Noisey: The 100 Best Albums of 2016

Never even heard of 6,9,10

>The top 9 spots are all Black Lives Matter albums

NO AGENDA HERE FOLKS

>>69518920
>9. Kano - Made in the Manor
Bruh Kano from Mortal Kombat made an album?

>>69518962
>>>/pol/

Disgusting list.

Needs more black people 2 b honest

>100 Best Albums of 2016
there aren't even 50 *listenable* albums from 2016 and these fucks think they can pick 100 of them, and even go as far as to call them "the best", implying there are MORE that could be pretty good, or even decent?

WHAT


A


JOKE

>>69519020
Well more black people should make decent music then

DEAN BLUNT MADE TOP 20
THE WEIRD FRONTIER MADE IT

>>69518920
>14. 21 Savage & Metro Boomin - Savage Mode
what in the actual fuck
21 savage is literally a completely talentless hoodrat retard with no redeeming qualities
And is the fact that 90% of the top 20 is all black people completely random and coincidental, if not what is the reason
And Rihanna at 4, she's literally 100% mass-produced with the artistic intergrity of a cheeseburger

>>69519225
cheeseburgers can have some degree of artistic integrity though
Rihanna is specifically more like a Big Mac

File: image.jpg (109KB, 600x900px) Image search: [Google]

109KB, 600x900px

>Bon Iver
>Car seat Headrest
>Beyaaaaance
>Rihanna
>Kanye
>Chance
>Lil Yachty

blonde absolutey deserved the number 1 spot. everything else i couldn't care less about

>>69518973
oh yeah fuck off fampai

>>69519225
are you retarded?
savage mode is easily the best trap projects we got all year

>>69518962
>praising art made by a black person is an agenda

>>>/pol/

File: image.jpg (36KB, 420x420px) Image search: [Google]

36KB, 420x420px

>>69519255
Thoughtless
Retards
Attempting
Poetry

>>69519225
I was actually listening to 21 Savage for the first time a couple days. Seemed like pretty run of the mill gansta rap. I still don't understand how a site like noisey reconciles the ridiculous misogyny found on this record. I remember when pitchfork wrote a huge op-ed about the horrible violence of Mark Kozelek making a song with "Suck My Dick" in the title. I don't want to generalize about all rap music, but shit like 21 savage just glorifies so much repugnant shit. Why do people at noisey let it slide?

>>69518962
maybe it's because that is on the news and on everyone's minds, especially if you're a black artist. Do you know the difference between correlation and causation or are you just a racist fuck?

>>69519316
because he's one of the few rappers who has proof living that life combined with ambient trap beats

>>69519328
>on everyone's minds
7000 people in twitter =/= "everyone"

>>69519264
>Kaytranada - 99.9%
>Beyoncé - Lemonade
>Rihanna - ANTI
>Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book
>Frank Ocean - Blonde
>>>Art
back2leddit

>>69519348
the beats are pretty good. They remind of 90s glitch/ambient and some of burzum's dark ambient stuff.

>>69519264
obvious b8. this is the most liberal board.

anyway, ANTI is just not a good album. and you can't be objective about your views on music when they're fully political.

is every publication giving AOTY to Frank Ocean because there's just nothing else, or is it an apology for not praising Channel Orange hard enough

>No Atrocity Exhibition
Come on now

>>69519831
Most are giving AOTY to Lemonade or Coloring Book.

>>69519831
It's because he's black AND gay.
For real though he's been getting progressively worse since nostalgia to the point that blonde is unlistenable.
Joke of a list

>>69519875
blonde is at best interesting. if you can point me to a minimal soul album with as much impact, i'm listening

>>69519875
Quite the opposite, nostalgia ultra was barely listenable

Moon Shaped Pool at 49, but Coloring Book and Lemonade are in the top 5? That's pretty bad.

Devil Is Fine is actually pretty fine. But not above David Bowie kind of fine.

