this is different than when they fired xgau because the voice was still doing good work then... not sure i want to implicitly throw my (however insignificant!) weight behind "hmm i wonder which black person white people will vote for this year" blog posts
― salute me or crut me (J0rdan S.), Friday, 14 December 2012 00:43 (eleven years ago) link
i love showing ppl up by being lazy. it's the easiest revolution
― Mordy, Friday, 14 December 2012 00:54 (eleven years ago) link
i guess i must be master class showing ppl up, i got exhausted just looking at the email
― THE NATIONS YOUTH DANCED TO THE MACARANA (innocent) (zachlyon), Friday, 14 December 2012 00:55 (eleven years ago) link
i'm still gonna vote idc
― D-40, Friday, 14 December 2012 01:12 (eleven years ago) link
the world is fucked up & there are greater injustices
i realize thats a fallacious argument but eh
Ah, there's my ballot - sent to my old email address.
― Raymond Cummings, Friday, 14 December 2012 01:23 (eleven years ago) link
I voted in the prez election this year, might as well vote for P&J. Plus, Obama doesn't want to read my comments about him.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 14 December 2012 01:51 (eleven years ago) link
who is the morbz of pazz & jop
― Andrew WKRP (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 14 December 2012 02:07 (eleven years ago) link
I'm not a voter, but I sure as hell wouldn't do anything to support the regime of a dude who doesn't even know the difference between shudders and shutters.
― this will surprise many (Nicole), Friday, 14 December 2012 03:25 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― Poli oppa lice style (some dude), Friday, 14 December 2012 03:26 (eleven years ago) link
"shutters" is seriously one of the saddest/funniest things I've ever read
― Jesus, the Total Douchebag (DJP), Friday, 14 December 2012 04:04 (eleven years ago) link
suggest boycott
― flopson, Friday, 14 December 2012 04:08 (eleven years ago) link
haha i really hope the ballot i just sent in goes through. if anyone's actually at the switch though, i highly doubt it will.
― back in judy's tenuta (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, 14 December 2012 04:11 (eleven years ago) link
he sent me two ID numbers. concerned about potential counter-shenanigans
― shoup, Friday, 14 December 2012 04:15 (eleven years ago) link
btw anyone who doesn't want to submit a ballot, I'll do one for you
― Jesus, the Total Douchebag (DJP), Friday, 14 December 2012 04:22 (eleven years ago) link
xp The Guardian commenters have gone nuclear this year on the tracks thread. They think it's a disgrace and an embarrassment and all the songs sound the same and they want everyone who voted for them to resign. Even by EOY standards the hatefest is quite something.
― Deafening silence (DL), Friday, 14 December 2012 09:16 (eleven years ago) link
it's amazing life-giving stuff. and i thought they couldn't top last year's outrage
― lex pretend, Friday, 14 December 2012 09:39 (eleven years ago) link
"Those two ridiculous and unforgivable misjudgements mean that I will dismiss the rest of what you have to say about the music that I haven't heard."
OK then, take care, bye.
― Deafening silence (DL), Friday, 14 December 2012 09:42 (eleven years ago) link
Kerrang! individual ballots for those of you looking to have your Enter Shikari and Papa Roach love justified: http://www.kerrang.com/blog/2012/12/the_kerrang_teams_top_10_album.html
― an area the size of Jimmy Wales (DJ Mencap), Friday, 14 December 2012 09:42 (eleven years ago) link
dunno if they've done the overall poll yet or if there's any mileage in trying to work it out or if anyone cares or or or
― an area the size of Jimmy Wales (DJ Mencap), Friday, 14 December 2012 09:43 (eleven years ago) link
If anyone's reading the Guardian and has a say over these things, I implore you to just let Tom Ewing put this post up in its entirety, with any relevant names updated for 2012:
http://tomewing.tumblr.com/post/14189168260/a-music-website-has-chosen-something-unacceptable-in
― Matt DC, Friday, 14 December 2012 09:50 (eleven years ago) link
"this must be a joke right? In fact the entire list is embarrassing.....as for talk of innovative pop song etc....it's the very opposite so cliched and dull consequently..even the video is cliche....I kind of hope this is a joke because otherwise the entire music staff and the Guardian should go write for Smash Hits....thankfully I never ever read any music reviews on The Guardian and stick to UnCut......I now know why...."
"Remember it's the music 'business', thats all it's about 'business'. Forget 'creativity' forget 'art' forget 'expression' forget 'depth'. But do remember 'business'. Now how do you like your business served? Cold, calculated, clinical? Focus group music? Fine...then this list is all you need. Enjoy your business!"
