when did "get color" get released?
― brooklyn we go ham (samosa gibreel), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 04:46 (fourteen years ago) link
this week's NME front cover "50 Best Albums of 2009"http://bit.ly/5TL5X9
― djmartian, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 14:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Mid-2009.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 8 December 2009 14:53 (fourteen years ago) link
50 Best Albums of 2009 | NME.COMhttp://www.nme.com/list/50-best-albums-of-2009/159978
Album of the Year: The Horrors - Primary Colours
50 Best Tracks of 2009 | NME.COMhttp://www.nme.com/list/50-best-tracks-of-2009/159979
Track of the Year: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Zero
― djmartian, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 14:56 (fourteen years ago) link
top 10
1. The Horrors - Primary Colours2. The XX - The xx3. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz4. Wild Beast - Two Dancers5. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion6. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimist7. The Big Pink - A Brief History of Love8. Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport9. Fever Ray - Fever Ray10. Jamie T - Kings and Queens
― djmartian, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 15:01 (fourteen years ago) link
rofl the horrorsrofl the xx. hipster bullshit
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 15:02 (fourteen years ago) link
i do like the idea of the ilx hipsters loving the nme no 2 album of the year though.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 15:05 (fourteen years ago) link
This one is just whacky! http://thequietus.com/articles/03326-the-quietus-reductive-subjective-albums-of-the-year-20-1?page=1
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 15:14 (fourteen years ago) link
The Quietus Album of the Year: 1. Sunn O))) - Monoliths And Dimensions
― djmartian, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 15:24 (fourteen years ago) link
talk about hipster bullshit...
― Karen Tregaskin, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 15:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Sunn Zzzz makes me long for quietus...
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 15:27 (fourteen years ago) link
This probably happens like once every other year? I really don't think you understand other people's taste at all...
The full NME top 50 really looks like they were scraping the barrel for relevant acts to include though.
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 15:31 (fourteen years ago) link
is their top 50 a bit pitchfork-y? Usually NME will have some uk bands in there that noone else will, but that top 10 is definite pitchfork style.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 15:47 (fourteen years ago) link
is there an ilxor decade-end / year-end poll happening this year already?
― dog latin, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 15:48 (fourteen years ago) link
i do like the idea of the ilx hipsters loving the nme no 2 album top ten - okay top nine - albums of the year though.
I like #1 and #9 btw. The xx are crap imo tbh fwiw.
― DavidM, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 15:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Do I know you? It just amuses me to be called a hipster when I'm 38, an overweight metaller, no famous/hip friends and have an annual clothes budget of 40 quid. That list (as it says quite clearly) is just a reflection of what me and Luke listen to. We both really rate the Sunn album. We've both been writing about Sunn for about seven years each now and it's finally really good to see them get the coverage they deserve.
Just so I understand what The Rules are for future reference - is it alright for me to write about metal for the metal press but the second I do it for a none-genre specific title, I become a hipster? Just so I know like. I'm obviously a lot less sophisticated about these things than some on here.
There seems to be a lot of what psychologists would refer to as self-recognition on this thread.
