lol well it's all good, no copyright on it or anything
― some dude, Tuesday, 1 January 2013 17:05 (eleven years ago) link
2012 TOP TEN CD's(From Latin Beat Magazine Online Contributors) By Vicki Solá 1. Eddie Montalvo / Desde Nueva York a Puerto Rico / Marcha2. Luis Mangual y su Conjunto Mangual / Sabor y Swing / Lujoso 3. Ray Castro's Conjunto Clasico / Este Es Mi Conjunto / RC Enter.4. Bobby Sanabria Big Band / Multiverse / Jazzheads5 Ralph Irizarry & Los Viejos De La Salsa / Viejos Pero Sabrosos / BKS6. CharanSalsa / Pa' Mi Pueblo / CharanSalsa7. Ralphy Santi / Homenaje Al Bailador / Muziq8. Don Sonero / La Verdadera Escena / Don Sonero Music9. Chico Álvarez & Palomonte Afro-Cuban Big Band / El Montunero / Mafimba 10. La Guatekera Orquesta / Going Back to the Old School Salsa / Old School Salsa
By Nelson Rodriguez 1. Eddie Montalvo / Desde Nueva York A Puerto Rico / Marcha2. Dorance Lorza y Sexteto Café / Rumbero De Corazon / DLR3. Ralph Irizarry y Los Viejos de la Salsa / Viejos Pero Sabrosos / BKS4. Chico Alvarez & Palomonte Afro Cuban Big Band / El Montunero / Mafimba5. La Excelencia / Ecos Del Barrio / Handle With Care6. Pacific Mambo Orchestra / PMO / PMO7. Tromboranga- Tromboranga Salsa Dura / Bloque 538. Marlow Rosado Y La Riqueña / Retro / Pink Chaos9. Wilson 'Chembo' Corniel / Afro Blue Monk / American Showplace Music10. Ralphy Santi / Homenaje A Los Bailadores / Muzik
By Elmer Gonzalez 1. Various Artists /La Música De Puerto Rico: Raíces Y Evolución (Box Set) - Casabe Records2. Andy Montañez /Sueño / Morocho Records3. Cheo Feliciano & Rubén Blades / Eba Say Ajá / Ariel Rivas Music4. Sonora Latina / Con Clave Para Bailar / Sedajazz Records5. Septeto Santiaguero / Vamos Pa' La Fiesta / Picap Records6. Ralph Irizarry y Los Viejos de la Salsa / Viejos Pero Sabrosos / BKS7. Eddie Montalvo / Desde Nueva York A Puerto Rico / Marcha8. Tromboranga Orquesta / Tromboranga Salsa Dura / Bloque 539. Tito García / Pa' Gozar / T&T Productions10. Wilson Chembo Corniel / Afro Blue Monk / American Showplace Music
By Luis Tamargo 1. Manuel Galbán / Blue Cha Cha / Concord Picante2. Carlos Varela / No es el Fin / Graffiti3. Various Artists / Chico y Rita Soundtrack / Calle 544. Ninety Miles / Live at Cubadisc / Concord Picante5. Elio Villafranca & Arturo Stable / Dos y Mas / Montéma6. Alfredo Rodríguez / Sounds of Space / Mack Avenue7. Clarise Assad / Home / Adventure8. Ricardo Alvarez & Cubanísimo / Marketing / Alvarez Music9. Waldemar Bastos / Classics of My Soul / Enja10. José Lugo & Guasábara Combo / Poetic Justice / GC Music
By Guido Herrera 1. Eddie Montalvo / Desde Nueva York a Puerto Rico / Marcha2. Cheo Feliciano / Ruben Blades / Eba Say Aja / Ariel Rivas Music3. Bobby Sanabria / Multiverse / Jazzheads4. Septeto Santiaguero / Vamos Pa' La Fiesta / Picap5. Jose Lugo & Guasabara Combo / Poetic Justice / En Grande Music6. Varios Artistas / Homenaje a Tite Curet: Sono Sono / Banco Popular7. Ralph Irizarry y Los Viejos de la Salsa / Viejos Pero Sabrosos / BKS 8. Papo Vazques & Mighty Pirates Troubadors / Oasis / Picaro Records9. Wilson "Chembo" Corniel / Afro Blue Monk / American Showplace Music10. Candi Sosa & Victor Cegarra / Boleros Meets Jazz / Candi Sosa Music
By Rudy Mangual 1. Eddie Montalvo / Desde Nueva York a Puerto Rico / Marcha2. Jose Lugo & Guasabara Combo / Poetic Justice / En Grande Music3. Septeto Santiaguero / Vamos Pa' La Fiesta / Picap Records4. Papo Vazques & Mighty Pirates Troubadors / Oasis / Picaro Records5. Ralph Irizarry y Los Viejos de la Salsa / Viejos Pero Sabrosos / BKS Records6. Henry Cole & The Afrobeat Collective / Roots Before Branches / Henry Cole7. Jaime Dubberly and Orquesta Dharma / Road Warrior / Higher Truth8. Bloque 53 / Tumba Pachunga / Bloque 539. Chembo Corniel Quintet / Afro Blue Monk / American Showplace Music10.Chico Alvarez & Palomonte Afro Cuban Big Band / El Montunero / Mafimba
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 15:33 (eleven years ago) link
Links to my lists on spotify:Best World Music 2012Best Metal 2012Top 50 Albums 2012
― Mordy, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 17:05 (eleven years ago) link
My top 100: http://1000timesyes.tumblr.com/post/39482969118/cleaning-out-my-closet-the-top-100-records-of-2012
― finally rich, fun-packed, fulfilling (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 17:26 (eleven years ago) link
Mine: XHUXK'S TOP 100+ ALBUMS OF 2010!
