Year-End Critics' Polls 2014

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

i know that's how you feel!

Good to see someone finally rates Hesitant Alien. Guess I should start reading Kerrang.

black messiah will prob not be on p4k's albums list next year since they omitted beyoncé from this year's

foolish consistency is the hobgoblin etc

holy shit this marmozets record rules

this is great, this is the exact same feeling i had when i first heard that blood command record. thanks again kerrang!

so much love for this grouper album. i admire it but i find it very difficult to listen to

i have her first album, felt the same way about it

it seemed v odds & sods when i listened to it (the newest grouper), not exactly bad but yeah it's def no masterwork

I was listening to Ruins again during my commute this morning. It wasn't an appropriate setting but I like the album a lot. I LOVE "Clearing" though. That's one of my favorite songs of the year for sure.

I kind of wonder whether it would have made any lists without Clearing, despite how good the other songs on the album are.

Guitar World's 50 Best Albums of 2014
http://www.guitarworld.com/guitar-worlds-50-best-albums-2014

51. Mogwai — Rave Tapes
50. Phish — Fuego
49. Nick Moss Band — Time Ain't Free
48. Parquet Courts — Sunbathing Animal
47. John 5 — Careful with that Axe
46. Arch Enemy — War Eternal
45. Michael Angelo Batio — Intermezzo
44. Reverend Horton Heat — Rev
43. Weezer — Everything Will Be Alright in the End
42. Rings of Saturn — Lugal Ki En
41. Brad Paisley — Moonshine in the Trunk
40. Entombed AD — Back to the Front
39. Brian Setzer — Rockabilly Riot! All Original
38. Steel Panther — All You Can Eat
37. Johnny Winter — Step Back
36. Eric Clapton & Friends — The Breeze: An Appreciation of JJ Cale
35. Smashing Pumpkins — Monuments to an Elegy
34. Alex Skolnick’s Planetary Coalition — Planetary Coalition
33. Beck — Morning Phase
32. Black Label Society — Catacombs of the Black Vatican
31. Ace Frehley — Space Invader
30. The Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band — Goin' Home
29. Marty Friedman — Inferno
28. Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks — Wig Out At Jagbags
27. The War on Drugs — Lost In the Dream
26. Triptykon — Melana Chasmata
25. Opeth — Pale Communion
24. Ray LaMontagne — Supernova
23. Exodus — Blood In, Blood Out
22. Behemoth — The Satanist
21. Slash Featuring Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators — World on Fire
20. Sturgill Simpson — Metamodern Sounds in Country Music
19. The Melvins — Hold It In
18. Mastodon — Once More Around the Sun
17. Against Me! — Transgender Dysphoria Blues
16. Of Mice & Men — Restoring Force
15. Pink Floyd — Endless River
14. Machine Head — Bloodstone & Diamonds
13. Joe Bonamassa — Different Shades of Blue
12. Eric Johnson/Mike Stern — Eclectic
11. The Black Keys — Turn Blue
10. At the Gates — At War with Reality
09. Foo Fighters — Sonic Highways
08. Royal Blood — Royal Blood
07. St. Vincent — St. Vincent
06. Gary Clark Jr. — Live
05. AC/DC — Rock or Bust
04. Animals As Leaders — The Joy of Motion
03. Judas Priest — Redeemer of Souls
02. Jack White — Lazaretto
01. Slipknot — .5: The Gray Chapter

Are people voting for the Smashing Pumpkins or Weezer for any reason other than a vague sense of duty?

hey it is guitar world we're talking about

And, in keeping with GW tradition, this top 50 list actually contains 51 albums. It's what we do.

Oh those crazy musos.

malkmus seems like a weirder inclusion for them, but maybe that record shreds?