XLR8R's Best of 2011: Trackshttp://www.xlr8r.com/features/2011/12/xlr8rs-best-2011-tracks-part-2
20. Holy Other "Feel Something" (Tri Angle)19. Rustie "Ultra Thizz" (Warp)18. Teeth "Shawty" (502)17. Martyn "Masks" (Brainfeeder)16. Omar-S "Here's Your Trance Now Dance" (FXHE)15. Kingdom "Let You No" (Night Slugs)14. xxxy "Ordinary Things" (Ten Thousand Yen)13. Unknown "Sicko Cell" (SWAMP81)12. Jacques Greene "Another Girl" (LuckyMe)11. Classixx "Into the Valley (Julio Bashmore Remix)" (Green Label Sound)
10. Tycho "Hours" (Ghostly)9. Virgo Four "It's a Crime (Caribou Remix)" (Rush Hour)8. The Weeknd "The Morning"7. SBTRKT "Wildfire (feat. Little Dragon)" (Young Turks)6. Martyn "We Are You in the Future" (Brainfeeder)5. Holy Other "Touch" (Tri Angle)4. Mosca "Done Me Wrong" (Numbers)3. Scuba "Adrenalin" (Hotflush)2. M83 "Midnight City" (Mute)1. Julio Bashmore "Battle for Middle You" (PMR)
― los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Friday, 16 December 2011 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
OK, well, the idea of a music critic adopting a fanciful pseudonym is kind of eye-roll.
― jaymc, Friday, 16 December 2011 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
cuz british music journalists with wite ppl names magically acquire better ones
it doesn't really happen any more, i've noticed
i like having a wite ppl name b/c it tends to result in commenters and sundry other haters yell at me about being white, which amuses me greatly. one particular hater, formerly of this parish, was so pressed that he resorted to calling me "culturally white" lololololololololol
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Friday, 16 December 2011 17:09 (twelve years ago) link
I like it - Johnny Cigarettes, K-Punk, Julie Burchill etc...
― dog latin, but cool (dog latin), Friday, 16 December 2011 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
I thought it was about still being able to sign on the dole while drawing a teeny tiny paycheck from NME reviews that didn't even cover the drinks tab at yr average gig?
― Polemicist Who Slashed All, Freely (Fotherington Thomas), Friday, 16 December 2011 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
also about writing for rival publications when you weren't meant to? not sure
i can't think of a british single music journalist of ~my generation~ (and uh younger) who uses a pseudonym - there was miss amp but she's a bit older and doesn't do music writing any more?
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Friday, 16 December 2011 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
can I go back to the RA singles list for a second, because I'm currently playing Storm Queen's "It Goes On" and basically everything I've heard on this list so far has been good to fantastic
― OH NOES, Friday, 16 December 2011 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
Even now, as the UK's diplomatic links with Iran unravel
Isn't that nice and agentless?
PJ Harvey's vocals annoy me here (I don't remember what she sounds like elsewhere) and the songs are so-so as songs.
― Occidental Rudipherous, Friday, 16 December 2011 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
(I was never a fan of hers.)
― Occidental Rudipherous, Friday, 16 December 2011 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
I was, but i still prefer White Chalk over this album. Dunno why.
― Anyone need a (Jimmy Riddle), Friday, 16 December 2011 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
what little Storm Queen stuff I've heard sounded rad but my personal favourite thing is that it shares its name with an early 80s NWOBHM band from the Welsh valleys who were managed by Rod Liddle
― Extreme Lifestyle, Friday, 16 December 2011 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
extreme lifestyle = dj mencap?
― Anyone need a (Jimmy Riddle), Friday, 16 December 2011 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
if it wasn't clear already then it is now
― schalke nult fear (nakhchivan), Friday, 16 December 2011 17:36 (twelve years ago) link
yes
― Extreme Lifestyle, Friday, 16 December 2011 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
hi!
― Anyone need a (Jimmy Riddle), Friday, 16 December 2011 17:44 (twelve years ago) link
(when is the terrorizer issue with the top albums out?)
― Anyone need a (Jimmy Riddle), Friday, 16 December 2011 17:45 (twelve years ago) link
note to self: never pay attention to FACT ever again
― OH NOES, Friday, 16 December 2011 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
xp start of Jan I guess?
