Rumba (FI) EOY 2011
Finnish songs1. Regina: Jos et sä soita2. Rubik: Laws of Gravity3. The New Tigers: Pocketful of Sand4. Regina: Unessa5. Regina: Haluan sinut6. Mirel Wagner: No Death7. Burning Hearts: Into the Wilderness8. Rubik: World Around You9. Sansa: Boys (Summertime Love)10. Chisu: Kohtalon oma11. Suvi Isotalo: Kaikki sanat12. Matti Johannes Koivu: 80-luvun lapset13. Yona: Toisen oma14. Regina: Lepään aalloilla15. Black Twig: Lake Song16. 22-Pistepirkko: UFO Girl17. Chisu: Sabotage18. Stella: Kutsumattomat vieraat jääkää kotiin19. Regina: Mustavalkeaa20. Rubik: Storm in a Glass of Water21. Freeman: Tuhatjalkainen22. Supo: Se tulee olemaan helppoo23. Shine 2009: So Free24. Jätkäjätkät: Uusi moottoritie25. Von Hertzen Brothers: Miracle
― los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Monday, 5 December 2011 10:00 (twelve years ago) link
I've heard of one of those bands, go me
― los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Monday, 5 December 2011 10:01 (twelve years ago) link
seriously...y'all know how every EOY list is made? it really is as simple as just balloting writers. no publication can be bothered to rig or fix the results, or craft a list that "espouses" a "hivemind" or "worldview".
― lex pretend, Saturday, December 3, 2011 3:25 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink
this is so cute^^
― HUSTLA DA =:3 (dealwithit.gif), Saturday, December 3, 2011 6:49 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Permalink
the thing is that because of the vvv few 'notorious' (used relatively obv) examples of that kind of manipulation, you get rafts of messageboard blowhards thinking they have some sort of 'industry understanding' and that every single publication anywhere crafts its polls to reflect a personal brand
whereas in fact most of them don't even have enough of a defined brand to make it in anyway worthwhile, and even if they did what would flipping around two ho-hum indie records on a list of 40 or whatever actually tell anyone
― Extreme Lifestyle, Monday, 5 December 2011 10:08 (twelve years ago) link
That the magazine wants to 'keep in' with Noel rather than Liam?
― Bela Lugosi's Derrida (MarkG oo la showaddywaddy), Monday, 5 December 2011 10:44 (twelve years ago) link
Quietus list has gone up:
http://thequietus.com/articles/07520-quietus-albums-of-the-year-2011
― los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Monday, 5 December 2011 11:46 (twelve years ago) link
Really need to hear the Cut Hands record.
― los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Monday, 5 December 2011 11:49 (twelve years ago) link
GORILLA VS. BEAR | Albums of 2011
30 Nicolas Jaar | Space Is Only Noise29 Andy Stott | Passed Me By28 The Weeknd | House of Balloons27 Clams Casino | Instrumentals26 Schoolboy Q | Setbacks25 Elite Gymnastics | Ruin 1 + 224 Run DMT | Dreaming23 Burial | Street Halo22 Mina Tindle | Mina Tindle21 Young Galaxy | Shapeshifting20 Toro y Moi | Freaking Out19 Pure X | Pleasure18 Ford & Lopatin | Channel Pressure17 Washed Out | Within and Without16 Darkside | Darkside15 Holy Other | With U14 The Caretaker | An Empty Bliss Beyond This World13 Grouper | A I A12 Sleep ∞ Over | Forever11 The Sandwitches | Mrs. Jones’ Cookies10 Puro Instinct | Headbangers in Ecstasy09 Julianna Barwick | The Magic Place08 Real Estate | Days07 araabMUZIK | Electronic Dream06 Korallreven | An Album By Korallreven05 A$AP Rocky | LIVELOVEA$AP04 White Denim | D03 Panda Bear | Tomboy02 Peaking Lights | 93601 Shabazz Palaces | Black Up
― Number None, Monday, 5 December 2011 11:57 (twelve years ago) link
as much as i absolutely ADORE a couple of sleep over tracks, there's no way that album is top fifteen material.
