Thread for all 2016 albums of the year lists

except for maybe over the last 40 years of music journalists making lists

if it ain't woke don't fix it

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No comment on this specific back and forth but I will note that this is the second time in two days on ILX we've waded into someone or something being "performatively woke"

If music as a social phenomenon is a parameter why is there no Justin Bieber on these lists? Twenty One Pilots? Sia? Spotify is telling me they had some of the top 20 most listened songs of 2016

Bieber's album came out last year

also Bieber fucking sucks

so do Twenty One Pilots last time I checked

to be more precise I don't mean merely commenting on what's popular (though Bieber was surely on all these lists last year; Sia maybe too), I mean the writers who compile these lists engage in music socially. like part of why I am into "Work" or Lemonade are because my friends are too and they were part of conversations/life, and this is also true of writers.

god this is banal and obvs but it makes more sense than trying to uncover the office and identity politics at work behind every list

so do Twenty One Pilots last time I checked

― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday,

my niece's godfather's son's favorite band – fight this generation.

I like "Heathens" but not nearly enough to investigate anything else they've done

Yeah i was kind of joking about the lack of white.

I am not joking about Bieber being the worst

Fade Too Black

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/25/e5/8e/25e58e5594219984131c9a86a223e1d2.jpg

'sex with me' > 'black beatles' were my numbers 1 & 2 also. not sure if i should be redesigning my list here or what >:(

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:28 Bookmark

nahh. couple days ago i was this close to citing 'sex with me' omission as perfect example of eoy talking points memo irrelevance, it is a great song and it is HUGELY popular on the low in the realest way. #1 placing is a stunt flex but fuck it i cosign

admittedly more british rap than id like to see.

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:53 Bookmark

like 4 tunes tho? (not even any good ones either so miss me with the kneejerk disdain bruh)

list is otherwise not one i much feel in my bones personally but goddamnit it is an actual proper list of songs that were listened to during the year indicating life and aesthetic and such. that would seem to be a precious rarity now

I dont understand those color wheels. It makes it seem like if you mix those colors you get white and as a child I mixed them all and I didn't get white, I got black instead.

Kind of felt like imago felt when reading that fader list.

Make the color wheel great again.

ban fake moka

the fader list crashed my browser so i have nothing to say about it

(this has been true of many links itt; my computer is old and creaky but not unusually so i thought)

Ban moka

fyi is the 'sex with me' write up really any less reductively banal than a paen to solange as supposed tranquilising oatmeal balm cocoon

look dad, no white people! so fucking brave

― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Wednesday, December 14, 2016 5:23 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what the

Hahaha can we move on to another list please?

a paen to solange as supposed tranquilising oatmeal balm cocoon

lmao

PLEASE

What happened to Dusted magazine? They had one of the beat eoy lists.

Dusted has moved to Tumblr

http://dustedmagazine.tumblr.com

the fader list crashed my browser so i have nothing to say about it

(this has been true of many links itt; my computer is old and creaky but not unusually so i thought)

a lot of these lists feature godawful, browser-destroying design

^^ yes. Fact has some fancy video thing playing atop of their list that crashed my iPad. It's so unnecessary when everyone clicking on it just wants to see the list.

(Having to click 'next' every five or so titles also does my head in)

would also like to cop to a sense of embarrassing gratitude towards fader's inclusion of 'too much sauce' cos that cursed song was floating around in my head to an unwelcome degree literally all fuckin year

I dont understand those color wheels. It makes it seem like if you mix those colors you get white and as a child I mixed them all and I didn't get white, I got black instead.

You were mixing pigments (subtractive color). The colors above represent mixing light (additive color).

Monorail (mostly zzzz but it does have The Hardy Tree LP so redeems itself for that):
http://www.monorailmusic.com/news.html?cmsnews_method=view&cmsnews_id=781f7069-c1f4-11e6-9ba4-22000b2080a0

Hunger magazine (note Radiohead as token something or other AGANE):
http://www.hungertv.com/feature/the-23-best-albums-of-2016/?utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#link_time=1481623065

-_-so fkn sorry everyone, my girlfriend went thru this thread and pointed out all the ways i've been bad & racist, and she was right of course. been feeling a total wretch all evening and maybe accepting that i had no right to speak as i've done itt (in general - it's been observed that the thread is cordial and pleasant when i'm not around) is the first step to some sort of reconciliation. any deficiencies i've perceived with these lists have been the perceptions of someone who doesn't rly get it. so hereon and in the eoy threads i will basically stick to boosting music i like and criticising individual songs i don't. lists & trends are not my expertise. there is no narrative i can apply which edifies anyone. fader can list whoever the hell it likes and write however it wants. i otoh should read more & write less. really sorry if i've ruined anyone's evening.

well my evening was ruined by your comments and no apology can fix it

pure, wet denunciation

give your girlfriend a high five from me. having someone who can call you on your shit is pretty awesome.

imago, you didn't ruin my evening since dogpiling is very enjoyable to me

the fader list crashed my browser so i have nothing to say about it

(this has been true of many links itt; my computer is old and creaky but not unusually so i thought)

― lex pretend, Wednesday, December 14, 2016 7:58 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

replacing hard drive worked for me fwiw

I just pretend the whole thing was in fact a burn at Bon Iver.

Tbh I was taken aback by yr comments imago. Also because it seems this sort of shit is creeping into *everything* where heretofore (or pre-trump/2016/whatever) it would not (a thread for all 2016 top lists...), at least not as 'casually', or from someone unsuspected. You are a good man iirc and your girlfriend is too, your apology is sincere and it's water under the bridge.
What bums me out though is not understanding the thought process behind your criticism of Fader's list, what it was exactly that irked you and got you so worked up. How that literally worked in yr brain. I've no clue, and you're no "alt-right pepe" imho but I've seen so many people I've never expected it from saying stuff like this, seemingly out of nowhere. Blatant, in my face racism, in bars/transport/shops, just bcz my girlfriend isn't white and doesn't "look" "western". It's getting worse, way worse, and at a staggering pace lately. Which is not on you, but it is a "trend". And it scares the hell out of me.

You'll do fine lj. Listen to a wise man who once wrote "You saw the poster, now see the film." ;)

Anyway, sorry for venting. Don't want to derail by further derailing. Back on topic: is there just one medium out there with a decent top 10 of black metal albums? Tried to find it but could not find any.

the indigested vomit of Holland has spoken again,sadly.

bon iver is white?

idk maybe he just spent too long in that cabin

Sad that you hold on to your hatred towards me like grim death, Calzino. There are ways you know: killfile me, or simply ignore me if I offend you that much.