Before ILX can confirm that they are for real Sleaford Mods must release all information about their educational background, jobs to date, parents' earnings, size of childhood homes, etc. Likewise their fans.
Their Twitter feed suggests they're pretty big with geezers btw.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Friday, 28 November 2014 20:07 (nine years ago) link
It looks to me like NME have consciously re-aligned themselves towards older readers this year; their strapline is now "the past, the present and the future of music".
― mike t-diva, Friday, 28 November 2014 20:09 (nine years ago) link
aka Damon Albarn
― Number None, Friday, 28 November 2014 20:24 (nine years ago) link
YG album should get more love
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 28 November 2014 20:37 (nine years ago) link
I love Sleaford Mods & fwiw I have know idea what you guys are taking about
― i did it all for the 'nuki (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 28 November 2014 20:40 (nine years ago) link
I swear half of uk ppl talking about music is just throwing around regional/class insults
"God I'm sure this is great if you're stuck in a student disco in East Broughtingham wearing five year old Adidas trainers and the DJ is an accounting student from Yorkditch who drives a Volvo van and eats 4 packets of crisps a night while imagining he was Mark Ronson"
― i did it all for the 'nuki (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 28 November 2014 20:46 (nine years ago) link
pip pip
― Face facts poptimism hacks, your a scam. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 28 November 2014 20:51 (nine years ago) link
reminds me of someone
― Cosmic Slop, Friday, 28 November 2014 21:01 (nine years ago) link
You Americans have always loved turgid UK OI! type music, now the British are falling for this pub-rock crap as well. "wowsers he just fucking said jobseekers allowance! over a rumbling bassline, edgy!"
― xelab, Friday, 28 November 2014 21:06 (nine years ago) link
I forgot to submit a ballot for The Wire's poll this year, so it will probably have fewer metal albums buried in its lower reaches than usual.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 28 November 2014 21:06 (nine years ago) link
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Friday, November 28, 2014 12:37 PM
― alpine static, Friday, 28 November 2014 21:22 (nine years ago) link
You Americans have always loved turgid UK OI! type music
Yeah true it does rule
― i did it all for the 'nuki (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 28 November 2014 21:23 (nine years ago) link
I can recall being in thrall to 70's US gutterpunk bands like The Electric Eels, Crime and DMZ in my youth that are so much better.
― xelab, Friday, 28 November 2014 21:49 (nine years ago) link
cntl+f Tinashe uhhh wtf
― mango unchained (fgti), Friday, 28 November 2014 21:58 (nine years ago) link
i will ride for 'bet on it' as a legit singles contender.
― Face facts poptimism hacks, your a scam. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 28 November 2014 22:06 (nine years ago) link
For serious tho lex you would totally love 'Selected Ambient Works 85-92'.
― Tim F, Friday, 28 November 2014 22:47 (nine years ago) link
Please can someone link me to a thread which is just Americans doing outlandish impressions of British people?
