i'm all ears
― jaymc, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 06:01 (nine years ago) link
granted i have not had sex with you mordy but i'm gonna go out on a limb and say you are prob someone who could pick up some sex tips from cosmo
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 3 December 2014 06:01 (nine years ago) link
1. Taylor Swift, 1989 - I need to spend more time with this......4. Miranda Lambert, Platinum - Can't bring myself to listen to this, even tho I've def liked M. Lambert songs in the past5. First Aid Kit, Stay Gold - Don't know anything about them...11. One Direction, Four - Huh. Should I listen to this?......14. Various Artists, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 - Feel weird listening to soundtracks before I see the movie, so I will withhold judgment until I do...19. Perfume Genius, Too Bright - Need to listen to this with closer attention...
― jaymc, Wednesday, December 3, 2014 12:59 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 06:06 (nine years ago) link
The point for the Cosmo list is surely that it's not a music / arts publication, it's a fashion magazine. It would be suprising to get a good list from Nuts, What Car or Viz too.
That also explains why it's fairly decent - it seems to be the work of one person rather than a committee.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 06:06 (nine years ago) link
the point about the cosmo list is that it lists a bunch of good pop and R&B albums where everything other list in this thread is a roster of sad men and women who play guitars
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 3 December 2014 06:08 (nine years ago) link
hi whiney what's up i already apologized. i am not a professional music critic. so maybe i shouldn't have made the post at all. sorry! just typing random stuff. i can take it to google docs, though. my bad.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 06:09 (nine years ago) link
like whoa out of 20 albums released in 2014, i have not heard six of them, what the fuck, why bother posting
― jaymc, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 06:10 (nine years ago) link
the One Direction album is def EOY list-worthy
― Bro With Extensive Taint (some dude), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 06:10 (nine years ago) link
will check it out. i have researched & written about one direction.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 06:11 (nine years ago) link
jesus christ
― jaymc, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 06:20 (nine years ago) link
if it makes u feel any better i have been listening to run the jewels nonstop for the last couple of days despite not really digging their whole aesthetic beyond an appreciation for technique.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 06:22 (nine years ago) link
are ppl talking about dj quik anywhere
― jaymc, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 06:23 (nine years ago) link
jay, i'm not teasing you because you haven't heard records, man!
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 06:27 (nine years ago) link
it's cool
― jaymc, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 06:28 (nine years ago) link
so what was that post about then? genuinely curious
― alpine static, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 07:19 (nine years ago) link
The 20 best reissues of 2014 according to FACT. As usual some interesting choices.
01. LEWIS - L’amour (Light in the Attic)02. snd - TPlay (snd)03. Z - Visions of Dune (InFiné)04. STEVE ROACH - Structures from Silence (Projeckt)05. SOULS OF MISCHIEF - 93 ’til Infinity (Get on Down)06. MUSLIMGAUZE - Chasing the Shadow of Bryn Jones 1983-88 (Vinyl on Demand)07. TRANSLLUSION - The Opening of the Cerebral Gate (Tresor)08. INGRAM MARSHALL - Fog Tropes // Gradual Requiem (Arc Light Editions)09. VARIOUS - Suburban Base Records: The History Of Hardcore, Jungle, Drum & Bass: 1991-199 (Suburban Base)10. GRUPPO DI IMPROVVISAZIONE NUOVA CONSONANZA - The Feed-Back (Schema)11. DONATO DOZZY & NUEL - The Aquaplano Sessions (Spectrum Spools)12. V/VM - The Death of Rave (A Partial Flashback) (History Always Favours the Winners)13. HELM - Impasse (New Images)14. STEPHEN DAVID HEITKOTTER - Black Orckid (Now-Again)15. RALPH JONES - Slumber Party Massacre (Death Waltz Recording Company)16. CHARLES HAYWARD - Smell of Metal (ΚΕΜΑΛ)17. WILLIAM BASINSKI - Melancholia (Temporary Residence)18. 18. BLACK ZONE MYTH CHANT - Straight Cassette (Laitdbac)19. VARIOUS - Bombay Disco (Cultures of Soul)20. OFFICER! - Dead Unique (Blackest Ever Black)
― millmeister, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 09:45 (nine years ago) link
i always forget that reissues are a thing. i'm surprised fact didn't rep for the katie pearl album, though i guess an unreleased album finally emerging 10 years late isn't a REissue. that lewis album was a fucking bore though
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 09:48 (nine years ago) link
yeh the lewis album was kinda dull but the whole story itself i found really fun
― nxd, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 10:05 (nine years ago) link
10. GRUPPO DI IMPROVVISAZIONE NUOVA CONSONANZA - The Feed-Back (Schema)
My (and possibly no one else's) idea of fun.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 10:06 (nine years ago) link
Can we rank 10 ways to finger yr boyfriend, I feel that unlike everything else ITT that conversation might still be interesting/useful to me in six months time.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 10:12 (nine years ago) link
playing the long game, eh Tim?