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 17:35 (eleven years ago) link
if we've decided the dev album counts as 2012 i might have to rearrange my entire list, it'd be top 10 easy
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 17:37 (eleven years ago) link
ludicrous that "breathe" and "kiss my lips" were not ubiquitous chart-topping singles (or indeed singles at all)
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 17:38 (eleven years ago) link
well if it was only released in yugoslavia or wherever before this year then it counts
― hemioblock (The Reverend), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 17:42 (eleven years ago) link
wiki lists Australia, Germany, UK, Poland and Australia as having Sep 2011 release dates (w/ a UK re-release at the time of the US release). i didn't even have any idea a year ago that the album had been released anywhere, though, so it's all new to me.
― some dude, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 17:45 (eleven years ago) link
as far as i can tell the track listing to the 2012 release is completely different (and much worse, with like flo rida verses and enrique iglesias collabs and no "take her from you")
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 17:46 (eleven years ago) link
in a way that strengthens my conviction that the version i'm listening to (which has no Flo Rida on it btw) is a 2012 album
― some dude, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 17:50 (eleven years ago) link
U.S. release was this year, and I didn't hear the entire album until 2012, so that's how I counted it. But right, like I say on that other thread, the import (which I've never actually seen a copy of) had a way better track listing; there's really no comparison. They even dropped "Bass Down Low" in the last week before U.S. release (I've got a CD advance of the album with it still on), which really pissed me off. I still liked, and played, the U.S. version more than any other album this year, but I would've given the non-U.S. way more P&J points, had I heard it in 2011. (Which is why I've said my two favorite albums of the year -- Dev and Taylor Swift, her worst album as far as I'm concerned -- were also the two albums that disappointed me the most. That's never happened before.)
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 17:53 (eleven years ago) link
Put "Take Her From You" (also left off the U.S. version) and "In My Trunk" on my singles ballot, too.
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 17:55 (eleven years ago) link
And I suppose partly my topping my album list with Dev is a stand-in for the better version(s); it's kind of hard to say. But I did dock it P&J points accordingly.
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 18:01 (eleven years ago) link
I downloaded the Euro version a while ago, and it really is terrific.
BTW, I'm currently listening to the Ruben Blades/Cheo Feliciano album on a bunch of those Latin lists - it's not a duets album, they cover each other's songs, and it's really good. No horns, which is kinda disappointing, but excellent vibes (and I mean that in the literal sense that there's a guy playing vibes, not in the hippie sense).
― 誤訳侮辱, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 18:09 (eleven years ago) link
the only version in UK Spotify or iTunes is the 2012 release
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 19:16 (eleven years ago) link
Unofficial Aquarius top 10 (I aggregated the individual lists):
01. Windhand (Forcefield)02. Thee Oh Sees - Putrifiers II EP 03. Kandodo (Thrill Jockey)04. Golden Void (Thrill Jockey)05. Aluk Todolo - Occult Rock (The Ajna Offensive)06. Beak - >> (Invada) 07. Goat - World Music (Rocket)08. Grass Widow - Internal Logic (HLR)09. Cat Power - Sun 10. Tie: Admiral Sir Cloudsley Shovell, Actress, Frankie Rose, Mrs. Magician, Small Cuel Party, Terrence Dixon, Witchcraft
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 20:14 (eleven years ago) link
I've ignored this but may give it a try thanks to your comment. I don't understand their waiting until 2013 to collaborate. I love Cheo Feliciano, but he is so far past his prime that I am skeptical. The emphasis on vibes is probably a nod to Cheo in particular, since so many of his key recordings were vibes based (first with Joe Cuba and then solo, especially on Cheo).
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
My Top 10. I used to dig Picasso; now I like the Norwegian guy who dances funny.
