2010 Magazine's Albums Of The Year Thread For Posting Lists and Discussion

Curious what people think the most critically popular album of the year that you wouldn't have guessed would be one of the most critically popular albums of the year is

I mean more in a "hey who thought they'd step up their game" way than a "wtf is wavves doing here" way

these lists of halfway decent music that is better promoted than other music that is as good if not better are vv informative tbqf

lists of halfway decent music that is better promoted than other music that is as good if not better

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Curious what people think the most critically popular album of the year that you wouldn't have guessed would be one of the most critically popular albums of the year is

I mean more in a "hey who thought they'd step up their game" way than a "wtf is wavves doing here" way

LOL

My answer would be These New Puritans.

i just want you all to know that i blame lex for kanye topping all of these lists

funny to have spoon ride caboose at number 25 in the av club after their Remember The 90s guy claimed they're underappreciated for being so consistently perfect

also, da croup, my mind is still blown that anyone would give salem the time of day, but i should probably stop harping on that.

wait, why are you telling me this?

because i read your post wrong

gotcha

Also, how did Jamey Johnson "happen." Like I didn't even get a promo of it. The first time i heard of him was when he was getting four page features in every magazine

The AV Club list

25. Spoon - Transference
24. Four Tet - There Is Love In You
23. Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
22. Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
21. Baths - Cerulean
20. Dessa - A Badly Broken Code
19. Yeasayer - Odd Blood
18. Call Me Lightning - When I Am Gone My Blood Will Be Free
17. Avi Buffalo - Avi Buffalo
16. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
15. Wavves - King Of The Beach
14. Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
13. Dum Dum Girls - I Will Be
12. The Black Keys - Brothers
11. Frightened Rabbit - The Winter Of Mixed Drinks
10. Robyn - Body Talk
9. Vampire Weekend - Contra
8. Superchunk - Majesty Shredding
7. Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot… The Son Of Chico Dusty
6. Janelle Monáe - The ArchAndroid
5. The Roots - How I Got Over
4. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
3. The National - High Violet
2. The Walkmen - Lisbon
1. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

step 1: take rolling stone, spin, mojo, stereogum, etc. lists
step 2: shuffle albums, relist in different order
step 3: put kanye back on top since his album is perfect

i dunno...RS top 5 article mentioned glowingly his anti blue state lyrics on a couple of songs, pretty unrepentant and harsh shit like they say, his zings against tofu and pricey wine in los angeles are pretty tough.

vv curious about what he means by "when half of california riots"?

rolling tabs on Kanye #1s

Vibe
Spin
Rolling Stone
Stereogum
Onion A/V

this is kind of unprecendented!

and i mean, adding Pitchfork and Pazz & Jop to that are kind of a given

And that makes it even more hilarious that Paste put Kanye after Mumford & Sons. Onward, little lion men

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Jamey Johnson even got some love on his prior cd Whiney. Tsk, tsk, behind on your country music knowledge.

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i would be so happy if pfork voters put something ahead of kanye for #1

:-D

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whiney's right that JJ's profile has very suddenly raised among people not actively paying attention to country, i never heard of the guy until recently and it seems like he's everywhere

Jamey Johnson even got some love on his prior cd Whiney. Tsk, tsk, behind on your country music knowledge.

What blows my mind is this dude apparently co-wrote "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk"

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whiney's right that JJ's profile has very suddenly raised among people not actively paying attention to country, i never heard of the guy until recently and it seems like he's everywhere

I sort of feel like that standard country-artist-hits-mainstream MO, though...? Like, become big in your niche which by the way a ginormous # of people listen to, then emerge onto the scene fully-formed like Athene bursting out of Zeus's forehead.

sure, but his critical profile is much higher than the average platinum country singer, let alone other merely gold-selling ones like him

i think the surprising thing is how he seems like he should be some drive-by truckers type alt-country badass while his career trajectory is more miranda lambert/taylor swift

dude even did reality TV!

Yeah, obviously. But what was the lead-up. I never saw it. I'm def not up on my country as much as I should be. But it's not like MF Doom or anything where there was like three years of indie people doing one page features and Q&As, this is like full indiecrossover right away afaik?

I even saw the Miranda Lambert leadup coming

losing your grip, dude!

(and haha i didn't know shit about this guy before everyone was like DIG THIS DOUBLE CD either)

might be the fact that he made a double CD that made people realize he was an Artist and not the new Keith Urban or something

seems like he should be some drive-by truckers type alt-country badass

Well, to be fair, so does Miranda Lambert.

what was the lead-up. I never saw it.

2009:

http://www.villagevoice.com/pazznjop/singles/2009/SGlnaCBDb3N0IG9mIExpdmluZw==/

2008:

http://www.villagevoice.com/pazznjop/albums/2008/VGhhdCBMb25lc29tZSBTb25n/

2008 album was the only album that year to make three out of four NY Times critics' Top 10s, fwiw.

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for fuckin real

i feel whiney on jamey johnson too -- i think the double album had something to do w/ it

& yes, kanye being #1 on every single album list is absurd

thanks man!

monoculture isn't dead, kanye is the monoculture

markerculture isn't dead, markers is the markerculture

kanye is such a dud to me. i don't get it. but, in all fairness, i haven't heard the new album. so, i should, i guess. but i really don't want to.

I can't wait for the "wtf were we thinking" looks back in 2015.

double album had something to do w/ it

Well, yeah -- Lots of talk about that on the album's thread. The marketing and packaging deserve an award themselves. Seems like the positive critical response the previous album got convinced Johnson and/or Mercury Records to present the new one as an Important Conceptual Work Of Art, like no Nashville country album ever before. And it worked. Three-LP vinyl version is real gorgeous.

"to present the new one as an Important Conceptual Work Of Art, like no Nashville country album ever before."

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I can't wait for the "wtf were we thinking" looks back in 2015.

you're assuming the crit picks in 2015 aren't going to be yay more dubious

chuck do you own this conceptual artistic statement from the 70's?

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Let's not forget Red Headed Stranger.

well yeah country has a zillion "concept" albums.