uh oh:http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/50-best-songs-of-2014-20141203
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 15:46 (nine years ago) link
No Depression - Top 10 albums:http://nodepression.com/top-10-albums-list/2014-0
1. Sunny Sweeney - Provoked2. Carolina Story - Chapter Two3. Marcia Ball - The Tattooed Lady and the Alligator Man4. Cowboy Jack Clement - For Once and For All5. The Levon Helm Band - The Midnight Ramble Session 36. The Hayden Triplets - The Hayden Triplets7. The Levon Helm Band - The Midnight Ramble Session 38. Paul Thorn - Too Blessed to Be Stressed9. Justin Townes Earle - Single Mothers10. Lee Ann Womack - The Way I'm Livin'
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 15:49 (nine years ago) link
I like #7, #5 is shit
― Lorde 2Pac Beck Mashup (crüt), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 15:55 (nine years ago) link
bout the same for me,
― saer, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 15:55 (nine years ago) link
so far only one (1) point in the RS songs list favor - it includes 0 to 100
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 15:59 (nine years ago) link
oh shit, that's just some dumb forum post xps
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 16:00 (nine years ago) link
i thought it looked a bit low-key
xxxp to myself ok its actually not too terrible overall, certainly runs circles around the albums list
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 16:03 (nine years ago) link
I'm tight with the Juno Plus list of best reissues. Also agreeing with their comment re Gigi Masin's Talk To The Sea
wasn’t just the best reissue project of the year – it was better than most albums of new music released in 2014
― doug watson, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 16:17 (nine years ago) link
i posted this in the sleater kinney thread by mistake but:
Trapt - The Acoustic Collection is a real doozy from that AV Club least essential list
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 16:18 (nine years ago) link
I'm tight with the Juno Plus list of best reissues. Also agreeing with their comment re Gigi Masin's Talk To The Sea― doug watson
― doug watson
It's been sitting in my Bandcamp wishlist for a few months. Just ordered.
― millmeister, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 16:30 (nine years ago) link
Listening to this now. Love it! Thanks for bringing it up.
― Evan, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 16:50 (nine years ago) link
I completely missed Masin's reissue this year! Awesome.
― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 16:52 (nine years ago) link
Complex - 30 best album covers of 2014http://uk.complex.com/style/2014/12/the-best-album-covers-of-2014/
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 16:54 (nine years ago) link
gtfo are they serious?
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 17:03 (nine years ago) link
It's like "hmm, let's look through this pile of review copies...ok that one looks alright...this one too...do we have 30 yet?"
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 17:04 (nine years ago) link
Even as I was disappointed by the Shabazz Palaces album I knew some people would consider it an "OMG future of hip hop" masterpiece. I hoped I'd be one of those people but it reminded me of Divine Styler's Spiral Walls… The best tracks were the ones closest to hip hop, the more supposedly far-out stuff just sounded blah.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 17:07 (nine years ago) link
AV Club's "Least Essential Albums of 2014" Listhttp://www.avclub.com/article/least-essential-albums-2014-212075only one of these i listened to is the country tribute to motley crue and it is indeed utterly unnecessary
― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 17:11 (nine years ago) link
those covers! Every single one is so ugly, yet in so many different ways
― saer, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 17:14 (nine years ago) link
Fabulous boomer earnestness in Rolling Stone's blurb for the Jackson Browne song: "Memories of youth in the Sixties, reflected through decades of lived truth."
Lived truth.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 17:16 (nine years ago) link
fucking wenner prob wrote that one himself, sobbing while he did so
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 17:18 (nine years ago) link
Some are alright, but it's clear they didn't really stress over finding things they didn't already know about.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 17:19 (nine years ago) link
lol @ the TRAPT album cover from the least essential list
― Lorde 2Pac Beck Mashup (crüt), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 17:22 (nine years ago) link
DON: Well, yeah.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 17:22 (nine years ago) link
yay i'm glad mark barrott's album has finally showed up on one of these even if it had to be gorilla vs fucking bear
― dyl, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 18:00 (nine years ago) link
rs songs list is not nearly as terrible as their albums list ("drunk in love" at #1 is cool) but i swear they have like 5 songs that were released as singles last year and had long since peaked
― dyl, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 18:06 (nine years ago) link
Shabazz Palaces album is awesome. not sure I've heard anything better than it this year
― Dan S, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 18:15 (nine years ago) link
The Skinny (UK) have released their top 10. Runnerups 11-50 forthcoming.
