so, so weaksauce
― imago, Friday, 25 November 2016 19:15 (seven years ago) link
sorry, stuck record I know. WE MUST RESPECT THE SANCTITY OF THESE LISTS WITH PARQUET COURTS ON THEM
― imago, Friday, 25 November 2016 19:16 (seven years ago) link
i think it was the 75 minute running time that did for Blake this time round, i mean shit, not even James Blake would sit through 75 minutes of new James Blake.
― piscesx, Friday, 25 November 2016 19:26 (seven years ago) link
I surprised The Avalanches album isn't getting more love so far
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Friday, 25 November 2016 19:47 (seven years ago) link
Prepare your sneers!
Classic Rockhttp://teamrock.com/feature/2016-11-25/the-best-rock-albums-of-2016
50) Heart - Broken Beautiful49) Weezer - The White Album48) Purple - Bodacious47) Joe Bonamassa - Blues Of Desperation46) Drive-By Truckers - American Band45) Ming City Rockers - Lemon44) Hey! Hello! - Hey! Hello! Too!43) Biffy Clyro - Ellipsis42) Crobot - Welcome To Fat City41) Brian Fallon - Painkillers40) Syd Arthur - Apricity39) Deap Vally - Femejism38) Scorpion Child - Acid Roulette37) Royal Republic - Weekend Man36) The Virginmarys - Divides35) Jeff Beck - Loud Hailer34) Zakk Wylde - Book Of Shadows II33) Teenage Fanclub - Here32) Beware Of Darkness - Are You Real?31) Van Morrison - Keep Me Singing30) Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor’s Guide To Earth29) Dream Theater - The Astonishing28) Eric Clapton - I Still Do27) Pretenders - Alone26) Blackberry Smoke - Like An Arrow25) Metallica - Hardwired… To Self-Destruct24) Opeth - Sorceress23) Ian Hunter And The Rant Band - Fingers Crossed22) Hiss Golden Messenger - Heart Like A Levee21) Chris Robinson Brotherhood - Anyway You Love, We Know How You Feel20) Blues Pills - Lady In Gold19) Tax The Heat - Fed To The Lions18) Whiskey Myers - Mud17) Hawkwind - The Machine Stops16) Black Stone Cherry - Kentucky15) Purson - Desire’s Magic Theatre14) Alter Bridge - The Last Hero13) Big Big Train - Folklore12) Cheap Trick - Bang, Zoom, Crazy… Hello11) Steven Wilson - 4 1/210) Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree9) The Answer - Solas8) Rolling Stones - Blue & Lonesome7) The Cadillac Three - Bury Me In My Boots6) Rival Sons - Hollow Bones5) The Temperance Movement - White Bear4) Marillion - Fuck Everyone And Run (F E A R)3) The Struts - Everybody Wants2) David Bowie - Blackstar1) Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depression
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 25 November 2016 21:55 (seven years ago) link
― piscesx
one of the great pleasures of being an artist is never having to suffer through your own work as spectator
― xiphoid beetlebum (rushomancy), Friday, 25 November 2016 22:15 (seven years ago) link
"Prepare your sneers!
Classic Rock"
hey they found room for syd arthur at least
― xiphoid beetlebum (rushomancy), Friday, 25 November 2016 22:16 (seven years ago) link
4) Marillion - Fuck Everyone And Run (F E A R)
wait, what
― soref, Friday, 25 November 2016 22:17 (seven years ago) link
judging by their wiki page Marillion have some fairly touchy fans
In 1999, DJ Simon Mayo commented on BBC Radio 1: "Marillion ... where are they now? And who cares anyway?" Fans objecting to the comment brought the station's computer system to a standstill with thousands of emails of complaint. Mayo subsequently apologised for his comment to keyboard player Mark Kelly when he phoned the show to take part in a quiz.[74]To accompany the release of Anoraknophobia in 2001, the band issued a press release asking critics to review the album in "a manner that is both accurate and fair. So, our challenge to you is to firstly listen to the album. Then write a review without using any of the following words: "Progressive rock", "Genesis", "Fish", "heavy metal", "dinosaurs", "predictable", "concept album". Because if you do, we'll know that you haven't listened to it."[74]
To accompany the release of Anoraknophobia in 2001, the band issued a press release asking critics to review the album in "a manner that is both accurate and fair. So, our challenge to you is to firstly listen to the album. Then write a review without using any of the following words: "Progressive rock", "Genesis", "Fish", "heavy metal", "dinosaurs", "predictable", "concept album". Because if you do, we'll know that you haven't listened to it."[74]
Rachel Cooke, a writer for The Observer and New Statesman, has repeatedly referred negatively to the band and insulted their fans in her articles.[76][77][78][79]
can't believe that Marillion have been continuing without Fish for nearly 30 years now
― soref, Friday, 25 November 2016 22:22 (seven years ago) link
Marillion have huge fan funding support too, it's kind of amazing. I saw Heart an an outdoor concert this summer and Ann's voice is in great shape. Haven't been inspired to hear their new one though. Deap Vally is kind of fun. Pretenders was produced by Black Keys dude but you wouldn't know from hearing it. Cheap Trick album is not good. I love the Purson and Blues Pills, hope this isn't the only list to include them.
