Say what you will about noisey/vice but imo they made some great choices in their top five (that alex g song in particular is a total heartbreaker and it's definitely making my ilx ballot)― josh az (2011nostalgia), Thursday, December 7, 2017 1:55 PM (two hours ago)
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Thursday, December 7, 2017 1:55 PM (two hours ago)
this made me go to the Noisey list to see what Alex G song they chose, and happily, they chose the right one. i feel like i've seen several songs from Rocket on these lists - like he's splitting the votes - but imo, Bobby is by far the best song on that album. it's top 5 of '17 for me.
― alpine static, Friday, 8 December 2017 00:10 (six years ago) link
Personally I love Sportscar the best but Bobby is great. I perdormed it live in one of my bars a month ago! Sang second female voice in the chorus and played the violin part on guitar. It’s a fun song to cover.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 8 December 2017 01:37 (six years ago) link
That song reminds me of Lullaby for the Working Class
― Evan, Friday, 8 December 2017 02:24 (six years ago) link
japandroids in a top 25 in 2017 *is* kind of radical in a sense
― Simon H., Friday, 8 December 2017 03:24 (six years ago) link
yeah, i kinda agree w/ this ^^ they seem like they're from another era at this point (and i like them)
― alpine static, Friday, 8 December 2017 04:17 (six years ago) link
maybe they just liked the song? it's fantastic and made my 2016 ballot
― niels, Friday, 8 December 2017 07:17 (six years ago) link
oh yeah what if the song is just fantastic
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 8 December 2017 13:01 (six years ago) link
haha, well of course eoy lists are primarily ideological battlefields
― niels, Friday, 8 December 2017 13:58 (six years ago) link
I don't ever particularly care for the Japandroids, but that is one great song
― President Keyes, Friday, 8 December 2017 14:00 (six years ago) link
lmao brad
― mag gerwig! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 8 December 2017 15:02 (six years ago) link
Upgrading the James Holden album to 'fucking awesome'
― imago, Friday, 8 December 2017 18:20 (six years ago) link
http://afropop.org/articles/stocking-stuffers-2017-feature
Davido, Mokoomba, Trio Da Kali, Orchesta Baobab and more. Mostly old-school funky but also some new programmed beats pop/r’n’b types
― curmudgeon, Friday, 8 December 2017 18:39 (six years ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/various-artists-afrobeat-hot-hits-new-urban-dance-grooves-from-africa/
This comp is on the Afropop list. Might not be as good as the list one could make by going through the YouTube videos on the Afrobeats/Afropop list, but still nice
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 9 December 2017 17:43 (six years ago) link
I meant the videos on the ilx afrobeats thread
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 9 December 2017 17:45 (six years ago) link
Just what is going on here?
23.82Cry Cry CryWolf ParadeUser: 7.7Oct 6, 201724.81Visions of a LifeWolf AliceUser: 7.8Sep 29, 201725.81Hiss SpunChelsea WolfeUser: 7.3Sep 22, 2017
http://www.metacritic.com/browse/albums/score/metascore/90day/filtered
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 9 December 2017 18:50 (six years ago) link
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWLLLLLLLLLL
― ||||||||, Saturday, 9 December 2017 18:53 (six years ago) link
Raven Sings The Blues - Best Albumshttp://www.ravensingstheblues.com/rstb-best-of-2017/
― faust apes (NickB), Saturday, 9 December 2017 21:04 (six years ago) link
I'll be checking some of these for sure for I can't believe someone is still doing text in jpeg form in 2017
― Dinsdale, Saturday, 9 December 2017 21:24 (six years ago) link
not sure I understand the advantage of that approach?
― niels, Saturday, 9 December 2017 21:50 (six years ago) link
Such a great blog. Along with The Finest Kiss, it turned me onto the likes of RVG, Century Palm, Cable Ties, etc. Looks like I'll need to reconsider Rat Columns and ORB. I liked them, but have been neglected in favor of other stuff.
Fester's Lucky 13: 2017 Year-End Summaryhttp://fastnbulbous.com/lucky-17/
― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, 9 December 2017 21:57 (six years ago) link
Ooh nice, that Business of Dreams album is really enjoyable, "aural comfort food" captures it. And the new Bats album is worth spending some time with, I played it with passing interest for a long time and am just lately noticing how strong it is, last four songs especially.
― geoffreyess, Saturday, 9 December 2017 22:31 (six years ago) link
Also Circuit Des Yeux is A++.
