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

wow

just wait til they play a juggalo gathering and you need to go

it's like a bearable version of SALEM

this mcguire album is actually quite good. there will probably be some kind of karmic retribution against me for saying this but it almost has a hejira/mingus joni type ambience. a chillwave explosions in the sky is probably a better analogy but it's been a really good cold winter afternoon listen.

Something about the drifting dreamy mood of it reminded me a lot of Popol Vuh.

Plus, that Rangers album is Salem/Antwoord for The Wire set

No idea what that means, but I've been enjoying the Rangers album. How many lists did it appear on? One or two at most?

i listened to the rangers album and was distinctly unimpressed, and i'm usually predisposed to digging that sort of thing

i find die antwoord tolerable because 1. their 'irony' is actually supposed to be funny+entertaining rather than just a lazy curtain to hide behind and 2. they are pretty catchy and fun

which fucking mcguire album am i supposed to listen to? dude came out with like three this year? thinking thats not a good sign...

I only know of two, the new one in question here and a reissue that was a compilation of some older stuff (and really great, fwiw).

The one on Mego called 'Living With Yourself'. Haven't actually heard any of the others. xp

it took me til just now to figure out that oOoOO is a completely different band from OOIOO

Although I am relived his name is actually his name and not WHOA RECONTEXTUALIZING ish like "Hype Williams" or "Phillip Seymour Hoffman" or "Dale Earnhart Jr Jr"

― mmmm... yung hummus (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, December 21, 2010 1:23 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

^^otm

"Hype Williams" as a name really annoys me.

Entertainment Weekly - 10 Best Albums of 2010

10. Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can
9. Local Natives - Gorilla Manor
8. Janelle Monae - The ArchAndroid
7. Cee Lo Green - The Lady Killer
6. Sleigh Bells - Treats
5. Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
4. The Black Keys - Brothers
3. Robyn - Body Talk
2. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
1. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

just wanna second the love for deej's year-end list, it's great

it's all hip-hop/rap though!

like, if someone puts out a year-end list that's 100% "in my world of white guitar ppl" we all lose our shit

deej's list is similarly zzzzzzzz, right?

Well, deej's is a rap list for a rap blog. I would hope his full list would be, like rawse, deeper than rap.

Real curious to see how u guys react (if at all) to my list. It's pretty whineycentric.

i for one am excited to see yr list

obv that is like an anti-compliment but whatevs

ilxor I would be honored if you did an ilxor-style data dump on my list, even if just over email

i have no problem with an all white guitar rock list if its awesome. and doesn't count out black guitar rock (if there is any that is worth hearing). and it doesn't put the suburbs and my lame homo fishstick fantasy at #1 and #2

where is your list whiney?

i am mostly interested, as and when i make my list, as to whether anyone discovers new stuff they love through it, rather than nitpicking over what's at #8 vs #9, which is broadly interchangeable anyway.

i am mostly interested, as and when i make my list, as to whether anyone discovers new stuff they love through it

^^

My list goes up Jan 3. I'll let everyone know if were still talking about this ish

why wait if it's ready now?

Cuz it ain't ready!

it's also not the end of the year yet!

Yep, records that are getting fucked on ppls lists because they're poppin out to early
--Diddy-Dirty Money
--Ghostface
--Anika

- jazmine sullivan
- ciara
- r. kelly

(- keri hilson: not likely to be on anyone's list, not even mine, but doesn't deserve to be ignored either)

...

If it isn't actually good enough to appear on anyone's best-of-the-year list, why does its release date matter?

Yep, records that are getting fucked on ppls lists because they're poppin out to early
--Diddy-Dirty Money
--Ghostface
--Anika

if more than a few random ilxors and geoff barrow stans had heard of anika, that might help a bit

that r. kelly shit is all over my list, it's really good!

At least Diddy is sure to wind up on my list next December.

geoff barrow is involved? colour me excited.

i haven't heard it yet, but i understand it's basically BEAK> (Barrow's new-ish band) with a Nico-sounding female singer, with usual Barrow production, dub/kraut/post-punk influence, bit of '60s girl group stuff, oh and it's released on Stones Throw -- one of the few labels I'll buy pretty much whatever they put out and it's almost always worthwhile

speaking of Stones Throw, is no one else following the Madlib CD series on Stones Throw this year??? not one mention anyplace. i mean it's a Madlib 11-12 CD series of archive/vault stuff + mixes, i understand it's a niche product, but any critic listening to a couple hundred plus albums in a year needs to find room for stuff like this

If it isn't actually good enough to appear on anyone's best-of-the-year list, why does its release date matter?

some individual trax are strong enough to appear on people's lists, and generally it's worth a mention in general round-ups

i'm amazed that a geoff barrow project went so under-the-radar! want to check that out

Anika is in our Top 20 but to be fair the album got so badly mishandled that it's getting "released" again at the end of January.

the madlib (2, 3 and 5 i think) i heard was nice but come on, i couldn't keep up with dude back when he wasn't releasing at least (!) one thing a month, dunno how i could this year.

speaking of Stones Throw, is no one else following the Madlib CD series on Stones Throw this year??? not one mention anyplace.

http://blog.allmusic.com/2010/12/15/allmusic-loves-2010/

http://blog.allmusic.com/2010/12/15/allmusics-favorite-reggae-albums-of-2010/

http://blog.allmusic.com/2010/12/14/allmusics-favorite-world-albums-of-2010/

OH MAN

*spends rest of workday getting lost in AMG writers' individual lists*

your list is awesome Andy!

yeah i was about to say if there's one list i most look forward to seeing it's andy's

you still slept on jeremih tho!

deej props for putting "you neva know" at #1, that's in my top 5 too i think - haven't seen anybody talk about that one in a while

(Thanks, you guys.)

Here are some lists by a bunch of political writers, in case you want to know what's blasting out of the speakers at Foreign Policy magazine or the Cato Institute:

http://gq.tumblr.com/post/2418770447/political-hacks-best-music-of-2010

Dave Weigel, Reporter, Slate.com

* Rick Ross - Teflon Don

XD

i'm sure i'm not the first to say this but i would not have predicted the emergence of "did it on em" as the consensus nicki minaj track on these list. in retrospect it kind of makes sense, but really?

Charles Homans, Associate Editor, Foreign Policy

* Das Racist: Shut Up, Dude