Year-End Critics' Polls 2012

could it rhyme with volcanic lahar?

Now that Dummy list really is a godawful top 10.

good guess, maad kitty xp

Many people were saying "Grimes 2012" in 2011 fwiw, I bet $100 she'd be playing Radio City and I think I'll be collecting on it. If you're gonna take Visions and stack it up note-for-note against a hundred other albums it's a pretty insubstantial thing but factor in the economy of its production (handmade in Garageband), the ubiquity of her voice (most accurately described by WGW as a cat meowing) and her entire aesthetic you've got a pop star for people who still care about DIY. I mostly think about her in the same zone as a James Ferraro so

impress middle-class hipsters at Dalston dinner parties.

is exactly otm.

man how bad does that dummy list make future look all of a sudden

impress middle-class hipsters at Dalston dinner parties.

is exactly otm.

― bosch's bish (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, December 13, 2012 2:09 PM (4 minutes ago)

Lol.

Are you going to tell him or am I?

"kendrick" doesn't really rhyme with "volcanic", surely Rev?

haha yeah i was just thinking "i'm glad rev isn't a rapper"

People in Dalston don't eat dinner. They just stare at their plates in stony silence, tutting and sighing at anyone who expresses any sort of enthusiasm for the meal in front of them.

are the trendy dinner parties in Dalton like the ones on the Upper East Side where people ate sushi and listened to Sade

please, no

I only been to Dalston once and it was all Grace Jones all night, Grimes could've saved that party

can't wait to escape from east london's narrow-minded fishbowl atmos and return to the refreshing dublin suburbs for christmas. something so real and honest about people shouting "faggot" out of car windows and groping women in the local pub to the strains of "sweet caroline".

globalization at work

Soundtrack to the last Dalston dinner party I attended = Carly Rae Jepsen and Farrah Abraham albums

united by the values we share xpost

sometimes you gotta go where everybody knows your name

barring that, where they are comfortable shouting epithets at you

just as long as you're comfortable, i'm comfortable
let the suburbs of dublin refresh ye

But there's not even any sense that it's been one of the defining records of the year or anything like that.

Exactly. It's the kind of record you'd be happy to see bobbing around in the Top 30 just below the (much better) Chairlift record, so to see it this high in the NME and Guardian polls seems to suggest a significance that it doesn't possess. And I don't mind rockist BIG STATEMENT significant, just any kind of significant.

BTW I just checked out Laurel Halo - Christ no.

And I now regret making the Dalston dinner party joke.

Soundtrack to the last Dalston dinner party I attended = Carly Rae Jepsen and Farrah Abraham albums

― lex pretend, Thursday, 13 December 2012 14:40 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You were hosting, right?

Was it like Rupert Pupkin's basement in King of Comedy with all the celebrity cut-outs?

Obviously xp

what did you have?

Saltimbocca alla romana with spanakopita and roasted vegetables, then Langres cheese

sounds nice!

God all your bullshit about the parties that people listen to X album at has to be the third worst thing about these threads each year, and I think that even when it's not in respect of an album I consider legit awesome.

do a breakdown of the suburb in which you'd play each of the albums on your own lists at a dinner or gtfo

what are the first and second worst things?

that's the angriest i've ever seen you, tim. not that i don't agree. xpost

I play reggae at dinner parties.

Er Tim, my line was a parody of what boring people in EOY threads say. I hate that line of attack too - Jessie Ware's been battered with the old dinner party/coffee table cliche.

The dinner party is dead and has been for 40 years.

No I got that you were making a joke originally, i'm really wrapping in "trendy fashion parties" etc. here as well.

FTR everything I say is a parody of what boring stupid people say, unless of course you think it's smart and interesting in which case I was being sincere.

Jessie Ware is more of a Stoke Newington dinner party girl although rapidly becoming more Notting Hill.

Gonna play Grimes the next time I have a dinner party in my wheelhouse

My personal hate is "This just sounds like reconstituted <X dance genre> from ten years ago" which has the added benefit of being always wrong.

even the parody of all of this is fairly gruesome

xp Oh cool. Your wrath was so righteous that I thought I'd make sure.

The only time "trendy fashion parties" is acceptable is when the music is explicitly for and about trendy fashion parties, eg early 00s Miss Kittin records.

Never been to Dalston. Last dinner party was my folks and I put Dave Brubeck on.

My personal hate is "This just sounds like reconstituted <X dance genre> from ten years ago"

Occasionally correct when being used as a sincere compliment.

The only time "trendy fashion parties" is acceptable is when the music is explicitly for and about trendy fashion parties, eg early 00s Miss Kittin records.

Miss Kittin and Grimes are arguably not polar opposites of each other.

The only time "trendy fashion parties" is acceptable is when the music is explicitly for and about trendy fashion parties, eg early 00s Miss Kittin records.

still fails given this music was popular way beyond that kind of scene.

i mean did actual fashion houses incorporate electrohouse? i'd be doubtful. fashionable clubs maybe.

My personal hate is "This just sounds like reconstituted <X dance genre> from ten years ago"

Occasionally correct when being used as a sincere compliment.

― Tim F, Thursday, 13 December 2012 15:09 (29 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hmmm... Funny, because I'm pretty sure each one of the Bobbins massive are guilty of doing this on a fairly regular basis.

i mean did actual fashion houses incorporate electrohouse? i'd be doubtful. fashionable clubs maybe.

― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Thursday, 13 December 2012 15:10 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Catwalks, hairdressers, clothes shops, all pretty much featured de rigueuer electrohouse soundtracks 2002-onwards.

I tried out the genre of "I ~see through~ this naked emperor b/c i am a superior listener so let's pop-psychoanalyse all the people who don't" posturing when it first came out, and I was underwhelmed then, and in 2012 it just seems really tired and old in my opinion... It's all just reconstituted whining from old ILM threads, only fit for solitary parlour games amongst sad rapidly aging young men who don't get invited to dinner parties.

You left out the word 'aspie' near the end.

Oh shit can I resubmit.