Wanna bet what's number 1? I'm guessing Bish.
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Thursday, 13 December 2012 10:54 (eleven years ago) link
go on, have another guess
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Thursday, 13 December 2012 10:56 (eleven years ago) link
Grimes at number 2 though? I went for a run and listened to it yesterday (also saw her at Primavera) and it was okay but just seemed so.. nothingy; like something that might have been interesting circa 2006 but no more.
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Thursday, 13 December 2012 10:56 (eleven years ago) link
Oh God, it's going to be F**** O****, right
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Thursday, 13 December 2012 10:57 (eleven years ago) link
Juno Best Of 2012: Top 20 albumshttp://www.junodownload.com/plus/2012/12/06/best-of-2012-top-20-albums/
1. Bass Clef – Reeling Skullways (Punch Drunk)2. JuJu & Jordash – Techno Primitivism (Dekmantel)3. Vessel – Order Of Noise (Tri Angle)4. Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland – Black Is Beautiful (Hyperdub)5. Jam City – Classical Curves (Night Slugs)6. Austin Cesear – Cruise Forever (Public Information)7. NHK Koyxen – Dance Classics Vol 2 (PAN)8. Silent Servant – Negative Fascination (Hospital)9. Lee Gamble – Diversions 1994-1996 & Dutch Tvashar Plumes (PAN)10. Madteo – Noi No (Sahko)11. Actress – R.I.P (Honest Jons)12. D’Marc Cantu – A New World (MOS)13. I:Cube – M Megamix (Versatile)14. Bee Mask – When We Were Eating Unripe Pears (Spectrum Spools)15. Raime - Quarter Turns Over A Living Line (Blackest Ever Black)16. DJ Nature – Return Of The Savage (Golf Channel)17. Barker & Baumecker – Transsektoral (Ostgut Ton)18. Jahiliyya Fields – Unicursal Hexagram (L.I.E.S.)19. Terrence Dixon – From The Far Future 2 (Tresor)20. Shackleton - Music For The Quiet Hour/The Drawbar Organ (Woe To The Septic Heart!)
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Thursday, 13 December 2012 11:26 (eleven years ago) link
i should check the Bass Clef album; he's got a really interesting attitude to making tunes.
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Thursday, 13 December 2012 11:27 (eleven years ago) link
I have that but it didn't really grab me. It is turning up on a few lists though.
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Thursday, 13 December 2012 11:31 (eleven years ago) link
13. I:Cube – M Megamix (Versatile)
Glad to see this getting props, it's terrific.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 13 December 2012 11:36 (eleven years ago) link
I have that but it didn't really grab me. It is turning up on a few lists though.― Albert Crampus (NickB), Thursday, 13 December 2012 11:31 (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Thursday, 13 December 2012 11:31 (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
What isn't always apparent with his stuff is that it's entirely analogue, mixed on cassette 8-track and made with really rudimentary old samplers.
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Thursday, 13 December 2012 11:42 (eleven years ago) link
I think I knew that already, in fact I think my problem was basically down to false expectations - it wasn't quite as scuzzy and horrible as I would have liked. But obviously I need to listen to it again at some point...
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Thursday, 13 December 2012 11:52 (eleven years ago) link
Matt, what kind of ballpark is that I:Cube in? Probably missing some subtle clues but it's a bit hard to tell from the blurb.
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Thursday, 13 December 2012 11:53 (eleven years ago) link
I don't get the Grimes album at all. Two great singles and a lot of weaker variations on a theme. It's not as if there isn't a lot of arty electro-pop out there and this doesn't feel any weightier or more compelling than the rest. <adopts Guardian commenter's explanation for everything> They probably only chose it to look "cool" and "edgy" and impress middle-class hipsters at Dalston dinner parties.
― Deafening silence (DL), Thursday, 13 December 2012 12:50 (eleven years ago) link
Agree apart from the great singles thing. So insubstantial + annoying voice despite being right in my wheelhouse
― lex pretend, Thursday, 13 December 2012 13:07 (eleven years ago) link
oh no don't you start with "wheelhouse" as well
― r|t|c, Thursday, 13 December 2012 13:22 (eleven years ago) link
I listened to the Grimes album again yesterday and it's still enjoyable and the melodies are gorgeous but it is kind of samey and there's not much to latch onto. If you think of it as an ambient album it works. Strikes me as one of those albums that loads of people plonk into the lower reaches of their list and ends up really high as a result. But there's not even any sense that it's been one of the defining records of the year or anything like that.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 13 December 2012 13:28 (eleven years ago) link
i remember when Randy Jackson started saying "wheelhouse" on American Idol all the time and people were like whaaaat lol and now everybody says it constantly
― some dude, Thursday, 13 December 2012 13:30 (eleven years ago) link
If you think of it as an ambient album it works.
So true. It was perfect for jogging to, but I remember absolutely none of it. Not a single bit of it stuck out or made an impression on me. Perfect background music for, say, a trendy fashion party, but really this kind of synths'n'sunglasses thing has been done many times over for ten years or so now.
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Thursday, 13 December 2012 13:34 (eleven years ago) link
trendy fashion parties are the worst kind of fashion parties
― an area the size of Jimmy Wales (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 13 December 2012 13:40 (eleven years ago) link
I'm glad I'm not the only one. Some folks were saying album of the year about Grimes when it came out back in March and I just didn't get it.
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 13 December 2012 13:42 (eleven years ago) link
"in my wheelhouse" has become the phrase du jour
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 13 December 2012 13:44 (eleven years ago) link
I think of wheelhouse as more of a tennis term?
