not as much as the pan daijing record that's shown up in a couple of lists though. that thing is a blast
― faust apes (NickB), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 10:39 (six years ago) link
love the arca record too
― nxd, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 10:39 (six years ago) link
King Krule only white male in the top 10
not to call you out specifically but the representational olympics people do with these lists is so silly to me
― Simon H., Tuesday, 12 December 2017 10:41 (six years ago) link
yep
Late Junction list seemed to be another 'obscure stuff only' one, then Arca butts in, then Kendrick and Bjork just to make sure haha
n.b. DAMN is one of the albums of the year, I just don't need it in every list :)
― Cardi Acs (imago), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 10:45 (six years ago) link
xp haha, perhaps
I think it's cool to see traditional biases challenged though, a nice counterpoint to the Ultimate Classic Rock list
― niels, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 10:47 (six years ago) link
both lists are irritating but at least UCR have a limiting remit, pfork are an aggressively editorialised hipster megachurch, in their own way just as conservative as UCR and just as unsurprising
― Cardi Acs (imago), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 10:53 (six years ago) link
they made good #1 and #2 choices though
― Cardi Acs (imago), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 10:54 (six years ago) link
Slowdive only number thirty?! I don’t even know Pitchfork anymore.
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 10:54 (six years ago) link
xp the fact that you find p4k's list predictable does not make the values guiding the selection less important, for comparison here's the 2007 album top 10, equally "predictable" but very different in representation:
10. Burial - Untrue9. The Field - From Here We Go Sublime8. Battles - Mirrored7. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga6. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam5. of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?4. Radiohead - In Rainbows3. M.I.A. - Kala2. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver1. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
― niels, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 11:11 (six years ago) link
and equally irritating! and those are baaaad 1/2 choices haha
― Cardi Acs (imago), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 11:13 (six years ago) link
NPR: The 50 Best Albums Of 2017
https://www.npr.org/2017/12/12/568400855/the-50-best-albums-of-2017
― faust apes (NickB), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 11:51 (six years ago) link
^^ good list. Quite some albums I'd like to check out.
(is this one of the first EOY lists to have included Kesha?)
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 11:59 (six years ago) link
and equally irritating!
Really? I don't like everything in the 2017 list but it's *a lot* less obviously head-in-sand than the 2007 one.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 12:04 (six years ago) link
*cough*
― The Dearth of Stollen (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 12:05 (six years ago) link
i meant that the 2007 list was equally irritating! and perhaps even more so, now you mention it
enjoying Circuit Des Yeux fyi
― Cardi Acs (imago), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 12:06 (six years ago) link
indie list is indie
― The Dearth of Stollen (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 12:08 (six years ago) link
decent NPR list, Ron Miles album sounds great and the ÌFÉ is very interesting
― niels, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 12:36 (six years ago) link
Most of the records on that 2007 list are really well remembered, though? It's not 'head-in-sand' as much as it's from a genre website, and focuses on that genre. A very white, very male genre. It's kinda interesting that the first poc to top the pitchfork list was Kanye in 2010, but now it's happened 6 out of 8 years this decade. Indie is dead, band music in general is kinda dead, even the indierockers they put on their list is mostly solo acts. It's also old news, and seeing Kendrick top the list for the third time with a not that original album makes me think a backlash could be on the way. That is kinda the most boring choice they could have made.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 13:26 (six years ago) link
yeah lists are much better if you top them with some random obscuro shit just to blow minds
― The Dearth of Stollen (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 13:30 (six years ago) link
I have not heard a single album on that NPR list, damn
― frogbs, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 13:30 (six years ago) link
― The Dearth of Stollen (Noodle Vague), 12. december 2017 14:30 (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Or Taylor Swift. Now that would have been a mindfuck!
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 13:33 (six years ago) link
'boring choices' are the natural result of these sort of consensus lists, and this year wasn't really one for 'event albums' in the way that the last two years had been
― ufo, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 13:35 (six years ago) link
it's weird it's like popular things are popular
― The Dearth of Stollen (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 13:37 (six years ago) link
Pitchfork should have picked an album they never even reviewed, preferably one from 1993. Only available on CD-Rom.
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 13:41 (six years ago) link
I feel like that Pitchfork list is exactly the kind of list a whole lot of people used to give them shit for years for not producing. There's a lot of stuff on there I personally don't like (and a lot that I do) but the vast majority of those artists are at the very least pretty adventurous and forward-thinking, and taken as a whole it's a group that's going in a lot of different directions (R&B, folk, electronic, hip-hop, etc.).
― evol j, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 13:48 (six years ago) link
Mixmag - Top 100 Tracks of 2017http://mixmag.net/feature/the-top-100-tracks-of-2017
― faust apes (NickB), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 13:53 (six years ago) link
god I bet there's no indie in that list at all
― The Dearth of Stollen (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 13:53 (six years ago) link
mixmag list is almost unreadable on my work computer so if anyone feels the urge to post the thing in plain text...
― faust apes (NickB), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 13:54 (six years ago) link
top 10 looks great but i had to wait several minutes for it to load and for some reason the font was about eight times the size of my monitor
― nxd, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 13:56 (six years ago) link
15'GLUTES’ PATRICE BÄUMEL (AFTERLIFE)
aw i think this track is just the best, glad to see it on the mixmag list
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 13:57 (six years ago) link
decent NPR list, Ron Miles album sounds great and the ÌFÉ is very interesting― niels, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 12:36 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― niels, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 12:36 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yeah this ÌFÉ is beautiful.
