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

I'm still perplexed why anyone would compared Robyn and Lady Gaga, who sound/look/etc totally different and have a completely different MO. Anyway, as a fan of both, I wonder honestly if Gaga would merit if the visual component were not so strong - if she didn't make epic gonzo videos, wear meat dresses, light things on fire, etc. Robyn, on the other hand, seems to be gaining traction minus those (cool!) peripherals. Despite a thinner voice and starker beats, she doesn't seem to need them the way Gaga does.

I still see them as the two leading female electropop stars, although Robyn sadly hasn't managed to have the same kind of enormous superstar success that Lady Gaga does.

i read that as matthew boner

How are Xeno and Oaklander avant rock? (It's a good list and everything...)

The Wire - Hip Hop 2010

Cam'Ron & Vado ft. Kid Cudi - Ur Killin Me
Lil B - 6 Kiss
Roc Marciano - Marcberg
Travis Porter - Proud To Be A Problem
Rick Ross ft. Styles P - BMF (Blowin' Money Fast)
Tyler The Creator - Bastard
Waka Flocka Flame - Flockaveli
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Young Dro - Freeze Me
Young L - Young L-E-N

is that hua hsu

"Compiled by Andrew Nosnitsky"

http://i.imgur.com/atnU6.jpg

aka noz. weird to mix tracks & records in such a short list

Noz otm

noz is really repping for that cam & vado track, it's good but it seems like a weird choice given all the great songs they had this year

Listening to the Rangers now and it's fine (super-boring band name and album title though), but I would not have thought that sounding vaguely like Ashra Tempel would make something "avant-rock." This and the other stuff I've listened to from that Wire list so far all sounds like I could have been listening to it in the early 80s, which is fine I guess.

Wait, Michael Hurley is considered "avant rock" now?? (Guessing his records are still too slow and quiet for me regardless, but you never know. Still wish he'd make something like Have Moicy! again.)

The criterion for being "avant" is just that it gets covered in The Wire, I think. God forbid they would write about anything other than the cutting edge (or admit to it).

i got nothing bad to say about the wire. someone has to write about that stuff. might as well be them. they do a good job. do kinda wish there was a Wire-y Option-esque monthly in the states though.

xp Then why do they need to have a separate "avant rock" list? Wouldn't that just be the same as their regular list? (Oh wait, the other stuff would be avant non-rock, maybe. I should probably read The Wire more, and I wouldn't ask such dumb questions.)

Btw, speaking of metal lists (as Scott sort of was), I think my favorite thing in the Decibel year-end issue is that the Agalloch/Ludicra guy put Blessure Grave's Judged By Twelve, Carried By Six in his Top Five. I was starting to think I was the only person who even noticed that record. (My goth album of the year, probably, if I had one. Unless Chrome Dome's EP counts, maybe.)

i like young l but thats not top ten material imo

i like all that shit except Lil B and there's def a lot in there that's not top 10 material

kinda wish there was a Wire-y Option-esque monthly in the states

Or better yet, Op-esque!

sounding vaguely like Ashra Tempel

Or sometimes Durutti Column, or some lost very Krautrock/prog. influenced post-punk band.

I'm not trying to attack the Wire, really, which is kind of a passe activity at this point. I'll take the Rangers over any of the major indie rock releases I've heard from this year.

Signal To Noise is American, right?

actually when i think about it, young L makes perfect sense as an act that the wire should be into

The reason it's called Avant Rock is because that is a monthly reviews section in The Wire. The Wire has a large, long general reviews section which covers all genres with a few featured reviews and then various subgenres have one page each of about ~10 1-2 paragraph reviews. So the Avant Rock is just a wire-designated subgenre that they use to organize reviews. They also have a review section called "Outer Limits" which is significantly more vague and broad than "Avant Rock." I would say Avant Rock roughly spans the line of accessibility from indie-crossover territory (Ariel Pink) to "anything using a guitar" (Bill Orcutt). Rangers and Xeno & Oaklander are the only dubious inclusions under that rubric.

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I think so. I won't buy it any more because the print is too small and the text is too close to the binding. Also Signal to Noise is a little more: interviews with people who do pirate radio broadcasts of electro-acoustic improv out in the middle of Utah.

It must mean something because I think I tend to end up liking things labeled "avant rock" more than I do things labeled indie rock.

i was reading some old signal to noise issues. they are interesting. they really like sun ra.

would be interested to read whiney/deej's picks for 2010 hiphop top 10

i usually do a top 25—i'll drop that in January.

Bick B -- please post The Wire's Outer Limits and Electronica lists next! :)

sorry, Nick :(

noz likes the kanye? u________u

Why don't you guys go support the Wire and buy a copy, ffs

FYI, YOU WHINEY G, my fkn subsriber's copy hasnnae gotten here yet! FFS :D

xp - ha!

