how dare someone include a metal album!
I know, right? He's a superfan.
― C.K. Dexter Holland, Sunday, 18 December 2011 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
Yob's album is the best on that list. IMO etc.
― Doran, Sunday, 18 December 2011 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
OTM
― Anyone need a (Jimmy Riddle), Sunday, 18 December 2011 18:44 (twelve years ago) link
has ghost's album (opus eponymous) been on many of these lists? feels like it's been unfairly neglected all year. people call it "death-metal," but -- lyrics aside -- the songs are too catchy and the vocal harmonies too lush to be "death metal." really they're the new blue-oyster-cult, and that's okay with me. the lyrics are kinda death-metal-y, i'll grant you; still . . .
poor satan. gets no respect from music writers.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 18 December 2011 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
It's well loved in the 'metal community'. I think Terrorizor, Hammer, Kerrang! and Rock Sound in this country all loved it.
― Doran, Sunday, 18 December 2011 19:02 (twelve years ago) link
Ghost album was out last year. It was in the ILM Metal Poll.It certainly isn't death metal though.
― Anyone need a (Jimmy Riddle), Sunday, 18 December 2011 19:06 (twelve years ago) link
north american release was january 2011 (according to wiki)
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 18 December 2011 19:07 (twelve years ago) link
I'm completely surprised the Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats album has been ignored in metal and non-metal lists.
― Anyone need a (Jimmy Riddle), Sunday, 18 December 2011 19:07 (twelve years ago) link
I'm not that into very retro sounding heavy rock/metal and there was only room for one in my end of year list - Uncle Acid, but Ghost, Black Spiders and Gentleman's Pistols all released good cider and spliff LPs this year.
XP: The Quietus can't be the only magazine who've picked up on it. I feel that it will probably feature next year because of the CD issue coming out then.
― Doran, Sunday, 18 December 2011 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
Hopefully Terrorizer will have it. I think a lot of non-metal fans on ilm would love it if they heard it. It's psychedelic rock with lots of good melodies. Or as someone out it If The Beatles had continued and been influenced by Black Sabbath
― Anyone need a (Jimmy Riddle), Sunday, 18 December 2011 19:21 (twelve years ago) link
no hyperbole there! It's a nice album but that's about it.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 18 December 2011 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
well that was how someone (not me) on ilm described it
― Anyone need a (Jimmy Riddle), Sunday, 18 December 2011 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
The influence of The Beatles and Black Sabbath is pretty clear to be honest and it's better than just nice. Without the tunes, riffs and hooks it would be just another good head nodder. Also, the production is evil.
― Doran, Sunday, 18 December 2011 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
to each their own.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 18 December 2011 19:32 (twelve years ago) link
npr best 'outer sounds' albums of 2011
1. Nicholas Szczepanik, 'Please Stop Loving Me'
went to high school w this guy, he wore the same hail to the thief shirt every day
― zachylon, Sunday, 18 December 2011 19:36 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, i agree with doran. besides, whether an album is "nice but that's about it" depends on a broader context. if, say, the ghost album inspires a new direction for a lot of death-metal-y bands -- a deemphasis on cookie-monster vocals; a greater emphasis on almost sweet-sounding vocal harmonies -- it could be a significant album. you can't know until you either see evidence of its influence, or time passes and you realize it hasn't had an influence.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 18 December 2011 19:40 (twelve years ago) link
(sung like the carpenters): ♪♪♪ this temple of ritual/smells of dead human sacrifices/from the alter ♪♪♪
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 18 December 2011 19:42 (twelve years ago) link
It's decent, but needs a better singer.
― A. Begrand, Sunday, 18 December 2011 19:53 (twelve years ago) link
You'd like it more if it was Fab Macca not Lennon singing?
― Doran, Sunday, 18 December 2011 20:15 (twelve years ago) link
i like his vocalsxp
― Anyone need a (Jimmy Riddle), Sunday, 18 December 2011 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
this line from the FACT writeups floored me
Sure, ‘NY is Killing Me’ became annoyingly inescapable
Gil-Scott's gotta be like the "Moves Like Jagger" of England right?
― miranda lambo (dealwithit.gif), Monday, 19 December 2011 01:23 (twelve years ago) link
inescapable?
c'mon. that black eyed peas song was inescapable. the GSH song was escapable.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 19 December 2011 01:26 (twelve years ago) link
but did you want to flee?
― Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 19 December 2011 01:35 (twelve years ago) link
nah. i was drawn to it, as if sirens were calling me to shipwreck.
black eyed peas, OTOH, make me want to claw out my eyes with needles.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 19 December 2011 02:54 (twelve years ago) link
ATP.
didn't see this on the thread as of yet. several of the contributor lists are working for me.
http://www.atpfestival.com/assets/membership/top10s.html
Albums Of The Year
1. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake2. Radiohead - The King of Limbs3. Panda Bear - Tomboy4. Destroyer - Kaputt5. Battles - Gloss Drop6. Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact7. Tom Waits - Bad as Me8. Fucked Up - David Comes to Life9. Tuneyards - Whokill10. Deerhoof - Deerhoof Vs Evil11. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo12. Braids - Native Speaker13. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues14. Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol 2: Judges15. Low - C'mon16. Atlas Sound - Parallax17. Walls - Coracle18. Bjork - Biophilia19. Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 197220. Death Grips - Ex-Military
― fffv, Monday, 19 December 2011 02:58 (twelve years ago) link
Not much range there
― Another Suburbanite, Monday, 19 December 2011 06:10 (twelve years ago) link
in its own way that might be the worst collective list itt so far
― Extreme Lifestyle, Monday, 19 December 2011 08:31 (twelve years ago) link
dang that juno list might almost top the RA one... twice as many tracks and has some srsly killer stuff that RA did not include (there were so many vakula eps this year that i almost missed 'picture of you'! so good!)
― magicrealism, Monday, 19 December 2011 08:44 (twelve years ago) link
LWE:
1. Machinedrum, Room(s)2. Andy Stott, Passed Me By3. BNJMN, Plastic World4. Morphosis, What Have We Learned5. Jonsson/Alter, Mod6. Roman Flügel, Fatty Folders7. Tim Hecker, Ravedeath, 19728. Legowelt, The TEAC Life9. Steffi, Yours & Mine10. Agnès presents Cavalier, A Million Horses
(individual staff lists here)
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 19 December 2011 09:05 (twelve years ago) link
OOR (major Dutch music magazine)
Dutch artists in bold
1. PJ Harvey - Let England shake2. Wilco - The whole love3. Spinvis - Tot ziens, Justine Keller4. James Blake - James Blake5. Adele - 216. Arctic monkeys - Suck it and see7. Vaccines - What did you expect from the Vaccines?8. Elbow - Build a rocket boys!9. Gillian Welch - The harrow & the harvest10. Kurt Vile - Smoke ring for my halo11. Pete & the Pirates - One thousand pictures12. Destroyer - Kaputt13. Bon iver - Bon iver14. Other lives - Tamer animals15. Fleet foxes - Helplessness blues16. Radiohead - The king of limbs17. Fucked up - David comes to life18. Tom Waits - Bad as me19. Danger mouse & Daniele Luppi Present - Rome20. War on drugs - Slave ambient21. Decemberists - The king is dead22. Zomby - Dedication23. Alamo race track - Unicorn loves deer24. Girls - Father, son, holy ghost25. Miles Kane - Colour of the trap26. Tim Knol - Days27. Dazzled kid - Fire needs air28. Florence + the Machine - Ceremonials29. Ryan Adams - Ashes & fire30. Foster the people - Torches31. Black lips - Arabia mountain32. John Maus - We must become the pitiless censors of ourselves33. Real estate - Days34. Rustie - Glass swords35. Washed out - Within and without36. Eefje de Visser - De koek37. Lykke Li - Wounded rhymes38. Marike Jager - Here comes the night39. Smith westerns - Dye it blonde40. dEUS - Keep you close41. Beady eye - Different gear, still speeding42. Little dragon - Ritual union43. Noel Gallagher's High flying birds - Noel Gallagher's High flying birds44. Timber timbre - Creep on creepin' on45. Frank Turner - England keep my bones46. Beirut - The rip tide47. Kasabian - Velociraptor!48. M83 - Hurry up we're dreaming!49. Tune-yards - Whokill50. Colin Stetson - New history warfare : vol 2 Judges
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 19 December 2011 09:08 (twelve years ago) link
Oh cripes - I forgot that dEUS album even came out. Was it any good or was it boring?
― dog latin, but cool (dog latin), Monday, 19 December 2011 10:16 (twelve years ago) link
why won't The Independent just hurry up and fucking die
― Extreme Lifestyle, Monday, 19 December 2011 10:28 (twelve years ago) link
SMH at that whole piece, this line leapt out as being particularly inept:
"It's a slap in the face for such music juggernauts as Coldplay, Lady Gaga and Rihanna, who are conspicuous by their absence."
― Neil S, Monday, 19 December 2011 10:47 (twelve years ago) link
God I hate this shit when paid journalists get all: "EOY list/Mercury Prize is full of weird stuff no one's ever heard of like PJ Harvey".
