I've written for Classic Rock for about seven years (I'm mainly their go to guy for "mad stuff" like The Fall) and if I voted for albums outside its milieu (say Fabric55 by Shackleton for the LOLs) they would probably consider it a sacking offence. Quite right too.
― Carl Jung Jeezy (Doran), Sunday, 12 December 2010 23:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Xhuxk OTM about the Heart album!!!!! It soundtracked my 1,000 trips to the storage unit during our move this summer, and the 999 trips back.
― T Bone Streep (Cave17Matt), Monday, 13 December 2010 05:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Soon going to have to do a list of my top 101 albums of the year, many of which are unsurprisingly not here. LOL do people still read blogs?
― T Bone Streep (Cave17Matt), Monday, 13 December 2010 05:26 (thirteen years ago) link
If viacom hadn't removed all The State's MTV skits from youtube, the "Slash" sketch would have been a nice video right about here.
― billstevejim, Monday, 13 December 2010 05:50 (thirteen years ago) link
All of these lists are so good. Can't wait to see more.
― billstevejim, Monday, 13 December 2010 05:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Would read again.
― billstevejim, Monday, 13 December 2010 06:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Pitchfork Top 100 Tracks of 2010numbers 100-51:
100. These New Puritans - "We Want War"99. Gayngs - "The Gaudy Side of Town"98. Male Bonding - "Year's Not Long"97. Ramadanman - "Don't Change for Me"96. Diplomats - "Salute"95. Ty Segall - "Girlfriend"94. Kelis - "Acapella"93. Freddie Gibbs - "National Anthem (Fuck the World)"92. Matthew Dear - "You Put a Smell on Me"91. Liars - "Scarecrows on a Killer Slant"90. Abe Vigoda - "Crush"89. Usher [ft. Nicki Minaj] - "Lil Freak"88. DOM - "Burn Bridges"87. Perfume Genius - "Mr. Peterson"86. Glasser - "Apply"85. Wavves - "Post Acid"84. Gil Scott-Heron - "New York Is Killing Me"83. Surfer Blood - "Floating Vibes"82. Spoon - "Written in Reverse"81. Forest Swords - "Rattling Cage"80. The Radio Dept. - "Heaven's on Fire"79. Delorean - "Real Love"78. Die Antwoord - "Enter the Ninja"77. Rihanna [ft. Drake] - "What's My Name?"76. Here We Go Magic - "Collector"75. Toro Y Moi - "Blessa"74. Sade - "Soldier of Love"73. Wild Nothing - "Chinatown"72. No Age - "Glitter"71. Salem - "King Night"70. NDF - "Since We Last Met"69. Woods - "Suffering Season"68. Kingdom [ft. Shyvonne] - "Mind Reader"67. Drake - "Over"66. The National - "Bloodbuzz Ohio"65. Dum Dum Girls - "Jail La La"64. Alicia Keys - "Un-Thinkable (I'm Ready)"63. Broken Social Scene - "World Sick"62. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - "Bottled in Cork"61. Tyler the Creator [ft. Hodgy Beats] - "French"60. Panda Bear - "Slow Motion"59. Twin Sister - "All Around and Away We Go"58. Oneohtrix Point Never [ft. Antony] - "Returnal"57. The Fresh & Onlys - "Waterfall"56. Joker - "Tron"55. Lady Gaga [ft. Beyoncé] - "Telephone"54. Vampire Weekend - "White Sky"53. Kendal Johansson - "Blue Moon"52. Lindstrøm & Christabelle - "Lovesick"51. Smith Westerns - "Weekend"
― Dan S, Monday, 13 December 2010 07:46 (thirteen years ago) link
60. Panda Bear - "Slow Motion"
is that a juvenile cover
― markers, Monday, 13 December 2010 07:50 (thirteen years ago) link
― markers, Monday, December 13, 2010 12:50 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
IF only.
― rihanna refurbished my dick (rennavate), Monday, 13 December 2010 09:45 (thirteen years ago) link
that's actually one juvenile song that's woozy & druggy &... slow enough where it wouldn't sound retarded & gimmicky if panda covered it
― ad hom alone (J0rdan S.), Monday, 13 December 2010 09:58 (thirteen years ago) link
when is the panda album coming out anyway
― ad hom alone (J0rdan S.), Monday, 13 December 2010 09:59 (thirteen years ago) link
soderburg wtf
― o let's not do it and say we did (The Reverend), Monday, 13 December 2010 10:22 (thirteen years ago) link
??
