xp - I actually LOLed at "NUMBER 1: some bloke humming transcendentally over distorted tape loops of concrete being laid (The Wire)"
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 12:47 (ten years ago) link
Wait, he makes that same joke every year?
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 12:49 (ten years ago) link
last few #1 albums in the Wire have been Laurel Halo, James Ferraro, Actress, Broadcast, The Bug, Robert Wyatt and Burial so that's not really that accurate tbh
― rp boo bryson (NickB), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 12:51 (ten years ago) link
as always, a handful of OTM zings disguise the fact that 75% of the vice piece is hoary rockcrit received wisdom, lazy anti-pop snobbery or just total nonsense
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 12:51 (ten years ago) link
the thing is if vice really wanted to skewer EOY pretensions/bullshit they could probably do it quite well but it's not like they're any different to anyone else
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 12:54 (ten years ago) link
Really? Which bits?
― Deafening silence (DL), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 12:54 (ten years ago) link
Pretty scary to see how irrelevant most of the 2012 names sound today: Django Django? Peaking Lights? Mac DeMarco?
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 12:56 (ten years ago) link
lol lex just because you choose to listen to miley cyrus m8, chill out lmao
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 12:57 (ten years ago) link
also the divide isn't between "records no one felt passionately about" and "records some people loved and others hated" - the latter ALWAYS make it into EOY lists - it's between "records that people heard because the band got their positioning and PR etc right" and "records that three people heard and loved but no one else even bothered to listen to"
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 12:57 (ten years ago) link
DY i think your attempt at an insouciant posting style would work better with either the lol at the start or the lmao at the end but not both, bc that's a bit try-hard tbh
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 12:58 (ten years ago) link
wow you're easily scared
― nashwan, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 13:00 (ten years ago) link
like to mix it up, shows much much im laughing innit
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 13:00 (ten years ago) link
Vice list is pretty funny but loses marks for recycling several of its jokes from last year.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 13:02 (ten years ago) link
25: Miley Cyrus. Clearly no one actually listened to this sludge, but the staff must pretend they’ve been devouring it to justify a) the large photo of Cyrus fingering herself with a hammer / foam finger and b) a thinkpiece boxout called "Was 2013 The Year Pop Went Punk?" or "The Return Of The Spectacle" or some other such contrived horseshit.
this is basically on the level of the guardian commenters we've been correctly mocking
45: The A$AP Ferg album strategically listed a few places higher than the A$AP Rocky record ('cus we know our shit).
or because it's better?
29: Rapper who does things to girls that Robin Thicke wouldn't in a million years, yet has surfed the wave towards acclaim because all the nakedness in his videos is so haphazardly vulgar and genuinely worrying that no one could possibly cobble together a cogent and newspaper-friendly piece of thumbsuck op-ed about it.
everyone knows those scary, bad rappers are the most misogynistic scum of all yet somehow they avoid any criticism for it, oh wait // oh wait
26: At least one person in the office is dating a minor-league pop player. This is her / his album.
would be a better zing if it was "mates with" not "dating" but that might be a lil too on the nose
11: Ominous point in human history where people voting for Drake as a joke meets people voting for Drake because they are deadly serious. This is basically how the Nazis got power.
did anyone vote drake as a joke ever?
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 13:06 (ten years ago) link
I know humour isn't your thing Lex but it's meant to be funny.
― Deafening silence (DL), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 13:07 (ten years ago) link
49: Act who would be several places higher had their heroic refusal to sell out to the Spotify bloodsuckers meant that practically no one got round to listening to their record.
Was this Future of the Left? Their album is GREAT and the story behind them having to pretty much fund and produce the other thing entirely themselves is something I keep meaning to read up about more.
― a beef supreme (dog latin), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 13:08 (ten years ago) link
but it's cliché after cliché! about three of them are funny.
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 13:10 (ten years ago) link
I trust your opinion on many things but you're always saying how much you hate comedy so you're not my go-to guy when it comes to funny. 80% of it worked for me. Agree that the Miley Cyrus entry is lazy though.
― Deafening silence (DL), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 13:13 (ten years ago) link
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, December 10, 2013 12:56 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
not sure what this is referring to but I think it says more about you than the '2012 names'
to take the one act of those three I care about as an example, why are Peaking Lights (a once fairly prolific duo who now have a baby together) obliged to release music within a 12-month window for the sole purpose of staying "relevant"
― screaming lord, such opinion (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 13:17 (ten years ago) link
In fairness, it is mostly zings at indie bands.
48. Rapper who has done things that would make Chris Brown cut off his dick in shame, but because they're not to anyone famous, they still count towards his grizzled street cred with Pitchfork readers who are too scared and confused by WSHH to get their news from source.
From last year's list. SMDH @ Vice.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 13:17 (ten years ago) link
Many of them are very similar to last year's, and the year before. Which is kind of the point about these lists, in some ways.
