Thread for all 2016 albums of the year lists

So what will this year's acronym be? CROBIB (Cave, Radiohead, Ocean, Bowie, Iggy, Beyonce)? BBOICR?

Joyce Manor and Dawn Richard making the Time songs list makes me happy.

Mac Miller ft. Anderson.Paak - "Dang!"

I can't remember who tweeted it (maybe some dude), but my favorite capsule review of this track was "Why is Mac Miller mumbling all over this good Anderson Paak song?"

looking forward to p4k's list mentioning the election in every blurb the way they did w/ 9/11

5. The Range - Potential

I really enjoyed this, it sounds like what all the positive reviews of the Jamie XX album made me expect from it

'Gardenia' is the one Iggy LP song I've heard and "All I want to do is tell Gardenia what to do tonight" is the clunkiest line I've heard all year.

God bless you whoever recommended Vanishing Twin upthread

the de la soul album has no place on any year end list what the hell?

Whenever I see a mention of The Range, I think "aw, it's nice that Bruce Hornsby's backing band is still doing things."

So what will this year's acronym be? CROBIB (Cave, Radiohead, Ocean, Bowie, Iggy, Beyonce)? BBOICR?

― Fastnbulbous

for a second i thought the media were finally coming around to psychic psummer :(

Heh. If I use Nick's first initial too, it could be BBOINCR.

add Leonard Cohen, substitute Beyonce for another a more rockist-friendly second O and you can have BROCCOLI

Oranssi Pazuzu

looking forward to p4k's list Pazz and Jop mentioning the election in every blurb the way they did w/ 9/11 Bush's reelection.

Time factor is no excuse for A Tribe getting stuck in the middle of the RS list, since they had time to get it in there at all: one listen should do it for most of the music and enough of the words.

At least.

I know yall know that, just venting sorry.

maybe RS just thought there were 29 records better than that one this year? i don't think that seems all that ridiculous. there are more ridiculous things on that list.

Not all of those29 were better, although I guess you could say that (or anything) is "arguable."

none of those 29 were better tbf

and i thought the RS list was generally p good

whiney sure cleaned that place up

none of those 29 were better tbf Maybe some of them are; I haven't heard 'em all. But: Margo Price's slick knock-off of Loretta Lynn starts okay, gets too predictable, and oops here's the actual Loretta with a good new album of her own. Brandi Clark's album is more fluid than her first, but she's still the self-conscious workshopper, as singer and writer (Alfred cites her tendency to mistake detail for significance). Bon Iver is the opposite, an overachiever, more Bon Iver than ever. Nick Cave is still Nick Cave. The Parquet Courts and Drive-By Truckers albums are both about half-good (minority report). For instance.

I mean I'm usually just, "Lists, schmists", but in this case, it's almost amazing.

Count RS among publications that don't seem to realize that Parquet Courts have two singers. By my count, 3 of the 4 songs that supposedly show Savage musing with "thoughtful detachment" were actually sung by the other guy.

Dutch OOR magazine (only) misses the I in CROBIB
1. David Bowie - Blackstar
2. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree
3. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
4. Anderson .Paak - Malibu
5. Beyoncé - Lemonade
6. PJ Harvey - The Hope Six Demolition Project
7. Car Seat Headrest - Teens Of Denial
8. Frank Ocean - Blonde
9. Chance The Rapper - Coloring Book
10. Eefje de Visser - Nachtlicht

I mean I'm usually just, "Lists, schmists", but in this case, it's almost amazing.

― dow

it's almost as if some people aren't familiar with the typical results of lists made by committee

almost, but not quite

It's almost as if some people think the Tribe Called Quest album is...just okay.

Eefje de Visser - Nachtlicht

This is really nice!

i kind of like BBROCLI as an acronym for this year's heavy hitters since it's sort of a shout out to one of the best singles

that is an extremely irritating heavy-hitters list in what has been a phenomenal year for music. can we please avoid using it

hey don't blame me, i'm voting for maxwell

Is there a term for when people try and find increasingly torturous variations on something that worked once on ILM? 'What is this year's GAPDY?' is almost as annoying as 'what is this year's Gaz Coombes?' New Jerseying is the best I can think of.

Tribe Called Quest omissions are seriously insane. I really don't know what to say.

Not sure people are really ready for how good it is

I guess We got it from Here... was released too late for magazines which publishes year-end lists end of November? Hope too see it in lists made up now and later on.

Yeah it came out very late. And it did take a little time to process just how excellent it is. Lots of publications' ballots closed before or just days after the LP came out

I keep confusing the Tribe and Bon Iver album covers when they come up on my phone.

I guess We got it from Here... was released too late for magazines which publishes year-end lists end of November?

Also poor timing on Leonard Cohen's death.

buuut one of them died at a far more untimely age

<i>Is there a term for when people try and find increasingly torturous variations on something that worked once on ILM? 'What is this year's GAPDY?' is almost as annoying as 'what is this year's Gaz Coombes?' New Jerseying is the best I can think of.</i>

I'm glad you're annoyed, that was the point. The hivemind voting overwhelmingly for a tiny group of 5-6 albums is annoying. It deserves an annoying acronym.

I think it's mainly the result of lazy participants to these polls not putting much effort into diving deep and really exploring albums they might have missed earlier in the year. If more people did that, the results would be more diverse.

But the new acronym will not represent the ILM favourites at all. Do you see K for King? D for Dawn? T for Tribe? Another K for Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith? A number 1 for The 1975? Exactly, no.

I mean, sure it'll be annoying if those albums top all the critic lists not on ILX, but I'm sure they won't.

The 1975 are more like a number two, tbf.

But the new acronym will not represent the ILM favourites at all.

You don't actually know this until the polls are run, unless of course we are now at the point where we as an en masse messageboard are using the poll as a mechanism to curate a list that makes us the specialist snowflakes on the Internet rather than aggregating the opinions of the participating voters on which albums/tracks they liked the most over the past year.

If there's a way to suck fun out of polls im sure some ilxors will be at the forefront of it

xp fair, but other albums will be given equal love, that's all. and iggy pop, really now

I haven't heard the iggy pop album, but what if it is actually really good?

i listened to the first few songs. it [imho] isn't.