These aren't critcs' polls, but at work I generated two more data-driven 2013 retrospectives, one for raw popularity and one for emerging discoveries.
article about them: http://blog.echonest.com/post/72464366661/hottest-songs-biggest-music-discoveries-of-2013
popularity map: http://everynoise.com/engenremap-2013.htmlpopularity playlist: http://rd.io/x/QUPlBzMtemQ/
discovery map: http://everynoise.com/engenremap-2013END.htmldiscovery playlist: http://rd.io/x/QUPlBzMtfyc/
I'm not going to paste the complete lists here. They're long.
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 6 January 2014 20:14 (ten years ago) link
xpost to fnb
a number of factors for the decline in metal poll inc hate of polls but one is perhaps metal thread regulars got old and listened to mostly old albums last year. Not just reissues but old faves and new but old discoveries.Poll fatigue doesnt hurt the big ilm poll which got 120+ last year iirc.
a lot of metal today is also extreme death metal with extreme grunting thats highly unoriginal and ilxors dont care for it but thats what the metal kids in the real world like and the kids shun "clean singing bands" like ghost, uncle acid, in solitude, cauldron etc which ILXors tend to like. (also theyre seen as old fashioned retro by kids)extreme black metal suffers the same as the DM. Atmospheric/Shoegazy BM has been around a while and ppl are fed up with it.Same with post-metal.
Plus crossover stuff like alcest,deafheaven et al have annoyed metallers for not being metal and for being "hipster metal" and those metallers wont vote if they think the list will be dominated by it and perhaps of course fans of those bands have been put off voting. Who knows.
Either way I think ILM metal poll may have had its day unless 20 or 30 more people vote by friday to get it up to last years level (which in itself was a fall from 74 votes)
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 6 January 2014 21:06 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/7WOj5.gif
― lisa 龜 (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 6 January 2014 21:08 (ten years ago) link
Pourin' one out for my Cookie Monster vocals.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 6 January 2014 21:10 (ten years ago) link
dying that Dillinger Escape Plan isn't on the ballot
― lisa 龜 (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 6 January 2014 21:15 (ten years ago) link
Playlists are the new polls.
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 6 January 2014 21:18 (ten years ago) link
cookie monster vox are only unpopular on ilm, jf. Out there in the real world that is whats popular with kids and adults.
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 6 January 2014 21:21 (ten years ago) link
I know ive barely promoted metal poll this year but i expected more votes. so either metal is dead on ilx or metal polls are (other polls are still popular)
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 6 January 2014 21:23 (ten years ago) link
Out there in the real world that is whats popular with kids and adults.
"Out there" it's Pitbull and Dierks Bentley that are popular with kids and adults. Cookie monster vocals are just as marginalized in the real world as they are in mine.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 6 January 2014 21:27 (ten years ago) link
http://u.jimdo.com/www38/o/sda0c94d89b4b9f1b/img/i69ddcf493ec8d261/1378388479/std/get-your-kicks-with-kiko-the-kangaroo-and-puddy-too.jpg
― it was a cool and cutting-edge prank in October 2013 (wins), Monday, 6 January 2014 21:31 (ten years ago) link
i was talking about the metal kids in the real world not the kids in general.
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 6 January 2014 21:40 (ten years ago) link
albeit the really big bands like avenged sevenfold mix screaming with singing.
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 6 January 2014 21:41 (ten years ago) link
you mean "clean" vocals and "unclean" vocals, in metalcore parlance
― some dude, Monday, 6 January 2014 21:54 (ten years ago) link
I'm not fed up with shoegazy atmospheric black metal!
― Viceroy, Monday, 6 January 2014 21:55 (ten years ago) link
clean, unclean and don mclean
― tench and pike, scaup and snipe (NickB), Monday, 6 January 2014 22:02 (ten years ago) link
haha "unclean vocals"
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 6 January 2014 22:08 (ten years ago) link
Idk JF I know a lot of kids who are down with metalcore and death metal. They're not hard to find
― reductio balls absurdum (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 04:43 (ten years ago) link
dont blame jf for staying away from metalcore & deathcore kids tbh. worst music ever
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 11:18 (ten years ago) link
It's not a critic poll, but I found the results of this year's Metacritic User Poll rather amusing:http://www.metacritic.com/feature/best-of-2013-user-poll-results?page_comment=1
Sometmes you forget how rabid an artist's fanbase can be at times.
― MarkoP, Thursday, 9 January 2014 17:20 (ten years ago) link
Haha, the little monsters are pretty good at focusing their collective power.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 9 January 2014 17:23 (ten years ago) link
okay lol
― SHAUN (DJP), Thursday, 9 January 2014 17:25 (ten years ago) link
lol i love how even "venus" made the songs list
― dyl, Thursday, 9 January 2014 18:29 (ten years ago) link
sad thing is if artpop was doing better i doubt there'd be such an effort by her fanbase to get her at the top of at least one chart somewhere. born this way barely scratched the top 20 back in 2011.
― prolego, Thursday, 9 January 2014 18:41 (ten years ago) link
Not a critics' poll but here apparently are the top selling VINYL albums of 2013 (presumably in the US?):
01. Daft Punk – Random Access Memories02. Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City03. Arcade Fire – Reflektor04. Mumford & Sons – Babel05. Mumford & Sons – Sigh No More06. Queens of the Stone Age – …Like Clockwork07. Bon Iver – For Emma Forever Ago08. Lumineers – Lumineers09. The National – Trouble Will Find Me10. Justin Timberlake – The 20/20 Experience
http://www.tinymixtapes.com/news/daft-punk-vampire-weekend-and-arcade-fire-top-the-vinyl-charts-for-2013
― tench and pike, scaup and snipe (NickB), Monday, 13 January 2014 14:52 (ten years ago) link
So basically, people who buy new vinyl albums have even more boring taste than everyone else
― tench and pike, scaup and snipe (NickB), Monday, 13 January 2014 14:53 (ten years ago) link
TWO Mumford albums????????