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 25 November 2016 22:35 (seven years ago) link
i refuse to believe that this iggy pop record is as good as all these lists are claiming
― Mordy, Friday, 25 November 2016 22:36 (seven years ago) link
Otm
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 25 November 2016 22:37 (seven years ago) link
First list to include Metallica. I like the first disc plus 2 songs on 2nd.
I was surprised, I thought the Iggy album was going to be forgotten. It's not terrible, but certainly not amazing, too many painfully awkward moments on it. I think it's a combination of reverence for old farts and everything Josh Homme touches.
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 25 November 2016 22:39 (seven years ago) link
However, if you have a chance to catch a re-run of Iggy's recent performance on Austin City Limits, do so, it's one of the best shows they've had this year.
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 25 November 2016 22:47 (seven years ago) link
It's pretty mediocre, in my opinion. I'm not a fan of Iggy for the most part, but I was hoping for much more with Josh Homme involved.
― how's life, Friday, 25 November 2016 22:47 (seven years ago) link
i like it a lot. happy to see deap vally and blackberry smoke on a list
― maura, Friday, 25 November 2016 23:08 (seven years ago) link
when does the WIRE list usually drop?
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Saturday, 26 November 2016 01:52 (seven years ago) link
Wire list will be in their January issue, so in a couple of weeks. (I voted.)
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Saturday, 26 November 2016 02:07 (seven years ago) link
Some surprising choices on NME's songs of the year list.
20. Angel Olsen – ‘Shut Up Kiss Me’19. Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam – ‘A 1000 Times’18. Blossoms – ‘Charlemagne’17. Drake – ‘One Dance’16. Kaytranada – ‘Lite Spots’15. Bastille – ‘Good Grief’14. Tove Lo – ‘Cool Girl’13. Warpaint – ‘New Song’12. The 1975 – ‘The Sound’11. David Bowie – ‘Lazarus’10. Charli XCX – ‘After The Afterparty’9. Lady Leshurr – ‘Where Are You Now?’8. Skepta – ‘Man’7. Kanye West – ‘Ultralight Beam’6. Beyoncé – ‘Formation’5. Christine & The Queens – ‘Tilted’4. Iggy Pop – ‘Gardenia’3. Chance The Rapper – ‘All Night’2. The 1975 – ‘Somebody Else’1. Rihanna – ‘Work’
― Kitchen Person, Saturday, 26 November 2016 14:52 (seven years ago) link
Not surprising at all, clearly you dont get the free nme in america KP ;)
that is exactly what they cover now.
― Cosmic Slop, Saturday, 26 November 2016 16:43 (seven years ago) link
ps i doubt anyones ever seen one outside of London..
1. The 1975 – 'I Like It When You Sleep For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It'
Worst album title since Sometimes I Sit and Think and Sometimes I Sit and Think About Things or whatever the fuck it's called.
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 27 November 2016 12:36 (seven years ago) link
i just kind of assume they're going for the creepy stalker vibe on that one, and so i think of it as successful.
― xiphoid beetlebum (rushomancy), Sunday, 27 November 2016 12:42 (seven years ago) link
it's more 'earnest youth who through performative rendering of this verges upon creepy stalker' imo
― imago, Sunday, 27 November 2016 13:48 (seven years ago) link
9. Lady Leshurr – ‘Where Are You Now?’
NME OTM.
When did you last see any critical volte-face as rapid as the one the NME performed over the 1975?
― Matt DC, Sunday, 27 November 2016 16:24 (seven years ago) link
Pitchfork on Trail of Dead lol
― imago, Sunday, 27 November 2016 16:52 (seven years ago) link
Hmmm... couldn't get into this Powell record. I was curious and tried, but nothing.