― geoffreyess, Saturday, 9 December 2017 22:32 (six years ago) link
Combined Allmusic list:
Aimee Mann - Mental IllnessAkademie für Alte Musik, Berlin - Telemann: Concerti per molti stromentiAlgiers - The Underside of PowerAlvvays - AntisocialitesAngaleena Presley - WrangledAnn Hallenberg / Il Pomo d'Oro - Carnevale 1729Arca - ArcaBenjamin Booker - WitnessBjörk - UtopiaBunbury - ExpectativasCantica Symphonia / La Compagnia del Madrigale / Giuseppe Maletto / Ensemble La Pifarescha - Claudio Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata VergineCircuit des Yeux - Reaching for IndigoThe Clientele - Music for the Age of MiraclesColleen - A Flame My Love, A FrequencyConverge - The Dusk in UsCurtis Harding - Face Your FearCécile McLorin Salvant - Dreams and DaggersDepeche Mode - SpiritDowntown Boys - Cost of LivingEMA - Exile in the Outer RingEX EYE - EX EYEFever Ray - PlungeFleet Foxes - Crack-UpFrançois-Xavier Roth / Les Siècles - Maurice Ravel: Daphnis & Chloé, Complete BalletFred Thomas - ChangerGas - NarkopopGirl Ray - Earl GreyHurray for the Riff Raff - The NavigatorIdles - BrutalismJane Weaver - Modern KosmologyJD McPherson - Undivided Heart & SoulJlin - Black OrigamiJuana Molina - HaloKaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The KidKehlani - SweetSexySavageKelela - Take Me ApartKendrick Lamar - DAMN.King Krule - The OozKip Moore - SlowheartLa Santa Cecilia - Amar y VivirLaura Marling - Semper FeminaLCD Soundsystem - American DreamLorde - MelodramaLost Horizons - OjaláMac DeMarco - This Old DogMastodon - Emperor of SandMax Richter - Max Richter: Three Worlds – Music from Woolf WorksThe Moonlandingz - Interplanetary Class ClassicsMount Eerie - A Crow Looked at MeNicole Atkins - Goodnight Rhonda LeeNicole Mitchell - Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging WorldsOmni - Multi-TaskParamore - After LaughterProtomartyr - Relatives in DescentRandy Newman - Dark MatterRiccardo Muti / Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Bruckner: Symphony No. 9Robert Plant - Carry FireRoscoe Mitchell - Bells for the South SideSacred Paws - Strike a MatchSampha - ProcessSheer Mag - Need to Feel Your LoveSherwood & Pinch - Man vs. SofaSt. Vincent - MasseductionSusanne Sundfør - Music for People in TroubleSZA - CtrlTyler, The Creator - Flower BoyVijay Iyer Sextet - Far from OverVince Staples - Big Fish TheoryWhitney Rose - Rule 62Zara McFarlane - Arise
https://www.allmusic.com/year-in-review/2017/allmusic-best-of-2017
― ArchCarrier, Sunday, 10 December 2017 11:19 (six years ago) link
No list is complete it without Julie Byrne
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-UXtbT0TkY
― In a slipshod style (Ross), Sunday, 10 December 2017 11:50 (six years ago) link
That RSTB list looks like an excellent repository of stuff that won't be on other lists, ty
― imago, Sunday, 10 December 2017 13:59 (six years ago) link
It always is each year. One of the few original mp3 blogs that is still going and is always worth a read. I think that and Said the Gramophone’s are my two favorite EOY lists from a blog. Glad they’re still going on after 10+ years.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 10 December 2017 17:48 (six years ago) link
Btw fastnbulbous that is one insanely detailed list for one person! Love that you made genre lists, I don’t think I even know what genres I’m listening to most of the time.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 10 December 2017 17:56 (six years ago) link
idk if the "pivot to video" now includes lists, but it seems that Pitchfork's Top 10 songs are contained in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IR7P_nS9twI
10 Charli XCX "Boys"9 Kelela "Frontline"8 Future "Mask Off"7 King Krule "Dum Surfer"6 Frank Ocean "Chanel"5 Lil Uzi Vert "XO Tour Llif3"4 SZA "Love Galore feat. Travis Scott"3 Lorde "Green Light"2 Kendrick Lamar "D.N.A."1 Cardi B "Bodak Yellow"
― monotony, Monday, 11 December 2017 05:54 (six years ago) link
i forgot about 'boys'
― flopson, Monday, 11 December 2017 05:59 (six years ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/the-100-best-songs-of-2017/ full list is up
― ufo, Monday, 11 December 2017 06:06 (six years ago) link
usually there's at least something interesting i'd overlooked to find from the p4k list but i've already heard nearly everything from it this year, oh well. it hasn't really been a great year for singles looking at most of these lists
i still don't understand all the love for bodak yellow, it's fine but doesn't really stand out as 'song of the year' material to me at all
― ufo, Monday, 11 December 2017 06:13 (six years ago) link
The b in bodak stands for boring.
