what was the one page after the number one album? i didn't click it. did i miss anything good?
― v-shasty, Monday, 12 December 2011 19:44 (twelve years ago) link
A full-page color ad of whiney doing a handstand on his 50 albums.
― Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 12 December 2011 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
planking on them actually
― boof troop (dealwithit.gif), Monday, 12 December 2011 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
What's your opinion on your #1, WGW? I've not heard it - Fucked Up have never struck me as the most interesting band in the world, but I'd be willing to give it a try. Or are you about to start your own 'most regrettable Spin #1 albums' thread?
― Illia Rump (emil.y), Monday, 12 December 2011 20:07 (twelve years ago) link
I think it's fairly well documented what SPIN's most regrettable #1 was
― boof troop (dealwithit.gif), Monday, 12 December 2011 20:08 (twelve years ago) link
That being said, Fucked Up is def on my P&J ballot, and is easily one of the best records I've heard all year in any genre
― boof troop (dealwithit.gif), Monday, 12 December 2011 20:09 (twelve years ago) link
Okay, I'll see if I can find some tracks about, then. Worth a go. Though I think this year might actually be pretty chock full of albums I've loved already.
???
― Illia Rump (emil.y), Monday, 12 December 2011 20:13 (twelve years ago) link
1991: 1. Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque
― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Monday, 12 December 2011 20:15 (twelve years ago) link
"Your hard drive"
― Number None, Monday, 12 December 2011 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
hahaha or that one
― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Monday, 12 December 2011 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
Oh shit, yeah. Bwahahahahaaaaa.
― Illia Rump (emil.y), Monday, 12 December 2011 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
― Number None, Monday, December 12, 2011
Their debut album was pretty slow iirc
― Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 12 December 2011 20:22 (twelve years ago) link
Dunno it's due for a reappraisal
― sean doily, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 00:14 (twelve years ago) link
Pitchfork Top 100 Tracks of 2011 (50-1)
50. Atlas Sound – Mona Lisa49. Katy B – Broken Record48. Kreayshawn – Gucci Gucci47. Battles [ft. Matias Aguayo] – Ice Cream46. Ty Segall – Goodbye Bread45. Drake – Headlines44. Nicolas Jaar – Space Is Only Noise If You Can See43. Panda Bear – Last Night at the Jetty42. Jay-Z & Kanye West – Otis41. Frank Ocean- Novacane40. Burial – Street Halo39. Shabazz Palaces – Swerve...the reeping of all that is worthwhile (Noir not withstanding)38. Purity Ring – Ungirthed37. A$AP Rocky – Peso36. Jamie xx – Far Nearer35. Charli XCX – Stay Away34. Cut Copy – Need You Now33. AraabMuzik – Streetz Tonight32. Cold Cave – The Great Pan Is Dead31. The Field – Then It's White30. Clams Casino – Motivation29. Jai Paul – BTSTU (Edit)28. Danny Brown – Monopoly27. The Rapture – How Deep Is Your Love?26. Beyonce – 1 + 125. Soulja Boy – Zan With That Lean24. Kurt Vile – Jesus Fever23. Adele – Rolling in the Deep22. Bill Callahan – Riding For the Feeling21. Drake – Marvins Room20. Gang Gang Dance – Glass Jar19. Lana Del Rey – Video Games18. St. Vincent – Cruel17. Oneohtrix Point Never – Replica16. Tyler, the Creator – Yonkers15. The Weeknd – The Morning14. Girls – Vomit13. tUnE-yArDs – Bizness12. Jay-Z/Kanye West – Niggas in Paris11. James Blake – The Wilhelm Scream10. DJ Khaled [ft. Drake, Rick Ross, and Lil Wayne] – I'm on One9. Azealia Banks – 2128. Cass McCombs – County Line7. Beyonce – Countdown6. Destroyer – Kaputt5. Real Estate – It's Real4. Nicki Minaj – Super Bass3. EMA – California2. Bon Iver – Holocene1. M83 – Midnight City
― Dan S, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 06:45 (twelve years ago) link
lol @ the punchline of the top 3 #icanteven
tim f, or anyone else who is attempting to put together a personal tracks of the year, how do you do it? doing an albums list is fun cuz it's EASIER, mine is pretty much done. doing a tracks one, i'm just looking at this mass of 200+ amazing songs and flapping my hands cuz i don't know how to start
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 09:21 (twelve years ago) link
apropos of little, because there isn't a kate bush thread over here, people talk about the elton john song being the one that breaks the spell and they're not wrong, but i think i actually resent the final track more - it's so nothingy, but doesn't have that sense of heaviness or mood that the first three songs do, and essentially means the second half of the album is near-useless for me.
