My point was just that Rolling Stone's lists are usually populated by old white guys and I was pleasantly surprised to see this year's top ten much less so. Totally a valid point.
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 18:45 (thirteen years ago) link
But thats about as arbitrary and stupid as saying, "I'm sbing anyone who complains about not enough rap on these lists".
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0)
Ehmm no it's not, sbing about different music opinions is not valid, sbing about trolling is. What kind of answer are you honestly expecting with your comment? Are you inferring RS takes race into consideration when making votes for their best of the year?
― Moka, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 18:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Whatever dude. I'm not sure you understand what trolling is.
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 18:50 (thirteen years ago) link
at first glance that rolling stone singles list looks like something someone on ilm could come up with. maybe without the tom petty and the stones. and jakob dylan.
sad that peter wolf didn't make the singles list.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 18:51 (thirteen years ago) link
According to wikipedia:
A troll is someone who posts inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum, chat room, or blog, with the primary intent of provoking other users into a desired emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.
Hey! your comment qualifies!
― Moka, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 18:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Hey! No it doesn't! But hey, you SBed me so hopefully enough other people agree with you that I'll be out of your hair with my inflammatory comments.
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 18:57 (thirteen years ago) link
His comment here about Rolling Stone is not "off-topic"
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 20:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Or inflammatory or extraneous given the history of that magazine.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 20:09 (thirteen years ago) link
claiming that if the damn quietus list came out with waka on it would be met with "wow, unexpected! good look!" instead of "smh at you damn multicultis" is strictly bs
― banshun, Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Those darn multicultis. Because of them this thread is just dominated by ballots of critics forced to vote due to political correctness for Waka, Gucci, Currency and for dancehall, Congolese rumba, reggaeton and old African-American soul singers. Poor Salem and Arcade Fire, done in by multicultis.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 20:26 (thirteen years ago) link
― banshun, Tuesday, December 7, 2010 12:25 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
o rly
fwiw ilxor's (i think it was him?) argument upthread doesnt wash for me really. or its just a really misleading way of phrasing it
i was just responding to how doran described his own taste \oO/ but then id take waka & roots over freddie gibbs so
― lotta diamonds ... but prolly more display names (deej), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 20:32 (thirteen years ago) link
who knew that RS was really into random ass nicki minaj songs
― gimme schefter (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 20:57 (thirteen years ago) link
iirc, Rolling Stone leaves five slots open on their list, to be filled in by putting an intern's iPod on shuffle and slotting in the first 2010 song that comes up
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 21:01 (thirteen years ago) link
that nicki minaj song was reviewed by pfork btw
― lotta diamonds ... but prolly more display names (deej), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 21:05 (thirteen years ago) link
lol, cuz pitchfork never reviews random songs that no one cares about
― gimme schefter (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 21:10 (thirteen years ago) link
never said that, there does appear to be some consensus around that track tho
― lotta diamonds ... but prolly more display names (deej), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 21:21 (thirteen years ago) link
from FACT's list
At some point last winter what existed of the original record was semi-abandoned, Darkstar ceased being a production duo and – by adding a full-time vocalist, James Buttery – became a fully fledged band; dance music made way for melancholy, experimental synth-pop.
what is "experimental" about darkstar?
also, 0_o at darkstar being no. 5 on their (often interesting) year-end list.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 7 December 2010 21:30 (thirteen years ago) link
― lotta diamonds ... but prolly more display names (deej), Tuesday, December 7, 2010 3:21 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark
lol ok
― gimme schefter (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 21:31 (thirteen years ago) link
was also implying maybe they were biting
― lotta diamonds ... but prolly more display names (deej), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 21:32 (thirteen years ago) link
well that's a different story
― gimme schefter (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 21:33 (thirteen years ago) link
I wrote a few blurbs for the MySpace Top 50. I certainly am not gonna cosign all their selections, but this is definitely the best looking year end list I've ever seen:
http://www.myspace.com/music/blog/2010/11/29/the-best-albums-of-2010-2
― john jjjusten jingleheimer smh (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 22:05 (thirteen years ago) link
haha it took me scrolling down a few entries to realize they did special graphics for each album and that every album on the list didn't have coincidentally similar aesthetics.
― Local Hardman (some dude), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 22:29 (thirteen years ago) link
they did special graphics for each album
now i just have to figure out WHY anyone would do this
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 22:35 (thirteen years ago) link
<333 whiney's blurbs for the myspace list, which still has some looool moments (circa survive & b.o.b. in the top ten) but is altogether a nice change of pace
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 22:36 (thirteen years ago) link
still no shortage of arcade fire love, tho ;_;
Rhapsody Best 50 tracks of the year:
http://blog.rhapsody.com/2010/12/boytracks2010.html
Rhapsody Best albums, #31 to 50 (more to come obviously):
http://blog.rhapsody.com/2010/12/boyalbums2010.html
(My picks had some bearing on both the singles and albums lists, but not a lot. And none at all on albums 31 to 50, I guess.)
