Last day of voting on Best Album On NME' s 2008 Albums Of The Year List?
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 17 December 2008 16:17 (fifteen years ago) link
from MTV: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1601434/20081217/swift__taylor.jhtml
Maybe it's the Christmas season, but indie rock appears to be in the air. The self-titled full-length debut from pastoral indie folk darlings Fleet Foxes claws back to #181 on sales of 5,900, two months after achieving their highest position to date at #67. Vampire Weekend's self-titled debut also made its way back onto the charts for the first time in two months at #189 with 5,400 units snapped up. And Bon Iver's For Emma Forever Ago slips under the wire at #198 thanks to 5,200 units moved, its strongest sales to date after debuting at #181 back in February.
Am I crazy for assuming that this has to be the direct result of various year-end lists being published? And if so, would that be the first time several indie records have gotten a measurable chart bump this time of year, seemingly for that reason?
― BIG BROOS aka the steenspringer (some dude), Wednesday, 17 December 2008 17:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Bon Iver was on Letterman
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 17:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Very interesting. It's possible that the social emphasis on "year-end lists" is at an all-time high. Someone told me Bon Iver was on Letterman last week, so that might have something to do with their sales boost. (XPOST)
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 17:22 (fifteen years ago) link
you can now disagree with the...critical mainstream consensus for 2008 albums
http://www.albumvote.co.uk/news/the-top-albums-of-2008-431.aspxThe annual list of lists to find out the definitive albums of the year chart is compiled from 6 UK sources (NME, Q, Uncut, Guardian, Observer Music Monthly, Sunday Times) and 6 American sources (Rolling Stone, Spin, Filter, Pitchfork, Blender, Time Magazine).
Each source has a top 10 list and this chart is an aggregated version of all them.
# 1. TV On The Radio - Dear Science# 2. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes# 3. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend# 4. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago# 5. Lil' Wayne - Tha Carter III# 6. Portishead - Third# 7. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular# 8. Elbow - The Seldom Seen kid# 9. Glasvegas - Glasvegas# 10. Kings Of Leon - Only By The Night# 11. Foals - Antidotes# 12. Santogold - Santogold# 13. Girl Talk - Feed the Animals# 14. Coldplay - Viva La Vida Or Death and All His Friends# 15. Cut/Copy - In Ghost Colours# 16. Deerhunter - Microcastle# 17. Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak# 18. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!# 19. Fucked Up - The Chemistry of Modern Love# 20. Bob Dylan - Tell Tale Signs# 21. Amadou and Mariam - Welcome to Mali# 22. Paul Weller - 22 Dreams# 23. Hot Chip - Made in the Dark# 24. Metallica - Death Magnetic# 25. Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim# 26. My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges# 27. No Age - Nouns# 28. Dr. Dog - Fate# 29. Hercules And Love Affair – Hercules And Love Affair# 30. John Mellencamp - Life, Death, Love and Freedon# 31. Duffy - Rockferry# 32. Metronomy - Nights Out# 33. Aidan John Moffat - I Can Hear Your Heart# 34. DJ Rupture - Uproot# 35. Robyn – Robyn# 36. Neon Neon - Stainless Style# 37. Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree# 38. Al Green - Lay It Down# 39. Of Montreal – Of Montreal# 40. She And Him - Volume One
― djmartian, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 19:24 (fifteen years ago) link
^How is this possible when the PFork list hasn't even been published yet?
― Dan S, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 19:44 (fifteen years ago) link
NME.com published a rumored Pitchfork list, so probably from there. (It wasn't real.)
― scottpl, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 19:46 (fifteen years ago) link
A: they obviously used pitchfork readers poll not critics
― djmartian, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 19:56 (fifteen years ago) link
or this
Pitchfork's 50 Highest Rated Albums of 2008http://rateyourmusic.com/list/kenyon330/pitchforks_50_highest_rated_albums_of_2008
― djmartian, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 19:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Whoa, who knew that Prurient's "Arrowhead" got an 8.8?!
― TUOM Gang (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 17 December 2008 20:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Weird since it's like one of my least fave Prurient records, but noise is pretty subjective so I'm just glad he got the props.
"I was thinking I might get my brother some cool CDs for Christmas! He has such bad taste and I know he just needs to get exposed to some cool things!"
― Tuomas The Spank Engine (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 18 December 2008 01:20 (fifteen years ago) link
man it'll be champagne all round at alma road this year
― Minister for Compression Issues (electricsound), Thursday, 18 December 2008 01:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Fleet Foxes were on Conan a night or two ago.
― ilxor, Thursday, 18 December 2008 03:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Here's Pitchfork. Second part tomorrow.