― Doran, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 15:53 (fourteen years ago) link
This probably happens like once every other year
Yeah I was gonna say, the idea that the two hiveminds at play here are polar opposites is really not borne out by, well, anything
Any top 50 with the Pissed Jeans album in is better than one without it in </opinions4u>
― Dark, promiscuous five-year-old (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 15:53 (fourteen years ago) link
NME top 50 albums
50 Bombay Bicycle Club - I Had the Blues But I Shook Them Loose49 Neko Case & Her Boyfriends - Middle Cyclone48 Atlas Sound - Logos47 Telepathe - Dance Mother46 Gallows - Grey Britain45 Richard Hawley - Truelove's Gutter44 Oneida - Rated O43 Franz Ferdinand - Tonight: Franz Ferdinand42 Empire Of The Sun - Walking On a Dream41 Biffy Clyro - Only Revolutions40 Crystal Stilts - Alight Of Night39 Japandroids - Post Nothing38 Pissed Jeans - King of Jeans37 Passion Pit - Manners36 The Drums - Summertime!35 Sonic Youth - The Eternal34 Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix33 Jay-Z - The Blueprint III32 Noah And The Whale - The First Days Of Spring31 Micachu & The Shapes - Jewellry30 The Cribs - Ignore The Ignorant29 Julian Casablancas - Phrazes For The Young28 Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career27 PJ Harvey And John Parish - A Woman A Man Walked By26 Florence And The Machine - Lungs25 Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You24 Cold Cave - Love Comes Close23 Doves - Kingdom Of Rust22 Bat For Lashes - Two Suns21 Health - Get Color20 Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca19 The Maccabees - Wall Of Arms18 Future Of The Left - Travels With Myself And Another17 Girls - Album16 Mumford And Sons - Sigh No More15 The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart14 Manic Street Preachers - Journal for Plague Lovers13 La Roux - La Roux12 Arctic Monkeys - Humbug11 Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum10 Jamie T – Kings and Queens09 Fever Ray – Fever Ray08 Fuck Buttons – Tarot Sport07 The Big Pink – A Brief History of Love06 Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest05 Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion04 Wild Beasts – Two Dancers03 – Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz02 – The XX – The XX01 – The Horrors – Primary Colours
NME top 10 Songs
50 The Twilight Sad - I Became A Prostitute49 The Cribs - Cheat On Me48 Florence And The Machine - Drumming Song47 The Maccabees - No Kind Words46 Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks45 Friendly Fires - Skeleton Boy43 Biffy Clyro - The Captain42 Manic Street Preachers - Jackie Collins Existential Question Time41 La Roux - I'm Not Your Toy40 Frightened Rabbit - Swim Until You Can't See Land39 Fuck Buttons - Surf Solar38 Girls - Hellhole Ratrace37 Bon Iver - Blood Bank36 Washed Out - Feel It All Around35 Little Boots - New In Town34 Friendly Fires - Jump In The Pool33 Phoenix - Lisztomania32 Grizzly Bear - While You Wait For the Others31 Future Of The Left - Arming Eritrea30 Fever Ray - If I Had A Heart29 Shakira - She Wolf28 The XX - Islands27 Chew Lips - Solo26 Wild Beasts - Hooting And Howling25 Biffy Clyro - That Golden Rule24 La Roux - Bulletproof23 Dirty Projectors - Stillness Is The Move22 The Big Pink - Velvet21 Lady Gaga - Poker Face20 Lily Allen - The Fear19 La Roux - In For The Kill (Skream remix)18 Joy Orbison - Hyph Mngo17 Memory Tapes - Bicycle16 Bat For Lashes - Daniel15 Arctic Monkeys - Crying Lightning14 Jamie T - Sticks & Stones13 Julian Casablancas - 11th Dimension12 Kasabian - Fire11 Arctic Monkeys - Cornerstone10 – Health – Die Slow09 – Lady Gaga – Paparazzi08 – La Roux – In For The Kill07 – The Drums – Let’s Go Surfing06 – Jay-Z – Empire State Of Mind05 – Animal Collective – My Girls04 – Dizzee Rascal – Bonkers03 – The Big Pink – Dominos02 – The Horrors – Sea Within a Sea01 – Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Zero
Lots of La Roux, guess that's better than 60% of the top 5 being MGMT though.
― Mitchell Stirling, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 15:57 (fourteen years ago) link
thanks for typing it all out
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 15:58 (fourteen years ago) link
my apologies, Doran. i had no idea you were in sunn0)))
― Karen Tregaskin, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 16:00 (fourteen years ago) link
doran i dont think it was a dig at you btw. Was either a dig at me for slagging the xx off or was just a dig at Sunn o)))xp
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 16:01 (fourteen years ago) link
ok that was clearly a dig
i have 3 of the nme list, Neko,Oneida and the manics. Still to get the SY album.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 16:03 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost I lolled tbh
― Dark, promiscuous five-year-old (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 16:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Ha ha. I wish. I'm not hip. It's never going to happen. Although I do admit to attending gigs occasionally where people half my age in trucker caps and moustaches do attend and make me uncomfotable with their demonstrative dancing.
― Doran, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 16:04 (fourteen years ago) link
oh youre from london then?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 16:05 (fourteen years ago) link
18 Joy Orbison - Hyph Mngo
Wait WTF how did this get in there?
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 16:05 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm from St Helens which kind of innoculates me from ever being cool.
Just ask Johnny Vegas, Jacqui Abbott from The Beautiful South or Bernie Clifton.