I suspect it will show up on a quite few lists from outlets that don't really focus on dance music. Feels like that sort of record.
― MikoMcha, Sunday, 27 November 2016 17:18 (seven years ago) link
It's secretly like a rock record or something. In disguise.
― MikoMcha, Sunday, 27 November 2016 17:19 (seven years ago) link
like black strobe?
― a but (brimstead), Sunday, 27 November 2016 19:49 (seven years ago) link
The Rolling Stone list is out.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 28 November 2016 17:44 (seven years ago) link
That top ten seems like pretty standard music publication fare at first, and then you have the Rolling Stones stuck in the middle to remind you that this is Rolling Stone.
― MarkoP, Monday, 28 November 2016 17:53 (seven years ago) link
Every song I've heard from the Rolling Stones album has been great. I'm actually excited to hear the whole thing.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 28 November 2016 18:36 (seven years ago) link
I know it just came out but Tribe only being #30 is bullshit
― Number None, Monday, 28 November 2016 19:16 (seven years ago) link
^^^
― ¶ (DJP), Monday, 28 November 2016 19:19 (seven years ago) link
TIME (or time.com anyway)
Songs1. Beyoncé - "Formation"2. The 1975 - "The Sound"3. Dawn Richard - "Not Above That"4. Chance the Rapper et al - "No Problem"5. Fifth Harmony ft. Ty Dollar $ign - "Work From Home"6. D.R.A.M ft. Lil Yachty - "Broccoli"7. Whitney - "No Woman"8. Joyce Manor - "Fake ID"9. Mac Miller ft. Anderson.Paak - "Dang!" 10. Kanye - "Famous"
LPs1. Frank Ocean2. Solange3. Mitski4. Angel Olsen5. The Range - Potential6. Radiohead7. Rihanna8. Blood Orange9. Esparanza Spalding10. Jean-Michel Blais - II
― Jeff W, Monday, 28 November 2016 19:22 (seven years ago) link
Three places above Sting dude!
― Matt DC, Monday, 28 November 2016 19:26 (seven years ago) link
So what will this year's acronym be? CROBIB (Cave, Radiohead, Ocean, Bowie, Iggy, Beyonce)? BBOICR?
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 28 November 2016 19:28 (seven years ago) link
Joyce Manor and Dawn Richard making the Time songs list makes me happy.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, 28 November 2016 19:29 (seven years ago) link
Mac Miller ft. Anderson.Paak - "Dang!"
I can't remember who tweeted it (maybe some dude), but my favorite capsule review of this track was "Why is Mac Miller mumbling all over this good Anderson Paak song?"
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 28 November 2016 19:31 (seven years ago) link
looking forward to p4k's list mentioning the election in every blurb the way they did w/ 9/11
― I've read Ta-nehisi Coates. (marcos), Monday, 28 November 2016 19:32 (seven years ago) link
5. The Range - Potential
I really enjoyed this, it sounds like what all the positive reviews of the Jamie XX album made me expect from it
― boxedjoy, Monday, 28 November 2016 20:44 (seven years ago) link
'Gardenia' is the one Iggy LP song I've heard and "All I want to do is tell Gardenia what to do tonight" is the clunkiest line I've heard all year.
― nashwan, Monday, 28 November 2016 21:29 (seven years ago) link
God bless you whoever recommended Vanishing Twin upthread
― the article don, Monday, 28 November 2016 21:51 (seven years ago) link
the de la soul album has no place on any year end list what the hell?
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 28 November 2016 21:54 (seven years ago) link
Whenever I see a mention of The Range, I think "aw, it's nice that Bruce Hornsby's backing band is still doing things."
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 28 November 2016 22:13 (seven years ago) link
― Fastnbulbous
for a second i thought the media were finally coming around to psychic psummer :(
― xiphoid beetlebum (rushomancy), Monday, 28 November 2016 22:25 (seven years ago) link
Heh. If I use Nick's first initial too, it could be BBOINCR.
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 28 November 2016 23:23 (seven years ago) link
add Leonard Cohen, substitute Beyonce for another a more rockist-friendly second O and you can have BROCCOLI
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, 28 November 2016 23:30 (seven years ago) link
Oranssi Pazuzu
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Monday, 28 November 2016 23:47 (seven years ago) link
looking forward to p4k's list Pazz and Jop mentioning the election in every blurb the way they did w/ 9/11 Bush's reelection.
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 00:19 (seven years ago) link