lol @ the top 50
― lex pretend, Monday, 24 November 2014 13:10 (nine years ago) link
haha
― charlie h, Monday, 24 November 2014 13:20 (nine years ago) link
Mojo:
1. Beck - Morning Phase2. The War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream3. Sleaford Mods - Divide And Exit4. Jack White - Lazaretto5. St. Vincent - St. Vincent6. Steve Gunn - Way Out Weather7. Julie Byrne - Rooms With Walls And Windows8. Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots9. FKA Twigs - LP110. The Bug - Angels & Devils11. Sharon Van Etten - Are We There12. Caribou - Our Love13. Ty Segall - Manipulator14. Elbow - The Take Off And Landing Of Everything15. Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds In Country Music16. Wild Beasts - Present Tense17. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness18. Kate Tempest - Everybody Down19. Robert Plant - Lullaby And... The Ceaseless Roar20. Manic Street Preachers - Futurology21. Aphex Twin - Syro22. Future Islands - Singles23. Scott Walker & Sun O))) - Soused24. Mirel Wagner - When The Cellar Children See The Light Of Day25. Pharrell Williams - GIRL26. Sun Kil Moon - Benji27. East India Youth - Total Strife Forever28. Real Estate - Atlas29. Kasai All Stars - Beware The Fetish30. Leonard Cohen - Popular Problems31. Morrissey - World Peace Is None Of Your Business32. Temples - Sun Structures33. U2 - Songs Of Innocence34. The Black Keys - Turn Blue35. Nick Mulvey - First Mind36. Flying Lotus - You're Dead!37. Naomi Shelton & The Gospel Queens - Cold World38. Ian William Craig - A Turn Of Breath39. Mac DeMarco - Salad Days40. Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence41. Lee Gamble - KOCH42. Swans - To Be Kind43. David Kilgour & The Heavy 8s - End Times Undone44. Wilko Johnson & Roger Daltrey - Going Back Home45. Neil Young - A Letter Home46. J Mascis - Tied To A Star47. Young Fathers - Dead48. Pixies - Indie Cindy49. King Creosote - From Scotland With Love50. Dr. John - Ske-Dat-De-Dat... The Spirit Of Satch
NB: 27 of the Mojo 50 are also in the Q 50.
― mike t-diva, Monday, 24 November 2014 14:14 (nine years ago) link
in what world is the Mojo top 50 more interesting than the Q one? (not that there's much in it. must be an extremely lousy year for guitar music if War on Drugs are top 2)
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Monday, 24 November 2014 14:18 (nine years ago) link
24. Mirel Wagner - When The Cellar Children See The Light Of Day
whoop whoop!
― lex pretend, Monday, 24 November 2014 14:23 (nine years ago) link
must be an extremely lousy year for guitar music if War on Drugs are top 2
It isn't, but since when have Mojo and Q stood for 'guitar music' as opposed to 'music that your elderly conservative dad might like'?
― emil.y, Monday, 24 November 2014 14:26 (nine years ago) link
i think half my own top 10, as it currently stands, is comprised of guitar music this year
― lex pretend, Monday, 24 November 2014 14:28 (nine years ago) link
xpost I know, I know. Just didn't want to miss an opportunity to dig my elbow into WoD. Still, cool to imagine Mojo readers getting into Lee Gamble. And Sleaford Mods at 3 is pretty surprising.
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Monday, 24 November 2014 14:30 (nine years ago) link
they had karen gwyer in their list last year - there's always one or two things you wouldn't necessarily expect
― john wahey (NickB), Monday, 24 November 2014 14:33 (nine years ago) link
and 48 or 49 you totally would tbf
i think i'm gonna feel disconnected from a lot of critics polls this year. again.
― Face facts poptimism hacks, your a scam. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 24 November 2014 14:45 (nine years ago) link
"Disconnected" is a few steps better than what musicians call this time of year ("Suicidal Ideation Month")
― mango unchained (fgti), Monday, 24 November 2014 14:48 (nine years ago) link
Seems a lot of people really love that snoozy Beck album
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Monday, 24 November 2014 14:57 (nine years ago) link
i think the height of hilarity is that mojo managed to squeeze the dogshit pixies album on there - not that one expects anything from them other than "real" guitar music with "integrity," but, that record was actively bad. smacks of desperation.
― search datpiff, you'll find it (slothroprhymes), Monday, 24 November 2014 15:42 (nine years ago) link
War on Drugs will win P&J, won't they?
― Frederik B, Monday, 24 November 2014 15:47 (nine years ago) link
good lord
― maura, Monday, 24 November 2014 15:48 (nine years ago) link
so... many... dudes
― maura, Monday, 24 November 2014 15:58 (nine years ago) link
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― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 24 November 2014 15:58 (nine years ago) link
It'll be interesting to see how much love, say, Ex Hex gets on these lists.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 24 November 2014 15:59 (nine years ago) link
could it win the ilx poll though? xp
― john wahey (NickB), Monday, 24 November 2014 15:59 (nine years ago) link
hell. no.
