I will say I liked the Quietus list better than last year, tho I just cannot with the noise and metal they prefer— maybe I’m getting old, but most of it truly sounds like shit to me.
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Friday, 2 December 2022 16:37 (one year ago) link
complex - https://www.complex.com/music/best-albums-2022/
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Friday, 2 December 2022 16:40 (one year ago) link
First Sault appearance?
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 2 December 2022 16:42 (one year ago) link
second Wizkid one, once again at #26
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 2 December 2022 17:22 (one year ago) link
However you feel about Gioia's taste (and personally I find I have a good amount of overlap), you have to hand it to him for providing an informative one-line description of each item on his honorable mention list. I hope he sticks with this format for his best-of list. It's the perfect amount of information to quickly digest. I don't want to read an essay, just enough information to give me a hint of whether it might align with my own taste, and not meaningless buzzwords:
https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/the-best-recordings-of-2022-honorable
― o. nate, Friday, 2 December 2022 22:09 (one year ago) link
https://www.popmatters.com/best-indie-rock-albums-2022
― Bee OK, Saturday, 3 December 2022 08:09 (one year ago) link
is Palace Music or Songs:Ohia or even like early Mogwai christmas music?
now that's what I call a perfect blurb, listening now, wonderful album
― corrs unplugged, Saturday, 3 December 2022 09:28 (one year ago) link
However you feel about Gioia's taste (and personally I find I have a good amount of overlap), you have to hand it to him for providing an informative one-line description of each item on his honorable mention list.
yeah that's a very nice format, youtube links for all entries too
also a lot of stuff I'm not familiar with
his rock choices seem to come from a person not too familiar with the genre
― corrs unplugged, Saturday, 3 December 2022 10:00 (one year ago) link
wow, brutal top 6 indie rock albums there from popmatters
the 5 current british post-punk buzz bands plus bartees strange, and the rest of the top 25 looks like they threw darts at a playlist
tell me you're 20 years old and know zilch about rock music without telling me you're 20 years old and know zilch about rock music
― alpine static, Sunday, 4 December 2022 03:50 (one year ago) link
I was gonna ask which of those bands are worth checking out; haven’t heard of most of em
― Wet Legume (morrisp), Sunday, 4 December 2022 04:22 (one year ago) link
It is a fucking terrible list but there's a few decent things there
― imago, Sunday, 4 December 2022 12:55 (one year ago) link
Just went through the audio clips… It does feel like a pretty random assortment.
― Wet Legume (morrisp), Sunday, 4 December 2022 23:49 (one year ago) link
If you want some collective-listening-based lists to go with the editorial/authorial ones, my algorithmic country/genre explorer for the year is up (to be updated again after the year actually ends):
https://everynoise.com/2022_around_the_world.cgi
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 5 December 2022 00:33 (one year ago) link
ted gioia's list is the only list i look forward to every year, even though i pretty much hate everything else about the guy. whatever.
i see that he's going to post the top 100 list behind a paywall again. i subscribed last year just to get access to it, but if somebody feels like posting it here that would be cool.
― budo jeru, Monday, 5 December 2022 00:41 (one year ago) link
Cabbages list (best hip-hop):
https://www.cabbageshiphop.com/best-hiphop-rap-albums-2022/
(2nd list I've seen after Loud & Quiet with Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals' 'King Cobra' at #1)
― Soundslike, Monday, 5 December 2022 04:38 (one year ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/best-songs-2022/
you know what, fuck it, amazing #1 choice
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Monday, 5 December 2022 14:24 (one year ago) link
this hikaru utada song might be the most ILM-bait song i've ever heard
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Monday, 5 December 2022 14:30 (one year ago) link
Didn't think Destroyer was going to get much attention this year; pleasantly surprised.
― Chris L, Monday, 5 December 2022 14:37 (one year ago) link
Gorilla vs Bear top 50 songs
https://www.gorillavsbear.net/gorilla-vs-bears-songs-of-2022/
Yeah I like it a lot and great #1
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 5 December 2022 15:26 (one year ago) link
The p4k list isn’t bad either.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 5 December 2022 15:36 (one year ago) link
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Monday, December 5, 2022 9:30 AM (one hour ago)
I only listened to the first two minutes but this is otm
― rob, Monday, 5 December 2022 15:39 (one year ago) link
Hikaru will def make it into the top 77 tracks.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 5 December 2022 15:54 (one year ago) link
It’s somewhat overindulgent at 12 mins, but Floating Points is an amazing producer so it doesn’t feel as long as it is.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 5 December 2022 16:01 (one year ago) link
Bummer that Big Thief couldn’t muster two tracks on the list (like Beyoncé did), even though their album is full of incredible songs
― Wet Legume (morrisp), Monday, 5 December 2022 16:06 (one year ago) link
there's a lot to love about the p4k list but i'm baffled by #1
― ufo, Monday, 5 December 2022 16:16 (one year ago) link
some kind of CANadian CONspiracy
― rob, Monday, 5 December 2022 16:28 (one year ago) link
I don’t mind it, but most songs in that top 10 they’ll completely forget about when the 2020-2024 or the EOD poll comes, assuming p4k still exists.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 5 December 2022 16:31 (one year ago) link
Pomeranian Spinster (the Alvvays track right before Belinda Says on the album) is one of my top jams of the year; but none of the other songs on the album really sound like anything much to me. Strange #1 indeed
― Wet Legume (morrisp), Monday, 5 December 2022 16:41 (one year ago) link
Seems to me like pfork meant to swap #1 and #100. That's the only explanation.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Monday, 5 December 2022 16:46 (one year ago) link
like a lot of other alvvays tracks it's fine but it's hard to understand what makes it so special.
