agree w/this!! worst thing about so many indie lists is the tiny nod they give to other genres, as if they're somehow claiming to represent the entirety of popular music just cuz they have one hip-hop writer (to 20 indie writers obv)
yes. it's disgusting. how dare they like things from outside their assigned genre?
― m the g, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 11:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Wilful misunderstanding of a point, classic internet flourish there
― The Biggest Event In The History Of Ethnic Comedy (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 12:16 (fifteen years ago) link
I understand the point, but dispute its validity.
― m the g, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 12:31 (fifteen years ago) link
The Classic Rock list is by and large an excellent specialist genre list obviously compiled by experts who know their stuff and love it.
But still, Dig Lazarus Dig! WHY???
― Brother Belcher (Marcello Carlin), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 12:35 (fifteen years ago) link
I knew MGMT was gonna sweep the middlebrow contingent.
I do like them but.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 12:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Best Album On NME' s 2008 Albums Of The Year List?
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 13:21 (fifteen years ago) link
are the NME lists staff-picked or reader-votes? really can't tell anymore
― Yentl vs Predator (blueski), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 13:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Staff
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 13:25 (fifteen years ago) link
WIRE top ten:
10. Caretaker - Persstant Repetition9. The Fall - Imperial Wax Solvent8. William S Burroughs - Real English Tea7. Evangelista - Hello Voyager6. Advisory Circle - Other Channels5. Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna4. John Butcher - Resonant Spaces3. The Hospitals - Hairdryer Peace2. Philip Jeck - Sand1. The Bug - London Zoo
― NickB, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 13:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Have the fifty in front of me - Luomo at 18, Tricky(!) at 26 and Portishead at 38 amongst other things.
― NickB, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 13:32 (fifteen years ago) link
post it!
― uәʇɹɐƃu!әʍ ˙ƃ ʎәu!Ⴁʍ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 14:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Do a poll!
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 14:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah right, I'm not typing all that lot in.
― NickB, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 14:46 (fifteen years ago) link
You did 10.
Do 40 more. I'll paypal you a dollar.
― uәʇɹɐƃu!әʍ ˙ƃ ʎәu!Ⴁʍ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 14:47 (fifteen years ago) link
take a picture i'll last longer
― Yentl vs Predator (blueski), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 14:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Err, yuck.
― NickB, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 14:49 (fifteen years ago) link
suggestion, list them in blocks of ten
― djmartian, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 14:51 (fifteen years ago) link
7. Evangelista - Hello Voyager
^^ nice to finally see this in a mag's top ten
― the cef (united nations children's fund ha ha) (some dude), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 14:53 (fifteen years ago) link
I typed the wire lists out before. But it wasnt in WH Smiths in Hamilton today.
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 14:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Okay, under duress:
WIRE cont.
20. Stephan Mathieu - Radioland19. Bill Dixon - 17 Musicians...18. Luomo - Convivial17. Dusk + Blackdown - Margins Music16. Autechre - Quaristice15. Kasai Allstars - In the 7th Moon14. Eric Chenaux - Sloppy Ground13. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Dig thingy12. Ryoji Ikeda - Test Pattern11. Kevin Drumm - Imperial Distortion
That's 20 cents pal.
― NickB, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 15:00 (fifteen years ago) link
how do we know you're not making this up?
― Yentl vs Predator (blueski), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 15:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Dig Thingy = much better title
xpost Yeah, like "Kasai Allstars" is even a thing.
― Manchego Bay (G00blar), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 15:02 (fifteen years ago) link
WIRE pt III
30. Terry Riley - The Last Camel in Paris29. Earth - The Bees Made Honey...28. Scorces - I Turn Into You27. Arther Russell - Love Is Overtaking Me26. Tricky - Knowle West Boy25. Robert Ashley - Concrete24. Jandek - Glasgow Sunday 200523. Group Inerane - Guitars From Agadez22. Hercules & Love Affair - s/t21. Lukas Ligeti - Afrikan Machinery
― NickB, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 15:09 (fifteen years ago) link
23. Group Inerane - Guitars From Agadez
I wanna hear this!