― Extreme Lifestyle, Friday, 16 December 2011 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
ok cool.
this Guardian contributors list is very different to all the others
Dom LawsonAlbums1. Machine Head – Unto The Locust2. MOONWAGON – Night Dust3. WOLFSBANE – Wolfsbane Save The World4. OPETH – Heritage5. NECROPHAGIA – Deathtrip 696. VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR – A Grounding In Numbers7. STEVEN WILSON – Grace For Drowning8. HAMMERS OF MISFORTUNE – 17th Street9. DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT – Deconstruction10. DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT – GhostTracks1. MACHINE HEAD – Darkness Within2. WOLFSBANE – Live Before I Die3. OPETH – The Devil's Orchard4. VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR – Highly Strung5. HAMMERS OF MISFORTUNE – The Grain6. KORN feat. Skrillex – Get Up7. MACHINE HEAD – Locust8. NECROPHAGIA – Naturan Demonto9. RIVAL SONS – All Over The Road10. DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT – Juular
Albums
1. Machine Head – Unto The Locust2. MOONWAGON – Night Dust3. WOLFSBANE – Wolfsbane Save The World4. OPETH – Heritage5. NECROPHAGIA – Deathtrip 696. VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR – A Grounding In Numbers7. STEVEN WILSON – Grace For Drowning8. HAMMERS OF MISFORTUNE – 17th Street9. DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT – Deconstruction10. DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT – Ghost
Tracks
1. MACHINE HEAD – Darkness Within2. WOLFSBANE – Live Before I Die3. OPETH – The Devil's Orchard4. VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR – Highly Strung5. HAMMERS OF MISFORTUNE – The Grain6. KORN feat. Skrillex – Get Up7. MACHINE HEAD – Locust8. NECROPHAGIA – Naturan Demonto9. RIVAL SONS – All Over The Road10. DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT – Juular
lol @ #3 album
― Anyone need a (Jimmy Riddle), Friday, 16 December 2011 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
He also seems to have picked most of his fave tracks from the albums he chose
― Anyone need a (Jimmy Riddle), Friday, 16 December 2011 18:26 (twelve years ago) link
CAPITAL LETTERS FTW!
― ShariVari, Friday, 16 December 2011 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
Skrillex presumably doesn't get caps due to FALSE METAL.
― Matt DC, Friday, 16 December 2011 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
I guess I just feel like there's a lot of this kneejerk "ugh harmonies and beards and folk" dismissal of them.
i love harmonies, but more the journey-type. if fleet foxes dump the pretense of seriousness and become a 70s yacht-rock act (but a self-aware 70s yacht-rock act), i think i'll love them.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 16 December 2011 19:48 (twelve years ago) link
what's wrong with seriousness
― aesthetic partisan (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 December 2011 19:53 (twelve years ago) link
I would argue that "seriousness" is the least of Fleet Foxes' problems
― OH NOES, Friday, 16 December 2011 19:54 (twelve years ago) link
unfortunately the argument would end there because everything about them short-circuits my ability to form coherent arguments and takes me straight to "thank god I live in a world where I never, ever, ever, ever, EVER have to hear these guys, even by accident"
― OH NOES, Friday, 16 December 2011 19:55 (twelve years ago) link
Also I am happy that Dan is loving the 2011 techno bobbins but dude don't miss out on the Oliver $, it is a thing of glory.
― Matt DC, Friday, 16 December 2011 20:01 (twelve years ago) link
O_O
HOLY SHIT re: OLIVER $
― OH NOES, Friday, 16 December 2011 20:04 (twelve years ago) link
YES MOTHERFUCKER I AM HAVING A GOOD TIME
― OH NOES, Friday, 16 December 2011 20:05 (twelve years ago) link
You would not believe how well that goes off on dancefloors. Actually you would, it's obvious, but still...
― Matt DC, Friday, 16 December 2011 21:24 (twelve years ago) link
Loving Chunklet's "analysis" of Greg Kot's top 20 of 2011 list: http://www.chunklet.com/index.cfm?section=blogs&id=709
― n/a, Friday, 16 December 2011 22:01 (twelve years ago) link
Mmm, seems terribly unfunny to me tbh
― lebateauivre, Friday, 16 December 2011 22:04 (twelve years ago) link
That is really laboured and not funny in the slightest.
