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
Is that song Safety Dance?
― Moodles, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 15:15 (eleven years ago) link
no
― DJP, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 15:15 (eleven years ago) link
Top 10 today in Metal Poll 2012 - The Countdown
― Metal Poll Countdown FINISHES TODAY! (ɷ), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 15:16 (eleven years ago) link
Anyone remember "On The Loose"?
Of course! Part of that whole Canadian wave that was huge on rock radio in the early '80s (at least in western NY, where I was a young teen). Loverboy, Triumph, Saga, Red Rider, Aldo Nova -- and Rush towering over all of them.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 15:23 (eleven years ago) link
My ILX albums ballot--which, beyond the quality control of Pazz and Nash Scene Top Tens, now incl Tempest (like most of the music, less of the words, though he does still know how to strike a effective pose, and main thing is: he's really into pre-emptive strikes vs. Time and Ol' Lady-with-a-rolling-pin Muse' also a flesh 'n' blood ol' lady, sounds like). Death Grips, Rufus Wainwright, The xx all offer albums that are only about half good, but their goodies can satisfy in ways that notning else quite did in '12, which is the main criterion for Top Tens as well, so why not in a Top However Many This Is:Best Coast - The Only PlaceBob Dylan - TempestCat Power - SunCorin Tucker Band - Kill My BluesCraig Finn - Clear Heart Full EyesDirty Projectors - Swing Lo MagellanDeath Grips - The Money StoreDeath Grips - No Love Deep WebDwight Yoakam - 3 PearsFiona Apple - The Idler Wheel...Giant Giant Sand - TucsonJustin Townes Earle - Nothing's Going To Change The Way You Feel About Me NowKelly Hogan - I Like to Keep Myself in PainNeil Young & Crazy Horse - AmericanaNeil Young & Crazy Horse - Psychedelic PillNeneh Cherry & The Thing - The Cherry ThingThe Mountain Goats - Transcendental YouthThe xx - CoexistRufus Wainwright - Out Of The GameSantigold - Master Of My Make Believe
― dow, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 16:33 (eleven years ago) link
cool to see someone else w/ the Yoakam and Wainwright on their list!
― some dude, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 16:35 (eleven years ago) link
Not that others don't have soft spots, but nothing that makes them any of them less than keepers
― dow, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 16:37 (eleven years ago) link
clemenza: I love your top 10, only one I didn't quite get is number 2. It seems to me like you're praising the music and saying you don't really care about the lyrics. Why not list the Jamie XX and Gil Scott Heron version instead?
― Moka, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 19:14 (eleven years ago) link
Mimaroglu Music Sales / Keith Fullerton Whitman's (pre?)list of music concrete, modular synth, drone, noise, academic experimentalism and all points between and beyond can be found here - http://www.mimaroglumusicsales.com/best.php?year=2012 - in their words "far from "definitive" ; here's a simple, running tally of the titles that have been "rating" thusfar in 2012"
(So far, I've found a handful of things that seem, from the excerpts on the site, to be rather outstanding)
― neilasimpson, Wednesday, 16 January 2013 13:53 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.villagevoice.com/pazznjop/albums/2012/
Pazz & Jop thread, aka when is the official deadline for this thing?
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 16 January 2013 17:58 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.nashvillescene.com/nashville/from-eric-church-to-jamey-johnson-2012-found-country-music-in-a-holding-pattern-and-searching-for-role-models/Content?oid=3230383
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 17 January 2013 21:35 (eleven years ago) link
Just came across this one:http://louderthanwar.com/albums-of-the-year-2012-part-4-49-1/
I actually found more interesting choices in the 99-50 page, especially a bunch of punk I haven't heard by Bite Back, Argy Bargy, White Lung and New War.
http://louderthanwar.com/albums-of-the-year-2012-part-three-99-50/
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 17 January 2013 22:48 (eleven years ago) link
Don't forget Louder Than War numbers 200 - 101:
http://louderthanwar.com/albums-of-the-year-2012-part-one-200-150/
http://louderthanwar.com/albums-of-the-year-2012-part-two-149-100/
Massive celebrations round Damon Albarn's house for reaching that coveted 197 spot.
― Effing Baby, Friday, 18 January 2013 11:38 (eleven years ago) link
Moka: thanks. I love the music on "Take Care," also the lyrics. They just happened to remind me, because of Rihanna's ordeals, of Faking It and that age-old debate about what makes something authentic. When she sings that line about being hurt, it may or may not resonate more because of biography, depending upon how important that is to you--and I was trying to contrast that with Drake, who may or may not be at the opposite end of the spectrum, depending etc. Maybe I garbled the point. I also missed (pointed out on the P&J thread) that that line goes back to an old Bobby Bland song. (I actually have the song on a greatest hits, but was never a big fan.) Ultimately, though, I do always place music ahead of lyrics.
― clemenza, Friday, 18 January 2013 13:31 (eleven years ago) link
Jon Pareles's Top 10 w his comments, nice reading:http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/16/arts/music/jon-pareless-top-10-albums-of-2012.html?src=un&feedurl=http%3A%2F%2Fjson8.nytimes.com%2Fpages%2Farts%2Fmusic%2Findex.jsonp
― dow, Saturday, 19 January 2013 02:02 (eleven years ago) link
Nate Chinen's Top 10---Truesdale's Newly Discovered Works of Gil Evans mostly sounded really good at Newport---not that this is all jazz:http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/16/arts/music/nate-chinens-top-10-albums-of-2012.html?_r=1&
― dow, Saturday, 19 January 2013 02:06 (eleven years ago) link
Not jazz but oo-wee mama, oo-oo-wee:http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/16/arts/music/jon-caramanicas-top-10-albums-of-2012.html
― dow, Saturday, 19 January 2013 02:19 (eleven years ago) link
clem: "Take Care" didn't make my ballot because I included it last year but otherwise I agree: one of her (and his) few convincing performances.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 19 January 2013 02:21 (eleven years ago) link
Sorry for spamming but any interested parties have ~8 hours to submit a ballot in that prince among critics' polls: the ILM end-of-year poll!
― LAST DAY to vote in the ILM End of Year Poll! (seandalai), Saturday, 19 January 2013 02:29 (eleven years ago) link
http://bnreview.barnesandnoble.com/t5/Rock-Roll/The-Dean-s-List-2012/ba-p/9707
And of course his address to the troops, from an "outlier" now (welcome)http://bnreview.barnesandnoble.com/t5/Rock-Roll/May-the-Consensus-Have-Consequences/ba-p/9709
― dow, Saturday, 19 January 2013 02:38 (eleven years ago) link
lol @ him referring to "Dre's evolved jeep-beats" on the Kendrick album
Pink's The Truth About Love was on 10 Pazz & Jop ballots, which seems to have been driven primarily by Christgau's enthusiasm. her (far better) previous album Funhouse only got 1 vote in 2008 (wasn't me, which i regret -- at the time it was #14 on my list).
― the legend of bigger yansh (some dude), Saturday, 19 January 2013 12:54 (eleven years ago) link
i'd like to see a lot more of Ka's Grief Pedigree on these lists
― alpine static, Wednesday, December 5, 2012 8:02 PM (8 months ago)
^^ was correct
― j., Monday, 12 August 2013 06:01 (ten years ago) link