26: Atlas Sound - Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel27: Max Tundra - Parallax Error Beheads You28: Flying Lotus - Los Angeles29: The Hold Steady - Stay Positive30: Los Campesinos! - Hold on Now, Youngster...31: Fennesz - Black Sea32: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!33: Frightened Rabbit - Midnight Organ Fight34: Arthur Russell - Love Is Overtaking Me35: Girl Talk - Feed the Animals36: Wale - The Mixtape About Nothing37: Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill38: The Bug - London Zoo39: Times New Viking - Rip It Off40: The Very Best - Esau Mwamwaya & Radioclit are the Very Best41: David Byrne and Brian Eno - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today42: Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Lie Down in the Light43: Shearwater - Rook44: Marnie Stern - This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That Is That45: Lykke Li - Youth Novels46: Beach House - Devotion47: The Tallest Man on Earth - Shallow Grave48: High Places - High Places49: Crystal Stilts - Alight of Night50: Ponytail - Ice Cream Spiritual
― ArchCarrier, Thursday, 18 December 2008 12:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Well I'm certainly stoked for the second half after reading that.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 18 December 2008 13:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Blurt (I swear I never heard of the album winner -- or if I did, I wasn't paying attention):
http://www.blurt-online.com/features/view/240/
― xhuxk, Thursday, 18 December 2008 17:54 (fifteen years ago) link
WOXY.com Listeners Vote Their Top 97 Of 2008http://woxy.lala.com/blog/2008/12/18/woxycom-listeners-vote-their-top-97-of-2008/
― djmartian, Thursday, 18 December 2008 20:01 (fifteen years ago) link
34: Arthur Russell - Love Is Overtaking Me35: Girl Talk - Feed the Animals
something lol about this
― K DEF FROM REAL LIVE (deej), Thursday, 18 December 2008 21:16 (fifteen years ago) link
didn't know that Flying Lotus album was so well-liked
― The Brainwasher, Thursday, 18 December 2008 22:16 (fifteen years ago) link
i don't know WHY that Flying Lotus album is so well-liked
― ♪☺♫☻ (grim sh80) (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 18 December 2008 22:26 (fifteen years ago) link
his a milli remix is pretty great
― robschneiderMk2 (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 18 December 2008 22:26 (fifteen years ago) link
the album is kind of a snooze though
― robschneiderMk2 (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 18 December 2008 22:27 (fifteen years ago) link
My god - that Wale mixtape must be the worst thing ever mentioned in a year end list. No wonder it was 'self released'.
― ArchCarrier, Friday, 19 December 2008 11:11 (fifteen years ago) link
the woxy list only has one great album but still that's one more than every other list in this thread
― Merry Christuomas (electricsound), Friday, 19 December 2008 11:16 (fifteen years ago) link
"the kramer" is really bad, didn't listen to the rest
― abanana, Friday, 19 December 2008 11:25 (fifteen years ago) link
me and big hoos talked about this tonight - i don't get the love for wale at all. dude sounds half-asleep whenever he's rapping and he doesn't even seem to care about flowing in any way that isn't monotone. not to mention that his PROFOUND STATEMENTS are, of course, not that profound
― please don't stop the usic (J0rdan S.), Friday, 19 December 2008 11:28 (fifteen years ago) link
i think the beats are palatable to people? idk - i'd rather listen to rich boy any day
― please don't stop the usic (J0rdan S.), Friday, 19 December 2008 11:29 (fifteen years ago) link
ahhh pitchfork's 1-25 albums is about to release: QUICK PREDICTIONS!
top 10: TVOTR, Portishead, Cut Copy, Deerhunter, Fleet Foxes, Hercules and Love Affair for sure; wildcards: MGMT? M83? Vivian Girls? Vampire Weekend? Odds anyone? Actually Vampire Weekend should be in the "for sure" category come to think of it and of Pitchfork.
― yoshinorimike, Friday, 19 December 2008 11:56 (fifteen years ago) link
who cares, stop talking about it
― lex pretend, Friday, 19 December 2008 11:59 (fifteen years ago) link
http://smartpei.typepad.com/robert_patersons_weblog/images/2008/05/15/canute.jpg
― please_stanton_dont_burt_em (DJ Mencap), Friday, 19 December 2008 12:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh and perhaps No Age too.
― yoshinorimike, Friday, 19 December 2008 12:07 (fifteen years ago) link
01: Fleet Foxes - Sun Giant EP/Fleet Foxes02: Portishead - Third03: No Age - Nouns04: Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours05: Deerhunter - Microcastle / Weird Era Cont.06: TV on the Radio - Dear Science07: Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend08: M83 - Saturdays=Youth09: Hercules and Love Affair - Hercules and Love Affair10: DJ/rupture - Uproot11: Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III12: Lindstrøm - Where You Go I Go Too13: Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)14: Air France - No Way Down15: Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles16: Vivian Girls - Vivian Girls17: Fucked Up - The Chemistry of Common Life18: The Mae Shi - HLLLYH19: The Walkmen - You & Me20: Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing21: Kanye West - 808s and Heartbreak22: Santogold - Santogold23: Hot Chip - Made in the Dark24: Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna25: Titus Andronicus - The Airing of Grievances
― ArchCarrier, Friday, 19 December 2008 12:52 (fifteen years ago) link
(That was the top 25 of the Pitchfork list)
― ArchCarrier, Friday, 19 December 2008 12:54 (fifteen years ago) link
wow I think I'm only surprised at how unsurprising a top 10 that was (except of course token wildcard DJ/rupture).
