Brainwashed's Readers Poll
― Dinsdale, Thursday, 5 January 2017 14:25 (seven years ago) link
i suggest imago doesn't scroll down to the bottom of that page
― NickB, Thursday, 5 January 2017 14:41 (seven years ago) link
this is actual fucking war
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Thursday, 5 January 2017 15:03 (seven years ago) link
TIL MX-80 Sound released a new album and apparently it sucks?
― Transform All Suffering Into Poo (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 5 January 2017 15:07 (seven years ago) link
swans bros might be my new most hated group of people
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Thursday, 5 January 2017 15:07 (seven years ago) link
Oh, CP, that worst-of list contains my two favourite albums of maybe the last 5 years, it's very distinguished company. Probably a good album
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Thursday, 5 January 2017 15:09 (seven years ago) link
Brainwashed best-of also a noticeably POC-absent zone. Few women either. Yeah you're all so fucking experimental and hidden-reversy. Whatever. You're all cunts with boring taste
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Thursday, 5 January 2017 15:12 (seven years ago) link
Jeff Miller's 2016 punk scrapbook at Said the Gramophone: http://www.saidthegramophone.com/archives/punk_scrapbook_2016.php
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Tuesday, 3 January 2017 17:34 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^ good list imo
― Transform All Suffering Into Poo (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 5 January 2017 15:16 (seven years ago) link
Please, if I ever become this kind of insufferable dour hateful misogynistic racist snob cunt about my music*, kill me. This kind of closed-mindedness and posturing is a million times worse than any sort of pop music exclusivism. This really raises the mirror to the sorts of people who self-style as experimental music fans and reveals them for the dreadful, damaged bores that they are.
*as was vaguely threatened itt, still so :/ about that
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Thursday, 5 January 2017 15:20 (seven years ago) link
A category for "Worst Album of the Year?" My middle-school-aged child is more open-minded.
― doug watson, Thursday, 5 January 2017 19:41 (seven years ago) link
Sort of understand the hate for Jute Gyte in a sort of macho inadequacy 'it's just nooooise' self-pwning incurious sense but voting Weyes Blood as second-worst album of the year makes me entirely suspect the Brainwashed readership to comprise a suppurating hate-riven subreddit of actively bigoted shut-ins (probably confirmed by the seething unchecked Swans support, lack of POC or women etc etc) - it just isn't an album I could imagine anyone with any sort of acceptable social adjustment hating. Even if you can't get with its vibe it's not much more than an intricate pop-folk record with proggy touches and lots of harmonies. If this is what drives you to hatred then you're undoubtedly worthless and probably a localised threat to others.
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Thursday, 5 January 2017 20:00 (seven years ago) link
Since I'm one of the assholes who vote in their poll, let me say that you don't actively vote for a "worst album of the year", you just rate the albums you've heard (love, like, dislike, hate) so a record could get in that list simply by the matter of having a lot of people not liking it. I don't think there are that many voters either so it doesn't even have to be a lot of people.
― Dinsdale, Thursday, 5 January 2017 20:15 (seven years ago) link
I think I remember one year (probably 2012? Back when stephen ilxor was still affiliated with them) when one of their worst albums might have actually made the best albums list.
Ummm wait...Dinsdale??
