Year-End Critics' Polls 2014

did Rival Dealer really come out this year...? Damn.

Anyway, Ariel Pink notwithstanding the GvsB isn't too bad.

there are evidently more profound consonances between ilm ideology and cosmo ideology, nevermind the apparent gender polarity

rival dealer was late last year but mighta missed some 2013 lists

wasn't it on the ilx list or am i imagining it?

maybe on both lists

deff on one at least

ah yes so it seems (74th for the title track and 30th on the album chart)

If they were sensible and did these charts at the end of the year, they wouldn't need to pick up these late 2013 releases in the first place.

p much any given publication has a lot more to lose from waiting until the end of the year to do all this crap than they do from possibly missing out on one or two releases

uh oh:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/50-best-songs-of-2014-20141203

No Depression - Top 10 albums:
http://nodepression.com/top-10-albums-list/2014-0

1. Sunny Sweeney - Provoked
2. Carolina Story - Chapter Two
3. Marcia Ball - The Tattooed Lady and the Alligator Man
4. Cowboy Jack Clement - For Once and For All
5. The Levon Helm Band - The Midnight Ramble Session 3
6. The Hayden Triplets - The Hayden Triplets
7. The Levon Helm Band - The Midnight Ramble Session 3
8. Paul Thorn - Too Blessed to Be Stressed
9. Justin Townes Earle - Single Mothers
10. Lee Ann Womack - The Way I'm Livin'

I like #7, #5 is shit

bout the same for me,

so far only one (1) point in the RS songs list favor - it includes 0 to 100

oh shit, that's just some dumb forum post xps

i thought it looked a bit low-key

xxxp to myself ok its actually not too terrible overall, certainly runs circles around the albums list

I'm tight with the Juno Plus list of best reissues. Also agreeing with their comment re Gigi Masin's Talk To The Sea

wasn’t just the best reissue project of the year – it was better than most albums of new music released in 2014

i posted this in the sleater kinney thread by mistake but:

Trapt - The Acoustic Collection is a real doozy from that AV Club least essential list

I'm tight with the Juno Plus list of best reissues. Also agreeing with their comment re Gigi Masin's Talk To The Sea

― doug watson

It's been sitting in my Bandcamp wishlist for a few months. Just ordered.

Listening to this now. Love it! Thanks for bringing it up.

I completely missed Masin's reissue this year! Awesome.

Complex - 30 best album covers of 2014
http://uk.complex.com/style/2014/12/the-best-album-covers-of-2014/

gtfo are they serious?

It's like "hmm, let's look through this pile of review copies...ok that one looks alright...this one too...do we have 30 yet?"

Even as I was disappointed by the Shabazz Palaces album I knew some people would consider it an "OMG future of hip hop" masterpiece. I hoped I'd be one of those people but it reminded me of Divine Styler's Spiral Walls… The best tracks were the ones closest to hip hop, the more supposedly far-out stuff just sounded blah.

AV Club's "Least Essential Albums of 2014" List
http://www.avclub.com/article/least-essential-albums-2014-212075
only one of these i listened to is the country tribute to motley crue and it is indeed utterly unnecessary

those covers! Every single one is so ugly, yet in so many different ways

Fabulous boomer earnestness in Rolling Stone's blurb for the Jackson Browne song: "Memories of youth in the Sixties, reflected through decades of lived truth."

Lived truth.

fucking wenner prob wrote that one himself, sobbing while he did so

those covers! Every single one is so ugly, yet in so many different ways

Some are alright, but it's clear they didn't really stress over finding things they didn't already know about.

lol @ the TRAPT album cover from the least essential list

Fabulous boomer earnestness in Rolling Stone's blurb for the Jackson Browne song: "Memories of youth in the Sixties, reflected through decades of lived truth."

Lived truth.

DON: Well, yeah.

yay i'm glad mark barrott's album has finally showed up on one of these even if it had to be gorilla vs fucking bear

rs songs list is not nearly as terrible as their albums list ("drunk in love" at #1 is cool) but i swear they have like 5 songs that were released as singles last year and had long since peaked

Shabazz Palaces album is awesome. not sure I've heard anything better than it this year

The Skinny (UK) have released their top 10. Runnerups 11-50 forthcoming.

1 - Warpaint: Warpaint
2 - The Twilight Sad: Nobody Wants To Be Here & Nobody Wants To Leave
3 - The War On Drugs: Lost in the Dream
4 - St. Vincent: St. Vincent
5 - Angel Olsen: Burn Your Fire for No Witness
6 - Mogwai: Rave Tapes
7 - FKA Twigs: LP1
8 - The Afghan Whigs: Do to the Beast
9 - The Phantom Band: Strange Friend
10 - Young Fathers: Dead

Angel Olson is great

I'm tight with the Juno Plus list of best reissues. Also agreeing with their comment re Gigi Masin's Talk To The Sea

wasn’t just the best reissue project of the year – it was better than most albums of new music released in 2014
― doug watson, Wednesday, December 3, 2014 11:17 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes. i posted on the balearic revival thread that it might be my favorite album of the year, at this point there's no doubt. i feel like it's gonna become an all-time favorite album for me.