(I originally typed "Mufmord", almost left it because that sounds like a death metal band name)
― SHAUN (DJP), Monday, 13 January 2014 14:54 (ten years ago) link
http://static1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120124175850/muppet/images/5/5c/TheAmazingMumford-tumblrPicture2.png
― Mordy , Monday, 13 January 2014 14:58 (ten years ago) link
muffmorte
― tench and pike, scaup and snipe (NickB), Monday, 13 January 2014 14:59 (ten years ago) link
ItsFabianAndres
Jan 7, 2014 8:09PM
ARTPOP was a fantastic album and one of the best pop albums of 2013. You pretentious hipsters in your stupid ass beanies can stay pressed like cuban sandwiches. Go fist yourselves with one of your indie rock vinyls.
― Deafening silence (DL), Monday, 13 January 2014 15:11 (ten years ago) link
now that's just a lot of confusing imagery
― SHAUN (DJP), Monday, 13 January 2014 15:12 (ten years ago) link
I do agree that ass beanies are stupid, tho
― SHAUN (DJP), Monday, 13 January 2014 15:13 (ten years ago) link
Go fist yourselves with one of your indie rock vinyls.
intend to repurpose this line at an appropriate time, possibly vampire weekend related
― lex pretend, Monday, 13 January 2014 15:16 (ten years ago) link
but ARTPOP was just as terrible as Vampire Weekend, is the thing
― SHAUN (DJP), Monday, 13 January 2014 15:18 (ten years ago) link
having trouble fisting myself with the Neu! box set
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 13 January 2014 15:21 (ten years ago) link
Most offensive thing here is use of 'vinyls'.
― emil.y, Monday, 13 January 2014 15:24 (ten years ago) link
yeah which is why i'll be repurposing it later and not in defence of artpop!
― lex pretend, Monday, 13 January 2014 15:35 (ten years ago) link
― willem, Monday, 13 January 2014 15:35 (ten years ago) link
when I think about you I fist myself - Da Vinyls
― some dude, Monday, 13 January 2014 15:38 (ten years ago) link
kudos
― SHAUN (DJP), Monday, 13 January 2014 15:53 (ten years ago) link
Haha
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 13 January 2014 20:41 (ten years ago) link
http://www.soulexpress.net/deep1_2014.htm
TOP-10 in 2013 *
(Full-length, new official releases)
1. Otis Clay: Truth Is2. Latimore: Remembers Ray Charles3. Johnny Rawls: Remembering O.V.4. Jeffrey Osborne: A Time For Love5. Charles Bradley: Victim Of Love6. Vel Omarr: Cookin’ With Vel Omarr7. Wendell B: Get To Kno’ Me8. Will Downing: Silver9. The Mighty Clouds Of Joy: All That I Am, Chapter 110. Lola: Cleaning House© Heikki Suosalo
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 21 January 2014 14:51 (ten years ago) link
http://www.nashvillescene.com/nashville/the-results/Content?oid=4034364
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 23 January 2014 18:10 (ten years ago) link
Christgau weighs in
http://bnreview.barnesandnoble.com/t5/Rock-Roll/The-Consensus-Has-Consequences/ba-p/12189 his essay
http://bnreview.barnesandnoble.com/t5/Rock-Roll/The-2013-Dean-s-List/ba-p/12191
85 albums with the following top 10 ones
1. Vampire Weekend: Modern Vampires of the City (XL)2. The Uncluded: Hokey Fright (Rhymesayers)3. The Julie Ruin: Run Fast (TJR)4. Jeffrey Lewis & Peter Stampfel: Hey Hey It's...the Jeffrey Lewis & Peter Stampfel Band (self-released)5. Live from Festival au Desert Timbuktu (Clermont Music)6. Lady Gaga: Artpop (Streamline/Interscope)7. Eminem: The Marshall Mathers LP 2 (Deluxe Edition) (Aftermath)8. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba: Jama Ko (Out Here)9. Gogol Bordello: Pura Vida Conspiracy (ATO)10. The Knife: Shaking the Habitual (Mute
― curmudgeon, Friday, 24 January 2014 16:19 (ten years ago) link
Complained on xhuxk's wall that both the absence of a singles list and the squishy "It takes all kinds. And we're healthier as a culture when we agree on a bunch of them."
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 24 January 2014 16:23 (ten years ago) link
Boy does xgau love Gogol Bordello
― Deafening silence (DL), Friday, 24 January 2014 16:27 (ten years ago) link
Has there ever been a Peter Stampfel project he hasn't liked?
― curmudgeon, Friday, 24 January 2014 16:48 (ten years ago) link
It felt that way to me but I see he says:
the 75-year-old Stampfel's best record since the even more cooperative Have Moicy! 38 years ago,
He expresses his unhappiness that Maura and others don't like the Lady Gaga as much as he does
― curmudgeon, Friday, 24 January 2014 16:50 (ten years ago) link
No interest in ILM's in house poll? I find that puzzling.
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 24 January 2014 16:52 (ten years ago) link
I'm feeling guilty I didn't find the time to vote. But I did start looking at it and I saw this below which means I need to check out your ballot:
Rudipherous's ballot is awesome in both spirit and content
I'm so glad ppl voted for the selma oxor & neneh cherry tracks I nommed & then negged, I was feeling guilty
― chekhprivan (wins), Friday, January 24, 2014 1:40 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― curmudgeon, Friday, 24 January 2014 16:57 (ten years ago) link
I didn't even see that.
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 24 January 2014 17:06 (ten years ago) link