Beyond anything else, Blonde as the best lp of the decade is simply bizarre, I don't even dislike it but in what way is that the pinnacle?
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 22:37 (four years ago) link
god, i like a handful of them, but like the aesthetic range in that top 10 is paper thin as compared to the great big wide world of music. it's sad. or rather it'd be sad if it meant anything.
― alpine static, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 23:04 (four years ago) link
I don’t get Blonde. Maybe if he was a better singer? Maybe if it had more interesting production choices? Channel Orange has enough hooks to ignore the weakness within but Blonde is all about textures and his voice but they don’t interest me enough to do a full album that sounds like this.
production-wise there’s also an insane amount of clipping on his vocals
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 23:21 (four years ago) link
like the aesthetic range in that top 10 is paper thin as compared to the great big wide world of music.That’s a good way of putting it
― Spry at 78 (morrisp), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 23:30 (four years ago) link
agree there were more memorable songs on Channel Orange, but I also like the texture and ambience of Blonde
― Dan S, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 23:50 (four years ago) link
Seems weird publishing a list with Big Thief's UFOF at #33, when its companion album is dropping in a few days. Like you'd want to wait and see if that one is good too.
― aphoristical, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 23:59 (four years ago) link
https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2019/10/best-albums-of-the-2010s-paste.html
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 9 October 2019 19:14 (four years ago) link
https://www.cleveland.com/life-and-culture/g66l-2019/10/9ca10ee95f3302/100-greatest-albums-of-the-2010s.html
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 10 October 2019 02:57 (four years ago) link
That Cleveland.com list has some good choices (though the blurbs are really bad).
― drunk on hot toddies (morrisp), Thursday, 10 October 2019 03:21 (four years ago) link
would be surprised if any new Big Thief album this year could top UFOF
Blonde feels like Donuts to me - haphazard, amorphous, not defining, but there is something about it
― Dan S, Thursday, 10 October 2019 03:23 (four years ago) link
personally i'm waiting for Tiny Mix Tapes' list, which we all know will be completely fucked up but somewhat interesting
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Thursday, 10 October 2019 04:41 (four years ago) link
tmt's lists are by far the best thing they do because they're usually at least interesting and the blurbs are more generally readable than the reviews
― ufo, Thursday, 10 October 2019 05:22 (four years ago) link
just finished my hundred songs ... it rules ass tbh
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Tuesday, October 8, 2019 1:37 AM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
share it deej
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, October 8, 2019 9:02 AM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
https://somanyshrimp.com/2019/10/09/best-music-2010-2019
a friend linked me this v approvingly
― lowercase (eric), Thursday, 10 October 2019 11:47 (four years ago) link
great list deej!!!
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 10 October 2019 12:50 (four years ago) link
yeah thats a great list, how the hell did I forget Wololo and Y-tjukutja.
― Will (kruezer2), Thursday, 10 October 2019 13:05 (four years ago) link
sometimes I think these publications should just solicit lists from all of their writers (to maintain the ruse) and then just randomly pick one person's individual list and run that as the staff list.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Thursday, 10 October 2019 13:40 (four years ago) link
spotify pl deej list
― be goose, do crimes (||||||||), Thursday, 10 October 2019 15:08 (four years ago) link
Yeah, good list. One question: which Respect The Drumboss did you pick? All of Heavy K’s albums have that title. I’m guessing it’s the 2013 one, or perhaps the 2015 one, and probably not the 2018 one, but who knows?
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 10 October 2019 16:51 (four years ago) link
actually intended 2015 -- 2013 is dope ofc but i came to that late, "givemeluv" was one of my most listened songs that year (i regret not making space on the singles list, but that excuse was how i justified not ranking, like, rihanna singles on the songs list)
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Friday, 11 October 2019 00:13 (four years ago) link
that excuse = dropping a song from the songs list if the artist had an album i knew would make it
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Friday, 11 October 2019 00:14 (four years ago) link
thnx for the good words ppl
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Friday, 11 October 2019 00:15 (four years ago) link
all these lists are missing chelsea jade's Personal Best, a favorite of mine.
