Time, who apparently do an albums list now.
http://time.com/5455075/best-albums-2018/
10. Camila Cabello - Camila9. The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships8. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour7. Troye Sivan - Bloom6. Robyn - Honey5. J Balvin - Vibras4. Shawn Mendes - Shawn Mendes3. Mitski - Be the Cowboy2. Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer1. Cardi B - Invasion of Privacy
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 16 November 2018 15:04 (five years ago) link
Has the 1975 album been sent out to reviewers then?
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 16 November 2018 15:05 (five years ago) link
Time 10 Best Songs of 2018
http://time.com/5455058/best-songs-2018/
10. Lizzo, “Boys”9. Tom Misch, “It Runs Through Me (feat. De La Soul)”8. Sigrid, “Sucker Punch”7. Rüfüs Du Sol “No Place”6. boygenius, “Ketchum, ID”5. Mac Miller, “Self Care”4. Joji, “YEAH RIGHT”3. Ariana Grande, “thank u, next”2. Childish Gambino, “This Is America”1. Christine & the Queens, “Girlfriend” (feat. Dâm-Funk)”
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 16 November 2018 15:09 (five years ago) link
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, November 16, 2018 8:05 AM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yes
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 16 November 2018 15:10 (five years ago) link
Will Time be the only list Shawn Mendes gets on?
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Friday, 16 November 2018 15:22 (five years ago) link
goddamn either Time has somehow magically become hip or I am officially lame as hell because anywhere from 4 to 6 of those albums will probably be in my own top 10.
― evol j, Friday, 16 November 2018 15:36 (five years ago) link
Time is I suspect much like Cosmopolitan in that they just let a single writer put together the lists, which means they are surprisingly coherent and curated.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 16 November 2018 15:39 (five years ago) link
Like the songs list is 1-5 = obvious inclusions, 6-10 = personal favourites
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 16 November 2018 15:40 (five years ago) link
maybe marc benioff is a poptimist
― imago, Friday, 16 November 2018 15:40 (five years ago) link
Time lists are the best so far.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 16 November 2018 16:37 (five years ago) link
with an extremely low bar to clear
still anything that gets more people hearing mitski is a net positive
― imago, Friday, 16 November 2018 18:15 (five years ago) link
I bought exactly five records with recorded-in-2018 material this year (out of over 500 total), I think I'm ready to walk away from this treadmill and focus on old jazz records
Senyawa is pretty cool, I do admit
― #BreakingTheWorld (sleeve)
i mean to get off the treadmill, really i do, but i still love new music as much as i love old music. the i have just as many 2018 records added to my library at this point as i do 2017, which is a lot.
despite this i still haven't heard, or heard, didn't care about, and forgot, most of the acclaimed records in this thread so far. i guess it's good because they're apparently shit? but i'm too old to pretend i have good taste in music. i like records by old people everybody else has forgotten about. like the new chris connelly record!
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Friday, 16 November 2018 18:29 (five years ago) link
The only big mainstream album I've heard all year was the Janelle Monáe, and I thought it was...a couple of good singles (and one really bad single) and a bunch of stuff I've already forgotten.
From the Decibel list, I've heard Hate Eternal (very good), Monster Magnet (OK), Horrendous (not for me), Visigoth (great), Sleep (yawn), Funeral Mist (amazing), Haunt (OK), Pig Destroyer (yawn), Judas Priest (better than I expected), and Tribulation (good).
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 16 November 2018 19:14 (five years ago) link
Time list is mega corny but ofc ilx likes it 🙄
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Friday, 16 November 2018 19:51 (five years ago) link
Time list is mega corny but ofc ilx likes it
It ticks all the 2018 boxes:
- more women than men- token country album- Robyn (an artist whose entire audience consists of music critics)- two Latin artists- two "rock" albums (but no actual rock)
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 16 November 2018 20:15 (five years ago) link
I'm waiting for the Let's Eat Grandma album to show up on one of these...
