(i like most of that fact top 10 including the weeknd)
― gucc_ebooks (tpp), Friday, 2 December 2011 14:41 (twelve years ago) link
also the fact top 10 is, uh, okay
i like 'house of balloons', but not that much
― v-shasty, Friday, 2 December 2011 14:41 (twelve years ago) link
despite lex's best protest in march, it was not a big year for r&b full lengths, so i'm not surprised that stuff like the weeknd and frank ocean have filled the void a bit
― v-shasty, Friday, 2 December 2011 14:42 (twelve years ago) link
i get that fact likes to stay well within the tumblrverse but it is slightly weird putting frank ocean in your top 10 and not even giving a nod to like, beyonce (or did i miss this?)
but on other hand it means they don't cover kanye/jay which is nice.
― gucc_ebooks (tpp), Friday, 2 December 2011 14:46 (twelve years ago) link
FACT should be, like, way more into lloyd than they are tho imo
― v-shasty, Friday, 2 December 2011 14:47 (twelve years ago) link
yah otm
― gucc_ebooks (tpp), Friday, 2 December 2011 14:48 (twelve years ago) link
not even on some lex AYO CHECK OUT MARSHA AMRBOSIOUS, THIS SHIT IS SO MUCH BETTER but i'm surprised that they aren't checking for fun party songs w/ good beats all done by a single producer
― v-shasty, Friday, 2 December 2011 14:48 (twelve years ago) link
MBDTF was FACT's number two album of last year and they gave WTT a pretty good review iirc
― Number None, Friday, 2 December 2011 14:52 (twelve years ago) link
for some reason i keep thinking MBDTF was released this year duh
― gucc_ebooks (tpp), Friday, 2 December 2011 14:55 (twelve years ago) link
I was thinking "jesus, every song on this Araabmuzik album sounds exactly the same", then I looked at Spotify; I'd made it to track 2
now I'm just bemused that FACT ranked what sounds like an overlong dubsteppy Junkie-XL album the 5th-best album of the year
― OH NOES, Friday, 2 December 2011 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
OK, so v-shasty isn't Steve Shasta.
― dyao think i'm sexy (jaymc), Friday, 2 December 2011 15:05 (twelve years ago) link
i like the araabmuzik a lot -- it's cool to vibe too, idk -- it's def pretty same-y but i like when he does the laser tag keyboard thing and a lot of the samples are p cool
― v-shasty, Friday, 2 December 2011 15:09 (twelve years ago) link
4. Mayer Hawthorne : How Do You Do?
From the Filter list--is this more than just retro blue-eyed soul? Haven't heard it yet...
― Another Suburbanite, Friday, 2 December 2011 15:10 (twelve years ago) link
it's not BAD (I like Junkie-XL!), it's just... not what I was expecting
― OH NOES, Friday, 2 December 2011 15:11 (twelve years ago) link
yeah it's not his crazy MPC thing
― v-shasty, Friday, 2 December 2011 15:21 (twelve years ago) link
from FACT, files this under "don't use wikipedia as a source"
The production values on Take Care really were staggering, and made even more impressive by the fact that whether it was Lex Luger, Just Blaze or Jamie xx
― v-shasty, Friday, 2 December 2011 15:22 (twelve years ago) link
from FACT, file this under "people comparing 'take care' to the wrong kanye west album"
More than anything, this album was Drake’s College Dropout
― v-shasty, Friday, 2 December 2011 15:27 (twelve years ago) link
No, but imho I think its really, really well done retro blue-eyed soul. I usually cringe at this shit, but my brother in law does some promo for Hawthorne and pushed the album on me and I found myself really liking it.
― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Friday, 2 December 2011 15:28 (twelve years ago) link
alright, i take back anything nice i ever said
Like Outkast’s Stankonia before it, House of Balloons also appears to have brought everyone together this year
― v-shasty, Friday, 2 December 2011 15:30 (twelve years ago) link
despite lex's best protest in march, it was not a big year for r&b full lengths
yet three of my top 10 are r&b, plus a further five in my top 30?
and the anthony hamilton isn't out yet either
― lex pretend, Friday, 2 December 2011 15:45 (twelve years ago) link
I'm sorry lex, I am still staring in shock at the quote v-nasty posted otherwise I'd ask which 3 R&B albums you're repping (I'm guessing Marsha is one of them? She was on the Soul Train Music Awards last weekend and sounded really, really sick ;_;)
― OH NOES, Friday, 2 December 2011 15:48 (twelve years ago) link
poor love.
