Hip Hop Connection's top 40 of the year
40. Sway - The Signature39. DPF - It'll Never Catch On38. Triple Darkness - Anathema37. Vast Aire - Deuces Wild36. The Cool Kids - The Bake Sale35. Dagha - The Divorce34. Santogold - Santogold33. Sadat X - Generation X32. Foreign Exchange - Leave It All Behind31. Termanology - Politics As Usual30. Kidz In The Hall - The In Crowd29. People Under The Stairs - Fun DMC28. DJ Revolution - King Of The Decks27. Nappy Roots - The Humdinger26. Blak Twang - Speaking From Experience25. Atmosphere - When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold24. Guilty Simpson - Ode To The Ghetto23. Jake One - White Van Music22. The Bug - London Zoo21. Flying Lotus - Los Angeles20. The Game - LAX19. Pete Rock - NY's Finest18. NERD - Seeing Sounds17. Nas - Untitled16. Kashmere - Raiders of the Lost Archives15. Prodigy - HNIC 214. Young Jeezy - The Recession13. Baby J - Baby Food12. The Roots - Rising Down11. Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III10. Black Milk - The Tronic9. Large Professor - Main Source8. Elzhi - The Preface7. Sir Smurf Lil - A New Bloodline6. Fat Ray & Black Milk - The Set Up5. ABN - It Is What It Is4. EMC - The Show3. Million Dan - Spektrum2. The P Brothers - The Gas1. Roots Manuva - Slime and Reason
― Seanadams Molloy (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 20:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
voting for triple darkness!! propz
― deej, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 20:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
#18?
― Andy K, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 20:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
With the exception of guys who are in there because they always have to be in a rap year end list (Nas, NERD, Twang), that's a nice list.
Or what he just said, xp.
― Seanadams Molloy (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 20:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's described as an "album that brought the funk".
― Seanadams Molloy (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 21:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
19. Pete Rock - NY's Finest
^^^this album was so terrible it made me want to ;_;
― deej, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 21:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
fact magazine top 100 tracks
http://www.factmagazine.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1604&Itemid=27
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 21:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
another day, anopther quietus list.
this time reissues/mixtapes/compilations get the love :
30 Various Artists - Optimo Sleepwalk29 A Guy Called Gerald - Black Secret Technology28 Throbbing Gristle - 32nd Annual Report27 Magazine - The Peel Sessions26 Various Artists - BBC Radiophonic Music25 808 State - Ex El24 New Order - Low-Life23 Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Union Café22 Various Artists - Eine Kleine Nachtmusik Mix Tape21 Soft Cell - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret20 Various Artists - Top Ranking Santogold: A Diplo Dub19 Various Artists - New Orleans Funk Volume 218 Various Artists - Nigeria Rock Special: Psychedelic Afro Rock & Fuzz Funk In 1970s Nigeria17 Diamanda Galas - Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! Live16 Loop - Fade Out15 Omar Rodriguez-Lopez - Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fungus14 New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies13 Prodigy - More Music For the Jilted Generation12 Killing Joke - The Peel Sessions 1979 – 198111 Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom10 Gary Numan & Tubeway Army - Replicas9 Artery - Live at Meltdown8 Einsturzende Neubauten - The Jewels7 Gas - Nah Und Fern6 Teenage Jesus & The Jerks - Shut Up and Bleed5 Various Artists - Dancehall: The Rise Of Jamaican Dance4 Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85 - 923 Various Artists - Sprigs Of Time: 78s From The EMI Archives2 OMD - Dazzle Ships1 Suicide - Live 1977 - 78 Box Set
― mark e, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 21:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
35. Dagha - The Divorce
Anyone know if this is good?
― uәʇɹɐƃu!әʍ ˙ƃ ʎәu!Ⴁʍ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 21:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
I've liked what I've heard from it so far, but I think I'd like it better if I did hella weed.
― Seanadams Molloy (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 21:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
the posting of the wire list coincided nicely with my monthly emusic download renewal.
that philip jeck album in the #2 is serious. i've heard of less than half the rest of the list, though
― mark cl, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 21:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
the only hip hop album i actually listened to more than twice this year.
