Hope you like MGMT guys.
1 MGMT Kids2 Glasvegas Geraldine3 Mystery Jets Two Doors Down4 MGMT Time To Pretend5 MGMT Electric Feel6 Metronomy Heartbreaker7 Friendly Fires Paris Is Burning8 MIA Paper Planes9 Kings of Leon Sex On Fire10 Vampire Weekend A-Punk11 The Verve Love Is Noise12 Hot Chip Ready For The Floor13 Elbow One Day Like This14 Florence and The Machine Kiss With A Fist15 Ladyhawke Paris Is Burning16 Oasis The Shock of The Lightning17 Spiritualized Soul on Fire18 Hercules and Love Affair Blind19 Oasis I'm Out of Time20 Chairlift Bruises21 TV on the Radio Golden Age22 The Last Shadow Puppets Standing Next To Me23 Fucked Up Year of The Pig24 Santagold LES Artistes25 Mystery Jets Young Love26 Amazing Baby Head Dress27 The Last Shadow Puppets The Age of The Understatement28 Elbow Grounds For Divorce29 DJ Mujava Township Funk30 Florence and The Machine Dog Days Are Over31 Laura Marling Ghosts32 Black Kids I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You33 Vampire Weekend Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa34 Late Of The Pier Space An The Woods35 Ladyhawke Back of The Van36 Little Boots Stuck on Repeat37 Wiley Wearing My Rolex38 Sam Sparro Black & Gold39 Vampire Weekend Oxford Comma40 Heartbreak We're Back41 Dizzee Rascal Dance Wiv Me42 Late Of The Pier Focker43 Glasvegas It's My Own Cheating Heart That Makes ME Cry44 Crystal Castles Courtship Dating45 Crystal Castles Crimewave46 Mogwai Batcat47 Portishead Machine Gun48 Cave & the Bad Seeds, Nick Dig!! Lazarus, Dig!!!49 Glasvegas Flowers and Football Tops50 Maria, Ida Oh My God
As per usual any good choices spoilt by the ridiculous
― Mitchell Stirling, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 09:11 (fifteen years ago) link
jesus fucking christ
― you brought me home to this funky house (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 09:12 (fifteen years ago) link
50 Maria, Ida Oh My God
^^ida maria otm
― you brought me home to this funky house (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 09:13 (fifteen years ago) link
7 Friendly Fires Paris Is Burning
no such song exists
i do dig that florence & the machine track, had no idea it was some sort of popular thing
― thereminimum chips (electricsound), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 09:17 (fifteen years ago) link
The whiter than white NME EoY lists with token Rolex and Dizzee/Calvin input.
It is, seriously, a disgrace.
― Brother Belcher (Marcello Carlin), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 09:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Should be Paris, blame Excel for thinking ahead.
― Mitchell Stirling, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 09:24 (fifteen years ago) link
why is this surprising? i can't remember nme being ever being legit, but they probably were there in the 80s for a bit
― psychgawsple, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 09:54 (fifteen years ago) link
ooooh rhyming!
fresh
― thereminimum chips (electricsound), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 09:58 (fifteen years ago) link
That NME list is hilarious. No one can claim they aren't on-brand I suppose.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 10:17 (fifteen years ago) link
26 Amazing Baby Head Dress
Which bit of this is the band name and which bit is the song title?
29 DJ Mujava Township Funk
Any idea what this is? I am assuming 'fake baile funk remix of Nirvana'.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 10:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Not quite - DJ Mujava's MySpace page is here. And the video for "Township Funk" can be found here.
― Brother Belcher (Marcello Carlin), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 10:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Amazing Baby is the group, "Head Dress" is the song and they are here.
― Brother Belcher (Marcello Carlin), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 10:26 (fifteen years ago) link
matt u have almost certainly heard 'township funk' - it has been EVERYWHERE this year
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 10:27 (fifteen years ago) link
it's ok, much better when u hear it in clubs, at home it's a bit duhn duhn duhn though
That Classic Rock list is kind of beautiful. They know what they like, and do not sheepishly shoehorn in token albums from other genres to feign diversity.
agree w/this!! worst thing about so many indie lists is the tiny nod they give to other genres, as if they're somehow claiming to represent the entirety of popular music just cuz they have one hip-hop writer (to 20 indie writers obv)
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 10:29 (fifteen years ago) link
actually i'm listening to 'township funk' again and i was wrong, it is a bit of a monster at home as well. the ashley beedle mix is even better!
