Year-End Critics' Polls 2012

Piccadilly Records

http://www.piccadillyrecords.com/shop/feature.php?feature=708

Smoke Faeries I once saw play as an acoustic duo and it was amazing. Then they got a band together and went really boring.

Is TOY any good?

I didn't like the Neneh Cherry & The Thing album very much at all, but I suspect that most people who did like Neneh Cherry way more than they like The Thing. Which is weird all by itself - I mean, she was an 80s one-hit wonder. Why does she have the cult following she does?

Here are the jazz albums that will be on the eventual BurningAmbulance.com Top 50 of 2012 (which is a single blended-genre list):

JD Allen Trio, The Matador and the Bull
Jeremy Pelt Quintet, Soul
Return To Forever, The Mothership Returns
Charles Gayle Trio, Streets
Bill McHenry, La Peur du Vide
Matthew Shipp Trio, Elastic Aspects
Fontanelle, Vitamin F
Wadada Leo Smith, Ten Freedom Summers
Branford Marsalis Quartet, Four MFs Playin' Tunes
Darius Jones Quartet, Book of Mae'bul (Another Kind of Sunrise)
Steve Lehman Trio, Dialectic Flourescent
Black Music Disaster, s/t
Ralph Bowen, Total Eclipse
Nicolas Masson, Departures
The Thing with Barry Guy, Metal!
Full Blast & Friends, Sketches & Ballads

I didn't like the Neneh Cherry & The Thing album very much at all, but I suspect that most people who did like Neneh Cherry way more than they like The Thing. Which is weird all by itself - I mean, she was an 80s one-hit wonder. Why does she have the cult following she does?

she carried on having hits here throughout the '90s

xxp TOY are pretty good IMO, krauty psychy indie rock basically, so make of that what you will. Think The Horrors previous last album but one.

I didn't like the Neneh Cherry & The Thing album very much at all, but I suspect that most people who did like Neneh Cherry way more than they like The Thing. Which is weird all by itself - I mean, she was an 80s one-hit wonder. Why does she have the cult following she does?

Uh oh...

And yeah, I love Buffalo Stance, but she's had much more than one hit, not to mention her role in Rip Rig and Panic. And I like this album equally for the Thing as for Neneh. The attraction is:

a: a pop/soul singer working in an interesting and unfamiliar medium
b: covers of new-wave/industrial/post-punk songs
c: connection to her father's work
d: it sounds fucking excellent.

I like that White Manna album that's at #3 in the Piccadilly list a whole lot. Kinda sounds like it could have been made at any point in the last 30 years, but all the same, it's a really satisfying blast of Stooged-up psych rock.

tbh there are so many pegs to the neneh cherry & the thing album that i'm surprised it's not showing up a lot more than it is

I voted for Orbital in the Mojo poll but didn't expect to see them in the Top 20. Dad-rave ftw.

Lists so far confirm that it's been a funny old year. Lots of albums that aren't quite as good as you want them to be. I mean, I love Leonard Cohen, I have every album and I rate the new one but AOTY? Really?

I have more Thing albums than Neneh Cherry albums fwiw.

Is it alright to ask what current discussers' likely AOTYs might be ITT?

you prob know mine already, but my top six are pretty much set in stone by now - dawn richard / taylor swift / angel haze / farrah abraham / nicki minaj / miguel

the 誤訳侮辱 comments about Nenah/Thing are wrong on every possible level

i mean, even the label servicing it is aiming at writers who are down with Sunburned Hand of the Man and Nissenmondai and shit

My album of the year is Pinkish Black's debut.

my album of the year is deeeeeeeeeeez nuuuuuuuts

Rev OTM! J/k

My album of the year is either by Penny Royale or Sontag Shogun.

after my testicles, Frank Ocean

is that a Lil Wayne line?

the 誤訳侮辱 comments about Nenah/Thing are wrong on every possible level...i mean, even the label servicing it is aiming at writers who are down with Sunburned Hand of the Man and Nissenmondai and shit