― mark e, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 22:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
That P Bros any good Dom?
― Enrique (Raw Patrick), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 22:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
Would make a good soundtrack for Blade 4.
― Seanadams Molloy (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 22:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
Norway's Aftenposten Newspaper - Best 2008 Albums http://oslopuls.aftenposten.no/musikk/article111824.ece
Aftenposten scrapped their English language website recently, so only Geir can read the blurbs. Aftenposten is Norway's equivalent of The Daily Telegraph.
― djmartian, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 22:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
So far, the list that my/our EoY list is most going to resemble is...
The Wire Hiphop list!
― Brother Belcher (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 11 December 2008 08:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
fact magazine top 100 tracks is the first list i've actively enjoyed (if u ignore the indie obv) - loads of trax which are in line to make my own list, plus quite a few that i hadn't heard & now need to check out
― lex pretend, Thursday, 11 December 2008 09:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
Fact Magazine website also seemingly non-cognisant of term "at a glance."
Lex OTM though.
― Brother Belcher (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 11 December 2008 09:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
it actually hurts my head to think that this is the only list so far to feature a crazy cousinz item
― lex pretend, Thursday, 11 December 2008 09:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
btw, everyone, I got the Geeneus album yesterday and it is fab fab FAB and that'll teach everyone not to wait until the actual end of the year before doing EoY lists.
― Brother Belcher (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 11 December 2008 09:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
Well, I got it on TUESDAY so NERR I AM FUNKIER!
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 11 December 2008 10:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
(Although he could stand to slow down a bit on the mixed CD - 31 tracks in 60 minutes, phew...)
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 11 December 2008 10:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
Fact magazine produced a really good list last year as I remember. I should try reading it sometime.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 11 December 2008 10:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
"btw, everyone, I got the Geeneus album yesterday and it is fab fab FAB and that'll teach everyone not to wait until the actual end of the year before doing EoY lists."
I'm more annoyed about not including "As I" in my top ten singles than the Geeneus album in my top ten albums (it reminds me a bit of the first Wookie album - in both cases the pre-album singles included are more exciting and raw than the self-consciously futurist tracks). And I had ample warning slash no excuse with "As I", it just hit me rather slowly how much I adore it.
"Yellowtail" was the most ubiquitous and one of the best funky tracks of the year, but I'd feel a bit Dissensus repping for it too hard.
― Tim F, Thursday, 11 December 2008 10:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
Kudos to Fact for putting audio links on all of that. I'm not sure I've heard the Heartsrevolution track.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 11 December 2008 10:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
On the average George Mitchell Minstrels album you got 60 songs in 31 minutes! Kids these days etc.
― Brother Belcher (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 11 December 2008 10:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
Startled at Hip Hop Connection putting a couple of fortysomethings from Nottingham act at #2. (The P Brothers - The Gas) My promo CD was literally unlistenable: low bitrate (I'm guessing 64k) PLUS blasts of white noise every minute or so PLUS annoying electronic voiceover announcements, again every minute or so. Pure torture, and they even pulled the same stunt on the album's preview megamix on MySpace! Is this common anti-piracy practice in hip hop, then?
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 11 December 2008 10:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
Actually judging by the awful elitist Dissensus-lite copy on the Fact list, maybe I won't bother with the magazine after all.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 11 December 2008 10:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
I got a sampler of the Prodigy album that HHC has at no. 15 and it has to be heard to be believed. I didn't get round to timing the gaps between voiceover dropouts like I was going to but it was roughly every 10 seconds. It was basically impossible to tell if the actual release would have any merit or not
― The Biggest Event In The History Of Ethnic Comedy (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 11 December 2008 10:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
I dunno if I'd call 'Dissensus-lite' a bad thing per se!
― The Biggest Event In The History Of Ethnic Comedy (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 11 December 2008 10:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
"awful elitist Dissensus-lite copy" - MUST READ!
It is fairly standard practice as anyone fool enough to pick up the average Lethal Bizzle or Kano promo will testify.
