The 2018 end of the year music lists thread

X-post- Yes to that Jupiter & Okwess track on the Obama list.

the playlist at the end of carl wilson’s last music club entry is good (disclaimer: i was part of it this year)

https://slate.com/culture/2018/12/best-songs-2018-playlist-spotify.html

I realize it's linked above, but I think it's worth including Obama's full list here in the thread.

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Barack Obama's favorite songs of 2018:

Apes••t by The Carters
Bad Bad News by Leon Bridges
Could’ve Been by H.E.R. (feat. Bryson Tiller)
Disco Yes by Tom Misch (feat. Poppy Ajudha)
Ekombe by Jupiter & Okwess
Every Time I Hear That Song by Brandi Carlile
Girl Goin’ Nowhere by Ashley McBryde
Historia De Un Amor by Tonina (feat. Javier Limón and Tali Rubinstein)
I Like It by Cardi B (feat. Bad Bunny and J Balvin)
Kevin’s Heart by J. Cole
King For A Day by Anderson East
Love Lies by Khalid & Normani
Make Me Feel by Janelle Monáe
Mary Don’t You Weep (Piano & A Microphone 1983 Version) by Prince
My Own Thing by Chance the Rapper (feat. Joey Purp)
Need a Little Time by Courtney Barnett
Nina Cried Power by Hozier (feat. Mavis Staples)
Nterini by Fatoumata Diawara
One Trick Ponies by Kurt Vile
Turnin’ Me Up by BJ the Chicago Kid
Wait by the River by Lord Huron
Wow Freestyle by Jay Rock (feat. Kendrick Lamar)

And in honor of one of the great jazz singers of all time, who died this year, a classic album: The Great American Songbook by Nancy Wilson

I got the Colored Music reissue, absolutely love it
― willem

have you heard "individual beauty" (is that part of the reissue?), it was nice

JFC. The people who think he makes these lists himself... He has 100 interns with his foundation. He might sit in on a 90 second session to vet political problems?

I’ll buy that if you attest & have knowledge that it’s true, but... what purpose is served by releasing an intern-written list?

kurt vile streams thru the roof

Entertainingly written summary of notable box sets (some of which I hadn’t heard about): https://variety.com/2018/music/news/best-music-boxed-sets-2018-beatles-dylan-kinks-1203096326/

Part 1 of 5against4's best 40 albums of 2018:

40. Clarence Barlow - Musica Algorithmica
39. Tom Mudd - Gutter Synthesis
38. Þráinn Hjálmarsson - Influence of Buildings on Musical Tone
37. Jakob Ullmann - Müntzers stern/solo II
36. Moritz Eggert - Musica Viva Vol. 30
35. Autechre - NTS Sessions 1-4
34. Brian Eno - Music for Installations
33. Christopher Trapani - Waterlines
32. Dita Von Teese - Ditta Von Teese
31. Jeffery Alan Jones - Most Beautiful Island
30. Erik Friedlander - Thoroughbreds
29. Kenneth Hesketh - In Ictu Oculi
28. Jóhann Jóhannsson - Mandy
27. Jörg Widmann - Drittes Labyrinth/Polyphone Schatten
26. Rohan Drape & Anthony Pateras - Ellesmere
25. Erkki-Sven Tüür - Illuminatio/Whistles and Whispers from Uluru/Symphony No. 8
24. Chaines - The King
23. Lance Austin Olsen - Dark Heart
22. Colin Stetson - Hereditary
21. Anna Þorvaldsdóttir - Aequa

http://5against4.com/2018/12/30/best-albums-of-2018-part-1/

i gave them a chance to sell me on why i should actually listen to the dita von teese album, but no, i'm sorry, i don't believe i will.

Oh, thanks. Tbh I didn't really know 5 Against 4 until you mentioned it on the classical thread but it seems like something I've been looking for.

He'd probably fit right in here. His tastes are highly eclectic (although this year's list is a little more homogenous than usual so far), especially for a contemporary classical buff, and he's an excellent writer to boot. I crib quite a few of my favourite yearly releases from his blog and his concert coverage and accompanying records are great as well. I too am skeptical of the Ditta Von Teese but who knows? It's interesting to have included it in an EOY list that's so heavily skewed towards classical/ambient/'avant-garde'/soundtracks. Looking forward to part 2.

*recordings. That word gives me a hard time for some reason.

