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
lol
That interview was pretty funny.
― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 22:31 (twelve years ago) link
low blow, jmc
― league of women voters, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 22:42 (twelve years ago) link
NME Albums of 2011
01 PJ HARVEY - LET ENGLAND SHAKE02 METRONOMY - THE ENGLISH RIVIERA03 THE HORRORS - SKYING04 WILD BEASTS - SMOTHER05 KURT VILE - SMOKE RING FOR MY HALO 06 ARCTIC MONKEYS - SUCK IT AND SEE 07 ST VINCENT - STRANGE MERCY 08 KATY B - ON A MISSION09 TUNE-YARDS - WHOKILL10 WU LYF - GO TELL FIRE TO THE MOUNTAIN 11 ANNA CALVI - ANNA CLAVI 12 SCUM - AGAIN INTO EYES 13 SUUNS - ZEROES QC14 THE VACCINES - WHAT DID YOU EXPECT FROM THE VACCINES?15 WILD FLAG - WILD FLAG16 BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB - A DIFFERENT KKIND OF FIX17 BATTLES - GLOSS DROP18 CAT'S EYES - CAT'S EYES 19 LAURA MARLING - A CREATURE I DON´T KNOW20 RADIOHEAD - THE KING OF LIMBS
21 KASABIAN - VELOCIRAPTOR! 22 NOAH & THE WHALE - LAST NIGHT ON EARTH 23 YUCK - YUCK24 BIG TALK - BIG TALK25 PLANNINGTOROCK - W26 GIRLS - FATHER, SON, HOLY GHOST 27 BLACK LIPS - ARABIA MOUNTAIN 28 THE FIELD - LOOPING STATE OF MIND29 SMITH WESTERNS - DYE IT BLONDE 30 FRIENDLY FIRES - PALA
31 FLORENCE & THE MACHINE - CEREMONIALS32 ALEX TURNER - SUBMARINE OST 33 JUSTICE - AUDIO,VIDEO,DISCO 34 UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA - UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA 35 TV ON THE RADIO - NINE TYPES OF LIGHT 36 ICEAGE - NEW BRIGADE 37 WHITE DENIM - D38 BJÖRK - BIOPHILIA - 39 NOEL GALLAGHER'S HIGH FLYING BIRDS - s/t40 COLD CAVE - CHERISH THE LIGHT YEARS
41 DEATH GRIPS - EX-MILITARY 42 PATRICK WOLF - LUPERCALIA 43 FOO FIGHTERS - WASTING LIGHT 44 DESTROYER - KAPUTT 45 AUSTRA - FEEL IT BREAK46 BON IVER - BON IVER47 REAL ESTATE - DAYS48 SLOW CLUB - PARADISE 49 SBTRKT - SBTRKT50 JAY Z & KANYE WEST - WATCH THE THRONE
― los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 22:52 (twelve years ago) link
(NOT MY ALL CAPS BTW)
they really like to cram their shit down your throat huh?
― dog latin, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
You know, that's not a TERRIBLE list, to be fair.
― dog latin, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 23:02 (twelve years ago) link
I'm really the only one that finds that PJ Harvey patchy as hell, huh?
― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 23:02 (twelve years ago) link
it's not my thing... i even caught her live this year and it did nothing for me.
― dog latin, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 23:03 (twelve years ago) link
I don't think it's worthy of a number one slot, but I was pleasantly surprised by it.
And yeah, that NME list is not... the worst thing ever, anyway.
― Illia Rump (emil.y), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 23:06 (twelve years ago) link
I thought the Suuns album was 2010?
― los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 23:07 (twelve years ago) link
Apparently 2010 in US, 2011 release in the UK.
― Illia Rump (emil.y), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 23:09 (twelve years ago) link
DODGY
― los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 23:10 (twelve years ago) link
(that wasn't me using the secret bat signal for Geir btw)
― los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 23:11 (twelve years ago) link
dan your takeaway here is to pay attention to threads I start.
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.
Feel you on this matt but I think this is true of 99.9% of funky, it's a legacy of the particular way that it fuses impulses from house, grime and dancehall that even the best songs can feel incomplete on their own - even when it doesn't seem like the tune was designed with MCs and DJ mixing in mind the very structure of the music seems to demand that interplay.
I would say this is even true of say, "Do You Mind", though not true of "It's What You Do" or Ill Blu's Roll Deep mixes.
Dancehall in particular is the same for me: it's rare for a tune to sound better on its own than in the context of a mix of several tracks on the one riddim.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 23:20 (twelve years ago) link
NME tracks list 2011
1 LANA DEL REY - VIDEO GAMES 2 TYLER, THE CREATOR - YONKERS 3 THE HORRORS - STILL LIFE 4 PJ HARVEY - THE WORDS THAT MAKETH MURDER 5 WILD BEASTS - BED OF NAILS 6 BATTLES - ICE CREAM 7 METRONOMY - THE BAY 8 TUNE - BIZNESS 9 HOWLER - I TOLD YOU ONCE 10 M83 - MIDNIGHT CITY
11 METRONOMY - THE LOOK 12 KURT VILE - BABY'S ARMS 13 NIKI 6 THE DOVE - THE FOX 14 THE VACCINES - IF YOU WANNA 15 SPECTOR - NEVER FADE AWAY 16 SUMMER CAMP - I WANT YOU 17 KATY B - BROKEN RECORD 18 AZEALIA BANKS - 21219 ANNA CALVI - BLACKOUT 20 MILK MUSIC - BEYOND LIVING
21 FOSTER THE PEOPLE - PUMPED UP KICKS 22 ARCTIC MONKEYS - THE HELLCAT SPANGLED SHALALALA 23 FLORENCE & THE MACHINE - SHAKE IT OUT 24 GLASVEGAS - THE WORLD IS YOURS 25 THE STROKES - UNDER COVER OF DARKNESS 26 RIHANNA - WE FOUND LOVE 27 LITTLE DRAGON - RITUAL UNION 28 THE VACCINES - POST BREAK UP SEX 29 BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB - SHUFFLE 30 ADELE - ROLLING IN THE DEEP ( JAMIE XX SHUFFLE )
31 THE DRUMS - MONEY 32 GHOSTPOET - LIIINES 33 ALEX TURNER - PILEDRIVER WALTZ 34 AUSTRA - BEAT AND THE PULSE 35 SBTRKT FEAT. LITTLE DRAGON - WILDFIRE 36 HERCULES & LOVE AFFAIR - MY HOUSE 37 MARINA & THE DIAMONDS - RADIOACTIVE 38 BEYONCE - RUN THE WORLD 39 FRIENDS - I'M HIS GIRL 40 JUSTICE - CIVILIZATION
41 METRONOMY - SHE WANTS 42 FACTORY FLOOR - REAL LOVE 43 AZARI & III - RECKLESS WITH YOUR LOVE 44 JOE GODDARD FEAT. VALENTINA - GABRIEL 45 ICEAGE - BROKEN BONE 46 AUSTRA - LOSE IT 47 DANANANANAYKROYD - MUSCLE MEMORY 48 COLD CAVE - THE GREAT PAN IS DEAD 49 NOEL GALLAGHER'S HIGH FLYING BIRDS - IF I HAD A GUN 50 NOEL GALLAGHER'S HIGH FLYING BIRDS - AKA...WHAT A LIFE!
― los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 23:26 (twelve years ago) link
― є(٥_ ٥)э, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 23:27 (twelve years ago) link
Noel's double placement right at the end is odd
― Number None, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 00:45 (twelve years ago) link
i thought it was a joke!
― dog latin, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 00:50 (twelve years ago) link