lioke, i'd almost rather have an "aaargh RAGE" reaction to these lists than my eyes glazing over as my brain mutters "don't care, don't care, don't care..."
― lex pretend, Friday, 6 December 2013 14:18 (ten years ago) link
I can understand being bored but no way are this year's consensus albums worse than the GAPDY tyranny.
― Matt DC, Friday, 6 December 2013 14:19 (ten years ago) link
Didn't mind it at first but I've been mercilessly subjected to RAM on every car journey so far this year, and every trip we make I loathe it a little more. Somebody else please release an album my wife likes, Daft Punk you are slowly killing me.
― rp boo bryson (NickB), Friday, 6 December 2013 14:20 (ten years ago) link
the thing i find depressing about years like this is how many of the records on the lists are just well-regarded albums by established artists, but not, like, widely held to be their best yet or some kind of big breakthrough. just ho hum, Kanye and Daft Punk and The National and Vampire Weekend and Bowie made records and they're not terrible, AOTY then.
― deez the season (some dude), Friday, 6 December 2013 14:21 (ten years ago) link
Loving this Portal album from the Spin list.
― rp boo bryson (NickB), Friday, 6 December 2013 14:22 (ten years ago) link
Conversely I didn't listen to RAM for several months and then put it on the other day and was suddenly "hey this is awesome, why don't I listen to this all the time?" I think the discourse and hype wore me out to the extent that I was just prepared to accept the backlash through osmosis even though I didn't agree with it.
― Matt DC, Friday, 6 December 2013 14:22 (ten years ago) link
yeah Portal is fantastic
― screaming lord, such opinion (DJ Mencap), Friday, 6 December 2013 14:23 (ten years ago) link
I'm checking some of the stuff I hadn't heard on the Juno list and quite enjoying Stellar Om Source and Karen Gwyer, for starters. But like factoring in Tim Hecker, Julia Holter, Laurel Halo, pretty strong year for the more experimental end of electronic music.
― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Friday, 6 December 2013 14:23 (ten years ago) link
yeah al sums up what i was vaguely trying to grasp at. i feel ennui when i read these lists.
― lex pretend, Friday, 6 December 2013 14:25 (ten years ago) link
with maybe two exceptions the Spin metal list kind of... conforms to type tho
― screaming lord, such opinion (DJ Mencap), Friday, 6 December 2013 14:25 (ten years ago) link
xp I see your point in most cases somedude - I don't think Kanye, Arctics, Bowie, QOTSA, the National or Arcade Fire are at their peak - but a ton of critics, including me, think this is Vampire Weekend's best album by a long chalk, and RAM is a law unto itself.
Weak year for debuts though. The balance is off.
― Deafening silence (DL), Friday, 6 December 2013 14:27 (ten years ago) link
I consciously avoided most of the RAM discourse. Glad I did, as it resonates with me in a very personal way.
― mike t-diva, Friday, 6 December 2013 14:28 (ten years ago) link
you'll probably have to unpack that for me
― rp boo bryson (NickB), Friday, 6 December 2013 14:29 (ten years ago) link
Pop Matters The Best Metal of 2013http://www.popmatters.com/feature/176995-the-best-metal-of-2013/P1/
20 Dark Tranquility - Construct19 Heaven Shall Burn - Veto18 Atlantean Kodex - The White Goddess17 Exhumed - Necrocracy16 Shooting Guns - Brotherhood of the Ram15 Lycus - Tempest14 Kataklysm - Waiting for the End to Come13 Deafheaven - Sunbather12 Russian Circles - Memorial11 Clutch - Earth Rocker10 Skeletonwitch - Serpents Unleashed09 Kvelertak - Meir08 Oranssi Pazuzu - Valonielu07 Altar of Plagues - Teethed Glory and Injury06 Darkthrone - The Underground Resistance05 Gorguts - Colored Sands04 Shining - One One One03 Carcass - Surgical Steel02 SubRosa - More Constant Than the Gods01 In Solitude - Sister
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 6 December 2013 14:30 (ten years ago) link
I can understand being bored but no way are this year's consensus albums worse than the GAPDYX tyranny.
fixed
― ۩, Friday, 6 December 2013 14:30 (ten years ago) link
Weak year for debuts though.
kacey musgraves, ariana grande, brandy clark, k. michelle, creep, sky ferreira, maya jane coles, om'mas keith...eight debuts in my top 20 isn't a bad strike rate
― lex pretend, Friday, 6 December 2013 14:31 (ten years ago) link
I didn't mean your favourites, or even mine. I meant the records that are impacting on list after list. Not many debuts punching through.
