http://www.gorillavsbear.net/gorilla-vs-bears-albums-of-2018/
gvb's list has a fair few things i haven't heard of as usual
― ufo, Monday, 3 December 2018 07:10 (five years ago) link
the Tirzah is extremely low key and deconstructed-sounding. I've really enjoyed listening to it late at night
― Dan S, Monday, 3 December 2018 07:14 (five years ago) link
Amen Dunes - Freedom (another one mentioned above by Moka) is also really nice
― Dan S, Monday, 3 December 2018 07:26 (five years ago) link
For a minute I thought Meaulnes posted The Wire rewind list top 5 (which I believe will be out today or tomorrow). Great list. Will add Ipek Gorgun's record on Touch to the line-up of great electronic albums this year.
― maarten, Monday, 3 December 2018 08:09 (five years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/dec/03/the-top-100-tracks-of-2018-playlist
Guardian top 100 tracks of the year - props for getting 'I See You Shining' by the Nines in there, also Homerton B and Itgehane in the top 20. Most boring #1 imaginable though.
― Matt DC, Monday, 3 December 2018 10:34 (five years ago) link
guessing This Is America
― imago, Monday, 3 December 2018 10:50 (five years ago) link
yassssss
'Top 100 music videos of 2018'.
― pomenitul, Monday, 3 December 2018 10:52 (five years ago) link
lol, that's silly
has to be the result of a vote since why else would there be double entries from both Ariana and Robyn in the gaddamn top 10
― niels, Monday, 3 December 2018 11:41 (five years ago) link
why is there a band called let's eat grandma
― niels, Monday, 3 December 2018 11:42 (five years ago) link
ha i quite like that name
― nxd, Monday, 3 December 2018 11:43 (five years ago) link
hehe aight, I guess I don't get it
guardian list is sprinkled with good tracks but mostly makes no sense at all
― niels, Monday, 3 December 2018 11:44 (five years ago) link
let's eat grandma album is one of the best of the year
― ufo, Monday, 3 December 2018 11:55 (five years ago) link
it's a joke about punctuation.
― Frederik B, Monday, 3 December 2018 12:12 (five years ago) link
Graun list is all over the place but looks like a recognisable version of 2018 to me, or 2018 as how it looked from London. Could do with more afroswing in there obv.
― Matt DC, Monday, 3 December 2018 12:14 (five years ago) link
a joke since reworked by some dullard whose stocking filler I've started noticing on the bookshelves
Guardian needs to be deleted obv
― imago, Monday, 3 December 2018 12:15 (five years ago) link
if they were called Works On Contingency No Money Down maybe they would be more popular on here
― still wackford after all these squeers (DJ Mencap), Monday, 3 December 2018 12:34 (five years ago) link
surely everyone knows that track of the year is 'half a pill' by reckonwrong?
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Monday, 3 December 2018 12:38 (five years ago) link
Line of Best Fit - Albums 2018https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/listomania/best-albums-of-2018
1. Be the Cowboy - Mitski2. Devotion - Tirzah3. Oil Of Every Pearl's Un-Insides - SOPHIE4. Joy As An Act Of Resistance - IDLES5. Cocoa Sugar - Young Fathers6. Invasion of Privacy - Cardi B7. El Mal Querer - Rosalita8. A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships - The 19759. I'm All Ears - Let's Eat Grandma10. There's Always Glimmer - Gia Margaret11. Songs of Praise - Shame12. Iridescence - BROCKHAMPTON13. Sweetener - Ariana Grande14. Chris - Christine and the Queens15. Negro Swan - Blood Orange16. Your Queen is a Reptile - Sons of Kemet17. Honey - Robyn18. Double Negative - Low19. Lost & Found - Jorja Smith20. Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino - Arctic Monkeys21. Heaven & Earth - Kamasi Washington22. Lush - Snail Mail23. Nao - Saturn24. At Weddings - Tomberlin25. Hive Mind - The Internet26. Bloom - Troye Sivan27. Kids See Ghosts - Kanye West and Kid Cudi28. I Don't Run - Hinds29. Freedom - Amen Dunes30. Clean - Soccer Mommy31. Golden Hour - Kacey Musgraves32. East Atlanta Love Letter - 6lack33. My Mind Makes Noises - Pale Waves34. Palo Santo - Years & Years35. boygenius - Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker36. Dream Wife - Dream Wife37. Re:member - Ólafur Arnalds38. Age Of - Oneohtrix Point Never39. Hell On - Neko Case40. Room 25 - No Name41. Infections of a Different Kind – Step 1 - AURORA42. The Anteroom - How To Dress Well43. Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album - John Coltrane44. Tell Me How You Really Feel - Courtney Barnett45. Bottle It in - Kurt Vile46. Sway - Tove Styrke47. Basic Volume - GAIKA48. Historian - Lucy Dacus49. Dirty Computer - Janelle Monae50. American Utopia - David Byrne
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Monday, 3 December 2018 13:56 (five years ago) link
Tirzah, Amen Dunes and Robyn are my top 3 albums of the year so naturally I love the gvb list. Don’t even mind he’s plugging an artist from his label (Helena Deland) because those EPs are indeed wonderful, she deserves more attention. Claudion is one of the best songs of the year for me.