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 10:35 (nine years ago) link
Some choice writing in the Paste list:
"From the second someone turns the gain on the fuzz pedal all the way up on “Black Moon Spell,” the opening track off King Tuff’s new album, it’s pretty obvious that both speakers and minds are about to be blown."
"It’s something new. It’s music. And, it’s beautiful."
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 11:05 (nine years ago) link
i always forget that reissues are a thing. i'm surprised fact didn't rep for the katie pearl album, though i guess an unreleased album finally emerging 10 years late isn't a REissue
It'll definitely be high up in their albums list proper
― Number None, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 11:39 (nine years ago) link
the point about the cosmo list is that it lists a bunch of good pop and R&B albums where everything other list in this thread is a roster of sad men and women who play guitars --J0rdan S.
I MEAN, one can argue the Cosmo list is mostly sad ladies who sometimes play guitars...but obviously I know what you meant
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 12:52 (nine years ago) link
how dare people like guitar music in this day and age
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 13:05 (nine years ago) link
Some good stuff on that reissue list, but Luciano Cilio's Dell'universo assente is a glaring omission.
― xelab, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 13:10 (nine years ago) link
Yes, the entire point of my post was whether or not the list is bad (because I so blatantly loved all the other lists in this thread), please make lists showing me that you like the records on it, that'll disprove that claim entirely, and not whether you're a bunch of fucking sexist dickwads.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 13:34 (nine years ago) link
I noticed no one bothered replying to emil.y's post except jf and mordy
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 13:41 (nine years ago) link
Well, to be honest not replying would have been fine. Replying and MISSING THE POINT ENTIRELY is a lot less fine, and a bit... mansplaining the list for me, thanks. "No no no, I think you'll find *I* like this, therefore your whole post is misguided, little miss, you just sit right there".
― emil.y, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 13:46 (nine years ago) link
AV Club's Least Essential Albums of 2014
― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 13:50 (nine years ago) link
but no one actually said cosmo or its list spoke for all women. it codes female by dint of having by far the largest proportion of female artists of any list, many from genres with high proportions of female artists and fans. in light of that mordy reacting with some shit about how lol rote and superficial it was (not a complaint directed at any other list so far) seemed pretty sexist.
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 13:52 (nine years ago) link
That Pixies album alternated between the inconsequential and the plain terrible.
― cpl593H, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 13:56 (nine years ago) link
So far my takeaway from these lists is that only about 3 people still care about Lamb 😞
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 14:01 (nine years ago) link
11. One Direction, Four - Huh. Should I listen to this? I have def spent time w/One Direction in my life
yes!
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 14:07 (nine years ago) link
Camaraderie at Arms Length is OTM. Cosmo isn't a music magazine, it's a lifestyle magazine aimed at a particular audience of women and that's why it initiated a bit of a LOL. It's wrong to assume this is the music that 'women' like. It's also wrong to assume that this is the music that 'Ilxors' like.
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 14:08 (nine years ago) link
Itemizing a list of 20 records with reasons I like or dislike them is now mansplaining? jeezus.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 14:18 (nine years ago) link
mordy reacting with some shit about how lol rote and superficial it was (not a complaint directed at any other list so far)
"preset values", "boring", "embarrassing" (you), "all these lists are the same, ehhh", "music for conservative dads" (paraphrasing myself)
I would say those things are reasonably similar to "lol rote and superficial", and that's just us two. What Mordy actually said was it's funny that Cosmo is the list most aligned with the ilx hivemind. It is at least mildly noteworthy if true that a dedicated music site shares the most taste with a publication more known for sex tips and beauty advertising than its music coverage. When you equate that with "oh no we're like GIRLS", it certainly LOOKS like you're saying girls = love sex tips and beauty advertising, conform entirely to this construction of gender normativity, must ringfence this forever because this is what girls are like. It is frustrating.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 14:18 (nine years ago) link
Ignoring the main point of a post in order to provide a carefully constructed argument for why the irrelevant part of a post is wrong is kind of mansplainy, yeah.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 14:21 (nine years ago) link
Tbh, I didn't even see your post, emil.y, I just wandered in this thread last night and saw Johnny Fever's post and was inspired to do the same. Apologies for any offense caused.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 14:25 (nine years ago) link
You blazed in and the first words of your first post on the subject were "That Cosmo list is shit..." I can't IMAGINE why that might put anyone on the defensive and possibly overlook the second half of your post!
