Magazines Year End Lists

The year-end lists of many music magazines are out. I posted Q's list earlier this week, which most closely aligns to my own taste. Here's a whole bunch of other magazines' takes.

Rolling Stone:

1. TV on the Radio - Dear Science,
2. Bob Dylan - Tell Tale Signs - The Bootleg Series Vol. 8
3. Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
4. My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
5. John Mellencamp - Life, Death, Love & Freedom
6. Santogold
7. Coldplay - Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends
8. Beck - Modern Guilt
9. Metallica - Death Magnetic
10. Vampire Weekend

Here's a tell tale sign for ya Bob: no new albums released this year got a 5-star rating in Rolling Stone. I'm not very excited by this year's list. My only favorite here is Coldplay, and the others I reviewed--TV on the Radio, My Morning Jacket and Vampire Weekend--were so-so.

NME:

1. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
2. TV on the Radio - Dear Science
3. Glasvegas
4. Vampire Weekend
5. Foals - Antidotes
6. Metronomy - Nights Out
7. Santogold
8. Mystery Jets - 21
9. Kings of Leon - Only By the Night
10. Friendly Fires

This is a little better--nice to see MGMT and Glasvegas do so well. Friendly Fires is an interesting choice. I haven't listened to their full album, but I do like the song "Paris" quite a bit. It's interesting how much British pubs like Kings of Leon--an American act that gets little attention in the US.

Blender:

1. Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
2. Girl Talk - Feed the Animals
3. TV on the Radio - Dear Science
4. Metallica - Death Magnetic
5. Hot Chip - Made in the Dark
6. Robyn
7. Of Montreal - Skelatal Lamping
8. Randy Newman - Harps and Angels
9. Vampire Weekend
10. Fall Out Boy - Folie a Deux

I guess everyone liked TV on the Radio and Vampire Weekend but me. Nice to see Robyn get some recognition, albeit for an album that actually came out 3 years ago. Randy Newman?

Spin:

1. TV on the Radio - Dear Science
2. Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
3. Portishead - Third
4. Fucked Up - The Chemistry of Common Life
5. Fleet Foxes
6. Santogold
7. Deerhunter - Microcastle
8. Hot Chip - Made in the Dark
9. Coldplay - Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
10. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular

I'd like to give Spin thanks for including Duffy at #24 and for not including Vampire Weekend in their top 10. TV on the Radio is clearly the best album of the year according to music magazines. Perhaps I should give Santogold a spin--she showed up on a lot of these lists.

Uncut Magazine:

1 Portishead - Third
2 Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
3 TV On The Radio - Dear Science
4 Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
5 Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
6 Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
7 Neon Neon - Stainless Style
8 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus, Dig!!!
9 Kings Of Leon - Only By The Night
10 Paul Weller - 22 Dreams

More TVOTR and Vampire Weekend. Neon Neon?