Deej's top 50 tracks list and top 20 albums list is excellent:
http://kingdrake1.tumblr.com/post/2679093152/david-drakes-top-50-songs-2010-1-husalah-you
― Tim F, Monday, 10 January 2011 12:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Albums list: http://kingdrake1.tumblr.com/post/2676636332/david-drakes-top-20-lps-2010-1-e-40-revenue
― Tim F, Monday, 10 January 2011 12:57 (thirteen years ago) link
that swedish house mafia is transcendent
― flopson, Monday, 10 January 2011 15:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Has there been much momentum behind the Jacka & Laroo record at all? Only heard it for the first time last week and loved it.
― Matt DC, Monday, 10 January 2011 15:40 (thirteen years ago) link
tim he put together a utube playlist upthread (tho it shld go from 1-50 imo, still cool obv)
― zvookster, Monday, 10 January 2011 15:47 (thirteen years ago) link
oh nm he linked all the youtubes @ yr link :o
― zvookster, Monday, 10 January 2011 15:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Christgau Dean's List (82 albums, 20 singles)
http://bnreview.barnesandnoble.com/t5/Rock-Roll/The-Dean-s-List-Christgau-s-Best-of-2010/ba-p/4023
And year-end essay
http://bnreview.barnesandnoble.com/t5/Rock-Roll/Live-Albums/ba-p/4025
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 22:11 (thirteen years ago) link
no way is nicholas payton 23
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 22:20 (thirteen years ago) link
He's saying Payton was 23 in 1997, when he made the album with Doc Cheatham (which looks about right, if Wiki is.)
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 22:28 (thirteen years ago) link
does xgau usually put old stuff in his list? there's a bunch of 2009 albums there, and his #8 single is from 2006.
― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 22:30 (thirteen years ago) link
He often applies the Pazz & Jop "Year Of Impact" rule (so do I), when it comes to releases he connected with the year after they technically came out. Though 2006 might be pushing things. (He's pushed things more in the past, though; i.e., naming the Clash's 1982 "Rock The Casbah" his #1 single of 2001.)
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 22:42 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i get the year of impact thing, though it makes way less sense for albums. what impact did lil wayne or nicki minaj's old mixtapes have in 2010?! and the 2006 single certainly didn't have any greater impact than this year than in the four previous.
― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 22:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Well, it apparently had more impact on him, which it what matters, since it's his list. (Not defending the 2006 choice, which I know nothing about. But also, I don't get how "late impact" can't happen just as much with albums as with singles -- especially, say, November or December releases that wind up breaking a couple hits the following year, or barely distributed albums on tiny labels that everybody ignored the year before. Not all critics feel the compulsion to hear albums the day they come out, thank God.)
― xhuxk, Thursday, 13 January 2011 00:05 (thirteen years ago) link
reposting this from Marathonpacks, v interesting:
The sales numbers for Pitchfork’s 2010 top 50 albums, as represented by the January 12 Soundscans (some weren’t present, of course). Erykah Badu and Hot Chip I ballparked based on the last charts they appeared on a couple months ago. Otherwise: listicle without commentary!50 Wavves – King of the Beach (18,563)49 Wild Nothing – Gemini (8,773)44 Kylesa – Spiral Shadow (7,778)43 Tame Impala – Innerspeaker (15,101)42 Drake – Thank Me Later (1,219,473)39 Best Coast – Crazy For You (48,296)38 Rick Ross – Teflon Don (541,299)35 Gorillaz – Plastic Beach (385,454)34 Crystal Castles – Crystal Castles (39,368)33 The Tallest Man on Earth – The Wild Hunt (35,524)29 The Fresh & Onlys – Play It Strange (3,633)28 The National – High Violet (211,615)27 Four Tet – There Is Love in You (22,228)26 Twin Shadow – Forget (10,985)25 Sufjan Stevens – The Age of Adz (100,405)24 Hot Chip – One Life Stand (~30k)22 Girls – Broken Dreams Club EP (10,266)21 The Walkmen – Lisbon (39,159)18 Erykah Badu – New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh (~300k)17 Caribou – Swim (33,803)16 Sleigh Bells – Treats (94,478)15 Robyn – Body Talk (23,869)14 Flying Lotus – Cosmogramma (33,574)13 No Age – Everything In Between (13,802)12 Janelle Monae – The ArchAndroid (129,152)11 Arcade Fire – The Suburbs (459,083)10 Titus Andronicus – The Monitor (26,090)09 Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Before Today (25,942)08 James Blake – The Bells Sketch EP / CMYK EP / Klavierwerke EP (511/4,091/na)07 Joanna Newsom – Have One on Me (48,754)06 Vampire Weekend – Contra (454,914)05 Beach House – Teen Dream (104,217)04 Big Boi – Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty (208,747)03 Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest (59,879)02 LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening (126,288)01 Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (915,391)
