Surely the janitor is the US branch of LBZC?
― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 13:25 (sixteen years ago) link
apatow, more like CRAPATOW
― Free Peace Sweet!, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 13:27 (sixteen years ago) link
this guy knows my work.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 13:27 (sixteen years ago) link
You seen my work, you know my steez It's a slim chance that I'ma hesitate to squeeze, please Money never made me (no) money never played me (NO NO) .. and Money bet' not make (?) or I break his ass Subtract his ass when I step through his hood Fuck droppin you, I'm into stoppin you for good
[Lil' Fame] Stop him if you could {"You're as cold as ice"}
― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 13:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Idolator published Time Magazine's list: Albums 1. Amy Winehouse, Back To Black 2. Radiohead, In Rainbows 3. Feist, The Reminder 4. Miranda Lambert, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend 5. LCD Soundsystem, Sound Of Silver 6. Spoon, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga 7. Battles, Mirrored 8. Robert Plant And Allison Krauss, Raising Sand 9. M.I.A., Kala 10. Kanye West, Graduation Songs 1. Amy Winehouse, "Rehab" 2. Feist, "1-2-3-4" 3. Rihanna, "Umbrella" 4. LCD Soundsystem, "All My Friends" 5. Radiohead, "Jigsaw Falling Into Place" 6. 50 Cent, "I Get Money" 7. Plain White T's, "Hey There Delilah" 8. Manu Chao, "Me Llaman Calle" 9. Aly And AJ, "Potential Breakup Song" 10. The Fratellis, "Baby Fratelli"
Meanwhile, on the margins: African, Latin and Caribbean music magazine The Beat does not publish their critics poll list until March! I used to look at Latin Beat magazine's list on the newstand at Tower. Not sure where I can find that publication now (and I did not like it enough to want to subscribe).
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 13:34 (sixteen years ago) link
‘Robert Plant And Allison Krauss, Raising Sand’ is for 50-something women who listen to NPR.
(I just described my mother. Do you think I have mother issues?)
― Mr. Goodman, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 13:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Also, its weird to see The National’s ‘Boxer’ being so middle-of-the-road. Usually my favorite album will be in the top 5 of many critics polls.
― Mr. Goodman, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 13:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Why isn't beggin' in the tracks polls anywhere?
― Jamie T Smith, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 13:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Time's list isn't anywhere near as bad as I would have expected it to be. I mean, Battles!
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 13:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Baltimore City Paper's top 10 http://www.citypaper.com/special/story.asp?id=14965 1 M.I.A. Kala (Interscope) 2 Dirty Projectors Rise Above (Dead Oceans) 3 UGK Underground Kingz (Jive/Zomba) 4 Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (Merge) 5 Jesu Conqueror (Hydra Head) 6 Battles Mirrored (Warp) 7 LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver (Capitol) 8 Valet Blood Is Clean (Kranky) 9 Yellow Swans At All Ends (Load) 9 Kanye West Graduation (Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam) 10 Parts and Labor Mapmaker (Jagjaguwar)
two 9's because of a tie, apparently. I only know/like the 3 albums I voted for, but I'm kind of perversely pleased by the fact that I haven't even heard of some of the artists on this list ever.
― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 14:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Rock-a-Rolla's top 30:
1.Oxbow 'The Narcotic Story' 2.Neurosis 'Given To The Rising' 3.Tomahawk 'Anonymous' 4.Dillinger Escape Plan 'Ire Works' 5.Big Business 'Here Come The Waterworks' 6.Dälek 'Abandoned Language' 7.John Zorn 'Six Litanies For Heliogabalus' 8.Om 'Pilgrimage' 9.Jesu 'Conqueror' 10.Sleepytime Gorilla Museum 'In Glorious Times' 11.The Locust 'New Erections' 12.Angels Of Light 'We Are Him' 13.High On Fire 'Death Is This Communion' 14.Unsane 'Visqueen' 15.Acid Mothers Temple and the Melting Paraiso UFO 'Crystal Rainbow Pyramid Under The Stars' 16.KTL '2' 17.Pig Destroyer 'Phantom Limb' 18.Fog 'Ditherer' 19.Qui 'Love's Miracle' 20.Pelican 'City Of Echoes' 21.Orthodox 'Amanecer En Puerta Oscura 22.Thurston Moore 'Trees Outside The Academy' 23.Sunburned Hand Of The Man 'Fire Escape' 24.Shining 'Grindstone' 25.Magik Markers 'Boss' 26.Battles 'Mirrored' 27.Caina 'Mourner' 28.Merzbow 'Coma Berenices' 29.Pissed Jeans 'Hope For Men' 30.Liars 'Liars'
― m the g, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 14:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Not got my rock-a-rolla yet despite subscribing again.
― Herman G. Neuname, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 15:07 (sixteen years ago) link
That NME list is hilariously awful.
― three handclaps, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 15:08 (sixteen years ago) link
But, yeah, Klaxons, album of the year!
RONG.
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nor I. this is from the mailout. it only came out on monday though.
― m the g, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 15:09 (sixteen years ago) link
I thought nine of the albums on the NME list were quite good or better, which is about the same as the past five years
― DJ Mencap, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 15:10 (sixteen years ago) link
i like that rock a rolla list. first one on this thread to actually represent what i heard and found most interesting this year.
― Mark Clemente, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 15:20 (sixteen years ago) link
That NME list is hilariously awful
And awfully hilarious. How could anyone pick 50 records from 2007 without mentioning the mighty Hissing Fauna? It's starting to look like there's a conspiracy against that record.
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 15:23 (sixteen years ago) link
man, the new Onion list is totally edgy!
