Publication End of the Year Lists 2020 • Page 7

They are almost all very much on the outside of the mainstream lol

 

Only if a British rapper is rapping over it

 

You don't understand, I used to be able to fake myself through conversations about every genre

 

As they are every year. Always weird to me how that happens, but I’ve kind of resigned myself to it.

 

Stoked that Dogleg made it on the P4K list and that Phoebe and Waxahatchee are that high, but these days I enjoy browsing lists from users on this site more than most publications' and I usually find more records I missed and end up enjoying that way too.

 

so Touché and Bartees both got BNM but not enough to make the top 50 ok

 

??? Bartees is number 30

 

I already forgot about their list haha

 

So happy Dogleg and DEHD are on Pitchfork's list. Still bummed that some great records I enjoyed are getting snubbed on a lot of the lists (Retirement Party, The Beths, Ratboys, Samia, Anjimile, Sinai Vessel, Bright Eyes, Hamilton Leithauser, Courtney Marie Andrews, Katie Malco, Cartalk, NNAMDI, etc.) but that just goes back to a lot of these lists being quite similar.

 

Bright Eyes not being on most of these lists is most surprising to me. That album got pretty good reviews all over and was a solid comeback album, surprised it's not getting the recognition from publications.

 

Dont know if this has been posted yet, but I love Craig's writing here

The Best Albums of 2020

 

Hum feels like a huge snub to me on the lists I've seen so far. Empty Country as well, but I'm not surprised given that p4k couldn't even be bothered to write about the Cymbals breakup.

 

I feel like a lot of these publications "herd" their lists. They decide what's going to be on others to make sure it's also on theirs and then throw in a couple things that speak to their niche and maybe add or snub one or two to spark conversation/clicks.

 

The Best Albums of 2020

always appreciate Craig’s view on music

 

I contributed to a couple lists for Slant:

The 50 Best Albums of 2020

The 50 Best Songs of 2020

some similarities to a lot of other lists but some wildcards made it in there that I’m pretty stoked about!

 

If that’s not a blank page, I’ll be very disappointed

 

there's actually quality stuff on that list, don't worry

 

lol what an asinine comment

always appreciate your takes about hip-hop and electronic music but cmon what the hell is this

 

I wasn’t being entiiiiiiiiirely serious

 

Only heard 4 off that country list. That Whitters album did NOT do it for me though

 

yea I know. but look you rightfully took someone to task in this thread for saying they couldn't believe people listened to "shit" like "WAP." while this isn't as bad because there's no erasure-of-women-of-color undertones here I still don't get why, in 2020 on this website, we can't just let other people like what they like and leave them the fucking hell alone. you think country music is categorically shit. congrats! what does that add?

 

idk guess I'm taking this too seriously but shit made me mad, not trying to derail the thread tho