i found arabxilla completely unlistenable too tbh :(
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Friday, 9 December 2011 11:19 (twelve years ago) link
but at the same time it's def a bold, unpredictable no 1 in a good way - far rather that than the sbtrkt, for example, which seems to be a "top 20 everywhere" token electronic album, which is tooooootes overrated
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Friday, 9 December 2011 11:20 (twelve years ago) link
See that's just me - I'd much rather the No1 that half the listeners found "completely unlistenable" and the other half were all "wheee, best! thing! evah!" than some blahblah consensus pick that no one could find anything particularly wrong with but no one was willing to go handbags at dawn over. (repeat to fade)
― OCCUPY DEPRESSION (Fotherington Thomas), Friday, 9 December 2011 11:24 (twelve years ago) link
Fairly sure that's accounting from the cross-the-board high placings for the Metronomy album as well. Which is kind of... not bad exactly but really is this it?
― Matt DC, Friday, 9 December 2011 11:27 (twelve years ago) link
metronomy are so blahhh that i tend to fail to even take in their placing on EOY lists
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Friday, 9 December 2011 11:28 (twelve years ago) link
Propose new rule: if you are not willing to get in a fistfight over your AOTY then you cannot make it No 1.
I am generally pro-Metronomy but I couldn't get an aural hold on that album. Think it's leftover goodwill from ignoring them before? Dunno.
― OCCUPY DEPRESSION (Fotherington Thomas), Friday, 9 December 2011 11:29 (twelve years ago) link
I was reading about the Metronomy album and it sounded kind of interesting, in a conceptual way - but that said I really didn't like the c2008/9 album they did at all. Utterly ghastly. Is this any better/different?
― dog latin, Friday, 9 December 2011 11:30 (twelve years ago) link
would happily punch anyone dissing beyoncé so YES
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Friday, 9 December 2011 11:31 (twelve years ago) link
I'm not sure I'm willing to get into a fistfight over an album about the horrors of war :/
― Matt DC, Friday, 9 December 2011 11:32 (twelve years ago) link
if you are not willing to get in a fistfight over your AOTY
Last time I got *that* overboard with an album, it was "Voice of the 7 woods"
Good old Spotify means I can have-a-try of AÉREA NEGROT Arabxilla tonight.
― Jilted John and Marsha (MarkG oo la showaddywaddy), Friday, 9 December 2011 11:40 (twelve years ago) link
xpost Neither could I really see myself taking off my watch to defend a concept record about the bleakness of a Scottish fishing village.
― dog latin, Friday, 9 December 2011 11:41 (twelve years ago) link
I would totally take it outside the baaaaah with my friend Oliviaaaaaaah over my AOTY so I'm fine with it.
― OCCUPY DEPRESSION (Fotherington Thomas), Friday, 9 December 2011 11:52 (twelve years ago) link
FACT magazine tracks #10-1http://www.factmag.com/2011/12/05/50-best-tracks-of-2011-50-41/5/
10: ITAL ‘CULTURE CLUBS’ (LOVERS ROCK)09: ZOMBY ‘NATALIA’S SONG’ (4AD)08: AZEALIA BANKS ’212′ (SELF-RELEASED)07: ROCKWELL ‘ARIA’ (CRITICAL AUDIO)06: JOHN MAUS ‘QUANTUM LEAP’ (UPSET THE RHYTHM)05: S-X ‘WOOOO RIDDIM’ / DJ Q REMIX (BUTTERZ WHITE)04: FRANK OCEAN ‘NOVACANE’ (from NOSTALGIA, ULTRA. SELF-RELEASED)03: RUSTIE ‘ULTRA THIZZ’ (WARP)02: MOSCA ‘BAX’ (NUMBERS)01: TYLER, THE CREATOR ‘YONKERS’ (XL)
― los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Friday, 9 December 2011 13:38 (twelve years ago) link
oh dear.
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Friday, 9 December 2011 13:41 (twelve years ago) link
and kmt
"oh dear" and "kmt" and a massive fucking side-eye to the guardian's top 10 so far too. what are my fellow critics LIKE :(
i would pay you to stop posting "kmt"
― Mr. Stevenson #2, Friday, 9 December 2011 13:45 (twelve years ago) link
lolset up a paypal account. Could make a fortune for a charity
― Minga Frump (Jimmy Riddle), Friday, 9 December 2011 13:46 (twelve years ago) link
gotta love how americans think kmt is just a thing i do rather than REALLY COMMON SLANG
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Friday, 9 December 2011 13:47 (twelve years ago) link
alix & pip
― boof troop (dealwithit.gif), Friday, 9 December 2011 13:47 (twelve years ago) link
kiss my taint
― los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Friday, 9 December 2011 13:47 (twelve years ago) link
it is? I've only ever seen you say it tbf
xps
― Minga Frump (Jimmy Riddle), Friday, 9 December 2011 13:47 (twelve years ago) link
among whom is it common slang, though?
