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

(i wouldn't mind but didn't want to trample on musically's thing)

exactly.

she hasn't posted since june, looks like

rip musically

I'll send her a note and see if she's cool with us doing it w/o her.

Sent.

I just stuck 16 UK and US lists in a spreadsheet.

Most selections:

Arcade Fire - The Suburbs 15
National - High Violet 12
Beach House - Teen Dream 11
LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening 10
Yeasayer - Odd Blood 10
Caribou - Swim 9
Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest 9
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti - Before Today 9
Gil Scott-Heron - I’m New Here 9
Black Keys - Brothers 9
Vampire Weekend - Contra 9
Grinderman - Grinderman II 9
Sleigh Bells - Treats 9
These New Puritans - Hidden 8
Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can 8
Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me 8
Janelle Monae - The Archandroid 8

and ranked on position (Amazon.co.uk all got 10.5th place.

1 Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
2 Beach House - Teen Dream
3 LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
4 These New Puritans - Hidden
5 Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
6 Caribou - Swim
7 Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can
8 National - High Violet
9 Foals - Total Life Forever
10 Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
11 John Grant - Queen of Denmark
12 Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
13 Robert Plant - Band of Joy
14 Liars - Sisterworld
15 Emeralds - Does It Look Like I’m Here?
16 Forest Swords - Dagger Paths
17 Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti - Before Today
18 Janelle Monae - The Archandroid
19 Salem - King Night
20 Gil Scott-Heron - I’m New Here

#2+#3 together don't outscore #1

More interesting 751 slots has produced 323 albums. BUT if you take out everything that only has one vote (180 albums) you reduce the number only 142 albums filling those 571 slots.

NME, Uncut, Q, The Clash, Mojo, DiS, FACT, Sunday Times, Paste, Spin, Amazon.co.uk, The Fly, Rough Trade, The Quietus, Gorrila vs. Bear and Filter fwiw

GAPDY vs BLAND (beach house, lcd, arcade fire, national, deerhunter)

I'd go with BLANK when Kanye starts picking up steam tbh.

B DANK (Best Coast, Deerhunter , Arcade Fire, National, Deerhunter.)

Bethany would want it that way.

memes of the year, a hoy mag

1. thank you based god
2. snacks the cat
3. deal w/ it
4. robbenballs
5. ? 10.0?

BLANKET (add Emeralds and These New Puritans)

SLANKET

replace beach house with salem, only wear the lists as a joke

there it is

Nice. Could someone post the Filter list?

fact trax (spotify list), 27/40 tracks

By chance, just came across these - old Kerrang! album of the year lists.
Some properly surprising choices in the 80s.
http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/kerrang.html

Rolling Stone

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/68404/239077?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

30. Rick Ross - Teflon Don
29. The Roots - How I Got Over
28. My Chemical Romance - Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys
27. Peter Wolf - Midnight Souvenirs
26. Yeasayer - Odd Blood
25. Superchunk - Majesty Shredding
24. Maximum Balloon - Maximum Balloon
23. Elizabeth Cook - Welder
22. Spoon - Transference
21. Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
20. Neil Young - Le Noise
19. M.I.A. - Maya
18. Kings of Leon - Come Around Sundown
17. Beach House - Teen Dream
16. Kid Rock - Born Free
15. The National - High Violet
14. Robyn - Body Talk
13. Taylor Swift - Speak Now
12. John Mellencamp - No Better Than This
11. The Dead Weather - Sea of Cowards
10. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
09. Eminem - Recovery
08. Robert Plant - Band of Joy
07. Drake - Thank Me Later
06. Vampire Weekend - Contra
05. Jamey Johnson - The Guitar Song
04. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
03. Elton John and Leon Russell - The Union
02. The Black Keys - Brothers
01. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Even baby boomer Leftsetz didn't like the Elton John and Leon Russell. That must have been owner Jan Wenner's choice.

That's the worst list so far.

Listening through the Fact list and while they can be spot on at times they do like shome shonk as well. That Fantastic Mr Fox tune sound like something someone found down the back of an MP3 blog in 2006.

i'm really pleased to see dipset's "salute" getting repped for on the fact list

Yeah that's great, although if they don't rep for Warrior One & Lady Chann's King Riddim then they are spectacularly failing their people.

i actually like the rolling stone list better than a lot of the indie-leaning sites!

think that's the first i've seen taylor on a year-end list (yay)

matt have you heard doorly & lady chann's "the one"? even better for my money.

rolling stone honestly the one i like most so far. (not the same as one i'd like to check out most of)

ok sorry must have glazed over the top 3, f u rolling stone

remove the top 5, invert it and its a+

black keys album isn't a terrible choice for a rock mag to get behind

matt have you heard doorly & lady chann's "the one"? even better for my money.

Didn't really like that one but I'm blaming the producer. She works so much better over house/funky/dancehall crossover than lairy blokestep.

"the one" isn't that lairy. i think it's just a lot tighter as a song. my favourite 2010 lady chann thing is prob her "hold yuh" vocal though, "feel calm".

her next single "treble to your bass" is kind of toddla t-style banging - there'll be a marcus nasty remix too...

It might be that I'm not interested in tight songs from her, particularly, I just want her to ferociously let rip. That Gyptian track showcases a soft side I didn't know she could pull off though, good stuff. Looking forward to the single you mention as well.

the crazy high ranking overall for The National is sheer over-compensation for their previosu 2 albums' placings it's like the Lord Of The Rings films at the Oscars.

Not all they're cracked up to be, fwiw:

27. Peter Wolf - Midnight Souvenirs
23. Elizabeth Cook - Welder
16. Kid Rock - Born Free
12. John Mellencamp - No Better Than This
09. Eminem - Recovery

That said, don't see how the RS list is worse than any other ones on this thread.

it's on youtube already.

between them, lady chann and cooly g are responsible for like 50% of my twitter timeline consisting of "kmt"

xps

that eminem album is the worst (& i kinda-like everything through album #4 or so)

maybe im just excited by seeing rick ross on a list, as he isn't part of the BERKD 'rap' crit hierarchy

idk i think that's score one for "rap" crit hierarchy - rick ross deserves to be on no list

(big boi, em, roots, kanye, drake)

take big boi away and it could be DREK

the BAWSE was the best thing on the only supposedly perfect record of the century.

if by the BAWSE you mean MINAJ

ok second best.

But people's dainty sensitivities can cope with Kid Rock destroying all of black culture and history by being placed above Big Boi?

And Black Keys are a bad choice for a rock magazine to make, though not as bad as Elton John, John Mellencamp, The Roots, Maximum Balloon etc etc.

actually The Roots p otm for a rock magazine to make? it has fucking joanna newsom, the dirty projectors and a band of 'real' instruments on it.

also being butthurt is not going to make people read yr site.

And Black Keys are a bad choice for a rock magazine to make

this makes NO sense, they are just about a perfect choice for the "rolling stone demographic" as much as, say, liars/swans are solid choices for the "quietus demographic" -- feeling like you are just out to disagree w/ me ;_;

Kid Rock destroying all of black culture

kid rock's not a "rapper" anymore, he's gone "country," didn't ya know?

Re: The Roots. I meant more that it's a terrible fucking record as is Black Keys - especially if it's being chosen because of a demographic. The same percentage of our readers hate Salem as people here do. What's the point of chosing a list by second guessing what your readers like?

I'm just traumatized because of the number of tranquilizers I took at ATP. My butt will be back to normal tomorrow.

Sorry, but that Roots record is by no means "terrible".