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 14:26 (nine years ago) link
I do regret going "but it's shit", to be honest. I think pretty much all of these lists are shit so it's not noteworthy that I also think this one is shit. But that was a reaction against other people going "noooo must defend the Cosmo list it's amaaazing".
― emil.y, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 14:29 (nine years ago) link
the reaction to most of these lists has been that they're shit. if you think a list's shit, it's fair enough to say.
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 14:31 (nine years ago) link
Juno Plus Re-issues. Some over with the Fact chart.http://www.junodownload.com/plus/2014/12/03/best-of-2014-reissues-and-archival-releases/
1. Gigi Masin – Talk to the Sea (Music From Memory)2. Vangelis Katsoulis – The Sleeping Beauties: A Collection of Early and Unreleased Works (Into The Light)3. Lewis – L’amour/Romantic Times (Light In The Attic)4. Roland Young – Hearsay I-Land (Palto Flats)5. Donato Dozzy and Nuel – The Aquaplano Sessions (Spectrum Spools)6. Psyche - Re-Membering Dwayne (Dark Entries)7. Z AKA Bernard Szajner – Visions of Dune (InFiné)8. K. Leimer – A Period of Review (Original Recordings: 1975 – 1983) (RVNG Intl)9. Tom Ellard – ’80s Cheesecake (Dark Entries)10. Dat Oven – Icy Lake (Fade To Mind/Night Slugs)
― millmeister, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 14:35 (nine years ago) link
Some *overlap with the Fact chart.
― millmeister, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 14:36 (nine years ago) link
Gorilla vs Bearhttp://www.gorillavsbear.net/2014/12/02/gorilla-vs-bears-albums-of-2014/
1. Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty2. Grouper - Ruins3. Ariel Pink - Pom Pom4. Tops - Picture You Staring5. Burial - Rival Dealer6. Doss - Doss + remixes7. Lewis - L'Amour/Romantic Times8. Freddie Gibbs and Madlib - Pinata9. Fear of Men - Loom10. Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence11. Andy Stott - Faith in Strangers12. Flying Lotus - You're Dead!13. Mark Barrott - Sketches from an Island14. Yumi Zouma - Yumi Zouma15. Leon Vynehall - Music for the Uninvited16. Sharon Van Etten - Are We There17. Ana Caprix - For Seven Nights This Island Is Ours18. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire for No Witness19. DJ Dodger Stadium - Friend of Mine20. Panda Bear - Mr Noah21. Recycle Culture - Drown Me Up22. Jessie Ware - Tough Love23. Johnny Jewel - Rarities & Unreleased24. Tinashe - Aquarius25. Beverly - Careers26. Mica Levi - Under the Skin27. Alvvays - Alvvays28. Sales - Sales29. Viet Cong - Cassette30. The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream31. Vesuvio Solo - Favors32. Schoolboy Q - Oxymoron33. Mr Twin Sister - Mr Twin Sister34. Korallreven - Second Comin'35. You'll Never Get to Heaven - Adorn
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 14:36 (nine years ago) link
xps It was just a timing issue. We've all been picking apart all these lists, and then one comes along that resembles something we'd actually make (at least in part) and there was cause for celebration. Then Mordy, then slothroprhymes' tongue-in-cheek reaction to Mordy, then lex...then I don't know. It's tough now to remember what I was thinking last night when this unfolded.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 14:40 (nine years ago) link
GvsB still reliably digs a little deeper than all the other big indie bloggers. Big props for capping it off with You'll Never Get to Heaven's Adorn, which is a wonderful little EP.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 14:42 (nine years ago) link
I'm actually quite surprised the Kelis album hasn't figured in more lists, even lurking around the 30s somewhere.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 14:43 (nine years ago) link
The Guardian continues the slow roll: http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/nov/26/-sp-the-best-albums-of-2014
8 Beck - Morning Phase9 Flying Lotus - You're Dead10 Sleaford Mods - Divide And Exit
Nothing too exciting though the FlyLo is growing on me. I was a fan of earlier ones, just hadn't been in the mood for a while. Beck and Sleaford Mods can suckit though.
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 14:51 (nine years ago) link
I just remembered that it was the NPR list, not the Guardian's, that I thought was pretty good last year.
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 14:57 (nine years ago) link