Year-End Critics' Polls '08

Okay, under duress:

WIRE cont.

20. Stephan Mathieu - Radioland
19. Bill Dixon - 17 Musicians...
18. Luomo - Convivial
17. Dusk + Blackdown - Margins Music
16. Autechre - Quaristice
15. Kasai Allstars - In the 7th Moon
14. Eric Chenaux - Sloppy Ground
13. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Dig thingy
12. Ryoji Ikeda - Test Pattern
11. Kevin Drumm - Imperial Distortion

That's 20 cents pal.

how do we know you're not making this up?

Dig Thingy = much better title

xpost Yeah, like "Kasai Allstars" is even a thing.

WIRE pt III

30. Terry Riley - The Last Camel in Paris
29. Earth - The Bees Made Honey...
28. Scorces - I Turn Into You
27. Arther Russell - Love Is Overtaking Me
26. Tricky - Knowle West Boy
25. Robert Ashley - Concrete
24. Jandek - Glasgow Sunday 2005
23. Group Inerane - Guitars From Agadez
22. Hercules & Love Affair - s/t
21. Lukas Ligeti - Afrikan Machinery

23. Group Inerane - Guitars From Agadez

I wanna hear this!

28. Scorces - I Turn Into You

David Keenan's wife band LOL

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

WIRE 40-31

40. Jakob Ullmann - Voice, Books and Fire 3
39. Toumani Diabate - Mande Variations
38. Portishead - Third
37. Maryanne Amacher - Sound Characters 2
36. Emeralds - Solar Bridge
35. Vampire Weekend - s/t
34. Harvey Milk - Life...
33. Stereo Image - s/t
32. Christina Carter - Masque Femine
31. Malcolm Goldstein - A Sounding of Sources

WIRE last bit

50. Sao Paulo Underground - Long ass album title
49. Ellen Fullman and Monique Buzzarte - Fluctuations
48. Sic Alps - US EZ
47. Mark Stewart - Edit
46. Alva Noto - Unitxt
45. Peter Rehberg - Works for GV
44. Josephine Foster - This Coming Gladness
43. Murcof - Versailles Sessions
42. Vajra - Live
41. Dave Grubbs - An Optimist Notes the Dust

I don't know why I typed 'em backwards either.

now for the genre lists!

backwards made it easier to do this

The Wire

50. Sao Paulo Underground - Long ass album title
49. Ellen Fullman and Monique Buzzarte - Fluctuations
48. Sic Alps - US EZ
47. Mark Stewart - Edit
46. Alva Noto - Unitxt
45. Peter Rehberg - Works for GV
44. Josephine Foster - This Coming Gladness
43. Murcof - Versailles Sessions
42. Vajra - Live
41. Dave Grubbs - An Optimist Notes the Dust
40. Jakob Ullmann - Voice, Books and Fire 3
39. Toumani Diabate - Mande Variations
38. Portishead - Third
37. Maryanne Amacher - Sound Characters 2
36. Emeralds - Solar Bridge
35. Vampire Weekend - s/t
34. Harvey Milk - Life...
33. Stereo Image - s/t
32. Christina Carter - Masque Femine
31. Malcolm Goldstein - A Sounding of Sources
30. Terry Riley - The Last Camel in Paris
29. Earth - The Bees Made Honey...
28. Scorces - I Turn Into You
27. Arther Russell - Love Is Overtaking Me
26. Tricky - Knowle West Boy
25. Robert Ashley - Concrete
24. Jandek - Glasgow Sunday 2005
23. Group Inerane - Guitars From Agadez
22. Hercules & Love Affair - s/t
21. Lukas Ligeti - Afrikan Machinery
20. Stephan Mathieu - Radioland
19. Bill Dixon - 17 Musicians...
18. Luomo - Convivial
17. Dusk + Blackdown - Margins Music
16. Autechre - Quaristice
15. Kasai Allstars - In the 7th Moon
14. Eric Chenaux - Sloppy Ground
13. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Dig thingy
12. Ryoji Ikeda - Test Pattern
11. Kevin Drumm - Imperial Distortion
10. Caretaker - Persstant Repetition
9. The Fall - Imperial Wax Solvent
8. William S Burroughs - Real English Tea
7. Evangelista - Hello Voyager
6. Advisory Circle - Other Channels
5. Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna
4. John Butcher - Resonant Spaces
3. The Hospitals - Hairdryer Peace
2. Philip Jeck - Sand
1. The Bug - London Zoo

There's 12 genres! The page starts at Aufgehoben, ends at Robert Wyatt, lots of stuff in between. x-post

When does Marcello's 2008 albums list get published?

backwards lists = UNACCEPTABLE

Oh, I bought London Zoo yesterday! Good, innit?

is there an avant rock one? id like to see that. Outer Limits is usually good too.

Avant Rock: AufgehobenBurningStarCoreBirchvilleCatMotelBlackMountainDeadCEatSkullFabDiamondsGrowingHairPolishHospitalsHototogisuReligiousKnivesScorcesAlexTuckerValet

agree w/this!! worst thing about so many indie lists is the tiny nod they give to other genres...