>my woman is that low
List is way to obviously biased towards hiphop and rap

>>69519216
THIS MAKES ME PROUD TO BE BRITISH

>>69519950
I can't. Not my genre. I can only judge it relative to his early work and other alt. Rnb artists, but personally find his lyrics painfully mundane and nothing is special about his voice or the production either.
I liked what he did on tracks like Dust earlier though.
>>69519954
I disagree.

>le "most popular pop albums must be the AOTY" meme
When will poptimism die?
Fucking Rihanna? Beyoncé?

Atleast this this the only number 1 album that isn't terrible. Why the fuck is Blackstar that low?

>>69520166
Blackstar, that boring old white man guitar music? Wouldn't you rather have this woke, sassy finger snapping woman talking about race for an hour?

File: tmp_11552-images-1629200535.jpg (3KB, 144x152px) Image search: [Google]

3KB, 144x152px

>Ctrl-F "elseq"
>no results
>Ctrl-F "human story 3"
>no results

is the lil yachty album really that good? making a shit ton of lists

>>69519838
its number 32, weirdly low considering the amount of rap albums in the top 20

>>69519954
Nostalgia Ultra is one of my favorite post-2000 R&B albums. I don't have much praise for CO or Blond.
>>69519950
bro listen to any D'Angelo or Erykah Badu album. Donny Hathaway - Everything is Everything is actually pretty similar to Blond, but Donny is a much better singer.

>>69518920
>18. Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial
>17. Bon Iver - 22, A Million
>15. David Bowie - Blackstar
>7. Kanye West - The Life of Pablo
Pretty bad
Don't praise Kanye when he creates shit

it's the best list so far i guess. down the line there are a lot of interesting albums i forgot about

Coloring Book is so goddamn awful why do people like it?

A Seat at the Table getting all this love makes my heart warm

>>69520242
It's terrible, it's really bland trap-pop that tries and fails to copy Lil B's weird uplifting sound

>>69520208
are you surprised your memetronic music isn't on there?

>>69520447

Tim Scott and Dan Ozzi made some really great picks on the list, I think.

>
Zeal & Ardor's Devil is Fine brings together genres that rarely come close to one another, venturing far beyond the realms of metal. In an interview earlier this year, Manuel Gagneux explained that the album originated from a challenge on imageboard 4chan where he'd asked for ideas to make new music and received requests to create "black metal" and "nigger music" in return. The black music that Gagneux ended up drawing from was the hypnotic chants of negro spirituals and chain gang music. Except, unlike the singers he's drawing from who often looked to the sky for their salvation, he replaces the man upstairs with Lucifer. The album's title track, which has vocals that sound like samples from Jim Crow-era prison blues, features Gagneaux coarsely crooning, "Little one better heed my warning / He come in early morning / He go by many names / We gonna go home to the flames."

that /mu/ shoutout

>>69518920
LMFAO the only reason Kanye didn't make it into the top 3 (which he deserves) is because of his recent "nervous breakdown" in which he "mistakenly" supported trump.

Fuck noisey and fuck black people

>Nick Cave - Skeleton Tree
>at 82
>Rhianna and Beyonce spraying liquid shit in the top 10

I'm getting real tired of this shit

>>69520662
>Fuck noisey and fuck black people
delet

>>69520662
or because it's his weakest album his graduation. honestly the only album i'd put below it is anti

>>69520667
dude, you gotta realize critics listen to a lot of music. if it doesn't stand out in a huge discography it's probably not more than a 7/10

>>69520662
you realize Kanye is black, right?

>>69520564
Nah, it's just that I don't understand why anybody here would give a damn about the opinions of these American poptimist """critics""".
Everyone should know by now that The Wire and Tiny Mix Tapes are the only publications worth caring about.

>>69520721
wtf are you talking about

>>69518975
>>69519264
>>69519328
rEddit you have to go

>>69520721

Hipster critics are so far up the Social Justice Movements ass that anything from a minority is elevated WAY the fuck beyond what it would be otherwise. A middling as fuck album from a Beyonce is seen as some MOMENT IN HISTORY because she put on a pretentious as fuck debut video for it.

