Year-End Critics' Polls 2014

also grantland's top 10 singles and 40 albums, markedly less interesting for various reasons: http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/the-best-a-k-a-my-favorite-music-of-2014/

Is that the first list to have Hesitant Alien on it?

i don't know for sure but i wouldn't be surprised.

R&B top 20
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/20-best-r-b-albums-of-2014-20141215

10. Echosmith, “Cool Kids”

steve hyden steady the worst

buncha great records in the wrong order on the rs r&b list

FKA Twigs is R&B?

I like Hyden's post-poptimism, lighthearted take on rock n roll, but other than that everytime I read him I'm left scratching my head and wondering wtf's in his mind.

I love his prose, not so much his taste, but if you're Grantland's chief music critic I'd rather have it that way around than the opposite.

what's good about him is he is able to not take the dopey rock he likes seriously, what's bad is that he takes the time to argue why it "matters" in a macro sense aside from him liking it.

FKA Twigs is R&B?

― example (crüt), Tuesday, December 16, 2014 12:37 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes.

don't get what people even see in his "prose"

really nice to see fatima and k michelle repped by RS!

not that fka twigs has no r&b dna in her, but she was totally right when she said that if she was white there'd be a lot less of that talk

what's good about him is he is able to not take the dopey rock he likes seriously, what's bad is that he takes the time to argue why it "matters" in a macro sense aside from him liking it.

IMHO not taking his subjects entirely seriously makes him lose steam mid-article in those long pieces he writes. It's like he lacks the drive for such long arguments. Everytime I read him I start with some degree of enthusiasm, then get bored sometime around the tenth paragraph.

not that fka twigs has no r&b dna in her, but she was totally right when she said that if she was white there'd be a lot less of that talk

― lex pretend, Tuesday, December 16, 2014 11:52 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the problem is that we dont consider white ppl who do that kind of music R&B, not the other way around

what, like björk?

banks is definitely considered r&b, more or less, and not just in that RS list (and is also most assuredly white). if twigs was white i'd still think the rhythmic core of her sound was more r&b/hip-hop than like, bjork.

BUT, i see why twigs would say that. she has also expressed frustration with the "alt r&b" label, i believe

fka twigs is extremely static rhythmically

i dont listen to bjork but like grimes or bat for lashes or w/e, it's all R&B

banks being considered r&b is also a bit confusing to me, just seems like trip-hop redux x synthy pop

grimes and bat for lashes are not r&b!

if twigs was white i'd still think the rhythmic core of her sound was more r&b/hip-hop than like, bjork.

― franch montana (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, December 16, 2014 5:59 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

rhythmically the closest comparison to lp1 is vespertine imo

the problem is that we dont consider white ppl who do that kind of music R&B, not the other way around

― deej loaf (D-40), Tuesday, December 16, 2014 12:55 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

How did we ignore the great white R&B albums of 2014 like HOW TO DRESS WELL and ROBIN THICKE'S PAULA

bat for lashes is called r&b??? not prima facie a bad thing but i've never heard that

the new how to dress well album sucks

if its pop music and its not polka in the woods eating weinerschnitzel its black american music. in the catholic sense of R&B, it's R&B. I'm not sure I see the purpose of fighting against that classification

I couldn't believe How to Dress Well he basically teed up music writers for the 'Shit Sandwich' reviews and no one took the bait

in that they didn't call it the shit sandwich it was?

(bc many certainly did not and in fact did the exact opposite)

if its pop music and its not polka in the woods eating weinerschnitzel its black american music. in the catholic sense of R&B, it's R&B. I'm not sure I see the purpose of fighting against that classification

this is not the definition that a top 20 R&B albums list is working with!

I think Whiney means the album is "What Is This Heart?" and they could have said "What is This Shit?"

like the Spinal Tap joke

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWqKiqTfXuA

*slaps forehead for missing joke, reminds self to watch this is spinal tap again soon*

in that case, IRL lols

this is not the definition that a top 20 R&B albums list is working with!

― example (crüt), Tuesday, December 16, 2014 12:18 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if its not R&B it can also be rock or rap or house/techno but like ... what is FKA twigs then? "its kinda like bjork" is not a genre rolling stone will do a yearly list for

or is it ~beyond genre~ lol

Where would they list Bjork or The xx? Putting her in an R&B list is tying her up in one strand of her music.

i kinda feel like xx is R&B and bjork is not but i don't really know why

http://www.prooffreader.com/2014/12/most-decade-specific-words-in-billboard.html
just putting this here

just put her in "alternative" or something

uncles used to be really popular

i like the march toward drooglike from "blues pal sweetheart rose" to "yeah hell fuck die"

Noisey/Vice France - allez les Sleafords!
http://noisey.vice.com/fr/blog/les-20-meilleurs-disques-de-2014

20. HAVE A NICE LIFE The Unnatural World
19. ALKPOTE L'Orgasmixtape
18. C.A.R. My Friend
17. FOREVER PAVOT Rhapsode
16. TAULARD Les Abords Du Lycée
15. HIGH-FUNCTIONING FLESH High-Functioning Flesh
14. BODY COUNT Manslaughter
13. LUST FOR YOUTH International
12. KAARIS Or Noir Part. II
11. OBITUARY Inked In Blood
10. CHEVEU Bum
09. LEWIS L'Amour
08. JUICY P Certifié Vrai 2 : La Plakette
07. IRON REAGAN The Tyranny Of Will
06. CULT OF YOUTH Final Days
05. SUN KIL MOON Benji
04. JESSICA 93 Rise
03. COLD WORLD How The Gods Chill
02. PEINE PERDUE No Souvenir
01. SLEAFORD MODS Divide And Exit

i think we're legit progressing with more fuckwords in song titles

The Quietus Top 20 Metal Albums Of 2015

1. Yob - <i>Clearing The Path To Ascend</i></b><br> (Neurot)
2. The Body - I Shall Die Here (RVNG International)
3. Sólstafir - Ótta (Season Of Mist)
4. At The Gates - At War With Reality (Century Media)
5. Floor - Oblation (Season Of Mist)
6. Old Man Gloom - Ape Of God (Profound Lore)
7. Electric Wizard - Time To Die (Spinefarm/Witchfinder Records)
8. Godflesh - A World Lit Only By Fire (Avalanche)
9. Nothing - Guilty Of Everything (Relapse)
10. Triptykon - Melana Chasmata (Century Media)
11. 11Paranoias - Stealing Fire From Heaven (Ritual Productions)
12. Bong - Stoner Rock (Ritual Productions)
13. Trap Them - Blissfucker (Prosthetic)
14. Full Of Hell + Merzbow - Full Of Hell + Merzbow (Profound Lore)
15. Witch Mountain - Mobile Of Angels (Svart)
16. Bongripper - Miserable (Great Barrier Records)
17. Vampillia - Some Nightmares Take You Aurora Rainbow Darkness(Candlelight)
18. Prizehog - Re-Unvent The Whool (Eolian Empire)
19. Slomatics - Estron (Head Of Crom)
20. Coffinworm - IV .I. VIII (Profound Lore)

Go 90s and list FKA twigs under "Dope beatz/downtempo"

Nice Quietus list, glad to see some love for that Bong record.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/20-best-edm-electronic-and-dance-albums-of-2014-20141216

party don't stop

list party

ain't no party like a list party party cause a list party party is pedantic

asiatisch is the album i have had to bitch about most in DMs this year