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

basically exactly what miami did to me 12 months previously with "only girl in the world"

Thanks for breaking my browser.

just change the lyric to "louis jagger" in your head, might make it funnier.

it could be worse, if I had mod powers here I could have made them all autoplay

the only one of those songs that i know for sure i've heard is fuck you; i think maybe i've heard party rock anthem and firework also.

oh i've heard super bass too, nevermind.

A nation thanks god that you were exposed to kryptonite then.

xxpost

Just the other day one of our students said, amazed, "You like 'Super Bass' and not Drake?"

Was the angle Drake-love or pop-hate?

really "Firework" is the only one I find unbearable; the one that gets consistently underrated is "Grenade"

"If you like that thing, then there's no reason why you can't love Drake too."

Super Bass is far and away the best thing on that Billboard list.

"Super Bass" suffers a little from the start-stops and the bridge is somewhat disconnected from the rest of the song

only one that comes close is "give me everything"

is it wrong that I look at that Billboard list and think to myself "LOL @ Blake Shelton"?

I don't mind "Give Me Everything" now, thanks to our Clear Channel station playing it every 14 seconds.

Although I tend to think of Super Bass as an end-credits mallpop song rather than a rap record.

gimme a few minutes and i'll do a poll of the top 50 hot 100 songs where we can take this convo

"Super Bass" is prob. best on that list, though my weakness for disco-pop means I also like "Rolling in the Deep" and "Moves Like Jagger."

I hate Katy Perry's voice on "Firework," but I think it's a well-constructed pop song.

seriously, the "MO-oo-OO-oo-oo-oo-ves" part gives me some weird pokemon j-pop vibes that i dont really understand why

ay-yi-yi
I'm your little butterfly
With the moo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-ooves like Jagger

"super bass" is the best big pop single of the year - everyone still goes crazy when it comes on at parties/clubs/any public space. could've been "countdown" though if beyoncé had given it a proper push. ;_;

I hate Katy Perry's voice on "Firework," but I think it's a well-constructed pop song.

yeah totally. actually I don't even mind her voice on it. I'm a little surprised everybody hates it.

Moves Like Jagger and ET are awful though.

my personal list is up on reviler

http://www.reviler.org/2011/12/09/best-of-reviler-2011-albums-part-1/

(i already don't like it though, i forgot a lot of stuff)

Juno - Best of 2011
http://www.junodownload.com/plus/2011/12/08/best-of-2011-top-20-albums-2/

20 Planetary Assault Systems - The Messenger
19 Omar S - It Can Be Done, But Only I Can Do It
18 Hype Williams - One Nation
17 Maria Minerva - Cabaret Cixous
16 Lucy - Wordplay For Working Bees
15 Laurel Halo - Hour Logic
14 Reel by Real - Surkit Chamber: The Melding
13 Legowelt - The TEAC Life
12 Morphosis - What Have We Learned
11 Pinch & Shackleton - Pinch & Shackleton
10 Sully - Carrier
9 Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica
8 Zomby - Dedication
7 Cosmin TRG - Simulat
6 BNJMN - Plastic World
5 2562 - Fever
4 Peaking Lights - 936
3 Andy Stott - Passed Me By/We Stay Together
2 Machinedrum - Room(s)
1 Martyn - Ghost People

That Pinch & Shackleton album hasn't made a lot of lists cos it's only come out in the last couple of weeks, but it's a really great album imo

Wow, people really seem to like that Peaking Lights album. Didn't really do much for me, although i only heard it once

Epic third place for Lulu on yr list Matt.

psychic savagery

Glad to see that Cosmin TRG album making an appearance.

Peaking Lights didn't do much for me either, and I bought the fucker

The Wire's Tony Herrington lays out their voting process in deep detail over here: http://www.thewire.co.uk/themire/2011/12/suffering-through-suffrage-compiling-the-wires-rewind-charts

Peaking Lights is growing on me, I only gave it half a listen but started coming back to it now. It's cool.

heard the Pinch & Shackleton playing in store last time I was in Other Music and it sounded good to me

MSN top 50 by an ilxor

I didnt like 936 for the longest time, but then I listened to it on headphones and the dubbiness came alive to me: it's one of my favorites now...

but yeeeeah M@tt; putting Brute Heart in #2!!

Only just got around to hearing the Legowelt and it's pretty sweet.

PS it's free to download from http://www.legowelt.com/ (but there is an option to make a donation too)

kiss my taint

― los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Friday, December 9, 2011 5:47 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink

literally clapped for like half a min at this

Goog grief:

Magnet Magazine best albums of 2011

http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2011/12/09/magnet%E2%80%99s-top-20-albums-of-2011/

20. JAMES BLAKE | James Blake (Universal Republic)
19. PANDA BEAR | Tomboy (Paw Tracks)
18. THURSTON MOORE | Demolished Thoughts (Matador)
17. ELEANOR FRIEDBERGER | Last Summer (Merge)
16. THE KILLS | Blood Pressures (Domino)
15. WILCO | THE WHOLE LOVE (DBPM)
14. TUNE-YARDS | w h o k i l l (4AD)
13. BON IVER | Bon Iver (Jagjaguwar)
12. RADIOHEAD | The King Of Limbs (TBD)
11. FUCKED UP | David Comes To Life (Matador)
10. BILL CALLAHAN | Apocalypse (Drag City)
9. BIRD OF YOUTH | Defender (Jagjaguwar)
8. WYE OAK | Civilian (Merge)
7. BRIGHT EYES | The People’s Key (Saddle Creek)
6. R.E.M. | Collapse Into New (Warner Bros.)
5. PJ HARVEY | Let England Shake (Vagrant)
4. STEPHEN MALKMUS AND THE JICKS | Mirror Traffic (Matador)
3. WILD FLAG | Wild Flag (Merge)
2. TOM WAITS | Bad As Me (Anti-)
1. YUCK | Yuck (Fat Possum)

first pub to give into rem breakup sympathy?

collapse into ew

Had no idea Magnet still existed!

(No Bob Pollard on the list, though?)

Collapse Into New made top 20 in cutting-edge publication Rolling Stone

lol Collapse into Now

Firework" - Katy Perry> "moves like jagger"

both those songs are a pockmark on music. pure abominations. they make me want to stab screwdrivers into my ears. Moves Like Jagger is highly irritating, but I think Fireworks is the pinnacle of offensive pop in 2011.

I'm more offended by Bon Iver

http://www.billboard.com/#/features/the-beat-generation-electronic-dance-music-1005652552.story

But why, after 30 years of relative obscurity, was 2011 finally dance music's time? Theories abound: the equalizing quality of the Internet and the social-media generation's intense drive to share everything; a general staleness of other formerly dominant genres, like rock and hip-hop; a generational opt-out from recession anxiety; the rise of Las Vegas as an international dance destination; a few key pop figures stealthily championing the cause.

" Lady Gaga and Black Eyed Peas had a lot to do with it," Oakenfold says. "They took the essence of dance music and put it into top 40 records. It was there without people even knowing it."

Lots of Billboard detail on Skrillex and Swedish House Mafia...