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

also fuck james blake

where do i sign up?

really?! nah.

gimme drop the lime/jackmaster/toddla t/jam city/joy orbison/egyptrixx any day

we could probably start a whole separate poll....

Put some chix in it.

plenty of hawt female producers in this ~scene~ too

James Blake vocal album to dominate next year's lists? I'm pretty perplexed at the hype he's getting.

I can't be the only person that thought LCD were spudjged out at #12 and was surprised to see them reappear at #3. I don't mind 'I Can Change' but it does sound like it was written to be bedding music on a top 100 countdown. In fact I'll be prepared to bet it gets used in Channel 4's Top 100 Toys this weekend.

me too - i find his stuff pretty lifeless and awkward tbh. it's weird, i hear music by a ton of producers in this scene, and i actively dislike very very few - when it's bad it's just boring or uninspired - but i def dislike his stuff. and yet, here we are, crossover hype. it should be girl unit getting all of this tbh.

xp

Suppose he ticks a lot of boxes, dubstep influence, messing around with R&B samples but moving towards more traditional songcraft. Yep, he's gonna be inescapable.

Tainted by Newsom in the top 10...otherwise, it's decent.

― Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, December 14, 2010 7:21 AM (2 hours ago)

I definitely agree with this.

I was surprised it was I Can Change so high, I do like it but Dance Yrself Clean is obviously the best song on that album.

Pleased with their Arcade Fire choice in the top 10, I wasn't a fan of the album at all but that's a great song.

not a list per se, but i always enjoy reading dusted magazine's idiosyncratic year-end wrap-up feature.

Yeah, no matter what other lists do Dusted is guaranteed to be 90% stuff I never knew existed.

So glad to see "Desire Lines" up that high. I realize it wasn't an official "single" and thats why it hasn't been popping up on lists that are defined by such, but such an amazing song.

Dance Yrself Clean is obviously the best song on that album.

^^

I was surprised it was I Can Change so high, I do like it but Dance Yrself Clean is obviously the best song on that album.

Pleased with their Arcade Fire choice in the top 10, I wasn't a fan of the album at all but that's a great song.

― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, December 14, 2010 4:26 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Yes and Yes.

If this is true maybe I might actually give that album a chance.

Wait Ned, you've been avoiding Sleigh Bells because of "Rill Rill"??? Did no one tell you that there are 2/3 songs on there where they are channeling Lush via dance beats?

I've heard a rumor to the effect. (Crucial difference between them and School of Seven Bells -- the latter did not have a really annoying song oversold to me as the greatest new thing around that put me off further investigation.)

I have to agree with the general anti-"Rill Rill" sentiment. I like the song just fine and think it's a nice little respite on the album, but it seems weird that a publication such as Pitchfork would praise the band with great hyperbole for it's trademark sound and then pick the one song where they do the complete opposite sound as the best example of their musical talent. "Tell Em'" seems the obvious choice to me.

I like "Rill Rill" well enough but that is so not my go-to song on the album; that would be "Run the Heart":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA9LyxbA6GI

when that beat comes in, everything in the world makes more sense

Sleigh Bells have appropriate initials imo.

OUT

Unless you mean "significantly badass"

"Crown on the Ground" is fucking tight, too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z8ppcFGPlY&feature=related

Infinity Guitars was the one that finally hooked me, but I don't think it's one that falls neatly into the "Lush-in-the-red" category.

Sleigh Bells' performance opening for LCD Soundsystem was one of the most awful things I've ever seen.

i've only heard "tell 'em" by sleigh bells and i absolutely loathed it

Rill Rill is like the only song on that album I DON'T like, I have no idea why everyone rallys round it

That's definitely not a peanut butter and jelly show bill. More like peanut butter and dijonaise. xp

"Crown on the Ground" was on P4k's list last year.

u right

definitely some good stuff in the pitchfork list aside from their continued obsession with the "deep" soul-searching LCD tracks. they are extremely good at picking the best tracks on indie rock albums (e.g. "Desire Lines") and then go for the most maudlin bullshit on every new Murphy CD.

I wasn't making suggestions for what should be on the list, I was trying to get Ned to hear Sleigh Bells!

why is "run the heart" produced to make the listener feel like they have tinnitus

how can you claim to like club music and then ask questions like that

The whole album is like that.

It took me months not to hate it, and now I actually love it.

Dan, since u r here, did you see this from the other day? Whatcha listening to 2010?

i like club music that sounds pristine and totally polished!

that constant high-pitched tinnitus thing in sleigh bells songs would be AWFUL in a club

Half the bands I saw in clubs in the 90s played through horrible pa systems that sounded just like that.

I did see that, just haven't gotten to it

Lex, that Sleigh Bells album is about bombastic musical extremes; you are essentially genetically predisposed to dislike it.

omg that Niki & the Dove track, I am sold by the first 10 seconds

maybe you actually have tinnitus, lex -- sleigh bells sounds totally pristine and polished to the rest of us

omg that Niki & the Dove track, I am sold by the first 10 seconds

― "Kiss Players♥" (DJP), Tuesday, December 14, 2010 10:11 AM

I thought you might be.

So "Run the Heart" is definitely better than "Rill Rill" but...it's not the end of the world?

"Crown on the Ground" isn't really doing it for me either, then again that sounds like a pretty cruddy low kbps rip. (If it's meant to sound like that then I don't know what to think.)

"why is "run the heart" produced to make the listener feel like they have tinnitus"

yeah, i hope none of the people who make this kind of stuff own dogs. that would just be cruel.

(If it's meant to sound like that then I don't know what to think.)

It's intentional.