'dance to this' definitely way underrated compared to 'my my my' being the only troye sivan single to pop up on any of these lists
― ufo, Friday, 7 December 2018 11:23 (five years ago) link
also none of those great Ciara singles have shown up have they?
― ufo, Friday, 7 December 2018 11:24 (five years ago) link
bit of a short one here, RIP guitars
Guitar.com - Best guitar albums of 2018https://guitar.com/features/best-guitar-albums-of-2018/
4. Robben Ford - Purple House (8/10 3. J Mascis - Elastic Days (8/10)2. Doyle Bramhall II - Shades (8/10)1. Boygenius – Boygenius EP (9/10)
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Friday, 7 December 2018 11:43 (five years ago) link
agree that it's wild that boo'd up - a song released in february 2017 - is the song of 2018― single bed mentality (||||||||), Friday, 7 December 2018 10:43 (fifty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― single bed mentality (||||||||), Friday, 7 December 2018 10:43 (fifty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
It's not wild or freaky or strange or WTF, it's the perfectly normal course of things and always has been
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 7 December 2018 11:45 (five years ago) link
I like god is a woman! At least musically,
weird, i find the chorus way too ponderous. exhausting to listen to
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 7 December 2018 11:46 (five years ago) link
i think “thank u next” is a really well put together song on top of being a victory for concept
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 7 December 2018 11:50 (five years ago) link
i did not hear “boo’d up” until this year so it’s on my list and i wrote about it as if its year of impact was 2018, which... was it not
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 7 December 2018 11:52 (five years ago) link
Guitar.com - Best guitar albums of 2018https://guitar.com/features/best-guitar-albums-of-2018/4. Robben Ford - Purple House (8/103. J Mascis - Elastic Days (8/10)2. Doyle Bramhall II - Shades (8/10)1. Boygenius – Boygenius EP (9/10)
4. Robben Ford - Purple House (8/103. J Mascis - Elastic Days (8/10)2. Doyle Bramhall II - Shades (8/10)1. Boygenius – Boygenius EP (9/10)
ha, if this is real it's my favorite one yet
― niels, Friday, 7 December 2018 12:38 (five years ago) link
behind a paywall but look at the state of this url
The Timeshttps://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/best-albums-of-2018-from-janelle-monae-and-the-beatles-to-the-1975-and-kanye-west-6sr8jzqnf
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Friday, 7 December 2018 16:44 (five years ago) link
very very clearly 2018 year of impact yeah
― resident hack (Simon H.), Friday, 7 December 2018 16:47 (five years ago) link
thought I'd see these on more lists: OTW; anna wintour; powerglide; drip too hard
― single bed mentality (||||||||), Friday, December 7, 2018 5:59 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I really like "Anna Wintour" but it's kinda obvious why publications aren't super enthusiastic about an Azealia song, even before the whole Grimes thing
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Friday, 7 December 2018 16:52 (five years ago) link
"powerglide" will be on my tracks list for sure. "anna wintour" was a late cut.
― resident hack (Simon H.), Friday, 7 December 2018 17:00 (five years ago) link
I've seen Drip Too Hard on a few lists. Haven't seen OTW yet, but it'll be on mine.
― big crime for a SPECIAL WHATEVER (voodoo chili), Friday, 7 December 2018 17:06 (five years ago) link
know she's pretty much worn through everyone's patience by now but anna wintour slaps. guess it's probably a combo of her being too _problematic_ and the song just not cutting through
― single bed mentality (||||||||), Friday, 7 December 2018 17:14 (five years ago) link
despite her impressive ability to maintain her celebrity, azealia still has one song, essentially, that anyone has ever cared about on anything approaching a wide scale, and it was her first one
― J0rdan S., Friday, 7 December 2018 19:06 (five years ago) link
aw no, i think chasing time was brilliant
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Friday, 7 December 2018 19:08 (five years ago) link
on anything approaching a wide scaleseems to be the key here
― niels, Friday, 7 December 2018 19:56 (five years ago) link
AZB has lots of good songs, don't care that only one was zeitgeisty
― resident hack (Simon H.), Friday, 7 December 2018 19:58 (five years ago) link
'anything approaching' is a pretty wide range lol
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Friday, 7 December 2018 20:46 (five years ago) link
-40 has been going down this pedantic wormhole since, like, "Still Tippin'." Ignore.― 5th Ward Weeaboo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 17:39 (two days ago) PermalinkThis is such a bad post. I’m not pedantic I just think it’s obnoxious when critics are exposed to a record but only pick up on it when it becomes a Social Movement. By this logic a bunch of critics should have had faneto this yearI literally saw Ella mai perform a then-released “bood up” whole opening for Kehlani in mid 2017. Her album was produced by dj mustard and had a ton of streams, this isn’t obscure― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Friday, December 7, 2018 4:30 AM (ten hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― 5th Ward Weeaboo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 17:39 (two days ago) Permalink
This is such a bad post. I’m not pedantic I just think it’s obnoxious when critics are exposed to a record but only pick up on it when it becomes a Social Movement. By this logic a bunch of critics should have had faneto this year
I literally saw Ella mai perform a then-released “bood up” whole opening for Kehlani in mid 2017. Her album was produced by dj mustard and had a ton of streams, this isn’t obscure
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Friday, December 7, 2018 4:30 AM (ten hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I mean, "Trip" is good enough that it doesn't matter if you've heard more than one Ella Mai song.
