Publication End Of The Year Lists 2016 • Page 30

The A.V. Club’s 20 best albums of 2016

 

i'm sort of stunned "same drugs" isn't the highest coloring book song on every list

 

Yeah, it's baffling. If not Same Drugs than Summer Friends

 

What's weird about the Coloring Book choices? Their love for All Night is a little strange but Summer Friends and No Problem are obvious choices.

 

Top 3 are w/e but it's cool to see Touchè Amorè and Lydia Loveless get some recognition. I don't think the Modern Baseball album was in the top 20 albums of the year, but good for those dudes as well.

 

No Problem is a really fun song but I think Same Drugs is a much better song, both within the general context of the tape and in general. It's the centerpiece.

 

i dont think same drugs is the centerpiece at all, im more likely to say something like angels is. deeply rooted in chicago and exuberant and defiant towards all of it's problems


i also think there are better purp songs that girls @ but that beat and chance's verse make it critic-bait

 

no problems has the best bars of the year anyway "some of this shit might sound weird/inside of the maybach look like it came from ikea"

 

I agree with you. I guess I just see it as obvious because it's been the track that publications have been latching on to since the beginning. It is weird that Same Drugs never gets singled out though.

 

I've come around on some interpretations that Same Drugs could actually be referencing Chicago as a whole, the character Chance is talking about could be a metaphorical representation of his views on the city. Probably looking too far into it, but I enjoy that interpretation.

 

Blessings, Same Drugs, Angels, How Great, Finish Line/Drown...all significantly better and more thematically interesting than No Problems or All Night.

 

I wonder why most publications are listing Ivy as the standout track from Blonde. I'd give that to Self Control, Nights, White Ferrari, Seigfried, etc.

 

What don't you like about Angel Olsen's album specifically? I feel like it's accessible and tight instrumentally & production-wise. And that's before I start on the vocals/lyrics.

 

Pitchfork's top 100: 90 hip-hop/R&B tracks, 5 or 6 indie chicks and a few country artists. I'd say this is music in 2016, but their lists have looked like this for 5+ years now, zero diversity.

At least they picked the right Anderson.Paak song

 

hmmm

 

Lmao

 

The best music of 2016: The ballots

always fun

 

And basically I agree with Ryan again on Coloring Book opinions

 

hard for me to be too upset with the AV Club list, cool to see Nails on there

 

The 50 Best Albums of 2016 | SPIN

 

The 10 Best Jazz Albums Of 2016

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Good list

 

There's nothing I necessarily dislike about it, it just didn't click with me on the 2-3 times that I listened to it.

 

I too could not get into Angel Olsen.

Kinda sucks cause I feel like I'm missing out on something but there are plenty of artists I'm like that with.

 

dope to see the 1975 on the fork list