61 Frankie Cosmos: Next Best Thing
Tag: 2016
62 Run the Jewels: RTJ3
I think it’s fair to say that I’ve never quite been swept up by the Runny Jews freight wagon
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Perhaps it’s because they’ve made a habit of releasing their albums late in the year, leaving me next to no time to properly consider them for the year end Necessary Evil. This logically titled (beautifully so +2) third effort came out on Christmas day 2016, which would render any selection in the 2016 list near impossible under normal circumstances
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Hmmmm, though it would qualify for the 2017 list under old rules though… and be one of the most listened to albums due to its early release…
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64 Virginia Wings: Forward Constant Motion
Yes! Yes! Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees! Yesssssss!
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65 Pusha T: King Push- Darkest Before the Dawn: The Prelude
Wow, that title’s really colon overload isn’t it?
Last weekend I went with my brother to the cinema to see the Terminator 2 3D re-release, because the only movies I care about are the ones I liked when I was a teenager and can equate it to a time when life’s relentless, ghastly struggle hadn’t yet destroyed all the optimism and vague concepts of pleasure that once trickled through my young veins, and I reject any new movies because they implicitly suggest younger people are getting enjoyment that is no longer available to me
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68 Radiohead: Moon Shaped Pool (fine, I’ll do it PROPERLY…)
As you’ve no doubt noticed, Radiohead are not only one of my absolute favourite bands, and have genuine claim to being one of the greatest bands ever to have existed
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At last count, they have been responsible for four absolutely scientifically qualified and objectively registered stone cold, genital spasming genius albums, which is more than such feted luminaries as The Beatles, Pixies and Joy Division, and the nations of Russia, Paraguay and Ireland
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68 Radiohead: Moon Shaped Pool
69 Saba: Bucket List Project
‘Bucket lists’ are forever changing, as we rarely hold the same ambitions for major lengths of time
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If you asked me what was on my bucket list five years ago, I would have said I wanted to open my own English school in Xinjiang with the woman I loved. And maybe to quit drinking before it killed me
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Cymbals Eat Guitars: Pretty Years
I’ve been hard on guitars so far, I know
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And with good reason, as chugging along with guitars has become the absolutely standard form of music, and has been for some time, and should therefore be stringently avoided at all costs unless you truly believe you’re going to be doing something spectacular with it
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72 Luke Haines: Smash the System
If ISIS rang and told me that they’d kidnapped my family and would brutally execute them all unless I started naming my favourite albums ever released, I’d first make clear my thoughts that their terrorism was in real danger of losing its edge and question how exactly such an exercise conforms to their particular vision of Islam, no matter how warped it is. I would then ask them to specify the order in which they would be executing my family, as if they’re going to execute Paula or Viscous-Smithweldy first I’m in no great hurry, but if Juicy Lucy <child services have a court order saying you’re not allowed to call her that anymore, please delete- Ed> is up for decapitation first then I’d be a little more urgent, as she’s already a looker- by far the fittest girl in her preschool- and I’m planning to profit on her comeliness later in her life, perhaps by getting her to advertise something with her top off. And then I’d ask who exactly they considered ’family’, as I’m not going to break my back for any ex wife or second cousin, or…
73 Topaz Jones: Arcade
Ho-hoo! Another brilliant albums! We’ve really stepped it up a gear now, haven’t we ladies and gentlemen!?
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