― los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Monday, 5 December 2011 12:07 (twelve years ago) link
Funny so many places are rating Shabazz Palaces and not Death Grips, IMO.
― dog latin, Monday, 5 December 2011 12:10 (twelve years ago) link
They're totally different though
― Number None, Monday, 5 December 2011 12:11 (twelve years ago) link
That Panda Bear album's really good. Miles better than Merriweather or pretty much any AC album since Feels.
― dog latin, Monday, 5 December 2011 12:11 (twelve years ago) link
NN: Maybe so - I've only really scraped the surface of those but they both fall into the undie-hop (or whatever it is) category afaik and the Death Grips sounds so much more interesting to these ears.
― dog latin, Monday, 5 December 2011 12:13 (twelve years ago) link
undie-hop
please tell me this is a typo. there's a genre called undie-hop now?
;_;
― lebateauivre, Monday, 5 December 2011 12:16 (twelve years ago) link
oh, err.. i think it's an old term that used to get applied to people like Cannibal Ox to mean "underground hiphop". Backpacker hiphop was another, more derogatory term. i know shit all about hiphop on the whole, so i could be talking bull...
― dog latin, Monday, 5 December 2011 12:22 (twelve years ago) link
Well the Shabazz album is a lot less confrontational than the Death Grips so it doesn't surprise me that it's found a wider audience and I suppose coming out on Sub Pop hasn't hurt it's profile either. It's a great record though so who cares really?
― Number None, Monday, 5 December 2011 12:23 (twelve years ago) link
Wasn't shooting the messenger DL :)
― lebateauivre, Monday, 5 December 2011 12:35 (twelve years ago) link
Here's ours for people who don't actually want to visit the site:
1. PJ Harvey Let England Shake2. Azari & III Azari & III3. Tim Hecker Ravedeath 19724. The Haxan Cloak The Haxan Cloak5. Perc Wicker & Steel6. Cut Hands Afro Noise7. Katy B On A Mission8. Wild Beasts Smother9. Death Grips Ex Military10. Prurient Bermuda Drain11. Årabrot Solar Anus12. Laurel Halo Hour Logic13. Sandwell District Feed Forward14. John Maus We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves15. Cold Cave Cherish The Light Years16. Alexander Tucker Dorwytch17. Pinch & Shackleton Pinch & Shackleton18. Mastodon The Hunter19. Oneohtrix Point Never Replica20. Cornershop The Double O Groove21. John Foxx & The Maths Interplay22. My Disco Little Joy23. Frank Ocean Nostalgia/Ultra24. Uncle Acid And The Deadbeats Blood Lust25. Hype Williams One Nation26. Leyland Kirby Eager To Tear Apart The Stars27. EMA Past Life Martyred Saints28. Yob Atma29. Destroyer Kaputt30. Roly Porter Aftertime31. Battles Gloss Drop32. The Fall Ersatz GB33. Zun Zun Egui Katang34. Fucked Up David Comes To Life35. Snowman Absence36. Clams Casino Instrumentals37. Obake Obake38. Elzhi Elmatic39. Aidan Moffat & Bill Wells Everything Is Getting Older40. The Master Musicians Of Bukkake Totem Three41. Thurston Moore Demolished Thoughts42. Wolves In The Throne Room Celestial Lineage43. British Sea Power Valhalla Dancehall44. Bjork Biophilia45. Skull Defekts ft. Daniel Higgs Peer Amid46. Maria Minerva Cabaret Cixous47. Mogwai Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will48. Byetone Symeta49. Amebix Sonic Mass50. Liturgy Aesthetica
― Doran, Monday, 5 December 2011 13:51 (twelve years ago) link
I just finished reading through the Quietus. I've been on vacation without web this past week, so I've got some catching up to do. Glad to see this thread in the sandbox.
