Year-End Critics' Polls 2013

haha "unclean vocals"

Idk JF I know a lot of kids who are down with metalcore and death metal. They're not hard to find

dont blame jf for staying away from metalcore & deathcore kids tbh. worst music ever

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.

Haha, the little monsters are pretty good at focusing their collective power.

okay lol

lol i love how even "venus" made the songs list

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.

Not a critics' poll but here apparently are the top selling VINYL albums of 2013 (presumably in the US?):

01. Daft Punk – Random Access Memories
02. Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City
03. Arcade Fire – Reflektor
04. Mumford & Sons – Babel
05. Mumford & Sons – Sigh No More
06. Queens of the Stone Age – …Like Clockwork
07. Bon Iver – For Emma Forever Ago
08. Lumineers – Lumineers
09. The National – Trouble Will Find Me
10. Justin Timberlake – The 20/20 Experience

http://www.tinymixtapes.com/news/daft-punk-vampire-weekend-and-arcade-fire-top-the-vinyl-charts-for-2013

So basically, people who buy new vinyl albums have even more boring taste than everyone else

TWO Mumford albums????????

(I originally typed "Mufmord", almost left it because that sounds like a death metal band name)

http://static1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120124175850/muppet/images/5/5c/TheAmazingMumford-tumblrPicture2.png

muffmorte

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.

now that's just a lot of confusing imagery

I do agree that ass beanies are stupid, tho

Go fist yourselves with one of your indie rock vinyls.

intend to repurpose this line at an appropriate time, possibly vampire weekend related

but ARTPOP was just as terrible as Vampire Weekend, is the thing

having trouble fisting myself with the Neu! box set

Go fist yourselves with one of your indie rock vinyls.

Most offensive thing here is use of 'vinyls'.

but ARTPOP was just as terrible as Vampire Weekend, is the thing

yeah which is why i'll be repurposing it later and not in defence of artpop!

having trouble fisting myself with the Neu! box set

when I think about you I fist myself - Da Vinyls

kudos

Haha

http://www.soulexpress.net/deep1_2014.htm

TOP-10 in 2013 *

(Full-length, new official releases)

1. Otis Clay: Truth Is
2. Latimore: Remembers Ray Charles
3. Johnny Rawls: Remembering O.V.
4. Jeffrey Osborne: A Time For Love
5. Charles Bradley: Victim Of Love
6. Vel Omarr: Cookin’ With Vel Omarr
7. Wendell B: Get To Kno’ Me
8. Will Downing: Silver
9. The Mighty Clouds Of Joy: All That I Am, Chapter 1
10. Lola: Cleaning House
© Heikki Suosalo

http://www.nashvillescene.com/nashville/the-results/Content?oid=4034364

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

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."

Boy does xgau love Gogol Bordello

Has there ever been a Peter Stampfel project he hasn't liked?

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

No interest in ILM's in house poll? I find that puzzling.

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

I didn't even see that.

Oh I see it picked up a lot of posts since I looked at it before going to bed last night.

Well, I will have to see if Christgau fave African albums also have shown up on the ILM in-house poll

Albums haven't been rolled out yet.

Spotify playlist for the track winners (with some missing) here:

https://play.spotify.com/user/forksclovetofu/playlist/6aanFh0UkiNJlrvg3kZgmI

(If that doesn't open for your properly, try put it into the search box in Spotify.)

Or youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRHeAwiD-CsRG-9rOfi3PLC9Rcw2R06lC

There definitely are some good tunes missing from Spotify, notably Lulu James's "Closer."

Boy does xgau love Gogol Bordello

And Kimya Dawson. The Uncluded is her with a rapper I had never heard before named Aesop Rock. As a Dean acolyte I bought it. Love the stuff with Kimya but that guy's voice is not my cup of musical tea.

i would like to see a slatepitch about the lack of audience overlap between kimya dawson and aesop rock, because i can believe that i would be going to never believe how much there was

man kimya dawson plus aesop rock is some heavy 2001 shit

http://fuckyouhipsters.blogspot.fr/2014/01/fuck-you-hipsters-podsumowuja-dobre.html

Pretty good list of best polish records. Stara Rzeka is present obviosuly, along with his two other projects: T'ien Lai (http://tienlai.bandcamp.com/) and Alameda 3 (http://alamedacountydeathcult.bandcamp.com/).

Blurbs are in polish but you can find most of these on bandcamp/soundcloud/spotify easily. Some of them:
https://soundcloud.com/kirkkirk/sets/z-a-krew - kIRk 'Zla krew' (winner)
http://open.spotify.com/album/3ozjrP9lQG5MUBYn9QphFQ - Super Girl & Romantic Boys (number 2, super kitschy 80s electro)
http://open.spotify.com/album/4N3qM5HIHD8aqL3r44qd4R - Kixnare (number 3, electronic/instrumental hip-hop, "Gucci Dough" is the obvious hit song but all of it is worth a listen)
http://kaseciarz.bandcamp.com/ - Kaseciarz, "low budget rock and roll"
https://lxmp.bandcamp.com/ - LXMP, take on "Future Shock" by two of the best polish musicians, commisioned for the Unsound Festival.
http://open.spotify.com/album/4w6BLeGIfTvuc2XepFXUaI - RSS B0ys (great, dark techno)

Awesome. Thanks for posting that!