― Mr. Stevenson #2, Friday, 9 December 2011 13:49 (twelve years ago) link
Why is it taking the Guardian so fucking long to roll out their top ten?
― los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Friday, 9 December 2011 13:51 (twelve years ago) link
RA haven't even started their 50 yet!
― april wowak, Friday, 9 December 2011 13:53 (twelve years ago) link
last time that was asked he said Jamaican women in London iirc
― Minga Frump (Jimmy Riddle), Friday, 9 December 2011 13:54 (twelve years ago) link
Haha wow there isn't a single good record in the Graun's top 10 so far.
― Matt DC, Friday, 9 December 2011 13:55 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i was getting at how a) that's part of why it's obnoxious when he does it and b) that's why nobody else on ilx ever says it.
― Mr. Stevenson #2, Friday, 9 December 2011 13:56 (twelve years ago) link
kmt = caribbean diasporic slang that has become part of the lingua franca of british urban youth. i dunno, do your own research. tons of people i know use it
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Friday, 9 December 2011 13:57 (twelve years ago) link
dunno if british is right lex. Seems like its a part of london only, certainly not used across the whole of the UK
― Minga Frump (Jimmy Riddle), Friday, 9 December 2011 13:59 (twelve years ago) link
I've only ever seen two people do it in real life: An enormous Jamaican dude outside a pub who insisted on telling me about how he once produced the Clash, and a skinny junkie kid who I think was looking to steal my wallet...
― dog latin, Friday, 9 December 2011 14:01 (twelve years ago) link
i've seen plenty of people from manchester and birmingham use it
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Friday, 9 December 2011 14:02 (twelve years ago) link
It's a bit like when Prince Harry says 'BRAP!'
― Matt DC, Friday, 9 December 2011 14:04 (twelve years ago) link
I would not have been mad at FACT if they had put Frank Ocean at #1
However, they put Tyler there instead, so hell yes I am mad at them
― OH NOES, Friday, 9 December 2011 14:28 (twelve years ago) link
also everything I could find on Spotify has been added to the FACT playlist
http://open.spotify.com/track/7ItGBG7x9PbJssFgRgB0yj
― OH NOES, Friday, 9 December 2011 14:58 (twelve years ago) link
i don't care about tyler's album but "yonkers" is a pretty undeniable "oh shit" banger of a track
― v-shasty, Friday, 9 December 2011 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
don't care, fuck Tyler
― OH NOES, Friday, 9 December 2011 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
Meanwhile, Billboard speaks:
http://www.billboard.com/#/charts-year-end/hot-100-songs?year=2011
1 "Rolling In The Deep" - Adele2 "Party Rock Anthem" - Lmfao Featuring Lauren Bennett & Goonrock3 "Firework" - Katy Perry4 "E.T." - Katy Perry Featuring Kanye West5 "Give Me Everything" - Pitbull Featuring Ne-Yo, Afrojack & Nayer6 "Grenade" - Bruno Mars7 "F**K You (Forget You)" - Cee Lo Green8 "Super Bass" - Nicki Minaj9 "Moves Like Jagger" - Maroon 5 Featuring Christina Aguilera10 "Just Can't Get Enough" - The Black Eyed Peas
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 December 2011 15:28 (twelve years ago) link
don't care, @fucktyler
― v-shasty, Friday, 9 December 2011 15:29 (twelve years ago) link
"yonkers" beat is terrible, banger status denied
― Mr. Stevenson #2, Friday, 9 December 2011 15:29 (twelve years ago) link
man i heard the "yonkers" beat as the bumper music on rap & r&b stations for months, get outta here
― v-shasty, Friday, 9 December 2011 15:30 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah the "Yonkers" beat is fantastic, no matter what else you may think of Tyler.
― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Friday, 9 December 2011 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
i kind of think as a "banger" as something you can dance to, "yonkers" is too...dour
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Friday, 9 December 2011 15:33 (twelve years ago) link
I thought "Pumped Up Kicks" would make the final Billboard list but otherwise expected.
― Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 9 December 2011 15:34 (twelve years ago) link
yeah me too -- #13 not too far off though
― Mr. Stevenson #2, Friday, 9 December 2011 15:37 (twelve years ago) link
i kind of think as a "banger" as something you can dance to
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Friday, December 9, 2011 3:33 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
nope
― n/a, Friday, 9 December 2011 15:47 (twelve years ago) link
Is "Firework" not a banger?
(I thangyew)
― Jilted John and Marsha (MarkG oo la showaddywaddy), Friday, 9 December 2011 15:48 (twelve years ago) link
As long as you can nod your head to it...
― Number None, Friday, 9 December 2011 15:48 (twelve years ago) link
someone post that informative youtube video about how white ppl can't kmt irl
― boof troop (dealwithit.gif), Friday, 9 December 2011 15:49 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNsVy96utO8