"WTF is this list, is it meant as an ironic joke about the state of the music industry, thank god I was a teenager in the 70s, and not now, I feel so sorry for young people these days having to listen to such rubbish. This list should include Justin Beaver or whatever his name is. Total crap."
"task for guardian critics in 2013: get better taste, people are laughing at you.
I'm a proud musical snob, so do these things:
Listen to BBC 3's late junction at least once a weekRead Wire publicationWhen in London, go to Cafe OtoPurchase Boomkat's single of the weekAvoid Fearne Cotton generally
Next year, your list should be engaging and free of indulgent pap."
― Deafening silence (DL), Friday, 14 December 2012 09:50 (eleven years ago) link
Enjoy your business!
― Deafening silence (DL), Friday, 14 December 2012 09:51 (eleven years ago) link
The EOY year lists tend to bring out curmudgeons that don't actually read / comment on the Guardian's music pages at any other time of the year. It's a mystery why they're so invested in it come December.
― Go Narine, Go! (ShariVari), Friday, 14 December 2012 09:57 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&safe=off&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22Justin+Beaver+or+whatever+his+name+is%22&oq=%22Justin+Beaver+or+whatever+his+name+is%22&gs_l=hp.3...84.1105.1.1831.3.3.0.0.0.1.458.1175.2-1j0j2.3.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.1.QY2WmRUZE_Y&psj=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.1355325884,d.d2k&fp=a990c85c38ccdf8e&bpcl=39967673&biw=1143&bih=702
― an area the size of Jimmy Wales (DJ Mencap), Friday, 14 December 2012 09:59 (eleven years ago) link
top result is a tweet by former Cardiff City defender Spencer Prior
― an area the size of Jimmy Wales (DJ Mencap), Friday, 14 December 2012 10:00 (eleven years ago) link
Does bieber or biber not just mean beaver in German anyway?
― Go Narine, Go! (ShariVari), Friday, 14 December 2012 10:02 (eleven years ago) link
The sad thing is that so many of them honestly can't distinguish between Rihanna/Savages/Plan B/TNGHT. They're so estranged from music, and often at a surprisingly young age, that they have to take out their frustration on new artists and anyone who likes them. They can't keep up but they won't let go so the only option is to blame someone else: "I don't listen to modern music not because I'm growing older but because it's all terrible." These people seem to really dig solo albums by ex-members of Britpop bands.
― Deafening silence (DL), Friday, 14 December 2012 10:06 (eleven years ago) link
At least those ex-members still have souls and sing their own songs.
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Friday, 14 December 2012 10:36 (eleven years ago) link
This commenter on the Channel Orange article has clearly seen through your scheming:
It's not a bad album...but I get the impression that it's number 1 for reasons other than musical.
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Friday, 14 December 2012 10:43 (eleven years ago) link
xp Makes you realise that outside of the ILX/music critic bubble the world of "serious" music fans is, and always will be, Rockism Central.
― Deafening silence (DL), Friday, 14 December 2012 10:44 (eleven years ago) link
Resident Advisor - Top 20 Albumshttp://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?1704
01. Voices from the Lake - Voices From the Lake [Prologue]02. Actress - RIP [Honest Jon's]03. John Talabot - fIN [Permanent Vacation]04. Andy Stott - Luxury Problems [Modern Love]05. Daphni - Jiaolong [Jiaolong]06. Shackleton - Music for the Quiet Hour [Woe to the Septic Heart]07. Vessel - Order of Noise [Tri Angle]08. Shed - The Killer [50 Weapons]09. Robert Hood - Motor: Nighttime World 3 [Music Man]10. Barker & Baumecker - Transsektoral [Ostgut Ton]11. Jam City - Classical Curves [Night Slugs]12. Grimes - Visions [4AD]13. Lee Gamble - Diversions 1994 - 1996 [PAN]14. Recondite - On Acid [Acid Test]15. Silent Servant - Negative Fascination [Hospital Productions]16. Chromatics - Kill for Love [Italians Do It Better]17. Ricardo Villalobos - Dependent and Happy [Perlon]18. Smallpeople - Salty Days [Smallville]19. Laurel Halo - Quarantine [Hyperdub]20. Raime - Quarter Turns Over a Living Line [Blackest Ever Black]
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Friday, 14 December 2012 10:53 (eleven years ago) link
01. Voices from the Lake - Voices From the Lake [Prologue]03. John Talabot - fIN [Permanent Vacation]04. Andy Stott - Luxury Problems [Modern Love]05. Daphni - Jiaolong [Jiaolong]15. Silent Servant - Negative Fascination [Hospital Productions]18. Smallpeople - Salty Days [Smallville]
^^AWESOME
― lex pretend, Friday, 14 December 2012 10:54 (eleven years ago) link
I just don't understand that Voices From The Lake album. Also i vastly preferred Andy Stott's stuff from last year
― Number None, Friday, 14 December 2012 11:03 (eleven years ago) link
the Shed album is kind of on the verge of really doing it for me but I can't fully commit. might give it another go later
― Sounds like something Maria Carey would of rejected (DJ Mencap), Friday, 14 December 2012 11:09 (eleven years ago) link
AV Club pick their least essential albums of 2012, boo to their number one choice http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-least-essential-albums-of-2012,89882/2/
― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Friday, 14 December 2012 11:11 (eleven years ago) link
How the hell have I never heard Ian Brown singing Thriller before?
