odd #1 choice by p4k but it's a great song from what is probably the best pop/rock band on the planet, so i'll take it
― alpine static, Monday, 5 December 2022 18:21 (one year ago) link
corny indie dream pop rock that still works somehow
― curmudgeon, Monday, 5 December 2022 18:29 (one year ago) link
xxp yes! oddly, i don't think either of their albums are available on vinyl at vmp or anywhere else
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Monday, 5 December 2022 18:29 (one year ago) link
xp world-class indie dream pop, no "corny" or "somehow" about it
― alpine static, Monday, 5 December 2022 18:38 (one year ago) link
i always thought Alvvays was a band it was easy to underestimate til they creep on you - maybe not anymore - I like Easy On Your Own? best for the absolute melancholic wallop of the central lyric & unpredictability of the key changes & melody throughout.
― Hinklepicker, Monday, 5 December 2022 18:40 (one year ago) link
i like the alvvays song but it seems very much "marry me archie" redux and what's the message we're sending if a lesser version of "marry me archie" is better than all pop music in 2022
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Monday, 5 December 2022 18:43 (one year ago) link
Wowwwwwww to this Hikaru Utada track
― Indexed, Monday, 5 December 2022 18:45 (one year ago) link
I didn't know I wanted a Floating Points/Jessie Ware collab so badly until now
― Indexed, Monday, 5 December 2022 18:54 (one year ago) link
I think they're the best band *and* I think "Belinda Says" is a very strange choice for #1 song of the year. No idea how they got there.
― alpine static, Monday, 5 December 2022 18:54 (one year ago) link
first chunk of the bandcamp albums list is up: https://daily.bandcamp.com/best-of-2022/the-best-albums-of-2022-a-d. usually one of my favorite best-of lists.
― na (NA), Monday, 5 December 2022 18:55 (one year ago) link
unpredictability of the key changes & melody throughout
i will be the fuckin judge of this
― imago, Monday, 5 December 2022 19:16 (one year ago) link
unless I got a bad match on the import, it appears that every track on the Pitchfork list is on Spotify. not to single them out as I assume this is true of most lists, but it says a lot about how people are listening (myself included).
― fffv, Monday, 5 December 2022 19:20 (one year ago) link
quite possibly listened to more minutes of Bandcamp than Spotify this year (fewer different albums but what I did buy I caned), where's my Bandcamp Unwrapped
― imago, Monday, 5 December 2022 19:22 (one year ago) link
lmfao christ this 2nd track of the alvayys is like the most clichéd ad-ready bollocks I swear to god, every chord was just about the most obvious one they could have picked, there is so much unboring music out there, why does this stuff get the plaudits I do not understand. not sorry this is EOY war stations
― imago, Monday, 5 December 2022 19:51 (one year ago) link
just very dreary
oh look there's a song called Very Online Guy YES HELLO I'M HERE I'M REAYD FOR MY CALLOUT
― imago, Monday, 5 December 2022 19:54 (one year ago) link
*READYY
― imago, Monday, 5 December 2022 19:55 (one year ago) link
AllMusic Year in Review, starting with their favorite albums: https://www.allmusic.com/year-in-review/2022/allmusic-best-of-2022
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 5 December 2022 19:55 (one year ago) link
didn't know I wanted a Floating Points/Jessie Ware collab so badly until now
― Indexed
This would break ilm
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 5 December 2022 19:55 (one year ago) link
"Spitting Off The Edge of the World" is extremely ok. I feel like if a song is eligible for top 10 or 20 of the year it should be among that artist's best work and this is not one of their 10 best songs. But it's ok.
― billstevejim, Monday, 5 December 2022 20:01 (one year ago) link
The video is great tho.
― billstevejim, Monday, 5 December 2022 20:03 (one year ago) link
the rest of the utada hikaru album is excellent too fwiw (except for the one out of place skrillex collab)
― ufo, Monday, 5 December 2022 20:04 (one year ago) link
feels wild that rolling stone had a better #1 than p4k!
