simon was right btw i don’t like this record
never been sadder to be right :(
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 16:01 (five years ago) link
Re: Tropical Fuck Storm, never has a band name promised so much and delivered so little.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 16:02 (five years ago) link
xps i was struggling to figure out which track contained "rapping", but "the future of history" feels much more rooted in like, post-punk than terrible white-guy attempts at rapping
the tfs record is great, pretty solidly the best version of the drones yet
― ufo, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 16:02 (five years ago) link
Didn't vote for TFS but really came around to the album after hating it on first listen. Usually prefer the more melodic end of psych rock but the sort of gnarled sound of it won me over.
― Gavin, Leeds, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 16:02 (five years ago) link
I need to give TFS a few more listens. I do love "you let my tyres down" a lot
― . (Michael B), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 16:03 (five years ago) link
xxp yeah I can see it as a descendant of "The Magnificent Seven" or whatever but my god I found it intolerable
― sleeve, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 16:04 (five years ago) link
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 16:02 (eighteen seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
the gloves are now officially off for the rest of the rundown fyi
but i will spare the Arctic Monkeys as they have somehow evolved to survive where their landfill brethren did not
― imago, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 16:04 (five years ago) link
yeah yeah they were never 'true' landfill, w/e
― imago, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 16:05 (five years ago) link
We'll since you are not particularly interested in discussing number 30 and I want to forget ever making such a mistake in this poll... here's 29:
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 16:07 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/zNAD1Fs.jpg#29: Ariana Grande - Sweetener - 364 points – 11 votes - 1 first place vote
Ariana Grande - AG4 (2018 album)
I can't forgive her for licking those donuts.― kornrulez6969
#31 is (like Let’s Eat Grandma – “Donnie Darko” from the tracks poll) one of those artist name/title combinations that'll make it very hard for me to want to check it out.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 16:07 (five years ago) link
Booooooooo
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 16:08 (five years ago) link
please don't check out TFS, tuomas
― imago, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 16:08 (five years ago) link
i think i can guess who the first place voter is
― lowercase (eric), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 16:09 (five years ago) link
the critical consensus that sweetener is the pinnacle of both ariana's career and pop in 2018 instead of re-heated pharrell leftovers from 2005 with a few nice max martin songs is just completely baffling to me
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 6 February 2019 16:09 (five years ago) link
I loved "No Tears..." but the album was at least half duds
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 16:10 (five years ago) link
Lol, best blurb
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 16:10 (five years ago) link
Is that what the title track is about?
― jmm, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 16:12 (five years ago) link
i liked "four out of five" from the AM album at least and can respect them for doing such a left turn at the peak of their career.
j0rdan otm about sweetener and even the martin/ilya tracks didn't quite reach the heights they reached on dangerous woman
― ufo, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 16:12 (five years ago) link
I’m sorry but I’m not listening to a band called “ tropical fuck storm “
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 16:13 (five years ago) link
Damn! I didn't think Sweetener would be this high. I was rooting for her so much for this era, but apart from No Tears Left To Cry, Breathin' and Everytime this album did nothing for me. Pharrell's productions sound like rejects from the second Gwen Stefani album!
― kitchen person, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 16:13 (five years ago) link
I'm only one listen into the new album and it's stronger than Sweetener, but I guess we needed the predecessor.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 16:13 (five years ago) link
You guys are all trippingSweetener is AOTY
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 16:15 (five years ago) link
arctic monkeys is way too low
― flopson, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 16:16 (five years ago) link
I was gonna get mad but tbh for a long time this was my feeling re Arctic Monkeys lol
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 16:16 (five years ago) link
Sorry LJ I should've put TFS higher on my ballot but the album was so good at what it did that it always put me in a deep depression. My #22 :(
(Relax Moka, this is hardly the first time someone skipped an album on a rollout. Happened a bunch I think)
― slack thompson (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 16:16 (five years ago) link
pretty insensitive band name for anyone who's seen the aftereffects of a tropical fuck storm
― mh, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 16:17 (five years ago) link
My favorite since their first album
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 16:17 (five years ago) link
arctic monkeys album is basically aladdin sane 2
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 16:17 (five years ago) link
Ariana album was a late cut; I'd prob rank it #29 of 2018 as well
― slack thompson (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 16:18 (five years ago) link
Pharrell's productions sound like rejects from the second Gwen Stefani album!