I do like the genre magazine lists because they dig deeper than most, though I also appreciate the lists from bloggers and others that are diverse, when it seems that they honestly like and listen to all that stuff.

Thanks for The Wire list NickB.

Other lists show Matmos and Excepter love, go ILX!

In defence of the NME, the blurbs for the albums are much longer than the past few years.

AMG Pop (alphabetical)

Erykah Badu - New Amerykah, Pt. 1: 4th World War
Benga - Diary of an Afro Warrior
Black Milk - Tronic
Brian Blade Fellowship - Season of Changes
Anthony Braxton - Beyond Quantum
Lindsey Buckingham - Gift of Screws
Buena Vista Social Club - At Carnegie Hall
Calexico - Carried to Dust
Los Campesinos - Hold on Now, Youngster…
James Carter - Present Tense
Coldplay - Viva la Vida
Elvis Costello & the Imposters - Momofuku
Rodney Crowell - Sex and Gasoline
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
Deerhoof - Offend Maggie
Deerhunter - Microcastle
Raheem DeVaughn - Love Behind the Melody
Lila Downs - Shake Away/Ojo de Culebra
Duffy - Rockferry
The Fireman - Electric Arguments
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
The Foreign Exchange - Leave It All Behind
Foxboro Hot Tubs - Stop Drop and Roll!!!
Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree
Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
Juliana Hatfield - How to Walk Away
Hot Chip - Made in the Dark
Jazzanova - Of All the Things
Kelley Polar - I Need You to Hold on While the Sky Is Falling
The Kills - Midnight Boom
B.B. King - One Kind Favor
Solange Knowles - Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams
Femi Kuti - Day by Day
Leila - Blood, Looms and Blooms
Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue
Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
Shelby Lynne - Just a Little Lovin’
M83 - Saturdays=Youth
Madlib - WLIB AM: King of the Wigflip
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
Mogwai - The Hawk Is Howling
Ne-Yo - Year of the Gentleman
Willie Nelson/Wynton Marsalis - Two Men with the Blues
The New Year - The New Year
Randy Newman - Harps and Angels
No Age - Nouns
Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul
Osborne - Osborne
Portishead - Third
Q-Tip - The Renaissance
The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
Steve Reid Ensemble - Daxaar
R.E.M. - Accelerate
Robyn - Robyn (US Bonus Track)
Santogold - Santogold
Stereolab - Chemical Chords
George Strait - Troubadour
Jazmine Sullivan - Fearless
Taylor Swift - Fearless
Times New Viking - Rip It Off
TV on the Radio - Dear Science
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
Weezer - Weezer (Red Album)
Paul Weller - 22 Dreams

Blimey, at long last a list without freaking Dig Lazarus Bastard Dig in it!

Rolling Stone's Top 50 albums: http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/24958695/albums_of_the_year/31

I'll type up the singles list shortly (not on website, as far as I can tell)

"JOCKSON Browne"????

Spicoli?

JOCKSON Browne = after consumption of Tennent's Super

Rolling Stone's Top 100 Singles

1. Beyonce, "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)"
2. Santogold, "L.E.S. Artistes"
3. MGMT, "Time to Pretend"
4. Blitzen Trapper, "Furr"
5. Lil Wayne, "Lollipop"
6. Beck, "Gamma Ray"
7. Estelle ft. Kanye West, "American Boy"
8. My Morning Jacket, "I'm Amazed"
9. Coldplay, "Viva La Vida"
10. T.I., "No Matter What"
11. Rihanna, "Disturbia"
12. TV on the Radio, "Golden Age"
13. Ryan Adams & the Cardinals, "Magick"
14. The BPA ft. David Byrne & Dizzee Rascal, "Toe Jam"
15. Al Green, "Lay It Down"
16. Young Jeezy, "My President"
17. The Killers, "Spaceman"
18. Kid Rock, "All Summer Long"
19. Guns N' Roses, "Better"
20. Katy Perry, "I Kissed a Girl"

I'm not sure I'm going to bother with the rest, honestly.

^^AMG: Finally Deerhoof!

The BPA ft. David Byrne & Dizzee Rascal, "Toe Jam"

This is made up, right?

Rong.

terrible song, good video

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 (1 hour ago) Bookmark

The NME list is made for you then.

They still put Spz, Cave, Verve, Primal Scream in tho

Rolling Stone : 12 | Guns n' Roses: Chinese Democracy

They had this ranking all gift-wrapped and ready to go by September, didn't they?

Steve your rule would have knocked Pulp out of the reckoning by the time they released This Is Hardcore.

The Wire has plenty of obscure titles as usual. The tricky part is figuring out which ones are any fun. Will investigate Jeck, Hospitals, Butcher, Caretaker, Ikeda, Dusk + Blackdown for starters.

