the Alcest record has blastbeats on it, come on now
― finally rich, fun-packed, fulfilling (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 29 December 2012 22:45 (eleven years ago) link
it's so false it was probably endorsed by Eddie Trunk of 'That Remotely Metal Show'
― fanute me or shoot me (some dude), Saturday, 29 December 2012 22:50 (eleven years ago) link
al are you not blurbing your tracks this year???????????
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 29 December 2012 23:01 (eleven years ago) link
i blurbed them all in the genre lists!
― some dude, Saturday, 29 December 2012 23:03 (eleven years ago) link
oh right, word
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 29 December 2012 23:04 (eleven years ago) link
can you post a list of your overall singles list for those of us that don't use spotify
i feel like i'd be bombing the thread if i c&p'd the whole 100 but it's here and there are also links to the genre lists within: http://narrowcast.blogspot.com/2012/12/my-top-100-singles-of-2012.html
― some dude, Saturday, 29 December 2012 23:06 (eleven years ago) link
oh word... good list w/ the exception of your blasphemous embracing of driicky graham
― dead cera (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 29 December 2012 23:09 (eleven years ago) link
lol i was starting to get disappointed about not taking any shit for ranking driicky over chief keef
― some dude, Saturday, 29 December 2012 23:15 (eleven years ago) link
Revolver Magazine Albums of 2012
1 Deftones - Koi No Yokan 2 Meshuggah- Koloss3 Soundgarden - King Animal 4 Baroness - Yellow & Green5 Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage6 Pig Destroyer - Book Burner7 High On Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis8 Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind9 Lamb Of God - Resolution 10 Stone Sour - House of Gold & Bones Part 1
Rock Sound Albums 2012
50. "Maybe Today, Maybe Tomorrow" - We Are The Ocean49. "The Golden Age" - Your Demise48. "Daybreaker" - Architects47. "Astraea" - Rolo Tomassi46. "Lost Songs" - ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead45. "Sonic Boom Six" - Sonic Boom Six44. "Tycoon" - No Trigger43. "Gnosis" - Monuments42. "Weapons" - Lostprophets41. "Funeral Beach" - Blood Command40. "COLOURMEINKINDNESS" - Basement39. "The Front Bottoms" - The Front Bottoms38. "The 2nd Law" - Muse37. "Long Live The Struggle" - The King Blues36. "Uno!" - Green Day35. "Don't Panic" - All Time Low34. "Port Of Morrow" - The Shins33. "Collide With The Sky" - Pierce The Veil32. "Whitechapel" - Whitechapel31. "Slave To The Grave" - Emmure30. "Priorities" - Don Broco29. "The Parallax II: Future Sequence" - Between The Buried And Me28. "The Union Of Crowns" - Bury Tomorrow27. "Sentenced To Life" - Black Breath26. "No Gods" - Sharks25. "Dead Set On Living" - Cancer Bats24. "Honor Found In Decay" - Neurosis23. "Celebration Rock" - Japandroids22. "L'Enfant Sauvage" - Gojira21. "The Plot Against Common Sense" - Future Of The Left20. "Changing Tune" - Lower Than Atlantic19. "Ex Lives" - Every Time I Die18. "Harmonicraft" - Torche17. "Everything You Ever Loved" - Make Do And Mend16. "Floral Green" - Title Fight15. "A Flash Flood Of Colour" - Enter Shikari14. "Bones" - Young Guns13. "Atlas" - Parkway Drive12. "This Is The Six" - While She Sleeps11. "Yellow & Green" - Baroness10. "Handwritten" - Gaslight Anthem09. "Gallows" - Gallows08. "Exister" - Hot Water Music07. "Dead Silence" - Billy Talent06. "At Heart" - Miss May I05. "Koi No Yokan" - Deftones04. "Failed States" - Propagandhi03. "Get What You Give" - The Ghost Inside02. "All We Love We Leave Behind" - Converge01. "On The Impossible Past" - The Menzingers
― New Management, Saturday, 29 December 2012 23:27 (eleven years ago) link
LA Times list hasn't been posted yet, has it
http://graphics.latimes.com/storyboard-times-music-staff-best-2012-list/ (also individual writer ballots in link)
1. Frank Ocean, “Channel Orange” (Def Jam) (62)2. Kendrick Lamar, “good kid, m.A.A.d. city” (Aftermath/Interscope) (43)3. Fiona Apple, “The Idler Wheel….” (Epic) (17)4. Dr. John, “Locked Down” (Nonesuch) (17)5. Japandroids, “Celebration Rock” (Polyvinyl) (16)6. Miguel, "Kaleidoscope Dream” (RCA) (15)7. Cat Power, “Sun” (Matador) (14)8. Andy Stott, “Luxury Problems” (Modern Love) (14)9. Swans, “The Seer” (Young God) (13)10. Alabama Shakes, “Boys & Girls” (ATO) (12)
― some dude, Saturday, 29 December 2012 23:33 (eleven years ago) link
I rather like driicky graham / don't hate me.
