Sure is. This has been a terrible year for keeping up with new records for me because there is so much amazing archival stuff coming out. Feel kind of bad for favouring the old, and that loops back to breastcrawls point upthread, but basically I wish I had more time and money to keep up with both
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Thursday, 13 December 2018 10:25 (five years ago) link
xp yeah, that was #4 on the Picadilly Records list
― groovypanda, Thursday, 13 December 2018 10:51 (five years ago) link
Tropical Fuck Storm is so good
― No Smockin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 13 December 2018 13:13 (five years ago) link
Finally got around to Aquarium Drunkard:
Sitka Sun – S/T - Perfect for my Afrobeat Kosmische Jazz Electro playlist I posted upthread.Parades Against Parades – Driving Me Stoned - Never expected to see this in another list! This kind of garage/psych noir is my crack, has been in heavy rotation all year.One Eleven Heavy – Everything’s Better - Just started listening to this from RSTB list.
I'm just going to have to dive in and listen to the rest of the albums (about 10% of the list) I hadn't heard yet.
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 13 December 2018 13:24 (five years ago) link
NME’s Albums Of The Year 2018 https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/best-greatest-albums-of-the-year-2018-2419656
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Thursday, 13 December 2018 13:49 (five years ago) link
Oh my god that top three.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:11 (five years ago) link
the blurb for #1 is a heck of a thing
― Number None, Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:13 (five years ago) link
tbh I don't know if TFS are gonna be up yr alley brad
― resident hack (Simon H.), Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:15 (five years ago) link
the likes of ‘Canary Yellow’ and ‘Honeycomb’ are all the evidence you’d ever need to prove metal’s worth in the critical arena
We're still doing this?
― jmm, Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:15 (five years ago) link
glad Prass finally made a list at... *squints* #99
she did make #24 on the american songwriter list, hopefully she'll do better here
― ufo, Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:33 (five years ago) link
oh nice
― resident hack (Simon H.), Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:45 (five years ago) link
The Fader's track list is up: https://www.thefader.com/2018/12/12/best-songs-2018-apple-music-spotify-playlist
― rob, Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:19 (five years ago) link
I can't either. Tried several browsers on different computers, with and without adblock.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 13 December 2018 10:09 (five hours ago) Permalink
have you tried viewing the source
I'm completely serious, there are many sites (not spin's) where viewing the source is genuinely the easiest and best way to read
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:22 (five years ago) link
(unless someone forgot to turn off smart quotes like me, then it's hell, sorry about that!)
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:23 (five years ago) link
I'm sure this has been covered upthread someplace, but does it seem as if there is less overlap than ever on these lists this year? I mean, even compared to 2017? Obv genre lists have always been sorta balkanized by necessity, but there doesn't even seem to be any consensus among those individual lists. Time was you could mention something like oh, I dunno, Grimes in a record store and everyone would have at least known what you were talking about; this is the first year I've looked at many of these lists and thought "who the hell is that?" Then again, maybe this is what aging out feels like, at last. Or maybe, as NickB suggests upthread, there's just too much to keep up with.
(fwiw, the only 2018 album I've listened to this year more than three times was NTS Sessions 1-4)
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:28 (five years ago) link
the only 2018 album I've listened to this year more than three times was NTS Sessions 1-4
― underqualified backing vocalist (morrisp), Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:35 (five years ago) link
Thanks, katherine, that does work as a last resort.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:36 (five years ago) link
I'm sure this has been covered upthread someplace, but does it seem as if there is less overlap than ever on these lists this year?
I don't have any actual non-anecdotal data on this, but maybe this has more to do with media staff/overlapping vs. non-overlapping freelance stables/voting pools?
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:50 (five years ago) link
wth is this
3. Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper, "Shallow"
― ||||||||, Thursday, 13 December 2018 16:06 (five years ago) link
we here at NME have whittles down 2018’s best releases into a list of 100 essential records
Man, even the opening blurb wasn't checked for typos.
