pazz & jop 2011

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dubquake hipstamatic dank-ocean screwpop

so now it's MELLOW worthless ringtone soap opera quasi-rap myspace top 8-oh8s-and-cheesecake

may be a neon murkmellow flashing-ing-ing lights iunno

whiney turned into luriqua so gradually I didn't even notice

synths of suburban swampland get dark and kings in gold sports cars ride yesterday over echo drums

synths of suburban swampland

kinda think this should be somebody's memoir

what is adventurous or surprising about wispy clouds of ~moody~ nothing?

^word, +1 to lex

whenever i see ballots that are 90% one genre, whether that's rap or techno or indie, i always think, um, do you listen to other genres? there is so much good music out there and it is (almost) everywhere.

ok, well, to answer that question, yes i do, but i liked these albums more than what i heard from those genres

now u know

90% one genre, whether that's rap or techno or indie, i always think, um, do you listen to other genres? there is so much good music out there and it is (almost) everywhere.

― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Friday, 30 December 2011

Kind of an interesting one this. Definitely 90%+ of..newly released music I listen to is broadly house music related. But this probably drops to about maybe 60% of all music old or new. When it comes to older music (both new to me and already known to me) the spectrum is a lot wider. I'm not all that sure why it should be so narrow in one aspect and so wide in another - perhaps could make a possibly spurious argument that the period of "old music" is a larger and wider time period than the period of 2011 which is just one year - not sure

so wait, deej if 90% of the new music you listen to isn't rap, what is the percentage? srs question

at the beginning of the year it seemed like a foregone conclusion that the Tyler, The Creator album would do well in year-end lists and that seems to has pretty much dissolved, but "Yonkers" is still a lock to be maybe the highest rap song on the singles poll right?

no doubt

so wait, deej if 90% of the new music you listen to isn't rap, what is the percentage? srs question

― some dude (Mr. Stevenson #2), Friday, December 30, 2011 6:59 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink

this year it was probably close to that. in years previous, dance music & R&B probably made up a combined 40%

single genre ballots are the best ones this shld be obv

yeah they're more fun/useful to look at, like the genre lists spin did this year were cool

i last year & this year i've make my ilx trax ballot exclusively charting singles & notable rap youtubes. i find that otherwise the process is too intellectually jarring & the result not as satisfying