Year-End Critics' Polls 2012

xp Oh cool. Your wrath was so righteous that I thought I'd make sure.

The only time "trendy fashion parties" is acceptable is when the music is explicitly for and about trendy fashion parties, eg early 00s Miss Kittin records.

Never been to Dalston. Last dinner party was my folks and I put Dave Brubeck on.

My personal hate is "This just sounds like reconstituted <X dance genre> from ten years ago"

Occasionally correct when being used as a sincere compliment.

The only time "trendy fashion parties" is acceptable is when the music is explicitly for and about trendy fashion parties, eg early 00s Miss Kittin records.

Miss Kittin and Grimes are arguably not polar opposites of each other.

The only time "trendy fashion parties" is acceptable is when the music is explicitly for and about trendy fashion parties, eg early 00s Miss Kittin records.

still fails given this music was popular way beyond that kind of scene.

i mean did actual fashion houses incorporate electrohouse? i'd be doubtful. fashionable clubs maybe.

My personal hate is "This just sounds like reconstituted <X dance genre> from ten years ago"

Occasionally correct when being used as a sincere compliment.

― Tim F, Thursday, 13 December 2012 15:09 (29 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hmmm... Funny, because I'm pretty sure each one of the Bobbins massive are guilty of doing this on a fairly regular basis.

i mean did actual fashion houses incorporate electrohouse? i'd be doubtful. fashionable clubs maybe.

― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Thursday, 13 December 2012 15:10 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Catwalks, hairdressers, clothes shops, all pretty much featured de rigueuer electrohouse soundtracks 2002-onwards.

I tried out the genre of "I ~see through~ this naked emperor b/c i am a superior listener so let's pop-psychoanalyse all the people who don't" posturing when it first came out, and I was underwhelmed then, and in 2012 it just seems really tired and old in my opinion... It's all just reconstituted whining from old ILM threads, only fit for solitary parlour games amongst sad rapidly aging young men who don't get invited to dinner parties.

You left out the word 'aspie' near the end.

Oh shit can I resubmit.

Catwalks, hairdressers, clothes shops, all pretty much featured de rigueuer electrohouse soundtracks 2002-onwards.

how many catwalks did you visit? and anyway, don't all these places just play whatever dance music is the sound of the day? at least for the last 20 years or so.

Let's be real how many hairdressers or clothes shops did dog latin visit

de rigueueuer ziheuerer

I worked in an Urban Outfitters for 3 years. Believe me I played anything and everything. Especially as stock sometimes got very low. The soundtrack to Mulholland Drive really doesn't make people buy things.

"kendrick" doesn't really rhyme with "volcanic", surely Rev?

― emil.y, Thursday, December 13, 2012 6:15 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha yeah i was just thinking "i'm glad rev isn't a rapper"

― some dude, Thursday, December 13, 2012 6:29 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

good rappers use slant rhyme tho. pretend i said "splendid jafar" if that makes you happier.

I regret subjecting innocent arthouse cinema patrons to my taste between 2000 and 2004. No one liked Amelie more b/c of hearing Trina first.

lol, rev.

Catwalks, hairdressers, clothes shops, all pretty much featured de rigueuer electrohouse soundtracks 2002-onwards.

how many catwalks did you visit? and anyway, don't all these places just play whatever dance music is the sound of the day? at least for the last 20 years or so.

― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Thursday, 13 December 2012 15:17 (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Let's be real how many hairdressers or clothes shops did dog latin visit

― Tim F, Thursday, 13 December 2012 15:17 (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Now you guys is proper trolling if you're denying that the fashion world wasn't massively in love with electrohouse (and vice versa) throughout the 2000s. Matt DC STARTED the fricking Haircut House thread for goodness sake and you two follow up on it straight away.

Believe it or not I do buy clothes and get haircuts from time to time. I haven't been to a fashion show, but they do get shown on TV.

anyway, let's not have this conversation.

I cut my own hair.

