2015 was a really, really bad year for music

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