Year-End Critics' Polls 2012

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/50-best-albums-of-2012-20121205/bruce-springsteen-wrecking-ball-19691231?stop_mobi=yes

DeRogatis:
http://www.wbez.org/blogs/jim-derogatis/2012-12/forget-grammys-here%E2%80%99s-derogatis%E2%80%99-best-albums-2012-104230

D0ugl4s W0lk in Time:
http://entertainment.time.com/2012/12/04/top-10-albums/slide/the-mountain-goats-transcendental-youth/

Ha, whoops, that starts here:
http://entertainment.time.com/2012/12/04/top-10-albums/slide/killer-mike-r-a-p-music/

Good to see the BBC are continuing their efforts to single-handedly keep Emeli Sande in a career: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcmusic/2012/12/bbc_music_top_25_albums_of_2012.html

NickB - did Wire publish a classical list?

from DeRo's Miguel blurb:

Finally breaking from the weight of expectations as well as genre constrictions, Kaleidoscope Dream gives us an artist with a unique vision, boundless potential and a weird haircut every bit as notable as that distaff visionary working similar turf, Janelle Monae. And wouldn’t those two be a concert double bill to die for?

DeRogatis :Channel Orange - On his first album, this 24-year-old New Orleans native offers a vision for remaking R&B that’s arguably as powerful as those from greats such as D’Angelo, Prince, Stevie Wonder or Marvin Gaye. Heartfelt, sensual, sexy but devoid of sexism, these tracks are lush and inviting but never less than unflinchingly raw and honest.

Folks just trolling Lex atp

NickB - did Wire publish a classical list?

Yeah they did J, but I mostly just typed in the lists where the names were short. Maybe I'll do that one in a bit though.

Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - Trouble

this better be fucking amazing, with that name

you'd be surprised

Nick - no worries if you can't. Might have a browse this w/e.

tally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - Trouble

this better be fucking amazing, with that name

― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Thursday, December 6, 2012

well, no, his name is Jim DeRogatis actually.

haha I'm listening to Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs now ("Promises") and basically I'm mad at myself for buying in so quickly

apparently I'm just a syncopation whore

xp Ugh. Any talk of remaking/transcending R&B puts me in Lex's camp. I'm cool with big crossover "statement" records getting more press than well-crafted examples of the genre because it's been like that since forever, but I hate the idea that it's automatically superior to all the stuff the writer hasn't heard. And there's definitely a genre bias - hip hop and R&B are presented as if they need "transcending" when indie doesn't.

xp Emeli Sande had the second or third biggest selling album of the year in the UK. I don't think she's been waiting desperately for a nod from the BBC website to make her feel good about her career.

She has the top selling one actually:
http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/the-biggest-selling-albums-of-2012-so-far-revealed-1736/

I had no idea...the only time she impinged on my world was at the Olympics opening/closing. Everyone else on that list seems more famous to me.

Remarkable that 80% of the top ten are British. Is that a new thing?

xp Oh there you go then. I assumed it was Adele now and forever. Weird that only 4/10 of those came out this year. And who knew Paloma Faith was that big?

Lol at the commenters telling the Official Charts Company that their list is wrong.

lol I just got called a hipster like half an hour ago *likes r&b*

tbh I had no idea Cody Chesnutt released an album this year and I loved Headphone Masterpiece

liked the idea of headphone masterpiece more than the execution

It's one of those albums that's a total mess and I wouldn't want it any other way.

It does strike me as odd that this whole conversation was sparked by Jeremih, who isn't really by any estimation one of the tastemaking hipsters lex would decry, in spite of his attempts to lump him in. I mean, he's pretty obviously following trends here, rather than setting them. You might as well get upset at people for liking Melonie Fiona.

well yeah, the reason it became a convo is because an example as batshit as Jeremih was used. making a mixtape with DJ Drama and 2 Chainz and Mike Will Made It, what a hipster!