Also happy to see a couple of records that I listened to a lot that I haven’t seen in any other EOY list like Caroline Says, Bella Boo and Smerz.
I remember we used to have differing music taste a decade ago or so and it’s interesting for me that the list that most mirrors my taste so far is his.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 3 December 2018 14:01 (five years ago) link
I don’t know if it’s because I’ve been exposed to flamenco my whole life and I have a love/hate relationship with the genre but the Rosalia record just doesn’t connect with me, surprised that this is one of the non-english speaking artists that the critics are pushing this year.
“malamente” or “pienso en tu mira” are great singles that I expect to see in many eoy song lists but as an album it’s not that exciting imho and makes me tired after a couple of songs.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 3 December 2018 14:12 (five years ago) link
My friends love it too though, I’ll be seeing her live next year, maybe it clicks for me after that.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 3 December 2018 14:21 (five years ago) link
Have you heard her previous album Los Ángeles? It's much more traditional; maybe you'll like it more.
Personally, what really tipped the new record over the top for me was the first couple of videos, which are amazing.
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 3 December 2018 14:24 (five years ago) link
I love that album but have definitely not been exposed to much flamenco
― rob, Monday, 3 December 2018 14:44 (five years ago) link
I'm on a volunteer trip at an animal sanctuary right now and am mostly offline, but I loaded my player with a couple dozen albums i wanted to get to know better for list considerations. It's troubling that in a community like this, it's considered unusual, even suspect, to listen to a lot of music and buy more than a few dozen albums in a year. Music is not a chore folks, it's what keeps many of us sane!
― Fastnbulbous
for me it's both! discovering new music is work, but it's rewarding.
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Monday, 3 December 2018 14:50 (five years ago) link
Amazing how a 1975 album that came out four days ago has made it so high in so many lists.
― Matt DC, Monday, 3 December 2018 14:54 (five years ago) link
the dismemberment plan's 'emergency & i' made the top 50 of pitchfork's original '90s albums list before the d-plan album technically came out
― galaxy brian (voodoo chili), Monday, 3 December 2018 15:31 (five years ago) link
I'm indifferent to the 1975, but lmao at "The millennial We Didn't Start the Fire" being the opening seven words of a write-up of the tenth-best song of the year.
― rob, Monday, 3 December 2018 15:40 (five years ago) link
"Love It If We Made It" >>>>>>>>>> "We Didn't Start the Fire"
― ufo, Monday, 3 December 2018 15:48 (five years ago) link
https://uproxx.com/music/best-albums-of-2018-ranked/
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 3 December 2018 15:48 (five years ago) link
The Independent - Albums of the Yearhttps://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/albums-of-the-year-2018-arctic-monkeys-christine-queens-the-1975-janelle-monae-a8661091.html
40. Thom Yorke - Suspiria39. Interpol - Marauder38. Brent Cobb - Providence Canyon37. Black Peaks - All That Divides36. Miya Folick - Premonitions35. Suede - The Blue Hour34. Cat Power - Wanderer33. Architects - Holy Hell32. Robyn - Honey31. Florence + the Machine - High as Hope30. Teyana Taylor - Keep That Same Energy29. The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships28. Kamasi Washington - Heaven and Earth27. Novelist - Novelist Guy26. Nils Frahm - All Melody25. Camila Cabello - Camila24. Mitski - Be The Cowboy23. Years & Years - Palo Santo22. Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel21. Blood Orange - Negro Swan20. Cardi B - Invasion of Privacy19. Let’s Eat Grandma - I’m All Ears18. Ghetts - Ghetto Gospel: The New Testament17. Cypress Hill - Elephants on Acid16. John Grant - Love is Magic15. Pusha T - Daytona14. Nao - Saturn13. Travis Scott - Astroworld12. Troye Sivan - Bloom11. Ben Howard - Noonday Dream10. Shame - Songs of Praise9. Gaika – Basic Volume8. Tamino - Amir7. Mac Miller - Swimming6. Colter Wall - Song of the Plains5. Kendrick Lamar/various artists - Black Panther: Original Motion Picture Score4. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour3. Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer2. Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino1. Christine and the Queens - Chris
(ew)
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Monday, 3 December 2018 15:53 (five years ago) link
Treblezine - 10 best electronic albums:https://www.treblezine.com/the-10-best-electronic-albums-of-2018/
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Monday, 3 December 2018 15:56 (five years ago) link
the independent music section is a scorched wasteland
― ogmor, Monday, 3 December 2018 15:56 (five years ago) link
that uproxx list manages to be reeeeallly bad despite having some great albums that other lists haven't mentioned (foxing, etc.)
