Stereogum has strong feelings about Deafheaven and Marrow of the Spirit, I can see how Nux Vomica would appeal.
― jmm, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 16:23 (nine years ago) link
i don't see a connection beyond long-ass songs
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 16:25 (nine years ago) link
I don't honestly see the difference between the stereogum list and most of the other lists in this thread.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― emil.y, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 16:25 (nine years ago) link
glad someone said it.
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 16:26 (nine years ago) link
keepin it 100, truth 2 power
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 16:34 (nine years ago) link
The Babyface-Braxton album hasn't left rotation in my place; I'm tempted to put it at the top thanks to overplay.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 16:37 (nine years ago) link
I'm way more interested in singles/tracks list. Albums lists are pretty much always going to resemble each other unless it's from a specialty publication (even our ILM list will have a ton of what's in this thread). Song lists are where you can get into some real differences.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 16:38 (nine years ago) link
would like to see J-Hud's album on a few lists.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 16:39 (nine years ago) link
preset values, imagine
― why do I hate that thing (excluding imago, marcos) (wins), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 16:40 (nine years ago) link
I wouldn't bother reading it but the headline made me laugh:
9 albums from 2014 that blow U2's Songs of Innocence out of the waterhttp://www.vox.com/2014/12/2/7319253/best-music-2014
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 16:54 (nine years ago) link
9 whole albums!
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 16:55 (nine years ago) link
one of them is the Foo Fighters though so it's technically only 8
I would rather listen to Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever: Official Soundtrack than the new U2 album
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 16:57 (nine years ago) link
Metacritic aggregates the EOY lists: http://www.metacritic.com/feature/critics-pick-top-10-albums-of-2014
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 16:58 (nine years ago) link
just realized you were talking about the post-rockiness of these records, so yeah, otm. haven't listened to the nux vomica in a few months and it's considerably grindier in memory
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 17:06 (nine years ago) link
Textura Top 40 http://www.textura.org/reviews/2104top10s.htm
01. Julia Wolfe: Steel Hammer (Cantaloupe Music)02. Maria Schneider Featuring Dawn Upshaw: Winter Morning Walks (Artistshare)03. Lenzman: Looking At The Stars (Metalheadz)04. Brooklyn Rider: The Brooklyn Rider Almanac (Mercury Classics)05. CYNE: All My Angles Are Right (Hometapes)06. Vicky Chow: Tristan Perich: Surface Image (New Amsterdam Records)07. David Lang: Love Fail (Cantaloupe Music)08. yMusic: Balance Problems (New Amsterdam Records)09. Maya Beiser: Uncovered (Innova Records)10. Wadada Leo Smith: The Great Lakes Suites (Tum Records)11. Michael Nyman: Symphony No 11: Hillsborough Memorial (Mn Records)12. Christopher Tignor: Thunder Lay Down In The Heart (Western Vinyl)13. Michael Robinson: Lucknow Shimmer / Hummingbird Canyon (Azure Miles Records)14. Alexander Turnquist: Flying Fantasy (Western Vinyl)15. Jane Ira Bloom: Sixteen Sunsets (Outline)16. Marvin Ayres: Ultraradian Rhythms (Wall Of Waves / Market Square)17. Brock Van Wey: Home (Echospace Detroit)18. Octet Ensemble: Scatter My Ashes (Belarca Records)19. Hammock: Oblivion Hymns (Hammock Music)20. Emilia Martensson: Ana (Babel)21. Stein Urheim: Stein Urheim (Hubro)22. Death Blues: Ensemble ( Rhythmplex )23. Ken Thomson: Thaw (Cantaloupe Music)24. Bruno Sanfilippo: ClarOscuro (Ad21)25. Mary Halvorson: Reverse Blue (Relative Pitch Records)26. Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble: Intergalactic Beings (FPE Records)27. 36: Dream Tempest (3six Recordings)28. Maxwell August Croy And Sean Mccann: I (Students Of Decay)29. Robert Hood: M-Print: 20 Years Of M-Plant Music (M-Plant)30. Ken Thomson And Slow/Fast: Settle (NCM East Records)31. Dday One: Dialogue With Life (The Content (L)Abel)32. Mark Lomax Trio: Isis And Osiris (Inarhyme Records)33. P.J. Philipson: Peaks (Little Cracked Rabbit)34. Ian William Craig: A Turn Of Breath (Recital)35. Mark Templeton + Kyle Armstrong: Extensions (Graphical)36. Grouper: Ruins (Kranky)37. Neil Leonard: For Kounellis (Gasp Records)38. Girma Yifrashewa: Love And Peace (Unseen Worlds)39. Carl Hultgren: Tomorrow (Blue Flea)40. David Pritchard: Among The Missing (Morphic Resonance)
― millmeister, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 17:07 (nine years ago) link
...and compilations
01. VA: Platinumbreaks Vol 4 (Metalheadz)02. VA: Emerging Organisms Vol 5 (Tympanik Audio)03. VA: Aphelion (Token)04. VA: Total 14 (Kompakt)05. Maya Jane Coles: Fabric 75 (Fabric)06. VA: Future Disco 7 (Needwant)07. VA: 7 Years Of Outcross Records (Outcross Records)08. VA: Anomalie3 (Gravite)09. VA: 15 Shades Of White (Dronarivm)10. VA: The Silence Was Warm Vol. 5 (Symbolic Interaction)
that Hammock album is great but I never listen to it
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 17:08 (nine years ago) link
I think part of the clickbait strategy is picking a random number (9, 13, 28) so it feels less like a curated list and more like a conversation.
xposts
― Evan, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 17:09 (nine years ago) link
I thought Spoon would be much higher on all the indie leaning lists.