― Position Position, Thursday, 13 December 2018 16:40 (five years ago) link
Shallow is a jam get out
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Thursday, 13 December 2018 17:04 (five years ago) link
Rolling Stone - 50 Best Albums of 2018 https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/50-best-albums-2018-764071/
50. Cupcakke - Ephorize49. Esperanza Spalding - 12 Little Spells48. The Carters - Everything is Love47. Father John Misty - God's Favourite Customer46. Sleep - The Sciences45. Robyn - Honey44. Jeff Tweedy - Warm43. Lil Wayne - Tha Carter V42. Ashley McBryde - Girl Going Nowhere41. Amanda Shires - To the Sunset40. Parquet Courts - Wide Awake!39. Nine Inch Nails - Bad Witch38. Eric Crunch - Desperate Man37. Tierra Whack - Whack World36. Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - Sparkle Hard35. Elvis Costello - Look Now34. Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel33. Neko Case - Hell-On32. David Byrne - American Utopia31. Rosalia - El Mar Querer30. Free Cake for Every Creature - The Bluest Eye29. Superchunk - What a Time to Be Alive28. Florence and the Machine - High as Hope27. Noname - Room 2526. Snail Mail - Lush25. Rae Sremmurd - SR3MM24. Kali Uchis - Isolation23. U.S. Girls - In a Poem Unlimited22. John Prine - The Tree of Forgiveness21. Beach House - 720. The Beths - Future Me Hates Me19. Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off Dog18. Vince Staples - FM!17. Lucy Dacus - Historian16. Soccer Mommy - Clean15. J Balvin - Vibras14. Mitski - Be the Cowboy13. Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer12. Brandi Carlile - By The Way, I Forgive You11. Paul McCartney - Egypt Station10. Drake - Scorpion9. Kurt Vile - Bottle It In8. Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper - A Star is Born7. Pusha T - Daytona6. Travis Scott - Astroworld5. Ariana Grande - Sweetener4. Pistol Annies - Interstate Gospel3. Camila Cabello - Camila2. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour1. Cardi B - Invasion of Privacy
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Thursday, 13 December 2018 17:17 (five years ago) link
Eric Crunch
ha
― jmm, Thursday, 13 December 2018 17:24 (five years ago) link
Allmusic - Favourite Pop Albums 2018https://www.allmusic.com/year-in-review/2018/favorite-pop
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Thursday, 13 December 2018 17:25 (five years ago) link
^ daphne & celeste ahoy!
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Thursday, 13 December 2018 17:26 (five years ago) link
Good to see the Eric Crunch album, which no one has much liked.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 13 December 2018 17:27 (five years ago) link
That Esperanza Spalding record is terrible. It's not even good in the arty singer-songwriter way of her previous work, never mind as a jazz record.
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 13 December 2018 17:35 (five years ago) link
I quite liked it idk
― imago, Thursday, 13 December 2018 17:37 (five years ago) link
Finally, Amanda Shires. That record is so great.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 13 December 2018 17:38 (five years ago) link
We are in a bit of a weird circumstance in that the only song anyone seemingly gave a fuck about this year “the story of Adidon” is not showing up on these lists for whatever reasons
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Thursday, 13 December 2018 18:07 (five years ago) link
Camila at #3! That's... interesting.
― underqualified backing vocalist (morrisp), Thursday, 13 December 2018 18:09 (five years ago) link
the lists are HIDING A SONG
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Thursday, 13 December 2018 18:10 (five years ago) link
lol
― тпсбlack (Spottie), Thursday, 13 December 2018 18:11 (five years ago) link
story of adidon was no. 1 on noisey
but did ppl really care about as a song qua song or just about the gossip contained w/in it? contrast w "thank u next" for instance
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 13 December 2018 18:14 (five years ago) link
it was a classic dis rap in the vein of "No Vaseline" or "Fuck Compton"
― ebro the letter (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 13 December 2018 18:16 (five years ago) link
in the age of rap genius i question the extent to which diss songs even exist as music
speaking personally, i happened to be seeing "isle of dogs" when "story of adidon" dropped & as such simply read a bunch of tweets and texts about it and then read the lyrics on rap genius & haven't actually even heard the song itself
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 13 December 2018 18:19 (five years ago) link
Gary Suarez did VinylMePlease's jazz list:
http://www.vinylmeplease.com/magazine/10-best-jazz-albums-2018/
His list and mine only had one title in common (Kamasi), but I could totally understand why he picked the records he did (I interviewed Azar Lawrence for my podcast this year, and that Javier Santiago album really is great) - except for the Noname album, which I haven't heard.