1 - Warpaint: Warpaint2 - The Twilight Sad: Nobody Wants To Be Here & Nobody Wants To Leave3 - The War On Drugs: Lost in the Dream4 - St. Vincent: St. Vincent5 - Angel Olsen: Burn Your Fire for No Witness6 - Mogwai: Rave Tapes7 - FKA Twigs: LP18 - The Afghan Whigs: Do to the Beast9 - The Phantom Band: Strange Friend10 - Young Fathers: Dead
― TTAGGGTTAGGG (Sanpaku), Thursday, 4 December 2014 00:39 (nine years ago) link
Angel Olson is great
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 4 December 2014 01:10 (nine years ago) link
wasn’t just the best reissue project of the year – it was better than most albums of new music released in 2014― doug watson, Wednesday, December 3, 2014 11:17 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yes. i posted on the balearic revival thread that it might be my favorite album of the year, at this point there's no doubt. i feel like it's gonna become an all-time favorite album for me.
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 4 December 2014 01:32 (nine years ago) link
From AV Club's Least Essential Albums list:
Least essential Christmas album, Internet-famous cat-egory:Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever: Official SoundtrackThe idea of adult-contemporary singers and cutesy indie duos recording well-trodden Christmas standards is already an inessential addition to the world’s library of music. Doing that for the album accompaniment to a Lifetime movie that’s based on an Internet meme makes Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever: Official Soundtrack so ephemeral, physical copies may as well be shoved directly into the ground as a giant “fuck you” to the Earth.
The idea of adult-contemporary singers and cutesy indie duos recording well-trodden Christmas standards is already an inessential addition to the world’s library of music. Doing that for the album accompaniment to a Lifetime movie that’s based on an Internet meme makes Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever: Official Soundtrack so ephemeral, physical copies may as well be shoved directly into the ground as a giant “fuck you” to the Earth.
I do kinda feel like once all of the music stores that exist mainly to sell CDs are gone, these will be among the only CDs that are mass produced, just to sell on the impulse rack at Wal Mart or whereever.
― MaudAddam (cryptosicko), Thursday, 4 December 2014 01:34 (nine years ago) link
yeah there will always be a carousel for them at the drug store next to the one holding 30 $5 copies of Ecks vs. Sever and Sum of All Fears on dvd
― anonanon, Thursday, 4 December 2014 01:49 (nine years ago) link
http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2014/12/03/best-of-2014-world-music/
world music top 10
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 4 December 2014 01:54 (nine years ago) link
wannabe boomer confession: i like the jackson browne album. won't be on my EOY list though.
― Bro With Extensive Taint (some dude), Thursday, 4 December 2014 02:24 (nine years ago) link
Rolling Stone - Best songs of 2014https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/50-best-songs-of-2014-20141203
1. Beyonce feat. Jay -Z - Drunk In Love2. DJ Snake feat. Lil Jon - Turn Down for What3. U2 - Every Breaking Wave4. Future feat. Pusha T, Pharrell, Casino - Move that Dope5. Jenny Lewis - Just One of the Guys6. Taylor Swift - Blank Space7. Bruce Springsteen - Frankie Fell In Love8. Sharon Van Etten - Every Time the Sun Comes Up9. Future Islands - Seasons (Waiting On You)10. Kendrick Lamar - i11. Alvvays - Archie, Marry Me12. Sam Smith - Stay With Me13. Foo Fighters - Outside14. Grimes - Go15. Sia - Chandelier16. Beck - Blue Moon17. Rae Sremmurd - No Flex Zone18. Bleachers - I Wanna Get Better19. Iggy Azealia feat. Charli XCX - Fancy20. Old Crow Medicine Show - Sweet Amarillo21. Weezer - Back to the Shack22. Lana Del Rey - Brooklyn Baby23. Tove Lo - Habits (Stay High)24. The Black Keys - Gotta Get Away25. Caribou - Can't Do Without You26. Drake - 0 to 100/The Catch Up27. Thurston Moore - Grace Lake28. Prince - This Could Be Us29. Miranda Lambert - Smokin' and Drinkin'30. Coldplay - Magic31. EMA - So Blonde32. Maroon 5 - Animals33. Jackson Browne - The Birds of St. Marks34. Sylvan Esso - Coffee35. First Aid Kit - Master Pretender36. Beverly - Honey Do37. Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers - Faultlines38. YG feat. Jeezy, Rich Homie Quan - My Hitta39. Priests - Doctor40. Sleater-Kinney - Bury Our Friends41. Ought - Habit42. FKA Twigs - Two Weeks43. The New Pornographers - Brill Bruisers44. St. Vincent - Prince Johnny45. Hospitality - I Need Your Bones46. Katy B - 5 AM47. Real Estate - Talking Backwards48. Alex G. - Harvey49. Old 97s - Longer Than You've Been Alive50. Counting Crows - Dislocation
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Thursday, 4 December 2014 06:46 (nine years ago) link
Treble zine - Top 10 Metal Albumshttp://www.treblezine.com/20342-top-10-metal-albums-of-2014/
1. Pallbearer – Foundations of Burden2. Tombs – Savage Gold3. Yob – Clearing the Path to Ascend4. Mutilation Rites – Harbinger5. Triptykon – Melana Chasmata6. Atriarch – An Unending Pathway7. Primordial – Where Greater Men Have Fallen8. Thou – Heathen9. Godflesh – A World Lit Only By Fire10. Nux Vomica – Nux Vomica
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Thursday, 4 December 2014 06:53 (nine years ago) link
glad to see somebody rep for Grimes -Go, thought that song was generally hated, but it's the first time a track of hers has genuinely thrilled me.
