Year-End Critics' Polls 2014

I have enjoyed all these things in my time

xp Um, yeah, it's hyperbole. I don't actually get enraged by a pop song.

i can assure you my rage was real tho :)

Pc music is rubbish but no worse than anything else on the list

So you think all 100 songs on the list are equally bad? Wow.

It was a flippant and uncalled for remark - I haven't heard all 100 songs and ive only heard one pc music song

oh.

Resident Advisor top mixes and compilations of 2014:
http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?2335

Xgau's list of albums of 2014 has been online for a couple of days:

https://medium.com/cuepoint/robert-christgau-expert-witness-790131a548da

xp This is a serious infraction. There is no room for flippant and uncalled-for remarks on ILX, sir.

music is so PC these days, you can't say anything anymore!

irl loooools

*rimshots*

wondering sound 75 best songs!
http://www.wonderingsound.com/gallery/best-songs-2014/wondering-sound-best-songs-2014

also grantland's top 10 singles and 40 albums, markedly less interesting for various reasons: http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/the-best-a-k-a-my-favorite-music-of-2014/

Is that the first list to have Hesitant Alien on it?

i don't know for sure but i wouldn't be surprised.

R&B top 20
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/20-best-r-b-albums-of-2014-20141215

10. Echosmith, “Cool Kids”

steve hyden steady the worst

buncha great records in the wrong order on the rs r&b list

FKA Twigs is R&B?

I like Hyden's post-poptimism, lighthearted take on rock n roll, but other than that everytime I read him I'm left scratching my head and wondering wtf's in his mind.

I love his prose, not so much his taste, but if you're Grantland's chief music critic I'd rather have it that way around than the opposite.

what's good about him is he is able to not take the dopey rock he likes seriously, what's bad is that he takes the time to argue why it "matters" in a macro sense aside from him liking it.

FKA Twigs is R&B?

― example (crüt), Tuesday, December 16, 2014 12:37 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes.

don't get what people even see in his "prose"

really nice to see fatima and k michelle repped by RS!

not that fka twigs has no r&b dna in her, but she was totally right when she said that if she was white there'd be a lot less of that talk

what's good about him is he is able to not take the dopey rock he likes seriously, what's bad is that he takes the time to argue why it "matters" in a macro sense aside from him liking it.

IMHO not taking his subjects entirely seriously makes him lose steam mid-article in those long pieces he writes. It's like he lacks the drive for such long arguments. Everytime I read him I start with some degree of enthusiasm, then get bored sometime around the tenth paragraph.

not that fka twigs has no r&b dna in her, but she was totally right when she said that if she was white there'd be a lot less of that talk

― lex pretend, Tuesday, December 16, 2014 11:52 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the problem is that we dont consider white ppl who do that kind of music R&B, not the other way around

what, like björk?

banks is definitely considered r&b, more or less, and not just in that RS list (and is also most assuredly white). if twigs was white i'd still think the rhythmic core of her sound was more r&b/hip-hop than like, bjork.

BUT, i see why twigs would say that. she has also expressed frustration with the "alt r&b" label, i believe

fka twigs is extremely static rhythmically

i dont listen to bjork but like grimes or bat for lashes or w/e, it's all R&B

banks being considered r&b is also a bit confusing to me, just seems like trip-hop redux x synthy pop

grimes and bat for lashes are not r&b!

if twigs was white i'd still think the rhythmic core of her sound was more r&b/hip-hop than like, bjork.

― franch montana (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, December 16, 2014 5:59 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

rhythmically the closest comparison to lp1 is vespertine imo

the problem is that we dont consider white ppl who do that kind of music R&B, not the other way around

― deej loaf (D-40), Tuesday, December 16, 2014 12:55 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

How did we ignore the great white R&B albums of 2014 like HOW TO DRESS WELL and ROBIN THICKE'S PAULA

bat for lashes is called r&b??? not prima facie a bad thing but i've never heard that

the new how to dress well album sucks

if its pop music and its not polka in the woods eating weinerschnitzel its black american music. in the catholic sense of R&B, it's R&B. I'm not sure I see the purpose of fighting against that classification

I couldn't believe How to Dress Well he basically teed up music writers for the 'Shit Sandwich' reviews and no one took the bait

in that they didn't call it the shit sandwich it was?

(bc many certainly did not and in fact did the exact opposite)

if its pop music and its not polka in the woods eating weinerschnitzel its black american music. in the catholic sense of R&B, it's R&B. I'm not sure I see the purpose of fighting against that classification

this is not the definition that a top 20 R&B albums list is working with!

I think Whiney means the album is "What Is This Heart?" and they could have said "What is This Shit?"

like the Spinal Tap joke

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWqKiqTfXuA

*slaps forehead for missing joke, reminds self to watch this is spinal tap again soon*

in that case, IRL lols

this is not the definition that a top 20 R&B albums list is working with!

― example (crüt), Tuesday, December 16, 2014 12:18 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if its not R&B it can also be rock or rap or house/techno but like ... what is FKA twigs then? "its kinda like bjork" is not a genre rolling stone will do a yearly list for

or is it ~beyond genre~ lol

Where would they list Bjork or The xx? Putting her in an R&B list is tying her up in one strand of her music.