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 16 November 2018 20:20 (five years ago) link
Robyn (an artist whose entire audience consists of music critics)
rmde go to a gay club some time
― macropuente (map), Friday, 16 November 2018 20:23 (five years ago) link
^^^
― #BreakingTheWorld (sleeve), Friday, 16 November 2018 20:25 (five years ago) link
xpLEG was on the first list posted itt at #11
― rob, Friday, 16 November 2018 20:26 (five years ago) link
Of course we can't have more women than men, or any latin music, it's pc gone mad, the natural order is for real proper whiny white indie dude rock to dominate and anyone disagreeing must be just pretending to like other things to tick identity politics boxes, amirite fellas?
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 16 November 2018 20:31 (five years ago) link
unperson isn't particularly interested in the dull flowers of indie rock iirc
― imago, Friday, 16 November 2018 20:36 (five years ago) link
the time list isn't corny bc it fills some imaginary quota
personally i don't think the troye or camila records can hang in a top ten. and the songs list is... not good
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 16 November 2018 20:39 (five years ago) link
who even is J Balvin and what are the odds all their shit sounds like Despacito reheats
― imago, Friday, 16 November 2018 20:41 (five years ago) link
xxp yeah thought he probably didn't (seems unlikely on here anyway) but accusing people of tokenism simply for including more women than men puts him in the club with those dudes anyway
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 16 November 2018 20:42 (five years ago) link
well yeah
― imago, Friday, 16 November 2018 20:43 (five years ago) link
― imago, Friday, November 16, 2018 2:41 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
One of the most popular artists in the world, and odds are small. It does, however, sound very derivative of the rap music that is notably missing in most part from either list
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Friday, 16 November 2018 20:45 (five years ago) link
and the songs list is... not good
Anybody's tracks list that doesn't have Boo'd Up some place in the top 4 is a bad list and should be ignored on principle.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 16 November 2018 21:52 (five years ago) link
I like Boo'd Up just fine but it won't even make my Top 50 tbh
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Friday, 16 November 2018 21:53 (five years ago) link
If you want to get around feeling obligated to include it, it’s worth mentioning it came out last year ... like early last year
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Friday, 16 November 2018 22:22 (five years ago) link
pvmic
― 5th Ward Weeaboo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 16 November 2018 22:23 (five years ago) link
― breastcrawl, Friday, 16 November 2018 22:29 (five years ago) link
screaming at Rufus Du Soul (an Australian band that's basically like Jon Hopkins x Coldplay) somehow making into that TIME song list
― monotony, Friday, 16 November 2018 22:56 (five years ago) link
You started out well, but then mischaracterized Balvin’s music just to make a point about the rap music that is notably present in the upper echelons of both lists
― breastcrawl, Friday, November 16, 2018 4:29 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ur right about jbalvin, thats my bad, i was thinking of difft artists
i don't think cardi & childish gambino are very representative of the rap im talking about though -- travis/gunna/lil baby type music is not at all represented
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Saturday, 17 November 2018 03:16 (five years ago) link
which is where a lot of the latin trap stuff is coming from ...
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Saturday, 17 November 2018 03:17 (five years ago) link
I guess now that we're almost into the final lap of the decade that - while I can still easily put together a list of 100 albums released over the course of the decade that I love - this is/has been possibly my least favourite decade for music ever.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 17 November 2018 11:19 (five years ago) link
Makaya McCraven, too. (Full disclosure, I'm doing a jazz list for Stereogum and all 3 will be on it.)
― grawlix (unperson)
Lookin forward to it. Maisha too? I forgot to mention that, Maisha's There Is A Place is pretty great too.
― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, 17 November 2018 13:49 (five years ago) link
That Maisha album is really great, but I didn't have room for it. My runners-up and picks for reissues/archival releases of the year will all be in my December column.
― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 17 November 2018 14:44 (five years ago) link
I really like the Tony Allen & Jeff Mills collab, hope that gets some attention. Afrobeat Kosmische Jazz Electro Fusion has been my background music - rhythm, repetition, texture, and a touch of space madness.
― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, 17 November 2018 15:07 (five years ago) link
Oh shit, how did I not know about this?
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 17 November 2018 15:24 (five years ago) link
I bought tickets to see them both in London next year but the album disappointed me a bit, it felt like Mills was being a little too deferential to Allen. Enjoyable enough though.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 17 November 2018 16:07 (five years ago) link
J Balvin is probably the best reggaeton artist in the mainstream nowadays. Energia is a better album than Vibras imho but he’s been pretty consistent in his material and collaborations. I am actually glad to see it represented in there.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 17 November 2018 18:33 (five years ago) link
But yeah it doesn’t sound like Despacito.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 17 November 2018 18:38 (five years ago) link
My data-generated ranking of new albums by Spotify listener dedication is here: http://everynoise.com/tview.cgi?source=album_populism_2018 (recalculated daily until the end of the year...)
― glenn mcdonald, Saturday, 17 November 2018 18:43 (five years ago) link
Arctic Monkeys and Panic! At the Disco have been close to tied at the top for a while now...
― glenn mcdonald, Saturday, 17 November 2018 18:53 (five years ago) link
Surprised anyone listened to Kamikaze more than once.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 17 November 2018 19:03 (five years ago) link
I did, but it's far from being one of my favourite albums released this year.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 17 November 2018 19:16 (five years ago) link
Is this the level of informed and trenchant critique we can look forward to all month then?
― Matt DC, Sunday, 18 November 2018 09:38 (five years ago) link
oh i can do much worse and you know it
― imago, Sunday, 18 November 2018 09:59 (five years ago) link
Glen I'm really interested in your list but I'm not quite following the ranking methodology there? XXX and Post Malone seem really low but I guess they've got a very large number of people listening more infrequently?
Legit amazed that the Arctic Monkeys album is that popular though.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 18 November 2018 10:07 (five years ago) link
incredible album tbf
― single bed mentality (||||||||), Sunday, 18 November 2018 10:14 (five years ago) link
https://finestkiss.wordpress.com/2019/01/06/notable-albums-of-2018/
As is often the case, I'm not on board with his #1, but it doesn't matter, there's plenty of great discoveries to be found. It also prompted me to re-listen and re-consider albums by Spirit of the Beehive, Honey Bucket and others. Ural Thomas & the Pain is a great choice for soul.
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 7 January 2019 18:03 (five years ago) link
yeah, very good list ^ and the first one i've seen mention that Clearance record, which i really liked.
― alpine static, Monday, 7 January 2019 19:29 (five years ago) link
I’ve only seen the Shopping album on two other lists. Maybe the ILX love for Sacred Paws last year might carry over.