― lex pretend, Thursday, 13 December 2012 13:45 (eleven years ago) link
i'm pretty sure it's originally a baseball term!
― Mordy, Thursday, 13 December 2012 13:46 (eleven years ago) link
idk w/e it just makes taste seem like a big rotting wooden wheel... in a house
― r|t|c, Thursday, 13 December 2012 13:48 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― some dude, Thursday, 13 December 2012 13:50 (eleven years ago) link
wheel talk
― nashwan, Thursday, 13 December 2012 13:51 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF7PMrV_ak4
me irl
― r|t|c, Thursday, 13 December 2012 13:54 (eleven years ago) link
Wheelhouse is a boating term that has long been used in baseball.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 13 December 2012 13:55 (eleven years ago) link
She's a wheel...HOUSE
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 13 December 2012 13:57 (eleven years ago) link
Another guessing game for you...
Dummy Magazinehttp://dummymag.com/features/2012/12/03/10-dean-blunt-and-inga-copeland-black-is-beautiful/
1: tbc2: Frank Ocean - channel ORANGE3: Jam City - Classical Curves4: Grimes - Visions5: How To Dress Well - Total Loss6: Laurel Halo - Quarantine7: LV - Sebenza8: Future - Pluto9: Kindness - World, You Need a Change of Mind10: Dean Blunt and Inga Copeland - Black Is Beautiful
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Thursday, 13 December 2012 13:58 (eleven years ago) link
could it rhyme with volcanic lahar?
― The Reverend, Thursday, 13 December 2012 14:03 (eleven years ago) link
Now that Dummy list really is a godawful top 10.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 13 December 2012 14:05 (eleven years ago) link
good guess, maad kitty xp
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Thursday, 13 December 2012 14:06 (eleven years ago) link
Many people were saying "Grimes 2012" in 2011 fwiw, I bet $100 she'd be playing Radio City and I think I'll be collecting on it. If you're gonna take Visions and stack it up note-for-note against a hundred other albums it's a pretty insubstantial thing but factor in the economy of its production (handmade in Garageband), the ubiquity of her voice (most accurately described by WGW as a cat meowing) and her entire aesthetic you've got a pop star for people who still care about DIY. I mostly think about her in the same zone as a James Ferraro so
impress middle-class hipsters at Dalston dinner parties.
is exactly otm.
― bosch's bish (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 13 December 2012 14:09 (eleven years ago) link
man how bad does that dummy list make future look all of a sudden
― r|t|c, Thursday, 13 December 2012 14:10 (eleven years ago) link
― bosch's bish (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, December 13, 2012 2:09 PM (4 minutes ago)
Lol.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 13 December 2012 14:14 (eleven years ago) link
Are you going to tell him or am I?
― Matt DC, Thursday, 13 December 2012 14:15 (eleven years ago) link
"kendrick" doesn't really rhyme with "volcanic", surely Rev?
― emil.y, Thursday, 13 December 2012 14:15 (eleven years ago) link
haha yeah i was just thinking "i'm glad rev isn't a rapper"
― some dude, Thursday, 13 December 2012 14:29 (eleven years ago) link
People in Dalston don't eat dinner. They just stare at their plates in stony silence, tutting and sighing at anyone who expresses any sort of enthusiasm for the meal in front of them.
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Thursday, 13 December 2012 14:30 (eleven years ago) link
are the trendy dinner parties in Dalton like the ones on the Upper East Side where people ate sushi and listened to Sade
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 13 December 2012 14:31 (eleven years ago) link
please, no
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Thursday, 13 December 2012 14:31 (eleven years ago) link
I only been to Dalston once and it was all Grace Jones all night, Grimes could've saved that party
― bosch's bish (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 13 December 2012 14:33 (eleven years ago) link
can't wait to escape from east london's narrow-minded fishbowl atmos and return to the refreshing dublin suburbs for christmas. something so real and honest about people shouting "faggot" out of car windows and groping women in the local pub to the strains of "sweet caroline".
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Thursday, 13 December 2012 14:35 (eleven years ago) link
globalization at work
― my dinner of butt (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 13 December 2012 14:39 (eleven years ago) link
Soundtrack to the last Dalston dinner party I attended = Carly Rae Jepsen and Farrah Abraham albums
― lex pretend, Thursday, 13 December 2012 14:40 (eleven years ago) link
united by the values we share xpost
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Thursday, 13 December 2012 14:40 (eleven years ago) link
sometimes you gotta go where everybody knows your name
― my dinner of butt (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 13 December 2012 14:42 (eleven years ago) link
barring that, where they are comfortable shouting epithets at you
― my dinner of butt (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 13 December 2012 14:43 (eleven years ago) link
just as long as you're comfortable, i'm comfortablelet the suburbs of dublin refresh ye
― bosch's bish (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 13 December 2012 14:43 (eleven years ago) link
But there's not even any sense that it's been one of the defining records of the year or anything like that.
Exactly. It's the kind of record you'd be happy to see bobbing around in the Top 30 just below the (much better) Chairlift record, so to see it this high in the NME and Guardian polls seems to suggest a significance that it doesn't possess. And I don't mind rockist BIG STATEMENT significant, just any kind of significant.
BTW I just checked out Laurel Halo - Christ no.
And I now regret making the Dalston dinner party joke.
― Deafening silence (DL), Thursday, 13 December 2012 14:46 (eleven years ago) link