2010 Magazine's Albums Of The Year Thread For Posting Lists and Discussion

Sorry.

idk if Arabrot have that much domestic game, didn't get that impression when I've spoke to them... I mean Dagbladet is like one of the biggest daily papers right? Surprised-ish at Lindstrom but this time last year half of us were going "wow this should be 2010's crossover pop hit blah etc" and look where that got it

Yeah, they're tiny aren't they? If it's any consolation I feel the same way when The News Of The World don't rep for Dethscalator in their end of year poll.

FACT Magazine's Top 20 Tracks of the year:

20: INJA HLUNGWANI - ‘N’WAGEZANI MY LOVE’
19: AUTRE NE VEUT - ‘NEW DEPTH’
18: ENDGAMES - ‘ECSTASY’ (JAM CITY REFIX)
17: BIG BOI - ‘SHUTTERBUGG’
16: ADDISON GROOVE - ‘FOOTCRAB’
15: DEADBOY - ‘OFFICIAL GIRL’
14: FOREST SWORDS - ‘MIARCHES’
13: THE-DREAM - ‘YAMAHA’
12: ERIK & FIEDEL - ‘NOUS SOMMES MMM’
11: MATTHEW DEAR - ‘SLOWDANCE’
10: DRAKE feat. THE-DREAM - ‘SHUT IT DOWN’
09: KINK - ‘EXISTENCE’
08: PANTHA DU PRINCE feat. PANDA BEAR - ‘STICK TO MY SIDE’
07: ACTRESS - ‘MAZE’
06: JAMES BLAKE - ‘CMYK’
05: KANYE WEST feat. PUSHA T - 'RUNAWAY’
04: MOSCA - ‘SQUARE ONE’
03: DJ ZINC feat. MS. DYNAMITE -‘WILE OUT’
02: RAMADANMAN - ‘GLUT’
01: TEENGIRL FANTASY -‘CHEATERS’

Full Top 100 List on website

The Midnight Magic/Jacques Renault record is a jam and the whole Permanent Vacation comp it comes from is ace.

didnt even realise there was a selected label works 2! why does no one tell me these things

Yamaha is too low, but respect for voting Wile Out so high. Whole list is a bit depressingly blokey and moody, although I find myself liking Ramadanman more and more and the Kink record at #9 is a straight-up banger.

Tim F I would strongly advise against reading the blurb for that Moscsa record!

(xpost Selected Label Works 2 is great but isn't quite up there with Vol. 1 but it does have Lauer's Delta NRG on it which is total hands-in-the-air awesomeness).

Also that Deadboy treatment of Official Girl... hasn't poor Cassie suffered enough?

fact 100 2010 spotify platlist. only 61/100, spotify's a bit rub

Kvelertak are sort of somewhere between progressive metal and hardcore punk, sing in Norwegian have seen it pick up a few votes in metalheads lists.

Decibel named that their #22 metal album of the year! And I thought their description sounded interesting: "...seamlessly synthesize the unlikely and disparate elements of refinery-burning garage rock, black metal, re-jigged Norwegian folk talkes sung in their native tongue and owls drawn by John Baizley." I thought #29, an EP by a Washington band called Christian Mistress, sounded potentially cool, too. But I'm getting real lazy when it comes to seeking out metal albums. Also I have no idea who John Baizley is.

I like both the Kvelertak and Christian Mistress; check out "Mjød" by the former and "Black Vigil" by the latter on youtube. Well worth the few minutes that will take.

Baizley is the singer from Baroness and he does the artwork for their albums, as well as tons of other bands - Torche, Darkest Hour, Kylesa, Black Tusk...

Oh, that guy! Duh. I like Baroness's album covers even more than their music (which is pretty good.)

Yeah, his stuff is great.

uk funky producers also DON'T RELEASE THEIR MUSIC, c'mon tim you can't pretend that's not a factor at all!

This isn't really true though. I sat down and worked out my top 60 or 70 uk funky tunes of the year last week and about two thirds to three quarters had been released. And, of course, of the remaining unreleased portion most do get released subsequently (hence "House Girls 1" ending up on Fact's list in 2010 not 2008).

Of course it would be rather churlish of me to expect obscure tunes that only I have trainspotted to be getting a lot of attention from people other than me.

Tim F I would strongly advise against reading the blurb for that Moscsa record!

I think I have pretty much numbed myself to this stuff now Matt, it's okay.

Ramadanman is great, yes. If Fact had to put a juke-inspired post-dubstep record at number 2 I'm glad it was "Glut" and not "Footcrab", the appeal of which is simply unfathomable to me.

"Footcrab"

even the name is terrible lol

Pre-eminent example of hearing a record talked about in such glowing terms and being genuinely keen to hear it, and then... If the tune didn't go "FOOTCRAB FOOTCRAB FOOTCRAB" throughout I would have assumed I'd gotten a hold of the wrong tune by mistake.

*shatters test pressing of first production, "Crotchcricket"*

different from their yearly top list. top 50 downloads of the year. most downloaded tracks, that is. although i don't know who downloaded them or where they downloaded them from.

http://www.xlr8r.com/features/2010/12/grab-xlr8rs-top-50-downloads-201

http://www.xlr8r.com/features/2010/12/grab-xlr8rs-top-downloads-2010-p

Holy crap that Kvelertak is great! Between all the Norwegian bands and the HaandBryggeriet Norwegian Porter and Norwegian Wood beer I've had this week, this 1/8 Norwegian is achieving frequent tumescence.