28. Scorces - I Turn Into You
David Keenan's wife band LOL
― NickB, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 15:10 (fifteen years ago) link
i'd like to see one list that just ignores all artists who've been around 15 years or more. yeah that's facile but a little 'yeah yeah they've still got it but there's too much new decent stuff to bother much with them right now' statement wouldn't go amiss
― Yentl vs Predator (blueski), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 15:11 (fifteen years ago) link
WIRE 40-31
40. Jakob Ullmann - Voice, Books and Fire 339. Toumani Diabate - Mande Variations38. Portishead - Third37. Maryanne Amacher - Sound Characters 236. Emeralds - Solar Bridge35. Vampire Weekend - s/t34. Harvey Milk - Life...33. Stereo Image - s/t32. Christina Carter - Masque Femine31. Malcolm Goldstein - A Sounding of Sources
― NickB, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 15:17 (fifteen years ago) link
WIRE last bit
50. Sao Paulo Underground - Long ass album title49. Ellen Fullman and Monique Buzzarte - Fluctuations48. Sic Alps - US EZ47. Mark Stewart - Edit46. Alva Noto - Unitxt45. Peter Rehberg - Works for GV44. Josephine Foster - This Coming Gladness43. Murcof - Versailles Sessions42. Vajra - Live41. Dave Grubbs - An Optimist Notes the Dust
― NickB, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 15:23 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't know why I typed 'em backwards either.
― NickB, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 15:24 (fifteen years ago) link
now for the genre lists!
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 15:24 (fifteen years ago) link
backwards made it easier to do this
The Wire
50. Sao Paulo Underground - Long ass album title49. Ellen Fullman and Monique Buzzarte - Fluctuations48. Sic Alps - US EZ47. Mark Stewart - Edit46. Alva Noto - Unitxt45. Peter Rehberg - Works for GV44. Josephine Foster - This Coming Gladness43. Murcof - Versailles Sessions42. Vajra - Live41. Dave Grubbs - An Optimist Notes the Dust40. Jakob Ullmann - Voice, Books and Fire 339. Toumani Diabate - Mande Variations38. Portishead - Third37. Maryanne Amacher - Sound Characters 236. Emeralds - Solar Bridge35. Vampire Weekend - s/t34. Harvey Milk - Life...33. Stereo Image - s/t32. Christina Carter - Masque Femine31. Malcolm Goldstein - A Sounding of Sources30. Terry Riley - The Last Camel in Paris29. Earth - The Bees Made Honey...28. Scorces - I Turn Into You27. Arther Russell - Love Is Overtaking Me26. Tricky - Knowle West Boy25. Robert Ashley - Concrete24. Jandek - Glasgow Sunday 200523. Group Inerane - Guitars From Agadez22. Hercules & Love Affair - s/t21. Lukas Ligeti - Afrikan Machinery20. Stephan Mathieu - Radioland19. Bill Dixon - 17 Musicians...18. Luomo - Convivial17. Dusk + Blackdown - Margins Music16. Autechre - Quaristice15. Kasai Allstars - In the 7th Moon14. Eric Chenaux - Sloppy Ground13. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Dig thingy12. Ryoji Ikeda - Test Pattern11. Kevin Drumm - Imperial Distortion10. Caretaker - Persstant Repetition9. The Fall - Imperial Wax Solvent8. William S Burroughs - Real English Tea7. Evangelista - Hello Voyager6. Advisory Circle - Other Channels5. Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna4. John Butcher - Resonant Spaces3. The Hospitals - Hairdryer Peace2. Philip Jeck - Sand1. The Bug - London Zoo
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 15:25 (fifteen years ago) link
There's 12 genres! The page starts at Aufgehoben, ends at Robert Wyatt, lots of stuff in between. x-post
― NickB, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 15:26 (fifteen years ago) link
When does Marcello's 2008 albums list get published?
― djmartian, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 15:27 (fifteen years ago) link
backwards lists = UNACCEPTABLE
― Yentl vs Predator (blueski), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 15:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh, I bought London Zoo yesterday! Good, innit?
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 15:28 (fifteen years ago) link
is there an avant rock one? id like to see that. Outer Limits is usually good too.
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 15:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Avant Rock: AufgehobenBurningStarCoreBirchvilleCatMotelBlackMountainDeadCEatSkullFabDiamondsGrowingHairPolishHospitalsHototogisuReligiousKnivesScorcesAlexTuckerValet
― NickB, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 15:31 (fifteen years ago) link
agree w/this!! worst thing about so many indie lists is the tiny nod they give to other genres...
I do like the genre magazine lists because they dig deeper than most, though I also appreciate the lists from bloggers and others that are diverse, when it seems that they honestly like and listen to all that stuff.
Thanks for The Wire list NickB.
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 15:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Other lists show Matmos and Excepter love, go ILX!
― NickB, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 15:34 (fifteen years ago) link
In defence of the NME, the blurbs for the albums are much longer than the past few years.
