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.
oh look there's a song called Very Online Guy YES HELLO I'M HERE I'M REAYD FOR MY CALLOUT
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
i've been dishing it out tbf
― imago, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 09:22 (one year ago) link
this is definitely caring too much but when was the last time p4k had such a middle-of-the-road indie track as #1? "seasons (waiting on you)"? there was at least a little bit of zeitgeist around that to help justify it
― ufo, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 11:51 (one year ago) link
Are Beyonce & Two Shell the only artists with more than one track?
dj python as well
― ufo, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 12:10 (one year ago) link
funny i have never really loved crj but i do love “the loneliest time” (the song)
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 13:17 (one year ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/best-albums-2022/
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 15:13 (one year ago) link
That Guardian list of 20 songs w/three repeat artists is a firm rejoinder to people who don't like editorial meddling with the results
― rob, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 15:16 (one year ago) link
reading the description of that steve lacy song and imagining just how angry listening to it will make me, it is quite a powerful feeling
― imago, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 15:17 (one year ago) link
kinda hard to imagine that song making anyone angey
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 15:42 (one year ago) link
or angry
those are the songs that make me angriest!
― imago, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 15:46 (one year ago) link
The Wire's list is out.
1. Lucrecia Dalt - ¡Ay!2. Moor Mother - Jazz Codes3. Bill Orcutt - Music For Four Guitars4. Oren Ambarchi - Shebang5. Kali Malone - Living Torch6. Sarah Davachi - Two Sisters7. Billy Woods - Aethiopes8. Björk - Fossora9. Silvia Torozzi & Deborah Walker - Canti Di Guerra, Di Lavoro E D'Amore10. Carl Stone - Wat Dong Moon Lek11. V/A - Fragility Of Sounds12. Soul Glo - Diaspora Problems13. Aldous Harding - Warm Chris14. Sun Ra Arkestra - Living Sky15. Daniel Bachman - Almanac Behind16. Horse Lords - Comradely Objects17. Mary Halvorson - Amaryllis & Belladonna18. Jeff Parker ETA IVtet - Mondays At The Enfield Tennis Academy19. Claire Rousay & More Eaze - Never Stop Texting Me20. Diamanda Galás - Broken Gargoyles21. Vanessa Rossetto - The Actress22. Coby Sey - Conduit23. Hudson Mohawke - Cry Sugar24. Ashenspire - Hostile Architecture25. Horsegirl - Versions Of Modern Performance26. Moin - Paste27. The Smile - A Light For Attracting Attention28. Bennie Maupin & Adam Rudolph - Symphonic Tone Poem For Brother Yusef29. Éliane Radigue & Frédéric Blondy - Occam XXV30. Robert Storey - The Eventual Window31. Tegh & Adel Poursamadi - Ima32. Devin Townsend - Lightwork33. Laura Cannell - Antiphony Of The Trees34. Dewa Alit & Gamelan Salukat - Chasing The Phantom35. Richard Dawson & Circle - Henki36. The Lord/Petra Haden - Devotional37. Afrorack - The Afrorack38. Roc Marciano & The Alchemist - The Elephant Man's Bones39. The Ephemeron Loop - Psychonautic Escapism40. Julmud - Tuqoos41. Alvin Curran - Drumming Up Trouble42. N Chambers - Mirage Colony43. Phelimuncasi - Ama Gogela*44. Eric Chenaux - Say Laura45. Tomáš Niesner - Bečvou46. Brian Eno - Foreverandevernomore47. Ishmael Reed - The Hands Of Grace48. Oren Ambarchi/Jonas Berthling/Andreas Werliin - Ghosted49. Deliluh - Fault Lines50. Bitchin Bajas - Bajascillators
*the only album on this list I voted for
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 15:55 (one year ago) link
great no. 1
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 15:55 (one year ago) link
Haven't heard it, but not that surprising - she was on the cover three issues back.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 16:01 (one year ago) link
Interesting - #18 on that list was my #1 vote, none of my other votes placed
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 16:07 (one year ago) link
I still love Sarah Davachi’s music but have fallen behind by a couple releases - too many, with too much frequency for me to be able to absorb and appreciate them.
(But I have no doubt this one was great and I’ll get to it by 2024.)
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 16:09 (one year ago) link
Orcutt solo is a thing that everyone seems to love but that has never fully clicked for me. This one came closest.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 16:10 (one year ago) link
Phelimuncasi was my #1. (And I suspect that Devin Townsend album at #32 to be a thumb on the scale — I know reviews editor Joe loves Townsend but I can't imagine any other Wire writers giving him the time of day.)
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 16:12 (one year ago) link
ha i have loved all the orcutt guitar albums but don't care for the newest one as much
― na (NA), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 16:14 (one year ago) link
Looks like the Big Thief album may end up being underrated...
I think it's weird for Pfork to call it "contemporary Brooklyn indie rock’s answer to the Beatles’ White Album or Prince’s Sign o’ the Times." Do any of the band members even live in Brooklyn? (Maybe Adrianne, for parts of the year?) It would be like a review of the White Album calling it "contemporary Liverpool post-skiffle" or something
― Wet Legume (morrisp), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 16:44 (one year ago) link
it's funny to me how high the weeknd is on a lot of these lists when it was prob the biggest flop pop album of the year & critics haven't much cared for him in years. he made a consciously cool album qua album that was critic bait in a lot of ways & it was rejected by the public... critics at the time were like "hey pretty good record let's keep it moving" but i guess it held for ppl over the course of the year? it feels like there weren't a lot of albums for ppl to rally around this year
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 6 December 2022 17:12 (one year ago) link
I thought Big Thief would do better tbh
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 17:17 (one year ago) link
Wet Leg too.
https://www.complex.com/music/best-albums-2022/
this top 10 is pretty boring but the complex list is one of the few mainstream publication lists i've seen that seems to reflect reality in some way... it at least acknowledges that artists like brent faiyaz, yeat, wizkid exist
the lack of mainstream rap and R&B on the pfork list is quite noticeable
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 6 December 2022 17:18 (one year ago) link
I've been trying to find a way in to the Lucrecia Dalt album for a while now and it just keeps not clicking. Someone who loves it please evangelize.
― Doctor Madame Frances Experimento, LLC", Tuesday, 6 December 2022 17:26 (one year ago) link