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

okay, it was just mentioned in the context (I did think it seemed like a totally different animal from "Sensitivity")

Yeah Full Attention is grime (or, ugh, R&G) really - Terror Danjah really needs to release a whole album of this stuff soon (early pointer towards this sound here).

I just have to accept that Nabisco is not interested in some 2011 things that I am--charting rap and r'n'b; African, Caribbean (soca & dancehall) and Latin music; country, southern soul and Americana. It's a good list of non-chart rap and rock

And I like Katy Perry and David Lee Roth "cheeky pop"

I feel like that sentence was supposed to say something else, mostly because I can't see nabisco intentionally using the same adjective on both sides of a comparison in the same type of construction

This year's prominent triumvirate of indie-rock bands wrestling earnestly with folky authenticity: BIFFA - Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes, Antlers

http://www.topfoto.co.uk/gallery/waste/images/prevs/0644155.jpg

very apt

lol kudos

Hottracks (S. Korea) 2011 EOY

1 Adele - 21
2 Florence + The Machine - Ceremonials
3 James Blake - st
4 Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto
5 Radiohead - The King Of Limbs
6 Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
7 Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - st
8 Lady Gaga - Born This Way
9 Jay-Z & Kanye West - Watch The Throne
10 Kasabian - Velociraptor!
11 Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
12 Feist - Metals
13 Tori Amos - Night Of Hunters
14 Bon Iver - st
15 Beastie Boys - Hot Sauce Committee Part Two
16 Bjork - Biophilia
17 Superheavy - st
18 Jamie Woon - Mirrorwriting
19 Beadie Eye - Different Gear, Still Speeding
20 PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
21 Iron & Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean
22 Lucinda William - Blessed
23 Mamas Gun - The Life And The Soul
24 Wilco - The Whole Love
25 Snow Patrol - Fallen Empires
26 Megadeth - Th1rt3en
27 Foster The People - Torches
28 My Morning Jacket - Circuital
29 Paul Simon - So Beautiful Or So What
30 Lou Reed & Metallica - Lulu

First appearances for Superheavy and Lulu, thank you South Korea

lulu's too far down the list

Shouldn't be below Superheavy, that's for sure

doesn't South Korea have some "local" bands that they can put on a list like this?

That list is hilarious, especially high placing of James Blake given what he's surrounded by.

17 Superheavy - st
19 Beadie Eye - Different Gear, Still Speeding
20 PJ Harvey - Let England Shake

Really don't know what to say about this except 'lolololololol'.

that's a great list

I know that it's the bottom of the list but most of these Fact tracks sound like half-finished tunes on someone's hard drive, both bloodless and amateurish. Wish I could be convinced it wasn't just writers repping their mates in one or two cases.

Really like that Mr Beatnik tune though, not heard that before. It's loads better than I Know All The Bitches.

The Men's Leave Home is a great album. It's not often I can get into something doing that Spacemen 3, Mudhoney, Stooges kind of thing given the amount I've listened to over the last 25 years but this is a great CD.

AV Club's list, pretty boring but Wye Oak is no. 1
http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-best-music-of-2011,66004/

feeling nabs' list

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have you heard the iceage album j0radn? if so do you like it? curious

AV Club's list, pretty boring but because Wye Oak is no. 1

Sorry, just do not get the love for this band at all. Based on how people describe them, I should really enjoy this but I find the new album to be boring as hell.

i didn't get into the new album as much as the last one but i think they're a great band, really like their songwriting and her singing.

Maybe I need to check out the last one, sounds like that one might be closer to how the band has been described to me.

I haven't heard Wye Oak at all, but #1 on AV Club is kind of a not-boring move.

Anyway, Paul Krugman digs them. Or at least their live videos on YouTube.

yeah. i think wye oak is kind of generic.

