Vote: Song, by Toad Readers’ Top Five Albums of the Year
Vote for your top five Songs of the Year here.
Well well well, it’s that time of year again, and List Season is once again upon us. For those of us who run record labels this is pretty much just a time to fume about your releases being omitted from lists or, alternatively, fume that when included it is only at number 36, behind the sort of shit you’d be disappointed to find Chris Moyles listening to.
Anyhow, in between Christmas and New Year I shall be sorting out my own lists, but in the meantime, the ones which really matter – the Song, by Toad Readers’ Top Five Songs and Albums of the Year.
It’s simple, really. You vote by commenting below, with your top five albums of the year, in no particular order, and the albums with the most votes will be in the final top five. I’ll keep a running tally, so we know roughly who is ahead, and I think I’ll leave voting open until Boxing Day, so people get the chance to think it over.
Oh, and I nearly forgot to add this, but here are last year’s results:
1. King Creosote & Jon Hopkins-Diamond Mine
=2. Rob St. John – Weald
=2. Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat – Everything’s Getting Older
=4. FOUND – Factorycraft
=4. Josh T. Pearson – Last of the Country Gentlemen
So there we go – vote away, folks…
Frank Ocean – Channel Orange
Jack White – Blunderbuss
P.O.S – We Don’t Even Live Here
Smashing Pumpkins – Oceania
fun. – Some Nights
1. Meursault-Something For The Weakened
2. Jesus H. Foxx-Endless Knocking
3. Twilight Sad-No One Can Ever Know
4. Calexico-Algiers
5. Jonas Carping-All The Time In The World
Fun! Holy shit, this is the last place I expected that particular album to make an appearance. Good work old chap.
Tricia, very Toad-centric, our marketing department approves.
Albums =
Cate Le Bon ‘Cyrk’
Easter ‘Innocence Man’
Seamus Fogarty ‘God Damn You Mountain’
Cold Specks ‘I Predict A Graceful Expulsion’
Laura J Martin ‘The Hangman Tree’
Little Comets – Life Is Elsewhere
Japandroids – Celebration Rock
Eugene McGuinness – The Invitation to the Voyage
Bruce Springsteen – Wrecking Ball
Jack White – Blunderbuss
Clock confused, albums right?
Cloud Nothings – Attack On Memory
Meursault – SFTW
PAWS – Cokefloat
El-P – Cancer 4 Cure
Killer Mike – R.A.P Music
*I’m (damn you autocorrect)
I keep changing my mind, so here’s the ones I picked for the BAMS, which might not be my final list, but will do.
1. Ginger Wildheart – 100%
2. Now Wakes the Sea – Fluoxetine Morning
3. RM Hubbert – First & Last
4. Magnetic Island – Magnetic Island
5. Easter – Innocence Man
Hmm, a lot of love for Jack White. That surprises me a little, I wasn’t all that keen, but I didn’t give it too much of a chance.
Top 5 Albums:
1 Anaïs Mitchell: Young Man in America
2 The Vespers: The Fourth Wall
3 Fiona Apple: The Idler Wheel…
4 Norah Jones: …Little Broken Hearts
5 Goodnight Texas: A Long Life of Living
Top 5 Songs:
1 Anaïs Mitchell: Young Man in America
2 The Vespers: Better Now
3 Goodnight Texas: Jesse Got Trapped in a Coal Mine
4 Kate Miller-Heidke: Sarah
5 Amanda Palmer: The Killing Type
Fluoxetine Morning is a very good call indeed.
Ps. If I see Lana del Ray on one more list, I may stick a hot poker through my eye.
Gorgeous Bully -The Young Obese
Sea Pinks – Freak Waves
Black Market Karma – Cocoon
Meursault – Something For The Weakened
Black Market Karma – Comatose
I’m going for:
5. Paul Buchanan- mid air
4. DjangoDjango- Django Django
3. Field music- plumb
2. The shins- port of morrow
1. Smashing pumpkins- oceania
Muruch, Lana Del Rey will NOT be on this list. That is a guarantee.
Sea Pinks and Gorgeous Bully are great calls. Nice to see a lot of Easter too.
In nae particular order
1) This Many Boyfriends – This Many Boyfriends
2) Breton – Other People’s Problems
3) James Yorkston – I Was A Cat From A Book
4) Willy Mason – Carry On
5) Meursault – SFTW
Very timely. Assume you’ll be doing songs too?
1. Human Don’t Be Angry – Human Don’t Be Angry
2. Meursault – Something for the Weakened
3. PAWS – Cokefloat!
4. Sharon van Etten – Tramp
5. Cloud Nothings – Attack on Memory
Never did investigate the Easter album, may have to now.
Right on, Ginger! Glad to see Smashing Pumpkins on someone else’s list!
The Leg – An Eagle To Saturn
La Batterie – Firemen’s Parade On Main Street
Momus & John Herniksson – Thunderclown
Calexico – Algiers
Animal Collective – Centipede Hz
http://withamessyhead.blogspot.fr/2012/12/top-2012.html
Stu – indeed, songs will be going up soon.