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Friday, 28 November 2014 23:59 (nine years ago) link
keep the meme alive: Pippa's Arse
― ✓ out this insane nakh yall (gr8080), Saturday, 29 November 2014 01:26 (nine years ago) link
That's just British people arguing about Americans doing impressions of British people though
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Saturday, 29 November 2014 09:01 (nine years ago) link
does like an oasis or stone roses fan forum count as americans doing bad impressions of brits? I mean I know that's a different #level but still
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Saturday, 29 November 2014 13:05 (nine years ago) link
Offering a new target for your derision:
Telegraph: Best 50 albums of 2014
50 One Direction - Four49 Bombay Bicyle Club - So Long, See You Tomorrow48 George Ezra - Wanted On Voyage47 Lily Allen - Sheezus46 Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness45 Tom Hickox - War, Peace & Diplomacy44 Sia - 1000 Forms of Fear43 First Aid Kit - Stay Gold42 Pharrell - Williams Girl41 Coldplay - Ghost Stories40 Simone Felice - Strangers39 Thom Yorke - Tomorrow's Modern Boxes38 Manic Street Preachers - Futurology37 Rumer - Into Colour36 Alt-J - This Is All Yours35 Neneh Cherry - Blank Project34 King Creosote - From Scotland With Love33 Sam Smith - In the Lonely Hour32 Teleman- Breakfast31 Jessie Ware - Tough Love30 Bryan Ferry - Avonmore29 Jenny Lewis - Voyager28 ?27 Caribou - Our Love26 Mary J Blige - The London Sessions25 Kate Tempest - Everybody Down24 Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots23 La Roux - Trouble in Paradise22 Robert Plant - Lullaby and... The Ceaseless Roar21 Lia Ices - Ices20 Paolo Nutini - Caustic Love19 Lucinda Williams- Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone18 Prince Art - Official Age17 FKA Twigs - LP116 St Vincent - St Vincent15 Royal Blood - Royal Blood14 U2 - Songs of Innocence13 Hozier - Hozier12 Beck - Morning Phase11 The Black Keys - Turn Blue10 Future Islands - Singles09 The War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream08 Elbow - The Take Off and Landing of Everything07 Damien Rice - My Favourite Faded Fantasy06 Jamie T - Carry the Grudge05 Taylor Swift - 198904 Jack White - Lazaretto03 Prince and 3rdeyegirl - Plectrumelectrum02 Leonard Cohen - Popular Problems01 Ed Sheeran - X
― TTAGGGTTAGGG (Sanpaku), Saturday, 29 November 2014 17:27 (nine years ago) link
Lots not great about that but you can't hate a list that has WoD at 9 and Prince at 3
― FB needs sb (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 29 November 2014 17:41 (nine years ago) link
they couldn't award just any album position no. 28
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Saturday, 29 November 2014 17:41 (nine years ago) link
that 3rdeyegirl record is garbage so yeah i can
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Saturday, 29 November 2014 17:42 (nine years ago) link
Prince Art at number 18 is a bold choice for a debut
― Face facts poptimism hacks, your a scam. (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 29 November 2014 17:44 (nine years ago) link
lol uhhh is the ed sheeran album decent?
― dyl, Saturday, 29 November 2014 17:44 (nine years ago) link
it has its supporters here, i found it very uneven if tolerable
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Saturday, 29 November 2014 17:45 (nine years ago) link
is it just me or are the early return indie/pop mags disregarding hip hop even more than usual this year?
― Face facts poptimism hacks, your a scam. (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 29 November 2014 17:45 (nine years ago) link
Prince! Lol Pharrell's Girl. Well, it is a fairly accurate picture of what's regarded in the mainstream pop world, with exceptions like Leonard Cohen. I'm can't get into Cohen's recent albums, but I did go see him with a friend a couple years ago, and he was pretty magnificent. He was a singin, dancin' machine for nearly four (4) hours, with only like a 10 minute break! We can only dream of having that kind of energy in our 70s.
― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, 29 November 2014 17:47 (nine years ago) link
xpost: yes
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Saturday, 29 November 2014 18:01 (nine years ago) link
Sorry about a couple of misplaced hyphens in that Telegraph list. Shouldn't try to parse lists before caffeine kicks in.
― TTAGGGTTAGGG (Sanpaku), Saturday, 29 November 2014 18:10 (nine years ago) link
oh don't mind me.
― Face facts poptimism hacks, your a scam. (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 29 November 2014 18:21 (nine years ago) link
^^^^i was agreeing with you my bad if it seemed unclear
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Saturday, 29 November 2014 18:24 (nine years ago) link
no, sorry - I meant don't mind my - pedantic hyphen call out
but yeah, not much hip hop anywhere to be seen here.
― Face facts poptimism hacks, your a scam. (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 29 November 2014 18:38 (nine years ago) link
These lists are giving my dysentery
― kornrulez6969, Saturday, 29 November 2014 19:11 (nine years ago) link
Not much hip-hop anywhere, but at the same time everyone seems to agree it was a lousy year for hip-hop albums, right? I'd rather them make the lists they believe to be correct than elevate a rap album for looks. (Not saying they shouldn't / couldn't have dug deeper into hip-hop.)