I walk my own catwalk.

i live in a cave

I don't buy my own clothes.

In Soviet Russia, the architecture dances about you.

Electrohouse didn't exist in 2002.

*sigh*

we should just start a board called I Love Telling Dog Latin He Is Wrong

For shame, the Haircut House featured me (and others admittedly) dropping crazy science knowledge developed during YEARS IN THE FIELD, you cannot compare it to your received lack of wisdom.

Now you guys is proper trolling if you're denying that the fashion world wasn't massively in love with electrohouse (and vice versa) throughout the 2000s. Matt DC STARTED the fricking Haircut House thread for goodness sake and you two follow up on it straight away.

do you really think "i like the way you move" and "haircut house" = "the fashion world"

I just read through the entire Haircut House thread again. Good times.

what's "I Like The Way You Move" got to do with anything?

(head in hands)

(head in oven)

The Guardian - Best tracks of 2012:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/dec/13/best-tracks-2012-playlist-spotify

1. Carly Rae Jepsen – Call Me Maybe
2. Usher – Climax
3. Plan B – Ill Manors
4. Jessie Ware – 110%
5. Taylor Swift – We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
6. Jai Paul – Jasmine
7. Solange – Losing You
8. Savages – Husbands
9. Zebra Katz – Ima Read
10. Blur – Under The Westway
11. Major Lazer – Get Free
12. AlunaGeorge – Your Drums, Your Love
13. Miguel – Adorn
14. Grimes – Oblivion
15. Haim – Forever
16. TNGHT – Higher Ground
17. Polica – Lay Your Cards Out
18. Dean Blunt – The Narcissist
19. Sky Ferreira – Everything Is Embarrassing
20. Rihanna – Where Have You Been

only one mention for Eric Church "Springsteen" on any track lists so far making me feel pretty sad about the world

especially when you see people putting Under The Westway in their top 10 :-(

fwiw, there's a website that compiles the number of plays records get at London, Milan, New York and Paris' fashion weeks. The music is usually excellent, on the whole. Zebra Katz was huge on the catwalk, iirc.

do you really think "i like the way you move" and "haircut house" = "the fashion world"

― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Thursday, 13 December 2012 16:07 (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

If I understand you correctly (and really you're not making any sense here at all), you're conflating me saying "electro-based dance music was rather popular in the 2000s with the fashion crowd" with "the only music listened to by anyone who wore clothes in the 2000s was electrohouse".

But why am I even being led into this discussion? It only started cos I off-handedly said Grimes sounded like suitable background music for a fashionable party and now I'm having to defend myself against this (admittedly poor) choice of words for umpteen posts.

how do you find your way home

Under The Westway is so dreadful. If it hadn't have been Olympics-related Damon would have been lynched.

sorry that was unnecessary, but i just, i can't respond to how far away from what i was saying your interpretation is.

the only thing more boring to me than electro-based dance music are ilx arguments about electro-based dance music

the only thing more boring to me than electro-based dance music are ilx arguments about electro-based dance music

it's not our fault

http://media.treehugger.com/assets/images/2011/10/electric-home-of-the-future.jpg

to expand, was driving around lousiana and mississipi this summer and "Springsteen" seemed to be always on the radio, and i never got sick of it. it's the most legit boys of summer radio anthem for fucking ages, but obviously will be sidelined at end of year due to country-radio origins. yes it's doing nothing new - but it seems to overcome the cliches within each and almost every line and somehow still be pretty much perfect.

to me anyway.

9. Zebra Katz – Ima Read

???

"Springsteen" will top my singles ballot. That Eric Church album is the 2011 release I've listened to most this year

YASSSS @ Call Me Maybe winning Guardian trax poll, obv no shock but it was by a landslide if I understand correctly

Lyrics on "Springsteen" are great, but I kinda hate Church's voice

Hahahaha there are no more stereotypically Guardian-friendly rap picks imaginable than Ill Manors and that Zebra Katz track.