Thread for all 2016 albums of the year lists

just had a tipoff that all frank ocean placings and reviews were really for lil peep but advertisers changed them at the last second for woke clickbae

lol @ 'clickbae'

it's seriously baffling. when it makes the 77 nobody will know how

I know no one will agree with me but 77 is just too damn short for these lists now

the idolator list is pretty typical/predictable of nu-idolator, the mainstream pop records plus a few albums that mostly the pop blogosphere stans over

I've been relistening to the Maxwell album too. I got stuck on "All the Ways That Love Can Feel" for a couple listening cycles on Sunday.

― r|t|c, Wednesday, December 7, 2016 5:00 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

record was very easy to write about without listening to it afaict

― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Wednesday, December 7, 2016 8:10 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah i read alfred's rvw too

― r|t|c, Wednesday, December 7, 2016

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http://i.imgur.com/jnx6csq.gif

How is the Maxwell futuristic? I like that description but not sure I could defend it.

Idolator's Top 10 of anything that isn't technically an "album" in their book:

10. Nina - Beyond Memory
9. Bridgit Mendler
8. Betsy
7. Annabelle Jones - Libelle
6. Dagny
5. Grace VanderWaal - Perfectly Imperfect
4. Tinashe
3. Kendrick
2. Chance
1. Carly Rae

http://www.idolator.com/7652330/best-mixtapes-eps-2016

101 LÅPSLEY | Operator (DJ Koze’s disco edit)

This is about 95 places too low.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvzJ-3yCto0

yeah i love that song/remix

i thought so too for a while but lately i've been coming back to it a lot in the way i feel magnetized to the first. (though i still sorta don't know why the stuart matthewman tracks are there and they sorta give me a nightmare vision of a bloozy sade record)

― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Wednesday, December 7, 2016 1:48 PM (eight hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah the matthewman trax are entirely it, i resent them v deeply. guess that they manage to effectively down the whole thing on their own is testament to the crystalline changeling construction of the rest, refinement to an near-imperceptible nanotech degree

― r|t|c, Wednesday, December 7, 2016 2:07 PM (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol, i had no idea which these were and...they are two of the strongest tracks for me

i spend the first half of the album enjoying it but as background music but the second half completely reels me in and i'm usually spellbound by the end. still not determined the exact point in the album the shift occurs for me

Goddamit Idolator you had a chance to mention KING as not really an album but a comp + new songs and you fucked it up

http://www.treblezine.com/33010-top-50-best-albums-of-2016

That list has a split personality. 50-21 has some pretty fun stuff, then the top 20 is the S.O.L.

What was I thinking? I meant S as in same ol' sh*t.

Goddamit Idolator you had a chance to mention KING as not really an album but a comp + new songs and you fucked it up

KING have never represented their album to be a compilation + new songs (and couldn't many, many debut albums be so described?) as far as I know?

http://fasterlouder.junkee.com/50-best-albums-2016/869258

Finally, someone gives The Drones a nod. D.D Dumbo is interesting, been listening to it this past week. He kind of sounds like Sting more than Sting does. Or Eliot Sumner.

http://www.ew.com/article/2016/12/08/ew-best-albums-2016

Not much crossover with my tastes, but it's actually more ILM aligned than a lot of lists.

You can see all the list in a more uniform format at http://www.albumoftheyear.org/lists.php (see recently added lists column on right)

the Drones made my top 50. not their best album but a very worthy sharp left turn.

http://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/647-entertainment-weeklys-50-best-albums-of-2016/

Beyoncé - Lemonade #1

http://www.slantmagazine.com/features/article/the-25-best-albums-of-2016

Possibly the most boring list yet, plus Britney.

fucksake GAPDY really is happening again

http://www.splicetoday.com/music/splice-today-s-top-10-records-of-2016

#1. David Bowie — Blackstar
#2. Kanye West — The Life of Pablo
#3. Mannequin Pussy — Romantic
#4. Matmos — Ultimate Care II
#5. A Tribe Called Quest — We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
#6. Young Thug — JEFFERY
#7. Rosali — Out of Love
#8. Animal Collective — Painting With
#9. Deakin — Sleep Cycle
#10. Deerhoof — The Magic

GAPDYXX it was. the xx were at the top of all those lists

a GADPY with A Tribe Called Quest and Beyoncé is a good GADPY imo

got no problem with those two records. ATCQ is in my own personal top 5. but it's not close to being at the top end of all these lists. tbh it's the crushing inevitability of frank ocean and radiohead that is killing me

Been following the Guardian countdown which was so far so predictable but I am genuinely astonished that enough of them liked that mess of a Rihanna album to vote it in at #7. Especially as Life of Paolo is probably still to come.

Paolo Di Kanye

What has been in the Guardian list this year?

You guys do realise that the issue with GAPDY wasn't just its predictability but its overwhelming white limp-dickness? Right?

(Full disclosure I loved that YYYs album which was the only one with some actual energy to it)

Can't get enough of that anti-white rhetoric these days.

Worse than just being bad music, they're white too!

what are you white or something

?? I'm lost

― I've read Ta-nehisi Coates. (marcos), Thursday, December 8, 2016 2:13 PM (thirty-seven seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

also the collective decision that beyonce is the only black female solo artist allowed at the top of these lists when DAWN (among others) is perhaps at least her equal is an unfortunate one

it needs interrogation, at least

I don't like all this year's consensus picks but if you don't understand how it's different to and more interesting than 2009's wall-to-wall tepid North American indie-synth picks then I've got nothing for you.

Solange tied with Beyonce on the Ringer list

anyone outside the Knowles family

Solange was Number One at NPR, Rihanna was Number One at Fuse, Louis is an idiot

anyone outside the Knowles family

I really wish there was a Kelly Rowland album that was popping up all over the place that I could namecheck here

Grrr

I just mean 'where's Dawn'

Yes, why aren't people rating this indie label album that came out 20 days ago over the woman who played the Super Bowl halftime show and the dying statement from one of rock's most iconic musicians

what could use some more ~interrogation is the collective decision that beyoncé only became an Important Musician and EOY shoo-in in 2013 and why it took her FOURTEEN years to get to that stage

rip thom yorke

people might not be rating it but the critics have a duty to represent the best music, right