamp wishlist for a few months. Just ordered.
― millmeister, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 16:30 (ten years ago)
Listening to this now. Love it! Thanks for bringing it up.
― Evan, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 16:50 (ten years ago)
I completely missed Masin's reissue this year! Awesome.
― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 16:52 (ten years ago)
Complex - 30 best album covers of 2014http://uk.complex.com/style/2014/12/the-best-album-covers-of-2014/
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 16:54 (ten years ago)
gtfo are they serious?
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 17:03 (ten years ago)
It's like "hmm, let's look through this pile of review copies...ok that one looks alright...this one too...do we have 30 yet?"
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 17:04 (ten years ago)
Even as I was disappointed by the Shabazz Palaces album I knew some people would consider it an "OMG future of hip hop" masterpiece. I hoped I'd be one of those people but it reminded me of Divine Styler's Spiral Walls… The best tracks were the ones closest to hip hop, the more supposedly far-out stuff just sounded blah.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 17:07 (ten years ago)
AV Club's "Least Essential Albums of 2014" Listhttp://www.avclub.com/article/least-essential-albums-2014-212075only one of these i listened to is the country tribute to motley crue and it is indeed utterly unnecessary
― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 17:11 (ten years ago)
those covers! Every single one is so ugly, yet in so many different ways
― saer, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 17:14 (ten years ago)
Fabulous boomer earnestness in Rolling Stone's blurb for the Jackson Browne song: "Memories of youth in the Sixties, reflected through decades of lived truth."
Lived truth.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 17:16 (ten years ago)
fucking wenner prob wrote that one himself, sobbing while he did so
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 17:18 (ten years ago)
Some are alright, but it's clear they didn't really stress over finding things they didn't already know about.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 17:19 (ten years ago)
lol @ the TRAPT album cover from the least essential list
― Lorde 2Pac Beck Mashup (crüt), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 17:22 (ten years ago)
DON: Well, yeah.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 17:22 (ten years ago)
yay i'm glad mark barrott's album has finally showed up on one of these even if it had to be gorilla vs fucking bear
― dyl, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 18:00 (ten years ago)
rs songs list is not nearly as terrible as their albums list ("drunk in love" at #1 is cool) but i swear they have like 5 songs that were released as singles last year and had long since peaked
― dyl, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 18:06 (ten years ago)
Shabazz Palaces album is awesome. not sure I've heard anything better than it this year
― Dan S, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 18:15 (ten years ago)
The Skinny (UK) have released their top 10. Runnerups 11-50 forthcoming.
1 - Warpaint: Warpaint2 - The Twilight Sad: Nobody Wants To Be Here & Nobody Wants To Leave3 - The War On Drugs: Lost in the Dream4 - St. Vincent: St. Vincent5 - Angel Olsen: Burn Your Fire for No Witness6 - Mogwai: Rave Tapes7 - FKA Twigs: LP18 - The Afghan Whigs: Do to the Beast9 - The Phantom Band: Strange Friend10 - Young Fathers: Dead
― TTAGGGTTAGGG (Sanpaku), Thursday, 4 December 2014 00:39 (ten years ago)
Angel Olson is great
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 4 December 2014 01:10 (ten years ago)
wasn’t just the best reissue project of the year – it was better than most albums of new music released in 2014― doug watson, Wednesday, December 3, 2014 11:17 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yes. i posted on the balearic revival thread that it might be my favorite album of the year, at this point there's no doubt. i feel like it's gonna become an all-time favorite album for me.
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 4 December 2014 01:32 (ten years ago)
From AV Club's Least Essential Albums list:
Least essential Christmas album, Internet-famous cat-egory:Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever: Official SoundtrackThe idea of adult-contemporary singers and cutesy indie duos recording well-trodden Christmas standards is already an inessential addition to the world’s library of music. Doing that for the album accompaniment to a Lifetime movie that’s based on an Internet meme makes Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever: Official Soundtrack so ephemeral, physical copies may as well be shoved directly into the ground as a giant “fuck you” to the Earth.
The idea of adult-contemporary singers and cutesy indie duos recording well-trodden Christmas standards is already an inessential addition to the world’s library of music. Doing that for the album accompaniment to a Lifetime movie that’s based on an Internet meme makes Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever: Official Soundtrack so ephemeral, physical copies may as well be shoved directly into the ground as a giant “fuck you” to the Earth.
I do kinda feel like once all of the music stores that exist mainly to sell CDs are gone, these will be among the only CDs that are mass produced, just to sell on the impulse rack at Wal Mart or whereever.
― MaudAddam (cryptosicko), Thursday, 4 December 2014 01:34 (ten years ago)
yeah there will always be a carousel for them at the drug store next to the one holding 30 $5 copies of Ecks vs. Sever and Sum of All Fears on dvd
― anonanon, Thursday, 4 December 2014 01:49 (ten years ago)
http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2014/12/03/best-of-2014-world-music/
world music top 10
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 4 December 2014 01:54 (ten years ago)
wannabe boomer confession: i like the jackson browne album. won't be on my EOY list though.
― Bro With Extensive Taint (some dude), Thursday, 4 December 2014 02:24 (ten years ago)
Rolling Stone - Best songs of 2014https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/50-best-songs-of-2014-20141203
1. Beyonce feat. Jay -Z - Drunk In Love2. DJ Snake feat. Lil Jon - Turn Down for What3. U2 - Every Breaking Wave4. Future feat. Pusha T, Pharrell, Casino - Move that Dope5. Jenny Lewis - Just One of the Guys6. Taylor Swift - Blank Space7. Bruce Springsteen - Frankie Fell In Love8. Sharon Van Etten - Every Time the Sun Comes Up9. Future Islands - Seasons (Waiting On You)10. Kendrick Lamar - i11. Alvvays - Archie, Marry Me12. Sam Smith - Stay With Me13. Foo Fighters - Outside14. Grimes - Go15. Sia - Chandelier16. Beck - Blue Moon17. Rae Sremmurd - No Flex Zone18. Bleachers - I Wanna Get Better19. Iggy Azealia feat. Charli XCX - Fancy20. Old Crow Medicine Show - Sweet Amarillo21. Weezer - Back to the Shack22. Lana Del Rey - Brooklyn Baby23. Tove Lo - Habits (Stay High)24. The Black Keys - Gotta Get Away25. Caribou - Can't Do Without You26. Drake - 0 to 100/The Catch Up27. Thurston Moore - Grace Lake28. Prince - This Could Be Us29. Miranda Lambert - Smokin' and Drinkin'30. Coldplay - Magic31. EMA - So Blonde32. Maroon 5 - Animals33. Jackson Browne - The Birds of St. Marks34. Sylvan Esso - Coffee35. First Aid Kit - Master Pretender36. Beverly - Honey Do37. Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers - Faultlines38. YG feat. Jeezy, Rich Homie Quan - My Hitta39. Priests - Doctor40. Sleater-Kinney - Bury Our Friends41. Ought - Habit42. FKA Twigs - Two Weeks43. The New Pornographers - Brill Bruisers44. St. Vincent - Prince Johnny45. Hospitality - I Need Your Bones46. Katy B - 5 AM47. Real Estate - Talking Backwards48. Alex G. - Harvey49. Old 97s - Longer Than You've Been Alive50. Counting Crows - Dislocation
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Thursday, 4 December 2014 06:46 (ten years ago)
Treble zine - Top 10 Metal Albumshttp://www.treblezine.com/20342-top-10-metal-albums-of-2014/
1. Pallbearer – Foundations of Burden2. Tombs – Savage Gold3. Yob – Clearing the Path to Ascend4. Mutilation Rites – Harbinger5. Triptykon – Melana Chasmata6. Atriarch – An Unending Pathway7. Primordial – Where Greater Men Have Fallen8. Thou – Heathen9. Godflesh – A World Lit Only By Fire10. Nux Vomica – Nux Vomica
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Thursday, 4 December 2014 06:53 (ten years ago)
glad to see somebody rep for Grimes -Go, thought that song was generally hated, but it's the first time a track of hers has genuinely thrilled me.
― Dan S, Thursday, 4 December 2014 06:56 (ten years ago)
I don't think I've actually heard 'Chandelier' but I'm assuming the chorus is just Sia hollering 'CHANDELIER! CHANDELIER!' while playing four straight piano chords really loudly.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 4 December 2014 11:45 (ten years ago)
I don't think I've actually heard 'Chandelier' but I'm assuming the chorus is just Sia hollering 'CHANDELIER! CHANDELIER!' while playing four straight piano chords really loudly. --Matt DC
no, the production sounds like rihanna bc it was written for rihanna, but the lyrics are v sad sia stuff about alcoholism
it's good tho!!
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 4 December 2014 11:50 (ten years ago)
sia being considered a songwriter of quality completely mystifies me
― lex pretend, Thursday, 4 December 2014 11:53 (ten years ago)
never cared for her much until this latest record, based on her matching assumptions like Matt DCs above. however, thought putting her against actual current pop production worked. really like "elastic heart," "big girls cry" & "fire meet gasoline," as well as chandelier
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 4 December 2014 12:12 (ten years ago)
her lyrics often leave something to be desired, although I did like how raw they are on 1,000 forms of fear.
btw lex I tried some of those k michelle songs (you were championing her here I believe, correct me if wrong), and really enjoyed them. will check the whole album soon. thanks!
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 4 December 2014 12:16 (ten years ago)
awesome, the k michelle album is incredible
― lex pretend, Thursday, 4 December 2014 12:59 (ten years ago)
The Music Exchange (Nottingham vinyl shop):
1. St. Vincent - s/t2. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness3. Swans - To Be Kind4. Goat - Commune5. Bremen - Second Launch6. Hookworms - The Hum7. Sleaford Mods - Divide & Exit8. Alvvays - s/t9. Grumbling Fur - Preternaturals10. Todd Terje - It's Album Time
Reissues, Soundtracks & Compilations:
1. Lee Hazlewood - Love And Other Crimes2. Patrick Cowley - School Daze3. Laraaji - Celestial Music 1978-20114. V/A - Warfaring Strangers: Darkscorch Canticles5. Arthur Russell - World Of Echo6. The Fates - Furia7. William Onyeabor - Vinyl Boxset 1 & 28. Craig Leon - Anthology Of Interplanetary Folk Music Vol. 1: Nommos/Visiting9. Glenn Branca - Lesson No. 110. Sinoia Caves - Beyond The Black Rainbow OST
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 4 December 2014 16:57 (ten years ago)
Cannot get into St. Vincent at all.
― Evan, Thursday, 4 December 2014 17:04 (ten years ago)
It's pretty sad to see any even remotely classic roch-ish album get props over Intensity Ghost by Chris Forsyth & the Solar Motel band which is so godlike in imagining some amazing hybrid of Crazy Horse, Physical Graffiti, and Television, while feeling wholly fresh
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 4 December 2014 17:15 (ten years ago)
And I like War on Drugs fine but see Solar Motel live and they would eat their fucking lunch
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 4 December 2014 17:16 (ten years ago)
They're instrumental though so it's a different enough category, no?
Either way still got to pick that one up.
― Evan, Thursday, 4 December 2014 17:18 (ten years ago)
What I heard of that record was amazing and I liked the last record just fine. Their live album kills, too.
― Evan, Thursday, 4 December 2014 17:19 (ten years ago)
evan - you mean st. vincent on a whole or this album? bc it stripped away some of the stuff that i didnt love about previous albums of hers (less twee/chamber-pop touches)
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 4 December 2014 17:20 (ten years ago)
looking at this thread is like looking at pictures of that garbage island in the north pacific
― ≖_≖ (Lamp), Thursday, 4 December 2014 17:22 (ten years ago)
sloth- yeah her albums have always been a bit too busy but I'm still not feeling any of her melodies. All a bit too stiff for me too.
― Evan, Thursday, 4 December 2014 17:24 (ten years ago)
Evan yeah obv instrumental but I think the core of the appeal is a certain post punk/indie update on classic rock jamminess
Either way I thought maybe the record had gotten a little more notice outside of the ilx brigade crowd
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 4 December 2014 17:26 (ten years ago)
Hopefully! They're a great band.
― Evan, Thursday, 4 December 2014 17:30 (ten years ago)
is zis solar motel album on ze spotify
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 4 December 2014 17:31 (ten years ago)
i didn't even know there was another forsyth record
brigade thread way too big to load, way too many youtubes, you're doing yourselves in
― j., Thursday, 4 December 2014 17:31 (ten years ago)
ya. but gigi masin tho!
― hug niceman (psychgawsple), Thursday, 4 December 2014 17:35 (ten years ago)
garbage island is endlessly fascinating tbh
― gr8080, Thursday, 4 December 2014 17:38 (ten years ago)
OK, I've loaded up the NME, Paste, Rolling Stone, PopMatters, and TIME song/track lists onto a single Spotify playlist (deleting duplicates):http://open.spotify.com/user/seaworthyset/playlist/6gv4ng5XkJQQrTSkr7OzEH
Will add others as they come out.
― jaymc, Thursday, 4 December 2014 17:41 (ten years ago)
Sloth there are 2 songs from the album, one is really long, they are both standouts and give you a good idea of what Intensity Ghost is like
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 4 December 2014 17:57 (ten years ago)
x-post
MAGNET’s j. poet picks the best world-music releases of the year. 1 Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 A Long Way To The Beginning (Knitting Factory) 2 Toumani & Sidiki Diabate Toumani & Sidiki (World Circuit) 3 Jamie Dubberly & Orquesta Dharma La Clave Del Gumbo (Dubberly) 4 Zongo Junction No Discount (Electric Cowbell) 5 Anansy Cissé Mali Overdrive (Riverboat) 6 Lo’Jo 310 Lunes (World Village) 7 Boris Kovač & La Campanella Eastern Moon Rising (Riverboat) 8 Da Cruz Disco E Progresso (Boom Jah) 9 Banda Magda Yerakina (Ground UP) 10 Ricardo Lemvo & Makina Loca La Rumba SoYo (Cumbancha
Oh, forgot Ricardo Lemvo had a new release out. Have liked his Congolese meets Cuban grooves in the past.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 4 December 2014 17:57 (ten years ago)
Alvvays at 11 on the RS tracks list makes me happy
― Simon H., Thursday, 4 December 2014 18:02 (ten years ago)
xxp they are "the ballad of freer hollow" and "i aint waiting" correct?
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 4 December 2014 18:04 (ten years ago)
Yep
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 4 December 2014 18:06 (ten years ago)
33. Jackson Browne - The Birds of St. Marks
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 4 December 2014 18:09 (ten years ago)
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown),
WOD lunch = moldy kale + sprouts iirc
bc of brooklyn and beer commercial rock amirite???????? TRUTH 2 POWER
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 4 December 2014 18:17 (ten years ago)
btw evan & shakedown i very much like these chris forsyth/solar motel songs
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 4 December 2014 18:18 (ten years ago)
Nice! Yeah it's goof stuff sloth
― Evan, Thursday, 4 December 2014 18:36 (ten years ago)
good...
goof stuff also sounds interesting imo but forsyth is def not goofy
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 4 December 2014 18:38 (ten years ago)
toumani & sidiki is probably my #1 album from this year
― Lorde 2Pac Beck Mashup (crüt), Thursday, 4 December 2014 19:09 (ten years ago)
i'm a sucker for the stereo thing
― Lorde 2Pac Beck Mashup (crüt), Thursday, 4 December 2014 19:11 (ten years ago)
Sidmani & Tanooki
― alpine static, Thursday, 4 December 2014 19:20 (ten years ago)
Don't say it three times or he'll appear.
― Evan, Thursday, 4 December 2014 19:26 (ten years ago)
Listening to this atm. I realize the incredible amount of talent on display here, but I also feel like it's restaurant music?
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 4 December 2014 19:38 (ten years ago)
i've admittedly been in easy listening mode this year
― Lorde 2Pac Beck Mashup (crüt), Thursday, 4 December 2014 19:39 (ten years ago)
Sorry, that was mean. They're probably amazing to see perform.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 4 December 2014 19:40 (ten years ago)
ha, i thought it was apt
― Lorde 2Pac Beck Mashup (crüt), Thursday, 4 December 2014 19:42 (ten years ago)
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 4 December 2014 19:46 (ten years ago)
I like "The Birds of St. Marks" a lot. One of those songs he wrote when he was like 18.
― timellison, Thursday, 4 December 2014 19:56 (ten years ago)
I probably wouldn't have been as in to the Toumani&Sidiki record if I hadn't seen them first & gotten a sense of the interplay between them, the way the rhythms shift especially. The album with Ali Farka Toure often felt structured around & anchored down by the guitar but the pieces on this really take off, with those bouncy basslines underneath & they generate a lot of space, it's probably the airiest album I've ever heard. the tunes from the album were significantly expanded & perhaps just a little more patiently paced when I saw them played, which I absolutely recommend if you've got the faintest interest
― ogmor, Thursday, 4 December 2014 20:15 (ten years ago)
MAGNET’s j. poet picks the best world-music releases of the year.
1 Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 A Long Way To The Beginning (Knitting Factory)
I haven't heard the album, but they put on a good show at Bonnaroo. Having seen both Femi and Seun, I'd say Seun got the charisma gene.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 4 December 2014 20:36 (ten years ago)
Fasterlouder
1 Kimbra - The Golden Echo2 St. Vincent - St. Vincent3 The War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream4 Remi - Raw x Infinity5 Mac DeMarco - Salad Days6 Chet Faker - Built On Glass7 FKA Twigs - LP18 Run The Jewels - RTJ29 Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness10 The Smith Street Band - Throw Me In The River11 Flying Lotus - You're Dead!12 Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Pinata13 Fishing - Shy Glow14 Sun Kil Moon - Benji15 Azealia Banks - Broke With Expensive Taste16 Total Control - Typical System17 Royal Blood - Royal Blood18 Taylor Swift - 198919 Perfume Genius - Too Bright20 Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else21 Ariel Pink - Pom Pom22 Caribou - Our Love23 King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizzard - I'm In Your Mind Fuzz24 Glass Animals - ZABA25 Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues26 Kelis - Food27 Blank Realm - Grassed In28 Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animal29 Beck - Morning Phase30 Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence31 #1 Dads - About Face32 Alt-J - This Is All Yours33 DZ Deathrays - Black Rat34 TV On The Radio - Seeds35 Flight Facilities - Down To Earth36 Caitlin Park - The Sleeper37 Mastodon - Once More 'Round The Sun38 Angus and Julia Stone - Angus and Julia Stone39 The Black Keys - Turn Blue40 Sharon Van Etten - Are We There41 The Preatures - Blue Planet Eyes42 Augie March - Havens Dumb43 Alvvays - Alvvays44 First Aid Kit - Stay Gold45 Shihad - Fvey46 Hozier - Hozier47 Jack White - Lazaretto48 Ball Park Music - Puddinghead49 Peep Tempel - Tales50 Dan Sultan - Blackbird
― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Friday, 5 December 2014 03:07 (ten years ago)
MAGNET’s Bill Meyer picks the best jazz/improv releases of the year
1 Kyle Bruckmann’s Wrack …Awaits Silent Tristero’s Empire (Singlespeed)2 Brötzmann Adasiewicz Edwards Noble Mental Shake (Otoroku)3 AMM Place Sub. V. (Matchless)4 Matt Bauder And Day In Pictures Nightshades (Clean Feed)5 Rob Mazurek Mother Ode (Corbett Vs. Dempsey)6 Russ Johnson Meeting Point (Relay)7 Cymerman Wooley Parker World Of Objects (5049)8 Steve Lehman Octet Mise En Abîme (Pi)9 Keir Neuringer Ceremonies Of The Air (New Atlantis)10 Travis Laplante’s Battle Trance Palace Of Wind (New Amsterdam)
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― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 5 December 2014 03:13 (ten years ago)
Next batch of Guardian best albums:
10. Sleaford Mods - Divide and Exit9. Flying Lotus - You're Dead8. Beck - Morning Phase7. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 26. Trouble in Paradise - La Roux
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Friday, 5 December 2014 10:57 (ten years ago)
is that la roux album any good? i've seen it on a few polls and don't feel too keen on them on the basis of the few older tracks i've heard
― nxd, Friday, 5 December 2014 11:00 (ten years ago)
That La Roux album's surprisingly good and very different from the debut but I'm astonished that it's that high. Presumably it's St Vincent, TWOD, FKA, Aphex and Caribou in the Top 5.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Friday, 5 December 2014 11:04 (ten years ago)
yet again only one of these lists has anything from my top 20 records and i assure all and sundry that this is not intentional but wtf. perhaps only liking stuff that everyone else hates is some sort of talent i dunno
― don't ask me why i posted this (electricsound), Friday, 5 December 2014 11:05 (ten years ago)
Predicted Guardian top 5: Aphex Twin, Caribou, St. Vincent, Beyonce, FKA Twigs
― nashwan, Friday, 5 December 2014 11:14 (ten years ago)
on course for my votes to have zero impact on the guardian list apart from t-swift! literally not even listening to the same music as everyone else there.
― lex pretend, Friday, 5 December 2014 11:23 (ten years ago)
The La Roux album is much less harsh than their debut. Her voice is still quite shrill but it's not presented in such a harsh, confrontational way and the music is much more disco than synth-pop this time around. It's certainly more listenable than the debut but I'm bewildered to see it so high on any list.
― boxedjoy, Friday, 5 December 2014 11:28 (ten years ago)
no bad thing, lex.
― Cosmic Slop, Friday, 5 December 2014 11:31 (ten years ago)
37. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Pinata25. Actress - Ghettoville24. Banks - Goddess20. Owen Pallett - In Conflict19. Jhene Aiko - Souled Out15. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness7. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2
^^guardian albums i have heard and was varying shades of lukewarm-to-unenthusiastic about
40. Tricky - Adrian Thaws14. Future Islands - Singles13. Kate Tempest - Everybody Down10. Sleaford Mods - Divide and Exit9. Flying Lotus - You're Dead
^^guardian albums i was uninterested in hearing based on the lead single(s)
34. Jamie T - Carry on the Grudge29. Ariel Pink - Pom Pom28. Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots27. Kindness - Otherness18. Jenny Lewis - The Voyager8. Beck - Morning Phase6. La Roux - Trouble in Paradise
^^guardian albums i was uninterested in hearing based on these being terrible fucking artists whose past form is absolutely hideous and life is too short
my only thumbs up are for taylor and tinashe
if RMRM is right about the top 5, fka twigs is the only possible further thumbs up even though it's like my #25 album of the year and st vincent/caribou will join the heard-and-was-unenthusiastic-about pile
― lex pretend, Friday, 5 December 2014 11:33 (ten years ago)
i'm sure EOY will align a lot more with your tastes though.
― Hello, my name is Dark Chocolate Cookie (dog latin), Friday, 5 December 2014 11:36 (ten years ago)
meanwhile on the next planet across...
Loudwire - 20 Best Rock Songs of 2014http://loudwire.com/best-rock-songs-of-2014/
20. Three Days Grace 'Painkiller'19. Linkin Park featuring Daron Malakian 'Rebellion'18. Bring Me the Horizon 'Drown'17. Body Count 'Talk S--t, Get Shot'16. Against Me! 'True Trans Soul Rebel'15. Slash 'World on Fire'14. Emigrate featuring Frank Delle 'Eat You Alive'13. A Day to Remember 'End of Me'12. Kyng 'Electric Halo'11. Black Label Society 'My Dying Time'10. Starset 'Telescope'9. The Pretty Reckless 'Heaven Knows'8. The Virginmarys 'Just a Ride'7. Sixx: A.M. 'Stars'6. Royal Blood 'Figure It Out'5. Nothing More 'This Is the Time (Ballast)'4. Hellyeah 'Moth'3. Foo Fighters 'Something From Nothing'2. Islander 'Coconut Dracula'1. Chevelle 'Take Out the Gunman'
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Friday, 5 December 2014 11:36 (ten years ago)
of the many albums on my list that haven't cropped up in this thread at all yet, the one i'm most shocked by is toni braxton & babyface.
― lex pretend, Friday, 5 December 2014 11:38 (ten years ago)
sexist garbage from the standard:http://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/music/the-best-albums-of-2014-a-christmas-shopping-guide-for-musiclovers-9905463.html
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Friday, 5 December 2014 11:51 (ten years ago)
One thing I like about the ILX poll Lex is that it's the only place where you get to be consensus guy.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Friday, 5 December 2014 11:58 (ten years ago)
can't wait to buy the alt-j album for all my rocking intellectual family members
― nxd, Friday, 5 December 2014 12:02 (ten years ago)
love the way it's divided up into 'rap fans', 'indie kids', 'intellectuals' and 'girls'
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Friday, 5 December 2014 12:08 (ten years ago)
DJ Mag Singles: http://djmag.com/node/51427
1. Ten Walls - Walking With Elephants2. Patrick Topping - Forget3. Caribou - Can't Do Without You (Tale of Us & Mano Le Tough Remix)4. Sailor & I - Turn Around (Âme Remix)5. Floating Points - King Bromeliad6. Josh Wink - Are You There? (Ben Klock Remix)7. Seven Davis Jnr - One (Live Edit)8. Lauer - Hershel9. Leon Vynehall - Butterflies10. Oliver $ & Jimi Jules - Pushing On
"The next 20"Fracture - Loving TouchPatricia - Drip Dawn (JTC's I-94 Lick)Marquis Hawkes - Can't Find A ReasonTito Wun - The Way U Do It (Jacques Renault Remix)Josh Wink - Talking To YouJimmy Chambers - You Can't Fight ItBicep - Lyk LykRockwell - IneedUTrumpet & Badman - Str8 Jugglin'Point G - The AlarmDamiano Von Erckert - Diamonds & GirlsNoir & Hayze - Angel (Ripperton Remix)Wayne Snow - Red RunnerHotel Lauer - QDSebo K - AvalancheDjrum - DAM (Akkord Remix)Jitterbug - Sweet ToothCaribou - Our LoveGenius of Time - Juno JamMidland - Duster
― mike t-diva, Friday, 5 December 2014 13:06 (ten years ago)
Everything I've heard in that DJ Mag top ten has been banging (Ten Walls, Patrick Topping, Wink/Klock/Lauer/Oliver $) except the Tale of Us Caribou mix which somehow manages to be even drippier than the original.
― Matt DC, Friday, 5 December 2014 13:18 (ten years ago)
Boggling at that Standard article. Nothing says intellectualism like Alt-J.
― Matt DC, Friday, 5 December 2014 13:24 (ten years ago)
Juno Plus -- Top 30 Albums of 2014
30. Vaghe Stelle – Sweet Sixteen (Astro: Dynamics)29. Kassem Mosse – Workshop 19 (Workshop)28. Lorenzo Senni – Superimpositions (Boomkat Editions)27. Population One – Theater Of A Confused Mind (Rush Hour Music)26. Perc – The Power And The Glory (Perc Trax)25. Shit & Shine – Powder Horn (Diagonal)24. Beau Wanzer – Untitled (Self Released)23. Function & Vatican Shadow - Games Have Rules (Hospital Productions)22. Jo Johnson – Weaving (Further Records)21. Eric Holm - Andøya (Subtext)20. Alessandro Cortini – Sonno (Hospital Productions)19. Slackk – Palm Tree Fire (Local Action)18. Mr Mitch – Parallel Memories (Planet Mu)17. Ena – Binaural (Samurai Horo)16. Vessel – Punish, Honey (Tri Angle Records)15. Objekt - Flatland (PAN)14. Yamaneko – Pixel Wave Embrace (Local Action)13. Low Jack – Garifuna Versions (L.I.E.S.)12. Vril – Torus (Forum)11. Klara Lewis – Ett (Editions Mego)10. Millie & Andrea - Drop The Vowels (Modern Love)9. Arca – Xen (Mute)8. Bing & Ruth – Tomorrow Was The Golden Age (RVNG Intl)7. Ital – Endgame (Planet Mu)6. Neel – Phobos (Spectrum Spools)5. Mo Kolours - Mo Kolours (One Handed Music)4. Gesloten Cirkel – Submit X (Murder Capital)3. Shinichi Atobe – Butterfly Effect (DDS)2. Andy Stott - Faith In Strangers (Modern Love)1. Call Super – Suzi Ecto (Houndstooth)
― Daniel, Esq 2, Friday, 5 December 2014 13:39 (ten years ago)
It's cos Alt-J wear glasses and their name is a keyboard shortcut.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 5 December 2014 13:49 (ten years ago)
oh, i like a bunch of those! totally recommend the vessel record to anyone who liked the holden album from last year xp
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Friday, 5 December 2014 13:49 (ten years ago)
nice to see the electronic lists pop up.
1. Ten Walls - Walking With Elephants4. Sailor & I - Turn Around (Âme Remix)5. Floating Points - King Bromeliad9. Leon Vynehall - Butterflies10. Oliver $ & Jimi Jules - Pushing OnMarquis Hawkes - Can't Find A ReasonTrumpet & Badman - Str8 Jugglin'
YASSS to all of these singles. looking fwd to the dance trax lists bc i spent a lot of this year completely out of the loop
the juno plus albums is an odd mix of stuff i really loved - call super is a great choice for no 1 - and a lot of stuff i found really dry or relentless (objekt, millie & andrea, perc). was really disappointed by the slackk and stott albums too.
― lex pretend, Friday, 5 December 2014 13:53 (ten years ago)
although i feel like even if the usual outlets were always going to be slow to pick up deep tech, they shouldn't be so slow that it's not popping up in these lists
― lex pretend, Friday, 5 December 2014 13:54 (ten years ago)
loved stott, but i'm a fan and perhaps bias. never, ever understood the appeal of the perc disc.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Friday, 5 December 2014 13:54 (ten years ago)
perc didn't do much for me either, but i'm liking the andy stott. both very grey albums in their own ways though, it's true
xps haha
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Friday, 5 December 2014 13:59 (ten years ago)
Hip hop heads, teen queens, soul sisters, indie kids, rocking intellectuals, modern mums. Hilariously patronizing, and they forgot music lovers.
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 5 December 2014 14:05 (ten years ago)
yeah that's got to go in the worst music writing thread. every sentence is condescending to the max.
― Hello, my name is Dark Chocolate Cookie (dog latin), Friday, 5 December 2014 14:08 (ten years ago)
stott's new one was kinda fine as background music, just disappointing after how revelatory luxury problems was
― lex pretend, Friday, 5 December 2014 14:11 (ten years ago)
To be fair, if you scroll to the bottom, it also identifies "the dad dancers" (you may like Pink Floyd and Neil Young). Which makes it so much better and more even-handed.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 5 December 2014 14:12 (ten years ago)
They need to rethink their demographic info. Many dads these days were born in the mid-80s, and some as recently as late 90s! So Dancing Dads would be more into, oh, The Juan Maclean. Pink Floyd and Neil Young are for the Grampa Rockers!
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 5 December 2014 14:43 (ten years ago)
Pink Floyd and Neil Young are for the Grampa Rockers!― Fastnbulbous, Friday, December 5, 2014
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, December 5, 2014
curse you, fastnbulbous.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Friday, 5 December 2014 14:43 (ten years ago)
That Standard piece is really something else. Fuck.
And on the subject of awfulness, the comments under the Quietus list are well worth reading if you haven't already. Massive amounts of intentional and unintentional humour to be seen there.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Friday, 5 December 2014 14:50 (ten years ago)
that ten walls track sounds so familiar. is it just an update of a previous tune he did?
― Hello, my name is Dark Chocolate Cookie (dog latin), Friday, 5 December 2014 14:57 (ten years ago)
Dads like The Chromatics.
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 5 December 2014 15:01 (ten years ago)
xp yeah it's a colliery band 'gotham'
never want to hear 'elephants' again in my lifetime but its omission on any worthwhile eoy would be inexcusable
― r|t|c, Friday, 5 December 2014 15:08 (ten years ago)
chief keef is a dad
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 5 December 2014 15:09 (ten years ago)
xp yeah it's a colliery band 'gotham'never want to hear 'elephants' again in my lifetime but its omission on any worthwhile eoy would be inexcusable― r|t|c, Friday, December 5, 2014 3:08 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― r|t|c, Friday, December 5, 2014 3:08 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ah right thanks, i quite liked 'gotham' in a Plaid-goes-deep-house kind of way.
― Hello, my name is Dark Chocolate Cookie (dog latin), Friday, 5 December 2014 15:13 (ten years ago)
Pitchfork - Best album covers of 2014:http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/9556-the-best-album-covers-of-2014/1/
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Friday, 5 December 2014 15:17 (ten years ago)
definitely not a fan of the swans or sbtrkt ones
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Friday, 5 December 2014 15:18 (ten years ago)
Pink Floyd and Neil Young are for the Grampa Rockers!
as a grampa I concur
― sleeve, Friday, 5 December 2014 15:26 (ten years ago)
I'm not either, but it appears they put a little bit more effort into that list this year which I'm grateful for. xp
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 5 December 2014 15:27 (ten years ago)
nice little write ups too
― nxd, Friday, 5 December 2014 15:32 (ten years ago)
yeah the swans album artwork sucks no matter which way i look at it.
― Hello, my name is Dark Chocolate Cookie (dog latin), Friday, 5 December 2014 15:37 (ten years ago)
Burning Ambulance Best Metal Albums of 2014:
25. Torch Runner, Endless Nothing24. Baring Teeth, Ghost Chorus Among Old Ruins23. Cretin, Stranger22. AEvangelist, Writhes In The Murk21. Mastodon, Once More 'Round The Sun20. Machine Head, Bloodstone & Diamonds19. Decapitated, Blood Mantra18. Monarch, Sabbracadaver17. Hedvig Mollestad Trio, Enfant Terrible16. Emmure, Eternal Enemies15. Crown The Empire, The Resistance: Rise Of The Runaways14. Behemoth, The Satanist13. Ringworm, Hammer Of The Witch12. Obituary, Inked In Blood11. Vader, Tibi Et Igni10. Cannibal Corpse, A Skeletal Domain9. Incantation, Dirges Of Elysium8. Body Count, Manslaughter7. Cavalera Conspiracy, Pandemonium6. Opeth, Pale Communion5. GridLink, Longhena4. Exmortus, Slave To The Sword3. Rigor Mortis, Slaves To The Grave2. Job For A Cowboy, Sun Eater1. Judas Priest, Redeemer Of Souls
Burning Ambulance Best Jazz Albums Of 2014:
25. Vinnie Sperrazza, Apocryphal24. Rodrigo Amado Motion Trio & Peter Evans, The Freedom Principle and Live In Lisbon23. Orrin Evans, Liberation Blues22. Eric Revis, In Memory Of Things Yet Seen21. Matthew Shipp Trio, Root Of Things20. Wadada Leo Smith, Red Hill and The Great Lakes Suites19. The Cookers, Time And Time Again18. Michael Blake, Tiddy Boom17. Sonny Simmons & Moksha Samnyasin, Nomadic16. Matt Brewer, Mythology15. Rudy Royston, 30314. Eric Hofbauer Quintet, Prehistoric Jazz Vol. 1 & 213. Paal Nilssen-Love Large Unit, Erta Ale12. William Hooker & Liudas Mockunas, Live At The Vilnius Jazz Festival11. Johnathan Blake, Gone But Not Forgotten10. Donald Edwards, Evolution Of An Influenced Mind9. Eric Wyatt, Borough Of Kings8. Tom Tallitsch, Ride7. Mark Lomax Trio, Isis & Osiris6. Sarah Manning, Harmonious Creature5. Mike DiRubbo, Threshold4. Brian Charette, The Question That Drives Us3. Steve Lehman Octet, Mise en Abîme2. Jerome Sabbagh, The Turn1. Jemeel Moondoc, The Zookeeper's House
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 5 December 2014 15:50 (ten years ago)
love how pharmakon always makes the cut on those covers lists
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Friday, 5 December 2014 16:08 (ten years ago)
it's a good cover imo
― Hello, my name is Dark Chocolate Cookie (dog latin), Friday, 5 December 2014 16:12 (ten years ago)
it absolutely is. and a p good album at that
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Friday, 5 December 2014 16:14 (ten years ago)
I still love Walking With Elephants but I haven't been overexposed to it. It really does feel like this year's ubiquitous tune with an impact way outside quotidian bobbins territory.
That Ben Klock remix of Josh Wink is immense.
― Matt DC, Friday, 5 December 2014 16:15 (ten years ago)
got to 6 in the charts so yes
― r|t|c, Friday, 5 December 2014 16:19 (ten years ago)
and on the latest NOW! comp
― Jeff W, Friday, 5 December 2014 16:25 (ten years ago)
Entertainment Weekly Top 10 Albums, per metacritic:
1. St. Vincent - s/t2. Run the Jewels - RTJ23. Perfume Genius - Too Bright4. Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence5. Mac Demarco - Salad Days6. Flying Lotus - You're Dead!7. Ty Segall - Manipulator8. Beck - Morning Phase9. FKA Twigs - LP110. Eric Church - The Outsiders
not a terrible list aside from that narcoleptic beck record & the overrated mac demarco
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Friday, 5 December 2014 16:35 (ten years ago)
I haven't heard Salad Days yet but I love "2".
― Evan, Friday, 5 December 2014 16:37 (ten years ago)
he's fine, like not bad at all, but he's hella overpraised imo. only listened to both his records in full once but def liked 2 better than salad days
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Friday, 5 December 2014 16:39 (ten years ago)
I know we rightly criticise the tedious lionisation of boomer acts but really the critical edifice that's been set up to ensure that Pavement and Yo La Tengo are never allowed to go out of fashion is so much lamer. Which is my way of saying the Mac Demarco album is terrible.
― Matt DC, Friday, 5 December 2014 16:51 (ten years ago)
Mac Demarco sounds like Pavement and Yo La Tengo?!
― emil.y, Friday, 5 December 2014 16:52 (ten years ago)
He's got strong songs, and him and his band are great musicians- one of those rare indie groups that show you can actually be indie-cool and technically proficient at the same time! You know, tight playing, tuned guitars, minimal glaring mistakes in the studio recording... the stuff that is opposite of the purposeful-DIY-sound approach.
― Evan, Friday, 5 December 2014 16:52 (ten years ago)
i personally have never, ever, ever understood the appeal of yo la tengo. pavement is like, i understand how influential it is & some of it i genuinely enjoy but pavement also gave us speedy ortiz, who are fucking trash.
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Friday, 5 December 2014 16:54 (ten years ago)
He does sound a bit like Pavement on occasion but his main constituency appears to be people nostalgic for early 90s Matador.
― Matt DC, Friday, 5 December 2014 16:54 (ten years ago)
Btw, my exclamatory remark was not meant as a "no, he doesn't" - I've literally never heard a note of his work. I don't know what I was expecting him to sound like, really. I haven't thought about him much.
― emil.y, Friday, 5 December 2014 16:55 (ten years ago)
Is it really "so much lamer" though Matt?
― Evan, Friday, 5 December 2014 16:55 (ten years ago)
He doesn't sound like Pavement or Yo La Tengo to answer that question.
i like pavement a lot. ylt i can take or leave, but i don't really see the point in a lot of the newer acts. i liked the first parquet courts quite a lot but sunbathing animal was a drag.
― dive inside water and you will know (dog latin), Friday, 5 December 2014 16:56 (ten years ago)
I've literally never heard a note of his work. I don't know what I was expecting him to sound like, really.
Same for me. Pavement was not what I'd expected someone to say, though.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 5 December 2014 16:57 (ten years ago)
sloth what of Yo La Tengo have you spent any time with?
― Evan, Friday, 5 December 2014 16:57 (ten years ago)
considering stephen malkmus's album appeared in the lower reaches of only Uncut and American Songwriter magazines, maybe Pavement's endurance is overestimated?
― dive inside water and you will know (dog latin), Friday, 5 December 2014 16:58 (ten years ago)
Recent solo Malkmus is far from the tone of Pavement though.
― Evan, Friday, 5 December 2014 17:00 (ten years ago)
The issue is not really whether he sounds like either.
― Matt DC, Friday, 5 December 2014 17:03 (ten years ago)
evan i have heard fade, i am not afraid of you... and i can hear the heart beating as one. again this is more an issue of me thinking something is *shrug* rather than actively bad.
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Friday, 5 December 2014 17:05 (ten years ago)
Gotcha- so... guitar indie in general?
― Evan, Friday, 5 December 2014 17:05 (ten years ago)
mac demarco sounds like a sad ariel pink
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Friday, 5 December 2014 17:06 (ten years ago)
Wow I played some of those ones in the djmag chart, really horrible!
― saer, Friday, 5 December 2014 17:16 (ten years ago)
Hey sloth I'd recommend giving Painful a go start to finish and see if you like that better.
― Evan, Friday, 5 December 2014 17:21 (ten years ago)
We clown on Popmatters sometimes, but I really like their metal list. With some great contributions from at least one, that I'm aware of, ilxor.
15. Witch Mountain - Mobile of Angels14. Babymetal - Babymetal13. Dawnbringer - Night of the Hammer12. Midnight - No Mercy for Mayhem11. Ghost Bridage - IV: One With the Storm10. Panopticon - Roads to the North9. Mournful Congregation - Concrescence of the Sophia8. Behemoth - The Satanist7. Godflesh - A World Lit Only By Fire6. Judas Priest - Redeemer of Souls5. Agalloch - The Serpent and the Sphere4. YOB - Clearing the Path to Ascend3. Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden2. Triptykon - Melana Chasmata1. Opeth - Pale Communion
― ƋППṍӮɨ∏ğڵșěᶉᶇдM℮ (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 5 December 2014 17:45 (ten years ago)
the YOB album truly is as good as advertised
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Friday, 5 December 2014 17:57 (ten years ago)
Ugh The Outsiders. Is EW playing catchup?
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 5 December 2014 17:58 (ten years ago)
i feel bad that Eric Church is getting dumped on so much in this thread. the album is not as hit-packed as its predecessor and has some goofy lyrics but i really love the arrangements/production and overall vibe.
― Bro With Extensive Taint (some dude), Friday, 5 December 2014 18:15 (ten years ago)
I'm assuming that I will be just as bored by the new Eric Church album as I was by the first one?
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Friday, 5 December 2014 18:16 (ten years ago)
one of my favorite things about the album is that 2 of the singles have zany tempo changes, you might enjoy that
― Bro With Extensive Taint (some dude), Friday, 5 December 2014 18:16 (ten years ago)
You're correct.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 5 December 2014 18:20 (ten years ago)
sadly I am slightly intrigued by the promise of zany tempo changes
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Friday, 5 December 2014 18:25 (ten years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF-W4YJ6y_A
― Bro With Extensive Taint (some dude), Friday, 5 December 2014 18:28 (ten years ago)
i keep trying to square the idea that "rock is dead" with the current critical/ILX love of extreme metal
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 5 December 2014 18:30 (ten years ago)
Time Out (London) - Albums:http://www.timeout.com/london/music/the-best-albums-of-2014
30. Sam Smith - In the Lonely Hour29. SBTRKT - Wonder Where We Land28. Richard Dawson - Nothing Important27. Metronomy - Love Letters26. East India Youth - Total Strife Forever25. Beck - Morning Phase24. Damien Rice - My Favourite Faded Fantasy23. Aphex Twin - Syro22. Alex G - DSU21. Future Islands - Singles20. The Horrors - Luminous19. Mica Levi - Under the Skin OST18. Kate Tempest - Everubody Down17. Perfume Genius - Too Bright16. Sun Kil Moon - Benji15. Taylor Swift - 198914. Royal Blood - Royal Blood13. Hookworms - The Hum12. Warpaint - Warpaint11. Jungle - Jungle10. Owen Pallett - In Conflict9. Caribou - Our Love8. Ibibio Sound Machine - Ibibio Sound Machine7. FKA Twigs - LP16. The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream5. Little Dragon - Nabuma Rubberband4. Goat - Commune3. Todd Terje - It's Album Time2. Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots1. La Roux - Trouble in Paradise
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Friday, 5 December 2014 18:31 (ten years ago)
Is that the first Ibibio Sound Machine nod in a major list? Nice.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 5 December 2014 18:32 (ten years ago)
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, December 5, 2014 1:30 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i saw someone on twitter say their year-end list had x many 'metal' albums but no 'rock' albums. i'm all for setting extreme metal totally outside the rock category as some kind of terrible IDM with guitars.
― Bro With Extensive Taint (some dude), Friday, 5 December 2014 18:36 (ten years ago)
Time Out (London) - Best songs of 2014:http://www.timeout.com/london/music/the-50-best-songs-of-2014
50. David Bowie – Sue (Or in a Season of Crime)49. Kindness – This is Not About Us48. Floating Points – King Bromeliad47. Objekt – Ganzfeld46. Mick Jenkins – Rain45. Iggy Azalea ft. Charli XCX – Fancy44. Meridian Dan – German Whip43. Nadine Shah – Stealing Cars42. Route 94 ft. Jess Glynne – My Love41. Tiga – Bugatti40. Strand Of Oaks – Goshen ’9739. East India Youth – Heaven, How Long38. Sun Kil Moon – Richard Ramirez Died Today of Natural Causes37. The Horrors – So Now You Know36. Sam Smith – Stay With Me35. Honeyblood – Choker34. Gorgon City ft. MNEK – Ready for Your Love33. Brian Eno and Karl Hyde – Daddy’s Car32. Kate Tempest – Lonely Daze31. Caribou – Can’t Do Without You30. Dan Beaumount – Trippy Pumper29. Gazelle Twin – Anti Body28. Paolo Nutini – Iron Sky27. St Vincent – Digital Witness26. Glass Animals – Gooey25. Clean Bandit featuring Jess Glynne – Rather Be24. Flying Lotus ft. Kendrick Lamar – Never Catch Me23. SBTRKT ft. Raury – Higher22. Real Lies – North Circular21. Aphex Twin – Minipops 67 [120.2][source field mix]20. Little Dragon – Killing Me19. Sia – Chandelier18. Caribou – Silver17. Damon Albarn – You and Me16. Beyonce ft. Jay Z – Drunk in Love15. Royal Blood – Out of the Black14. Ibibio Sound Machine – Let’s Dance (Yak Inek Unek)13. The War On Drugs – Red Eyes12. Warpaint – Disco//Very11. La Roux – Let Me Down Gently10. Jessie Ware – Tough Love9. Tune-Yards – Water Fountain8. Perfume Genius – Queen7. Kiesza – Hideaway6. Metronomy – I’m Aquarius5. Todd Terje – Delorean Dynamite4. FKA Twigs – Two Weeks3. Taylor Swift – Shake It Off2. Jungle – Busy Earnin’1. Future Islands – Seasons (Waiting on You)
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Friday, 5 December 2014 18:37 (ten years ago)
some kind of terrible IDM with guitars
LOL, thanks
― some kind of terrible IDM with guitars (sleeve), Friday, 5 December 2014 18:46 (ten years ago)
i'm sure actual terrible idm with guitars must already exist but i can't think who that would be
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Friday, 5 December 2014 18:47 (ten years ago)
oh wait radiohead
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Friday, 5 December 2014 18:48 (ten years ago)
RIP Atari Teenage Riot
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Friday, 5 December 2014 18:49 (ten years ago)
imo "terrible idm with guitars" = refused
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 5 December 2014 18:57 (ten years ago)
ruuuuuuuuuuuuude
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Friday, 5 December 2014 19:00 (ten years ago)
refused rule
plus you get on that what's math punk and what's math metal thing w.like converge/refused/meshuggah/etc etc
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Friday, December 5, 2014 12:49 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i sold the LP but i stil have the not your business EP w/raverbashing on vinyl, that is pretty amazing/ludicrious now
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 5 December 2014 19:03 (ten years ago)
Y'all critics are totally sleeping on Weird Al's Mandatory Fun. "Word Crimes" is the best song of the year!
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 5 December 2014 19:04 (ten years ago)
MidnightNo Mercy for MayhemOver the past few years Cleveland band Midnight has been steadily attracting new followers in the metal underground with its simple yet irresistible and very raucous blend of Motörhead’s fierce rock ‘n’ roll and the deliriously sloppy blasphemy of Venom. As brilliant as 2011’s Satanic Royalty was—and it was one of that year’s finest underground metal releases—it had many, including yours truly, wondering just what Midnight had left in the tank. After all, when you’re a one-trick pony, it’s hard to keep audiences riveted; just ask Motörhead and Venom, who’ve had their share of duds. What makes No Mercy For Mayhem so extraordinary, however, is that it’s just as intense and primal as ever, but now there’s a flashier side to the riffs, often bringing a deathpunk swagger to the proceedings, guaranteed to remind many of Norwegian greats Turbonegro. Just listen to how the crazed boogie-woogie of “Prowling Leather” segues immediately into the title track, whose slick leads are more Hanoi Rocks than Jeff Mantas. The end result is one of the most undeniably fun metal albums of the year, one that’s far more musically rich than anyone could ever have expected. Adrien Begrand
Over the past few years Cleveland band Midnight has been steadily attracting new followers in the metal underground with its simple yet irresistible and very raucous blend of Motörhead’s fierce rock ‘n’ roll and the deliriously sloppy blasphemy of Venom. As brilliant as 2011’s Satanic Royalty was—and it was one of that year’s finest underground metal releases—it had many, including yours truly, wondering just what Midnight had left in the tank. After all, when you’re a one-trick pony, it’s hard to keep audiences riveted; just ask Motörhead and Venom, who’ve had their share of duds. What makes No Mercy For Mayhem so extraordinary, however, is that it’s just as intense and primal as ever, but now there’s a flashier side to the riffs, often bringing a deathpunk swagger to the proceedings, guaranteed to remind many of Norwegian greats Turbonegro. Just listen to how the crazed boogie-woogie of “Prowling Leather” segues immediately into the title track, whose slick leads are more Hanoi Rocks than Jeff Mantas. The end result is one of the most undeniably fun metal albums of the year, one that’s far more musically rich than anyone could ever have expected. Adrien Begrand
rock lives
― j., Friday, 5 December 2014 19:05 (ten years ago)
Is rock undead?
― Evan, Friday, 5 December 2014 19:07 (ten years ago)
that sounds fun
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 5 December 2014 19:07 (ten years ago)
(that cleveland band not being a zombie)
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 5 December 2014 19:08 (ten years ago)
it's great ums
― j., Friday, 5 December 2014 19:08 (ten years ago)
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, December 5, 2014 2:08 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
feel like a cleve rock band made up of zombies would be even more fun imo
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Friday, 5 December 2014 19:12 (ten years ago)
i don't have much of a theory on this but i think a lot of the metal-lives-rock-is-dead phenomenon is just down to demographics. i mean, i would like to listen to more rock music, i suppose, i listen to a lot more than i did 10 years ago, but it's hard to find things that really interest me and seem good enough, when it's of recent vintage. some combination of post-00s mainstreamification of indie, and the ongoing state of commercial rock/alt-rock/loud-rock, and the retreadism (like brad's faves hotelier - i liked that but it also seemed too one-note to me to be forgivable, for such a familiar sound), and the weird unappetizing puttering about that i find in a lot of the headline indie/rock names of the last 10 years or so… it's like they're not currently expressing feelings/existential outlooks using sounds that i wanna hear. catering too much to the sensibilities of well-heeled 25-45somethings, their lifestyle plans, etc, for one.
whereas in metal you can find more of an outright disinterest in sounding nice for indie-npr, soundtracking beer-flight tasting night at the local coffeeshop, etc.; more acknowledgement of the current shittiness of society, life in it; at least (even if obscure/incoherent) some kind of nod to class (owing to metal's long-standing disreputable status).
on the other hand, aside from its other qualities that can make it unapproachable to people who don't like noise, massive downers, etc., extreme metal just has a built-in barrier to entry with the voices, the at the very least facade of interest in eeeevil, different styles of imagery, etc. so to some extent there are rock listeners who may have been comfortable with some configurations of, i dunno, negativity/refusal in music, that cannot get with those that are more available at the moment in some metal.
― j., Friday, 5 December 2014 19:24 (ten years ago)
modern rock music in the popular arena = country
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Friday, 5 December 2014 19:35 (ten years ago)
i know somedude checks for actual radio-rock, as some other critics here do. i suppose one way of putting it is that extreme metal offers some cred-cover for critics/listeners who want features of rock but can't stand for whatever reason to get them from / admit to get them from radio-rock.
― j., Friday, 5 December 2014 19:42 (ten years ago)
i'm listening to a prog metal album right now and it is barely distinguishable from radio rock
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 5 December 2014 19:48 (ten years ago)
the last band i liked a lot that could be called radio rock was gaslight anthem, but they have gotten suckier with every album. also i guess like, NIN, who i'll always ride or die for, gets some radio play for elder-statespeople reasons, thats pretty much it
i feel like theres a decent amount of rock - regardless of whether it's technically ensconced in some subgenre like the emo revival stuff - that in theory could have fairly wide appeal but it never seems to end up there
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Friday, 5 December 2014 19:48 (ten years ago)
or say, the last baroness album - that record is chock full of anthems that are more or less radio-ready without sounding compromised, but i dont think any of those songs got play (correct me if wrong)
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Friday, 5 December 2014 19:49 (ten years ago)
the last band i liked a lot that could be called radio rock was gaslight anthem
this reminds me that i had the thought the other day that some dude might like this year's taking back sunday record
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 5 December 2014 19:50 (ten years ago)
i think the midnight album is interesting because it's open and riffy and hooky enough somehow, even with a nice and regular vocalist-over-the-top frontman, and not much in the way of noisy/irritating technique from the band, that it hits just the right buttons for your typical rock-listener-requirements. in a way that, say, the obliterations album from this year, or the oozing wound album, don't. but his vocals are juuuuust snarling/tortured enough to seem a little OTT / affected / playacty / indecorous if you're thinking that rock music should, like, be ok to have on at your independent coffeeshop. too many customers would be, 'it felt… disturbing'.
― j., Friday, 5 December 2014 19:55 (ten years ago)
play where, slothrop? that album did get some critical play, and some ilm play. i actually listened to it quite a bit! but something about it made it too much of a sell/chore.
― j., Friday, 5 December 2014 19:57 (ten years ago)
(and i think maybe it didn't stick enough with enough critics for the same sort of reason. lots wanted to like it, but didn't in the end?)
― j., Friday, 5 December 2014 19:59 (ten years ago)
oh i mean on rock radio. thats what i was talking about - that baroness has songs that are still unquestionably baroness but could in theory be liked by rock radio audiences & yet don't get airply. it got oodles of critic love and although i was not on ILX then i'm sure it was adored here
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Friday, 5 December 2014 20:01 (ten years ago)
*airplay. personally i fucking love that album, it was my #5 of 2012
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Friday, 5 December 2014 20:02 (ten years ago)
Shellac album is only on two of these lists, speaking of rock music that this noise fan can tolerate. new Six Organs is too late in this dumb spin cycle to get counted but it rocks too.
― some kind of terrible IDM with guitars (sleeve), Friday, 5 December 2014 20:03 (ten years ago)
chances of "Yellow & Green" producing some sort of rock radio hit were probably slim from the jump BUT whatever chance it might've had probably ended when they crashed their van in Europe a month after it came out, effectively shutting down the band for a year and a half. touring stopped (they didn't do a post-"Y&G" tour of America until late 2013!) and promotional efforts were scaled back considerably. again, it's not like you could say "that cost them a hit" but it certainly didn't help matters.
(it was my #1 album of '12, btw)
― alpine static, Friday, 5 December 2014 20:06 (ten years ago)
"board up the house" tho??
totally true about the auto accident. & its 1,000x better that they're alive to make new music sometime in the future than dead while their first radio hit surfaces.
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Friday, 5 December 2014 20:09 (ten years ago)
Yeah, the Midnight album makes me smile. They were always a great band, but the way they glammed up the new songs in that sleazy Hanoi Rocks/Turbonegro way turned out to be a perfect fit.
― A. Begrand, Friday, 5 December 2014 20:12 (ten years ago)
modern rock music in the popular arena = country― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Friday, December 5, 2014
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Friday, December 5, 2014
there's a little truth to this, and shame on us as a community-of-nations for not nipping-this-in-the-bud earlier.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Friday, 5 December 2014 20:14 (ten years ago)
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Friday, December 5, 2014 3:09 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This makes me sad in regards to the Exploding Hearts. Probably since I don't think they got anywhere near the radio either.
― Evan, Friday, 5 December 2014 20:15 (ten years ago)
Naomi Punk isn't on nearly enough of these lists
― example (crüt), Friday, 5 December 2014 20:40 (ten years ago)
PC music and deep tech suspiciously absent from these lists too, track lists at least
― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Friday, 5 December 2014 20:47 (ten years ago)
oh fuck off with that snob act xxxp
― some kind of terrible IDM with guitars (sleeve), Friday, 5 December 2014 20:48 (ten years ago)
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, December 5, 2014 2:50 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah? i feel like i still have to do my homework and eventually appreciate their old stuff
― Bro With Extensive Taint (some dude), Friday, 5 December 2014 21:17 (ten years ago)
xp what act? I genuinely believe at least 90% of contemporary country is puerile horseshit.
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Saturday, 6 December 2014 00:01 (ten years ago)
ILM metal poll voting is open til next friday~~~ ILM METAL POLL 2014 - ALBUMS - VOTING & CAMPAIGN THREAD~~~ (VOTING ENDS FRIDAY December 12th 11.59pm UK time/6.59pm EST) ALL ILXORS inc LURKERS WELCOME
― Cosmic Slop, Saturday, 6 December 2014 00:03 (ten years ago)
xp was responding to Daniel not you, DJP, extending the dislike to "we have all failed" is what got me riled up
― some kind of terrible IDM with guitars (sleeve), Saturday, 6 December 2014 00:27 (ten years ago)
your analogy seems spot on, esp. considering I don't like much of either
― some kind of terrible IDM with guitars (sleeve), Saturday, 6 December 2014 00:28 (ten years ago)
some dude can vote for terrible idm with guitars if he wishes
― Cosmic Slop, Saturday, 6 December 2014 00:30 (ten years ago)
if by which you mean extreme metal then no thanks
― Bro With Extensive Taint (some dude), Saturday, 6 December 2014 00:39 (ten years ago)
Didn't Squarepusher do a terrible idm album with guitars a couple of years ago?
― dive inside water and you will know (dog latin), Saturday, 6 December 2014 00:42 (ten years ago)
A really good rock band from this year that I just discovered through the Quietus list are Ought. Very Televisiony, a little bit of early Radiohead in there but not as prissy and moany - tougher and hungrier sounding. Check em.
― dive inside water and you will know (dog latin), Saturday, 6 December 2014 00:44 (ten years ago)
i mean their old stuff is kind of a direct antecedent to fob and mcr getting huge, so maybe you'd like it, but it's very, very emo, especially tell all your friends which imo was a template that everyone else refined. the new one is probably their least emo and most straightforward modern rock record, feels like a bunch of dudes who've written together for years just really locking into each other and crafting great songs
i am also literally the only person who feels this way about this record so idk
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Saturday, 6 December 2014 00:49 (ten years ago)
but i think you'd also like louder now which is one of the more expensive sounding mainstream emo records out there
where you want to be was always my fave
― Mordy, Saturday, 6 December 2014 00:58 (ten years ago)
http://antigravitybunny.com/?p=9868#more-9868
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 6 December 2014 01:40 (ten years ago)
If by "with guitars" you mean "solo bass" and by "terrible" you mean "amazing" then yes.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Saturday, 6 December 2014 02:19 (ten years ago)
TBS are no brand new, imo, but where you want to be is aight
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Saturday, 6 December 2014 02:55 (ten years ago)
brad I do agree with you about that new TBS album tho. I didn't love it but sonically it's as you describe
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Saturday, 6 December 2014 02:56 (ten years ago)
tbf deja entendu is the apex of the form
― Mordy, Saturday, 6 December 2014 03:03 (ten years ago)
Long-time veterans have accounted for a lot of my favorite rock singles/tracks over the last few years. This year, I've got Yes ("Believe Again"), the new McCartney single, and that Jackson Browne song (plus Beck - I really like "Blue Moon"). Last year, I have Dot Wiggin Band, the Dirtbombs (that great bubblegum record they did), Eric Carmen, and Camper Van Beethoven. Year before, I have a ton - Peter Daltrey, Dylan, Asia, Susanna Hoffs, and Lee Ranaldo.
― timellison, Saturday, 6 December 2014 05:13 (ten years ago)
Yes, Ought is good. On this thread Rolling Post-Punk Thread my first impressions of them reminded me of Raincoats and early Clinic a bit. Have A Nice Life and Total Control seem to be favorites this year too. I'm also partial to The Sea Kings, The New Christs and Dark Blue.
― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, 6 December 2014 05:46 (ten years ago)
Pretty Much Amazing Albums
60 ScHoolboy Q, OxyMoron59 Chromeo, White Women58 Trust, Joyland57 Lykke Li, I Never Learn56 Ariana Grande, My Everything55 Death From Above 1979, The Physical World54 Perfect Pussy, Say Yes To Love53 YG, My Krazy Life52 Liars, Mess51 Ratking, So It Goes50 Sia, 1000 Forms of Fear49 Ariel Pink, pom pom48 MØ, No Mythologies to Follow47 The New Pornographers, Brill Bruisers46 Shamir, Northtown45 Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra, Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light On Everything44 Hundred Waters, The Moon Rang Like A Bell43 Real Estate, Atlas42 White Lung, Deep Fantasy41 Röyksopp & Robyn, Do It Again40 Against Me!, Transgender Dysphoria Blues39 BADBADNOTGOOD, III38 Azealia Banks, Broke With Expensive Taste37 Caribou, Our Love36 Grouper, Ruins35 Parquet Courts, Sunbathing Animal34 How To Dress Well, “What Is This Heart?”33 Ben Frost, A U R O R A32 Owen Pallet, In Conflict31 Strand of Oaks, HEAL30 Beck, Morning Phase 29 Neneh Cherry, Blank Project28 Ought, More Than Any Other Day27 Ty Segall, Manipulator26 The Antlers, Familiars 25 Mr Twin Sister, Mr Twin Sister24 tUnE-yArDs, nikki nack23 Angel Olsen, Burn Your Fire For No Witness22 Cloud Nothings, Here and Nowhere21 Future Islands, Singles20 Wild Beasts, Present Tense19 Iceage, Plowing Into A Field of Love18 Shabazz Palaces, Lese Majesty17 Taylor Swift, 198916 Freddie Gibbs / Madlib, Piñata 15 Todd Terje, It’s Album Time14 Mac DeMarco, Salad Days13 Spoon, They Want My Soul12 Flying Lotus, You’re Dead!11 Sharon Van Etten, Are We There10 Lana Del Rey, Ultraviolence09 Aphex Twin, SYRO08 Swans, To Be Kind07 Perfume Genius, Too Bright06 FKA Twigs, LP105 Run The Jewels, Run the Jewels 204 Sun Kil Moon, Benji03 St Vincent, St Vincent02 War on Drugs, Lost In The Dream01 Beyoncé, BEYONCÉ
I'm surprised that the Hundred Waters album hasn't been on more lists.
― monster_xero, Saturday, 6 December 2014 06:36 (ten years ago)
It's ironic how frequently Lost in the Dream is finishing above Benji. I wonder if Kozalek is happy for them?
― yugi ex, Saturday, 6 December 2014 07:49 (ten years ago)
I've no doubt the same will occur on the ILX albums poll
― Simon H., Saturday, 6 December 2014 09:14 (ten years ago)
How ironic
― why do I hate that thing (excluding imago, marcos) (wins), Saturday, 6 December 2014 09:16 (ten years ago)
I wondered when someone would go fuck it, let's pretend Beyonce came out in 2014.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Saturday, 6 December 2014 11:38 (ten years ago)
Good to see the Jo Johnson lp make the Juno Plus list.
― millmeister, Saturday, 6 December 2014 11:55 (ten years ago)
Sleaford Mods #20 on the Quietus' "2014 so far" list, but nowhere on the final list. That's a mighty big fall from favour in the space of about five months.
― Position Position, Saturday, 6 December 2014 12:14 (ten years ago)
Deep tech is still a largely localised scene with zero breakout anthems, even internet breakout anthems. PC Music is obviously all internet breakout music but is largely terrible - there'll probably be a couple of them in the FACT list though.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 6 December 2014 12:21 (ten years ago)
I'm seeing quite a lot of country on these lists but not much that's folky (I mean actual folk rather than Brooklyn folk), kinda wondering where to go for beautiful/creepy folk vibes in 2014.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 6 December 2014 12:22 (ten years ago)
Top 20 Drone albumshttp://antigravitybunny.com/?p=9868
― VOTE in metal poll. Voting ends Friday 12th December (Cosmic Slop), Saturday, 6 December 2014 12:29 (ten years ago)
I'm seeing quite a lot of country on these lists but not much that's folky (I mean actual folk rather than Brooklyn folk), kinda wondering where to go for beautiful/creepy folk vibes in 2014. --Matt DC
try Jess Williamson, she's from Austin (or is that not "real" enough for reasons similar to BK)
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Saturday, 6 December 2014 14:33 (ten years ago)
Mirel Wagner?
― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Saturday, 6 December 2014 15:06 (ten years ago)
Richard Dawson.
― emil.y, Saturday, 6 December 2014 15:40 (ten years ago)
i really like the marissa nadler album that came out this year, but one beautiful, beautiful record that everybody should hear which is kind of in the same vague ballpark is melanie de biasio' 'no deal', a gorgeous, spacious jazz album which has had reviewers invoking both billie holiday and talk talk
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Saturday, 6 December 2014 15:44 (ten years ago)
Metal Assaulthttp://metalassault.com/articles/2014/12/05/best-albums-of-2014/
20. Obliterations – Poison Everything19. Godflesh – A World Lit Only By Fire18. Ancient VVisdom – Sacrificial17. Lazer/Wülf - The Beast Of Left And Right16. Philm – Fire From The Evening Sun15. Eyehategod – Eyehategod14. Witch Mountain – Mobile Of Angels13. Earth – Primitive And Deadly12. Revocation – Deathless11. Kobra And The Lotus – High Priestess10. Tombs – Savage Gold9. Yob – Clearing The Path To Ascend8. Grand Magus – Triumph And Power7. The Skull – For Those Which Are Asleep6. Pallbearer – Foundations Of Burden5. Dawnbringer – Night Of The Hammer4. Wolf – Devil Seed3. Goatwhore – Constricting Rage Of The Merciless2. Accept – Blind Rage1. Riot V – Unleash The Fire
― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, 6 December 2014 15:55 (ten years ago)
― VOTE in metal poll. Voting ends Friday 12th December (Cosmic Slop), Saturday, December 6, 2014 5:29 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
http://thefunyears.bandcamp.com/album/one-quarter-descent
wasn't aware of a new The Fun Years album.. thanks for the heads up
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Saturday, 6 December 2014 15:58 (ten years ago)
the Marissa Nadler record was beautiful
I'm surprised that the Ben Frost - A U R O R A album isn't on more of these lists. That album was flat out incredible
― Dan S, Saturday, 6 December 2014 17:33 (ten years ago)
Cosine Marissa Nadler (though I have to say I did prefer the previous album), Alice Boman - EP II also great in a slightly less gothy vein.
