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
― boxedjoy, Monday, 28 November 2016 20:44 (seven years ago) link
'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.
― nashwan, Monday, 28 November 2016 21:29 (seven years ago) link
God bless you whoever recommended Vanishing Twin upthread
― the article don, Monday, 28 November 2016 21:51 (seven years ago) link
the de la soul album has no place on any year end list what the hell?
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 28 November 2016 21:54 (seven years ago) link
Whenever I see a mention of The Range, I think "aw, it's nice that Bruce Hornsby's backing band is still doing things."
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 28 November 2016 22:13 (seven years ago) link
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 :(
― xiphoid beetlebum (rushomancy), Monday, 28 November 2016 22:25 (seven years ago) link
Heh. If I use Nick's first initial too, it could be BBOINCR.
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 28 November 2016 23:23 (seven years ago) link
add Leonard Cohen, substitute Beyonce for another a more rockist-friendly second O and you can have BROCCOLI
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, 28 November 2016 23:30 (seven years ago) link
Oranssi Pazuzu
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Monday, 28 November 2016 23:47 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 00:19 (seven years ago) link
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.
― dow, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 00:36 (seven years ago) link
At least.
― dow, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 00:37 (seven years ago) link
I know yall know that, just venting sorry.
― dow, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 00:38 (seven years ago) link
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.
― alpine static, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 01:03 (seven years ago) link
Not all of those29 were better, although I guess you could say that (or anything) is "arguable."
― dow, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 01:21 (seven years ago) link
none of those 29 were better tbf
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 01:23 (seven years ago) link
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.
― dow, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 01:37 (seven years ago) link
I mean I'm usually just, "Lists, schmists", but in this case, it's almost amazing.
― dow, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 01:43 (seven years ago) link
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.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 01:57 (seven years ago) link
Dutch OOR magazine (only) misses the I in CROBIB1. David Bowie - Blackstar2. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree3. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool4. Anderson .Paak - Malibu5. Beyoncé - Lemonade6. PJ Harvey - The Hope Six Demolition Project7. Car Seat Headrest - Teens Of Denial8. Frank Ocean - Blonde9. Chance The Rapper - Coloring Book10. Eefje de Visser - Nachtlicht
― willem, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 13:20 (seven years ago) link
― dow
it's almost as if some people aren't familiar with the typical results of lists made by committee
― xiphoid beetlebum (rushomancy), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 13:47 (seven years ago) link
almost, but not quite
― dow, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 13:56 (seven years ago) link
It's almost as if some people think the Tribe Called Quest album is...just okay.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 14:12 (seven years ago) link
Eefje de Visser - Nachtlicht
This is really nice!
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 14:54 (seven years ago) link
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
― maura, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 14:55 (seven years ago) link
that is an extremely irritating heavy-hitters list in what has been a phenomenal year for music. can we please avoid using it
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 14:58 (seven years ago) link
hey don't blame me, i'm voting for maxwell
― maura, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 15:01 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 15:22 (seven years ago) link
Tribe Called Quest omissions are seriously insane. I really don't know what to say.
― dlp9001, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 16:31 (seven years ago) link
Not sure people are really ready for how good it is
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 16:43 (seven years ago) link
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.
― maarten, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 16:45 (seven years ago) link
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
― Evan R, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 16:59 (seven years ago) link
I keep confusing the Tribe and Bon Iver album covers when they come up on my phone.
― dinnerboat, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 17:28 (seven years ago) link
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.
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 18:59 (seven years ago) link
buuut one of them died at a far more untimely age
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 19:03 (seven years ago) link
<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.
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 20:21 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 20:38 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 20:43 (seven years ago) link
The 1975 are more like a number two, tbf.
― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 20:51 (seven years ago) link
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.
― ¶ (DJP), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 20:57 (seven years ago) link
If there's a way to suck fun out of polls im sure some ilxors will be at the forefront of it
― Cosmic Slop, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 21:03 (seven years ago) link
xp fair, but other albums will be given equal love, that's all. and iggy pop, really now
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 21:05 (seven years ago) link
I haven't heard the iggy pop album, but what if it is actually really good?
― Cosmic Slop, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 21:07 (seven years ago) link
i listened to the first few songs. it [imho] isn't.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 21:22 (seven years ago) link
man, that avalanches record from this year really is great
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 21:23 (seven years ago) link
EOY polls without some noticeable element of gaming or tactical voting make for some v boring results. Besides, you wouldn't have a nomination process before voting or promotion process during voting if you were aiming for some kind of pure democratic reflection of the board's tastes that could remain discernible from numerous other EOY lists from the publications people here read and in some cases also write for.
― nashwan, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 21:28 (seven years ago) link
The nomination process was initially in place to normalize the names people used in their ballots in order to make tabulation of the results easier.
― ¶ (DJP), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 21:47 (seven years ago) link
We will get somewhat idiosyncratic results anyway because we are a smallish, inwardly-focused community that has been hyping each other on specific artists that aren't necessarily popping up on every EOY published. We will see more overlap than we used to because a significant percentage of the people who post here are also driving/contributing to the EOY lists of publications and have disseminating stuff discussed here to a wider audience, some of which may have caught on. If the point of the poll is to be different from everyone else rather than to catch up on what everyone liked, particularly within balkanized subgroups that may not overlap, I think the poll is now pointless.
― ¶ (DJP), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 22:01 (seven years ago) link