― Ou est la showaddywaddy (MarkG oo la showaddywaddy), Friday, 2 December 2011 15:51 (twelve years ago) link
beyoncé, dawn richard, nikkiya, meshell ndegéocello, marsha ambrosius, goapele, raphael saadiq, diddy dirty money (r&b remix mixtape)
i'm not even that into the lloyd album compared with his past work (but it's still better than the weeknd/ocean OBV)
― lex pretend, Friday, 2 December 2011 15:53 (twelve years ago) link
co-singing that goapele
― gucc_ebooks (tpp), Friday, 2 December 2011 15:57 (twelve years ago) link
i rep for trey songz anticipation 2
― sisilafami, Friday, 2 December 2011 16:01 (twelve years ago) link
the musiq soulchild album was pretty good too, and the cherri v mixtape was excellent
― lex pretend, Friday, 2 December 2011 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
and the anthony david album! this song is one of the best songs of the year full stop, amazing stuff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__khgIzMyaM
― lex pretend, Friday, 2 December 2011 16:16 (twelve years ago) link
oh yeah Musiq Soulchild, I played that album maybe three times and then forgot I owned it
― OH NOES, Friday, 2 December 2011 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
Sure, ‘NY is Killing Me’ became annoyingly inescapable,
i've never heard this
― gucc_ebooks (tpp), Friday, 2 December 2011 16:22 (twelve years ago) link
I love the Marsha Ambrosius record; it's held up well all year.
― Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 2 December 2011 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
― lex pretend, Friday, December 2, 2011 9:53 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink
this is what i'm talking about in terms of a 'big' year for r&b, beyonce aside. saadiq and maybe ambrosius are household names, but the rest of them are kinda the FACT list for r&b heads
― v-shasty, Friday, 2 December 2011 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, i just came to the marsha album recently. 'far away'!!
of that FACT top 10, clams and araabmuzik will make my EOY list (the latter top ten, probably), still haven't listened to the rustie or prurient albums, FO and barwick didn't leave much of an impression on me, sort of avoiding weeknd/drake, haven't heard of the other two
― silvana mangano, Friday, 2 December 2011 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
i'm wending my way through that NPR 'other sounds' list - if you like gorgeous ambient drifty things, that nicholas szczepanik album is wonderful
― silvana mangano, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
lol @ Diddy Dirty Money being more obscure than homegirl from Floetry
― OH NOES, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:01 (twelve years ago) link
well yeah. but the diddy dirty money remix mixtape is pretty far under the radar.
― v-shasty, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
oh leave me my cheap lols, they're all I have
― OH NOES, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
the real problem w/ the FACT list isnt the music they choose, which is w/e, but the aesthetic incoherency and the embarrassing way it seems to misunderstand/misevaluate its own constituency of tumblr whites
― є(٥_ ٥)э, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:26 (twelve years ago) link
ClashMusic (UK) EOY 2011
http://www.clashmusic.com/feature/the-top-40-albums-of-2011
40. DANGER MOUSE / DANIELE LUPPI - ‘Rome’ 39. WHEN SAINTS GO MACHINE - ‘Konkylie’ 38. WOODEN SHJIPS - ‘West’ 37. WAGON CHRIST - ‘Toomorrow’ 36. RICHARD DONOSO - ‘Progress Chance’ 35. RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS - ‘I’m With You’34. WHITE DENIM - ‘D’ 33. KASABIAN - ‘Velociraptor!’32. JAY-Z AND KANYE WEST - ‘Watch The Throne’ 31. LITTLE DRAGON - ‘Ritual Union’ 30. RYAN ADAMS - ‘Ashes And Fire’29. MATTHEW HERBERT - ‘One Pig’28. FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE - ‘Ceremonials’27. THE LOW ANTHEM - ‘Smart Flesh’26. BON IVER - ‘Bon Iver’25. EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY - ‘Take Care, Take Care, Take Care’24. BIBIO - ‘Mind Bokeh’23. WILCO - ‘The Whole Love’22. M83 - ‘Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming’21. ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER - ‘Replica’20. DJ SHADOW - ‘The Less You Know The Better’19. LYKKE LI - ‘Wounded Rhymes’18. GRUFF RHYS - ‘Hotel Shampoo’17. PLANNINGTOROCK - ‘W’16. BEASTIE BOYS - ‘Hot Sauce Committee Part Two’15. WILD BEASTS - ‘Smother’14. KING CREOSOTE AND JON HOPKINS - ‘Diamond Mine’13. FLEET FOXES - ‘Helplessness Blues’12. BJÖRK - ‘Biophilia’11. BEIRUT - ‘The Rip Tide’10. ZOMBY - ‘Dedication’9. MY MORNING JACKET - ‘Circuital’8. ADELE - ‘21’7. THE KILLS - ‘Blood Pressures’6. METRONOMY - ‘The English Riviera’5. RADIOHEAD - ‘The King Of Limbs'4. BATTLES - ‘Gloss Drop’3. PJ HARVEY - 'Let England Shake'2. THE HORRORS - ‘Skying’1. MODESELEKTOR - ‘Monkeytown’
― los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Friday, 2 December 2011 19:21 (twelve years ago) link
wagon christ is still a thing?
x-post
tumblr whites
my new band's name
― Another Suburbanite, Friday, 2 December 2011 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
it would be a good name for a laundry detergent
― n/a, Friday, 2 December 2011 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
Yes, he's still going and he's become very, very boring.
I do like that Modeselektor album but it's not top ten material, let alone the best album of the year
― OH NOES, Friday, 2 December 2011 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
best thom yorke record of 2011
― los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Friday, 2 December 2011 19:31 (twelve years ago) link
This was exactly my reaction
― Number None, Friday, 2 December 2011 19:36 (twelve years ago) link
saadiq and maybe ambrosius are household names
Whose households now?
― dyao think i'm sexy (jaymc), Friday, 2 December 2011 19:43 (twelve years ago) link
BBC music writers
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcmusic/2011/12/bbc_music_writers_top_25_album.html
25 - Bright Eyes - The People's Key24 - Laura Marling - A Creature I Don't Know23 - Cold Cave - Cherish the Light Years22 - Trap Them - Darker Handcraft21 - The Decemberists - The King is Dead20 - EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints19 - Julianna Barwick - The Magic Place18 - Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues17 - Kate Bush - 50 Words for Snow16 - Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi15 - Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie xx - We're New Here14 - Drive-By Truckers - Go-Go Boots13 - Katy B - On a Mission12 - SBTRKT - SBTRKT11 - Björk - Biophilia10 - Iceage - New Brigade9 - Bon Iver - Bon Iver8 - Josh T Pearson - Last of the Country Gentlemen7 - Beyoncé - 46 - Metronomy - The English Riviera5 - Tom Waits - Bad as Me4 - The Antlers - Burst Apart3 - The Horrors - Skying2 - Wild Beasts - Smother1 - PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
― los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Friday, 2 December 2011 19:45 (twelve years ago) link
households that listen to R&B
Raphael Saddiq has been famous since Tony! Toni! Tone! and Floetry got a lot of exposure back in their day (not that I realized that's who Marsha was until this weekend).
man, that SBTRKT album is almost as overrated as that Bjork album
― OH NOES, Friday, 2 December 2011 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
I really hate the SBTRKT album. Primarily cos of the vocals
― Number None, Friday, 2 December 2011 19:50 (twelve years ago) link
i love "pharaohs" on the sbtrkt album but the rest of it, not really, and yeah mostly cuz of the vocals.
ambrosius got a #2 album in your country and two grammy nominations, that seems to indicate it's on a different level of success to eg the weeknd
― lex pretend, Friday, 2 December 2011 19:53 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, well, that's fair then. They're prominent R&B singers for sure. But I don't think of either of them as being crossover artists.
― dyao think i'm sexy (jaymc), Friday, 2 December 2011 19:54 (twelve years ago) link