― ufo, Monday, 5 December 2022 20:06 (one year ago) link
The Horace Andy is cool. Thank you bandcamp
― billstevejim, Monday, 5 December 2022 20:08 (one year ago) link
I only care for about half of Pitchfork's top 10 and agree the #1 is an odd choice from that album, but it's still nice to see a genuinely surprising ranking that won't be a carbon copy of everyone else's. Are Beyonce & Two Shell the only artists with more than one track?
― Indexed, Monday, 5 December 2022 20:13 (one year ago) link
The Alvvays choice is weird but I think there are a bunch of places where they chose the "right" song -- Rosalia, Bad Bunny, Beyonce, Taylor, The 1975, CRJ, Maren (good for them putting this in the top 50)
― Indexed, Monday, 5 December 2022 20:19 (one year ago) link
no "western wind" is a very weird pick for crj too
― ufo, Monday, 5 December 2022 20:25 (one year ago) link
Glutton for punishment, I've ploughed straight into the caroline album. I mean who knows
― imago, Monday, 5 December 2022 20:34 (one year ago) link
Well, credit for picking the only really good song on that YYYs album.
This was, by pure chance, the first song I heard off the new one, and the last one.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 5 December 2022 20:40 (one year ago) link
"western wind" is great but not picking "the loneliest time" seems like the wrong kind of contrarianism!
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Monday, 5 December 2022 20:42 (one year ago) link
I agree
― Bee OK, Monday, 5 December 2022 20:44 (one year ago) link
feel like if they had gone with pomeranian spinster as the #1 everyone would have called it a boring consensus vote-by-committee choice
― na (NA), Monday, 5 December 2022 20:45 (one year ago) link
though listening to "belinda says" now it's maybe the biggest POP song on the album so i don't know why everyone's surprised
― na (NA), Monday, 5 December 2022 20:48 (one year ago) link
Not to argue the point to death, but "PS" is such a more exciting / better song (IMO), why would it have been called a boring choice(?)
― Wet Legume (morrisp), Monday, 5 December 2022 20:55 (one year ago) link
i would be baffled no matter which alvvays track was #1
― ufo, Monday, 5 December 2022 20:59 (one year ago) link
bc it's the song everyone highlights from the album
― na (NA), Monday, 5 December 2022 20:59 (one year ago) link
Good, it's the best! lol
― Wet Legume (morrisp), Monday, 5 December 2022 21:21 (one year ago) link
"Western Wind" was the lead single?
― Indexed, Monday, 5 December 2022 21:27 (one year ago) link
it wasn't a good lead single
― ufo, Monday, 5 December 2022 21:51 (one year ago) link
Because I've siloed myself off so much, these lists always befuddle me completely— most of this stuff is utter mind detergent, imho, but I guess that's the purpose of pop music, so ymmv.
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Monday, 5 December 2022 22:33 (one year ago) link
I do like the Utada, fwiw. Alvvays certainly a band for the "bands I've avoided even listening to because of the stupidity of their name" thread.
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Monday, 5 December 2022 22:34 (one year ago) link
That Steve Lacy song is both charming and catchy and incredibly annoying at the same time.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 00:24 (one year ago) link
I can never remember— when do we start doing our EOY 77 lists again?
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 01:09 (one year ago) link
The Alvvays album is great and that is one of the best songs on there, but them being number one on the Pitchfork list and The Beths getting shut out completely is disappointing. Nothing on Blue Rev comes close to Expert In A Dying Field's title track.
― kitchen person, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 02:15 (one year ago) link
nominations usually open pretty soon
― ufo, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 02:32 (one year ago) link
Guardian's Top 20 songs:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/dec/05/the-20-best-songs-of-2022
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 08:13 (one year ago) link
Wow I just heard "The loneliest time" and holy shit when did CRJ become this bland.
― Nabozo, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 08:47 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgflip.com/48mqsj.jpg
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 08:57 (one year ago) link
heyyyy
― imago, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 09:16 (one year ago) link
haha
― nxd, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 09:20 (one year ago) link