Anyway, Paul Krugman digs them. Or at least their live videos on YouTube.

lol

That interview was pretty funny.

low blow, jmc

NME Albums of 2011

01 PJ HARVEY - LET ENGLAND SHAKE
02 METRONOMY - THE ENGLISH RIVIERA
03 THE HORRORS - SKYING
04 WILD BEASTS - SMOTHER
05 KURT VILE - SMOKE RING FOR MY HALO
06 ARCTIC MONKEYS - SUCK IT AND SEE
07 ST VINCENT - STRANGE MERCY
08 KATY B - ON A MISSION
09 TUNE-YARDS - WHOKILL
10 WU LYF - GO TELL FIRE TO THE MOUNTAIN

11 ANNA CALVI - ANNA CLAVI
12 SCUM - AGAIN INTO EYES
13 SUUNS - ZEROES QC
14 THE VACCINES - WHAT DID YOU EXPECT FROM THE VACCINES?
15 WILD FLAG - WILD FLAG
16 BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB - A DIFFERENT KKIND OF FIX
17 BATTLES - GLOSS DROP
18 CAT'S EYES - CAT'S EYES
19 LAURA MARLING - A CREATURE I DON´T KNOW
20 RADIOHEAD - THE KING OF LIMBS

21 KASABIAN - VELOCIRAPTOR!
22 NOAH & THE WHALE - LAST NIGHT ON EARTH
23 YUCK - YUCK
24 BIG TALK - BIG TALK
25 PLANNINGTOROCK - W
26 GIRLS - FATHER, SON, HOLY GHOST
27 BLACK LIPS - ARABIA MOUNTAIN
28 THE FIELD - LOOPING STATE OF MIND
29 SMITH WESTERNS - DYE IT BLONDE
30 FRIENDLY FIRES - PALA

31 FLORENCE & THE MACHINE - CEREMONIALS
32 ALEX TURNER - SUBMARINE OST
33 JUSTICE - AUDIO,VIDEO,DISCO
34 UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA - UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA
35 TV ON THE RADIO - NINE TYPES OF LIGHT
36 ICEAGE - NEW BRIGADE
37 WHITE DENIM - D
38 BJÖRK - BIOPHILIA -
39 NOEL GALLAGHER'S HIGH FLYING BIRDS - s/t
40 COLD CAVE - CHERISH THE LIGHT YEARS

41 DEATH GRIPS - EX-MILITARY
42 PATRICK WOLF - LUPERCALIA
43 FOO FIGHTERS - WASTING LIGHT
44 DESTROYER - KAPUTT
45 AUSTRA - FEEL IT BREAK
46 BON IVER - BON IVER
47 REAL ESTATE - DAYS
48 SLOW CLUB - PARADISE
49 SBTRKT - SBTRKT
50 JAY Z & KANYE WEST - WATCH THE THRONE

(NOT MY ALL CAPS BTW)

they really like to cram their shit down your throat huh?

You know, that's not a TERRIBLE list, to be fair.

I'm really the only one that finds that PJ Harvey patchy as hell, huh?

it's not my thing... i even caught her live this year and it did nothing for me.

I don't think it's worthy of a number one slot, but I was pleasantly surprised by it.

And yeah, that NME list is not... the worst thing ever, anyway.

I thought the Suuns album was 2010?

Apparently 2010 in US, 2011 release in the UK.

DODGY

(that wasn't me using the secret bat signal for Geir btw)

so my takeaway here is that I should be paying attention to funky?

dan your takeaway here is to pay attention to threads I start.

I think I might be the only person favourably inclined towards funky who doesn't love Sensitivity. Or more to the point, I like it more as a vehicle for riotous MCs to jump all over than I do as a song in its own right.

Feel you on this matt but I think this is true of 99.9% of funky, it's a legacy of the particular way that it fuses impulses from house, grime and dancehall that even the best songs can feel incomplete on their own - even when it doesn't seem like the tune was designed with MCs and DJ mixing in mind the very structure of the music seems to demand that interplay.