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 10:40 (fifteen years ago) link
yes. it's disgusting. how dare they like things from outside their assigned genre?
― m the g, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 11:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Wilful misunderstanding of a point, classic internet flourish there
― The Biggest Event In The History Of Ethnic Comedy (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 12:16 (fifteen years ago) link
I understand the point, but dispute its validity.
― m the g, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 12:31 (fifteen years ago) link
The Classic Rock list is by and large an excellent specialist genre list obviously compiled by experts who know their stuff and love it.
But still, Dig Lazarus Dig! WHY???
― Brother Belcher (Marcello Carlin), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 12:35 (fifteen years ago) link
I knew MGMT was gonna sweep the middlebrow contingent.
I do like them but.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 12:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Best Album On NME' s 2008 Albums Of The Year List?
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 13:21 (fifteen years ago) link
are the NME lists staff-picked or reader-votes? really can't tell anymore
― Yentl vs Predator (blueski), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 13:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Staff
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 13:25 (fifteen years ago) link
WIRE top ten:
10. Caretaker - Persstant Repetition9. The Fall - Imperial Wax Solvent8. William S Burroughs - Real English Tea7. Evangelista - Hello Voyager6. Advisory Circle - Other Channels5. Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna4. John Butcher - Resonant Spaces3. The Hospitals - Hairdryer Peace2. Philip Jeck - Sand1. The Bug - London Zoo
― NickB, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 13:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Have the fifty in front of me - Luomo at 18, Tricky(!) at 26 and Portishead at 38 amongst other things.
― NickB, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 13:32 (fifteen years ago) link
post it!
― uәʇɹɐƃu!әʍ ˙ƃ ʎәu!Ⴁʍ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 14:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Do a poll!
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 14:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah right, I'm not typing all that lot in.
― NickB, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 14:46 (fifteen years ago) link
You did 10.
Do 40 more. I'll paypal you a dollar.
― uәʇɹɐƃu!әʍ ˙ƃ ʎәu!Ⴁʍ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 14:47 (fifteen years ago) link
take a picture i'll last longer
― Yentl vs Predator (blueski), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 14:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Err, yuck.
― NickB, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 14:49 (fifteen years ago) link
suggestion, list them in blocks of ten
― djmartian, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 14:51 (fifteen years ago) link
7. Evangelista - Hello Voyager
^^ nice to finally see this in a mag's top ten
― the cef (united nations children's fund ha ha) (some dude), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 14:53 (fifteen years ago) link
I typed the wire lists out before. But it wasnt in WH Smiths in Hamilton today.
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 14:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Okay, under duress:
WIRE cont.
20. Stephan Mathieu - Radioland19. Bill Dixon - 17 Musicians...18. Luomo - Convivial17. Dusk + Blackdown - Margins Music16. Autechre - Quaristice15. Kasai Allstars - In the 7th Moon14. Eric Chenaux - Sloppy Ground13. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Dig thingy12. Ryoji Ikeda - Test Pattern11. Kevin Drumm - Imperial Distortion
That's 20 cents pal.
― NickB, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 15:00 (fifteen years ago) link
how do we know you're not making this up?
― Yentl vs Predator (blueski), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 15:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Dig Thingy = much better title
xpost Yeah, like "Kasai Allstars" is even a thing.
― Manchego Bay (G00blar), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 15:02 (fifteen years ago) link
WIRE pt III
30. Terry Riley - The Last Camel in Paris29. Earth - The Bees Made Honey...28. Scorces - I Turn Into You27. Arther Russell - Love Is Overtaking Me26. Tricky - Knowle West Boy25. Robert Ashley - Concrete24. Jandek - Glasgow Sunday 200523. Group Inerane - Guitars From Agadez22. Hercules & Love Affair - s/t21. Lukas Ligeti - Afrikan Machinery
― NickB, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 15:09 (fifteen years ago) link
23. Group Inerane - Guitars From Agadez
I wanna hear this!
