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

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.

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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

or maybe eminem's not really good anymore, and people like beach-house better?

or a combination of the two....?

(i've never been on last.fm, fwiw; i don't like beach house, anyway, but let me tell you about this unsigned salsa noise act i've heard from kansas).

tons of ppl love eminem iirc it sold gajillions of copies

last.fm database is self selecting

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

whiney's zings are so predictable now... but i still lol'd in a major way

whiney stop being so predictable

obv., j/k

How do those last.fm charts count though? I'm assuming they count all plays of the artist over the course of their set time frame, no matter what release. So, no one else finds it surprising that more people listened to Beach House than even all the old Eminem stuff?

imagine how many Kesha plays were deleted

they measure it by plays from the actual album

at least the ones with proper tags

The Wire top 50

05 Catherine Christer Hennix - The electric harpsichord
08 John Tilbury & Sebastian Lexer - Last daylight
09 Keith Fullerton Whitman - Disengenuity/Disengenuousness
10 Kevin Drumm - Necro accoustic
12 Annette Krebs & Taku Unami - Motobachii
13 Sun Araw - On patrol
16 Joe Colley - Disasters of self
17 Richard Skelton - Landings
19 Eleh - Location momentum

Anyone heard these? Am having trouble finding any of them. I did check out 04 Rangers - Suburban Tours and 11 Sun City Girls - Funeral Mariachi last night, and are pretty good. Still marinating.

xxxp http://playground.last.fm/unwanted, which is in a way more interesting me than the regular top artists

13 Sun Araw - On patrol
17 Richard Skelton - Landings

^Found these on emusic, but haven't checked them out yet

Got and like Sun Araw and Keith Fullerton Whitman. I don't smoke grass but if I did, I'd smoke a lot and listen to On Patrol and Disengenuity/Disengenuousness, while lying down somewhere.

XP

The Sun Araw is not very good, but the Eleh is pretty monumental

Glad Actress got Wire's #1 its a worthy record, its kept creeping up on me all year. Richard Skelton made a quality album too. That one took me by suprise its so deep I'm still expoloring it, its like wandering around a foggy landscape not knowing quite where you are but always bumping into beautiful shit with every other step or soemthing...

on patrol is one of my favorites of the year, glad it's making lists. prefer it even to the more rocked-out heavy deeds, which seems to be everyone's go-to sun araw album.

Eleh - monolithic drones & tones; hard as granite, kinda hard to 'enjoy' too
Richard Skelton - mournful strings and environmental sounds, a really fucking beautiful and moving work; top 5 of the year for me
Sun Araw - a kind of ratty dublike mix of various fruity-sounding instruments and loops; pretty immersive of the whole, I like it fine

The Hennix is a shifting drone using (obv) electric harpsichord. it's fantastic. I also love the Sun Araw, maybe better than Heavy Deeds

have heard other eleh, but never got the hang. stereo demonstrational drones. curious about richard skelton based on the comments here.

the first printing of the hennix cd/book I think is sold out from Die Schachtel, but aQ told me that they're reprinting

More info on the Richard Skelton here:
http://typerecords.com/releases/landings

not to try and start something, but I find it strange that our/FACT's albums of the year list gets criticised here for featuring Salem, Drake, Kanye and Darkstar in the 40 (amongst Ferraro, Rashad, Roc, Ettinger, Actress, Forest Swords, Altered Natives et al), while Resident Advisor (who i like, and in certain aspects look up to - particularly presentation) do one of the safest top 20s I can imagine, with everything either house, techno, or very house and techno-friendly, and it gets called great.

and Virgo in the RA 20 - amazing record, but it's a reissue. If you're putting that in you might as well put Neptune's Lair in.

anyway, main reason I posted is that our top 40 reissues list is up, it's probably the one we had most fun making:

http://www.factmag.com/2010/12/15/40-best-reissues-of-2010/

xxxp http://playground.last.fm/unwanted, which is in a way more interesting me than the regular top artists

i love how "Toxic" still manages to make that list in 2010.

and ha at people deleting Muse & Coldplay.

you know what, i just looked back and it was actually somewhere else they were really laying into the list, so that first post is a bit of an overeaction. ignore it, and just read the reissues list ;)

I did say some shit about SALEM being on there but it wasn't exactly serious!

yeah I think most people were commenting that the fact list was one of the better ones

cant remember what i said about the fact list but keep in mind most rap fans here dont like drake, kanye, etc

but i bet they hate indie/rock/metal/country more so a list with any of that on it is bound to be hated on.

quite the opposite iirc i was praising the classic rock list for not paying fealty to generic crit bait & criticizing the wire list for what i considered its lazy fallback to consensus on big boi

The Wire top 50

05 Catherine Christer Hennix - The electric harpsichord
08 John Tilbury & Sebastian Lexer - Last daylight
09 Keith Fullerton Whitman - Disengenuity/Disengenuousness
10 Kevin Drumm - Necro accoustic
12 Annette Krebs & Taku Unami - Motobachii
13 Sun Araw - On patrol
16 Joe Colley - Disasters of self
17 Richard Skelton - Landings
19 Eleh - Location momentum

Anyone heard these? Am having trouble finding any of them. I did check out 04 Rangers - Suburban Tours and 11 Sun City Girls - Funeral Mariachi last night, and are pretty good. Still marinating.

eleh = awesome, like Nick said, though, it's more of a mood piece, you gotta be in the right state of mind to listen to an hour of drones & tones with barely perceptible changes (at times)

sun araw = pretty good

haven't heard the KFW or Drumm but i'd trust anything those guys release, it's usually fantastic

yeah i'm a hueg KFW fan and had no idea that record existed

oh, i see

**Please be aware, this album is strictly limited, housed in custom printed outer-pvc with a design aesthetic worthy of the music contained within**

lol wire

quite the opposite iirc i was praising the classic rock list for not paying fealty to generic crit bait & criticizing the wire list for what i considered its lazy fallback to consensus on big boi

but yes deej, i wasn't meaning you when I wrote it.

and Virgo in the RA 20 - amazing record, but it's a reissue. If you're putting that in you might as well put Neptune's Lair in.

until it got reissued the Virgo album was like £200 or something for an OG copy wasn't it? I'd say that made it a fairly different proposition to 'Neptune's Lair', even speaking as someone who would keep releases out of lists like these

haven't heard the Tilbury/Lexer but from what I've heard it's largely a performance of a John Cage 1964 piece, Electronic Music for Piano.
all of the Tilbury interpretations of Cage I've heard have been great
fwiw the cd is actually called "Lost Daylight"