Music OMH

http://www.musicomh.com/music/features/2010-top-50-albums-intro_1110.htm

50. Gold Panda - Lucky Shiner
49. Bryan Ferry - Olympia
48. Liars - Sisterworld
47. Hot Chip - One Life Stand
46. Everything Everything - Man Alive
45. Mulatu Astatke - Mulatu Steps Ahead
44. Wild Nothing - Gemini
43. Villagers - Becoming A Jackal
42. Nedry - Condors
41. These New Puritans - Hidden
40. Allo Darlin' - Allo Darlin'
39. The Walkmen - Lisbon
38. Sleigh Bells - Treat
37. Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can
36. Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
35. The Irrepressibles - Mirror Mirror
34. Marnie Stern - Marnie Stern
33. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
32. Phosphorescent - Here's To Taking It Easy
31. 65daysofstatic - We Were Exploding Anyway
30. Pantha Du Prince - Black Noise
29. Stornoway - Beachcomber's Windowsill
28. Bellowhead - Hedonism
27. Jaga Jazzist - One Armed Bandit
26. Gil Scott-Heron - I'm New Here
25. Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son Of Chico Dusty
24. Best Coast - Crazy For You
23. Grinderman - Grinderman 2
22. Owen Pallett - Heartland
21. Menomena - Mines
20. Field Music - Field Music (Measure)
19. Surfer Blood - Astro Coast
18. Edwyn Collins - Losing Sleep
17. Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
16. Vampire Weekend - Contra
15. Warpaint - The Fool
14. Jónsi - Go
13. Yeasayer - Odd Blood
12. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
11. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
10. John Grant with Midlake - Queen Of Denmark
09. Four Tet - There Is Love In You
08. Foals - Total Life Forever
07. Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
06. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
05. Beach House - Teen Dream
04. Caribou - Swim
03. Janelle Monáe - The ArchAndroid
02. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
01. The National - High Violet

IIRC Nedry is nice enough but not something I imagined being on anyone's year-end list.

Not that I care, because I don't like them, but I thought that Of Montreal album was going to show up more. Did that get panned a lot?

it is kind of 'mad confusing' why ppl w/ the exact same taste as 100 other publications feel the need to publish a magazine at all.

to think i used to find jazz times / down beat duopoly redundent

redundant

more like Music SMH

is it actually worth checking out Deerhunter and The National? I've pretty much avoided them on GP.

I honestly couldn't think of a band less worth anyone's time than The National

pretty much all this points out is that lists by committee (ie lists made by combining a bunch of lists from individual critics) are inevitably going to be safe and boring (duh) and that the individual critic lists are going to be more interesting on their own because they allow for personal tastes/idiosyncracies

dan I'm guessing based on what I know about your musical tastes that you might like some Deerhunter songs and probably would not like the National, but obviously I could be wrong

xpost, Has anyone said "I wish Pitchfork would publishe individual writers lists" yet, because I love how that chestnut of insight comes back every year like the groundhog seeing his shadow

I am listening to "Helicopter" by Deerhunter and sort of wonder exactly what the distinction between these guys and Owl City is

okay the chorus is much better but, um, the verses are kind of cloying

they're supposed to be a "pop" band too.

yeah the new Deerhunter album is more pop, you'd probably like their earlier albums more? I don't know, I find them listenable but pretty boring overall.

pretty much all this points out is that lists by committee (ie lists made by combining a bunch of lists from individual critics) are inevitably going to be safe and boring (duh) and that the individual critic lists are going to be more interesting on their own because they allow for personal tastes/idiosyncracies

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yeah but you can at least cultivate a group of critics who overlap in more interesting ways than 'what other critics are covering.' i mean, downbeat's list is unlikely to include sleigh bells right? will the source feel obligated to include the national? these are extreme examples, & as much crap as ive given FACT for just incorporating pitchfork values to dance music, at least they serve an audience that doesnt have that attention otherwise, like, they have a reason to exist

pitchfork used to publish the individual lists tho didnt they? i thought it was just recently they stopped doing it

"Bloodbuzz Ohio" by The National starts out with some really nice drums and then drowns them in wannabe Coldplay. Sorry guys, but I heard Editors first.

xpost we should really talk about that in depth as no one ever brings that crucial detail up in these threads year after year

pitchfork should publish the individual lists, i want to know what those guys think!!

so neither Deerhunter nor The National appears to be outright offensive but I can't really envision the universal itch they apparently scratch given their presence on so many of these lists

Exactly.

xpost well what im saying is that it's weird ppl would bring that up year after year, when pitchfork published individual lists in 2007 at least.. i mean how many years do you mean by 'year after year'

like, as much as I am not a fan of Joanna Newsom, I at least understand what makes her stand out; these guys seem to be the definition of "band you've heard before only with sharper publicists"

(lol ITT DJP answers his own questions)

arent the national fairly popular w indie fans? & ive been seeing the name 'deerhunter' on critics lists forever

by 'popular w/ indie fans' i mean in the sense that, like, they'll sell way more records than whatever indie buzz artist is big this yr

The National isn't really a "jumps out at you on first listen" kind of band, they have a boring sound but some of their songs are really strong and they grow on you after a while. That being said, their new album is not as good as their last two and I think a lot of the votes for it are just residual good feelings for Boxer and Alligator.

they're essentially indie rock comfort food

which isn't a put-down

I think you need to listen to more than just "Helicopter" to get a feel for what Deerhunter does. In fact, I'm not sure why that particular track is getting so much attention (outside of it being the "single") because I can think of 4-5 better tracks on the new album. Try "Desire Lines" for a good taste of the band's talent.