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

'Sterrenplaten', small Belgian radio show, added its end of yearlist. [A-Z] this is.

http://www.mixcloud.com/Sterrenplaten/sterrenplaten-eindejaar-23-december-2011/

Beach Boys - Smile Sessions
Bon Iver - Bon Iver, Bon Iver
Clams Casino - Instrumentals LP/Rainforest EP
Dirty Beaches - Badlands
EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints
Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost
James Blake - James Blake
Julianna Barwick - The Magic place
Kuedo - Severant
Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica
The Psychic Paramount - II
Rustie - Glass Swords

I'm a rock/heavy metal fan of long standing and Lex is entirely right about Yuck and Girls.

Also this: "Beatles

HATE HATE HATE WITH A MILLION KNIVES I HATE THEM. merry xmas!"

is the most righteous tidings for Winterval.

All the best.

Richard Florida mapping Pitchfork's top tracks by geography:

Greater New York (including the five boroughs and immediately surrounding suburbs) took the top spot, generating more than one in four of all 2011 Pitchfork hits. Three of them come from my home state of New Jersey – two from Jersey City’s Real Estate and one from Nutley’s Clams Casino (also the birthplace of Martha Stewart). London is next with 16 hits and Los Angeles is third with 10. In fact, these three super-star pop culture capitals account for just about half of all of Pitchfork's 2011 hits.

My adopted hometown of Toronto is close behind with seven (including one for nearby Hamilton), followed by the San Francisco Bay Area with six (four for San Fran and two for Oakland). Atlanta has four, and Vancouver, three.

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/arts-and-lifestyle/2011/12/geography-top-music-hits/750/

So yes, we're starting with a subjective assessment, one that is heavily skewed toward English language acts in the indie, alternative, and hip-hop genres. It's also admittedly one that's on occasion been mocked as out of touch or overly snobby. Still, it’s as useful a barometer of what’s hot at the leading edges of popular music as any. And for our purposes, it turns out to be quite amenable to locational analysis, too.

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/the_music_club/features/2011/music_club_2011/best_music_2011_the_year_when_indie_music_and_r_b_made_nice_.html

The emails between Nabisco, Ann Powers, Jody Rosen, Jonah Weiner, et. al. continue.

The Spin top 20 pop albums list is kind of interesting to me, mainly due to the presence of the Perfume album as well as two kpop picks.

http://www.spin.com/articles/spins-20-best-pop-albums-2011

think they might've wanted to cut that one at 19

haha for real

jessie j's latest appearance on british tv was so execrable that it's actually full-on amazing in a sort of spectacle-of-true-horror way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pym1_N1q74

as pete said on freaktrig, it's like she's trying to sing the lead vox and the backing vox at the same time

My dad would love that - I heard him coming upstairs while that was playing and had to race to mute it before he heard

this woman is a scourge

omg I wanna lol @ her so bad but I suspect that's exactly what she wants...

still:

"we need to take it back in time/when music made us all u-NITE!"

What self-respecting pop star in '11 wants to look like both of Shakespeare's Sister genetically fused together?

or mystic meg

haha doran

LUH-LUH-LUH-LUH-LUH-LUH-LUH-LUH

*holds microphone out benevolently to session guitarist*

Lol, I remember when Jessie J was on SNL early in the year, I was convinced she was going to be HUGE.

this was the woman at the MTV awards doing the between-awards music from a chair, right (I think she had crutches...?) god that was awful

on which subject, jessie j's thoughts on the crutches episode:

"I'm back in the swing, getting my cast off after nine weeks of this awful Smurf shoe. But it's put everything in perspective. I have a different respect now for people who don't have legs."

...

lmao

lolol

is she one of those graduates from the posh Brits School?

yeah but it's not particularly posh (common misconception of it) - it's free to attend

my year end mixtapes if anyone wants em: bit.ly/1000times2011

http://bit.ly/1000times2011

the picture of britney and the little dog made me think of this CLASSIC MOVIE SCENE

of course, i'm sure britney would never engage in that type of behavior.

(and no, the clip isn't NSFW)

My Top 40 is here if anyone wants to see it, although not that interesting.

SFJ from the New Yorker 2011 tracks in his Spotify list

http://www.myplaylistisbetterthanyours.com/spotify/playlist/27081/

lol @ token

ooooops. meant 2 say lol @ token hipsterism

http://www.jlcauvin.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/token.jpg

http://www.jlcauvin.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/token.jpg

I give up.

wait is there supposed to be ONE token hipster track on that playlist? that's what that means, right?

yeah some dude otm i didnt really notice any

oneohtrix stuck out to me, but shrug. there are definitely things on that playlist i have not heard & am not interested in hearing so maybe i don't know what i'm talkin about.

lol lamp

if anything sticks out on there, it's the chris watson track.

Tim Sweeney's best of 2011:

http://www.beatsinspace.net/playlists/605

The Chris Watron record is superb. I may be biased towards it due to having just completed my first year where I've had to get a train more days than not. The Andy Stott 'We Stay Together' record has quality train ambiences going on too.

-Watron
+Watson

I've hardly seen the Junior Boys album come by on any of these lists, which surprises me.

Terrorizer is meant to be out today, anyone got the top albums list?

Pretty independent-looking list in local weekly:

http://alibi.com/music/39879/Sonic-Deluxe.html

On first 43 seconds, this Caretaker thing sounds great.

(I see it's already been mentioned a bunch on this thread.)

the first 43 seconds of the caretaker record could be the beginning of a really amazing record but they are sadly just the first of many seconds of the caretaker record

I don't outright ~hate~ a lot of music.

But for instance: I am not a big Bob Dylan fan. I think this is because I'm less interested in lyrics than I am in interesting sounds, and I also don't find much appeal in traditional folk/blues structures. I suspect that Dylan partisans are, generally, the kind of people who sit down and pay attention to words and who not only aren't bored by the trad structures but find strength and emotional depth in them. It's not my cup of tea, but I can see how he appeals to people who listen to music differently than I do.

― jaymc, Monday, December 26, 2011 9:01 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark Permalink

You basically just defined my "problem" with Dylan perfectly. When the sounds of his music are interesting to me, I'm interested. But for the most part the sounds leave me cold.

I notice that I don't pay much attention to lyrics until a good 5-6 listens in, and I'll never get that far along if the sounds don't interest me from the start.