― ad hom alone (J0rdan S.), Monday, 13 December 2010 10:26 (thirteen years ago) link
"over" blurb
― o let's not do it and say we did (The Reverend), Monday, 13 December 2010 10:26 (thirteen years ago) link
he calls drake the "king of hashtag rappers" and means it as a compliment
― o let's not do it and say we did (The Reverend), Monday, 13 December 2010 10:27 (thirteen years ago) link
oh, well to be fair he did say that diggy simmons sounded better on the beat
― ad hom alone (J0rdan S.), Monday, 13 December 2010 10:27 (thirteen years ago) link
i like the ramadanman track but so far nothing else i haven't heard already that sounds interesting to me
― o let's not do it and say we did (The Reverend), Monday, 13 December 2010 10:31 (thirteen years ago) link
it's weird tho -- i liked the beat at first, though now i find it pretty repulsive, but in any event it doesn't strike me as the type of beat like "miss me" or something where you can just totally vibe to the thing while ignoring the rapping -- it seems more, purposefully, like a backdrop beat that's really meant to emphasize the lyrics
― ad hom alone (J0rdan S.), Monday, 13 December 2010 10:31 (thirteen years ago) link
talking about "over" obv
damn, i always forget how good that alicia joint is
― o let's not do it and say we did (The Reverend), Monday, 13 December 2010 10:32 (thirteen years ago) link
"over" beat is dope in a heatmade in '04 kinda way but that just makes me wish i could hear some roc dudes in their prime spit gully shit on it
― o let's not do it and say we did (The Reverend), Monday, 13 December 2010 10:33 (thirteen years ago) link
also i thought his point about t-pain was bizarre & didn't really make sense in the context of what he said about drake? like, i guess the idea of rap/r&b being "slash & burn" or w/e was sorta right, but it seems off to me to say that drake has avoided the fate of being cast off due to self-parody because he put out a "cogent" debut album by using the example of t-pain, who was actually a really coherent album artist
also i fail to see the connection b/w putting out a "cogent" album & not randomly losing favor w/in the industry & public
― ad hom alone (J0rdan S.), Monday, 13 December 2010 10:37 (thirteen years ago) link
the alicia joint is def very good -- would actually like to see drake put more time into writing r&b for other artists
― ad hom alone (J0rdan S.), Monday, 13 December 2010 10:39 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah otm. also t-pain was never really taken as a rapper like drake usually is, just as a dude who raps sometimes like lil jon or pharrell or something xp
― o let's not do it and say we did (The Reverend), Monday, 13 December 2010 10:40 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, the example of lil wayne wouldn't fit for brandon's thesis because wayne hasn't fallen off, but he's clearly the direct lineage for drake's sing/rap thing, and more importantly, being ubiquitous all over other ppl's singles in both fashions
as for singles, t-pain raps on "kiss kiss" & "shawty get loose" but most of his rapping was on like random remixes that only nerds heard
― ad hom alone (J0rdan S.), Monday, 13 December 2010 10:47 (thirteen years ago) link
i guess there are a few others that he raps on ("go girl" etc) but i think he's still classified more like ne-yo, the-dream or akon than wayne or kanye
― ad hom alone (J0rdan S.), Monday, 13 December 2010 10:48 (thirteen years ago) link
They did this last year but Vice's albums of the year chart is usually as funny as their tips of the year spoof.
― Carl Jung Jeezy (Doran), Monday, 13 December 2010 14:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Would be funnier if it were more accurate I think. Also they've actually reused, almost word for word, some of the jokes from last year.
― Matt DC, Monday, 13 December 2010 15:06 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.viceland.com/music/2009/12/the-vice-albums-of-the-year/
They've re-used word for word more than just the jokes afaict. But that is the joke right?
― O Permaban (NickB), Monday, 13 December 2010 15:11 (thirteen years ago) link
100. These New Puritans - "We Want War"94. Kelis - "Acapella"91. Liars - "Scarecrows on a Killer Slant"74. Sade - "Soldier of Love"64. Alicia Keys - "Un-Thinkable (I'm Ready)"58. Oneohtrix Point Never [ft. Antony] - "Returnal"52. Lindstrøm & Christabelle - "Lovesick"
happy to see all these on the pfork list
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Monday, 13 December 2010 15:17 (thirteen years ago) link
I think that's partly the joke. They reused their tips one word for word.
― Carl Jung Jeezy (Doran), Monday, 13 December 2010 15:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Funny
9. A rapper moving hip-hop into ‘uncharted territories’. i.e.: Has the same neon cyberdog aesthetic as a Joel Schumacher Batman film.
― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Monday, 13 December 2010 16:00 (thirteen years ago) link
x-post to
― T Bone Streep (Cave17Matt)
You'll have to put it on a tumblr or tweet it, like all the cool kidzzzz
― curmudgeon, Monday, 13 December 2010 17:29 (thirteen years ago) link
the "over" writeup is shameless & embarassing but so is everything they've ever written about drake. this list is pretty hot so far, though. i always appreciate their eoy trax lists most in years when i wasn't really paying attention to p4k goings on during the year
― flopson, Monday, 13 December 2010 17:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Pop Matters albums
70. Massive Attack - Heligoland69. Robyn - Body Talk, Pt. 168. Vijay Iyer - Solo67. Oneohtrix Point Never - Returnal66. Cee-Lo Green - The Lady Killer65. The Radio Dept. - Clinging to a Scheme64. The Nels Cline Singers - Initiate63. Agalloch - Marrow of the Spirits62. Roky Erickson with Okkervil River - True Love Cast Out All Evil61. Bilal - Airtight’s Revenge60. The Walkmen - Lisbon59. Underworld - Barking58. Emeralds - Does It Look Like I’m Here?57. Los Campesinos! - Romance Is Boring56. Women - Public Strain55. Jónsi - Go54. MGMT - Congratulations53. Belle and Sebastian - Belle and Sebastian Write About Love52. Robert Plant - Band of Joy51. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles50. School of Seven Bells - Disconnect from Desire49. Owen Pallett - Heartland48. Superchunk - Majesty Shredding47. Yeasayer - Odd Blood46. Josh Ritter - So Runs the World Away45. Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky44. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah, Part Two: Return of the Ankh43. Autechre - Oversteps42. Midlake - The Courage of Others41. Christian Scott - Yesterday You Said Tomorrow40. Vampire Weekend - Contra39. Justin Townes Earle - Harlem River Blues38. Patty Griffin - Downtown Church37. Twin Shadow - Forget36. The Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt35. Ryan Bingham & the Dead Horses - Junky Star34. Drive-By Truckers - The Big To-Do33. The New Pornographers - Together32. The Roots - How I Got Over31. Neil Young - Le Noise30. Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings - I Learned the Hard Way29. John Grant - Queen of Denmark28. Surfer Blood - Astro Coast27. Caribou - Swim26. Jamey Johnson - The Guitar Song25. Spoon - Transference24. Grinderman - Grinderman 223. Konono No. 1 - Assume Crash Position22. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach21. Four Tet - There Is Love in You20. Das Racist - Sit Down, Man19. Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz18. Best Coast - Crazy for You17. The Black Keys - Brothers16. Mavis Staples - You Are Not Alone15. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti - Before Today14. Galactic - Ya-Ka-May13. Joanna Newsom - Have One on Me12. Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest11. Sleigh Bells - Treats10. Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty9. Gogol Bordello - Trans-Continental Hustle8. Titus Andronicus - The Monitor7. Beach House - Teen Dream6. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening5. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs4. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy3. Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma2. The National - High Violet1. Janelle Monáe - The ArchAndroid
― Dan S, Monday, 13 December 2010 18:03 (thirteen years ago) link
:0
― billstevejim, Monday, 13 December 2010 18:16 (thirteen years ago) link
That's a decent list if you ignore most of the top 10.
― seandalai, Monday, 13 December 2010 18:17 (thirteen years ago) link
First list to feature Autechre if Ctrl+F is to be believed.
― seandalai, Monday, 13 December 2010 18:18 (thirteen years ago) link
pop matters, just not as much as indie rock
― flopson, Monday, 13 December 2010 18:20 (thirteen years ago) link
oops bad joke
*blush*
popmatters: they are shuffling other mag's lists arcade fire lcd soundsystem the national are boring blah blah blah anyways, here are two interesting lists from dustedmagazine as in ie. I have no idea who most of those artists are:
http://dustedmagazine.com/features/936http://dustedmagazine.com/features/941
― laser precise purpose maker era, Monday, 13 December 2010 18:24 (thirteen years ago) link
5. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs4. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
an improvement; at least they're shifted down a few places?
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Monday, 13 December 2010 18:27 (thirteen years ago) link
pop matters, just not as much as indie rock― flopson, Monday, December 13, 2010 12:20 PM (6 minutes ago)oops bad joke*blush*― flopson, Monday, December 13, 2010 12:20 PM (6 minutes ago)
― flopson, Monday, December 13, 2010 12:20 PM (6 minutes ago)
i lol'd
I mean, the first guy has Thomas Koner, Kevin Drumm and Keith Fullerton Williams which are pretty cool so the other ones should be interesting. As for the second one, I can't fucking stand Joanna Newsom but she has plenty of never-heard-of japanese stuff that looks rad. Kinda like reading volcanictongue or The Wire EOY lists.
― laser precise purpose maker era, Monday, 13 December 2010 18:29 (thirteen years ago) link
21. Four Tet - There Is Love in You
this is about as high as four tet's been all year; a fucking shame, as it's his best album, and one of my top 5 or so of the year :(
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Monday, 13 December 2010 18:30 (thirteen years ago) link
btw, Brainwashed has begun the nominations process for its year-end readers poll; one of the better polls out there!
http://brainwashed.com/2010
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Monday, 13 December 2010 18:32 (thirteen years ago) link
This is a pretty funny thread though, with everyone bitching and bitching about how boring and similar these lists are, but when presented with one that really looks completely different from the rest (the Classic Rock), its all, "lol that is an awful list full of awful music". No pleasing you guys at all, is there? "Different" lists only count if they have the records you like?
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 04:24 (thirteen years ago) link
i was praising it for being different
― lotta diamonds ... but prolly more display names (deej), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 04:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Ha, I posted that just before I noticed your comment.
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 04:27 (thirteen years ago) link
21. Four Tet - There Is Love in Youthis is about as high as four tet's been all year; a fucking shame, as it's his best album, and one of my top 5 or so of the year :(
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Monday, December 13, 2010 12:30 PM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Same. Might not be as groundbreaking as many others, but it's one of the few that I never got tired of after months and months of replays.
― Indexed, Tuesday, 14 December 2010 04:34 (thirteen years ago) link