THE LEG! About time someone answered this question correctly!
In no particular order –
1)Calexico – Algiers
2) RM Hubbert – Thirteen Lost & Found
3) Meursault – Something for the Weakened
4) Godspeed You! Black Emperor – ‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!
5) Efterklang – Piramida
Julia Holter – Ekstasis
Holy Other – Held
Sharon Van Etten – Tramp
Death Grips – The Money Store
Godspeed You Black Emperor – Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend
I’m liking the Hubby love too. And interesting that there hasn’t been all that much chatter about Sharon Van Etten amongst my pals but she’s appearing on a lot of end of year lists. I think I should listen.
The Walkmen – Heaven
The Unthanks with Brighouse & Rastrick Brass Band – Diversions vol 2
Hot Chip – In Our Heads
Meursault – Something for the Weakened
Errors – Have Some Faith in Magic
honourable mentions to First Aid Kit, Actress, RM Hubbert, Grizzly Bear & Beach House
Hmm, I found that Walkmen album a little disappointing, I have to confess. I didn’t think it was bad, but it wasn’t great either.
Trapped Mice – Winter Sun
Flutes – Flutes
Meursault – Something for the Weakened
Finn LeMarinel – Violence
Animal Love Match – Cancel the Astronauts
5 just isn’t enough.
In no actual order:
Meursault – Something for the Weakened
Django Django – Django Django
Trampled By Turtles – Stars and Satellites
The Lumineers – The Lumineers
Jack White – Blunderbuss
Meursault – Something for the Weakened
Mumford and Sons – Babel
My First Tooth – Terretories
Tetes Raides – L’an Demain
Yusuf Azak – Go Native
Islands: A Sleep and A Forgetting
Sharon Van Etten: Tramp
Django Django
Sleigh Bells: Reign of Terror
Paws: Misled Youth EP
YASSS! Yusuf and The Leg. Voting for Meursault is easy, but voting for those two takes determination, dammit! I am proud.
Didnt you play a SvE track months ago?
Liked it from the first listen but just how it is crept up on me somewhat.
Yeah I did. Josh from Paws posted it on his FB timeline and I liked it so I played it, but I never followed up and listened to the whole album.
Haven’t popped in here for ages.
1. Tim Burgess ‘Oh No I Love You’
2. Viv Albertine ‘The Vermillion Border’
3. Public Service Broadcasting ‘The War Room’
4. Hooded Fang ‘Tosta Mista’
5. Orbital ‘Wonky’
Quite liked the Jack White album at first. Then got a bit bored with it. Django Django too.
5. Grizzly Bear – Shields
4. The Walkmen – Heaven
3. Bahamas – Barchords
2. Django Django – Django Django
1. Perfume Genius – Put UR Back In 2 It
1. “Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose” Beth Jeans Houghton & the Hooves Of Destiny
2. “Secret Soundz Vol.2″ Pictish Trail
3. “Lonerism” Tame Impala
4. “Tramp” Sharon Von Etten
5. “Pop” Carousels
Djangos was good, but I listened to it too much in a short space of time, it was kind of like eating a massive bag of sweets then feeling a bit sick afterwards.
Orkney:Symphony of the Magnetic North
Clinic – Free Reign
Francois & the Atlas Mountains – E Volo Love
Meursault – Something for the Weakened
King Creosote’s 3 ep thing.
i know rob st johns album doesn’t count but i only got it this year. i like it a lot.
rozi plain and seamus fogerty were up there as well.
the olo worms one, yiso, is making a late charge as well
Wait, that said songs at the top earlier today didn’t it? Not albums? I was confused so I did both.
This year I’ve arranged my selections in order of common fruit machine illustrations.
Orange: The Leg – Bake Yourself Silly
Bar: King Creosote – Doubles Underneath
Gemstone: Meursault – Dull Spark
Golden Pound Sign: Jonnie Common – So-Called Summer
Cherries: Christopher Owens – Here We Go
Lucky Number Seven: Rozi Plain – Joined Sometimes Unjoined
Triple Bar: Richard Hawley – Standing at the Sky’s Edge
Golden Coins: The Leg – An Eagle To Saturn
Watermelon: Meursault – Something For The Weakened
Golden Bell: Seamus Fogarty – God Damn You Mountain
Albums
1 Onions – Pleasure Blast
2 Beach House – Bloom
3 Jason Lytle – Dept of Disapperance
4 The Shins -Port Of Morrow
5 The Leg – eagle to Saturn
Songs
1 Vanishing tanks – adam stafford
2 Louise Louise – Onions
3 Simple Song – The Shins
4 Cat Power – Ruin
5 Sad as Dead Monkeys – The leg
Songs
1 Wooden Shjips Crossings Andrew Weatherall Remix
2 Toy Dead and Gone Andrew Weatherall Remix
3 Madness Death of a Rude Boy Andrew Weatherall Remix
4 Mark Lanegan Ode to Sad Disco
5 Public Service Broadcasting Everest
1. Something for the Weakened – Meursualt
2. An Awesome Wave – Alt J
3. Gossamer – Passion Pit
4. No One Can Ever Know – The Twilight Sad
5. Haunted Man – Bat For Lashes.
Seems quite main stream I know, sorry.
