The 2018 end of the year music lists thread

"No Tears Left to Cry" is a victim of being released earlier in the year and/or Ariana leaning into gigantic meme status later in the year, but it's the best single by a mile

― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Thursday, December 6, 2018 11:57 AM (twenty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

co-sign. "thank u, next" is fun to write/read/think about i guess, but it's a pretty dull song imo.

kudos to stereogum for putting together a metal top ten that i haven't heard any of

― jolene club remix (BradNelson)

The Immortal is better than it has any right to be.

mo bamba owns so much

Vinyl Factory - Our 50 favourite albums of 2018
https://thevinylfactory.com/features/best-albums-2018/

The Immortal is better than it has any right to be.

― pomenitul, Thursday, December 6, 2018 10:45 AM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sorry, forgot i heard the immortal, which rips

Stereogum metal list is always one of my favourite lists, excited to scope it out

ctrl+f "gucci flip flops" not found

finally a list with "mo bamba" in the top three

― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, December 6, 2018 11:20 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

cant tell if sarcasm

No Tears also came out the week the sun finally came out in the UK and it didn't go back in for another five months. Thank U Next is great but No Tears felt so epochal.

You know, *adjusts pince-nez* Baby Shark was actually released in early 2017

cant tell if sarcasm

― big crime for a SPECIAL WHATEVER (voodoo chili), Thursday, December 6, 2018 11:13 AM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it’s not! was there another one?

“mo bamba” rules a lot

agreed that it rules a lot. maybe people are leaving it off cause it's technically from last year?

it should be high on every list.

is there another thread for posting your own 100 ?

we usually wait for the ballot thread after the EOY poll results, right?

xp no, there's only a 500 thread, and everyone is barred from posting until they find 400 more things to list

not sure what the point of that Stereogum quote is tbh

we decided to make a radical, heretofore unprecedented stand and vote for the records we liked the most!!

The Agrimonia is the only one I've heard too, and I agree it's really good

Simon, you cannot deny that there's a certain amount of drudgeful consensus around a lot of these lists

simon, you cannot deny that this thing i complain about all the time exists

j/k i'm with you, that stereogum parenthetical was super dumb

Some day someone sager than I will compose a proper treatment of How Organisations Decide On The Best Culture (Clue: It's Partially Their Listening Habits)

oh i get it we should leave culture up to lj

I said someone sager! I'm too partisan

I wonder if they considered vetoing the Mournful Congregation album because a few people outside the Stereogum offices heard it.

lol

has George Clanton showed up on any of these lists yet b/c he seems like a good candidate for one of those low-key breakthrough artists with a suddenly hip sound

Some day someone sager than I will compose a proper treatment of How Organisations Decide On The Best Culture (Clue: It's Partially Their Listening Habits)

― imago, Thursday, December 6, 2018 12:58 PM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I agree, I've noticed a lot of people base their favorite music on music they've listened to

Délétère's Gregorian parodies are my jam but the album itself comes with disappointingly bland songwriting. And it's overlong.

Nice vinyl factory albums list too.

The Ebo Taylor rekkid is fantastic.

wow Lonnie Holley's Mith is only on the Paste list so far

it’s the vinyl factory’s number three I think sleeve

ah thx

I still need to hear it tbh

I haven't either, it is "in the mail"

(fuck off GHWB and take your "National Day Of Mourning" with you)

im sensing a disturbing lack of wye oak in these lists

Okayafrica - Best of East Africa 2018
https://www.okayafrica.com/east-african-songs-best-2018-listen-stream/

I know it's part of his MO but that Lonnie Holley goes on a bit.

really wanted to like that but it's kinda unlistenable to me

damn this is right up my alley lol

confession: nothing on that stereogum metal list really made me sit up and pay attention, lol

their #1 has quite a bit of promise maybe

I do like the Agrimonia record and MC will be on my list for sure

yeah agrimonia was the one i already knew and liked

damn, even NPR relegated amanda shires to the end of the tracks list

um, holy shit at this inclusion from the noisey list: https://youtu.be/BtybvwLJC30

Oh my god that is amazing