― xhuxk, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 22:45 (thirteen years ago) link
the love for "power" as a single is O_O
― gimme schefter (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 22:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Actually looks like you can now click through at that Rhapsody album link to get to #s 1 through 30. (Fwiw, the two I wrote blurbs about when they came out are not ones I like much.)
― xhuxk, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 23:09 (thirteen years ago) link
So both Rolling Stone and Spin have Jamey Johnson at #5. Sorry, had to point that out.
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 23:58 (thirteen years ago) link
is that album good? he's not someone I've seen much talk about on ILM
― Dan S, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 00:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Who wants to talk about Jamey Johnson's new double album, The Guitar Song?
― gimme schefter (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 00:13 (thirteen years ago) link
thx
― Dan S, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 00:14 (thirteen years ago) link
It's my #1 of the year.
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 00:18 (thirteen years ago) link
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Tuesday, December 7, 2010 3:35 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
I like it.
― rihanna refurbished my dick (rennavate), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 00:19 (thirteen years ago) link
oh they're not horrible graphics or anything, it's just...a lot of effort for not a great deal of point. i'd rather see the actual sleeve in every case.
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 01:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Or Pen & Pixel renderings
― Andy K, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 01:19 (thirteen years ago) link
still not a peep from musically, btw...
― Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 03:25 (thirteen years ago) link
try emil.y, maybe?
― hipity-hopity muzik ftw! (Ioannis), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 08:56 (thirteen years ago) link
The Black Keys one made me chuckle.
― dorsalstop, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 09:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Stereogum list
50 Emeralds – Does It Look Like I’m Here?49 Small Black – New Chain48 Sharon Van Etten – Epic47 Baths – Cerulean46 Frank (Just Frank) – The Brutal Wave45 Perfume Genius – Learning44 Field Music – Field Music (Measure)43 Big Boi – Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son Of Chico Dusty42 Lower Dens – Twin-Hand Movement41 Oneohtrix Point Never – Returnal40 Glasser – Ring39 Gold Panda – Lucky Shiner38 Avey Tare – Down There37 jj – jj nº336 the morning benders – Big Echo35 Swans – My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky34 Titus Andronicus – The Monitor33 MGMT – Congratulations32 Twin Shadow – Forget31 Warpaint – The Fool30 Das Racist – Shut Up, Dude29 Matthew Dear – Black City28 Delorean – Subiza27 Janelle Monae – The ArchAndroid26 Tame Impala – Innerspeaker25 ceo – White Magic24 Tamaryn – The Waves23 SALEM – King Night22 Marnie Stern – Marnie Stern21 Liars – Sisterworld20 Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Before Today19 Flying Lotus – Cosmogramma18 Abe Vigoda – Crush17 Owen Pallett – Heartland16 The National – High Violet15 The-Dream – Love King14 Yeasayer – Odd Blood13 LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening12 Crystal Castles – II11 Joanna Newsom – Have One On Me10 Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest09 Wild Nothing – Gemini08 Antony & The Johnsons – Swanlights07 Vampire Weekend – Contra06 Sleigh Bells – Treats05 Robyn – Body Talk04 Sufjan Stevens – The Age Of Adz03 Beach House – Teen Dream02 Arcade Fire – The Suburbs01 Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
― Dan S, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 17:06 (thirteen years ago) link
list very much in character
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 17:07 (thirteen years ago) link
ZERO decent albums in the top 10 has to be some sort of record
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 17:08 (thirteen years ago) link
FUCK EVERY FUCKING CLOTH-EAR PUBLICATION THAT PUTS KANYE FIRST
― irish xmas caek, get that marzipan inta ya (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 17:09 (thirteen years ago) link
I count four, though Kanye's is definitely not one of them.
― Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 17:10 (thirteen years ago) link
02 Arcade Fire – The Suburbs01 Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
~headdesk~
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 17:10 (thirteen years ago) link
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, 8 December 2010 17:11 (thirteen years ago) link
i like the kanye album alright but it'd be around my top 25-30 ranking or so -- no way #1
that arcade fire record = zzzzzzzzz
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 17:11 (thirteen years ago) link
i would listen to the antony, robyn and beach house as i like other stuff by them but haven't yet. of what i have heard they are on a 0% average.
― irish xmas caek, get that marzipan inta ya (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 17:12 (thirteen years ago) link
who is that "we" whiney?
― irish xmas caek, get that marzipan inta ya (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 17:13 (thirteen years ago) link
"we"? speak for yourself. indie sites and indie critics are firmly over THERE, far far far from where i locate myself.
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 17:13 (thirteen years ago) link
I like the Arcade Fire record, but it's pointless to stan for it in the face of conflict. You either dig it or your don't, whatevs.
― Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 17:13 (thirteen years ago) link