― Brother Belcher (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 11 December 2008 10:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
Actually I was reading the list last night and there was a track (can't be arsed checking now) that was, paraphrasing, "good but has since been licenced to MoS so is liked by idiots" that basically made me want to shank whoever wrote it, so yeah not gonna go great lengths to defend the mag (I quite enjoy it when I read it on the whole tho)
― The Biggest Event In The History Of Ethnic Comedy (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 11 December 2008 10:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
Mail on Sunday?
― Brother Belcher (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 11 December 2008 10:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
xpost: That was Kid Cudi's "Day 'N Night", I think.
Last year's Kano album promo played lovely! It must be a Worrying New Development.
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 11 December 2008 10:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
The last Prodigy album I had a promo of - Never Knowingly Undersold, or whatever that underachieving fourth album was called - was also interference free so maybe they're getting worried.
― Brother Belcher (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 11 December 2008 10:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.nme.com/news/various-artists/41537
(lol acronym meld)
(Ministry innit)
xxp
― The Biggest Event In The History Of Ethnic Comedy (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 11 December 2008 10:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
This is Mobb Deep Prodigy btw
― The Biggest Event In The History Of Ethnic Comedy (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 11 December 2008 10:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
"I think that if we can move into original content in the long run that will be more exciting. It is closer to what we do in the newspaper - we don't publish other people's stories. We are original content providers."
Ha ha, tell that to the various bloggers whose content they've splashed over double page spreads without permission or payment!
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 11 December 2008 10:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
Pushing the envelope already with the ACM Gospel Choir there.
― Brother Belcher (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 11 December 2008 10:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
Very glad to see others got in ahead of me with the task of typing up the Wire lists. I bet myself before turning the page to see the top of their list that the Bug would be #1, good to see I've been keeping my finger on the pulse.
― krakow, Thursday, 11 December 2008 11:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
wow, the wire's "critical beats" list sure veered dubstep this year. (for the record, i contributed about half of that; guessing walmsley did the rest. and my list was, shockingly, mostly dubstep, with the exception of villalobos, koze, and louis guilliaume. i think i voted for move d's "drøne," too, but it looks like that slipped over to the electronica list.)
as for mixing up tracks, albums and singles, IMO it's the only way to do it when each genre just gets one (short) list...
― pshrbrn, Thursday, 11 December 2008 11:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
― mike t-diva, Thursday, December 11, 2008 4:49 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
haha thats one of the main songs discussed in frankenstein beats thread -- it has an american corollary w/ a crookers remix as well
― ohhhh we pop champagne (deej), Thursday, 11 December 2008 12:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
1. Roots Manuva - Slime and Reason
really missing something with this
― Yentl vs Predator (blueski), Thursday, 11 December 2008 12:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
I can't get past the cover. Ties with Santogold for title of worst 2008 album cover.
― Brother Belcher (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 11 December 2008 13:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Yentl vs Predator (blueski), Thursday, 11 December 2008 12:27 (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Problem with Roots Manuva albums is that they take far too long to "unlock" when listening to now, and I just get convinced the further he gets into his career the less valuable the stuff you're gonna be discovering on the 40th listen is.
― Seanadams Molloy (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Thursday, 11 December 2008 13:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
i think i just wanted some not-boring beats
― Yentl vs Predator (blueski), Thursday, 11 December 2008 13:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
I sort of lost interest in Roots Manuva when I realised he was a really plodding MC who happens to have an amazing voice.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 11 December 2008 13:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
Gigwise's Top 50 Albums Of 2008! http://www.gigwise.com/photos/48128/Gigwises-Top-50-Albums-Of-2008
― djmartian, Thursday, 11 December 2008 13:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
Spin Magazine - The 40 Best Albums of 2008 http://www.spin.com/articles/40-best-albums-2008?page=0%2C0
― djmartian, Thursday, 11 December 2008 13:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
Dear Gigwise,
I can't be fucked to click 'Next' 50 times to see which record you voted as number one. Please make your website less shit or I will assume you voted for MGMT like everyone else.
Yours,
― Matt DC, Thursday, 11 December 2008 13:32 (1 year ago) Permalink