The 2018 end of the year music lists thread

Omg at that Vilage Voice cover.

https://www.popmatters.com/tv-on-the-radio-vs-the-village-voice-truly-racist-2495813736.html

So should we instead wonder if the cover was an unintentional racial swipe? Perna angrily compares the cover to recent lynching incidents. Look at it this way- if you were in cartoon on the cover of a well-known publication and someone was running you over, how would you feel about that? Most likely, you'd be pretty angry. The cover was meant to show Dylan symbolically beating TVOTR in the Pazz poll but the question then is this: was the way they depicted it appropriate? They could have had Dylan and a TVOTR member in a ring with the latter getting punched or even just some grand illustration of Dylan to show that he won. The fact that they went for a conflict cover where Dylan whups up on someone is more dramatic than just having a picture of himself alone. It's likely that ANY photo of Dylan attacking/hitting someone in the band would have brought about the same response. Also, consider it an interesting irony that if many of the younger writers/voters hadn't gravitated to the Idolator poll this year, TVOTR probably would have beaten Dylan in the Pazz poll itself and the illustration would have looked very different as such.

well now

That cover is terrible on so many levels.

Rolling Stone's 20 Best Metal Albums of 2018

Normally wouldn't care but my boys Frontierer got in again!

fuck, completely forgot about that Portal album.

My first reaction was to think racism but this cover is actually quite funny.

xxxpost: But the album is called "blood on the tracks" not "blood on the ropes", which could have worked for the box analogy...

the album was called "Modern Times." If they wanted to reach back 30 years for a boxing reference instead there's "Hurricane."

oh yes you're right... I'm not very well versed on Dylan sorry... I assumed the album that won that year was blood on the tracks.

im having great dissonance w the name "dan weiss"

How soon we forget

[village voice cover]

That gq intro is hilariously well timed for the recent posts about poptimism v rockism

hyden's argument about man of the woods is pretty interesting to me

it goes in circles for way too long; it's a one-sentence argument (MOTW is emblematic of 2018 because Justin Timberlake release an album everyone forgot about his flannel shirts collection).

well whatever it's something he prob did for free for a place he doesn't work at... it's more interesting as an argument than like 95% of all EOY blurbs tho

There is some great dissonance on the Dan Weiss album, it's true.

lmao @ steve hyden deliberately humiliating himself

not that that isn't his primary mode

And culture writers will write anniversary pieces that attempt to link Timberlake's "log cabins and facial hair" iconography to the rise of white nationalism during the early years of the Trump administration.

i guess this is interesting but it's more likely that no one will ever write about this album again

I remember when JT was supposed to ride a starring role in a Woody Allen picture and an album into a new era of ultra prominence.

i mean he could be wrong! he could also be right? in any case it was nice to see some space on one of these lists devoted to a line of argument about a record that isn't one of the same 25 records all websites are currently talking about

This is a great song and cute video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baj6llvgpWA

oh wait, i forgot about the faucet line, yeccchh

Hyden is good sometimes but he really needs to try reading something besides Chuck Klosterman.

"Breeze Off the Pond" was a legit good album track.

idk man. i've compained about Hyden's style but he's going on his third book and I'm gonna be unemployed and possibly done with music writing in like 20 days, so don't fix what ain't broke, I guess...

for what it's worth I have had the "wait lmao MAN OF THE WOODS" "lol that came out this year didn't it" "man." "of the woods" conversation twice this month

spin's top 51 albums of the year... featuring contributions from several posters itt. please click... it's all on one page

https://www.spin.com/featured/best-albums-2018/

oh uh i guess i wrote a blurb for a no. 1 album for once, sorry ahead of time for how that reads

Cool format. I found a few write-ups by ILM posters pretty quickly, LOL (nice work, folx)

j/k i was very proud to contribute i've just also been a mess bc year-end writing is like scraping an empty metal barrel for hours at a time xp

wow, nice job -- so easy to navigate

nice to see that Trouble album on a list.

damn, can you unfuck the lists in the archive with that format

i'm glad caution ended up so high, i really regretted not having it on my ballot

That Malkmus album... oy. Of the albums I seriously engaged with this year (admittedly, not a huge number), that's gotta be at/near the bottom.

mariah album was something i thought was pretty nice & then didn't stop listening to for like 3 straight weeks

right?????

same

mariah album was something i thought was pretty nice & then didn't stop listening to for like 3 straight weeks

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, December 12, 2018 4:32 PM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It sneaks up on you.

wrote about robyn/sophie/janelle, super happy to do so

[Re: Mariah, actually bought a copy at Target a few days ago, it's taken up residence in the car CD player. (I wish I'd voted for it.)]

Determined to finally listen to that Robyn album sometime before the end of the year

Learned to like the Carey album on a road trip Thanksgiving weekend.

wrote about robyn/sophie/janelle, super happy to do so

― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine)

loved your Robyn blurb

Something I’ve been wondering about before and was reminded of again while going over that Aquarium Drunkard list: Why is that these music loving people only bother with African pop music when it’s a) very old or b) made in the diaspora? I mean, you know you’re gonna lap that stuff up when the curated comps come out in 2050, so why not just engage with it now and enjoy it while it’s hot?!

xp — thanks!

the sophie album was the one I was most surprised by, particularly the middle which is a huge departure from her old stuff

breastcrawl i’m nodding but also kind of guilty of that myself

(also sorry for blowing my quota of kate bush references, in my defense robyn directly cited a specific album as an influence, and if “is it cold in the water” doesn’t earn the comparison nothing does)

I mean, you know you’re gonna lap that stuff up when the curated comps come out in 2050, so why not just engage with it now and enjoy it while it’s hot?!

this is otm and not only for african music.

Has Nicki Minaj turned up on any lists yet?