2015 was a really, really bad year for music

didn't viggo used to be married to exene cervenka?

Check out his top three! You two should collaborate or something!

https://youtu.be/X0UtPI9Jp2Y

Is that guy Whiney then?

Shit the Kamasi album on vinyl is pre-selling at $36! Anyone knows why so expensive? Is it a special edition? Can I find it cheaper elsewhere? I loved it and would buy it in a heartbeat but not with that price tag.

it's a triple album! that is a totally reasonable price.

I got mine several months ago. is this a repress?

initial run might've sold out? and yeah, in this wacky vinyl world, $36 for a three-LP set is not bad. if we were talking about a three-LP neil young thing, it'd be at least $150.

its worth the money if its any consolation moka

Sheesh ok ok I'll pay for it. And yes, apparently it's a repress. Comes out in a few days in amazon. No idea if this one will have the same posters and custom artwork.

Meanwhile:

Okay, is it just me who listened to this album and thought "if I want a not-really-metal record that is influenced by kraut and psych and folk, I'd just go back to Sylvester Anfang"?

― emil.y, Monday, November 30, 2015 8:19 PM (1 month ago)

emil.y I suspect that the Alameda 5 album might be more your thing...? It's the same guy that did Stara Tzeka, but another one of his projecrs. No sign of an acoustic guitar anywhere, nothing but drifting, mutating soundscapes

https://alamedacountydeathcult.bandcamp.com/album/duch-tornada-instant-classic-milieu-lacephale-2015

No sign of an acoustic guitar anywhere

Ok dont listen to Farmakopea

http://www.eonline.com/eol_images/Entire_Site/2015316/rs_1024x759-150416095706-1024-john-krasinski-lip-sync.ls.41615.jpg

i was looking for the thead about if music was starting to suck compared to the past. i think in any other decade people would think Lip Sync Battle is a joke.

i'm pretty sure that it IS a joke?

i was looking for the thead about if music was starting to suck compared to the past.
you already started that thread. it's really good.

i apologize, looks like that was someone called "The Once-ler."

there are dozens of us. dozens.

How we doin'?

probably the best year for music ever

I don't think it's been particularly good or bad. I always find plenty of stuff to enjoy and even love, there's been some nice surprises and a lot of mediocre crap I've tried to avoid. Business as usual.

last year was great, which meant I was expecting this year to be a let down. It has far and away exceeded my expectations, fantastic year for music!

just normal.

then again, i find about a quarter of the stuff i like from any given year, i discover at the time of EOY, so looking forward to that.

It didn't top 2013.

Better than 2014 and 2015, though.

it's been a pretty decent year for music but it's been such a weird year in terms of my own consumption of the music - almost constantly against this backdrop of cumulatively fatiguing political anxiety. which makes the usual EOY ranking games a bit harder to do

Possibly stupid question but I'm newish to ilxor - are people posting their individual lists at some point or just in the 2016 voting thread? 2016 was definitely best year since 2014 I think.

2016 was a p good year for albums and a terrible year for singles

Ross - personal lists can go here (if you want)

Rolling Favorite Tracks + Albums 2016

i pretty much listen to new house music singles (12") and a mix of all sorts of old music (CD reissues)

feel like i've personally reached a point of fatigue / saturation w/r/t reissues of old music. i'm still buying reissues but fewer and fewer every month.

as far as house music goes i have pretty traditional tastes (i like classic 80s / 90s stuff from chicago / detroit / new york) and the past few years have been really really excellent in terms of a lot of new music in that tradition and a lot of great reissues but it seemed like this year was a bit of a slowdown from previous years in terms of really essential stuff

Thanks Jeff :)

fantastic year for electronic music

I've barely been keeping up on electronic music this year, what's good?

(other than Marfox)

some things that I liked (out there but heavy on rhythm, for the most part):

SHALT - Acheron EP
M.E.S.H. - Damaged Merc EP
Air Max ‘97 - HPE EP
TSVI, Sacred Drums EP
LOFT - Turbulent Dynamics EP
Kid Smpl - Privacy
Ash Koosha - I AKA I
Arca - Entranas
Eaves - Verloren
Second Woman - s/t
Kablam - Furiosa

probably the best year for music ever
― imago, Friday, December 16, 2016 8:58 AM (eleven hours ago) Bookmark

just lol'd at this pretty hard. i liked 2013-2015 a lot better i guess bc i'm more singles-minded. i agree with 2016 being a decent albums year but not so great for singles.

Ross, after the ILM end of year countdown everyone tends to post their ballots

Thanks Moodles, good to know :)

I feel like a lot of the big music celebrities that I usually roll my eues at did a pretty good job of releasing singles that I didn't hate, so there's that