>>69520798
Critics have always been up her ass and this is her best album. It's not that hard to comprehend.

>>69520775
i'm not defending them, i'm just telling you their thought process. seriously, remove the years and the progression of nick cave's career and his newest shit does not stand out.

>>69520749
Oh no! You ensnared me in a trap of my own making! Grow up kid. You realize I don't mean the entire race of blacks, right?

I mean fuck blacks who push the agenda of being black. No one gives a shit what colour you are.

>>69519264
>Implying rap white SJWs like is actually made by black people
Majority of the production/songwriting is done by whites.

File: 1467864739286.jpg (156KB, 800x800px) Image search: [Google]

156KB, 800x800px

>TLOP in the top 10, let alone the top 20

>>69520827

Push the Sky Away and Skeleton Tree are both better albums than Dig, Lazarus, Dig. You have to go back 10+ years to Abattoir Blues/Lyre of Orpheus to find this kind of quality.

>>69520701
>fuck white people
Yep looks fine to me!

>fuck black people
SHUT IT DOWN

>>69518973
He's been around for over a decade surely you could've found a new joke by then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mznv4ACjkzc

>>69520914
>10+ years
>that's still ~2006

you realize this type of music isn't that hard to make right?

>16. Lil Yachty - Lil Boat
>15. David Bowie - Blackstar
>14. 21 Savage & Metro Boomin - Savage Mode


End my life senpai

>>69520932
holy shit this is good

>>69518920
wait
where is radiohead?
fucking pricks

>>69520971

You're right, it's so much harder to pay someone else to write your lyrics, hire someone to make a little thump wump beat, autotune your voice to not sound like clumpy shit, and hire a team of stylists and PR people to make sure every magazine knows you're important. How could I miss what real talent sounds like?

>>69521025
>implying car seat headrest deserves a better spot than radiohead with his shitty fucking album

>>69521025
49 or 39 or something

>Radiohead and Bowie make 6/10 albums compared to their discography

>/mu/ praises it like its gods gift to mankind

>>69520971
>Nice Cave and his half-dozen of bandmates make a very good double album
>"this type of music isn't that hard to make"
>Beyoncé, her army of songwriters and a bazillion of producers make some generic pop shit
>A MOMENT IN HISTORY

Don't you have a shitty party in Williamsburg to attend ?

>>69518920
>Savage Mode that high

At least that's good

Is Sremmlife 2 on it?

>>69521081
>>Beyoncé, her army of songwriters and a bazillion of producers make some generic pop shit
beyoncé is shite but does it actually matter how many people are involved? like isn't the final record the bottom line, so to speak?

>>69520640
If that's true, that's fucking awesome. I'm excited to see him live in April.

>>69519200
Black people invented music

>>69521281
black people invented people

>>69518920

>20. Oathbreaker - Rheia
never heard
>19. Pup - The Dream Is Over
never heard
>18. Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial
absolute garbage, deserves a negative digit score honestly, one of the worst indie rock albums I've heard in a long time
>17. Bon Iver - 22, A Million
Age Of Adz Lite
>16. Lil Yachty - Lil Boat
it's good but top 20? nah
>15. David Bowie - Blackstar
muh death concept. musically it's a 5/10 and that's generous.
>14. 21 Savage & Metro Boomin - Savage Mode
are you fucking serious? whoever put this one hear should be killed
>13. A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It from Here...Thank You 4 Your Service
this should be top 3 not just top 20
>12. Babyfather - BBF Hosted by DJ Escrow
trash, worst thing Dean has ever done
>11. Jeff Rosenstock - Worry
never heard
>10. Culture Abuse - Peach
never heard
>9. Kano - Made in the Manor
never heard
>8. Kaytranada - 99.9%
never heard
>7. Kanye West - The Life of Pablo
solid 6/10 but not top 10
>6. Zeal and Ardor - Devil Is Fine
never heard
>5. Beyoncé - Lemonade
I'm okay with this
>4. Rihanna - ANTI
this one is so bad I didn't make it past the third song
>3. Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book
this one's decent
>2. Solange - A Seat at the Table
this one's decent two
>1. Frank Ocean - Blonde
DUDE I'M GAY LMAO!! fucking despicable, that album is his worst, CO btfo it on every level and I can't believe it took him and his army of producers so many years to come up with this meme junk. there's like two good songs on the whole thing

shit list

>>69521300
>CO
who?