― death in Skegness (seandalai), Saturday, 6 December 2014 17:37 (ten years ago)
musicOMH:
1. St Vincent – St Vincent (Loma Vista/Caroline International)2. The War On Drugs – Lost In The Dream (Secretly Canadian)3. Caribou – Our Love (City Slang)4. Sharon Van Etten – Are We There (Jagjaguwar)5. FKA Twigs – LP1 (Young Turks)6. Sun Kil Moon – Benji (Caldo Verde)7. Beck – Morning Phase (Virgin EMI)8. Future Islands – Singles (4AD)9. Wild Beasts – Present Tense (Domino)10. Perfume Genius – Too Bright (Turnstile)11. Todd Terje – It’s Album Time (Olsen)12. A Winged Victory For The Sullen – Atomos (Erased Tapes)13. Strand Of Oaks – Heal (Dead Oceans)14. Swans – To Be Kind (Mute)15. La Roux – Trouble In Paradise (Polydor)16. Damon Albarn – Everyday Robots (Parlophone)17. Nick Mulvey – First Mind (Fiction)18. King Creosote – From Scotland, With Love (Domino)19. Interpol – El Pintor (Soft Limit)20. Flying Lotus – You’re Dead! (Warp)21. Ben Frost – Aurora (Mute)22. Death From Above 1979 – The Physical World (Caroline International)23. Neneh Cherry – Blank Project (Smalltown Supersound)24. Jack White – Lazaretto (XL)25. Run The Jewels – RTJ2 (Mass Appeal)26. The Bug – Angels & Devils (Ninja Tune)27. Allo Darlin – We Come From The Same Place (Fortuna POP!)28. Slow Club – Complete Surrender (Caroline International)29. Wildbirds & Peacedrums – Rhythm (The Leaf Label)30. The Black Keys – Turn Blue (Nonesuch)31. The Juan Maclean – In A Dream (DFA)32. Taylor Swift – 1989 (Big Machine/Virgin EMI)33. Mac DeMarco – Salad Days (Captured Tracks)34. The Antlers – Familiars (Transgressive)35. TV On The Radio – Seeds (Harvest)36. Kiasmos – Kiasmos (Erased Tapes)37. Elbow – The Take Off And Landing Of Everything (Fiction)38. Jamie T – Carry On The Grudge (Virgin EMI)39. Tune-Yards – Nikki Nack (4AD)40. Kelis – Food (Ninja Tune)41. Pallbearer – Foundations Of Burden (Profound Lore)42. Angel Olsen – Burn Your Fire For No Witness (Jagjaguwar)43. Einstürzende Neubauten – Lament (Mute)44. Hercules And Love Affair – The Feast Of The Broken Heart (Moshi Moshi)45. Hookworms – The Hum (Weird World)46. Iceage – Plowing Into The Field Of Love (Matador)47. Aziza Brahim – Soutak (Glitterbeat)48. Scott Walker & Sunn O))) - Soused (4AD)49. Kasai Allstars – Beware The Fetish (Crammed Discs)50. Real Estate – Atlas (Domino)51. Cloud Nothings – Here And Nowhere Else (Wichita)52. Luke Abbott – Wysing Forest (Border Community)53. Alex G – DSU (Lucky Number)54. Ballet School – The Dew Lasts An Hour (Bella Union)55. Clark – Clark (Warp)56. DELS – Petals Have Fallen (Big Dada)57. Ben Howard – I Forget Where We Were (Island)58. Dan Weiss – Fourteen (Pi)59. EMA – The Future’s Void (City Slang)60. Inventions – Inventions (Temporary Residence)61. Sky Ferreira – Night Time, My Time (Polydor)62. Steve Gunn – Way Out Weather (Paradise Of Bachelors)63. The Hotelier – Home, Like No Place There Is (Tiny Engines)64. Tyshawn Sorey – Alloy (Pi)64. Thee Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra – Fuck Off, Get Free, We Pour Light On Everything (Constellation)65. Ex Hex - Rips (Merge)66. Blue-Eyed Hawk – Under The Moon (Edition)67. Toumani Diabaté & Sidiki Diabaté – Toumani & Sidiki (World Circuit)68. Hundred Waters – The Moon Rising Like A Bell (OWSLA)69. Sébastien Tellier - L’Aventura (Record Makers/Because)70. Wye Oak – Shriek (City Slang)71. Circle Of Sound – Anti Hero (Baitak)72. Earth – Primitive And Deadly (Southern Lord)73. Ian William Craig – A Turn Of Breath (Recital)74. Little Big League – Tropical Jinx (Run For Cover)75. Tinariwen – Emmaar (PIAS)76. Lucinda Williams – Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone (Highway 20)77. Orlando Julius & The Heliocentrics – Jaiyede Afro (Strut)78. Honeyblood – Honeyblood (FatCat)79. Gazelle Twin – Unflesh (Anti-Ghost Moon Ray)80. Kele – Trick (Lilac)81. Mark E – Product Of Industry (Spectral Sound)82. Grouper – Ruins (Kranky)83. Robert Plant – Lullaby And… The Ceaseless Roar (Nonesuch)84. Hospitality – Trouble (Fire)85. Shellac – Dude Incredible (Touch & Go)86. Pink Mountaintops – Get Back (Jagjaguwar)87. Ryan Adams – Ryan Adams (Columbia)88. Esben And The Witch – A New Nature (Nostromo)89. Bis – Data Panik Etcetera (Do Yourself In)90. Jenny Lewis – The Voyager (Warner)91. Noura Mint Seymali – Tzenni (Glitterbeat)92. I Break Horses – Chiaroscuro (Bella Union)93. Woman’s Hour – Conversations (Secretly Canadian)94. Young Fathers – Dead (Big Dada)95. Xiu Xiu – Angel Guts: Red Classroom (Bella Union)96. Fucked Up – Glass Boys (Matador)97. Owen Pallett – In Conflict (Domino)98. Azealia Banks – Broke With Expensive Taste (Azealia Banks/Prospect Park)99. Matthew & The Atlas – Other Rivers (Communion)100. East India Youth – Total Strife Forever (Stolen)
http://www.musicomh.com/features/lists/musicomhs-top-100-albums-2014#CryveWLrW3urh4hU.99
― mike t-diva, Saturday, 6 December 2014 18:08 (ten years ago)
DJ Mag albums not online yet, but Top 5 is:1. Lone - Reality Testing2. Caribou - Our Love3. Leon Vynehall - Music for the Uninvited4. Moodymann - Moodymann5. Aphex Twin - Syro
― mike t-diva, Saturday, 6 December 2014 18:30 (ten years ago)
Amazed that I've heard four of those.
― jaymc, Saturday, 6 December 2014 18:59 (ten years ago)
Nice to see Steve Gunn get some love
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 6 December 2014 19:06 (ten years ago)
Consensus Watch Update - number of Top 50 polls in brackets:
Caribou - Our Love (26)FKA Twigs - LP1 (26)The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream (25)St Vincent - St Vincent (23)Sharon Van Etten - Are We There (21)Future Islands - Singles (20)Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness (20)
Beck - Morning Phase (19)Aphex Twin - Syro (19)Swans - To Be Kind (18)Mac DeMarco - Salad Days (18)Perfume Genius - Too Bright (17)Flying Lotus - You're Dead! (17)
Sun Kil Moon - Benji (16)Jack White - Lazaretto (16)Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 2 (16)Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence (14)Real Estate - Atlas (14)
Goat - Commune (13)Ty Segall - Manipulator (13)Freddie Gibbs and Madlib - Pinata (13)East India Youth - Total Strife Forever (13)Wild Beasts - Present Tense (13)Taylor Swift - 1989 (13)
Alvvays - Alvvays (12)Todd Terje - It's Album Time (12)Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots (12)
Royal Blood - Royal Blood (11)Sleaford Mods - Divide and Exit (11)Hookworms - The Hum (11)
Temples - Sun Structures (10)First Aid Kit - Stay Gold (10)Jenny Lewis - Voyager (10)Spoon - They Want My Soul (10)The Black Keys - Turn Blue (10)
― mike t-diva, Saturday, 6 December 2014 19:34 (ten years ago)
Hooray for the appearances of The Juan Maclean and Sebastien Tellier in the musicOMH list.
― Kitchen Person, Saturday, 6 December 2014 19:38 (ten years ago)
appreciate you doing Consensus Watch, mike t-diva! i think it's interesting/useful.
― alpine static, Saturday, 6 December 2014 20:34 (ten years ago)
next it would be amazing to have a chart that shows where all the listing publications got tipped to these records from, like the ones they have at co-ops showing which corporations own which food brands so you can try to source your food
that way the real cause of war on drugs's winning year can be sussed out
― j., Saturday, 6 December 2014 21:03 (ten years ago)
thing is with 'consensus' is that it could be 15 mentions in the lower end of lists.
― VOTE in metal poll. Voting ends Friday 12th December (Cosmic Slop), Saturday, 6 December 2014 21:05 (ten years ago)
there's this weighted list: http://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/summary/2014/
t-swift top 10 thx to cosmo :D
― prolego, Saturday, 6 December 2014 21:09 (ten years ago)
as i thought. take the example of Swans. In lots of lists but not in the top 25 in that above link
― VOTE in metal poll. Voting ends Friday 12th December (Cosmic Slop), Saturday, 6 December 2014 21:21 (ten years ago)
i don't think a top-5 placement is 'lower end'?
― j., Saturday, 6 December 2014 21:22 (ten years ago)
Louder Than War Albums of the Year 2014 Part One: 200 – 101http://louderthanwar.com/louder-than-war-albums-of-the-year-part-one-200-101/
Louder Than War Albums of the Year 2014 Part Two: 100 – 51http://louderthanwar.com/albums-of-the-year-2014-part-two-100-51/
Eagulls, Protomartyr, St. Vincent, Woods, White Lung, Cosmic Dead, Nightingales, etc.
These are new interesting finds for me:60. Cambodian Space Project – Whiskey Cambodia (Metal Postcard)https://metalpostcard.bandcamp.com/album/cambodian-space-project-whiskey-cambodia...unique mix of space rock, surf, reggae, dub, khmer surin, cambodian rock psychedelica” was easily achieved. Adrian Bloxham reviewed it for us and said: “The music on this remarkable album sounds like Carnaby Street in the sixties, psychedelic, bright and very very catchy. Which is of course the point. This isn’t about being cool, about sounding left field or alternative; it’s about taking what people had and can remember and giving it back to them. It makes you smile and dance. It feels bright and sparkles.”
67. Gold Codes – Gold Codes (Self Released)https://goldcodes.bandcamp.com/Gold Codes manage to marry afrobeat, alt-rock, indie and post-punk and end up with an album which sounds like something Jimmy Hendrix may have made if he’d been brought up in Derby. Their debut release was also mastered by John McBain of Monster Magnet.
Top 50: http://louderthanwar.com/albums-of-the-year-2014-part-three/
I linked a few that I was checking out.
50. The Bug – Angels & Devils (Ninja Tune)49. Dubkasm – Dubkasm Ft. Lidj Xylon (Peng Sound)48. Sheepy – Sleepy (Blang)47. The Skull Defekts – Dances In The Dreams Of The Known Unknown (Thrill Jockey)46. Ekoplekz – Unfidelity (Planet Mu Records)45. Afghan Whigs – Do The Beast (Sub Pop)44. The Body – I Shall Die Here (RVGL Intl)43. Alvvays – Alvvays (Transgressive Records)42. The Furrow Collective – At Our Next Meeting (Cadiz) 41. Azealia Banks – Broke With Expensive Taste (Prospect Park)40. Echo & The Bunnymen – Meteorites (Caroline International) 39. Christina Vantzou – No.2 (Kranky)38. Flying Lotus – You’re Dead!37. Ruts DC – Live On Stage36. Perc – The Power And The Glory (Perc Trax)35. Voices – London (Candlelight Records)34. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Piñata (Stones Throw)32. Allo Darlin’ – We Come From the Same Place (Fortuna POP!)31. Acollective – Pangaea (Alcopop!)30. Popcaan – Where We Come From (Mixpak)29. Get The Blessing – Lope and Antilope (Naim Label) 28. Perfume Genius – Too Bright (Turnstile Records) 27. Mica Levi – Under the Skin (Warners)26. Noura Mint Seymali – Tzenni (Glitterbeat Records)25. Richard Dawson – Nothing Important (Weird World/Domino)24. The War On Drugs – Lost In The Dream23. Lakefield – Swan Songs (Self-Released)22. Zombina & The Skeletones – Charnel House Rock (Ectoplastic Records)21. Mogwai – Rave Tapes (Rock Action/Sub Pop)20. Taylor Swift – 1989 (Big Machine Label Group)19. Let’s Wrestle – Let’s Wrestle (Fortuna POP!)18. Ibibio Sound Machine – Ibibio Sound Machine17. Perfect Pussy – Say Yes to Love (Soundly Records) 16. Ty Segall – Manipulator15. Kate Tempest – Everybody Down14. Manic Street Preachers – Futurology13. Aphex Twin – Syro (Warp)12. FKA Twigs – LP111. Sun Kil Moon – Benji (Caldo Verde Records)10. Vamos – More Songs About Circles (Antipop Records) 9. Scott Walker + Sunn O))) – Soused8. Morrissey – World Peace Is None Of Your Business 7. Temples – Sun Structures6. Simone Felice – Strangers5. Winterfylleth – Divination of Antiquity4. Sleaford Mods – Divide And Exit3. Swans – To Be Kind2. Shellac – Dude Incredible1. Einstürzende Neubauten – Lament
― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, 6 December 2014 21:28 (ten years ago)
I guess never count out legacy industrial acts whose most famous member is more famous for being in another band, huh.
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Saturday, 6 December 2014 21:45 (ten years ago)
not that that's a rip on einsturdzende even, I love industrial
DeRo's Top 10
1. Against Me!, Transgender Dysphoria Blues2. Ex Hex, Rips3. Le Butcherettes, Cry is for the Flies4. Aphex Twin, Syro5. Shellac, Dude Incredible6. The Gotobeds, Poor People Are Revolting7. F*cked Up, Glass Boys8. Kelis, Food9. Parquet Courts, Sunbathing Animal10. Spoon, They Want My Soul
― ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Saturday, 6 December 2014 22:29 (ten years ago)
ah, weighted by position on list, cool
i worried for a sec that it meant "entire list weighted by how similar list is to already-established consensus" which is the profoundly stupid thing that 'acclaimedmusic' does
― dyl, Saturday, 6 December 2014 22:51 (ten years ago)
not to worry, she'll be kicked out of the Top 10 soon enough.
― Bee OK, Sunday, 7 December 2014 00:04 (ten years ago)
I don't even like 1989 that much and still think the scientology replicant that is calling itself beck or jack "real music & integrity & wite blues stewardship" white should get booted from the top 10 before tswift
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Sunday, 7 December 2014 00:15 (ten years ago)
p happy with most other things on that consensus measurement AOTY thing tho
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Sunday, 7 December 2014 00:16 (ten years ago)
consensus list is the worst, makes even the albums I like seem boring
― death in Skegness (seandalai), Sunday, 7 December 2014 00:36 (ten years ago)
ya it's rill dreadful when other people like the same music as you amirite
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Sunday, 7 December 2014 00:48 (ten years ago)
But... my precious individuality!
― Evan, Sunday, 7 December 2014 01:49 (ten years ago)
Naw but context can drag stuff down sometimes
― aenaon genesis aevangelist (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 7 December 2014 01:52 (ten years ago)
Shocked at the ubiquity of that Beck record (note I have not actually listened to it, just assumed it was hella boring)
― Simon H., Sunday, 7 December 2014 01:59 (ten years ago)
Just when I started to think I was an interesting person I see an album I enjoyed on the Urban Outfitters top sellers list. Guess I've got to force feed myself some purposefully "difficult" albums instead.
― Evan, Sunday, 7 December 2014 02:00 (ten years ago)
Same here, Simon.
Shocked at the ubiquity of that Beck record (note I have not actually listened to it, just assumed it was hella boring) --Simon H.
I can assure you it's hella boring, albeit very pretty
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Sunday, 7 December 2014 02:01 (ten years ago)
aka pretty hella boring
― Evan, Sunday, 7 December 2014 02:04 (ten years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/aSZO907.png
― نكبة (nakhchivan), Sunday, 7 December 2014 02:20 (ten years ago)
weird looking fedora
― Evan, Sunday, 7 December 2014 02:23 (ten years ago)
DeRo's full 40 http://www.wbez.org/blogs/jim-derogatis/2014-12/reasons-living-2014-111177
― Fastnbulbous, Sunday, 7 December 2014 06:53 (ten years ago)
I keep forgetting about that Mould record. It's really good.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 7 December 2014 06:57 (ten years ago)
weird looking fedora --Evan
that's a top hat man
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Sunday, 7 December 2014 07:00 (ten years ago)
Beck album is fine but it's mostly just Sea Change 2014: I Am Feeling Marginally BetterI'm a little swayed by the fact that I saw him live this year and it was a great show
― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 7 December 2014 07:02 (ten years ago)
Crack Magazine: http://crackmagazine.net/albums-of-the-year-2014/
1. Dean Blunt: Black Metal (Rough Trade) 2. The Bug: Angels & Devils (Ninja Tune) 3. Iceage: Plowing Into the Field of Love (Matador) 4. Wild Beasts: Present Tense (Domino) 5. Scott Walker + Sunn O))): Soused (4AD) 6. Rich Gang: Tha Tour Pt 1 (Cash Money) 7. FKA Twigs: LP1 (Young Turks) 8. Todd Terje: It's Album Time (Olsen) 9. Ought: More Than Any Other Day (Constellation) 10. Lana Del Rey: Ultraviolence (UMG) 11. Run the Jewels: Run the Jewels 2 (Mass Appeal) 12. Swans: To Be Kind (Mute) 13. Pharmakon: Bestian Burden (Sacred Bones) 14. Kassem Mosse: Workshop 19 (Worksho) 15. Popcaan: Where We Come From (Mixpak) 16. Untold: Black Light Spiral (Hemlock) 17. Sharon Van Etten: Are We There (Jagjaguwar) 18. Ratking: So It Goes (HXC) 19. Grouper: Ruins (Kranky) 20. Wildest Dreams: Wildest Dreams (Smalltown Supersound) 21. Andy Stott: Faith in Strangers (Modern Love) 22. Angel Olsen: Burn Your Fire for No Witness (Jagjaguwar) 23. Eagulls: Eagulls (Partisan) 24. Roman Flugel: Happiness Is Happening (Dial) 25. Sleaford Mods: Divide and Exit (Harbinger Sound) 26. Behemoth: The Satanist (Nuclear Blast) 27. Sd Laika: That's Harakiri! (Tri Angle) 28. Actress: Ghettoville (Ninja Tune) 29. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib: Pinata (Madlib Invazion) 30. Future Islands: Singles (4AD) 31. Perc: The Power and the Glory (Perc Trax) 32. Cloud Nothings: Here and Nowhere Else (Carpark) 33. Traxman: Da Mind of Traxman Vol 2 (Planet Mu) 34. YG: My Krazy Life (CTE World/Def Jam) 35. Theo Parrish: American Intelligence (Sound Signature) 36. Alex G: DSU (Lucky Number) 37. Millie & Andrea: Drop the Vowels (Modern Love) 38. Eno + Hyde: High Life (Warp) 39. Sun Kil Moon: Benji (Caldo Verde) 40. Fatima Al Qadiri: Asiatisch (Hyperdub) 41. Ben Frost: Aurora (Mute) 42. Goat: Commune (Sub Pop) 43. Torn Hawk: Through Force of Will (Not Not Fun) 44. Lust for Youth: International (Sacred Bones) 45. Gesloten Cirkel: Submit X (Murder Capital) 46. Perfect Pussy: Say Yes to Love (Captured Tracks) 47. Tinashe: Aquarius (RCA) 48. Caribou: Our Love (City Slang) 49. Moodymann: Moodymann (KDJ) 50. Aphex Twin: Syro (Warp) 51. The Antlers: Familiars (Anti-/Transgressive) 52. J Mascis: Tied to a Star (Sub Pop) 53. Young Marco: Biology (ESP Institute) 54. Tom Vek: Luck (Moshi Moshi) 55. The Wytches: Annabel Dream Reader (Heavenly) 56. Lower: Seek Warmer Clilmes (Matador) 57. Objekt: Flatland (Pan) 58. Greys: If Anything (Carpark) 59. Mac DeMarco: Salad Days (Captured Tracks) 60. Metronomy: Love Letters (Because Music) 61. Hookworms: The Hum (Weird World) 62. Flying Lotus: You're Dead! (Warp) 63. Schoolboy Q: Oxymoron (Top Dawg Entertainment) 64. Session Victim: See You When You Get There (Delusions of Grandeur) 65. Little Dragon: Nabuma Rubberband (Because Music) 66. The War on Drugs: Lost in the Dream (Secretly Canadian) 67. Fatima: Yellow Memories (Eglo) 68. Liars: Mess (Mute) 69. Richard Dawson: Nothing Important (Weird World) 70. Real Estate: Atlas (Domino) 71. St Vincent: St Vincent (Loma Vista/Republic) 72. Mykki Blanco: Gay Dog Food (Uno NYC) 73. East India Youth: Total Strife Forever (Stolen) 74. Shellac: Dude, Incredible (Touch and Go) 75. Arca: Xen (Mute) 76. Wiley: Snakes & Ladders (Big Dada) 77. Lil Herb: Welcome to Fazoland (self-released) 78. Wolves in the Throne Room: Celestite (Artemesia) 79. Neneh Cherry: Blank Project (Smalltown Supersound) 80. White Fang: Full Time Freaks (Metal Postcard) 81. Mogwai: Rave Tapes (Rock Action) 82. White Lung: Deep Fantasy (Domino) 83. Joey Anderson: After Forever (Dekmantel) 84. Warpaint: Warpaint (Rough Trade) 85. Manic Street Preachers: Futurology (Columbia) 86. Philipp Gorbachev: The Silver Album (Comeme) 87. HTRK: Psychic 9-5 Club (Ghostly International) 88. Merchandise: After the End (4AD) 89. Oliver Wilde: Red Tide Opal in the Loose End Womb (Howling Owl) 90. Interpol: El Pintor (PIAS) 91. Death Grips: Niggas on the Moon (Harvest/Third Worlds) 92. Lee Bannon: Alternate/Endings (Ninja Tune) 93. Tops: Picture You Staring (Arbitus) 94. Nehruviandoom: NehruvianDOOM (Lex) 95. Max Greaf: Rivers of the Red Planet (Tartelet) 96. The Brian Jonestown Massacre: Revelation (A) 97. Brody Dalle: Diploid Love (Queen of Hearts/Caroline) 98. Kiasmos: Kiasmos (Erased Tapes) 99. Spooky Black: Black Silk (self-released)100. Mariah Carey: Me. I Am Mariah . . . the Elusive Chanteuse (Def Jam)
― m todorov, Sunday, 7 December 2014 08:20 (ten years ago)
ah, a rare sighting of the elusive chanteuse herself
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Sunday, 7 December 2014 08:43 (ten years ago)
that eno.hyde hasn't shown up much either. kind of a jerry-built feel to the whole thing, but if you can deal with the u2-ish opener (which I actually quite like), it's pretty good
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Sunday, 7 December 2014 09:01 (ten years ago)
The Twilight Sad win best Scottish album of 2014http://www.scotsman.com/what-s-on/music/the-twilight-sad-win-best-scottish-album-of-2014-1-3627430
A BAND famed for their dark and gothic lyrics have won the accolade of best Scottish album of 2014, as rated by the world’s top music critics.The Twilight Sad have emerged as the most-lauded act in the survey, which was based on review ratings in newspapers, magazines and online internationally over the past 12 months.
The Twilight Sad have emerged as the most-lauded act in the survey, which was based on review ratings in newspapers, magazines and online internationally over the past 12 months.
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Sunday, 7 December 2014 09:47 (ten years ago)
top music critics online internationally
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Sunday, 7 December 2014 09:49 (ten years ago)
PopCrush - 10 Best Albums of 2014http://popcrush.com/best-albums-2014/
10 'Ultraviolence,' Lana Del Rey9 'Talk Dirty,' Jason Derulo8 'The New Classic,' Iggy Azalea7 'X,' Ed Sheeran6 'Meet the Vamps,' The Vamps5 'Nick Jonas,' Nick Jonas4 'My Everything,' Ariana Grande3 '5 Seconds of Summer,' 5 Seconds of Summer2 'Four,' One Direction1 '1989,' Taylor Swift
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Sunday, 7 December 2014 09:55 (ten years ago)
Somehow I can't imagine anything called 'The Twilight Sad' being any good.
Both of these sound like the sort of thing I've been missing all year.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 7 December 2014 11:06 (ten years ago)
De Biasio album is good but it was 2013.
On Louder Than War's page, I asked what happened to Joe Whyte’s “album of the year contender” The Sea Kings – Woke In The Devil’s Arms Their review is what turned me on to the album, and it’s amazing, will make my top 10, and I thought it would at least make their top 50 let alone 200.
― Fastnbulbous, Sunday, 7 December 2014 13:11 (ten years ago)
I was dismissive of The Twilight Sad too, despite enjoying their first album years back, but this one is their best, and has a bit more post-punk feel. It's grown on me.
― Fastnbulbous, Sunday, 7 December 2014 13:15 (ten years ago)
De Biasio album is good but it was 2013
oh shit, it is as well. thinking it might only have got a push in the anglophone world this year though, cos all the reviews I found were from april.
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Sunday, 7 December 2014 13:45 (ten years ago)
Those Swans poll placings in full: 3/3/4/4/5/8/11/12/13/13/14/18/22/31/36/42, plus two unranked lists.
― mike t-diva, Sunday, 7 December 2014 15:57 (ten years ago)
Time Out New York: http://www.timeout.com/newyork/music/the-20-best-albums-of-2014
20. Alvvays - 'Alvvays'19. Clark - 'Clark'18. Nude Beach - '77'17. Schoolboy Q - 'Oxymoron'16. Mark McGuire - 'Along the Way'15. Antemasque - 'Antemasque'14. Sia - '1,000 Forms of Fear'13. Future - 'Honest'12. TV on the Radio - 'Seeds'11. Mac DeMarco - 'Salad Days'10. Spoon - 'They Want My Soul'9. St. Vincent - 'St. Vincent'8. FKA Twigs - 'LP1'7. Run the Jewels - 'Run the Jewels 2'6. Caribou - 'Our Love'5. Cloud Nothings 'Here and Nowhere Else'4. Future Islands - 'Singles'3. Angel Olsen - 'Burn Your Fire for No Witness'2. Beck - 'Morning Phase'1. Todd Terje - 'It's Album Time'
― mike t-diva, Sunday, 7 December 2014 16:09 (ten years ago)
weird looking fedora--Evanthat's a top hat man
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Sunday, December 7, 2014 2:00 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
That was the joke- in reference to "good sirs"
― Evan, Sunday, 7 December 2014 16:41 (ten years ago)
At what point am I allowed to go into excruciating detail about the many ways that the LDR album is steaming garbage and how everyone supporting it is wrong?
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Sunday, 7 December 2014 16:46 (ten years ago)
i'd like to hear that, to be honest.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Sunday, 7 December 2014 17:01 (ten years ago)
just read some tweets last night making a case for it as one of the best albums of the year.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Sunday, 7 December 2014 17:02 (ten years ago)
big ol box at the bottom of this window just waiting for your contributions xxp
― j., Sunday, 7 December 2014 17:08 (ten years ago)
You know what, I'll bet ILX user DJP doesn't know how this site works...
― aenaon genesis aevangelist (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 7 December 2014 17:39 (ten years ago)
save it for when it places in the eoy poll, djp
― VOTE in metal poll. Voting ends Friday 12th December (Cosmic Slop), Sunday, 7 December 2014 17:59 (ten years ago)
Goddamn, this Sturgill Simpson album is great! I love the end of the year when I get to bump into like five dozen utterly genius pieces of art I somehow missed and everyone at once says HEY ASSHOLE LISTEN TO THIS
― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 7 December 2014 18:00 (ten years ago)
Goddamn, this Sturgill Simpson album is great! I love the end of the year when I get to bump into like five dozen utterly genius pieces of art I somehow missed and everyone at once says HEY ASSHOLE LISTEN TO THIS --a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu)
exactly how I felt abt missing the sturgill record bc it sure is dope
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Sunday, 7 December 2014 19:16 (ten years ago)
DeRo's #6 is pretty great!
The Gotobeds, Poor People Are Revolting (12XU)https://thegotobeds.bandcamp.com/album/poor-people-are-revolting
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 8 December 2014 04:53 (ten years ago)
AV Club - 20 best albumshttp://www.avclub.com/article/20-best-albums-2014-212282
1. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness 2. Run The Jewels - RTJ2 3. St. Vincent - St. Vincent4. The War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream5. Sharon Van Etten - Are We There 6. FKA Twigs - LP1 7. Protomartyr - Under Color Of Official Right 8. Cloud Nothings - Here And Nowhere Else9. Flying Lotus - Your Dad! 10. Isaiah Rashad - Cilvia Demo 11. Strand Of Oaks - Heal 12. Vince Staples - Shyne Coldchain Vol. 213. Spoon - They Want My Soul14. Beck - Morning Phase15. Taylor Swift - 1989 16. Mac DeMarco - Salad Days 17. Perfume Genius - Too Bright 18. Swans - To Be Kind 19. White Lung - Deep Fantasy 20. Andy Stott - Faith In Strangers
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Monday, 8 December 2014 07:33 (ten years ago)
yawn except for protomartyr which is probably the best record in that top ten
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 8 December 2014 07:38 (ten years ago)
falling asleep just seeing the beck and spoon records next to each other
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 8 December 2014 07:43 (ten years ago)
DO NOT SLEEP ON THE OUGHT ALBUM PEOPLE!
― dive inside water and you will know (dog latin), Monday, 8 December 2014 10:02 (ten years ago)
DO NOT SLEEP ON THE OUGHT ALBUM PEOPLE! --dive inside water and you will know (dog latin)
what about sleeping as a result of their music bc that's more or less what happened when I tried it :/
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Monday, 8 December 2014 11:48 (ten years ago)
it's the one you've all been waiting for...
Blues Rock Review - Top 20 Albums of 2014http://bluesrockreview.com/2014/12/top-20-albums-of-2014.html
20. Count’s 77: Count’s 7719. Paul Rodgers: The Royal Sessions18. No Sinner: Boo Hoo Hoo17. The Harpoonist & the Axe Murderer: A Real Fine Mess16. David Michael Miller: Poisons Sipped15. Walter Trout: The Blues Came Callin’14. Ty Curtis: Water Under The Bridge13. The Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band: Goin’ Home12. Matt Schofield: Far As I Can See11. The Black Keys: Turn Blue10. Joanne Shaw Taylor: The Dirty Truth9. Danny Bryant: Temperature Rising8. Rival Sons: Great Western Valkyrie7. Virgil and the Accelerators: Army of Three6. Philip Sayce: Influence5. Thorbjørn Risager and the Black Tornado: Too Many Roads4. Bernie Marsden: Shine3. Devon Allman: Ragged & Dirty2. Joe Bonamassa: Different Shades of Blue1. Dan Patlansky: Dear Silence Thieves
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Monday, 8 December 2014 11:57 (ten years ago)
what about sleeping as a result of their music bc that's more or less what happened when I tried it :/― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Monday, December 8, 2014 11:48 AM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Monday, December 8, 2014 11:48 AM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Aha!
― dive inside water and you will know (dog latin), Monday, 8 December 2014 11:58 (ten years ago)
9. Flying Lotus - Your Dad!
otm
― r|t|c, Monday, 8 December 2014 12:06 (ten years ago)
― MikoMcha, Monday, 8 December 2014 12:07 (ten years ago)
/9. Flying Lotus - Your Dad! /otm --r|t|c
otm --r|t|c
lulz. I'm sure others have said this before & certainly with greater eloquence but it is stunning how unabashedly that album is stoner-dad jazz, like it's aiming for on the corner but ends up hitting mid period weather report
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Monday, 8 December 2014 12:37 (ten years ago)
Drowned In Sound: best debut albums:http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4148543-discover--the-20-best-debut-albums-of-2014
1) ††† - Crosses 2) Eagulls - Eagulls3) Alvvays - Alvvays4) FKA twigs - LP15) East India Youth - Total Strife Forever6) Ought - More Than Any Other Day7) Kiasmos - Kiasmos8) Inventions - Inventions9) Young Fathers - DEAD10) Annie Eve - Sunday ‘9111) Perfect Pussy - Say Yes To Love12) Broken Twin - May13) Woman’s Hour - Conversations14) Thumpers - Galore15) Douglas Dare - Whelm16) Sisyphus - Sisyphus17) Ex Hex - Rips18) Fear of Men - Loom19) Martha - Courting Strong20) Sylvan Esso - Sylvan Esso
― mike t-diva, Monday, 8 December 2014 13:04 (ten years ago)
That would be funny if there were a kernal of truth to it, but nope, you're just wrong on both ends. There's a lot going on with Flying Lotus, but not much of On The Corner or Weather Report.
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 8 December 2014 13:08 (ten years ago)
That would be funny if there were a kernal of truth to it, but nope, you're just wrong on both ends. There's a lot going on with Flying Lotus, but not much of On The Corner or Weather Report. --Fastnbulbous
in general or on that album? bc for previous albums i wouldn't say that but you're dead is pretttaayyyy jazz-fusion indebted, and I really don't think I'm the only person to say so. if those specific examples aren't proper in yr book, that's fine, I suppose.
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Monday, 8 December 2014 13:14 (ten years ago)
DeRo and his binaries:
On album number three, 28-year-old Lykke Li Zachrisson straddles a fascinating line between chart-topping pop diva and soul-baring underground
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 8 December 2014 13:21 (ten years ago)
17. The Harpoonist & the Axe Murderer: A Real Fine Mess
i'm intrigued, i'll admit it
― call all destroyer, Monday, 8 December 2014 13:36 (ten years ago)
NPR Music's 50 Favorite Albums Of 2014http://www.npr.org/2014/12/08/368731400/npr-musics-50-favorite-albums-of-2014
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Monday, 8 December 2014 13:40 (ten years ago)
Spin Magazine: The 101 Best Songs of 2014http://www.spin.com/articles/101-best-songs-2014/
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Monday, 8 December 2014 13:44 (ten years ago)
^ keeps crashing my browser so i couldn't tell you what was in it. kozelek's face is in the main graphic though - did spin really go there?
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Monday, 8 December 2014 13:46 (ten years ago)
no sign of the rock-a-rolla list yet
― VOTE in metal poll. Voting ends Friday 12th December (Cosmic Slop), Monday, 8 December 2014 13:48 (ten years ago)
91. Toni Braxton & Babyface, "The D Word"
glad this made the SPIN list
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 8 December 2014 13:51 (ten years ago)
Exclaim!'s Best of 2014: Top 20 Pop & Rock Albumshttp://exclaim.ca/News/exclaims_best_of_2014-top_20_pop_rock_albums_part_onehttp://exclaim.ca/News/exclaims_best_of_2014-top_20_pop_rock_albums_part_two
1. Mac DeMarco - Salad Days 2. St. Vincent - St. Vincent 3. Owen Pallett - In Conflict 4. Alvvays - Alvvays 5. Swans - To Be Kind 6. White Lung - Deep Fantasy 7. Timber Timbre - Hot Dreams 8. The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream 9. Future Islands - Singles 10. Tanya Tagaq - Animism
11. Ought - More Than Any Other Day 12. Sun Kil Moon - Benji 13. Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else 14. How to Dress Well - "What is This Heart?" 15. Beck - Morning Phase 16. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness 17. Real Estate - Atlas 18. Spoon - They Want My Soul 19. Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues 20. Perfect Pussy - Say Yes to Love
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Monday, 8 December 2014 13:57 (ten years ago)
That's the most boring list yet, hands down. 11-20 is just so drab.
― Matt DC, Monday, 8 December 2014 14:11 (ten years ago)
nice to see that against me! album pop up in a few of these
― nxd, Monday, 8 December 2014 14:12 (ten years ago)
Nice to see Popcaan (dancehall), Jorge Drexler (Uruguayan pop-singer-songwriter), and Noura Mint Seymali Mauritanian Afro-psychedelic-desert) in that NPR list
― curmudgeon, Monday, 8 December 2014 14:21 (ten years ago)
You're not the only person who's only reference points to jazz fusion are On The Corner and Weather Report. Reducing the album to aiming at OTC and ending up in bland Weather Report territory is just wrong. What I'm hearing is that as someone who's just not into jazz fusion and has no clue as to what FlyLo is referencing, it all kind of blends into a gray stonery wash for you. That's valid enough I guess.
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 8 December 2014 14:33 (ten years ago)
I'll let Ellison speak for himself:
I don't want to make a record that Miles Davis could make, though; I wanted to make something that only I could make. I really want to go as far into my own ideas as possible. There's all these people out there trying to sound the same, trying to sound like the other guy, so I wanted to do the most “me” thing that I can do right now.Thundercat and I listened to a lot of metal in the beginning of making this album, believe it or not, just trying to approach things from a different space. I listened to a lot of Soft Machine, but I also listened to fucking Slayer. I got really into Brendon Small's stuff, and he got me into Mastodon and Gojira. That shit was tight.
Thundercat and I listened to a lot of metal in the beginning of making this album, believe it or not, just trying to approach things from a different space. I listened to a lot of Soft Machine, but I also listened to fucking Slayer. I got really into Brendon Small's stuff, and he got me into Mastodon and Gojira. That shit was tight.
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 8 December 2014 14:56 (ten years ago)
...i do like some jazz fusion, although mostly just the miles records that are sometimes categorized under that umbrella and some mahavishnu orchestra stuff, admittedly i have never done deep dives into chick corea's back catalog or attempted to have the definitive understanding of what the pat matheny group was really trying to convey through the use of synth. i don't even DISlike the bloody new flylo album, despite liking cosmogramma and until the quiet comes a bit more.
but ok, i bow down in everlasting reverence to yr supreme knowledge, i have been fully dunked on & I wish you peace and happiness.
*waits on response that more or less equates to LOL U STILL DON'T GET IT DUMMY*
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Monday, 8 December 2014 15:22 (ten years ago)
Swear to god, my first reaction was, "Los Del Rio has a new album?"
― Hamhole and Fly Eyes (Old Lunch), Monday, 8 December 2014 15:30 (ten years ago)
http://www.incendiarymag.com/annualreview/theex/incendiary_2014_round
Incendiary top 20 LPs
1. Einstürzende Neubauten – Lament (Sony BMG)2. Gut und Irmler – 500m (Monika)3. Anjou – Anjou (Kranky)4. Klara Lewis – Ett (Editions Mego)5. Andrea Belfi - Natura Morta (Morr Music)6. EMA – The Future’s Void (City Slang)7. Keel Her – Keel Her (Critical Heights)8. DNMF – DNMF (Moving Furniture)9. Ought – More Than Any Other Day (Constellation)10. Vashti Bunyan – Heartleap (Fat Cat)11. King Champion Sounds – Songs For The Golden Hour (Louder Than War)12. Space Siren – If You Scream Like That Your Monkey Won’t Come (Subroutine)13. Sleaford Mods – Divide and Exit (Harbinger Sound)14. Lia Ices – Ices15. Hauschka – Abandoned City (City Slang)16. David Thomas Broughton and Juice - Sliding the Same Way (Song By Toad)17. Scott Walker and Sunn O))) – Scott O))) (4AD)18. Islaja – Suu (Monika)19. Naïve Set –Reclining Nude (Subroutine)20. Perfect Pussy – Say Yes to Love (Captured Tracks)
11 Hon. Mentions
1. Dean Blunt - Black Metal (Rough Trade)2. Christina Vantzou – No 2 (Kranky)3. Loscil – Sea Island (Kranky)4. Hallo Venray – Show (Excelsior)5. Beginners – September Sunburn (Excelsior) 6. Chasing Rainbows – Make Love Caravan (Excelsior)7. Nouveau Vélo – Nouveau Vélo (Subroutine)8. Jozef van Wissem – It Is Time For You To Return (Crammed Discs)9. Madensuyu – Stabat Mater (Suyu Makinese)10. Tycho – Awake (Ghostly International)11. The Homesick – TwstYr Wrsts (Subroutine)12. Shivers - Shivers (Miasmah)
Best Reissues /Comps
1. All those bloody Hyperdub 10 Compilations – Patchy but incredible, the amount of things they do2. Koen Holtcamp – Motion – Selected Works (Thrill Jockey)3. Local Customs - Cavern Sound (Numero Group)4. Ariel Kalma - An Evolutionary Music (Original Recordings 1972-1979) (RVNG)5. Hailu Mergia and the Walias – Tche Belew (Analog Africa)6. Johnny Sedes – Mamá Calunga (Fonseca)7. Killed By Deathrock (Sacred Bones)8. André de Saint-Obin - Sound On Sound (Korm Plastics)9. Mick Ness – The Joy of Pop (Out of Print Records)10. Aby Ngana Diop - Thiossanou Ngewel (Analog Africa)
― doug watson, Monday, 8 December 2014 15:54 (ten years ago)
Nice to see the Koen Holtcamp at #2.
― doug watson, Monday, 8 December 2014 15:56 (ten years ago)
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Monday, December 8, 2014 8:46 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
...they did. WODSMC got #43.
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Monday, 8 December 2014 15:58 (ten years ago)
Islaja, nice - haven't warmed to that record as much as the earlier ones, it is very different, but I like it
― some kind of terrible IDM with guitars (sleeve), Monday, 8 December 2014 16:03 (ten years ago)
I only know half that list, looking forward to investigation
― some kind of terrible IDM with guitars (sleeve), Monday, 8 December 2014 16:04 (ten years ago)
Yeah, same sentiments here, esp with the comps where I've only *heard of* Holtcamp and Hailu
― doug watson, Monday, 8 December 2014 16:06 (ten years ago)
7. Killed By Deathrock (Sacred Bones)
yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
this album is so fucking great, like every single minute of it is glorious
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Monday, 8 December 2014 16:16 (ten years ago)
Sorry to insult yr knowledge Slothro, I just thought your original comment about Flying Lotus was a bit too dismissive and veering toward dickish. Not interested in pushing yr buttons.
How about Brownout's latin jazz approach to Sabbath? NPR list reminded me of that, it's pretty fun, no deep knowledge needed.
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 8 December 2014 16:17 (ten years ago)
no worries, i can get carried away w/ zings or crankiness too easily on here *fistbump*
never heard of brownout but the NPR blurb does seem intriguing, will investigate
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Monday, 8 December 2014 16:21 (ten years ago)
Drowned in Sound's 40 Favorite Songs of 2014http://www.drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4148547-drowned-in-sounds-40-favourite-songs-of-2014
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Monday, 8 December 2014 17:08 (ten years ago)
A friend sent me a Youtube clip of Brownout doing "The Wizard" last summer and I totally spaced on checking out the rest. It's a testament probably to Bill Ward's jazz roots that the songs fit into Brownout's style pretty naturally. Some creative arrangements make it a cut above just novelty.
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 8 December 2014 17:30 (ten years ago)
The thing I find interesting/fascinating about EOY song lists is that for half of my favorite albums, that's how I find out what the single(s) was/were; for example, I assumed "Love Is To Die" was the single off of the Warpaint album and was slightly thrown to see "Disco/Very" popping up along with a video.
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Monday, 8 December 2014 17:52 (ten years ago)
Here's the entire Spin song list:
100 CFCF - Windswept 99 Slipknot - Skeptic98 Vince Staples - Hands Up 97 The Black Keys - Turn Blue 96 Candy Hearts - I Miss You 95 Ga-In (가인) feat. Bumkey - Fxxk You 94 Travis Scott feat. Young Thug - Skyfall (Chopped Not Slopped) 93 Ten Walls - Walking With Elephants 92 Ariel Pink - Sexual Athletics91 Toni Braxton & Babyface - The D Word 90 Perfect Pussy - Interference Fits89 The Chemical Brothers feat. Miguel & Lorde - This Is Not a Game88 OG Maco - U Guessed It87 Vic Mensa - Down on My Luck86 Drake - 0 to 100 / The Catch Up85 Soft Pink Truth - Black Metal84 Sun Kil Moon - Carissa83 Claptone - Control82 Eric Paslay - Friday Night81 Sharon Van Etten - Your Love Is Killing Me80 Usher - Good Kisser79 Speedy Ortiz - American Horror78 Agalloch - Celestial Effigy77 Future feat. André 3000 - Benz Friends76 Kacey Musgraves - Love Is a Liar75 Sophie - Hard74 Young Thug - Danny Glover73 Ty Dolla $ign feat. B.o.B. - Paranoid72 Kiesza - Hideaway71 Nicki Minaj - Lookin Ass70 Todd Terje feat. Bryan Ferry - Johnny and Mary69 Rick Ross feat. Big Sean & Kanye West - Sanctified68 Protomartyr - Maidenhead67 Falls - Please66 Maddie & Tae - Girl in a Country Song65 Lone - 2 Is 864 Jessie Ware - Tough Love63 Jason Derulo feat. Snoop Dogg - Wiggle62 Ty Segall - The Singer61 Homeboy Sandman - Problems60 YG feat. Drake - Who Do You Love?59 Oliver - Light Years Away58 Beyoncé - Partition57 Lil B - No Black Person Is Ugly56 The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Kelly55 Wussy - Teenage Wasteland54 Grimes feat. Blood Diamonds - Go53 Ought - Habit52 Robyn & Röyksopp - Do It Again51 Ariana Grande feat. Iggy Azalea - Problem49 Behemoth - O Father O Satan O Sun!48 The War on Drugs - Suffering47 Miranda Lambert - Platinum46 ScHoolboy Q - Man of the Year45 Hamilton Leithauser - Alexandra44 Mark McGuire - The Instinct43 Sun Kil Moon - War on Drugs: Suck My Cock42 Bleachers - I Wanna Get Better41 Cymbals Eat Guitars - Warning40 DeJ Loaf - Try Me39 Porter Robinson - Sad Machine38 Sylvan Esso - Coffee37 Tokyo Police Club - Argentina (Parts I - II & III)36 Beyoncé feat. Nicki Minaj - Flawless (Remix)35 The Knocks - Classic34 Various Artists (Rookie Magazine) - Go Forth - Feminist Warriors33 Ryn Weaver - OctaHate32 The New Pornographers - Another Drug Deal of the Heart31 DJ Snake & Lil Jon - Turn Down For What30 The Drums - I Can't Pretend29 Lana Del Rey - West Coast28 Drake - Trophies27 Spoon - Inside Out26 Betty Who - Runaways25 Kira Isabella - Quarterback24 Charli XCX - Boom Clap23 Cloud Nothings - I'm Not Part of Me22 Future feat. Pusha T - Pharrell & Casino - Move That Dope21 Clean Bandit feat. Jess Glynne - Rather Be20 How to Dress Well - Repeat Pleasure19 Swans - Screen Shot18 Foxygen - How Can You Really17 Michael Jackson - Love Never Felt So Good (Original Version)16 Katy Perry - Birthday15 FKA Twigs - Two Weeks14 Kendrick Lamar - i13 tUnE-yArDs - Water Fountain12 Tinashe feat. ScHoolboy Q - 2 On11 Caribou - Can't Do Without You10 Jenny Lewis - She's Not Me9 Childbirth - I Only Fucked You As a Joke8 Sia - Chandelier7 Beyoncé - XO6 Run the Jewels - Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck)5 Parquet Courts - Instant Disassembly4 QT - Hey QT3 Nicki Minaj - Anaconda2 iLoveMakonnen - Tuesday1 Future Islands - Seasons (Waiting on You)
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Monday, 8 December 2014 18:01 (ten years ago)
Didn't expect the Future Islands LP to do so well - thought it would be one of those cases where people only care about that one hit.
Which 'begs' the question, which song is the biggest example of that this year (song in numerous lists, album it's from on very few if any)?
― nashwan, Monday, 8 December 2014 18:02 (ten years ago)
93 Ten Walls - Walking With Elephants
i ate a whole tray of roast shallots for dinner yesterday; today on my run in i was basically playing this tune the whole way
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Monday, 8 December 2014 18:04 (ten years ago)
About 251 results (0.13 seconds) for "guffstep", fair play
re: spin, def a 'something for everyone' kinda list, i expect any consensus exercises for tracks (e.g. pazz and jop singles list) will basically look like a hybrid of this and whatever p4k puts out
― dyl, Monday, 8 December 2014 18:19 (ten years ago)
actually 'something for everyone except ppl who like shake it off'
― dyl, Monday, 8 December 2014 18:22 (ten years ago)
Nice to see Anjou in that Incendiary list. Also - I'm reminded that I never sought out that Vashti Bunyan album.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Monday, 8 December 2014 18:39 (ten years ago)
<i>Which 'begs' the question, which song is the biggest example of that this year (song in numerous lists, album it's from on very few if any)?</i>Rather Be?
― MarkoP, Monday, 8 December 2014 18:57 (ten years ago)
new vashti is beautiful
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 8 December 2014 19:15 (ten years ago)
It is so much better than her last album, more of a belated but worthy follow up to Another Diamond Day imo.
― xelab, Monday, 8 December 2014 19:42 (ten years ago)
Ought album to me sounded like Talking Heads w/o the proto-dancepunk, i.e. the best part
― aenaon genesis aevangelist (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 8 December 2014 20:22 (ten years ago)
7. Killed By Deathrock (Sacred Bones)yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssthis album is so fucking great, like every single minute of it is glorious― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Monday, December 8, 2014
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Monday, December 8, 2014
began listening to this today on spotify cuz of this endorsement. loving it, so far.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Monday, 8 December 2014 21:41 (ten years ago)
I honestly think that if you have even the slightest affinity to gothy post-punk, you owe it to yourself to play Killed By Deathrock on endless repeat for at least a week.
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Monday, 8 December 2014 21:54 (ten years ago)
and then argue with Dan and I over which songs are the best. Because Dan is wrong.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 8 December 2014 21:58 (ten years ago)
No, I am not. You're the one who can't tell Bauhaus pastiche from Sisters of Mercy pastiche!
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Monday, 8 December 2014 22:00 (ten years ago)
But the Sisters are pretty much Bauhaus meets Joy Division.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 8 December 2014 22:02 (ten years ago)
waht
― example (crüt), Monday, 8 December 2014 22:03 (ten years ago)
I'm kidding.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 8 December 2014 22:05 (ten years ago)
oh, I can't stay mad while listening to Screaming For Emily
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Monday, 8 December 2014 22:08 (ten years ago)
yeah, the second half of that comp is so damn good.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 8 December 2014 22:12 (ten years ago)
http://www.tabsout.com/tabs-out-top-200-tapes-of-2014/
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 8 December 2014 22:13 (ten years ago)
Xpost you deathrockers should check out the 13th Chime stuff Sacred Bones put out a couple years ago
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 8 December 2014 22:19 (ten years ago)
I have none of those cassettes.
― example (crüt), Monday, 8 December 2014 22:22 (ten years ago)
I have 1!
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 8 December 2014 22:23 (ten years ago)
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Monday, December 8, 2014 4:54 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i cant guarantee endless repeat or a whole week but i like that sort of stuff & am trying it now, v good
― wanky, self important humerlous posts (slothroprhymes), Monday, 8 December 2014 22:28 (ten years ago)
No Blue Tapes? Feh.
― emil.y, Monday, 8 December 2014 22:32 (ten years ago)
I'm just glad Sungod made a list
― aenaon genesis aevangelist (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 8 December 2014 22:43 (ten years ago)
Has anyone played a track/album from these end of year lists that they hadn't otherwise heard and found something amazing?
― djh, Monday, 8 December 2014 23:01 (ten years ago)
Not amazing, but I did decide to finally listen to Benji...as much of it as I could stand.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 8 December 2014 23:03 (ten years ago)
yes, especially the Textura list
― example (crüt), Monday, 8 December 2014 23:05 (ten years ago)
Has anyone played a track/album from these end of year lists that they hadn't otherwise heard and found something amazing? --djh
best examples of this for me are tinashe and sturgill simpson, although i heard OF them before they made the lists just didn't try till then
― wanky, self important humerlous posts (slothroprhymes), Monday, 8 December 2014 23:12 (ten years ago)
I'm digging the Syd Arthur album from DeRo's list.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 02:36 (ten years ago)
i had listened to an angel olsen record a few years ago, kind of intrigued but not drawn enough to it, and trying the one one as it shows up on lists, i'm at least hearing something i didn't hear on the older one
― j., Tuesday, 9 December 2014 02:53 (ten years ago)
I just voted in the Pitchfork reader poll. Zero songs I voted for had already been pre-added to the ballot, so I'm not holding my breath on any of them.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 03:04 (ten years ago)
The Quietus and Textura lists both introduced me to fantastic things I didn't know about.
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 04:44 (ten years ago)
Some De Biasio love on the Newsweek list...
The Top 10 Albums of 2014: Newsweek Pickshttp://www.newsweek.com/ten-ten-albums-2014-newsweek-picks-289953
AGAINST ME!, TRANSGENDER DYSPHORIA BLUES (Total Treble, Xtra Mile)AMEN DUNES, LOVE (Sacred Bones)MELANIE DE BIASIO, NO DEAL (PIAS)EX HEX, RIPS (Merge)FKA TWIGS, LP1 (Young Turks)ICEAGE, PLOWING INTO THE FIELD OF LOVE (Matador)HAMILTON LEITHAUSER, BLACK HOURS (Ribbon Music)RUN THE JEWELS, RUN THE JEWELS 2 (Mass Appeal)SHABAZZ PALACES, LESE MAJESTY (Sub Pop)SWANS, TO BE KIND (Young God, Mute)
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 06:57 (ten years ago)
I'm just glad Sungod made a list― aenaon genesis aevangelist (Drugs A. Money), Monday, December 8, 2014 10:43 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― aenaon genesis aevangelist (Drugs A. Money), Monday, December 8, 2014 10:43 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yes this is gud stuff
― dive inside water and you will know (dog latin), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 10:38 (ten years ago)
that spin singles list is the most random-ass one yet but even considering lots of its pleasant surprises the idea that "anaconda" is the top 10 worthy minaj single of 2014 while "lookin' ass" gets buried in the bottom quarter is insane
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 10:56 (ten years ago)
and that Parquet Courts song is the draggiest song on a draggy disappointing follow up. def not #5 material
― dive inside water and you will know (dog latin), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 11:13 (ten years ago)
I like the somewhat perverse randomness of the Spin list. Even at this stage, lots on there that I haven't heard.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 11:44 (ten years ago)
consequence of sound top 50 songs:http://consequenceofsound.net/2014/12/songs-of-the-year-2014/full-post/
decent list, if not exactly chock full of shocking choices
― wanky, self important humerlous posts (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 13:27 (ten years ago)
Well it's certainly the only list I've seen that has a song from the latest Muppets movie on it.
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 14:04 (ten years ago)
Thank you Dog Latin, I'm glad I'm not the only one. I felt that stood out as the worst, most insufferable song on the album! WTF! I didn't mind DeRo's list, but every now and then he lets loose a doozy that's so, so wrong:
an epic centerpiece (the 7:13 “Instant Disassembly”) that’s as much of a tour-de-force mission statement as “Marquee Moon.”
I never want to hear the word "mamacita" in a song ever again. Another album on his list by The Gotobeds accomplishes everything that I'm missing from that Parquet Courts album -- it's sloppier but catchier and actually rocks. Also see Together Pangea - Badillac.
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 15:19 (ten years ago)
DeRo's Sound Opinions partner Greg Kot's list:http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/kot/ct-kelis-food-benjamin-booker-protomartyr-mary-j-blige-best-pop-albums-20141202-column.html
1. Kelis, Food2. Protomartyr, Under Color of Official Right3. Benjamin Booker, Benjamin Booker4. Mary J. Blige, The London Sessions5. Wussy, Attica!6. Run the Jewels, Run the Jewels 27. FKA Twigs, LP18. Lydia Loveless, Somewhere Else9. The Preatures, Blue Planet Eyes10. Warpaint, Warpaint11. Bob Mould, "Beauty & Ruin" (Merge)12. Goat, "Commune" (Sub Pop)13. Courtney Barnett, "The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas" (Mom & Pop Music)14. Tom Brosseau, "Grass Punks" (Crossbill)15. Parquet Courts, "Sunbathing Animal" (What's Your Rupture?)16. Spoon, "They Want My Soul" (Lorna Vista)17. Lucinda Williams, "Where the Spirit Meets the Bone" (Thirty Tigers)18. Sturgill Simpson, "Metamodern Sounds in Country Music" (High Top/Thirty Tigers)19. Twin Peaks, "Wild Onion" (Grand Jury)20. Angel Olsen, "Burn Your Fire for No Witness" (Jagjaguwar)
They've held down those writing gigs for a long, long time, but Sound Opinions is the best thing they've done. Too bad I always forget to listen, though you can stream their shows anytime. http://www.soundopinions.org/episodes
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 15:26 (ten years ago)
Dazed - The top 20 albums of 2014http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/22834/1/the-top-20-albums-of-2014
20 Grouper - Ruins19 Todd Terje - It's Album Time18 Ramona Lisa - Arcadia17 Iceage - Plowing Into The Field Of Love16 Azealia Banks - Broke With Expensive Taste15 The War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream14 Run The Jewels Run The Jewels 213 Mac DeMarco - Salad Days12 ScHoolboy Q - Oxymoron11 Jessie Ware - Tough Love10 Angel Olson - Burn Your Fire For No Witness9 Tinashe - Aquarius8 Perfume Genius - Too Bright7 Lykke Li - I Never Learn6 Aphex Twin - Syro5 Sia - 1000 Forms Of Fear4 Fatima Al Qadiri - Asiatisch3 Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence2 Arca - Xen1 FKA Twigs - LP1
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 15:35 (ten years ago)
The 405 - The 30 Best Albums of 2014 http://www.thefourohfive.com/news/article/the-30-best-albums-of-2014-141
30. Grouper - Ruins29. Future Islands - Singles 28. Ought - More Than Any Other Day27. Homeboy Sandman - Hallways26. Pharmakon - Bestial Burden25. Hail Mary Mallon - Bestiary24. Alex G - DSU23. Gazelle Twin - UNFLESH22. Mark McGuire - Along The Way21. Kiasmos - Kiasmos
20. Liars - Mess19. The Bug - Angels and Devils18. Todd Terje - It's Album Time17. YG - My Krazy Life16. Thug Entrancer - Death After Life15. Perfume Genius - Too Bright14. Run The Jewels - RTJ213. Caribou - Our Love12. Grumbling Fur - Preternaturals11. Julie Byrne - Rooms With Walls and Windows
10. St. Vincent - St. Vincent9. Clipping. - CLPPNG8. East India Youth - Total Strife Forever7. Andy Stott - Faith In Strangers6. Sharon Van Etten - Are We There5. Wild Beasts - Present Tense4. Adult Jazz - Gist Is3. Taylor McFerrin - Early Riser2. Flying Lotus - You're Dead1. FKA Twigs - LP1
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 15:46 (ten years ago)
The Wire: Releases of the Year 1-50
1 Aphex Twin - Syro2 Richard Dawson - Nothing Important3 Swans - To Be Kind4 Scott Walker and Sunn O))) - Soused5 Actress - Ghettoville6 Sleaford Mods - Divide and Exit7 Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty8 Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 29 Kasai Allstars - Beware The Fetish10 Fatima Al Qadiri - Asiatisch
11 Earth - Primitive and Deadly12 Steve Gunn - Way out Weather13 Grouper - Ruins14 Valerio Tricoli - Miseri Lares15 Eliane Radigue - Naldjorlak I II II16 Marc Baron - Hidden Tapes17 Kevin Drumm & Jason Lescalleet - The Abyss18 Rodhri Davies - An Air Swept Clean Of All Distance19 Michael Pisaro - Continuum Unbound20 AMM - Place sub. v.
21 Thumbscrew - Thumbscrew22 Puce Mary - Persona23 Cooly G. - Wait 'Til Night24 Skogen - Despairs Had Governed Me Too Long25 Carla Bozulich - Boy26 Dean Blunt - Black Metal27 Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Pinata28 Annea Lockwood - Ground Of Being29 Wadada Leo Smith - The Great Lakes Suite30 Call Super - Suzi Ecto
31 Steve Gunn & Mike Gangloff - Melodies For A Savage Fix32 Jenny Hval & Susanna - Meshes Of Voice33 Matthew Shipp - I've Been To Many Places34 Holly Herndon - Chorus35 Laurence crane - Chamber Works 1992-200736 Shackleton - Freezing Opening Thawing37 Klaus Lang - SAIS38 Bitchin' Bajas - Bitchin' Bajas39 Laetitia Sadler - Something Shines40 drcarlsonalbion - Gold
41 Helm - The Hollow Organ42 Joseph Hammer - Roadless Travel43 Oren Ambarchi - Quixotism44 Laura Cannell - Quick Sparrows Over The Black Earth45 Howard Riley - To Be Continued...46 Owen Pallett - In Conflict47 Ariel Pink - Pom Pom48 Akio Suzuki & Aki Onda - ma ta ta bui49 Pharmakon - Bestial Burden50 Flying Lotus - You're Dead
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 16:32 (ten years ago)
F&B:
HELL NO! And not for wanting to mention them too many more times on this thread, that Ought album is much closer to reviving the eloquence of Television. I haven't done much formal music writing this year, but this was my take on Sunbathing Animal from earlier on in the summer. Not a particularly inspiring album, and I rather enjoyed Light Up Gold.
― dive inside water and you will know (dog latin), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 16:32 (ten years ago)
Glad nick typed that up as when i went to do it my ipad decided it wouldnt let me access it despite it supposedly being my last issue of the subscription.Print version not arrived yet.
― VOTE in metal poll. Voting ends Friday 12th December (Cosmic Slop), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 16:42 (ten years ago)
Wire playin it safe this year!
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 16:44 (ten years ago)
thanks Nick, didn't know there were new Bozulich or AMM albums, more cool shit to check out
― some kind of terrible IDM with guitars (sleeve), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 16:46 (ten years ago)
Has one American publication rode for Sleaford Mods?
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 16:48 (ten years ago)
xp C. Bozulich album is really good, absolutely check it
― cornelius pardew (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 16:54 (ten years ago)
The Bozulich is great.
― jmm, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 16:56 (ten years ago)
Bozulich is great, yes
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 16:57 (ten years ago)
awesome, thanks y'all
― some kind of terrible IDM with guitars (sleeve), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 16:59 (ten years ago)
the top ten is a little predictable, but if anyone wants to sell me on some of the records in the lower reaches, i'm all ears
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 17:08 (ten years ago)
another vote for carla b.
― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 17:08 (ten years ago)
yeah Bozulich in my top 10 for sure.
― some dude, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 17:09 (ten years ago)
still really love that holly herndon track almost 12 months on
― nxd, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 17:11 (ten years ago)
An odd choice of #1 by The Wire. A minor work by Aphex standards.
― millmeister, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 17:11 (ten years ago)
found the Drcarlsonalbion record really enjoyable too, moreso than the Earth album which (expectedly) overshadowed it. Earth-ish still, but w/ most of the metal influence siphoned out
― cornelius pardew (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 17:26 (ten years ago)
Lanegan kinda dragged his two Earth songs down a bit, huh? The woman from Rose Windows, though ... wow.
― alpine static, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 17:31 (ten years ago)
fans of clicking will be delighted to learn that the FACT album list is now up:
http://www.factmag.com/2014/12/09/the-50-best-albums-of-2014/
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 17:40 (ten years ago)
did not expect that no. 1, given the prior 49 in fact's list. interesting.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 17:43 (ten years ago)
I haven't got past number 50, but it's great.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 17:44 (ten years ago)
ha ha what?! xp
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 17:46 (ten years ago)
FACT 50 Best Albums 2014
50. CHARLES BARABÉ - Insultes (hommage à John Cage)49. CELESTIAL TRAX - Production Mix48. DJ DODGER STADIUM - Friend of Mine47. FRANK & TONY - You Go Girl46. l s d x o x o - w h o r e c o r e45. MIX-O-RAP - I am the DMR44. SD - Truly Blessed43. HR GIGER’S STUDIOLO - HR Giger’s Studiolo42. KIT- Lownt God Rising41. ANGEL 1 - Allegra Bin 140. THE CYCLIST - Flourish39. SUPREME CUTS - Divine Ecstacy38. EKOPLEKZ - Unfidelity37. SD LAIKA - That’s Harakiri36. ROME FORTUNE - Beautiful Pimp II35. MOIRÉ - Shelter34. KANE WEST - Western Beats33. SHABAZZ PALACES - Lese Majesty32. LEON VYNEHALL - Music for the Uninvited31. BEATKING - Gangster Stripper Music 230. SUSANNA / JENNY HVAL - Meshes of Voice29. FREDDIE GIBBS & MADLIB - Piñata28. KASSEM MOSSE - Workshop 1927. FATHER - Young Hot Ebony26. VIA APP - Dangerous Game25. DEAN BLUNT - Black Metal24. ANGEL OLSEN - Burn Your Fire For No Witness23. UNTOLD - Black Light Spiral22. LAWRENCE ENGLISH = Wilderness of Mirrors21. THE BUG - Angels and Devils20. BEATRICE DILLON & RUPERT CLAIRVAUX - Studies I-XVII for Samplers and Percussion19. DAVINCHE & KATIE PEARL - Unreleased LP18. ITAL - Endgame17. YOUNG THUG & BLOODY JAY - Black Portland16. FKA TWIGS - LP115. LOTIC - Damsel in Distress14. BING & RUTH - Tomorrow was the Golden Age13. VALERIO TRICOLI - Miseri Lares12. ARIEL PINK - pom pom11. GROUPER - Ruins10. SHINICHI ATOBE - Butterfly Effect09. SICKO MOBB - Super Saiyan Vol. 108. MICA LEVI - Under The Skin07. POPCAAN - Where We Come From06. YG - My Krazy Life05. LORENZO SENNI - Superimpositions04. ANDY STOTT - Faith in Strangers03. PC MUSIC - PC Music x DISown Radio Mix02. MR MITCH - Parallel Memories01. SUN KIL MOON - Benji
― Dan S, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 17:50 (ten years ago)
Yeah, that number one almost felt like a joke at the end.
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 17:51 (ten years ago)
43. HR GIGER’S STUDIOLO - HR Giger’s Studiolo
OK, I'm intrigued.
― jmm, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 17:53 (ten years ago)
good to see the Jenny Hval & Susanna record popping up on these lists. have found previous Susanna albums a bit too precious, but this one is flat-out great
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 17:57 (ten years ago)
i never got beyond "admire" to "love" with that hval/susanna but it was def impressive
a little surprised to see frank & tony (a very good album) but not francis harris's (incredible) solo
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 18:01 (ten years ago)
Anyone wanna type up the SPIN list? My Kindle keeps crashing every time I try to click through it
― aenaon genesis aevangelist (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 18:02 (ten years ago)
never change, SPIN
― gr8080, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 18:04 (ten years ago)
10. SHINICHI ATOBE - Butterfly Effect
Didnt know he was still making records(!)