28. Scorces - I Turn Into You
David Keenan's wife band LOL
― NickB, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 15:10 (fifteen years ago) link
i'd like to see one list that just ignores all artists who've been around 15 years or more. yeah that's facile but a little 'yeah yeah they've still got it but there's too much new decent stuff to bother much with them right now' statement wouldn't go amiss
― Yentl vs Predator (blueski), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 15:11 (fifteen years ago) link
WIRE 40-31
40. Jakob Ullmann - Voice, Books and Fire 339. Toumani Diabate - Mande Variations38. Portishead - Third37. Maryanne Amacher - Sound Characters 236. Emeralds - Solar Bridge35. Vampire Weekend - s/t34. Harvey Milk - Life...33. Stereo Image - s/t32. Christina Carter - Masque Femine31. Malcolm Goldstein - A Sounding of Sources
― NickB, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 15:17 (fifteen years ago) link
WIRE last bit
50. Sao Paulo Underground - Long ass album title49. Ellen Fullman and Monique Buzzarte - Fluctuations48. Sic Alps - US EZ47. Mark Stewart - Edit46. Alva Noto - Unitxt45. Peter Rehberg - Works for GV44. Josephine Foster - This Coming Gladness43. Murcof - Versailles Sessions42. Vajra - Live41. Dave Grubbs - An Optimist Notes the Dust
― NickB, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 15:23 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't know why I typed 'em backwards either.
― NickB, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 15:24 (fifteen years ago) link
now for the genre lists!
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 15:24 (fifteen years ago) link
backwards made it easier to do this
The Wire
50. Sao Paulo Underground - Long ass album title49. Ellen Fullman and Monique Buzzarte - Fluctuations48. Sic Alps - US EZ47. Mark Stewart - Edit46. Alva Noto - Unitxt45. Peter Rehberg - Works for GV44. Josephine Foster - This Coming Gladness43. Murcof - Versailles Sessions42. Vajra - Live41. Dave Grubbs - An Optimist Notes the Dust40. Jakob Ullmann - Voice, Books and Fire 339. Toumani Diabate - Mande Variations38. Portishead - Third37. Maryanne Amacher - Sound Characters 236. Emeralds - Solar Bridge35. Vampire Weekend - s/t34. Harvey Milk - Life...33. Stereo Image - s/t32. Christina Carter - Masque Femine31. Malcolm Goldstein - A Sounding of Sources30. Terry Riley - The Last Camel in Paris29. Earth - The Bees Made Honey...28. Scorces - I Turn Into You27. Arther Russell - Love Is Overtaking Me26. Tricky - Knowle West Boy25. Robert Ashley - Concrete24. Jandek - Glasgow Sunday 200523. Group Inerane - Guitars From Agadez22. Hercules & Love Affair - s/t21. Lukas Ligeti - Afrikan Machinery20. Stephan Mathieu - Radioland19. Bill Dixon - 17 Musicians...18. Luomo - Convivial17. Dusk + Blackdown - Margins Music16. Autechre - Quaristice15. Kasai Allstars - In the 7th Moon14. Eric Chenaux - Sloppy Ground13. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Dig thingy12. Ryoji Ikeda - Test Pattern11. Kevin Drumm - Imperial Distortion10. Caretaker - Persstant Repetition9. The Fall - Imperial Wax Solvent8. William S Burroughs - Real English Tea7. Evangelista - Hello Voyager6. Advisory Circle - Other Channels5. Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna4. John Butcher - Resonant Spaces3. The Hospitals - Hairdryer Peace2. Philip Jeck - Sand1. The Bug - London Zoo
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 15:25 (fifteen years ago) link
There's 12 genres! The page starts at Aufgehoben, ends at Robert Wyatt, lots of stuff in between. x-post
― NickB, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 15:26 (fifteen years ago) link
When does Marcello's 2008 albums list get published?
― djmartian, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 15:27 (fifteen years ago) link