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

Yes, I think if Lex is outraged by TNP at number one then he really hasn't considered the alternatives.

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(No apparent order)

Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
Beach House -Teen Dream
National - High Violet
Warpaint – The Fool
Everything Everything – Man Alive
Foals - Total Life Forever
Laura Marling – I Speak Because I Can
Caribou - Swim
Gorillaz – Plastic Beach
Tame Impala - Inner Speaker

i like the warpaint album but dunno why it's being rated higher than the school of 7 bells one

if beach house, arcade fire and the national are this years GAPDY...BAN

Think the NME opting for TNP in the same week as the NUS leadership decides to stop being "spineless" marks some sort of Carmodic tipping point.

Is it just me that mixes up Beach House and Best Coast? I keep forgetting which one I've heard.

Think the NME opting for TNP in the same week as the NUS leadership decides to stop being "spineless" marks some sort of Carmodic tipping point.

explain?

xp: I do the same. Heard both, not sold on either.

The first track on the Beach House album is still sublime but the rest of it gets pretty boring pretty quickly.

yes! exactly true. first track is great, don't care for the rest.

Is it just me that mixes up Beach House and Best Coast? I keep forgetting which one I've heard.

Constantly... even though they definitely have different styles. The whole soundz of the sixtiez fads needs to die immediately.

love the Beach House album. the entire thing is beautiful imo. was disappointed by Crazy For You

Waiting for the first list that Taylor shows up on. Maybe Entertainment Weekly? Won't be surprised if she makes some of the NYT writers' lists.

I'm so out of it that, a month ago, I was actually wondering whether she had a chance to win Pazz & Jop! But I'm starting to realize that was extreme wishful thinking. Now I'm wondering if Top 10 is out of the question. (Top 40 should be a given, though, right? I hope.)

Then again, most of these lists are British, right? So they're not much to go on, Pazz&Jop-wise.

yeah taylor swift basically does not exist for 90% of british critics

im sure all the old fart middlebrow critics will vote for her in their droves for P&J.

(smh at them OBV)

smh = shake my head?

xp Btw, wackiest things about those Mojo lists have to be Cyndi Lauper with the #9 blues album (which might good, who knows) and Carolina Chocolate Drops with the #2 world music album. (Though I guess North Carolina is in the world, technically.)

Mojo lists are usually more varied than most mags tbh.

all the old fart middlebrow critics will vote for her in their droves

Yeah, old fart middlebrow guys all love teen-pop country. (Still, hope they do. Assuming they're still voting these days.)

smh = shaking my head, yes
kmt = kissing my teeth, for future ref, because that will assuredly be a reaction to this thread

haha kmt is most definitely a new one. No idea what it means but thanks for the heads up!

Kissing my teeth only works if you can take them out first imo.

haven't seen sun city girls on any of these lists, either

― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, November 30, 2010 6:13 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark

this, and no marnie stern, are the biggest WTFs so far

Kissing my teeth only works if you can take them out first imo.

what? idk whether you're serious about not knowing what kissing one's teeth is

Hadn't decided whether to put Taylor #1, 2, or 3, but now I think I'm gonna give her #1 just because.

xp: Marnie Stern doesn't surprise me. I loved her first two records, and I like this one, but not quite as much. It's probably not a top-10 for me, and I had her last one as my #1 that year.

what? idk whether you're serious about not knowing what kissing one's teeth is

Genuinely have no idea on this. Eager to be schooled.

xpost
never heard this expression before tonight too. Thank goodness for urban dictionary.

My immediate thought was that it was similar to A Partridge's "kiss my face" exclamation.

I assumed it was the noise plumbers make when they give you an estimate on a bill

yeah it's hard to actually describe but clearly none of you have ever talked to any caribbean women, lol

I'm not sure i've ever seen one round here tbh nevermind spoke to one , lol.

xp I know what you mean Lex, African women use the same expression to punctuate conversation.

Trisha on Bo Selcta! was fond of saying kiss my teeth.

that was a terrible terrible program!

kmt = kissing my teeth, for future ref, because that will assuredly be a reaction to this thread

― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 21:09 (1 hour ago)

feelin this

'kissing your teeth' is actually more like sucking air through your teeth, or tutting with more... Attitude..?
It's generally used to make a sound of disapproval. It is stereotypically said that black people use it, but other people use it too... It's just known more as a black thing, because mostly Jamaicans use it.
Kmt is an abbreviation, just like lol is an abbreviation for 'laugh out loud'
and it's not as stupid as some of you non british/english make out.
Just because you don't use the slang, doesn't give you the right to insult other ways of speaking. Every country has their list of slang words, and so do we...

