Matt DC, I don't know how many critics are polled but it must be a fair number because neither Tom, Lex nor I voted for Kanye. I'm surprised by the same placings as you - not even heard of Anais Mitchell and found the Ikonika record very dull. But then it's good to be surprised by your own publication. Would never have predicted the National coming below Drake and Kelis.
Anyone else think it's a bit weird P4K putting three James Blake EPs in their albums list? It's not an album is it?
― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Friday, 17 December 2010 10:00 (thirteen years ago) link
It's a trending topic!
― Carl Jung Jeezy (Doran), Friday, 17 December 2010 10:22 (thirteen years ago) link
#JamesBlakep4kcontrov
i was very happy that titus beat arcade fire
― return of the nakh (J0rdan S.), Friday, 17 December 2010 10:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Obvious from ScottPl's #1 earlier that was going to happen. Doing that and having a tracks rundown and not singles is a bit of a case of cake being had and eaten.
― Mitchell Stirling, Friday, 17 December 2010 10:33 (thirteen years ago) link
ok, this is kind of amazing http://twitter.com/JanelleMonae/status/15715639645704192
― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Friday, 17 December 2010 10:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Aww bless. I like Janelle much more than I like her album, really hope she goes on to make an honest-to-god classic.
― Matt DC, Friday, 17 December 2010 10:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Resident Advisor's Top 50 Tracks of 2010:
50. Nebraska - Soho Grand 49. DJ Rashad - Itz Not Rite 48. Matthew Dear - Little People (Black City) 47. Deniz Kurtel feat. Guests of Nature - Yeah 46. Butch - No Worries45. Skudge - Convolution44. Steffi - Kill Me (Instrumental Dub) 43. Sound Stream - All Night42. Balam Acab - See Birds (Moon)41. Conforce - Grace 40. Martyn - Is This Insanity39. MMM - Nous Sommes 38. FCL - Let's Go37. Instra:mental - Let's Talk 36. Public Lover - I Try 35. Wax - 30003 B 34. Four Tet - Love Cry33. Deadboy - If U Want 32. Fred P - It Is What It Is 31. Storm Queen - Look Right Through 30. Joe - Clap Trap 29. Azari & III - Reckless (With Your Love)28. Tony Lionni feat. Marvin Belton - Precious 27. Ramadanman - Don't Change for Me26. Space Dimension Controller - Journey to the Core of the Unknown Sphere25. Locussolus - Gunship24. Lone - Pineapple Crush23. Jacob Korn - Mirrorflip 22. Mount Kimbie - Maybes (James Blake Remix) 21. The Bug - Skeng 20. Actress - Maze19. Moody - Ol' Dirty Vinyl18. Midnight Magic - Beam Me Up (Jacques Renault Remix) 17. Discreet Unit - Shake Your Body 16. Gunnar Wendel - 578 (Omar-S Rude Boy Warm Remix)15. Caribou - Sun14. Floating Points - People's Potentials13. Breach - Fatherless12. Moody - It's 2 Late 4 U & Me11. Girl Unit - Wut10. James Blake - CMYK09. Nicolas Jaar - A Time For Us 08. Kassem Mosse - Untitled07. The Gathering - In My System (Jef K System Remix)06. Axel Boman - Purple Drank05. Addison Groove - Footcrab 04. Oni Ayhun - 004A03. Ramadanman - Work Them 02. Tensnake - Coma Cat 01. Art Department - Without You
http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?1220
― prolego, Friday, 17 December 2010 11:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Art Department - Without You
That's an odd number one, it's a good record but kinda... 2002? Still, it's a nice mix of stuff I already know and like and enough tunes I haven't actually heard. No idea what Skeng is doing in there though.