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 13 December 2018 18:21 (five years ago) link
Rolling Stone's jazz list, by my friend Hank Shteamer (which part of me still can't believe is his real last name) is really good, too:
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/20-best-jazz-albums-of-2018-766864/
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 13 December 2018 18:22 (five years ago) link
I like that allmusic list. First time seeing Daphne & Celeste in any of these lists I think?
Seems like everyone forgot about Tove Styrke - Sway. I was expecting it to turn up in some pop based lists.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 13 December 2018 18:31 (five years ago) link
― ebro the letter (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, December 13, 2018 12:16 PM (twenty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
eh I liked it a lot but it did go over the Story of OJ beat so to me it felt more like a mixtape thing
― No Smockin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 13 December 2018 18:43 (five years ago) link
― J0rdan S., Thursday, December 13, 2018 1:19 PM (twenty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
WTF is this post
― ebro the letter (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 13 December 2018 18:45 (five years ago) link
Were you like in the movie theater watching a movie and reading Pusha T lyrics on your phone?
no when i got out of the movie you clown
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 13 December 2018 18:48 (five years ago) link
"I was watching the racist dog movie when the blackface rap song came out" – the J0rdan diaries
― ebro the letter (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 13 December 2018 19:01 (five years ago) link
lmao
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 13 December 2018 19:05 (five years ago) link
Samuel L. Jackson can read the audiobook version
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 13 December 2018 19:06 (five years ago) link
FACT - Best Albums of 2018https://www.factmag.com/2018/12/13/the-50-best-albums-of-2018/
50 Mariah Carey - Caution49 Low - Double Negative48 Chevel - Always Yours47 Various Artists - Patina Echoes46 Kali Malone - Organ Dirges 2016-201745 Maxo Kream - Punken44 Eli Keszler - Stadium43 Marie Davidson - Working Class Woman42 Skee Mask - Compro41 Cecilia - Adoration40 Teyana Taylor - K.T.S.E.39 Laurel Halo - Raw Silk Uncut Wood38 U.S. Girls - In a Poem Unlimited37 H. Takahashi - Low Power36 Bruce -Sonder Somatic35 Playboi Carti - Die Lit34 Kali Uchis - Isolation33 Martyn Bootyspoon - Silk Eternity32 Beta Librae - Sanguine Bond31 City Girls - PERIOD30 Tess Roby - Beacon29 Young Nudy - Slimeball 328 Kelman Duran - 13th Month27 Astrid Sonne - Human Lines26 Hilary Woods - Colt25 Space Afrika - Somewhere Decent to Live24 TSVI - Inner Worlds23 SOPHIE - Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides22 CupcakKe - Ephorize21 Sarah Davachi - Gave In Rest20 Cardi B - Invasion of Privacy19 Renick Bell - Turning Points18 Yves Tumor - Safe In The Hands Of Love17 Neville Watson - The Midnight Orchard16 Amnesia Scanner - Another Life15 Earl Sweatshirt - Some Rap Songs14 DEBIT - Animus13 Tirzah - Devotion12 serpentwithfeet - soil11 LSDXOXO - Body Mods10 Duppy Gun - Miro Tape09 Vessel - Queen Of Golden Dogs08 Tierra Whack - Whack World07 Gabor Lazar - Unfold06 Aisha Devi - DNA Feelings05 Rico Nasty - Nasty04 Barker - Debiasing03 Rosalía - El Mal Querer02 Pendant - Make Me Know You Sweet01 Lotic - Power
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Thursday, 13 December 2018 20:02 (five years ago) link
Kali Malone
totally misread this btw
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Thursday, 13 December 2018 20:04 (five years ago) link
good to see mariah place. that record is really good
― ||||||||, Thursday, 13 December 2018 20:21 (five years ago) link