― saer, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 18:04 (ten years ago)
almost?
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 18:04 (ten years ago)
or...didnt know he ever released anything other than that great 12"
― saer, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 18:05 (ten years ago)
francis harris would be a good one for the soft sad techno thread if it's not already there
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 18:06 (ten years ago)
17. Sonny Simmons & Moksha Samnyasin, Nomadic
This one off the Burning Ambulance jazz list probably won't get much love but I think it is excellent. It is a middle eastern sounding psyche/drone/jazz collaboration, it sounds like a jazz Ensemble Pearl with sitars.
― xelab, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 18:10 (ten years ago)
like a jazz Ensemble Pearl with sitars
yeah you can just put that one straight in the bag cheers
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 18:15 (ten years ago)
cosign
― some kind of terrible IDM with guitars (sleeve), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 18:17 (ten years ago)
Sorry for my tone; I was just frustrated. I don't really care that much. Here's the list for anyone who wants to see.
http://m.spin.com/articles/50-best-albums-2014/?utm_source=spinfacebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=spinfacebook
― aenaon genesis aevangelist (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 18:25 (ten years ago)
There's usually a couple African albums in many of these lists, but never Brazilian, which is kind of odd. People are missing out on some great music. First Nação Zumbi in seven years, Tom Zé, Moreno Veloso, etc. People here may dig this with some squanky guitars:
Juçara Marçal - Encarnado http://dedicatedearsfreealbumlist.blogspot.com/2014/03/jucara-marcal-encarnado-free-dl.html (Free DL)
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 18:35 (ten years ago)
Has anyone played a track/album from these end of year lists that they hadn't otherwise heard and found something amazing?--djh
that patrick topping track at no 2 on the dj mag list is WHOA
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 18:44 (ten years ago)
SPIN 50 Best Albums of 2014
50 ScHoolboy Q, Oxymoron49 Tacocat, NVM 48 Ben Frost, A U R O R A47 TV on the Radio, Seeds46 Hundred Waters, The Moon Rang Like a Bell45 Eric Church, The Outsiders44 Shabazz Palaces, Lese Majesty43 Charli XCX, Sucker42 Mac DeMarco, Salad Days41 Lana Del Rey, Ultraviolence 40 Real Estate, Atlas39 Afghan Whigs, Do to the Beast38 Azealia Banks, Broke With Expensive Taste37 Cymbals Eat Guitars, LOSE36 Young Thug & Bloody Jay, Black Portland 35 Homeboy Sandman, Hallways34 Taylor Swift, 198933 Andy Stott, Faith in Strangers32 Joyce Manor, Never Hungover Agai31 Sylvan Esso, Sylvan Esso 30 Ariel Pink, pom pom29 Flight Facilities, Down to Earth28 Ryan Adams, Ryan Adams27 Pallbearer, Foundations of Burden26 St. Vincent, St. Vincent 25 Freddie Gibbs and Madlib, Piñata24 Protomartyr, Under Color of Official Right23 Aphex Twin, Syro22 Cloud Nothings, Here and Nowhere Else21 FKA Twigs, LP120 ASTR, Varsity EP19 Miranda Lambert, Platinum18 YG, My Krazy Life17 Swans, To Be Kind16 Todd Terje, It's Album Time15 Sia, 1000 Forms of Fear 14 Against Me!, Transgender Dysphoria Blues13 How to Dress Well, "What Is This Heart?" 12 Spoon, They Want My Soul (11 Betty Who, Take Me When You Go10 The New Pornographers, Brill Bruisers9 tUnE-yArDs, Nikki Nack8 Tinashe, Aquarius 7 Future Islands, Singles6 Sun Kil Moon, Benji5 Caribou, Our Love4 Jenny Lewis, The Voyager3 Run the Jewels, Run the Jewels 22 Parquet Courts, Sunbathing Animal1 The War on Drugs, Lost in the Dream
― Dan S, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 18:45 (ten years ago)
tacocat
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 18:51 (ten years ago)
Yes, Goat's album Commune is absolutely fantastic, as well as their earlier work.
― octobeard, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 18:54 (ten years ago)
at least YG keeps continually popping up in the top 20 of multiple lists
― wanky, self important humerlous posts (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 18:54 (ten years ago)
I feel like Richard Dawson, Swans, Scott Walker/Sunn O))), Einsturzende Neubauten, Godflesh, could fit into a new sub-genre, Difficult Listening for Old Men. We need a more succinct/affectionate name though.
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 19:08 (ten years ago)
wrinkle rock.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 19:09 (ten years ago)
Difficult Listening For Old Men is better and more accurate than most new genre names
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 19:14 (ten years ago)
Ha ha ha
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 19:14 (ten years ago)
I forgot to vote in The Wire's poll. I'm not saying it would have changed much, but you never know. At least one of the records I reviewed for them (Pharmakon) made the list.
And thanks for the tip on new Nação Zumbi! I had no idea!
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 19:16 (ten years ago)
avant fogey
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 19:35 (ten years ago)
slippergaze
richard dawson gets a pass though, he's a young 'un. and it's a mistake to think these people's audience that is solely either old or male, but you know that anyway right?
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 19:36 (ten years ago)
"spin"
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 19:41 (ten years ago)
avant aliedown
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 19:42 (ten years ago)
alien avant farm
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 19:49 (ten years ago)
lex must be getting close to aging out of desireable advertising demos by now
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 20:13 (ten years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGAVwQAmAHs
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 20:16 (ten years ago)
not understanding that youth is only a mentality means yr old, cmon everyone
― ogmor, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 20:19 (ten years ago)
50. CHARLES BARABÉInsultes (hommage à John Cage)(La Cohu)
started listening to this and lolololol, fact magazine.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 20:25 (ten years ago)
DiLiFOM
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 20:31 (ten years ago)
speaking of olden tymes wierdos, Chrome - Half Machine from the Sun (Lost Tapes 79-80) is worthy of your consideration
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 20:36 (ten years ago)
oh my yes, didn't think about that in terms of EOY stuff
― some kind of terrible IDM with guitars (sleeve), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 21:14 (ten years ago)
it's newly released though right?
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 21:17 (ten years ago)
I had been thinking for a while about starting a sort of avant-rock Uncut called "No Country For Old Men".
― Tim F, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 21:19 (ten years ago)
09. SICKO MOBB - Super Saiyan Vol. 1
im wuts real
― ≖_≖ (Lamp), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 21:23 (ten years ago)
yes, correct xxp
― some kind of terrible IDM with guitars (sleeve), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 21:29 (ten years ago)
(definitely voting for it in ILM EOY poll)
― some kind of terrible IDM with guitars (sleeve), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 21:30 (ten years ago)
I would buy that mag! Rock=A-Rolla kinda covers that, along with brighteyed bushytailed young noise and avant rockers aged 30s-40s.
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 21:30 (ten years ago)
how dare anyone over 40 make or like music damn dinosaurs
― strychnine, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 21:37 (ten years ago)
Yeah, I'll def vote for Sicko Mobb as well. Amazingly consistent tape. Fact had it on their top 100 2010-14 list as well.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 21:37 (ten years ago)
the FACT list is really horrible despite having some absolute gems on it just because it feels like such a dated way of thinking abt music
there was one list that was really excellent but then it had perfect pussy as the last one listed and it kinda bummed me out. probably the best non-cosmo list posted so far
― ≖_≖ (Lamp), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 21:45 (ten years ago)
why dated
― نكبة (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 21:46 (ten years ago)
this, though....
Gangster Gibbs is as old school as they come, in the sense that his realness is verified (with the proverbial battle scars to prove it)
― نكبة (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 21:48 (ten years ago)
To be clear, I like all those artists, though they hover more in the lower half of my top hundred. It's just an interesting new-ish pattern of older artists making some of the most challenging, least commercial music in their careers, and topping a lot of the polls.
And yes, I read my poststructuralist theory way back when, and know not to essentialize and oversimplify anything. At last week's Opeth show, I did see some women there who were into the band, not just there with friends and dates. However, men still made up about 98% of the audience.
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 21:49 (ten years ago)
i like a couple of these, but this list is kind of poopy:
Wire Magazine: Avant Rock 10
1 Earth - Primitive And Deadly2 St Vincent - St Vincent3 Beck - Morning Phase4 The Lowland Hundred - The Lowland Hundred5 Owen Pallett - In Conflict6 Scott Walker and Sunn O))) - Soused7 D Charles Speer And The Helix - Double Exposure8 Marissa Nadler - July9 Grumbling Fur - Preternaturals10 Obituary - Inked In Blood
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 21:51 (ten years ago)
― نكبة (nakhchivan), Tuesday, December 9, 2014 4:48 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
love the gibbs album but why the bloodclot is it necessary for a critic to bring that up, it'd be good even if those things weren't true
― just a couple of assholes having breakfast (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 21:54 (ten years ago)
god i feel i should try at least a couple of thi year's 'avant rock' albums not by olds but nothing is really looking inviting
― نكبة (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 21:55 (ten years ago)
this is better:
Wire Magazine: Electronica 10
1 AyeGeeTee - Imminent Orphan2 Brood Ma - Populous3 Lee Gamble - KOCH4 Karen Gwyer - New Roof5 Hieroglyphic Being - The Seer Of Cosmic Visions6 Logos - Cold Mission7 FKA Twigs - LP18 Kangding Ray - Solens Arc9 Nochexxx - Thrusters10 Vessel - Punish, Honey
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 21:57 (ten years ago)
xp a pretty dull selection with the exception of Obituary
― Ratt in Mi Kitchen (Neil S), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 21:57 (ten years ago)
oh i dont mean on that shit little list but in general
― نكبة (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 21:59 (ten years ago)
3 Beck - Morning Phase
WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK IS AVANT ABOUT THIS ARE THEY TROLLING
― just a couple of assholes having breakfast (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 22:00 (ten years ago)
haha wtf
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 22:01 (ten years ago)
if you don't want to know the score look away now, but the swans album trumped all afaict (boring answer i know)
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 22:05 (ten years ago)
4 The Lowland Hundred - The Lowland Hundred
this is well worth highlighting ftr, cartographically-fixated duo from west Wales in the Talk Talk/Wyatt tradition
― cornelius pardew (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 22:20 (ten years ago)
the 'avant-rock' column has always been meaninglessly named, it's just a repository for anything which features a guitar in some form and didn't get picked for the main section
― cornelius pardew (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 22:22 (ten years ago)
Wire Magazine: Hip Hop 10
1 Young Thug & Rich Homie Quan - Rich Gang The Tour Part 12 YG - My Krazy Life3 Vince Staples - Shyne Coldchain 24 Chief Keef - Back From The Dead 25 Lil Boosie - Life After Death Row6 Rae Sremmurd - No Type7 Kevin Gates - Posed To Be In Love8 Common - Nobody's Smiling9 Future - Honest10 Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 22:25 (ten years ago)
uhhhh, the most recent kevin gates release aside from the one that hasn't dropped yet is called By Any Means. "posed to be in love" is a song on it
― just a couple of assholes having breakfast (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 22:31 (ten years ago)
I am currently listening to Fader's top song ("Wishin You Well" by Makonnen) and lollllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll gtfo
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 22:34 (ten years ago)
wishin you well is pretty dire
― example (crüt), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 22:42 (ten years ago)
The backing track is really nice, but those verses have issues.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 22:42 (ten years ago)
I definitely don't understand why anyone would rank WYW instead of "Tuesday" or "I Don't Sell Molly No More"
― example (crüt), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 22:46 (ten years ago)
that whole song is an issue.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 22:55 (ten years ago)
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 22:05 (46 minutes ago)
yeah i got that one, although im not quite so sanguine about it
― نكبة (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 22:57 (ten years ago)
with regard to the superannuated wire cover star set, my private name for that genre (merzbow, jg thirlwell, maybe william bennett, assorted wonky jazz mavens etc) is avant-furniture or avant-furn
the sort of people who instinctively know how to stare obliquely into the middle distance when being photographed at a dutch angle next to a concrete building, comfortingly implacable, reliably difficult, reassuring references to bataille and schwitters, that sort of thing
― نكبة (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 22:59 (ten years ago)
difficult in the bloodyminded sense rather than esoteric, nothing could be less surprising or 'inaccessible' than a new michael gira joint in 2014
― نكبة (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 23:01 (ten years ago)
boo fader making a list and boo their lame excuse for starting to do so
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 23:04 (ten years ago)
xp man isn't it a bummer when things aren't edgy enough
― just a couple of assholes having breakfast (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 23:08 (ten years ago)
I don't think that's what he's saying
I was quite disappointed with the Swans record compared to the two before it, I don't think I'm alone there
― some kind of terrible IDM with guitars (sleeve), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 23:10 (ten years ago)
right there with you. Best resurrected Swans is still the first.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 23:11 (ten years ago)
aw be kind to raccoon tanuki's sloppy seconds, the reliably dense new school landfill maven who is making ILM the place to be seen in december '14
― نكبة (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 23:12 (ten years ago)
it was a joke.
― just a couple of assholes having breakfast (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 23:13 (ten years ago)
how was that not obvious?
― just a couple of assholes having breakfast (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, December 9, 2014 4:31 PM (45 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
'no type' is also a song. it's not a ranking of albums but of musical artifacts iirc. anyway that's v clearly noz's list
― deej loaf (D-40), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 23:18 (ten years ago)
my b. most of the other wire lists appeared to be such so i assumed, stand corrected
― just a couple of assholes having breakfast (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 23:20 (ten years ago)
thats probably the closest in taste noz & i have been in some time
― deej loaf (D-40), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 23:20 (ten years ago)
reliably dense new school landfill maven who is making ILM the place to be seen in december '14
glad you think of me as attracting that much attention. "reliably dense new school landfill maven?" p weak as far as zings go, even if the juxtaposition of maven and landfill is kinda sexy. wordplay-wise. but that's cute, though, you fapping over your authenticity like that as opposed to...what? my lack thereof? cool story, man.
― just a couple of assholes having breakfast (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 23:23 (ten years ago)
christ alive who is this pleb
― Chairman Feinstein (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 23:25 (ten years ago)
Speaking of Grumbling Fur, is there anywhere stateside to pick up that new one?
― ƋППṍӮɨ∏ğڵșěᶉᶇдM℮ (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 23:25 (ten years ago)
I don't think that's what he's sayingI was quite disappointed with the Swans record compared to the two before it, I don't think I'm alone there― some kind of terrible IDM with guitars (sleeve), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 23:10 (23 minutes ago) Permalink
― some kind of terrible IDM with guitars (sleeve), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 23:10 (23 minutes ago) Permalink
It's a good album, but it's no The Seer.
― dive inside water and you will know (dog latin), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 23:36 (ten years ago)
new swans was funnier and catchier than the previous couple. tbh i found those a bit of a chore - too many misshapen marching songs for grim-faced hobbledehoys. this one is fun! this one has songs that swing! i actually wanted to listen to it more than once
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 23:55 (ten years ago)
― Frederik B, Tuesday, December 9, 2014 3:37 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i thought the tape was kinda underwhelming & i like sicko mobb ... sound quality was rough too
― deej loaf (D-40), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 23:57 (ten years ago)
Aphex at #1 in the Wire list is a joke, surely?
― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 00:05 (ten years ago)
It's the year of the joke #1s.
― jmm, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 00:08 (ten years ago)
I'll say!
2014 seems to go down in history with either War on Drugs or Aphex at #1? I don't care about War on Drugs. I do care about Aphex, but c'mon, the retro trip of the long lost son as a number one album of 2014? By "progressive magazine" Wire? What year is this? 1994? Gtfo.
― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 00:11 (ten years ago)
Heartening to see Shyne Coldchain 2 popping up all over
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 00:47 (ten years ago)
Wire list is much lazier than usual, weird. Though I remember reading about their polling process a few years ago - they don't have ranked ballots, so the winning album is simply the one that appears on the most ballots. Easy to see how boring consensus/canon picks can rise to the top that way.
― death in Skegness (seandalai), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 00:50 (ten years ago)
Wire lists have been bad/boring for years and years. Remember when you'd pick up a December issue and you'd be like WHAT THE FUCK ARE THESE RECORDS then you'd hunt and find them and they'd mess you up?
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 00:59 (ten years ago)
batshit craziness from the Tabs Out list:
http://bromptreb.bandcamp.com/album/abuse-abandon-abort
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 01:02 (ten years ago)
damn: http://sprtthrn.bandcamp.com/album/nothingness
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 02:01 (ten years ago)
I'm kind of enjoying how little my list will have in common with any of these.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 03:03 (ten years ago)
Anybody listen to the new Obituary album at the bottom of the Wire's avant rock list?
― aenaon genesis aevangelist (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 04:28 (ten years ago)
Aphex Twin is on a lot of lists, but I can't see it beating out War on Drugs. Ecscpecially when FKA Twigs and St. Vincent both seem to be doing quite well on a lot of lists.
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 04:55 (ten years ago)
Re: Apex Twin, it is kind of a perfect fit for The Wire, though....it's iconic, it got a very enthusiastic full page review by them, and it probable is in the wheelhouse of the things many of their different writers cover. That, with the non-weighted ballots suggests an easy #! place. Plus it's a fantastic album! It's as good a #1 as I've seen on any list.
I'm surprised that some of the electronic albums I would have thought would place weren't on the list, like Perc's The Power and the Glory, Untold's Black Light Spirals, Ben Frost's A U R O R A, Inga Copeland's Because I'm Worth It, Vessel's Punish, Honey, Mr Mitch's Parallel Memories, Andy Stott's Faith in Strangers, Joey Anderson's After Forever. They were all fantastic albums and received good reviews in the magazine iirc.
was happy to see Fatima al Qadiri's Asiatisch (a great, very underrated album imo), the Pharmakon album, the Shackleton EP, Michael Pisaro's 3 disc set, Oren Ambarchi, Call Super, Cooly G, Carla Bozulich, and Dean Blunt. Looking forward to hearing Steve Gunn's two entries, Annea Lockwood, AMM, Eliane Radigue, The Drumm/Lescalleet erstwhile disc, and some of the other avant classical pieces, as well as all of the other artists I've never even heard of.
Overall, with the exception of the top spot, I think it's an adventurous list and a good one, at least judging by all the others we've looked at
And I could probably say the same about the FACT list
― Dan S, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 07:30 (ten years ago)
PopMatters albums, 50-1:50. Ex Hex - Rips49. A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Sea When Absent48. Sondre Lerche - Please47. SOHN - Tremors46. Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else45. Prince - Art Official Age44. Mike Farris - Shine for All the People43. Lydia Loveless - Somewhere Else42. Liars - Mess41. Somi - The Lagos Music Salon40. Damien Jurado - Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son39. Shovels and Rope - Swimmin’ Time38. Battle Trance - Palace of Wind37. Lykke Li - I Never Learn36. Andy Stott - Faith in Strangers35. Allo Darlin’ - We Come From the Same Place34. Todd Terje - It’s Album Time33. The Afghan Whigs - Do to the Beast32. Nickel Creek - A Dotted Line31. Beck - Morning Phase30. First Aid Kit - Stay Gold29. Leonard Cohen - Popular Problems28. Banks - Goddess27. The New Pornographers - Brill Bruisers26. Ryan Adams - Ryan Adams25. Scott Walker and Sunn O))) - Soused24. Future Islands - Singles23. Ty Segall - Manipulator22. Sharon Van Etten - Are We There21. Brian Eno and Karl Hyde - High Life20. Freddie Gibbs and Madlib - Piñata19. Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds in Country Music18. Caribou - Our Love17. Ben Frost - A U R O R A16. Parker Millsap - Parker Millsap15. Taylor Swift - 198914. Jenny Lewis - The Voyager13. Old Crow Medicine Show - Remedy12. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness11. Azealia Banks - Broke With Expensive Taste10. Spoon - They Want My Soul9. Aphex Twin - Syro8. FKA Twigs - LP17. The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream6. Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues5. Swans - To Be Kind4. St. Vincent - St. Vincent3. Flying Lotus - You’re Dead!2. Sun Kil Moon - Benji1. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 11:54 (ten years ago)
Digital Spy:30. One Direction: FOUR29. Foxes: Glorious28. Caribou: Our Love27. Tensnake: Glow26. Katy B: Little Red25. Iggy Azalea: The New Classic24. FKA twigs: LP123. Jessie Ware: Tough Love22. Jamie T: Carry on the Grudge21. Jack White: Lazaretto20. Ella Henderson: Chapter One19. Calvin Harris: Motion18. The Horrors: Luminous17. St. Vincent: St. Vincent16. alt-J: This Is All Yours15. Ben Howard: I Forget Where We Were14. Lana Del Rey: Ultraviolence13. Sia: 1000 Forms of Fear12. Todd Terje: It's Album Time11. Ariana Grande: My Everything10. Sky Ferreira: Night Time, My Time9. Jungle: Jungle8. Bombay Bicycle Club: So Long, See You Tomorrow7. George Ezra: Wanted on Voyage6. Paolo Nutini: Caustic Love5. Ed Sheeran: x4. La Roux: Trouble In Paradise3. Royal Blood: Royal Blood2. Taylor Swift: 19891. Sam Smith: In the Lonely Hour
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 11:58 (ten years ago)
Exclaim!http://exclaim.ca/News/exclaims_best_of_2014-top_20_pop_rock_albums_part_two1. Mac DeMarco - Salad Days2. St. Vincent - St. Vincent3. Owen Pallett - In Conflict4. Alvvays - Alvvays5. Swans - To Be Kind6. White Lung - Deep Fantasy7. Timber Timbre - Hot Dreams8. The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream9. Future Islands - Singles10. Tanya Tagaq - Animism11. Ought - More Than Any Other Day12. Sun Kil Moon - Benji13. Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else14. How to Dress Well - "What is This Heart?"15. Beck - Morning Phase16. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness17. Real Estate - Atlas18. Spoon - They Want My Soul19. Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues20. Perfect Pussy - Say Yes to Love
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 12:00 (ten years ago)
(oh shit, exclaim already done)
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 12:01 (ten years ago)
Ultimate Classic Rock - Best Albms of 2014http://ultimateclassicrock.com/best-rock-albums-2014/
10 Stevie Nicks '24 Karat Gold: Songs from the Vault'9 Slash 'World On Fire'8 Bruce Springsteen 'High Hopes'7 Pink Floyd 'The Endless River'6 Ace Frehley 'Space Invader'5 Judas Priest 'Redeemer of Souls'4 Wilko Johnson and Roger Daltrey 'Going Back Home'3 Robert Plant 'Lullaby and the Ceaseless Roar'2 Tom Petty 'Hypnotic Eye'1 AC/DC 'Rock or Bust'
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 12:02 (ten years ago)
they know their audience
― VOTE in metal poll. Voting ends Friday 12th December (Cosmic Slop), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 12:06 (ten years ago)
Juno Plus - Top 50 Singleshttp://www.junodownload.com/plus/2014/12/10/best-of-2014-top-50-singles/
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 12:09 (ten years ago)
Have we ever had a thread on what I think of as 'hangover acclaim'; ie. an artist's next record getting [possibly over / undue] praise in reviews and lists that seems like a hangover from the slow-burn success of their previous record?
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 12:25 (ten years ago)
The Obituary album is very good, but other death metal veterans put out better ones this year (Cannibal Corpse, and especially Incantation).
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 12:29 (ten years ago)
lol Ultimate Classic Rock list is pretty dignified all things considered, they even put Springsteen pretty low on the list and left off U2 entirely
― some dude, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 12:40 (ten years ago)
also c'mon, where else are you gonna get blurbs like this:
With a whopping 77 minutes worth of new music, it's more like iPod on fire.
― some dude, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 12:45 (ten years ago)
there's definitely a turn to the mystical going on in the world of ultimate classic rock with some of those album titles
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 12:48 (ten years ago)
going back home to the endless river lullaby and the ceaseless roar
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 12:49 (ten years ago)
The Quietus Mixes, Reissues, Compilations & Soundtracks Of The Year
ONE: Coil / NIN - Recoiled (Cold Spring)TWO: Cyclobe - The Visitors (Phantomcode)THREE: Gravenhurst - Flashlight Seasons/Black Holes In The Sand/Offerings (WARP)FOUR: British Murder Boys - Box Set (Downwards)FIVE: Annette Peacock - I Belong To A World That’s Destroying Itself (Ironic)SIX: Perc & Truss - Live at Soenda (Soenda Festival Soundcloud)SEVEN: Mdou Moctar - Anar (Sahel Sounds)EIGHT: Mica Levi - Under The Skin (Milan Records)NINE: Z AKA Bernard Szajner – Visions of Dune (InFiné)TEN: CTI - Carter Tutti Remix Chris & Cosey (Conspiracy International)ELEVEN: K. Leimer – A Period of Review (Original Recordings: 1975 – 1983) (RVNG Intl)TWELVE: The Heads - Everybody Knows We Got Nowhere box set (Rooster)THIRTEEN: Patrick Cowley and Jorge Socarras - Catholic (Dark Entries)FOURTEEN: Karl Meier - Live at Aphotic Segment Detroit 8/2014 (KarlPMeier Mixcloud)FIFTEEN: Joe Delia - Ms.45 (Death Waltz)SIXTEEN: Manic Street Preachers - Holy Bible 20 (Sony)SEVENTEEN: Omar Khorshid - Live In Australia 1981 (Sublime Frequencies)EIGHTEEN: Wilco - Alpha Mike Foxtrot: Rarities 1994-2014 (Nonesuch)NINETEEN: Sandra Electronics - Sessions (Minimal Wave)TWENTY: Nana Love - Disco Documentary: Full Of Funk (Nestor)TWENTY ONE: Sun Ra And His Arkestra - In The Orbit Of Ra (Strut Records)TWENTY TWO: Swans - Filth (Mute)TWENTY THREE: Harry Smith - The Anthology Of American Folk Music (Mississippi)TWENTY FOUR: Nguzunguzu - Perfect Lullaby Vol. 2 DISmagazine Soundcloud)TWENTY FIVE: Pan Sonic - Oksastus (Kvitnu)TWENTY SIX: Elijah & Skilliam - Fabriclive 75 (Fabric Worldwide)TWENTY SEVEN: Ennio Morricone - Lizard In A Woman’s Skin (Death Waltz)TWENTY EIGHT: Various artists - Slowly Exploding: 10 Years Of Perc Trax 2004-2014 (Perc Trax)TWENTY NINE: Savages & Bo Ningen - Words To The Blind (Stolen)THIRTY: Various Artists - Hyperdub 10.1 (Hyperdub)THIRTY ONE: Surgeon - (Ambient Set) At Freerotation 2014 (Dynamic Tension Soundcloud)THIRTY TWO: Francis Bebey - Psychedelic Sanza 1982 - 1984 (Born Bad)THIRTY THREE: Hell - Trilogy (Pesanta Urfolk)THIRTY FOUR: Mumdance - Dummy Mix 205 Mahraganat Mixtape (Dummy)THIRTY FIVE: Fourth World Music Vol. 1: Possible Musics (All Saints)THIRTY SIX: Various Artists - Suburban Base Records: The History of Hardcore, Jungle, Drum & Bass: 1991-1997 (New State)THIRTY SEVEN: Various Artists - Haiti Direct: Big Band, Mini Jazz & Twoubadou Sounds 1960-1978 (Strut)THIRTY EIGHT: These New Puritans - E-X-P-A-N-D-E-D Live at the Barbican (Vinyl Factory)THIRTY NINE: Wild Beasts - FACT mix 427 (FACT)FORTY: Imaginary Forces - June 2014 Mix (Entr'acte Mixes)FORTY ONE: Alexander Tucker - Alexander Tucker (Thrill Jockey)FORTY TWO: Various artists - Keysound Recordings Presents... Certified Connections (Keysound Recordings)FORTY THREE: Various Artists - Horse Meat Disco 4 (Strut)FORTY FOUR: Koen Holtkamp - Motion: Connected Works (Thrill Jockey)FORTY FIVE: COUM Transmissions & John Lacey - Music For Stocking Top Swing and Staircase (Other Ideas)FORTY SIX: Mogwai - Come On Die Young (Chemikal Underground)FORTY SEVEN: Death - Spiritual Healing (Relapse)FORTY EIGHT: Objekt - Live At Freerotation (Objekt Soundcloud)FORTY NINE: The The - Soul Mining Box Set (Sony)FIFTY: Circle - Hollywood (Ektro)FIFTY ONE: Sleater-Kinney – Start Together Box Set (Sub Pop)FIFTY TWO: William Onyeabor - Volume 2 box set (Luka Bop)FIFTY THREE: Robert Hood – M Print: 20 Years Of M Plant Music (M Plant)FIFTY FOUR: Mastodon - Call Of The Mastodon (Relapse)FIFTY FIVE: Various Artists - Cambiare (Opal Tapes)FIFTY SIX: Cairo Liberation Front - The Church Of The CLF (CLF Soundcloud)FIFTY SEVEN: Cardiacs - Sing To God (Alphabet Business Concern)FIFTY EIGHT: Cabaret Voltaire - #7885 (Electropunk To Technopop 1978-1985) (Mute)FIFTY NINE: Bruno Nicolai - All The Colours Of The Dark (Finders Keepers)SIXTY: GNOD - The Somnambulist’s Tale (Aguirre)SIXTY ONE: V/A - Minor Characters Project (tqpc)SIXTY TWO: Karen Gwyer - St. John’s Sessions x Boiler Room Live Set (Boiler Room)SIXTY THREE: Koudede - Guitars From Agadez Vol. 7 (Sublime Frequencies)SIXTY FOUR: Various artists - UP#22 This Dream Gave Me A Diagonal (Diagonal Records)SIXTY FIVE: Various Artists - The World Is Yours (Bandcamp)SIXTY SIX: Powell - Boiler Room London DJ Set (Boiler Room)SIXTY SEVEN: Various Artists - Disco: A Fine Selection Of Independent Disco, Modern Soul And Boogie 1978 - 82 (Soul Jazz)SIXTY EIGHT: Various Artists - A NoCorner Collection: From The Reels (NoCorner)SIXTY NINE: Hailu Mergia And The Walias - Tche Belew (Awesome Tapes From Africa)SEVENTY: Cosmin TRG - Mix 136 (Secret Thirteen)SEVENTY ONE: Oneman, Kode9, Ikonika, Addison Groove - A Tribute to DJ Rashad (Boiler Room)SEVENTY TWO: PYE Corner Audio - Black Mill Tapes 3 & 4 (Type)SEVENTY THREE: Evian Christ - RA.404 Evian Christ (Resident Advisor)SEVENTY FOUR: Caustic Window - Caustic Window LP (Rephlex)SEVENTY FIVE: Craig Leon - Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Music Vol. 1: Nommos / Visiting (RVNGIntl.)SEVENTY SIX: Various Artists - Gipsy Rhumba (Soul Jazz)SEVENTY SEVEN: Sunroof! - Rock Action (Nashazphone)SEVENTY EIGHT: Kahn, Neek, Hi5 Ghost and Boofy - The Lab (Mixmag)SEVENTY NINE: Lunice - RA.432 Lunice (Resident Advisor)EIGHTY: Helena Hauff & Daniele Cosmo - Lux Rec at Dampfzentrale (Lux Rec Soundcloud)EIGHTY ONE: AnD - RA.389 AnD (Resident Advisor)EIGHTY TWO: Clouds - Up North (ATTTKLFCO) (Bloc)EIGHTY THREE: Various Artists - The Sound Of Siam 2 (Sound Way)EIGHTY FOUR: William Basinski - Melancholia (Temporary Residence)EIGHTY FIVE: Suede - Dog Man Star box set (Demon)EIGHTY SIX: Various Artists - Science Fiction Park Bundesrepublik: German Home Recording Tape Music Of The 1980s (Finders Keepers)EIGHTY SEVEN: Ingram Marshall - Fog Tropes/Gradual Requiem (Arc Light Editions)EIGHTY EIGHT: Robert Wyatt - Different Every Time (Domino)EIGHTY NINE: Gigi Masin - Talk To The Sea (Music From Memory)NINETY: Chistie Azumah & The Uppers International - Din Ya Sugri (Voodoo Funk)NINETY ONE: The Residents - Santa Dog (Superior Viaduct)NINETY TWO: Baader Meinhoff - Baader Meinhoff (Cherry Red)NINETY THREE: Ariel Kalma – An Evolutionary Music (Original Recordings 1972-1979) (RVNG INTL.)NINETY FOUR: Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Spirits Up Above: The Anthology (Rhino)NINETY FIVE: Grace Jones - Nightclubbing (Island)NINETY SIX: Various Artists - Folk Music Of The Sahel: Niger (Sublime Frequencies)NINETY SEVEN: Simian Mobile Disco - Whorl (ANTI-) NINETY EIGHT: Ralph Jones - The Slumber Party Massacre OST (Death Waltz)NINETY NINE: Mark Lanegan – Has God Seen My Shadow? Anthology (Light in the Attic)ONE HUNDRED: Various Artists – Oriental-Trap Mix (Norient)
Reissues Chart Here
― Doran, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 13:49 (ten years ago)
Any good EP-only lists out there?
― nashwan, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 13:51 (ten years ago)
2014′s Best Albums: Idolator Editors Pick Their Favorite 10http://www.idolator.com/7573548/2014-10-best-albums-idolator
10. Tove Lo, Queen Of The Clouds9. Vance Joy, Dream Your Life Away8. Kiesza, Sound Of A Woman7. Mariah Carey, Me. I Am Mariah… The Elusive Chanteuse6. Mary J. Blige, The London Sessions5. Lana Del Rey, Ultraviolence4. Tinashe, Aquarius3. Leighton Meester, Heartstrings2. Jessie Ware, Tough Love1. BANKS, Goddess
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 14:21 (ten years ago)
really enjoying this listhttp://www.wavelengthtoronto.com/wavelog/2014/12/100-essential-canadian-songs-2014featuring a couple personal favs of the year of mine (odonis odonis & pypy (i guess i must really love repetitive band names this year))
― nxd, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 15:10 (ten years ago)
There are loads!
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 15:11 (ten years ago)
pretty much every bloody arcade fire record ever after the first one fits that description
― just a couple of assholes having breakfast (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 15:38 (ten years ago)
it's fairly common, yeah. i'd say the aphex has an element of this.
― dive inside water and you will know (dog latin), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 15:42 (ten years ago)
if anyone wants to know what i liked this year, both old and new, it's on this playlist
http://open.spotify.com/user/matthelgeson/playlist/0ah1waMa42AwR8t1sfI9wq
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 17:03 (ten years ago)
This Ian William Craig album, Turn of Breath, is really something. Spotted on the Textura and Norman Records lists.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 17:09 (ten years ago)
Yeah I've been listening to that too. It's bloody excellent! He's an opera singer or something, I understand?
― dive inside water and you will know (dog latin), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 17:14 (ten years ago)
Been enjoying that one as well.
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 17:34 (ten years ago)
that Carla Bozulich record is as great as I had hoped, very cool
― some kind of terrible IDM with guitars (sleeve), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 17:39 (ten years ago)
Last Rites Top 25:http://lastrit.es/articles/892/last-rites-top-25-of-2014
25. Ambush - Firestorm 24. Midnight - No Mercy For Mayhem23. Iron Reagan - The Tyranny Of Will22. Martyrdöd - Elddop 21. Sanctuary - The Year The Sun Died20. Death Penalty - Death Penalty19. Nasheim - Solens Vemod18. Gridlink - Longhenna17. Incantation - Dirges Of Elysium16. Agalloch - The Serpent & The Sphere15. Exodus - Blood In Blood Out 14. Dawnbringer - Night Of The Hammer13. Thantifaxath - Sacred White Noise 12. Saor - Aura11. Primordial - Where Greater Men Have Fallen 10. Pyrrhon - The Mother Of Virtues9. Bloodbath - Grand Morbid Funeral 8. Dead Congregation- Promulgation Of The Fall7. Morbus Chron - Sweven 6. Overkill - White Devil Armory5. Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II: Saturnian Poetry4. Giant Squid - Minoans3. YOB - Clearing The Path To Ascend2. Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden 1. Horrendous - Ecdysis
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 17:47 (ten years ago)
Bless these niche lists, if only to keep me from accepting the too numerous assertions that The War On Drugs is as good as it got in 2014.
― doug watson, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 18:19 (ten years ago)
AdHoc best albums:
Actress: GhettovilleAndy Stott: Faith in StrangersArca: XenBen Frost: A U R O R ABitchin Bajas: Bitchin BajasThe Body & Thou: Released from LoveContainer: Adhesivecopeland: Because I'm Worth ItDean Blunt: BLACK METALEEK: Live at the Cairo High Cinema InstituteFennesz: BecsFKA Twigs: LP1Freddie Gibbs and Madlib: PiñataGiant Claw: DARK WEBGood Willsmith: The Honeymoon WorkbookGrouper: RuinsHorse Lords: Hidden CitiesJerry Paper: Big Pop for Chameleon WorldKassem Mosse: Workshop 19L.O.T.I.O.N.: Second Audio Document 2014M. Geddes Gengrass: Collected Works vol. 2: New Process MusicM. Sage: A Singular ContinentMoodyman: MoodymanPharmakon: Bestial BurdenPure X: AngelRicky Eat Acid: Three Love SongsSeth Graham: GoopSteve Gunn: Way Out WeatherTaso: TekLife til tha Next Life Vol. 1Telecult Powers: Black MeditationsTonstartssbandht: OverseasTraxman: Da Mind of Traxman 2
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 18:21 (ten years ago)
is that the first Fennesz mention? that album sounded like such a retread to me.
― some kind of terrible IDM with guitars (sleeve), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 18:33 (ten years ago)
I really liked Becs! I suppose it's not a revelation for Fennesz fans but I still listened to it a ton this year. It's in my personal list of favorites from the year.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 18:37 (ten years ago)
a closer listen top 10 singles.
1. Christina Vantzou: "Going Backwards to Recover What Was Left Behind"2. Tess Said So: "The Snap Beans Aren't Salty"3. Lullatone: "All the Optimism of Early January"4. Tides of Man: "Mountain House"5. Sleepmakeswaves: "Something Like Avalanches"6. Maybeshewill: "Fair Youth"7. 36: "Hyperbox"8. Koloto: "Fox Tales"9. Mariano Rodriguez: "Praise the Road"10. (exitpost): "Sweet Fade"
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 18:43 (ten years ago)
^^all instrumental stuff, ambient/post rock. I like the more ambient stuff. All the post-rock stuff feels super dated (Tides of Man, Sleepmakeswaves, etc.)
That Christina Vantzou album from this year was very good.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 18:44 (ten years ago)
Ohh there was a Lullatone album this year? Missed that!
― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 19:00 (ten years ago)
Rolling Stone Top 40 Country Albums list
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/40-best-country-albums-of-2014-20141210
=]:D
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 19:01 (ten years ago)
Yeah, I like the Fennesz a lot too. It probably doesn't really break new ground for Fennesz but I'm not sure War on Drugs is breaking new ground for the world either.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 19:01 (ten years ago)
lord no, and Becs will probably squeak into my personal top 20 once I re-listen
― some kind of terrible IDM with guitars (sleeve), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 19:03 (ten years ago)
Big Fennesz fan but Becs really did nothing for me. Very first album of his that gave me no reaction whatsoever.
― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 19:04 (ten years ago)
good list whiney - did u do an avant/noise whatever you called it list this year?
― Mordy, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 20:06 (ten years ago)
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, December 10, 2014 4:25 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Every huge artist has their "New Jersey" - a huge event album that ultimately feels a bit hollow & signals a career decline
― brimstead, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 20:31 (ten years ago)
I guess that's more about sales than critical acclaim
― brimstead, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 20:32 (ten years ago)
i think that's different. this is more like an unknown artist releases a breakthrough album, but maybe not everyone hears it that year, but they make sure to get onboard for the next album and suddenly it's on a bunch of different lists, even though it's not as good.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 20:33 (ten years ago)
Yeah totally
I feel like things move so fast these days that it's more common for followups to get panned or ignored but that's pure uninformed b.s. on my part, surely
― brimstead, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 20:39 (ten years ago)
― Mordy, Wednesday, December 10, 2014 3:06 PM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
it's coming
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 20:44 (ten years ago)
http://www.npr.org/2014/12/10/369652480/npr-musics-favorite-songs-of-2014
― death in Skegness (seandalai), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 20:51 (ten years ago)
I still don't think Tim McGraw knows what a sundown town is, or else he (hopefully) wouldn't have named his album after one.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 21:00 (ten years ago)
fader tracks list is prob my favorite so far despite including basically every ilovemakonnen song possible
― dyl, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 21:15 (ten years ago)
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, December 10, 2014 3:00 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
woah i was not aware of this but yikes
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 21:20 (ten years ago)
already found a handful of engaging-sounding records from whiney's country list, thanks
― j., Wednesday, 10 December 2014 21:37 (ten years ago)
The Rosanne Cash one is pleasant enough but not as impressive as I hoped it would be. Plus I see the RS contributors like the Eric Church album more than most folks here (although Some Dude likes it some)
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 22:15 (ten years ago)
Afropop Worldwide radio program/website List http://www.afropop.org/wp/21641/stocking-stuffers-complete-list/
Need help tracking down the music heard on this week’s “Stocking Stuffers 2014!” program? Well, we got you. What follows is a complete list of the tracks, ordered by their appearance in the program.
Balani Show Super Hits: Electronic Street Parties from Mali : “Bala” DJ Balani – “Furu Djougou,” Kaba Blon – Sahel Sounds.
Kasai Allstars, Beware The Fetish: “The Chief’s Enthronement / Oyaye” – “He Who Makes Bush Fires For Others” - Crammed Disc
Ricardo Lemvo and Makina Loca, La Rumba SoYo : “Rumba SoYo” - Cumbancha
Aurelio Martinez, Lándini: “Nando” / “Milaguru” - Real World
Caetano Veloso, Abraçaço: “Um Abraçaço” - Nonesuch
Moreno Veloso, Coisa Boa: “Um Passo a Frente” - Luaka Bop
Brazil!: The Birth of Bossa Nova: “Outra vez,” Elizete Cardoso - Soul Jazz Records
Dona Onete, Feitiço Cabloco: “Moreno Morenado” - Mais Um Discos
Sierra Leone’s Refugee All-Stars, Libation: “Maria” / “Rich But Poor” - Cumbancha
Seun Kuti and Egypt 80, A Long Way to the Beginning: “African Airways” - Knitting Factory Records
The Fela! Band, Finding Fela : Orginal Motion Picture Soundtrack: “Zombie” - Knitting Factory Records
Fela Kuti, Music of Many Colours, Box Set #3–Curated by Brian Eno: “Upside Down,” - Knitting Factory Records
William Onyeabor, Anything You Sow: “This Kind of World” - Luaka Bop
Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou, The Skeletal Essences of Afro-Funk 1969-1980: “Houzou Houzou Wa” - Analog Africa
Angélique Kidjo, Eve: “Orisha” - 429 Records
Noura Mint Seymali, Tzenni: “El Madi” - Glitterhouse Records
Busy Signal: “Well Prepared” - Web Only Release
Popcaan, Where We Come From: “Everything Nice ” - Mixpak Records
Chronixx, Dread and Terrible: “Here Comes Trouble” - Chronixx Records
Ibibio Sound Machine, Ibibio Sound Machine: “Let’s Dance” - Soundway
Hassan Hakmoun, Unity: “Zidokan (Just Go)” - Healing Records
Thomas Mapfumo and the Blacks Unlimited, Danger Zone: “Chikonzero”
Chigamba, Yangu Ndega: “Gandanga / Tinovatenda”- Available on CD Baby
Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Always With Us: “Mamizolo” - Ladysmith Black Mambazo Records
Mamani Keita, Kanou: “Djalal Kibali” - World Village
Tinariwen, Emmaar: “Chaghaybou,” - ANTI Records
Imarhan Timbuktu, Akal Warled: “Aïcha Talamomt/Aïcha/Aïcha” - Clermont Music
Anansy Cissé, Mali Overdrive: “Sekou Amadou” - Riverboat Records
Oumar Konate, Addoh: “Henibombey (A Swindle Is No Good)” - Clermont Records
The Touré-Raichel Collective, The Paris Session: “Dèni Dèni” - Cumbancha
Habib Koité and Bamada, Soô: “Bolo Mala” - Contre Jour
Toumani Diabaté and Sidiki Diabaté, Toumani & Sidiki: “Hamadoun Toure” - Nonesuch
Djessou Mory Kante, River Strings–Maninka Guitar: “Coucou” - Sterns Africa
Cumbia All Stars, Tigres En Fuga: “Lobos al Escape” - World Village
Zongo Junction, No Discount: “Tunnel Bar” - Electric Cowbell
Somi, The Lagos Music Salon: “Love Juju #1” - Okeh
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 22:19 (ten years ago)
Wondering Soundhttp://www.wonderingsound.com/list/best-metal-albums-2014/
25. Sun Worship, Elder Giants24. Alraune, The Process of Self-Immolation23. Mastodon, Once More ‘Round the Sun22. Mutilation Rites, Harbinger21. Panopticon, Roads to the North20. Inter Arma, The Cavern19. Bastard Sapling, Instinct Is Forever18. Godflesh, A World Lit Only By Fire17. At the Gates, At War With Reality16. Witch Mountain, Mobile of Angels15. Woods of Desolation, As the Stars14. Eyehategod, Eyehategod13. Dead Congregation, Promulgation of the Fall12. The Body, I Shall Die Here11. Winterfylleth, The Divination of Antiquity10. Diocletian, Gesundrian9. YOB, Clearing the Path to Ascend8. Thou, Heathen7. Coffinworm, IV.I.VIII6. Earth, Primitive & Deadly5. Electric Wizard, Time to Die4. Nux Vomica, Nux Vomica3. Blut Aus Nord, Memoria Vetusta III – Saturnian Poetry2. Triptykon, Melana Chasmata1. Pallbearer, Foundations of Burden
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 22:28 (ten years ago)
they did a best country albums list as well
― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 23:35 (ten years ago)
Gorilla vs. Bear Songs:
100 NAPOLIAN – DARPA99 INGA COPELAND – Smitten98 JEROME LOL – Fool (feat. Angelina Lucero)97 ALINA BARAZ x GALIMATIAS – Fantasy96 BULLY – Brainfreeze95 TOMAS BARFOD – Pulsing (feat. Nina K)94 MARISSA NADLER – Drive93 AMASON – Duvan92 TALLESEN – Strike Silver, Love Green91 DE LA SOUL – Dilla Plugged In
90 MERELY – Forever89 LNRDCROY – I Met You on BC Ferries88 LYDIA AINSWORTH – Hologram87 JESSIE WARE – Keep on Lying86 THE WAR ON DRUGS – Under the Pressure85 SIA – Chandelier84 LXURY – Never Love83 ALICE BOMAN – Over82 BANKS – Goddess (Jerome LOL edit)81 PURE X – Starlight
80 SAMI SUOVA – Go79 DRAKE – 0 to 100 / The Catch Up78 LIL B – Fuck KD77 PRINCE INNOCENCE – I Don’t Care76 GFOTY – Bobby75 KATIE RUSH – Dangerous Luv74 FKA TWIGS – Pendulum73 YOU’LL NEVER GET TO HEAVEN – Caught in Time, So Far Away72 PARIS SUIT YOURSELF – Won’t K (SOPHIE remix)71 TOKIMONSTA – Steal My Attention
70 VIET CONG – Continental Shelf69 ARAABMUZIK – Ghost Story68 WET – Don’t Wanna Be Your Girl (PURPLE remix)67 NMESH – Dream Sequins®
66 DEERS – Castigadas en el Granero65 ELLIE HERRING – Gem Landing64 FEAR OF MEN – Alta/Waterfall63 SZA – Warm Winds (feat. Isaiah Rashad)62 DJ SPINN x TASO x JESSY LANZA – Unreleased61 A. G. Cook – Had 1
60 DJ RASHAD x DJ SPINN x TASO – Luchini VIP59 MELODY’S ECHO CHAMBER – Shirim58 YOUNG EJECTA – Your Planet57 DOSS – The Way I Feel (Recycle Culture’s Slow Emotion Reel)56 BLUE HAWAII – Get Happy / Get Happier55 VESUVIO SOLO – Avion54 EYEDRESS – When I’m Gone (feat. GEoRGiA)53 CFCF – Hiders/We Belong Together52 RYAN HEMSWORTH – Surrounded (with Kotomi & Doss)51 SHARON VAN ETTEN – Our Love
50 DD ELLE – Tell Me49 RECYCLE CULTURE – Back to the World48 CHROMATICS – Shadow (8 track version)47 RICKY EAT ACID – Pull46 ALLIE X – Catch45 A. G. COOK – Beautiful44 HANNAH DIAMOND – Pink & Blue43 DJ DODGER STADIUM – Love Songs42 YUMI ZOUMA – Alena41 TRUST – Capitol
40 GROUPER – Clearing39 JESSICA PRATT – Back, Baby38 JAMIE XX – Sleep Sound37 BEVERLY – Honey Do36 CHARLI XCX – Boom Clap35 SAINT PEPSI – Baby34 DANNY L HARLE – Aquarius (Luna remix)33 MSSINGNO – Brandy flip32 ALLIE X – Bitch31 FUTURE – Benz Friendz (feat. Andre 3000)
30 TAYLOR SWIFT – Wildest Dreams (Recycle Culture Hyper Bubble Pop remix)29 ANGEL OLSEN – White Fire28 BECKY G – Shower27 TEI SHI – Bassically26 ARIANA GRANDE – Break Free25 KERO KERO BONITO – Sick Beat24 TOPS – Outside23 LEON VYNEHALL – It’s Just (House of Dupree)22 SOPHIE – Lemonade21 MICA LEVI – Love
20 LANA DEL REY – Brooklyn Baby19 DANNY L HARLE – In My Dreams18 SALES – Getting It On17 FUTURE – Move That Dope (feat. Pusha T, Pharrell & Casino)16 QT – Hey QT15 FKA TWIGS – Two Weeks14 DEERS – Bamboo13 ARIEL PINK – Not Enough Violence12 TINASHE – 2 On11 ILOVEMAKONNEN – Club Goin Up on a Tuesday
10 YUMI ZOUMA | The Brae09 DREAMTRAK | Odyssey, Pt. 2 (A. G. Cook remix)08 PANDA BEAR | Mr Noah07 KATIE GATELY | Pivot06 DOSS | The Way I Feel05 ALVVAYS | Archie, Marry Me04 LEON BRIDGES | Coming Home03 ARIEL PINK | Dayzed Inn Daydream02 SHABAZZ PALACES | Forerunner Foray01 A. G. COOK | Keri Baby (feat. Hannah Diamond)
― monster_xero, Thursday, 11 December 2014 02:04 (ten years ago)
I'm looking forward to the ILX EOY poll this year to hear what you've all been listening to... I haven't been as on the ball with new releases this year in comparison to 2013, so it'll be interesting for me to catch up.
― Welcome To (Turrican), Thursday, 11 December 2014 03:41 (ten years ago)
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/2014-best-jazz-reissues?int-cid=mod-latest
best jazz reissues
― deej loaf (D-40), Thursday, 11 December 2014 03:56 (ten years ago)
xp cool to see (for the first time on this thread i think) deers, nmesh, saint pepsi & trust on that list
― nxd, Thursday, 11 December 2014 09:56 (ten years ago)
Slant Magazine - The 25 Best Singles of 2014http://www.slantmagazine.com/features/article/the-25-best-singles-of-2014
25 Spoon - Inside Out24 London Grammar - Hey Now23 Beyonce - ***Flawless22 Mac DeMarco - Passing Out Pieces21 Cloud Nothings - I'm Not Part of Me20 Röyksopp & Robyn - Monument19 Lee Bains III & the Glory Fires - The Company Man18 Caribou - Can't Do Without You17 Jack White - Lazaretto16 Disclosure ft. Mary J. Blige - F For You15 alt-J - Left Hand Free14 Sia - Chandelier13 Sturgill Simpson - Turtles All the Way Down12 Perfume Genius - Queen11 Indiana - Solo Dancing10 St. Vincent - Digital Witness9 Jenny Lewis - Just One of the Guys8 Future Islands - Seasons (Waiting On You)7 Sam Smith - Stay With Me6 FKA twigs - Two Weeks5 Hozier - Take Me to Church4 Vic Mensa - Down on My Luck3 Jessie Ware - Say You Love Me2 The New Pornographers - Brill Bruisers1 Jessie Ware - Tough Love
― ottbot jr (NickB), Thursday, 11 December 2014 10:17 (ten years ago)
Guardian top 10 albums:
10. Sleaford Mods - Divide and Exit9. Flying Lotus - You're Dead8. Beck - Morning Phase7. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 26. La Roux - Trouble in Paradise5. Caribou - Our Love4. Aphex Twin - Syro3. FKA Twigs - LP12. The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream1. ??. ??????? - ??. ???????
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Thursday, 11 December 2014 11:22 (ten years ago)
Has to be St Vincent.
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 11 December 2014 11:39 (ten years ago)
Sorry, Mike, it's Catfish and the Bottlemen.
― Unsettled defender (ithappens), Thursday, 11 December 2014 11:47 (ten years ago)
no its Lost in the Dream again. they love it so much it gets the top 2 spots.
― cerebral caustic window (cajunsunday), Thursday, 11 December 2014 11:49 (ten years ago)
Oh cool two Ware placements in top five
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 December 2014 11:52 (ten years ago)
Two Ware Nos. Here
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Thursday, 11 December 2014 11:57 (ten years ago)
Clearly U2 has won the guardian poll
― VOTE in metal poll. Voting ends TOMORROW (Cosmic Slop), Thursday, 11 December 2014 12:09 (ten years ago)
I quite like that gorilla vs bear list, if for nor other reason it included Leon Vynehall's House of Dupree, which is missing from far too much
― beatgeneration, Thursday, 11 December 2014 13:02 (ten years ago)
Dummy - The 20 best albums of 2014http://www.dummymag.com/lists/the-20-best-albums-of-2014
20 Young Fathers - Dead19 Todd Terje - It's Album Time18 Caribou - Our Love17 Call Super - Suzi Ecto16 The Bug - Angels & Devils15 Fatima Al Qadiri - Asiatisch14 Metronomy - Love Letters13 Lone - Reality Testing12 Fatima - Yellow Memories11 How to Dress Well - What is this Heart?10 Arca - Xen9 Dan Bodan - Soft8 Copeland - Because I'm Worth It7 TOPS - Picture You Staring6 Mica Levi - Under the Skin OST5 18+ - Trust4 Dean Blunt - Black Metal3 Aphex Twin - Syro2 Kindness - Otherness1 FKA Twigs - LP1
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Thursday, 11 December 2014 13:08 (ten years ago)
Drowned In Sound - Our 50 Favourite Albums of 2014http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4148558-drowned-in-sounds-50-favourite-albums-of-2014
1) The Twilight Sad - Nobody Wants to Be Here and Nobody Wants to Leave2) Sharon Van Etten - Are We There3) Taylor Swift - 19894) Marissa Nadler - July5) ††† - Crosses6) Alvvays - Alvvays7) Eagulls - Eagulls8) Ought - More Than Any Other Day9) The War On Drugs - Lost in the Dream10) Swans - To Be Kind11) Cloud Nothings - Here And Nowhere Else12) Mogwai - Rave Tapes13) Interpol - El Pintor14) Sun Kil Moon - Benji15) FKA twigs - LP116) Keaton Henson - Romantic Works17) A Winged Victory for the Sullen - Atomos18) Hookworms - The Hum19) East India Youth - Total Strife Forever20) EMA - The Future’s Void21) Future Islands - Singles22) Todd Terje - It's Album Time23) Lykke Li - I Never Learn24) Grouper - Ruins25) Vessel - Punish, Honey26) Blood Red Shoes - Blood Red Shoes27) Prince - Art Official Age / Plectrumelectrum28) I Break Horses - Chiaroscuro29) Eels - The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett30) Pulled Apart by Horses - Blood31) Owen Pallett - In Conflict32) Wild Beasts - Present Tense33) Kiasmos - Kiasmos34) Manic Street Preachers - Futurology35) Ben Frost - Aurora36) Liars - Mess37) Perfume Genius - Too Bright38) The Antlers - Familiars39) The Phantom Band - Strange Friend40) Inventions - Inventions41) Spoon - They Want My Soul42) Young Fathers - DEAD43) Raveonettes - Pe’ahi44) The Bug - Angels & Devils45) Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Gone Girl OST46) ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead - IX47) Joyce Manor - Never Hungover Again48) Aphex Twin - Syro49) Thom Yorke - Tomorrow's Modern Boxes50) Owls - II
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Thursday, 11 December 2014 13:13 (ten years ago)
unfortunate graphic for their number one album, i know they liked it but tmi guys
http://dis.images.s3.amazonaws.com/98646.jpeg
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Thursday, 11 December 2014 13:25 (ten years ago)
damn a lot of people loved that crosses album for some reason
― Simon H., Thursday, 11 December 2014 13:38 (ten years ago)
I participated in this: http://www.spin.com/articles/40-best-country-songs-2014/
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 December 2014 13:39 (ten years ago)
Consensus Watch Update - FKA Twigs steams ahead.Number of Top 50 polls in brackets.
FKA Twigs - LP1 (42)The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream (35)St Vincent - St Vincent (33)Caribou - Our Love (33)
Aphex Twin - Syro (28)Future Islands - Singles (27)Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness (26)Sharon Van Etten - Are We There (26)Swans - To Be Kind (26)Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 2 (25)Beck - Morning Phase (24)Mac DeMarco - Salad Days (23)Perfume Genius - Too Bright (23)Flying Lotus - You're Dead! (22)Sun Kil Moon - Benji (22)Taylor Swift - 1989 (21)Freddie Gibbs and Madlib - Pinata (20)Todd Terje - It's Album Time (20)
Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence (19)Spoon - They Want My Soul (18)Jack White - Lazaretto (17)Alvvays - Alvvays (17)East India Youth - Total Strife Forever (17)Real Estate - Atlas (16)Ty Segall - Manipulator (15)Wild Beasts - Present Tense (15)
Sleaford Mods - Divide and Exit (14)The Bug - Angels & Devils (14)Grouper: Ruins (14)Goat - Commune (13)Scott Walker & Sun O))) - Soused (13)Jenny Lewis - Voyager (13)Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots (12)Royal Blood - Royal Blood (12)Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty (12)First Aid Kit - Stay Gold (12)Cloud Nothings - Here And Nowhere Else (12)Hookworms - The Hum (12)Temples - Sun Structures (11)The Black Keys - Turn Blue (11)Alt-J - This Is All Yours (11)Andy Stott - Faith in Strangers (11)Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds In Country Music (11)Kate Tempest - Everybody Down (10)Ex Hex - Rips (10)Azealia Banks, Broke With Expensive Taste (10)Jessie Ware - Tough Love (10)Tinashe - Aquarius (10)Dean Blunt – Black Metal (10)Young Fathers - Dead (10)
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 11 December 2014 15:10 (ten years ago)
The most polled metal albums are both on 9:Yob - Clearing the Path to AscendPallbearer – Foundations of Burden
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 11 December 2014 15:13 (ten years ago)
wonder what the highest placing one of those is that will not make the ilx 77?
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Thursday, 11 December 2014 15:26 (ten years ago)
Beck?
― MarkoP, Thursday, 11 December 2014 15:34 (ten years ago)
Yeah definitely Beck
― Evan, Thursday, 11 December 2014 15:35 (ten years ago)
Very surprised that the Guardian list will end up omitting Todd Terje, Lana Del Rey, Perfume Genius and Sun Kil Moon.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Thursday, 11 December 2014 15:37 (ten years ago)
possibly WoD given the *shrug* and "really??" type reactions it's getting
although that could just be thinking it's overrated despite not being necessarily bad, which i'd agree with
― just a couple of assholes having breakfast (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 11 December 2014 15:38 (ten years ago)
Plenty of people here like the WoD album, I'm just not sure anyone was really behind it being so high on almost every list that would include it.
― Evan, Thursday, 11 December 2014 15:41 (ten years ago)
everyone should have omitted Lana Del Rey because that album is terrible aside from 2-3 songs, and one of the not-terrible songs is titled "Fucked My Way To The Top"
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Thursday, 11 December 2014 15:41 (ten years ago)
^^^^^^^
― Evan, Thursday, 11 December 2014 15:43 (ten years ago)
even being charitable the LDR album was basically more of the same, i can't imagine any fence-sitters or sceptics especially caring about it
terje did lose a lot of steam, which was entirely predictable even during the hosannas in the week it came out imo - that album had no stickability at all
this whole sun kil moon/war on drugs consensus is baffling to me bc i had literally never heard of either terrible act before about a month ago. where did they come from??? can we banish everyone responsible for bringing them in?
― lex pretend, Thursday, 11 December 2014 15:46 (ten years ago)
oh shush evan you did not listen to the LDR album you are not allowed to cosign negative opinions on it
(...that said its pretty fucking uneven despite being a p big step up for her)
― just a couple of assholes having breakfast (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 11 December 2014 15:48 (ten years ago)
Sun Kil Moon is the new act of a legacy dude, I think War on Drugs have been around for a little while without any great shakes, they had some sort of beef this year (?) and now people are rating their albums highly. I dunno, I like plenty of schmindie bollocks so maybe I would like one or the other record but it just seems so very very unappealing.
― emil.y, Thursday, 11 December 2014 15:54 (ten years ago)
Yeah sometimes with these albums I have no idea whether I'd like them or not but the the overall feeling is "can't be arsed". That feeling was entirely vindicated when I heard the Sun Kil Moon album fwiw.
I can see Angel Olsen missing out on any ILX list as well, not detected much in the way of buzz around her here.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 11 December 2014 16:03 (ten years ago)
The Terje album really is a good EP's worth of material obviously left half-finished and padded out with old stuff. I'm pretty sure I read an interview where he said it was actually unfinished due to family stuff.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 11 December 2014 16:05 (ten years ago)
sun kil moon's been going over a decade iirc and he got a shiny 'best new music' badge from pitchfork about half a decade ago
― nxd, Thursday, 11 December 2014 16:05 (ten years ago)
Sun Kil Moon has been around since 2003. Though his new approach is distinct enough it's almost as if this version of Sun Kil Moon is a new act that debuted in 2012.
― Evan, Thursday, 11 December 2014 16:09 (ten years ago)
Yeah, I realised after I posted "new act" is a bit of a misnomer, was more trying to emphasise the 'elder statesman' bit. Didn't realise it was *quite* that old, though.
― emil.y, Thursday, 11 December 2014 16:10 (ten years ago)
Minor correction: Sun Kil Moon actually never got BNM until Benji.
― Evan, Thursday, 11 December 2014 16:11 (ten years ago)
i love how fact readers are in open revolt btl. the top comment kills me:
Damn Sun Kil Moon is the whitest, whiniest shit I ever heard. That's the best album of the year for what, getting over your dog's death? No fucking thanks.
― prolego, Thursday, 11 December 2014 16:13 (ten years ago)
i can't imagine any fence-sitters or sceptics especially caring about it
No, Born to Die got a pasting in most US publications (it was only #54 on Pazz & Jop) and this one, which has entirely different production, didn't. It's been in 19 EOY lists and has made the early backlash look like old news. So clearly a bunch of sceptics have come around. And Terje is in 20 lists. So I'm still surprised the Guardian skipped them both.
Would love to hear DJP's argument for the three not-terrible LDR, because it's all of a piece. I figured people would either like all of it (ie me) or none of it.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Thursday, 11 December 2014 16:13 (ten years ago)
xp haaaahahahahahahaha
― just a couple of assholes having breakfast (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 11 December 2014 16:14 (ten years ago)
xp cheers evan, memory failed me there thought he got one for 'april' - cheers!
― nxd, Thursday, 11 December 2014 16:15 (ten years ago)
clickers at the ready, it's the FACT top 50 tracks list:http://www.factmag.com/2014/12/11/the-50-best-tracks-of-2014/
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Thursday, 11 December 2014 16:17 (ten years ago)
they're really trying to make pc music a thing huh
― prolego, Thursday, 11 December 2014 16:17 (ten years ago)
"1 of 51"
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Thursday, 11 December 2014 16:18 (ten years ago)
xp them and gorilla vs. bear are super bout-it bout-it for PC music, idgi
like that stuff isn't all bad but i fail to see what's remarkable about it
― just a couple of assholes having breakfast (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 11 December 2014 16:20 (ten years ago)
TAYLOR SWIFT – Wildest Dreams (Recycle Culture Hyper Bubble Pop remix)
its hilarious to me that someone could think this improves on the song itself
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 11 December 2014 16:21 (ten years ago)
That's a surprisingly good top five from FACT and their number one is predictable but unfuckable-with. Mystifying Popcaan choice though considering the rest of the album.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 11 December 2014 16:23 (ten years ago)
'Slug Christ' is sort of moniker a FACT-friendly automatic name generator would come up with though.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 11 December 2014 16:24 (ten years ago)
I tried listening to War On Drugs just now; why do people keep falling for shit like this???
― example (crüt), Thursday, 11 December 2014 16:28 (ten years ago)
PC Music isn't nearly as lazy or cowardly as witch house or chillwave was but ughhhh
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 11 December 2014 16:29 (ten years ago)
it was a very cold winter, crüt
― j., Thursday, 11 December 2014 16:30 (ten years ago)
FKA Twigs still doesn't click with me but it's exciting that such a weird album is the frontrunner in all these lists
― example (crüt), Thursday, 11 December 2014 16:32 (ten years ago)
I really liked "Slave Ambient" a couple of years ago, but I can't remember a single thing from "Lost in the dream" other than the first track reminds me of "More than this".
― cpl593H, Thursday, 11 December 2014 16:34 (ten years ago)
lex in literally never having heard standard indie-rock band shocker...
but yeah, sun kil moon is mark kozelek is red house painters who have been around since forever and ever and ever. benji is the first thing i heard by him though (before the ridiculous feud) and i do really like it (haven't heard the slag-off joke record but i can imagine it's not worth bothering with at all). he strikes me as a bit of an arsehole but the album is sweet and very touching. i love the thrumming acoustic layers and the stories he tells are really well told, especially 'micheline', 'jim wise' and 'clarissa'.
― dive inside water and you will know (dog latin), Thursday, 11 December 2014 16:37 (ten years ago)
war on drugs are dull as shit shimmery post-freakfolk, post-chillwave nonsense though.
― dive inside water and you will know (dog latin), Thursday, 11 December 2014 16:38 (ten years ago)
OTM. I was a fan from Wagonwheel Blues, but after awhile his chorus-less songwriting style begins to grate.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 11 December 2014 16:40 (ten years ago)
other than the first track reminds me of "More than this".
that is a not insubstantial part of why it's being highly praised by those who are praising it
xxp
― just a couple of assholes having breakfast (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 11 December 2014 16:41 (ten years ago)
The Juan MacLean big snob goes on and still hurts me.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 11 December 2014 16:50 (ten years ago)
snub?