Turns out all the tracks on the Dita Von Teese album were written by Sébastien Tellier so it self-consciously comes across as a Gainsbourg/Birkin tribute, down to the inclusion of a couple of French-language songs. If you're a Tellier fan – I find him mildly amusing, no more and no less – you'll probably like it.

And here's part 2:

20. Computer Magic - Danz
19. Gottfried Huppertz - Metropolis
18. Ryoji Ikeda - Music For Percussion
17. Toivo Tulev - Magnificat
16. Coppice - Surreal Air Fortress
15. Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir - Choral Works by Schnittke & Pärt
14. Michael Cutting - Stills
13. James Newton Howard - Red Sparrow
12. Let's Eat Grandma - I'm All Ears
11. irr. app. (ext.) - A Transfigured System
10. various artists - Phantom Images
9. Rich Shapero & Elsiane - Rin, Tongue and Dorner
8. ionnalee - Everyone Afraid To Be Forgotten
7. Thom Yorke - Suspiria
6. Fia Fiell - All In The Same Room
5. Lauren Redhead - hearmleoþ—gieddunga
4. Morton Feldman - For John Cage (Mark Knoop & Aisha Orazbayeva)
3. Piggy Black Cross - Always Just Out of R.E.A.C.H. (Robotic Eclosion After Coming Hylozoic)
2. Lee Fraser - Cor Unvers
1. The Caretaker - Everywhere at the end of time - Stages 4 & 5

http://5against4.com/2018/12/31/best-albums-of-2018-part-2/

I'm shocked Kate Bush's box set didn't make that top 10!

My year-end Top 10. I'm a little skeptical as to what's going to materialize for Pazz & Jop, but if nothing else, its puzzling continuation gave me a push to again do this. Not sure I would have otherwise this year--and wouldn't have done so at least until February without the deadline.

That's a terrific blurb on "December 24th," a track I played several times that night.

Thanks. So frustrating that it's so short...

“Aliens in Our Midst,” their Twinkeyz cover. The Twinkeyz? Honest to god, never heard of them, but, if we can finesse our way around the lyric about the five-year-old friend who likes to dress in his sister’s clothes, my school’s music teacher and I are hoping to perform it at a future school assembly with my grade 3 class. (We’re very enlightened, promise; parents and principals sometimes have different ideas.)

Is there any way for an adult to attend a school assembly as a non-relative/teacher without looking like a creep?

(I mean, I went to my niece’s Christmas pageant last month, but they did nothing cooler than “Let It Go”).

If it happens, and I hope it does, I'll post a YouTube video privately and send you the link. As the nine-millionth reconfiguration of "Louie, Louie," it's amazingly easy to play on guitar (if it weren't, it'd be beyond me).

it's interesting to read that your way into "Miki Dora" was through the backstory! I fell in love with that song the first time I played the album, the slow build of the music and his voice drew me in, it wasn't until much later that I learned what the song was about

http://505indie.com.br/acervo/os-50-melhores-albuns-brasileiros-de-2018/

Elza Soares at 10; Carne Doce's Tonus at #1 (who?); 23 is Marcelo Cabral, avante-samba rock pal of Romulo Froes in Sao Paulo; 31- Gilberto Gil; 34. Heavy Baile – Carne de Pescoço is funk carioca; 38 is Ava Rocha-- more avante-samba

That's it?

One of the best lists for last, The Finest Kiss always finds singles I never knew existed. I added the ones available on Spotify to the end of my singles list: https://finestkiss.wordpress.com/2019/01/02/2018-singles-of-the-year/

Not all singles, but pop tracks selected from Dream/Art/Jangle pop, Shoegaze, etc.: https://open.spotify.com/user/1212496385/playlist/1TingElLqQsoqmRciGAUoy?si=ouXrBmV1TQutTAy4ShCoyg

yeah i've been digging the stuff on colemine this past year, nothing wrong with genre exercises if the feeling's there

had to look up whomst the Y in "GAPDY" was. earnestly thought it was Yeasayer

uhh wrong thread lol

https://finestkiss.wordpress.com/2019/01/06/notable-albums-of-2018/

As is often the case, I'm not on board with his #1, but it doesn't matter, there's plenty of great discoveries to be found. It also prompted me to re-listen and re-consider albums by Spirit of the Beehive, Honey Bucket and others. Ural Thomas & the Pain is a great choice for soul.

yeah, very good list ^ and the first one i've seen mention that Clearance record, which i really liked.