― latebloomer, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 15:23 (sixteen years ago) link
waaaittt let me guess - top 10 include LCD, MIA, Spoon, Battles, Radiohead, etc etc etc etc
― Mark Clemente, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 15:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Rock a Rolla did a decent job.
― Bill Magill, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 15:35 (sixteen years ago) link
pretty much, yeah (except Spoon at #11 and no Battles). SO EDGY!
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― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 15:35 (sixteen years ago) link
How could anyone pick 50 records from 2007 without mentioning the mighty Hissing Fauna?
I totally agree with you. I was listening to some of the tracks from that record last night after not listening to any Of Montreal for awhile and, man, they still blew me away.
― three handclaps, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 16:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Especially the last track, "We Were Born . . ."
― three handclaps, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 16:05 (sixteen years ago) link
no love for Deerhoof?
― poortheatre, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 16:09 (sixteen years ago) link
That came out in January, everyone forgot about it by now. :-p
― three handclaps, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 16:14 (sixteen years ago) link
FACT magazine's 20 best albums. At last someone other than ILM mentions Studio. And there's some dance music!
http://www.factmagazine.co.uk/da/66222
― Jamie T Smith, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 16:32 (sixteen years ago) link
The Chloe and Pantha Prince albums both sound great TBF
― DJ Mencap, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 16:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Have there ever been fewer debut albums represented in the critics lists than in 2007? Looks like the record biz is going for the safe nowadays.....
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 22:47 (sixteen years ago) link
w00t @ Jess voting for Charlotte Hatherley
― The Reverend, Thursday, 13 December 2007 09:11 (sixteen years ago) link
And the tracks
http://www.factmagazine.co.uk/da/66290
― Jamie T Smith, Thursday, 13 December 2007 11:07 (sixteen years ago) link
A pretty big chunk of the NME list is debut albums, Geir
― DJ Mencap, Thursday, 13 December 2007 11:14 (sixteen years ago) link
18 of them in fact. 19 if you count 'Mirrored' as being Battles' debut album
― DJ Mencap, Thursday, 13 December 2007 11:16 (sixteen years ago) link
I suspect Geir may deem the work of Battles as amelodic and rhythm dominate.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Thursday, 13 December 2007 11:16 (sixteen years ago) link
This kills me every year. I make a point of 'remembering' albums that came out between Jan. and Apr...and then those end up dominating my year-end lists.
― fukasaku tollbooth, Thursday, 13 December 2007 12:21 (sixteen years ago) link
weirdness of the vibe list has a lot to do with fennessey's mp3-addled m.o i'm supposing, that glazed-over indifference where any song could be anywhere in the chart
not that i can really talk
― r|t|c, Thursday, 13 December 2007 13:44 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, i mean..."Feel Like Dyin'"?
― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 13 December 2007 13:50 (sixteen years ago) link
but yeah besides that and 'make me better' (just...wtffff, awful song) it is not all that crazy a list really. maybe they shouldve dispensed with the numbering.
also, i was expecting that fabo song where he sings about spaceships. if fabo's album comes out it will be the worst critical rigmarole in years.
― r|t|c, Thursday, 13 December 2007 13:59 (sixteen years ago) link
since the clipse, anyway
― r|t|c, Thursday, 13 December 2007 14:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Other Music's top 25 (I'm pretty sure these are staff favorites, not top sellers):
1 TINARIWEN Aman Iman 2 PANDA BEAR Person Pitch 3 BURIAL Untrue 4 ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Strawberry Jam 5 PANTHA DU PRINCE This Bliss 6 NO AGE Weirdo Rippers 7 VARIOUS ARTISTS Skull Disco - Soundboy Punishments 8 M.I.A. Kala 9 JAY REATARD Blood Visions 10 MAGIK MARKERS Boss 11 KING KHAN & THE SHRINES What Is?! 12 VARIOUS ARTISTS After Dark 13 THE CAVE SINGERS Invitation Songs 14 ROBERT WYATT Comicopera 15 ERIC COPELAND Hermaphrodite 16 SPOON Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga 17 BAND OF HORSES Cease to Begin 18 BLACK LIPS Good Bad Not Evil 19 VAMPIRE WEEKEND EP 20 EFDEMIN Efdemin 21 STUDIO West Coast 22 THE FIELD From Here We Go Sublime 23 CHROMATICS Night Drive 24 ST. VINCENT Marry Me 25 OH NO Dr. No's Oxperiment
― Mark Clemente, Thursday, 13 December 2007 14:46 (sixteen years ago) link
top reissues can also be seen on that link
i like the OM list.
― poortheatre, Thursday, 13 December 2007 19:27 (sixteen years ago) link
WTF! WHY DO PEOPLE ACTUALLY LIKE BAND OF HORSES??
― stephen, Thursday, 13 December 2007 21:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Every time someone listens to Band of Horses, god kills a kitten.
― Mordechai Shinefield, Thursday, 13 December 2007 21:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Or even a small horse.
― Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 13 December 2007 21:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Or both.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 13 December 2007 21:34 (sixteen years ago) link
stephen I kiss you
― Matos W.K., Thursday, 13 December 2007 22:04 (sixteen years ago) link
They're sort of a watered-down Built to Spill, so maybe residual love for that band has something to do with it.
― jaymc, Thursday, 13 December 2007 22:08 (sixteen years ago) link
The indie rock's been worshipping one watered-down Built To Spill or another (Modest Mouse, Death Cab, etc.) more than BTS themselves for damn near a decade now.
― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 13 December 2007 22:26 (sixteen years ago) link
haha "the indie rock" was a funny way to phrase that, sorry, subtract "the" or add a "world/community" at the end.