I would say this is even true of say, "Do You Mind", though not true of "It's What You Do" or Ill Blu's Roll Deep mixes.

Dancehall in particular is the same for me: it's rare for a tune to sound better on its own than in the context of a mix of several tracks on the one riddim.

NME tracks list 2011

1 LANA DEL REY - VIDEO GAMES
2 TYLER, THE CREATOR - YONKERS
3 THE HORRORS - STILL LIFE
4 PJ HARVEY - THE WORDS THAT MAKETH MURDER
5 WILD BEASTS - BED OF NAILS
6 BATTLES - ICE CREAM
7 METRONOMY - THE BAY
8 TUNE - BIZNESS
9 HOWLER - I TOLD YOU ONCE
10 M83 - MIDNIGHT CITY

11 METRONOMY - THE LOOK
12 KURT VILE - BABY'S ARMS
13 NIKI 6 THE DOVE - THE FOX
14 THE VACCINES - IF YOU WANNA
15 SPECTOR - NEVER FADE AWAY
16 SUMMER CAMP - I WANT YOU
17 KATY B - BROKEN RECORD
18 AZEALIA BANKS - 212
19 ANNA CALVI - BLACKOUT
20 MILK MUSIC - BEYOND LIVING

21 FOSTER THE PEOPLE - PUMPED UP KICKS
22 ARCTIC MONKEYS - THE HELLCAT SPANGLED SHALALALA
23 FLORENCE & THE MACHINE - SHAKE IT OUT
24 GLASVEGAS - THE WORLD IS YOURS
25 THE STROKES - UNDER COVER OF DARKNESS
26 RIHANNA - WE FOUND LOVE
27 LITTLE DRAGON - RITUAL UNION
28 THE VACCINES - POST BREAK UP SEX
29 BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB - SHUFFLE
30 ADELE - ROLLING IN THE DEEP ( JAMIE XX SHUFFLE )

31 THE DRUMS - MONEY
32 GHOSTPOET - LIIINES
33 ALEX TURNER - PILEDRIVER WALTZ
34 AUSTRA - BEAT AND THE PULSE
35 SBTRKT FEAT. LITTLE DRAGON - WILDFIRE
36 HERCULES & LOVE AFFAIR - MY HOUSE
37 MARINA & THE DIAMONDS - RADIOACTIVE
38 BEYONCE - RUN THE WORLD
39 FRIENDS - I'M HIS GIRL
40 JUSTICE - CIVILIZATION

41 METRONOMY - SHE WANTS
42 FACTORY FLOOR - REAL LOVE
43 AZARI & III - RECKLESS WITH YOUR LOVE
44 JOE GODDARD FEAT. VALENTINA - GABRIEL
45 ICEAGE - BROKEN BONE
46 AUSTRA - LOSE IT
47 DANANANANAYKROYD - MUSCLE MEMORY
48 COLD CAVE - THE GREAT PAN IS DEAD
49 NOEL GALLAGHER'S HIGH FLYING BIRDS - IF I HAD A GUN
50 NOEL GALLAGHER'S HIGH FLYING BIRDS - AKA...WHAT A LIFE!

lol

Noel's double placement right at the end is odd

i thought it was a joke!

49 NOEL GALLAGHER'S HIGH FLYING BIRDS - IF I HAD A GUN
50 NOEL GALLAGHER'S HIGH FLYING BIRDS - AKA...THE STEENDRIVER!

Little White Earbuds EPs of the year

01 Sepalcure - Fleur
02 Levon Vincent - Impression of a Rainstorm
03 Conforce - Dystopian Elements
04 Ital - Ital’s Theme
05 Kassem Mosse - Workshop 12

lol dog latin

Pretty good metal list - http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/151868-the-best-metal-of-2011/

LOL av club listing that saigon album

kinda weird that they list the points/albums w/ so little people? "coming in at number four, with a whole FOUR votes..."