That list of metal band names reminds me to post this thing I saw yesterday, which contains some of the best fake names of all time:
http://ow.ly/rthKj
― Deafening silence (DL), Friday, 6 December 2013 14:34 (ten years ago) link
I would have expected SPIN to be all over In Solitude and Russian Circles, and to a lesser extent Shining and Oranssi Pazuzu. Nice to see Atlantean Kodex made a list
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 6 December 2013 14:36 (ten years ago) link
sad thing is i recognise half those band photos eg. klaxons @ 19
― rp boo bryson (NickB), Friday, 6 December 2013 14:37 (ten years ago) link
that was an xp btw
Spin metal list kinda reads to me like a compendium of the most praised stuff of the year from the bigger of the 'thinking person's' metal blogs/webzines, with no real surprises save for Wrekmeister Harmonies and maybe Locrian. not sure how they put their poll together so idk if it's the perils of voting by committee or one person being unimaginative or something else
― screaming lord, such opinion (DJ Mencap), Friday, 6 December 2013 14:38 (ten years ago) link
guys can we go back to that AV Club inessential album list and this terrifying Nick Lachey album cover for a second:
http://www.eonline.com/eol_images/Entire_Site/2013126/560.lachey.cm.22613.jpg
― SHAUN (DJP), Friday, 6 December 2013 14:43 (ten years ago) link
Spin metal list kinda reads to me like a compendium of the most praised stuff of the year from the bigger of the 'thinking person's' metal blogs/webzines, with no real surprises save for Wrekmeister Harmonies and maybe Locrian. not sure how they put their poll together so idk if it's the perils of voting by committee or one person being unimaginative or something else --screaming lord, such opinion (DJ Mencap)
If someone could point me to a "thinking person's metal blog" I'd really appreciate it thanx
― tuostprophets (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 6 December 2013 14:52 (ten years ago) link
"SPIN's metal list looks like its run by professionals who know how to write for an audience"
― tuostprophets (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 6 December 2013 14:53 (ten years ago) link
lol @ how ilm will never get over gapdy
― call all destroyer, Friday, 6 December 2013 14:56 (ten years ago) link
^^^^^ this
― SHAUN (DJP), Friday, 6 December 2013 14:58 (ten years ago) link
The best was when Scott kool-aid manned in here and tried to take credit for the notoriously weaksauce middlebrow tastes of america's alt-weekly writers.
― tuostprophets (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 6 December 2013 14:58 (ten years ago) link
Has there been anything like 40 Watt Sun released this year? It was my ultimate discovery from the 2011 lists (I believe from SPIN) and the sole reason I keep scanning the EOY metal lists, hoping for something remotely like that record.
― ArchCarrier, Friday, 6 December 2013 15:14 (ten years ago) link
I was kind of "this is okay, whatever" about the Pusha T album until I hit "40 Acres", which is just great
― SHAUN (DJP), Friday, 6 December 2013 15:24 (ten years ago) link
should probably be more annoyed by the consensus among metal lists but man those carcass, gorguts, and subrosa records are unbelievable
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 6 December 2013 15:30 (ten years ago) link
i like the darkthrone album. quite different to what i expected, but it's rollicking fun.
― a beef supreme (dog latin), Friday, 6 December 2013 16:12 (ten years ago) link
Dummy - Best albums #20-11http://www.dummymag.com/lists/the-20-best-albums-of-2013
― rp boo bryson (NickB), Friday, 6 December 2013 16:17 (ten years ago) link
a few good records in there but i'm not really down with their thing on the whole
― rp boo bryson (NickB), Friday, 6 December 2013 16:18 (ten years ago) link
first time I've seen Mount Kimbie on one of these things. not sure I ever heard the album
― screaming lord, such opinion (DJ Mencap), Friday, 6 December 2013 16:19 (ten years ago) link
that horrible deptford goth record
― rp boo bryson (NickB), Friday, 6 December 2013 16:20 (ten years ago) link
needs to be a sleaford mods vs deptford goth fite
xpost you're giving me inverse nostalgia for 2009 guys.
― a beef supreme (dog latin), Friday, 6 December 2013 16:21 (ten years ago) link
If anyones interested ~~~ End Of Year ILM Metal - Albums & Tracks Poll- Nominations 2013~~~
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Friday, 6 December 2013 16:24 (ten years ago) link
Cool, be sure to remind us once or 500 times as it gets closer to deadline
― tuostprophets (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 6 December 2013 16:32 (ten years ago) link
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/blurred-lines-the-worst-song-of-this-or-any-other-year-20131206
― SHAUN (DJP), Friday, 6 December 2013 16:37 (ten years ago) link
disagree with basically all of that
― call all destroyer, Friday, 6 December 2013 16:39 (ten years ago) link
Has there been anything like 40 Watt Sun released this year? It was my ultimate discovery from the 2011 lists (I believe from SPIN) and the sole reason I keep scanning the EOY metal lists, hoping for something remotely like that record.― ArchCarrier
Pallbearer's album last year maybe. Metal Archives also lists Warning, The River, Summit, The Human Condition, SubRosa and Woods of Ypres as "similar artists" but probably you just have to wait for another 40 Watt Sun album.
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 6 December 2013 16:41 (ten years ago) link
Warning was Pat's band before 40 Watt Sun and were fucking amazing. Esp Watching From a Distance
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Friday, 6 December 2013 16:43 (ten years ago) link
haha i like 'blurred lines' but i will always have time for rob sheffield on the warpath, esp since he always takes out some other targets on the way. maybe my fave piece from the chuck eddy crony era of the village voice: http://www.villagevoice.com/2003-12-30/music/nobody-can-touch-him/
― balls, Friday, 6 December 2013 16:44 (ten years ago) link
pallbearer album is a decent call tho there is really no one like pat walker
― call all destroyer, Friday, 6 December 2013 16:44 (ten years ago) link
in what world was lady marmalade a hit for 2 weeks
― flopson, Friday, 6 December 2013 16:48 (ten years ago) link
However if you just mean as good as but different doom related, I'd say the SubRosa, In Solitude, Seidr, Jex Thoth, Brimstone Coven, Mountain Witch, Black Capricorn, Avatarium, Obelyskkh, Argus and Magic Circle.
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 6 December 2013 16:49 (ten years ago) link
probably the world of hilarious hyperbole
― SHAUN (DJP), Friday, 6 December 2013 16:52 (ten years ago) link
"hilarious"
― maura, Friday, 6 December 2013 16:56 (ten years ago) link
Flavorwire - The 10 Most Overrated Albums of 2013http://flavorwire.com/428360/the-10-most-overrated-albums-of-2013/
― rp boo bryson (NickB), Friday, 6 December 2013 16:57 (ten years ago) link