― Choco Blavatsky (seandalai), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 14:33 (six years ago) link
this is a fun listhttp://bittersoutherner.com/the-best-southern-albums-of-2017https://open.spotify.com/user/thebittersoutherner/playlist/1RUQPusiY1kqt7JIBBTbzb
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 15:08 (six years ago) link
Kinda typical southern indie, rap & Americana list. But no soul like Ms Jody, no gospel...
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 15:15 (six years ago) link
Rolling Stone - best pop albums:http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/20-best-pop-albums-of-2017-w513516
― faust apes (NickB), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 16:12 (six years ago) link
This thread has enough warmed over irony to last anyone another whole year.
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 16:41 (six years ago) link
Has anyone linked this already? Said the Gramophone’s Bedt 100 songs of 2017. Nice one as always and several songs that went under my radar:
http://www.saidthegramophone.com/archives/best_songs_of_2017.php
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 16:48 (six years ago) link
he linked it himself! but seems p interesting yeah
― Cardi Acs (imago), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 16:53 (six years ago) link
FACT: The 20 best house and techno tracks of 2017http://www.factmag.com/2017/12/12/best-house-techno-tracks-2017/
― faust apes (NickB), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 17:09 (six years ago) link
well at least bicep got on the genre list. it deserves much better
― gospodin simmel, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 18:01 (six years ago) link
I liked some of the photos in that record but I didn't agree with writing words on the screen, stopping the picture when the music pause, or any of the music
― saer, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 18:59 (six years ago) link
I was going to risk playing one of the other records on that list but I saw the words bittersweet banger, and coupled with its inauspicious first selection I decided to watch that video of Jack Charlton rapping again instead
― saer, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 19:01 (six years ago) link
Nigerian Entertainment Today - 10 Best Albums of 2017http://thenet.ng/net-list-10-best-albums-2017/
― faust apes (NickB), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 19:04 (six years ago) link
mixmag tracks list is out http://mixmag.net/feature/the-top-100-tracks-of-2017
― austinb, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 22:33 (six years ago) link
Yay, Mr Eazi is #2 on Nigerian list.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 22:36 (six years ago) link
fwiw here is what I played on the radio that I actually enjoyed, I also played some bad indie records by GBV and Orb and others.
basically in chronological order through the year...
Ty Segall - S/TMoon Duo - Occult Architecture Vol. 1Sleater-Kinney - Live In ParisThe Feelies - In BetweenPink Martini - Je Dis Oui!Gas - NarkopopCherry Glazerr - ApocalipstickUnited Bible Studies - Soregh, Murne & FastKing Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Flying Microtonal BananaTinariwen - ElvanRobyn Hitchcock - S/TThe Jesus & Mary Chain - Damage & JoyNicole Mitchell - Mandorla IIGraeme Miller & Steve Shill - Moomins OST (archival)Mountain Goats - GothsAndre Cymose - Black Man In America EPKing Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Murder Of The UniversePissed Jeans - Why Love Now?Magnetix - Live In San FranciscoShe-Devils - ComeHusker Du - Savage Young Du (reissue/archival)Neil Young - Hitchhiker (archival)Mdou Moctar - Sousoume TamachekCornelius - Mellow WavesOh Sees - OrcZola Jesus - OkoviLee Ranaldo - Electric TrimAvery Tare - EucalyptusZimpel/Ziołek - S/TCourtney Barnett & Kurt Vile - Lotta Sea LiceDelia Gonzalez - Horse Follows DarknessTSA (a.k.a. Robyn Nice) - Home Of The Green WaveAna Poulo - Poulo WaraliMichael Hurley - Redbirds At Folk City (archival)
― sleeve, Wednesday, 13 December 2017 01:43 (six years ago) link
I didn't know there was a Robyn Hitchcock album this year, probably because it's been about fifteen years since I worked with the one person I ever knew who was a big fan.
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 13 December 2017 01:48 (six years ago) link
that's Andre *Cymone*, obv.
― sleeve, Wednesday, 13 December 2017 01:52 (six years ago) link
and the Tinariwen album is "Elwan"
the Avey Tare album is really good, and I have historically disliked his work. Eyvind Kang & Jessika Kenney are all over it as hired guns.
― sleeve, Wednesday, 13 December 2017 01:53 (six years ago) link
Hey Dinsdale thanks for posting that Columnfortably Numb list
― the underground is pass-agg (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 13 December 2017 03:25 (six years ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/the-20-best-rock-albums-of-2017/
1. King Krule - The OOZ2. The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding3. LCD Soundsystem - American Dream4. Julien Baker - Turn Out the Lights5. Big Thief - Capacity6. Priests - Nothing Feels Natural7. Jay Som - Everybody Works8. Slowdive - Slowdive9. Fleet Foxes - Crack-Up10. Vagabon - Infinite Worlds11. Girlpool - Powerplant12. Broken Social Scene - Hug of Thunder13. Waxahatchee - Out in the Storm14. The Afghan Whigs - In Spades15. The Courtneys - II16. The National - Sleep Well Beast17. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Polygondwanaland18. Tonstartssbandht - Sorcerer19. Destroyer - ken20. White Reaper - The World’s Best American Band
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 13 December 2017 07:17 (six years ago) link