― clemenza, Thursday, 3 January 2013 04:39 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.offbeat.com/2013/01/01/offbeat-top-50-louisiana-albums-2012/
Dr. John, Lost Bayou Ramblers, Cory Ledet, Soul Rebels and more
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 3 January 2013 15:47 (eleven years ago) link
ha! cool list, clemenza
― x-gau, uncut gau, The Bomb! (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 3 January 2013 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2013/01/wfmu-staff-2012-year-end-lists-2.html
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Thursday, 3 January 2013 20:17 (eleven years ago) link
clemenza you have drawn an important link between terje & hot butter imo
― ogmor, Thursday, 3 January 2013 23:32 (eleven years ago) link
lol yes
― hemioblock (The Reverend), Friday, 4 January 2013 00:02 (eleven years ago) link
Thanks--the sore back and failing eyesight are a small price to pay for such important flashes of insight.
― clemenza, Friday, 4 January 2013 02:17 (eleven years ago) link
it's also got a similar nordic chug to tommy seebach's bubble sex
― ogmor, Friday, 4 January 2013 02:34 (eleven years ago) link
Here's mine:
http://2012yearinmusic.blogspot.com/
― o. nate, Saturday, 5 January 2013 04:05 (eleven years ago) link
http://salsa.blog.lemonde.fr/2013/01/02/musique-latine-les-meilleurs-albums-de-2012/#xtor=RSS-32280322
French site lists fave Latin salsa, latin-jazz, and timba
― curmudgeon, Monday, 7 January 2013 06:19 (eleven years ago) link
website that sells cds and employs some critics; with their 2012 best salsa music list:
http://www.descarga.com/cgi-bin/db/best_of_2012
― curmudgeon, Monday, 7 January 2013 15:39 (eleven years ago) link
My favourite 100 albums of 2012.
― mike t-diva, Monday, 7 January 2013 18:54 (eleven years ago) link
Brainwashed.comTop 100 albums, top singles/EPs, reissues, Lifetime achievement, Worst albums, etc.
(with comments from myself & others therein)
http://brainwashed.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9534:2012-readers-poll-the-results&catid=80:annual-readers-polls&Itemid=97
― ilxor, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 15:45 (eleven years ago) link
brainwashed readers have better taste than their obnoxious writers, apparently
― beard papa, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 20:54 (eleven years ago) link
bleep and phonica, streamable. sweet.
https://bleep.com/stream/100+tracks+2012www.phonicarecords.com/top-records/51/all/40
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Thursday, 10 January 2013 00:23 (eleven years ago) link
edit: http://www.phonicarecords.com/top-records/51/all
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Thursday, 10 January 2013 00:24 (eleven years ago) link
The excellent Russian site Afisha has a bunch of year end polls and lists for anyone wanting to know what the fashionable kids of Moscow are listening to (it's Frank Ocean).
Channel Orange was album of the year and Ivan Dorn's Stytsamen was single of the year. Main album list is here:
http://www.afisha.ru/article/best2012_albums/
Electronic, metal, jazz, world and classical are here:
http://www.afisha.ru/article/best2012_outer_limits/
― Tullamorte Tullamore (ShariVari), Saturday, 12 January 2013 11:32 (eleven years ago) link
Will check! Here's my Nashville Scene ballot (posted as "Rank, Strangers! Part UN: The Reckoning, and a copious cornycopia of comments ("Pt. Dude: The Telling"), with country skewing toward indie folk-rock and "Americana" this year (some scorched earth surveys as well, like Todd Snider's Agnostic Hymns and Stoner Fables)=--all in bite-sized chunks; big bites, so eat like you mean it. http://thefreelancementalists.blogspot.com
― dow, Saturday, 12 January 2013 15:21 (eleven years ago) link
Pazz & Jop comments, prob titled "I Only Come Here For The Music" (thanks, Don Williams) will be posted there next week.