With the Quietus post on my FnB FB page I wrote:
'One of the best lists you'll see from any publication, web or print. It's interesting that PJ Harvey topped it. I can't complain, she's one of my favorite artists, but while the uniqueness of her album is an accomplishment, I can't pretend to like her choices such as substituting a twee little-girl voice for her normally thunderous pipes. The switch-up to autoharp and saxophone may keep some people interested, but the music is too demure for my tastes. Nice to see Mastodon and Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats. It's strange that Quietus never got on board for White Denim or TVOTR, but it makes their lists all the more unique, with about a dozen albums I still need to check out.'
Strange is probably not the right word, nor surprised. TVOTR's domination of previous polls makes them clearly not cool to like anymore, heh. That's alright, as long as they kept expanding their audience, I would hope. Not sure that they did though.
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 5 December 2011 14:02 (twelve years ago) link
― dog latin, Monday, December 5, 2011 7:10 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Permalink
i'd actually heard of shabazz palaces before last week fwiw
― i already regret not just being 'some dude' again (Mr. Stevenson #2), Monday, 5 December 2011 14:03 (twelve years ago) link
not sure that this is the place to ask this but is the new miranda lambert worth hearing? i haven't heard anything about it, or even really realized there was a new one until i saw it on the american songwriter list.
― Mordy, Monday, 5 December 2011 14:15 (twelve years ago) link
yes it is. especially "mama's broken heart" and "dear diamond". mordy did you hear the pistol annies album too?
― lex pretend, Monday, 5 December 2011 14:20 (twelve years ago) link
four the record might well be the worst album title by an artist i like of 2011 though.
I don't see what's so great about TVOTR - they seem like the middle-ground or the centre-point or the culmination between a whole load of acts who grew popular around the time - everything from Oneida to Wilco to Animal Collective. As such I see why they might be popular as a "default" US alterna-band as viewed by those not really invested in that kind of music, but they're just so boring.
― dog latin, Monday, 5 December 2011 14:21 (twelve years ago) link
What are White Denim like? I don't like the name...
― dog latin, Monday, 5 December 2011 14:22 (twelve years ago) link
I'm not a massive TVOTR fan (I just bought Dear Science last week) but I stumbled across them doing an outdoor live show in Boston a few years ago and they were captivating, sonically and visually (ie, it was odd and exciting to see close to a thousand people in a plaza watching a mostly black group playing Radioheadish music).
― OH NOES, Monday, 5 December 2011 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
I like TVOTR for the songs, not for what ground or point they supposedly represent. I don't think they sound like any of those other bands.
White Denim change a bit every album, but they are kind of what I wished Meat Puppets would have evolved into in the late 80s. Chaotically psychedelic guitar riffery, occasional sweet melodies, vocals the evolve and improve every record.
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 5 December 2011 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
dear science is awes
― your voice of treason, Monday, 5 December 2011 14:34 (twelve years ago) link
I did hear they're great live, yeah. But I dunno, I've tried listenign to TVOTR and I struggle to get through a whole song. They make me itchy.
― dog latin, Monday, 5 December 2011 14:35 (twelve years ago) link
Definitely worth hearing, but it's a minor record. She saved her best songwriting for the Pistol Annies project.
― Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 5 December 2011 14:37 (twelve years ago) link
haven't heard Pistol Annies either. i'll have to check out both
― Mordy, Monday, 5 December 2011 14:38 (twelve years ago) link
pistol annies is my #4 album of the year. just a brilliant, brilliant record, so concise but every word and note is necessary.
― lex pretend, Monday, 5 December 2011 14:44 (twelve years ago) link
what are they like?
― dog latin, Monday, 5 December 2011 14:45 (twelve years ago) link
Imagine the Trio project (Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harrirs, and Linda Ronstadt) with sharp self-written songs about rural working class life.
― Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 5 December 2011 14:46 (twelve years ago) link
this year's finest recession album too
― lex pretend, Monday, 5 December 2011 14:47 (twelve years ago) link
The White Denim album really is excellent, so much going on in each song.
― Matt DC, Monday, 5 December 2011 14:50 (twelve years ago) link
also, is there an actual honest to goodness country album on "folk-country"
― v-shasty, Sunday, December 4, 2011
Just alt-country-- but of course I am sure they would foolishly insist that this is the real stuff, and that Toby Keith and Miranda Lambert are not.
