Year-End Critics' Polls 2014

I'd be interested to read some smart writing about why YG is more than just a very good gangsta rap album. I feel like I'm missing what makes it great.
--Re-Make/Re-Model

it's that goddamn momentum-killing "do it to ya," I swear, if you cut that awful track it flows almost perfectly imo

I bought that record in one of my "trying to check up on whatever's popular with the goons this year" sprees. First listen it just felt mediocre. Deleted from ipod. Listened to the Schoolboy Q record more, but that one was pretty frontloaded, imo.

xp the skits are way way worse than "do it to ya" (which is the worst actual song, yes) for momentum-halting, really wish i could delete them. they're so LONG

the skits are def meh, and although they do add story details they're far from essential.

taking up half the running length of "bicken back being bool" with material that is not the music of "bicken back being bool" is inexcusable

I'm not really a fan of the R&B tracks clogging up a lot of the second half but it also has Smokin' & Drinkin' on it and that ensures I keep listening, but I don't know how anyone could listen to the first five tracks or so and not immediately sit up and take notice.

the bonus trax "459" and "bompton" are 100% essential too, esp the former

I got it in April a couple weeks after the buzz and...it was OK? Its brevity was attractive and hence easy to overrate. I kept "I Just Wanna Party" and the Drake collab briefly.

Resident Advisor - Top Albums 2014
http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?2332

20. Wen - Signals
19. Fatima - Yellow Memories
18. Edward - Into A Better Future
17. Max Graef - Rivers of the Red Planet
16. Call Super - Suzi Echo
15. FKA twigs - LP1
14. Answer Code Request - Code
13. Dean Blunt - Black Metal
12. Todd Terje - It's Album Time
11. Head High - Megatrap
10. Moodymann - Moodymann
9. Joey Anderson - After Forever
8. Kassem Mosse - Workshop 19
7. Francis Harris - Minutes of Sleep
6. The Bug - Angels & Devils
5. Objekt - Flatland
4. Aphex Twin - Syro
3. Gesloten Cirkel - Submit X
2. HTRK - Psychic 9-5 Club
1. Andy Stott - Faith in Strangers

HTRK is kind of a weird choice for them but i do love that album

19. Fatima - Yellow Memories
16. Call Super - Suzi Ecto
8. Kassem Mosse - Workshop 19
7. Francis Harris - Minutes of Sleep

:)

No Terrence Parker no credibility.

I couldn't really get my head around that Francis Harris record, it sounded like an amazing party going on in the next room, without my being able to get to it. Like it was impressive in its sound design but I couldn't find much to love about it.

Back to YG, it may be front-loaded, but if you leave out "Do It To Ya" (or if you like "Do It To Ya," which, you know, the piano is nice) it's front-loaded with 10 amazing tracks in a row.

the R&B run on My Krazy Life rules. it lends color to the album while staying within its character in a way that a lot of Mustard R&B hits wouldn't if they were on the album instead.

"me & my bitch" is fine, but do it to ya is hopelessly skewered, imo, by tee flii's crap singing.

No Terrence Parker no credibility.

Glaring omission from RA, but I am not surprised.

oh hey somebody else likes United Bible Studies! (many xps to NickB)

i thought of you sleeve as i c&ped that one

listened to the valerio tricoli for the first time today (it's finally up on spotify). that was pretty good and a lot more to listen to there than your average recording of abstract scrunching noises

it's that goddamn momentum-killing "do it to ya," I swear, if you cut that awful track it flows almost perfectly imo

― franch montana (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, December 17, 2014 8:11 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

do it to ya is an amazing song i will hear no more of this

the R&B run on My Krazy Life rules. it lends color to the album while staying within its character in a way that a lot of Mustard R&B hits wouldn't if they were on the album instead.

― christmas with the canks (some dude), Wednesday, December 17, 2014 8:59 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes

i've listened to the copeland and blunt albums quite a bit and personally feel black metal is the grower of the two

Black Metal is really great. I wouldn't have anticipated that it'd be one of my favorite records this year. Guitar tracks have got some classic 4AD Lonely Is An Eyesore era vibes.

