Okay that 3D effect on all the album covers for Dusted's running year-end list stuff is so annoying and headache-inducing that I had to stop reading it.
― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 14:29 (twelve years ago) link
the comments on nabisco's list are a TREAT
― OH NOES, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 14:31 (twelve years ago) link
"Sex life"? How very.
― oPal, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 14:38 (twelve years ago) link
Back to the FACT tracks on Spotify, the Soft Metals track does the polite electro thing in a much more engaging, warmer manner than the stuff I was playing yesterday; I was wondering why this was on an EOY list until it switched up around the 2 minute mark. I like the little filter swoops that pop up intermittently.
― OH NOES, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 14:38 (twelve years ago) link
"Cherryade" is one of the best tracks of the year? Really? It seems kind of like an inoffensive throwaway track that you'd play as filler while you looked for the track you ACTUALLY wanted to hear.
― OH NOES, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 14:42 (twelve years ago) link
first time i've heard it and i concur. It's kind of a boring ten actually
― Number None, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 14:44 (twelve years ago) link
I would be totally infatuated with this Bok Bok track if it had a massive beat. Everything else about it is fantastic but if it had pounding, punishing drums under it it would be exactly my type of shit. (I wonder if my headphones are letting me down on this one.)
― OH NOES, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 14:48 (twelve years ago) link
"Sensitivity" is niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice.
― OH NOES, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 14:50 (twelve years ago) link
i kind of agree re: that bok bok track (and that whole ep) :/
total cosign on champion & ruby lee ryder "sensitivity"
that jamie xx track has got to be the most overrated in this general scene of 2011. just doesn't do enough of anything.
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 14:52 (twelve years ago) link
haha that's what I'm playing now, it's basically okay but I feel like it's missing something
also the echo on the vocal sample creates a really UGLY dissonance that doesn't seem to serve any purpose or push the song anywhere
oof the "breakdown" around the 4 minute mark is pathetic, this is not a track that is improved by stripping it down to highlight disparate parts
― OH NOES, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 14:57 (twelve years ago) link
I think I might be the only person favourably inclined towards funky who doesn't love Sensitivity. Or more to the point, I like it more as a vehicle for riotous MCs to jump all over than I do as a song in its own right.
Terror Danjah's 'Full Attention' on the other hand, which also features Ruby Lee Ryder, is majestic and should be very high up the FACT list.
I think I agree with whoever it was upthread who was eyerolling at the praise the FACT list gets. A few years ago they felt like a refreshing alternative but now it feels like they're very content to plough their own furrow and it's one that by and large isn't that interesting to me. I fully expect the RA list to knock it into a cocked hat.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 14:59 (twelve years ago) link
the bashiness of the breakdown in "full attention" kind of became a turn-off after a while
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 15:01 (twelve years ago) link
i've kind of gotten the feeling RA have been taking their cues from FACT for the past couple of years. There certainly wasn't a huge gulf between their lists last year
― Number None, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
That's one of my favourite bits!
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 15:05 (twelve years ago) link
Also RA is a lot more interested in non-murky dance music than FACT by and large. They had Tensnake at #2 last year which would be unthinkable in FACT, but that's partly because RA feels a lot more European in its focus.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 15:08 (twelve years ago) link
... Are they kidding with this Vatican Shadow track?
― OH NOES, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 15:09 (twelve years ago) link
Still mulling over Nabisco's 2nd essay on how he likes pop but not most of this year's chart pop...none of which makes his top 10 list
He’d notice the long chart dominance of Katy Perry, whose cheeky retronaut pop bears odd resemblances to the cheeky solo work of David Lee Roth
hmmmm
― Another Suburbanite, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 15:10 (twelve years ago) link
I mean, I am not opposed to ambient but 10 minutes of unimaginative stasis as one of the best tracks of the year is just silly
― OH NOES, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 15:11 (twelve years ago) link
Good to hear Psychic Paramount record getting praise round here. Anyone like The Men's record? A bit more derivative but good fun nevertheless.
Re. Resident Advisor list: they always have a really good set of mixes, a type of record often overlooked by other lists.
― Neil S, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 15:15 (twelve years ago) link
feeling nabs' list
― v-shasty, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 15:17 (twelve years ago) link
oh shit, "Full Attention"
so my takeaway here is that I should be paying attention to funky?
― OH NOES, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 15:17 (twelve years ago) link
Bought lots of great records this year - none has appeared in any of these lists though (yet)
maybe the RA list will change that
― april wowak, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
i'm kind of disappointed by nabsico's list! it looks like a consensus publication list, not an individual's list
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 15:21 (twelve years ago) link
I'nm no expert but i don't think "Full Attention" is funky
― Number None, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
okay, it was just mentioned in the context (I did think it seemed like a totally different animal from "Sensitivity")
― OH NOES, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah Full Attention is grime (or, ugh, R&G) really - Terror Danjah really needs to release a whole album of this stuff soon (early pointer towards this sound here).
