I never thought I would say this, but I'm really missing the glam Gaga. When I started to like Gaga with the Born This Way album, bong she releases ArtPop (meh) and that boring Tony Bennet thing (let's not talk about her AHS role). The truth is many people are destroying Joanne because we are still hoping big things from Gaga, and here there's nothing hot, just "warm" (and yes: Homme, Parker, Welsh, Ronson and Beck for an album like this?). I also think a lot of fans maybe are just good with an album this "warm" in her discography.
How can you decide which one of those Grimes videos is better? I have something like "favorite parts" from those 4 videos. Even the video that didn't get the Top 5, "Scream", is really great. And about the Solange's videos both are amazing. "Don't Touch My Hair" is my video of the week.
The truth is, Tom, that I came here especially to see how you deal with the Grimes+Solange attack.
I'm totally with you. Most of the time I ended listening Channel Orange for parts and even tracks, while everytime I listen Blonde I want the whole experience.
I can forgive they didn't include "Atomic", one of the best examples of new wave, but fine, that can be very subjective. I can forgive they pick "Life on Mars?", which of course is one of the best songs from its decade, as the greatest of the 70's, when David Bowie has some other songs even more emblematic and even better, even in Hunky Dory itself ("Quicksand") IMO. I can forgive also, being a Prince fan, that they decided "I Wanna Be Your Lover" was above a lot of songs that I consider near perfection.
The thing I can't forgive is that Pitchfork didn't even put on that list "Staying Alive"!!!!!!!
Angel Olsen - Shut Up Kiss Me. There is no other song of The Summer!
... Ok, maybe Kaytranada's "LITE SPOTS" (underrated) if we think in a Summer spirit. Maybe Beyonce's "Hold Up". Maybe Avalanches' "Colours".
Neeeehhhh! Just "Shut Up Kiss Me"
And that is a good short list for a music award. I can't even decide which one is my favorite (minus Basia Bulat and Andy Shauf, because ii's the first tie I hear about them).
I'm still very stuck with "Augustine" and "Shut Up Kiss Me" as songs and music videos (specially with "Shut Up Kiss Me"!). And now you're telling me there's at least one video better than those?
Great: Six Days in #2. It's a curiosity and a jewel in his discography.
Bad: Really, no Organ Donor in a DJ Shadow? I'm sure that song changed many lives, including mine.
Hey, you totally forgot Kevin Morby's 'Singing Saw'. Dont worry and just that.
My top 5 today:
ANOHNI - Hopelessness
Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
Kevin Morby - Singing Saw
Mal Devisa - Kiid
Kendrick Lamar - untitled unmastered
Wait a second: NO "JOHN WAYNE GACY JR."?
And there's All Delighted People. Amazing EP which contains some of the most beautiful songs Sufjan has made.
On the other hand, it doesn't matter the songs it has, because, awesome, they are Sufjan songs. Today I've been listening wonderful songs and this list fits perfectly. Thanks.
And Stereogum is really talking about Eurovision contest because in a good part of that performance, you can see in the background those roses burning, whose like in Future's EVOL album cover, right?
Great article. Sleater-Kinney and this álbum gets better everytime you listen.
I'm trying to forget that part where Thurston Moore is an asshole. Why here? I mean, I dont care at all how Thurston Moore is.
When I bought The Score, I hated "Killing Me Softly" then. Too much airplay, too many people talking about that song. The rest of the album was near perfect, specially "Fu-Gee-La" in all its versions, and "The Score". Now I can enjoy it from beginning to end, without skipping "Killing Me Softly", and yes, it is one of the best rap albums of the 90's.
"Blackstar isn’t one of Bowie’s best albums"
When I read that sentence, I realized I am always expecting something special from Bowie. I can't say the same about most of the legendary artists from the 60's and 70's.
Whatever he tried to do here, thanks a lot he did it.
So there must be a considerable group of people sick of Pharrell's presence, like me, and happy to see him in that magnificent Missy video reduced to a puppet.
Anything that deserves this spot above Garden of Delete, needs to be reeeeeeeal good.
Plus: some people many weeks ago mentioned that the last Born Ruffians album was great. I need to say that I'd been waiting since 2008 good music from this band, and RUFF never disappoints.
The first time I listen this album: "Good, but not so much"
Second time: "Ok, it's interesting but it's not Depression Cherry"
Third time, right now: "Beach House is EvErYtHiNg"
Yes, Depression Cherry is the "sound" album, and has amazing songs, but Thank Your Lucky Stars has something from that Beach House that I was missing, the Devotion's Beach House in part. I don't want to talk about these two last albums like they are siamese twins, but YES, DC IS PURE LIGHT AND TYLS IS DARKNESS (Darkness in a Beach House sense, obviously).
This albums keeps growing every second you play it.
Somehow, "Sunday Morning" is still a great song to, and this album is at least good that I can play once in a while, even when my musical tastes have changed a lot. No Doubt can sound a little ridiculous here, but they knew their potential.
Talking about anniversaries, nothing to do with Tragic Kingdom: Did Stereogum never do the I Am a Bird Now Turns 10?????
I love the fact that Ashin is like giving everything he has in this album. It's like an explosion of Autre Ne Veut's music concept, and I really still admire that. I miss the level of the songs in Anxiety (a lot), but Age of Transparency has a very own sound that makes you remember it easily.
So nice choice, Mr. Breihan.
Good work, Chris. I'm not a Apologies to the Queen Mary fan, but you completely had me at "the twitchy post-punk tendencies Brock borrowed from Talking Heads and the Pixies". It's been years since I listened this album the last time. I loved the sound of Wolf Parade, but I had problems with their songs, specially in their debut, and it's a good time to give it another try.
I was going to say Julia Holter got the AOTW with Loud City Song, but I was totally wrong:
http://www.stereogum.com/1442511/album-of-the-week-superchunk-i-hate-music/franchises/album-of-the-week/
That album was one of the best of 2013. and it was in the 6th place of the list of releases that week (the place in that list in every AOTW article must say how much the staff liked an album, right?...). Have You In My Wilderness is the beauty itself and a special reflection about music, and I think more people need to listen it. Or maybe the fact that it is one of my AOTY contender doesn't necessarily mean the staff of my favourite music site gotta like it.
The point is: LISTEN THE NEW JULIA HOLTER'S ALBUM. IT MAKES PEOPLE HAPPY. YOU DON'T REGRET IT.
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