Good to see Oozing Wound on there. Everybody listen to Oozing Wound.
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Monday, 4 December 2023 09:58 (nine months ago) link
will give 'em a spin! as i say, i'll try a few not-heard-ofs out from that list just in case.
it always occurs to me that i'd probably be a fair candidate for a quietus contributor if i wasn't always so keen to torch all my bridges with them. DORAN. DORAN I WILL WRITE ABOUT CARDIACS WANNABE BANDS FOR YOU AND YOUR SILLY ZINE
― imago, Monday, 4 December 2023 10:07 (nine months ago) link
Oozing Wound album is good. Thymme from Cheer-accident features on a few tracks!
― imago, Monday, 4 December 2023 11:18 (nine months ago) link
the James Holden album was… not very interesting! Best records on there are the Surgeon, Gray/Hanson/Seru, and the Stetson.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Monday, 4 December 2023 12:35 (nine months ago) link
The Jellyskin is sounding quite promising 2 tracks in
― imago, Monday, 4 December 2023 13:09 (nine months ago) link
Upgrade that to 'awesome', bloody hell
― imago, Monday, 4 December 2023 13:13 (nine months ago) link
At first John Francis Flynn's closing track, a cover of "Dirty Old Town" sounded hapless and made me laugh. Then Shane died and it pretty much represented what I felt.
Benefits - Nails includes a couple members of The Chapman Family, who's Burn Your Town (2011) I liked. But man, more of that shouty Sleaford Mods stuff is rough going. I guess some people find catharsis having someone on too much cocaine/alcohol ranting at their face, spittle flying. I prefer death metal. Or old Chicago faves Oozing Wound!
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 4 December 2023 14:22 (nine months ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/best-songs-2023/
delighted we are now at the point where "super shy" is top ten. definitely the wrong olivia rodrigo single in the top ten. still don't get what everyone hears in the second half of "a&w". finally another list with jim legxacy! how did they go for "needs" and not any of tinashe's absolutely brilliant tracks this year
― ufo, Monday, 4 December 2023 14:50 (nine months ago) link
NME TOP 50 songs
https://www.nme.com/features/music-features/best-songs-of-2023-3551141
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 4 December 2023 15:25 (nine months ago) link
Every eoy best songs lists so far looking very homogenic at the top and the interesting stuff at the low end.
Guardian, pitchfork, nme and rolling stone have almost the exact same songs in the top 20.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 4 December 2023 15:33 (nine months ago) link
"A&W" deserving of the year's top spot, imo
― This field is required (morrisp), Monday, 4 December 2023 15:37 (nine months ago) link
MXLX (who won't be on any lists save this one and my own)
I actually haven't heard the new one yet, but as the one person who has repeatedly voted for Matt's work over the years, this reads verrrrry snobby to me. "Only I, imago, am visionary enough to understand this." Okay, well, just ignore me then!
― emil.y, Monday, 4 December 2023 15:43 (nine months ago) link
Yeah like “A&W” but I’m suspicious of liking it now haha
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 4 December 2023 15:44 (nine months ago) link
Would love to see any lists that don’t look like they were paid off by the same 100 PR groups. Where do all the amateur music critics of the 00s homegrown blogs broadcast their taste these days?
― zacata, Monday, 4 December 2023 15:53 (nine months ago) link
Here.
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Monday, 4 December 2023 16:01 (nine months ago) link
― emil.y, Monday, 4 December 2023 15:43 (twenty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Oh I know you've been a fan! Just, this album had a totally botched and stupid release and I just assumed basically nobody had heard it because of this, it has 3 RYM ratings total! You should absolutely grab hold of it!
― imago, Monday, 4 December 2023 16:10 (nine months ago) link
I did ramble on about it quite a lot a month ago to crickets :p
I mean the number of people I've tried to get to listen to his Won't album (about 20) rather exceeds the number who actually have (0), he's a hard sell!
― imago, Monday, 4 December 2023 16:11 (nine months ago) link
There still some 00s blogs with great eoy selections:
Said the Gramophone, gorilla vs bear, raven sings the blues, aquarium drunkard…
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 4 December 2023 16:12 (nine months ago) link
Looking forward to the Boomkat lists
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Monday, 4 December 2023 16:14 (nine months ago) link
Really enjoying the a.P.A.t.T. album from the Quietus list. It's only taken them 20 years but they've made something that doesn't have me rolling my eyes (much). Full of great tunes even!
― imago, Monday, 4 December 2023 16:22 (nine months ago) link
Love this Chappell Roan album! My favorite find from the year-end lists so far.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, December 3, 2023 12:35 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
Dan Nigro's been a busy guy this year huh.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, December 3, 2023 12:40 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
seconded
― Indexed, Monday, 4 December 2023 16:23 (nine months ago) link
this album had a totally botched and stupid release and I just assumed basically nobody had heard it because of this, it has 3 RYM ratings total! You should absolutely grab hold of it!
Aye, okay, that makes a lot more sense. Think I'm being massively oversensitive as well, so fair dos. I will seek it out.
― emil.y, Monday, 4 December 2023 16:23 (nine months ago) link
The big question for me is whether all of ilx will hate me if I nominate five+ songs from this year's Eurovision for the EoY poll. It was a good year!