And yet ironically it was 7 Rings, which had no Pharell involvement, where she started sampling The Sound of Music.
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 16:19 (five years ago) link
I think this decade has seen pressure in pop acts to release some sort of statement album and AG fans decided this was it and flocked to it before the decade was over. Little did they know she quickly forgot about it and started pushing a single for her next album instead, and some backlash for Sweetener happened. I think the final verdict for which one was it will depend on AG5 being better than AG4 but "7 rings" is hideous and it does not help its case imho.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 16:19 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/HaXM6cS.jpg#28: Against All Logic - 2012-2017 - 380 points – 12 votes
Andrew Gaerig: "These are thrilling, racing tracks, but they're also familiar, both functionally—every hi-hat in its right place—and emotionally, with the kind of crests and ecstasies you might find on 1990s labels like Nu Groove and Cajual."
Fred Thomas: "Over the course of the album's 11 tracks, nods are made to various phases in the development of electronic music. Early-'90s rave, egregiously detuned analog synth melodies à la the giddy experimentalism of Aphex Twin, disco edits, minimal house, and even moments of pre-techno influences are all touched upon as restless and colorful album washes by A.A.L., showing a different side of Jaar's range, but it's easily the most carefree and inviting of his work."
called it!
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 16:20 (five years ago) link
would probably have this at about #28 too, pleasant album
― ufo, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 16:21 (five years ago) link
I think this decade has seen pressure in pop acts to release some sort of statement album and AG fans decided this was it and flocked to it before the decade was overActually, it’s divisive among fans as well.
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 16:21 (five years ago) link
oh yeh listened to this what seems aaaages ago
remember liking it so will have to revisit
― nxd, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 16:21 (five years ago) link
I didn't vote for it but RIP Mid-air Thief
― slack thompson (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 16:22 (five years ago) link
AAL was #1 on RYM for most of last year iirc
― Oor Neechy, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 16:22 (five years ago) link
why the heck didn't i vote for this hailu mergia record? it's so lovely
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 16:24 (five years ago) link
― ciderpress, Wednesday, February 6, 2019 10:17 AM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
kinda agree
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 16:24 (five years ago) link
such a #28 record
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 16:25 (five years ago) link
three tracks in, this against all logic album is pretty good on first spin.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 16:26 (five years ago) link
I thought that honor unfortunately went to Kids See Ghosts.
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 16:27 (five years ago) link
I think Daughters eventually finished #1. Bit surprised that excellent album hasn't placed
― Oor Neechy, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 16:28 (five years ago) link
i'm not, because it isn't :P
― imago, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 16:28 (five years ago) link
love this, was my #2 i think
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 16:28 (five years ago) link
the daughters album was not received well at all here iirc
as far as rym favourites go it is a shame it doesn't seem like mid-air thief will place now
― ufo, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 16:29 (five years ago) link
i think it still could place
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 16:29 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/gF5cyX9.jpg#27: Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Hope Downs - 389 points – 14 votes
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
Edgardo Rodriguez: "When it comes down to it, Hope Downs ultimately succeeds thanks to its impressive quality control. There's not a single bad song on here, only slight variances in tone and luster. A similar comparison could be made to R.E.M.'s groundbreaking debut effort, Murmur, and though it won't have the same impact, the album does share that same meticulous rendering of ringing guitars."
Stuart Berman: "Even within the realm of contemporary indie, the band is a glorious anomaly. Sophisticated and subversive in equal measure, their staccato sing-alongs come on pristine and precise, then unspool in surprising directions as decorum gives way to abandon."
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 16:30 (five years ago) link