― Evan, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 17:10 (nine years ago) link
Just relistened the other day. Still great, they remain an astoundingly underrated act.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 17:13 (nine years ago) link
26. Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble: Intergalactic Beings (FPE Records)
oooh, wanna hear this
― sleeve, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 17:16 (nine years ago) link
― Evan, Tuesday, December 2, 2014 12:10 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i found myself nonplussed by it aside from the first single and "rent i pay"
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 17:28 (nine years ago) link
I'm not particularly invested in the album myself either. I was just expecting it to show up more often.
― Evan, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 17:29 (nine years ago) link
gotcha. yeah it is definitely catnip to those people, what gives
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 17:30 (nine years ago) link
"those people"
― i did it all for the 'nuki (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 17:44 (nine years ago) link
I could support marginalizing Spoon fans in 2014 with total derision.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 17:45 (nine years ago) link
ilx jumping over itself to make sure everyone knows it doesn't have indie cooties: an xmas tradition since 2001
― i did it all for the 'nuki (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 17:46 (nine years ago) link
― i did it all for the 'nuki (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, December 2, 2014 12:44 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
are you seriously gonna zing me for this jesus fucking christ
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 17:47 (nine years ago) link
wait, i already know the answer to that
chill out man
― i did it all for the 'nuki (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 17:48 (nine years ago) link
but in the interests of not being a glib total dick, i'll clarify: I meant more the editors/listmakers/whatever who would include that record on a list just to check off a box even if it was meh (which it isn't in this case, just wasn't something i loved like previous spoon records)
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 17:50 (nine years ago) link
CTRL + F: Isaiah Rashad "not found." What gives?
― quan voice (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 17:50 (nine years ago) link
released early in the year, easily forgot (tbf i haven't listened since it came out) but it was pretty impressive! i feel the same way about oxymoron but that was underrated from the jump imo
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 17:53 (nine years ago) link
...would include that record on a list just to check off a box even if it was meh
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, December 2, 2014 12:50 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This is what I'm talking about. I feel like I'm seeing other albums that I suspect are in lists for this reason, yet not Spoon who I'd expect. But maybe that whole premise is pure cynicism about the list making process.
― Evan, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 18:09 (nine years ago) link
It's kind of exciting that I haven't even HEARD of anything on that Textura list
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 18:15 (nine years ago) link
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, December 2, 2014 11:28 AM (47 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 18:16 (nine years ago) link
Isaiah R will get a slot in my top singles, but the album...eh. Bad year for Black Hippy.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 18:18 (nine years ago) link
I didn't really like These Days... but I feel like I'm one of the only ones who remembers that Oxymoron even came out this year and still bangs, despite that painful Prescription-Oxymoron to The Purge stretch.
― quan voice (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 18:21 (nine years ago) link
Oxymoron did have a couple bangers, didn't it? But maybe it tried to be too many things to too many audiences.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 18:23 (nine years ago) link
have heard quite a few of them but yes, i do like lists where it feels like you've just lifted up a rock and found umpteen new species of fauna below
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 18:23 (nine years ago) link
OTM
― sleeve, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 18:24 (nine years ago) link
btw Nicole Mitchell rules, all 3 albums I've heard are great AACM-influenced psychedelic jazz
― sleeve, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 18:25 (nine years ago) link
it's heartbreak when you find out they're all actually spoon spin-offs xp
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 18:25 (nine years ago) link
these days was wild boring, if not abjectly bad. Oxymoron is really, really good. it's got holes ("studio," the bonus tracks) but it works across the 12 proper tracks more or less.
i actually like "prescription" as far as intense personal black hippy tracks go it's no "sing about me" or "m.A.A.d city", but i bought it.
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 18:27 (nine years ago) link
I loved Oxymoron a lot and played "Los Awesome" to death this year
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 18:31 (nine years ago) link
"Los Awesome" is a ton of fun, agreed
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 18:34 (nine years ago) link
i liked oxymoron at first but i've really cooled off on it and am not feeling it much anymore. still like the isaiah rashad album tho.
xps to a million posts above, it is wholly predictable that an indie-leaning list would include the eric church album considering the main reason it appears to have caught those ppl's attn in the first place was its overbearing rock-rebel posturing
― dyl, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 18:39 (nine years ago) link
Isaiah Rashad is definitely great. Don't know yet where it will fall in my personal rankings, but it will be there.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 18:40 (nine years ago) link
holy shit at Nux Vomica on that Stereogum list! good on the 'gum for that one.
you know there was some discussion at HQ about that one vs. Woods of Desolation. "well, we put a post-rock-y metal album way up high last year, let's go crustier this year" ... no Deafheaven last year, I bet WoD is 9 and Nux Vomica is 25 or w/e
srsly, tho, I appreciate Stereogum's metal coverage in general.
― alpine static, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 18:51 (nine years ago) link