― U2 (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 5 January 2017 20:19 (seven years ago) link
that is a truly deranged way to run a poll at the best of times, but with such a voting public (present company excluded I suppose) it becomes actively reckless
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Thursday, 5 January 2017 20:23 (seven years ago) link
Lol Dinsdale am I way behind the curve in figuring out who you are, cuz it took me a whole year to realize rev changed her sn
― U2 (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 5 January 2017 20:38 (seven years ago) link
I'm not a former ilxor or anything like that, so there's no such thing as figuring out who I am
― Dinsdale, Thursday, 5 January 2017 20:50 (seven years ago) link
I'll fucking do it
(j/k)
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Thursday, 5 January 2017 20:59 (seven years ago) link
Ohhh ok
― U2 (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 5 January 2017 22:00 (seven years ago) link
I think I remember one year (probably 2012? Back when stephen ilxor was still affiliated with them) when one of their worst albums might have actually made the best albums list.― U2 (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, January 5, 2017 8:19 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― U2 (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, January 5, 2017 8:19 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Doesn't that routinely happen with the NME reader polls or am I imagining that
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Friday, 6 January 2017 19:59 (seven years ago) link
wow the whiteness of the brainwashed list is particularly glaring in a year when yves, dedekind, klein, etc were all basically running down different nurse with wound threads
― based grandpa (noz), Saturday, 7 January 2017 21:02 (seven years ago) link
ooh thanks for those other two recommendations, I already got turned on to the excellent Yves Tumor record via the Spotify playlist
― sleeve, Saturday, 7 January 2017 21:06 (seven years ago) link
I hope you will take a look at the 2016 music year in review at
http://phivel.blogspot.com/2017/01/2016-in-review-visions-of-end-and-back.html
I would love to hear your reactions (pro and con).
― Phivel 5L, Sunday, 8 January 2017 14:29 (seven years ago) link
a sort of macho inadequacy 'it's just nooooise' self-pwning incurious sense
uh what? Do you even know what the majority of what made the list sounds like? Undoubtedly people who rep for Fennesz, Oren Ambarchi, Nurse with Wound, Whitehouse, and Tim Hecker are totally turned off by nooooise. Oh and Full of Hell, who had a recent collab with lush melodic masters Merzbow?
Moderately surprised Moor Mother didn't get love from this list.
― sarahell, Sunday, 8 January 2017 22:52 (seven years ago) link
I hadn't heard nearly half of this list, but in sampling they all seem pretty solid pop, garage punk, jangle, psych, etc.
https://finestkiss.wordpress.com/2016/12/27/albums-of-2016/
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 16 January 2017 20:54 (seven years ago) link
Good list. I've bookmarked a few of those.
― o. nate, Thursday, 19 January 2017 02:29 (seven years ago) link
Quite late to past this in this thread, the end of year-list of the radio station I'm working for in free time, called Radio Scorpio (Belgium). Was aired two weeks ago in a 12 hour show. (I had a vote)
1 Frank Ocean – Blonde2 A Tribe Called Quest – We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service3 Oranssi Pazuzu – Värähtelijä4 Danny Brown – Atrocity Exhibition5 Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – EARS6 Car Seat Headrest – Teens of Denial7 Rick Parker / Li Daiguo – Free World Music8 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree9 V/A - Mambos Levis D’Outro Mundo10 Big Ups – Before a Million Universes
11 Noura Mint Seymali – Arbina12 Babyfather – BBF hosted by DJ Escrow13 Equiknoxx – Bird Sound Power14 Whores. – Gold15 David Bowie – Blackstar16 Solange – A Seat at the Table17 Jessy Lanza – Oh No18 Cobalt – Slow Forever19 Run The Jewels – RTJ320 Jambinai – A Hermitage
