Publication End Of The Year Lists 2016 • Page 24

Best Southern Albums 2016

 

have you all not noticed that their genre category has been "pop/r&b" all year since they introduced the tags

 

I did and it's annoying as shit because I don't care about the new album by white duo Nr. 22 from New England, but I have to read a few sentences to find out if it's them

 

Those Stereogum lists are awesome, Chris and Grace's are my favorite. Love seeing so much White Lung on there

 

i dunno, i think its easy to understand why they're grouped together. like what else do you do with someone like adele? white soul singer that is massively popular. is she r&b? or pop? or both?

 

She's in the same category as Celine Dion, I call it "Whitney Houston Alternatives For People That Are Afraid Of Black People", or "White People Singing Very Loudly To Make It Seem Soulful". It's tedious though so people lump it under Pop/R&B.

No shots fired at Adele fans.

 

well i dont necessarily disagree with you lol

 

Man am I the only one afraid Adele is gonna beat out Beyoncé for AOTY? Ugh

 

White Lung 20 times.

 

Well Fucked Up didn't put out an album this year so you're probably right

 

GORILLA VS. BEAR’s SONGS OF 2016

 

I don't think that's it because it seems a good amount that appeared on both rap and pop list will end up on their final list

 

Yeah that's essentially what I was getting at. I'm fine with genre lists, but if it's just the same critically acclaimed albums over and over what's the point

 

I'm pretty sure it's about reach

 

ayyy Baltra and Mall Grab, big up GVB for actually including some good house

 

Most of pop radio is at least loosely derived from R&B at this point anyway.

 

alternating with parquet courts

 

parquet courts are so fucking boring

 

the only parquet courts song i like is stoned and starving

 

Essential listening: Tape releases of 2016

 

The 50 best albums of 2016

holy shit, jeff #1??? on USA today???

 

berlin got blurry is a top song but i've cooled on them a lot lately. fork still loves them tho

 

thats wild, really good list

 

several records i think are not good records on that list but it's really wild to see some of those bands get very high rankings on a pretty big publication

 

well, it's usa today so i dont think people will really care and it looks like that list was just a single person's, still cool if jeff gets any extra attention or cash from it