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Monday, 24 November 2014 16:06 (nine years ago) link
:(
― maura, Monday, 24 November 2014 16:07 (nine years ago) link
War on Drugs? I'll leave ilx if that happens.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 24 November 2014 16:07 (nine years ago) link
that'd eclipse kaputt
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Monday, 24 November 2014 16:11 (nine years ago) link
already pretty sure what the top 3 will be for ILM but i'm never right, so i'm probably wrong.
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Monday, 24 November 2014 16:12 (nine years ago) link
not even comparable with kaputt, which may have been indie but was also total ilx catnip.
― Tim F, Monday, 24 November 2014 16:13 (nine years ago) link
However, I do hope that War on Drugs makes the top 77 and Sun Kil Moon does not, because fuck Mark Kozelek.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 24 November 2014 16:17 (nine years ago) link
this is going to be a year where I'm disconnected from all critics' lists but only because I don't exactly have albums to substitute
― katherine, Monday, 24 November 2014 16:19 (nine years ago) link
part of me hopes War on Drugs tops Pazz & Jop albums and "War on Drugs: Suck my Cock" tops the singles.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 24 November 2014 16:20 (nine years ago) link
lol
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 24 November 2014 16:22 (nine years ago) link
Right now this year seems reminscent of 2011 in that there isn't really a strong a consensus pick for AOTY, and that year Tune-Yards managed to win Pazz & Jop. War on Drugs seems like the closest thing to one, with St. Vincent maybe being a runner up.
Meanwhile on ILX, I'm half expecting Taylor Swift to win the year end poll.
― MarkoP, Monday, 24 November 2014 16:22 (nine years ago) link
not even comparable with kaputt, which may have been indie but was also total ilx catnip.― Tim F, Monday, November 24, 2014 4:13 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Tim F, Monday, November 24, 2014 4:13 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I meant in terms of divisiveness. I wasn't taken with it at first but I've definitely warmed to it over time.
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Monday, 24 November 2014 16:22 (nine years ago) link
FKA twigs seemed like a sure-fire favorite a few months ago, but its profile has diminished a lot in just a short time based on polls I've seen so far (though the polls I've seen so far are more rock-oriented/specialized).
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 24 November 2014 16:24 (nine years ago) link
FKA Twigs, St Vincent and OP are ILM locks for sure.
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Monday, 24 November 2014 16:25 (nine years ago) link
not sure what the consensus is with TSwift. I'm not a follower, but I liked 'Shake It Off' quite a bit and I'm surprised ILM fans weren't so keen on it.
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Monday, 24 November 2014 16:26 (nine years ago) link
we've got other T-Swift singles to think about.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 November 2014 16:27 (nine years ago) link
― Frederik B, Monday, November 24, 2014 10:47 AM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
St. Vincent, albumsTaylor, singles
book it.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 24 November 2014 16:27 (nine years ago) link
The thing I can imagine War on Drugs doing the best in is Readers Polls.
― MarkoP, Monday, 24 November 2014 16:28 (nine years ago) link
st vincent seems about as consensus an album as there's been
taylor, surely not? so many critics hate that single
― lex pretend, Monday, 24 November 2014 16:33 (nine years ago) link
Yeah I think Whiney's right. War on Drugs and FKA twigs for the Top 5.
I don't much like Shake It Off but there hasn't been a Get Lucky/Call Me Maybe this year so I don't know what else would be #1.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Monday, 24 November 2014 16:34 (nine years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/thequietus/girl-band-why-they-hide-their
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 24 November 2014 16:36 (nine years ago) link
there hasn't been a Get Lucky/Call Me Maybe this year
For a while it seemed like Pharrell's "Happy" would never go the fuck away, so I'm glad it finally did.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 24 November 2014 16:38 (nine years ago) link
"happy" hasn't gone the fuck away nearly enough, but it's 2013 (and it's not like it only exploded this year, it was huge on release and just never fucked off)
in terms of ubiquitous commercial success the song of 2014 is obviously "fancy" but no one really reps for it among critics. oh and that fucking meghan trainor atrocity as well
― lex pretend, Monday, 24 November 2014 16:40 (nine years ago) link
also "rude"
― katherine, Monday, 24 November 2014 16:41 (nine years ago) link
Oh god
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 24 November 2014 16:42 (nine years ago) link
this not being on Spotify might knock it out of the top spot (kind of like Beyonce last year--though that came out way late in the year too)
― ILoveMeconium (President Keyes), Monday, 24 November 2014 16:43 (nine years ago) link
i have still managed to avoid hearing the entirety of "rude" :)
"hideaway" maybe? not in any other year but it was pretty ubiquitous and people seemed weirdly invested in kiesza as an artist rather than one hit wonder
― lex pretend, Monday, 24 November 2014 16:43 (nine years ago) link
huh, I thought it was the opposite in just about every way (only ubiquitous among critic/indie-types, no one giving a shit about kiesza as an artist)
― katherine, Monday, 24 November 2014 16:44 (nine years ago) link
Anybody other than me voting for Lana this year?
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 24 November 2014 16:44 (nine years ago) link
i feel like if t-swift's previous couple of albums didn't come near topping the ilx poll, this won't either. sure she's increased her mainstream fanbase but i think in ilx terms it's pretty much the same
― lex pretend, Monday, 24 November 2014 16:44 (nine years ago) link