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

popular record is popular

whiney g. is whiney

Ned's choice not particularly surprising. ;)

is it loveless?

yes

Arp: The Soft Wave
—Scott Tennent

Ciara: Basic Instinct
—Alex Macpherson

Erykah Badu: New Amerykah Part 2
—Seth Colter Walls

Harvey Milk: A Small Turn of Human Kindness
—Christopher R. Weingarten

Jack Rose: Luck in the Valley
—Bill Meyer

Kylesa: Spiral Shadow
—Gillian Reagan

Lindstrøm & Christabelle: Real Life Is No Cool
—Kate Silver

Rangda: False Flag
—Marc Masters

School of Seven Bells: Disconnect From Desire
—Ned Raggett

would love to see more love for these ^^ in year-end polls

Destroyer: Streethawk – A Seduction
—Ryan Catbird

lol wasn't this released 10-11 years ago?

Insane Clown Posse: Bang! Pow! Boom! (Nuclear Edition)
—Camille Dodero

uhhhhh... really??

James Blake: (“My iTunes playlist of James Blake’s 2010 collected works”)
—Scott Plagenhoef

loving this choice!

(whiney if u want i can give u color commentary on all 100+ choices, y/n)

"MY COMPUTER is the album of the year" wasn't even clever when Spin did it 10 years ago

there are plenty of artists at this point for whom 'the collected eps by...' has been replaced by 'the collected mp3s by'

I think Cam1ll3 D0der0 is on some ironic ish with that. She's a Village Voice web editor and she calls herself a "Juggalo expert" on her twitter bio. She also wrote one of those big pieces about "lol look at the juggalos gathering".

there are plenty of artists at this point for whom 'the collected eps by...' has been replaced by 'the collected mp3s by'

― lotta diamonds ... but prolly more display names (deej), Thursday, December 9, 2010 6:06 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

did people ever refer to "the collected EPs by" an artist as an album or are you talking about stuff that actually was compiled/reissued on one release?

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fyi, camille's piece was really good in that it was one of the few that wasn't all condescendingly "lol juggalos"

That is true Whiney, I had her piece mixed up with another one until I looked at it again.

it was still basically "lol juggalos" but not terribly condescending in the process

everyone has terrible taste in music except for me

Pop Matters list if full of non-singles. Sloppy.

juno top 50 tracks - http://www.junodownload.com/plus/2010/12/09/juno-plus-top-50-tracks-of-2010/

Makes the FACT list look like Q and makes me feel about 108.

wowee zowee that juno thing is my kinda list! have no idea what any of it sounds like. gonna investigate. cheers!

:)

already digging the kevin gorman track. sounds awesome.

is there any list out there that includes "miami 2 ibiza" aside from mine? like, is there any dance crit site that takes populist dance music seriously whatsoever? it seems like theres some wild double standard w/ rap where everyone takes Drake soooo seriously, and dance music where we're only reviewing obscure german 12"

James Blake aside, that Juno list is great. The Midnight Magic/Jacques Renault record is a jam and the whole Permanent Vacation comp it comes from is ace.

Virtually every other song with Tinie Tempah on this year is better than Miami 2 Ibiza.

miami 2 ibiza rules wtf

im not concerned w/ tinie tempah im concerned w/ big populist dance music that critics pretend doesnt exist

like taio cruz?

I think dance music criticism and populist dance music do sometimes stray closer to one another but they're very far apart indeed at the moment, if only because the David Guetta/Swedish House Mafia school is so awful. They were much closer when people like Mylo or Felix or Zombie Nation were having huge hits.

& i dont mean 'populist' as in popular with fools gold fans who are willing to put up w/ 4th rate strictly rhythm bites but 'populist' as in, crosses over to huge dance audiences

I think dance music criticism and populist dance music do sometimes stray closer to one another but they're very far apart indeed at the moment, if only because the David Guetta/Swedish House Mafia school is so awful. They were much closer when people like Mylo or Felix or Zombie Nation were having huge hits.

