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06-12-2012, 19:19
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Usually start this thread in December which will consist of a lot of the Best Of lists that start appearing around now.
I will limit them to around 20 per chart or less if that's what they have.
You are welcome to post lists from any sites you may visit.
Or you can leave it up to me. I'm Your Man.
and feel free to post your own list
I will do mine when the year is over
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I'll start this off with charts from a site called popmatters
At this point they have 5 different charts of different genres
Some sites specify a genre, others don't
But let's not get into the whole genre thing.
Just look at 'em, and comment if you wish.
Popmatters
Indie-Rock
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1) Chromatics - Kill For Love
2) Swans - The Seer
3) Japandroids - Celebration Rock
4) Metz - Metz
5) Beach House - Bloom
6) Divine Fits - A Thing Called Divine Fits
7) Cloud Nothings - Attack On Memory
8) Lotus Plaza - Spooky Action At A Distnce
9) DIIV - Oshin
10) Moonface - With Siinai: Heartbreaking Bravery
Indie-Pop
======
1) Allo Darlin'
2) Advance Base - A Shut-In's Prayer
3) Smittems - Believe Me
4) Tennis - Young And Hold
5) Jens Lekman - I Know What Love Isn't
6) One Happy Island - The Purpose Of The Surface
7) Jon DeRosa - A Wolf In Preacher's Clothes
8) Literature - Square Of Opposition
9) School - Reading Too Much Into Things Like Everything
10) HighWater Marks - Pretending To Be Loud
Pop-Punk
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1) Yellowcard - Southern Air
2) Such Gold - Misadventures
3) Motion City Soundtrack - Go
4) Early November - In Currents
5) Go Radio - Close The Distance
6) All Time Low - Don't Panic
7) MXPX - Plans Within Plans
8) Pentimento - Pentimento
9) Sparks The Rescue - Sparks The Rescue
10) I Call Fives - I Call Fives
Prog-Rock (Metal)
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1) Anathema - Weather Systems
2) Devin Townsend Project - Epicloud
3) Rush - Clockwork Angels
4) Baroness - Yellow & Green
5) Astra - The Black Chord
6) Ancestors - In Dreams And Time
7) Between The Buried And Me - The Parallax II: Future Sequence
8) Beardfish - The Void
9) Ihsahn - Eremita
10) Pepe Deluxe - Queen Of The Wave
Canadian Albums
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1) Kathleen Edwards - Voyageur
2) Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Americana
3) Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! Dont Bend! Ascend!
4) Luyas - Animator
5) Metz - Metz
6) Kid Koala - 12 Bit Blues
7) Slakadeliqs - The Other Side Of Tomorrow
8) Whitehorse - The Fate Of The World Depends On This Kiss
9) Daphni - Jiaolong
10) A Tribe Called Red - A Tribe Called Red
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06-12-2012, 19:38
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1. Diamond Terrifier - Kill the Self That Wants to Kill Yourself
2. Captain Beefheart - Bat Chain Puller
3. Swans - The Seer
4. El-P - Cancer 4 Cure
5. The Shaolin Afronauts - Quest Under Capricorn
6. Charles Gayle Trio - Streets
7. Colin Stenson & Mats Gustafsson - Stones
8. Tame Impala - Lonerism
9. Rush - Clockwork Angels
10. Death Grips - The Money Store
The Tame Impala album and the Death Grips one were put where they were because I couldn't remember any other albums that I liked this year, and while those certainly are good albums, they're not as great as the ones that precede it. Plus I did plan having Rush at 8 and Tame Impala at 9, but the latter has really grown on me.
EDIT: I just reread the OP, and I saw that these were from sites. Should I find one that I like or is it alright if I leave my top ten?
At any rate, here's the Rate Your Music top charts:
1. Swans - The Seer
2. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d. city
3. Max Richter - Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons (Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin/André de Ridder; Daniel Hope)
4. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
5. Grizzly Bear - Shields
6. Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
7. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do
8. Enslaved - RIITIIR
9. Tame Impala - Lonerism
10. Led Zeppelin - Celebration Day
And here's the top ten from Pitchfork:
1. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d. city
2. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
3. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
4. Grizzly Bear - Shields
5. Beach House - Bloom
6. Tame Impala - Lonerism
7. Swans - The Seer
8. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel
9. Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan
10. Japanroids - Celebration Rock
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no man that's fine
in fact I will edit that first post
meant to include to post your own
sorry
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top 25 from Spinner
1) Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel........
2) Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
3) Japandroids - Celebration Rock
4) Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d. city
5) Leonard Cohen - Old Ideas
6) Sharon Van Etten - Tramp
7) Divine Fits - A Thing Called Divine Fits
8) Alabama Sjakes - Boys And Girls
9) Beach House - Bloom
10) Grimes - Visions
11) Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan
12) P.O.S. - We Don't Even Live Here
13) Metric - Synthetica
14) Father John Misty - Fear Fun
15) Daphni - Jiaolong
16) Jack White - Blunderbuss
17) Solange - True
18) Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music
19) Screaming Females - Ugly
20) Bob Mould - Silver Age
21) Lianne La Havas - Is Your Love Big Enough
22) Pujol - United States Of Being
23) Purity Ring - Shrines
24) Kathleen Edwards - Voyageur
25) Grizzly Bear - Shields
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Japandroids - Celebration Rock...I love this album from this Canadian duo ...I reviewed this on MD ! and Cloud Nothings did nothing for me ...that's the only two I listened to in Indie Rock on this list this year !
I reviewed Anathema's Weather Systems and I am pleased it's at the top for prog rock !..one of the best albums I have heard in years !