Sharon Van Etten – Tramp
Grizzly Bear – Shields
Lee Ranaldo – Between the Times and the Tides
God’s pee – Hallelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!
Deftones – Koi No Yokan
I’d probably have at least one Guided By Voices album on this, but I didn’t get round to listening to those records. Same goes for Neil Young and Crazy Horse and Leonard
I also loved Japandroids’ album, Aezelia Banks’ EP and the Meursault album.
Albums:
1. Meursault – SFTW
2. Easter – Innocence Man
3. Fiona Apple – The Idler Wheel
4. The Mountain Goats – Transcendental Youth
5. Frank Ocean – Channel Orange
Well the current standings are as follows:
1 – Meursault
2 – Sharon Van Etten
=3 – Godspeed
=3 – Djangos
Looking good so far. As I said, I’ll keep the voting open until Boxing Day, and I’ll get the vote for best songs up now too.
1. Shearwater – Animal Joy
2. Get Well Soon – The Scarlet Beast O’Seven Heads
3.Archive- With Us Until You’re Dead
4.2econd Class Citizen – The Small Minority
5. Tindersticks – The Something Rain.
have i mentioned how much i like lists?
No, but I know now!
Albums:
1 Have you met George – George Montague
2 Port of Morrow – The Shins
3 Babel – Mumford & Sons
4 Chapman Square – Lawson
5 California 37 – Train
Merry Christmas
This was the kick up the backside to finalise my end of year albums list. So they are:
1. Grimes ‘Visions.’
2. Bill Fay ‘Life Is People.’
3. Frank Ocean ‘Channel Orange.’
4. Trapped Mice ‘Winter Sun.’
5. Viv Albertine ‘Vermilion Border.’
The final 50 include several SbT albums, btw:
http://17seconds.co.uk/blog/2012/12/22/17-seconds-top-50-albums-of-2012/
Meursault – SFTW
Olympic Swimmers – No Flags Will Fly
The Walkmen – Heaven
Willy Mason – Carry On
Yusuf Azak – Go Native
‘Go Native’ has been a late addition for me. I hadn’t properly listened to the previous record and it took a little while for me to get used to the singing style. But it’s grown and grown the last few weeks, and the melodies are brilliant. The Walkmen album isn’t as good as their best but I still feel it has some crackers on it (could do with having a couple of filler songs removed though). Also enjoyed Milk Maid, Beach House and the Parakeet EP amongst others.
At first I could not think of a lot to like this year. But I guess there is some:
1. Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs – Trouble
2. Django Django Django Django
2. Dirty Projectors – Swing Lo Magellan
4. Get Well Soon – The Scarlett Beast of the Seven Heads
4. Alt-J – An Awesome Wave
Actually also liked Shins, but after hearing it a bit too often it now annoys me. Great impressions, but too little (urge for) listening: David Byrne & St. Vincent, Tall Ships, Sleigh Bells, The Cast of Cheers, Tame Impala, even Purity Ring, & Daphni.
And Meursault: I respect the direction, but personally miss the synth so much, and always liked their faster songs most (The Furnace is still my all-time favourite Song).
Very tricky one this but a few standout albums this year include in no particular order
1 – The Leg – Eagle to Saturn
2 – Meursault – Something for the weakend
3 – Cold Seed – I predict a graceful expulsion
4 – I Like Trains – The Shallows
5 – Woodpecker Wolliams – The bird school of Being Human
with mentions for – Two Gallants, Twighlight Sad, Gallon drunk, Bo Ningen and Glissando
Some good shiiiiiiiiit out this year…
1. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Grafitti – Mature Themes
2. Woodpecker Wooliams – The Bird School Of Being Human
3. Stealing Sheep – Into The Diamond Sun
4. The Leg – Eagle To Saturn
5. The Shins – Port Of Morrow
1) Bob Dylan – Tempest
2) Meursault – SFTW
3) The Leg – Eagle To Saturn
4) Paul Heaton – Presents the 8th
5) Caspian – Waking Season
I so nearly put Jake Bugg on that list, Bob Moulds album is good too.
1. The Leg – Eagle to Saturn
2. Meursault – SFTW
3. Woodpecker Wooliams – The bird school of Being Human
4. Glissando – The World Without Us
5. Two Gallants – The Bloom and the Blight
Honourable mentions to Hubby, BJ Houghton, Bo Ningen (too much of a live band for me for their recorded stuff to ever do them justice tho) & Olo Worms (although can’t shake the suspicion they’re completely insane)
1. Breton ‘Other Peoples Problems’
2. The Walkmen ‘Heaven’
3. Hooded Fang ‘Tosta Mista’
4. Sharon Van Etten – ‘Tramp’
5. This Many Boyfriends – Self Titled
1) woods – bend beyond
2) spectre folk – ancient storm
3) sea pinks – freak wave
4) waterworld – waterbird
5) eternal summers – correct behaviour
close calls = deep time, sic alps, ty segall, dignan porch and about a dozen others. so many good records this year…
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