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

Hey ilxor, can you do a personal rundown for all 50 of Sgum's choices? thanks in advance

i realize u are kidding, but hey

A+: emeralds, big boi, oneohtrix, jj, swans, janelle, flylo, the-dream

overrated, still decent: avey tare, liars, lcd, yeasayer

like the few tracks i've heard: warpaint, ceo, matt dear, owen p.,

fucking horrible: mgmt, salem

zzzzzz: the national, joanna newsom

havent heard everything else

already covered the top ten for ya whiney

dont worry i wont call u out on plagiarism if you tweet about these great albums on my behalf

I like that Abe Vigoda album tons

02 Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
01 Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

we're gonna be seeing a lot of this huh

I'll never understand why modern indie ppl cosign Das Racist but go out of their way to distance themselves from Antipop Consortium and Themselves and shit

not that this has been a gr8 year for backpacky shit, save Gangrene, which no one is talking about except me it seems

you really are capt. save an anti pop consortium aren't you

they're still great, what do you want from me

maybe it's because das racist are marketed specifically towards hipsters & ppl that read stereogum?

and have a novelty song

the scott pilgrims coming over on the hip-hop mayflower

why would you market towards ppl who have a novelty song

seems like a very small niche

antipop consortium are fantastic, new record's great and they killed it when i saw em a year or two ago

lol DJP trolling, cmon

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There is a difference between "trolling" (the blatantly overstated and hyperbolic comment I made about SALEM and racism way upthread that everyone ignored) and "making a joke" (my last post) that you might want to investigate.

making a "joke"

"making" a joke

Yeah, but the second I admit to liking anything on anticon. people start accusing me of a being a PM Dawn fan.

the blatantly overstated and hyperbolic comment I made about SALEM and racism way upthread that everyone ignored

I almost posted it on ILEpitaphs!

"laughing" or lol or something

But seriously folks, some albums if suddenly marketed to indie sites and reviewers/critics would get more acclaim, others might still get ignored (not enough genre specialist reviewers interested in stuff that's not hipster friendly)

what's wrong w/ being a PM Dawn fan??

xxp

I'm sending KRS One to your house

pretty wild that this Kanye record is the first record since, like, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot to really getting the indie sites to agree that the major labels sometimes make records better than we do

― dr. harbl's zing-along blog (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, December 8, 2010 12:11 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

that's an interesting interpretation of the acclaim of YHF considering that the whole narrative of that album's success was "Warner Bros didn't know what a masterpiece they had on their hands, those bastards!"

also "MBDTF's critical consensus is so much stronger than any previous Kanye record" is almost as shaky a premise as your "Fuck You is the most instantly acclaimed pop single since Hey Ya" thesis.

i'm saying the critical consensus on indie sites like Pfork and Sgum is stronger this time out. The RS/Spin/Pazz crew was always in full force

xpost, fine then, chance to ca. 2001 Strokes/Kid A

Im taking this the opposite of Whiney -- most of these (strawmen) ppl think that kanye is just way better than all pop, smarter than all the other major label crap etc (peep the paste review) -- I don't think it has stereogum readers reconsidering the merits of major label pop

It's his bon iver record!

Plus is this really getting more indie love than late reg?

hasn't kanye always been the token pop/major label act in these lists?

i don't really believe many people on the staff of these indie sites have bothered with many other major label hip-hop/r&b/pop albums at all

antipop consortium are fantastic, new record's great and they killed it when i saw em a year or two ago

What new record? There's one this year?

Yeah, I don't see what's new about it. Critics have loved him since day one. He doesn't represent major-label hip hop anymore than Outkast do.

Indie crits always loved Kanye but there was always this understood agreement that we has never better than Arcade Fire/AnCo/Antony/etc. I mean, when he tops the Pfork list its gonna be the first major label record to be #1 since Kid A, right? (i'm not gonna fact check this, so)

Kanye only behind Sufjan in pitchfork's 2005

there was always this understood agreement

among whom?! like seriously NAME NAMES. i certainly wasn't party to it and want no part of it, or indeed of anyone who actually signed up to it

i tried to google it and found this instead

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/clicktrack/2010/12/speculation_predicting_pitchfo.html

Great way to use your music section, Washington Post. Is stephen ilxor the editor over there now?

who the fuck commissioned that

who the fuck PITCHED that

lol with Anco at #7 and Antony at #5 behind Kanye on that list

i would credit any minor bump in indie-love for kanye more to do with lazy crits feeling safe in raves than some sort of increased comfort with major label wares

i done it.

xp

there was always this understood agreement

among whom?! like seriously NAME NAMES. i certainly wasn't party to it and want no part of it, or indeed of anyone who actually signed up to it

― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Wednesday, December 8, 2010 2:09 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

jesus you know who he's talking about and that it's not you and you keep having these hysterical reactions every time, just quit it already.

Great way to use your music section, Washington Post. Is stephen ilxor the editor over there now?

lol not even

lol with Anco at #7 and Antony at #5 behind Kanye on that list

meaning pfork's 2005 album list i mean: http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/6222-top-50-albums-of-2005/5/

Given the amount of tedious handwringing already should we push the Pitchfork list off into its own slurry ditch thread or something?

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

see my thing is, why are people spending all of this time getting mad about Kanye being on these lists and not Wavves

then I remember nobody really knows shit about Wavves and I feel better

see my thing is, why are people spending all of this time getting mad about Kanye being on these lists

Fixed.

these lists are so depressingly awful

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

truth bomb