2010 Magazine's Albums Of The Year Thread For Posting Lists and Discussion

by which i mean not that "hard in da paint" felt repetitive artistically (seeing as it came out first), but that it would feel repetitive to list one after the other

deej how is noz overstating the argument of gucci falling off in any different way than you

― *plop*timist (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, December 15, 2010 12:54 PM (37 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ha fair pt i guess its just a matter of degree

from what i've heard, "no hands" was a pretty big club hit in the south - i completely disagree with giving "bmf" props over "hard in da paint" but it's pretty good to see "no hands" getting recognition

i.e. my top 40 will still have 4-5 gucci tracks (everybody lookin / what its gonna be / trap talk / its alive / long money)

no hands is a pretty big hit all over -- its more the pop crossover single than hard n da paint is

&, imo, its success sorta justifies its presence on the album (although i liked it prior anyway, it feels *better* as a result of being popular somehow)

yeah it's really one of the bigger rap hits of the year, period

&, imo, its success sorta justifies its presence on the album (although i liked it prior anyway, it feels *better* as a result of being popular somehow)

― *plop*ism rules (deej), Wednesday, December 15, 2010 1:35 PM (20 seconds ago) Bookmark

i mean i think this is true objectively -- like it's easier to put up w/ crossover tracks when they're actually successful -- by nature their presence is then justified, obv

take gucci's album for instance & you have all these r&b features that weren't even hits and it feels completely pointless -- "no hands" doesn't have the same problem

also i agree about it seeming "better"

i'm surprised that "long money" is the gucci track that's cropping in lists. my gucci 5 of the year would be atlanta zoo/electricity/soldier/vampires/tired of you

mine would be normal/first song back/it's alive/what's it gonna be/long money (w/ "pretty boy swag" & "i just wanna party" in there as classic features)

there was another early year feature that i cant remember that i would include

sad about lack of love for 'trap talk' -- sell u a sack of leaves

gucci jack-off sesh is thataway, guys

sorry, fam

<3

Every track seemed to have a lot of different versions, so there's actually going to be a digital-only version of the album soon which will have some of those on there. I can't tell you how many versions of "Keep It Up" and "Baby Can't Stop" there are. It was really hard sometimes to pick which one to put on the album. -- Lindstrom

cant wait for this

Is anyone here a big Actress fan? I love a couple of tracks in the middle but don't understand the album-of-the-year love.

it's one of those albums that sound nice when you're doing something else as far as i can tell - never got into it beyond that. though at the protests last week i was assured that repeated listens would reveal its true wonder. that person used the word "deleuzian" in all seriousness two minutes later, fyi.

if you're ill atm i would imagine that's the ideal time to give it another go tho!

After a decade of reading bloggers talking about dance music, fuck "Deleuzian" and the Guattari it rode in on.

The James Blake album, however, is amazing ill-person music.

I'm glad I didn't have to turn in a list this year because this collection of stuff I'm largely not familiar with would have blown it to bits: http://www.skatterbrain.org/2010/12/au-revoir-2010-songs.html

i.e. my top 40 will still have 4-5 gucci tracks (everybody lookin / what its gonna be / trap talk / its alive / long money)

― *plop*ism rules (deej), Wednesday, December 15, 2010 2:34 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

iirc one of the 'rules' of noz's lists is that an artist can only be on the list once as a primary artist (although no limit to features), like there was only one gucci solo track on his list last year too

last.fm top 40 most scrobbled artists of 2010 list is up
http://www.last.fm/bestof/2010/chart/40

Love a few tracks off the Actress album (Lost, Always Human, Purrple), kind of admire a lot of the rest (its sense of purpose, its thoroughness), but don't really feel a pressing need to go back to it much.

iirc one of the 'rules' of noz's lists is that an artist can only be on the list once as a primary artist (although no limit to features), like there was only one gucci solo track on his list last year too

― some dude, Wednesday, December 15, 2010 2:08 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

i think this post was a response to me saying that deej made the same argument as noz in terms of gucci "falling off"

the last.fm list is AMAZINGLY FUNNY

clicking through forty pages though, unngh

yeah i guess i c&p'd the wrong deej post, i was really responding to what he said further up. either way.

just wait til you see the most popular act of 2010

real world doesn't collide with ilx critics world

Wanna just tell us?

you should really just go through the list

you should, you will get a good laugh. Telling you who was #1 would spoil it for everyone reading here.

most of the top 10 is hilarious!

it's what the real kids out there listen to!

villains.

no pretensions or anything, no trying to be cool, just what they listened to the most this year.

I plan on going through it, but I can't access it from work so it'll have to wait til tonight.

it's what the real kids out there listen to!

i assume, in that case, that katy perry is no. 1.

that would be okay; she's no. 1 in my heart, too.

Actually she's #9

well, that was certainly something or other. not quite sure what, tho. and no. one is otm.

Actually she's #9

omg no!

how can this be? katy perry will melt your popsicle.

oh awesome, it has a little graph for each artist that compares your own scrobbles of each artist with the overall ones

these are my contributions to last.fm's top 40 of the year:

Kylie Minogue - 20 plays
Massive Attack - 47
Drake - 27
Alicia Keys - 118
Miike Snow - 1
Shakira - 35
Beach House - 2
Christina Aguilera - 127
Katy Perry - 7
Rihanna - 573
Eminem - 1
Ke$ha - 4

This has the last fm top 10 for both the US and the world:

http://mashable.com/2010/12/15/lastfm-2010/

I always forget Last.fm is a UK-based site until I see stats like that.

Here are my contributions:

Kylie = 106
Massive Attack = 33
Drake = 73
Black Keys = 1
MGMT = 9
Jason DeRulo = 2
Yeasayer = 30
Broken Bells = 10
Alicia Keys = 2
Tegan and Sara = 81*
Shakira = 3
Beach House = 4
The National = 44
Katy Perry = 5
Rihanna = 12
Eminem = 1
Vampire Weekend = 55
Gorillaz = 2
Arcade Fire = 69
Ke$ha = 9

*Possibly girlfriend-enhanced.

*Possibly girlfriend-enhanced.

― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Wednesday, December 15, 2010 3:25 PM (29 seconds ago) Bookmark

lol love this

I am genuienly surprised that Beach House beat out Eminem, that seems incredible to me.

there's still far far more US users than UK tho.

b1ue5ki’s listening

This artist is not in your library... yet.

http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/2999/shhchillicheese.gif

I am genuienly surprised that Beach House beat out Eminem, that seems incredible to me.

― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, December 15, 2010 4:31 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

its almost as if last.fm is a site for people obsessed with defining their personality by letting everyone know their exciting and new musical tastes