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

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there is a reason why they get lumped in with shit like Mumford tho

I don't know, I think this betrays how little you've actually heard. The thing is, the singles that get all the buzz are actually usually my LEAST favorite of their songs. I think they actually have very little in common with Mumford.

shakur rump (I left my login in El Sandboxo), Friday, 16 December 2011 16:29 (twelve years ago) link

I mean, whatever, this is a losing battle here and I don't really care enough to invest more time in it - but the kneejerk comparisons to Mumford & Sons are lazy and wrong.

shakur rump (I left my login in El Sandboxo), Friday, 16 December 2011 16:30 (twelve years ago) link

from the little i've heard of each, M&S seem very british and fleet foxes seem very american

n/a, Friday, 16 December 2011 16:31 (twelve years ago) link

appropos of nothing, but one of my law partners loves mumford & sons, or whatever their name is.

Daniel, Esq., Friday, 16 December 2011 16:31 (twelve years ago) link

Fleet Foxes are annoying due to excessive mimsiness whereas the Mumfords are annoying due to clumpy pig-on-a-string beery idiocy.

Matt DC, Friday, 16 December 2011 16:34 (twelve years ago) link

Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke told BBC that he has always been infatuated with the music of Neil Young and has even been told some of his music sounds like the legendary singer songwriter.

Watching him go from saying stuff like this, to rubbing up against Massive Attack at OccupyLSX, TY just strikes me as one of those dudes who spends his entire life trying to get the Sixth Form boys to really ~really~ like him, whether those Sixth Form Boys are Aphex Twin or Fleet Foxes. It's kinda pathetic but also quite quite endearing. And makes me quite glad that he has the band he has, who make sure that "Penderecki and ye old englische dubsteppe" overwhelm tendencies that would otherwise turn him into Primal Scream, basically.

^^^^^^massive amounts of projection may have gone into the making of this post.

Polemicist Who Slashed All, Freely (Fotherington Thomas), Friday, 16 December 2011 16:35 (twelve years ago) link

TY FOR THAT LINK, LEX

OH NOES, Friday, 16 December 2011 16:39 (twelve years ago) link

Fleet Foxes album is great

aesthetic partisan (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 December 2011 16:39 (twelve years ago) link

I got 4 songs into the Fleet Foxes album before the creaky voice did for me. Which is really sad because I genuinely genuinely love Shape Note harmonies, which are all over their record. But just... I can't.

Polemicist Who Slashed All, Freely (Fotherington Thomas), Friday, 16 December 2011 16:40 (twelve years ago) link

Lol Lex, Badu's concerns are straight cultural studies dept. At a state university...

Also, it's unfortunate that Kitty Empire thought it necessary to include Childish Gambino in her top 10 list

he said "grody" (henrietta lacks), Friday, 16 December 2011 16:42 (twelve years ago) link

^^^ like this is totally valid criticism of the Fleet Foxes record imho. I guess I just feel like there's a lot of this kneejerk "ugh harmonies and beards and folk" dismissal of them. I think they are doing a lot more interesting things with folk than, I don't know, that terrible Decemberists record (and I actually used to like them too).

(xpost)

shakur rump (I left my login in El Sandboxo), Friday, 16 December 2011 16:43 (twelve years ago) link

The Fatima Al Qadiri EP is indeed supergreat, I've been pushing it on the Outloud room.

sean doily, Friday, 16 December 2011 16:45 (twelve years ago) link

How is Kitty Empire the name of a real person and not a villainous movie heiress?

jaymc, Friday, 16 December 2011 16:50 (twelve years ago) link

or paradise on earth

n/a, Friday, 16 December 2011 16:50 (twelve years ago) link

cuz british music journalists with wite ppl names magically acquire better ones

schalke nult fear (nakhchivan), Friday, 16 December 2011 16:51 (twelve years ago) link

Yeah it's not her real name, also the title of a Big Black song.