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 03:01 (five years ago) link
DIY yr own end of year music list: ILM's 2018 End of Year Tracks & Albums Poll / VOTING THREAD
― seandalai, Thursday, 10 January 2019 00:00 (five years ago) link
Brainwashed.com's 2018 Readers Poll
― Dinsdale, Thursday, 10 January 2019 05:44 (five years ago) link
Uproxx poll of 200 critics is linked on Pazz & Jop thread
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 10 January 2019 15:08 (five years ago) link
Brainwashed's worst-of list partially atoning for their Weyes Blood/Jute Gyte outrage of 2016. Still regard the entire Swansbro get-up with sidelong distrust
― imago, Thursday, 10 January 2019 15:33 (five years ago) link
lol at Soccer Mommy worst of the yearfuck Brainwashed readers
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Thursday, 10 January 2019 15:53 (five years ago) link
I mean I'm extremely happy to see Idles there but...yeah they're a suspect bunch
― imago, Thursday, 10 January 2019 15:56 (five years ago) link
https://uproxx.com/critic-polls/uproxx-music-critics-poll-2018-albums/
Kacey Musgraves top album in this poll of 200 critics
― curmudgeon, Friday, 11 January 2019 02:17 (five years ago) link
https://uproxx.com/critic-polls/uproxx-music-critics-poll-2018-songs/
and here's the tracks list which is boringly close to the albums list with the addition of "this is america"
― ufo, Friday, 11 January 2019 02:40 (five years ago) link
Here are the results of my poll of my year's worth of past selves:
1. CHVRCHES + WEDNESDAY CAMPANELLA: "Out Of My Head"2. Robyn: "Missing U"3. The Winking Owl: "Try"4. IKINÄ: "Vaatteet päältä"5. Rave The Reqviem: "Saint Jvdas"6. Muncie Girls: "Jeremy"7. Kitten: "Strange Embrace"8. Straatligkinders + Lucinda Neethling: "Herinner"9. Christine and the Queens: "Doesn't matter (voleur de soleil)"10. Per Gessle + Helena Josefsson: "Name You Beautiful"
#s 11-50 and oblique annotations here:
http://furia.com/newparticles/2019-01-04.html
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 11 January 2019 04:41 (five years ago) link
great tunes there
― nxd, Friday, 11 January 2019 10:33 (five years ago) link
Not sure where to plonk this, so here will do as I seem to have also started the thread.
https://centuriesofsound.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/2018-icon.jpg
Centuries of Sound - 2018
This is the tracklisting with just the 112 music tracks - there are also 98 clips of speech in-between which are listed behind the link. It's free to stream or download, and it's a bit long, sorry.
0:00:20 Geoff Barrow & Ben Salisbury – Excerpt from “Annihilation” OST0:00:51 Mount Eerie – Distortion0:01:07 MGMT – When You Die0:02:02 Ravyn Lenae – Sticky0:03:58 Grace Vonderkuhn – Worry0:05:54 Anna von Hausswolff – The Truth, the Glow, the Fall0:07:27 Tune-Yards – Colonizer0:09:07 Spice – Tik Tak0:10:41 Hoodboi – Glide feat. Tkay Maidza0:13:13 Nilufer Yanya – Thanks 4 Nothing0:15:29 Leif – Number 130:17:14 JPEGMAFIA – 1539 N. Calvert0:18:47 Kero Kero Bonito – Only Acting0:22:50 E Ruscha V – Who Are You0:24:03 ionnalee – Blazing0:24:52 Simmy ft. Sun-EL Musician – Ubala0:26:51 Peach – Silky0:29:40 700 Bliss – Cosmic Slop0:31:05 Stormzy – Brit Awards Performance0:31:34 Loski – Cool Kid0:33:41 Andrew W.K. – Music Is Worth Living For0:36:20 Jon Hopkins – Emerald Rush0:40:05 Natalie Prass – Short Court Style0:42:16 Doja Cat – Go To Town0:44:46 Novelist – Stop Killing the Mandem0:45:50 Peggy Gou – It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)0:47:21 Bicep – Opal (Four Tet Remix)0:49:31 Grouper – Parking Lot0:52:00 Sarah Davachi – Hours in the Evening0:53:08 Hammock – Build a Castle (Reinterpretation)0:55:32 Cavern Of Anti-Matter – Solarised Sound0:58:01 Tyler, The Creator – OKRA0:59:42 Jimothy Lacoste – Subway System1:02:08 Gila – 106 Slipper1:03:09 Jean Grae & Quelle Chris – Peacock1:04:33 Henry Kaiser – Spoonful1:04:50 Sons of Kemet – My Queen Is Ada Eastman1:08:23 Cazzu – Chapiadora1:10:31 Kali Uchis – In My Dreams1:12:00 Autechre – All End1:14:40 KAREN MEAT – Overdwelled1:17:13 Donato Dozzy – Cleo1:19:16 Róisín Murphy – All My Dreams1:21:17 DJ Koze – Pick Up1:22:45 Valee – Womp Womp (feat. Jeremih)1:24:16 Childish Gambino – This Is America (Video Version)1:26:35 Joy O, Ben Vince – Transition 21:28:04 Simian Mobile Disco – Defender (feat. The Deep Throat Choir)1:29:33 Laura Jean – Girls On The TV1:33:56 MEUTE – You & Me (Flume Remix)1:37:33 Pusha T – If You Know You Know1:39:22 Daphne & Celeste – BB1:43:14 Melody’s Echo Chamber – Quand Les Larmes D’un Ange Font Danser La Neige1:46:30 Lizzo – Boys1:48:31 YOTA ft. MF DOOM – Drop the Bomb1:50:05 Colin Stetson – Steve1:51:34 Low – Fly1:55:54 Hilary Woods – Sever1:57:42 BLACKPINK – DDU-DU DDU-DU1:59:30 DeJ Loaf feat. Leon Bridges – Liberated2:01:56 Sophie – Immaterial2:03:31 Koelsch & Tiga – HAL2:06:19 Ella Mai – Boo’d Up2:08:43 Emily Harrison – I’d like to thank the Academy (Tips on getting Prozac from your GP)2:09:12 Mr Twin Sister – Jaipur2:12:13 Denzel Curry – Black Balloons2:14:31 Charli XCX – Focus2:17:00 Mitski – Nobody2:19:23 Moses Sumney – Rank & File2:20:55 Yves Tumor – Noid2:23:00 Daniel Avery – Quick Eternity (Four Tet Remix)2:24:11 Daveed Diggs – Blindspotting – End Rap Scene2:26:11 CHVRCHES – Out of My Head (feat. Wednesday Campanella)2:28:55 Christine and the Queens – 5 Dollars2:30:47 Kink – Perth (Dusky Remix)2:31:35 Mac Miller – What’s the Use (feat. Thundercat)2:35:00 Diana Gordon – Wolverine2:36:16 Oh Sees – Sentient Oona2:40:25 mewithoutYou – Julia (or, ‘Holy to the LORD’ on the Bells of Horses)2:42:29 Louis Cole – When You’re Ugly2:44:21 Paul Woolford feat. Kim English – Hang Up Your Hang Ups (The Only One) (CamelPhat Remix)2:45:35 Szun Waves – Temple2:47:30 Thom Yorke – Unmade2:50:00 Tim Hecker – This Life2:50:59 Suede – Roadkill2:52:45 Illingsworth – Greens2:53:50 Miljon – What Does It Take2:55:50 Julia Holter – I Shall Love 23:00:02 Shackleton – Wakefulness & Obsession3:02:01 Bruce – What3:03:35 Low – Tempest3:05:46 AdriAnne Lenker – Symbol3:07:54 Sigrid – Sucker Punch3:10:23 Lafawndah – Joseph3:11:22 Marie Davidson – Work It3:13:52 Lando Chill – Peso (feat. Quelle Chris & REY)3:15:26 Toro y Moi – Freelance3:17:16 Sam Wilkes – Tonight feat. Sam Gendel, Louis Cole & Brian Green3:20:47 Daughters – Long Road No Turns3:23:31 Neneh Cherry – Natural Skin Deep3:25:07 Lone – Pulsar3:26:20 Makaya McCraven – Mantra3:27:47 Kelly Moran – Radian3:29:07 Octo Octa – Beam Me Up (To The Goddess Mix)3:30:57 The Good, The Bad & The Queen – Merrie Land3:34:08 Zuli – Nari (feat. Abyusif, Mado $am, Abanob, R-Rhyme)3:35:20 Earl Sweatshirt – Nowhere2go3:36:37 Jonathan Personne – Comme Personne3:38:18 The 1975 – Love It If We Made It3:41:53 Holly Herndon & Jlin (feat. Spawn) – Godmother3:43:10 Beta Librae – Problem Solving Program3:45:10 Lubomyr Melnyk – Barcarolle3:47:50 Andrew Bird – Bloodless
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 13 January 2020 09:49 (four years ago) link