since the clipse, anyway
― r|t|c, Thursday, 13 December 2007 14:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Other Music's top 25 (I'm pretty sure these are staff favorites, not top sellers):
1 TINARIWEN Aman Iman 2 PANDA BEAR Person Pitch 3 BURIAL Untrue 4 ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Strawberry Jam 5 PANTHA DU PRINCE This Bliss 6 NO AGE Weirdo Rippers 7 VARIOUS ARTISTS Skull Disco - Soundboy Punishments 8 M.I.A. Kala 9 JAY REATARD Blood Visions 10 MAGIK MARKERS Boss 11 KING KHAN & THE SHRINES What Is?! 12 VARIOUS ARTISTS After Dark 13 THE CAVE SINGERS Invitation Songs 14 ROBERT WYATT Comicopera 15 ERIC COPELAND Hermaphrodite 16 SPOON Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga 17 BAND OF HORSES Cease to Begin 18 BLACK LIPS Good Bad Not Evil 19 VAMPIRE WEEKEND EP 20 EFDEMIN Efdemin 21 STUDIO West Coast 22 THE FIELD From Here We Go Sublime 23 CHROMATICS Night Drive 24 ST. VINCENT Marry Me 25 OH NO Dr. No's Oxperiment
― Mark Clemente, Thursday, 13 December 2007 14:46 (sixteen years ago) link
top reissues can also be seen on that link
i like the OM list.
― poortheatre, Thursday, 13 December 2007 19:27 (sixteen years ago) link
WTF! WHY DO PEOPLE ACTUALLY LIKE BAND OF HORSES??
― stephen, Thursday, 13 December 2007 21:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Every time someone listens to Band of Horses, god kills a kitten.
― Mordechai Shinefield, Thursday, 13 December 2007 21:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Or even a small horse.
― Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 13 December 2007 21:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Or both.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 13 December 2007 21:34 (sixteen years ago) link
stephen I kiss you
― Matos W.K., Thursday, 13 December 2007 22:04 (sixteen years ago) link
They're sort of a watered-down Built to Spill, so maybe residual love for that band has something to do with it.
― jaymc, Thursday, 13 December 2007 22:08 (sixteen years ago) link
The indie rock's been worshipping one watered-down Built To Spill or another (Modest Mouse, Death Cab, etc.) more than BTS themselves for damn near a decade now.
― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 13 December 2007 22:26 (sixteen years ago) link
haha "the indie rock" was a funny way to phrase that, sorry, subtract "the" or add a "world/community" at the end.
teh indie rockz
― Mordechai Shinefield, Thursday, 13 December 2007 22:33 (sixteen years ago) link
who is this band the Indie Rocks and where can I buy their music
― latebloomer, Thursday, 13 December 2007 22:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Why hasn't Ricardo Villalobos been mentioned in any of those lists? Is it because it was not an 'album' or that no one listened to it or (scary?!) that no one liked it?
― Popture, Thursday, 13 December 2007 22:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Was there a new Ricardo Villalobos this year that got a lot of hype? (Last year he was on a bunch of lists...)
― Mordechai Shinefield, Thursday, 13 December 2007 23:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Fabric36, I guess?
― jaymc, Thursday, 13 December 2007 23:11 (sixteen years ago) link
that or fizheuer
― max, Thursday, 13 December 2007 23:22 (sixteen years ago) link
fabric 36 never quite lived up to its pre-release hype. i liked it - but didn't love it like some of his other work.
― sam500, Friday, 14 December 2007 00:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Some debut's on NME sure, but NME doesn't count as NME only likes debut albums. It is a well-known fact that NME hates anyone who has released more than 1 album and 2 singles.
― Geir Hongro, Friday, 14 December 2007 00:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Panda Bear is the worst music I've ever heard.
― The Reverend, Friday, 14 December 2007 00:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Reverend is a god among men.
― Mordechai Shinefield, Friday, 14 December 2007 00:41 (sixteen years ago) link
why is glasvegas mentioned on this thread? people are weird
amused to see my #1 of the year isn't on any list at all.. still got it
― electricsound, Friday, 14 December 2007 00:45 (sixteen years ago) link
i don't really like person pitch all that much but rev hating an indie album being backed up by the dude who likes mickey avalon and skye sweetnam is shocker non-shocker of the month for sure.
― J0rdan S., Friday, 14 December 2007 00:51 (sixteen years ago) link
it doesn't really seem like hateable music to me. it's just... there. resenting its critical love, maybe. but idk. it's kind of like wallpaper or something.
― J0rdan S., Friday, 14 December 2007 00:53 (sixteen years ago) link
No it is not wallpaper. It is earsplitting. (And actually I don't hate indie, just the way it gets privileged so much.)
― The Reverend, Friday, 14 December 2007 01:02 (sixteen years ago) link
(Well, that's to say I don't hate indie on principle. I certainly hate that particular example thereof.)
― The Reverend, Friday, 14 December 2007 01:04 (sixteen years ago) link
idk dude whenever i listen to it i just get kinda bored. way too may stretches where nothing really happens. i like the overall mood, but i most def do not get how anyone could really love person pitch.
― J0rdan S., Friday, 14 December 2007 01:11 (sixteen years ago) link
so you chaps who don't get person pitch - how do you feel about animal collective?
― sam500, Friday, 14 December 2007 01:18 (sixteen years ago) link
i doubt rev has heard any animal collective, but i think panda's two songs on strawberry jam are better than anything on person pitch besides maybe "i'm not"
― J0rdan S., Friday, 14 December 2007 01:19 (sixteen years ago) link
I haven't heard Animal Collective, actually. I only downloaded Person Pitch after reading that if I liked LCDSS I'd like Panda Bear. Suffice to say, that wasn't true. Maybe after the cd I'm listening to is done, I'll pull them up on the U-Toob.