― I can still taste the Taboo in my mouth when I hear those songs (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 13:18 (ten years ago) link
xps the new FOTL album seems to be on Spotify and had a press officer and all that jazz so doesn't really fit the bill
― screaming lord, such opinion (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 13:20 (ten years ago) link
― lex pretend, Tuesday, December 10, 2013 12:58 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
haha
― i am curious #yolo (wins), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 13:22 (ten years ago) link
Bleep Top 50 Albums
Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus SevenSpecial Request - Soul MusicTim Hecker - VirginsThe National - Trouble Will Find MeBoards of Canada - Tomorrow's HarvestThese New Puritans - Field of ReedsHolden - The InheritorsForest Swords - EngravingsFuck Buttons - Slow FocusKaren Gwyer - Needs ContinuumFour Tet - Beautiful RewindAutechre - ExaiMount Kimbie - Cold Spring Fault Less YouthFactory Floor - Factory FloorJohn Roberts - FencesMachinedrum - Vapor CityKanye West - YeezusThe Haxan Cloak - ExcavationDarkside (Nicolas Jaar + Dave Harrington) - PsychicJessy Lanza - Pull My Hair BackOmar Souleyman - Wenu WenuLaurel Halo - Chance of RainRon Morelli - SpitYoung Echo - NexusZomby - With LoveModerat - IIRecondite - HinterlandFloorplan (Robert Hood) - ParadiseThe Knife - Shaking The HabitualThundercat - ApocalypseArctic Monkeys - AMWolf Eyes - No Answer: Lower FloorsAtom TM - HDTropic Of Cancer - Restless IdyllsKMFH (Kyle Hall) - The Boat PartyConnan Mockasin - CaramelDaft Punk - Random Access MemoriesFalty DL - HardcourageMika Vainio - KiloBeautiful Swimmers - Sonsenking - Capsize RecoverySano - SanoRabih Beaini - AlbidayaRoly Porter - Life Cycle Of A Massive StarFunction - IncubationJulia Holter - Loud City SongAtoms For Peace - AMOKZed Bias - BossRene Hell - Vanilla Call OptionJohn Wizards - John Wizards
― freemen (on the) space (seandalai), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 13:31 (ten years ago) link
NPR Music's 50 Favorite Albums Of 2013http://www.npr.org/blogs/bestmusic2013/2013/12/10/249243871/npr-musics-50-favorite-albums-of-2013
― rp boo bryson (NickB), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 13:32 (ten years ago) link
Kyle Hall - The Boat Party
^ been meaning to buy this all year long
― rp boo bryson (NickB), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 13:34 (ten years ago) link
The National in that top five is just bizarre.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 13:34 (ten years ago) link
They just can't resist a bit of morose adult contemporary. I'd think Weekend - Jinx or Pop. 1280, Chelsea Wolfe or TV Ghost would fit their tastes better.
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 13:41 (ten years ago) link
Floorplan (Robert Hood) - Paradise
yasssss first appearance of this that i've seen
absolutely banging techno, this goes so hard
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 13:43 (ten years ago) link
yeah that album's great, it's got a nice soul/gospel thing going on as well.
― I like to think I have learnt a thing or two about music (Neil S), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 13:48 (ten years ago) link
yeah "never grow old" was a huge anthem this year
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 13:51 (ten years ago) link
I listened to that Recondite album solidly around the house for about a week, that's a good backgroundy techno album for autumn/winter
― rp boo bryson (NickB), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 14:01 (ten years ago) link
okay the first track on this Floorplan album is A+
― SHAUN (DJP), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 14:32 (ten years ago) link
Ah, that Vice list was alright. I lol'd.
― MikoMcha, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 14:45 (ten years ago) link
And yup, thanks to Lex for point out the awesomeness of that Floorplan release.
― MikoMcha, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 14:46 (ten years ago) link
Stereogum - Best metal albumshttp://www.stereogum.com/1561822/the-50-best-metal-albums-of-2013/list/
― rp boo bryson (NickB), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 15:42 (ten years ago) link
you'd never guess what was number one
Spin - Best pop albumshttp://www.spin.com/articles/spin-20-best-pop-albums-2013/
― rp boo bryson (NickB), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 15:45 (ten years ago) link
WHINEY this isn't an attempt to zing u over clicks but your arrows don't work on any of your lists (i'm on chrome) and tbh they very rarely do in general
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 15:55 (ten years ago) link
pretty surprised Jagwar Ma isn't getting more love.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 15:56 (ten years ago) link
And is it true that no one has mentioned Polvo?
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 16:00 (ten years ago) link
even allowing for homogeneity taking hold in the top 10, Stereogum have by a fucking mile the best/most interesting metal list I've seen so far
― screaming lord, such opinion (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 16:00 (ten years ago) link
no-one else seems to give a shit about the Cultes Des Ghoules album that's roughly in the middle of it but it is some killer weirdo black metal
― screaming lord, such opinion (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 16:02 (ten years ago) link
Jagwar Ma suffer from the 'name so terrible I can't bring myself to check them out' syndrome.
― a beef supreme (dog latin), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 16:02 (ten years ago) link
huh. name never bothered me - maybe because i heard the music before i got my hands on their name. either way it's my hands down, no doubt, fav album of the year.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 16:22 (ten years ago) link
lots of good stuff on the Stereogum metal list, despite the predictable #1.
― I like to think I have learnt a thing or two about music (Neil S), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 16:23 (ten years ago) link
Wire list comes out tomorrow iirc, any guesses for what's won that?
― rp boo bryson (NickB), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 16:35 (ten years ago) link
Cultes Des Ghoules album that's roughly in the middle of it but it is some killer weirdo black metal
otm
― an enormous bolus of flatulence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 16:45 (ten years ago) link
Wire list comes out tomorrow iirc, any guesses for what's won that?― rp boo bryson (NickB), Tuesday, December 10, 2013 4:35 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― rp boo bryson (NickB), Tuesday, December 10, 2013 4:35 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Hasn't it been someone from the Lopatin/Ferraro/Halo axis the last few years?
― a beef supreme (dog latin), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 16:49 (ten years ago) link
Rashad Becker maybe? Or the Knife?
― freemen (on the) space (seandalai), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 17:35 (ten years ago) link