Those Other, less Important, End Of Year Album Charts

[stavros]

As far as I can see Pazz & Jop haven't done their's yet.

 

[damnhippie]

8. Smile by Boris

http://psychedelicobscurities.blogspot.com/

ooh thanks for that, didn't know they had a new one out. it's got stephen o malley on it too

 

[DJ Squelch]

Q magazine's top 50 (no I don't read it) http://www.q4music.com/cgi-bin/50bestalbums/track.pl?id=53

no surprises here really

1 ONLY BY THE NIGHT
KINGS OF LEON

2 FLEET FOXES
FLEET FOXES

3 VIVA LA VIDA OR DEATH AND ALL HIS FRIENDS
COLDPLAY

4 VAMPIRE WEEKEND
VAMPIRE WEEKEND

5 GLASVEGAS
GLASVEGAS

6 ROCKFERRY
DUFFY

7 DEAR SCIENCE
TV ON THE RADIO

8 THE SELDOM SEEN KID
ELBOW

9 CONSOLERS OF THE LONELY
THE RACONTEURS

10 DIG!!! LAZARUS DIG!!!
NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS

11 MED SUD I EYRUM VID SPILUM ENDALUST
SIGUR ROS

12 PERFECT SYMMETRY
KEANE

13 ORACULAR SPECTACULAR
MGMT

14 OFF WITH THEIR HEADS
KAISER CHIEFS

15 THA CARTER III
LIL WAYNE

16 MADE IN THE DARK
HOT CHIP

17 19
ADELE

18 DO YOU LIKE ROCK MUSIC?
BRITISH SEA POWER

19 SEVENTH TREE
GOLDFRAPP

20 THE ’59 SOUND
THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM

21SLIPWAY FIRES
RAZORLIGHT

22 DAY & AGE
THE KILLERS

23 MODERN GUILT
BECK

24 THE AGE OF THE UNDERSTATEMENT
THE LAST SHADOW PUPPETS

25 DEATH MAGNETIC
METALLICA

26 CONOR OBERST
CONOR OBERST

27 HOME BEFORE DARK
NEIL DIAMOND

28 22 DREAMS
PAUL WELLER

29 BLACK ICE
AC/DC

30 THIRD
PORTISHEAD

31 IN THE FUTURE
BLACK MOUNTAIN

32 DIG OUT YOUR SOUL
OASIS

33 HERCULES & LOVE AFFAIR
HERCULES & LOVE AFFAIR

34 FOR EMMA, FOREVER AGO
BON IVER

35 STAY POSITIVE
THE HOLD STEADY

36 ACCELERATE
R.E.M.

37 YOUTH NOVELS
LYKKE LI

38 LIFE DEATH LOVE & FREEDOM
JOHN MELLENCAMP

39 SANTOGOLD
SANTOGOLD

40 EVIL URGES
MY MORNING JACKET

41 GIFT OF SCREWS
LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM

42 I’LL BE LIGHTNING
LIAM FINN

43 TO SURVIVE
JOAN AS POLICE WOMAN

44 PARTIE TRAUMATIC
BLACK KIDS

45 SLEEP THROUGH THE STATIC
JACK JOHNSON

46 FORTH
THE VERVE

47 HARPS AND ANGELS
RANDY NEWMAN

48 ACID TONGUE
JENNY LEWIS

49 ALL I INTENDED TO BE
EMMYLOU HARRIS

50 SAFE TRIP HOME
DIDO

 

[stavros]

Q magazine's top 50 (no I don't read it) http://www.q4music.com/cgi-bin/50bestalbums/track.pl?id=53

no surprises here really

What? B-b-ut there's an act in the top 10 who isn't a group of white men with guitars. Surely this is Q-sacrilege.

 

[trevhagl]

as well as the absolutely definitive Urban albums of the year chart, other - lesser - charts are available.

So if you can be arsed, let's be having them.

