like the tail-end splatters of a comet of shit
― john wahey (NickB), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 09:52 (nine years ago) link
Also Thom Yorke at #37 with an album precisely no one was enthusiastic about.
'Syro' has been near the top of virtually every list.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 10:10 (nine years ago) link
at least the NME picked a decent number 1, I'll give them credit for that.
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 10:15 (nine years ago) link
i don't know who Mac Demarco is. Think there was a guy who used to work in my office called M4tt Demarco so maybe that's why?
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 10:16 (nine years ago) link
Can we now have the obligatory bit where people complain about the lack of hip-hop and R&B in the Uncut list?
― Unsettled defender (ithappens), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 10:17 (nine years ago) link
Actually, Twigs at 4 in he Uncut list is pretty jaw dropping. Related to the departure of Allan Jones?
― Unsettled defender (ithappens), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 10:18 (nine years ago) link
Only one mention of Mercury Award winners Young Fathers in this whole thread.
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 10:18 (nine years ago) link
It's because no one cares about them.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 10:21 (nine years ago) link
NME Tracks
50 | Alt-J | Hunger Of The Pine49 | David Bowie | Sue (Or In A Season of Crime)48 | Ariel Pink | Put Your Number In My Phone47 | Gruff Rhys | American Interior46 | Flying Lotus | Never Catch Me (feat. Kendrick Lamar)45 | Sun Kil Moon | Ben's My Friend44 | Juce | Call You Out43 | SBTRKT | New Dorp New York (feat. Erza Koenig)42 | Ex Hex | Hot and Cold41 | La Roux | Uptight Downtown40 | Sleater-Kinney | Bury Our Friends39 | Protomartyr | Scum, Rise!38 | Morrissey | Kiss Me A Lot37 | Sharon Van Etten | Every Time The Sun Comes Up36 | Noel Gallagher's Flying Birds | In The Heat of The Moment35 | Manic Street Preachers | Futurology34 | The War On Drugs | Under The Pressure33 | Death From Above 1979 | White Is Red32 | Lana Del Ray | Ultraviolence31 | Cherry Glazerr | Had Ten Dollaz30 | Perfume Genuis | Queen29 | Slaves | Where's Your Car Debbie?28 | Interpol | All The Rage Back Home27 | Taylor Swift | Shake It Off26 | Mac DeMarco | Passing Out Pieces25 | Warpaint | Disco//Very24 | St. Vincent | Prince Johnny23 | Damon Albarn | The Selfish Giant22 | Run The Jewels | Close Your Eyes (And Count To Fuck)21 | Jamie T | Love Is Only A Heartbeat Away20 | Honeyblood | Super Rat19 | Alvvays | Archie, Marry Me18 | Aphex Twin | minipops 67 (Source field remix)17 | Iceage | The Lord's Favourite16 | Shamir | I Know It's A Good Thing15 | Kate Tempest | Marshall Law14 | Jack White | Lazaretto13 | Jungle | Busy Earnin'12 | Merchandise | Little Killer11 | Lana Del Ray | West Coast10 | Mac DeMarco | Chamber of Reflection09 | Royal Blood | Little Monster08 | Jamie T | Zombie07 | St. Vincent | Digital Witness06 | Kasabian | Eez-eh05 | Run The Jewels | Blockbuster Night Pt. 104 | The War On Drugs | Red Eyes03 | Fat White Family | Touch The Leather02 | Caribou | Can't Do Without You01 | Future Islands | Seasons (Waiting On You)
― Mitchell Stirling, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 10:22 (nine years ago) link
^^^ Rock is dead.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 10:23 (nine years ago) link
And they come good with their number one single too.
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 10:25 (nine years ago) link
11 | Lana Del Ray | West Coast
how is it that even now no professional publication seems able to spell this woman's name right
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 10:41 (nine years ago) link
the new missy elliott
no Horrors album in the NME list? baffling.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 10:46 (nine years ago) link
boy am i missing something re that Caribou album/ band.
no horrors - that is weird... it's a good album!
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 10:47 (nine years ago) link
I think this is probably just one spelling mistake that is being replicated by the autofill of my spreadsheet.
― Mitchell Stirling, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 10:48 (nine years ago) link
Erza KoenigPerfume Genuis
I think you do it on purpose.
― nashwan, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 11:18 (nine years ago) link
so much empty music AARRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGhhhhhhhhhh
― Raccoon Tanuki, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 11:23 (nine years ago) link
UK consensus picks - there are 12 albums which appear in the Q, Mojo, Uncut and NME Top 50s: Aphex Twin, Caribou, FKA Twigs, Future Islands, Jack White, Kate Tempest, Morrissey, Sharon Van Etten, Sleaford Mods, St. Vincent, The War On Drugs, Wild Beasts.
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 12:10 (nine years ago) link
When people look back in 20 years time at these lists they will have the same reaction for Sleaford Mods as we do now at 90s lists with Carter USM.