50 Wavves – King of the Beach (18,563)49 Wild Nothing – Gemini (8,773)44 Kylesa – Spiral Shadow (7,778)43 Tame Impala – Innerspeaker (15,101)42 Drake – Thank Me Later (1,219,473)39 Best Coast – Crazy For You (48,296)38 Rick Ross – Teflon Don (541,299)35 Gorillaz – Plastic Beach (385,454)34 Crystal Castles – Crystal Castles (39,368)33 The Tallest Man on Earth – The Wild Hunt (35,524)29 The Fresh & Onlys – Play It Strange (3,633)28 The National – High Violet (211,615)27 Four Tet – There Is Love in You (22,228)26 Twin Shadow – Forget (10,985)25 Sufjan Stevens – The Age of Adz (100,405)24 Hot Chip – One Life Stand (~30k)22 Girls – Broken Dreams Club EP (10,266)21 The Walkmen – Lisbon (39,159)18 Erykah Badu – New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh (~300k)17 Caribou – Swim (33,803)16 Sleigh Bells – Treats (94,478)15 Robyn – Body Talk (23,869)14 Flying Lotus – Cosmogramma (33,574)13 No Age – Everything In Between (13,802)12 Janelle Monae – The ArchAndroid (129,152)11 Arcade Fire – The Suburbs (459,083)10 Titus Andronicus – The Monitor (26,090)09 Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Before Today (25,942)08 James Blake – The Bells Sketch EP / CMYK EP / Klavierwerke EP (511/4,091/na)07 Joanna Newsom – Have One on Me (48,754)06 Vampire Weekend – Contra (454,914)05 Beach House – Teen Dream (104,217)04 Big Boi – Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty (208,747)03 Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest (59,879)02 LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening (126,288)01 Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (915,391)
some of these are genuinely sad to me! like, these are both FANTASTIC-- & i thought both had more big fans??
44 Kylesa – Spiral Shadow (7,778)27 Four Tet – There Is Love in You (22,228)
― ilxor this could be a standout thread for you imo (ilxor), Thursday, 13 January 2011 18:40 (thirteen years ago) link
You're seriously Kylesa and Four Tet have only sold that much?
― flutes & fucking mexican death horns (The Reverend), Thursday, 13 January 2011 19:44 (thirteen years ago) link
im surprised four tet sold that much
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Thursday, 13 January 2011 19:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah.
― flutes & fucking mexican death horns (The Reverend), Thursday, 13 January 2011 19:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Interesting to see the different brackets:
Drake/Kanye/Rick Ross >>> Arcade Fire/Vampire Weekend/Gorillaz >>> Erykah/Big Boi/National >>> LCD/Janelle/Beach House/Sleigh Bells/Sufjan >>> everyone else
I guess the Joanna Newsom album really stiffed in relation to her profile. Nothing else surprises me as much.
― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Thursday, 13 January 2011 20:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Are those stats US only?
― Captain Ostensible (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 13 January 2011 20:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Also, depending on chart rules, the Joanna Newsom might have only sold a third that many copies, surely? Doubles counting as two sales etc in the UK.
― Captain Ostensible (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 13 January 2011 20:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Those are US.
― flutes & fucking mexican death horns (The Reverend), Thursday, 13 January 2011 20:23 (thirteen years ago) link
07 Joanna Newsom – Have One on Me (48,754)
this is surprising no matter how sales are counted, i would've expected her up there at 100,000+ with sufjan, beach house, etc.
― ilxor this could be a standout thread for you imo (ilxor), Thursday, 13 January 2011 20:33 (thirteen years ago) link
I wouldn't have!
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Thursday, 13 January 2011 20:36 (thirteen years ago) link
I still have no idea who the hell Beach House are.
― flutes & fucking mexican death horns (The Reverend), Thursday, 13 January 2011 20:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Nor did I til a month ago and now it's one of my favourite records of the year. 104,217 Americans can't be wrong.
― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Thursday, 13 January 2011 20:43 (thirteen years ago) link
― flutes & fucking mexican death horns (The Reverend), Thursday, January 13, 2011 3:37 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark
lol rev we covered this earlier in this thread i think!
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 13 January 2011 21:00 (thirteen years ago) link
I just prefer thinking about Beach House as a bad Goa trance album name from 1998 on Moonshine.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 13 January 2011 21:03 (thirteen years ago) link
I would still prefer that to the actual Beach House
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Thursday, 13 January 2011 21:05 (thirteen years ago) link
lol you listen to beach house
― ilxor this could be a standout thread for you imo (ilxor), Thursday, 13 January 2011 21:28 (thirteen years ago) link
they are good. it's crazy they sold 100 000+ copies! they seem like really great people, too. didn't listen to the new album much but devotion is an all time classic
― flopson, Thursday, 13 January 2011 22:19 (thirteen years ago) link
15k in the US for Tame Impala is pretty impressive since, afaik, it still hasn't been given a domestic release (Amazon still has only the import for like $30)
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 13 January 2011 22:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Don't know if this has been posted yet:
Geoffrey Himes' Top 100 Albums of 2010
http://option-magazine.com/2011/01/01/himes-hundred-best-albums-of-2010/
― jetfan, Friday, 14 January 2011 18:45 (thirteen years ago) link
awesome!
― some dude, Friday, 14 January 2011 18:52 (thirteen years ago) link