did this one get posted? unranked. https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2019/10/30/aquarium-drunkard-decade-2010-19/i contributed! it's a pretty good selection.
― tylerw, Thursday, 21 November 2019 19:29 (four years ago) link
I have no idea why AT has garnered so much avant-garde cred and not, say, Kairos or Wergo or Neos or Outhere's sadly dormant Aeon imprint, each of which has put out infinitely more interesting records in my estimation. Actually, I think I know why: AT is British and thus more in tune with the tastes of English-speaking listeners. (Just thinking out loud here – I enjoy AT's releases for the most part.)
― pomenitul, Thursday, 21 November 2019 19:35 (four years ago) link
Would love to hear some recommendations if you wouldn't mind sharing...
― Lowell N. Behold'n, Thursday, 21 November 2019 19:37 (four years ago) link
Sure! I'll try to come up with a solid list for the 2010s, I just need a bit of time. Until then, you can check the rolling 2019 classical for some more recent suggestions:
Rolling Classical 2019
― pomenitul, Thursday, 21 November 2019 19:40 (four years ago) link
Here you go, Lowell – five 2010s favourites per label:
Kairos
Agata Zubel - Not IAlberto Posadas - GlossopoeiaMarino Formenti - Liszt InspectionsTristan Murail - PortulanYann Robin - Vulcano; Art of Metal I, III
Wergo
Adriana Hölszky - Wie ein gläsernes Meer, mit Feuer gemischtHeinz Holliger - Choral UtopiaLiza Lim - Tongue of the InvisibleToshio Hosokawa - Silent FlowersWolfgang Rihm - 11. Streichquartett; Interscriptum; Grave
NEOS
Aaron Cassidy - The Crutch of MemoryArturo Fuentes - Space FactoryFranck Bedrossian, Raphaël Cendo & Christoph Trebue Moore - Donaueschinger Musiktage 2009, Vol. 2Horațiu Rădulescu - Complete Works for PianoPhilippe Manoury - Le temps, mode d’emploi
Aeon
Brian Ferneyhough - Complete Works for String Quartet & TrioJérôme Combier - GoneMichael Jarrell - …mais les images restent…Michaël Levinas - La Métamorphose; Je, tu, ilRichard Barrett - Music for Cello and Electronics
Other labels worth mentioning in the same breath: Stradivarius (Italy), Cyprès (Belgium), BIS (Sweden), Ondine (Finland), Col Legno (Austria), DaCapo (Denmark), Mode Records (USA), etc.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 21 November 2019 20:38 (four years ago) link
excellent.. thank you!!
― Lowell N. Behold'n, Thursday, 21 November 2019 21:54 (four years ago) link
Making notes.
Pomenitul, what do you think of Sono Luminus' releases of the last few years, all the Icelandic stuff they've been doing?
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Thursday, 21 November 2019 22:11 (four years ago) link
At times the stuff they release is a little too soundtracky or John Adams-y or neo-Romantic (in the bad sense) for my admittedly idiosyncratic ears, but most of it is really solid and I salute their commitment to Anna S. Þorvaldsdóttir's music in particular, as she is one of my favourite living composers. I'm also glad they've got Jenny Lin and Matei Varga – superb pianists both.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 21 November 2019 22:24 (four years ago) link
Not an ordered list, but AllMusic just put out a Decade in Review in which most of the albums featured have been upgraded to 5 Stars (with the exception of albums from 2018/2019). Some Interesting choices in there:https://www.allmusic.com/decade-in-review
― MarkoP, Tuesday, November 19, 2019 7:00 PM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink
Wow the Adrian Younge album on this list is stunning, it's like The Belle Album on steroids.
― Will (kruezer2), Sunday, 24 November 2019 01:59 (four years ago) link
I'm very pleased with the metal representation
― Simon H., Sunday, 24 November 2019 02:22 (four years ago) link
https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/list/8544710/best-k-pop-songs-2010s-top-100
this is a surprisingly quite good list! "good day" at #1 is a strange, boring pick though - it's a decent song and was one of iu's biggest hits but hardly represents what made kpop so exciting this decade
― ufo, Tuesday, 26 November 2019 06:33 (four years ago) link
Some decent tokenistic picks in that Allmusic list, alongside the usual ubiquitous trash.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 26 November 2019 09:37 (four years ago) link
that kpop list *is* pretty good. a lot of my favorites in the top 30. “i am the best” should've been no. 1, maybe obvious but, like, is there anything better
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 26 November 2019 13:34 (four years ago) link
i don't know if it'd be my personal #1 but as far as being both Important and Really Good goes it's the obvious pick yeah. certainly the defining song of the defining sound in kpop of its time. i have a few minor quibbles with some of the order and the song picks (like i'd go for "likey" as the best twice single of the decade over "tt") but they're really quite minor overall, it's a great list.
― ufo, Tuesday, 26 November 2019 13:43 (four years ago) link
"tt" is one of my favorites of the decade! but i cld see "likey" as the representative pick-- to pull from a tsj blurb, "it’s a perfect balance of charming leap and trembling flail forward, doing its best to never sound as starved a record as it is"
― lowercase (eric), Tuesday, 26 November 2019 13:53 (four years ago) link
(whereas "tt" does sound starved, "i'm like"s and fake-"oh well" sighs and the overcompensating glide of the second verse and the trying-to-be-rousing claps hitting all that point of like, keeping forward momentum to not trip all over yourself)
― lowercase (eric), Tuesday, 26 November 2019 14:10 (four years ago) link
(*all hitting)
― lowercase (eric), Tuesday, 26 November 2019 14:12 (four years ago) link
(which ig is more a matter of difference in degree btwn the two songs than anything, so personal preference... anyway!)