― some kind of terrible IDM with guitars (sleeve), Thursday, 11 December 2014 16:58 (ten years ago)
it's a simple design
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 December 2014 16:59 (ten years ago)
Cool list in Decoder from the Experimedia guy if you like leftfield electronic stuff:http://www.secretdecoder.net/blog/2014/12/10/jeremy-bibles-top-10-and-beyond-of-2014/
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Thursday, 11 December 2014 16:59 (ten years ago)
other than the first track reminds me of "More than this".......why it's being highly praised by those who are praising it
Yeah, but More Than This had a chorus you could hum, instead of just random Whoooos for 8 minutes.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 11 December 2014 17:00 (ten years ago)
Yeah I enjoy Benji but his 2010 and earlier material is his peak by far. It's funny how some records resonate so much more when they're backstory/character driven. Like all the fun people had talking about Bon Iver's cabin and GIRLS's cult history probably propelled those record sales regardless of the music. So Sun Kil Moon gets musically lazy but confessional and all sorts of people suddenly learn he exists because the publications write about the stories of the musician and the record gets more exposure.
― Evan, Thursday, 11 December 2014 17:02 (ten years ago)
post-freakfolk, post-chillwave nonsense though
You should probably consider just taking a broom to all these convoluted tangled continuum diagrams with Animal Collective in the middle of all contemporary music dude.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 11 December 2014 17:09 (ten years ago)
Most of the reviews I've read mention Springsteen, Petty and Kraftwerk but nothing is said about Avalon-era Roxy, so I had no idea that was one of the reasons for the acclaim it's getting.
― cpl593H, Thursday, 11 December 2014 17:18 (ten years ago)
A cogent requirement would require me to listen to it again, which I respectfully decline to do, but most of my objections are due to the way she uses her voice and the wildly inconsistent results it gives. When she lifts her soft palette and spins the tone in her mid- to upper register, she actually sounds great and it's shocking to hear, particularly when compared the pressed, flat adenoidal honking she does most of the time.
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Thursday, 11 December 2014 17:32 (ten years ago)
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, December 11, 2014 8:39 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i checked out the top ten in this list. i guess i just do not get modern country. at all. i can tear up when hearing classic country, just a pull of the pedal steel on a buck owens record gives me goosebumps, i count a lot of older country among my favorite music ever, what am i missing here? it all just sounds like complete garbage to me. i don't want to sound dismissive even though saying it's all "complete garbage" is basically dismissive, but i am also somewhat genuinely curious as to what people here dig about it.
― marcos, Thursday, 11 December 2014 17:43 (ten years ago)
rock music shit the bed and this is all that's left
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 11 December 2014 17:46 (ten years ago)
Modern country = generic 80s non-metal rock
Imagine it all as an ongoing love letter to John Fogerty and The Outfield
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Thursday, 11 December 2014 17:46 (ten years ago)
Modern country = rock
Modern rock = simpering whiteboy crybaby garbage from imagine dragons down to war on drugs
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 11 December 2014 17:49 (ten years ago)
which is why I listen to Savages
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Thursday, 11 December 2014 17:50 (ten years ago)
u are both OTM and this modern indie crap is such an embarrassment to all concerned, I would honestly rather listen to some arena-rock "country" on steroids than another whiny white dude with a guitar
― some kind of terrible IDM with guitars (sleeve), Thursday, 11 December 2014 17:52 (ten years ago)
modern country doesnt have any whiny white dudes?
― VOTE in metal poll. Voting ends TOMORROW (Cosmic Slop), Thursday, 11 December 2014 17:54 (ten years ago)
Modern country is just pop/rock music that plays it safer and simpler than anything else.
― Evan, Thursday, 11 December 2014 17:54 (ten years ago)
shouty white dudes
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 December 2014 17:54 (ten years ago)
― Evan,
not true lyrically, like, at all
yup
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 11 December 2014 17:55 (ten years ago)
xp Thanks DJP. I dig the adenoidal honking but I get the distinction. I love what she does on Shades of Cool.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Thursday, 11 December 2014 17:55 (ten years ago)
I don't hear the stories told by Miranda Lambert, Angaleena Presley, Kira Isabella in other genres. And War on Drugs isn't writing about getting drunk on planes.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 December 2014 17:56 (ten years ago)
― Evan, Thursday, December 11, 2014 5:54 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
jesus christ the ignorance
― lex pretend, Thursday, 11 December 2014 17:57 (ten years ago)
― Evan, Thursday, December 11, 2014 12:54 PM (58 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah i'mma have to say "lol no" on this one my guy - you won't find me stanning for tim mcgraw or luke bryan or whatever but theres been a sizable amount of really good, non-assembly-line country this year
― just a couple of assholes having breakfast (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 11 December 2014 17:57 (ten years ago)
country sounds enormous, obvious, and expensive, and beyond the gloss it's a genre that prioritizes storytelling and stealth details
what's not to like
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 December 2014 17:58 (ten years ago)
Tim McGraw finally had a good song this year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=or-Lam5tPHc
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 December 2014 17:58 (ten years ago)
― lex pretend, Thursday, December 11, 2014 4:46 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Heart u Lex, but this schtick is. So. Played. If you haven't heard of War on Drugs (and yes, they are shite) until a month ago you should probably pay attention more to publications you actually write for yourself. Priding yourself for not having heard something seemingly popular is nagl imho.
― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:00 (ten years ago)
I was talking about most of the radio modern country variety I've heard *shrugs*
― Evan, Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:00 (ten years ago)
Sorry should have been more specific.
― Evan, Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:03 (ten years ago)
i find it hard to talk about what i dislike about modern country. i could say it's the commercial slickness and polish but those characteristics have been around in country music for a long time. there is plenty of slick and commercial classic nashville country that i love. i don't know, maybe i'm just not looking in the right places but i suppose a magazine's top 10 list of country songs of the year would have something that would appeal to someone who loves classic country.
― marcos, Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:03 (ten years ago)
That's more or less what I failed to convey.
― Evan, Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:04 (ten years ago)
Priding yourself for not having heard something seemingly popular is nagl imho.
― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Thursday, December 11, 2014 6:00 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
oh fuck off unless you want a list of everything i've loved in 2014 that you've never heard of (or by the looks of it many other critics)
― lex pretend, Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:04 (ten years ago)
do we have a "so you don't like country music? try listening to this" thread?
― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:05 (ten years ago)
xxp well here's the thing, even some of the folks getting significant radio play are legitimately good, like miranda lambert, and i think the genre is trending a bit more towards the good shit overall. that said, i'd never not try to sell you on the luke bryans and florida georgia lines and lady antebellums of the world tho
― just a couple of assholes having breakfast (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:05 (ten years ago)
Xxp
I would love to see that list! You've put me on some amazing music, K. Michelle being the last one.
All I mean is it's hard to believe you've only now heard of War on Drugs when they've been p much domineering music press let and right all year. And yes, I hate that band.
― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:06 (ten years ago)
if you're still fussing over why the #1 song in that spin country list isn't for you then you're completely beyond help and don't deserve any music at all tbh
― lex pretend, Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:06 (ten years ago)
― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Thursday, December 11, 2014 6:06 PM (4 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i don't read those kinds of publications and never have
― lex pretend, Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:08 (ten years ago)
You don't read the Guardian?
― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:08 (ten years ago)
I've also become more and more into country music for the last 6 or 7 years or so, while less interested in rock. Not sure if it's related to me becoming older and my personal experiences syncing better with the topics country covers, or if it's really rock becoming more narrow and leaving me out. Probably both.
― cpl593H, Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:10 (ten years ago)
like i think there was some good songwriting on the kacey musgraves album that got a lot of praise last year, but it still ultimately just sounded really flat and boring to me, like the endless stream of boring folkish country songwriter shit that my local WUMB station plays. the singing just doesn't reach me the way like tammy wynette or loretta lynn or classic dolly does, it just sounds like generic commercial shit today even though this album is praised as "real" and "authentic" modern country. again it's difficult for me to talk about since realness and authenticity is such a bullshit red herring anyways especially in country music but i just don't feel that ACHE that i get when i hear george jones or something you know?
also i am not a music critic and i don't have the chops to write about this shit very well, i'm always a little intimidated on this thread since so many of y'all write professionally
― marcos, Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:10 (ten years ago)
i haven't really read much of the music press this year and if a band like war on drugs is dominating it then maybe that's why
― lex pretend, Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:11 (ten years ago)
― lex pretend, Thursday, December 11, 2014 1:06 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lex i generally admire your writing and presence but sometimes you write horseshit like this
― marcos, Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:11 (ten years ago)
marcos have you heard the sturgill simpson record, or nikki lane
― just a couple of assholes having breakfast (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:12 (ten years ago)
"sometimes"
― emil.y, Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:12 (ten years ago)
― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Thursday, December 11, 2014 1:05 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
also i LOVE country music, i just have a heard time finding inroads into modern country. like i said probably half of my favorite musicians are from country and most of the rest are heavily country-influenced
― marcos, Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:13 (ten years ago)
xps to a million posts up "meanwhile back at mama's" is one of my singles of the year for sure
― dyl, Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:13 (ten years ago)
I'm just glad that people are finally having the courage to say they dislike an inoffensive indie rock band
― Ratt in Mi Kitchen (Neil S), Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:14 (ten years ago)
Again, same story here for the most part. My criticism was about the generic slick sounding radio country marcos described.
― Evan, Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:14 (ten years ago)
― just a couple of assholes having breakfast (slothroprhymes), Thursday, December 11, 2014 1:12 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
oh yea that sturgill simpson record is GREAT. haven't heard nikki lane but will check out
― marcos, Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:17 (ten years ago)
simpson though pulls a little too much from waylon jennings though doesn't he?
― marcos, Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:18 (ten years ago)
eh, lil bit, but you say that like it's a bad thing
― just a couple of assholes having breakfast (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:18 (ten years ago)
― Ratt in Mi Kitchen (Neil S), Thursday, December 11, 2014 7:14 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Welcome. You must be new here.
― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:20 (ten years ago)
Contemporary Pop/Alt Country Music recommendations for people who "don't like country"
― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:21 (ten years ago)
I tend to tune out when modern country settles into No Depression "intelligent" songwriting (e.g. half of that Presley record, all that Rosanne Cash record); I want more action. I do want a lil rock 'n' roll in it most of the time.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:22 (ten years ago)
their inflated placings are what's offensive, not the music, it would be a fine #20 album
xps
― some kind of terrible IDM with guitars (sleeve), Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:23 (ten years ago)
99% of modern country that I encounter sounds like White Music For White People to my ears. Part of it comes from associations from childhood and part of it comes from a visceral dislike to the genre conventions being played with.
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:27 (ten years ago)
i think best-of/favorite lists that are made in terms of what people like most probably miss a certain… element of maximality. like, their top slot can easily end up going to something that they wouldn't necessarily go to bat for, in terms of saying, 'there's no way anything else could top this'.
it's very easy to imagine something topping the war on drugs record, however accomplished it is and however much people liked it.
― j., Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:28 (ten years ago)
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Thursday, December 11, 2014 1:27 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
the videos i find very oppressive tbh, it's just this white paradise of blond hair and blue eyes and trucks
― marcos, Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:31 (ten years ago)
and big green tractors
― some kind of terrible IDM with guitars (sleeve), Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:33 (ten years ago)
I always felt this way and then I heard "Accidental Racist" and thought "okay I guess I'm not making this up" once I stopped laughing
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:34 (ten years ago)
that's like getting hung up on souljah boy and discounting all of rap because of it but i imagine you already know that
― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:39 (ten years ago)
most indie rock feels more off-puttingly White Music For White People to me (also metal, not that i'd feel tempted by that anyway), though i get that people might be put off by country deploying red state dog whistles - i guess i'm far enough away from it that i get to pick and choose, and tune out the offensive shit
― lex pretend, Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:41 (ten years ago)
forks otm
i will grant marcos the point that plenty of country music videos are utter trash even by artists i enjoy, but also a lot of music videos in general are p bad these days
― just a couple of assholes having breakfast (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:42 (ten years ago)
most indie rock feels more off-puttingly White Music For White People to me
a lot of it is exactly as off-putting to me
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:44 (ten years ago)
Most modern rap is actually trash as well, to the point where Souljah Boy would be an improvement
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:45 (ten years ago)
tbf there are a lot of white people that listen to music
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:46 (ten years ago)
altho it's nice to see everyone acknowledging their boundaries - I don't listen to a lot of stuff (primarily 90% of mainstream pop/rap/rock/country music) because it pretty clearly is not designed "for" me
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:47 (ten years ago)
I can't stand the rote sound of most mainstream country or the hokey predictability of the tropes, even when they're being tweaked or mildly subverted, but I love the storytelling. Haven't found anything this year that I've liked as much as Kacey or Brandy. The Miranda Lambert album was pretty patchy imo.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:47 (ten years ago)
Most modern rap is actually trash as well
if we're talking about iggy azalea and like wiz fuckin khalifa, yea sure, but there's a hell of a lot of good rap out rn ranging from the shabazz palaces margins to the 2 chainz/drake mainstream
― just a couple of assholes having breakfast (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:50 (ten years ago)
miranda lambert was weirdly a step too far for my bf, who got really into kacey/brandy last year. did you hear the angaleena presley/lee ann womack albums RMRM?
also nothing on her album really lived up to this but this was prob one of the most important singles of 2014 across any genre, not just country
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUQ2ltrdkTw
― lex pretend, Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:51 (ten years ago)
Yeah, Quarterback is one of my songs of the year (thanks Singles Jukebox) but I haven't heard the Presley or Womack albums. Maybe those will grab me.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:54 (ten years ago)
i was having this conversation with a group of college students recently: i think one of the big goals I'm aiming for in life is to honestly enjoy everything i hear. the standard seems weirdly inverted, that folks are meant to get more exclusionary and critical as they get older and listen more but what a horrible condemnation that is, to age and appreciate less. fuck that: i am going to fight hard to hear the best in everything. it isn't always easy and there's absolutely artists and songs and albums that burst on the windshield but so much opens up if you make a concerted effort. at least it does for me.
― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:57 (ten years ago)
Profound Lore Records3 mins ·
You gotta be kidding me, the new Old Man Gloom albums (yes all three of them, including the fake one) named as the #4 metal album of the year at Rolling Stone.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/20-best-metal-albums-of-2014-20141211
but obviously only white people will be interested
― VOTE in metal poll. Voting ends TOMORROW (Cosmic Slop), Thursday, 11 December 2014 19:00 (ten years ago)
the Womack album is marvelous.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 December 2014 19:01 (ten years ago)
those of you who pine for classic country will love it.
that folks are meant to get more exclusionary and critical as they get older and listen more but what a horrible condemnation that is, to age and appreciate less.
eh idk that I appreciate *less* there is an awful lot of recorded music out there
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 11 December 2014 19:01 (ten years ago)
yeah the lee ann womack record is in my top five, i cry every time i listen to it. it's so well paced, tells a whole story, probably the best case anyone could make for the relevance of the album in 2014
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 December 2014 19:02 (ten years ago)
xp I have a friend whose ambition is to find something to enjoy in every record "except Hue & Cry".
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Thursday, 11 December 2014 19:05 (ten years ago)
― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Thursday, December 11, 2014 1:57 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i totally admire that and i try to stay open-minded - always trying to remind myself that "i might not hear much in this now but i might later", but at the same time i am quite happy to say "this is not for me" and move on, b/c it's not like there is a shortage of music that IS for me. there are like a million artists and genres that i have just a little glimpse of in my head that i haven't yet explored more deeply in my life that i don't feel the need to say "fuck i really need to find something i like in this garbage-sounding modern country single" apart from just curiosity. i posted some things in this thread wrangling with some of these country songs but on my drive home i'm going to put on hissing of summer lawns or something, never to think again about that maddie and tae song i heard today
― marcos, Thursday, 11 December 2014 19:05 (ten years ago)
I just care less about keeping up with whatever was released in a given year
will listen to this womack record though
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 11 December 2014 19:05 (ten years ago)
there are like a million artists and genres that i have just a little glimpse of in my head that i haven't yet explored more deeply in my life that i don't feel the need to say "fuck i really need to find something i like in this garbage-sounding modern country single" apart from just curiosity
^^^ this
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 11 December 2014 19:06 (ten years ago)
I live my entire life trying to hear the best in everything. That is what led me into being a music nerd in the first place. The necessary by-product of that stance is that I also get to define the arbitrary, ever-shifting line where the best a piece of music has to offer crosses over into something I actively want to hear; my disdain for the wishy-washy dude with bad veneers making horrible platitude-laden puns over a serviceable band should have absolutely nothing to do with whether you get anything out of it. (My rules with hip-hop are different out of necessity; no one is clutching their purse and crossing the street when I walk down the street because Blake Shelton fits a menacing stereotype of me that's been handed down through our culture for centuries.)
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Thursday, 11 December 2014 19:07 (ten years ago)
― Οὖτις, Thursday, December 11, 2014 2:01 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
otm, my appreciation just grows and grows as i get older even i like outic care less about what comes out in the given calendar year
― marcos, Thursday, 11 December 2014 19:08 (ten years ago)
i keep thinking maybe ill get into country, but so far ive only really gotten into kacey musgraves. that album is dope. imo
― deej loaf (D-40), Thursday, 11 December 2014 19:09 (ten years ago)
hm "Sleeping with the Devil" is p nice re: Womack, very Dolly
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 11 December 2014 19:12 (ten years ago)
that's my favorite
― j., Thursday, 11 December 2014 19:16 (ten years ago)
tbh contrary to Alfred I tend to kind of hate it when modern country apes modern rock. the stilted attempts at doing funk-rock beats and whatnot. blech
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 11 December 2014 19:18 (ten years ago)
I mean you can put some chuck berry wiggle in there (and country has done that for generations) but when you start doing 90s rap drum fills I kinda wanna turn it off
that being said the backwards country-funk breakdown on the Simpson record is awesome
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 11 December 2014 19:19 (ten years ago)
also i think classic country had more of an appreciation for really really good pedal steel players, and i like that. it's just not a part of modern country to the extent that it used to be. pedal steel players weren't the major stars obviously but the songs really showcased their playing, apart from the vocals the pedal steel is usually the emotional heart of a classic country song imo
― marcos, Thursday, 11 December 2014 19:20 (ten years ago)
listening is an immensely personal and experiential process; I don't mean to suggest that faceboook-ish rant should be anyone/everyone's preferred means. it just grates when folks glibly dismiss whole, fast-moving bodies of active and vital culture is all. a lot of this on my end is baggage from a household where there was strictly definable GOOD and BAD music and no room for interpretation.
― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 11 December 2014 19:21 (ten years ago)
There's plenty of pedal steel in the Womack album, it's also very present in some tracks of Lambert and Presley albums.
― cpl593H, Thursday, 11 December 2014 19:28 (ten years ago)
if you're still fussing over why the #1 song in that spin country list isn't for you then you're completely beyond help and don't deserve any music at all tbh― lex pretend, Thursday, December 11, 2014 1:06 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinklex i generally admire your writing and presence but sometimes you write horseshit like this― marcos, Thursday, December 11, 2014 1:11 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― marcos, Thursday, December 11, 2014 1:11 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol also i don't know if it's worth the time unpacking this, but are you referring to the subject matter of the song? because you can write and record a shit-sounding song about a noble and worthy topic, it's been done before and i shouldn't feel any great allegiance to the song just because the topic is important
― marcos, Thursday, 11 December 2014 19:31 (ten years ago)
it just grates when folks glibly dismiss whole, fast-moving bodies of active and vital culture is all
i too am driven batshit by such thinking, especially regarding music.
― just a couple of assholes having breakfast (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 11 December 2014 19:34 (ten years ago)
lex is not worth unpacking
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 11 December 2014 19:35 (ten years ago)
is fast-moving a virtue
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 11 December 2014 19:36 (ten years ago)
i think of "fast-moving" as a sign that multiple minds are influencing, re-shaping and exploring new ways for the art to be heard, so i would say generally yes.
― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 11 December 2014 19:39 (ten years ago)
fast-moving = evolving in this context (i think) and it certainly can be a virtue imo, idk if it is one by default
― just a couple of assholes having breakfast (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 11 December 2014 19:40 (ten years ago)
that sounds like a tagline for Spotify more than anything else
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Thursday, 11 December 2014 19:40 (ten years ago)
(was an xp)
i guess fast-moving could be a definer for math rock too
― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 11 December 2014 19:44 (ten years ago)
idk I just have no faith in capitalism's endless NEW PRODUCT MUST HAVE rationale, I don't think it has anything to do with the vitality of an artform and everything to do with naked demands of commerce.
I listened to that Kira Isabella song and eh it's totally leaden, there's no strong melodic hook, the chorus is terrible, features plenty of that *we are rocking* thing that modern country does that I find grating. Lyrics/sentiment eh okay they are timely and admirable (altho tbh there is a long history of this kind of song in country, I don't think it's particularly novel beyond some of the specifics). most interesting thing to me tbh is her dishy south asian (?) guitar player lol
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 11 December 2014 19:44 (ten years ago)
most interesting thing to me tbh is her dishy south asian (?) guitar player lol
precisely the thing to notice in this particular song
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 December 2014 19:53 (ten years ago)
I know rite
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 11 December 2014 19:54 (ten years ago)
I'm not really clear on what there is to recommend that song beyond it's topicality marcos otm
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 11 December 2014 19:55 (ten years ago)
the melody is pretty gorgeous and it's really well arranged? like the way the strings recede in parts of the verse? idk
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 December 2014 19:56 (ten years ago)
and the lyrics are well observed. For months I thought the song was merely good because her perfunctory voice bothered me; now the perfunctory quality helps the song: the kind of horror observed/done to average high school girls.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 December 2014 19:59 (ten years ago)
I like everything about it except her voice. Which is a bit of a problem when it comes to me loving the song.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 11 December 2014 20:00 (ten years ago)
dunno how you're defining "classic" but Rosanne Cash, Dwight Yoakam, Garth, etc eschewed pedal steel for a buncha songs
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 December 2014 20:02 (ten years ago)
Instruments don't define genres.
polka tho
― salthigh, Thursday, 11 December 2014 20:07 (ten years ago)
Well there's the lyrical details, the narrative pacing, the controlled outrage, the avoidance of melodrama or closure, the chorus melody, the relief of the middle eight, the way the ominous cello comes in just as the car door swings open, the way her voice growls a little on "internet"… It's just great storytelling.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Thursday, 11 December 2014 20:07 (ten years ago)
the way her voice growls a little on "internet"
new world description
― example (crüt), Thursday, 11 December 2014 20:10 (ten years ago)
it's pretty powerful how if you're casually listening it might seem like it's telling a hackneyed high school fairytale à la early taylor swift and then reveals itself to be about something completely different at the exact point the listener starts suspecting something might not be right
― lex pretend, Thursday, 11 December 2014 20:12 (ten years ago)
I am distracted by this sounding like I heard it on Nashville sometime this year
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Thursday, 11 December 2014 20:16 (ten years ago)
the lyrics are good, the melody is decent. her voice is not great, and the production and arrangement is typical of country in that it remains the biggest stumbling block for me w/that genre.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 11 December 2014 20:17 (ten years ago)
iirc the video cops out by exposing and shaming the rapist at the end. The song is brutal about the high-school caste system, hence the emphasis of the title and chorus. The real horror isn't the rape but the way the whole school is complicit in letting him get away with it. And I like that her voice is unremarkable. It gives it an underplayed, plainspoken quality instead of rage or melodrama.
Was just about to post before Lex did that it's like a nightmare version of a Taylor Swift scenario.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Thursday, 11 December 2014 20:19 (ten years ago)
Obv the song gets a lot of its power from playing with Taylor's formula and standing it on end
― black metal for black people (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 11 December 2014 20:26 (ten years ago)
there is an alternative video without the "happy" ending (not sure which came first and can't find it now). the ending of this one makes for a weird and bitter lurch into fantasy, in that it underlines how this would never happen (as the lyrics make clear)
― lex pretend, Thursday, 11 December 2014 20:27 (ten years ago)
I dont try to hear the best in everything and I dont try to hear something just because its being talked about, in fact just the opposite, I find it stressful. Ive no idea if Lex was or wasnt being proud about not having heard something or other, but why should he have to hear it? The idea of listening to a bunch of talked about records so you can have your own opinion on something you wouldnt otherwise even think about just gives me a headache
― saer, Thursday, 11 December 2014 20:28 (ten years ago)
The song is brutal about the high-school caste system, hence the emphasis of the title and chorus. The real horror isn't the rape but the way the whole school is complicit in letting him get away with it.
yes, and her performance being so plain and uncathartic casts her - and therefore the listener - into this role of the bystander. listening to her narrate the events is like watching it happen and being unable (unwilling?) to stop it.
― lex pretend, Thursday, 11 December 2014 20:29 (ten years ago)
fwiw, quarterback improves on multiple listens
― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 11 December 2014 20:38 (ten years ago)
lex describing a pop song like being unwilling to stop a rape is posts vmic
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 11 December 2014 20:39 (ten years ago)
what you mean now I have to listen to something more than once? I don't have time for that, there's something else that just came out I have to listen to right now
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 11 December 2014 20:40 (ten years ago)
lol whiney
Totally with forksclovetofu on the goal of becoming steadily more open-minded. The radio-frequency that was once WFNX, in Boston, turned into a Clear-Channel EDM station a while ago, and I decided NOT to take it off my car preset, and indeed ended up hearing a lot of stuff I liked (and plenty I didn't, and way too much repetition). And then some time later it switched again, to Modern Country, and I still kept it for a while. I didn't last quite as long with Modern Country as with EDM, as the repetition seemed even worse, and the songs I hated I really hated (I have a personal antipathy for songs that act coy about drinking). But still, I heard a bunch of songs I thought were great. Miranda Lambert's "Automatic" is likely in my top 10, and Eric Church's "Give Me Back My Hometown" might make my top 20. And I voted for "Cop Car" in the P&J last year, for that matter. And digging deeper into current country music outside of the meager radio rotation, I found lots of other great stuff. I mean, stuff I personally enjoyed in the same way, and with the same intensity, that I enjoy pop or metal or anything else.
And yet, I hated "Happy" as much as I've hated anything since "The Whistle Song". Open-minded doesn't mean indiscriminate.
― glenn mcdonald, Thursday, 11 December 2014 20:40 (ten years ago)
FYI it was actually incredibly easy to ignore The War On Drugs until the point at which they started appearing in every list, and I say that as someone who likes them. American indie music is not exactly culturally prominent over here unless it's the Arcade Fire or someone.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 11 December 2014 20:49 (ten years ago)
Fuck open mindedness, music is supposed to be fun, not work. It's ok to not have an opinion about music. Saer otm.
― brimstead, Thursday, 11 December 2014 20:50 (ten years ago)
"Happy" genuinely makes me happy.
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Thursday, 11 December 2014 20:53 (ten years ago)
i'm team "Not Happy" personally; there's a weird subsection of music (Drake, Bruno Mars, Katy Perry) that I simply can't connect with no matter how much I listen.
― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 11 December 2014 20:56 (ten years ago)
This whole "open minded" attitude is just anathema to me. What do you even value anymore? "It's all good!". smh
― brimstead, Thursday, 11 December 2014 20:57 (ten years ago)
im team pissed off with happy
― VOTE in metal poll. Voting ends TOMORROW (Cosmic Slop), Thursday, 11 December 2014 20:59 (ten years ago)
Not trying out new sounds also gets boring - I might be happy enough just listening to the 5000 shoegazy synth/balearic revival/psychedelic rock albums that come out every year but after a while the virtues of monotony tend to fade. There's definitely a bunch of stuff that I'll never really be into (no success so far with modern country) but every so often I'll just open a random ILM thread and check out whatever people are talking about there.
― death in Skegness (seandalai), Thursday, 11 December 2014 21:00 (ten years ago)
lol this is not how it works
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 December 2014 21:01 (ten years ago)
Having an open mind != "it's all good"
Having an open mind = "even though I will probably hate this, I will listen to it anyway because it might be good" and even that has its limits
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Thursday, 11 December 2014 21:02 (ten years ago)
yeah only after you have accepted that all music is atrocious can you find enlightenment xp
― death in Skegness (seandalai), Thursday, 11 December 2014 21:02 (ten years ago)
I'll listen to anything at least once and am careful not to make blanket judgments about genres or artists with which I am unfamiliar. At the same time, I have pretty clear aesthetic preferences, a lot of which comes down to basic sonic characteristics tbh, and I'm comfortable defending those.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 11 December 2014 21:03 (ten years ago)
for me it's more that i try to engage with everything on its own terms instead of whatever assumptions i'm bringing to it
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 December 2014 21:04 (ten years ago)
it's a little strange/mysterious as to why certain sounds just don't resonate with me - or just seem downright unpleasaant - but what can I say that's how my ears work
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 11 December 2014 21:05 (ten years ago)
which definitely requires some kind of critical faculty imo
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 December 2014 21:05 (ten years ago)
The idea of listening to a bunch of talked about records so you can have your own opinion on something you wouldnt otherwise even think about just gives me a headache
Especially if/when you already think most of the people doing the bulk of the talking are idiots with terrible taste.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 11 December 2014 21:12 (ten years ago)
it's just a lot of this "open minded" stuff sounds more like disabling one's critical faculty. I'm not talking about actually being open minded about music, which I think most posters here are.
― brimstead, Thursday, 11 December 2014 21:12 (ten years ago)
idiots with terrible taste
i.e. most of humanity
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 11 December 2014 21:14 (ten years ago)
Like, is forkclovestofu still just not being "open minded" enough wrt drake or katy perry? When do we stop trying to like things, when we die? When can we say "it's not for me" and move on? I don't even know what I'm talking about, sorry, lol
― brimstead, Thursday, 11 December 2014 21:16 (ten years ago)
my two most visited sites are discogs and soundcloud, but i like to find things new things myself in a meandering way. Playing a record that lots of people have lots of opinions on, just so i can have an opinion too is just dutiful anathema to me. I dont dislike anything in these polls, I just dont have any interest in any of it
― saer, Thursday, 11 December 2014 21:19 (ten years ago)
...when it makes others miserable
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 December 2014 21:23 (ten years ago)
I am curious insofar as it's interesting to see what I've heard that actually pops up on lists. that's about it though.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 11 December 2014 21:24 (ten years ago)
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), T
Just to add in here - I dont think anyone is an idiot and i dont think anyone has terrible taste, its more that it feels like being taken to the Louvre to look at the great works of art when you were a child, and really you just wanted to play in the garden and look at the trees and it didnt matter which tree was the important one
― saer, Thursday, 11 December 2014 21:26 (ten years ago)
Yes, when I die I will stop listening to new things because I might like them. I'd say that's pretty much what "dying" means to me.
― glenn mcdonald, Thursday, 11 December 2014 21:28 (ten years ago)
Oh forget it, I'm obviously not against "listening to new things because I might like them", sheesh
― brimstead, Thursday, 11 December 2014 21:38 (ten years ago)
that's part of my raison d'etre, yes
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Thursday, 11 December 2014 21:47 (ten years ago)
http://media.giphy.com/media/yQskUomixQk00/giphy.gif
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 December 2014 21:54 (ten years ago)
Like, is forkclovestofu still just not being "open minded" enough wrt drake or katy perry? When do we stop trying to like things, when we die? When can we say "it's not for me" and move on?― brimstead
― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 11 December 2014 21:59 (ten years ago)
in any case, every time i have this discussion with people IRL, we all understand each other clearly and every time i have this discussion on the internets, I always end up going back and forth fruitlessly for hours so maybe the fault is with the way I'm phrasing myself in print.
― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 11 December 2014 22:01 (ten years ago)
And I'm "obviously" not in favor of "disabling one's critical faculties", nor of making music less fun. For me some of the most fun I have in music is wandering into some kind of thing I've never heard of or neglected or assumed I wouldn't like, and discovering that it has something to which I respond.
But I totally agree that nobody "has" to engage with anything, songs or artists or genres or anything else, whether they're being "talked about" or not. There's a lot of music, and not that much time. If you have something you'd rather explore than country music, for example, I think that's very totally fine. Nobody should try to make you feel bad for it. They're allowed, in my opinion, to try to entice you into giving it a chance. But it's also way too easy, especially online, to aim for "enticing" and actually hit "condescending" or "judgmental"...
And also, I hate jazz. Which is a blanket statement, as forks says, and not quite accurate (I like giant old-school jazz orchestras), but I guess to me that kind of inward personal generalization is merely sad, whereas the outward version ("jazz if crap, why are you idiots wasting time talking about it?") is offensive.
― glenn mcdonald, Thursday, 11 December 2014 22:09 (ten years ago)
I think I've told this story before, but this convo reminds me of a good friend, who was working one of his first "real" construction jobs in the 80's. his boss was like a mentor, my friend looked up to him and learned a ton of stuff. said friend was a big industrial music fan, TG, SPK, Neubauten, the usual. one day the subject of country music came up and my friend went on at great length about how awful it was. at the end of his tirade, his boss looked at him and said, with great scorn, "why don't you just say the only thing you CAN say - that YOU don't like it?"
― some kind of terrible IDM with guitars (sleeve), Thursday, 11 December 2014 22:11 (ten years ago)
i'll cosign on everything glenn's saying there
― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 11 December 2014 22:14 (ten years ago)
So instead of getting scruffy and pissed every time someone plays a song by an artist you dislike, you're going to get scruffy and pissed every time someone says the hallmarks that identify a given genre of music are things they dislike and, therefore, they don't like that genre of music.
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Thursday, 11 December 2014 22:15 (ten years ago)
constructing new buildings by day, einstrurzende neubaten by night
― Chairman Feinstein (nakhchivan), Thursday, 11 December 2014 22:17 (ten years ago)
Nakh OTM.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 11 December 2014 22:20 (ten years ago)
not what I was trying to say, I give up xxp
― some kind of terrible IDM with guitars (sleeve), Thursday, 11 December 2014 22:22 (ten years ago)
my comment was to forks!
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Thursday, 11 December 2014 22:23 (ten years ago)
ha, sorry! I am having a very busy/intense day and should probably only be posting on the aging parents thread
― some kind of terrible IDM with guitars (sleeve), Thursday, 11 December 2014 22:25 (ten years ago)
I'm scruffy to begin with, but to me "the hallmarks that identify a given genre of music are things they dislike and, therefore, they don't like that genre of music" sounds like a logical proposition, but actually isn't. The part after "therefore" isn't a necessary consequence of the part before. Lots of the things in any genre don't individually display all of the genre's "hallmarks", and lots of those "hallmarks" are subject to a fair amount of variation. In fact, maybe those "hallmarks" are actually stereotypes. E.g., you don't like cookie-monster vocals therefore you don't like death metal; but not all death metal has cookie-monster vocals, and not all "growled" vocals actually sound like Cookie Monster, and not all songs that have cookie-monster vocals sound the same as a result. So maybe you suspend your certainty and end up discovering that when bands combine growled and operatic vocals, it sounds amazing to you.
― glenn mcdonald, Thursday, 11 December 2014 22:44 (ten years ago)
Or maybe you tolerate it but always think to yourself "this would be a lot better if it was just the operatic dude"
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Thursday, 11 December 2014 22:48 (ten years ago)
www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/20-best-metal-albums-of-2014-20141211
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 11 December 2014 22:48 (ten years ago)
All trees in a forest seem similar but if you ask the ranger, there are countless variations
― saer, Thursday, 11 December 2014 22:51 (ten years ago)
That list reminds me that The Melvins were staying in the same hotel as most of the out-of-town guests at Fluffy Bear's wedding and we kept running into them at the lobby bar
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Thursday, 11 December 2014 22:51 (ten years ago)
the Norwegians have 500 words for growl
― death in Skegness (seandalai), Thursday, 11 December 2014 22:52 (ten years ago)
― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 11 December 2014 23:10 (ten years ago)
catching up w/ this thread after being busy w/ other things, agree with many points mentioned, even if they are somewhat in conflict. yes i should be open-minded. i am really loving tejano, narcocorridos, and mexican border music a SHIT load right now and also some weird thai music from sublime frequencies and also a shit load of joni mitchell (as i've been mentioning constantly) and also a bunch of buck owens and george jones and marty robbins and and and and and and a bunch of other shit.... and i just feel like i am scratching the surface of all these artists and genres even if i've been listening to them for years. i'd like to think that's open-minded. fuck if i'm gonna spend time with some glossy country pop bullshit longer than one curious listen to see if anything's there. i will always hold the right to correct myself later, there is always some possibility that i'll hear something in that spin #1 country song later that i am not hearing now. but if not, i don't really give a shit. there is always amazing new shit to hear and if something doesn't sit right, fuck it, you know?
― marcos, Friday, 12 December 2014 01:21 (ten years ago)
AND at the same time i LOVE that i can post to ilm and say "hey, what am i missing here" and there are a bunch of posters that will highlight everything cool going on in that kira isabella tune. i might not see it but i am grateful for you folks who will stan for it.
― marcos, Friday, 12 December 2014 01:23 (ten years ago)
i am really loving tejano, narcocorridos, and mexican border music a SHIT load right now
for a different thread, but i'd like to hear recommendations in these genres.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Friday, 12 December 2014 01:30 (ten years ago)
yeah, i've never heard anything on the narcocorrido front that i could make heads or tails of; a top five artist recommendation would be greatly appreciated"there is always amazing new shit to hear" otm and of course there is always amazing older shit to hear!
― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Friday, 12 December 2014 02:19 (ten years ago)
"there is always amazing new shit to hear" otm and of course there is always amazing older shit to hear!
If you never heard it before, its new
― saer, Friday, 12 December 2014 02:24 (ten years ago)
I've been reading a lot of lynda barry and her humanistic, non-ego based, everything-has-value philosophy really sums up how i'm trying to live my life when i'm at my besthttp://thenearsightedmonkey.tumblr.com/
― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Friday, 12 December 2014 04:23 (ten years ago)
The rest of Wondering Sound's genre lists to date (metal already posted here):
25 Best Country Albums of 2014http://www.wonderingsound.com/list/best-country-albums-2014/
1. Miranda Lambert - Platinum (RCA Nashville) 2. Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds in Country Music (High Top Mountain) 3. Angaleena Presley - American Middle Class (Slate Creek) 4. Lee Ann Womack - The Way I'm Livin' (Sugar Hill) 5. Hiss Golden Messenger - Lateness of Dancers (Merge) 6. Eric Church - The Outsiders (EMI Nashville) 7. Hurray for the Riff Raff - Small Town Heroes (ATO) 8. Christopher Denny - If the Roses Don't Kill Us (Partisan) 9. Lydia Loveless - Somewhere Else (Bloodshot)10. Dierks Bentley - Riser (Capitol Nashville)11. Shovels & Rope - Swimmin' Time (Dualtone)12. Sam Hunt - Montevallo (MCA)13. Sunny Sweeney - Provoked (Thirty Tigers)14. Caroline Rose - I Will Not Be Afraid (Little Hill)15. Old Crow Medicine Show - Remedy (ATO)16. Doug Paisley - Strong Feelings ( No Quarter)17. Lucinda Williams - Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone (Highway 20)18. Amy LaVere - Runaway's Diary (Archer)19. Robert Ellis - The Lights From the Chemical Plant (New West)20; Billy Joe Shaver -- Long in the Tooth (Lightning Rod)21. Alice Gerrard - Follow the Music (Tompkins Square)22. Nikki Lane - All or Nothin' (New West)23. Brad Paisley - Moonshine in the Trunk (Arista Nashville)24. Dom Flemons - Prospect Hill (Fat Possum)25. Rosanne Cash - The River & the Thread (Blue Note)
Best R&B Albums of 2014http://www.wonderingsound.com/list/best-r-and-b-albums-2014/
1. Trey Songz - Trigga (Atlantic) 2. Toni Braxton & Babyface - Love, Marriage & Divorce (Motown) 3. Omarion - Sex Playlist (MMG/Atlantic) 4. FKA Twigs - LP1 (Young Turks) 5. Tinashe - Aquarius (RCA) 6. PartyNextDoor - PartyNextDoor Two (Ovo Sound/Warner Bros) 7. Shlomo/Jeremih - No More (We Did It) 8. Teyana Taylor - VII (Getting Out Our Dreams) 9. Fatima - Yellow Memories (Eglo)10. Ty Dolla Sign - Beach House EP (self-released)11. Mary J Blige - The London Sessions (Capitol/Matriarch)12. Kelis - Food (Ninja Tune)13. Neneh Cherry - Blank Project (Smalltown Supersound)14. Brenmar - High End Times Vol 1 (self-released)15. Kehlani - Cloud 19 (self-released)16. SZA - Z (Top Dawg Entertainment)17. Daniel Caesar - Praise Break (self-released)18. Mariah Carey - Me, I Am Mariah . . . the Elusive Chanteuse (Def Jam)19. Micah Freeman - Heartspace Vol 1 (self-released)20. Ariana Grande - My Everything (Republic)21. Chris Brown - X (RCA)22. Katy B - Little Red (Columbia)23. Keyshia Cole - Point of No Return (Interscope)24. Pharrell - Girl (I Am Other/Columbia)25. August Alsina - Testimony (Def Jam)
Best Jazz Albums of 2014http://www.wonderingsound.com/list/best-jazz-albums-of-2014/
1. Steve Lehman Octet - Mise en Abime (Pi) 2. Sean Jones Quartet - Im-pro-vise (Never Before Seen) (Mack Avenue) 3. Trio 3 & Vijay Iyer - Wiring (Intakt) 4. Pharoah & the Underground - Spiral Mercury (Clean Feed) 5. Mitchell/Taborn/Baku - Conversations II (Wide Hive) 6. Oliver Lake Organ Quartet - What I Heard (Passin' Thru) 7. Melissa Aldana & Crash Trio - Melissa Aldana & Crash Trio (Concord) 8. Orrin Evans' Captain Black Big Band - Mother's Touch (Posi-Tone) 9. Kris Davis Trio - Waiting for You to Grow (Clean Feed)10. Farmers by Nature - Love and Ghosts (AUM Fidelity)11. Miguel Zenon - Identities Are Changeable (Miel Music)12. Billy Hart Quartet - One Is the Other (ECM)13. Darius Jones & Matthew Shipp - Cosmic Lieder: The Darkseid Recital (AUM Fidelity)14. The Westerlies - Wish the Children Would Come on Home (Songlines)15. John Ellis & Andy Bragen - Mobro (MRI)16. The Bad Plus - The Rite of Spring (Masterworks)17. Steve Wilson/Lewis Nash Duo - Duologue (MCG Jazz)18. Omer Avital - New Song (Motema Music)19. Sam Newsome - The Straight Horn of Africa: A Path of Liberation (CD Baby)20. Get the Blessing - Lope and Antilope (Naim Jazz)21. Jane Ira Bloom - Sixteen Sunsets (Pure Audio)22. Tyshawn Sorey Trio - Alloy (Pi)23. The Cookers - Time and Time Again (Motema Music)24. Angles 9 - Injuries (Clean Feed)25. Rafael Karlen - The Sweetness of Things Half-Remembered (Pinnacles)HM. John Coltrane - Offering: Live at Temple University (Impulse)
― m todorov, Friday, 12 December 2014 07:49 (ten years ago)
These seem like lists put together by people who know what they're talking about but wow does that R&B list run out of ideas around #20.
― Matt DC, Friday, 12 December 2014 08:07 (ten years ago)
i disagree with a lot of that r&b list but it's enjoyable anyway bc it's so obviously just one person's taste. you won't find the trey songz album on anyone else's list, not even most r&b heads, and def not at no 1. sad that k michelle came out too late for most lists. that shlohmo/jeremih thing was terrible tho.
― lex pretend, Friday, 12 December 2014 08:36 (ten years ago)
it's my ambition to listen to everything ever.
― dive inside water and you will know (dog latin), Friday, 12 December 2014 10:32 (ten years ago)
hang your egoless progressivism from any tree, geek.
― tweet deems ur mad f this (wins), Friday, 12 December 2014 10:49 (ten years ago)
I am not an expert but am a bit suspicious of a jazz list that doesn't have any of the outstanding releases by Jemeel Moondoc, Micheal Blake and Rudy Royston. Didn't they listen to any of them?
― xelab, Friday, 12 December 2014 11:06 (ten years ago)
Or maybe you tolerate it but always think to yourself "this would be a lot better if it was just the operatic dude"― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Thursday, December 11, 2014 10:48 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Thursday, December 11, 2014 10:48 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
TBF in metal it's usually the other way round.
― dive inside water and you will know (dog latin), Friday, 12 December 2014 11:40 (ten years ago)
The Jemeel Moondoc is indeed outstanding and a shoo-in for my Quietus jazz roundup, but I must admit I don't know the others (I'll check them out though, thanks for the heads up). That's mainly down to gaps in my own knowledge, but I'd also say that from my own experience, most jazz labels do not have much of a PR budget, if any, meaning that it's quite likely that many writers won't have heard their releases unless they've actively sought them out. I expect there are various reasons for a lack of consensus in jazz polls: the fact it's a marginal music with no one big trendsetting magazine or website a la Pitchfork, the sheer number and variety of releases, multiple releases by the same artists splitting the vote etc.
― Poor.Old.Tired.Horse. (Stew), Friday, 12 December 2014 12:47 (ten years ago)
Would recommend checking out the excellent Burning Ambulance list upthread, it is a very strong 25 with no padding. It also introduced me to the brilliant Sarah Manning and Jerome Sabbagh lps.
― xelab, Friday, 12 December 2014 13:14 (ten years ago)
Yeah, it's a good un. A few of my favourites on there along with several to check out.
― Poor.Old.Tired.Horse. (Stew), Friday, 12 December 2014 13:14 (ten years ago)
Fester’s Lucky 13: 2014 Year-End Summaryhttp://fastnbulbous.com/lucky-14/
Top 100 Albums of 2014 | 2014 Breakdown: Genre Lists | Shows, Videos | Movies, Television, Books
01. Truckfighters - Universe02. Colour Haze - To The Highest Gods We Know03. Wovenhand - Refractory Obdurate04. Spiders - Shake Electric05. Pallbearer - Foundations Of Burden06. Electric Wizard - Time To Die07. Slough Feg - Digital Resistance08. Witch Mountain - Mobile Of Angels09. Shellac - Dude Incredible10. Blues Pills - Blues Pills11. The Sea Kings - Woke In The Devil's Arms12. TV On The Radio - Seeds13. Dark Blue - Pure Reality14. The New Christs - Incantations15. Wo Fat - The Conjuring16. The Oath - The Oath17. Castle - Under Siege18. Brimstone Coven - Brimstone Coven19. Satyress - Dark Fortunes20. Demon Eye - Leave The Light21. The Skull - For Those Which Are Asleep22. Earth - Primitive And Deadly23. Serpent Venom - Of Things Seen And Unseen24. The Gotobeds - Poor People Are Revolting25. Motorpsycho - Behind The Sun26. Goat - Commune27. Together Pangea - Badillac28. Les Big Byrd - They Worshipped Cats29. Apostle Of Solitude - Of Woe And Wounds30. All Them Witches - Lightning At The Door31. Hits - Hikikomori32. Ogre - The Last Neanderthal33. Mansion - Uncreation EP34. Purson - In The Meantime EP35. Alunah - Awakening The Forest36. The Well - Samsara37. Death Penalty - Death Penalty38. Opeth - Pale Communion39. Dawnbringer - Night Of The Hammer40. The Estranged - The Estranged41. Electric Citizen - Sateen42. Messenger - Illusory Blues43. Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band - Intensity Ghost44. Comet Control - Comet Control45. Wedge - Wedge46. The Socks - The Socks47. smallgang - san48. YOB - Clearing The Path To Ascend49. Nação Zumbi - Nação Zumbi50. Gallon Drunk - The Soul Of The Hour51. Greenleaf - Trails & Passes52. Interpol - El Pintor53. Spoon - They Want My Soul54. Black Moth - Condemned To Hope55. Ovvl - Screech56. Heat - Labyrinth57. Monolord - Empress Rising58. Moab - Billow59. Total Control - Typical System60. Ought - More Than Any Other Day61. Hands Of Orlac - Figli Del Crepuscolo62. Satan's Satyrs - Die Screaming63. Godflesh - A World Lit Only By Fire64. Swans - To Be Kind65. Floor - Oblation66. Dwellers - Pagan Fruit67. Lé Betre - Melas68. Jeremy Irons & the Ratgang Malibus - Spirit Knife69. Spiral Shades - Hypnosis Sessions70. Occultation - Silence In The Ancestral House71. Hornss - No Blood, No Sympathy72. Tony Allen - Film Of Life73. Juçara Marçal - Encarnado74. Black Trip - Goin' Under75. Mars Red Sky - Stranded In Arcadia76. John Garcia - John Garcia77. Cardinals Folly - Our Cult Continues!78. Lo-Pan - Colossus79. Hessian - Bachelor Of Black Arts80. Papir - Papir IIII81. Sigiriya - Darkness Died Today82. Fu Manchu - Gigantoid83. Saturn - Ascending - Live In Space84. Big Red Panda - Big Red Panda85. John Gallow - Violet Dreams86. Boris - Noise87. Flying Lotus - You're Dead!88. Lecherous Gaze - Zeta Reticuli Blues89. Temples - Sun Structures90. Bong - Stoner Rock91. Real Estate - Atlas92. Wild Beasts - Present Tense93. The Twilight Sad - Nobody Wants to Be Here and Nobody Wants to Leave94. Helms Alee - Sleepwalking Sailors95. Mode Moderne - Occult Delight96. Sungod - Vision Space97. Post War Glamour Girls - Pink Fur98. Seven That Spells - The Death And Resurrection Of Krautrock: IO99. Grumbling Fur - Preternaturals100. Gold Codes - Gold Codes
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 12 December 2014 13:29 (ten years ago)
Happy to see the Ryan Adam's album getting some love.
― DavidLeeRoth, Friday, 12 December 2014 14:25 (ten years ago)
best list yet
― VOTE in metal poll. Voting ends TODAY 11.59pm GMT (Cosmic Slop), Friday, 12 December 2014 14:56 (ten years ago)
04. Spiders - Shake Electric
wow, their lyrics are horrible, and badly sung too
― j., Friday, 12 December 2014 15:07 (ten years ago)
Spiders album before this one was terrific. best bits sounded like Heart
― cornelius pardew (DJ Mencap), Friday, 12 December 2014 15:21 (ten years ago)
LOOOL yeah, for you xxp
― some kind of terrible IDM with guitars (sleeve), Friday, 12 December 2014 15:24 (ten years ago)
Nice to see Motorpsycho's Behind The Sun in that list.
― Marty8501 (Marty Innerlogic), Friday, 12 December 2014 15:27 (ten years ago)
yeah that is a good one! genuine prog but doesn't feel explicitly retro to me
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 12 December 2014 15:28 (ten years ago)
their band name isn't doing them any favors though
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 12 December 2014 15:30 (ten years ago)
well I only speak for myselfxps
― VOTE in metal poll. Voting ends TODAY 11.59pm GMT (Cosmic Slop), Friday, 12 December 2014 15:34 (ten years ago)
Some of my favorite records on the FnB list
― black metal for black people (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 12 December 2014 15:37 (ten years ago)
billboard staff has put out a bunch of lists, not just overall songs and albums but for all the genres they cover too
best songs: http://www.billboard.com/articles/events/year-in-music-2014/6405564/10-best-songs-of-2014
10. 5 Seconds of Summer, “She Looks So Perfect”9. Taylor Swift, “Blank Space”8. Bleachers, “I Wanna Get Better”7. Beyonce feat. Nicki Minaj, “***Flawless (Remix)”6. Tinashe feat. ScHoolboy Q, “2 On”5. Jason Aldean, “Burnin’ It Down”4. Clean Bandit feat. Jess Glynne, “Rather Be”3. Hozier, “Take Me To Church”2. Kendrick Lamar, “i”1. Sia, “Chandelier”
best albums: http://www.billboard.com/articles/events/year-in-music-2014/6405566/10-best-albums-of-2014
10. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib, Piñata9. The War On Drugs, Lost In The Dream8. Aphex Twin, Syro7. Lykke Li, I Never Learn6. Bleachers, Strange Desire5. Ed Sheeran, X4. Jenny Lewis, The Voyager3. Sam Smith, In The Lonely Hour2. Run The Jewels, Run The Jewels 21. Taylor Swift, 1989
best rock/alternative singles: http://www.billboard.com/articles/events/year-in-music-2014/6398492/year-in-music-2014-10-best-rock-alternative-singles
10. Fireworks, “Bed Sores”9. First Aid Kit, “My Silver Lining”8. Angel Olsen, “White Fire”7. Beach Slang, “Filthy Luck”6. Mastodon, “High Road”5. White Lung, “Down It Goes”4. The Griswolds, “Beware the Dog”3. Cloud Nothings, “I’m Not Part Of Me”2. Grimes ft. Blood Diamonds, “Go”1. Sleater-Kinney, “Bury Our Friends”
best country songs: http://www.billboard.com/articles/events/year-in-music-2014/6398427/best-country-songs-2014
10. "Meanwhile Back At Mama's" - Tim McGraw with Faith Hill 9. "Mean To Me" - Brett Eldredge 8. "Give Me Back My Hometown" - Eric Church 7. "American Kids" - Kenny Chesney 6. "A Girl In A Country Song" - Maddie & Tae 5. "Leave The Night On" - Sam Hunt 4. "Automatic" - Miranda Lambert 3. "Whatever She's Got" - David Nail 2. "Beat Of The Music" - Brett Eldredge 1. "Makes Me Wanna" - Thomas Rhett
best country albums: http://www.billboard.com/articles/events/year-in-music-2014/6397805/best-country-albums-2014
10. Sara Evans - Slow Me Down9. Angaleena Presley - American Middle Class8. Marty Stuart - Saturday Night/Sunday Morning 7. Eric Church - The Outsiders 6. Dierks Bentley - Riser 5. Lee Ann Womack - The Way I'm Livin'4. David Nail - I'm A Fire 3. Brantley Gilbert - Just As I Am2. Little Big Town - Pain Killer1. Miranda Lambert - Platinum
best rap songs: http://www.billboard.com/articles/events/year-in-music-2014/6386038/the-10-best-rap-songs-of-2014
10. Cam'ron feat. Juelz Santana and Damon Dash, "Dipshits"9. Rae Sremmurd, "No Type"8. Wiz Khalifa, "We Dem Boyz"7. DeJ Loaf, "Try Me"6. YG feat. Drake, "Who Do You Love?"5. Young Thug feat. Rich Homie Quan, "Lifestyle"4. Bobby Shmurda, "Hot Ni--a"3. Migos, "Fight Night"2. Jeezy feat. Jay Z, "Seen It All"1. Drake, "0-100 / The Catch Up"
best rap albums: http://www.billboard.com/articles/events/year-in-music-2014/6386055/the-10-best-rap-albums-of-2014
10. Freddie Gibbs & MadLib, Piñata9. Future, Honest8. Big K.R.I.T., Cadillactica7. Kevin Gates, By Any Means6. ScHoolboy Q, Oxymoron5. Jeezy, Seen It All: The Autobiography4. Migos, No Label II3. J. Cole, 2014 Forest Hills Drive2. Run the Jewels, Run the Jewels 21. YG, My Krazy Life
best r&b songs: http://www.billboard.com/articles/events/year-in-music-2014/6398482/the-10-best-rb-songs-of-2014
10. PARTYNEXTDOOR, feat. Drake, "Recognize"9. KING, "Mister Chameleon"8. Michael Jackson, "Love Never Felt So Good"7. Chris Brown, feat. Jhene Aiko, "Drunk Texting"6. Elle Varner feat. A$AP Ferg, "Don't Wanna Dance"5. Mary J. Blige, "Pick Me Up"4. Jeremih feat. YG, "Don't Tell 'Em"3. Jessie Ware, "Kind Of…Sometimes…Maybe"2. Usher, "Good Kisser"1. Tinashe, "2 On"
best r&b albums: http://www.billboard.com/articles/events/year-in-music-2014/6398486/the-10-best-rb-albums-of-2014
10. August Alsina, Testimony9. Tink, Winter's Diary 28. K. Michelle, Anybody Wanna Buy a Heart?7. FKA Twigs, LP16. Chris Brown, X5. Teyana Taylor, VII4. Babyface & Toni Braxton, Love, Marriage & Divorce3. Tinashe, Aquarius2. Jessie Ware, Tough Love1. Mary J. Blige, The London Sessions
best dance/electronic songs: http://www.billboard.com/articles/events/year-in-music-2014/6398470/best-edm-songs-of-2014
10. Sailor & I – "Turn Around" (Âme Remix) 9. Nero – "Satisfy"8. Audien – "Hindsight"7. Seven Lions ft. Kerli – "Worlds Apart"6. Lorde – "Tennis Court" (Flume Remix) 5. Galantis – "Runaway (U & I)" 4. Syn Cole – "Miami 82" (Kygo Remix) 3. Porter Robinson – "Sad Machine"2. Maceo Plex – "Conjure Balearia"1. ZHU – "Faded"
best electronic/dance albums: http://www.billboard.com/articles/events/year-in-music-2014/6398485/best-edm-albums-of-2014
10. Skrillex – Recess9. Answer Code Request - Code8. Röyksopp & Robyn – Do It Again7. Gorgon City – Sirens6. Dillon Francis – Money Sucks, Friends Rule5. Porter Robinson – Worlds4. deadmau5 – while (1<2) 3. Thom Yorke – Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes2. Aphex Twin – Syro1. Joris Voorn – Nobody Knows
best latin songs: http://www.billboard.com/articles/events/year-in-music-2014/6397798/best-latin-songs-2014
10. "Saideira" - Carlos Santana Feat. Samuel Rosa9. "Tu Respiración" - Chayanne8. " Soltero Disponible" - Regulo Caro7. "La Luz" - Juanes6. "El Aguante" - Calle 135. "Corazón En La Maleta" - Luis Fonsi4. "Empire" – Shakira 3. "El Mar De Sus Ojos" - Carlos Vives feat. Choquibtown2. "6 AM" - J Balvin feat. Farruko1. "Bailando" - Enrique Iglesias feat. Descemer Bueno and Gente D’Zona
best latin albums: http://www.billboard.com/articles/events/year-in-music-2014/6397799/the-best-latin-albums-of-2014
10. Pepe Aguilar - MTV Unplugged9. Juan Luis Guerra - Todo Tiene Su Hora8. Ricardo Arjona - Viaje7. Pablo Alboran - Terral6. Marco Antonio Solís - Gracias Por Estar Aquí5. Calle 13 - Multi Viral4. Fonseca - Sinfónico3. Carlos Vives - Más + Corazón Profundo2. Romeo Santos - Formula, Vol. 21. Soledad, Niña Pastori, Lila Downs – Raíz
best k-pop songs: http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/k-town/6397821/best-k-pop-songs-2014
20. Apink - "Luv"19. Akdong Musician - "200%"18. Girls' Generation - "Mr.Mr."17. B1A4 - "Lonely"16. Girl's Day - "Something"15. Park Hyo Shin - "Wild Flower"14. 15& - "Can't Hide It"13. Loco Featuring Jay Park - "Thinking 'Bout You"12. Orange Caramel - "Catallena"11. MC the Max - "Wind That Blows"10. SISTAR - "Touch My Body"9. Dynamic Duo & DJ Premier - "Animal"8. Hyolyn & JooYoung - "Erase"7. INFINITE - "Back"6. Nell - "Four Times Around the Sun"5. San E & Raina - "A Midsummer Night's Sweetness"4. TVXQ! - "Something"3. G-Dragon & Taeyang - "Good Boy"2. Seo Taiji & IU - "Sogyeokdong"1. Beast - "Good Luck"
best k-pop albums: http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/k-town/6397820/best-k-pop-albums-2014
10. Rain - Rain Effect 9. CNBLUE - Can't Stop8. Epik High - Shoebox 7. B.A.P - First Sensibility 6. Taeyang - Rise5. HA:TFELT - Me?4. Seotaiji - Quiet Night3. IU - A Flower Bookmark2. Nell - Newton's Apple1. 2NE1 - Crush
― dyl, Friday, 12 December 2014 17:16 (ten years ago)
<3<3<3
10. Cam'ron feat. Juelz Santana and Damon Dash, "Dipshits"
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 12 December 2014 17:22 (ten years ago)
also Cat Power cameo in that video was great wtf moment
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, December 12, 2014 11:22 AM (1 minute ago)
TOO LOW
― gr8080, Friday, 12 December 2014 17:24 (ten years ago)
10. Fireworks, “Bed Sores”
all right!
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 12 December 2014 17:24 (ten years ago)
― gr8080, Friday, December 12, 2014 11:24 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this song was so bad guys lol
― deej loaf (D-40), Friday, 12 December 2014 17:28 (ten years ago)
I keep forgetting about that deadmau5 album; I only got through half of it but that half was really good
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Friday, 12 December 2014 17:29 (ten years ago)
i cosign all support of "dipshits"
the rap albums list is really good imo w/the exception of j. cole
― just a couple of assholes having breakfast (slothroprhymes), Friday, 12 December 2014 17:31 (ten years ago)
10. Freddie Gibbs & MadLib, Piñata eh9. Future, Honest This was disappointing8. Big K.R.I.T., Cadillactica I found this hard to enjoy7. Kevin Gates, By Any Means Kind of an odds & ends tape, where was everybody on his last two?6. ScHoolboy Q, Oxymoron this was disappointing AF5. Jeezy, Seen It All: The Autobiography dope record, probably underrated by publications more broadly, belongs ~ here4. Migos, No Label II this is pretty uneven and whatever. 3. J. Cole, 2014 Forest Hills Drive its very easy to over or underrate this. i'm not as mad at this as other rankings tbh2. Run the Jewels, Run the Jewels 2 become overrated but who wants to be a hater, good 4 them1. YG, My Krazy Life dope
― deej loaf (D-40), Friday, 12 December 2014 17:53 (ten years ago)
the best thing about this list though is that at least its not full with boring ass top tier 'whatever jay z released this year' type records ... it's a lil more interesting for that, certainly
― deej loaf (D-40), Friday, 12 December 2014 17:54 (ten years ago)
10. Freddie Gibbs & MadLib, Piñata haven't heard9. Future, Honest haven't heard8. Big K.R.I.T., Cadillactica haven't heard7. Kevin Gates, By Any Means haven't heard6. ScHoolboy Q, Oxymoron this was disappointing haven't heard5. Jeezy, Seen It All: The Autobiography haven't heard4. Migos, No Label II haven't heard3. J. Cole, 2014 Forest Hills Drive haven't heard2. Run the Jewels, Run the Jewels 2 haven't heard1. YG, My Krazy Life pretty good
― Lamp, Friday, December 12, 2014 12:53 PM (4 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― marcos, Friday, 12 December 2014 17:56 (ten years ago)
am very excited in general for lamp's assessments this year
― deej loaf (D-40), Friday, December 12, 2014 12:54 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i guess that's closer to what i meant, bc i didn't exactly unabashedly love honest or cadillactica or no label II. i'm glad those are the albums billboard is putting on its rap albums list.
like maybe a dude like gates will get noticed outside his core audience as a result of this. then again that could be idealistic on my part.
― just a couple of assholes having breakfast (slothroprhymes), Friday, 12 December 2014 18:03 (ten years ago)
^ highly recommended
― example (crüt), Friday, 12 December 2014 19:43 (ten years ago)
thx crut & sleeve, that is hitting all my pleasure spots right now
― WilliamC, Friday, 12 December 2014 20:28 (ten years ago)
new york times critics put their lists in
jon caramanica:1. young thug/bloody jay - black portland2. beyonce - s/t3. YG - my krazy life4. sturgill simpson - metamodern sounds in country music5. future - honest6. jason derulo - talk dirty7. taylor swift - 19898. tinashe - aquarius9. your old droog - s/t10. jason aldean - old boots, new dirt
ben ratliff:1. fka twigs - LP12. george cables - icons and influences3. scott walker/sunn 0))) - soused4. mary j. blige - london sessions5. ratking - so it goes6. great thunder - groovy kinda love7. mark turner - lathe of heaven8. ian william craig - turn of breath9. protomartyr - under color of official right10. black bananas - electric brick wall
jon pareles:1. calle 13 - multiviral2. angel olsen - burn your fire for no witness3. azealia banks - broke with expensive taste4. fka twigs - LP15. sia - 1,000 forms of fear6. rosanne cash - the river & the thread7. st. vincent - s/t8. tv on the radio - seeds9. leonard cohen - popular problems10. mary j. blige - london sessions
― just a couple of assholes having breakfast (slothroprhymes), Friday, 12 December 2014 21:22 (ten years ago)
xp Nicole Mitchell is criminally underrated/overlooked, glad you dig it William
― some kind of terrible IDM with guitars (sleeve), Friday, 12 December 2014 22:05 (ten years ago)
Nice to see Motorpsycho...yeah that is a good one! genuine prog but doesn't feel explicitly retro to me
Like on Still Life With Eggplant it features Reine Fiske of Dungen. This time he's on nearly all the tracks! Hope they left him some time to finish a new Dungen album.
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 12 December 2014 22:06 (ten years ago)
oooh shit! wow why didn't i put that together
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 12 December 2014 22:07 (ten years ago)
There's a fourth NY Times list, Nate Chinen's:
1. Beyoncé, s/t2. David Virelles, Mbókò3. Dan Weiss, Fourteen4. Mark Turner Quartet, Lathe of Heaven5. Fred Hersch Trio, Floating6. Miranda Lambert, Platinum7. Flying Lotus, You’re Dead8. Sturgill Simpson, Metamodern Sounds in Country Music9. Ambrose Akinmusire, the imagined savior is far easier to paint10. Run the Jewels, Run the Jewels 2
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 12 December 2014 22:13 (ten years ago)
2014 POLL RESULTS COUNTDOWN - ILM Metal Albums of the Year
― Cosmic Slop, Saturday, 13 December 2014 00:55 (ten years ago)
49 Tinariwen - Emmaar^^wish this was getting more love :-\― ✓ out this insane nakh yall (gr8080), Monday, December 1, 2014 __________________________________________otm, amazing album― Lorde 2Pac Beck Mashup (crüt), Monday, December 1, 2014
― ✓ out this insane nakh yall (gr8080), Monday, December 1, 2014
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― Lorde 2Pac Beck Mashup (crüt), Monday, December 1, 2014
underscoring this again. best guitar album of the year.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Saturday, 13 December 2014 01:19 (ten years ago)
I have always been mightily impressed when a song has come up on shuffle from the Tinariwen lp, which is the fragmented manner in which I have got into it after initially thinking it decent but not one of their best. I was slow to it but for me it is one of the more enduring releases of the year and I agree about underrated.
― xelab, Saturday, 13 December 2014 03:35 (ten years ago)
Wondering if we will see year-end lists from Wondering Sound next year? They were doing good work
http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/308009/wondering-sound-cuts-operations/
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 13 December 2014 14:36 (ten years ago)
that sucks on a number of levels, a personal one being that I just had my first article for them published and am now anticipating a Kafka-esque attempt to get paid for it
― cornelius pardew (DJ Mencap), Saturday, 13 December 2014 16:39 (ten years ago)
wondering sound is outstanding, but i didn't realize it was an independent entity. i thought it was a division of emusic (it was billed as the successor to the 17 dots blog).