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 09:23 (twelve years ago) link
I think the song itself is good enough to withstand Elton, just. But I just don't believe his performance in it, he doesn't actually sound like he gets the emotional weight of the song at all, so when he's singing things like "I lost you in the London smog" he sounds like he's having the time of his life, it's just hammy in completely the wrong way.
Strangely I actually rather like Stephen Fry's appearance on the album, because he doesn't actually get in the way too much, it's just like a kind of ambient sound.
I like 50 Words For Snow okay but I'd have expected a new Kate Bush album to be a lock for my top 10 (if Aerial were released tomorrow it'd be top three easily) but it isn't really. Even the early piano-driven songs are a bit too repetitive to justify the length and relative sparseness. It works better as an ambient record in general actually. I do love 'Misty' though.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 09:37 (twelve years ago) link
I agree re the last track Lex, "nothingy" is precisely the word for it. I think this album's just about the first 3 tracks for me.
I think Kate is actually more annoying than Stephen on the title track! I don't mind weirdness from Kate obv but usually it's in service of something at least arguably meaningful.
Aerial was my no. 2 for 2005, 50 Words is just inside or outside my top 10 depending on mood.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 09:54 (twelve years ago) link
re tracks lists: there has been a lot of hand flapping going on. The reason I haven't done numbering before is that I didn't want to be locked in. Even now the ordering and the inclusions are changing a bit which will become more of a problem as I count down.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 09:55 (twelve years ago) link
oh there's nothing i dislike about the title track but at the same time there's nothing about it which makes me keep playing the album after "misty". "wild man" is just there as well. it's kind of fallen to the bubble of my top 20 now :/
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 10:01 (twelve years ago) link
Don't really do any actual ordering - is more like here's 10 or 20 records I'm really into this year
― april wowak, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 10:01 (twelve years ago) link
i think i have to do numbering if only for tidiness purposes, rather than chucking a splurge of 200 songs on the internet
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 10:03 (twelve years ago) link
Good point! With a longer list numbering becomes more important. I try keep any kind of list relatively short though
― april wowak, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 10:06 (twelve years ago) link
capping the numbers leads to even more hands-flapping. which do i leave out? which to i keep in? aargh
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 10:12 (twelve years ago) link
why can't i type? *do
if it's a personal list rather than for a publication why not just post the whole lot? 200 amazing songs are 200 amazing songs. You don't need to cut any unless its a ballot.
― Minga Frump (Jimmy Riddle), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 10:14 (twelve years ago) link
LWE 20-16
20. Levon Vincent, Man Or Mistress19. Storm Queen, It Goes On18. Kahn, Like We Used To17. Juju & Jordash, Chelm Is Burning16. Peverelist, Dance Til The Police Come
― april wowak, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 10:16 (twelve years ago) link
― Minga Frump (Jimmy Riddle), Tuesday, 13 December 2011
Long lists make my eyes go funny
― april wowak, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 10:17 (twelve years ago) link
What is LWE?? Quite liking their list.
― los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 10:18 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.littlewhiteearbuds.com/
― april wowak, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 10:19 (twelve years ago) link
okay, ta
― los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 10:21 (twelve years ago) link
I adore "Dance Til The Police Come".
― Tim F, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 10:22 (twelve years ago) link
I think this is the first Kate Bush album in ages I haven't hated, precisely because it is so ~nothingy~ - I like it better all ambient like that. Elton John didn't even bother me so much because I didn't know it was him until I looked up the credits.
