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

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?

A full-page color ad of whiney doing a handstand on his 50 albums.

planking on them actually

What's your opinion on your #1, WGW? I've not heard it - Fucked Up have never struck me as the most interesting band in the world, but I'd be willing to give it a try. Or are you about to start your own 'most regrettable Spin #1 albums' thread?

I think it's fairly well documented what SPIN's most regrettable #1 was

That being said, Fucked Up is def on my P&J ballot, and is easily one of the best records I've heard all year in any genre

Okay, I'll see if I can find some tracks about, then. Worth a go. Though I think this year might actually be pretty chock full of albums I've loved already.

I think it's fairly well documented what SPIN's most regrettable #1 was

???

1991:
1. Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque

"Your hard drive"

hahaha or that one

Oh shit, yeah. Bwahahahahaaaaa.

"Your hard drive"

― Number None, Monday, December 12, 2011

Their debut album was pretty slow iirc

Dunno it's due for a reappraisal

Pitchfork Top 100 Tracks of 2011 (50-1)

50. Atlas Sound – Mona Lisa
49. Katy B – Broken Record
48. Kreayshawn – Gucci Gucci
47. Battles [ft. Matias Aguayo] – Ice Cream
46. Ty Segall – Goodbye Bread
45. Drake – Headlines
44. Nicolas Jaar – Space Is Only Noise If You Can See
43. Panda Bear – Last Night at the Jetty
42. Jay-Z & Kanye West – Otis
41. Frank Ocean- Novacane
40. Burial – Street Halo
39. Shabazz Palaces – Swerve...the reeping of all that is worthwhile (Noir not withstanding)
38. Purity Ring – Ungirthed
37. A$AP Rocky – Peso
36. Jamie xx – Far Nearer
35. Charli XCX – Stay Away
34. Cut Copy – Need You Now
33. AraabMuzik – Streetz Tonight
32. Cold Cave – The Great Pan Is Dead
31. The Field – Then It's White
30. Clams Casino – Motivation
29. Jai Paul – BTSTU (Edit)
28. Danny Brown – Monopoly
27. The Rapture – How Deep Is Your Love?
26. Beyonce – 1 + 1
25. Soulja Boy – Zan With That Lean
24. Kurt Vile – Jesus Fever
23. Adele – Rolling in the Deep
22. Bill Callahan – Riding For the Feeling
21. Drake – Marvins Room
20. Gang Gang Dance – Glass Jar
19. Lana Del Rey – Video Games
18. St. Vincent – Cruel
17. Oneohtrix Point Never – Replica
16. Tyler, the Creator – Yonkers
15. The Weeknd – The Morning
14. Girls – Vomit
13. tUnE-yArDs – Bizness
12. Jay-Z/Kanye West – Niggas in Paris
11. James Blake – The Wilhelm Scream
10. DJ Khaled [ft. Drake, Rick Ross, and Lil Wayne] – I'm on One
9. Azealia Banks – 212
8. Cass McCombs – County Line
7. Beyonce – Countdown
6. Destroyer – Kaputt
5. Real Estate – It's Real
4. Nicki Minaj – Super Bass
3. EMA – California
2. Bon Iver – Holocene
1. M83 – Midnight City

lol @ the punchline of the top 3 #icanteven

tim f, or anyone else who is attempting to put together a personal tracks of the year, how do you do it? doing an albums list is fun cuz it's EASIER, mine is pretty much done. doing a tracks one, i'm just looking at this mass of 200+ amazing songs and flapping my hands cuz i don't know how to start

apropos of little, because there isn't a kate bush thread over here, people talk about the elton john song being the one that breaks the spell and they're not wrong, but i think i actually resent the final track more - it's so nothingy, but doesn't have that sense of heaviness or mood that the first three songs do, and essentially means the second half of the album is near-useless for me.

I think the song itself is good enough to withstand Elton, just. But I just don't believe his performance in it, he doesn't actually sound like he gets the emotional weight of the song at all, so when he's singing things like "I lost you in the London smog" he sounds like he's having the time of his life, it's just hammy in completely the wrong way.

Strangely I actually rather like Stephen Fry's appearance on the album, because he doesn't actually get in the way too much, it's just like a kind of ambient sound.

I like 50 Words For Snow okay but I'd have expected a new Kate Bush album to be a lock for my top 10 (if Aerial were released tomorrow it'd be top three easily) but it isn't really. Even the early piano-driven songs are a bit too repetitive to justify the length and relative sparseness. It works better as an ambient record in general actually. I do love 'Misty' though.

I agree re the last track Lex, "nothingy" is precisely the word for it. I think this album's just about the first 3 tracks for me.

I think Kate is actually more annoying than Stephen on the title track! I don't mind weirdness from Kate obv but usually it's in service of something at least arguably meaningful.

Aerial was my no. 2 for 2005, 50 Words is just inside or outside my top 10 depending on mood.

re tracks lists: there has been a lot of hand flapping going on. The reason I haven't done numbering before is that I didn't want to be locked in. Even now the ordering and the inclusions are changing a bit which will become more of a problem as I count down.