I’ve only seen the Shopping album on two other lists. Maybe the ILX love for Sacred Paws last year might carry over.

DIY yr own end of year music list: ILM's 2018 End of Year Tracks & Albums Poll / VOTING THREAD

Brainwashed.com's 2018 Readers Poll

Uproxx poll of 200 critics is linked on Pazz & Jop thread

Brainwashed's worst-of list partially atoning for their Weyes Blood/Jute Gyte outrage of 2016. Still regard the entire Swansbro get-up with sidelong distrust

lol at Soccer Mommy worst of the year
fuck Brainwashed readers

I mean I'm extremely happy to see Idles there but...yeah they're a suspect bunch

https://uproxx.com/critic-polls/uproxx-music-critics-poll-2018-albums/

Kacey Musgraves top album in this poll of 200 critics

https://uproxx.com/critic-polls/uproxx-music-critics-poll-2018-songs/

and here's the tracks list which is boringly close to the albums list with the addition of "this is america"

Here are the results of my poll of my year's worth of past selves:

1. CHVRCHES + WEDNESDAY CAMPANELLA: "Out Of My Head"
2. Robyn: "Missing U"
3. The Winking Owl: "Try"
4. IKINÄ: "Vaatteet päältä"
5. Rave The Reqviem: "Saint Jvdas"
6. Muncie Girls: "Jeremy"
7. Kitten: "Strange Embrace"
8. Straatligkinders + Lucinda Neethling: "Herinner"
9. Christine and the Queens: "Doesn't matter (voleur de soleil)"
10. Per Gessle + Helena Josefsson: "Name You Beautiful"

#s 11-50 and oblique annotations here:

http://furia.com/newparticles/2019-01-04.html

great tunes there

Not sure where to plonk this, so here will do as I seem to have also started the thread.

https://centuriesofsound.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/2018-icon.jpg

Centuries of Sound - 2018

This is the tracklisting with just the 112 music tracks - there are also 98 clips of speech in-between which are listed behind the link. It's free to stream or download, and it's a bit long, sorry.