― ilxor, Friday, 7 December 2018 21:00 (five years ago) link
Last Rites's top 25 metal albums: https://yourlastrites.com/2018/12/07/best-of-2018-last-rites-combined-staff-top-25/
25. OUTRE-TOMBE – NÉCROVORTEX24. HORRENDOUS – IDOL23. BINAH – PHOBIATE22. CRIPPLE BASTARDS – LA FINE CRESCA DA DENTRO21. OKSENNUS – KOLME TOISTA20. SLUGDGE – ESOTERIC MALACOLOGY19. VARATHRON – PATRIARCHS OF EVIL18. SKULMAGOT – SKULLED TO DEATH17. URFAUST – THE CONSTELLATORY PRACTICE16. SLEEP – THE SCIENCES15. A FOREST OF STARS – GRAVE MOUNDS AND GRAVE MISTAKES14. MÖRKÖ – ULVOVA TYHJYYS13. HATE ETERNAL – ON DESOLATE SANDS12. SATAN – CRUEL MAGIC11. SEAR BLISS – LETTERS FROM THE EDGE10. MESSA – FEAST FOR WATER9. MOURNFUL CONGREGATION – THE INCUBUS OF KARMA8. MADDER MORTEM – MARROW7. W.A.I.L. – WISDOM THROUGH AGONY INTO ILLUMINATION AND LUNACY VOL. II6. SOLSTICE – WHITE HORSE HILL5. VISIGOTH – THE CONQUEROR’S OATH4. VOIVOD – THE WAKE3. JUDAS PRIEST – FIREPOWER2. DECEASED – GHOSTLY WHITE1. AMORPHIS – THE QUEEN OF TIME
― pomenitul, Friday, 7 December 2018 21:53 (five years ago) link
Solid picks (Horrendous, Varathron, Urfaust, Messa, Mournful Congregation, Solstice, Voivod) among the stuff I've heard. I'll have to check out the rest.
― pomenitul, Friday, 7 December 2018 21:55 (five years ago) link
I find Amorphis worship mystifying but it's a good list
― resident hack (Simon H.), Friday, 7 December 2018 22:05 (five years ago) link
Their debut is amazing but I haven't heard anything beyond that. I'll get there eventually.
― pomenitul, Friday, 7 December 2018 22:06 (five years ago) link
Shame they got suckered in by the Judas Priest veteran act narrative. (I kid, I kid.)
― resident hack (Simon H.), Friday, 7 December 2018 22:07 (five years ago) link
Heh, I tried but classic metal is mostly a blind spot for me, JP even more so than others.
― pomenitul, Friday, 7 December 2018 22:09 (five years ago) link
Judas Priest rules
― The Poppy Bush AutoZone (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 7 December 2018 22:10 (five years ago) link
shout out to the metal lists, man. feels like they're covering *far* more albums / reflecting far less by consensus than any others.
― alpine static, Friday, 7 December 2018 22:49 (five years ago) link
Amorphis are consistently great.
― Siegbran, Friday, 7 December 2018 23:26 (five years ago) link
Amorphis have become one of the most consistently strong metal bands today. The new album is superb.
― A. Begrand, Friday, 7 December 2018 23:45 (five years ago) link
http://remezcla.com/lists/music/the-10-best-urbano-songs-of-2018/
This list of urbano songs includes reggaeton, dembow, Latin trap, and hip-hop tracks from both the underground and the mainstream.
