Best Music of 2013

[troutman]

December means 2013 Best Music Lists are coming. Here we go:

PopMatters - 75 Best songs of 2013:
http://www.popmatters.com/feature/17...gs-of-2013/P7/

[Rocky Raccoon]

After listening to a bunch of this for the first time while reviewing the link, I don't feel like I missed out on anything by leaving old Aerosmith in my CD player.

[troutman]

Magnet, Best of 2013 Blog:

http://www.magnetmagazine.com/category/best-of-2013/

[troutman]

http://www.thecurrent.org/top89

As each year winds down, The Current makes a list of the best music of the year. We could do it ourselves, but it wouldn't be as interesting or thought provoking without your input. That's where Top 89 comes in.

We want you to comb through the music we played this year and vote for your 10 favorite songs. When you do, you'll help us build our year-end countdown that airs on December 31, starting at 4 p.m.

Staff Picks:
http://www.thecurrent.org/feature/20...89-staff-picks

[fredr123]

When will you release your annual list?

[GreenLantern]

Wow already a year.. geez.

[troutman]

Originally Posted by fredr123

When will you release your annual list?

Probably early in the New Year. There is plenty I liked this year, and these lists give me more to consider.

[troutman]

Spin

http://www.spin.com/articles/best-albums-2013/

10. Kurt Vile - Wakin on a Pretty Daze
9. The Knife - Shaking the Habitual
8. Ka - The Night's Gambit
7. Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
6. Tim Hecker - Virgins
5. Disclosure - Settle
4. Haim - Days Are Gone
3. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires in the City
2. Chance the Rapper - Acid Rap
1. Kanye West - Yeezus

http://www.spin.com/spin.com/articles/best-songs-2013/

[troutman]

Rolling Stone
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archive...stone_l_1.html

Rolling Stone's Top 50 LPs of 2013
1. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
2. Kanye West - Yeezus
3. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
4. Paul McCartney - New
5. Arcade Fire - Reflektor
6. Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork
7. Lorde - Pure Heroine
8. The National - Trouble Will Find Me
9. Arctic Monkeys - AM
10. John Fogerty - Wrote a Song for Everyone

100 Best Songs of 2013:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/li...-2013-20131204

[troutman]

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archive...onkeys_46.html

Q Magazine's 50 Albums of 2013
1. Arctic Monkeys - AM
2. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
3. David Bowie - The Next Day
4. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
5. Jon Hopkins - Immunity
6. Manic Street Preachers - Rewind the Film
7. Cass McCombs - Big Wheel and Others
8. Bill Ryder Jones - A Bad Wind Blows in My Heart
9. John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts
10. Haim - Days Are Gone

[troutman]

Paste
http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/l...-year.html?p=5

10. Haim - Days Are Gone
9. El-P and Killer Mike - Run the Jewels
8. CHVRCHES - The Bones of What You Believe
7. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
6. Kurt Vile - Wakin on a Pretty Daze
5. Deerhunter - Monomania
4. Janelle Monae - The Electric Lady
3. Foxygen - We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic
2. Mikal Cronin - MCII
1. Phosphorescent - Muchacho

[troutman]

Stereogum
http://www.stereogum.com/1567541/the...-of-2013/list/

1. Yeezus by Kanye West
2. Sunbather by Deafheaven
3. Modern Vampires of the City by Vampire Weekend
4. Settle by Disclosure
5. m b v by My Bloody Valentine
6. Night Time, My Time by Sky Ferreira
7. Old by Danny Brown
8. Days Are Gone by HAIM
9. Random Access Memories by Daft Punk
10. Reflektor by Arcade Fire

[troutman]

Mojo
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archive...magazines.html

Mojo Magazine - Top 50 LPs of 2013
1. Bill Callahan - Dream River
2. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
3. David Bowie - The Next Day
4. Arctic Monkeys - AM
5. John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts
6. Deerhunter - Monomania
7. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
8. Mark Kozelek & Jimmy Lavalle - Perils from the Sea
9. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away
10. John Murry - The Graceless Age

[polak]

I predict a lot of Daft Punk RAM love. Warranted? I dont know. 3 of my favorite songs of the year are from that record but the rest is meh.

[macker]

The National
The Besnard Lakes
Volcano Choir
Boards of Canada
Youth Lagoon
Phosphorescent
Haim
Haerts
London Grammar
Bastille
Little Green Cars
Moondoggies
A Tribe Called Red

Musically I would give 2013 below average rating.

Disappointing releases

Daft Punk
Arcade Fire
Kings of Leon
Sigur Ros
Phoenix
Cloud Cult
The White Lies
Yuck
MGMT
The Naked and Famous

[troutman]

Decibel
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archive...magazin_3.html

Decibel's Top 40 Albums of 2013
1. Carcass - Surgical Steel
2. In Solitude - Sister
3. Gorguts - Colored Sands
4. SubRosa - More Constant Than The Gods
5. Inquisition - Obscure Verses For The Multiverse
6. Cult of Luna - Vertikal
7. Melt Banana - Fetch
8. Darkthrone - The Underground Resistance
9. Noisem - Agony Defined
10. Tribulation - The Formulas of Death

[Pagal4321]

I'm surprised so many UK artists are getting recognition over here, surprised in a good way. There is a ton of talent over there.

[iLoveLamp]

MY favourites this year. An honourable mention goes to the Jai Paul demos that were leaked in April because it wasn't an official release. Still an amazing compilation though.

And So I Watch You From Afar - All Hail Bright Futures
Arcade Fire - Reflektor
Arctic Monkeys - AM
Chance The Rapper - Acid Rap
Charli XCX - True Romance
Chvrches - The Bones Of What You Believe
Darkside - Psychic
Death Grips - Government Plates
Disclosure - Settle
Foals - Holy Fire
James Blake - Overgrown
Kanye West - Yeezus
Los Campesinos! - No Blues
Modern Life Is War - Fever Hunting
My Bloody Valentine - mbv
The National - Trouble Will Find Me
Queens Of The Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork
Robert DeLong - Just Movement
Savages - Silence Yourself
Sigur Ros - Kveikur
Thee Oh Sees - Floating Coffin
These New Puritans - Field Of Reeds
Thundercat - Apocalypse
Yuck - Glow & Behold

[troutman]

All Songs Considered: The Year In Music, 2013


http://www.npr.org/blogs/bestmusic20...3?sc=fb&cc=fmp

[Hockey_Ninja]

Originally Posted by troutman

Spin

http://www.spin.com/articles/best-albums-2013/

10. Kurt Vile - Wakin on a Pretty Daze
9. The Knife - Shaking the Habitual
8. Ka - The Night's Gambit
7. Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
6. Tim Hecker - Virgins
5. Disclosure - Settle
4. Haim - Days Are Gone
3. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires in the City
2. Chance the Rapper - Acid Rap
1. Kanye West - Yeezus

http://www.spin.com/spin.com/articles/best-songs-2013/

Please tell me that this is a joke. How could anybody have that garbage album in their top 10 list let alone #1?