― unashamed and trash (Unctious), Friday, 11 October 2019 01:38 (four years ago) link
just listened to "Alright" for the first time
prob not much for me in this decade
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 11 October 2019 02:53 (four years ago) link
https://www.stereogum.com/featured/best-albums-of-the-2010s-list/
― ufo, Monday, 4 November 2019 20:59 (four years ago) link
ctrl+f 'dawson'
nothing
next
― imago, Monday, 4 November 2019 21:01 (four years ago) link
OK I scrolled it. The same rancid shit Pitchfork served up. Genuinely great albums, yes, but diminished by this empty canon-affirmation. What's the point of Stereogum?
― imago, Monday, 4 November 2019 21:04 (four years ago) link
SOME genuinely great albums, I mean, and the usual pablum
Here's all the albums Pitchfork told you to love, in a slightly different order! And with Yeezus at 2 - that's OUR power move! Team Stereogum shocked you there!!
― imago, Monday, 4 November 2019 21:05 (four years ago) link
stereogum is one of the few sites that actually pays people to go in-depth about particular songs and albums, so they are a net good even if their taste can run towards the corny side. they also promote some pretty excellent guitar-oriented music that few other sites touch on.
― kanye kendrick frank kendrick frank kanye (voodoo chili), Monday, 4 November 2019 21:18 (four years ago) link
i haven't looked at this list yet
their song list has some interesting choices!
https://www.stereogum.com/featured/best-songs-of-the-2010s-list/
― kanye kendrick frank kendrick frank kanye (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 15:36 (four years ago) link
not really, and I just scrolled the whole thing
― imago, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 15:56 (four years ago) link
faddish american pop canon reinforced once again. here are your royals
― imago, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 15:58 (four years ago) link
if these are your horizons i pity you tbh
there wasn't even a weyes blood song, presumably as she's a bit too weird. but i don't want to focus on single examples. there's something really empty and aggressively banal about these lists that serve to massage the self-assurance of middling-interest hipsters and achieve fuck all besides
― imago, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 16:01 (four years ago) link
i said 'some' interesting choices.
some people don't like weyes blood as much as you do.
― kanye kendrick frank kendrick frank kanye (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 16:02 (four years ago) link
that was just an example of how averse these lists are to anything that's a little tricky or unusual or heaven forbid unfashionable
― imago, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 16:04 (four years ago) link
it's the americanness of it all that's the lost stultifying part perhaps? idk I'd almost want to analyse these lists - pfork, stereogum etc - on an artist-by-artist basis and work out the curatorial parameters, the boxes being ticked, the consensuses they're trying to manufacture
nothing against lists, but there's something about these that gives me a sick feeling the deeper I scroll, and I know I'm not alone in this
― imago, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 16:06 (four years ago) link
*most stultifying
there are a bunch of songs in the 200-101 range (the only part of these lists i look at tbh) that probably won't make the cut on lots of other decades list. katie dey, girl band, polo g, tirzah, frightened rabbit, colleen green, etc., are all solid choices that have little-to-zero chance of making to in other lists.
and the poptimistic choices in that region (zedd, jidenna, fetty wap) appeal to me, personally.
― kanye kendrick frank kendrick frank kanye (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 16:08 (four years ago) link
― imago, Tuesday, November 5, 2019 10:58 AM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
you can fuck right off for this btw
― kanye kendrick frank kendrick frank kanye (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 16:10 (four years ago) link
katie dey was p much the only time i was pleasantly surprised and that was in the bottom five of the 200!
why are you taking this personally
― imago, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 16:11 (four years ago) link
there's something about these that gives me a sick feeling the deeper I scroll
lol dude is getting a sick feeling from reading some lists
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 16:16 (four years ago) link
― imago, Tuesday, November 5, 2019 11:11 AM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
i wasn't until you said "if these are your horizons i pity you tbh"
― kanye kendrick frank kendrick frank kanye (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 16:26 (four years ago) link
but you must like more sorts of music than this
i mean, surely
― imago, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 16:29 (four years ago) link
i mean, obviously...
― kanye kendrick frank kendrick frank kanye (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 16:34 (four years ago) link
actually, the only songs i like are the 200 listed on stereogum's best songs of the decade. no more, no less.
Uhhh this list is exactly the same as the Pitchfork list, like even down to the blurbs being the same length and everything.
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 16:41 (four years ago) link
Not true, this list doesn't say pitchfork anywhere at all
― Evan, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 16:42 (four years ago) link
the blurbs are also much shorter
― kanye kendrick frank kendrick frank kanye (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 16:42 (four years ago) link