― Daniel, Esq 2, Saturday, 13 December 2014 16:50 (ten years ago)
It may still be a division of emusic
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 13 December 2014 17:09 (ten years ago)
might be. i saw the "looking for partnerships/funding" line and made assumptions.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Saturday, 13 December 2014 17:42 (ten years ago)
yeah when i did stuff for them i got paid by emusic, which isn't going anywhere so hopefully you should have no problem getting paid. it seems like the ed in chief is staying on and they're attempting to continue on in some form, so i imagine they're still able to pay for work that's already been done.
― some dude, Saturday, 13 December 2014 19:31 (ten years ago)
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, December 9, 2014 12:36 PM
― some kind of terrible IDM with guitars (sleeve), Tuesday, December 9, 2014 1:14 PM
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, December 9, 2014 1:17 PM (4 days ago)
UMS I hate to say it but this was a 2013 release
― some kind of terrible IDM with guitars (sleeve), Saturday, 13 December 2014 19:45 (ten years ago)
http://youknowigotsoul.com/youknowigotsoul-x-soul-stereo-present-top-100-rb-songs-2014-countdown
― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 13 December 2014 20:01 (ten years ago)
http://www.npr.org/2014/12/13/370303259/best-global-music-of-2014
1- Stromae: ‘Racine Carrée’ (Square Root)(Belgium)
2- Toumani & Sidiki Diabete (Mali)
3- French-born Chilean rapper and singer Ana Tijoux: Vengo (I come)
4- English singer, songwriter and painter Piers Faccini & French cellist Vincent Segal’s: Songs of Time Lost
5- Morocco’s Hassan Hakmoun: “Unity”
6- Irish band the Gloaming: “The Gloaming”
7- Mauritanian vocalist Noura Mint Seymali (and band): Tzenni
8- Greek Master of Cretan lute (with Dirty 3 drummer), Yiorgos Xylouris: “Goats”
9- Seun Kuti: “A Long Way to the Beginning” (Nigeria)
10- 3-CD compilation Various Artists: “real World 25.”
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 13 December 2014 23:22 (ten years ago)
Yup, but there was a proper new Chrome album this year — Feel It Like a Scientist. Easily their best since Scary Monst 3rd from the Sun.
― nikola, Sunday, 14 December 2014 00:30 (ten years ago)
thank you!
― some kind of terrible IDM with guitars (sleeve), Sunday, 14 December 2014 00:34 (ten years ago)
PMA Tracks
100 Gorgon City, “Ready For Your Love”99 Tegan And Sara, “Everything Is AWESOME!!! (featuring The Lonely Island)”98 The War on Drugs, “Eyes To The Wind”97 Savages, “Fuckers”96 White Lung, “Snake Jaw”95 Kyla La Grange, “Cut Your Teeth”94 Damon Albarn, “Everyday Robots”93 Neneh Cherry, “Blank Project”92 Julian Casablancas + The Voidz, “Human Sadness”91 Isaiah Rashad, “R.I.P. Kevin Miller”
90 Trust, “Capitol”89 Rick Ross, “Sanctified” (featuring Kanye West & Big Sean)88 Lewis, “I Thought The World of You”87 Sun Kil Moon, “Micheline”86 Supreme Cuts, “Gone” (featuring Mahaut Mondino)85 Perfect Pussy, “Interference Fits”84 YG, “Who Do You Love?” (featuring Drake)83 Liars, “Vox Tuned D.E.D.”82 White Sea, “Prague”81 Angel Olsen, “Lights Out”
80 Against Me!, “True Trans Soul Rebel”79 David Bowie, “Sue (Or in the Season of Crime)”78 Strand of Oaks, “JM”77 Beck, “Country Down”76 Baths, “Ocean Death”75 Phantogram, “Fall In Love”74 Zola Jesus, “Dangerous Days”73 Real Estate, “Talking Backwards”72 Shabazz Palaces, “Forerunner Foray”71 tUnE-yArDs, “Water Fountain”
70 Hundred Waters, “Murmurs”69 SBTRKT, “NEW DORP. NEW YORK” (featuring Ezra Koenig)68 Lana Del Rey, “Brooklyn Baby”67 Ariana Grande, “Break Free” (featuring Zedd)66 Jessie Ware, “Tough Love”65 The War On Drugs, “Under The Pressure”64 Todd Terje, “Johnny And Mary” (featuring Bryan Ferry)63 Andy Stott, “Faith In Strangers”62 Sharon Van Etten, “Every Time the Sun Comes Up”61 Azealia Banks, “Ice Princess”
60 Swans, “A Little God In My Hands”59 Mac Demarco, “Passing Out Pieces”58 Freddie Gibbs & Madlib, “High” (featuring Danny Brown)57 Future, “Move That Dope” (featuring Pharrell & Pusha T)56 Ought, “Today More Than Any Other Day”55 Lykke Li, “No Rest For The Wicked”54 Charli XCX, “Boom Clap”53 Jamie xx, “Sleep Sound”52 Grimes, “Go” (featuring Blood Diamonds)51 SOPHIE, “Hard”
50 Rustie, “Attak” (featuring Danny Brown)49 Azealia Banks, “Chasing Time”48 Drake, “0 To 100 / The Catch Up”47 Beyoncé, “Partition”46 A. G. Cook, “Keri Baby” (featuring Hannah Diamond)45 Spoon, “Inside Out”44 Alvvays, “Archie, Mary Me”43 Aphex Twin, “minipops 67 [120.2][source field mix]“42 Mr. Twin Sister, “Blush”41 Röyksopp & Robyn, “Do It Again”
40 How To Dress Well, “Repeat Pleasure”39 Tinashe, “2 On” (featuring Schoolboy Q)38 Real Lies, “North Circular”37 Vic Mensa, “Down On My Luck”36 Sharon Van Etten, “Your Love is Killing Me”35 Perfume Genius, “Grid”34 Cloud Nothings, “I’m Not Part of Me”33 Flying Lotus, “Never Catch Me” (featuring Kendrick Lamar)32 QT, “Hey QT”31 Shamir, “On The Regular”
30 Beyoncé, “Flawless (Remix)” (featuring Nicki Minaj)29 The Antlers, “Palace”28 Wild Beasts, “Wanderlust”27 Lana Del Rey, “West Coast”26 FKA twigs, “Pendulum”25 Schoolboy Q, “Man Of The Year”24 Run The Jewels, “Oh My Darling Don’t Cry”23 Sun Kil Moon, “Ben’s My Friend”22 Nicki Minaj, “Anaconda”21 St. Vincent, “Digital Witness”
20 Ms. Lauryn Hill, “Black Rage”19 Ariana Grande, “Problem” (featuring Iggy Azalea)18 Spoon, “Do You”17 Beyoncé, “XO”16 Future, “Benz Friendz (Whatchutola)” (featuring André 3000)15 Kendrick Lamar, “i”14 Avey Tare’s Slasher Flicks, “Little Fang”13 Taylor Swift, “Blank Space”12 The War On Drugs, “An Ocean In Between The Waves”11 Against Me!, “Transgender Dysphoria Blues”
10 Caribou, "Can't Do Without You"9 St. Vincent, "Prince Johnny"8 “Drunk In Love” (ft. Jay Z)7 ILOVEMAKONNEN, “Tuesday” (ft. Drake)6 Future Islands, "Seasons (Waiting On You)"5 Todd Terje, "Inspector Norse"4 FKA Twigs, "Two Weeks"3 The War on Drugs, "Red Eyes"2 Perfume Genius, "Queen"1 Sia, "Chandelier"
― monster_xero, Sunday, 14 December 2014 05:51 (ten years ago)
Didn't Inspector Norse come out in 1978?
― Doran, Sunday, 14 December 2014 12:00 (ten years ago)
Oh, if Stromae is eligible, then that is quite listworthy. Some of the tracks were def 2014 for me and the rest of DK.
― Frederik B, Sunday, 14 December 2014 12:41 (ten years ago)
yeah it was def ~year of impact~ for stromae w me, I'd managed to forget all about him since the summer tho
― tl:dr, gukbar, morbis detrius (wins), Sunday, 14 December 2014 12:53 (ten years ago)
That NPR Global list with Stromae also throws in a retrospective 3-CD compilation Various Artists: “real World 25" that covers music going back over the last 25 years.
I was glad to see the Noura Mint Seymali album on that list. While her North African traditional vocals may not be easy to identify with at first, her husband's psychedelic-North African guitar sound certainly is. She appears on a few lists and is a fave of some on the Rolling whirled Outernational thread.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 14 December 2014 13:46 (ten years ago)
I wanted to like that Seymali album, but it felt a little too...Euro-café polished? Like it should have come out on Putumayo instead of Rough Trade.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Sunday, 14 December 2014 15:55 (ten years ago)
I have seen them live 3 times and there is nothing Putumayo Euro-cafe about them.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 14 December 2014 16:02 (ten years ago)
Perhaps the cd is slightly more polished than live, but I don't hear her North African muezzin-rooted vocals as Euro-cafe or the psychedelic-funk guitar sound as Euro.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 14 December 2014 16:04 (ten years ago)
Well, I feel like she's the most polished of that type of vocalist that I've heard. When I compare her to Mariem Hassan, it's like comparing Jewel to Diamanda Galas.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Sunday, 14 December 2014 16:22 (ten years ago)
But maybe I need to revisit it. (In fact, now I'm worried I'm confusing her with someone else. Gotta dig through my Forced Exposure promo emails.)
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Sunday, 14 December 2014 16:25 (ten years ago)
― some dude, Saturday, December 13, 2014 2:31 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
i've been told not to worry about getting paid but you never know
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 14 December 2014 18:09 (ten years ago)
Pitchfork - Tracks
100 Elisa Ambrogio - Superstitious99 Steve Gunn - Milly's Garden98 Merchandise - Green Lady97 Copeland - Advice to Young Girls (ft. Actress)96 DJ Quik - Pet Sematary95 Cymbals Eat Guitars - Jackson94 Taylor Swift - Out of the Woods93 The New Pornographers - War on the East Coast92 iLoveMakonnen - I Don't Sell Molly No More91 Hundred Waters - Murmurs90 Protomartyr - Scum, Rise!89 Cloud Nothings - I'm Not Part of Me88 Lauryn Hill - Black Rage (Sketch)87 Viet Cong - Continental Shelf86 Vince Staples - Blue Suede85 Arca - Thievery84 Father John Misty - Bored in the USA83 Ought - Habit82 Jessica Pratt - Back, Baby81 Andy Stott - Faith in Strangers80 Shellac - Dude Incredible79 A Sunny Day in Glasgow - In Love With Useless (The Timeless Geometry In The Tradition Of Passing)78 Rustie - Attak (ft. Danny Brown)77 Rae Sremmurd - No Flex Zone76 Röyksopp / Robyn - Do It Again75 Pharmakon - Bestial Burden74 Holly Herndon - Chorus73 Makthaverskan - Asleep72 Ty Segall - The Singer71 Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animal70 Azealia Banks - Chasing Time69 Rich Gang - Lifestyle68 Grouper - Clearing67 White Lung - Face Down66 How to Dress Well - Words I Don't Remember65 Iceage - The Lord's Favorite64 Leon Vynehall - Goodthing63 Eno/Hyde - Return62 YG - Left, Right61 Perfume Genius - Fool60 Ariel Pink - Picture Me Gone59 Alvvays - Archie, Marry Me58 Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues57 Dej Loaf - Try Me56 Migos - Fight Night55 Kendrick Lamar - i54 Spoon - Inside Out53 Perfect Pussy - Interference Fits52 Todd Terje - Delorean Dynamite51 Owen Pallett - I Am Not Afraid50 Taylor Swift - Style49 Run The Jewels - Blockbuster Night Pt. 148 Lykke Li - Gunshot47 Nils Frahm - Says46 Mr Twin Sister - In the House of Yes45 Ariel Pink - Put Your Number in My Phone44 Angel Olsen - Lights Out43 Ariana Grande - Love Me Harder (ft. The Weeknd)42 St. Vincent - Prince Johnny41 The War On Drugs - An Ocean in Between the Waves40 Jessie Ware - Tough Love39 Real Estate - Talking Backwards38 Bobby Shmurda - Hot Nigga37 Charli XCX - Boom Clap36 Mac DeMarco - Passing Out Pieces35 FKA Twigs - Pendulum34 Tobias Jesso Jr. - True Love33 Ariana Grande - Problem (ft. Iggy Azalea)32 Swans - Oxygen31 Aphex Twin - minipops 67 [120.2][source field mix]30 A.G. Cook - Beautiful29 Spoon - Do You28 Grouper - Holding27 Sharon Van Etten - Your Love Is Killing Me26 Beyoncé - Partition25 Vic Mensa - Down On My Luck24 St. Vincent - Digital Witness23 Flying Lotus - Never Catch Me (ft. Kendrick Lamar)22 Ex Hex - Don't Wanna Lose21 Sophie - Lemonade / Hard20 Nicki Minaj - Boss Ass Bitch (Remix) (ft. PTAF)19 Sun Kil Moon - Carissa18 Panda Bear - Mr Noah17 Tinashe - 2 On (ft. Schoolboy Q)16 Young Thug - Stoner15 Lil B - No Black Person Is Ugly14 QT - Hey QT13 Todd Terje - Johnny and Mary (ft. Bryan Ferry) (Robert Palmer cover)12 Drake - 0 to 100 / The Catch Up11 Shamir - On The Regular10 Michael Jackson - Love Never Felt So Good (Original Version)9 Future - Move That Dope (ft. Pharrell, Pusha T, and Casino)8 Perfume Genius - Queen7 Beyoncé - ***Flawless (ft. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)6 Run The Jewels - Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck) (ft. Zack De La Rocha)5 The War On Drugs - Red Eyes4 Caribou - Can't Do Without You3 FKA Twigs - Two Weeks2 iLoveMakonnen - Club Goin Up On A Tuesday (ft. Drake)1 Future Islands - Seasons (Waiting On You)
― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Monday, 15 December 2014 09:05 (ten years ago)
Glad to see that Future Islands track doing well. I like it lots, but wonder if I'd like it as much had I not known of their Letterman performance.
― dive inside water and you will know (dog latin), Monday, 15 December 2014 09:29 (ten years ago)
'Back In The Long Grass' [?] is the best track on the album by a country mile.
― Doran, Monday, 15 December 2014 09:52 (ten years ago)
The Quietus' Best Hip Hop LPs Of 2014
25. Mndsgn - Yawn Zen (Stones Throw)24. Thaiboy Digital - Tiger (Gravity Boys)23. Chris Crack - Kickin It Wit TW (New Deal Crew)22. Bladee - Gluee (Bladee 1000)21. Kevin Gates - By Any Means20. Milo - A Toothpaste Suburb (Hellfyre)19. Open Mike Eagle - Dark Comedy (Mello)18. Father - Young Hot Ebony (Awful)17. Smoke DZA - Dream.Zone.Achieve (R.F.C.)16. Rome Fortune - Small VVorld (Small World)15. Antwon - Heavy Hearted In Doldrums14. Young Roddy - Route The Ruler13. Busdriver - Perfect Hair (Big Dada)12. Ballout - Welcome 2 Ballout World11. Chimurenga Renaissance - Rize Vadzimu Rize (Brick Lane10. YG - My Krazy Life (Pu$haz Ink)09. Dej Loaf - $ell Sole08. Cities Aviv - Come To Life (Young One)07. Iggy Azalea - The New Classic (Virgin EMI)06. Flying Lotus - You're Dead!(WARP)05. Yung Lean - Unknown Memory04. 100s - IVRY (Fools Gold)03. DonChristian - Renzo Piano02. Ratking - So It Goes (HXC)01. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Piñata (Madlib Invazion)
― Doran, Monday, 15 December 2014 09:55 (ten years ago)
Vibe's Top 46:46. R. Kelly, Black Panties45. Future, Honest44. Asher Roth, RetroHash43. Mariah Carey, Me. I Am Mariah42. Robin Thicke, Paula41. Luke James, Luke James40. Kid Cudi, Satellite Flight: The Journey to Mother Moon39. Kid Ink, My Own Lane38. Ab-Soul, These Days...37. Shady Records, Shady XV36. Stalley, Ohio35. Prince, Art Official Age34. SZA, Z33. Bas, Last Winter32. PARTYNEXTDOOR, PartyNextDoor Two31. MIchael Jackson, Xscape30. Ariana Grande, My Everything29. Isaiah Rashad, Cilvia Demo28. Ed Sheeran, x27. Flying Lotus, You're Dead!26. Trey Songz, Trigga25. Teyana Taylor, VII24. Jessie Ware, Tough Love23. Rick Ross, Mastermind22. Madlib and Freddie Gibbs, Piñata21. Kevin Gates, By Any Means20. fka Twigs, LP119. Tinashe, Aquarius18. T.I., Paperwork: The Motion Picture17. Childish Gambino, Because The Internet16. The Roots, ...And Then You Shoot Your Cousin15. Chris Brown, X14. Common, Nobody's Smiling13. Sam Smith, In the Lonely Hour12. Jeezy, Seen It All11. August Alsina, Testimony10. Azealia Banks, Broke With Expensive Taste9. ScHoolboy Q, Oxymoron8. Justin Bieber, Journals7. Jhene Aiko, Souled Out6. Logic, Under Pressure5. Big K.R.I.T., Cadillactica4. Pharrell, G I R L3. YG, My Krazy Life2. Run The Jewels, Run The Jewels 21. Beyonce, Beyonce
― mike t-diva, Monday, 15 December 2014 12:57 (ten years ago)
Pleasantly surprised to see that Michael Jackson song in the Pitchfork list.
― MarkoP, Monday, 15 December 2014 14:04 (ten years ago)
Shamir comin with the "212" of 2014
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 15 December 2014 15:58 (ten years ago)
has p4k ever even acknowledged taylor swift's music before?
i am also faintly surprised to see the mj track (but ONLY THE ORIGINAL VERSION apparently) charming spin/p4k etc.
katherine's "partition" writeup is great
― dyl, Monday, 15 December 2014 16:15 (ten years ago)
"never ever getting back together" -- the worst single off 'red' -- made the 2012 YE list and the half-decade list, but that's it as far as i know
― J0rdan S., Monday, 15 December 2014 16:23 (ten years ago)
'you belong with me' made the '09 list
― uberweiss, Monday, 15 December 2014 16:26 (ten years ago)
21 Sophie - Lemonade / Hard14 QT - Hey QT
end sophie
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 15 December 2014 16:26 (ten years ago)
I don't mind Hey QT, but both Lemonade and Hard are turabul.
― Mailkhimp (Johnny Fever), Monday, 15 December 2014 16:28 (ten years ago)
ag cook "beautiful" is the best of all those tracks
― J0rdan S., Monday, 15 December 2014 16:29 (ten years ago)
This literally sounds like diarrhea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdLvp630plc
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 15 December 2014 16:29 (ten years ago)
yeah taylor's made eoy lists due to individual contributors putting her on their ballots, but p4k refusing to acknowledge her existence otherwise and deign her with a review at this point looks hopelessly out of touch. wonder if they'll do an about-turn come lp6 now she's more socially acceptable amongst their readership.
― prolego, Monday, 15 December 2014 16:30 (ten years ago)
p4k's lists are clearly not purely ballot-determined tho
― dyl, Monday, 15 December 2014 16:37 (ten years ago)
tell me more
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 15 December 2014 16:39 (ten years ago)
Jhene over Tinashe smh
― abcfsk, Monday, 15 December 2014 16:40 (ten years ago)
I can't fucking unhear the diarrhea thing and I didn't even like "Lemonade"
― katherine, Monday, 15 December 2014 16:41 (ten years ago)
― dyl, Monday, 15 December 2014 16:42 (ten years ago)
(also, re upthread, thanks!)
― katherine, Monday, 15 December 2014 16:42 (ten years ago)
wonder if they'll do an about-turn come lp6 now she's more socially acceptable amongst their readership.
it'll be funnier if they do tbh, it'll make it evident just how much coverage/lack of is determined by positioning and taste calculus rather than quality. does anyone think taylor swift is making the best music of her career right now, or is it just harder to outright ignore her? obv p4k are not alone in this.
ban sophie seconded
― lex pretend, Monday, 15 December 2014 16:49 (ten years ago)
people hate SOPHIE now? I haven't heard any of the recent stuff...
― dive inside water and you will know (dog latin), Monday, 15 December 2014 16:49 (ten years ago)
all I know is that Taylor's full-on embrace of pop music is making ppl of my acquaintance who have been as irritated with her as I have been go "wait, I really like this" so there may be an argument to be made that Taylor is making the most relatable music of her career right now
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Monday, 15 December 2014 16:53 (ten years ago)
"does anyone think taylor swift is making the best music of her career right now"
not able or going to comment on the speculation spiral here, but fwiw I am one person who thinks this
― katherine, Monday, 15 December 2014 16:54 (ten years ago)
Unofficial tally of 56 metal musicians polled by MetalSucks:
1 Mastodon, Once More ‘Round the Sun2 Behemoth – The Satanist2 Triptykon – Melana Chasmata4 Cannibal Corpse – A Skeletal Domain5 Eyehategod, S/T6 Godflesh – Decline & Fall EP7 Septicflesh – Titan8 Swans – To Be Kind9 Dead Congregation – Promulgation of the Fall10 Black Anvil – Hail Death11 Misery Index – The Killing Gods11 Pallbearer – Foundations of Burden13 YOB – Clearing the Path to Ascend14 Midnight- No Mercy for Mayhem15 Cynic – Kindly Bent to Free Us16 Blut Aus Nord – Memoria Vetusta – Saturnian Poetry17 Atriarch – An Unending Pathway17 Trap Them – Blissfucker19 Bölzer – Zoma19 Job for a Cowboy – Sun Rater21 Aborted – Necrotic Manifesto21 At The Gates- At War with Reality21 Lana Del Rey – Ultraviolence24 Pink Floyd – The Endless River24 Wovenhand – Refractory Obdurate
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 15 December 2014 17:12 (ten years ago)
Correction, that's Godflesh - A World Lit Only by Fire not the EP.
Have always disliked Sophie but Hey QT is giving me full-on red mist.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Monday, 15 December 2014 17:18 (ten years ago)
i'd find it hard to see beyond "hey qt" if i was asked for the worst track of 2014
― lex pretend, Monday, 15 December 2014 17:22 (ten years ago)
Sophie's idea of pop is tailor made for p4k, really.
Does anyone think taylor swift is making the best music of her career right now, or is it just harder to outright ignore her?
I think there's a huge degree of realizing if she hasn't gone away yet, maybe she deserves some recognition. Not that different from what happened with Justin Timberlake circa Justified.
By the way in two years S/T will be 10 years old; I'm intrigued to see the level of reconsideration it gets among critics. Even more so with Fearless, but we're 4 years away from that.
― cpl593H, Monday, 15 December 2014 17:29 (ten years ago)
Maybe I'm misremembering through a filter of ILX love but I thought there was a gigantic critgasm over Justified at the time, driven mostly by the Neptunes/Timbaland production.
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Monday, 15 December 2014 17:42 (ten years ago)
That's what I remember too!
― cpl593H, Monday, 15 December 2014 17:45 (ten years ago)
oh I see, I misread you
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Monday, 15 December 2014 17:46 (ten years ago)
(I keep forgetting 'NSync existed, which may be part of Justin's plan)
Oh this man could never forget that lightning bolt of music striking through his heart that was "No strings attached" :S
― cpl593H, Monday, 15 December 2014 17:48 (ten years ago)
Re the discussion of Noura Mint Seymali upthread, I was confusing her with someone else. Noura Mint Seymali is awesome—it's Aziza Brahim who's putting out a boring, café-background-music version of this type of thing.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 15 December 2014 18:25 (ten years ago)
Sophie did terrible stuff recently but BIPP is still the jam.
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 15 December 2014 18:46 (ten years ago)
Just listened to Hey QT. Not great but better than a lot of stuff that people pass off for 'good' on this forum. Haven't really paid much attention to PC Music but i get that theyre prob the successors of people who dug happy hardcore, chiptunes, electroclash and stuff like Tatu back in the day, except doing it with an increasingly arch veneer. Double-arch if you consider the electroclash crowd were effectively parodying 80s nu-romantic tropes.
― dive inside water and you will know (dog latin), Monday, 15 December 2014 18:46 (ten years ago)
Is it me or there is more hip-hop/rnb on this year's pitchfork list than any other?
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 15 December 2014 19:05 (ten years ago)
i think so. as lol- and zing-worthy as p4k can be the top tracks lists have been relatively diverse the past few years
― franch montana (slothroprhymes), Monday, 15 December 2014 19:14 (ten years ago)
*can be at times
― franch montana (slothroprhymes), Monday, 15 December 2014 19:18 (ten years ago)
i admire the future islands singer, that letterman video is pretty great, he has passion and heart. but he needs a different band, i am sick of the same 80s peter hook/new order sound that indie has been aping for decades now
― marcos, Monday, 15 December 2014 19:23 (ten years ago)
(speaking of the #1 p4k track of 2014, i wasn't clear about that)
Just discovered Jessica Pratt at the moment, really my thing. End of year lists are the best.
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 15 December 2014 19:41 (ten years ago)
Only problem I have with Future Islands backing band is that they win the most bored looking band of 2014. And I have to assume it's because they think it looks cool to appear bored.
― Evan, Monday, 15 December 2014 19:57 (ten years ago)
i know! it's such a contrast with their singer, their boredom is very jarring next to him
― marcos, Monday, 15 December 2014 19:59 (ten years ago)
they think it looks cool to appear bored.
or just that they have little to no stage presence (especially compared to the dynamo of weirdness he is) - like a fair amount of dudes in indie bands
― franch montana (slothroprhymes), Monday, 15 December 2014 20:01 (ten years ago)
I don't feel like defending that band in particular, but is it a problem to look bored on stage? I just assume no musician truly is, just hyper focused or extremely nervous.
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 15 December 2014 20:07 (ten years ago)
^ someone who likes boring indie music.
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 15 December 2014 20:08 (ten years ago)
i find it hard to believe that these dudes who just like a year before were playing fucking warehouse shows and weeknight half full club gigs were going on the david letterman show and purposefully being "bored" or blase
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 15 December 2014 20:10 (ten years ago)
is it a problem to look bored on stage?
doesn't bother me that much in bands within that wheelhouse, long as the music's good.
― franch montana (slothroprhymes), Monday, 15 December 2014 20:15 (ten years ago)
Not a big deal to me, just something I noticed in all the live clips I've seen at this point.
― Evan, Monday, 15 December 2014 20:22 (ten years ago)
i don't think they are trying to look bored or blase. they just look bored and blase
― marcos, Monday, 15 December 2014 20:37 (ten years ago)
i almost think it would too much honestly if the other guys were super animated anyway with the leader singer as he is, would be overkill imo
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 15 December 2014 20:38 (ten years ago)
That was just me guessing based on the intensity of their blasé. And I'm not saying they need to be super animated, it's just I wasn't seeing them grooving AT ALL.
― Evan, Monday, 15 December 2014 20:40 (ten years ago)
they could at least have the decency to groove
― tl;dr, gukbar, morbis detrius (wins), Monday, 15 December 2014 20:45 (ten years ago)
Their facial expressions, too.
― Evan, Monday, 15 December 2014 20:45 (ten years ago)
i dunno i feel like shy ppl tend to shut down
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 15 December 2014 20:49 (ten years ago)
that's probably all it is
― Evan, Monday, 15 December 2014 20:54 (ten years ago)
― prolego, Monday, 15 December 2014 16:30 (5 hours ago) Permalink
Agree completely. In what universe does an artist have two of the year's 100 best songs in two different years and still not have an album worthy of review? They review 1,250 albums a year.
Thing that surprised me most on the p4k list is how many of those tracks are self-released / unreleased. Just trying to find the songs in the top 25 that I'd never heard before, there were like 7 or 8 that I had to go to youtube or soundcloud to hear. That either says something about p4k's strive for curated content or the democratization of the industry as a whole; yet many of these songs are by big artists, e.g., Nicki Minaj, Drake.
― Indexed, Monday, 15 December 2014 22:05 (ten years ago)
imagine Bernard Sumner attempting what Future Islands dude did
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 15 December 2014 22:05 (ten years ago)
Suspect that pitchfork not reviewing taylor is more akin to politicians wanting to avoid wedge issues than actual disdain.
― Tim F, Monday, 15 December 2014 22:16 (ten years ago)
The problems with Future Islands are multiple: the singer is wank, the backing behind him is rote and weak as fuck and the songwriting isn't up to snuff.
― Welcome To (Turrican), Monday, 15 December 2014 22:16 (ten years ago)
other than that, how was the play Mrs. Lincoln?
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 15 December 2014 22:19 (ten years ago)
Like, the only thing that amazes me about Future Islands is the fact that something so incredibly piss-poor in every possible way has had so many having jizzgasms over it.
― Welcome To (Turrican), Monday, 15 December 2014 22:20 (ten years ago)
something so incredibly piss-poor in every possible way has had so many having jizzgasms over it.
― franch montana (slothroprhymes), Monday, 15 December 2014 22:24 (ten years ago)
Objection, your honor!
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 15 December 2014 22:25 (ten years ago)
(I was listening to the J. Cole an hour ago and thinking, man, why the fuck are my students so excited by the Sheena Easton of Kanye-influenced hip hop?)
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 15 December 2014 22:28 (ten years ago)
irl lols at that description
tbf he's more aggressively mediocre/boring and overpraised than actively bad.
― franch montana (slothroprhymes), Monday, 15 December 2014 22:31 (ten years ago)
http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2014/12/15/magnets-top-25-albums-of-2014/
WINNER: Ex Hex!
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 00:02 (ten years ago)
i almost think it would too much honestly if the other guys were super animated anyway with the leader singer as he is, would be overkill imo― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, December 15, 2014 8:38 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, December 15, 2014 8:38 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
OTM. It stops the whole thing becoming a clownshow. Let the other guys just get on with making the music.
One thing that always puzzled me - if there are only three members, who plays drums?
― dive inside water and you will know (dog latin), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 00:42 (ten years ago)
p sure most of their drums are programmed, but maybe they have a touring drummer?
― franch montana (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 00:55 (ten years ago)
yup and touring drummer is a somewhat recent addition they used to just use a drum machine for shows
― anonanon, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 01:14 (ten years ago)
21 Lana Del Rey – Ultraviolence
This kind of sticks out like a sore thumb on that MetalSucks list. I did not know that metal dudes were into Lana Del Rey.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 02:03 (ten years ago)
people who dug happy hardcore, chiptunes, electroclash and stuff like Tatu back in the day
is this supposed to be one group of people?
― Merdeyeux, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 02:16 (ten years ago)
Shamir comin with the "212" of 2014― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, December 15, 2014 11:58 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, December 15, 2014 11:58 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
They don't actually sound similar at all, not sure what's the deal with everyone (i.e. you + a thousand or so youtube commenters) saying this, is there a subtext going on here we should be aware of?
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 02:20 (ten years ago)
Have always disliked Sophie but Hey QT is giving me full-on red mist.― Re-Make/Re-Model, Tuesday, December 16, 2014 1:18 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Tuesday, December 16, 2014 1:18 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Know we all care about music, but jesus, this better be hyperbole, surely there are better things to get angry about?
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 02:21 (ten years ago)
people who dug happy hardcore, chiptunes, electroclash and stuff like Tatu back in the dayis this supposed to be one group of people?
Why judge music on its own merits when you can make assumptions about an imagined target audience, eh?
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 02:26 (ten years ago)
I have enjoyed all these things in my time
― dive inside water and you will know (dog latin), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 09:02 (ten years ago)
xp Um, yeah, it's hyperbole. I don't actually get enraged by a pop song.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 10:11 (ten years ago)
i can assure you my rage was real tho :)
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 10:14 (ten years ago)
Pc music is rubbish but no worse than anything else on the list
― saer, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 12:00 (ten years ago)
So you think all 100 songs on the list are equally bad? Wow.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 12:56 (ten years ago)
It was a flippant and uncalled for remark - I haven't heard all 100 songs and ive only heard one pc music song
― saer, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 13:03 (ten years ago)
oh.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 13:47 (ten years ago)
Resident Advisor top mixes and compilations of 2014:http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?2335
― Jeff W, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 13:48 (ten years ago)
Xgau's list of albums of 2014 has been online for a couple of days:
https://medium.com/cuepoint/robert-christgau-expert-witness-790131a548da
― cpl593H, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 14:35 (ten years ago)
xp This is a serious infraction. There is no room for flippant and uncalled-for remarks on ILX, sir.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 14:44 (ten years ago)
music is so PC these days, you can't say anything anymore!
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 15:17 (ten years ago)
irl loooools
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 15:26 (ten years ago)
*rimshots*
― franch montana (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 15:28 (ten years ago)
wondering sound 75 best songs!http://www.wonderingsound.com/gallery/best-songs-2014/wondering-sound-best-songs-2014
― franch montana (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 15:34 (ten years ago)
also grantland's top 10 singles and 40 albums, markedly less interesting for various reasons: http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/the-best-a-k-a-my-favorite-music-of-2014/
― franch montana (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 15:44 (ten years ago)
Is that the first list to have Hesitant Alien on it?
― how's life, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 15:52 (ten years ago)
i don't know for sure but i wouldn't be surprised.
― franch montana (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 16:13 (ten years ago)
R&B top 20http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/20-best-r-b-albums-of-2014-20141215
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 17:30 (ten years ago)
10. Echosmith, “Cool Kids”
steve hyden steady the worst
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 17:35 (ten years ago)
buncha great records in the wrong order on the rs r&b list
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 17:36 (ten years ago)
FKA Twigs is R&B?
― example (crüt), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 17:37 (ten years ago)
I like Hyden's post-poptimism, lighthearted take on rock n roll, but other than that everytime I read him I'm left scratching my head and wondering wtf's in his mind.
― cpl593H, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 17:43 (ten years ago)
I love his prose, not so much his taste, but if you're Grantland's chief music critic I'd rather have it that way around than the opposite.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 17:45 (ten years ago)
what's good about him is he is able to not take the dopey rock he likes seriously, what's bad is that he takes the time to argue why it "matters" in a macro sense aside from him liking it.
― franch montana (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 17:46 (ten years ago)
― example (crüt), Tuesday, December 16, 2014 12:37 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yes.
― franch montana (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 17:47 (ten years ago)
don't get what people even see in his "prose"
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 17:47 (ten years ago)
really nice to see fatima and k michelle repped by RS!
not that fka twigs has no r&b dna in her, but she was totally right when she said that if she was white there'd be a lot less of that talk
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 17:52 (ten years ago)
IMHO not taking his subjects entirely seriously makes him lose steam mid-article in those long pieces he writes. It's like he lacks the drive for such long arguments. Everytime I read him I start with some degree of enthusiasm, then get bored sometime around the tenth paragraph.
― cpl593H, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 17:53 (ten years ago)
― lex pretend, Tuesday, December 16, 2014 11:52 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
the problem is that we dont consider white ppl who do that kind of music R&B, not the other way around
― deej loaf (D-40), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 17:55 (ten years ago)
what, like björk?
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 17:57 (ten years ago)
banks is definitely considered r&b, more or less, and not just in that RS list (and is also most assuredly white). if twigs was white i'd still think the rhythmic core of her sound was more r&b/hip-hop than like, bjork.
― franch montana (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 17:59 (ten years ago)
BUT, i see why twigs would say that. she has also expressed frustration with the "alt r&b" label, i believe
― franch montana (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 18:00 (ten years ago)
fka twigs is extremely static rhythmically
― deej loaf (D-40), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 18:00 (ten years ago)
i dont listen to bjork but like grimes or bat for lashes or w/e, it's all R&B
― deej loaf (D-40), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 18:01 (ten years ago)
banks being considered r&b is also a bit confusing to me, just seems like trip-hop redux x synthy pop
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 18:02 (ten years ago)
grimes and bat for lashes are not r&b!
if twigs was white i'd still think the rhythmic core of her sound was more r&b/hip-hop than like, bjork.
― franch montana (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, December 16, 2014 5:59 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
rhythmically the closest comparison to lp1 is vespertine imo
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 18:03 (ten years ago)
― deej loaf (D-40), Tuesday, December 16, 2014 12:55 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
How did we ignore the great white R&B albums of 2014 like HOW TO DRESS WELL and ROBIN THICKE'S PAULA
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 18:04 (ten years ago)
bat for lashes is called r&b??? not prima facie a bad thing but i've never heard that
― franch montana (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 18:04 (ten years ago)
the new how to dress well album sucks
― franch montana (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 18:05 (ten years ago)
if its pop music and its not polka in the woods eating weinerschnitzel its black american music. in the catholic sense of R&B, it's R&B. I'm not sure I see the purpose of fighting against that classification
― deej loaf (D-40), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 18:07 (ten years ago)
I couldn't believe How to Dress Well he basically teed up music writers for the 'Shit Sandwich' reviews and no one took the bait
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 18:07 (ten years ago)
in that they didn't call it the shit sandwich it was?
― franch montana (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 18:13 (ten years ago)
(bc many certainly did not and in fact did the exact opposite)
this is not the definition that a top 20 R&B albums list is working with!
― example (crüt), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 18:18 (ten years ago)
I think Whiney means the album is "What Is This Heart?" and they could have said "What is This Shit?"
like the Spinal Tap joke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWqKiqTfXuA
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 18:19 (ten years ago)
*slaps forehead for missing joke, reminds self to watch this is spinal tap again soon*
in that case, IRL lols
― franch montana (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 18:21 (ten years ago)
― example (crüt), Tuesday, December 16, 2014 12:18 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
if its not R&B it can also be rock or rap or house/techno but like ... what is FKA twigs then? "its kinda like bjork" is not a genre rolling stone will do a yearly list for
― deej loaf (D-40), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 18:23 (ten years ago)
or is it ~beyond genre~ lol
Where would they list Bjork or The xx? Putting her in an R&B list is tying her up in one strand of her music.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 18:29 (ten years ago)
i kinda feel like xx is R&B and bjork is not but i don't really know why
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 18:31 (ten years ago)
http://www.prooffreader.com/2014/12/most-decade-specific-words-in-billboard.htmljust putting this here
― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 18:34 (ten years ago)
just put her in "alternative" or something
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 18:35 (ten years ago)
uncles used to be really popular
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 18:37 (ten years ago)
i like the march toward drooglike from "blues pal sweetheart rose" to "yeah hell fuck die"
― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 18:44 (ten years ago)
Noisey/Vice France - allez les Sleafords!http://noisey.vice.com/fr/blog/les-20-meilleurs-disques-de-2014
20. HAVE A NICE LIFE The Unnatural World19. ALKPOTE L'Orgasmixtape18. C.A.R. My Friend17. FOREVER PAVOT Rhapsode 16. TAULARD Les Abords Du Lycée15. HIGH-FUNCTIONING FLESH High-Functioning Flesh14. BODY COUNT Manslaughter13. LUST FOR YOUTH International 12. KAARIS Or Noir Part. II 11. OBITUARY Inked In Blood10. CHEVEU Bum09. LEWIS L'Amour 08. JUICY P Certifié Vrai 2 : La Plakette 07. IRON REAGAN The Tyranny Of Will06. CULT OF YOUTH Final Days05. SUN KIL MOON Benji 04. JESSICA 93 Rise 03. COLD WORLD How The Gods Chill02. PEINE PERDUE No Souvenir 01. SLEAFORD MODS Divide And Exit
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 18:44 (ten years ago)
i think we're legit progressing with more fuckwords in song titles
― franch montana (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 18:48 (ten years ago)
The Quietus Top 20 Metal Albums Of 2015
1. Yob - <i>Clearing The Path To Ascend</i></b><br> (Neurot)2. The Body - I Shall Die Here (RVNG International)3. Sólstafir - Ótta (Season Of Mist)4. At The Gates - At War With Reality (Century Media)5. Floor - Oblation (Season Of Mist)6. Old Man Gloom - Ape Of God (Profound Lore)7. Electric Wizard - Time To Die (Spinefarm/Witchfinder Records)8. Godflesh - A World Lit Only By Fire (Avalanche)9. Nothing - Guilty Of Everything (Relapse)10. Triptykon - Melana Chasmata (Century Media)11. 11Paranoias - Stealing Fire From Heaven (Ritual Productions)12. Bong - Stoner Rock (Ritual Productions)13. Trap Them - Blissfucker (Prosthetic)14. Full Of Hell + Merzbow - Full Of Hell + Merzbow (Profound Lore)15. Witch Mountain - Mobile Of Angels (Svart)16. Bongripper - Miserable (Great Barrier Records)17. Vampillia - Some Nightmares Take You Aurora Rainbow Darkness(Candlelight)18. Prizehog - Re-Unvent The Whool (Eolian Empire)19. Slomatics - Estron (Head Of Crom)20. Coffinworm - IV .I. VIII (Profound Lore)
― Doran, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 18:50 (ten years ago)
Go 90s and list FKA twigs under "Dope beatz/downtempo"
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 19:07 (ten years ago)
Nice Quietus list, glad to see some love for that Bong record.
― ƋППṍӮɨ∏ğڵșěᶉᶇдM℮ (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 19:11 (ten years ago)
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/20-best-edm-electronic-and-dance-albums-of-2014-20141216
party don't stop
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 19:40 (ten years ago)
list party
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 19:41 (ten years ago)
ain't no party like a list party party cause a list party party is pedantic
― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 19:41 (ten years ago)
asiatisch is the album i have had to bitch about most in DMs this year
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 19:42 (ten years ago)
first mention of duck sauce! which i found quite enjoyable
― franch montana (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 19:44 (ten years ago)
― lex pretend, Tuesday, December 16, 2014 2:42 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i wish you would be better at not using gendered language, lex. your sexism on this board is unbearable
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 19:45 (ten years ago)
why on earth would lex be too shook to be publicly opinionated about a record and keep it in DMs
― some dude, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 20:08 (ten years ago)
Not exactly a critics poll, but hey
Top 10 Most Watched Music Videos in Nigeria on Youtube for 2014
http://www.afrobeatsindacity.com/
1. Davido – Aye (Official Video)2. Mavins – Dorobucci ft Don Jazzy, Tiwa Savage, Dr SID, D’Prince, Reekado Banks, Korede Bello, Di’Ja3. Nicki Minaj – Anaconda4. Tiwa Savage – Wanted [Official Video]5. Flavour – Ikwokrikwo [Official Video]6. Dr SID – Surulere ft Don Jazzy (Official Video)7. Yemi Alade – Johnny8. Davido ft Mafikizolo – “Tchelete (Goodlife)” (Official Video)9. P Square – Taste the Money (Testimony) [Official Video]10.Patoranking – Girlie ‘O’ Remix [Official Video] ft. Tiwa Savage
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 20:45 (ten years ago)
Lol I looked at that and thought "that magazine has good taste"
― Tim F, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 20:52 (ten years ago)
xp (1) Why do you hate Asiatisch? (2) Why do you have to confine the hate to DMs?
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 21:15 (ten years ago)
i think asiatisch is boring and redundant in its clueless art-school rendering of something non-existent; it relies too much on a dull concept which is also slightly problematic and in terms of music FAQ sells herself way short.
i don't hate it enough to talk about it much (can't remember much of it apart from the gimmicky "nothing compares 2 u" cover) but people who are more integrated in that electronic scene have slid into my DMs many times whenever i've obliquely snarked, mostly to expand on how problematic it is to hear wealthy oil money x NYC art school privilege trying to sell grime back to us
i think FAQ is potentially an interesting musician and i've loved some of her stuff in the past but asiatisch was not the one and future brown will be even more not the one next year
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 21:38 (ten years ago)
<3 that afrobeats list for chucking "anaconda" in there!
"I like Nicki, her yansh is bigger" iirc
― rob, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 21:39 (ten years ago)
Have any Afrobeats tracks appeared on critics lists here?
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 21:50 (ten years ago)
I'm currently listening to a bunch of the Fader's list and they have Davido (plus a Ugandan track "Jambole" which has an insanely delightful video)
― rob, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 21:57 (ten years ago)
Rhapsody's Top 50 Albums of 2014 (Taylor Swift not eligible because you can't stream her there.)
1) Miranda Lambert, Platinum2) Flying Lotus, You're Dead!3) St. Vincent, St. Vincent4) FKA twigs, LP15) Sturgill Simpson, Metamodern Sounds in Country Music6) Run the Jewels, Run the Jewels 27) tUnE-yArDs, Nikki Nack8) Azealia Banks, Broke with Expensive Taste9) Lana Del Rey, Ultraviolence10) The War on Drugs, Lost in the Dream11) Angaleena Presley, American Middle Class12) Beck, Morning Phase13) Various Artists, Haiti Direct: Big Band, Mini Jazz & Twoubadou Sounds, 1960-197814) Pharmakon, Bestial Burden15) Sleaford Mods, Chubbed Up+16) Neneh Cherry, Blank Project17) Charlie Haden, Charlie Haden / Jim Hall18) Aphex Twin, Syro19) Parquet Courts, Sunbathing Animal20) Spoon, They Want My Soul21) Eric Church, The Outsiders22) Caribou, Our Love23) YG, My Krazy Life24) The Lions, This Generation in Dub25) Grouper, Ruins26) Jack White, Lazaretto27) No Te Va Gustar, El Tiempo Otra Vez Avanza28) Black Space Riders, D:REI29) The Pretty Reckless, Going to Hell30) Leonard Cohen, Popular Problems31) Freddie Gibbs & Madlib, Piñata32) Tinariwen, Emmaar33) Angel Olsen, Burn Your Fire for No Witness34) Trio 3 & Vijay Iyer, Wiring35) August Alsina, Testimony36) Moodymann, Moodymann37) Jenny Lewis, The Voyager38) Serengeti, Kenny Dennis III39) Sunny Sweeney, Provoked40) Popcaan, Where We Come From41) Ray LaMontagne, Supernova42) Seattle Symphony Orchestra, John Luther Adams: Beyond Ocean43) Calle 13, MultiViral44) Electric Wizard, Time to Die45) Roscoe Mitchell, Conversations II46) Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Give the People What They Want47) Wadada Leo Smith, Red Hill48) Shabazz Palaces, Lese Majesty49) La Roux, Trouble in Paradise50) Little Dragon, Nabuma Rubberband Top 25 World Albums Of 2014
1) Various Artists, Haiti Direct: Big Band, Mini Jazz & Twoubadou Sounds2) Orlando Julius, Jaiyede Afro3) Noura Mint Seymali, Tzenni4) Popcaan, Where We Come From5) Aby Ngana Diop, Liital6) Hailu Mergia, Tche Belew7) L'Orch First Moja-One, Vol. 2: More Pili8) Tinariwen, Emmaar9) Verckys/Orchestre Vévé, Congolese Funk Afrobeat & Psychedelic Rumba10) Ana Tijoux, Vengo11) Quantic, Magnetica12) Etienne Mbappe, Bombay Makossa13) The Lions, This Generation in Dub14) Francis Bebey, Psychedelic Sanza15) Sidiki Diabaté, Toumani & Sidiki16) Ibibio Sound Machine, Ibibio Sound Machine17) Various Artists, Gipsy Rhumba: The Original Rhythm of Gispy Rhumba in Spain18) Golem, Tanz19) Mamani Keïta, Kanou20) Kasai Allstars, Beware the Fetish (Congotronics 5)21) Fantasma, Eye of the Sun22) Majid Bekkas, Al Qantara23) Tony Allen, Film of Life24) Tsigunz Fanfara Avantura, Turbo Balkan Groove25) Africa Express Presents ...Terry Riley's in C Mali
Top 25 Electronic Albums of 2014
1) Flying Lotus, You're Dead!2) FKA twigs, LP13) Caribou, Our Love4) Arca, Xen5) DJ Koze, Reincarnations, Pt. 2 - The Remix Chapter 2009-20146) Felicita, Frenemies7) Objekt, Flatland8) Call Super, Suzi Ecto9) Untold, Black Light Spiral10) Actress, Ghettoville11) M. Geddes Gengras, Ishi12) Aphex Twin, Syro13) The Juan MacLean, In a Dream14) Röyksopp, The Inevitable End15) Evian Christ, Waterfall EP 16) Mark E, Product of Industry17) Function & Vatican Shadow, Games Have Rules18) Daniel Lanois, Flesh and Machine19) Royksopp & Robyn, Do It Again20) Lawrence English, Wilderness of Mirrors21) Protect-U, Free USA22) Downliners Sekt, Silent Ascent23) Peder Mannerfelt, Lines Describing Circles24) Moodymann, Moodymann25) Fennesz, Bécs
Top 25 Pop Albums of 2014
1) Neneh Cherry, Blank Project2) Katy B, Little Red3) Jason Derulo, Talk Dirty4) Röyksopp & Robyn, Do It Again5) Nick Jonas, Nick Jonas6) Ariana Grande, My Everything7) Sia, 1000 Forms of Fear8) One Direction, FOUR9) Iggy Azalea, The New Classic10) Tove Lo, Queen of the Clouds11) Shakira, Shakira12) Sam Smith, In the Lonely Hour13) Kylie Minogue, Kiss Me Once14) Ed Sheeran, X15) Jessie J, Sweet Talker16) La Roux, Trouble in Paradise17) Maroon 5, V18) Jessie Ware, Tough Love19) Ingrid Michaelson, Lights Out20) Company Freak, Le Disco Social21) Lily Allen, Sheezus22) 5 Seconds of Summer, 5 Seconds of Summer23) Cher Lloyd, Sorry I'm Late24) Akdong Musician, Play25) Meghan Trainor, Title
― xhuxk, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 22:06 (ten years ago)
More Rhapsody.
Top 25 Rock Albums of 2014
1) Jack White, Lazaretto2) Foo Fighters, Sonic Highways3) Chevelle, La Gárgola4) Royal Blood, Royal Blood5) Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Hypnotic Eye6) Gary Clark Jr., Live7) Ray LaMontagne, Supernova8) Pink Floyd, The Endless River9) Benjamin Booker, Violent Shiver10 Bruce Springsteen, High Hopes11) Linkin Park, The Hunting Party12) Stevie Nicks, 24 Karat Gold: Songs From The Vault13) Hozier, Hozier14) The Pretty Reckless, Going To Hell15) Crobot, Something Supernatural16) Wilko Johnson / Roger Daltrey, Going Back Home17) California Breed, California Breed18) Crosses (†††), Crosses (†††)19) The New Basement Tapes, Lost On The River20) Rival Sons, Great Western Valkyrie21) Blues Pills, Blues Pills22) Slash, World On Fire23) Black Pistol Fire, Hush Or Howl24) U2, Songs Of Innocence25) Hiss Golden Messenger, Lateness Of Dancers
Top 25 Metal Albums of 2014 (I'll take the blame for this one.)
1) Black Space Riders, D:REI2) Edguy, Space Police, Defenders of the Crown3) Mausoleum Gate, Mausoleum Gate4) Mekong Delta, In a Mirror Darkly5) Stallion, Rise and Ride6) Grand Magus, Triumph and Power7) Steel Prophet, Omniscient8) The Pretty Reckless, Going to Hell9) Hirax, Immortal Legacy10) Evil United, Honored by Fire11) Nigromante, Black Magic Night12) The High Spirits, You Are Here13) Spiders, Shake Electric14) Battleroar, Blood of Legends15) The Shrine, Bless Off16) Noneuclid, Metatheosis17) Wolf, Devil Seed18) Electric Wizard, Time to Die19) Witch Mountain, Mobile of Angels20) Dinner Music for the Gods, Beautiful and Treacherous21) Bigelf, Into the Maelstrom22) Slough Feg, Digital Resistance23) Dark Forest, The Awakening24) Myrkur, Myrkur25) Morbus Chron, Sweven
Top 20 Alt/Indie Albums of 2014
1) St. Vincent, St. Vincent2) Pharmakon, Bestial Burden3) tUnE-yArDs, Nikki Nack4) Jenny Lewis, The Voyager5) Parquet Courts, Sunbathing Animal + Content Nausea6) Gerard Way, Hesitant Alien7) Against Me!, Transgender Dysphoria Blues8) Spoon, They Want My Soul9) Angel Olsen, Burn Your Fire for No Witness10) La Dispute, Rooms of the House11) Lana Del Rey, Ultraviolence12) Swans, To Be Kind13) Owen Pallett, In Conflict14) Temples, Sun Structures15) F*cked Up, Glass Boys16) The War on Drugs, Lost in the Dream17) Tokyo Police Club, Forcefield18) Weezer, Everything Will Be Alright in the End19) Karen O, Crush Songs20) Beck, Morning Phase
More genres to come, I assume.
― xhuxk, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 22:10 (ten years ago)
2) Orlando Julius, Jaiyede Afro
yeah!!!!
― example (crüt), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 22:12 (ten years ago)
RT Lex on the bad art school concept of Asiatisch. It's not well defined, doesn't help push her sound into new directions and raises a whole bunch of weird cultural politics I could do without.
Statements like this certainly don't help any:
Because I feel like German is the language of high philosophy in Western languages. It’s also alien for me, because I don’t speak German, so it’s taking this idea of an imagined China created by the West – who are aliens – who are treating China like they’re aliens. So it’s all about alienation... I’m drawing attention to this notion of 'what is Asian? Why does this word function the way it does?' 'Asiatisch' makes it even more rarified and more alien and more removed. I wanted something that would be alien to English speakers, so German was perfect!
― MikoMcha, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 22:17 (ten years ago)
1) Various Artists, Haiti Direct: Big Band, Mini Jazz & Twoubadou Sounds
^ so otm best comp of the year
― Mordy, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 22:17 (ten years ago)
fuck i knew i should've voted for it in the vv poll. i'll make up for it by campaigning hard in the ilx poll. everyone check it out it's excellent.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 22:19 (ten years ago)
mostly to expand on how problematic it is to hear wealthy oil money x NYC art school privilege trying to sell grime back to us
FWIW a lot of the stuff that people suddenly started labelling "grime" from a year or so back feels problematic in similar ways that I'd expand upon if I thought that more than three or four posters would care.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 22:45 (ten years ago)
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, December 16, 2014 3:50 PM (53 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i mean, my personal list will be like 1/3rd
― deej loaf (D-40), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 22:45 (ten years ago)
I wouldn't argue with the conceptual baggage of Asiatisch but I thought the record itself sounded pretty great
― Dan S, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 22:46 (ten years ago)
― Matt DC, Tuesday, December 16, 2014 10:45 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah this conversation has been happening too. all this instrumental nu-grime stuff. nope, mostly.
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 22:47 (ten years ago)
if you ignored the concept asiatisch was even MORE weaksauce. by grime standards, by 2014 electronic music standards, by FAQ's own standards
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 22:48 (ten years ago)
It's mostly an even more exaggerated version of the eyeroll I usually do when vocal-centric genres are recontextualised (normally by the same groups of writers) to be all about a) producers and b) sparse moody bass rumble, like that's going to be full of exciting sonic surprises in 2014.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 22:56 (ten years ago)
25) Meghan Trainor, Titleyessssssssssssssssssss
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 00:45 (ten years ago)
Cocaine Blunts
1. Young Thug f/ Rich Homie Quan – “Lifestyle” (London On Da Track)2. Metro Thuggin – “The Blanguage” (Metro Boomin)3. T.I. f/ Young Thug – “About The Money” (London On Da Track)4. Rich Homie Quan f/ Young Thug – “Freestyle” (Goose)5. Rich Gang f/ Birdman, Young Thug & Rich Homie Quan – “Flava” (London On Da Track)6. Chief Keef – “Sosa Style” (DPBeatz)7. YG f/ Charley Hood, Reem Riches, RJ, Slim 400 & TeeCee – “When I Was Gone” (DJ Mustard)8. Common f/ Lil Herb – “The Neighborhood” (No ID)9. Kevin Gates – “Posed To Be In Love” (Go Grizzly)10. Rae Sremmurd – “No Type” (Mike Will Made It)11. Vince Staples – “Progressive 3” (DJ Babu & Evidence)12. Lil Boosie – “I’m Wit Ya” (??)13. Future f/ Andre 3000 – “Benz Friendz” (Mr. DJ)14. Shy Glizzy – “Awwsome” (EA Glizzy)15. Yowda f/ YG – “That’s How It Goes” (Pyro)16. Nicki Minaj – “Four Door Aventador” (Parker)17. Kendrick Lamar – “i” (Rahki)18. Migos – “Freak No More” (C-Note)19. Lil B – “No Black Person Is Ugly” (??)20. Lil Herb f/ Lil Reese – “On My Soul” (Da Internz)21. Bas f/ J Cole – “My N***** Just Made Bail” (GP808 & Hottrak)22. Tree – “Probably Nu It” (Tree)23. Big Sean f/ E-40 – “I Don’t Fuck With You” (DJ Mustard & Kanye West)24. Starlito – “My Love Lost” (Sledgren)25. Drake – “0 to 100” (Boi-1da)26. Jay Electronica f/ LaTonya Givens – “Better In Tune With The Infinite” (Ryuichi Sakamoto “Bibo no Aozora“)27. Lupe Fiasco f/ Ty $ Sign – “Next To It” (Ty Dolla $ign & Shafiq Husayn)28. Spiiker – “Basic” (808 Mafia)29. Dej Loaf – “Try Me” (DDS)30. DJ Quik f/ Tweed Cadillac & Suga Free – “Broken Down” (DJ Quik)31. Mick Jenkins – “Jazz” (OnGuad)32. E-40 f/ Turf Talk & Cousin Fik – “Paint The Picture” (Decadez)33. Gucci Mane f/ Chief Keef – “Top In The Trash” (Mike Will Made It)34. Shabazz Palaces – “Forerunner Foray” (Knife Knights)35. The Social Experiment f/ Chance The Rapper – “Sunday Candy” (The Social Experiment)36. Ilovemakonnen – “I Don’t Sell Molly No More” (Sonny Digital)37. Breezo Dollar – “Skinem (??)38. Young Money f/ Lil Wayne, Tyga & Nicki Minaj – “Senile” (David “DA” Doman)39. Lil Dred – “Take ‘Em Back” (Chad)40. SD – “Circles” (Omen & AudioBLK)41. Abdul Marshy – “Suede Couchess” (Nxxxxs)42. Pharoahe Monch – “Time2” (Marco Polo)43. Snootie Wild f/ K Camp – “Made Me” (Big Fruit)44. Armand Hammer – “Crwns” (Elucid)45. Lil Uzi Vert – “U.Z.I.” (Charlie Heat)46. Black Kray – “Flexican Gudda Love” (Horsehead)47. Ghostface Killah f/ AZ – “Double Cross” (The Revelations)48. Peewee Longway – “Sneakin & Geekin” (Metro Boomin)49. Tink f/ Jeremih – “Don’t Tell Nobody” (Da Internz)50. Bobby Shmurda – “Hot N***a” (Jahlil Beats “Jackpot“)
― Number None, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 01:00 (ten years ago)
i never really got why people liked "the blanguage" but the rest of that top 5 is otm
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 17 December 2014 01:02 (ten years ago)
It's one of my favorite of his solo numbers.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 01:03 (ten years ago)
"The Blanguage" is pretty awesome
― some dude, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 02:48 (ten years ago)
I've laughed off the YT rumors but that T.I. track is the only time it felt like two rap dudes doing "(I've Had) The Time of My Life."
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 02:56 (ten years ago)
Pitchfork - The 50 Best Albus of 2014
50. Ben Frost - AURORA49. Mr. Twin Sister - Mr. Twin Sister48. Clark - Clark47. Shellac - Dude Incredible46. Ariana Grande - My Everything45. Andy Stott - Faith in Strangers44. A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Sea When Absent43. Madlib / Freddie Gibbs - Piñata42. Owen Pallett - In Conflict41. Leon Vynehall - Music for the Uninvited40. Ty Segall - Manipulator39. Ought - More Than Any Other Day38. Hundred Waters - The Moon Rang Like A Bell37. Perfect Pussy - Say Yes to Love36. Tinashe - Aquarius35. Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty34. Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else33. Rich Gang - Tha Tour Part 132. White Lung - Deep Fantasy31. Taylor Swift - 198930. Iceage - Plowing Into the Field of Love29. How to Dress Well - "What Is This Heart?"28. Pharmakon - Bestial Burden27. YG - My Krazy Life26. Ex Hex - Rips25. Azealia Banks - Broke With Expensive Taste24. Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animal23. Lykke Li - I Never Learn22. Future Islands - Singles21. Brian Eno / Karl Hyde - High Life20. Vince Staples - Hell Can Wait EP19. Sharon Van Etten - Are We There18. Arca - Xen17. Flying Lotus - You're Dead!16. St. Vincent - St. Vincent15. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire for No Witness14. Real Estate - Atlas13. Spoon - They Want My Soul12. Mac DeMarco - Salad Days11. Perfume Genius - Too Bright10. Caribou - Our Love09. Ariel Pink - Pom Pom08. Todd Terje - It's Album Time07. Sun Kil Moon - Benji06. Swans - To Be Kind05. Grouper - Ruins04. Aphex Twin - Syro03. The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream02. FKA twigs - LP101. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2
― Dan S, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 06:52 (ten years ago)
no Pallbearer, no Against Me!
― alpine static, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 07:40 (ten years ago)
Against me was in the honourable mentions iirc
Taylor at #31 despite no review
― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 07:48 (ten years ago)
like most lists it's a more interesting list in reverse
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 07:59 (ten years ago)
I'm dimly and shamefully aware that on the odd occasion I've seen the name, I've filtered Asiatisch out because I thought it was a French shoegaze hipster metal band.
― Doran, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 08:27 (ten years ago)
xp Lex, you've summed up my feelings about Asiatisch and Future Brown.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 09:30 (ten years ago)
asiatisch isn't offensive in that it's literally just art school project wank that's only relevant inside its hermetically sealed bubble but future brown, from the name and its connotations (and, indeed, origins) to the ooh-so-edgy bringing in of hitherto-mostly-ignored hood artists to this extremely bourgeois milieu to the apparent way no one can see the immense privilege at the heart of it...ugh. album's dry as fuck obv.
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 09:43 (ten years ago)
Yeah it is dry. I don't know enough about the members' backgrounds to have an opinion on their privilege. It's not new for middle-class artists to work with MCs is it? But I don't have much invested in the politics of grime so maybe I'm missing something. At least Tink and 3D Na'tee sound great on it.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 09:53 (ten years ago)
not a tink fan but na'tee, shawnna and timberlee in particular have sounded fantastic for many years in many places including their OWN records (and i don't think they've outdone themselves in any way here), because they're incredible talents, and received 1/100000000000th the attention of this
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 10:02 (ten years ago)
cant totally believe that RTJ at number one. my krazy life was better, as far as high profile rap albums.
― StillAdvance, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 10:36 (ten years ago)
I love both albums but RTJ2 is clearly the one that's gonna find favour with a broader cross-section of p4k writers.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 10:43 (ten years ago)
i didn't even like RTJ2 by RTJ standards but i can't even imagine a world in which it isn't white indie writers' token pick. obviously YG was miles better, which is why i expected this result from p4k.
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 10:48 (ten years ago)
i like RTJ2 much more than RTJ. Voted for it and YG in my top ten.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 10:52 (ten years ago)
Yeah that's the least surprising Pitchfork choice imaginable. An album that recalls PE is going to appeal more than a very good gangsta rap album. Personally I think RTJ2 is stronger front-to-back anyway but then I have corny indie fuxxor tendencies.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 10:53 (ten years ago)
i like RTJ2 much more than RTJ.
why is this out of interest? i enjoyed RTJ in a lukewarm way (doubt i'll ever properly enjoy el-p's beats) but RTJ2 seemed even more awkward and annoying than usual, had no desire to return at all
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 10:55 (ten years ago)
I'd be interested to read some smart writing about why YG is more than just a very good gangsta rap album. I feel like I'm missing what makes it great.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 10:55 (ten years ago)
Tiny Mix Tapes - Favourite 50 Music Releases 2014http://www.tinymixtapes.com/features/2014-favorite-50-music-releases-of-2014
50. Lil Herb - Welcome to Fazoland (NLMB)49. The Body - I Shall Die Here (RVNG Intl.)48. T C F - 486669f0e9b8990384108f3d54c6a8f… (Self-Released)47. Ai Aso - Lone (Ideologic Organ)46. Ninos Du Brasil - Novos Mistérios (Hospital)45. Lee Gamble - Koch (PAN)44. Death Grips - niggas on the moon (Third Worlds)43. The Soft Pink Truth - Why Do the Heathen Rage? (Thrill Jockey)42. Gem Jones - Admiral Frenchkiss (Goaty Tapes)41. Burial Hex - The Hierophant (Handmade Birds)40. Beyoncé - Beyoncé (Columbia)39. Sun Araw - Belomancie (Sun Ark/Drag City)38. Objekt - Flatland (PAN)37. James Ferraro - SUKI GIRLZ (Self-Released)36. Fear Of Men - Loom (Kanine)35. Dean Blunt - Skin Fade (Self-Released)34. White Suns - Totem (The Flenser)33. FKA Twigs - LP1 (Young Turks)32. Fennesz - Bécs (Editions Mego)31. Kane West - Western Beats (PC Music)30. Swans - To Be Kind (Young God/Mute)29. Call Super - Suzi Ecto (Houndstooth)28. Aphex Twin - Syro (Warp)27. Ariel Pink - Pom Pom (4AD)26. Magic Eye - Babylon (Not Not Fun)25. Perfume Genius - Too Bright (Matador)24. Jenny Hval & Susanna - Meshes Of Voice (SusannaSonata)23. Actress - Ghettoville (Werkdiscs/Ninja Tune)22. Pharmakon - Bestial Burden (Sacred Bones)21. 18+ - Trust (Houndstooth)20. Arca - Xen (Mute)19. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Piñata (Madlib Invazion)18. Valerio Tricoli - Miseri Lares (PAN)17. Lil B - 05 Fuck Em (Self-Released)16. Lotic - DAMSEL in DISTRESS (Janus)15. PC Music - PC Music x DISown Radio (PC Music/DIS Magazine)14. Sun Kil Moon - Benji (Caldo Verde)13. E+E - The Light That You Gave Me To See You (Self-Released)12. copeland - Because I’m Worth It (Self-Released)11. C L E A N E R S - Real Raga Shit Vol. 1 (Bootleg Tapes)10. iLoveMakonnen - iLoveMakonnen EP (Self-Released)09. Andy Stott - Faith In Strangers (Modern Love)08. D/P/I - MN.ROY (Leaving)07. Giant Claw - DARK WEB (Orange Milk/Noumenal Loom)06. Ian William Craig - A Turn Of Breath (Recital)05. Kevin Drumm / Jason Lescalleet - The Abyss (Erstwhile)04. Scott Walker + Sunn O))) - Soused (4AD)03. GFOTY - Secret Mix (PC Music)02. Grouper - Ruins (Kranky)01. Dean Blunt - Black Metal (Rough Trade)
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 11:14 (ten years ago)
think i preferred the copeland record to the dean blunt but only listened to each once so yep great post
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 11:17 (ten years ago)
― lex pretend, Wednesday, December 17, 2014 10:55 AM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Dunno really! It strikes me as a party record in a way the debut doesn't. In fact in that regard it reminds me of Wu-Tang Clan's Iron Flag (a record I seem to be alone in totally venerating). The beats feel more kinetic than before. Also (alongside the typically great Killer Mike raps) it has a lot of surprisingly-good El-P raps. Like this from "Crown":
Down with the shameDown with the shameCarried the flag in some other men's nameLoaded my weapon and swore to them vengeance and stepped with aggression right into the frayInto the hazeInto the murkTold me to prove to them what I was worth"We’ll teach you to move without mercy and give you the tools to go after the causers of hurtYou'll become deathYou will take breathThis is for everything you’ve ever lovedUse all the pain that you’ve felt in your life as the currency go out and trade it for bloodYou are not youYou are now usWe are the only ones that you can trustYou’ll become fearThey’ll become dustBefore this moment you didn't mean muchYou are the smoldering vessel of punishment born to do nothing but justify usGive us your empathy we’ll give you lustLet yourself go my son time to grow upGive up your childish obsession with questioningAnything we don't tell you is irrelevantEverything you've ever been is replaced by the metal and fire of the weapon you clutch"
― Tim F, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 11:21 (ten years ago)
ok "more of a party record" was not what i was expecting. i feel like r.a.p. music was ten times the record than either RTJ and that had super-diminishing returns for me.
re: YG, i guess it is a great gangsta rap record, but there's no "just" about that. it's really danceable at its best, i feel that's important.