― dog latin, but cool (dog latin), Monday, 19 December 2011 10:58 (twelve years ago) link
For the latest album from the gloomy indie songstress has managed to sell barely 130,000 copies
The Independent suffered the biggest decline in circulation of any national newspaper in October, recording monthly and annual sales falls of more than a quarter ... Alexander Lebedev's daily title reported month-on-month fall in circulation of 24% to 133,449 copies, a 26.84% year-on-year fallhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/nov/11/independent-suffers-biggest-circulation-fall
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/nov/11/independent-suffers-biggest-circulation-fall
― los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Monday, 19 December 2011 11:03 (twelve years ago) link
gah, fuxored formatting
― los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Monday, 19 December 2011 11:04 (twelve years ago) link
Humo (Belgium) Albums EOY 2011http://www.humo.be/muziek/60621/de-beste-cds-van-2011
25. EMA: Past Life Martyred Saints24. Cat's Eyes: Cat's Eyes23. Laura Marling: A Creature I Do'nt Know22. Benny Zen & The Syphilis Madmen: Run Back To The Safety of The Town21. The Kills: Blood Pressure20. A.A. Bondy: Believers19. Jonathan Jeremiah: A Solitary Man18. Amy Winehouse: Lioness17. Kurt Vile: Smoke Ring For My Halo16. Andy Stott: Passed Me By15. The Antlers: Burst Apart14. Beastie Boys: Hot Sauce Committee, Pt. 213. Amatorski: TBC12. Radiohead: The King of Limbs11. Holy Other: With U ep10. tUnE-yArDs: Whokill09. Tom Waits: Bad As Me08. -07. Fleet Foxes: Helplessness Blues06. Thurston Moore: Demoished Thoughts05. The Horrors: Skying04. Shabazz Palaces: Black Up03. James Blake: James Blake02. Josh T. Pearson: Last of the Country Gentlemen01. PJ Harvey: Let England Shake
― los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Monday, 19 December 2011 11:08 (twelve years ago) link
22. Benny Zen & The Syphilis Madmen
well-payed xxp
― furnace mane, Monday, 19 December 2011 11:15 (twelve years ago) link
played*
what's going on at number 8?
― dog latin, but cool (dog latin), Monday, 19 December 2011 11:16 (twelve years ago) link
They forgot to list one.
― los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Monday, 19 December 2011 11:19 (twelve years ago) link
it's considered unlucky in Belgian culture
― Extreme Lifestyle, Monday, 19 December 2011 11:25 (twelve years ago) link
Not much range there― Another Suburbanite, Monday, December 19, 2011 6:10 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink
― Another Suburbanite, Monday, December 19, 2011 6:10 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink
unlike the RA, FACT and metal lists..
― Anyone need a (Jimmy Riddle), Monday, 19 December 2011 11:44 (twelve years ago) link
also lol
No matter, for the result is from the annual HMV Poll of Polls, officially announced tomorrow – a ranking drawn from 35 polls by magazines, national newspapers and websites.Don't expect to see any big names, let alone ones you might recognise. For Britain's music critics have outdone themselves in finding some bands so obscure they wouldn't even be famous in their own homes.One, tUnE-yArDs (sic), has sold just a few thousand copies of its Whokill album. And the back catalogues of acts such as Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes, Wild Beasts, Kurt Vile, James Blake and the Horrors are not exactly troubling the bestseller charts.It's a slap in the face for such music juggernauts as Coldplay, Lady Gaga and Rihanna, who are conspicuous by their absence.
Don't expect to see any big names, let alone ones you might recognise. For Britain's music critics have outdone themselves in finding some bands so obscure they wouldn't even be famous in their own homes.
One, tUnE-yArDs (sic), has sold just a few thousand copies of its Whokill album. And the back catalogues of acts such as Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes, Wild Beasts, Kurt Vile, James Blake and the Horrors are not exactly troubling the bestseller charts.
It's a slap in the face for such music juggernauts as Coldplay, Lady Gaga and Rihanna, who are conspicuous by their absence.
― Anyone need a (Jimmy Riddle), Monday, 19 December 2011 11:45 (twelve years ago) link
yet here everyone complains the lists are predictable. We really are detached from the real world that's out there. aren't we?
― Anyone need a (Jimmy Riddle), Monday, 19 December 2011 11:46 (twelve years ago) link
lol
But whatever Christmas bonus Harvey reaps from "serious" music fans rushing out to buy her album, it will be small change to Adele. In the Top 10 that really counts – sales – her first two albums have sold more than any other record in Britain this year.
― Anyone need a (Jimmy Riddle), Monday, 19 December 2011 11:48 (twelve years ago) link
I like the bit where they talk about PJ Harvey being "thankful for the exposure" as if Polly Jean stares out the window all day going "One day - one day I'll be as famous as Bruno Mars - just gotta lighten up a bit and get my name out there".
― dog latin, but cool (dog latin), Monday, 19 December 2011 11:51 (twelve years ago) link
Punters vs Pundits Poll
― Anyone need a (Jimmy Riddle), Monday, 19 December 2011 11:53 (twelve years ago) link
actually i fucked that one up. this one is the punters vs pundits options. (the 1st one is the actual albums chosen)Punters vs Pundits Poll (2nd Edition)
― Anyone need a (Jimmy Riddle), Monday, 19 December 2011 11:56 (twelve years ago) link