― strychnine, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 12:17 (nine years ago) link
Carter USM had a number one album and headlined Glastonbury, that's the bit that makes them baffling. Sleaford Mods is more like some random Fall album placing.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 12:21 (nine years ago) link
In the absence of a consensus rap pick, Aphex Twin easily wins the genre tokenism award this year
― Simon H., Wednesday, 26 November 2014 12:24 (nine years ago) link
what genre is that?
― anvil, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 12:27 (nine years ago) link
EDM
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 12:36 (nine years ago) link
feel like the gibbs/madlib album is the consensus rap pick thus far as it's def on the lists that historically have paid lip service at best to the genre, so it'll prob be on the more wide-ranging lists as well
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 12:51 (nine years ago) link
I'm with NehruvianDOOM all the way as rap album of the year.
― Raccoon Tanuki, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 13:09 (nine years ago) link
the guardian list begins...http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/nov/26/-sp-the-best-albums-of-2014
40. Tricky - Adrian Thaws39. Sharon Van Etten - Are We There38. Toumani Diabate and Sidiki Diabate - Toumani & Sidiki37. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Pinata36. Ex Hex - Rips35. Peggy Seeger - Everything Changes34. Jamie T - Carry on the Grudge33. Scott Walker and Sunn O))) - Soused32. Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty31. Leonard Cohen - Popular Problems
― john wahey (NickB), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 14:22 (nine years ago) link
kinda promising but they should learn how to spell sunn though for real
When is THE WIRE playlist coming out?
― soltolina, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 14:37 (nine years ago) link
Amazed at the NME having such great number ones on both their lists.
Agree that it's pretty shocking they didn't find room for The Horrors. Especially when they got Interpol and Julian Casablancas in there.
I know it's too easy to mock the NME these days but they really should be ashamed for having that Kasabian single so high. I saw them dong it on Jools Holland and it reminded me of something from Nathan Barley.
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 14:38 (nine years ago) link
Always annoys me how these lists come out earlier and earlier every year. Each publication wants their list to be the first one, so that readers/clickers won't bother reading any others. But there's a whole month to go.
― rising stones cross (anagram), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 14:53 (nine years ago) link
Any major lists left to declare?
― strychnine, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 14:57 (nine years ago) link
Kasabian sound and look like what would happen if Noel Fielding and Robbie Williams formed a band.
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 14:59 (nine years ago) link
well, didn't noel f join kasabian on stage at glastonbury ?
― mark e, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 15:02 (nine years ago) link
i wouldn't know
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 15:05 (nine years ago) link
wtf with this War On Drugs garbage
― sleeve, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 15:07 (nine years ago) link
Right? Legalize it.
― Evan, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 16:16 (nine years ago) link
how many of the publications that failed to put beyoncé on their lists last yr due to timing are going to ignore it this year too
― dyl, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 16:23 (nine years ago) link
man I love that Shabazz Palaces album
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 16:37 (nine years ago) link
it's really good, I should jam that on our Thanksgiving road trip tonight
― sleeve, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 16:38 (nine years ago) link
beyonce - validated commercially, slagged critically because RELEASING IN LATE DECEMBER WTF
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 16:43 (nine years ago) link
What's so vital in January and February that all the mags and websites have to publish lists in November and December before everything's even been released/digested? I sort of get it. No one wants to kick off a new year thinking about the last one, but Beyonce is getting snubbed and it ain't right.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 16:49 (nine years ago) link
(Personally speaking the album would've had a better shot on a Top Ten list of mine had she released in October or November.)
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 16:50 (nine years ago) link
As I wrote above, imo it's less about not wanting to think about the old year in Jan/Feb, and more about the websites all wanting to get their clickbait in as early as possible.
xp
― rising stones cross (anagram), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 16:52 (nine years ago) link
beyoncé is not getting "snubbed" as though she needs the validation of an EOY list
beyoncé is showing up EOY lists and the clickbaity desperation of their timing
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 16:54 (nine years ago) link
i mean EOY lists are meant to be historical artefacts more than anything else. EOY lists from way back in the day like the 90s still get pulled up whereas individual reviews don't. in 20 years if anyone pulls up the 2013 lists and sees no beyoncé it'll just render that list a little more meaningless
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 16:56 (nine years ago) link
Beyoncé don't need EOY, EOY needs Beyoncé. And anyway, she'll show them EOD.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 17:09 (nine years ago) link
i don't think beyoncé really cares about eoy critics lists (she's not solange), her eyes have always been on the long game of scooping the grammy aoty award. that's the reason she's releasing the otherwise pointless platinum edition now and putting the album on spotify and videos on youtube so as to give the album momentum before votes are cast. whether nme or p4k have it on a list is pretty small fry.
― prolego, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 17:29 (nine years ago) link
Putting Beyonce in a 2015 list would be so so lame.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 17:30 (nine years ago) link