― how's life, Monday, 11 December 2017 06:15 (six years ago) link
it's a good song
― flopson, Monday, 11 December 2017 06:51 (six years ago) link
From the 4 hip hop songs in the top 10, ‘bodak yellow’ is the one that doesn’t leave me any strong impression. Would’ve preferred Kendrick, Future or Lil Uzi to get the #1.
That said, King Krule in the top 10 is more wtf for me. I still don’t get the appeal.
Also I love Charli XCX but Boys must be one of her weakest and less subtle singles.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 11 December 2017 08:45 (six years ago) link
Boys is great, way better than most of her post-True Romance singles, like Break the Rules and After the Afterparty for example are pretty dire
― ufo, Monday, 11 December 2017 10:37 (six years ago) link
PopMatters albums
― iCloudius (cryptosicko), Monday, 11 December 2017 14:41 (six years ago) link
now I understand why these lists start coming out in Nov. When you're the first list out with Lorde and Kendrick in the top spots, cool. When you're the 50th...
― President Keyes, Monday, 11 December 2017 14:47 (six years ago) link
pitchfork established the narrative, the crushing dull inevitability of their lists is their grand validation. here's yr canon, nerds! eat it up!
― imago, Monday, 11 December 2017 14:49 (six years ago) link
feels like that used to be true, but now it kinda feels like they what for twitter/other media to establish the zeitgeist then they just confirm it.
― voodoo chili, Monday, 11 December 2017 15:13 (six years ago) link
it feels like they're listing the things people are supposed to like, rather than making a list out of the things their contributors are passionate about.
― voodoo chili, Monday, 11 December 2017 15:14 (six years ago) link
exactly, that too. also lol @ broken social scene getting in there amongst all the hip choonz - 2004 pfork may be dead but they still look out for their own
― imago, Monday, 11 December 2017 15:16 (six years ago) link
anyone know of a consolidated google doc tracking the major EOY lists? I know someone did this the last couple of years.
― Indexed, Monday, 11 December 2017 16:31 (six years ago) link
try this? ----> http://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/summary/2017/
― faust apes (NickB), Monday, 11 December 2017 16:37 (six years ago) link
helpful, thanks. if anyone knows the google doc owner and can share, i'd appreciate it.
― Indexed, Monday, 11 December 2017 16:39 (six years ago) link
i guess i ultimately liked the vince staples (and i think bagbak was a top ten single) but it's weird seeing an album released that early in the year over and over again as the token also-ran to Kendrick when there were so many other great hip hop albums; migos at least really needs to be in there somewhere.
If that aggregate list is to be believed, there were only five hip hop albums in the consensus top fifty... jay-z, tyler and RTJ being the others. So in a year when hip hop was the dominant sales force, it only amounts to 1/10th of the dominant critical consensus?
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Monday, 11 December 2017 16:50 (six years ago) link
rob mitchum has a spreadsheet
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-uY5_BeeKH_e2-XROri85qpV8s_5hMEEoFoxigci61I/htmlview
― stritram, Monday, 11 December 2017 16:53 (six years ago) link
big fish theory which i regularly accidentally refer to as big bang theory was one of the more disappointing things i heard this year, staples replacing any blush of personality he had with production pyrotechnics. its placement on these lists feels extremely arbitrary to me
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 11 December 2017 16:56 (six years ago) link
Richard Dawson is 1st on Quietus list, 2nd on Wire's and now another top ten position on Cracked's, damn, who would have thunk.
― damosuzuki, Tuesday, December 5, 2017 1:45 PM (six
Still trying to figure this one out
― curmudgeon, Monday, 11 December 2017 16:58 (six years ago) link
TY stritram!
― Indexed, Monday, 11 December 2017 17:01 (six years ago) link
kinda surprised to not see OMB Peezy on any track lists
― devvvine, Monday, 11 December 2017 17:01 (six years ago) link