― Tim F, Saturday, 29 December 2012 23:39 (eleven years ago) link
hate you, tim
― dead cera (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 29 December 2012 23:40 (eleven years ago) link
it's totally one of the best radio rap productions of the year, and the rapping doesn't get in the way of it (possibly even helps, considering every time i've heard someone else rap on the beat it hasn't sounded as good) xpost
― some dude, Saturday, 29 December 2012 23:41 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, pretty much agree. still can't get over his name tho.
― Rolling "2 chainz" draadje (The Reverend), Saturday, 29 December 2012 23:48 (eleven years ago) link
the song basically disappearing before he could even get to like Ca$h Out's level has probably fed some of my enthusiasm for it
― some dude, Saturday, 29 December 2012 23:51 (eleven years ago) link
If anyone cares about my albums list (with dumb blurbs!), here it is: http://on.fb.me/10yKMnt
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 30 December 2012 03:46 (eleven years ago) link
http://my2ndheartbeat.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/icare.jpg
― PliesStripAThon5Jan20th@gmail.com (some dude), Sunday, 30 December 2012 04:09 (eleven years ago) link
thx some dude, xo
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 30 December 2012 04:09 (eleven years ago) link
There's always some dude that cares, Johnny. Just remember that.
No one gives a shit about mine so I didn't bother.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 30 December 2012 04:10 (eleven years ago) link
lol can i post it for you
― PliesStripAThon5Jan20th@gmail.com (some dude), Sunday, 30 December 2012 04:13 (eleven years ago) link
Sure! Not enough Pinkish Black love on this thread.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 30 December 2012 04:16 (eleven years ago) link
my albums list, sans blurbs (although i'd like to write some for at least the top 10):
http://grannykart.com/2012/11/05/jodys-top-30-of-2012/
― gimme some reggae! (get bent), Sunday, 30 December 2012 04:21 (eleven years ago) link
http://lightbulbhead.tumblr.com/post/38479597599/2012-favorites (xp)
― PliesStripAThon5Jan20th@gmail.com (some dude), Sunday, 30 December 2012 04:22 (eleven years ago) link
i keep forgetting about that new neneh cherry album.
― gimme some reggae! (get bent), Sunday, 30 December 2012 04:23 (eleven years ago) link
That Moon Duo record was one of my last cuts, but I dropped it once I realized “Sleepwalkers” sounds like Zooropa-era U2 taking lots of acid and trying to play Adam Ant’s “Vive Le Rock” from memory without having heard it since 1985.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 30 December 2012 04:31 (eleven years ago) link
you say that like it's a bad thing.
― gimme some reggae! (get bent), Sunday, 30 December 2012 04:33 (eleven years ago) link
Not at all! But I docked them slightly because when I saw Adam Ant this fall his current version of "Vive Le Rock" sort of sounded the same way.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 30 December 2012 04:35 (eleven years ago) link
In other words, those last few cuts were some arbitrary bullshit.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 30 December 2012 04:36 (eleven years ago) link
Ok that Moon Duo description makes me wish you wrote blurbs
― Y Kant Drugz Spell Kaballah (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 30 December 2012 05:36 (eleven years ago) link
Am deeply saddened the Black Bananas album fell of your list, get bent
― Y Kant Drugz Spell Kaballah (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 30 December 2012 05:39 (eleven years ago) link
i'm saddened too. i like that record. i'm so close to restoring it to the list.
― gimme some reggae! (get bent), Sunday, 30 December 2012 05:45 (eleven years ago) link
black bananas is back.
― gimme some reggae! (get bent), Sunday, 30 December 2012 05:49 (eleven years ago) link
So okay, maybe they're looking to shift to Decibel territory to extreme music, which works with bands like Swans.
no this stuff has been within their remit since literally their first issue
― Sounds like something Maria Carey would of rejected (DJ Mencap), Sunday, 30 December 2012 11:16 (eleven years ago) link
Yay! xp
― Y Kant Drugz Spell Kaballah (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 30 December 2012 13:41 (eleven years ago) link
my albums list:
http://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2012/12/28/for-the-last-time/
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 30 December 2012 13:54 (eleven years ago) link
i kind of want to have an extended discussion of cloud nothings vs. the men but i'm probably the only one
― an eagle named "small government" (call all destroyer), Sunday, 30 December 2012 14:26 (eleven years ago) link
xpost
Does this mean you had a change of heart on the Mountain Goats record?
― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Sunday, 30 December 2012 22:51 (eleven years ago) link
I don't think I outright disliked it -- it merely wasn't the keeper that last year's was.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 30 December 2012 22:52 (eleven years ago) link
Singles: http://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2012/12/20/best-songs-2012/
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 30 December 2012 23:58 (eleven years ago) link
i would participate in a cloud nothings vs. the men discussion
open your heart was a nice punch to the gut the first several times i heard it, but it really faded for me. a few great songs on there, but overall it's a little bit tuneless in parts, and there's something about the production that leaves me cold. didn't end up cracking my top 50 or so.
attack on memory, on the other hand, has gotten good press since its release, and done well on these lists, but i still feel that it's underrated. just a terrific rock record that sounds as good (or better) every time i revisit it and scratches my Nirvana-fan itch (as did that Metz album). it's a top 15 of the year album, i say.
― alpine static, Monday, 31 December 2012 11:24 (eleven years ago) link
that's 4xp, obvs
― alpine static, Monday, 31 December 2012 11:25 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.tropicalbass.com/2012/12/top-of-the-trops-best-of-tropical-bass-2012/
ANDRÉS:Top Albums/EPs:MKC – Caribbean SwaggaSonodo Desconocido – Trópico QuasarMaga Bo – Quilombo de FuturoCumba Mela – Remix Ep 1
Sonikgroove ft. Prince Osito – Better dan dem Remix EPKumbia Queers – Pecados TropicalesSo Shifty ft. Madera Limpia – Rumba EPSonido Guay Neñe – Copla Colectiva DigitalSuelta la voz – Copia Doble SystemaChico Trujillo – Gran PecadorPalenke Soultribe – Makako EPTropikore – Guarapo EPFrikstailers – Guacha EPSubatomic Soundsystem ft. Anthony B – Dem Cant stop we from Talkin EP
― curmudgeon, Monday, 31 December 2012 17:17 (eleven years ago) link
xp having listened to both in the past two days (first time in a while for cloud nothings but i've been listening to open yr heart regularly since it came out) i find that the men scratch my 90s rock itch most effectively (metz do too to a lesser extent). i like the cloud nothings record, it's good, but there is such an audible joy in the performances on open yr heart and it's really wide open and un-self conscious about making a great record of guitar rock. attack on memory seems a little sullen and studied by comparison.
― an eagle named "small government" (call all destroyer), Monday, 31 December 2012 19:21 (eleven years ago) link
saw'em both at Pitchfork but The Men won me when they turned "Candy" into a Meat Puppets cowpunk jam.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 31 December 2012 19:28 (eleven years ago) link
xpost i swear, i would write the exact opposite of this:
but there is such an audible joy in the performances on open yr heart and it's really wide open and un-self conscious about making a great record of guitar rock. attack on memory seems a little sullen and studied by comparison.
to me, it's Cloud Nothings that sounds joyous, or at least authentically cathartic. more feeling, whatever that means. more un-self conscious. more free. and open yr heart sounds like a very clinical, calculated "we are a good guitar band with our best (read: most accessible) batch of songs and we'd better make a great guitar record" effort, but in overthinking it, they sucked much of the life out of it.
different strokes, eh
― alpine static, Monday, 31 December 2012 20:38 (eleven years ago) link
indeed--i don't think there's anything on open your heart that's particularly accessible outside of turn it around, the title track, and candy. i do think the record is conscious in nodding at a variety of genres but nothing about the performances themselves comes off that way.
― an eagle named "small government" (call all destroyer), Monday, 31 December 2012 22:12 (eleven years ago) link
Angry Metal Guy weighs in with his Top 10(ish) of 2012.
#Ish: Vindicator // United We Fall#10: Wildernessking // The Writing of Gods in the Sand#9: Borknagar // Urd#8: Be’lakor // Of Breath and Bone #7: Ofermod // Thaumiel#6: Dodecahedron // Dodecahedron#5: Anathema // Weather Systems#4: The 11th Hour // Lacrima Mortis #3: Diablo Swing Orchestra // Pandora’s Piñata#2: Sophicide // Perdition of the Sublime#1: Sabaton // Carolus Rex
Honorable Mentions:
Sigh // In SomniphobiaArjen Anthony Lucassen // Lost in the New RealVintersorg // OrkanBlood Mortized // Keys to a Black HeartKing of Asgard // …To NorthHail Spirit Noir // PneumaSylosis // Monolith
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 1 January 2013 16:31 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.datpiff.com/top2012
DatPiff.com's top 50 mixtapes of the year. not ordered by popularity, although download stats are shown so it's a good indicator of what was big.
― some dude, Tuesday, 1 January 2013 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
my lists: http://alexmacpherson.tumblr.com/post/38945575458/end-of-year-list-dump-2012
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 1 January 2013 16:47 (eleven years ago) link