The All-New STYLUS.

btw who drew the artist pics? They're all fantastic

blackout placed 2 low imo

really hoping to see some Knife up in this bitch

misogynist

Illustrations are done by Miguel Jiron.

The Carter 2 more likely?

I'm still holding out some hope for Aaliyah

shhh! We don't like black people!

― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, January 7, 2010 2:41 PM Bookmark

I was more specifically saying that perhaps a soul record might not do so well based on that showing but ok, if you say so.

I'm excited that Tha Carter III will be in the top 20

no way

from what i can remember, stylus staff is actually astute about good lil wayne albums, but we'll see

really hoping to see some Knife up in this bitch

Go back and look at #29 and cry (like I did). Should've been top ten.

from what i can remember, stylus staff is actually astute about good lil wayne albums, but we'll see

Stylus also wasn't around the year Tha Carter III came out.

Maybe I'm reading too much into the Wayne pic leading off the Stylus website charge, by Nick's intro. Would they lead with a Wayne drawing if he didn't make the top 20 or so? Really?

Also would love for "A Milli" to go top 20 tracks...

Apparently that Animal Collective guff is better than Silent Shout. REALLY.

just hoping for I Feel Space in the top 20 singles. With Studio placing decently, the lists have ticked all my boxes.

if 1 Thing isn't top 5 i'm gonna murder some motherfuckers

reasonable

I'll have more to say tomorrow when the final list(s) run.

Though R&B is arguably the most ubiquitous genre of the last decade, the music’s emotions feel by-and-large disconnected from its lyrics, which often deal with heartbreak, trust, love, and maturity. Burial manifests these emotions in sound, taking the sounds of club culture and R&B and reconfiguring them as ghosts drowning into a black hole.

http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o285/reptltd/keyboardhead.gif

<3 this list but yall needed a copy editor

http://www.millsworks.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/writing_process.gif

that was me when i read "rooms on fire"

altho i think you guys should keep the pj harvey album labeled as a hold steady album - makes sure that you're still paying attention and that your eyes haven't totally glazed over

and if you have it kind of snaps you into place

haha jordan otm

Kid u_u

Kid Eh

sorry if someone has already made that AWARD WINNING PUN

ok "Ante Up" in top 20 all is forgiven

Ah, I should have seen Ignition as No. 1 single a mile off!

xp after reading the blurb, I take that back

MORE LIKE KID ANUS
MORE LIKE KID ANUS
MORE LIKE KID ANUS
MORE LIKE KID ANUS
MORE LIKE KID ANUS
MORE LIKE KID ANUS
MORE LIKE KID ANUS
MORE LIKE KID ANUS
MORE LIKE KID ANUS
MORE LIKE KID ANUS

no futuresex/lovesounds, no aaliyah :(

no voodoo, no arular :(

Rick James has a thin voice? Get one "Fire and Desire", dude.

no futuresex/lovesounds, no aaliyah :(

― y tu mama ambien (Tape Store), Friday, January 8, 2010 2:50 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

yes this is surprising

it's interesting that in his "ignition" blurb, alfred argues that this was the best time for r&b in 20+ years and yet the only r&b album on the list is new amerykah, unless you count like... 'the love below'

i think the daft punk drawing is my favorite one

18. The Hold Steady
Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea

glad u guys ranked this one.

srsly tho, thanks for doing this, great job, etc. I just realized today that this has been unfolding over the course of the week & I look forward to a more thorough reading of blurbs & such.

Yeah, feel free to ignore my bitching cause deep inside I'm grateful for this.

Though R&B is arguably the most ubiquitous genre of the last decade, the music’s emotions feel by-and-large disconnected from its lyrics, which often deal with heartbreak, trust, love, and maturity. Burial manifests these emotions in sound, taking the sounds of club culture and R&B and reconfiguring them as ghosts drowning into a black hole.

is this an actual thing that someone wrote

because whoever it was, fuck them and fuck anyone who published it

Lex you rescinded your right to pass comment when you passed up the chance to participate.

that would have been published regardless of whether i sent in a ballot, right? it's a calamity of music journalism, that sentence

So only people who contribute to a magazine have the right to comment on it? This news has come as a great relief to me, I must say.

For a second there I was actually thinking something other than Kid A might win :/

Great work tho.

Yes, John, that's absolutely the kernel of truth at the heart of my post to Lex, a great universal conclusion based on a particular relationship between 2 people and 1 thing.

Lex: who knows whether that would have been published if you'd submitted a ballot? We're into chaos theory here now, butterfly effect bollocks. I wanted you to contribute a ballot, and hopefully blurbs too. I was desperate for you to do so, and you didn't manage it. With your ballot the ordering may well be different, and if you'd been blurb-writing then the allocation of those blurbs would be different and Tal may not have written that.

Regardless, that sentence is how that writer feels about that thing; you feel differently. He gets a different emotional response to something than you do.

Ignoring the sentence about Burial I'd kind of agree with the first bit except that Soul music has always traded on a disconnect between lyrical "content" and musical expression. In fact music throughout time has done this afaic

bullshit, whoever edited that had the chance to edit out something which is prejudiced, lazy bollocks, and they didn't

But yes, on a wider scale, the practical side of getting stuff up and published could have done with a lot more work; that this was a one-off with established systems of operation has hampered us quite a lot, and I think in the flurry of emails some things have been published at different stages of evolution. You're bound to get snags; the fact that everyone has done this around dayjobs and seasonal commitments warms the cockles of my heart, though. If there are a few copy-editing kinks, they'll be ironed out and the version that sits there for posterity over the next 20 months will be fine and dandy.

Nate DeYoung, who built the site and uploaded the content, has done an amazing job, as has Miguel Jiron, the illustrator, Todd H, Alfred, and Derek M, the editors and whip-crackers, all the writers, all the voters (not all could blurb as well), jaymc and Andrew Unterberger (who matriculated both lists), and anyone else who had input who I've forgotten. And all for nothing more than love.

Lex how on earth is that prejudiced?

with = without in first line of my post a moment ago, btw.