21 El Yunque – Baskenland22 Mono – Requiem for Hell23 Yves Tumor – Serpent Music24 Kanye West – The Life Of Pablo25 Thee Oh Sees – A Weird Exits26 Steve Gunn – Eyes On The Lines27 Angel Olsen – My Woman28 Heron Oblivion – Heron Oblivion29 Julius Eastman – Femenine30 Wadada Leo Smith – America’s National Parks
31 Jenny Hval – Blood Bitch32 Mumdance & Logos Presents Different Circles33 Seekersinternational – LoversDedicationStation / RaggaPreservationSociety34 Schoolboy Q – Blank Face LP35 Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool36 Pop. 1280 – Paradise37 YG – Still Brazy38 Kendrick Lamar – Untitled Unmastered39 Ryley Walker – Golden Sings That Have Been Sung40 Ignatz – The Drain
41 V/A - Space Echo42 Elza Soares – A Mulher do Fim do Mundo43 Ulrika Spacek – The Album Paranoia44 Autechre – Elseq45 Melanie De Biasio – Blackened Cities EP46 Anderson .Paak – Malibu47 Preoccupations – Preoccupations48 Aluk Todolo – Voix49 Darkher – Realms50 Stargazer’s Assistant – Remoteness of Light
51 Blood Orange – Freetown Sound52 V/A - Digital Zandoli53 ANOHNI – Hopelessness54 Avalon Emerson – Whities 006 en Narcissus in Retrogade55 pg.lost – Versus56 Oathbreaker – Rheia57 Convextion – 284558 Huerco S. – For Those Of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have)59 Foodman – Ez Minzoku60 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Nonagon Infinity
61 Kate Tempest – Let Them Eat Chaos62 Cocaine Piss – The Dancer63 Anxiety – Anxiety64 Weyes Blood – Front Row Seat To Earth65 Rangda – The Heretics Bargain66 75 Dollar Bill – WOOD/METAL/PLASTIC/PATTERN/RHYTHM/ROCK67 Razen – Endrhymes68 Jack DeJohnette / Ravi Coltrane / Matthew Garrison – In Movement69 Sendai – Ground And Figure70 V/A - Objekt – Kern Vol. 3
71 Russian Circles – Guidance72 Vektor – Cygnus Terminal73 Puce Mary – The Spiral74 Leonard Cohen – You Want It Darker75 Young Thug – Jeffrey76 Vince Staples – Prima Donna (EP)77 Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga Rhythm Force – Yermande78 Alain Pierre – Jan Zonder Vrees OST79 Mica Levi é Oliver Coates – Remain Calm80 Lorenzo Senni – Persona
81 Causa Sui – Return to Sky82 Georgia – All Kind Music83 Fatou Seidei Ghali & Alamnou Akrouni – Les Filles De Illighadad84 V/A - Soul Sok Sega85 Black Flower – Ghost Radio + Artifacts86 Wang Wen – Sweet Home, Go!87 Savages – Adore Life88 Swans – The Glowing Man89 Hashshashin – nihsahshsaH90 Chance The Rapper – Coloring Book
91 V/A - Bobo Yéyé – Belle Epoque in Upper Volta92 Tortoise – The Catastrophist93 Horse Lords – Interventions94 Whitney – Light Upon the Lake95 Steve Hauschildt – Strands96 Rodrigo Amado Motion Trio – Desire and Freedom97 Raime – Tooth98 Manngold – Manngold99 Gojira – Magma100 Kevin Morby – Singing Saw
101 Echo Beatty – Nonetheless102 Guerilla Toss – Eraser Stargazer103 Anna Meredith – Varmints104 Shirley Collins – Lodestar105 Dans Dans – Sand106 Washington Phillips – Washington Phillips and His Manzarene Dreams
― maarten, Saturday, 21 January 2017 11:16 (seven years ago) link
Today is a good day to buy a bunch of the 2016 albums you've been meaning to, as Bandcamp is donating 100% of their proceeds to ACLU.
https://wolfpeople.bandcamp.com/album/ruinshttps://sydarthur.bandcamp.com/album/apricityhttp://shop.lolacolt.com/album/twist-through-the-firehttp://listen.20buckspin.com/album/hunted-2https://wovenhand.bandcamp.com/album/star-treatmenthttps://fuzzoramarecords1.bandcamp.com/album/iiihttps://chrisforsyth1.bandcamp.com/album/the-rarity-of-experiencehttps://sirrobinandthelongbowmen.bandcamp.com/album/sir-robin-the-longbowmenhttps://rollingblackoutscoastalfever.bandcamp.com/album/talk-tighthttps://sunsofthyme.bandcamp.com/album/cascadeshttps://blood-music.bandcamp.com/album/airhttps://soniccathedral.bandcamp.com/album/iihttps://spiritadrift.bandcamp.com/album/chained-to-oblivionhttps://badomenrecords.bandcamp.com/album/preludehttps://thewinstons.bandcamp.com/album/the-winstonshttps://drakkarnowhere.bandcamp.com/album/drakkar-nowherehttps://maddermortem.bandcamp.com/
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 3 February 2017 14:22 (seven years ago) link
a Google search brought me here: did ILM's PWR BTTM thread get deleted??
― alpine static, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 21:51 (six years ago) link