― Dan S, Thursday, 4 December 2014 06:56 (nine years ago) link
I don't think I've actually heard 'Chandelier' but I'm assuming the chorus is just Sia hollering 'CHANDELIER! CHANDELIER!' while playing four straight piano chords really loudly.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 4 December 2014 11:45 (nine years ago) link
I don't think I've actually heard 'Chandelier' but I'm assuming the chorus is just Sia hollering 'CHANDELIER! CHANDELIER!' while playing four straight piano chords really loudly. --Matt DC
no, the production sounds like rihanna bc it was written for rihanna, but the lyrics are v sad sia stuff about alcoholism
it's good tho!!
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 4 December 2014 11:50 (nine years ago) link
sia being considered a songwriter of quality completely mystifies me
― lex pretend, Thursday, 4 December 2014 11:53 (nine years ago) link
never cared for her much until this latest record, based on her matching assumptions like Matt DCs above. however, thought putting her against actual current pop production worked. really like "elastic heart," "big girls cry" & "fire meet gasoline," as well as chandelier
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 4 December 2014 12:12 (nine years ago) link
her lyrics often leave something to be desired, although I did like how raw they are on 1,000 forms of fear.
btw lex I tried some of those k michelle songs (you were championing her here I believe, correct me if wrong), and really enjoyed them. will check the whole album soon. thanks!
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 4 December 2014 12:16 (nine years ago) link
awesome, the k michelle album is incredible
― lex pretend, Thursday, 4 December 2014 12:59 (nine years ago) link
The Music Exchange (Nottingham vinyl shop):
1. St. Vincent - s/t2. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness3. Swans - To Be Kind4. Goat - Commune5. Bremen - Second Launch6. Hookworms - The Hum7. Sleaford Mods - Divide & Exit8. Alvvays - s/t9. Grumbling Fur - Preternaturals10. Todd Terje - It's Album Time
Reissues, Soundtracks & Compilations:
1. Lee Hazlewood - Love And Other Crimes2. Patrick Cowley - School Daze3. Laraaji - Celestial Music 1978-20114. V/A - Warfaring Strangers: Darkscorch Canticles5. Arthur Russell - World Of Echo6. The Fates - Furia7. William Onyeabor - Vinyl Boxset 1 & 28. Craig Leon - Anthology Of Interplanetary Folk Music Vol. 1: Nommos/Visiting9. Glenn Branca - Lesson No. 110. Sinoia Caves - Beyond The Black Rainbow OST
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 4 December 2014 16:57 (nine years ago) link
Cannot get into St. Vincent at all.
― Evan, Thursday, 4 December 2014 17:04 (nine years ago) link
It's pretty sad to see any even remotely classic roch-ish album get props over Intensity Ghost by Chris Forsyth & the Solar Motel band which is so godlike in imagining some amazing hybrid of Crazy Horse, Physical Graffiti, and Television, while feeling wholly fresh
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 4 December 2014 17:15 (nine years ago) link
And I like War on Drugs fine but see Solar Motel live and they would eat their fucking lunch
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 4 December 2014 17:16 (nine years ago) link
They're instrumental though so it's a different enough category, no?
Either way still got to pick that one up.
― Evan, Thursday, 4 December 2014 17:18 (nine years ago) link
What I heard of that record was amazing and I liked the last record just fine. Their live album kills, too.
― Evan, Thursday, 4 December 2014 17:19 (nine years ago) link
evan - you mean st. vincent on a whole or this album? bc it stripped away some of the stuff that i didnt love about previous albums of hers (less twee/chamber-pop touches)
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 4 December 2014 17:20 (nine years ago) link