0:00:20 Geoff Barrow & Ben Salisbury – Excerpt from “Annihilation” OST
0:00:51 Mount Eerie – Distortion
0:01:07 MGMT – When You Die
0:02:02 Ravyn Lenae – Sticky
0:03:58 Grace Vonderkuhn – Worry
0:05:54 Anna von Hausswolff – The Truth, the Glow, the Fall
0:07:27 Tune-Yards – Colonizer
0:09:07 Spice – Tik Tak
0:10:41 Hoodboi – Glide feat. Tkay Maidza
0:13:13 Nilufer Yanya – Thanks 4 Nothing
0:15:29 Leif – Number 13
0:17:14 JPEGMAFIA – 1539 N. Calvert
0:18:47 Kero Kero Bonito – Only Acting
0:22:50 E Ruscha V – Who Are You
0:24:03 ionnalee – Blazing
0:24:52 Simmy ft. Sun-EL Musician – Ubala
0:26:51 Peach – Silky
0:29:40 700 Bliss – Cosmic Slop
0:31:05 Stormzy – Brit Awards Performance
0:31:34 Loski – Cool Kid
0:33:41 Andrew W.K. – Music Is Worth Living For
0:36:20 Jon Hopkins – Emerald Rush
0:40:05 Natalie Prass – Short Court Style
0:42:16 Doja Cat – Go To Town
0:44:46 Novelist – Stop Killing the Mandem
0:45:50 Peggy Gou – It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)
0:47:21 Bicep – Opal (Four Tet Remix)
0:49:31 Grouper – Parking Lot
0:52:00 Sarah Davachi – Hours in the Evening
0:53:08 Hammock – Build a Castle (Reinterpretation)
0:55:32 Cavern Of Anti-Matter – Solarised Sound
0:58:01 Tyler, The Creator – OKRA
0:59:42 Jimothy Lacoste – Subway System
1:02:08 Gila – 106 Slipper
1:03:09 Jean Grae & Quelle Chris – Peacock
1:04:33 Henry Kaiser – Spoonful
1:04:50 Sons of Kemet – My Queen Is Ada Eastman
1:08:23 Cazzu – Chapiadora
1:10:31 Kali Uchis – In My Dreams
1:12:00 Autechre – All End
1:14:40 KAREN MEAT – Overdwelled
1:17:13 Donato Dozzy – Cleo
1:19:16 Róisín Murphy – All My Dreams
1:21:17 DJ Koze – Pick Up
1:22:45 Valee – Womp Womp (feat. Jeremih)
1:24:16 Childish Gambino – This Is America (Video Version)
1:26:35 Joy O, Ben Vince – Transition 2
1:28:04 Simian Mobile Disco – Defender (feat. The Deep Throat Choir)
1:29:33 Laura Jean – Girls On The TV
1:33:56 MEUTE – You & Me (Flume Remix)
1:37:33 Pusha T – If You Know You Know
1:39:22 Daphne & Celeste – BB
1:43:14 Melody’s Echo Chamber – Quand Les Larmes D’un Ange Font Danser La Neige
1:46:30 Lizzo – Boys
1:48:31 YOTA ft. MF DOOM – Drop the Bomb
1:50:05 Colin Stetson – Steve
1:51:34 Low – Fly
1:55:54 Hilary Woods – Sever
1:57:42 BLACKPINK – DDU-DU DDU-DU
1:59:30 DeJ Loaf feat. Leon Bridges – Liberated
2:01:56 Sophie – Immaterial
2:03:31 Koelsch & Tiga – HAL
2:06:19 Ella Mai – Boo’d Up
2:08:43 Emily Harrison – I’d like to thank the Academy (Tips on getting Prozac from your GP)
2:09:12 Mr Twin Sister – Jaipur
2:12:13 Denzel Curry – Black Balloons
2:14:31 Charli XCX – Focus
2:17:00 Mitski – Nobody
2:19:23 Moses Sumney – Rank & File
2:20:55 Yves Tumor – Noid
2:23:00 Daniel Avery – Quick Eternity (Four Tet Remix)
2:24:11 Daveed Diggs – Blindspotting – End Rap Scene
2:26:11 CHVRCHES – Out of My Head (feat. Wednesday Campanella)
2:28:55 Christine and the Queens – 5 Dollars
2:30:47 Kink – Perth (Dusky Remix)
2:31:35 Mac Miller – What’s the Use (feat. Thundercat)
2:35:00 Diana Gordon – Wolverine
2:36:16 Oh Sees – Sentient Oona
2:40:25 mewithoutYou – Julia (or, ‘Holy to the LORD’ on the Bells of Horses)
2:42:29 Louis Cole – When You’re Ugly
2:44:21 Paul Woolford feat. Kim English – Hang Up Your Hang Ups (The Only One) (CamelPhat Remix)
2:45:35 Szun Waves – Temple
2:47:30 Thom Yorke – Unmade
2:50:00 Tim Hecker – This Life
2:50:59 Suede – Roadkill
2:52:45 Illingsworth – Greens
2:53:50 Miljon – What Does It Take
2:55:50 Julia Holter – I Shall Love 2
3:00:02 Shackleton – Wakefulness & Obsession
3:02:01 Bruce – What
3:03:35 Low – Tempest
3:05:46 AdriAnne Lenker – Symbol
3:07:54 Sigrid – Sucker Punch
3:10:23 Lafawndah – Joseph
3:11:22 Marie Davidson – Work It
3:13:52 Lando Chill – Peso (feat. Quelle Chris & REY)
3:15:26 Toro y Moi – Freelance
3:17:16 Sam Wilkes – Tonight feat. Sam Gendel, Louis Cole & Brian Green
3:20:47 Daughters – Long Road No Turns
3:23:31 Neneh Cherry – Natural Skin Deep
3:25:07 Lone – Pulsar
3:26:20 Makaya McCraven – Mantra
3:27:47 Kelly Moran – Radian
3:29:07 Octo Octa – Beam Me Up (To The Goddess Mix)
3:30:57 The Good, The Bad & The Queen – Merrie Land
3:34:08 Zuli – Nari (feat. Abyusif, Mado $am, Abanob, R-Rhyme)
3:35:20 Earl Sweatshirt – Nowhere2go
3:36:37 Jonathan Personne – Comme Personne
3:38:18 The 1975 – Love It If We Made It
3:41:53 Holly Herndon & Jlin (feat. Spawn) – Godmother
3:43:10 Beta Librae – Problem Solving Program
3:45:10 Lubomyr Melnyk – Barcarolle
3:47:50 Andrew Bird – Bloodless