The Wire one is always interesting, this year is no different:

1. The Bug - London Zoo
2. Philip Jeck - Sand
3. The Hospitals - Hairdryer Peace
4. John Butcher - Resonant Spaces
5. Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna
6. The Advisory Circle - Other Channels
7. Evangelista - Hello Voyager
8. William S Burroughs - Real English Tea Made Here
9. The Fall - Imperial Wax Solvent
10. The Caretaker - Persistent Repetition of Phrases.


i can't be arsed to type any more out, but hopefully the rest will appear on line.

4 albums on there i've never heard (2, 3, 4, 10) and only own 4 (1, 6, 7, 9). But an interesting selection. And surely a possibility that Urban's own chart shares a chartopper?

I suspect i'd rather gouge my eyes out with a septic frozen turd than have to listen to those

 

[El Jefe]

I suspect i'd rather gouge my eyes out with a septic frozen turd than have to listen to those

Do you actually know anything about any of them, trev? Never let it be said you're just dismissing things out of hand because you're, you know, a narrowminded dick

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

The burning love you two have for each other is a beautiful thing to behold.

 

[bluestreak]

On the subject of the chart that counts, I apologise for the late running of the service, life has been somewhat hectic recently but the counting of the points is underway. I just can't do it at work. If I make a concerted effort tonight I may be able to get it out tomorrow, but it's looking like we're getting a proper christmas run down. To give us all something to do in the quiet working days of christmas week. *shuffles feet*

 

[matt m]

That Bon Iver album is really fucking dull.

yeah, too right.

the monotonously consensual "best album of the year" status it has won in all the mainstream music mags – alongside the equally mediocre Fleet Foxes –*proves that broadsheet music journalists don't bother to listen to any music that isn't posted to them by record companies or their editor.

 

[matt m]

I suspect i'd rather gouge my eyes out with a septic frozen turd than have to listen to those

surely if a turd is frozen it can't be septic?

 

[The_Reverend_M]

What? B-b-ut there's an act in the top 10 who isn't a group of white men with guitars. Surely this is Q-sacrilege.

Two if you include TV On The Radio

 

[g force]

I still don't get how Fleet Foxes keep appearing on these lists either....it's horrificly shite.

 

[braindancer]

Boomkat have the following:

1. The Fun Years - Baby it's cold outside
2. Portishead - Third
3. Stephan Mathieu - Radioland
4. Gas - Nah Und Fern
5. Newworldaquarium - The Dead Bears
6. Machinefabriek - Dauw
7. The Caretaker - Persistent repetition of phrases
8. Richard Skelton - Marking time
9. Kevin Drumm - Imperial Distortion
10. Fennesz - The Black Sea

The Fun Years album is indeed very very good - I completely forgot about it when compiling my own top 10.

Fennesz and Machinefabriek were in my top 10 though - both wonderful albums.

 

[Funky_monks]

I still like Martin Simpsons' 'Prodigal Son' this year.

But I think I must be the only one.

 

[Orang Utan]

Boomkat have the following:

1. The Fun Years - Baby it's cold outside
2. Portishead - Third
3. Stephan Mathieu - Radioland
4. Gas - Nah Und Fern
5. Newworldaquarium - The Dead Bears
6. Machinefabriek - Dauw
7. The Caretaker - Persistent repetition of phrases
8. Richard Skelton - Marking time
9. Kevin Drumm - Imperial Distortion
10. Fennesz - The Black Sea

The Fun Years album is indeed very very good - I completely forgot about it when compiling my own top 10.

Fennesz and Machinefabriek were in my top 10 though - both wonderful albums.

I bet that Gas one is lush.

 

[braindancer]

I bet that Gas one is lush.

It's 5 cd's or something - now on my wishlist..

 

[F_Burnside]

That Bon Iver album is really fucking dull.

Most overrated album of the year. I wouldn't differentiate it from dross like Damian Rice.

 

[El Jefe]

The Caretaker album from that Wire list is gorgeous... i guess it's sort of a hauntology project, by one of V/vm, it's old dusty 78s and found sounds fucked with to create a kind of melancholy creepy nostalgia.