Year-End Critics' Polls 2012

wait i'm supposed to have listened to it in the 12 minutes since you brought it up?

oh no sorry Fastnbulbous brought it up 14 minutes ago

lol whiney I'm hardly a hipster.

"The Seed 2.0" which was trash
regardless, people know this song and he has name recognition. If the album is that good, I'm surprised it wasn't more widely reviewed.

xpost that's not my point. did you know that Solange put out a record this year?

i knew CC and S both put out records this year, for the same reason from the same media outlets (if not in the same quantities)

i mean 6 months you were going "R&B skimming hipsters are sleeping on this guy called USHER and this guy called R. KELLY" so who knows what you're even talking about

no one is talking to you al

lol sorry after you directed one post at me i assumed the next one was as well

oh you were asking me? yeah i heard Solange's EP. it's good.

i'm saying that Solange is reaping the benefit of "cool" (read: """"""HIPSTER"""""") media outlest giving it mad props, while the Cody album is flying under the press radar, even though its prolly selling much better

the CC was reviewed on Pitchfork and hasn't charted on Billboard, do you have any idea how many R&B albums the inverse is true for? weird example.

I did like "The Seed" more than Interpol until I heard it in a "Six Feet Under" episode and that's where it went

"reviewed" and "has constant updates about" are two different things breh, stop playing babe in the woods here

hey i realize its critical profile is not high, i just don't buy the imaginary "prolly selling much better" populist argument

CC appeared on Billboard's R&B/Hip-Hop and Heatseeker charts; Solange has not yet

although apparently the EP has only been out a week

Solange debuted at #157 on the Billboard 200 this week

lol that's what I get for searching Billboard for "solange knowles"

Get a room you two

Come to my job and we'll all vibe an listen to Dreamchasers

wait do you want us to get a room or have a Meek Mill vibe threesome w/ you?

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=MuhWblBjbrI&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DMuhWblBjbrI

Meek mill party. Only that.

Long day folks, sorry

This thread becomes a lot more fun if you imagine Meek rapping it like he's having a seizure

CUMMINGS TO MY HOUSE PARTY PARTY

i actually am listening to "amen" right now but that's not a very aggro choice

BITCH IM A BOSS

Ok, back to hipsters and R&B, carry on

dont even understand this thread any more

I think one more pair of square quotes around HIPSTER in Whiney's post would've closed the loop for me, as it is I'm scanning his entire being as ironic.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/50-best-albums-of-2012-20121205/bruce-springsteen-wrecking-ball-19691231?stop_mobi=yes

DeRogatis:
http://www.wbez.org/blogs/jim-derogatis/2012-12/forget-grammys-here%E2%80%99s-derogatis%E2%80%99-best-albums-2012-104230

D0ugl4s W0lk in Time:
http://entertainment.time.com/2012/12/04/top-10-albums/slide/the-mountain-goats-transcendental-youth/

Ha, whoops, that starts here:
http://entertainment.time.com/2012/12/04/top-10-albums/slide/killer-mike-r-a-p-music/

Good to see the BBC are continuing their efforts to single-handedly keep Emeli Sande in a career: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcmusic/2012/12/bbc_music_top_25_albums_of_2012.html

NickB - did Wire publish a classical list?

from DeRo's Miguel blurb:

Finally breaking from the weight of expectations as well as genre constrictions, Kaleidoscope Dream gives us an artist with a unique vision, boundless potential and a weird haircut every bit as notable as that distaff visionary working similar turf, Janelle Monae. And wouldn’t those two be a concert double bill to die for?

DeRogatis :Channel Orange - On his first album, this 24-year-old New Orleans native offers a vision for remaking R&B that’s arguably as powerful as those from greats such as D’Angelo, Prince, Stevie Wonder or Marvin Gaye. Heartfelt, sensual, sexy but devoid of sexism, these tracks are lush and inviting but never less than unflinchingly raw and honest.

Folks just trolling Lex atp

NickB - did Wire publish a classical list?

Yeah they did J, but I mostly just typed in the lists where the names were short. Maybe I'll do that one in a bit though.

Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - Trouble

this better be fucking amazing, with that name

you'd be surprised

Nick - no worries if you can't. Might have a browse this w/e.

tally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - Trouble

this better be fucking amazing, with that name

― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Thursday, December 6, 2012

well, no, his name is Jim DeRogatis actually.

haha I'm listening to Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs now ("Promises") and basically I'm mad at myself for buying in so quickly

apparently I'm just a syncopation whore

xp Ugh. Any talk of remaking/transcending R&B puts me in Lex's camp. I'm cool with big crossover "statement" records getting more press than well-crafted examples of the genre because it's been like that since forever, but I hate the idea that it's automatically superior to all the stuff the writer hasn't heard. And there's definitely a genre bias - hip hop and R&B are presented as if they need "transcending" when indie doesn't.

xp Emeli Sande had the second or third biggest selling album of the year in the UK. I don't think she's been waiting desperately for a nod from the BBC website to make her feel good about her career.

She has the top selling one actually:
http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/the-biggest-selling-albums-of-2012-so-far-revealed-1736/

I had no idea...the only time she impinged on my world was at the Olympics opening/closing. Everyone else on that list seems more famous to me.

Remarkable that 80% of the top ten are British. Is that a new thing?

xp Oh there you go then. I assumed it was Adele now and forever. Weird that only 4/10 of those came out this year. And who knew Paloma Faith was that big?

Lol at the commenters telling the Official Charts Company that their list is wrong.