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lol @ that whole exchange

I never heard it called "kissing" teeth, we say "sucking your teeth," same difference tho

lol

cooly g's twitter and fbook feeds are veritable feasts of KMT

http://twitter.com/COOLYGuk/status/9398538496638976

over here we say kmg, i.e. "kissing my grits"

Yup, third or fourth year in a row where NME list was more interesting than Uncut/MOJO.

NME Tracks

75. Jam City, 'Ecstasy Refix'
74. Eminem Feat. Rihanna, 'Love The Way You Lie'
73. Addison Groove, 'Footcrab'
72. Active Child, 'She Was A Vision'
71. The Futureheads, ‘The Heartbeat Song’
70. DJ Nate, ‘Call Me When You’re Sober’
69. Egyptian Hip Hop, 'Moon Crooner'
68. Foals, ‘Miami’
67. New Young Pony Club, ‘Lost A Girl'
66. Les Savy Fav, 'Let's Get Out Of Here'
65. Beach House, ‘Zebra'
64. Joy Orbison, ‘The Shrew Would Have Cushioned The Blow’
63. Islet, ‘Ringerz’
62. Caribou, ‘Odessa’
61. Salem, 'King Night'
60. Dead Skeletons, 'Dead Mantra'
59. Willow Smith, 'Whip My Hair'
58. Frankie & The Heartstrings, 'Tender'
57. Interpol, 'Lights'
56. Sleigh Bells, 'Tell 'Em'
55. Gaggle, 'I Hear Flies'
54. Vampire Weekend, 'Giving Up The Gun'
53. Warpaint, 'Elephants'
52. Klaxons, 'Echoes'
51. Kelis, '4th Of July (Fireworks)'
50. Summer Camp, 'Ghost Train'
49. Crocodiles, 'Sleep Forever'
48. Mystery Jets, 'Dreaming Of Another World'
47. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, 'Round And Round'
46. Manic Street Preachers, '(It’s Not War) Just The End Of Love'
45. Liars, 'Scissor'
44. Biffy Clyro, 'Bubbles'
43. Darwin Deez, 'Constellations'
42. Robyn, 'Dancing On My Own'
41. Foals, 'This Orient'
40. Kele, 'Tenderoni'
39. Arcade Fire, 'Ready To Start'
38. Mark Ronson & The Business Intl, 'Bang Bang Bang'
37. Glasser, 'Home'
36. Les Savy Fav, 'Sleepless In Silverlake'
35. The Knife, 'Colouring Of Pigeons'
34. Katy Perry Feat. Snoop Dogg, 'California Gurls'
33. Big Boi, 'Shutterbugg'
32. Klaxons, 'Flashover'
31. Cee Lo Green, 'Fuck You'
30. Yeasayer, 'O.N.E.'
29. My Chemical Romance, 'Na Na Na'
28. The Drums, 'Forever And Ever, Amen'
27. Tinie Tempah, 'Pass Out'
26. Magnetic Man Feat. Katy B, 'Perfect Stranger'
25. Lady Gaga Feat. Beyonce, 'Telephone'.
24. Everything Everything, 'Schoolin''
23. LCD Soundsystem, 'I Can Change'
22. Yeasayer, 'Ambling Alp'
21. Avi Buffalo, 'What’s In It For?'
20. Kelis, 'Acapella'
19. Crystal Castles, 'Celestica'
18. Egyptian Hip Hop, 'Rad Pitt'
17. The National, 'Bloodbuzz Ohio'
16. Best Coast, 'Boyfriend'
15. Warpaint, 'Undertow'
14. These New Puritans, 'We Want War'
13. LCD Soundsystem, 'Drunk Girls'.
12. Factory Floor, 'Lying'
11. MIA, 'Born Free'
10. The Fall, 'Bury Pts 2+4'
9. Zola Jesus, 'Night'
8. Grinderman, 'Heathen Child'
7. Surfer Blood, 'Swim (To Reach The End)'
6. Gorillaz, 'Stylo'
5. Arcade Fire, 'We Used To Wait'
4. Kanye West, 'Power'
3. Janelle Monae, 'Tightrope'
2. MIA, 'XXXO'
1. Foals, 'Spanish Sahara'

75. Jam City, 'Ecstasy Refix'

WOW serious respect for this one actually ("arpjam" is better but we'll give them a pass seeing as it was only released this week)

there are quite a few really good songs elsewhere in the list but tbh there's a lot of total bullshit as well, and like the albums it gets worse and worse the higher you go, because the nme fundamentally has shitty taste

Slam dunking in at no. 35, it's the Knife...

34. Katy Perry Feat. Snoop Dogg, 'California Gurls'

serious respect for this one...

NAH

That NME top 10 is fucking awful and I am totally unsurprised to see them repping for Jam City.

I *am* surprised to see DJ Nate in there.

oh nos. 6, 8 are damn good songs.