― ufo, Monday, 5 December 2022 16:47 (one year ago) link
Pitchfork list is a pleasant surprise.
― Indexed, Monday, 5 December 2022 17:32 (one year ago) link
rolling stone singles: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-songs-2022-list-1234632381
appreciate the amount of latin music on there, otherwise pretty bland
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Monday, 5 December 2022 17:33 (one year ago) link
Cool, they include "Pomeranian Spinster" (and correctly flag it as the album's best song)
― Wet Legume (morrisp), Monday, 5 December 2022 17:48 (one year ago) link
vinylmeplease is the first list i've seen to mention 454's fast trax 3, which will absolutely be on my listhttps://www.vinylmeplease.com/blogs/magazine/best-albums-2022
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Monday, 5 December 2022 18:04 (one year ago) link
besides plenty latin (same as in their albums list), Rolling Stone also has lots of kpop, plus it has five of the big afropop songs of the year in its top 50. I call that progress.
― I did see Xhaka crotchgrab (breastcrawl), Monday, 5 December 2022 18:08 (one year ago) link
It seems more interesting/diverse than the Pfork list (based on quick scrolls thru each)
― Wet Legume (morrisp), Monday, 5 December 2022 18:12 (one year ago) link
vinylmeplease is the first list i've seen to mention 454's _fast trax 3_, which will absolutely be on my listhttps://www.vinylmeplease.com/blogs/magazine/best-albums-2022🕸
― I did see Xhaka crotchgrab (breastcrawl), Monday, 5 December 2022 18:21 (one year ago) link
odd #1 choice by p4k but it's a great song from what is probably the best pop/rock band on the planet, so i'll take it
― alpine static, Monday, 5 December 2022 18:21 (one year ago) link
corny indie dream pop rock that still works somehow
― curmudgeon, Monday, 5 December 2022 18:29 (one year ago) link
xxp yes! oddly, i don't think either of their albums are available on vinyl at vmp or anywhere else
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Monday, 5 December 2022 18:29 (one year ago) link
xp world-class indie dream pop, no "corny" or "somehow" about it
― alpine static, Monday, 5 December 2022 18:38 (one year ago) link
i always thought Alvvays was a band it was easy to underestimate til they creep on you - maybe not anymore - I like Easy On Your Own? best for the absolute melancholic wallop of the central lyric & unpredictability of the key changes & melody throughout.
― Hinklepicker, Monday, 5 December 2022 18:40 (one year ago) link
i like the alvvays song but it seems very much "marry me archie" redux and what's the message we're sending if a lesser version of "marry me archie" is better than all pop music in 2022
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Monday, 5 December 2022 18:43 (one year ago) link
Wowwwwwww to this Hikaru Utada track
― Indexed, Monday, 5 December 2022 18:45 (one year ago) link
I didn't know I wanted a Floating Points/Jessie Ware collab so badly until now
― Indexed, Monday, 5 December 2022 18:54 (one year ago) link
I think they're the best band *and* I think "Belinda Says" is a very strange choice for #1 song of the year. No idea how they got there.
― alpine static, Monday, 5 December 2022 18:54 (one year ago) link
first chunk of the bandcamp albums list is up: https://daily.bandcamp.com/best-of-2022/the-best-albums-of-2022-a-d. usually one of my favorite best-of lists.
― na (NA), Monday, 5 December 2022 18:55 (one year ago) link
unpredictability of the key changes & melody throughout
i will be the fuckin judge of this
― imago, Monday, 5 December 2022 19:16 (one year ago) link
unless I got a bad match on the import, it appears that every track on the Pitchfork list is on Spotify. not to single them out as I assume this is true of most lists, but it says a lot about how people are listening (myself included).
― fffv, Monday, 5 December 2022 19:20 (one year ago) link
quite possibly listened to more minutes of Bandcamp than Spotify this year (fewer different albums but what I did buy I caned), where's my Bandcamp Unwrapped
― imago, Monday, 5 December 2022 19:22 (one year ago) link