― Matt DC, Friday, 17 December 2010 11:08 (thirteen years ago) link
50. Nebraska - Soho Grand49. DJ Rashad - Itz Not Rite33. Deadboy - If U Want31. Storm Queen - Look Right Through30. Joe - Clap Trap29. Azari & III - Reckless (With Your Love)18. Midnight Magic - Beam Me Up (Jacques Renault Remix)14. Floating Points - People's Potentials13. Breach - Fatherless11. Girl Unit - Wut09. Nicolas Jaar - A Time For Us07. The Gathering - In My System (Jef K System Remix)06. Axel Boman - Purple Drank04. Oni Ayhun - 004A03. Ramadanman - Work Them
^^YES
why is "skeng" in a 2010 list lol. i'm sure "reckless (with your love)" was 2009, too. and actually i prefer oni ayhun's 003.
― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Friday, 17 December 2010 11:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Reckless With Your Love is actually the placing for the Tensnake mix rather than the original.
For all the fuss about dubstep or post-dubstep or whatever, Coma Cat still feels like the 2010's big undisputible dancefloor anthem, happy to see it so high.
― Matt DC, Friday, 17 December 2010 11:11 (thirteen years ago) link
28. Tony Lionni feat. Marvin Belton - Precious26. Space Dimension Controller - Journey to the Core of the Unknown Sphere
These two are fantastic as well. Tony Lionni is such a great producer.
― Matt DC, Friday, 17 December 2010 11:13 (thirteen years ago) link
'Skeng' = Autechre remix from that recent EP? (this might not totally refute your point lol)
― Different Geir, Still SBing (DJ Mencap), Friday, 17 December 2010 11:14 (thirteen years ago) link
That Autechre mix of SKENG is one of my favourite tracks of the year.
― Carl Jung Jeezy (Doran), Friday, 17 December 2010 11:17 (thirteen years ago) link
ha no I do like it, still doesn't feel like a *SONG OF 2010* to me tho
I think ILM may find this apparently earnest post from Drowned In Sound amusing
― Different Geir, Still SBing (DJ Mencap), Friday, 17 December 2010 11:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Ha. I also like this one:
this is a very guardiany list. A mix of hotly tipped new bands, world music and commercial junk, to alienate no one at all. Very indecisive.
Yeah, what indecisive bastards, liking a whole range of music.
― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Friday, 17 December 2010 11:32 (thirteen years ago) link
hope this works - 28 of the RA top 50
http://open.spotify.com/user/usingyourworlds/playlist/656wevVBIdujLV1vuCXZTX
― I am using your worlds, Friday, 17 December 2010 11:35 (thirteen years ago) link
A lot of the albums up there will be forgotten in a few years time. I'd go further to say that perhaps 2010 was a poor year for music. Is there anything up there you can safely say will become legendary?
amazing
― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Friday, 17 December 2010 11:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Is there anything up there you can safely say will become legendary?
shame owen p has never joined in wdyll for an easy zing, but i genuinely think that dude made a classic. also los camp (lol me & jordan)
― irish xmas caek, get that marzipan inta ya (a hoy hoy), Friday, 17 December 2010 11:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Has Gaslight Anthem not placed anywhere yet?
― Mordy, Friday, 17 December 2010 11:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Gaslight Anthem placed at #2 in Kerrrang. Album is DULL though, too much mid-paced chuntering.
The idea of Los Campesinos becoming "legendary" in any context is almost so ridiculous as to not be worth a response.
― Matt DC, Friday, 17 December 2010 11:46 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost to Lex. That guy seems to have confused an end of year albums list with The History of the World in 100 Objects.
― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Friday, 17 December 2010 11:46 (thirteen years ago) link
And huge thanks to I am using your worlds for the Spotify playlist. I've been doing so much EOY listening already that I just gave up when I got to the RA list.
― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Friday, 17 December 2010 11:48 (thirteen years ago) link
i know dude and lold myself. was thinking more classic than legendary. owen p has a sword and a cape on his album cover, p legends of the relm type thing going on
btw lex did you attempt listening to the pallett? it is about as un-indie as a white boy indie album can get, and its v. pretty
― irish xmas caek, get that marzipan inta ya (a hoy hoy), Friday, 17 December 2010 11:48 (thirteen years ago) link
ok he doesn't have a sword, must have remembered it rong
― irish xmas caek, get that marzipan inta ya (a hoy hoy), Friday, 17 December 2010 11:49 (thirteen years ago) link
this is the extent of my interaction with o.pallett, sam: http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=2074
god i loathe los campesinos. as i was saying to alex o on fb the other day, i feel even more hatred for them because one of them was music editor of the university magazine THAT I FOUNDED. i feel like i might have inadvertently nurtured them and the consequent guilt is, i imagine, similar to that of a parent who discovers their child has grown up to be a serial sex offender.
― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Friday, 17 December 2010 11:50 (thirteen years ago) link
LOL. Indeed. There's nothing more dispiriting than seeing these whining canonical UNCUT readers in training. They're more depressing than Young Conservatives.
― Carl Jung Jeezy (Doran), Friday, 17 December 2010 11:51 (thirteen years ago) link
blimey
― irish xmas caek, get that marzipan inta ya (a hoy hoy), Friday, 17 December 2010 11:51 (thirteen years ago) link
They're more depressing than Young Conservatives.
the weird thing about young tories is that they're either repulsive and weird and clammy OR incredibly hott boys #toryconferencememories
― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Friday, 17 December 2010 11:53 (thirteen years ago) link
I dare say only 50% of that sentiment applies to the angry rockists who post on the DiS forum.
― Carl Jung Jeezy (Doran), Friday, 17 December 2010 12:21 (thirteen years ago) link
multiple xpost
That RA list is probably my favourite so far this year, but I'm with lex - Oni Ayhun's OAR-003B (why couldn't these tracks have easier names?) has sounded perfect in every context I've heard it or played it in this year.
― o0o00h really? (boxedjoy), Friday, 17 December 2010 12:22 (thirteen years ago) link
guardian individual lists: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/dec/03/albums-2010-guardian-music-critics
yes, i apparently managed to accidentally delete jazmine sullivan when i submitted mine ;_;
― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Friday, 17 December 2010 12:54 (thirteen years ago) link
That would suck.
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 17 December 2010 12:59 (thirteen years ago) link
If you'd voted for The-Dream they might well have placed considerably higher.
― Matt DC, Friday, 17 December 2010 12:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Bob Stanley repping for Justin Bieber there...
― Matt DC, Friday, 17 December 2010 13:00 (thirteen years ago) link
man what happened to Kwith Cameron :( [via middle age]
― Different Geir, Still SBing (DJ Mencap), Friday, 17 December 2010 13:09 (thirteen years ago) link
*Keith
i should've voted for kourtney heart ft. magnolia shorty - my boy instead of cassie - fuck u silly as my #5 track. had forgotten w/this cold weather what an amazing summer jam it was
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hob_FNnOBgk
― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Friday, 17 December 2010 13:12 (thirteen years ago) link
BTW Lex, the song from "Heartland" you want is "E Is For Estranged"
― Tina Tina Cheneuse (DJP), Friday, 17 December 2010 13:12 (thirteen years ago) link
So Yelawolf is really more than a Southern Eminem?
― curmudgeon, Friday, 17 December 2010 13:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Lol at all the Guardian comments complaining about how low the National placed. Ultimately I tend to agree with the old boring line that there's no accounting for taste. I have trouble imagining even liking the National (though perhaps I shouldn't since it mostly sounds to me like a third rate version of the post-punk I used to enjoy).
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 17 December 2010 13:39 (thirteen years ago) link
xp yes -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fn3oI6OoA0
― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Friday, 17 December 2010 13:39 (thirteen years ago) link
01. Art Department - Without You
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did a double take there because a Baltimore band that released one of my favorite local albums this year is called The Art Department. i guess it figures someone else has used that name, though, hope they don't have to change it!