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 11:35 (ten years ago)
A Closer Listen - ACL 2014: Top Ten Experimentalhttp://acloserlisten.com/2014/12/17/acl-2014-top-ten-experimental/
Cliff Dweller ~ The Dream in Captivity (Patient Sounds)Erik K Skodvin ~ Flame (Sonic Pieces)Felix Kubin ~ Chromdioxidgedächtnis (Gagarin)Loren Connors ~ My Brooklyn (Analogpath)Marcus Fjellström ~ Lichtspiel Mutation 2: Alechsis (Dronarivm)Nicola Di Croce ~ Fieldnotes (Oak Editions)Public Speaking ~ Within Patterns (Self-released)Squanto ~ Basement Tropic (Lily Tapes and Discs)United Bible Studies ~ Doineann (A Year in the Country)Valerio Tricoli ~ Miseri Lares (PAN)
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 11:36 (ten years ago)
i've listened to the copeland and blunt albums quite a bit and personally feel black metal is the grower of the two
― nxd, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 11:56 (ten years ago)
There are 7 hiphop albums on the pitchfork list in a year where they only bnm'd 2. It was kinda the same last year. For some reason, rap consistently gets lower review-scores and less accolades compared to how much their writers like them. It's really weird. Or really, it's not.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 12:06 (ten years ago)
rtj2 is better than the first one. it has more energy and confidence to it, like they know someone is listening to them now, whereas with the first one, it felt like a bit of an experiment, 'lets see what this is like'. i like the album but think it has too many corny indie choruses for my liking. love that el-p still divides people, even though hes more accessible than EVER. *scratches head* YG is more than just a good gangsta rap record, its like a redefinition of a good gangsta rap record (more musically, than lyrically). but even then its a fucking brilliant gangsta rap record, not just a good one.
― StillAdvance, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 12:17 (ten years ago)
anyway, black messiah is better than all these albums.
― StillAdvance, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 12:18 (ten years ago)
Spoon is one of my favorite bands ever, but on what planet is They Want My Soul Better than the St. Vincent self titled record?
― DavidLeeRoth, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 12:19 (ten years ago)
El-P says that the first RTJ used beats he already had lying around for his next solo record whereas this one was made from scratch and I think it shows. Tracks like Early and Crown go somewhere new, sonically and emotionally.
One thing that mutes my YG love is his lyrics. DJ Mustard does a lot of the heavy lifting on that record. Would have loved more in the vein of Meet the Flockers.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 12:50 (ten years ago)
Thing is that YG just has such explosive presence and flow and that makes him a perfect foil for Mustard (who otherwise tends to work with vocalists who are average at best). After years of slow autotuned shit and laconic drawl over sluggish beats it's just so refreshing to hear an acclaimed rap record with such force and energy.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 12:59 (ten years ago)
True. It's just one of a few hip hop albums this year where there was a ceiling on my enjoyment - a certain something missing - which is probably why RTJ2 felt so welcome.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 13:01 (ten years ago)
hip-hop was so amazing for singles this year but not much of that translated into albums; still two rap albums in my EOY top 10 though (yg and gangsta boo/la chat)
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 13:11 (ten years ago)
Yes it's been fantastic for singles.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 13:19 (ten years ago)
I'd be interested to read some smart writing about why YG is more than just a very good gangsta rap album. I feel like I'm missing what makes it great. --Re-Make/Re-Model
it's that goddamn momentum-killing "do it to ya," I swear, if you cut that awful track it flows almost perfectly imo
― franch montana (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 14:11 (ten years ago)
I bought that record in one of my "trying to check up on whatever's popular with the goons this year" sprees. First listen it just felt mediocre. Deleted from ipod. Listened to the Schoolboy Q record more, but that one was pretty frontloaded, imo.
― the mooney tanuki (how's life), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 14:19 (ten years ago)
xp the skits are way way worse than "do it to ya" (which is the worst actual song, yes) for momentum-halting, really wish i could delete them. they're so LONG
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 14:20 (ten years ago)
the skits are def meh, and although they do add story details they're far from essential.
― franch montana (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 14:22 (ten years ago)
taking up half the running length of "bicken back being bool" with material that is not the music of "bicken back being bool" is inexcusable
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 14:23 (ten years ago)
I'm not really a fan of the R&B tracks clogging up a lot of the second half but it also has Smokin' & Drinkin' on it and that ensures I keep listening, but I don't know how anyone could listen to the first five tracks or so and not immediately sit up and take notice.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 14:34 (ten years ago)
the bonus trax "459" and "bompton" are 100% essential too, esp the former
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 14:35 (ten years ago)
I got it in April a couple weeks after the buzz and...it was OK? Its brevity was attractive and hence easy to overrate. I kept "I Just Wanna Party" and the Drake collab briefly.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 14:36 (ten years ago)
Resident Advisor - Top Albums 2014http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?2332
20. Wen - Signals19. Fatima - Yellow Memories18. Edward - Into A Better Future17. Max Graef - Rivers of the Red Planet16. Call Super - Suzi Echo15. FKA twigs - LP114. Answer Code Request - Code13. Dean Blunt - Black Metal12. Todd Terje - It's Album Time11. Head High - Megatrap10. Moodymann - Moodymann9. Joey Anderson - After Forever8. Kassem Mosse - Workshop 197. Francis Harris - Minutes of Sleep6. The Bug - Angels & Devils5. Objekt - Flatland4. Aphex Twin - Syro3. Gesloten Cirkel - Submit X2. HTRK - Psychic 9-5 Club1. Andy Stott - Faith in Strangers
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 14:43 (ten years ago)
HTRK is kind of a weird choice for them but i do love that album
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 14:44 (ten years ago)
19. Fatima - Yellow Memories16. Call Super - Suzi Ecto8. Kassem Mosse - Workshop 197. Francis Harris - Minutes of Sleep
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 14:46 (ten years ago)
No Terrence Parker no credibility.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 14:47 (ten years ago)
I couldn't really get my head around that Francis Harris record, it sounded like an amazing party going on in the next room, without my being able to get to it. Like it was impressive in its sound design but I couldn't find much to love about it.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 14:48 (ten years ago)
Back to YG, it may be front-loaded, but if you leave out "Do It To Ya" (or if you like "Do It To Ya," which, you know, the piano is nice) it's front-loaded with 10 amazing tracks in a row.
― quan voice (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 14:53 (ten years ago)
the R&B run on My Krazy Life rules. it lends color to the album while staying within its character in a way that a lot of Mustard R&B hits wouldn't if they were on the album instead.
― christmas with the canks (some dude), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 14:59 (ten years ago)
"me & my bitch" is fine, but do it to ya is hopelessly skewered, imo, by tee flii's crap singing.
― franch montana (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 15:05 (ten years ago)
Glaring omission from RA, but I am not surprised.
― xelab, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 15:12 (ten years ago)
oh hey somebody else likes United Bible Studies! (many xps to NickB)
― some kind of terrible IDM with guitars (sleeve), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 15:17 (ten years ago)
i thought of you sleeve as i c&ped that one
listened to the valerio tricoli for the first time today (it's finally up on spotify). that was pretty good and a lot more to listen to there than your average recording of abstract scrunching noises
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 15:23 (ten years ago)
― franch montana (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, December 17, 2014 8:11 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
do it to ya is an amazing song i will hear no more of this
― deej loaf (D-40), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 16:08 (ten years ago)
― christmas with the canks (some dude), Wednesday, December 17, 2014 8:59 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yes
Black Metal is really great. I wouldn't have anticipated that it'd be one of my favorite records this year. Guitar tracks have got some classic 4AD Lonely Is An Eyesore era vibes.
― MikoMcha, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 16:27 (ten years ago)
Slash finally made it onto a list! And Brody Dalle, Linkin Park, Slipknot, and lots of stuff I never heard of (Architects & Marmozets #1-2).
http://www.kerrang.com/26297/top-50-rock-metal-punk-albums-2014/
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 17:03 (ten years ago)
aw yeah i love the kerrang list every year
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 17:10 (ten years ago)
Kerrang love The Pretty Reckless dont they. Why?
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 17:14 (ten years ago)
idk man kerrang got their own thing, let them cook. for some reason i kinda love the black veil brides track they selected
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 17:15 (ten years ago)
3 good albums on that list. A lot of it is laughable
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 17:16 (ten years ago)
if it weren't for the kerrang year end list i wouldn't have heard blood command's funeral beach which is one of my favorite records of the past few years of any genre
i also would have never heard enter shikari so it's probably a wash
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 17:16 (ten years ago)
i think a fair bit of ilm (the kind who dont like metal) would love kerrangs list if they heard the albums. All those fall out boy/mcr fans on ilm. Not sure even they like the new Weezer album on that list mind you.
Brad weren't you perplexed by that crosses album appearing on a lot of lists?
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 17:20 (ten years ago)
i just don't actually believe you've heard more than three albums on that list
first list i've seen code orange place on, i've only heard this song but it's brutal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6wYuhLxXm8
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 17:22 (ten years ago)
also i'm not perplexed by crosses appearing on lists, it's an okay record that skates by on a ton of atmosphere, plus most of the tracks have been available for 3+ years so it's just sorta weird that people like it so much but i ain't mad
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 17:24 (ten years ago)
Code Orange is great. Also, one of the most intense live shows I've seen the past few years.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 17:26 (ten years ago)
3 good albums on that list. A lot of it is laughable --Cosmic Slop
which 3 ones would you call good?
― franch montana (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 17:31 (ten years ago)
The ones I liked were Electric Wizard, Alcest and Mastodon. Dont really have an opinion on Crosses. Dont like the "heritage" black metal of Winterfylleth
Issues are dreadful
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 17:34 (ten years ago)
yeah issues is the fuckin worst that's true
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 17:36 (ten years ago)
wow one hell of a lot of rock bands i didn't know existed still making records - machine head?? i knew LP and slipknot put ones out, i tried a bit and they were both p wack
slop i'm a fall out boy/mcr fan who also loves metal and would prob hate half of these things (and can verify that i hate much of the other half)
― franch montana (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 17:50 (ten years ago)
nice of them to rank hesitant alien and against me! so high, those are good.
i can't understand why a lot of the stuff that gets play in revolver/kerrang/even AP is popular. like i understand why a band like the pretty reckless is popular, and it's a hell of a lot more than their frontwoman, even tho i don't rlly dig them. but who da fuq is listening to suicide silence and current new found glory albums
― franch montana (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 17:55 (ten years ago)
AP magazine is in it's own universe
― Evan, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 17:57 (ten years ago)
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― deej loaf (D-40), Wednesday, December 17, 2014 11:08 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
can't believe we still have to explain this
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 17 December 2014 18:01 (ten years ago)
the album im about to post next in metal poll might do well in the big poll but Kerrang ignored it i forget if it made the rolling stone poll
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 18:04 (ten years ago)
Lots of crap on the Kerrang list but that Marmozets album is fucking fantastic, should have been #1.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 18:05 (ten years ago)
xxp jordan i'm well aware of the reason for its placement from a thematic/sequencing standpoint i just can't stand the hook singer on "do it to ya"
― franch montana (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 18:06 (ten years ago)
humorist what do marmozets sound like? their name is terrible, not that that means the music will be
― franch montana (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 18:07 (ten years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGSWfuiO0Ps
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 18:09 (ten years ago)
Marmozets are a cross between Paramore and Dillinger Escape Plan but better than either.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8ZPrdAwg3M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afX5kz9hfHI
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 18:09 (ten years ago)
didn't even have to scroll all the way down
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 18:55 (ten years ago)
the marmozets track that the kerrang list linked too was awesome! not better than paramore though lol
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 19:06 (ten years ago)
Pitchfork Contributors Top 10s
Black Messiah on 4 lists (1 at #1, 1 at #5 and 2 at #10).
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 19:08 (ten years ago)
kerrang's no. 1 (architects' lost forever // lost together) is probably the most technical metalcore i've heard in forever. down
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 19:08 (ten years ago)
bollocks to metalcore
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 19:10 (ten years ago)
i know that's how you feel!
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 19:13 (ten years ago)
Good to see someone finally rates Hesitant Alien. Guess I should start reading Kerrang.
― the mooney tanuki (how's life), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 19:37 (ten years ago)
black messiah will prob not be on p4k's albums list next year since they omitted beyoncé from this year's
― dyl, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 19:39 (ten years ago)
foolish consistency is the hobgoblin etc
― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 19:40 (ten years ago)
holy shit this marmozets record rules
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 19:46 (ten years ago)
this is great, this is the exact same feeling i had when i first heard that blood command record. thanks again kerrang!
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 20:15 (ten years ago)
so much love for this grouper album. i admire it but i find it very difficult to listen to
― marcos, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 21:09 (ten years ago)
i have her first album, felt the same way about it
it seemed v odds & sods when i listened to it (the newest grouper), not exactly bad but yeah it's def no masterwork
― franch montana (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 21:23 (ten years ago)
I was listening to Ruins again during my commute this morning. It wasn't an appropriate setting but I like the album a lot. I LOVE "Clearing" though. That's one of my favorite songs of the year for sure.
― Evan, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 22:06 (ten years ago)
I kind of wonder whether it would have made any lists without Clearing, despite how good the other songs on the album are.
― Evan, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 22:07 (ten years ago)
Guitar World's 50 Best Albums of 2014http://www.guitarworld.com/guitar-worlds-50-best-albums-2014
51. Mogwai — Rave Tapes50. Phish — Fuego49. Nick Moss Band — Time Ain't Free48. Parquet Courts — Sunbathing Animal47. John 5 — Careful with that Axe46. Arch Enemy — War Eternal45. Michael Angelo Batio — Intermezzo44. Reverend Horton Heat — Rev43. Weezer — Everything Will Be Alright in the End42. Rings of Saturn — Lugal Ki En41. Brad Paisley — Moonshine in the Trunk40. Entombed AD — Back to the Front39. Brian Setzer — Rockabilly Riot! All Original38. Steel Panther — All You Can Eat37. Johnny Winter — Step Back36. Eric Clapton & Friends — The Breeze: An Appreciation of JJ Cale35. Smashing Pumpkins — Monuments to an Elegy34. Alex Skolnick’s Planetary Coalition — Planetary Coalition33. Beck — Morning Phase32. Black Label Society — Catacombs of the Black Vatican31. Ace Frehley — Space Invader30. The Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band — Goin' Home29. Marty Friedman — Inferno28. Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks — Wig Out At Jagbags27. The War on Drugs — Lost In the Dream26. Triptykon — Melana Chasmata25. Opeth — Pale Communion24. Ray LaMontagne — Supernova23. Exodus — Blood In, Blood Out22. Behemoth — The Satanist21. Slash Featuring Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators — World on Fire20. Sturgill Simpson — Metamodern Sounds in Country Music19. The Melvins — Hold It In18. Mastodon — Once More Around the Sun17. Against Me! — Transgender Dysphoria Blues16. Of Mice & Men — Restoring Force15. Pink Floyd — Endless River14. Machine Head — Bloodstone & Diamonds13. Joe Bonamassa — Different Shades of Blue12. Eric Johnson/Mike Stern — Eclectic11. The Black Keys — Turn Blue10. At the Gates — At War with Reality09. Foo Fighters — Sonic Highways08. Royal Blood — Royal Blood07. St. Vincent — St. Vincent06. Gary Clark Jr. — Live05. AC/DC — Rock or Bust04. Animals As Leaders — The Joy of Motion03. Judas Priest — Redeemer of Souls02. Jack White — Lazaretto01. Slipknot — .5: The Gray Chapter
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Thursday, 18 December 2014 11:45 (ten years ago)
Are people voting for the Smashing Pumpkins or Weezer for any reason other than a vague sense of duty?
― Matt DC, Thursday, 18 December 2014 12:51 (ten years ago)
hey it is guitar world we're talking about
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Thursday, 18 December 2014 12:56 (ten years ago)
And, in keeping with GW tradition, this top 50 list actually contains 51 albums. It's what we do.
Oh those crazy musos.
― Position Position, Thursday, 18 December 2014 12:57 (ten years ago)
malkmus seems like a weirder inclusion for them, but maybe that record shreds?
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Thursday, 18 December 2014 12:57 (ten years ago)
definitely no weezer in this list:
http://thequietus.com/articles/16938-r-b-albums-and-singles-of-2014-with-alex-macpherson
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Thursday, 18 December 2014 13:11 (ten years ago)
http://buyguitarmagazines.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/MAGAZINE-Guitar-World-1994-06-Who-Townshend-Pavement-Beastie-Boys-400x533.jpg
― the mooney tanuki (how's life), Thursday, 18 December 2014 13:22 (ten years ago)
Guitar World ranking this actually makes me a little curious. Anyone heard it (or the Mogwai)? Not that Guitar World rankings necessarily mean all that much wrt guitar chops: iirc, the Offspring did pretty well on their 'best of the 90s' list.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 18 December 2014 14:01 (ten years ago)
the Malkmus album does not shred.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 18 December 2014 14:09 (ten years ago)
yeah it's balls.
― dive inside water and you will know (dog latin), Thursday, 18 December 2014 14:12 (ten years ago)
tool meets rage against the machine
― marcos, Thursday, 18 December 2014 14:13 (ten years ago)
xpost That said, most of his solo work does boast some impressive guitar work.
― dive inside water and you will know (dog latin), Thursday, 18 December 2014 14:13 (ten years ago)
btw the way i've found it a little odd that a track featuring zack de la rocha has been getting so much critical love this year.
― marcos, Thursday, 18 December 2014 14:14 (ten years ago)
Real Emotional Trash has solos. Lots of them.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 18 December 2014 14:14 (ten years ago)
yeah the malkmus is not good.
― cerebral caustic window (cajunsunday), Thursday, 18 December 2014 14:25 (ten years ago)
Did GW not like the Thurston Moore album? I'm a little surprised.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 18 December 2014 14:41 (ten years ago)
The Quietus Top R&B Albums And Tracks Of 2014
Top 10 R&B albums
1. K. Michelle - Anybody Wanna Buy A Heart? (Atlantic)2. Tinashe - Aquarius (RCA)3. D'Angelo & The Vanguard - Black Messiah (RCA)4. Toni Braxton & Babyface - Love, Marriage & Divorce (Motown)5. Mariah Carey - Me. I Am Mariah…The Elusive Chanteuse (Def Jam)6. Khia Shamone - LoveLocs (Thug Misses)7. Fatima - Yellow Memories (Eglo)8. Kelis - Food (Ninja Tune)9. Meshell Ndegéocello - Comet, Come To Me (Naïve)10. Danity Kane - DK3 (Stereotypes)
Top 10 R&B singles
1. Mila J - 'Smoke, Drink, Break Up' (Universal Motown)2. Kalenna - 'Murder'3. Jessie Ware - 'Tough Love' (PMR)4. Teyana Taylor ft. Pusha T & Yo Gotti - 'Maybe' (GOOD)5. Yemi Marie ft. DLow - 'Love Bop'6. Tamar Braxton ft. Future - 'Let Me Know' (Epic)7. Mary J. Blige - 'Whole Damn Year' (Capitol)8. Netta Brielle - '3xKrazy'9. Sinead Harnett - 'High Wire'10. Keyshia Cole, Mila J, K. Michelle, Lil Mo & Da Brat - 'Loyal' (Remix)
― Doran, Thursday, 18 December 2014 14:51 (ten years ago)
It's hard for me to imagine that Mariah album isn't a total train wreck given the current state of her voice
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Thursday, 18 December 2014 14:53 (ten years ago)
I liked the Mariah album a lot more than i did the Kelis album. Cry, faded, dedicated, Camoflage, money and (really shoulda been a hit) thirsty are all great.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BYNma9wxxw
― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 18 December 2014 14:56 (ten years ago)
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Thursday, December 18, 2014 9:53 AM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
You're underestimating the studio on that point alone.
― Evan, Thursday, 18 December 2014 15:06 (ten years ago)
The Quietus Top Tracks of 2014
1. Holly Herndon - 'Chorus'2. Blacknecks - 'To The Cosmos, Let's Go!'3. Richard Dawson - 'The Vile Stuff'4. The Fat White Family - 'I Am Mark E Smith'5. Katie Gately - 'Pivot'6. Furfriend - 'Endless September'7. Karen Gwyer - 'Lay Claim To My Grub'8. Powell - 'Club Music' (Ancient Methods Korpersaure91 remix)9. Paula Temple - 'Deathvox'10. FKA twigs - 'Two Weeks'11. Nicki Minaj - 'Lookin Ass'12. Future Islands - 'Seasons (Waiting On You)',13. Meridian Dan feat. Big H & JME - 'German Whip'
And Other Top Tracks Unranked:
Ansome - 'Tin'Autonervous - 'Enfant Terrible'Black Bananas - 'Physical Emotions'Black Josh feat. MC Jon - 'Student Parties’Bledig - 'A Bad Day For Lupus'Mary J. Blige - 'Pick Me Up'The Bozzini Quartet - 'The Indistinguishables'Tim Bowness - 'Smiler At 50'Stanley Brinks & The Wave Pictures - 'Orange Juice'Bronze Teeth - 'Albion Pressure’Ane Brun - 'Hunting High & Low'BullyBones - 'I Feel Sorry For You'Tim Burgess - 'Oh Men' (Carter Tutti remix)Call Super - 'Acephale II'Camera - 'Salamantra'Caribou - 'Can't Do Without You'Carter Tutti - 'October Love Song' (remix)Cavern Of Anti-Matter - 'Cluster of RainbowAustin Ceasar - 'Slink'The Charlatans - 'Talking In Tones'Clean Bandit feat. Jess Glynne - 'Rather Be'Cleaners From Venus - 'The Band Plays Delilah'Cut Hands - 'The Claw'Cyclobe - 'Son Of Sons Of Light'Desperate Journalist - 'Control’DJ Taye - 'Teklife Run It'East India Youth - 'HEAVEN, HOW LONG'East India Youth - 'HINTERLANDElectric Wizard - 'SadioWitch'Faith No More - 'Motherfucker'Richard Fearless - 'Higher Electronic StatesFKA twigs - 'Pendulum'Forteresse - 'Wendigo’Fufanu - 'Circus Life'Gallon Drunk - 'The Speed of Fear'Gantz feat. El Mahdy Jr. - 'Rising'Gazelle Twin - 'Anti Body’The Ghost Of A Sabre Tooth Tiger - 'Too Deep’Grouper - ‘Lighthouse'Grumbling Fur - 'All The Rays'Grumbling Fur - 'Lowlands In Astral Furmentation'Gwenno - 'Patriarcheth'Helena Hauff - 'Spirals Of Smoke Drifting From Soot Stained Chimneys'Helm - 'The Hollow Organ'Jon Hopkins - 'Open Eye Signal (Asleep Version)'Howlround - 'Torridon Gate'Huoratron - 'The Pioneers Of Nothing'Kira Isabella - 'Quarterback'The Juan Maclean - 'Get Down (With My Love)’Kassem Mosse - 'Untitled A2Kelis - 'Rumble'Kiesza - 'Hideaway'Killing Sound - 'Six Harmonies'Kendrick Lamar - 'i'Tory Lanez - 'Henny In Hand'Cate Le Bon - 'I Can't Help You'Jenny Lewis - 'Just One Of The Guys'Rob Mazurek and Black Cube SP - 'Return The Tides'Metro Boomin feat. Future & Young Thug - 'Chanel Vintage’Mila J - 'Smoke, Drink, Break Up’Hudson Mohawke - 'Chimes'Mumdance feat. Novelist - 'Take Time'Nao feat. A.K. Paul - 'So Good’Nightingales - 'Dumb And Drummer’Nurse With Wound - 'Perfectly Unmingled And Misplaced'O.T. Genasis - 'CoCo'Tara Jane O'Neil - 'This Morning Glory'Conor Oberst - 'Common Knowledge'Objekt - 'Ganzfeld'Okmalumkoolkat - 'Allblackblackkat'Pianos Become The Teeth - 'Lesions'Popcaan - 'System'Powell - 'So We Went Electric'Powell feat. Russell Haswell - 'Maniac'Prostitutes - 'Late To Take It Light'QT - 'Hey QT'The Radio Dept. - 'Death to Fascism'Real Lies - 'Dab Housing'Lana Del Rey - 'Shades Of Cool'Rich Gang feat. Yung Thugga & Rich Homie Quan - 'Lifestyle'Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars - 'Uptown Funk'Sandman & Riverside feat. Jeremy Ellis - 'Into Your Story (Kai Alce Distinctive Vocal Mix)'Noura Mint Seymali - 'Tzenni'Shabazz Palaces - '#Cake'Skepta & JME - 'That's Not Me'Slum Of Legs - 'Begin To Dissolve'Smoke Fairies - 'Eclipse Them All'St Vincent - 'Digital Witness'Andy Stott - 'Science And Industry'Swans - 'A Little God In My Hands’Swans - 'Oxygen'Taman Shud - 'The Ziggurat, A Mirage'Thalia Zedek Band - 'Fell So Hard'Tirzah - 'Style'tUnE-yArDs - 'Water Fountain’Tweedy - 'Love Like A Wire'Tweedy - 'Please Don't Let Me Be So Understood'Vessel - 'Red Sex'Scott Walker & Sunn O))) - 'Brando'Jane Weaver - 'Don’t Take My Soul'Zammuto - 'IO'
― Doran, Thursday, 18 December 2014 15:45 (ten years ago)
Slum Of Legs - 'Begin To Dissolve'
super choice!
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Thursday, 18 December 2014 15:53 (ten years ago)
OMG
― emil.y, Thursday, 18 December 2014 15:54 (ten years ago)
nice one!
― dive inside water and you will know (dog latin), Thursday, 18 December 2014 15:59 (ten years ago)
an ilxor's list
http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/603-the-most-essential-nigerian-afropop-tracks-of-2014/
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 18 December 2014 16:32 (ten years ago)
XP: Great track innit.
― Doran, Thursday, 18 December 2014 16:38 (ten years ago)
for sure!! you probably wouldn't know this but that's emil.y's band btw
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Thursday, 18 December 2014 16:43 (ten years ago)
We're into the top 10 now - finishes today
― Cosmic Slop, Thursday, 18 December 2014 16:45 (ten years ago)
I liked the Mariah album a lot more than i did the Kelis album. Cry, faded, dedicated, Camoflage, money and (really shoulda been a hit) thirsty are all great. --a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu)
"make it look good" is also a hell of a jam
― franch montana (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 18 December 2014 16:46 (ten years ago)
Need a Spotify playlist of that Quietus list!
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Thursday, 18 December 2014 16:56 (ten years ago)
Whoa Emily your track is great, had no idea!
― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Thursday, 18 December 2014 17:00 (ten years ago)
Wait, emil.y has a new band!? Gotta hear this!
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Thursday, 18 December 2014 17:18 (ten years ago)
really ILM should have a thread for Ilxors' bands. I know we have I Make Music, but non-musicians don't really read that board.
― dive inside water and you will know (dog latin), Thursday, 18 December 2014 17:21 (ten years ago)
what's her track?
― Daniel, Esq 2, Thursday, 18 December 2014 17:31 (ten years ago)
Slum Of Legs - 'Begin To Dissolve'super choice!― Ottbot jr (NickB), Thursday, December 18, 2014 10:53 AM Bookmark Flag Post PermalinkOMG― emil.y, Thursday, December 18, 2014 10:54 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalinknice one!― dive inside water and you will know (dog latin), Thursday, December 18, 2014 10:59 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalinkan ilxor's listhttp://pitchfork.com/thepitch/603-the-most-essential-nigerian-afropop-tracks-of-2014/― curmudgeon, Thursday, December 18, 2014 11:32 AM Bookmark Flag Post PermalinkXP: Great track innit.― Doran, Thursday, December 18, 2014 11:38 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalinkfor sure!! you probably wouldn't know this but that's emil.y's band btw― Ottbot jr (NickB), Thursday, December 18, 2014 11:43 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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― dive inside water and you will know (dog latin), Thursday, December 18, 2014 10:59 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Thursday, 18 December 2014 17:32 (ten years ago)
i'm actually listening to that now. it's really good!
― Daniel, Esq 2, Thursday, 18 December 2014 17:33 (ten years ago)
me too and yes!
― ticket to rmde (seandalai), Thursday, 18 December 2014 17:42 (ten years ago)
I blush. I am the one on synths and weird noises, if anyone is wondering. Thanks loads, Doran, this has totally made my day (and hopefully it doesn't put you off us knowing an obnoxious ilx0r is in the band, heh).
― emil.y, Thursday, 18 December 2014 17:51 (ten years ago)
PopMatters' jazz list is alphabetical/unranked:
Ambrose Akinmusire, The Imagined Savior is Far Easier to PaintThe Bad Plus, The Rite of SpringBattle Trance, Palace of WindBrian Blade & the Fellowship Band, LandmarksHenry Butler/Steven Bernstein & the Hot 9, Viper's DragChat Noir, Elec3citiesMarc de Clive-Lowe, ChurchDoctor Magnum, Magnum Carta Holy GrailDave Douglas and Uri Caine, Present JoysDarius Jones and Matthew Shipp, Cosmic Lieder: The Darkseid RecitalJohn McLaughlin and the 4th Dimension, The Boston RecordJason Moran, All Rise: A Joyful Elegy for Fats WallerPRISM Quartet, People's Emergency CenterMarc Ribot Trio, Live at the Village VanguardLouis Sclavis Quartet, Silk and Salt MelodiesMark Turner Quartet, Lathe of Heaven
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 18 December 2014 17:55 (ten years ago)
Top 25 Classical Albums of 20141) Seattle Symphony Orchestra, John Luther Adams: Become Ocean2) Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Anthony Davis: Notes from the Underground3) Kate Soper, Voices from the Killing Jar4) Unsuk Chin, Unsuk Chin: 3 Concertos5) Jefferson Friedman, On In Love6) Far Cry, The Law Of Mosaics7) John Adams, City Noir8) Jenny Lin, J. Lin: Stravinsky (Solo Piano Works)9) Louis Andriessen, La Commedia10) Mahan Esfahani, Byrd / Bach / Ligeti - Wigmore Hall Live11) Peter Hill, La Fauvette Passirenette: A Messiaen Premiere, With Birds, Landscapes & Homages12) Erin Gee, Mouthpieces13) Ralph van Raat, Frederic Rzewski: 4 Pieces, Hard Cuts & The Housewife's Lament14) Darius Jones, The Oversoul Manual15) Maurizio Pollini, Brahms: Klavierkonzert Nr. 216) Leon Fleisher, All the Things You Are17) Vicky Chow, Tristan Perich: Surface Image18) Lisa Batiashvili, Bach19) A.Pe.Ri.Od.Ic, Jürg Frey: More or Less20) yMusic, Balance Problems21) Cornelius Dufallo Anna Clyne, The Violin22) Mitsuko Uchida, Mozart: Piano Concerto No..18, K.456 & No.19, K.45923) Copenhagen Phil, Bryce Dessner: St. Carolyn By The Sea / Jonny Greenwood: Suite From "There Will Be Blood"24) Riccardo Muti, Riccardo Muti Conducts Mason Bates and Anna Clyne25) Glenn Kotche, Adventureland
Top 20 Country Albums of 20141) Sturgill Simpson, Metamodern Sounds in Country Music2) Johnny Cash, Out Among the Stars3) Miranda Lambert, Platinum4) Tim McGraw, Sundown Heaven Town5) Little Big Town, Pain Killer6) Lee Ann Womack, The Way I'm Livin'7) Stoney LaRue, Aviator8) Blake Shelton, Bringing Back The Sunshine9) Wade Bowen, Wade Bowen10) Brad Paisley, Moonshine in the Trunk11) Jon Pardi, Write You a Song12) Nikki Lane, All or Nothin'13) Jason Eady, Daylight & Dark14) The Swon Brothers, The Swon Brothers15) Drive-By Truckers, English Oceans16) Marty Stuart, Saturday Night/Sunday Morning17) Dierks Bentley, Riser18) Eric Church, The Outsiders19) Josh Thompson, Turn It Up20) Sunny Sweeney, Provoked
Top 20 Hip-Hop Albums of 20141) Y.G., My Krazy Life2) Flying Lotus, You're Dead!3) Azealia Banks, Broke with Expensive Taste4) Run the Jewels, Run the Jewels 25) Future, Honest6) Freddie Gibbs & Madlib, Piñata7) Big K.R.I.T., Cadillactica8) Serengeti, Kenny Dennis III9) Shabazz Palaces, Lese Majesty10) NehruvianDOOM11) Lecrae, Anomaly12) Ghostface Killah, 36 Seasons13) Kevin Gates, By Any Means14) Common, Nobody's Smiling15) Open Mike Eagle, Dark Comedy16) Ratking, So It Goes17) The Underachievers, Cellar Door: Terminus Ut Exordium18) Busdriver, Perfect Hair19) Isaiah Rashad, Cilvia Demo20) Logic, Under Pressure
― xhuxk, Thursday, 18 December 2014 17:58 (ten years ago)
Whoa, did not know that Kate Soper released an album this year.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 18 December 2014 17:59 (ten years ago)
Thanks for the Nigerian Afropop list btw!
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 18 December 2014 18:00 (ten years ago)
2) Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Anthony Davis: Notes from the Underground6) Far Cry, The Law Of Mosaics
always good to see friends/acquaintances doing well
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Thursday, 18 December 2014 18:00 (ten years ago)
The John Luther Adams is a top five record for me this year. Good to see CPH:Phil on there as well.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 18 December 2014 18:05 (ten years ago)
"Luke! There's a track we've got to take out of the chart IMMEDIATELY or I quit!"
Not at all - it's a great track and FWIW, it was in my personal top tracks of the year poll when I voted. I'm only sorry I only bought the single the week after Supernormal because otherwise I would have seen your set. My mates in Teeth Of The Sea, Sex Swing and various other sorts on the noise rock scene were raving about you.
― Doran, Thursday, 18 December 2014 18:10 (ten years ago)
Oh god, one of Sex Swing liked us? I have a friend in TotS so it's less surprising, but Sex Swing were one of my absolute favourites that weekend (and if it was Tim PC I will literally be dead).
― emil.y, Thursday, 18 December 2014 18:17 (ten years ago)
"OMG
― emil.y, Thursday, December 18, 2014 3:54 PM (2 hours ago)"
brilliant brilliant brilliant.
things like this is why i love ILM.
― mark e, Thursday, 18 December 2014 18:21 (ten years ago)
nice track!
― chemical aioli (Hunt3r), Thursday, 18 December 2014 18:27 (ten years ago)
Sex Swing are fucking amazing aren't they? We promoted a gig by them last night which I couldn't attend for personal reasons but apparently they were amazing. It may have been an ex-member of Dethscalator who hipped me to Slum Of Legs rather than one of Sex Swing… my memory is not what it once was and members of UK noise rock royalty all start blurring into one person (in my head he's 100ft tall, wearing a Killdozer T-shirt with pot burns in it and saying something amusing about cheese) in my head after a while. Anyway, I'm done hijacking the thread, apologies.
― Doran, Thursday, 18 December 2014 18:28 (ten years ago)
ILM Metal Poll results
102 The Cosmic Dead - Easterfaust 143 Points, 4 votestie100 Autopsy - Tourniquets, Hacksaws and Graves 143 Points, 5 votes100 Lantlos - Melting Sun 143 Points, 5 votes99 Ulaan Markhor - Spiral Horns, Black Onions, et al 144 Points, 4 votes, One #198 Seven that Spells - The Death and Resurrection of Krautrock: IO 146 Votes, 3 voters , One #197 Death Penalty - Death Penalty 146 Points, 5 votes96 Ambergris - Ambergris 147 Points, 3 votes, One #195 Body Count - Manslaughter 147 Points,6 votes94 Monarch - Sabbracadaver 148 Points, 6 votes93 Truckfighters - Universe 152 Points, 5 votes, One #1Tie91 Raspberry Bulbs - Privacy 155 Points, 6 votes91 Coffinworm - IV.I.VIII 155 Points, 6 votes
90 A Pregnant Light - My Game Doesn't Have A Name 156 Points, 4 votes, 1 #189 Conan - Blood Eagle 157 Points, 5 votes88 Wolves In The Throne Room - Celestite 157 Points, 6 votes87 Wo Fat - The Conjuring 158 Points, 5 votes86 Karma To Burn - Arch Stanton 160 Points, 4 votes85 Monster Magnet - Milking the Stars: A Re-Imagining of Last Patrol 160 Points, 5 votes84 At The Gates - At War With Reality 161 Points, 5 votes83 Rigor Mortis - Slaves To The Grave 161 Points, 6 votes82 Hands Of Orlac - Figli Del Crepuscolo 162 Points, 5 votes
TIE80 Saor - Aura 163 Points , 5 votes80 The Great Old Ones - TEKELI-LI 163 Points, 5 votes79 Bongripper - Miserable 163 Points, 6 votes78 The Flight of Sleipnir - V. 168 Points, 4 votes77 Skull Fist - Chasing the Dream 171 Points, 5 votes76 Myrkur - Myrkur 173 Points, 6 votes75 Opeth - Pale Communion 177 Points, 7 votes74 Mournful Congregation - Concrescence Of The Sophia 186 Points, 6 votes73 Petrychor - Makrokosmos 189 Points, 5 votes72 Fallujah - The Flesh Prevails 190 Points, 6 votes71 Inter Arma - The Cavern 190 Points, 7 votes
70 Towers - II 193 Points, 7 votes69 Comet Control - s/t 194 Points, 5 votes , One #1Tie67 AEvangelist - Writhes in the Murk 205 Points, 6 votes67 Shooting Guns - Street Rock 205.0 6 votes 66 Judas Priest - Redeemer of Souls 209 Points, 8 votes65 Wizard Rifle - Here In The Deadlights 210 Points, 6 votes64 Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel 214 Points, 7 votes63 Nadja - Queller 223 Points, 6 votes, One #162 Atlas Moth - The Old Believer 234 Points, 8 votes61 Kayo Dot - Coffins On Io 236 Points, 6 votes
60 The Wounded Kings - Consolamentum 251 Points, 7 votes59 Stargazer - A Merging to the Boundless 255 Points, 7 votes58 Wovenhand - Refractory Obdurate 262 Points, 7 votes57 Woods of Desolation - As the Stars 267 Points, 10 votes56 Teitanblood - Death 270 Points, 9 votes55 Dead Congregation - Promulgation Of The Fall 272 Points, 8 votes54 Fen - Carrion Skies 274 Points, 8 votes53 The Oath - The Oath 274 Points, 9 votes52 Hail Spirit Noir - Oi Magoi 282 Points, 9 votes51 Midnight - No Mercy for Mayhem 290 Points, 8 votes
50 Nachtmystium - The World We Left Behind 297 Points, 9 votes49 Goat - Commune 301 Points, 9 votes48 Mare Cognitum - Phobos Monolith 311 Points, 9 votes47 Horseback - Piedmont Apocrypha 329 Points, 9 votes46 Indian - From All Purity 329 Points, 10 votes45 Primordial - Where Greater Men Have Fallen 333 Points, 11 votes44 The Body - I Shall Die Here 335 Points 10 votes43 Thantifaxath - Sacred White Noise 337 Points, 9 votes42 Eyehategod - Eyehategod 339 Points, 11 votes41 Horrendous - Ecdysis 349 Points, 9 votes
40 Boris - Noise 353 Points, 11 votes39 Dawnbringer - Night of the Hammer 356 Points, 11 votes38 Morbus Chron - Sweven 358 Points , 10 votes, One #137 Spectral Lore - III 360 Points, 12 votes, One #136 Nux Vomica - Nux Vomica 366 Points, 11 votes35 Have A Nice Life - The Unnatural World 373 Points, 11 votes34 Gridlink - Longhena 376 Points, 10 votes , TWO #1s 33 Witch Mountain - Mobile of Angels 378 Points, 15 votes32 Thou - Heathen 392 Points, 12 votes31 Old Man Gloom - The Ape of God I 406 Points, 11 votes
30 Old Man Gloom - The Ape of God II 415 Points, 11 votes29 Apostle Of Solitude - Of Woe And Wounds 422 Points, 11 votes28 Menace Ruine - Venus Armata 432 Points, 12 votes27 Floor - Oblation 434 Points, 14 votes26 Swans - To Be Kind 441 Point, 13 votes25 Today is the Day - Animal Mother 460 Points, 11 Votes, TWO #1s24 Solstafir - Otta 465 Points, 14 votes23 The Skull - For Those Which Are Asleep 489 Points, 13 votes22 BABYMETAL - BABYMETAL 500 Points, 14 votes One #121 Behemoth - Jolly Christian Singalongsongs 537 Points, 18 votes
20 Blues Pills - Blues Pills 557 Points, 13 votes19 Jute Gyte - Vast Chains 599 Points, 15votes , THREE #1s18 Blut aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta III: Saturnian Poetry 609 Points, 17 votes17 Alcest - Shelter 612 Points, 18 votes, One #116 Botanist - Vi: Flora 619 Points, 18 votes, One #115 Sunn O))) & Ulver - Terrestrials 621 Points, 17 votes, One #114 Panopticon - Roads to the North 654 Points, 18 votes , One #113 Slough Feg - Digital Resistance 662 Points, 19 votes, One #112 Bölzer - Soma EP 666 Points, 18 votes , One #111 Mastodon - Once More Round the Sun 680 Points, 19 votes, One #1
10 Jute Gyte - Ressentiment 697 Points, 18 votes9 Earth - Primitive and Deadly 738 Points, 21 votes , ONE #18 Scott Walker & SunnO))) - Soused 799 Points, 21 votes, TWO #1s7 Darkspace - Dark Space III I 813 Points, 22 votes , ONE #16 Godflesh - A World Lit Only By Fire 876 Points, 23 votes, THREE #1s5 Triptykon - Melana Chasmata 1078 Points, 27 votes FIVE #1's4 Electric Wizard - Time to Die 1130 Points, 27 votes THREE #1's3 Agalloch - The Serpent & the Sphere 1165 Points, 31 votes, Three #1s2 Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden 1233 Points, 33 votes, One #1
1 YOB - Clearing the Path to Ascend 1240 Points, 32 votes , THREE #1s
― Cosmic Slop, Thursday, 18 December 2014 20:11 (ten years ago)
is it just me or does holly herndon's 'chorus' sound a lot like ellen allien's 'sehnsucht'?
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Thursday, 18 December 2014 20:12 (ten years ago)
have been dipping in and out of the metal pole all week, have enjoyed quite a bit of the new-to-me stuff: wovenhand, dead congragation, inter arma, great old ones, some other stuff i can't remember
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Thursday, 18 December 2014 20:19 (ten years ago)
Here's a Spotify playlist with what I could find from the Quietus songlist: http://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/2LvhhDHrN93f8ZtCWFzzuX
― glenn mcdonald, Thursday, 18 December 2014 20:28 (ten years ago)
Thanks, Glenn. The "Acclaimed Songs of 2014" playlist has now been updated:http://open.spotify.com/user/seaworthyset/playlist/6gv4ng5XkJQQrTSkr7OzEH
The playlist includes all songs (on Spotify) that appear on lists by Rolling Stone, Spin, NME, Pitchfork, Paste, Wondering Sound, Drowned in Sound, Consequence of Sound, Pretty Much Amazing, Complex, Quietus, Time, Billboard, PopMatters, Slant, FACT, maybe one or two others I'm forgetting. (I'm not including any genre-specific lists or lists by individuals.)
― jaymc, Thursday, 18 December 2014 20:43 (ten years ago)
xp: "Chorus" owes as much to Paul Lansky, whom Herndon has paid tribute to, as to Allien, really.
― could at least have the decency to groove (Sanpaku), Thursday, 18 December 2014 22:04 (ten years ago)
http://www.largeup.com/2014/12/16/toppa-top-10-the-ten-best-caribbean-albums-of-2014/Hollie Cook, Popcaan and Chronixx are all legit top ten for the year period imo
― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Friday, 19 December 2014 07:41 (ten years ago)
TERRORIZER ALBUMS OF 2014
50. NACHTMYSTIUM ‘The World We Left Behind’ CENTURY MEDIA 49. At The Gates49. AT THE GATES ‘At War With Reality’ CENTURY MEDIA48. DEATH PENALTY ‘Death Penalty’ RISE ABOVE47. MARTYRDÖD ‘Elddop’ SOUTHERN LORD46. ESBEN AND THE WITCH ‘A New Nature’ NOSTROMO45. 11 PARANOIAS ‘Stealing Fire From Heaven’ RITUAL PRODUCTIONS44. PRONG ‘Ruining Lives’ STEAMHAMMER/SPV43. Lord Mantis43. LORD MANTIS ‘Death Mask’ PROFOUND LORE42. WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM ‘Celestite’ ARTEMISIA41. DECAPITATED ‘Blood Mantra’ NUCLEAR BLAST
40. CONAN ‘Blood Eagle’ NAPALM 39. ACxDC ‘Antichrist Demoncore’ MELOTOVE38. INSOMNIUM ‘Shadows Of A Dying Sun’ CENTURY MEDIA37. OPETH ‘Pale Communion’ ROADRUNNER36. MAYHEM ‘Esoteric Warfare’ SEASON OF MIST35. MASTODON ‘Once More ‘Round The Sun’ WARNER34. THE BODY ‘I Shall Die Here’ RVNG33. TOMBS ‘Savage Gold’ RELAPSE32. ORANGE GOBLIN ‘Back From The Abyss’ CANDLELIGHT31. SCHAMMASCH ‘Contradiction’ PROSTHETIC
30. TRAP THEM ‘Blissfucker’ PROSTHETIC29. TEITANBLOOD ‘Death’ NORMA EVANGELIUM DIABOLI28. SUNN O))) & ULVER ‘Terrestrials’ SOUTHERN LORD27. PYRRHON ‘The Mother Of Virtues’ RELAPSE26. TODAY IS THE DAY ‘Animal Mother’ SOUTHERN LORD25. EARTH ‘Primitive And Deadly’ SOUTHERN LORD24. VALLENFYRE ‘Splinters’ CENTURY MEDIA23. AUTOPSY ‘Tourniquets, Hacksaws And Graves’ PEACEVILLE22. BLUT AUS NORD ‘Memoria Vetusta III – Saturnian Poetry’ DEBERMUR MORTI21. WOVENHAND ‘Refractory Obdurate’ DEATHWISH
20. DEAD CONGREGATION ‘Promulgation Of The Fall’ MARTYRDOOM19. PANOPTICON ‘Roads To The North’ BINDRUNE18. THOU ‘Heathen’ GILEAD MEDIA17. AGALLOCH ‘The Serpent And The Sphere’ PROFOUND LORE16. SWALLOWED ‘Lunarterial’ DARK DESCENT15. VOICES ‘London’ CANDLELIGHT14. JUDAS PRIEST ‘Redeemer Of Souls’ EPIC13. WINTERFYLLETH ‘The Divination Of Antiquity’ CANDLELIGHT12. MORBUS CHRON ‘Sweven’ CENTURY MEDIA11. MIDNIGHT ‘No Mercy For Mayhem’ HELLS HEADBANGERS
10. ELECTRIC WIZARD ‘Time To Die’ SPINEFARM9. PALLBEARER ‘Foundations Of Burden’ PROFOUND LORE8. SÓLSTAFIR ‘Otta’ SEASON OF MIST7. PRIMORDIAL ‘Where Greater Men Have Fallen’ METAL BLADE6. EYEHATEGOD ‘Eyehategod’ HOUSECORE/CENTURY MEDIA5. TRIPTYKON ‘Melana Chasmata’ CENTURY MEDIA4. YOB ‘Clearing The Path To Ascend’ NEUROT3. BEHEMOTH ‘The Satanist’ NUCLEAR BLAST2. SWANS ‘To Be Kind’ YOUNG GOD/MUTE
1. GODFLESH ‘A World Lit Only By Fire’ AVALANCHE
― Cosmic Slop, Friday, 19 December 2014 11:55 (ten years ago)
https://twitter.com/IdeologicOrgan/status/545907089412210688
^ I want to see the rest of the Daily Mirror's list now
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Friday, 19 December 2014 12:00 (ten years ago)
State’s Albums of 2014http://state.ie/features/states-albums-of-2014
50. Mogwai – Rave Tapes49. Hookworms – The Hum48. Clark – Clark47. Banks – Goddess46. Azealia Banks – Broke With Expensive Taste45. iamamiwhoami – Blue44. Angel Olsen – Burn Your Fire For No Witness43. THE GOASTT – Midnight Sun42. Todd Terje – It’s Album Time41. Royksopp – The Inevitable End40. Little Dragon – Nabuma Rubberband39. Caribou – Our Love38. Delorentos – Night Becomes Light37. The Minutes – Live Well, Change Often36. Lykke Li – I Never Learn35. Wye Oak – Shriek34. Lucius – Wildewoman33. The Hot Sprockets – Brother Nature32. Royal Blood – Royal Blood31. Catfish & The Bottlemen – The Balcony30. Hamilton Leithauser – Black Hours29. Kormac – Doorsteps28. Warpaint – Warpaint27. Taylor Swift – 196926. Malibu Shark Attack! – Malibu Shark Attack!25. Mø – No Mythologies to Follow24. Damien Rice – My Favourite Faded Fantasy23. The Gloaming – The Gloaming22. Wonder Villains – Rocky21. God Knows & mynameisjOhn – Rusango/Family20. Kate Tempest – Everybody Down19. Lana Del Rey – Ultraviolence18. Adebisi Shank – This Is The Third Album Of A Band Called Adebisi Shank17. Perfume Genius – Too Bright16. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib – Piñata15. Run The Jewels – RTJ214. We Cut Corners – Think Nothing13. James Vincent McMorrow – Post Tropical12. The War on Drugs – Lost in the Dream11. FKA Twigs – LP110. Wild Beasts – Present Tense9. Tune-Yards - Nikki Nack8. Aphex Twin - Syro7. St. Vincent - St. Vincent6. Alt-J - This Is All Yours5. Future Islands - Singles4. Beck - Morning Phase3. Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots2. Hozier - Hozier1. Sun Kil Moon - Benji
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Friday, 19 December 2014 12:20 (ten years ago)
THE GOASTTThe Hot SprocketsCatfish & The BottlemenMalibu Shark Attack!God Knows & mynameisjOhn
i know i'm going to sound like my dad here but are there really no more good band names left in the barrel?
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Friday, 19 December 2014 12:23 (ten years ago)
Catfish & the Bottlemen not only have a terrible name and play terrible music, but are also some of the most vile misogynists to plague shitrock for some time.
― emil.y, Friday, 19 December 2014 12:29 (ten years ago)
now i have misogynist in a bottle stuck in my head
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Friday, 19 December 2014 12:32 (ten years ago)
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― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Friday, 19 December 2014 13:09 (ten years ago)
Boomkat - Albumshttp://boomkat.com/collections/boomkat-100-favourite-albums-2014-chart
Boomkat - Singleshttp://boomkat.com/collections/boomkat-100-favourite-singles-2014-chart
Always worth looking at the musicians' lists they have there too
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Friday, 19 December 2014 14:49 (ten years ago)
album list is one to warm imago's little heart btw
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Friday, 19 December 2014 15:08 (ten years ago)
Dow posted this one on the jazz thread:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/ablogsupreme/2014/12/19/371282561/the-2014-npr-music-jazz-critics-poll
― curmudgeon, Friday, 19 December 2014 15:38 (ten years ago)
That's a poll of 140 folks who write about jazz. It used to be in the Village Voice but now NPR sponsors it
You'll find a list of the entire Top 50 in the voting for Jazz Album of the Year, with the top finishers in Latin Jazz, Vocal, Debut and Reissue/Historical categories as well.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 19 December 2014 15:40 (ten years ago)
Latin Jazz list from NPR sponsored jazz critics poll
1. Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, The Offense of the Drum (Motéma) 19
2. Miguel Zenón, Identities Are Changeable (Miel Music) 16
3. Yosvany Terry, New Throned King (5Passion) 11
4. Danilo Pérez, Panama 500 (Mack Avenue) 8
5. David Virelles, Mbókò (ECM) 6
6. Alfredo Rodriguez, The Invasion Parade (Mack Avenue) 5
― curmudgeon, Friday, 19 December 2014 15:45 (ten years ago)
Resident Advisor - Top 50 trackshttp://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?2333
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Friday, 19 December 2014 15:46 (ten years ago)
] 39. Lnrdcroy Sunrise Market (Extended Version)
only record ive heard on any of these lists so far! (though i bookmarked the shiniche atobe to listened to later).
(2nd track on this 12" is really good)
― saer, Friday, 19 December 2014 17:37 (ten years ago)
so, i'm really curious, saer: what styles of music, generally, do you listen to? for someone to have heard one record on all these lists is stunning to me. i get that there's a whole big wide world of music out there, interested to hear what your corner of it is.
― alpine static, Friday, 19 December 2014 17:43 (ten years ago)
no black messiah in any of these sorry lists lol
― ..but is he a virtuoso? (Raccoon Tanuki), Friday, 19 December 2014 17:43 (ten years ago)
yeah, npr's latin jazz team really dropped the ball on that one, huh?
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Friday, 19 December 2014 17:49 (ten years ago)
i know ppl hate on war on drugs, but the beck album appearing so often and so highly is way weirder to me....like WoD does have a unique sound/feel, or at least a brand of retro that hasn't been done often..but many i'm not a beck hater and how can you see this current one as anything but a way weaker sequel to "sea change" w/o any memorable tunes?
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 19 December 2014 18:19 (ten years ago)
― alpine static, Friday, December 19, 2014 5:43 PM (58 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
good question!, well i guess this is what ive posted about
http://ilxor.com/ILX/FullTextSearchControllerServlet?terms=saer&offset=20&searchtype=id&startdate=&enddate=&artefact=messages&idtype=displayname&sortorder=Relevance&boardid=41
― saer, Friday, 19 December 2014 18:48 (ten years ago)
http://www.saidthegramophone.com/archives/best_songs_of_2014.phpWith zip file collections
― MAYBE HE'S NOT THE BEST THIGH SLAPPER IN THE WORLD (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 20 December 2014 01:00 (ten years ago)
monorail music 2014
1 Mogwai - Rave Tapes (Rock Action)2 Aphex Twin - Syro (Warp)3 Shellac - Dude Incredible (Touch & Go)4 Vaselines - V for Vaselines (Rosary Music)5 Dean Blunt - Black Metal (Rough Trade)6 Comet Gain - Paperback Ghosts (Fortuna Pop!)7 King Creosote - From Scotland With Love (Domino)8 Sun Kil Moon - Benji (Caldo Verde)9 Withered Hand - New Gods (Fortuna Pop)10 Tape - Casino (Hapna)11 Pixies - Indie Cindy (Pias)12 Real Estate - Atlas (Domino)13 The New Mendicants - Into the Lime (XPT)14 Happy Meals - Apéro (Night School)15 Thurston Moore - The Best Day (Matador)16 Thee Silver Mt Zion - Fuck off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything (Constellation)17 Remember Remember - Forgetting the Present (Rock Action)18 Swans - To Be Kind (Young God)19 Beck - Morning Phase (Capitol)20 Sharon Van Etten - Are We There (Jagjaguwar)21 David Kilgour & The Heavy Eights - End Times Undone (Merge)22 Mica Levi - Under The Skin ost (Warners)23 Cold Beat - Over Me (Crime on the Moon)24 Soundcarriers - Entropicalia (Ghost Box)25 Phantom Band - Strange Friend (Chemikal Underground)26 Teleman - Breakfast (Moshi Moshi)27 Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness (Jagjaguwar)28 Pye Corner Audio - Black Mill Tapes Volumes 3 and 4 (Type)29 Inga Copeland - Because I'm Worth It (Self Released)30 Jon Brooks - 52 (Clay Pipe)31 Actress - Ghettoville (Ninja Tune)32 Ex Hex - Rips (Merge)33 J Mascis - Tied to a Star (Sub Pop)34 Scott Walker & Sunn O))) - Soused (4AD)35 Twilight Sad - Nobody Wants To Be Here & Nobody Wants To Leave (Fat Cat)36 Tara Jane O'Neil - Where Shine New Lights (Kranky)37 Trash Kit - Confidence (Upset the Rhythm)38 Andy Stott - Faith in Strangers (Modern Love)39 Black Bananas - Electric Brick Wall (Drag City)40 Plaid - Reachy Prints (Warp)41 Swallowed - Lunarterial (Me Saco Un Ojo)42 National Bedtime - Jobs For Beasts (Shadazz)43 The Notwist - The Messier Objects (Alien Transistor)44 Sound of Yell - Brocken Spectre (Chemikal Underground)45 Richard Youngs - Red Alphabet in the Snow (Preserved Sounds)46 Edwyn Collins - The Possibilities are Endless (AED)47 Vic Godard & Subway Sect - 1979 Now (AED)48 The Bluebells - Exile On Twee Street (Cherry Red / Vinyl 180)49 Life Without Buildings - Any Other City (Tugboat / Rough Trade)50 Fugazi - First Demo (Dischord)
Compiled from sales and customer and staff lists.
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Saturday, 20 December 2014 07:57 (ten years ago)
Consensus Watch Update (ranked by number of polls, places below 50 disregarded, personal polls disregarded):
60 FKA Twigs - LP149 The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream48 St Vincent - St Vincent46 Caribou - Our Love43 Aphex Twin - Syro39 Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 238 Swans - To Be Kind38 Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness35 Sharon Van Etten - Are We There34 Flying Lotus - You're Dead!33 Future Islands - Singles33 Sun Kil Moon - Benji33 Beck - Morning Phase31 Mac DeMarco - Salad Days31 Perfume Genius - Too Bright31 Freddie Gibbs and Madlib - Pinata31 Todd Terje - It's Album Time28 Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence27 Spoon - They Want My Soul24 Grouper: Ruins 23 Taylor Swift - 198923 Jack White - Lazaretto22 Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty21 Real Estate - Atlas20 East India Youth - Total Strife Forever19 Alvvays - Alvvays19 Jenny Lewis - Voyager19 Scott Walker & Sun O))) - Soused19 Andy Stott - Faith in Strangers18 Jessie Ware - Tough Love The Bug - Angels & Devils Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues17 Ty Segall - Manipulator Wild Beasts - Present Tense Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots Cloud Nothings - Here And Nowhere Else Royal Blood - Royal Blood16 First Aid Kit - Stay Gold Sleaford Mods - Divide and Exit Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animal Azealia Banks, Broke With Expensive Taste15 Goat - Commune Tinashe - Aquarius Ought - More Than Any Other Day Alt-J - This Is All Yours Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds In Country Music YG - My Krazy Life Dean Blunt – Black Metal14 Hookworms - The Hum Temples - Sun Structures The Black Keys - Turn Blue Lykke Li, I Never Learn Mastodon: Once More Round The Sun Arca – Xen 13 Ex Hex - Rips Pallbearer – Foundations of Burden Owen Pallett - In Conflict12 Young Fathers - Dead Jungle - Jungle Neneh Cherry - Blank Project La Roux - Trouble in Paradise Kate Tempest - Everybody Down Ariel Pink - Pom Pom Yob - Clearing the Path to Ascend Behemoth, The Satanist
― mike t-diva, Saturday, 20 December 2014 13:40 (ten years ago)
49 Life Without Buildings - Any Other City (Tugboat / Rough Trade)
not that I disagree but reissues on a 2014 list?
― katherine, Saturday, 20 December 2014 13:58 (ten years ago)
the last three on that list are all reissues or comps of old stuff so maybe they reserve the tail end of the poll for that purpose or something? idk
― cornelius pardew (DJ Mencap), Saturday, 20 December 2014 15:00 (ten years ago)
I just want to post this description, if the NPR classical album of the year (which is also in my top five)
John Luther Adams - Become OceanThis is the piece of classical music of 2014 that has crossed over to a mainstream audience, and rightly so. Put it on speakers and people will stop what they're doing to say, "What is this? I love it!" Written as a meditation on rising — and ultimately all-consuming — tides, Adams has created a work that is both an orchestral showpiece (written, actually, for three juxtaposed mini-orchestras) and a completely haunting inner journey. The Seattle Symphony should be hugely proud of having commissioned Become Ocean and their stellar performance under conductor Ludovic Morlot. — Anastasia Tsioulcas
― Frederik B, Saturday, 20 December 2014 16:37 (ten years ago)
I like the unranked Aquarium Drunkard list:http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2014/12/15/aquarium-drunkard-2014-year-in-review/#more-42763
― Brad C., Saturday, 20 December 2014 17:09 (ten years ago)
yes, that is really really beautiful xp
― some kind of terrible IDM with guitars (sleeve), Saturday, 20 December 2014 17:32 (ten years ago)
volcanic tongue best of 2014 (in no particular order)
The Spies - The Battle Of Bosworth Terrace LP SiltbreezePeter Brotzmann/Jason Adasiewicz - Mollie’s In The Mood LP Bro RecordsVillage Of Spaces – Welcome In LP Turned Word RecordsBig Blood - Unlikely Mothers 2xLP Blackest RainbowMad Nanna – In Glasgow (Live At Volcanic Tongue) LP Golden Lab RecordsTralala Blip - Aussie Dream LP DisembrainingFourth World Magazine Vol. 2 - Pinhead In Fantasia LP + Magazine Pacific City Sound Visions HR Giger's Studiolo 2xCass Pacific City Sound Visions Mark Alexander McIntyre – Grapes LP One Kind Favor Roy Montgomery - 324 E. 13th Street #7 2xLP Yellow ElectricSamara Lubelski – String Cycle LP Ultra EczemaFushitsusha - Nothing Changes/No One Can Change Anything/I Am Ever-Changing/Only You Can Change Yourself 3xCD UtechAlien City - Cathode Rays Are On OVERLOAD LPLes Rallizes Denudes - Electric Pure Land 2xLP MV & EE - Alpha Lyrae LP Child Of MicrotonesEye – Winterwork LP Nyali Recordings Drowning Is Easy/Sarah Richards/The Chance/Ritchie Venus - The Christchurch Quartet LP + 12” + 10” + 7” + bonus 7” UnwuchtRichard Youngs - Red Alphabet In The Snow LP Preserved SoundThe Dead C - The Twelfth Spectacle 4xLP GrapefruitNazoranai - The Most Painful Time Happens Only Once It Has Arrived Already...? Ideologic OrganSanity Muffin cassettes – we loved them all!Arnold Dreyblatt – Choice LP Choose RecordsThe Terminals - Singles And Sundries LP Ba Da Bing RecordsEnglish Heretic - The Underworld Service CD + Book Hiiragi Fukuda - My Turntable Is Sloow LP Selection RecordsSadahiro Yamada - OK To Exist Doing Nothing LP Selection Records Toilet Roll Dolls - Live At Real Bad CD-R Breakdance The Dawn Pretty much all the Superior Viaduct reissues, particularly Alice Coltrane, Crime, Peter Jefferies, Flesheaters and Mirror/StalkerJojo Hiroshige/Tamio Shiraishi - Enka Mood Collection 10” 75 Dollar Bill - Olives In The Ears cassetteSpacemen 3 - Live At The New Morning, Geneva, Switzerland, 18/5/89 LP Mental Groove RecordsNord - NG Tapes LP PCP RecordsBill Orcutt private press cassettesCyclobe - Sulphur-Tarot-Garden LP/CD Phantomcode Angus MacLise - New York Electronic 1965 LP Sub RosaThe Pheromoans - Hearts Of Gold LP Upset The RhythmSimon Finn - Pass The Distance LP Little Big Chief RecordsCharcoal Owls - Tin Roof LP Night SchoolMatthew Shaw – Lamorna CD Apollolaan RecordingsJack Kerouac - The Northport Tapes Cassette Counter Culture ChroniclesTimothy Leary - The Radicalization Of Timothy Leary Cassette Counter Culture Chronicles Sacred Product - s/t LP Heinous Anus RecordsVarious Artists (The Chills, Sneaky Feelings, The Stones, Verlaines) - Dunedin Double 2xLP Flying NunThe Flexibles - Cities Of The Narrow Universe 7” Nyali Recordings La Morte Young - s/t LP Up Against The Wall Motherfucker! Orphan Fairytale - My Favourite Fairytale 2xLP Aguirre RecordsMatthew 'Doc' Dunn - All Is LP Cosmic Range Stone Angel - s/t LP AcmeSmall Cruel Party - Unroof The House Of The Fishes LP Harbinger Sound Kitchen Cynics private press CD-RsHandful Of Dust - Topology Of A Phantom City Cassette Ba Da Bing RecordsMary Millington - Come Play With Me & other tales 10” 10,000 Productions Heitkotter - Black Orckid 2xLP Now Again Records
― Daniel, Esq 2, Saturday, 20 December 2014 21:01 (ten years ago)
I have heard 0 of those - anyone see somthing they recommend?
― ticket to rmde (seandalai), Saturday, 20 December 2014 23:28 (ten years ago)
Haha the only one I know is the Simon Finn, which is old right?
― tl;dr, gukbar, morbis detrius (wins), Saturday, 20 December 2014 23:31 (ten years ago)
i've heard the angus maclise, nazoranai, and fushitsusha -- all recommended if you like that sort of thing.
