Publication End Of The Year Lists 2016 • Page 22

http://apps.npr.org/best-music-2016/list/top-songs

NPR

 

Pitchfork leaving Kodak Black on their list is kinda bothersome considering everything going on. I had him on my list too but cut it out of principle

 

http://trib.al/cE9zM5p

Complex top 50

 

yeah well pitchfork let r kelly headline their festival

 

lol @ Pillowtalk

 

Lmao Travis Scott number 5

 

DAMN 1975 on complex????

 

Complex the kid who waits for AOTY lists to come out, picks the ones they think will give them cred and then put in their own bad picks like Travis and Khaled.

(This is not a shot at 1975)

 

Kudos to whoever called me out on the joke about Complex not including Angel Olsen. She's having herself a clean fuckin' sweep.

 

most of complex was hella predictable

 

Curious if anything from the 1975 album makes any of the p4k lists. Know they weren't super positive on the album but it wouldn't be the first time their EOTY list re-positioned an album from their earlier stance on it (see: Matangi)

 

NPR is probably my favorite so far. Happy to see Lori McKenna and Parker Millsap on their albums list.

 

their review was actually pretty positive. their scoring is just whack.

 

ayyyyyyyyyy

 

Yeah, agreed. It's just all bout those politics for the scores haha. I could see something like Somebody Else maybe making the songs list but idk maybe more? Not like the band needs the validation, especially in how whack p4k has been post conde nast, still would be cool tho

 

i wouldnt be surprised if the album makes honorable mentions

 

Yeah, that's prolly the likely outcome

 

NPR list is always fascinating and intimidating.

 

Had to bookmark to read most of it later. Both lists are pretty solid though.

 

If I were to pick two 2016 lists to go through in full in 2017, which do you think would have the greatest amount of things I hadn't heard? I'm figuring NPR/TMT/Quietus will be the big three as far as greatest breadth.

 

gorilla vs bear

 

Good point. Looking through that list, there's easily more than half I've never even heard of.

Out of curiosity, do they adhere to any particular genre more than anything else? Or does that blog cover a pretty wide gamut sonically? I want to check both those boxes if possible, both things I haven't heard and styles I don't usually gravitate towards.

 

gvb is a lot of underground electronic and indie but they touch on a lot of different stuff and obviously electronic and indie music are huge umbrellas in and of themselves

 

Yeah, i realized the unanswerability of my question as soon as I asked it, haha.