― galaxy brian (voodoo chili), Monday, 3 December 2018 16:05 (five years ago) link
Total Guitar - The 16 best guitar albums of 2018https://www.musicradar.com/news/the-16-best-guitar-albums-of-2018
16. The Magpie Salute - High Water I15. John Butler - Home14. Thrice - Palms13. The Marcus King Band - Caroline Confessions12. Johnny Marr - Call The Comet11. Paul Gilbert - Behold Electric Guitar10. Tom Morello - The Atlas Underground9. A Perfect Circle - Eat The Elephant8. Alice In Chains - Rainier Fog7. Billy F Gibbons - The Big Bad Blues6. Architects - Holy Hell
*break for guitar solo*
5. Slash - Living The Dream4. Clutch - Book Of Bad Decisions3. Joe Satriani - What Happens Next?2. Tremonti - A Dying Machine1. Joe Bonamassa - Redemption
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Monday, 3 December 2018 16:06 (five years ago) link
Lol
― underqualified backing vocalist (morrisp), Monday, 3 December 2018 16:07 (five years ago) link
i like that treblezine list. i need to check out the lotic album and i'm into anyone putting meat beat manifesto and aphex twin in their top 10 in 2018.
― macropuente (map), Monday, 3 December 2018 16:12 (five years ago) link
fantasizing about an ill listening club for the total guitar list 🤣
― macropuente (map), Monday, 3 December 2018 16:14 (five years ago) link
Alice in Chains had an album?
― Siegbran, Monday, 3 December 2018 16:14 (five years ago) link
*ilx
― galaxy brian (voodoo chili), Monday, December 3, 2018 9:05 AM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
congratulations to travis scott for making uproxx's no. 1 album of the year
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 3 December 2018 16:15 (five years ago) link
straight up
― galaxy brian (voodoo chili), Monday, 3 December 2018 16:17 (five years ago) link
I totally forgot A Perfect Circle and Alice In Chains put out albums this year, but I've never been a huge fan of either. That Tremonti record is surprisingly good, though.
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 3 December 2018 16:28 (five years ago) link
Yep, further consummating grunge's transformation into dad-rock, as if it hadn't happened 20+ years ago already.
― pomenitul, Monday, 3 December 2018 16:43 (five years ago) link
Pearl Jam was always dadrock tbh.
― Siegbran, Monday, 3 December 2018 16:53 (five years ago) link
maybe musically, but lyrically they were as teenage angsty as you could get, at least for the first few albums.
I'd say Live was always dadrock mainly because my actual dad liked them right out of the gate, possibly even more than I did.
― evol j, Monday, 3 December 2018 17:12 (five years ago) link
― galaxy brian (voodoo chili), Monday, December 3, 2018 11:05 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah, I personally wouldn't vote for Charlie Puth or Jon Hopkins but those were solid records that I haven't seen mentioned too often. I also feel like Beach House is getting a little overlooked, that one's definitely in my top 20, maybe even top 10.
― evol j, Monday, 3 December 2018 17:22 (five years ago) link
Joe Satriani - What Happens Next?
More fucking guitar widdling, I'm sure is the answer to that question.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Monday, 3 December 2018 18:17 (five years ago) link
let's eat grandma album is one of the best of the year― ufo, Monday, December 3, 2018 11:55 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― ufo, Monday, December 3, 2018 11:55 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yup, absolutely. At this point it's probably my #1 album of 2018.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Monday, 3 December 2018 18:19 (five years ago) link
now that pazz and jop is presumably dead for good will there be anything of similar scope for tracks? i know the pseudoscientific aggregators like metacritic, albumoftheyear etc. will be doing their thing for albums but i am more interested in tracks personally. or would one have to settle for whatever the totally-unbiased acclaimedmusic forum denizens have fed into their machine? (i.e. every guitar-oriented mag under the sun + anthony fantano but also rejecting gay pop music sites as being 'too specialized'/insufficiently generalist)
― dyl, Monday, 3 December 2018 18:41 (five years ago) link