From AV Club's Least Essential Albums list:

Least essential Christmas album, Internet-famous cat-egory:
Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever: Official Soundtrack

The idea of adult-contemporary singers and cutesy indie duos recording well-trodden Christmas standards is already an inessential addition to the world’s library of music. Doing that for the album accompaniment to a Lifetime movie that’s based on an Internet meme makes Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever: Official Soundtrack so ephemeral, physical copies may as well be shoved directly into the ground as a giant “fuck you” to the Earth.

I do kinda feel like once all of the music stores that exist mainly to sell CDs are gone, these will be among the only CDs that are mass produced, just to sell on the impulse rack at Wal Mart or whereever.

yeah there will always be a carousel for them at the drug store next to the one holding 30 $5 copies of Ecks vs. Sever and Sum of All Fears on dvd

http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2014/12/03/best-of-2014-world-music/

world music top 10

wannabe boomer confession: i like the jackson browne album. won't be on my EOY list though.

Rolling Stone - Best songs of 2014
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/50-best-songs-of-2014-20141203

1. Beyonce feat. Jay -Z - Drunk In Love
2. DJ Snake feat. Lil Jon - Turn Down for What
3. U2 - Every Breaking Wave
4. Future feat. Pusha T, Pharrell, Casino - Move that Dope
5. Jenny Lewis - Just One of the Guys
6. Taylor Swift - Blank Space
7. Bruce Springsteen - Frankie Fell In Love
8. Sharon Van Etten - Every Time the Sun Comes Up
9. Future Islands - Seasons (Waiting On You)
10. Kendrick Lamar - i
11. Alvvays - Archie, Marry Me
12. Sam Smith - Stay With Me
13. Foo Fighters - Outside
14. Grimes - Go
15. Sia - Chandelier
16. Beck - Blue Moon
17. Rae Sremmurd - No Flex Zone
18. Bleachers - I Wanna Get Better
19. Iggy Azealia feat. Charli XCX - Fancy
20. Old Crow Medicine Show - Sweet Amarillo
21. Weezer - Back to the Shack
22. Lana Del Rey - Brooklyn Baby
23. Tove Lo - Habits (Stay High)
24. The Black Keys - Gotta Get Away
25. Caribou - Can't Do Without You
26. Drake - 0 to 100/The Catch Up
27. Thurston Moore - Grace Lake
28. Prince - This Could Be Us
29. Miranda Lambert - Smokin' and Drinkin'
30. Coldplay - Magic
31. EMA - So Blonde
32. Maroon 5 - Animals
33. Jackson Browne - The Birds of St. Marks
34. Sylvan Esso - Coffee
35. First Aid Kit - Master Pretender
36. Beverly - Honey Do
37. Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers - Faultlines
38. YG feat. Jeezy, Rich Homie Quan - My Hitta
39. Priests - Doctor
40. Sleater-Kinney - Bury Our Friends
41. Ought - Habit
42. FKA Twigs - Two Weeks
43. The New Pornographers - Brill Bruisers
44. St. Vincent - Prince Johnny
45. Hospitality - I Need Your Bones
46. Katy B - 5 AM
47. Real Estate - Talking Backwards
48. Alex G. - Harvey
49. Old 97s - Longer Than You've Been Alive
50. Counting Crows - Dislocation

Treble zine - Top 10 Metal Albums
http://www.treblezine.com/20342-top-10-metal-albums-of-2014/

1. Pallbearer – Foundations of Burden
2. Tombs – Savage Gold
3. Yob – Clearing the Path to Ascend
4. Mutilation Rites – Harbinger
5. Triptykon – Melana Chasmata
6. Atriarch – An Unending Pathway
7. Primordial – Where Greater Men Have Fallen
8. Thou – Heathen
9. Godflesh – A World Lit Only By Fire
10. Nux Vomica – Nux Vomica

glad to see somebody rep for Grimes -Go, thought that song was generally hated, but it's the first time a track of hers has genuinely thrilled me.

I don't think I've actually heard 'Chandelier' but I'm assuming the chorus is just Sia hollering 'CHANDELIER! CHANDELIER!' while playing four straight piano chords really loudly.

I don't think I've actually heard 'Chandelier' but I'm assuming the chorus is just Sia hollering 'CHANDELIER! CHANDELIER!' while playing four straight piano chords really loudly.
--Matt DC

no, the production sounds like rihanna bc it was written for rihanna, but the lyrics are v sad sia stuff about alcoholism

it's good tho!!

sia being considered a songwriter of quality completely mystifies me

never cared for her much until this latest record, based on her matching assumptions like Matt DCs above. however, thought putting her against actual current pop production worked. really like "elastic heart," "big girls cry" & "fire meet gasoline," as well as chandelier