Hey Julio, because Ike hair:

Wire Modern Composition A-Z

William Berger/Iain Burnside - Insomnia
John Bishoff - Audio Combine
Philip Blackburn - Ghostly Palms
John Cage - Etudes Australes
John Cage - Sonatas & Interludes
Edison Denisov - Au Plus Haut Des Cieux
Barbara Monk Feldman - The Northern Shore
Michael Finnisy - Second & Third Quartets
Hans Werner Henze - In Lieblicher Blaue
Annea Lockwood - In Our Name
Anthony Pateras - Collected Works 2002-2012
Katharina Rosenberger - Texturen
Skogen - Ist Gefallen In Den Schnee
Frances White - In The Library Of Dreams
Joanna Wozny - As In A Mirror, Darkly

well yeah, the reason it became a convo is because an example as batshit as Jeremih was used. making a mixtape with DJ Drama and 2 Chainz and Mike Will Made It, what a hipster!

― some dude, Thursday, December 6, 2012 5:28 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha irl hipstars i knew (jordan knows them too no judgement) rlly like this jeremih record & didnt like him previously. i think it v literally comes down to the album art

new graphic designer = new audience

yeah but that constantly happens -- pop artist is popular, slowly spreads to different audiences, including late pass hipsters

yah im not really arguing or anything

yeah it's all good

Is BBC the first list to have Roman Reloaded?

it was on the Spin list too

DeRo's list is weird--didn't he give the Frank Ocean a middling review on the radio show last summer? Still, kinda happy to see Aimee Mann on a list, since it probably won't make my top 10.

this thread is too huge now for me to find julio's beautifully prescient comment abt dylan/the wire, but reading my copy of the mag this morning, this made LOL:

"Has Dylan's voice ever sounded better?" - David Keenan on Tempest

Still think Dylan sounds a bit like Louis Armstrong on bits of the new album.

Not sure if anyone's actually linked to the BBC list so here it is, complete with out-of-the-blue Dexy's choice at #3:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcmusic/2012/12/bbc_music_top_25_albums_of_2012.html

Also that's... quite a list of voters. Feels a bit weird to see past and present ILXers in there with Tim Westwood and Skream.

Also Britishes, was that Emili Sande album massive from the get-go or did she get an enormous post-Olympics bounce?

that dexys album is not very good.

Emili Sande strikes me as the ultimate Jools Holland fodder

the empirical evidence of my 10-year-old niece loving emeli sande since long before the olympics suggests that she's always been a bit massive.

she's currently flogging mobile phones in some lame cinema advert, also (sande that is, not merdeyeux's niece)

Hmmm... The Kendrick album is very good, but judging from a lot of these lists you'd think it was the only hip hop album released in 2012.

2012 is the first year of the century that neither Jay-Z nor Kanye has released an album, so a new token rap pick was urgently needed.

Emeli Sandé's debut single was one of 2011's biggest even if a complete red herring for the boring-ass (but no more so than Adele) album

Any hip-hop lists that don't acknowledge Angel Haze are not to be trusted tbh. Kendrick's good though, could be worse

Xp the good music album though?

I honestly don't feel like Cruel Summer qwas significantly worse than Watch The Throne and prob better than My Beautiful Stupid Fantasy. I jam Mercy and Clique in a satisfyingly mindless way

The Angel Haze album is let down by too many slow and emo tracks, it starts to drag madly by the end. Wish there was a bit more balance.

Still dunno why Americans pronounce it "click" though

Angel Haze's emo deep thoughts are precisely what make her ~important~

yeah but Cruel Summer wasn't a Kanye solo album in even the way Watch The Throne was

"Clique" got old fast, kind of a secretly crappy song.

Angel Haze's emo deep thoughts are precisely what make her ~important~

Well she could do with framing those thoughts better, the album starts to feel mad repetitive in the final third.

BTW has anyone done an edit of Jungle Fever with the first third removed?

Btw have you heardthe song Angel Haze did with Rudimental?