― rekeningopnemer (Fotherington Thomas), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 10:32 (twelve years ago) link
RA Top 20 compilations of 2011http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?1424
20. Various Artists - Mosaic Vol. 1 [Exit]19. Nicholas - Back on Track: Nu Groove [Needwant]18. Various Artists - IOTDXI [R&S Records]17. Marcel Dettmann - Conducted [Music Man]16. Ata - Live at Robert Johnson Vol. 7 [Live at Robert Johnson]15. Robag Wruhme - Wuppdeckmischmampflow [Kompakt]14. Various Artists - Back & 4th [Hotflush]13. Various Artists - Laid Compilation [Laid]12. Lawrence - Timeless [Cocoon]11. Prosumer - Panorama Bar 03 [Ostgut Ton]
10. Various Artists - 116 & Rising [Hessle Audio]09. Motor City Drum Ensemble - DJ-Kicks [!K7]08. Jackmaster - Fabriclive 57 [fabric]07. Wolf + Lamb vs. Soul Clap - DJ-Kicks [!K7]06. Pearson Sound - Fabriclive 56 [fabric]05. Marcel Fengler - Berghain 05 [Ostgut Ton]04. Scuba - DJ-Kicks [!K7]03. Dixon - Live at Robert Johnson Vol. 8 [Live at Robert Johnson]02. Ben UFO - Rinse: 16 [Rinse]01. Four Tet - Fabriclive 59 [Fabric]
― los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 11:23 (twelve years ago) link
I don't have the Laid compilation but I've 3 or 4 tracks off that which are really good
Haven't heard that Lawrence mix but tracklisting looks good (I love Life Aquatic, and Forever Monna of course!)
― april wowak, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 11:30 (twelve years ago) link
genuinely surprised that online podcasts and mixes haven't completely killed off the official cd mix yet
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 11:33 (twelve years ago) link
beyoncé at #4 in the guardian list, fittingly :)
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 12:03 (twelve years ago) link
Just realized still not heard Bens mix yet either
― april wowak, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 12:06 (twelve years ago) link
it's good but it ruins itself by ending with how to dress well (cf jackmaster ending his fabric mix with radiohead)
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 12:16 (twelve years ago) link
lol @ all the drake on that pitchfork list, the dombals have taken over the asylum
― Mr. Stevenson #2, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 14:11 (twelve years ago) link
guardian comments are the absolute worst - can't wait to see them cry more though when their precious M83/Wild Beasts/Elbow/Mastodon crap they're predicting is sidelined for an all female top 3 (actually 4) :D
― bayou goo, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 14:23 (twelve years ago) link
I reckon mix CDs tend to have a bit more thought put into them? They're the closest many DJs get to releasing an album.
Also the best practical thing about listening to a commercially available mix = being able to identify tracks easily, rather than looking at an online tracklist and trying to work out whether you're on the 10th, 11th or 12th tune because you like something.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 14:26 (twelve years ago) link
I actually really dislike M83, I actually resent how lazy he is when it comes to going for BIG EMOTIONAL IMPACT.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 14:32 (twelve years ago) link
lulz tell me about it - i was gonna actually comment but when it descended into arguing about the beatlezzzz it was like, what is the point. hilarious outrage though. that thing where FT said you should be prepared to ~take it outside~ for your #1 album? i kind of feel i want to do that with some of the commenters.
i don't really have any idea what the non-PJH/Katy B album left to come is - really don't think it'll be adele because i genuinely can't think of any guardian writer who actually loves her particular. racist florence's album was released too late in the year surely?
xp i agree with you on identifying tracks, way prefer that - i think maybe too much effort can go into the commercially available ones though? certainly both ben ufo and jackmaster's felt overstuffed, as if they were so excited at having finally been given the chance to do a Proper CD Mix that they tried to say too much. both have done many many superior free mixes over the past couple of years.
and the two best mixes i've heard this year - âme and nguzunguzu - were both notable for being pretty light-touch and loose.
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 14:32 (twelve years ago) link
Elbow.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 14:36 (twelve years ago) link
:(
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 14:36 (twelve years ago) link
could you imagine being the person who types out the pitchfork singles list into one list?
― boof troop (dealwithit.gif), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 14:36 (twelve years ago) link
i take it all back about guardian commenters!
em2602
13 December 2011 2:23PM
As a teenage girl, and therefore considering myself part of Beyonce's target audience (rather than the middle-aged men who come here to throw in their mindless and useless waffle about how the music is average but it's fine because she looks good etc.) I really, really like this album. Part of me dies a little bit inside every single time that an artist that I like converts to the popular "dance" vibe of auto-tune and whatever the techno beats are called and it's refreshing to see an artist who is still so relevant can still get sales doing the songs that she undoubtedly does best.
<3 <3 <3
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 14:37 (twelve years ago) link
25. Soulja Boy – Zan With That Lean
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― wil smif, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 14:38 (twelve years ago) link
assume that is in no small part j0rdans doing