I remember getting that David'n'Dizzee single and thinking it sucked, but if not for its mention here would have totally forgotten

The best music of 2008 by The A.V. Club staff
http://rateyourmusic.com/list/change/the_best_music_of_2008_by_the_a_v__club_staff

Steve your rule would have knocked Pulp out of the reckoning by the time they released This Is Hardcore

different time, different game

different goalposts

in '82 you could kick a jarvis

I can't go on, I'll go on:

21. Vampire Weekend, "One (Blake's Got a New Face)"
22. Jay-Z and T.I., "Swagga Like Us"
23. The Black Keys, "I Got Mine"
24. Lykke Li, "I'm Good, I'm Gone"
25. Leona Lewis, "Bleeding Love"
26. The Rapture, "No Sex for Ben"
27. The Ting Tings, "Shut Up and Let Me Go"
28. Kevin Rudolf ft. Lil Wayne, "Let It Rock"
29. Pink, "So What"
30. Weezer, "Pork and Beans"

31. Conor Oberst, "Moab"
32. N.E.R.D., "Everybody Nose"
33. The Raveonettes, "Ally, Walk with Me"
34. Gnarls Barkley, "Run"
35. Kaiser Chiefs, "Addicted to Drugs"
36. Usher ft. Beyonce & Lil Wayne, "Love in This Club Pt. 2"
37. Bob Dylan, "Someday Baby" [alt. take from Tell Tale Signs]
38. Jamey Johnson, "High Cost of Living"
39. The Academy Is . . . , "About a Girl"
40. Kings of Leon, "Sex on Fire"

41. Duffy, "Warwick Avenue"
42. The Raconteurs, "Salute Your Solution"
43. Erykah Badu, "The Healer"
44. Panic at the Disco, "Nine in the Afternoon"
45. Foals, "Cassius"
46. Taylor Swift, "Fifteen"
47. Janelle Monae, "Many Moons"
48. John Mellencamp, "Troubled Land"
49. Jonas Brothers, "Video Girl"
50. Jackson Browne, "Time the Conqueror"

51. Ashlee Simpson, "Rule Breaker"
52. Lee Ann Womack, "Last Call"
53. AC/DC, "Big Jack"
54. Cat Power, "I Believe in You"
55. Sigur Ros, "Gobbledigook"
56. The Hold Steady, "Constructive Summer"
57. Charles Hamilton, "Brooklyn Girls"
58. Jazmine Sullivan, "Bust Your Windows"
59. Low vs. Diamond, "Don't Forget Sister"
60. Ne-Yo, "Closer"

61. Robyn, "Cobrastyle"
62. The Gaslight Anthem, "The '59 Sound"
63. LCD Soundsystem, "Big Ideas"
64. She and Him, "Why Do You Let Me Stay Here"
65. The Virgins, "Rich Kids"
66. Jenny Lewis, "Acid Tongue"
67. M.I.A., "Shells"
68. Fall Out Boy, "I Don't Care"
69. Missy Elliott, "Ching-a-Ling"
70. Busy Signal, "Tic Toc"

71. Phantom Planet, "Do the Panic"
72. Sam Sparro, "Black and Gold"
73. Ciara ft. Ludacris, "High Price"
74. Ra Ra Riot, "Dying Is Fine"
75. Flo Rida ft. T-Pain, "Low"
76. The Roots, "Rising Down"
77. Hercules and Love Affair, "Blind"
78. Love as Laughter, "Holly"
79. Kid Cudi, "Day 'n' Nite"
80. Mudcrutch, "Crystal River"

81. The Knux, "Cappuccino"
82. Santogold & Diplo, "Icarus"
83. Get 'Em Mamis, "Cold Summer"
84. Lil Wayne, "A Milli"
85. M83, "Kim & Jessie"
86. The Rumble Strips, "Cowboy"
87. Friendly Fires, "Jump in the Pool"
88. Bon Iver, "Skinny Love"
89. Old Crow Medicine Show, "Alabama High-Test"
90. Busta Rhymes, "Don't Touch Me (Throw da Water on 'Em)"

91. O'Neal McKnight, "Check Your Coat"
92. White Denim, "Shake Shake Shake"
93. Madonna, "Candy Shop"
94. Los Campesinos, "Miserabilia"
95. Lucinda Williams, "Real Love"
96. Little Joy, "Brand New Start"
97. Sheryl Crow, "Now That You're Gone"
98. Teyana Taylor, "Google Me"
99. The Enemy, "You're Not Alone"
100. Will.i.am, "Yes We Can"

Steve your rule would have knocked Pulp out of the reckoning by the time they released This Is Hardcore

this would not be a problem

73. Ciara ft. Ludacris, "High Price"

ayyy, thumbs up for this

and here, I'll do it for you:

5. Lil Wayne, "Lollipop"
84. Lil Wayne, "A Milli"

93. Madonna, "Candy Shop"

this is so fucking bad but i do like 'Give It 2 Me'

this is probably the best singles list you'll see (despite the many glaring atrocities)

hahahaha I seriously doubt that

I always like Baltimore City Paper's lists, and not just when I contribute to them: http://www.citypaper.com/special/story.asp?id=17187. This one is local albums: http://www.citypaper.com/special/story.asp?id=17188.