1. Bad Bunny - "Estamos Bien"2. Cardi B - "I Like It" (ft. Bad Bunny & J Balvin)3. C.Tangana - "Traicionero" (ft. Cromo X)4. Nio García, Darell, and Casper Mágico - "Te Boté" Remix (ft. Ozuna, Bad Bunny, and Nicky Jam)5. Mala Rodríguez - "Gitanas"
Plus 5 more
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 8 December 2018 13:10 (five years ago) link
whew yes the "te boté" remix. a highlight of my year was hearing that blasting at a club (followed by becky g "mayores" lol)
― dyl, Saturday, 8 December 2018 15:53 (five years ago) link
OkayAfrica's Ghanaian tracks list: https://www.okayafrica.com/ghana-songs-music-best-2018-listen-stream
GuiltyBeatz x Mr Eazi x Patapaa x Pappy Kojo "Akwaaba"Kuami Eugene "Wish Me Well"Kwesi Arthur x M.anifest "Feels"Shatta Wale "My Level"Joey B x La Même Gang "Stables"Amaarae "Fluid"E.L "Ghana Meets Naija"KiDi "Thunder"Becca x Sarkodie "Nana"Eddie Khae "Do The Dance"La Même Gang "Stone Island"Akwaboah x Strongman "Forget"Efya x Mr Eazi "Mamee"R2Bees x Wizkid "Supa"B4Bonah x M.anifest "Devil Is A Liar (Remix)"Juls x Kojey Radical "Normal"Kwesi Arthur "Woara"Sarkodie "Black Excellence"Medikal x Kwesi Arthur x Ahtitude "How Much"Wendy Shay "Bedroom Commando"King Promise "Abena"Miyaki "Anfara"Mzvee x K "Bend Down"
― rob, Saturday, 8 December 2018 15:54 (five years ago) link
Bit late on this but want to echo the praise upthread for the Eiko Ishibashi record. It's fucking gorgeous, I love it.
― emil.y, Saturday, 8 December 2018 16:33 (five years ago) link
yeah, really nice. that and the don toliver records are the best discoveries from this year's list season
― cozen, Saturday, 8 December 2018 17:24 (five years ago) link
Oh I did not like Tierra Whack the first time I heard it but it’s somewhat amazing isn’t it?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 8 December 2018 17:58 (five years ago) link
Watching the 15 minute music video helps.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 8 December 2018 17:59 (five years ago) link
Yeah I *really* did not get the Tierra Whack album at all either, but with all the love it's getting I think I'm gonna have to revisit it
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Saturday, 8 December 2018 18:56 (five years ago) link
Afropop worldwide podcast/radio show "Stocking Stuffers"-new,and reissued African and Caribbean and Central American and Latinx
http://afropop.org/audio-programs/stocking-stuffers-2018
Ebo Taylor, Yen Ara (Ghana)Angelique Kidjo, Remain in Light (Benin artist covers T. Heads)Bokanté & Metropole Orkest & Jules Buckley, What Heat, (US, Netherlands, Guadeloupe)Ronnie Moipolai, I’m Not Hear to Hunt Rabbits, (Botswana guitarist)“Listen All Around” Double cd comp of pre-independence music from central (Congo & more0 and east AfricaBombino, Deran (Niger guitarist)Delgres, Mo Jodi,(Paris-based Guadeloupe meets Creole Louisiana)Stella Chiweshe, Kasahwa: Early Singles (Zimbabwe reissue) Toko Telo, Diavola (Madagascar)Damily, Valimbilo (Madagascar)Doctor Nativo, Guatemaya (Guatemalan reggae-cumbia)King Koya, Tierra de King Coya (Colombian techno-cumbia)Anbessa Orchestra, Negestat (Ethiopiques led by Israelis in Brooklyn) Hailu Mergia, Lala Belu (Ethiopia)Sidi Touré, Toubalbero (Mali) Fatoumata Diawara, Fenfo (Mali)Harouna Samake, Kamele Blues (Mali)Invisible System, Bamako Sessions (Mali)Irene Mawela, Ari Pembele - Let's Rejoice (South African old-school mbaqanga singer)Professor Rhythm, Professor 3 (South Affrican reissue on Awesome Tapes)Qhizzo, Gqom Plug (South Africa)Thabang Tabane, Matjale (South African Venda roots-jazz) Lucibela, Laço Umbilical (Cape Verde singer's debut)Los Rumberos De La Bahia, Mabagwe (Cuban rumba)RAM, RAM 7 - August 1791 (Haiti)Bachata Haiti, Bachata Haiti Sarazino, Mama Funny Day (Paris-based Algerian singer)MHD, 19 (Paris-based Afro-trap rapper whose parents are Guinean and Senegalese)Moulay Masters, Moulay Ahmed El Hassani, Atlas Electric (Moroccan mountains)Tallawit Timbouctou, Hali Diallo (Malian desert )Dur-Dur Band, Dur-Dur Of Somalia Two Niles to Make a Melody, the Violins and Synths of Sudan.Cheikh Lô, Ne La Thiass vinyl reissue (Senegal)African Scream Contest 2 (Benin)Dr. Nico, Dieu De La Guitare vinyl reissue (Congo)Bumba Massa, V70 (Congo) Jupiter and Okwess, Kin Sonic (US release 2018) (Congo)Bixiga 70, Quebra Cabeça (Brazil)
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 8 December 2018 23:21 (five years ago) link
