Thread for all 2016 albums of the year lists

the Drones made my top 50. not their best album but a very worthy sharp left turn.

http://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/647-entertainment-weeklys-50-best-albums-of-2016/

Beyoncé - Lemonade #1

http://www.slantmagazine.com/features/article/the-25-best-albums-of-2016

Possibly the most boring list yet, plus Britney.

fucksake GAPDY really is happening again

http://www.splicetoday.com/music/splice-today-s-top-10-records-of-2016

#1. David Bowie — Blackstar
#2. Kanye West — The Life of Pablo
#3. Mannequin Pussy — Romantic
#4. Matmos — Ultimate Care II
#5. A Tribe Called Quest — We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
#6. Young Thug — JEFFERY
#7. Rosali — Out of Love
#8. Animal Collective — Painting With
#9. Deakin — Sleep Cycle
#10. Deerhoof — The Magic

GAPDYXX it was. the xx were at the top of all those lists

a GADPY with A Tribe Called Quest and Beyoncé is a good GADPY imo

got no problem with those two records. ATCQ is in my own personal top 5. but it's not close to being at the top end of all these lists. tbh it's the crushing inevitability of frank ocean and radiohead that is killing me

Been following the Guardian countdown which was so far so predictable but I am genuinely astonished that enough of them liked that mess of a Rihanna album to vote it in at #7. Especially as Life of Paolo is probably still to come.

Paolo Di Kanye

What has been in the Guardian list this year?

You guys do realise that the issue with GAPDY wasn't just its predictability but its overwhelming white limp-dickness? Right?

(Full disclosure I loved that YYYs album which was the only one with some actual energy to it)

Can't get enough of that anti-white rhetoric these days.

Worse than just being bad music, they're white too!

what are you white or something

?? I'm lost

― I've read Ta-nehisi Coates. (marcos), Thursday, December 8, 2016 2:13 PM (thirty-seven seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

also the collective decision that beyonce is the only black female solo artist allowed at the top of these lists when DAWN (among others) is perhaps at least her equal is an unfortunate one

it needs interrogation, at least

I don't like all this year's consensus picks but if you don't understand how it's different to and more interesting than 2009's wall-to-wall tepid North American indie-synth picks then I've got nothing for you.

Solange tied with Beyonce on the Ringer list

anyone outside the Knowles family

Solange was Number One at NPR, Rihanna was Number One at Fuse, Louis is an idiot

anyone outside the Knowles family

I really wish there was a Kelly Rowland album that was popping up all over the place that I could namecheck here

Grrr

I just mean 'where's Dawn'

Yes, why aren't people rating this indie label album that came out 20 days ago over the woman who played the Super Bowl halftime show and the dying statement from one of rock's most iconic musicians

what could use some more ~interrogation is the collective decision that beyoncé only became an Important Musician and EOY shoo-in in 2013 and why it took her FOURTEEN years to get to that stage

rip thom yorke

people might not be rating it but the critics have a duty to represent the best music, right

Dawn's album doesn't even have a wikipedia page yet, but everyone should definitely be making the case that it's better than the album from someone who was nominated for Time's person of the year, conquered the VMAs and the Super Bowl and is currently sweeping the Grammys.

Beyoncé has been selling records and touring like an important musician since I can remember.

someone who was nominated for Time's person of the year, conquered the VMAs and the Super Bowl and is currently sweeping the Grammys.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, December 8, 2016 7:28 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

none of these things are what make beyoncé's album good or remotely relevant to lemonade's quality

Beyoncé has been selling records and touring like an important musician since I can remember.

― Van Horn Street, Thursday, December 8, 2016 7:29 PM (forty-four seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well she has been an important musician all this time, i'm talking solely about critics

the super bowl, you say

dunno what the super bowl is but i remember beyoncé graciously permitting a football (? baseball? basketball?) match to be appended to one of her concerts this year

I don't even mean Dawn's album is better. I'm just not seeing it in many lists alongside Beyonce etc. Anyway, I just think I hate watching any sort of musical consensus form, this is a losing fight

is Whiney talking about Coldplay rn?

consensus is exclusion

also lol lex

Beyonce's last album would have been way up there had it not been released in December with no publicity. 4 did pretty well IIRC. Of the others only Birthday is even vaguely meriting of a high position in any of these lists and even then it was probably outdone by a lot of shonkier records.

Can we ban Louis from this thread

the super bowl is a controversial but popular american event where spectators enter a stadium and queue up to take a bit of cannabis housed in an american football field-size bowl

they sit down and people-watch as entertainers perform all types of art forms. there's a cloud of mystery as to whether the entertainers themselves are stoned

just fyi

"I just think I hate watching any sort of musical consensus form, this is a losing fight"

Pretty sure you would be wetting your pants if a critical consensus was forming around Jute Gyte and the Cardiacs. Or you'd be complaining it was forming around the wrong records.

I'd be uneasy tbh

Anyway, I just think I hate watching any sort of musical consensus form, this is a losing fight

― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago),

I hate to tell you this but every year since sometime in the 60s has had a consensus for rock & pop albums.

I expect it goes back further for jazz

One of the ilxors most obsessed with data and lists is just diarreahing all over this thread over and over again to say he hates the actual outcome of data and lists

Pretty sure you would be wetting your pants if a critical consensus was forming around Jute Gyte and the Cardiacs. Or you'd be complaining it was forming around the wrong records.

heh, was thinking the same thing.

it's okay he does this every year xp

ilx in general feels like a lj playground atm which is good in terms of preventing me spending too much time on here