Jamey Johnson even got some love on his prior cd Whiney. Tsk, tsk, behind on your country music knowledge.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 19:46 (thirteen years ago) link
<333 markers
i would be so happy if pfork voters put something ahead of kanye for #1
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 19:46 (thirteen years ago) link
:-D
― markers, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 19:47 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2009/12/17/marmaduke-is-so-cool.jpg
¯\(°_o)/¯
― omar little, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 19:48 (thirteen years ago) link
whiney's right that JJ's profile has very suddenly raised among people not actively paying attention to country, i never heard of the guy until recently and it seems like he's everywhere
― Local Hardman (some dude), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 19:48 (thirteen years ago) link
What blows my mind is this dude apparently co-wrote "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk"
― da croupier, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 19:49 (thirteen years ago) link
omar little is truly the best comedy gif response practitioner in the history of this thread
― Local Hardman (some dude), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 19:50 (thirteen years ago) link
I sort of feel like that standard country-artist-hits-mainstream MO, though...? Like, become big in your niche which by the way a ginormous # of people listen to, then emerge onto the scene fully-formed like Athene bursting out of Zeus's forehead.
― BO (DJP), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 19:52 (thirteen years ago) link
sure, but his critical profile is much higher than the average platinum country singer, let alone other merely gold-selling ones like him
― Local Hardman (some dude), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 19:54 (thirteen years ago) link
i think the surprising thing is how he seems like he should be some drive-by truckers type alt-country badass while his career trajectory is more miranda lambert/taylor swift
― da croupier, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 19:54 (thirteen years ago) link
dude even did reality TV!
Yeah, obviously. But what was the lead-up. I never saw it. I'm def not up on my country as much as I should be. But it's not like MF Doom or anything where there was like three years of indie people doing one page features and Q&As, this is like full indiecrossover right away afaik?
― dr. harbl's zing-along blog (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 19:56 (thirteen years ago) link
I even saw the Miranda Lambert leadup coming
losing your grip, dude!
― da croupier, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 19:57 (thirteen years ago) link
(and haha i didn't know shit about this guy before everyone was like DIG THIS DOUBLE CD either)
might be the fact that he made a double CD that made people realize he was an Artist and not the new Keith Urban or something
― da croupier, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 19:58 (thirteen years ago) link
seems like he should be some drive-by truckers type alt-country badass
Well, to be fair, so does Miranda Lambert.
what was the lead-up. I never saw it.
2009:
http://www.villagevoice.com/pazznjop/singles/2009/SGlnaCBDb3N0IG9mIExpdmluZw==/
2008:
http://www.villagevoice.com/pazznjop/albums/2008/VGhhdCBMb25lc29tZSBTb25n/
2008 album was the only album that year to make three out of four NY Times critics' Top 10s, fwiw.
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 20:02 (thirteen years ago) link
markers is truly the worst comedy gif response practitioner in the history of ilx
― Local Hardman (some dude), Wednesday, December 8, 2010 1:44 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark
for fuckin real
― gimme schefter (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 20:11 (thirteen years ago) link
i feel whiney on jamey johnson too -- i think the double album had something to do w/ it
& yes, kanye being #1 on every single album list is absurd
― gimme schefter (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 20:12 (thirteen years ago) link
thanks man!
― markers, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 20:14 (thirteen years ago) link
monoculture isn't dead, kanye is the monoculture
― gimme schefter (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 20:14 (thirteen years ago) link
markerculture isn't dead, markers is the markerculture
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 20:17 (thirteen years ago) link
kanye is such a dud to me. i don't get it. but, in all fairness, i haven't heard the new album. so, i should, i guess. but i really don't want to.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 20:18 (thirteen years ago) link
I can't wait for the "wtf were we thinking" looks back in 2015.
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 20:21 (thirteen years ago) link
double album had something to do w/ it
Well, yeah -- Lots of talk about that on the album's thread. The marketing and packaging deserve an award themselves. Seems like the positive critical response the previous album got convinced Johnson and/or Mercury Records to present the new one as an Important Conceptual Work Of Art, like no Nashville country album ever before. And it worked. Three-LP vinyl version is real gorgeous.
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 20:22 (thirteen years ago) link
"to present the new one as an Important Conceptual Work Of Art, like no Nashville country album ever before."
http://media.schadenfreude.net/2008/06/brooks-garth-in-the-life-of-chris-gaines.jpg
― scott seward, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 20:30 (thirteen years ago) link
you're assuming the crit picks in 2015 aren't going to be yay more dubious
― da croupier, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 20:31 (thirteen years ago) link
chuck do you own this conceptual artistic statement from the 70's?