Matt DC, Friday, 16 December 2011 16:57 (twelve years ago) link

XLR8R's Best of 2011: Tracks
http://www.xlr8r.com/features/2011/12/xlr8rs-best-2011-tracks-part-2

20. Holy Other "Feel Something" (Tri Angle)
19. Rustie "Ultra Thizz" (Warp)
18. Teeth "Shawty" (502)
17. Martyn "Masks" (Brainfeeder)
16. Omar-S "Here's Your Trance Now Dance" (FXHE)
15. Kingdom "Let You No" (Night Slugs)
14. xxxy "Ordinary Things" (Ten Thousand Yen)
13. Unknown "Sicko Cell" (SWAMP81)
12. Jacques Greene "Another Girl" (LuckyMe)
11. Classixx "Into the Valley (Julio Bashmore Remix)" (Green Label Sound)

10. Tycho "Hours" (Ghostly)
9. Virgo Four "It's a Crime (Caribou Remix)" (Rush Hour)
8. The Weeknd "The Morning"
7. SBTRKT "Wildfire (feat. Little Dragon)" (Young Turks)
6. Martyn "We Are You in the Future" (Brainfeeder)
5. Holy Other "Touch" (Tri Angle)
4. Mosca "Done Me Wrong" (Numbers)
3. Scuba "Adrenalin" (Hotflush)
2. M83 "Midnight City" (Mute)
1. Julio Bashmore "Battle for Middle You" (PMR)

los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Friday, 16 December 2011 17:05 (twelve years ago) link

OK, well, the idea of a music critic adopting a fanciful pseudonym is kind of eye-roll.

jaymc, Friday, 16 December 2011 17:06 (twelve years ago) link

cuz british music journalists with wite ppl names magically acquire better ones

it doesn't really happen any more, i've noticed

i like having a wite ppl name b/c it tends to result in commenters and sundry other haters yell at me about being white, which amuses me greatly. one particular hater, formerly of this parish, was so pressed that he resorted to calling me "culturally white" lololololololololol

degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Friday, 16 December 2011 17:09 (twelve years ago) link

I like it - Johnny Cigarettes, K-Punk, Julie Burchill etc...

dog latin, but cool (dog latin), Friday, 16 December 2011 17:11 (twelve years ago) link

I thought it was about still being able to sign on the dole while drawing a teeny tiny paycheck from NME reviews that didn't even cover the drinks tab at yr average gig?

Polemicist Who Slashed All, Freely (Fotherington Thomas), Friday, 16 December 2011 17:13 (twelve years ago) link

also about writing for rival publications when you weren't meant to? not sure

i can't think of a british single music journalist of ~my generation~ (and uh younger) who uses a pseudonym - there was miss amp but she's a bit older and doesn't do music writing any more?

degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Friday, 16 December 2011 17:16 (twelve years ago) link

can I go back to the RA singles list for a second, because I'm currently playing Storm Queen's "It Goes On" and basically everything I've heard on this list so far has been good to fantastic

OH NOES, Friday, 16 December 2011 17:17 (twelve years ago) link

Even now, as the UK's diplomatic links with Iran unravel

Isn't that nice and agentless?

PJ Harvey's vocals annoy me here (I don't remember what she sounds like elsewhere) and the songs are so-so as songs.

Occidental Rudipherous, Friday, 16 December 2011 17:23 (twelve years ago) link

(I was never a fan of hers.)

Occidental Rudipherous, Friday, 16 December 2011 17:24 (twelve years ago) link

I was, but i still prefer White Chalk over this album. Dunno why.

Anyone need a (Jimmy Riddle), Friday, 16 December 2011 17:27 (twelve years ago) link

what little Storm Queen stuff I've heard sounded rad but my personal favourite thing is that it shares its name with an early 80s NWOBHM band from the Welsh valleys who were managed by Rod Liddle

Extreme Lifestyle, Friday, 16 December 2011 17:31 (twelve years ago) link

extreme lifestyle = dj mencap?

Anyone need a (Jimmy Riddle), Friday, 16 December 2011 17:33 (twelve years ago) link

if it wasn't clear already then it is now

schalke nult fear (nakhchivan), Friday, 16 December 2011 17:36 (twelve years ago) link

yes

Extreme Lifestyle, Friday, 16 December 2011 17:43 (twelve years ago) link

hi!

Anyone need a (Jimmy Riddle), Friday, 16 December 2011 17:44 (twelve years ago) link

(when is the terrorizer issue with the top albums out?)