― Bill Nighy the Science Gighy (get bent), Saturday, 20 December 2014 23:35 (ten years ago)
Pretty much all the Superior Viaduct reissues, particularly Alice Coltrane, Crime, Peter Jefferies, Flesheaters and Mirror/Stalker
that peter jefferies album is a fantastic NZ underground classic with with a strong eno and cale vibe. this song is all-time imo, and you might know this one from the cat power cover version
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Saturday, 20 December 2014 23:40 (ten years ago)
at least 60% of these are reissues btw afaict
pretty rich of them to be listing bootlegs that they were essentially the only vendor for
― some kind of terrible IDM with guitars (sleeve), Saturday, 20 December 2014 23:49 (ten years ago)
i've heard + liked Orphan Fairytale - My Favourite Fairytale
― Mordy, Saturday, 20 December 2014 23:49 (ten years ago)
the Fourth World Magazine Vol 2 - Pinhead in Fantasia is Spencer Clark under his Monopoly Child Star Searchers moniker, from (his label?) Pacific City Sound Visions
― Dan S, Sunday, 21 December 2014 01:13 (ten years ago)
There is so much music in the world :)
― ticket to rmde (seandalai), Sunday, 21 December 2014 01:15 (ten years ago)
Textura Top 40 http://www.textura.org/reviews/2104top10s.htm01. Julia Wolfe: Steel Hammer (Cantaloupe Music)02. Maria Schneider Featuring Dawn Upshaw: Winter Morning Walks (Artistshare)03. Lenzman: Looking At The Stars (Metalheadz)04. Brooklyn Rider: The Brooklyn Rider Almanac (Mercury Classics)05. CYNE: All My Angles Are Right (Hometapes)06. Vicky Chow: Tristan Perich: Surface Image (New Amsterdam Records)07. David Lang: Love Fail (Cantaloupe Music)08. yMusic: Balance Problems (New Amsterdam Records)09. Maya Beiser: Uncovered (Innova Records)10. Wadada Leo Smith: The Great Lakes Suites (Tum Records)11. Michael Nyman: Symphony No 11: Hillsborough Memorial (Mn Records)12. Christopher Tignor: Thunder Lay Down In The Heart (Western Vinyl)13. Michael Robinson: Lucknow Shimmer / Hummingbird Canyon (Azure Miles Records)14. Alexander Turnquist: Flying Fantasy (Western Vinyl)15. Jane Ira Bloom: Sixteen Sunsets (Outline)16. Marvin Ayres: Ultraradian Rhythms (Wall Of Waves / Market Square)17. Brock Van Wey: Home (Echospace Detroit)18. Octet Ensemble: Scatter My Ashes (Belarca Records)19. Hammock: Oblivion Hymns (Hammock Music)20. Emilia Martensson: Ana (Babel)21. Stein Urheim: Stein Urheim (Hubro)22. Death Blues: Ensemble ( Rhythmplex )23. Ken Thomson: Thaw (Cantaloupe Music)24. Bruno Sanfilippo: ClarOscuro (Ad21)25. Mary Halvorson: Reverse Blue (Relative Pitch Records)26. Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble: Intergalactic Beings (FPE Records)27. 36: Dream Tempest (3six Recordings)28. Maxwell August Croy And Sean Mccann: I (Students Of Decay)29. Robert Hood: M-Print: 20 Years Of M-Plant Music (M-Plant)30. Ken Thomson And Slow/Fast: Settle (NCM East Records)31. Dday One: Dialogue With Life (The Content (L)Abel)32. Mark Lomax Trio: Isis And Osiris (Inarhyme Records)33. P.J. Philipson: Peaks (Little Cracked Rabbit)34. Ian William Craig: A Turn Of Breath (Recital)35. Mark Templeton + Kyle Armstrong: Extensions (Graphical)36. Grouper: Ruins (Kranky)37. Neil Leonard: For Kounellis (Gasp Records)38. Girma Yifrashewa: Love And Peace (Unseen Worlds)39. Carl Hultgren: Tomorrow (Blue Flea)40. David Pritchard: Among The Missing (Morphic Resonance)― millmeister, Tuesday, December 2, 2014 12:07 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― millmeister, Tuesday, December 2, 2014 12:07 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Can someone give me their favorite album from this list for me to check out that isn't Hammock or Grouper (both favorites)?
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Sunday, 21 December 2014 02:23 (ten years ago)
My fave on that list is the girma yifrashewa
― Mordy, Sunday, 21 December 2014 02:30 (ten years ago)
I went through the entire Textura list (or as much of it was on Spotify). My favorites, roughly in order:
Ian William Craig: A Turn of BreathVicky Chow: Tristan Perich, Surface ImageDeath Blues: Ensemble36: Dream TempestMarvin Ayers: Ultradian Rhythms
That said, my tastes run more toward ambient/electronic. There are a lot of modern composers on here who had some good stuff--pieces I'd like to see in a theater setting but not anything I'd listen to on my home stereo.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Sunday, 21 December 2014 02:35 (ten years ago)
pfunkboy recommended that ian william craig thing to me
― Chairman Feinstein (nakhchivan), Sunday, 21 December 2014 02:36 (ten years ago)
maybe i have just downloaded too many albums recently but the prospect of downloading an album with such an anonymous title by someone with the most anonymous anglo name has not been enough, in and of itself
maybe am i just downloading albums in order to have an interesting looking set of directories rather than because of their intrinsic merits
― Chairman Feinstein (nakhchivan), Sunday, 21 December 2014 02:38 (ten years ago)
The Ian William Craig album has shown up on a few lists besides Textura. Most notably I think it rated highly on Ben Ratliff's list for the New York Times (if memory serves. It's all voice and tape loops, or at least I think that's it. I've only listened a few times but of all the new-to-me albums I've held onto for further investigation due to these lists, this one is probably highest on my list.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Sunday, 21 December 2014 02:47 (ten years ago)
this from the boomkat list is interesting
http://vimeo.com/105840481
― Chairman Feinstein (nakhchivan), Sunday, 21 December 2014 02:49 (ten years ago)
the Wadada Leo Smith one is worth checking out, based on my limited investigation
― some kind of terrible IDM with guitars (sleeve), Sunday, 21 December 2014 03:31 (ten years ago)
That julia wolfe album is spectacular, highly recommended
― MAYBE HE'S NOT THE BEST THIGH SLAPPER IN THE WORLD (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 21 December 2014 04:33 (ten years ago)
The Stein Urheim album is gorgeous - one of my most played CDs of the year.
― mike t-diva, Sunday, 21 December 2014 09:38 (ten years ago)
Extensive best of album covers list: http://www.redefinemag.com/2014/album-covers-of-the-year-2014-interviews/
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 21 December 2014 14:59 (ten years ago)
This is Classic Keenan. "The underground is dead, now buy this grey-market repro of a long-lost Eastern European noise classik for £80 (+£15 shipping, natch) from my shoppe - I'm the only vendor and I raved it in The Wire, guv."
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Sunday, 21 December 2014 20:19 (ten years ago)
man, i found a really good bit of dk ridiculousness the other day, lemme find it...
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Sunday, 21 December 2014 20:29 (ten years ago)
ahhh...
I am allergic to ordinariness and I can’t understand people who don’t let art and music affect them to the point that their very existence is permanently re-formatted. Otherwise what’s the point? But I find I don’t have much in common with many music writers or authors in general. I like to look good, I like to keep in good shape, I like to fight, I box every week, I’ve been boxing for years, I like to look after myself, I love beautiful women and stylish men, I like good food and good beer, I like fine things, I like to smell good. I find that people involved in underground or alternative culture – on the whole - are simply buying into yet another orthodoxy or way of being where there are certain standards and rules of behaviour and political suppositions and interests and looks, even. I am not into that at all and can’t relate to it. That is why I am most attracted to unique people, to one-offs, to extraordinary lives. That’s what I most want to capture in my profiles, the personality of the artists, the way they live their lives as a total artwork, voracious artists like Peter Brotzmann and Derek Bailey. But I also find extraordinary people in all walks of life, which is why I also like to move in fighting circles and drinking circles and fashion circles and wilderness circles and magickal circles and astronomy circles. Anything that isn’t ordinary and that might attract extraordinary people. Otherwise I need to get the hell away from it.
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Sunday, 21 December 2014 20:32 (ten years ago)
His wikipedia page is hilarious.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 21 December 2014 20:37 (ten years ago)
https://www.google.co.uk/#safe=off&q=david+keenan
that photo is of a different David Keenan, right?
― soref, Sunday, 21 December 2014 20:43 (ten years ago)
i dunno, looks like a fine smelling man to me
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Sunday, 21 December 2014 20:58 (ten years ago)
and yes, that wiki page is definitely very thorough
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Sunday, 21 December 2014 20:59 (ten years ago)
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― tl;dr, gukbar, morbis detrius (wins), Sunday, 21 December 2014 21:08 (ten years ago)
otm. bullshit machismo mixed with the self-regarding swagger of someone who really knows their way round the cheese counter at sainsbury's
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Sunday, 21 December 2014 22:06 (ten years ago)
anyhow... best discovery for me so far off the boomkat lists is the arne deforce & mika vainio album 'hephaestus', deforce being a cellist with a background in feldman and xenakis etc. there are a couple of broiling noise workouts, but also some subtler stuff they explore more brooding atmospheres and the whole thing has the most horrible toxic sheen to it, it's just great stuff
biggest disappointment is EVOL's 'Rave Synthesis Approximations of György Ligeti's Continuum, Part III', whose title promises much but... can anyone listen to more than three minutes of this?
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Sunday, 21 December 2014 22:47 (ten years ago)
yeah that deforce/vainio album is awesome
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 21 December 2014 22:49 (ten years ago)
can anyone listen to more than three minutes of this?
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Sunday, 21 December 2014 22:47 (6 minutes ago)
sure
― Enterprise Lesotho (nakhchivan), Sunday, 21 December 2014 22:54 (ten years ago)
its better than 'acid in the style of david tudor'
― Enterprise Lesotho (nakhchivan), Sunday, 21 December 2014 22:57 (ten years ago)
it has a bit of a HPSCHD sort of ambience about it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_hTxJpWITw
― Enterprise Lesotho (nakhchivan), Sunday, 21 December 2014 23:00 (ten years ago)
but that has a much deeper texture, the evol track is like the pc music rewrite
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Sunday, 21 December 2014 23:04 (ten years ago)
györgy liQT if you will
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Sunday, 21 December 2014 23:07 (ten years ago)
ban NickB
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 21 December 2014 23:10 (ten years ago)
that may or may not be so, just because it is not unlistenable doesn't mean it is of any great value; evol is one of the least interesting mego artists
― Enterprise Lesotho (nakhchivan), Sunday, 21 December 2014 23:11 (ten years ago)
some of the more minor late ligeti is his own pc music
― Enterprise Lesotho (nakhchivan), Sunday, 21 December 2014 23:14 (ten years ago)
talking of mego, i still have to hear that one ambarchi record
are you doing a noisy list this year whiney?
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Sunday, 21 December 2014 23:16 (ten years ago)
ambarchi's quixotism is definitely worth hearing
― Dan S, Sunday, 21 December 2014 23:28 (ten years ago)
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Sunday, December 21, 2014 6:16 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yah almost done, prolly posting between Christmas and New Years!
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 21 December 2014 23:29 (ten years ago)
oh good man!
was just looking at the blurb for 'quixotism' and this credit is the best:
Thomas Brinkmann - computable drums with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem (Parts 1-5)
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Sunday, 21 December 2014 23:35 (ten years ago)
haven't got a clue wtf it means but i'm in
nick what do you think of russell haswell's recent music
― Enterprise Lesotho (nakhchivan), Monday, 22 December 2014 00:22 (ten years ago)
PSYCH INSIGHT: 20 ESSENTIAL PSYCH ALBUMS OF 2014http://backseatmafia.com/2014/12/04/psych-insight-20-essential-psych-albums-of-2014/
Second Bardo by Cult of Dom Kellar (Cardinal Fuzz)Forest Of Lost Children by Kikagaku Moyo (Beyond Beyond is Beyond)Sky Is Hell Black by Has A Shadow (Captcha Records)Outside The Circle by Anthroprophh (Rocket Recordings)Asteroid #4 by Asteroid #4 (Bad Vibrations)Away From The Water by Lola Colt (Fuzz Club)Season Sun by Gulp (Sonic Cathedral)Mammatus Clouds by Kikagaku Moyo (Cardinal Fuzz/ Captcha Records) The Hum by Hookworms (Weird World)Transmissions From Planet Telos Vol. 3 by Lumerians (Cardinal Fuzz)Commune by Goat (Rocket Recordings)Guru Overload by Eternal Tapestry (Oaken Palace Records)No Curtains by Dahga Bloom (Captcha Records)High Evolutionary by Dead Sea Apes (Cardinal Fuzz)Strange Wave Galore by Radar Men From The Moon (Fuzz Club)Ostro by Lay Llamas (Rocket Recordings)They Worshipped Cats by Les Big Byrd (A Records)Thru Me Again by LA Hell Gang (Mexican Summer)Come Down Safari by White Manna (Captcha Records)Far Out by Black Bombaim (Cardinal Fuzz)
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 22 December 2014 06:05 (ten years ago)
i'm not understanding the critical love for the latest miranda lambert - it's no crazy ex-girlfriend imho, is this just an album-after impact from pistol annies? (hard to imagine tbh)
― Mordy, Monday, 22 December 2014 11:18 (ten years ago)
Noisey: http://noisey.vice.com/blog/noisey-staff-top-25-albums-of-2014--10-to-1
25. RUN THE JEWELS – RUN THE JEWELS 224. SHARON VAN ETTEN – ARE WE THERE23. D’ANGELO AND THE VANGUARD – BLACK MESSIAH22. WHITE LUNG – DEEP FANTASY21. TAYLOR SWIFT – 198920. YG – MY KRAZY LIFE19. MORBUS CHRON – SWEVEN18. MORTUARY DRAPE – SPIRITUAL INDEPENDENCE17. WILD BEASTS – PRESENT TENSE16. UNITED NATIONS – THE NEXT FOUR YEARS15. PUP – PUP14. ANDY STOTT – FAITH IN STRANGERS13. BLUT AUS NORD – MEMORIA VETUSTA III: SATURNIAN POETRY12. ANGEL OLSEN – BURN YOUR FIRE FOR NO WITNESS11. TOTAL CONTROL – TYPICAL SYSTEM10. SYLVAN ESSO – SYLVAN ESSO9. ILOVEMAKONNEN – ILOVEMAKONNEN EP8. SAM HUNT – MONTEVALLO7. DEJ LOAF – SELL SOLE6. THE MENZINGERS – RENTED WORLD5. INTERPOL – EL PINTOR4. GROUPER – RUINS3. ICEAGE – PLOWING INTO THE FIELD OF LOVE2. AGAINST ME! – TRANSGENDER DYSPHORIA BLUES1. RICH GANG – THA TOUR PART 1
― mike t-diva, Monday, 22 December 2014 13:01 (ten years ago)
Yet more Rhapsody.
Top 25 Jazz Albums of 20141) Trio 3, Wiring (feat. Oliver Lake, Reggie Workman & Andrew Cyrille)2) Harold Mabern, Right on Time3) Kris Davis, Waiting for You to Grow4) Roscoe Mitchell, Conversations 25) Jason Moran, ALL RISE: A Joyful Elegy for Fats Waller6) Miguel Zenón, Identities Are Changeable7) Sean Jones Quartet, Im•pro•vise Never Before Seen8) Arturo O'Farrill, The Offense of the Drum9) Charlie Haden, Charlie Haden - Jim Hall10) Jeff Ballard, Time's Tales11) Wadada Leo Smith, Red Hill12) Craig Handy, Craig Handy & 2nd Line Smith13) Matthew Shipp, I've Been To Many Places14) Jon Irabagon, It Takes All Kinds15) Farmers by Nature (Gerald Cleaver, William Parker, Craig Taborn), Love and Ghosts16) Ambrose Akinmusire, The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier to Paint17) Paquito D'Rivera, Jazz Meets the Classics18) Oliver Lake Organ Quartet, What I Heard19) São Paulo Underground, Pharoah & the Underground - Spiral Mercury20) Branford Marsalis, In My Solitude: Live at Grace Cathedral21) Brad Mehldau, Mehliana: Taming the Dragon22) Danilo Perez, Panama 50023) Bernie Worrell, Phantom Sound Clash Cut-Up Method: Two24) Darius Jones, The Darkseid Recital25) Melissa Aldana, Melissa Aldana & Crash Trio
Top 25 Latin Albums of 20141) No Te Va Gustar, El Tiempo Otra Vez Avanza2) Vetusta Morla, La Deriva3) Calle 13, MultiViral4) Vicentico, Último Acto5) J Balvin, La Familia B Sides6) Paco de Lucía, Canción Andaluza7) Chancha Via Circuito, Amansara8) Various Artists, Havana Cultura Mix: The Soundclash9) Helado Negro, Double Youth10) Andres Calamaro, Bohemio11) Joan Manuel Serrat, Antología Desordenada12) Los Tigres del Norte, Realidades13) Enrique Iglesias, Sex and Love14) Ana Tijoux, Vengo15) Sonzeira, Brasil Bam Bam Bam16) Ricardo Arjona, Viaje17) Ismael Miranda, Son 4518) Arturo O'Farrill, The Offense of the Drum19) Lila Downs, Soledad Pastorutti, Nina Pastori, Raíz20) Carlos Vives, Más + Corazón Profundo21) Gaby Moreno, Posada22) Marta Gómez, Coloreando23) Farruko, Farruko Presents Los Menores24) Jorge Drexler, Bailar en la Cueva25) Various Artists, Cantinflas: Música Original de la Película
Top 20 R&B Albums of 20141) FKA Twigs, LP12) D'Angelo, Black Messiah3) Trey Songz, Trigga4) Tinashe, Aquarius5) August Alsina, Testimony6) Prince, Art Official Age7) Mary J Blige, The London Sessions8) Fatima, Yellow Memories9) Mali Music, Mali Is…10) Anderson Paak, Venice11) K Michelle, Anybody Wanna Buy a Heart?12) Pharrell Williams, G I R L13) Toni Braxton & Babyface, Love Marriage & Divorce14) Kem, Promise to Love15) Sebastian Mikael, Speechless16) Electric Wire Hustle, Love Can Prevail17) Kelis, Food18) George Tandy, Jr., The Foundation19) Jesse Boykins III, Love Apparatus20) Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Give the People What They Want
Top 25 Christian/Gospel Albums of 20141) Ellie Holcomb, As Sure as the Sun2) Amy Grant, In Motion: The Remixes3) MercyMe, Welcome to the New4) Francesca Battistelli, If We're Honest5) Jamie Grace, Ready to Fly6) Casting Crowns, Thrive7) Danny Gokey, Hope in Front of Me8) Crowder, Neon Steeple9) Switchfoot, Fading West10) Steve Taylor & the Perfect Foil, Goliath11) Colton Dixon, Anchor12) For King & Country, Run Wild. Live Free. Love Strong13) Needtobreathe, Rivers in the Wasteland14) Rhett Walker Band, Here's to the Ones15) Chris Tomlin, Love Ran Red16) Elevation Worship, Only King Forever17) Passion, Passion: Take It All18) Hillsong Worship, No Other Name19) Kari Jobe, Majestic20) Michael W. Smith, Sovereign21) Jesus Culture, Unstoppable Love22) Anthony Evans, Real Life/Real Worship23) Fred Hammond, I Will Trust24) Tedashii, Below Paradise25) Lecrae, Anomaly
― xhuxk, Monday, 22 December 2014 14:11 (ten years ago)
Baltimore City Paper's top ten:http://www.citypaper.com/special/topten/bcp-top-10-nonlocal-albums-20141215,0,6654824.photogallery
1. YG, "My Krazy Life" (Def Jam)2. Spoon, "They Want My Soul" (Loma Vista)3. Swans, "To Be Kind" (Mute/ Young God)4. Warpaint, "Warpaint" (Rough Trade)5. Run the Jewels, "Run The Jewels 2" (Mass Appeal)6. Tink, "Winter's Diary 2: Forever Yours" (self-released)7. Arca, "Xen" (Mute)8. Priests, "Bodies and Control and Money and Power" (Don Giovanni/Sister Polygon)9. FKA twigs, "LP1" (Young Turks)10. Sturgill Simpson, "Metamodern Sounds in Country Music" (High Top Mountain Records)
we also do a bunch of other lists
top ten reissues: http://www.citypaper.com/special/topten/bcp-top-10-album-reissues-gallery-20141215,0,1514216.photogallery
top ten local albums: http://www.citypaper.com/special/topten/bcp-top-10-local-albums-20141215,0,2514505.photogallery
top ten local singles: http://www.citypaper.com/special/topten/bcp-top-10-local-singles-20141215,0,1844220.photogallery
top ten in Baltimore club music: http://www.citypaper.com/special/topten/bcp-bpm-top-10-in-club-20141215,0,7978067.story
top ten in Baltimore hip hop: http://www.citypaper.com/special/topten/bcp-rap-sheet-top-10-in-hiphop-20141215,0,3758535.story
top ten in country: http://www.citypaper.com/special/topten/bcp-strum-und-twang-top-10-in-country-20141215,0,5362356.story
top ten in heavy music: http://www.citypaper.com/special/topten/bcp-bangers-and-thrash-top-10-in-heavy-music-20141215,0,290534.story
top ten in jazz and blues: http://www.citypaper.com/special/topten/bcp-blue-notes-top-10-in-jazz-and-blues-20141215,0,5701453.story
top ten in avant garde: http://www.citypaper.com/special/topten/bcp-booed-music-top-10-in-avantgarde-20141215,0,4583960.story
top ten in indie music: http://www.citypaper.com/special/topten/bcp-map-ref-39-n-76-w-dec-10-top-10-in-indie-music-20141215,0,7753207.story
top ten in classical: http://www.citypaper.com/special/topten/bcp-debussy-riot-top-10-in-classical-20141215,0,5699231.story
― some dude, Monday, 22 December 2014 15:07 (ten years ago)
dang, I really need to catch up on BMOP
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Monday, 22 December 2014 15:42 (ten years ago)
The Obelisk Presents: The Top 30 of 2014http://theobelisk.net/obelisk/2014/12/22/the-obelisk-presents-the-top-30-of-2014/
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 22 December 2014 16:53 (ten years ago)
Does anyone know a (good) Best Black Metal list of the year? I didn't follow it closely enough this year but would like to know what I missed and catch up.
― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Monday, 22 December 2014 17:10 (ten years ago)
Irish Times/Jim O'Carroll 50 Best Albums of 2014
(1) The Gloaming - The Gloaming (Real World)(2) D'Angelo - Black Messiah (RCA)(3) Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty (Sub Pop)(4) Odesza - In Return (Counter)(5) Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots (Parlophone)(6) Neneh Cherry - Blank Project (Smalltown Supersound)(7) Run the Jewels - RTJ2 (Mass Appeal)(8) Call Super - Suzi Ecto (Houndstooth)(9) Caoimhín O Raghallaigh/Dan Trueman - Laghdu (Self release)(10) Godknows + MynameisjOhn - Rusangano Family (Self release)(11) FKA Twigs - LP1 (XL)(12) The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream (Secretly Canadian)(13) Hurray for the Riff Raff - Small Town Heroes (ATO)(14) Arca - Xen (Mute)(15) Beck - Morning Phase (Capitol)(16) Caribou - Our Love (City Slang)(17) Perfume Genius - Too Bright (Matador)(18) Valentin Stip - Sigh (Other People)(19) Francis Harris - Minutes of Sleep (Scissor & Thread)(20) Moire - Shelter (Werkdiscs)(21) Chet Faker - Built On Glass (Future Classic)(22) Clipping - Clppng (Sub Pop)(23) Linda Perhacs - The Soul Of All Natural Things (Asthmatic Kitty)(24) Lucius - Wildewoman (PIAS)(25) Mirel Wagner - When the Cellar Children See the Light of Day (Sub Pop)(26) Jungle - Jungle (XL)(27) Lykke Li - I Never Learn (Atlantic)(28) Sinkane - Mean Love (City Slang)(29) Future Islands - Singles (4AD)(30) Caoimhín O Raghallaigh - Music For An Elliptical Orbit (Diatribe)(31) Sylvan Esso - Sylvan Esso (Partisan)(32) Dorian Concept - Joined Ends (Ninja Tune)(33) St Paul & The Broken Bones - Half the City (Single Lock)(34) Toumani Diabaté & Sidiki Diabaté - Toumani & Sidiki (Nonesuch)(35) Leonard Cohen - Popular Problems (Columbia)(36) St Vincent - St Vincent (Republic)(37) Kelis - Food (Ninja Tune)(38) Jessie Ware - Tough Love (PMR/Universal/Island)(39) Flying Lotus - You’re Dead (Warp)(40) Perfect Pussy - Say Yes to Love (Captured Tracks)(41) Little Dragon - Nabuma Rubberband (Because)(42) Jennifer Evans - Works From the Dip & Foul (Delphi)(43) Lethal Dialect - 1988 (Self release)(44) GOAT - Commune (Sub Pop)(45) Azealia Banks - Broke With Expensive Taste (Prospect Park)(46) Tune-Yards - Nikki Nack (4AD)(47) Daithi - In Flight (Sony)(48) Dan Bodan - Soft (DFA)(49) Fatima - Yellow Memories (Eglo)(50) Hundred Waters - The Moon Rang Like A Bell (OWSLA)
― ticket to rmde (seandalai), Tuesday, 23 December 2014 01:36 (ten years ago)
shout out B'more City Paper for being on the right side of YG/RTJ
― alpine static, Tuesday, 23 December 2014 02:14 (ten years ago)
yeah i have to say i'm pretty proud of us being pretty much the only publication that voted My Krazy Life the album of the year (not even just hip hop album of the year, album of the year)
― some dude, Tuesday, 23 December 2014 02:35 (ten years ago)
i assume it will show up well in ilx poll
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 23 December 2014 05:20 (ten years ago)
Resident Advisor top tracks:
01. Objekt – Ganzfeld 02. Traumprinz – All The Things 03. Floating Points – King Bromeliad04. Gesloten Cirkel – Submit X 05. Mumdance – Take Time feat. Novelist 06. Marco Shuttle – Sing Like A Bird07. SOPHIE – LEMONADE 08. Barnt – Chappell 09. Caribou – Can’t Do Without You 10. Moderat – Bad Kingdom (DJ Koze Remix) 11. Leon Vynehall – It’s Just (House of Dupree) 12. Herbert – One Two Three feat. Rahel 13. Jack J – Something On My Mind 14. Floorplan – Never Grow Old (Re-Plant) 15. DVS1 – Black Russian 16. Telephones – Blaff 17. Efdemin – Parallaxis (Traumprinz’s Over 2 The End Version)18. Bruce – Not Stochastic 19. Moodymann – Lyk You Use 2 feat. Andrés 20. Leon Vynehall – Butterflies21. Frank & Tony – Companion 22. Recondite – Caldera23. QT – Hey QT 24. Aphex Twin – Minipops 67 (Source Field Mix) 25. Floating Points – Nuits Sonores 26. Theo Parrish – Footwork 27. Ten Walls – Walking With Elephants 28. Dopplereffekt – Delta Wave 29. FKA twigs – Two Weeks 30. Tessela – Rough 2 31. Daniël Jacques – End Of My World 32. Sailor & I – Turn Around (Âme remix)33. Percussions – KHLHI34. Donato Dozzy & Tin Man – Test 7 35. Daniel Avery – All I Need (Roman Flügel Remix) 36. Randomer – Huh 37. Andrew Ashong – Special 38. Edward – Skating Beats39. Lnrdcroy – Sunrise Market (Extended Version) 40. Head High – Megatrap (Real Mix) 41. C.P.I. – Proceso (Barnt Remix)42. Holly Herndon – Chorus43. Shackleton – Freezing Opening Thawing44. Kyle Hall – Our Love45. Genius of Time – Juno Jam46. Voices From The Lake – Velo Di Maya 47. The Bug – Function. feat Manga48. 2 Bitches From Queens – Delkab Ave (Beat Mix) 49. Josh Wink – Are You There (Ben Klock Remix)50. Omar-S – Frogs
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 23 December 2014 11:32 (ten years ago)
i'm having a very nice time going through the ones i haven't heard in that right now, "juno jam" is a banger
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 23 December 2014 11:34 (ten years ago)
You must have heard that one before? It was on the Talabot DJ Kicks mix last year.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 23 December 2014 11:40 (ten years ago)
I like that Mumdance & Novelist track a lot but there's something profoundly lame about it appearing so far up this particular list.
ok every track i hadn't heard before/didn't remember on this RA list is properly awesome - daniel jacques!!!!!!
(admittedly i am skipping everything related to l.i.e.s. and every incidence of the phrase "four tet alias" obv)
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 23 December 2014 12:06 (ten years ago)
and i hadn't got to "hey qt" which is my cue to abandon the list entirely
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 23 December 2014 12:07 (ten years ago)
randomer 'huh' is actually a lies banger, i was shocked to discover this year (thank q for sifting thru even idm toss)
horrible list
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 23 December 2014 12:12 (ten years ago)
The monthly Top 50 is the accumulation of all the charts listed on RA in the selected month.
This Top 50 tracks of 2014 poll is decided by the votes of RA staff members and current contributors.
¯\(°_o)/¯
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 23 December 2014 12:19 (ten years ago)
its a horrible way to listen to things, sifting through a list, but I'm finding this RA chart hard work
― saer, Tuesday, 23 December 2014 12:22 (ten years ago)
There's a Youtube playlist of some of it, I might just leave it on in the background and see what catches my ear, a lot of this hasn't registered much with me this year.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 23 December 2014 12:29 (ten years ago)
I think I hate that Sailor & I/Ame remix - have they ever remixed anything with a decent vocal?
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 23 December 2014 12:30 (ten years ago)
My problem with curated lists is that with each passing bad record, the next one is tainted, and the cumulative effect is pretty strong. Add in the 'best records of the year" baggage and its not doing any of them any favours
― saer, Tuesday, 23 December 2014 12:39 (ten years ago)
^ I get this. Suddenly 'this artist' or 'that track' becomes 'a Pitchfork band' or 'a Fact track', and I don't really like thinking about music in this way at all.
― this is just a saginaw (dog latin), Tuesday, 23 December 2014 12:44 (ten years ago)
Nah I think it's more that when you're dutifully slogging through a lot of uninspiring music it puts you in the wrong frame of mind for the good stuff, give or take the occasional wow moment.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 23 December 2014 12:48 (ten years ago)
I'll play 10 bad records on discogs and I think ok well they were just some random records on discogs, an 11th isnt tainted by the others
Play 10 bad records in a best of the year chart and i'm just waiting to get to the end of the exercise, and I dont need to hear the others enough to have that feeling
― saer, Tuesday, 23 December 2014 12:51 (ten years ago)
well you have to be in the right frame of mind, i'm multitasking and busy so it's ideal list-slogging time tbh
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 23 December 2014 12:57 (ten years ago)
also judicious skipping of shit you know you'll hate
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 23 December 2014 12:58 (ten years ago)
also i felt out of the loop with this sort of music this year so there isn't much annoyance that x/y/z isn't here instead as there is with the non-dance lists
apart from deep tech but i didn't exactly expect it anyway
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 23 December 2014 12:59 (ten years ago)
Irish Times Tracks (1) Caribou - Can’t Do Without You (City Slang)(2) Kiesza - Hideaway (Lokal Legend)(3) Future Islands - Seasons (Waiting On You) (4AD)(4) Mark Ronson - Uptown Funk (Columbia)(5) Sheppard - Geronimo (Republic)(6) Charli XCX - Break the Rules (Asylum)(7) Perfume Genius - Queen (Matador)(8) Meghan Trainor - All About That Bass (Epic)(9) CuckooLander - Dumb Dee Diddy Dumb (Self release)(10) Juce - Call You Out (Babeology)(11) Shamir - If It Wasn't True (Godmode)(12) Grimes - Go (4AD)(13) Deers - Between Cans (Lucky Number)(14) Jessie J - Bang Bang (Lava/Republic)(15) Yumi Zouma - The Brae (Cascine)(16) The Gloaming - Samhradh Samhradh (Real World)(17) Fifth Harmony - Boss (Epic/Syco)(18) Jessie Ware - Tough Love (PMR)(19) Taylor Swift - Shake It Off (Big Machine)(20) Jamie XX - All Under One Roof Raving (XL)(21) Talos - Tethered Bones (Feel Good Lost)(22) Nicki Minaj - Anaconda (Young Money)(23) Clipping - Work Work (Sub Pop)(24) Dej Loaf - Try Me (IBGM)(25) D'Angelo - The Charade (RCA)(26) The Juan Maclean - A Place Called Space (DFA)(27) Ibeyi - Mama Says (XL)(28) The Do - Trustful Hands (Siamese Squids)(29) Honne - Warm On A Cold Night (Super)(30) King - Mr Chameleon (King Creative)(31) Royal Blood - Figure It Out (Warner Bros)(32) Route 94 - My Love (Rinse)(33) Jungle - Busy Earnin' (XL)(34) Sia - Chandelier (Monkey Puzzle)(35) QT - Hey QT (XL)(36) Bobby Shmurda - Hot Nigga (GS9)(37) iLoveMakonnen - Club Goin Up on a Tuesday (Self release)(38) Sharon Van Etten - Your Love Is Killing Me (Jagjaguwar)(39) Percussions - KHLHI (Text)(40) Rae Sremmurd - No Flex Zone (Eardrummers)(41) Roisin Murphy - Ancora Tu (Vinyl Factory)(42) Röyksopp & Robyn - Do It Again (Dog Triumph/Wall Of Sound)(43) Leon Vynehall - Goodthing (3024)(44) Kendrick Lamar - i (Top Dawg)(45) Sleater-Kinney - Bury Our Friends (Sub Pop)(46) Andy Stott: - Faith in Strangers (Modern Love)(47) FKA Twigs - Two Weeks (XL)(48) Sinkane - Hold Tight (DFA)(49) Swans - A Little God In My Hands (Young God)(50) Beyonce - 7/11 (Columbia)
― ticket to rmde (seandalai), Tuesday, 23 December 2014 13:17 (ten years ago)
A Closer Listen's Global Top 20
1) A Winged Victory for the Sullen ~ Atomos (Erased Tapes)2) Kate Carr ~ Lost in Doi Saket (Sound Map)3) Erik K Skodvin ~ Flame (Sonic Pieces)4) Valerio Tricoli ~ Miseri Lares (PAN)5) Rumour Cubes ~ Appearances of Collections (Self-Released)6) Christopher Tignor ~ Thunder Lay Down in the Heart (Western Vinyl)7) This Will Destroy You ~ Another Language (Holodeck/Secretly Canadian/Suicide Squeeze)8) Christina Vantzou ~ No. 2 (Kranky)9) Petrels ~ Mima (Denovali)10) Black to Comm ~ Providence (Dekorder)11) Ian William Craig ~ A Turn of Breath (Recital)12) Lawrence English + Stephen Vitiello ~ Fable (Dragon’s Eye Recordings)13) Hiss Tracts ~ Shortwave Nights (Constellation)14) Lawrence English ~ Wilderness of Mirrors (Room40)15) Kyle Bobby Dunn ~ Kyle Bobby Dunn & the Infinite Sadness (Students of Decay)16) Death Blues ~ Ensemble (Rhythmplex)17) Matthew Collings ~ Silence is a Rhythm Too (Denovali)18) Wrekmeister Harmonies ~ Then It All Came Down (Thrill Jockey)19) P Jørgensen ~ Gold Beach (Low Point)20) Pascal Savy ~ Adrift (Eilean Records)
More ACL lists:http://acloserlisten.com/category/featured-articles/
― Dinsdale, Tuesday, 23 December 2014 13:28 (ten years ago)
am a fan of skodvin and english off that list
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Tuesday, 23 December 2014 14:10 (ten years ago)
hmm, good question. i like the vigour of his sound and the variety of textures he conjures up, it's got a really energetic performative and improvisatory feel to it. first section off that collab with pain jerk that came out this year is just stunning - feels like your brain is locked within an electrified wire cage and every time you try thinking, that tiny movement brings it into contact with the bars and you get these shooting pains jolting across the surface of your mind. and i read about the thing he did at aldeburgh in some classical music blog and that sounded amazing: basically it was a choral performance of a 16th century work known as the earthquake mass, but the manuscript of this piece is in a state of severe decay and haswell was filling in the missing parts of the score with earthquake-appropriate room-shaking noise.
so yeah, i like him on the level of it being a fun thing to stick in yr ears, but otoh it never really gets past the level of raw sensation for me. it's kind of this really tactile set of sounds that never quite becomes a language that communicates anything outside of itself. i suppose you could say this makes him a more honest artist as he doesn't rely on any emotional trickery - his music doesn't hold those intimations of deeper significance that you get with the likes of kevin drumm or tim hecker or lawrence english, there's no interpretation to be done on the part of the listener, it's more of a pure wyhiwyg sensory thing. and maybe that just frustrates my ego cos there's no ambiguity to project my own meaning on to, it's just sound waves that don't give a fuck about what i think of it. which is cool in its own way but doesn't really affect me beyond that. i'm sorry but this is just how i feel.
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Tuesday, 23 December 2014 14:43 (ten years ago)
Shindig! Magazinehttp://www.shindig-magazine.com/2014-awards.html
1. Temples - Sun Structures (Heavenly)2. Foxygen - And Star Power (Jagjaguwar)3. The Soundcarriers – Entropicalia (Ghost Box)4. Jim Noir - Finnish Line (Dook Stereo)5. Balduin - All In A Dream (Sunstone)6. Ariel Pink - Pom Pom (4AD)7. Graham Day & The Forefathers - Good Things (Own Up)8. Big Boss Man - Last Man On Earth (Blow Up)9. Jaki Liebezeit & Joachim Irmler – Flut (Klangbad)
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 23 December 2014 15:00 (ten years ago)
i read about the thing he did at aldeburgh in some classical music blog and that sounded amazing: basically it was a choral performance of a 16th century work known as the earthquake mass, but the manuscript of this piece is in a state of severe decay and haswell was filling in the missing parts of the score with earthquake-appropriate room-shaking noise.
This must be Brumel, it's beautiful & I'd be v curious to hear that although I'd about the concept
― ogmor, Tuesday, 23 December 2014 15:41 (ten years ago)
_idk_ about the concept, rather
― ogmor, Tuesday, 23 December 2014 15:42 (ten years ago)
yep, it was brumel. and i've done it a disservice in my description, i think it was probably a bit more thought through than i made it sound
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Tuesday, 23 December 2014 16:06 (ten years ago)
Get in here, goons
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/40-best-rap-albums-of-2014-20141223
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 23 December 2014 16:09 (ten years ago)
great list, whiney. "In a year this messed up, even the idea of eating Ruffles in peace was welcome escapism," does like every year end blurb need an oblique reference to this "messed up" year? it seems like a pretty weak way of adding gravitas to a blurb. and like, for whom was eating ruffles escapism from whatever political misery this is ref'ing?
― Mordy, Tuesday, 23 December 2014 16:23 (ten years ago)
if they were utz chips it would've been so much better for escaping the sociopolitical miseries of american life imo, or goldfish
― bandwagon mavs fan because rondo (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 23 December 2014 16:27 (ten years ago)
like idk ferguson, staten island, IS, crimea, malaysian flights, whew thank god for mac miller!
― Mordy, Tuesday, 23 December 2014 16:30 (ten years ago)
it's a pretty simple point about the small joys of banality in rap music, here we even have an entire thread about it rap music's memorable banalities
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 23 December 2014 16:33 (ten years ago)
lol ok sure
― Mordy, Tuesday, 23 December 2014 16:34 (ten years ago)
it's an insular and closed off mixtape, that it seems unconcerned w/ much beyond its own lil world is a large part of his appeal
it's a very easy concept to understand :-/
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 23 December 2014 16:40 (ten years ago)
XLR8R's Best of 2014http://www.xlr8r.com/features/2014/12/xlr8rs-best-2014-releases-15-1
30. Lockah - Yahoo or the Highway29. Forma Cool - Haptics28. Anthony Naples - TTT02627. Caribou - Our Love26. Claude Speed - My Skeleton25. Clark - Clark24. Juju & Jordash - Clean-Cut23. Teebs - E S T A R A22. Traumprinz - All the Things21. Aphex Twin - Syro20. John Barera & Will Martin - Graceless19. Jordan GCZ - Digitalis18. Vermont - Vermont17. Vessel - Punish, Honey16. Suzanne Kraft - Missum15. Session Victim - See When You Get There14. Gunnar Haslam - Mirrors and Copulation13. Young Marco - Biology12. Hieroglyphic Being - The Seer of Cosmic Visions11. Steffi - Power of Anonymity10. Head High - Megatrip9. Terekke - Terekke8. Objekt - Flatland7. Todd Terje - It's Album Time6. Barnt - Magazine 135. Jack J - Looking Forward To You4. Gesloten Cirkel - Submit X3. Leon Vynehall - Music for the Uninvited2. Kassem Mosse - Workshop 191. Call Super - Suzi Ecto
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Tuesday, 23 December 2014 16:50 (ten years ago)
not a bad list there
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Tuesday, 23 December 2014 17:25 (ten years ago)
That Session Victim album has some wonderful moments.
― xelab, Tuesday, 23 December 2014 17:27 (ten years ago)
05. Mumdance – Take Time feat. Novelist
this is my kinda shit, glad to see it on some lists. i can never find much uk bass in this particular vein and ilx doesn't help either, maybe i'm not digging hard enough idk. anybody up for a collaborative spotify playlist?
― cock chirea, Tuesday, 23 December 2014 17:32 (ten years ago)
Phonica Records Best of 2014
Albums: http://www.phonicarecords.com/page/best-of-2014-albums-70Singles: http://www.phonicarecords.com/page/best-of-2014-singles-69Compilations: http://www.phonicarecords.com/page/best-of-2014-compilations-65Reissues: http://www.phonicarecords.com/page/best-of-2014-reissues-68
― ticket to rmde (seandalai), Tuesday, 23 December 2014 20:24 (ten years ago)
thanks nick
― Enterprise Lesotho (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 23 December 2014 20:27 (ten years ago)
xp Yeah, another first place for Gigi Masin!
― doug watson, Tuesday, 23 December 2014 20:29 (ten years ago)
Afisha Volna's unranked list of the best pop singles:
Vintazh - CrisisQT - Hey QTAriana Grande - Break FreeGrimes - GoHannah Diamond - AttachmentTaylor Swift - Blank SpaceEva Polna - Poet LyubovHow To Dress Well - Face AgainLana Del Rey - West CoastPerfume Genius - QueenAriel Pink - Put Your Number In My PhoneJungle - TimeIvan Dorn - TeleportAzealia Banks - Miss AmorSerebro - Ya Tebya Ne OtdamCharlie XCX - Boom ClapSia - ChandelierKiesza - Bad ThingNyusha - BezotvetnayaRöyksopp and Robin - Rong
Some good stuff, some trash. PC Music is apparently a thing in Russia.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Tuesday, 23 December 2014 23:16 (ten years ago)
Did we catch this one already?http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/whats-on/music-nightlife-news/top-15-albums-2014-ed-4837091
― ticket to rmde (seandalai), Wednesday, 24 December 2014 02:38 (ten years ago)
xps that terekke record is gorgeous, glad to see it somewhere
― languagelessness (mattresslessness), Wednesday, 24 December 2014 04:20 (ten years ago)
and somehow i had no idea there was a new juju & jordash album out this year.
― languagelessness (mattresslessness), Wednesday, 24 December 2014 04:21 (ten years ago)
it's a really good one too imo!
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Wednesday, 24 December 2014 06:28 (ten years ago)
Washington Post - Top 50 Albumshttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/entertainment/2014-top-50-albums/
50. Wylie and the Wild West - Relic49 Erica Campbell - Help48 The Gotobeds - Poor People are Revolting47 Dengue Dengue Dengue - Serpiente Dorada46 Steve Gunn - Way Out Weather45 Ryley Walker - All Kinds of You44 Mary J. Blige - The London Sessions43 Little Big Town - Pain Killer42 Andy Stott - Faith in Strangers41 Tinashe - Aquarius40 James Brandon Lewis - Divine Travels39 Grenier and Archie Pelago - Grenier Meets Archie Pelago38 Chris Forsyth and the Solar Motel Band - Intensity Ghost37 Grouper - Ruins36 Obnox - Louder Space35 Priests - Bodies and Control and Money and Power34 Katy B - Little Red33 Legowelt - Crystal Cult 208032 100s - Ivry31 Leon Vynehall - Music for the Uninvited30 Gucci Mane and Young Thug - Young Thugga Mane La Flare29 Warpaint - Warpaint28 Sebastien Tellier - L'Aventura27 Sicko Mobb - Super Saiyan Vol. 126 Alex G - DSU25 Fatima Al Qadiri - Asiatisch24 Chain and the Gang - Minimum Rock N Roll23 Migos - Rich N---- Timeline22 Lil Boosie - Life After Deathrow21 Ben Frost - A U R O R A20 Kindness - Otherness19 Todd Terje - It's Album Time18 3BallMTY - Globall17 Ex Hex - Rips16 DJ Mustard - 10 Summers15 Charli XCX - Sucker14 Lori McKenna - Numbered Doors13 Horse Lords - Hidden Cities12 Eric Church - The Outsiders11 Naomi Punk - Television Man10 Hiss Golden Messenger - Lateness of Dancers9 Young Thug and Bloody Jay - Black Portland8 Popcaan - Where We Come From7 Aphex Twin - Syro6 Rich Gang - Tha Tour Part 15 Miranda Lambert - Platinum4 Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds in Country Music3 YG - My Krazy Life2 Sam Hunt - Montevallo1 D'Angelo - Black Messiah
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Wednesday, 24 December 2014 11:32 (ten years ago)
refreshingly different imo
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Wednesday, 24 December 2014 11:33 (ten years ago)
could all just be that one guys picks though but still
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Wednesday, 24 December 2014 11:35 (ten years ago)
Props for being the first list I see that includes Ryley Walker's album.
― Dinsdale, Wednesday, 24 December 2014 12:09 (ten years ago)
Chris Forsyth and the Solar Motel Band - Intensity Ghost
This is his best since Paranoid Cat, what an album!
― xelab, Wednesday, 24 December 2014 17:00 (ten years ago)
fuck the daily record and i look forward to the day it goes out of business
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 24 December 2014 17:08 (ten years ago)
forsyth album is the guitar rock album of the year by a mile
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 24 December 2014 17:23 (ten years ago)
Afisha Volna's top under-the-radar albums of 2014, and Bob Dylan / Ryan Adams for some reason:
BIS - Data Panik Etcetera Bob Dylan - 50th Anniversary CollectionBuddy - Idle TimeDollkraut - Schimanski’s Black LullabiesDonovan Blanc - Donovan BlancGet the Blessing - Lope and AntilopeHTRK - Psychic 9-5 ClubLuke Abbott - Wysing ForestPiss Test - Biggest Band in EuropeRavioli Me Away - The Inevitable AlbumRyan Adams - Ryan AdamsSleaford Mods - Divide and ExitTheo Parrish - American IntelligenceVtgnike - Real Love Doesn't Have Past TenseAnsambl Detskikh Muzikalnikh Instrumentov - DobrozlovBENZINEestOBLAKA - OGLOBLIAVladimirski Sentimentalni Salon - Bez Vsyakikh KhochuNyusha - Obedinenie
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Thursday, 25 December 2014 10:10 (ten years ago)
Hard Heavy & Old!1. Three Seasons Music - Grow2. Blues Pills - Blues Pills3. Wolfmother - New Crown4. Heat - Labyrinth5. Electric Citizen - Sateen7. Siena Root - Pioneers8. The Oath - The Oath9. Uriah Heep - Band - Outsider10. Mount Carmel - Get Pure11. Judas Priest - Redeemer Of Souls12. Louisiana Swamp Donky - Redneck Revival13. Spiders - Shake Electric14. Stubb - Cry Of The Ocean15. The Well - Samsara 16. Radio Moscow - Magical Dirt17. Märvel - Hadal Zone Express18. John Garcia - John Garcia19. Mount Salem - Endles20. Fu Manchu - Gigantoid21. Greenleaf - Trails And Passes22. Bigelf - Into The Maelstrom23. Electric Blue - Born In Sin24. Ace Frehley - Space Invader25. Abramis Brama - Enkel Biljett26. Black Moth - Condemned To Hope27. Count's 77 - Count's 7728. California Breed - California Breed29. Bloody Hammers - Under Satan's Sun30. Jeremy Irons & the Ratgang Malibus- Spirit Knife31. The Order Of Israfel - Wisdom32. The Soulbreaker Company - Graceless33. Ogre - The Last Neanderthal34. Demon Eye - Leave The Light35. Grinder Blues - Grinder Blues36. Hyne - Elements37. ACCEPT - Blind Rage38. Rage of Samedi - Sign39. BLACK LUNG - Black Lung40. 1000mods - Vultures41. Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden42. The Skull - For Those Which Are Asleep43. Purple Hill Witch - Purple Hill Witch44. Lo-Pan - Colossus45. Nashville Pussy - Up the Dosage46. Steak - Slab City47. The Picturebooks - Imaginary Horse48. Black Capricorn - Cult Of Black Friars49. Witch Mountain - Mobile Of Angels50. WEDGE - Wedge51. Castle - Under Siege52. Lucifer Was - Diesgrow53. Lonely Kamel - Shit City54. kamchatka - The Search Goes On55. The Golden Grass - The Golden Grass56. Grand Magus - Triumph And Power57. Mars Red Sky - Stranded in Arcadia58. Limestone Whale - Limestone Whale59. Mamont - The Valleys Below60. Monolord - Empress Rising61. Pilgrim - II Void Worship62. The Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell - Check Em Before You Wreck Em'63. The Vintage Caravan - Voyage64. The Graviators - Motherload65. Serpent Venom - Of Things Seen and Unseen66. Black Stone Cherry - Magic Mountain67. mortalicum - Tears from the Grave68. Below - Across The Dark River 69. Alunah - Awakening The Forest 70. A Girl's A Gun - Head Up, Above The Clouds71. Burning Saviours - Boken Om Forbannelsen72. Sheavy - The Best Of Sheavy A Misleading Collection73. Death Penalty - Death Penalty74. Lucifer's Fall - Lucifer's Fall75. The Dagger - The Dagger 76. Fuzzly - Vol II77. Blood Farmers - Headless Eyes78. Hypnos - Hypnos79. Iron Void - Iron Void80. Satyress - Dark Fortunes81. Black State Highway - Black State Highway 82. Wo Fat - The Conjuring86. Baby Woodrose - Kicking Ass and Taking Names87. Barbarinan Overlords - Rise Up 88. Salem's Pott - ...Lurar ut dig på prärien89. Brimstone Coven - Brimstone Coven90. Hjortene - Hjortene 91. Amaxa - On The Other Side92. Isole - The Calm Hunter93. Mage - Last Orders94. Desert Suns - Desert Suns 95. Season of Arrows - Season Of Arrows96. Necro (ex Necronomicon) - Necro97. Zodiac - Sonic Child98. Yob - Clearing the Path to Ascend99. Truckfighters - Universe100. Kyng - Burn The Serum
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 25 December 2014 15:33 (ten years ago)
xps"forsyth album is the guitar rock album of the year by a mile"
Was just out walking in the park listening to Yellow Square, what a fucking track!
― xelab, Thursday, 25 December 2014 16:01 (ten years ago)
Saw that lineup live last summer, pretty much blew the roof off the club
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 25 December 2014 19:06 (ten years ago)
Any sign of Rockarolla yet?
― wince (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 25 December 2014 22:24 (ten years ago)
I don't know what the deal with Rock-A-Rolla is. Last year it came out Dec. 19. Last week I was updating my subscription and emailed them asking about it, and no answer.
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 26 December 2014 17:59 (ten years ago)
i thought i saw their year-end list but upon further inspection it was Adamc-A-Rolla
http://westsidetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/b458788adb603a523901bc8d7fb04792.jpg
― some dude, Friday, 26 December 2014 18:30 (ten years ago)
I think I can guess at most of what would be in Rock-A-Rolla's top 20: YOB, Godflesh, Swans, Earth, Goat, Secret Chiefs 3, Electric Wizard, Wovenhand, Shellac, Aphex Twin, Einsturzende Neubauten, Floor, Boris, Bong, Alcest, Baptists, Helms Alee, SBTRKT, Liars, Ben Frost.
Maybe top 50: Crippled Black Phoenix, Tombs, Lantlos, Thou, Sólstafir, Melvins, Mogwai, Cynic, Ides Of Gemini, Indian, Obake, Gridlink, Giant Squid, Black Moth, The Atlas Moth, Nadja, Midnight Masses, Eyehategod, Nothing, Pallbearer, Opeth, Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band, Moab, John Garcia, Protomartyr, Gold Codes, Carla Bozulich, Have A Nice Life, Conan, Esben And The Witch, Horseback, Fucked Up, Woods Of Desolation, Comet Control, Motorpsycho, Syd Arthur, Messenger, The Soft Pink Truth, Trans Am, Flying Lotus, Maurice Louca, Fatima al Qadiri, The Skull, Serpent Venom, The Oath, Kikagaku Moyo, Total Control, Fu Manchu, Orange Goblin, Lo-Pan, Monster Magnet, Marmozets, Bracken, Pontiak, House Of Lightning, Gazpacho, Young Widows, Slomatics, The Flight Of Sleipnir, Dir En Grey, Oozing Wound, Ocean Chief.
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 26 December 2014 19:13 (ten years ago)
Oh, and of course that Scott Walker + Sunn O))) album. Substitute for one in the first list, like SBTRKT.
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 26 December 2014 19:15 (ten years ago)
^ they should just copy/paste and publish that
― alpine static, Friday, 26 December 2014 19:16 (ten years ago)
CMJ http://www.cmj.com/feature/30-best-albums-2014/30. Gotobeds – Poor People Are Revolting29. How To Dress Well – What Is This Heart?28. Jenny Lewis – The Voyager27. Giant Claw – Dark Web26. Turn To Crime – Can’t Love25. Sylvan Esso – Sylvan Esso24. Real Estate – Atlas23. Vince Staples – Shyne Coldchain Vol. 2 22. Caribou – Our Love21. Perfume Genius – Too Bright20. Secret Songs – shh#ffb6c119. Foxes In Fiction – Ontario Gothic18. Cloud Nothings – Here And Nowhere Else17. Sleaford Mods – Divide And Exit 16. Mac DeMarco – Salad Days15. Alvvays – Alvvays14. Swans – To Be Kind13. Angel Olsen – Burn Your Fire For No Witness12. Todd Terje – It’s Album Time11. Twin Peaks – Wild Onion10. Pujol – Kludge9. Alex G – DSU 8. Mitski – Bury Me At Makeout Creek7. Young Thug & Bloody Jay – Black Portland6. St. Vincent – St. Vincent5. Sharon Van Etten – Are We There4. Arca – Xen 3. Ryan Hemsworth – Alone For The First Time2. FKA Twigs – LP11. Run The Jewels – RTJ2
― mike t-diva, Friday, 26 December 2014 19:21 (ten years ago)
i did not realize CMJ was still around!
― AKA Thermo Thinwall (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 26 December 2014 19:30 (ten years ago)
Complex: http://uk.complex.com/music/2014/12/best-albums-2014/
50. Low Pros, EP 149. Tinashe, Aquarius48. Various Artists, Shady XV47. Banks, Goddess46. King Louie, Tony45. Logic, Under Pressure44. Omarion, Sex Playlist43. Arca, Xen42. Migos, No Label 241. Lucki Eck$, Body High40. Real Estate, Atlas39. A$AP Ferg, Ferg Forever38. Cozz, Cozz & Effect37. Pharrell, G I R L36. Lykke Li, I Never Learn35. Chris Brown, X34. Lecrae, Anomaly33. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib, Piñata32. Charli XCX, Sucker31. PARTYNEXTDOOR, PARTYNEXTDOOR TWO30. Isaiah Rashad, Cilvia Demo29. Ty Dolla $ign, Sign Language28. Kehlani, Cloud 1927. Jessie Ware, Tough Love26. Angel Olsen, Burn Your Fire for No Witness25. ScHoolboy Q, Oxymoron24. Sam Smith, In the Lonely Hour23. Big K.R.I.T., Cadillactica22. St. Vincent, St. Vincent21. Gangsta Boo & Beatking, Underground Cassette Tape Music20. Perfume Genius, Too Bright19. Jeezy, Seen It All: The Autobiography18. Jeremih & Shlohmo, No More EP17. Trey Songz, Trigga16. Boosie, Life After Deathrow15. Azealia Banks, Broke With Expensive Taste14. Nicki Minaj, The Pinkprint13. Vince Staples, Hell Can Wait EP12. Rich Gang, Tha Tour Pt. 111. Popcaan, Where We Come From10. FKA twigs, LP19. Caribou, Our Love8. Taylor Swift, 19897. Ariana Grande, My Everything6. Travi$ Scott, Days Before Rodeo5. D'Angelo and the Vanguard, Black Messiah4. J. Cole, 2014 Forest Hills Drive3. Lana Del Rey, Ultraviolence2. YG, My Krazy Life1. Run the Jewels, Run the Jewels 2
― mike t-diva, Friday, 26 December 2014 19:37 (ten years ago)
fRoots: http://www.frootsmag.com/content/critpoll/
1. Martin & Eliza Carthy The Moral Of The Elephant (Topic)2. Toumani & Sidiki Diabate Toumani & Sidiki (World Circuit)3. Aurelio Landini (Real World)4. Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker Nothing Can Bring Back The Hour (Folk Room)5. The Gloaming The Gloaming (Real World)6. Noura Mint Seymali Tzenni (Glitterbeat)7. Söndörgö Tamburocket Hungarian Fireworks (Riverboat)8. Richard Thompson Acoustic Classics (Proper)9.= The Furrow Collective At Our Next Meeting (Furrow) Kasai All Stars Beware Of The Fetish (Crammed)11. Nancy Kerr Sweet Visitor (Little Dish)12.= Sam Amidon Lily-O (Nonesuch) 9Bach Tincian (Real World)14.= Aziza Brahim Soutak (Glitterbeat) Kassé Mady Diabaté Kirike (No Format) Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn (Rounder) The Old Swan Band Fortyssimo (Wild Goose)18.= Julie Fowlis Gach Sgeul (Machair) Djessou Mory Kanté River Strings (Stern’s) Metá Metá Metal Metal (Desmonta/Mais Um Discos) The Young ’Uns Never Forget (Hereteu)
― mike t-diva, Saturday, 27 December 2014 10:22 (ten years ago)
Lol fastnbulbous you forgot Gallon Drunk and Excepter xp
― wince (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 27 December 2014 13:49 (ten years ago)
aQuarius Top Ten Best of 2014:
These are the top ten releases that we at aQ were collectively most excited about in 2014, as quasi-scientifically determined by a very arcane and painful process. Futhermore, they are ranked, #1 to #10, as follows...
1. KHUN NARIN ELECTRIC PHIN BAND "s/t" (Innovative Leisure)2. MAR-VISTA "Visions Of Sodal Ye" (Strawberry Rain)3. PYE CORNER AUDIO "Black Mill Tapes Volumes 1-4" (Type)4. V/A "Warfaring Strangers: Darkscorch Canticles" (Numero Group)5. TAURUS "No/Thing" (Devout)6. ECHOLOGIST "Storming Heaven" (Prologue)7. BLACK RAIN "Dark Pool" (Blackest Ever Black)8. FOSSIL AEROSOL MINING PROJECT "17 Years In Ektachrome" (Hand-Held Recordings)9. STREET TRASH (RICK ULFIK) "OST" (Lunaris)10. ALTURAZ / WIKKID "split" (Soulthief)
― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, 27 December 2014 14:29 (ten years ago)
My favourite singles. (Checked back, and for some reason I didn't post a link last year--I did the previous two years.)
― clemenza, Saturday, 27 December 2014 18:00 (ten years ago)
3. Wolfmother - New Crown
did not realise this band was still a going concern !
― mark e, Saturday, 27 December 2014 18:06 (ten years ago)
Classic Rock Albums of the Year50 California Breed - California Breed49 Amplifier - Mystoria 48 Ming City Rockers - Ming City Rockers 47 Uriah Heep - Outsider 46 Work Of Art - Framework 45 Walter Trout - The Blues Came Callin’ 44 Ginger Wildheart - Albion 43 Urban Voodoo Machine - Love, Drink And Death 42 Flying Colors - Second Nature 41 Magnum - Escape From The Shadow Garden40 Goat - Commune 39 Crobot - Something Supernatural38 The Black Keys - Turn Blue 37 John Mellencamp - Plain Spoken 36 Mastodon - Once More Round The Sun 35 The War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream34 David Crosby - Croz33 Electric Wizard - Time To Die 32 Blues Pills - Blues Pills31 H.E.A.T. - Tearing Down The Walls30 Lucinda Williams - Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone 29 Messenger - Illusory Blues 28 Chrissie Hynde - Stockholm 27 Buzzcocks - The Way 26 Ryan Adams - Ryan Adams 25 Billy Idol - Kings And Queens Of The Underground 24 Benjamin Booker - Benjamin Booker 23 Syd Arthur - Sound Mirror 22 Leonard Cohen - Popular Problems 21 Kill It Kid - You Owe Nothing20 Orange Goblin - Back From The Abyss 19 Gaslight Anthem - Get Hurt 18 Judas Priest - Redeemer Of Souls 17 Lionize - Jetpack Soundtrack 16 Blackberry Smoke - Leave A Scar 15 Joe Bonamassa - Different Shades Of Blue14 Anathema - Distant Satellites 13 Augustines - Augustines 12 Tom Petty - Hypnotic Eye 11 Wilko Johnson and Roger Daltrey - Going Back Home 10 Hiss Golden Messenger - The Lateness Of Dancers 9 Opeth - Pale Communion8 Black Stone Cherry - Magic Mountain 7 Ace Frehley - Space Invader 6 Slash Featuring Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators - World On Fire 5 Bruce Springsteen - High Hopes 4 AC/DC - Rock Or Bust 3 Robert Plant - Lullaby And... The Ceaseless Roar 2 Royal Blood - Royal Blood 1 Rival Sons - Great Western Valkyrie
― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, 27 December 2014 21:24 (ten years ago)
― mark e, Saturday, December 27, 2014 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
They are still going but no one is concerned.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Saturday, 27 December 2014 22:12 (ten years ago)
A couple people upthread were interested in narcocorridos, so here's PopMatters'/NorteñoBlog's/my lists of the best norteño and banda albums and singles (Haikunym wrote about Regulo Caro):
ALBUMS
1. Julión Álvarez y Su Norteño Banda – Soy Lo Que Quiero… Indispensable – Fonovisa2. La Nueva Rebelión – Me Hicieron Mas Fuerte – LR3. El Komander – Cazador – Twiins4. Noel Torres – La Balanza – Gerencia 360/Sony Latin5. Nena Guzman – La Iniciativa – Del/Sony Latin6. Regulo Caro - Senzu-Rah - Del/Sony Latin7. Banda Los Recoditos – Sueño XXX – Disa8. Martin Castillo – Mundo de Ilusiones – Gerencia 360/Sony Latin9. Adriel Favela – Mujeres de Tu Tipo – Gerencia 360/Sony Latin
SINGLES
1. La Nueva Rebelión – “Me Hicieron Mas Fuerte” – LR Music2. Julión Álvarez y Su Norteño Banda – “Y Así Fue” – Fonovisa3. El Komander – “Soy De Rancho” – Twiins4. Alacranes Musical – “Zapateado Encabronado #3” – A.M.5. Gerardo Ortiz – “Eres Una Niña” – Del/Sony Latin6. La Trakalosa De Monterrey – “Mi Padrino El Diablo” – Remex7. Calibre 50 ft. El Komander – “Qué Tiene De Malo” – Disa8. Los Horóscopos de Durango – “Las Chicas Malas” – Universal Latin
― dr. philth (dr. phil), Sunday, 28 December 2014 12:52 (ten years ago)
coolio, thanks. will listen to all that and promptly built a spotify list of those albums/tracks to share:http://open.spotify.com/user/forksclovetofu/playlist/4JOBXtZOcWAtiSBGWiyn3e
― MAYBE HE'S NOT THE BEST THIGH SLAPPER IN THE WORLD (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 28 December 2014 18:54 (ten years ago)
Volna's 20 electronic tracks of the year. Pretty sure they're going to drag these lists out until Orthodox new year:
Andy Stott - ViolenceCaribou - Our LoveGesloten Cirkel - Submit XSophie - HardSBTRKT - Temporary ViewTal'nik - Tsvet NadezhdiAG Cook - BeautifulObjekt - RatchetJames Blake - 200 PressMr Mitch - Don't LeaveActress - RuleCashmere Cat - PearlsPorter Robinson - Sad MachineAphex Twin - CIRCLONT14 [152.97] [shrymoming mix]Love Cult - I Smoke (Only When I’m Happy)Skrillex feat. Chance the Rapper - Coast Is ClearSD Laika - Great God PanDanny L. Harle - In My DreamsIvan Dorn - Tanets PingvinaThee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra - Any Fucking Thing You Love
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Monday, 29 December 2014 16:16 (ten years ago)
Pitchfork's Top 25 Metal Albums
1 - Thou - Heathen2 - Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden3 - Yob - Clearing the Path to Ascend4 - Tombs - Savage Gold5 - Nux Vomica - Nux Vomica6 - Blut aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta III: Saturnian Poetry7 - Godflesh - A World Lit Only By Fire8 - Woods of Desolation - As the Stars 9 - Indian - From All Purity10 - Dead Congregation - Promulgation of the Fall11 - Primordial - Where Greater Men Have Fallen12 - Morbus Chron - Sweven13 - Inter Arma - The Cavern14 - Eyehategod - Eyehategod15 - Diocletian - Gesundrian16 - Agalloch - The Serpent & the Sphere17 - Krieg - Transient18 - Gridlink - Longhena19 - Teitanblood - Death20 - Atriarch - An Unending Pathway21 - Mutilation Rites - Harbinger22 - Wreck and Reference - Want23 - Lantlôs - Melting Sun24 - Thantifaxath - Sacred White Noise25 - Planning for Burial - Desideratum
I'll never understand the Pallbearer love but it's not the worst list, I guess.