― emil.y, Monday, 4 December 2023 16:29 (nine months ago) link
all good xp!
always up for eurovision nominations, think i even voted for one once without knowing it was eurovision (go_a)
― imago, Monday, 4 December 2023 16:32 (nine months ago) link
Ted Gioia:
https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-best-recordings-of-2023-honorable
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 4 December 2023 16:36 (nine months ago) link
Cabbages (best hip hop albums)
https://www.cabbageshiphop.com/best-hip-hop-rap-albums-2023/
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 4 December 2023 16:37 (nine months ago) link
I fucking love Go_A - they played London earlier this year and I told myself I would go but I'm too goddamned tired and brain-fucked these days to do travelling to gigs. Released a couple of tracks this year that I may well nom (but I'm not counting them as Eurovision any more).
xxp
― emil.y, Monday, 4 December 2023 16:37 (nine months ago) link
Treblezine top 100 songs
https://www.treblezine.com/the-100-best-songs-of-2023/
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 4 December 2023 16:56 (nine months ago) link
Xps cha cha cha will be in my track vote
― nxd, Monday, 4 December 2023 16:58 (nine months ago) link
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 4 December 2023 14:22 (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
this is one of the worst things i have ever heard, ever
― imago, Monday, 4 December 2023 17:15 (nine months ago) link
i didn't realize A&W was so beloved
― butch wig (diamonddave85), Monday, 4 December 2023 17:28 (nine months ago) link
you can get veggie burgers there, which is helpful
― rob, Monday, 4 December 2023 17:40 (nine months ago) link
Revolver - 30 Best Albums of 2023https://www.revolvermag.com/music/30-best-albums-2023including albums by Baroness, Blackbraid, Queens of the Stone Age.a rather disappointing list overall.
― djmartian, Monday, 4 December 2023 19:28 (nine months ago) link
Allmusic Year in ReviewTop 100 Albums of 2023https://www.allmusic.com/year-in-reviewhas started first up its:100 Highlighted 2023 Albums unranked in A-Z order
― djmartian, Monday, 4 December 2023 19:42 (nine months ago) link
I did ramble on about it quite a lot a month ago to crickets
I’m crickets
― meaner stinks meat bake it cone (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 4 December 2023 19:51 (nine months ago) link
Consequence 50 Best Albums of 2023https://consequence.net/2023/12/consequence-50-best-albums-of-2023-list/6/a different number 1 at Consequence 01. Yves Tumor — Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume
― djmartian, Monday, 4 December 2023 20:05 (nine months ago) link
this yves tumor album was a step down, imo
― kissinger on my list (voodoo chili), Monday, 4 December 2023 20:12 (nine months ago) link
first part of Bandcamp's Best Albums of 2023bandcamp Best Albums of 2023 A-Ehttps://daily.bandcamp.com/best-of-2023/the-best-albums-of-2023-a-e
― djmartian, Monday, 4 December 2023 20:47 (nine months ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/best-songs-2023
25. Cole Pulice: “If I Don’t See You in the Future, I’ll See You in the Pasture”For the uninitiated, it may seem like Cole Pulice is simply leaning their forearm on all the white keys of an organ before wailing on a saxophone across this very long song. But what you are actually hearing is all saxophone, including its sound being manipulated through signal processing live in the studio by the Oakland-based electro-acoustic composer’s feet. The auditory illusion fits the mood of the piece: liminal, transitory, extremely trippy. Pulice saves the best for the end, when they repeat a squiggly little pitch-bendy riff over and over: As the production is stripped away, they intimately struggle with their altissimo register, like they’re trying to crawl back into the last 22 minutes of a dream slipping away from memory. –Jeremy D. Larson
I used to babysit this kid. Good for them!
― active spectator of ecocide and dispossession (Eric H.), Monday, 4 December 2023 20:55 (nine months ago) link
a list from the UK music website, The Line of Best FitThe Line of Best Fit - Albums of the Yearhttps://www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/articles/2023-best-albums-rankedAOTY Summary - The Line of Best Fit - Albums of the Yearhttps://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/2131-the-line-of-best-fits-best-albums-of-the-year-2023/Number 1 Kara Jackson - Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?
― djmartian, Monday, 4 December 2023 21:01 (nine months ago) link
Good number 1
― Indexed, Monday, 4 December 2023 21:23 (nine months ago) link
Bristol's Crack Magazine presents their albums of the yearessential reading, plenty of interesting leftfield choices on this list to explore further.Crack Magazine - The Top 50 Albums of the Yearhttps://crackmagazine.net/article/list-article/best-albums-2023/number 1 from imago approved:Jim LegxacyHomeless N**** Pop Music(!)
― djmartian, Monday, 4 December 2023 21:24 (nine months ago) link
shocked (in a good way) to see vayda up there. fun list, probably my favorite so far
― kissinger on my list (voodoo chili), Monday, 4 December 2023 21:29 (nine months ago) link
Oh! that Crack list has a lot of albums I loved that I haven’t seen in any other list yet. Yeah probably my fave so far.
Do they also do a songs list? Interested on seeing what they rank there too.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 4 December 2023 21:34 (nine months ago) link
crickets, and fgti saying he was a really diamond bloke and then not listening to the album ;)
Bandcamp list usually has some good stuff on it...
― imago, Monday, 4 December 2023 21:38 (nine months ago) link
Crack did a top 25 tracks list last year. So we just have to wait.
― djmartian, Monday, 4 December 2023 21:45 (nine months ago) link
now that's a worthy #1, plenty of other stuff that looks interesting on that list too
― ufo, Monday, 4 December 2023 21:46 (nine months ago) link
Oh yeah! Looking at Crack’s top tracks for previous years and they have made some great choices in the past. Don’t remember paying attention before but I guess I love Crack.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 4 December 2023 21:48 (nine months ago) link
paste singles: https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/best-songs/100-best-songs-of-2023
― kissinger on my list (voodoo chili), Monday, 4 December 2023 21:53 (nine months ago) link