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

Wait, there's a band called New Look? Or is there an album of all the mallectro they play in New Look shops, because I would totally buy that record.

going thru that pitchfrk list; props to J0rdan for the write up alongside the Kendrick track.

Melissa Bradshaw from that BBC writers' list has a 2010 album in her choices. Buffoon.

She has two if you count Diddy Dirty Money as 2010 as well as Shangaan Electro.

Ah yes, I did actually wonder about that as I remembered it showing in the ilx poll. Couldn't remember if that was a single or album, though. Shangaan Electro wasn't even late 2010 as far as I recall!

Pretty sure this was the best list there:

Ian Winwood
1. The King Blues - Punk & Poetry
2. The Decemberists - The King Is Dead
3. Arctic Monkeys - Suck It & See
4. Frank Turner - England Keep My Bones
5. Lou Reed and Metallica - Lulu

We can debate the merits of the other records, but Frank Turner is truly beyond the pale.

there is suddenly the very real possibility that my top 3 albums will all be in the guardian's top 4...

New Look is dope imo. A warm, minimalist synth-pop type thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydFcH5yvtWM

Don't know who you voted for Lex, but there's been no Adele, Florence, PJ Harvey or err, M83 or Elbow yet. Can't think what else.

there is suddenly the very real possibility that my top 3 albums will all be in the guardian's top 4...

― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Tuesday, December 13, 2011 12:41 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

lex I think it's a measure of the infectiousness of your enthusing that you appear to be incredibly good at winning over people around you to your likes. This will be quite a coup if it comes off.

i don't really think i can take credit for people liking beyoncé and pj harvey. really it was NID that those three albums would be top 10 (just based on other guardian writers' taste), just didn't expect beyoncé and katy b to go top 4.

actually i'm quite spectacularly bad at winning people over to my personal likes that don't have momentum from elsewhere.

Not getting at anyone but Beyonce, PJ Harvey and Katy B doesn't seem surprising for a Guardian list

Well yeah, what lex said

xxpost well you have heaps of direct influence on my list but then that's nothing new.

Feeling a bit "hmmm" on New Look but that's probably one to debate on the "arty electronica with girl vocals" thread.

After last year's ILM tracks poll I don't think anyone should doubt Lex's powers.

I guess I should mention that P&J ballots sent this weekend.

I don't think Beyonce is a lock for the Graun's top five actually.

Like there's an unexploded Adele-bomb in there still and given the rest of the list I wouldn't be surprised to see something like the Girls album pop up in the top five. Obviously Let England Shake is a lock and Katy B is more likely to appear then Beyonce.

Actually I probably mean the Elbow album rather than the Girls album.

Elbow
Florence
Adele
PJ Harvey
Beyonce
Katy B

^ pick two that aren't going to make it

Goblin will be top 4, surely?

Florence is out, so straight fite for two places between Adele, Elbow & Beyonce.

You know, I listened to the Florence album and the Austra album back to back and I'm a little nonplussed/bemused that people would ride hard for one and not the other since they are verging on identical aside from the guitar on Florence's album.

Austra don't make intolerably racist videos for a start?

well okay, there is that

Florence is pissing me off to a huge extreme with that actually, because I really fell hard for her album and then she completely fucked up one of the best songs on the album with that video

TBH, I had taken against FATM long before that but I can't really give you any quantifiable reason why apart from, "I just took against her" - I could not even tell you what the missing ingredient is in Austra that make me take to them, either. I'm useless as a critic.

Actually I totally get why one would not go for her Lungs material; from what I've heard, there's a lot of inappropriate bellowing happening throughout the album that gets reigned in a lot on Ceremonials, making it more effective when it does barrel into your ears.

LWE 30-21

30. EQD, Equalized#005-B
29. RNDM, Hideaway (Dub)
28. Tin Man, Nonneo (Donato Dozzy Remix)
27. Protect-U, World Music
26. Roman Flügel, Iron Curtain
25. Crystal Maze, Crystal Maze (Chicago Skyway Remix)
24. Martyn, Masks
23. Burial, Stolen Dog
22. The Citizen’s Band, West 42nd
21. Machinedrum, Come1

haha what the fuck is "Tiger & Woods"

house music ppl I believe

http://redbullmusicacademyradio.com/uploads/show_pics/tiger_woods_456_003.jpg

grady was hyping them to me a while back, which should give you an idea of what kinda music it is

tiger & woods is great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXKK21bHJ_4

Yeah they sort of flit between house and nu-disco, they've released at least one free album this year that I've totally failed to listen to.

i think they're pretty middle of the road as these producers go, none of their tracks hit for me like say the revenge or mark e or the better edit-creators or w/e, and 'gin nation' which is their big acclaimed single is way too close to the original -- a track off one of my favorite albums -- for me to feel like its earned its year end list spots personally.

there are a couple tracks of theres i think are v. good songs but 'gin nation' is too close to 'dj tool' for me to love it i guess

holla

http://www.spin.com/articles/spins-50-best-albums-2011

man, I was almost totally unmoved by that Rapture album, it is really surprising to me that it is appearing on so many lists

haha the fact that yr tim hecker write up also mentions deaf center (my album of the year!) made me incredibly happy

:)

o_O why is the Weeknd blurb three times as long as every other blurb

Because the album felt three times as long as every other one?

well its also for two albums

i remember when whiney used to rail against sites that made you click through 93404833 times per list

haha the fact that yr tim hecker write up also mentions stephan mathieu (a static place is one of my albums of the year!) made me incredibly happy

i remember when whiney used to rail against sites that made you click through 93404833 times per list

― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Monday, December 12, 2011 2:35 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Permalink

remember when lex pissed his pants because he's a drooling idiot and we all pointed and laughed at him

Real talk tho, I think there's a huge, huge, huge difference between a 50-entry list with 10 clickthroughs and a 50-entry list with 50 clickthroughs but YMMV \O_o/

what was the one page after the number one album? i didn't click it. did i miss anything good?