The 2018 end of the year music lists thread

also, if pressed, i *might* argue that's the best verse on the best song on the best album of 2018, so *shrug*

also also ... i love "Mother" so much

No attack taken... (and I’m not usually even the type to get hung up on lyrix, so i dunno)

Mother is a beautiful little song, the vocal melody reminds me of Rapture

Joaquin Oliver, an avowed Frank Ocean fan who loved Blonde so much he’d dyed his own hair to match, was only 17 when he was gunned down in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting this past February. The same day, Ocean released a cover of the melancholy “Moon River,” from Breakfast at Tiffany’s. It was a coincidence;

xp I think that song (“Slow Burn”) feels like an accumulation of banalities that are supposed to strike the listener as little epiphanies, but it just doesn’t work for me personally... it’s no big deal.

(Like talking to someone who’s high when you’re not, and maybe that’s actually the idea, lol)

Textura's top picks for 2018

xp I think that song (“Slow Burn”) feels like an accumulation of banalities that are supposed to strike the listener as little epiphanies, but it just doesn’t work for me personally... it’s no big deal.

― underqualified backing vocalist (morrisp), Monday, December 10, 2018 12:32 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is where I'm at with it -- there's this sense, it seems to me, that "In Tennessee, the sun's goin' down / But in Beijing, they're heading out to work" is supposed to elicit a #whoa #wow reaction, which it really doesn't. it's still a pleasant song! it's just strange to rally around, being so unassuming. the unassumingness is what's good about it, too.

xxp definitely no big deal :)

and let's be honest, the primary reason to love Slow Burn is the vibe, the space, the *sound* ... I do love those lines (and all the lines) but there is no song in 2018 more worth living inside than Slow Burn

"born in a hurry, always late, haven't been early since '88" is a good opening long for a song called "slow burn"

https://www.popmatters.com/best-albums-of-2018-2622492661.html

popmatters list has a bunch of things i haven't heard of at all that sound interesting

xp to me **opening line, d'oh

I rate that Anne Garner #1 from the Textura list very highly.

xp ?? is that the Peter Blegvad song? not sure where the reference is in this thread

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lyrics were written to make no sense

popmatters list far less interesting than it looks

textura seems intriguing tho

As usual, Textura has zero overlap with any other publication’s list.

Anne Garner sounding great so far.

slow burn has great lyrics and i'm not sure what the criticism of the quoted lines is supposed to be ...?

Is it evening? Late night? Daytime? Why does it seem to change with every line?

so the earth is a globe,

well, if the sun's going down in Tennessee and the bars are closing in an hour where she is, then she's probably somewhere in Europe. Seems like a detail you might want to mention, Kacey!

she has acknowledged that it's a dubious timeline, and that her husband called her on it, but she didn't care.

speaking of which, her husband made a top 20-worthy album this year that i've seen on no lists at all.

xp Yep, that's pretty much it... plus, you don't usually "look at flowers" in the dark(?)

I haven't read her interview, funny it came up, all is cool, etc.

If you can go fishin' in the dark you can look at flowers imo

http://www.thecooltshirt.com/wp-content/uploads/thumbs_dir/say-6c050gcygjoydfmm53ywfrbknmrlfiecu1ylhlphmvm.jpg

i would think the funky timeline fits the concept ... 'slow burn ... ' the bar closes in two hours ... we hang out all night and then see the flowers ...

so is anyone contributing to Uproxx's list or

i want to contribute to a list but i don't want it to be hosted by a record label

i fancied trying to DIY it earlier this year but...

sorry, hosted by an outlet that is owned by a record label, is what i meant to write

"Slow Burn" sounds like Sufjan Stevens so the p4k list has credibility.

assuming it's in their list, i did not read it yet

"Slow Burn" sounds like Sufjan Stevens so the p4k list has credibility.

― billstevejim, Monday, December 10, 2018 2:57 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if Sufjan Stevens covered "Carolina On My Mind" maybe

Kacey talks about those lyrics *very briefly* at the end of this:

https://www.nytimes.com/video/arts/music/100000006000270/kacey-musgraves-slow-burn-country-music.html

"If some dillweed complains about 'em on a messageboard, all I have to say to him is -- get one (1) life, mister!"

anna wintour finally placed then (twice). glad to have it confirmed it's not just me

12. JIMOTHY LACOSTE, “SUBWAY SYSTEM”

wth is this

it's pretty funny imo

video is here:

https://video.atlanti.se/videos/watch/d6c1825e-e171-498f-ada8-f40c7d405f57

despite all the handwringing about the lyric on "slow burn" the concept is kinda old hat for her.... what i love about the song is the way the instruments are introduced gradually at the beginning and then how the song is peeled open halfway thru by the backing vocals. maybe that meta aspect of it is not so subtle but i do think there's a certain cleverness there that draws a through line back to the core of her appeal pre-golden hour, but just puts a different twist on the idea of "clever"

wth is this

'British Turquoise Jeep' is about the closest thing I can think of it, although one of the nerdy background Jeep dudes who never got to make many songs.

always one of the best lists:

http://www.ravensingstheblues.com/rstb-best-of-2018/

Interesting list.

https://www.billboard.com/photos/8489227/best-albums-2018-staff-picks

yesss

hehe that nytimes kacey video was funny, well done too

stables is a total bop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3Ej0aTITk4

Nice to see Vital Idles finally getting a mention (on the Bandcamp list).

The Anne Garner album from Textura list is sounding like the best album of the year for me right now too.

Hammock sounds interesting too. I had never even heard of them before but their songs on spotify all have millions of plays which is weird for ambient/post rock, they have double the listeners than say, Stars of the Lid.

I love the DJ Healer - Nothing 2 Loose that has been featured on the GvB and Noisey lists

https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/the-50-best-albums-of-2018

p4k albums list is fine but nothing interesting about it at all

That seems like an overstatement .. id say cupcakke placing over cardi is surprising ... mitski over kacey disappointing