My subscription copy hasn't arrived yet. Snow disruption innit.

i think it's whiney g who, out of spite, 's holding back our copies. ffs, too.

WHINEY GIVE US OUR WIRES

Expo 70 sounds like electronic music 1981 (with some sort of Pauline Oliveros accordion drone intro--or was that not an accordion?).

The Wire - Outer Limits 2010

Alessandro Bosetti - Zwolfzungen
Cold Cave/Prurient - Stars Explode
Emeralds - Does It Look Like I'm Here?
Evil Moisture - If You Want To Fuck The Sky, Teach Your Cock To Fly
Robin Fox - A Handful Of Automation
The Haters/Hal Hutchinson - Xylowave 2010/Amplification II
Hum Of The Druid - Norse Fumigation
Rolf Julius - Music For The Ears
Keranen - Bats In The Attic
Monos - Above The Sky
Pedestrian Deposit - East Fork/North Fork
Dave Phillips - ?
Sculpture - Rotary Signal Emitter
Sudden Infant - My Life's A Gunshot
Vomit - Resonance

Evil Moisture - If You Want To Fuck The Sky, Teach Your Cock To Fly

I don't believe in any of those.

The Wire - Electronica 2010

Luke Abbott - Holkham Drones
J Bliebz x Shamantis - U Smile 800% Slower
James Blake - Klavierwerke
Franz Bretschneider - EXP
Cluster - Qua
Ekoplekz - Stalag Zero/Distended Dub
Kangding Ray - Pruitt Igoe
Loveliescrushing - Crwth
Nest - Retold
Philippe Petit - Off To Titan
Raime - Raime EP
Nicholas Szczepanik - Dear Dad
T++ - Wireless
David Tagg - Pentecost
Vex'd - Cloud Seed

J Bliebz x Shamantis - U Smile 800% Slower

awes

i nominated this in the tracks poll (tho under jbieb only)

will be proselytizing in its favour in the weeks to come

the wire EOY issue is always worth getting btw

Shit, I did a typo there, maybe I was thinking about Blieb Alien

http://realniggatumblr.tumblr.com/post/2365720006/rnts-top-25-tracks-of-2010-that-went-under-the

Yo Gotti (feat.Rick Ross, Young Jeezy, and The Clipse)-“Cocaine Muzik”
E-40 (feat.Clyde Carson & Husalah)-“Lightweight Jammin”
Plies-“Boosie”
Gucci Mane & Waka Flocka Flame-“Bite Me”
Stunnaman (feat.Young L)-“Paper Birds”
Juicy J (feat.Billy Wes & Mac Pooh)-“Styrofoam Cup”
Meek Mill-“Indian Bounce”
Playaz Circle (feat.Young Buck)-“Issues”
Jackie Chain (feat.D Love)-“Long Way”
Rittz-“My Time Is Now”
Diezel (feat.Jadakiss, Alley Boy, and Count)-“Straight Off The Block”
G-Side (feat.Chris Lee)-“Money In The Sky”
Mookie Jones (feat.Smoke DZA)-“Cloud Making Machine”
Mike Bigga (feat.Ludacris & Game)-“Still My Nigga”
Jim Jones (feat. Joell Ortiz & Chink Santana)-“Cocaine Dreams”
Tity Boi (feat.Dolla Boi)-“Not Ya Ordinary”
David Banner-“Who’s That”
French Montana (feat.Project Pat & Juicy J)-“Money, Weed, Blow”
Tay Don-“Robbin Season”
Yukmouth-“Grittin”
Freddie Gibbs (feat.Pill)-“Do Wrong”
KD-“Better Than Mine”
L.E.P. Bogus Boys-“Goin’ In For The Kill”
Alley Boy-“Shiester”
Skroodle-“Get Yo Shit Right”

I know one place where "LIGHTWEIGHT JAMMIN" didn't go under the radar

RNT = rap blog of the year

http://gifsofpopularrappers.tumblr.com/

"Alessandro Bosetti - Zwolfzungen"

nice! so that makes dusted, the wire, and me big upping the bosetti.

its too bad that this is all i think of when someone references st. pete, FL, even if its a rapper named Skroodle

Wait, Michael Hurley is considered "avant rock" now?? (Guessing his records are still too slow and quiet for me regardless, but you never know. Still wish he'd make something like Have Moicy! again.)

― xhuxk, Saturday, December 18, 2010 12:53 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

if you get a chance you should check out the Ida Con Snock LP from last year, more energy than any Hurley record in, well, uh, decades.