The 2018 end of the year music lists thread

but yes, lovely album

aah cool, glad to hear it was on Wire

though I think their list is... a bit... kinda like, it's supposed to be v challenging stuff

and that album is joy

lists sleeping on Hailu Mergia

the ebo taylor album kicked the arse of most other records too

Noisey - The 100 Best Songs of 2018
https://noisey.vice.com/en_ca/article/qvqwym/noisey-100-best-songs-of-2018

ugh weezer

lmao

lmao @ #1, pretty strong list otherwise

finally a list with "mo bamba" in the top three

there was a new ebo taylor?!?

yeah it's right here:
https://open.spotify.com/album/3V5LUMXlslvmEwmTel01KP

"god is a woman" over "no tears" or "breathin"? ok

noisey list seems good (no this is america is nice) but yeah lmao at the #1

speaking of narratives over sonics

xxxp ty nick

"god is a woman" over "no tears" or "breathin"? ok

― lowercase (eric), Thursday, December 6, 2018 9:24 AM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"god is a woman" is such a bad song

"No Tears Left to Cry" is a victim of being released earlier in the year and/or Ariana leaning into gigantic meme status later in the year, but it's the best single by a mile

Since I'm on the outside now, who will say when ilm eoy nominations open?

noisey list has some interesting stuff but also stuff that's just... noisy

glad to see "hands" place

Stereogum - Best Metal Albums of 2018
https://www.stereogum.com/2024835/the-10-best-metal-albums-of-2018/franchises/2018-in-review/

who's running things this year johnny fever?

kudos to stereogum for putting together a metal top ten that i haven't heard any of

There are too many mediocre Skepta collabs in that Complex list but otherwise it's the best list so far, banger after banger in there.

who's running things this year johnny fever?

― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Thursday, December 6, 2018 12:03 PM

afaik seandalai, gr80, and moka

The Agrimonia is the only album on the Stereogum metal list I've heard, and it rules.

This quote is amazing:

This list will disappoint you. (Also, year-end lists are dumb, dumber than our usual lists, which is saying something, but I digress.) Picture Jake Bannon screaming “YOU FAIL ME” at someone vomiting on his shoes — that’s us, failing you in real time. Unless the things you love happen to perfectly align with the schizophrenic nonsense we slapped together and labeled “BEST OF 2018,” your thirst for listicular validation shall go unquenched. There will be no Thou. No Yob, Panopticon, Horrendous, Slugdge, At The Gates, Dödsrit, Deafheaven, High On Fire, Sleep, none of it. Not even Deicide. (Stan is furious.) For better or worse, we made a collective decision to eschew grand narratives and editorial coherence, and instead give you our unvarnished favorites — the things we loved most (or hated least).

"No Tears Left to Cry" is a victim of being released earlier in the year and/or Ariana leaning into gigantic meme status later in the year, but it's the best single by a mile

― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Thursday, December 6, 2018 11:57 AM (twenty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

co-sign. "thank u, next" is fun to write/read/think about i guess, but it's a pretty dull song imo.

kudos to stereogum for putting together a metal top ten that i haven't heard any of

― jolene club remix (BradNelson)

The Immortal is better than it has any right to be.

mo bamba owns so much

Vinyl Factory - Our 50 favourite albums of 2018
https://thevinylfactory.com/features/best-albums-2018/

The Immortal is better than it has any right to be.

― pomenitul, Thursday, December 6, 2018 10:45 AM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sorry, forgot i heard the immortal, which rips

Stereogum metal list is always one of my favourite lists, excited to scope it out

ctrl+f "gucci flip flops" not found

finally a list with "mo bamba" in the top three

― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, December 6, 2018 11:20 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

cant tell if sarcasm

No Tears also came out the week the sun finally came out in the UK and it didn't go back in for another five months. Thank U Next is great but No Tears felt so epochal.

You know, *adjusts pince-nez* Baby Shark was actually released in early 2017

cant tell if sarcasm

― big crime for a SPECIAL WHATEVER (voodoo chili), Thursday, December 6, 2018 11:13 AM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it’s not! was there another one?

“mo bamba” rules a lot

agreed that it rules a lot. maybe people are leaving it off cause it's technically from last year?

it should be high on every list.

is there another thread for posting your own 100 ?

we usually wait for the ballot thread after the EOY poll results, right?

xp no, there's only a 500 thread, and everyone is barred from posting until they find 400 more things to list

not sure what the point of that Stereogum quote is tbh

we decided to make a radical, heretofore unprecedented stand and vote for the records we liked the most!!

The Agrimonia is the only one I've heard too, and I agree it's really good

Simon, you cannot deny that there's a certain amount of drudgeful consensus around a lot of these lists

simon, you cannot deny that this thing i complain about all the time exists

j/k i'm with you, that stereogum parenthetical was super dumb

Some day someone sager than I will compose a proper treatment of How Organisations Decide On The Best Culture (Clue: It's Partially Their Listening Habits)

oh i get it we should leave culture up to lj

I said someone sager! I'm too partisan