Year-End Critics' Polls 2012

this is written by an ilxer right?? http://thecorner.co.nz/2012/12/14/the-corners-2012-year-in-review-50-best-international-singles/

― just sayin, Monday, December 17, 2012 6:16 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah stevie kaye is etc.

Great roundup!

lol 'the corner' is a different kind of spot in the u.s.

haha at first I was all "Tim, FINISH THE SENTENCE" and then I realized

Good work etc

Nice... He's got afrobeats and US rap and r'n'b and Eric Church and k-pop

scraper

I bet "The House That Heaven Built" takes the top spot on P4k's track list.

cool that rich kidz "my life" placed, song made me v happy many times this year

yeah that was cool... plus "louie" and "love sosa"

i thought it was a little strange that they listed the theme song to the louis c.k. show personally

oh i see because of the names

i just thought it looked funny to refer to the king louie song as "louie" instead of "val venis"

oh, yes

I refer to it as "pig benis"

scraper

― r|t|c, Monday, 17 December 2012 20:09

eunuch eclectic signing in. nz charts have been bleaker than usual this year.

how on earth did you stumble across that, though, just sayin?

one of my friends emailed it to me! I think we have some friends in common

Did I make that Corner list?

that p4k blurb about "do you" is horrible

srs

plus so obv that miggy is really more into hugs and stuntin with the drug talk

Yeah I felt Mr. Blurbwriter was listening to a completely different song to me, or maybe just not listening. There was also that long Spin article (I think?) that ripped on Pussy is Mine because it's supermisogynistic and Miguel obviously just cares about controlling women.

there was a (positive) review in the Irish Times that described Pussy Is Mine as "loverman bragging". I despair

once again, the key to understanding "Pussy Is Mine":

https://twitter.com/venusxGG/status/265880111960711169

otm

i love "pussy is mine" because it's so vulnerable and is miggy being insecure in a genre that prizes surefooted machismo

Yeah exactly.

honestly one of my favourite songs on the record

i love "pussy is mine" because it's so vulnerable and is miggy being insecure in a genre that prizes surefooted machismo

― bish (bosch), don't kill my vibe (rennavate), Monday, December 17, 2012 6:23 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yup

Great song, but the reason I cannot feel comfortable playing the album at work.

The big clue is he singing it over the barest of guitar accompaniment. It's weird that Nick Drake-loving indie dudes don't immediately want to make the allusion.

maybe after they're done working out all the striking parallels with Christopher Owens, formerly of Girls

http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/thumblarge_173/118651963590Ane2.jpg

Christopher Owens, formerly of Girls, now a cat

which explains his feline grace and the way his songs stick their claws into your heart

pussy is unimpressed xxp

lol i didn't even realize this is the current issue of Fader

http://cdn.thefader.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/F83_COVER_620.jpg

would be more effective if Owens photo were on the other side so Miguel can be all "tell me that the pussy is over there."

they're good at shit/not shit juxtapositions but that may be the most dramatic to date

"the fader: we know some cool black people, and the worst white people"

lol

I got a light skinned friend looks like Michael Jackson, etc

Didn't even realize that pickler had an album out this year!

hey i have an article in that issue of the fader, pick it up

plus so obv that miggy is really more into hugs and stuntin with the drug talk

nah i think the drugs talk is serious - it's not in a stuntin way at all, it's about how doing drugs w/someone can be really intimate and nice. drugs as homely and sorta romantic rather than cool or glamorous. that feels like a novel angle in a great way.

i love "pussy is mine" because it's so vulnerable and is miggy being insecure in a genre that prizes surefooted machismo

otoh this has become a massive cliché this year - i'm not even sure whether it was ever true but this narrative has been ongoing for bloody ages now and it's totally cringe to see indie audiences fetishising awkwardness and insecurity as somehow more "real", and acting like r&b had hitherto been a completely one-dimensional genre, as if it wasn't RIVEN with uncertainty and complexity before our current crop of sad reverby dudes came along.

i mean, that is the appeal of "pussy is mine" specifically, yeah, but it's more about how unguarded it is - from the sentiments expressed to also the vulgarity of the language that miguel avoids elsewhere to the way he tries to play it off as a joke at the end (i don't mind that it's obv staged).

Pitchfork - Top 100 tracks
http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/9015-the-top-100-tracks-of-2012/

Just posting the top 50:

1. Grimes - Oblivion
2. Frank Ocean - Pyramids
3. Usher - Climax
4. Kendrick Lamar - Bitch Don't Kill My Vibe
5. Japandroids - The House That Heaven Built
6. Bat for Lashes - Laura
7. Tame Impala - Feels Like We Only Go Backwards
8. Beach House - Myth
9. Fiona Apple - Werewolf
10. Jai Paul - Jasmine
11. Frank Ocean - Thinkin About You
12. Miguel - Adorn
13. Chromatics - Kill For Love
14. M.I.A. - Bad Girls
15. Andy Stott - Numb
16. Solange - Losing You
17. Chairlift - I Belong In Your Arms
18. Nicki Minaj - Beez in the Trap [ft. 2 Chainz]
19. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Only In My Dreams
20. Kendrick Lamar - Swimming Pools (Drank)
21. Jessie Ware - Wildest Moments
22. Death Grips - I've Seen Footage
23. Dirty Projectors - Dance For You
24. Chief Keef - I Don't Like [ft. Lil Reese]
25. Grimes - Genesis
26. TNGHT - Higher Ground
27. Grizzly Bear - Yet Again
28. Cat Power - Nothin But Time
29. Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe
30. Kanye West - Mercy [ft. Big Sean, Pusha T and 2 Chainz]
31. Frank Ocean - Bad Religion
32. Sky Ferreira - Everything Is Embarrassing
33. Danny Brown - Grown Up
34. Cloud Nothings - Stay Useless
35. Fiona Apple - Every Single Night
36. Todd Terje - Inspector Norse
37. Killer Mike - Reagan
38. Hot Chip - ''Flutes''
39. Schoolboy Q - Hands On The Wheel [ft. A$AP Rocky]
40. The Men - Open Your Heart
41. El-P - The Full Retard
42. Gunplay - Jump Out
43. Dum Dum Girls - Lord Knows
44. AlunaGeorge - You Know You Like It
45. Spiritualized - Hey Jane
46. Ty Segall Band - I Bought My Eyes
47. Grizzly Bear - Sleeping Ute
48. Burial/Four Tet - Nova
49. Future - Turn On The Lights
50. Icona Pop - I Love It

4. Kendrick Lamar - Bitch Don't Kill My Vibe
9. Fiona Apple - Werewolf
15. Andy Stott - Numb
18. Nicki Minaj - Beez in the Trap [ft. 2 Chainz]

^^completely bizarre choices off albums i love

Resident Advisor - Top 50 tracks of 2012
http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?1705

5 of the RA top 10 tally with my own favourite dance trax this year

Yeah I concur with the Fiona on the list, only direct overlap (on the last 50) was w death grips

Did people really rate "Bad Girls" that much?

I didn't expect much of what i've bought this year to place in the RA poll but didn't expect it to be quite so divergent