Magazine/website/record store BEST OF 2011 end-of-year list pile-up

so far theres been one decent list itt

funny that no one in the editorial side of FILTER voted for asap rocky, at least according to those indiv lists

???? xp

funny that no one in the editorial side of FILTER voted for asap rocky, at least according to those indiv lists

not sure which of the goon squad u r but what do u think the chances of spaceghostpurrp getting much eoy love??

very little

i havent really seen his name brought up that much this year outside of lumping him in w/ the general 'scene' -- i don't think his actual music has been a big galvanizing force of any sort tho

at least not yet

i downloaded that album but for some reason it doesn't play on my ipod

i think you downloaded a cassette

really really digging the Tinariwen album

Yeah, it's great. I'd only heard a stray track or two in the past, but I liked this immediately.

Once more, Mastodon plays the part of the requisite metal album in the indie lists, despite being a fairly middle-of-the-road release for them.

Spaceghostpurrp hasn't produced anything substantial yet. Certainly not the kind of thing that would show up on these lists

Yeah, it's great. I'd only heard a stray track or two in the past, but I liked this immediately.

glad you dig this. they're a special band.

The thing with the Mastodon album is that its easily the most accessible album they've done and I can totally see why this would be one that indie kids eat up. I was more surprised when the proggy-epic ones showed up.

Q Tracks

20 Beady Eye 'The Morning Sun'
19 Example 'Changed The Way You Kissed Me'
18 Cat's Eyes 'Best Person I Know'
17 Wretch 32 'Traktor'
16 Ghostpoet 'Cash and Carry Machine'
15 Florence + The Machine 'Shake It Out'
14 Fleet Foxes 'Helplessness Blues'
13 Rihanna 'Man Down'
12 Chase & Status 'Blind Faith'
11 Jack White 'Love Is Blindness'
10 Lykke Li 'Get Some'
9 The Strokes 'Under The Cover of Darkness'
8 Tyler The Creator 'Yonkers'
7 Aloe Blacc 'I Need A Dollar'
6 The Vaccines 'If You Wanna'
5 Lady Gaga 'The Edge of Glory'
4 Foster The People 'Pumped Up Kicks'
3 KREAYSHAWN 'GUCCI GUCCI'
2 Lana Del Rey 'Video Games'
1 Adele 'Someone Like You'

Uncut Reissues / Comps / Boxsets

30 Suede - Suede
29 Nirvana - Nevermind
28 V/A - Delta Swamp Rock
27 Phil Spector - The Phillies Album Collection
26 Mercury Rev - Deseter's Songs
25 Richard Thompson - Live at The BBC
24 Donovan - Sunshine Superman
23 Caravan - In The Land of Grey and Pink
22 The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace
21 The Louvin Brothers - Satan Is Real / Handpicked Songs 1955-1962
20 U2 - Achtung Baby
19 Manic Street Preachers - National Treasures: The Complete Singles
18 Kate and Anna McGarrigle - Tell My Sister
17 The Kinks - Kinks Kontroversy
16 Neil Young and The International Harvesters - A Treasure
15 V/A - Our Lives Are Shaped By What We Love: Motown's Mowest Story 1971-1973
14 Kate Bush - Director's Cut
13 Mark McGuire - A Young Person's Guide
12 Michael Chapman - Fully Qualified Survivor
11 Roy Harper - Stormcock
10 Jim Ford - Harlan County
9 Can - Tago Mago
8 Primal Scream - Screamadelica
7 R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant
6 Disco Inferno - The 5 EPs
5 The Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands
4 Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
3 The Smiths - Complete
2 Mickey Newbury - An American Trilogy
1 The Beach Boys - The Smile Sessions

no. 2's an interesting choice on that reissues list.

Funny how everyone scans over the metal list as "oh, well, they just cover metal so of course they're gonna have a list full of metal albums" yet every time something that just covers shitty indie has a list made up of shitty indie people are LIVID.