Opium Hum's top 40 black metal albums of 2018:
40. Hellfire Deathcult – Black Death Terroristic Onslaught39. Provocator – Satan, Chaos, Blood and Terror38. Lampir – The Alchemy of Cursed Blood37. Autokrator – Hammer of the Heretics36. Purity Renaissance – Purity Renaissance35. Spectral Wound – Infernal Decadence34. ION – A Path Unknown33. Reverorum ib Malacht – Im Ra Distare Summum Soveris Seris Vas Innoble32. Eigenlicht – Self-Annihilating Consciousness31. Esoctrilihum – Inhüma30. Alrakis – Echoes from η Carinae29. Wolvennest – VOID28. Carved Cross – The Yawning Abyss of Perdition27. Cantique Lépreux – Paysages Polaires26. Craft – White Noise and Black Metal25. Echtra – BardO24. Occelensbrigg – The Quest for the Star Mountain23. Cor Scorpii – Ruin22. Immortal – Northern Chaos Gods21. Pa Vesh En – Church of Bones20. Abstracter – Cinerous Incarnate19. Severoth – When the Night Falls...18. Nahtrunar – Mysterium Tremendum17. Demonomancy – Poisoned Atonement16. Sigh – Heir to Despair15. Moenen of Xezbeth – Ancient Spells of Darkness...14. Summoning – With Doom We Come13. Slidhr – The Futile Fires of Man12. Altar of Perversion – Intra Naos11. Carpe Noctem – Vitrun10. Mylingar – Döda Drömmar9. Cosmic Church – Täyttymys8. Panphage – Jord7. Svartidauði – Revelations of the Red Sword6. Ars Hmu – The Dawn of Black Pansophy5. Iskandr – Euprosopon4. Mahr – Antelux3. Cultes des Ghoules – Sinister, or Treading the Darker Paths2. Imperial Triumphant – Vile Luxury1. Entropy Created Consciousness – Impressions of the Morning Star
http://opiumhum.blogspot.com/2018/12/my-40-favorite-black-metal-records-of.html
He put together a doom metal top 10 as well:
10. CHRCH – Light Will Consume Us All9. Dautha – Brethren of the Black Soil8. Sunnata – Outlands7. Eartaker – Harmonics6. Author & Punisher – Beastland5. Assumption – Absconditus4. Hamferð – Tamsins Likam3. Convocation – Scars Across2. Sinistro – Sange Cássia1. Ancestors – Suspended in Reflections
http://opiumhum.blogspot.com/2018/12/my-10-favorite-doom-metal-records-of.html
― pomenitul, Sunday, 9 December 2018 09:08 (five years ago) link
Lol a doom list for those who hate doom, though Ancestors is a good album that's been slept on.
― Fastnbulbous, Sunday, 9 December 2018 17:01 (five years ago) link
I don't really know why anyone needs another Sigh album tbh
― resident hack (Simon H.), Sunday, 9 December 2018 17:33 (five years ago) link
Someone who needs 40 black metal albums might.
― jmm, Sunday, 9 December 2018 17:38 (five years ago) link
I do love that Dautha record.
― resident hack (Simon H.), Sunday, 9 December 2018 17:38 (five years ago) link
I didn't even hear/know that Ancestors had a new one this year, must have been poorly promoted?
― resident hack (Simon H.), Sunday, 9 December 2018 17:40 (five years ago) link
You could say the same for pretty much every metal band older than 10 years, but here we are, and it’s not all bad.
That Opium Hum list looks v/ interesting tho, I’ve hardly heard anything from it.
― Siegbran, Sunday, 9 December 2018 17:41 (five years ago) link
That's true I suppose, I guess I just find their style particularly exhausting to listen to an hour at a time as much as I hypothetically admire it
― resident hack (Simon H.), Sunday, 9 December 2018 17:48 (five years ago) link
It's on a small label called Pelagic; no publicity campaign that I'm aware of. I bought the digital version from the band's own Bandcamp page.
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 9 December 2018 18:04 (five years ago) link
Ah, fits. I feel like the first couple records were considerably more visible.
― resident hack (Simon H.), Sunday, 9 December 2018 18:12 (five years ago) link
Drowned In Sound’s 15 Favourite Albums of 2018https://medium.com/drowned-in-sound/drowned-in-sounds-15-favourite-albums-of-2018-28c7ff3e68ab
15. Manic Street Preachers - Resistance is Futile14. Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy13. Suede - The Blue Hour12. Blood Orange - Negro Swan11. Metric - Art of Doubt10. Muncie Girls - Fixed Ideals9. Young Fathers - Cocoa Sugar8. Chvrches - Love is Dead7. Black Foxxes - Reiði6. Anna Calvi - Hunter5. SOPHIE - Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides4. Gazelle Twin - Pastoral3. Christine and the Queens - Chris2. IDLES - Joy as an Act of Resistance1. Low - Double Negative
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Sunday, 9 December 2018 18:17 (five years ago) link