― Matt DC, Friday, 16 December 2011 22:34 (twelve years ago) link
that's Chunklet for you
― Anyone need a (Jimmy Riddle), Friday, 16 December 2011 22:39 (twelve years ago) link
you can't do "snarky know-it-all" and then go "I don't know who Raphael Saadiq is"
― some dude (Mr. Stevenson #2), Friday, 16 December 2011 23:03 (twelve years ago) link
idk i get some p good lols out of imagining what that dudes band sounds like
― є(٥_ ٥)э, Friday, 16 December 2011 23:10 (twelve years ago) link
i bet theyre really good and wear plaid shirts when they play shows
ayo dan thank you for compiling the ra list into a spotify thing
really enjoying this
― Brad Nelson, Friday, 16 December 2011 23:37 (twelve years ago) link
ra list is amazing, but still kinda baffled that the consensus tiger & woods track on these EOY lists was originally released in 2010 and is probably my least favorite thing on the album (tho the fact that it got on the p4k list is still kinda cool, idk)
god damn i am loving this morhposis record
― magicrealism, Saturday, 17 December 2011 02:20 (twelve years ago) link
NPR Listeners Pick Their Favorite Albums of 2011:
1. Bon Iver - Bon Iver2. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues3. Adele - 214. The Decemberists - The King Is Dead5. Radiohead - The King Of Limbs6. The Black Keys - El Camino7. Wilco - Whole Love8. Florence + The Machine - Ceremonials9. Beirut - The Rip Tide11. M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming12. Feist - Metals13. Iron & Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean14. tUnE-yArDs - w h o k i l l15. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy16. The Civil Wars - Barton Hollow17. Death Cab For Cutie - Codes And Keys18. Tom Waits - Bad As Me19. My Morning Jacket - Circuital20. Bright Eyes - The People's Key21. Jay-Z/Kanye West - Watch the Throne22. Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto23. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake24. Cults - Cults25. James Blake - James Blake
http://www.npr.org/2011/12/14/143717007/listeners-pick-their-favorite-albums-of-2011
― Occidental Rudipherous, Saturday, 17 December 2011 04:54 (twelve years ago) link
lol @ npr voters getting that black keys album in there literally A WEEK after it's out. "we're on it, top ten, no hesitation."
― some dude (Mr. Stevenson #2), Saturday, 17 December 2011 05:09 (twelve years ago) link
only a joke organization would vote bon iver #1
― v-shasty, Saturday, 17 December 2011 05:11 (twelve years ago) link
i would love it actually if the republican caucus entered a bill to cease NPR's funding due to its listeners not voting the fleet foxes album as the best of 2011
― v-shasty, Saturday, 17 December 2011 05:13 (twelve years ago) link
BIFFA top three there, alright
― los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Saturday, 17 December 2011 08:44 (twelve years ago) link
like p4k?
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Saturday, 17 December 2011 09:03 (twelve years ago) link
42. Miguel Campbell - Something Special29. Oliver $ - Doin' Ya Thang28. Maceo Plex - Can't Leave You27. Danny Daze feat. Louisahhh - Your Everything24. Osunlade - Envision (Ame Remix)19. Scuba - Adrenalin12. Benoit & Sergio - Walk & Talk11. Noir & Haze - Around (Solomon Vox Mix)06. Steffi feat. Virginia - Yours05. Todd Terje - Ragysh04. Todd Terje - Snooze 4 Love02. Omar-S - Here's Your Trance, Now Dance!!
i fw all of these from the RA list. surprised not to see jamie jone's remix of 'hungry for the power' on there. and yeah again, i wish RA would not cover post-dubstep etc. feel like they have diluted their brand a bit.
― gucc_ebooks (tpp), Saturday, 17 December 2011 10:46 (twelve years ago) link
Are we all in agreement to ban BIFFA from the ILx list this year?
― he said "grody" (henrietta lacks), Saturday, 17 December 2011 15:06 (twelve years ago) link
http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/186996_100002154921793_3323659_n.jpg
― Anyone need a (Jimmy Riddle), Saturday, 17 December 2011 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
― some dude (Mr. Stevenson #2), Saturday, December 17, 2011 5:09 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink
Lol at using the official release date as the criteria for this.
― n/a, Saturday, 17 December 2011 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
did it leak ages ago?
― Anyone need a (Jimmy Riddle), Saturday, 17 December 2011 16:35 (twelve years ago) link