― yoshinorimike, Friday, 19 December 2008 13:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Did that Mae Shi make much of a splash in the US? It was released that long ago it seems like it was totally forgotten about... I liked it but never gave it any thought re: EOY lists
― please_stanton_dont_burt_em (DJ Mencap), Friday, 19 December 2008 13:06 (fifteen years ago) link
surprised at no jeezy or t.i./random wale mixtape being treated as one of the token hiphop albums of the year, i guess.
― a hoy hoy, Friday, 19 December 2008 13:13 (fifteen years ago) link
shameless i know, but a bunch of random people have done their thing for quietus :
http://thequietus.com/articles/00903-the-quietus-list-of-lists
― mark e, Friday, 19 December 2008 13:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Yup, fairly predictable (maybe other than Cut Copy at 4?) though better than 26-50 was. Can anyone tell me anything about dj/rupture?
― the ref (ed hochuli ha ha) (call all destroyer), Friday, 19 December 2008 13:37 (fifteen years ago) link
DJ Mencap, I don't remember seeing buzz about Mae Shi anywhere outside of pitchfork; maybe one of their pet faves/projects? Not sure though.
― yoshinorimike, Friday, 19 December 2008 13:56 (fifteen years ago) link
thought Gang Gang Dance would be doing much better
― Timezilla vs Mechadistance (blueski), Friday, 19 December 2008 14:23 (fifteen years ago) link
thought wayne was a top 5 lock
― please don't stop the usic (J0rdan S.), Friday, 19 December 2008 14:42 (fifteen years ago) link
too popular
― Dimension 5ive, Friday, 19 December 2008 14:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Yay Mae Shi! That album is incredible and incredibly slept-on. I put it on my Pazz And Jop ballot in 2007—which would make it pretty much the only time in my life I can rightfully say "FIRST!" about anything, for whatever that's worth
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 19 December 2008 15:14 (fifteen years ago) link
livin' the dream, whiney!
― Dimension 5ive, Friday, 19 December 2008 15:24 (fifteen years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v617/WidowOfDestiny/Jiggle_Panda.gif
― PappaBoner V (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 19 December 2008 15:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Here's Robert Christgau's list, from Slate.com. Finally some love for the Drive-By Truckers and Conor Oberst, two of my three favorites of the year.
Albums
1. Franco: Francophonic 2. Lil Wayne: Tha Carter III (Deluxe Edition)3. Drive-By Truckers: Brighter Than Creation's Dark4. TV on the Radio: Dear Science5. Coner Oberst: Coner Oberst6. Randy Newman: Harps and Angels7. Les Amazones de Guinee: Wamato 8. Hayes Carll: Trouble in Mind9. The Roots: Rising Down10. The Magnetic Fields: Distortion11. Orchestra Baobab: Made in Dakar 12. Girl Talk: Feed the Animals 13. Raphael Saadiq: The Way I See It 14. Los Campesinos!: Hold On Now, Youngster … 15. Steinski: What Does It All Mean: 1983-2006 Retrospective16. Robert Forster: The Evangelist 17. T.I.: Paper Trail 18. Menya: The Ol' Reach-Around 19. Jaguar Love: Jaguar Love 20. The Rough Guide to Colombian Street Party
Singles
1. M.I.A.: "Paper Planes"2. Lee Dorsey: "Yes We Can Can"3. Conor Oberst: "I Don't Want To Die (In the Hospital)"4. Los Campesinos!: "Death to Los Campesinos!"5. Rihanna: "Disturbia"6. Mike Doughty: "More Bacon Than the Pan Can Handle"7. Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip: "Thou Shalt Always Kill"8. Randy Newman: "Potholes" 9. Drive-By Truckers: "The Righteous Path"10. Nas: "Black President"
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 19 December 2008 15:44 (fifteen years ago) link
whiney that gif is hypnotizing me
― Dimension 5ive, Friday, 19 December 2008 15:56 (fifteen years ago) link
6. Mike Doughty: "More Bacon Than the Pan Can Handle"'
there are some decent songs on that album but wow that one is awful
― e|t|c (some dude), Friday, 19 December 2008 15:58 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm pretty surprised the Jamie Lidell album didn't make the Pitchfork top 50 at all.
― ilxor, Friday, 19 December 2008 16:14 (fifteen years ago) link