Thread for all 2016 albums of the year lists

I wasn't sure what I thought about this list on first brush but now I love it
contributor roster is super diverse too, you might want to think about that for a minute imago

Posts like imagos are one step away from ironically posting *triggered* and screaming at "cuckfork" for liking Solange. Keep this shit off our board and go back to being Limey Loi

#3 is imago jumping to the conclusion that Fader is "performatively woke"

Its a good list but it also kinda makes me want my country back goddamit

make america rock again

agh, they drag me back in

Whiney:

didn't make a tally but fine I guess I was looking for the wrong thing. v conspicuous though and made more so by narrow genre focus

equating making a list of this particularly narrow focus with 'woke' contemporary discourse sure, but again it's probably my fault for othering it idk - for many people this focus is everything - I am sorry for this

Dan:

fair and I'm sorry again - although my aspie brain distinguishes between 'majority' and 'almost all' - but even then I guess it would be fair for a general music zine to do this. been so much great music of all genres this year though that it feels like a very forced editorial decision, but who am I to complain

rob: it's awesome that there is such diversity on the panel! that is to be commended. but this diversity has manifested in a weird and narrow list and I'll admit I can't get my head around it, maybe due to prejudice.

not your job to educate me. apologies again.

would like to stress as well that my initial fury was stoked by that write-up and that spilt over into my complaint with their weirdly restricted editorial focus, and I do not intend a tone of hatred towards black music, and I'm really sorry if it seems this way

why is this list "narrow"? It seems pretty musically diverse

admittedly more british rap than id like to see.

that you see a list with lots of black music as "restricted" or "narrow" might actually reflect your own myopic POV, just my 10 cents

er, pence?

idk why im bothering to argue with imago LOL

a list full of white rock bands would be even worse but we're not seeing much of those outside kerrang and classic rock mag

except for maybe over the last 40 years of music journalists making lists

so let's not get into ridiculous notions of "balance"

really wish I'd been threadbanned now

maybe just maybe a lot of mainstream rock/indie/guitar pop/call it what the fuck you want is becoming an increasingly niche concern

this diversity has manifested in a weird and narrow list and I'll admit I can't get my head around it

this has been said before in other ways, but there's a running theme in this thread, not at all surprising for a/this message board of course, of people ignoring the social aspect of music and expecting music writers and publications to be super focused on discovery or innovation rather than registering/analyzing music as a social phenomenon despite the fact that clearly the latter is both more common and more popular with readers

except for maybe over the last 40 years of music journalists making lists

if it ain't woke don't fix it

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No comment on this specific back and forth but I will note that this is the second time in two days on ILX we've waded into someone or something being "performatively woke"

If music as a social phenomenon is a parameter why is there no Justin Bieber on these lists? Twenty One Pilots? Sia? Spotify is telling me they had some of the top 20 most listened songs of 2016

Bieber's album came out last year

also Bieber fucking sucks

so do Twenty One Pilots last time I checked

to be more precise I don't mean merely commenting on what's popular (though Bieber was surely on all these lists last year; Sia maybe too), I mean the writers who compile these lists engage in music socially. like part of why I am into "Work" or Lemonade are because my friends are too and they were part of conversations/life, and this is also true of writers.

god this is banal and obvs but it makes more sense than trying to uncover the office and identity politics at work behind every list

so do Twenty One Pilots last time I checked

― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday,

my niece's godfather's son's favorite band – fight this generation.

I like "Heathens" but not nearly enough to investigate anything else they've done

Yeah i was kind of joking about the lack of white.

I am not joking about Bieber being the worst

Fade Too Black

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/25/e5/8e/25e58e5594219984131c9a86a223e1d2.jpg

'sex with me' > 'black beatles' were my numbers 1 & 2 also. not sure if i should be redesigning my list here or what >:(

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:28 Bookmark

nahh. couple days ago i was this close to citing 'sex with me' omission as perfect example of eoy talking points memo irrelevance, it is a great song and it is HUGELY popular on the low in the realest way. #1 placing is a stunt flex but fuck it i cosign

admittedly more british rap than id like to see.

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:53 Bookmark

like 4 tunes tho? (not even any good ones either so miss me with the kneejerk disdain bruh)

list is otherwise not one i much feel in my bones personally but goddamnit it is an actual proper list of songs that were listened to during the year indicating life and aesthetic and such. that would seem to be a precious rarity now

I dont understand those color wheels. It makes it seem like if you mix those colors you get white and as a child I mixed them all and I didn't get white, I got black instead.

Kind of felt like imago felt when reading that fader list.

Make the color wheel great again.

ban fake moka

the fader list crashed my browser so i have nothing to say about it

(this has been true of many links itt; my computer is old and creaky but not unusually so i thought)

Ban moka

fyi is the 'sex with me' write up really any less reductively banal than a paen to solange as supposed tranquilising oatmeal balm cocoon

look dad, no white people! so fucking brave

― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Wednesday, December 14, 2016 5:23 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what the

Hahaha can we move on to another list please?

a paen to solange as supposed tranquilising oatmeal balm cocoon

lmao

PLEASE

What happened to Dusted magazine? They had one of the beat eoy lists.

Dusted has moved to Tumblr

http://dustedmagazine.tumblr.com

the fader list crashed my browser so i have nothing to say about it

(this has been true of many links itt; my computer is old and creaky but not unusually so i thought)

a lot of these lists feature godawful, browser-destroying design