The Canadian album should have Neil Young and Crazy Horse in there with Psychedelic Pill !!!!!! Glad to see Americana there ,,,, Kathleen Edwards is much better live ! and Whitehorse should be rated much higher IMHO !
The new Rush album didn't do much for me...same old same old !
Music Head Wrote:I'll start this off with charts from a site called popmatters
At this point they have 5 different charts of different genres
Some sites specify a genre, others don't
But let's not get into the whole genre thing.
Just look at 'em, and comment if you wish.
Popmatters
Indie-Rock
=======
1) Chromatics - Kill For Love
2) Swans - The Seer
3) Japandroids - Celebration Rock
4) Metz - Metz
5) Beach House - Bloom
6) Divine Fits - A Thing Called Divine Fits
7) Cloud Nothings - Attack On Memory
8) Lotus Plaza - Spooky Action At A Distnce
9) DIIV - Oshin
10) Moonface - With Siinai: Heartbreaking Bravery
Indie-Pop
======
1) Allo Darlin'
2) Advance Base - A Shut-In's Prayer
3) Smittems - Believe Me
4) Tennis - Young And Hold
5) Jens Lekman - I Know What Love Isn't
6) One Happy Island - The Purpose Of The Surface
7) Jon DeRosa - A Wolf In Preacher's Clothes
8) Literature - Square Of Opposition
9) School - Reading Too Much Into Things Like Everything
10) HighWater Marks - Pretending To Be Loud
Pop-Punk
======
1) Yellowcard - Southern Air
2) Such Gold - Misadventures
3) Motion City Soundtrack - Go
4) Early November - In Currents
5) Go Radio - Close The Distance
6) All Time Low - Don't Panic
7) MXPX - Plans Within Plans
8) Pentimento - Pentimento
9) Sparks The Rescue - Sparks The Rescue
10) I Call Fives - I Call Fives
Prog-Rock (Metal)
===========
1) Anathema - Weather Systems
2) Devin Townsend Project - Epicloud
3) Rush - Clockwork Angels
4) Baroness - Yellow & Green
5) Astra - The Black Chord
6) Ancestors - In Dreams And Time
7) Between The Buried And Me - The Parallax II: Future Sequence
8) Beardfish - The Void
9) Ihsahn - Eremita
10) Pepe Deluxe - Queen Of The Wave
Canadian Albums
===========
1) Kathleen Edwards - Voyageur
2) Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Americana
3) Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! Dont Bend! Ascend!
4) Luyas - Animator
5) Metz - Metz
6) Kid Koala - 12 Bit Blues
7) Slakadeliqs - The Other Side Of Tomorrow
8) Whitehorse - The Fate Of The World Depends On This Kiss
9) Daphni - Jiaolong
10) A Tribe Called Red - A Tribe Called Red
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I love the Fiona Apple ..Idler Wheel and will seek out Swans and Dirty Projector ! I was just going to ask Crazy mate about Perth's Tame Impala as this album interests me also !
Is Captain Beefheart's Bat Chain Puller a reissue ?
Frownland Wrote:1. Diamond Terrifier - Kill the Self That Wants to Kill Yourself
2. Captain Beefheart - Bat Chain Puller
3. Swans - The Seer
4. El-P - Cancer 4 Cure
5. The Shaolin Afronauts - Quest Under Capricorn
6. Charles Gayle Trio - Streets
7. Colin Stenson & Mats Gustafsson - Stones
8. Tame Impala - Lonerism
9. Rush - Clockwork Angels
10. Death Grips - The Money Store
The Tame Impala album and the Death Grips one were put where they were because I couldn't remember any other albums that I liked this year, and while those certainly are good albums, they're not as great as the ones that precede it. Plus I did plan having Rush at 8 and Tame Impala at 9, but the latter has really grown on me.
EDIT: I just reread the OP, and I saw that these were from sites. Should I find one that I like or is it alright if I leave my top ten?
At any rate, here's the Rate Your Music top charts:
1. Swans - The Seer
2. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d. city
3. Max Richter - Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons (Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin/André de Ridder; Daniel Hope)
4. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
5. Grizzly Bear - Shields
6. Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
7. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do
8. Enslaved - RIITIIR
9. Tame Impala - Lonerism
10. Led Zeppelin - Celebration Day
And here's the top ten from Pitchfork:
1. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d. city
2. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
3. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
4. Grizzly Bear - Shields
5. Beach House - Bloom
6. Tame Impala - Lonerism
7. Swans - The Seer
8. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel
9. Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan
10. Japanroids - Celebration Rock
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Hallelujah ...I love Alabama Shakes...also Leonard's Old Ideas MH ...it grew on me after a few listens !
Music Head Wrote:top 25 from Spinner
1) Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel........
2) Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
3) Japandroids - Celebration Rock
4) Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d. city
5) Leonard Cohen - Old Ideas
6) Sharon Van Etten - Tramp
7) Divine Fits - A Thing Called Divine Fits
8) Alabama Sjakes - Boys And Girls
9) Beach House - Bloom
10) Grimes - Visions
11) Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan
12) P.O.S. - We Don't Even Live Here
13) Metric - Synthetica
14) Father John Misty - Fear Fun
15) Daphni - Jiaolong
16) Jack White - Blunderbuss
17) Solange - True
18) Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music
19) Screaming Females - Ugly
20) Bob Mould - Silver Age
21) Lianne La Havas - Is Your Love Big Enough
22) Pujol - United States Of Being
23) Purity Ring - Shrines
24) Kathleen Edwards - Voyageur
25) Grizzly Bear - Shields
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Anybody heard this Frank Ocean guy that's showing up alot?
I'm afraid to.
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I have him on my listen to online list but haven't got there ...I think it's hiphop and it has some cussing in it as usual ...I think ? But it's getting rave reviews !
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