― Another Suburbanite, Monday, 5 December 2011 14:52 (twelve years ago) link
Mordy you shd def check out the Sunny Sweeney album too, although the first three songs are the most worth hearing imo
― the Celtic note (henrietta lacks), Monday, 5 December 2011 14:54 (twelve years ago) link
the gorilla vs bear schmo being super into ASAP rocky is pretty hilarious
― v-shasty, Monday, 5 December 2011 15:08 (twelve years ago) link
I like White Denim. I usually hate garage rock and they manage to do interesting stuff within the genre but even so it's not end of year stuff.
TVOTR... What happened to them? I thought they were going to be awesome when I first heard them in 2003. The Young Liars EP was bad ass, like an anticon thing with tunes and good singing but it's been a case of diminishing returns ever since. I always want them to come good but everything's a bit too tasteful. The Wilco comparison is a good one. They're obviously a good band with talented members etc but I can't imagine ever thinking, 'Man, I can't wait to get home so I can listen to the new TVOTR album...'
I think there's a really good point for PJH's singing style on the new album but that's probably a different discussion for a different day.
― Doran, Monday, 5 December 2011 16:07 (twelve years ago) link
"tasteful" is the word. they do what they do and they do it well, but i've never noticed them going above and beyond their remit. i'd def like to be proven wrong.
― dog latin, Monday, 5 December 2011 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
not sure that this is the place to ask this but is the new miranda lambert worth hearing?
Very worth hearing. I'm afraid I am once more having to accept that I just don't like country though, despite all Miranda Lambert's talent.
especially "mama's broken heart" and "dear diamond".
I agree with this. "Mama's Broken Heart" really jumped out at me last time I listened. I must not have been paying close attention the first time(s) I heard it.
Haha.
― Occidental Rudipherous, Monday, 5 December 2011 16:30 (twelve years ago) link
what does Lambert do differently from other country artists?
― Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 5 December 2011 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
I LISTEN TO EVERYTHING BUT RAP AND COUNTRY
― regional pug (dealwithit.gif), Monday, 5 December 2011 16:37 (twelve years ago) link
Good list Doran
― oPal, Monday, 5 December 2011 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
Alfred, was that to me? I don't know. Like I said, last time I listened to Four the Record, even though I think it's good and that Lambert is super-talented, I still ended up feeling that even the country I find most accessible isn't something I can click with in a big way. Maybe Crazy Ex-Girlfriend just caught me at a good time? I haven't listened to enough country to attempt to answer why I like Miranda Lambert more than most (but I have tried some other in the "If you like ML, you might like this" category, and haven't taken to them). The way Crazy Ex-Girlfriend straddles the line between country and classic rock probably helped, but I'm sure there's a lot of other country that does that. (Also, I mostly don't even listen to classic rock, so how is that an explanation for liking the album? But maybe it hits a residual classic rock spot in me.)
― Occidental Rudipherous, Monday, 5 December 2011 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
Seems a bit more leftfield list for Quietus than in 2010, and that's appreciated.
And yes, pomplamau5, you need to hear the Cut Hands. Its more a companion to something like the Konono nº1 albums than dancefloor fare.
― Sanpaku, Monday, 5 December 2011 16:43 (twelve years ago) link
― oPal, Monday, December 5, 2011 11:39 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Permalink
― regional pug (dealwithit.gif), Monday, 5 December 2011 16:43 (twelve years ago) link
Except lol Clams Casino smh
Ah, shut it, Clams Casino = awesome.
Particularly heartening for me to see a second placing for Zun Zun Egui, but a bit disheartening that Kogumaza haven't made it into a single year-end list at all. Boo.
― Illia Rump (emil.y), Monday, 5 December 2011 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
Rudiphrous I def feel like lots of new country shows a classic rock inflence. 70s AOR has totally become an element of their heartland idyll
― the Celtic note (henrietta lacks), Monday, 5 December 2011 17:21 (twelve years ago) link