Anyone need a (Jimmy Riddle), Friday, 16 December 2011 17:45 (twelve years ago) link

note to self: never pay attention to FACT ever again

OH NOES, Friday, 16 December 2011 17:46 (twelve years ago) link

xp start of Jan I guess?

Extreme Lifestyle, Friday, 16 December 2011 18:15 (twelve years ago) link

ok cool.

this Guardian contributors list is very different to all the others

Dom Lawson

Albums

1. Machine Head – Unto The Locust
2. MOONWAGON – Night Dust
3. WOLFSBANE – Wolfsbane Save The World
4. OPETH – Heritage
5. NECROPHAGIA – Deathtrip 69
6. VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR – A Grounding In Numbers
7. STEVEN WILSON – Grace For Drowning
8. HAMMERS OF MISFORTUNE – 17th Street
9. DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT – Deconstruction
10. DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT – Ghost

Tracks

1. MACHINE HEAD – Darkness Within
2. WOLFSBANE – Live Before I Die
3. OPETH – The Devil's Orchard
4. VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR – Highly Strung
5. HAMMERS OF MISFORTUNE – The Grain
6. KORN feat. Skrillex – Get Up
7. MACHINE HEAD – Locust
8. NECROPHAGIA – Naturan Demonto
9. RIVAL SONS – All Over The Road
10. DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT – Juular

lol @ #3 album

Anyone need a (Jimmy Riddle), Friday, 16 December 2011 18:20 (twelve years ago) link

He also seems to have picked most of his fave tracks from the albums he chose

Anyone need a (Jimmy Riddle), Friday, 16 December 2011 18:26 (twelve years ago) link

CAPITAL LETTERS FTW!

ShariVari, Friday, 16 December 2011 18:55 (twelve years ago) link

Skrillex presumably doesn't get caps due to FALSE METAL.

Matt DC, Friday, 16 December 2011 19:29 (twelve years ago) link

I guess I just feel like there's a lot of this kneejerk "ugh harmonies and beards and folk" dismissal of them.

i love harmonies, but more the journey-type. if fleet foxes dump the pretense of seriousness and become a 70s yacht-rock act (but a self-aware 70s yacht-rock act), i think i'll love them.

Daniel, Esq., Friday, 16 December 2011 19:48 (twelve years ago) link

what's wrong with seriousness

aesthetic partisan (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 December 2011 19:53 (twelve years ago) link

I would argue that "seriousness" is the least of Fleet Foxes' problems

OH NOES, Friday, 16 December 2011 19:54 (twelve years ago) link

unfortunately the argument would end there because everything about them short-circuits my ability to form coherent arguments and takes me straight to "thank god I live in a world where I never, ever, ever, ever, EVER have to hear these guys, even by accident"

OH NOES, Friday, 16 December 2011 19:55 (twelve years ago) link

Also I am happy that Dan is loving the 2011 techno bobbins but dude don't miss out on the Oliver $, it is a thing of glory.

Matt DC, Friday, 16 December 2011 20:01 (twelve years ago) link

O_O

HOLY SHIT re: OLIVER $

OH NOES, Friday, 16 December 2011 20:04 (twelve years ago) link

YES MOTHERFUCKER I AM HAVING A GOOD TIME

OH NOES, Friday, 16 December 2011 20:05 (twelve years ago) link

You would not believe how well that goes off on dancefloors. Actually you would, it's obvious, but still...

Matt DC, Friday, 16 December 2011 21:24 (twelve years ago) link

Loving Chunklet's "analysis" of Greg Kot's top 20 of 2011 list: http://www.chunklet.com/index.cfm?section=blogs&id=709

n/a, Friday, 16 December 2011 22:01 (twelve years ago) link

Mmm, seems terribly unfunny to me tbh

lebateauivre, Friday, 16 December 2011 22:04 (twelve years ago) link

That is really laboured and not funny in the slightest.

Matt DC, Friday, 16 December 2011 22:34 (twelve years ago) link

that's Chunklet for you

Anyone need a (Jimmy Riddle), Friday, 16 December 2011 22:39 (twelve years ago) link


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