― Illia Rump (emil.y), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 16:00

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metal: the shitty indie it's OK to like

FACT mag 10-1
http://www.factmag.com/2011/11/30/50-best-albums-of-2011-50-41/5/

10: FRANK OCEAN - NOSTALGIA, ULTRA. (SELF-RELEASED)
09: LV & JOSHUA IDEHEN - ROUTES (KEYSOUND)
08: JULIANNA BARWICK - THE MAGIC PLACE (ASTHMATIC KITTY)
07: DRAKE - TAKE CARE (CASH MONEY / UNIVERSAL)
06: JAMES FERRARO - FAR SIDE VIRTUAL (HIPPOS IN TANKS)
05: ARAABMUZIK - ELECTRONIC DREAM (DUKE)
04: PRURIENT - BERMUDA DRAIN (HYDRA HEAD)
03: CLAMS CASINO - INSTRUMENTALS (SELF-RELEASED / TYPE)
02: RUSTIE - GLASS SWORDS (WARP)
01: THE WEEKND - HOUSE OF BALLOONS (SELF-RELEASED)

Ouch, that's a bad top ten

yeah, I'm not nuts about some of those

They really love the Drake/Weeknd axis over there

lol y'all got trolled by FACT

haha are FACT delibrately trolling ILX?

xp

i love that araabmuzik album though

Yeah that FACT list was super interesting until the top ten, then, ugh.

I <3 los kramupsinos! dn.

this Rustie album is... okay? not the second-best album of the year tho

why wouldn't you put 'the Yankee Hotel Foxtrot of R'n'B' at #1?? Lol.

Juliana Barwick album is nice though, so I can't complain...

Julianna Barwick and Clams Casino will be on my albums ballot...of the rest, 50% I haven't heard and 50% meh.

"This is AraabMUZIK’s electronic dream, and if you don’t like it then you’re quite frankly having a nightmare."

lol @ Drake and the Weeknd. Clammy Clams will be on my ballot, though. And the James Ferraro is pretty good (would need to hear it more before I decide whether it's good enough for a ballot place, though).

lol FACT, i still love you.

never got round to listening to the prurient what with horrible memories of the cold cave album still fresh in my head

This isn’t to say it’s an r’n'b album for indie kids

and yet the only other r&b album on the list is frank ocean lmao

i fuck with the top 10 of that Q tracks list, improbably

(i like most of that fact top 10 including the weeknd)

also the fact top 10 is, uh, okay

i like 'house of balloons', but not that much

despite lex's best protest in march, it was not a big year for r&b full lengths, so i'm not surprised that stuff like the weeknd and frank ocean have filled the void a bit

i get that fact likes to stay well within the tumblrverse but it is slightly weird putting frank ocean in your top 10 and not even giving a nod to like, beyonce (or did i miss this?)

but on other hand it means they don't cover kanye/jay which is nice.

FACT should be, like, way more into lloyd than they are tho imo

yah otm

not even on some lex AYO CHECK OUT MARSHA AMRBOSIOUS, THIS SHIT IS SO MUCH BETTER but i'm surprised that they aren't checking for fun party songs w/ good beats all done by a single producer

MBDTF was FACT's number two album of last year and they gave WTT a pretty good review iirc

for some reason i keep thinking MBDTF was released this year duh

I was thinking "jesus, every song on this Araabmuzik album sounds exactly the same", then I looked at Spotify; I'd made it to track 2

now I'm just bemused that FACT ranked what sounds like an overlong dubsteppy Junkie-XL album the 5th-best album of the year

OK, so v-shasty isn't Steve Shasta.

i like the araabmuzik a lot -- it's cool to vibe too, idk -- it's def pretty same-y but i like when he does the laser tag keyboard thing and a lot of the samples are p cool

4. Mayer Hawthorne : How Do You Do?

From the Filter list--is this more than just retro blue-eyed soul? Haven't heard it yet...

i like the araabmuzik a lot -- it's cool to vibe too, idk -- it's def pretty same-y but i like when he does the laser tag keyboard thing and a lot of the samples are p cool

it's not BAD (I like Junkie-XL!), it's just... not what I was expecting

yeah it's not his crazy MPC thing