― dow, Saturday, 12 January 2013 15:23 (eleven years ago) link
Freaky Trigger Top 41 Tracks:
1. Carly Rae Jepsen – Call Me Maybe2. Todd Terje – Inspector Norse3. Taylor Swift - We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together4. Underworld ft Dustbin Crew – And I Will Kiss/Caliban’s Dream5. Rudimental – Feel The Love6. Psy – Gangnam Style7. Little Mix – Wings8. Chairlift – I Belong In Your Arms=9. Nicki Minaj - Starships=9. Usher - Climax11. Solange - Losing You12. Plan B - ill Manors13. Jessie Ware - Wildest Moments14. Santigold - Disparate Youth15. Cher Lloyd - Want U Back16. Jessie Ware - 110%=17. Nicki Minaj ft 2 Chainz - Beez In The Trap=17. Icona Pop - I Love It19. Kylie - Timebomb20. Taylor Swift - I Knew You Were Trouble21. Cassie - King of Hearts22. D’Banj - Oliver Twist23. Miguel - Do You..24. Orange Caramel - Lipstick25. T-Ara - Lovey-Dovey26. Fuse ODG ft. Tiffany - Azonto27. Saint Etienne - Popular28. Royal-T ft. Ruby Lee Ryder - You’re Saved29. Miguel - Adorn30. Marina & The Diamonds - Primadonna31. Dawn Richard - Pretty Wicked Things32. Grimes - Genesis=33. Dev - Take Her From You=33. Alunageorge - You Know You Like It34. Blur - Under The Westway35. Frank Ocean - Thinkin Bout You36. Le1f - Wut37. Tame Impala - Elephant38. Taylor Swift - Begin Again=40. Nicki Minaj - Stupid Hoe=40. Angel Haze - New York
― Matt DC, Saturday, 12 January 2013 17:03 (eleven years ago) link
Festive Fifty 2012 - (previously John Peel's Festive Fifty) as voted for by listeners of Dandelion Radio:
1 Savages - Husband2 The Chasms - Death's Pony3 Allo Darlin' - Capricornia4 Godspeed You! Black Emperor - We Drift Like Worried Fire5 The Lovely Eggs - Allergie6 The Membranes - If You Enter The Arena, You Got To Be Prepared To Deal With The Lions7 Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Mladic8 Tender Trap - MBV9 Vert:x - Full Fathom Five10 Allo Darlin' - Tallula11 Django Django - Defaut12 Pussy Riot - Putin Has Pissed Himself13 The Lovely Eggs - Food14 The Wedding Present - End Credits15 The Chasms - Der Eingriff Schulze16 Red Cosmos - I Am The Local DJ17 Shrag - Devastating Bones18 Atoms For Peace - Default19 Hammock - Ten Thousand Years Won't Save Your Life20 Alisia Casper - Unfire21 Big Joan - Beautiful Idea22 Blue Giant Zeta Puppies - The Wild Ride of Ichabod Crane23 Christ - Zeroth Law24 Flies On You - Shipmanesque25 Human Don't Be Angry - Monologue: River26 The Dead Kennedys - California Uber Alles (12-inch Plastic Toys remix)27 Lord Numb - Zombie28 Veronica Falls - My Heart Beats29 3rd International - Chug This30 Deep Time - Clouds31 Future of the Left - Robocop 4 (**** Off Robocop)32 Grimes - Oblivion33 Japandroids - The House That Heaven Built34 Lulubelle III - Frankie35 M.J.Hibbett & The Validators - A Little Bit36 Public Image Ltd - Lollipop Opera37 Tame Impala - Elephant38 The Horn The Hunt - Gold39 The Magnetic Fields - Andrew In Drag40 Yva Las Vegass - Crack Whore41 The Phantom Light - The Greater Picture42 Alt-J - Fitzpleasure43 Cate Le Bon - Puts Me To Work44 Goat - Goathead45 Martha - 1978, Smiling Politely46 Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Walk Like A Giant47 Standard Fare - Older Women48 Forkeyes - Fell Off The Penalty Spotty Spot49 Thee Oh Sees - Lupine Dominus50 Guided By Voices - Class Clown Spots A UFO
― Effing Baby, Saturday, 12 January 2013 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
the membranes? crikey
― clive mendonca's big soccer (NickB), Saturday, 12 January 2013 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
Xgau: Neil Young 's Americana.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 14 January 2013 20:43 (eleven years ago) link
Slicing Up Eyeballs Readers Poll
10. VCMG, Ssss09. Public Image Ltd., This is PiL08. Killing Joke, MMXII07. Dinosaur Jr, I Bet On Sky06. Ultravox, Brilliant05. The Fixx, Beautiful Friction04. Pet Shop Boys, Elysium03. Swans, The Seer02. Dead Can Dance, Anastasis01. Bob Mould, Silver Age
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 14 January 2013 20:52 (eleven years ago) link
Hmm, I wonder what age the readers of Slicing Up Eyeballs are.
― Deafening silence (DL), Monday, 14 January 2013 21:01 (eleven years ago) link
Cumulatively?
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 14 January 2013 21:08 (eleven years ago) link
Slicing Up Eyeballs needs to hear the Lee Ranaldo solo record which is really excellent.
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 00:30 (eleven years ago) link
Ha, I wanna see their top 50. It's weird enough listening to The Fixx in 2013, but I learned there were also new albums by Men Without Hats and Saga! Anyone remember "On The Loose"?
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 05:46 (eleven years ago) link
Those Ultravox and Killing Joke albums are both pretty good.
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 12:37 (eleven years ago) link
The KJ made a decent showing in overall polls. I listened to Ultravox once yesterday, need to hear again. I didn't like the PiL or Dead Can Dance much.
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 13:20 (eleven years ago) link
Levene/Wobble album was slept on
― Drugs A. Money, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 13:36 (eleven years ago) link
The Men Without Hats album is one decent song played over and over and over and over again
― DJP, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 15:03 (eleven years ago) link