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Friday, 14 December 2012 11:14 (eleven years ago) link
AV Club gave "least essential album" to A*Teens two years in a row so i view it as a mark of distinction.
― Go Narine, Go! (ShariVari), Friday, 14 December 2012 11:15 (eleven years ago) link
I had no idea that Fear album existed and that thing w/ Praga Khan sounds incredible so they can have a pass for being smooth rong re: Farrah A
― Sounds like something Maria Carey would of rejected (DJ Mencap), Friday, 14 December 2012 11:20 (eleven years ago) link
wtf this sounds nothing like Injected With A Poison, it's just some douchery. BOOOOOOOOOOO
― Sounds like something Maria Carey would of rejected (DJ Mencap), Friday, 14 December 2012 11:26 (eleven years ago) link
That Robert Hood album is great as well although you don't read Resident Advisor for their album reviews really.
― Matt DC, Friday, 14 December 2012 11:27 (eleven years ago) link
cosign on the Robert Hood
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Friday, 14 December 2012 11:32 (eleven years ago) link
I need to give that Andy Stott album another go, I found it a bit dense and smokey when I first listened to it.
― Matt DC, Friday, 14 December 2012 11:35 (eleven years ago) link
in a paper like the guardian's comments, definitely, but there are lots of music fans who are quite open minded without being ilx types or music critics. don't you guys have friends who you give tips to who like good things but seldom hunt them down themselves? a lot of my old friends are like this.
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Friday, 14 December 2012 11:39 (eleven years ago) link
and of course, as ever, the pleased person or the person who politely agrees or enjoyed a piece, they don't even bother commenting.
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Friday, 14 December 2012 11:40 (eleven years ago) link
been meaning to check that Robert Hood album out, I shall give it a go.
― Neil S, Friday, 14 December 2012 11:49 (eleven years ago) link
^^^ boring posts of our time
Actually there are quite a few positive comments (and ironic expressions of outrage) on that thread.
I dunno though the neanderthal lad-rock hanger on who thinks Ian Brown is god is still a significant and vocal demographic, they just don't have very much to latch onto now.
― Matt DC, Friday, 14 December 2012 11:51 (eleven years ago) link
NPR listener top 50:
Mumford & Sons, BabelOf Monsters And Men, My Head Is An AnimalAlabama Shakes, Boys And GirlsJack White, BlunderbussGrizzly Bear, ShieldsThe Lumineers, The LumineersFrank Ocean, Channel OrangeBeach House, BloomThe xx, CoexistFiona Apple, The Idler Wheel...fun., Some NightsThe Avett Brothers, The CarpenterJapandroids, Celebration RockRegina Spektor, What We Saw From The Cheap SeatsPassion Pit, GossamerAndrew Bird, Break It YourselfCat Power, SunThe Shins, Port Of MorrowFirst Aid Kit, The Lion's RoarTame Impala, LonerismThe Tallest Man On Earth, There's No Leaving NowDirty Projectors, Swing Lo MagellanAlt-J, An Awesome WaveMacklemore & Ryan Lewis, The HeistKendrick Lamar, good kid, M.A.A.D. cityGotye, Making MirrorsGrimes, VisionsLana Del Rey, Born To DieKishi Bashi, 151aDavid Byrne & St. Vincent, Love This GiantSharon Van Etten, TrampSigur Ros, ValtariLeonard Cohen, Old IdeasBruce Springsteen, Wrecking BallFather John Misty, Fear FunAmanda Palmer, Theatre Is EvilEdward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, HereNorah Jones, Little Broken HeartsPurity Ring, ShrinesBob Dylan, TempestThe Mountain Goats, Transcendental YouthNeil Young & Crazy Horse, Psychedelic PillBest Coast, The Only PlaceSantigold, Master Of My Make-BelieveThe Walkmen, HeavenSleigh Bells, Reign Of TerrorCloud Nothings, Attack On MemoryBat For Lashes, The Haunted ManBand Of Horses, Mirage RockM. Ward, A Wasteland Companion
― Deafening silence (DL), Friday, 14 December 2012 11:51 (eleven years ago) link