>>69521300
where to fucking start with this

File: 1475711715849.jpg (36KB, 400x430px) Image search: [Google]

36KB, 400x430px

>>69518920
>5. Beyoncé - Lemonade
>4. Rihanna - ANTI

GETTING REAL TIRED OF (((POPTIMIST))) SHILLS SHOVING THESE TWO DOWN MY THROAT

>>69521300
what's your top 20 albums of the year?

>>69521124
Of course, even though it's always interesting to care about the process resulting in an album IMO, but the anon I was responding to told me that Nick Cave's music was easy to make, as if it has been really harder for Beyoncé, and I think that's not the case.

>>69518920
WOW! Would you look at that! Another website peddling forth Solange just as I expected. I mean, good god. Its like music needs affirmative action in the AOTY lists or else you suck

>>69521412
you're a failure in life with or without affirmative action, montie

>skeleton tree
>82

>>69521426
I go to a pretty good school actually.

But Solange is shit.

>>69520721
>best album since the 90s
>doesn't stand out

>>69521361
1. Kodak black lil big PAC
2. lil uzi vert lil uzi vert vs the world
3. Meek mill DC4
4 post Malone august 26th
5. Future EVOL

>>69521081
bruh i literally said above that i don't defend the critics

>>69519997
yeah it's a really creative project but his songwriting skills need a lot of work. it's fucking bizarre to see a /mu/ soundcloud project actually be recognized like that though.

>DUDE POPTIMISM LMAO
When will this meme die?

>>69520356
TLOP should be number 1

>>69522133
>poptimism
>no ariana or carly rae in the top 20

kys

>>69522133
When will you stop settling for mediocrity you dumb fucking cunt?

literally kill yourself.

>>69522315
not black enough

im legitimately bored of poptimism and hip hop

like im so fucking unbelievably bored of it

File: NpnUn.gif (994KB, 500x375px) Image search: [Google]

994KB, 500x375px

>>69518920
> hipster publications are still jerking off top 40 pop
> tfw your favorite albums are nowhere to be seen

is this what being patrician is like

ELSEQ

>>69522406
What does this even mean?

>>69519328
>Dumbest post I've read here in some time

Actually not that bad.

>>69522494
The worst is that elseq 1-5 aren't even the best recordings those two mancunian b-boys have to offer yet, these fucking american trust-funded poptimists should have traveled to europe and witness our favorite ayyy lmaos destroying the fabric of human music.
If these guys were serious critics, they would have written a Fukuyamaist essay bearing the name "The end of music and the last musicians" instead of this shitty half-assed list.

>>69518920
they better shut their shit down with that list

>>69518920
that is the shittiest list i've ever fucking seen. The only great albums are blackstar and blond. Rest range from average to terrible

>>69518920

Too much negro music.

File: 1461800893487.jpg (88KB, 1000x841px) Image search: [Google]

88KB, 1000x841px

The fact that so many publications are naming Beyonce’s Lemonade as "the greatest or most significant or most influential" album of the year only tells you how far music criticism still is from becoming a serious art.

File: image.png (80KB, 248x280px) Image search: [Google]

80KB, 248x280px

>>69518920
>that top 5

>>69523130
kys

File: 1396489584202.gif (2MB, 298x301px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 298x301px

>>69523284
my suicide won't improve your bad taste

>>69523311
i dont even like the album ur post was just bad
how could u like the best waifu and be such a retard?

LOL DUDE BLACK PEOPLE LMAO

>>69522980
I literally don't understand what you're trying to say