― lowercase (eric), Tuesday, 26 November 2019 14:16 (four years ago) link
Work in progress from tiny mixtapes. Celebrating the end of the decade through lists, essays, and mixes.
https://www.tinymixtapes.com/series/tmt-decade-2010-2019
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 28 November 2019 02:21 (four years ago) link
cheers, always good reads on tmt
― nxd, Friday, 29 November 2019 10:53 (four years ago) link
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-2010s-ranked-913997/
Rolling Stone list is pretty predictable but seeing Pistol Annies all the way up at #9 (albeit for their second-best album) was a nice surprise. cool to see J Balvin, Bad Bunny, and Rosalia placing as well.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 15:54 (four years ago) link
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2019-in-review/the-best-music-of-2019-and-the-best-music-of-the-decade
end of year and decade from Amanda Petrusich, accompanied by an essay that I wish was much longer. very intrigued to see her singling out a largely forgotten Beck album as a decade high-water mark.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 16:18 (four years ago) link
very intrigued to see her singling out a largely forgotten Beck album as a decade high-water mark.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Tuesday, December 3, 2019 9:18 AM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
it won the grammy for album of the year
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 16:23 (four years ago) link
*lj voice* god what a dull list
I’ll admit that at the start of 2019 I was feeling down about popular music and the increasingly gutless way we consume it. One of the early promises of the Internet—that it might democratize criticism in a generative and exciting way—hadn’t quite actualized for me. It felt, instead, like there were fewer places to read about music than ever, and nearly all of those places—self-implication alert!—were covering the same handful of artists, in almost the exact same way.
like, it's weird to read this and then read her lists
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 16:27 (four years ago) link
can we have a thread for bad-faith descriptions of poptimism in decade-end coverage?
― maura, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 16:30 (four years ago) link
ig i'm missing sfj now?
― lowercase (eric), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 16:31 (four years ago) link
lol i have seen someone specifically bemoaning the lack of that beck album on any lists though, the internet's a big place
― lowercase (eric), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 16:35 (four years ago) link
sorry you guys aren't going to gaslight me into think anyone still gives a shit about Morning Phase.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 17:09 (four years ago) link
obviously amanda petrusich does
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 17:11 (four years ago) link
it's just part of the in-house style guide
― lowercase (eric), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 17:16 (four years ago) link
I like to kid about being totally out of the musical loop but these lists reveal that I've very successfully (if not entirely intentionally) avoided contemporary music for basically an entire decade. Almost everything I'm at all familiar with is from 2010. Yikes.</old>
― What Would Spoonman Do? (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 17:24 (four years ago) link
her 2019 list has 75 dollar bill on it, which is cool
― jacquees, full of cobras (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 17:28 (four years ago) link
xp you ain't young lunch
petrusich lists making the risible error of treating the 2010s like the 1960s and the readership like idiots. brad's already got this one though thankfully
― imago, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 17:49 (four years ago) link
Quietus is always the one where i learn the most:https://thequietus.com/articles/27504-quietus-albums-of-the-year-2019-norman-records
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 17:54 (four years ago) link
whoops, thought this was best of 2019
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 17:55 (four years ago) link
i actually back the quietus to do a decent decade list tbf, there won't be as much scope for boring wibbly ambient-experimental bollocks as in their eoy lists
― imago, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 17:56 (four years ago) link
I wouldn't be surprised if tQ doesn't join in w/ a eod list.
Also, it is my very unscientific opinion that the percentage of "boring wibbly ambient-experimental bollocks" has gone down steadily over the last years?
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 18:02 (four years ago) link
Lovely to see Bad Debt get a mention, albeit it's the very essence of a minor record, swamped by the very notion of what's around it and the notion of a decade list of this size.
― Life is a meaningless nightmare of suffering...save string (Chinaski), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 19:20 (four years ago) link
agreed ^ that is a VERY strange record on that list
― alpine static, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 19:25 (four years ago) link
did this one get posted? unranked. https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2019/10/30/aquarium-drunkard-decade-2010-19/this is a great resource
― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 09:50 (four years ago) link
https://www.billboard.com/100-songs-that-defined-the-2010s
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 7 December 2019 17:35 (four years ago) link
wow music is terrible
― 💠 (crüt), Monday, November 18, 2019 6:48 AM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
― 💠 (crüt), Saturday, 7 December 2019 17:41 (four years ago) link
I think that's a pretty good list in terms of not trying to make critical judgments but just presenting the songs that made a big splash.
― o. nate, Sunday, 8 December 2019 01:15 (four years ago) link
Yeah, I like that BB list — it’s a nice mix of personal faves (including unexpectedly recent tracks like Rosalía’s “Malamente”); stuff that’s not my bag but was “important”; and then a few LOL / 🤔 picks like Rebecca Black / “Friday” and Weezer / “Africa.”
― New Car Smell (morrisp), Sunday, 8 December 2019 02:27 (four years ago) link
Like, including “Let It Go” and “My Shot” (among some of those other picks) seems genuinely smart.
― New Car Smell (morrisp), Sunday, 8 December 2019 02:33 (four years ago) link
https://www.normanrecords.com/features/albums-of-the-decade
― britain's secret sauce (seandalai), Sunday, 15 December 2019 16:48 (four years ago) link
I think it's very weird of that Billboard list to include The Weeknd and NOT have the song be "Can't Feel My Face"
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Monday, 16 December 2019 15:53 (four years ago) link
https://www.factmag.com/2019/12/10/the-best-tracks-of-2019/
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 02:20 (four years ago) link