XP: To Matt DC. Well, I voted for it and so did two of the other people in my office who string for the NME . . .
― Doran, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 16:07 (fourteen years ago) link
how many of the bbc sound of 2010 are in it?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 16:07 (fourteen years ago) link
I have no business complaining about the results of the tracks given that I could have voted but didn't (being a luddite who listens to actual albums or singles)... but it's not too inspiring to cast your eye over, is it, given that it's almost entirely made up of songs off the top 50 albums?
― Dark, promiscuous five-year-old (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 16:07 (fourteen years ago) link
nme album list fairly listenable
new ilm mantra:
I really don't think you understand other people's taste at all
― thomp, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 16:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Odd thing looking at the NME lists - have any of their album top 10, excepting the Horrors, made their cover in the past year? Possibly YYYs, but other than that...
― William Bloody Swygart, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 16:09 (fourteen years ago) link
fixed
― Karen Tregaskin, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 16:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, most of them. Jay Z was a joint cover with Ian Brown. La Roux was top of their future 50 (or one of those things).
― Doran, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 16:11 (fourteen years ago) link
maybe they're looking towards 2010 coversxp
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 16:11 (fourteen years ago) link
no famous/hip friends
there's still a few days of christmas post to go you know john.kanye may yet surprise you.
― mark e, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 16:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Ha ha. Fuck that chump.
― Doran, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 16:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Despite the NME's recent "lol 1999, lol Travis, what were we thinking of, look how everything's snowballed since" editorial, judging by these lists they'll eventually be considering 2009 to be another fallow year.
There's a lot of Old Man Indie in there (The XX, Grizzly Bear, Wild Beasts, Animal Collective) that suggests that the NME and The Kids are miles apart at the moment. Probably further than at any time since the days when they put Shack and Godspeed You Black Emperor on the cover. Can't really see their target audience going wild for much of this stuff, if that audience even exists in reasonable numbers any more.
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 16:14 (fourteen years ago) link
i was just attempting to point out the irony of someone derriding people that rate, say, the xx as "hipsters" and then turning around and raving about sunn0))) - but then again, it's entirely possible that i have misunderstood herman g neuname's comments?
― Karen Tregaskin, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 16:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Q: for the stats fans, how many albums on the NME 2009 list are also on:
A: Uncut 2009 listB: Mojo 2009 list
― djmartian, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 16:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Get to it, stats fans!
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 16:15 (fourteen years ago) link
http://img.thisismoney.co.uk/i/pix/2008/02/AngusLoughran1_203x150.jpg
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 16:16 (fourteen years ago) link
how can The XX be Old Man Indie when they're all teenagers themselves? i think you're under-estimating "the kids" Matt. or over-estimating them. not sure which anymore.
― mdskltr (blueski), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 16:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Karen my comments about the xx are a private running joke with a couple of ilxors (mostly done over on last.fm)
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 16:17 (fourteen years ago) link
a bit confused at xx and wild beasts being 'old man indie' - not-quite-hip-anymore indie, yeah
i do wonder about the nme audience tho - the expansion of the too-informed-to-read-the-nme indie kid subculture presumably wears it out a little
the covers thing is a bit of a false lead i think - it's like they're trying to put people on the cover that will sell the magazine or something
― thomp, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 16:17 (fourteen years ago) link
It just amuses me to be called a hipster when I'm 38
We've both been writing about Sunn for about seven years each now
― justin timberlane (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 16:18 (fourteen years ago) link
xxposts Other than maybe (maybe) Grizzly Bear, I wouldn't really call any of those bands "old man indie" - unless I misunderstand what you mean? I think it's good the NME have finally started to get out of their pub-rock hole slightly and start embracing slightly more leftfield (and also non-Brit) stuff than they have done for the last decade or so.
― dog latin, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 16:19 (fourteen years ago) link
FYI, if you're posting on a rock-writer-centric message board about the XX, you're definitely a hipster to SOMEBODY.
― justin timberlane (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 16:19 (fourteen years ago) link
whats the joke? The XX aren't really for hipsters so its funny to say that they are?
― mdskltr (blueski), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 16:20 (fourteen years ago) link
and start embracing (and also non-Brit) stuff than they have done for the last decade or so.
thats kinda what was thinking upthread when i asked if it had gone pitchfork-y
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 16:21 (fourteen years ago) link