Goddamit Idolator you had a chance to mention KING as not really an album but a comp + new songs and you fucked it up
― Moka, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 21:57 (seven years ago) link
http://www.treblezine.com/33010-top-50-best-albums-of-2016
― Evan, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 22:10 (seven years ago) link
That list has a split personality. 50-21 has some pretty fun stuff, then the top 20 is the S.O.L.
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 8 December 2016 00:01 (seven years ago) link
What was I thinking? I meant S as in same ol' sh*t.
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 8 December 2016 00:03 (seven years ago) link
KING have never represented their album to be a compilation + new songs (and couldn't many, many debut albums be so described?) as far as I know?
― art baengels (monotony), Thursday, 8 December 2016 06:31 (seven years ago) link
http://fasterlouder.junkee.com/50-best-albums-2016/869258
Finally, someone gives The Drones a nod. D.D Dumbo is interesting, been listening to it this past week. He kind of sounds like Sting more than Sting does. Or Eliot Sumner.
http://www.ew.com/article/2016/12/08/ew-best-albums-2016
Not much crossover with my tastes, but it's actually more ILM aligned than a lot of lists.
You can see all the list in a more uniform format at http://www.albumoftheyear.org/lists.php (see recently added lists column on right)
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 8 December 2016 15:18 (seven years ago) link
the Drones made my top 50. not their best album but a very worthy sharp left turn.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 8 December 2016 15:19 (seven years ago) link
http://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/647-entertainment-weeklys-50-best-albums-of-2016/
― Cosmic Slop, Thursday, 8 December 2016 15:24 (seven years ago) link
Beyoncé - Lemonade #1
― Cosmic Slop, Thursday, 8 December 2016 15:25 (seven years ago) link
http://www.slantmagazine.com/features/article/the-25-best-albums-of-2016
― dorsalstop, Thursday, 8 December 2016 18:50 (seven years ago) link
Possibly the most boring list yet, plus Britney.
― dorsalstop, Thursday, 8 December 2016 18:52 (seven years ago) link
fucksake GAPDY really is happening again
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Thursday, 8 December 2016 18:54 (seven years ago) link
http://www.splicetoday.com/music/splice-today-s-top-10-records-of-2016
#1. David Bowie — Blackstar#2. Kanye West — The Life of Pablo#3. Mannequin Pussy — Romantic#4. Matmos — Ultimate Care II#5. A Tribe Called Quest — We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service#6. Young Thug — JEFFERY#7. Rosali — Out of Love#8. Animal Collective — Painting With#9. Deakin — Sleep Cycle#10. Deerhoof — The Magic
― flappy bird, Thursday, 8 December 2016 18:56 (seven years ago) link
GAPDYXX it was. the xx were at the top of all those lists
― Cosmic Slop, Thursday, 8 December 2016 18:57 (seven years ago) link
a GADPY with A Tribe Called Quest and Beyoncé is a good GADPY imo
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 8 December 2016 18:59 (seven years ago) link
got no problem with those two records. ATCQ is in my own personal top 5. but it's not close to being at the top end of all these lists. tbh it's the crushing inevitability of frank ocean and radiohead that is killing me
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Thursday, 8 December 2016 19:03 (seven years ago) link
Been following the Guardian countdown which was so far so predictable but I am genuinely astonished that enough of them liked that mess of a Rihanna album to vote it in at #7. Especially as Life of Paolo is probably still to come.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 8 December 2016 19:03 (seven years ago) link
Paolo Di Kanye
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Thursday, 8 December 2016 19:07 (seven years ago) link
What has been in the Guardian list this year?
― Cosmic Slop, Thursday, 8 December 2016 19:07 (seven years ago) link
You guys do realise that the issue with GAPDY wasn't just its predictability but its overwhelming white limp-dickness? Right?
― Matt DC, Thursday, 8 December 2016 19:08 (seven years ago) link
(Full disclosure I loved that YYYs album which was the only one with some actual energy to it)
― Matt DC, Thursday, 8 December 2016 19:09 (seven years ago) link
Can't get enough of that anti-white rhetoric these days.
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 8 December 2016 19:11 (seven years ago) link
Worse than just being bad music, they're white too!