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Cb4mdL5MI2A/TAfwzV8CxoI/AAAAAAAAGYg/3_HvzfZdxeA/s1600/Front.jpg
― scott seward, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 20:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Let's not forget Red Headed Stranger.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 20:38 (thirteen years ago) link
well yeah country has a zillion "concept" albums.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 20:39 (thirteen years ago) link
I guess just not recently.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 20:40 (thirteen years ago) link
how you go from luke the drifter to chris gaines i'll never know though.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 20:41 (thirteen years ago) link
xp! Nah (to Scott, about the album he posted), but actually, I just remembered that Vince Gill (who is boring) put out a quaduple CD four years ago -- very big deal at the Grammys, obviously. And the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's two Will The Circle Be Unbroken doubles fit in here, too. And maybe Red Headed Stranger. Probably other outlaw stuff too -- Jamey Johnson divides is into a Black Album and a White Album; David Allan Coe had a Happy Side and a Su-i-Side. So it's not like the Johnson thing is that unprecedented, I guess. Just don't think rock critics have ever fallen in line to this extent.
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 20:44 (thirteen years ago) link
the jon caramanica piece was really good! and compelling. i can see people - critics - wanting to check out the album after that ran.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 20:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Hey, so was my piece! Thing is, another huge part of Jamey Johnson's packaging to Serious Music Listeners is how he looks, not just how his album looks. (And I like him, a lot! But there's a ton of schtick involved.)
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 20:50 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't think i read yours! sorry!
― scott seward, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 20:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Ha, no big deal! Did it for my former employer. Anyway, it's linked on the JJ thread.
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 20:54 (thirteen years ago) link
The complaints about lists are about as interesting as listening to gripes about the weather. Isn't anyone excited about new finds from some of the better lists? I'm enjoying LoneLady, Motorpsycho, Teeth Of The Sea, Anika, Årabrot and much more. Glad to see The Soft Pack finally appear on a list. Still at large - Julie Christmas - The Bad Wife.
Looking forward next week to The Wire, Treblezine and Resident Advisor. Then I'll be finishing up my own.
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 21:01 (thirteen years ago) link
The complaints about lists are about as interesting as listening to gripes about the weather. Isn't anyone excited about new finds from some of the better lists?
OTM. It's not like there's anything even remotely surprising about most of these lists but I seriously doubt ppl are devoting as much energy to listening to some of the unknown quantities than they are to the most rote of whining about Arcade Fire/Kanye/Deerhunter.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 21:05 (thirteen years ago) link
The Motorpsycho album has been my EOY poll find so far. Totally missed any talk of it beforehand.
― sofatruck, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 21:08 (thirteen years ago) link
i would definitely check out a year-end best of 2010 youtube thread. there probably is one already.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 21:13 (thirteen years ago) link
ILM complaining about lists?!
― bourgeoistech bourgeoisthèque (_Rudipherous_), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 21:16 (thirteen years ago) link
I thought that Motorpsycho was boring but whatev
― dr. harbl's zing-along blog (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 21:17 (thirteen years ago) link
"ILM complaining about lists?!"
hahaha!
ILM: Making music more tedious than it has to be since 2000.
(but i'm still here, so, you know, whatever...)
― scott seward, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 21:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Scott this is the list for youILM Metal/Heavy Rock & other 'metal' subgenres 2010 POLL NOMINATIONS THREAD CLOSES 31/12 - All are welcome.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 21:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Brooks as Chris Gaines looks a lot like Ben Stiller as Zoolander.
I don't ever expect there NOT to be complaints about lists. Like weather small-talk, it's expected and comforting in a mildly annoying way. It's just that I'd expect this group to be a bit more excited about new discoveries/revelations/faves.
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 23:15 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, but to be fair, there is a whole year's worth of OMG! new album/song/band/etc threads.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 23:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Nearly had my head blown off by deja vu then. My music teacher was obsessed with White Mansions. "Bring up the 12-pounders!" sang some dying Civil War Officer dude to his ghost comrades.
― Carl Jung Jeezy (Doran), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 23:48 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah the whinging is a reaction to not seeing most of the stuff we've going OMGing about all year get recognised by professional critics. i know we shouldn't expect any better. and i've totally been checking stuff out, just haven't got round to listening to it all yet.
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 23:52 (thirteen years ago) link
what was that dance magazine that had their list up with audio tracks and i even started a thread about their top 50 or whatever. last year, i think. i would check them out again. i'll have to find it. someone here works for them? or they did anyway. music mag world moves fast.
― scott seward, Thursday, 9 December 2010 01:21 (thirteen years ago) link