― alpine static, Saturday, 29 November 2014 20:12 (nine years ago) link
yeah, i don't agree with "it was a lousy year for hip hop"
― Face facts poptimism hacks, your a scam. (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 29 November 2014 20:14 (nine years ago) link
i have several hip-hop albums i like, but everywhere I look ppl are saying it was a good year for songs, terrible for albums.
― alpine static, Saturday, 29 November 2014 20:20 (nine years ago) link
i dunno maybe i'm looking in the wrong places - and again, i don't necessarily agree - but i think i saw that discussion happening on ilm
― alpine static, Saturday, 29 November 2014 20:21 (nine years ago) link
also, you left off the word "albums"!
― alpine static, Saturday, 29 November 2014 20:26 (nine years ago) link
I'm a believer that unless you're a specialist in a musicological field (and likely not even then!), you're not in a good position to levy blanket judgment across an entire field of achievement. It's just too subjective unless you chop it up regionally (was it a bad year for New York-based hip hop artists?), stylistically (was it a good year for technical rap?) or financially (how were sales in Q4?).A quick flip thru my best of for the year folder suggests at least twenty to thirty albums and at least a hundred singles that I consider hip hop and that I really enjoyed. Is that a bad year? It's not a bad year for me.
― Face facts poptimism hacks, your a scam. (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 29 November 2014 20:39 (nine years ago) link
I'm gonna gank Spottie's hip hop playlists on Spotify (one for quality and for quantity) and post them here... I could easily take all of 2015 exploring this stuff alone!http://open.spotify.com/user/theshipment/playlist/3vHZAnvl134kijHL5Z0roNhttp://open.spotify.com/user/theshipment/playlist/2Hkan09bsPFtNN39CsAyki
― Face facts poptimism hacks, your a scam. (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 29 November 2014 20:41 (nine years ago) link
xpost nope, not a bad year. just saying, maybe the lack of hip-hop on these indie/pop mag lists reflects the general consensus, that's all. i generalized too much in my initial post.
― alpine static, Saturday, 29 November 2014 20:47 (nine years ago) link
i get where you're coming from. I guess if there's less hip hop in the indie/pop world's end tally i might suggest that 2014 was a year where those worlds started to diverge more radically than in the past.
― Face facts poptimism hacks, your a scam. (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 29 November 2014 20:56 (nine years ago) link
like pitbull, pharrell, iggy, juicy j and em were all absolutely at peak popularity and represented half of the year's #1 pop singles but, with the arguable exception of iggy, none of them really represent contemporary hip hop
― Face facts poptimism hacks, your a scam. (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 29 November 2014 21:00 (nine years ago) link
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib, Shabazz Palaces, Ratking and Young Fathers all in the Guardian top 40 so far with surely Run The Jewels to come, so that's not too bad for a newspaper list (whether you think those are the right records or not).
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Saturday, 29 November 2014 21:03 (nine years ago) link
if you went by lists then it might suggest that its a weak year for lots of genres whether it be indie centric lists or the guardian or ilx eoy polls. They have never covered everything. You cant base the state of any music on these lists. They are snapshots of a small amount of voters.
― Cosmic Slop, Saturday, 29 November 2014 21:03 (nine years ago) link
the current top 25 R&B/hip hop list features a plethora of young breakthrough artists that i think a casual listener of rap (which i'm gonna strawman the average indie/pop type being) just won't be familiar with: bobby shmurda, i love makonnen, rae sremmurd, young thug, rich homie quan, dej loaf
― Face facts poptimism hacks, your a scam. (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 29 November 2014 21:06 (nine years ago) link
i dunno, i think if the average indie/pop type being is on the internet, shmurda, thugger and rhq are pretty inescapable
i was gonna ask what "credible" rap album the big big outlets were gonna put in their top 10s this year, a la Kanye whenever he releases something or Kendrick in 2012 because I just don't see it being YG or Gibbs (or this particular Shabazz album, tbh) and then I remembered Run the Jewels. that solves everything.
― alpine static, Saturday, 29 November 2014 21:15 (nine years ago) link
I feel like one or both of the vince staples releases could make some lists (coldchain 2 and hell can wait)
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Sunday, 30 November 2014 01:15 (nine years ago) link