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 8 December 2016 19:12 (seven years ago) link
what are you white or something
― I've read Ta-nehisi Coates. (marcos), Thursday, 8 December 2016 19:13 (seven years ago) link
?? I'm lost
― Evan, Thursday, 8 December 2016 19:13 (seven years ago) link
― I've read Ta-nehisi Coates. (marcos), Thursday, December 8, 2016 2:13 PM (thirty-seven seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 8 December 2016 19:14 (seven years ago) link
also the collective decision that beyonce is the only black female solo artist allowed at the top of these lists when DAWN (among others) is perhaps at least her equal is an unfortunate one
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Thursday, 8 December 2016 19:16 (seven years ago) link
it needs interrogation, at least
I don't like all this year's consensus picks but if you don't understand how it's different to and more interesting than 2009's wall-to-wall tepid North American indie-synth picks then I've got nothing for you.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 8 December 2016 19:18 (seven years ago) link
Solange tied with Beyonce on the Ringer list
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 8 December 2016 19:18 (seven years ago) link
anyone outside the Knowles family
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Thursday, 8 December 2016 19:19 (seven years ago) link
Solange was Number One at NPR, Rihanna was Number One at Fuse, Louis is an idiot
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 8 December 2016 19:20 (seven years ago) link
I really wish there was a Kelly Rowland album that was popping up all over the place that I could namecheck here
― ¶ (DJP), Thursday, 8 December 2016 19:21 (seven years ago) link
Grrr
I just mean 'where's Dawn'
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Thursday, 8 December 2016 19:21 (seven years ago) link
Yes, why aren't people rating this indie label album that came out 20 days ago over the woman who played the Super Bowl halftime show and the dying statement from one of rock's most iconic musicians
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 8 December 2016 19:24 (seven years ago) link
what could use some more ~interrogation is the collective decision that beyoncé only became an Important Musician and EOY shoo-in in 2013 and why it took her FOURTEEN years to get to that stage
― lex pretend, Thursday, 8 December 2016 19:26 (seven years ago) link
rip thom yorke
people might not be rating it but the critics have a duty to represent the best music, right
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Thursday, 8 December 2016 19:27 (seven years ago) link
Dawn's album doesn't even have a wikipedia page yet, but everyone should definitely be making the case that it's better than the album from someone who was nominated for Time's person of the year, conquered the VMAs and the Super Bowl and is currently sweeping the Grammys.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 8 December 2016 19:28 (seven years ago) link
Beyoncé has been selling records and touring like an important musician since I can remember.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 8 December 2016 19:29 (seven years ago) link
someone who was nominated for Time's person of the year, conquered the VMAs and the Super Bowl and is currently sweeping the Grammys.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, December 8, 2016 7:28 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
none of these things are what make beyoncé's album good or remotely relevant to lemonade's quality
― lex pretend, Thursday, 8 December 2016 19:30 (seven years ago) link
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, December 8, 2016 7:29 PM (forty-four seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
well she has been an important musician all this time, i'm talking solely about critics
― lex pretend, Thursday, 8 December 2016 19:31 (seven years ago) link
the super bowl, you say
― banfred bann (wins), Thursday, 8 December 2016 19:31 (seven years ago) link
dunno what the super bowl is but i remember beyoncé graciously permitting a football (? baseball? basketball?) match to be appended to one of her concerts this year
― lex pretend, Thursday, 8 December 2016 19:32 (seven years ago) link
I don't even mean Dawn's album is better. I'm just not seeing it in many lists alongside Beyonce etc. Anyway, I just think I hate watching any sort of musical consensus form, this is a losing fight
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Thursday, 8 December 2016 19:32 (seven years ago) link
is Whiney talking about Coldplay rn?
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 8 December 2016 19:33 (seven years ago) link
consensus is exclusion
also lol lex
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Thursday, 8 December 2016 19:34 (seven years ago) link
Beyonce's last album would have been way up there had it not been released in December with no publicity. 4 did pretty well IIRC. Of the others only Birthday is even vaguely meriting of a high position in any of these lists and even then it was probably outdone by a lot of shonkier records.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 8 December 2016 19:35 (seven years ago) link
Can we ban Louis from this thread
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 8 December 2016 19:35 (seven years ago) link
the super bowl is a controversial but popular american event where spectators enter a stadium and queue up to take a bit of cannabis housed in an american football field-size bowl
they sit down and people-watch as entertainers perform all types of art forms. there's a cloud of mystery as to whether the entertainers themselves are stoned
just fyi
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 8 December 2016 19:38 (seven years ago) link
"I just think I hate watching any sort of musical consensus form, this is a losing fight"
Pretty sure you would be wetting your pants if a critical consensus was forming around Jute Gyte and the Cardiacs. Or you'd be complaining it was forming around the wrong records.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 8 December 2016 19:38 (seven years ago) link