― Dinsdale, Monday, 29 December 2014 18:11 (ten years ago)
And Meat Mead Metal Top 40 (#1 and #2 yet to be revealed)
https://meatmeadmetal.wordpress.com
40. SONS OF CROM, “Riddle of Steel”39. MARE COGNITUM, “Phobos Monolith”38. BOTANIST, “VI: Flora”37. BARGHEST, “The Virtuous Purge”36. FISTULA, “Vermin Prolificus”35. CRETIN, “Stranger”34. DAWNBRINGER, “Night of the Hammer”33. TAKE OVER AND DESTROY, “Vacant Face”32. AGALLOCH, “The Serpent & the Sphere”31. 1349, “Massive Cauldron of Chaos”30. ALRAUNE, “The Process of Self-Immolation”29. EARTH, “Primitive and Deadly”28. LOTUS THIEF, “Rervm”27. FEN, “Carrion Skies”26. ANGUISH, “Mountain”25. THANTIFAXATH, “Sacred White Noise”24. THE OATH, self-titled23. YOUNG AND IN THE WAY, “When Life Comes to Death”23. YAITW, “When Life Comes to Death”22. KRIEG, “Transient”21. NIHILL, “Verderf”20. FORESEEN HKI, “Helsinki Savagery”19. WITCH MOUNTAIN, “Mobile of Angels”18. MUTILATION RITES, “Harbinger”17. OCCULTATION, “Silence in the Ancestral House”16. WROUGHT IRON, “Rejoice and Transcend”15. MENACE RUINE, “Venus Armata”14. IMPETUOUS RITUAL, “Unholy Congregation of Hypocritical Ambivalence”13. FALLS OF RAUROS, “Believe in No Coming Shore”12. TRIPTYKON, “Melana Chasmata”11. THE FLIGHT OF SLEIPNIR, “V.”10. HORRENDOUS, “Ecdysis”09. MORBUS CHRON, “Sweven”08. MORTALS, “Cursed to See the Future”07. PALLBEARER, “Foundations of Boredom”06. BLUT AUS NORD, “Memoria Vetusta III: Saturnian Poetry”05. PRIMORDIAL, “Where Greater Men Have Fallen”04. BASTARD SAPLING, “Instinct Is Forever”03. YOB, “Clearing the Path to Ascend”
― Dinsdale, Monday, 29 December 2014 18:29 (ten years ago)
Electronic Rumors: http://electronicrumors.com/2014/12/28/awards-the-electronic-rumors-awards-2014-best-album-electronic-rumors-top-20-albums-of-2014/
01: Ronika – Selectadisc 02: Tensnake – Glow03: Todd Terje – It’s Album Time 04: Röyksopp & Robyn – Do It Again 05: Chromeo – White Women 06: Hercules And Love Affair – The Feast Of The Broken Heart07: Shook – Spectrum08: Mitch Murder – Interceptor09: Mild Peril – Matter 10: Justin Faust – Spellbound 11: Lemonade – Minus Tide 12: Röyksopp – The Inevitable End 13: Queen Of Hearts – Cocoon14: Ali Love – P.U.M.P. 15: Kid Machine – First Contact16: The Juan MacLean – In A Dream 17: Xeno & Oaklander – Par Avion 18: Flight Facilities - Down To Earth 19: La Roux – Trouble In Paradise20: Electric Youth – Innerworld
― mike t-diva, Monday, 29 December 2014 19:31 (ten years ago)
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http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/20-best-avant-albums-of-2014-20141229
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 29 December 2014 19:42 (ten years ago)
Very much enjoyed that list Chris. A much needed antidote to RS naming U2 the best bloody album of the year.
― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Monday, 29 December 2014 20:21 (ten years ago)
that Golden Retriever record is great, looking forward to checking some of the other ones out
― some kind of terrible IDM with guitars (sleeve), Monday, 29 December 2014 21:18 (ten years ago)
Great list, Whiney! The Lescalleet/Drumm thing is otherworldly.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 29 December 2014 21:19 (ten years ago)
here's a few more than half that WGW list with everything Spotify has to offer on it:http://open.spotify.com/user/forksclovetofu/playlist/6u44oIDidHRenk4dujfCk4
― MAYBE HE'S NOT THE BEST THIGH SLAPPER IN THE WORLD (forksclovetofu), Monday, 29 December 2014 22:34 (ten years ago)
Jim Fusilli, WSJ“Morning Phase” Beck“Map to the Treasure: Reimagining Laura Nyro” Various Artists“Wine Dark Sea” Jolie Holland“The River & The Thread” Roseanne Cash“Colfax” the Delines“Passerby” Luluc“Blue Dream” Orenda Fink“You’re Dead!” Flying Lotus“PTSD: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder” Pharoahe Monch“Decimation Blues”, Castanets “This Is My Hand” My Brightest Diamond“Neuroplasticity” Cold Specks“Multi_Viral” Calle 13“Odludek”Jimi Goodwin“Lost In The Dream” The War On Drugs
― campreverb, Monday, 29 December 2014 23:06 (ten years ago)
Wow, is that the first time RS has published a list like that?
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 30 December 2014 00:26 (ten years ago)
Any Decent Music's Readers' albums of the year
On a related note, the general non-local lack of love for the latest Twilight Sad record astounds me. Sure I can see it being outside many of the top ten listings but not placing in most of the top 50's? Potentially the strong Scottish accent puts people off? Or maybe I'm horrendously overrating it. I can't tell.
I'm looking forward to the Dandelion Radio festive fifty - I don't tend to trust singles lists but they have been otm the last couple years. Makes me miss Peel counting it down though.
― finn_the_scot, Tuesday, 30 December 2014 00:58 (ten years ago)
SoulTracks
PUBLISHER'S PICK - Brandon Williams: XIIEDITOR'S PICK - Jarrod Lawson: Jarrod Lawson
Bernhoft: IslanderAloe Blacc: Lift Your SpiritsMary J. Blige: The London SessionsTraci Braxton: Crash & BurnD’Angelo: Black MessiahThe Dangerfeel Newbies: HarietCliff Dawson: Turn It UpShaun Escoffery: In the Red RoomAmp Fiddler: Basementality 2Christian Gregory: Count on You EPThe Groove Association Ft. Georgie B: 3AMIncognito: Amplified SoulMichael Jackson: EscapeLeela James: Fall For YouAngela Johnson: Naturally MeKwabs: Pray for Love EPLedisi: The TruthLoretta: Find A WayMali Music: Mali IsFrank McComb: Live At The Bitter End (Remembering Donny Hathaway)Portia Monique: Portia MoniqueGene Nobel: Rebirth of GeneSam Smith: In the Lonely HourAvery Sunshine: The SunroomTank: StrongerMichelle Williams: Journey to FreedomBryan Andrew Wilson: The One Percent
HONORABLE MENTION:
3 Winans Brothers: Foreign LandAfro Elements: Out of the CentreAkie Bermiss: AkieAl Jarreau: My Old Friend: Celebrating George DukeAlain Clark: Walk With MeAlgebra Blessett: RecoveryAnn Nesby: Living My LifeAnthony Valadez: In Search Of…Ben L’oncle Soul: A coup de revesBo Saris: GoldBobby Caldwell: After Darkbrik.liam: ***mr. liam’s neighborhoodBroken Bells: After The DiscoCalvin Richardson: I Am CalvinCarmen Lundy: Soul to SoulCheryl Barnes: Listen To ThisChris Jasper: The OneChromeo: White WomenClub Nouveau: ConsciousnessCody ChestnuTT: Landing On A Hundred: B Sides & RemixesDaley: Days & NightDaniel Crawford: The AwakeningDave Hollister: Chicago WindsDavid Ryan Harris: LightyearsDeRobert and the Half-Truths: I’m Tryin’ Dianne Reeves: Beautiful LifeDominique Toney: A Love Like OursElectric Wire Hustle: Love Will PrevailElli Ingram: The Doghouse EPEric Lau & Taiwah: Love Call EPEric Nolan: Mood SwingFaith Evans: IncomparableFreda Payne: Come Back To Me LoveFull Force: Full Force With Love From Our FriendsGabrielle Goodman: Spiritual TapestryGene Van Buren: StillGeorge Tandy, Jr.: The FoundationGladys Knight: Where My Heart BelongsGoapele: Strong As GlassJagged Edge: J.E. Heartbreak IIJames Tillman: Shangri La EPJennifer Holliday: The Song Is YouJennifer Hudson: JHUDJesse Boykins III: Love ApparatusJMSN: JMSNJoe: BridgesJordan Rakei: Groove CurseKeKe Wyatt: Ke’Ke’ EPKelly Price: Sing Pray LoveKEM: Promise to LoveKimbra: The Golden EchoKindred the Family Soul: A Couple FriendsKwabs: Wrong or Right EPLake Street Dive: Bad Self PortraitsLaura Mvula: Laura Mvula with Metropole Orkest Lee Fields: Emma JeanLil’ John Roberts: The HeartbeatLuke James: Luke JamesMama’s Gun: Cheap HotelMariah Carey: Me. I Am Mariah. The Elusive ChanteuseMario Biondi and The Unexpected Glimpses: DueMarsha Ambrosius: Friends & LoversMeshell Ndegeocello: Comet, Come To MeMoonchild: Please RewindMoses Sumney: Mid-City Island EPNatasha Watts: Natasha WattsNate Williams: Got To Let GoRajdularli: Journey of a WomanRaul Midon: Don’t HesitateRogiérs: The SheddingRuthie Foster: Promise of a Brand New DaySamuel Prather: Groove OrchestraSebastian Mikael: SpeechlessShaliek: Blood Sweat TearsSharon Jones & The Dap Kings: Give The People What They WantSlakah The Beatchild: Soul Movement, Vol. IISmoove & Turrell: Broken ToysSoul Basement: Yesterday Today TomorrowSouLutions: Listen/Mr. Sun Don’t Hide EPSt. Paul and The Broken Bones: Half The CitySuCh: Trial and ErrorSyleena Johnson: Chapter 6: Couples TherapyTaylor McFerrin: Early RiserTeri Tobin: Truth IsTeyana Taylor: VIIThe Revelations: The Cost of LivingTimothy Bloom: Timothy BloomTony Braxton & Babyface: Love, Marriage and DivorceWalter Christopher: The Mellisonant AlbumWill Downing: Euphoria
― cock chirea, Tuesday, 30 December 2014 01:14 (ten years ago)
i saw under the skin just recently and was struck by the soundtrack; really enjoying going back to it now
― MAYBE HE'S NOT THE BEST THIGH SLAPPER IN THE WORLD (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 30 December 2014 02:06 (ten years ago)
Yeah, we saw it about a week ago and had the same experience. At first, I was trying to figure out which Penderecki piece they were using; a little later, there was a beat behind it.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 30 December 2014 02:35 (ten years ago)
Dave MacIntosh, Scotland
1) Thunderlords: Rule the Stratosphere2) Pinksinker: Maximum Break3) Flat-Pack Granny: Golden Greats4) Meatfeast: Extra Crispy5) Fudclamp: Sketches of Swindon6) Low Hangers: How's It Hanging?7) Corrina Rizzla: Skin Me Up8) Collapsible Christ: Fold9) Stalkers: Where's Captain Quark?10) Prang: Wrang11) Munson: How to Be12) Electrosexuals: Sex Electric!!!13) Migraine: No Gain14) Plague Station: A Rush of Rush to the Head15) Bloodblister: Papercuts
― clemenza, Tuesday, 30 December 2014 03:13 (ten years ago)
not really a poll (and not 75 but 36, regardless of what the link suggests), but anyway:
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2014/12/the_best_noise_music_in_2014_the_years_top_75_noise_cuts.php
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 30 December 2014 12:55 (ten years ago)
Whoa.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 30 December 2014 14:08 (ten years ago)
xp Rock-A-Rolla doesn't publish new issue until Jan 10, so I guess that's when the list will be out.
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 30 December 2014 16:42 (ten years ago)
Mixmag:
50 Frank & Tony - You Go Girl 49 East India Youth - Total Strife Forever 48 Cooly G - Wait 'Til Night47 Call Super - Suzi Ecto 46 The 2 Bears - The Night Is Young 45 Huxley - Blurred44 Deadmau5 - While (1<2)43 Gaiser - False Light42 Ulterior Motive - The Fourth Wall41 Tokyo Prose - Presence40 Sable Sheep - Vagabond From Hell 39 Redinho - Redinho 38 Apollonia - Tour A Tour37 Slam - Reverse Proceed36 Kassem Mosse - Workshop 1935 DJ Dodger Stadium - Friend of Mine34 Andy Stott - Faith In Strangers33 Vermont - Vermont 32 Fhloston Paradigm - The Phoenix31 Perc - The Power And The Glory 30 The Bug - Angels And Devils29 Chromeo - White Women 28 Answer Code Request - Code 27 Moire - Shelter26 Actress - Ghettoville 25 Royksopp - The Inevitable End24 Metronomy - Love Letters23 Plastikman - Ex22 Porter Robinson - Worlds 21 Rustie - Green Language 20 The Juan Maclean - In A Dream 19 Clark - Clark18 Calibre - Shelflife 3 17 Taylor McFerrin - Early Riser16 Above & Beyond - Acoustic15 Tensnake - Glow 14 Childish Gambino - Because The Internet13 Banks - Goddess 12 FKA Twigs - LP111 Flying Lotus - You’re Dead! 10 Lenzman - Looking At The Stars9 SBTRKT - Wonder Where We Land8 Technimatic - Desire Paths 7 Lone - Reality Testing6 Leon Vynehall - Music For the Uninvited5 Moodymann - Moodymann4 Martyn - The Air Between Words3 Todd Terje - It’s Album Time 2 Caribou - Our Love1 Aphex Twin - Syro
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 30 December 2014 18:41 (ten years ago)
NPR top 10 metal albums, unranked:
Gridlink, LonghenaHigh Spirits, You Are HereMorbus Chron, SwevenOrigin, OmnipresentPallbearer, Foundations of BurdenRiot V, Unleash The FireSkull Fist, Chasing The DreamThou, HeathenTriptykon, Melana ChasmataWo Fat, The Conjuring
― ganglier than the Pantilimon statue (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 30 December 2014 18:50 (ten years ago)
same dude who compiled that also did this list of his favourite tracks, which is probably too personal to warrant inclusion here but did get me to listen to the (excellent) Unconscious Collective album just now
― ganglier than the Pantilimon statue (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 30 December 2014 18:55 (ten years ago)
lars rules.
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 30 December 2014 22:10 (ten years ago)
Noticing a lot of intriguing items here, esp. Whiney's picks (esp. esp. In C Mali, and maybe they'll get to Arthur Russell next). But, with this thread x my recent homework, starting to experience list blindness---gotta take a break.
― dow, Tuesday, 30 December 2014 22:49 (ten years ago)
not a list, but Aux.Out.'s EOY roundup comes out on new year's day. i have a few thoughts in there.
― Bill Nighy the Science Gighy (get bent), Tuesday, 30 December 2014 22:54 (ten years ago)
In Chrome, I look at get bent's post and hit refresh -- and the phrase "EOY" disappears from it!
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 30 December 2014 23:20 (ten years ago)
strange, because i know i typed EOY before i hit post, and it doesn't show up on the page.
― Bill Nighy the Science Gighy (get bent), Tuesday, 30 December 2014 23:22 (ten years ago)
Captain Beyond Zenhttp://captain-beyond.blogspot.de/2014/12/the-top-40-albums-of-2014.html
40. Ogre - The Last Neanderthal39. Aleph Null - Nocturnal38. Geezer - Gage37. Mos Generator - Electric Mountain Majesty36. Witch Mountain - Mobile of Angels35. Blood Farmers - Headless Eyes34. The Skull - For Those Which Are Asleep33. Wo Fat - The Conjuring32. Space God Ritual - From Void to Ocean31. Cardinals Folly - Our Cult Continues!30. Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden29. Serpent Venom - Of Things Seen & Unseen28. Limb - s/t27. Druglord - Enter Venus26. Grifter - The Return of the Bearded Brethren25. Purple Hill Witch - s/t24. The Order of the Solar Temple - s/t23. Kröwnn - Magmafröst22. Black Capricorn - Cult of Black Friars21. Brimstone Coven - s/t20. Bast - Spectres19. Curse the Son - Psychache18. Mothership - II17. Electric Citizen - Sateen16. Bloody Hammers - Under Satan's Sun15. The Graviators - Motherload14. Demon Eye - Leave the Light13. Heat - Labyrinth12. Ancient Warlocks - s/t11. Spiral Shades - Hypnosis Sessions10. Monolord - Empress Rising9. Blues Pills - s/t8. Howls of Ebb - Vigils of the 3rd Eye7. YOB - Clearing the Path to Ascend6. Dread Sovereign - All Hell's Martyrs5. Electric Wizard - Time to Die4. Wolf Blood - s/t3. The Order of Israfel - Wisdom2. Iron Void - s/t1. Possessor - Electric Hell
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 31 December 2014 00:16 (ten years ago)
That's a weird list - so many rekkids deserving higher props - The Skull, Wo Fat, SV, YOB, HoE, blues pills & a bunch of frankly boring records- demon eye, PHW, Blood Farmers. To each his own, I guess.
― BlackIronPrison, Wednesday, 31 December 2014 00:44 (ten years ago)
Spex (Germany): http://www.spex.de/2014/12/23/alben-des-jahres-2014-die-spex-charts/
1. Fatima Al Quadiri – Asiatisch2. Angel Olsen – Burn Your Fire for No Witness3. Neneh Cherry – Blank Project4. St. Vincent – St. Vincent5. FKA Twigs – LP16. Mutter – Text und Musik7. Damon Albarn – Everyday Robots8. Parquet Courts – Sunbathing Animal9. Warpaint – Warpaint10. Sleaford Mods – Divide And Exit11. Caribou – Our Love12. Run The Jewels – Run The Jewels 213. Flying Lotus – You’re Dead!14. Vessel – Punish, Honey15. Scott Walker & Sunn O))) – Soused16. Arca – Xen17. Alexis Taylor – Await Barbarians18. Amen Dunes – Love19. Richard Dawson – Nothing Important20. Ja, Panik – Libertatia
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 31 December 2014 08:50 (ten years ago)
If you look at the previous Captain Beyond Zen lists, they're historically quirky. But considering the vastness of how much is out there in those genres, I wouldn't consider anything making the top 40 as being underrated. I enjoyed giving that Wolf Blood a re-listen, but still a bit surprised with the Possessor showing.
Reckless Records Unofficial tally of staff listshttp://www.reckless.com/wordpress/?p=4809
1 Angel Olsen - Bury Your Fire For No Witness2 Aphex Twin - Syro3 Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Pinata4 Shellac - Dude, Incredible5 Ex Hex - Rips6 D’Angelo & the Vanguard – Black Messiah7 Grouper - Ruins8 Total Control - Typical System9 Liars - Mess10 Run The Jewels - RTJ211 Flying Lotus - You’re Dead!12 Budos Band - Burnt Offering13 Future Islands - Singles14 War On Drugs - Lost In A Dream15 Bitchin Bajas - Bitchin Bajas16 Cloud Nothings - Here and No Where Else17 Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Songs Of Forgiveness18 White Fence - For the Recently Found Innocent19 King Tuff - Black Moon Spell20 John Coltrane—Offering: Live At Temple University21 Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty22 Earth - Primitive and Deadly23 Ty Segall - Manipulator24 Sun Kil Moon - Benji 25 Floor - Oblation
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 31 December 2014 14:44 (ten years ago)
I'm a little intrigued by seeing more things like the RS top 20 avant-garde list and the VV noise list and the Baltimore City Paper's avant-garde and classical lists. I feel like until recently, there was little coverage of avant-garde and new music outside specialist publications like The Wire. Is this a new trend or have I just been missing these? If the former, does it reflect greater accessibility of the music for journos via Internet streaming, e.g. Bandcamp, or does the avant-garde perhaps have some kind of new cachet?
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 31 December 2014 17:03 (ten years ago)
I think it says more about me and Raymond
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 31 December 2014 17:06 (ten years ago)
Hopefully it's the beginning of a trend (thank ya, Chris).
Maura let me start doing noise stuff when she was at the Voice, but props to Brian McManus for authorizing me to do the noise list for two years then do a column for the past one (and thanks to the current VV folks for letting me keep the column rolling).
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 31 December 2014 17:18 (ten years ago)
I'm pretty sure I've seen Exclaim.ca publish lists like that before, I don't think they've done it this year though. Pitchfork has had Top Left-Field Albums or something like that as well. And NPR did one in 2012 at least.
― Dinsdale, Wednesday, 31 December 2014 17:49 (ten years ago)
Chris and Raymond definitely deserve credit. I just thought it was noteworthy that RS was willing to publish a list like this in 2014 when it doesn't seem like something they would have done previously.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 31 December 2014 17:54 (ten years ago)
For sure, MUCH respect due to Marc/Grayson at p4K who've been fighting that good fight for some time now.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 31 December 2014 18:03 (ten years ago)
As much as I'd love to help push some narrative about avant-garde music is penetrating mainstream culture, the simple, unsexy truth is I did this exact list at SPIN for two years when I worked there — but now I work at RS!
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 31 December 2014 18:03 (ten years ago)
OK, was just wondering. I haven't followed these threads most years; that's why I asked the first question about whether this has been going on for a while.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 31 December 2014 18:12 (ten years ago)
personal list: http://1000timesyes.tumblr.com/post/106739224079/cleaning-out-my-closet-the-top-100-records-of
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 31 December 2014 21:18 (ten years ago)
http://turntablelab.com/collections/turntable-lab-top-40-of-2014
This informal list was compiled by Turntable Lab employees. The list consists of records that TTL picked up in 2014: new releases, reissues, old-new-to-us titles, novelty records, etc. Many will probably be unavailable, at moment (holidays were craze), but sign up for Stock Emails if you're interested. Lastly, don't take this chart too seriously. Casey Kasem RIP.
― gr8080, Wednesday, 31 December 2014 21:31 (ten years ago)
Afisha Volna's poll of Russian critics and musicians' top 20 albums of the year doesn't deviate wildly from the international consensus. Nice to see Owen Pallett in there though.
20. Ibibio Sound Machine - Ibibio Sound Machine19. SD Laika - That's Harakiri18: The Soundcarriers - Entropicalia17. Gesloten Cirkel - Submit X16. Ratking - So It Goes15. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire With No Witness14. Owen Pallett - In Conflict13. The Bug - Angels & Demons12. Sun Kil Moon - Benji11. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 210. D'Angelo - Black Messiah9. Andy Stott - Faith in Strangers8. Actress - Ghettoville7. Todd Terje - It's Album Time6. Dean Blunt - Black Metal5. 4 Pozitsii Bruno - Ya Zakazan4. Ariel Pink - pom pom3. 3. Flying Lotus - You're Dead!2. Ivan Dorn - Randorn1. Caribou - Our Love
There is a separate list of the 20 best Russian albums which is a bit more interesting: http://volna.afisha.ru/sounds/20-luchshih-russkih-albomov-goda/
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Wednesday, 31 December 2014 22:16 (ten years ago)
The Soundcarriers is pretty nice, psych with some Stereolab influence.
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 1 January 2015 02:50 (ten years ago)
so...this Ian William Craig album is stunning. what thread do I bookmark so I catch its 2015 equivalent before mid-December? the Boomkat one?
― alpine static, Thursday, 1 January 2015 09:18 (ten years ago)
aux.out.'s writers' poll is up. too much war on drugs for me, plus i don't like rtj2 as much as everyone else.
i contributed some answers. i hope i said some thoughtful things and introduced people to some good records.
http://consequenceofsound.net/aux-out/2014-aux-out-writers-poll-aka-philzz-jop-2/full-post/
― Bill Nighy the Science Gighy (get bent), Thursday, 1 January 2015 22:23 (ten years ago)
weird -- once again, ilx is deleting words from my post. that was meant to say "writers' poll."
― Bill Nighy the Science Gighy (get bent), Thursday, 1 January 2015 22:24 (ten years ago)
i can see that in your post, fwiw
― some kind of terrible IDM with guitars (sleeve), Thursday, 1 January 2015 22:34 (ten years ago)
it might be a chrome thing.
― Bill Nighy the Science Gighy (get bent), Thursday, 1 January 2015 23:01 (ten years ago)
I think it is. (I'm using Chrome too.) The sentence said aux.out. poll when I clicked on the thread and more characters blinked into place as I watched. Now it says aux.out.'sters' poll -- weird.
― the magnetic pope has sparked (WilliamC), Friday, 2 January 2015 00:01 (ten years ago)
And just now the first two letters disappeared from the word poll at the end.
― the magnetic pope has sparked (WilliamC), Friday, 2 January 2015 00:02 (ten years ago)
A slightly delayed list submission that treads much of the same ground as others, but here...
Resident (Music shop - Brighton, UK):
1. the war on drugs - lost in the dream2. sun kil moon - benji3. angel olsen - burn your fire for no witness4. swans - to be kind5. beck - morning phase6. benjamin booker - benjamin booker7. shabazz palaces - lese majesty8. la roux - trouble in paradise9. perfume genius - too bright10. todd terje - it's album time11. the wytches - annabel dream reader12. wild beasts - present tense13. ty segall - manipulator14. damien jurado - brothers and sisters of the eternal son15. alt-j - this is all yours16. first aid kit - stay gold17. ema - the future's void18. owen pallett - in conflict19. mogwai - rave tapes20. ibibio sound machine - ibibio sound machine
Full list here: http://www.resident-music.com/collection&path=15243
The latter half offers some more interesting material (Fumaca Preta, Wen, Atomos...) and their newsletter is well worth following for weekly new releases and reissues.
― tangenttangent, Friday, 2 January 2015 13:08 (ten years ago)
1. Hugues Vincent & Yasumune Morishige - Fragment 2. Bogan Ghost - Zerfall 3. Marc Ducret - Tower-Bridge 4. Ken Vandermark - Nine Ways to Build a Bridge5. Wadada Leo Smith - Great Lakes Suite 6. Steve Lehman Octet - Mise en Abime 7. Akira Sakata - Arashi 8. Jeremiah Cymerman - Pale Horse9. Farmers by Nature - Love and Ghosts 10. Lotte Anker & Jakob Riis - Squid Police
This a top ten voted by readers of The Free Jazz Collective, only familar with the Steve Lehman one. It seems quite out there.
― xelab, Friday, 2 January 2015 13:47 (ten years ago)
Headphone Commute's first two lists are up:
Music For The Film Behind Closed EyelidsAWVFTS - ATOMOSAndy Stott - Faith In StrangersBen Frost - A U R O R ABlack Swan - Tone PoetryErik Truffaz & Murcof - Being Human BeingKangding Ray - Solens ArcLawrence English - Wilderness Of MirrorsMatthew Collings - Silence Is A Rhythm TooMica Levi - Under The SkinRoll The Dice - Until Silence
Music For Bending Light And Stopping TimeAlessandro Cortini - SonnoCeler - Sky LimitsFabio Perletta - Interstitial SpacesJanek Schaefer - Lay-By LullabyKyle Bobby Dunn - … & the Infinite SadnessMachinefabriek - Stillness SoundtracksPjusk / Sleep Orchestra - Drowning In The SkySaåad - Deep/FloatWil Bolton - BokehYann Novak - Snowfall
http://reviews.headphonecommute.com/best-of-2014/
― Dinsdale, Friday, 2 January 2015 14:32 (ten years ago)
Jesus Christ, 29 comments?
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 2 January 2015 22:53 (ten years ago)
(Oh, ha, it's Rene Kita chatting with folks mostly.)
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 2 January 2015 23:00 (ten years ago)
lawl @ Saåad - Deep/Float
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Friday, 2 January 2015 23:03 (ten years ago)
i think if i ever start my own lonely-guy-just-thinking-baout-the-cosmos ambient project i will call it Awe Diddums
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Friday, 2 January 2015 23:05 (ten years ago)
Various Dusted writers' lists: http://dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/tagged/endof2014
― ticket to rmde (seandalai), Saturday, 3 January 2015 00:02 (ten years ago)
Consensus Watch update:
70 FKA Twigs - LP158 Caribou - Our Love57 The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream56 St Vincent - St Vincent55 Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 250 Aphex Twin - Syro48 Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness45 Flying Lotus - You're Dead!43 Swans - To Be Kind43 Todd Terje - It's Album Time42 Sharon Van Etten - Are We There39 Future Islands - Singles39 Freddie Gibbs and Madlib - Pinata38 Sun Kil Moon - Benji37 Beck - Morning Phase36 Perfume Genius - Too Bright35 Mac DeMarco - Salad Days32 Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence31 Grouper - Ruins << NB this is the highest polled album to miss the charts in both the UK and US29 Spoon - They Want My Soul28 Taylor Swift - 198928 Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty26 Jack White - Lazaretto26 Real Estate - Atlas24 Andy Stott - Faith in Strangers23 Alvvays - Alvvays22 Jenny Lewis - Voyager22 East India Youth - Total Strife Forever21 Wild Beasts - Present Tense21 Scott Walker & Sun O))) - Soused21 Cloud Nothings - Here And Nowhere Else21 Ty Segall - Manipulator20 YG - My Krazy Life20 Jessie Ware - Tough Love20 Sleaford Mods - Divide and Exit20 Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animal20 Azealia Banks, Broke With Expensive Taste20 The Bug - Angels & Devils19 Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues19 Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots19 Royal Blood - Royal Blood19 Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds In Country Music18 Tinashe - Aquarius18 Arca – Xen 17 Goat - Commune17 Lykke Li, I Never Learn17 Ex Hex - Rips17 First Aid Kit - Stay Gold17 Temples - Sun Structures17 Dean Blunt – Black Metal16 Ought - More Than Any Other Day16 Alt-J - This Is All Yours16 Mastodon: Once More Round The Sun16 Pallbearer – Foundations of Burden16 Ariel Pink - Pom Pom15 Hookworms - The Hum15 The Black Keys - Turn Blue15 La Roux - Trouble in Paradise15 Warpaint - Warpaint
― mike t-diva, Saturday, 3 January 2015 16:38 (ten years ago)
damn fka really ran away with it
― Mordy, Saturday, 3 January 2015 17:42 (ten years ago)
Because that album rules
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Saturday, 3 January 2015 19:16 (ten years ago)
Uniqueness Watch: number of albums that don't appear in any other polls.(Polls with fewer than 30 entries are not listed.)
Soultracks 24/29 82.76%Textura 30/40 75%Hard & Heavy Old 35/50 70%XLR8R 16/30 53%NPR Jazz 24/50 48%The Quietus 22/50 44%The Wire 21/50 42%Classic Rock 19/50 38%Monorail Music 19/50 38%Kerrang 18/50 36%Rolling Stone Country 14/40 36%AdHoc 11/32 34%Boomkat 17/50 34%FACT 16/50 32%Mixmag 16/50 32%Phonica 15/50 30%Gorilla vs Bear 10/35 29%Guitar World 14/50 28%Norman Records 14/50 28%Tiny Mix Tapes 14/50 28%Slate 13/50 26%Washington Post 13/50 26%Rolling Stone Rap 10/40 25%Fasterlouder 12/50 24%NPR 11/50 22%Piccadilly Records 11/50 22%Sputnikmusic 11/50 22%Steel For Brains 11/50 22%Cokemachineglow 8/40 20%ILM Metal Poll 10/50 20%Louder Than War 10/50 20%Vibe 9/46 20%Waterloo Records 10/50 20%American Songwriter 9/50 18%Complex 8/50 16%Drowned in Sound 8/50 16%The Skinny 8/50 16%CMJ 4/30 13%Loud and Quiet 5/40 13%Consequence of Sound 5/50 10%Under the Radar 5/50 10%Decibel 4/40 10%Digital Spy 3/30 10%Terrorizer 5/50 10%The Line Of Best Fit 5/50 10%Popmatters 5/50 10%Rough Trade 4/50 8%Uncut 4/50 8%Variance 4/50 8%The 405 2/30 7%Flavorwire 2/30 7%Daily Telegraph 3/49 6%Drift 3/50 6%Gigwise 3/50 6%Mojo 3/50 6%Rolling Stone 3/50 6%Stereogum 3/50 6%Clash 2/40 5%The Guardian 2/40 5%Crack Magazine 2/50 4%Paste 2/50 4%Q 2/50 4%Resident 2/50 4%Rhapsody 2/50 4%Spin 2/50 4%Treble 2/50 4%Amazon 1/50 2%Pitchfork 1/50 2%Any Decent Music 0/50 0%musicOMH 0/50 0%NME 0/50 0%No Ripcord 0/50 0%Pretty Much Amazing 0/50 0%Time Out London 0/30 0%
― mike t-diva, Saturday, 3 January 2015 19:24 (ten years ago)
Instead of just counting unique entries, you could calculate the average number of mentions for each list's choices.
― glenn mcdonald, Saturday, 3 January 2015 19:40 (ten years ago)
― ticket to rmde (seandalai)
ooooh so that's where Dusted lives now
― Dinsdale, Sunday, 4 January 2015 07:25 (ten years ago)
xp that's a very interesting metric!
― dyl, Sunday, 4 January 2015 07:33 (ten years ago)
Hivemind Watch: number of albums in the Top 20 most polled (see above, Twigs to Spoon) that appear in a publication's Top 10.
Treble 10 (and 15 out of the top 16)musicOMH 9 Pitchfork 9 (and 15 out of the top 17)Popmatters 9 Pretty Much Amazing 9 (and 15 out of the top 16)Time Out New York 9 Any Decent Music 8 Consequence of Sound 8 Entertainment Weekly 8 The Guardian 8 No Ripcord 8 Q 8 AV Club 7 Resident 7 Under The Radar 7 Variance 7 Clash 6 Drift 6 Fasterlouder 6 Now (Toronto) 6 Rhapsody 6 Slant 6 Stereogum 6 Uncut 6
― mike t-diva, Sunday, 4 January 2015 15:40 (ten years ago)
This might be too labour-intensive, given the way I've tabulated my data. But maybe.
― mike t-diva, Sunday, 4 January 2015 15:42 (ten years ago)
Top 100 Albums of 2014 by Fragile Or Possibly Extinct (launched by former editors of The Silent Ballet)
100) Ilya Beshevli | Night Forest99) Beak | Let Time Begin98) Reliq | Metatropics97) Linear Bells | The Stars Will Shine96) Chasing Dreams | Even If…95) Torn Hawk| Let’s Cry and Do Pushups at the Same Time94) Eno & Hyde | Half Life93) Good Weather for an Airstrike | A Home for You92) Fait | Atmosphere91) Set and Setting | A Vivid Memory90) Objekt | Flatland89) N.Tesla | Lux Manifesto88) Kiasmos | Kiasmos87) Tapes | Finding86) Waking Aida | Eschaton85) This Patch of Sky | This Patch of Sky84) FourPlay String Quartet | This Machine83) The Echelon Effect | Pacific82) A Model Kit | Invention of Love81) NÄO | III80) Lykanthea | Migration79) SVK | Avernus78) Kangding Ray | Solens Arc77) Koen Holtkamp | Motion76) Irreversible | Surface75) Akira Kosemura | Embers74) Steve Gibbs | Adrift73) Cloudkicker | Live with Intronaut72) Tides of Man | Young and Courageous71) Erik Truffaz & Murcof | Being Human Being70) Johann Johannsson | The Theory of Everything OST69) Ryan Teague | Block Boundaries68) Chrome Sparks | Goddess67) Shield Patterns | Contour Lines66) Hauschka | Abandoned City65) Ecco | Freedom Summer64) Illum Sphere | Ghosts of Then and Now63) Arca | Xen62) Black Swan | Tone Poetry61) Sinoia Caves | Beyond the Black Rainbow OST60) Tired Tape Machine | Not Here59) Old Man Gloom | The Ape of God I & II58) Saåad | Deep/Float57) Darren Korb | Transistor OST56) To Destroy a City | Sunless55) Noveller & thisquietarmy | Reveries54) Yuki Murata | Gift53) Pray for Sound | Dreamer52) Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra | Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything51) Lucy Claire | Collaborations No. 150) Slow Magic | How to Run Away49) Degree of Arc | Halls in Hospitals48) Giles Lamb | Before the Birds47) Phantogram | Voices46) Fennesz | Bécs45) There is No Teenage Love | LAHEX44) Hot Victory | Hot Victory43) Misha Mishenko | Somnipedie42) Aphex Twin | Syro41) Bing & Ruth | Tomorrow was the Golden Age40) Flying Lotus | You’re Dead!39) Emma Ruth Rundle | Some Heavy Ocean38) Whale Fall | The Madrean37) Sleepmakeswaves | Love of Cartography36) Brooklyn Rider | The Brooklyn Rider Almanac35) Kayo Dot | Coffins on Io34) Mica Levi | Under the Skin OST33) Mermonte | Audiorama32) Iam William Craig | A Turn of Breath31) Christopher Willits | Opening30) Hans Zimmer | Interstellar OST29) Lowercase Noises | This is for Our Sins28) Rumour Cubes | Appearances of Collections27) Carlos Cipa | All Your Life You Walk26) Roll the Dice | Until Silence25) Mark McGuire | Noctilucence24) Lantlôs | Melting Sun23) Arcade Fire & Owen Pallett | Her OST22) Bruno Bavota | The Secrets of the Sea21) Loren Dent | Anthropology Vols. 2 & 320) William Ryan Fritch | Leave Me Like You Found Me19) Beware of Safety | Lotusville18) Jakob | Sines17) Poppy Ackroyd | Feathers16) Bohren & der Club of Gore | Piano Nights15) Tomorrow We Sail | For Those Who Caught the Sun in Flight14) Christina Vantzou | No.213) Christopher Tignor | Thunder Lay Down in the Heart12) A Winged Victory for the Sullen | Atomos11) Lawrence English | Wilderness of Mirrors10) Adebisi Shank | This is the Third Album of a Band Called Adebisi Shank9) Franz Kirmann | Meridians8) Odesza | In Return7) BADBADNOTGOOD | III6) Vicky Chow | Tristan Perch: Surface Image5) Kyle Bobby Dunn | And the Infinite Sadness4) Alexander Turnquist | Flying Fantasy3) Tycho | Awake2) Blueneck | King Nine1) Black Vines | Black Vines
― Dinsdale, Sunday, 4 January 2015 19:39 (ten years ago)
fun/interesting/wrong list
― ticket to rmde (seandalai), Sunday, 4 January 2015 20:30 (ten years ago)
Brainashed Readers Poll Resultshttp://brainwashed.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10301:2014-reader-poll-the-results&catid=80:annual-readers-polls&Itemid=97
― Dinsdale, Monday, 5 January 2015 07:30 (ten years ago)
DJmag Canada:djmag canada20. Head High – Megatrap19. Flight Facilities – Down To Earth18. Knife Party – Abandon Ship17. Todd Terje – It’s Album Time16. Bassnectar – Noise Vs Beauty15. Skrillex – Recess14. Chromeo – White Women13. Leon Vynehall – Music For The Uninvited12. Plastikman – EX11. Lone – Reality Testing10. Caribou – Our Love9. Hercules & Love Affair – The Feast Of The Broken Heart8. Above & Beyond – Acoustic7. Theo Parrish – American Intelligence 6. 6th Borough Project – Borough 2 Borough5. Duck Sauce – Quack4. Moodymann – Moodymann3. Porter Robinson – Worlds2. Aphex Twin – Syro1. deadmau5 – while(1<2)
― mike t-diva, Monday, 5 January 2015 11:49 (ten years ago)
Punknews:punknews20 Morning Glory: War Psalms19 Neighborhood Brats: Recovery18 PUP: PUP17 Lagwagon: Hang16 The Hotelier: Home, Like Noplace Is There14= Pianos Become The Teeth: Keep You14= Cayetana: Nervous Like Me13 Joyce Manor: Never Hungover Again11= The Copyrights: Report11= White Lung: Deep Fantasy10 Prawn: Kingfisher9 The Dwarves: The Dwarves Invented Rock 'n' Roll8 Chumped: Teenage Retirement7 Masked Intruder: M.I.6 World/Inferno Friendship Society: This Packed Funeral5 The Lawrence Arms: Metropole4 Restorations: LP33 OFF!: Wasted Years2 The Menzingers: Rented World1 Against Me!: Transgender Dysphoria Blues
Transgender Dysphoria Blues should be topping way more lists.
― MaudAddam (cryptosicko), Monday, 5 January 2015 15:16 (ten years ago)
agreed
― some kind of terrible IDM with guitars (sleeve), Monday, 5 January 2015 16:24 (ten years ago)
that shit reminds me of the holy bible by manic street preachers where i was all psyched like man this is gonna be an epic rock album based on all the stuff i read and i hear it and it's like ehh i guess i dunno seems like a solid alt rock record
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 5 January 2015 18:15 (ten years ago)
i'm not that into it, but i attribute that to my tastes and my probably being in the wrong demographic.
― mitt fleekwood (get bent), Monday, 5 January 2015 22:38 (ten years ago)
That's what I thought about TDB too. (Though not The Holy Bible)
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 11:56 (ten years ago)
Hivemind Watch, Part 2.
As requested, this shows the average number of mentions for each list's choices. Thus if a poll had nothing but unique choices, it would score 1.Yardstick note: if a publication's Top 50 contained the exact Consensus Watch Top 50, it would score 30.22. For a Top 40, it would score 33.38. For a Top 30, 37.8.I've only listed polls with at least a Top 30, but all polls have been used for the calculations (cutting off at 50 for longer polls).
No Ripcord 26.18Pretty Much Amazing 25.66Pitchfork 25.6Treble 25.5The Guardian 25Time Out London 23.4Any Decent Music 23.04NME 23.02Under The Radar 22.88Stereogum 22.74Popmatters 22.6CMJ 22.43The 405 22.4Clash 22.03Consequence of Sound 22.02Spin 21.96musicOMH 21.8The Line of Best Fit 21.46Drift 20.62Mojo 20.58Paste 20.54Gigwise 20.2Rough Trade 20.16Crack Magazine 20.04Loud and Quiet 19.78Q 19.78Rolling Stone 19.74Fasterlouder 19.48Slate 19.08Rhapsody 18.96Uncut 18.42Flavorwire 18.33The Skinny 18.3Variance 17.66Amazon 17.12Drowned in Sound 17Sputnikmusic 16.8Resident 16.66Digital Spy 16.27Waterloo Records 16.16Cokemachineglow 16.03Daily Telegraph 15.51Piccadilly Records 15.32NPR 14.8Louder Than War 14.42American Songwriter 14.28Complex 14.24Gorilla vs Bear 13.89Phonica 11.18Tiny Mix Tapes 11.1Norman Records 10.2Mixmag 10.16The Wire 10.1Monorail music 9.76AdHoc 9.75Vibe 9.43FACT 9.4The Quietus 9.2Guitar World 8.42Washington Post 8.42XLR8R 8.03Boomkat 7.34Rolling Stone Rap 6.65ILM Metal Poll 6.48Steel For Brains 6.2Terrorizer 6.14Decibel 5.68Classic Rock 5.4Juno Plus 4.7Fragile or Possibly Extinct 4.02Kerrang 4Rolling Stone Country 4Textura 2.33Hard & Heavy Old 1.92NPR Jazz 1.92Soultracks 1.66
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 14:46 (ten years ago)
That's great. Very interesting quantification of the centering of Pitchfork.
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 15:27 (ten years ago)
Has-Beens and Underperformers Watch: commercially notable acts, or acts with previous commercial or critical form, who polled low in 2014.
Listed in 3 polls: Iggy Azalea, Tove Lo, George Ezra, Kasabian, Chris Brown, The Roots, Hercules & Love Affair, Ghostface Killah, Thurston Moore, J Mascis, Death From Above 1979, Willie Nelson, Pixies, Ray LaMontagne, Mark Lanegan Band, Tensnake, Cooly G, Skrillex, Plastikman
Listed in 2 polls: Lily Allen, Coldplay, Blake Shelton, Jason Derulo, 5 Seconds Of Summer, Smashing Pumpkins, T.I., Rick Ross, deadmau5, Ben Howard, Gaslight Anthem, Mirel Wagner, Karen O, Conor Oberst, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Wiley, Roman Flügel, Deerhoof, Melvins, Tanya Tagaq
Listed in 1 poll: Calvin Harris, Neil Young, R. Kelly, Jessie J, Maroon 5, Robin Thicke, The Hold Steady, J.Cole, Aloe Blacc, Basement Jaxx, Kylie Minogue, Johnny Marr, Ben Watt, Prins Thomas, Tricky, Marianne Faithfull, Rumer, Bryan Ferry, Xiu Xiu, Jackson Browne, Lenny Kravitz, Deptford Goth, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Vamps, Foxes, Ella Henderson, Vashti Bunyan, Laetitia Sadler, Kiesza, Garth Brooks, Eels, Pulled Apart By Horses, And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Kid Cudi, Keyshia Cole, Cher Lloyd, You Me At Six, John Mellencamp, Chrissie Hynde, Edwyn Collins, Sebastien Tellier, Michelle Williams, The 2 Bears, Rustie
Listed in 0 polls: Flaming Lips, Wiz Khalifa, Jason Aldean, Florida Georgia Line, Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga, Barbra Streisand, Paloma Faith, Olly Murs, Take That, The Script
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 16:14 (ten years ago)
Trying to comprehend just how terrible a Flaming Lips album would need to be not to make a single list.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 16:20 (ten years ago)
heh, i voted for tove lo, hercules & love affair, and kiesza on my p&j singles list. to be fair, some of these people just are not regarded as album artists, so they didn't show up on albums lists.
― mitt fleekwood (get bent), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 23:42 (ten years ago)
Commercially notable acts, or acts with previous commercial or critical form, who underperformed so much they didn't even make the Has-Beens and Underperformers Watch list: Ben Harper (and his mom)
― Dinsdale, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 06:37 (ten years ago)
I saw Florida Georgia Line's song "Dirt" show up on some lists, just not their album
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 15:41 (ten years ago)
Jon Caramanica at the NYTimes put Aldean's album in his top 10:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/14/arts/music/jon-caramanica-looks-at-the-albums-of-2014.html?_r=0
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 15:56 (ten years ago)
Eh, it's not terrible. Better than the trainwreck that I expected anyway. But it's also a completely inessential release, which is why I think nobody wants to vote for it.
― ƋППṍӮɨ∏ğڵșěᶉᶇдM℮ (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 7 January 2015 16:15 (ten years ago)
People vote through a lot of inessential records from legacy acts though.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 16:16 (ten years ago)
Not really when its just a cover album though.
― ƋППṍӮɨ∏ğڵșěᶉᶇдM℮ (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 7 January 2015 16:19 (ten years ago)
Xpost to xhuxk: Yeah, I tried only to number-crunch group lists - solo lists were excluded.
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 16:55 (ten years ago)
Brainwashed reader's poll
― some kind of terrible IDM with guitars (sleeve), Wednesday, 7 January 2015 17:41 (ten years ago)
Simon Cummings has published the annual best albums/EPs list on his 5:4 blog. A wide ranging list, lots of out-there stuff. And St. Vincent. http://5against4.com/2014/12/30/best-albums-of-2014-part-1/http://5against4.com/2014/12/31/best-albums-of-2014-part-2/
― cc: Peniston (Paul in Santa Cruz), Friday, 9 January 2015 22:21 (ten years ago)
Radio Scorpio's list (from Belgium). Frequency is 106.0, hence the number of albums listed. (I had a vote in this)
1. Kassem Mosse - Workshop 192. Ariel Pink - Pom Pom3. The War On Drugs - Lost in the Dream4. Ought - More than any other Day5. Swans - To Be Kind6. Black Flower - Abyssinia Afterlife7. Arca - Xen8. Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty9. Gesloten Cirkel - Submit-X10. Thurston Moore - The Best Day11. Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 212. Grouper - Ruins13. Rape Blossoms - Ruinenlust14. Thee Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra - Fuck off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything15. Jenny Hval & Susanna - Meshes Of Voices16. Old Man Gloom - Ape of God I/II17. D'Angelo and the Vanguard - Black Messiah18. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness19. Carlos Cipa - All Your Life You Walk20. Shellac - Dude Incredible21. Dub Thompson - 9 Songs22. Vladislav Delay - Visa23. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Pinata24. MannGold de Cobre - MannGold de Cobre25. Triptykon - Melana Chasmata26. Head High - Megatrap27. FKA Twigs - LP128. Richard Dawson - Nothing Important29. Lewis - L'Amour30. Perfume Genius - Too Bright31. Theo Parrish - American Intelligence32. Edward - Into A Better Future33. Moodymann - Moodymann34. Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden35. Steve Gunn - Way Out Weather36. The Big ups - Eighteen Hours of Static37. Call Super - Suzi Ecto38. St. Vincent - St. Vincent39. Meridian Brothers - Salvadora Robot40. Todd Terje - It's Album Time41. Caribou - Our Love42. Perc - The Power & Glory43. Martyrdöd - Elddop44. Yvette - Process45. Andy Stott - Faith In Strangers46. Shackleton - Freezing Opening Thawing47. (Compilatie) More Jammys From The Roots48. Mica Levi - Under The Skin49. Caoimhin Ó Raghallaigh & Dan Trueman - Laghdú50. Morgan Delt - Morgan Delt51. Earth - Primitive and Deadly52. Clark - Clark53. Owen Pallett - In Conflict54. Gigi Masin - Talk To The Sea55. Fatima - Yellow Memories56. Traxman - Da Mind Of Traxman, Vol.257. Protomartyr - Under Color of Official Right58. Goat - Commune59. Hiele - Essential Oils60. Objekt - Flatland61. Vessel - Punish, Honey62. Marissa Nadler - July63. Bo Ningen - III64. Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else65. Mick Jenkins - The Waters66. Dj Quik The Midnight Life67. Flying Lotus - You're Dead!68. Ryley Walker - All Kinds Of You69 Yob - Clearing the Path to Ascend70. Young Widows - Easy Pain71. Ben Frost - AURORA72. GoGo Penguin - v2.073. Aphex Twin - Syro74. A Winged Victory for the Sullen - Atomos75. Total Control - Typical System76. (Compilatie) Native North America77. Ekoplekz - Unfidelity78. Mr. Mitch - Parallel Memories79. Perfect Pussy - Say Yes To Love80. Papir - IIII81. Motorpsycho - Behind the Sun82. Blank Realm - Grassed Inn83. Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band - Intensity Ghost84. Ibibio Sound Machine - Ibibio Sound Machine85. Gazelle Twin - Unflesh86. Future - Honest87. Juju & Jordash - Clean-Cut88. Nisennenmondai - N89. Hammerhead - Global Depression90. Eagulls - Eagulls91. Wireheads - The Late Great Wireheads92. Miaux - Dive93. Ian William Craig - A Turn Of Breath94. How To Dress Well - What is this Heart?95. BRNS - Patine96. Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 - A Long Way To The Beginning97. Strand of Oaks - Heal98. Sun Kil Moon - Benji99. Mono - The Last Dawn / Rays of Darkness100. Gunnar Haslam - Mirrors and Copulation101. We Stood like Kings - Berlin 1927102. Federico Albanese - The Houseboat and the Moon103. Schoolboy Q - Oxymoron104. Dj Dodger Stadium - Friend Of Mine105. Double Veterans - The Brotherhood of…106. Peaking Lights - Cosmic Logic
― maarten, Monday, 12 January 2015 17:55 (ten years ago)
oh boy, lots of really good albums there
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Monday, 12 January 2015 18:03 (ten years ago)
Wire Magazine Subscribers' List:
01 Swans To Be Kind 02 Scott Walker & Sunn O))) Soused03 Aphex Twin Syro 04 Richard Dawson Nothing Important 05 Grouper Ruins 06 Sleaford Mods Divide And Exit 07 Dean Blunt Black Metal 08 Actress Ghettoville 09 Valerio Tricoli Miseri Lares 10 Eliane Radigue Naldjorlak I II III11 Wadada Leo Smith The Great Lakes Suites 12 (tied) Flying Lotus You’re Dead! Oren Ambarchi Quixotism 14 Shabazz Palaces Lese Majesty 15 (tied) Jenny Hval & Susanna Meshes Of Voice Run The Jewels Run The Jewels 2 17 Ariel Pink Pom Pom 18 (tied) Earth Primitive And Deadly Kevin Drumm & Jason Lescalleet The Abyss 20 Steve Gunn Way Out Weather 21 (tied) Andy Stott Faith In Strangers Holly Herndon Chorus 23 (tied) Michael Pisaro Continuum Unbound Pharmakon Bestial Burden 25 (tied) Freddie Gibbs & Madlib Piñata Owen Pallett In Conflict 27 Carla Bozulich Boy 28 Ben Frost A U R O R A 29 Fatima Al Qadiri Asiatisch 30 (tied) Kasai Allstars Beware The Fetish Fennesz Becs
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 15 January 2015 13:25 (ten years ago)
Wire readers OTM
― this is just a saginaw (dog latin), Thursday, 15 January 2015 13:27 (ten years ago)
Wire readers need to like FKA twigs more IMO
― Let me help you out Charlie XCX fan (DJP), Thursday, 15 January 2015 17:21 (ten years ago)
and owen pallett could have been given a few bumps up.
― this is just a saginaw (dog latin), Thursday, 15 January 2015 17:26 (ten years ago)
that poll was dumb - you got to vote for one album out of their top 50 (don't think twigs made their main list either)
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Thursday, 15 January 2015 17:27 (ten years ago)
i cba voting in it this year
― Cosmic Slop, Thursday, 15 January 2015 17:37 (ten years ago)
Pazz & Jop Top 50, with Consensus Watch placings in brackets.
1 (77=) D'Angelo, Black Messiah2 (5) Run the Jewels, Run the Jewels 23 (3) The War on Drugs, Lost in the Dream4 (4) St. Vincent, St. Vincent5 (1) FKA Twigs, Lp16 (40=) Sturgill Simpson, Metamodern Sounds in Country Music7 (21=) Taylor Swift, 19898 (7) Angel Olsen, Burn Your Fire for No Witness9 (20) Spoon, They Want My Soul10 (33=) Against Me!, Transgender Dysphoria Blues11 (45=) Ex Hex, Rips12 (77=) Miranda Lambert, Platinum13 (8) Flying Lotus, You're Dead!14 (33=) Azealia Banks, Broke With Expensive Taste15 (11) Sharon Van Etten, Are We There16 (15) Beck, Morning Phase17 (6) Aphex Twin, Syro18 (14) Sun Kil Moon, Benji19 (10) Swans, To Be Kind20 (33=) Parquet Courts, Sunbathing Animal21 (2) Caribou, Our Love22 (18) Lana Del Rey, Ultraviolence23 (91=) New Pornographers, Brill Bruisers24 (-) Wussy, Attica!25 (33=) YG, My Krazy Life26 (27=) Jenny Lewis, The Voyager27 (27=) Ty Segall, Manipulator28 (16) Perfume Genius, Too Bright29 (73=) tUnE-yArDs, Nikki Nack30 (12=) Future Islands, Singles31 (77=) Leonard Cohen, Popular Problems32 (9) Todd Terje, It's Album Time33 (129=) Rosanne Cash, The River & the Thread34 (154=) Charli XCX, Sucker35 (12=) Freddie Gibbs & Madlib, Piñata36 (60=) Protomartyr, Under Color of Official Right37 (30=) Cloud Nothings, Here and Nowhere Else38 (222=) Lydia Loveless, Somewhere Else39 (129=) TV on the Radio, Seeds40 (19) Grouper, Ruins41 (91=) EMA, The Future's Void42 (23=) Real Estate, Atlas43 (-) Bob Dylan, The Basement Tapes Complete: the Bootleg Series Vol. 1144 (23=) Jack White, Lazaretto45 (114=) Rich Gang, Tha Tour Part 146 (60=) Owen Pallett, In Conflict47 (222=) Nicki Minaj, The Pinkprint48 (26) Alvvays, Alvvays49 (100=) White Lung, Deep Fantasy50 (21=) Shabazz Palaces, Lese Majesty
Biggest gainers in P&J: Wussy & Bob Dylan, which weren't placed in any other group polls.
Biggest losers in P&J:Mac DeMarco - Salad Days (17 in Consensus Watch, 54 in P&J)Andy Stott - Faith in Strangers (25 C, 77 P&J)Wild Beasts - Present Tense (30= C, 131 P&J)Scott Walker & Sun O))) - Soused (30= C, 58 P&J)
― mike t-diva, Friday, 16 January 2015 12:11 (ten years ago)
that run the jewels album is kind of dreadful, non?
― this is just a saginaw (dog latin), Friday, 16 January 2015 12:51 (ten years ago)
No.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 16 January 2015 12:59 (ten years ago)
Rock-A-Rolla
1 Goat - Commune2 Godflesh - A World Lit Only By Fire3 YOB - Clearing The Path To Ascend4 Earth - Primitive And Deadly5 Swans - To Be Kind6 Old Man Gloom - The Ape Of God7 Thee Silver Mt. Zion Orchestra - Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light On Everything8 Mastodon - Once More 'Round The Sun9 Einsturzende Neubauten - Lament10 Scott Walker + Sunn0))) - Soused11 Tombs - Savage Gold12 Electric Wizard - Time To Die13 Melvins - Hold It In14 Boris - Noise15 Eyehategod - Eyehategod16 Helms Alee - Sleepwalking Sailors17 Nothing - Guilty Of Everything18 Pallbearer - Foundations Of Burdon19 Music Blues - Things Haven't Gone Well20 The Austerity Program - Beyond Calculation21 Solstafir - Otta22 Tetema - Geocidal23 Watter - This World24 Serpentine Path - Emanations25 Today Is The Day - Animal Mother26 Knifeworld - The Unravelling27 Mono - The Last Dawn/Rays Of Darkness28 Triptykon - Melana Chasmata29 Menace Ruine - Venus Armata31 Obake - Mutations32 Full Of Hell & Merzbow33 Martyrdod - Elddop34 Broughton's Rules - Anechoic Horizon35 Trans Am - Volume X36 Ought - More Than Any Other Day37 ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - IX38 Okkultokrati - Night Jerks39 Witch Mountain - Mobile Of Angels40 Sunn0))) & Ulver - Terrestrials41 Philm - Fire From The Evening Sun42 Ides Of Gemini - Old World New Wave43 Kayodot - Coffins On Io44 Hark - Crystalline45 Black Bananas - Electric Brick Wall46 Bohren & Dr Club Of Gore - Piano Nights47 Floor - Oblation48 Thomas Koner - Tiento De Las Nieves49 Supersilent - 1250 Origamibiro - Odham's Standard
Not bad, there's plenty of surprises. I only guessed 10 of the top 20, and 19 overall. I need to investigate Music Blues, Knifeworld and some others.
I think I can guess at most of what would be in Rock-A-Rolla's top 20: YOB, Godflesh, Swans, Earth, Goat, Secret Chiefs 3, Electric Wizard, Wovenhand, Shellac, Aphex Twin, Einsturzende Neubauten, Floor, Boris, Bong, Alcest, Baptists, Helms Alee, SBTRKT, Liars, Sunn0))) & Scott Walker.Maybe top 50: Crippled Black Phoenix, Tombs, Lantlos, Thou, Sólstafir, Melvins, Mogwai, Cynic, Ides Of Gemini, Indian, Obake, Gridlink, Giant Squid, Black Moth, The Atlas Moth, Nadja, Midnight Masses, Eyehategod, Nothing, Pallbearer, Opeth, Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band, Moab, John Garcia, Protomartyr, Gold Codes, Carla Bozulich, Have A Nice Life, Conan, Esben And The Witch, Horseback, Fucked Up, Woods Of Desolation, Comet Control, Motorpsycho, The Soft Pink Truth, Trans Am...― Fastnbulbous, Friday, December 26, 2014 1:13 PM
Maybe top 50: Crippled Black Phoenix, Tombs, Lantlos, Thou, Sólstafir, Melvins, Mogwai, Cynic, Ides Of Gemini, Indian, Obake, Gridlink, Giant Squid, Black Moth, The Atlas Moth, Nadja, Midnight Masses, Eyehategod, Nothing, Pallbearer, Opeth, Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band, Moab, John Garcia, Protomartyr, Gold Codes, Carla Bozulich, Have A Nice Life, Conan, Esben And The Witch, Horseback, Fucked Up, Woods Of Desolation, Comet Control, Motorpsycho, The Soft Pink Truth, Trans Am...― Fastnbulbous, Friday, December 26, 2014 1:13 PM
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 16 January 2015 18:46 (ten years ago)
It looks like another great issue BTW, and can be purchased digitally for just $4.99 - http://pocketmags.com/viewmagazine.aspx?catid=1037&category=Music&subcatid=230&subcategory=Rock&title=Rock-A-Rolla&titleid=768
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 16 January 2015 18:58 (ten years ago)
Thank you! :D
A bunch of albums on there making my ballot, a couple of them v high up!
― all that glitters ain't cyber gold (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 16 January 2015 19:08 (ten years ago)
do we have a final version of the consensus watch?
― Vote in the ILM EOY Poll! (seandalai), Saturday, 17 January 2015 14:04 (ten years ago)
By a more convoluted methodology, here's the consensus ranking from acclaimedmusic.net
1 The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream2 FKA twigs - LP13 St. Vincent - St. Vincent4 Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 25 Sun Kil Moon - Benji6 Caribou - Our Love7 Swans - To Be Kind8 Aphex Twin - Syro9 Flying Lotus - You're Dead!10 Sharon Van Etten - Are We There11 Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots12 Future Islands - Singles13 Beck - Morning Phase14 Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire for No Witness15 Mac DeMarco - Salad Days16 Spoon - They Want My Soul17 Perfume Genius - Too Bright18 Todd Terje - It's Album Time19 Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence20 Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Pinata21 Wild Beasts - Present Tense22 Taylor Swift - 198923 alt-J - This is All Yours24 Ty Segall - Manipulator25 Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else26 Real Estate - Atlas27 Ariel Pink - pom pom28 Scott Walker & Sunn O))) - Soused29 Grouper - Ruins30 Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty31 Lykke Li - I Never Learn32 Sleaford Mods - Divide and Exit33 Jack White - Lazaretto34 Metronomy - Love Letters35 Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animal36 Andy Stott - Faith in Strangers37 The Bug - Angels & Devils38 Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues39 Jenny Lewis - The Voyager40 Owen Pallett - In Conflict41 Temples - Sun Structures42 Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds in Country Music43 Arca - Xen44 East India Youth - Total Strife Forever45 Warpaint - Warpaint46 Ought - More Than Any Other Day47 First Aid Kit - Stay Gold48 Ben Frost - A U R O R A49 Alvvays - Alvvays50 tUnE-yArDs - Nikki Nack51 Neneh Cherry - Blank Project52 La Roux - Trouble in Paradise53 YG - My Krazy Life54 Azealia Banks - Broke With Expensive Taste55 The Black Keys - Turn Blue56 Interpol - El Pintor57 Royal Blood - Royal Blood58 Ryan Adams - Ryan Adams59 Jungle - Jungle60 Kate Tempest - Everybody Down61 Jessie Ware - Tough Love62 Leonard Cohen - Popular Problems63 Robert Plant - lullaby and… The Ceaseless Roar64 How to Dress Well - "What is This Heart?"65 Young Fathers - Dead66 Mogwai - The Rave Tapes67 Actress - Ghettoville68 Mastodon - Once More 'Round the Sun69 Liars - Mess70 SBTRKT - Wonder Where We Land71 Banks - Goddess72 Dean Blunt - Black Metal73 YOB - Clearing the Path to Ascend74 EMA - The Future's Void75 Manic Street Preachers - Futurology76 Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden77 Chet Faker - Built on Glass78 The New Pornographers - Brill Bruisers79 Strand of Oaks - Heal80 Goat - Commune81 Ex Hex - Rips82 Behemoth - The Satanist83 Avi Buffalo - At Best Cuckold84 Protomartyr - Under Color of Official Right85 Kindness - Otherness86 Morrissey - World Peace is None of Your Business87 Elbow - The Take Off and Landing of Everything88 The Antlers - Familiars89 Afghan Whigs - Do to the Beast90 Kelis - Food91 Sylvan Esso - Sylvan Esso92 Clark - Clark93 S O H N - Tremors94 TV on the Radio - Seeds95 Merchandise - After the End96 White Lung - Deep Fantasy97 Timber Timbre - Hot Dreams98 D'Angelo and The Vanguard - Black Messiah99 Shellac - Dude Incredible100 Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers - Hypnotic Eye
― dancing cortical homunculus (Sanpaku), Saturday, 17 January 2015 17:03 (ten years ago)
god help me, i added that singles playlist to my listening collection.
― shmup....smug....shmub....shmug.... (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 17 January 2015 17:26 (ten years ago)
A couple more:
http://thefirenote.com/2014/12/18/the-blazing-top-50-albums-of-2014-2/http://www.uncut.co.uk/blog/uncut-editors-diary/the-154-best-albums-of-2014-a-very-personal-list
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 3 February 2015 13:52 (ten years ago)
Not critics but what.cd's users poll:
1 - Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 22 - Aphex Twin - Syro3 - Swans - To Be Kind4 - St. Vincent - St. Vincent5 - Flying Lotus - You're Dead!6 - D'Angelo & The Vanguard - Black Messiah7 - The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream8 - FKA Twigs - LP19 - Spoon - They Want My Soul10 - Caribou - Our Love11 - Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Piñata12 - Todd Terje - It's Album Time13 - Sun Kil Moon - Benji14 - Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire for No Witness15 - Future Islands - Singles16 - Grouper - Ruins17 - Mac DeMarco - Salad Days18 - Beck - Morning Phase19 - Andy Stott - Faith in Strangers20 - Real Estate - Atlas21 - Jack White - Lazaretto22 - alt-J (∆) - This Is All Yours23 - Sharon Van Etten - Are We There24 - Ben Frost - A U R O R A25 - Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else26 - tUnE-yArDs - Nikki Nack27 - Taylor Swift - 198928 - BADBADNOTGOOD - III29 - Ty Segall - Manipulator30 - Ariel Pink - pom pom31 - The Antlers - Familiars32 - Perfume Genius - Too Bright33 - Iceage - Plowing Into the Field of Love34 - Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence35 - Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra - Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything36 - Timber Timbre - Hot Dreams37 - Warpaint - Warpaint38 - Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots39 - Scott Walker & Sunn O))) - Soused40 - Clark - Clark41 - A Winged Victory for the Sullen - ATOMOS42 - Death from Above 1979 - The Physical World43 - Death Grips - niggas on the moon44 - Kiasmos - Kiasmos45 - Wild Beasts - Present Tense46 - Thom Yorke - Tomorrow's Modern Boxes47 - White Lung - Deep Fantasy49 - Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty50 - The Black Keys - Turn Blue51 - Clipping - CLPPNG52 - Ought - More Than Any Other Day53 - Behemoth - The Satanist54 - ODESZA - In Return55 - The Hotelier - Home, Like Noplace Is There56 - Alvvays - Alvvays57 - A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Sea When Absent58 - Jungle - Jungle59 - Mastodon - Once More 'Round the Sun60 - Weezer - Everything Will Be Alright in the End61 - Ex Hex - Rips62 - Tycho - Awake63 - Wye Oak - Shriek64 - Arca - Xen65 - Röyksopp - The Inevitable End66 - TV on the Radio - Seeds67 - Goat - Commune68 - Have a Nice Life - The Unnatural World69 - Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animal70 - The New Pornographers - Brill Bruisers71 - Trust - Joyland72 - Phantogram - Voices73 - Owen Pallett - In Conflict74 - Damien Rice - My Favourite Faded Fantasy75 - Fire! Orchestra - Enter76 - Nothing - Guilty of Everything77 - Liars - Mess78 - La Dispute - Rooms of the House79 - Cymbals Eat Guitars - LOSE80 - Pink Floyd - The Endless River81 - First Aid Kit - Stay Gold82 - Leon Vynehall - Music for the Uninvited83 - RATKING - So It Goes84 - ScHoolboy Q - Oxymoron85 - HTRK - Psychic 9-5 Club86 - How to Dress Well - "What Is This Heart?"87 - Sohn - Tremors88 - Alex G - DSU89 - Ryan Adams - Ryan Adams90 - Sylvan Esso - Sylvan Esso91 - Slow Magic - How to Run Away92 - The Body - I Shall Die Here93 - Glass Animals - Zaba94 - Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues95 - iamamiwhoami - Blue96 - Millie & Andrea - Drop the Vowels97 - Objekt - Flatland98 - Christian Löffler - Young Alaska99 - Thou - Heathen100 - Perfect Pussy - Say Yes to Love
― Dinsdale, Friday, 6 February 2015 07:33 (ten years ago)
that should read 'users poll', not sure what happened