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
“this is the music that MATTERED, and this is why it was IMPORTANT CULTURALLY and POLITICALLY”
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 16:44 (four years ago) link
“Wrecking Ball” and “Telephone” had MEMORABLE VIDEOS and “Formation” had the SUPER BOWL HALFTIME SHOW
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 16:46 (four years ago) link
Beyonce had great singles for sure but I'm a bit sceptical about all those albums that are being included on the PF list. Kacey Musgraves is some nondescript stuff too and the canonisation of Frank Ocean baffles me.
Also Pitchfork include Aviary as the sole Julia Holter pick and HYIMW is nowhere to be seen. Ridiculous.
― The World According To.... (Michael B), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 16:49 (four years ago) link
The bottom 1/3 of this list is cool. The top half is mostly what we can expect to see in thousand similar lists just arranged differently. The top 3 is even the same ones as pitchfork.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 17:24 (four years ago) link
I hope the next decade we’ll see a rise of more focused publications. I know the line between music genres is blurred every passing year but this so called diversity in music actually feels very homogenic by the time these lists come out and everyone is picking the exact same 3 albums and songs as the best in their genres.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 17:31 (four years ago) link
otm x2
― kanye kendrick frank kendrick frank kanye (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 17:32 (four years ago) link
not fair, moka put it slightly more diplomatically and got the otm lol
― imago, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 17:33 (four years ago) link
moka is nice to me!!!
― kanye kendrick frank kendrick frank kanye (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 17:43 (four years ago) link
:(
― imago, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 17:46 (four years ago) link
the grinch who dragged stereogum
― imago, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 17:47 (four years ago) link