― Mitchell Stirling, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 16:17 (fifteen years ago) link
AMG Pop (alphabetical)
Erykah Badu - New Amerykah, Pt. 1: 4th World WarBenga - Diary of an Afro WarriorBlack Milk - TronicBrian Blade Fellowship - Season of ChangesAnthony Braxton - Beyond QuantumLindsey Buckingham - Gift of ScrewsBuena Vista Social Club - At Carnegie HallCalexico - Carried to DustLos Campesinos - Hold on Now, Youngster…James Carter - Present TenseColdplay - Viva la VidaElvis Costello & the Imposters - MomofukuRodney Crowell - Sex and GasolineCut Copy - In Ghost ColoursDeerhoof - Offend MaggieDeerhunter - MicrocastleRaheem DeVaughn - Love Behind the MelodyLila Downs - Shake Away/Ojo de CulebraDuffy - RockferryThe Fireman - Electric ArgumentsFleet Foxes - Fleet FoxesThe Foreign Exchange - Leave It All BehindFoxboro Hot Tubs - Stop Drop and Roll!!!Goldfrapp - Seventh TreeGrouper - Dragging a Dead Deer Up a HillJuliana Hatfield - How to Walk AwayHot Chip - Made in the DarkJazzanova - Of All the ThingsKelley Polar - I Need You to Hold on While the Sky Is FallingThe Kills - Midnight BoomB.B. King - One Kind FavorSolange Knowles - Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. DreamsFemi Kuti - Day by DayLeila - Blood, Looms and BloomsJenny Lewis - Acid TongueLil Wayne - Tha Carter IIIShelby Lynne - Just a Little Lovin’M83 - Saturdays=YouthMadlib - WLIB AM: King of the WigflipMGMT - Oracular SpectacularMogwai - The Hawk Is HowlingNe-Yo - Year of the GentlemanWillie Nelson/Wynton Marsalis - Two Men with the BluesThe New Year - The New YearRandy Newman - Harps and AngelsNo Age - NounsOasis - Dig Out Your SoulOsborne - OsbornePortishead - ThirdQ-Tip - The RenaissanceThe Raconteurs - Consolers of the LonelySteve Reid Ensemble - DaxaarR.E.M. - AccelerateRobyn - Robyn (US Bonus Track)Santogold - SantogoldStereolab - Chemical ChordsGeorge Strait - TroubadourJazmine Sullivan - FearlessTaylor Swift - FearlessTimes New Viking - Rip It OffTV on the Radio - Dear ScienceVampire Weekend - Vampire WeekendWeezer - Weezer (Red Album)Paul Weller - 22 Dreams
― francisF, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 16:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Blimey, at long last a list without freaking Dig Lazarus Bastard Dig in it!
― Brother Belcher (Marcello Carlin), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 16:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Rolling Stone's Top 50 albums: http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/24958695/albums_of_the_year/31
I'll type up the singles list shortly (not on website, as far as I can tell)
― Matos W.K., Wednesday, 10 December 2008 16:41 (fifteen years ago) link
"JOCKSON Browne"????
― Brother Belcher (Marcello Carlin), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 16:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Spicoli?
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 16:45 (fifteen years ago) link
JOCKSON Browne = after consumption of Tennent's Super
― djmartian, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 16:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Rolling Stone's Top 100 Singles
1. Beyonce, "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)"2. Santogold, "L.E.S. Artistes"3. MGMT, "Time to Pretend"4. Blitzen Trapper, "Furr"5. Lil Wayne, "Lollipop"6. Beck, "Gamma Ray"7. Estelle ft. Kanye West, "American Boy"8. My Morning Jacket, "I'm Amazed"9. Coldplay, "Viva La Vida"10. T.I., "No Matter What"11. Rihanna, "Disturbia"12. TV on the Radio, "Golden Age"13. Ryan Adams & the Cardinals, "Magick"14. The BPA ft. David Byrne & Dizzee Rascal, "Toe Jam"15. Al Green, "Lay It Down"16. Young Jeezy, "My President"17. The Killers, "Spaceman"18. Kid Rock, "All Summer Long"19. Guns N' Roses, "Better"20. Katy Perry, "I Kissed a Girl"
I'm not sure I'm going to bother with the rest, honestly.
― Matos W.K., Wednesday, 10 December 2008 16:46 (fifteen years ago) link
^^AMG: Finally Deerhoof!
― nerve_pylon, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 16:51 (fifteen years ago) link
The BPA ft. David Byrne & Dizzee Rascal, "Toe Jam"
This is made up, right?
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 16:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Rong.
― Brother Belcher (Marcello Carlin), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 16:59 (fifteen years ago) link