― some dude, Friday, 17 December 2010 14:11 (thirteen years ago) link
let me be the first to guess at the pfork top ten without seeing anything in the top 50 or honorable mentions list, mostly based on the trax list, album rankings, and a few other factors:- kanye west (two tracks in top 10, plus 10.0 rating, obv.)- ariel pink (#1 track, breakout album, 9.0 rating, major chillwave influence)- lcd soundsystem (tracks ranked at #3 and #12, 9.2 rating)- robyn (best "pop" track of 2010, endless pfork hype, three highly rated albums/EPs)- big boi (#5 track, most highly praised "actual hip-hop/rap" album of 2010 [kanye doesnt count])- joanna newsom (#6 track, 9.0+ rating [9.2 maybe?])- janelle monae (#10 track, "cold war" hot as well, most highly praised r&b album of 2010 while not being "traditional r&b")- deerhunter (not sure why this got a 9.2, but it has two trax in top 30-40-ish area, incl. #11)plus, two of the following three, making 10 total:- beach house (another couple highly ranked trax, 9.0 rating, breakout album for a band pfork's been hyping for years)- sleigh bells ("best new debut album") -- though this could fall in 11-15 and i wouldn't be surprised- titus andronicus (great/praised album by an "albums band" despite no track in the top 15 or so)
- kanye west (two tracks in top 10, plus 10.0 rating, obv.)- ariel pink (#1 track, breakout album, 9.0 rating, major chillwave influence)- lcd soundsystem (tracks ranked at #3 and #12, 9.2 rating)- robyn (best "pop" track of 2010, endless pfork hype, three highly rated albums/EPs)- big boi (#5 track, most highly praised "actual hip-hop/rap" album of 2010 [kanye doesnt count])- joanna newsom (#6 track, 9.0+ rating [9.2 maybe?])- janelle monae (#10 track, "cold war" hot as well, most highly praised r&b album of 2010 while not being "traditional r&b")- deerhunter (not sure why this got a 9.2, but it has two trax in top 30-40-ish area, incl. #11)
plus, two of the following three, making 10 total:
- beach house (another couple highly ranked trax, 9.0 rating, breakout album for a band pfork's been hyping for years)- sleigh bells ("best new debut album") -- though this could fall in 11-15 and i wouldn't be surprised- titus andronicus (great/praised album by an "albums band" despite no track in the top 15 or so)
8 outta 10 not bad, huh?
shame i didn't foresee pfork putting the three James Blake EPs together as an "album" (seems kinda lame, though), and obviously, someone pointed out vampire weekend missing from my list almost immediately
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Friday, 17 December 2010 14:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Krishnan Guru-Murthy's top 10 albums of 2010
1 Plastic Beach, Gorillaz2 Progress, Take That3 Recovery, Eminem4 Come Around Sundown, Kings Of Leon5 Body Talk, Robyn6 The Lady Killer, Cee Lo Green7 Wake Up The Nation, Paul Weller8 Glee 1, The Glee Cast9 Contra, Vampire Weekend10 High Violet, The National
― O Permaban (NickB), Friday, 17 December 2010 14:24 (thirteen years ago) link
figures pfork would leave R&B and chart-ready pop outta the top ten completely, huh lex? ;)
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Friday, 17 December 2010 14:25 (thirteen years ago) link
So, I lost track of this thread a few days ago, and maybe this has already been talked about. But yesterday I noticed and slightly skimmed this end-of-year Village Voice "SOTC Roundtable" called "Was 2010 The Best Year For Music Ever," and I'm confused....That headline's just a joke, right? Or are there people out there who actually believe that?
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2010/12/welcome_to_soun.php
― xhuxk, Friday, 17 December 2010 14:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Glee 1, The Glee Cast
I love Glee as much as the next guy, seen every episode, etc, but including the soundtrack on a best albums list is some serious trying to look with it nonsense.
― Mordy, Friday, 17 December 2010 14:26 (thirteen years ago) link
a little surprised by the relative lack of twin shadow love. by far my most played record this year
― cozen, Friday, 17 December 2010 14:27 (thirteen years ago) link
What was Jon Snow repping for this year?
― Matt DC, Friday, 17 December 2010 14:27 (thirteen years ago) link