The 2022 End of Year music lists thread

lmfao christ this 2nd track of the alvayys is like the most clichéd ad-ready bollocks I swear to god, every chord was just about the most obvious one they could have picked, there is so much unboring music out there, why does this stuff get the plaudits I do not understand. not sorry this is EOY war stations

just very dreary

oh look there's a song called Very Online Guy YES HELLO I'M HERE I'M REAYD FOR MY CALLOUT

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AllMusic Year in Review, starting with their favorite albums: https://www.allmusic.com/year-in-review/2022/allmusic-best-of-2022

didn't know I wanted a Floating Points/Jessie Ware collab so badly until now

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This would break ilm

"Spitting Off The Edge of the World" is extremely ok. I feel like if a song is eligible for top 10 or 20 of the year it should be among that artist's best work and this is not one of their 10 best songs. But it's ok.

The video is great tho.

the rest of the utada hikaru album is excellent too fwiw (except for the one out of place skrillex collab)

feels wild that rolling stone had a better #1 than p4k!

The Horace Andy is cool. Thank you bandcamp

I only care for about half of Pitchfork's top 10 and agree the #1 is an odd choice from that album, but it's still nice to see a genuinely surprising ranking that won't be a carbon copy of everyone else's. Are Beyonce & Two Shell the only artists with more than one track?

The Alvvays choice is weird but I think there are a bunch of places where they chose the "right" song -- Rosalia, Bad Bunny, Beyonce, Taylor, The 1975, CRJ, Maren (good for them putting this in the top 50)

no "western wind" is a very weird pick for crj too

Glutton for punishment, I've ploughed straight into the caroline album. I mean who knows

Well, credit for picking the only really good song on that YYYs album.

oh look there's a song called Very Online Guy YES HELLO I'M HERE I'M REAYD FOR MY CALLOUT

This was, by pure chance, the first song I heard off the new one, and the last one.

"western wind" is great but not picking "the loneliest time" seems like the wrong kind of contrarianism!

I agree

feel like if they had gone with pomeranian spinster as the #1 everyone would have called it a boring consensus vote-by-committee choice

though listening to "belinda says" now it's maybe the biggest POP song on the album so i don't know why everyone's surprised

Not to argue the point to death, but "PS" is such a more exciting / better song (IMO), why would it have been called a boring choice(?)

i would be baffled no matter which alvvays track was #1

bc it's the song everyone highlights from the album

Good, it's the best! lol

"Western Wind" was the lead single?

it wasn't a good lead single

Because I've siloed myself off so much, these lists always befuddle me completely— most of this stuff is utter mind detergent, imho, but I guess that's the purpose of pop music, so ymmv.

I do like the Utada, fwiw. Alvvays certainly a band for the "bands I've avoided even listening to because of the stupidity of their name" thread.

That Steve Lacy song is both charming and catchy and incredibly annoying at the same time.

I can never remember— when do we start doing our EOY 77 lists again?

The Alvvays album is great and that is one of the best songs on there, but them being number one on the Pitchfork list and The Beths getting shut out completely is disappointing. Nothing on Blue Rev comes close to Expert In A Dying Field's title track.

nominations usually open pretty soon

Guardian's Top 20 songs:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/dec/05/the-20-best-songs-of-2022

Wow I just heard "The loneliest time" and holy shit when did CRJ become this bland.

https://i.imgflip.com/48mqsj.jpg

heyyyy

haha

i've been dishing it out tbf

this is definitely caring too much but when was the last time p4k had such a middle-of-the-road indie track as #1? "seasons (waiting on you)"? there was at least a little bit of zeitgeist around that to help justify it

Are Beyonce & Two Shell the only artists with more than one track?

dj python as well

funny i have never really loved crj but i do love “the loneliest time” (the song)

https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/best-albums-2022/

That Guardian list of 20 songs w/three repeat artists is a firm rejoinder to people who don't like editorial meddling with the results

reading the description of that steve lacy song and imagining just how angry listening to it will make me, it is quite a powerful feeling

kinda hard to imagine that song making anyone angey

or angry

those are the songs that make me angriest!

The Wire's list is out.

1. Lucrecia Dalt - ¡Ay!
2. Moor Mother - Jazz Codes
3. Bill Orcutt - Music For Four Guitars
4. Oren Ambarchi - Shebang
5. Kali Malone - Living Torch
6. Sarah Davachi - Two Sisters
7. Billy Woods - Aethiopes
8. Björk - Fossora
9. Silvia Torozzi & Deborah Walker - Canti Di Guerra, Di Lavoro E D'Amore
10. Carl Stone - Wat Dong Moon Lek
11. V/A - Fragility Of Sounds
12. Soul Glo - Diaspora Problems
13. Aldous Harding - Warm Chris
14. Sun Ra Arkestra - Living Sky
15. Daniel Bachman - Almanac Behind
16. Horse Lords - Comradely Objects
17. Mary Halvorson - Amaryllis & Belladonna
18. Jeff Parker ETA IVtet - Mondays At The Enfield Tennis Academy
19. Claire Rousay & More Eaze - Never Stop Texting Me
20. Diamanda Galás - Broken Gargoyles
21. Vanessa Rossetto - The Actress
22. Coby Sey - Conduit
23. Hudson Mohawke - Cry Sugar
24. Ashenspire - Hostile Architecture
25. Horsegirl - Versions Of Modern Performance
26. Moin - Paste
27. The Smile - A Light For Attracting Attention
28. Bennie Maupin & Adam Rudolph - Symphonic Tone Poem For Brother Yusef
29. Éliane Radigue & Frédéric Blondy - Occam XXV
30. Robert Storey - The Eventual Window
31. Tegh & Adel Poursamadi - Ima
32. Devin Townsend - Lightwork
33. Laura Cannell - Antiphony Of The Trees
34. Dewa Alit & Gamelan Salukat - Chasing The Phantom
35. Richard Dawson & Circle - Henki
36. The Lord/Petra Haden - Devotional
37. Afrorack - The Afrorack
38. Roc Marciano & The Alchemist - The Elephant Man's Bones
39. The Ephemeron Loop - Psychonautic Escapism
40. Julmud - Tuqoos
41. Alvin Curran - Drumming Up Trouble
42. N Chambers - Mirage Colony
43. Phelimuncasi - Ama Gogela*
44. Eric Chenaux - Say Laura
45. Tomáš Niesner - Bečvou
46. Brian Eno - Foreverandevernomore
47. Ishmael Reed - The Hands Of Grace
48. Oren Ambarchi/Jonas Berthling/Andreas Werliin - Ghosted
49. Deliluh - Fault Lines
50. Bitchin Bajas - Bajascillators

*the only album on this list I voted for

great no. 1

Haven't heard it, but not that surprising - she was on the cover three issues back.