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 15:27 (twelve years ago) link
I just have to accept that Nabisco is not interested in some 2011 things that I am--charting rap and r'n'b; African, Caribbean (soca & dancehall) and Latin music; country, southern soul and Americana. It's a good list of non-chart rap and rock
― Another Suburbanite, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 15:34 (twelve years ago) link
And I like Katy Perry and David Lee Roth "cheeky pop"
― Another Suburbanite, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 15:41 (twelve years ago) link
I feel like that sentence was supposed to say something else, mostly because I can't see nabisco intentionally using the same adjective on both sides of a comparison in the same type of construction
― OH NOES, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 15:43 (twelve years ago) link
This year's prominent triumvirate of indie-rock bands wrestling earnestly with folky authenticity: BIFFA - Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes, Antlers
― los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 15:49 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.topfoto.co.uk/gallery/waste/images/prevs/0644155.jpg
very apt
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 15:51 (twelve years ago) link
lol kudos
― synthpop of the Gnostics (henrietta lacks), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 15:55 (twelve years ago) link
Hottracks (S. Korea) 2011 EOY
1 Adele - 212 Florence + The Machine - Ceremonials3 James Blake - st4 Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto5 Radiohead - The King Of Limbs6 Foo Fighters - Wasting Light7 Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - st8 Lady Gaga - Born This Way9 Jay-Z & Kanye West - Watch The Throne10 Kasabian - Velociraptor!11 Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues12 Feist - Metals13 Tori Amos - Night Of Hunters14 Bon Iver - st15 Beastie Boys - Hot Sauce Committee Part Two16 Bjork - Biophilia17 Superheavy - st18 Jamie Woon - Mirrorwriting19 Beadie Eye - Different Gear, Still Speeding20 PJ Harvey - Let England Shake21 Iron & Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean22 Lucinda William - Blessed23 Mamas Gun - The Life And The Soul24 Wilco - The Whole Love25 Snow Patrol - Fallen Empires26 Megadeth - Th1rt3en27 Foster The People - Torches28 My Morning Jacket - Circuital29 Paul Simon - So Beautiful Or So What30 Lou Reed & Metallica - Lulu
― los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
First appearances for Superheavy and Lulu, thank you South Korea
― los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 16:24 (twelve years ago) link
lulu's too far down the list
― your voice of treason, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 16:24 (twelve years ago) link
Shouldn't be below Superheavy, that's for sure
― los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
doesn't South Korea have some "local" bands that they can put on a list like this?
― Mordy, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
That list is hilarious, especially high placing of James Blake given what he's surrounded by.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
17 Superheavy - st19 Beadie Eye - Different Gear, Still Speeding20 PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
Really don't know what to say about this except 'lolololololol'.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
that's a great list
― smh, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
I know that it's the bottom of the list but most of these Fact tracks sound like half-finished tunes on someone's hard drive, both bloodless and amateurish. Wish I could be convinced it wasn't just writers repping their mates in one or two cases.
Really like that Mr Beatnik tune though, not heard that before. It's loads better than I Know All The Bitches.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 18:18 (twelve years ago) link
The Men's Leave Home is a great album. It's not often I can get into something doing that Spacemen 3, Mudhoney, Stooges kind of thing given the amount I've listened to over the last 25 years but this is a great CD.
― Doran, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
AV Club's list, pretty boring but Wye Oak is no. 1http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-best-music-of-2011,66004/
― n/a, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 21:17 (twelve years ago) link
― v-shasty, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 15:17 (6 hours ago) Permalink
have you heard the iceage album j0radn? if so do you like it? curious
― wil smif, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 21:22 (twelve years ago) link
AV Club's list, pretty boring but because Wye Oak is no. 1
Sorry, just do not get the love for this band at all. Based on how people describe them, I should really enjoy this but I find the new album to be boring as hell.
― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 21:22 (twelve years ago) link
i didn't get into the new album as much as the last one but i think they're a great band, really like their songwriting and her singing.
― n/a, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 21:27 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe I need to check out the last one, sounds like that one might be closer to how the band has been described to me.
― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 21:29 (twelve years ago) link
I haven't heard Wye Oak at all, but #1 on AV Club is kind of a not-boring move.
Anyway, Paul Krugman digs them. Or at least their live videos on YouTube.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 22:21 (twelve years ago) link
yeah. i think wye oak is kind of generic.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 6 December 2011 22:30 (twelve years ago) link