Thread for all 2016 albums of the year lists

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.

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.

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.

i like it a lot. happy to see deap vally and blackberry smoke on a list

when does the WIRE list usually drop?

Wire list will be in their January issue, so in a couple of weeks. (I voted.)

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’

Not surprising at all, clearly you dont get the free nme in america KP ;)

that is exactly what they cover now.

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.

i just kind of assume they're going for the creepy stalker vibe on that one, and so i think of it as successful.

it's more 'earnest youth who through performative rendering of this verges upon creepy stalker' imo

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?

Pitchfork on Trail of Dead lol

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.

It's secretly like a rock record or something. In disguise.

like black strobe?

The Rolling Stone list is out.

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.

Every song I've heard from the Rolling Stones album has been great. I'm actually excited to hear the whole thing.

I know it just came out but Tribe only being #30 is bullshit

^^^

TIME
(or time.com anyway)

Songs
1. 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"

LPs
1. Frank Ocean
2. Solange
3. Mitski
4. Angel Olsen
5. The Range - Potential
6. Radiohead
7. Rihanna
8. Blood Orange
9. Esparanza Spalding
10. Jean-Michel Blais - II

I know it just came out but Tribe only being #30 is bullshit

Three places above Sting dude!

So what will this year's acronym be? CROBIB (Cave, Radiohead, Ocean, Bowie, Iggy, Beyonce)? BBOICR?

Joyce Manor and Dawn Richard making the Time songs list makes me happy.

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?"

looking forward to p4k's list mentioning the election in every blurb the way they did w/ 9/11

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

'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.

God bless you whoever recommended Vanishing Twin upthread

the de la soul album has no place on any year end list what the hell?

Whenever I see a mention of The Range, I think "aw, it's nice that Bruce Hornsby's backing band is still doing things."

So what will this year's acronym be? CROBIB (Cave, Radiohead, Ocean, Bowie, Iggy, Beyonce)? BBOICR?

― Fastnbulbous

for a second i thought the media were finally coming around to psychic psummer :(

Heh. If I use Nick's first initial too, it could be BBOINCR.

add Leonard Cohen, substitute Beyonce for another a more rockist-friendly second O and you can have BROCCOLI

Oranssi Pazuzu

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.

Time factor is no excuse for A Tribe getting stuck in the middle of the RS list, since they had time to get it in there at all: one listen should do it for most of the music and enough of the words.

At least.

I know yall know that, just venting sorry.

maybe RS just thought there were 29 records better than that one this year? i don't think that seems all that ridiculous. there are more ridiculous things on that list.

Not all of those29 were better, although I guess you could say that (or anything) is "arguable."

none of those 29 were better tbf

and i thought the RS list was generally p good

whiney sure cleaned that place up

none of those 29 were better tbf Maybe some of them are; I haven't heard 'em all. But: Margo Price's slick knock-off of Loretta Lynn starts okay, gets too predictable, and oops here's the actual Loretta with a good new album of her own. Brandi Clark's album is more fluid than her first, but she's still the self-conscious workshopper, as singer and writer (Alfred cites her tendency to mistake detail for significance). Bon Iver is the opposite, an overachiever, more Bon Iver than ever. Nick Cave is still Nick Cave. The Parquet Courts and Drive-By Truckers albums are both about half-good (minority report). For instance.

I mean I'm usually just, "Lists, schmists", but in this case, it's almost amazing.

Count RS among publications that don't seem to realize that Parquet Courts have two singers. By my count, 3 of the 4 songs that supposedly show Savage musing with "thoughtful detachment" were actually sung by the other guy.

Dutch OOR magazine (only) misses the I in CROBIB
1. David Bowie - Blackstar
2. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree
3. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
4. Anderson .Paak - Malibu
5. Beyoncé - Lemonade
6. PJ Harvey - The Hope Six Demolition Project
7. Car Seat Headrest - Teens Of Denial
8. Frank Ocean - Blonde
9. Chance The Rapper - Coloring Book
10. Eefje de Visser - Nachtlicht