Slash finally made it onto a list! And Brody Dalle, Linkin Park, Slipknot, and lots of stuff I never heard of (Architects & Marmozets #1-2).

http://www.kerrang.com/26297/top-50-rock-metal-punk-albums-2014/

aw yeah i love the kerrang list every year

Kerrang love The Pretty Reckless dont they. Why?

idk man kerrang got their own thing, let them cook. for some reason i kinda love the black veil brides track they selected

3 good albums on that list. A lot of it is laughable

if it weren't for the kerrang year end list i wouldn't have heard blood command's funeral beach which is one of my favorite records of the past few years of any genre

i also would have never heard enter shikari so it's probably a wash

i think a fair bit of ilm (the kind who dont like metal) would love kerrangs list if they heard the albums. All those fall out boy/mcr fans on ilm.
Not sure even they like the new Weezer album on that list mind you.

Brad weren't you perplexed by that crosses album appearing on a lot of lists?

i just don't actually believe you've heard more than three albums on that list

first list i've seen code orange place on, i've only heard this song but it's brutal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6wYuhLxXm8

also i'm not perplexed by crosses appearing on lists, it's an okay record that skates by on a ton of atmosphere, plus most of the tracks have been available for 3+ years so it's just sorta weird that people like it so much but i ain't mad

Code Orange is great. Also, one of the most intense live shows I've seen the past few years.

3 good albums on that list. A lot of it is laughable
--Cosmic Slop

which 3 ones would you call good?

The ones I liked were Electric Wizard, Alcest and Mastodon. Dont really have an opinion on Crosses. Dont like the "heritage" black metal of Winterfylleth

Issues are dreadful

yeah issues is the fuckin worst that's true

wow one hell of a lot of rock bands i didn't know existed still making records - machine head?? i knew LP and slipknot put ones out, i tried a bit and they were both p wack

slop i'm a fall out boy/mcr fan who also loves metal and would prob hate half of these things (and can verify that i hate much of the other half)

nice of them to rank hesitant alien and against me! so high, those are good.

i can't understand why a lot of the stuff that gets play in revolver/kerrang/even AP is popular. like i understand why a band like the pretty reckless is popular, and it's a hell of a lot more than their frontwoman, even tho i don't rlly dig them. but who da fuq is listening to suicide silence and current new found glory albums

AP magazine is in it's own universe

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the R&B run on My Krazy Life rules. it lends color to the album while staying within its character in a way that a lot of Mustard R&B hits wouldn't if they were on the album instead.

― christmas with the canks (some dude), Wednesday, December 17, 2014 8:59 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes

― deej loaf (D-40), Wednesday, December 17, 2014 11:08 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

can't believe we still have to explain this

the album im about to post next in metal poll might do well in the big poll but Kerrang ignored it i forget if it made the rolling stone poll

2014 POLL RESULTS COUNTDOWN - ILM Metal Albums of the Year

Lots of crap on the Kerrang list but that Marmozets album is fucking fantastic, should have been #1.

xxp jordan i'm well aware of the reason for its placement from a thematic/sequencing standpoint i just can't stand the hook singer on "do it to ya"

humorist what do marmozets sound like? their name is terrible, not that that means the music will be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGSWfuiO0Ps

Marmozets are a cross between Paramore and Dillinger Escape Plan but better than either.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8ZPrdAwg3M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afX5kz9hfHI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGSWfuiO0Ps

Marmozets are a cross between Paramore and Dillinger Escape Plan but better than either.

didn't even have to scroll all the way down

the marmozets track that the kerrang list linked too was awesome! not better than paramore though lol

Pitchfork Contributors Top 10s

Black Messiah on 4 lists (1 at #1, 1 at #5 and 2 at #10).

kerrang's no. 1 (architects' lost forever // lost together) is probably the most technical metalcore i've heard in forever. down

bollocks to metalcore