― Matt DC, Thursday, December 9, 2010 6:36 PM (8 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you could say the same thing about rap right now, except that for some reason, (and im not saying this is true on ilx), critics at certain places that i might even write for are still repping for some super lame pop rap

Yeah but a significant number of rap writers have spent the best part of the decade fighting the corner for mainstream/commercial rap whereas in dance music its more about crate digging and highlighting the best stuff for DJs. The critical landscape is totally different.

Mostly amateur DJs I think...

is there any list out there that includes "miami 2 ibiza" aside from mine? like, is there any dance crit site that takes populist dance music seriously whatsoever? it seems like theres some wild double standard w/ rap where everyone takes Drake soooo seriously, and dance music where we're only reviewing obscure german 12"

This is true, but I think the bigger issue is not whether post-Guetta stuff or Swedish House Mafia is good or not but rather how it's conceived and categorised. Stuff like "Dynamite" and "Club Can't Handle Me" really is the pop-dance of now, this is the kind of stuff that gets played at christmas office parties whereas 4 years ago it might have been "Drop The Pressure" and "Call On Me". And then of course Gaga as well.

The effect of which is that the entire substratum of chartbound populist dance has now blurred to the point of indistinction from actual pop/r&b. The Kylie collabo with Taio is very telling in this regard.

Even 3 or 4 years ago pop-dance in the sense of dance producers releasing non-star-based songs that would go to the top of the charts was its own distinct thing and merited attention as a genre in itself. I'm not sure if that's true at the moment, though obviously any such remission is directly inversely proportionate to how much more dance-pop-ish pop/r&b happens to be.

And of course non-charting populist dance is always one of the most ignored areas of music (see also non-charting populist rap or non-charting populist R&B) - see UK funky obv!

And I'm pretty sure no actual dance music review site has ever taken pop-dance seriously.

tinie tempah album is pretty rubbish for the most part imo but miami2ibiza is slightly better than most of the shm/guetta shit. would rather listen/dance to crookers type stuff but there seems to be no actual charting/populist dance stuff in my top 100 tracks apart from uh telephone if that counts. maybe i can find a seamus haji remix of something to boost if desperate.

actually its the passion pit remix of telephone which def doesn't count

Yeah I think the Guetta track that's likely to get closest to any of these lists is actually a Kelis song.

i forget that i quite like Acapella and 4th Of July

what are the biggest dance tracks of the last year or so?

as in sales / mnstrm exposure obv

UK funky has really replaced my pop-dance fandom over the last few years. I still liked a fair amount of stuff last year like the Ducksauce tune but this year the only thing i've really stanned for is Chris Sorbello's "So Lonely" (in both its Club Mix and Hook & Sling Mix forms).

xp

the aformentioned kelis an anything involving guetta
we speak no americano
sidney samson - riverside
duck sauce - barbara streisand

:(

barbara streisand is a pretty boring song! love the video tho

The first Ducksauce tune was much better.

Riverside's awesome obv.

"Pon De Floor" might be the most universalising tune of the last two years in terms of critical and popular support combined...?

yeah i checked those and they seem pretty bad except for riverside....which seems alright

adam buxton showed 'pon de floor' at one of his music video showcases at the nft, replete with a careful selction of lol wite ppl youtube comments

'you had to be there'

i guess commerical dance had a brief mid-decade convergence with 'critical trends' before returning to its early 00s nadir

And of course non-charting populist dance is always one of the most ignored areas of music

what to you is the difference between non-charting populist dance and non-charting non-populist dance?

i kind of agree in theory that commercial dance should be taken more seriously but swedish house mafia and david guetta just suck ass and can jump off a cliff as far as i'm concerned

so odd that the one artist i felt actually did the otherwise awful trend du jour with panache and creativity - kelis - actually ended up completely flopping

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