― The Reverend, Friday, 14 December 2007 01:20 (sixteen years ago) link
xp haha
idk if you'd like them. i don't have a great handle on what indie rockier music you might like. the new album is way more song-y than panda bear if that means anything.
― J0rdan S., Friday, 14 December 2007 01:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Indie rock albums this year I love: LCD Soundsystem, Charlotte Hatherley, Spoon, Gogol Bordello
Indie rock albums this year I like well enough: Battles, New Young Pony Club, the Hives, the White Stripes, Grinderman
― The Reverend, Friday, 14 December 2007 01:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Truth is, I like a lot of indie music. The National, Iron + Wine, and (well I don't know if indie has claimed them but) The Noisettes are all on my year end lists. I just don't like Animal Collective, Panda Bear, St. Vincent, or Joanna Newsom. I actually hate them, and I've put the time in listening to their albums (Newsom I listened to about half a dozen times) to try and get what's going on there. And I just don't get it.
― Mordechai Shinefield, Friday, 14 December 2007 01:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Jinx. Oh yeah, I like the Hives + the White Stripes album. I liked a bunch of indie albums this year. Sorry for not liking whiny freak-folk.
― Mordechai Shinefield, Friday, 14 December 2007 01:34 (sixteen years ago) link
rev you might like this but all those albums kinda groove in an SFJ-type way which doesnt surprise me since your tastes seem to skew more towards rap/r&b/reggaeton (yeah?) and animal collective are kind of like weightless on the bottom end and really compressed. def more indie pop than anything you mentioned.
― J0rdan S., Friday, 14 December 2007 01:39 (sixteen years ago) link
newsom blows and new animal collective is def not folk, but i have no handle on what you like mordechai but it seems like you would/do hate the fuck out strawberry jam.
― J0rdan S., Friday, 14 December 2007 01:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Thing is, I like a lot of folk. Or rather, I like music that possibly has some folk resonances. I like Iron + Wine. A ton. Woman King EP is on constant replay in my apartment. It's just that the stuff I just mentioned doesn't click for me. I wish it did because a lot of people are really passionate about it, and I wanna get in on that. But there's something really unpleasant about it. (I don't like Andrew Bird either.)
― Mordechai Shinefield, Friday, 14 December 2007 01:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Also, vis-a-vis Band of Horses, I saw them open for Iron + Wine once and they were horrific. Like people were actually talking through their set because of how painful the music was. The only time I saw a more negative reaction was when Coco Rosie opened for Sufjan Stevens and half the place walked out.
― Mordechai Shinefield, Friday, 14 December 2007 01:45 (sixteen years ago) link
i most def do not get how anyone could really love person pitch.
I do, my roommate doesn't. He loves Strawberry Jam though, and said that the reason I love PP so inordinately is because I also like the Beach Boys a lot more than he does. Which is probably accurate. I can understand why people dislike it though, especially given the all the adulation (I dub this the "Destroyer Effect").
I like those OM and Rockarolla lists more than anything else on the thread so far. A lot of my fave stuff (Edward Ka-Spel, Nurse With WOund, etc.) usually misses out in these polls. Good to see a list for jazz reissues also.
It's also really nice to have all this yearend stuff on one thread.
― sleeve, Friday, 14 December 2007 01:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Discovering Tokyo Jihen and Lansing-Dreiden have made me more interested in looking for more current rock bands I might like, but there's such an overwhelming amount of the stuff that I don't like that it's nearly impossible. I just thought I would mention that. I need to try doing a Tokyo Jihen station of Last FM again, but I know what I'm going to get. I'm going to get a lot of j-rock and j-pop that I either don't like, or that is just okay, but that I won't love or care about.
― Rockist Scientist, Friday, 14 December 2007 01:49 (sixteen years ago) link
My top ten is changing about every hour on the hour. I heard too much great music this year.
― Dimension 5ive, Friday, 14 December 2007 01:51 (sixteen years ago) link
I have to commend you for having such an international scope.
― Rockist Scientist, Friday, 14 December 2007 01:53 (sixteen years ago) link
FACT Magazine Top 100 Tracks of the Year!
http://www.factmagazine.co.uk/da/66290
― sam500, Friday, 14 December 2007 01:53 (sixteen years ago) link
person pitch is way too distanced to even register half the time with me. the only song i really love on PP is "i'm not" cuz it's really emotional, like all those sampled voices just hanging in the air. it sounds like old choral or like gregorian chant music. it's the one song on the album that actually has some power.
― J0rdan S., Friday, 14 December 2007 01:54 (sixteen years ago) link
is FACT like the fader of the uk?
― J0rdan S., Friday, 14 December 2007 01:55 (sixteen years ago) link
lol @ "groove in an SFJ-type way"
I'm listening to "Peacebone" right now. (This is from their new album, yes?) The weird intro is cool, but when it gets into the actual tune it completely loses me.
― The Reverend, Friday, 14 December 2007 01:55 (sixteen years ago) link
I'll check out "I'm Not," Jordan. I like Gregorian Chant music when I hear it (I hang out at the Cloisters every now and then). I'll seriously give anything a shot. If you can recommend something on Strawberry Jam, I'll try that too.
― Mordechai Shinefield, Friday, 14 December 2007 01:56 (sixteen years ago) link
The FACT list is really obnoxiously hip, and I like a lot of the things on it.
― The Reverend, Friday, 14 December 2007 01:57 (sixteen years ago) link