Oh, bullshit. It's being aimed at indie nerd boys who are all too predictably treating The Thing like Neneh Cherry's backing band. I mean, it's not that huge a leap since The Thing have covered PJ Harvey and Yeah Yeah Yeahs and White Stripes songs, and they play non-jazz venues and work with Steve Albini, all of which I have absolutely no problem with (I've agitated plenty of times for indie bands who swear they love jazz to take a jazz group on the road as an opener, for example), but if more than a half dozen of the writers fawning over the Cherry collab had even heard the group's first two albums (never mind the original Don Cherry, Joe McPhee, Frank Lowe, James Blood Ulmer etc. songs they were interpreting early on) I would be fucking shocked.

lol xp

dude the current crop "indie nerd boys" discovered music with Siamese Dream, dude, no one gives a fuck about Neneh Cherry except old people. if contemporary "indie nerd boys" gave half a shit about nenah cherry then evryone wouldnt have treated MIA like she invented the fucking wheel

i mean, i havent read a single piece of crit about the record, but p much everyone I know who stans for it is an old dork like me

also, i fawned over the record and have been lovingly reviewing The Thing's records for a hot minute now

an old dork like me

Ha ha, I think I'm ~10 years older than you.

It's being aimed at indie nerd boys who are all too predictably treating The Thing like Neneh Cherry's backing band.

lol @ weirdo clique records getting big on the back neneh cherry - i person who i had never heard of before - and not the jazz band whos last records were done w/otomo yoshihide and jim o'rourke

dude the current crop "indie nerd boys" discovered music with Siamese Dream, dude, no one gives a fuck about Neneh Cherry except old people. if contemporary "indie nerd boys" gave half a shit about nenah cherry then evryone wouldnt have treated MIA like she invented the fucking wheel

― tome crues (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, November 23, 2012 12:16 PM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha Lamp read this post and raised his hand like "that's me!"

haha i stopped reading the thread after the comment i was responding to :/

... faced.

oh well its a p rad record fwiw, cool to hear that whiney was into it

lol @ weirdo clique records getting big on the back neneh cherry - i person who i had never heard of before - and not the jazz band whos last records were done w/otomo yoshihide and jim o'rourke

Thing albums with Otomo Yoshihide and Jim O'Rourke don't get written up on Pitchfork or talked up on NPR.

what kind of bogus life do you have to have led to have not heard of neneh cherry

i was raised in an igloo

I mean, no doy the NPR/Guardian/etc news peg is that "Ay, this person with multiple top 10 singles from the 80s (lol "one-hit wonder" fuck you)" is working with some spazz-jazz lunatics. But I would wager that a good majority of the people who actually enjoy/love/fuck with the record would/do listen with the Thing on the non-Cherry off-season

what kind of bogus life do you have to have led to have not heard of neneh cherry

― r|t|c, Friday, November 23, 2012 1:04 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Don't...you get fresh with Lamp

manchild, will he ever win

i was just asking myself, who's is that igloo on the street?

Also, I'm willing to bet that the two albums Neneh made with trip hop band CiRCKUs or whatever the fuck they were called probably soundscanned as many copies as any Thing record in America

this person with multiple top 10 singles from the 80s (lol "one-hit wonder" fuck you)

Here in America, "Buffalo Stance" hit #3 and "Kisses On The Wind" hit #8. I've never heard the latter song. So fine, she's a two-hit wonder. (Her other two charting singles in the US, "Heart" and "Buddy X," hit #73 and #43 respectively. I don't think those should really count for much, do you?)

"buddy x" counts for EVERYTHING

ROMEOOOOOO

I remember seeing "Buddy X" all over MTV

You never had Seven Seconds? Weird, that song was everywhere over here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utpvLjtPMlk

but even better

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDnoZh37uWg

WHAT ABOUT YOUR WOMAN
BUDDY MY FRIEND

xpost I'm just saying this isnt like some Jane Child shit here

first thing anyone has said on here that makes me want to hear something:

"but that Goat album is like beamed from an alternate reality"

also, you're not gonna GOTCHA PALIN me on some FAITH NO MORE ONLY HAD ONE CHARTING SONGS ROFLMAO FAIL WHALE shit because, critically, real talk, Nenah set the stage for Massive Attack, Portishead, Tricky, et al, and everyone acknowledges that

wait what's the name of the goat album i'll look for it on the youtube

i really liked one post buffalo neneh album can't remember title

Homebrew?