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December 5, 2024
Scott Foley, purveyor of dust
As we prepare our own R&B year-end favorites lists (they're suitable for framing), a big part of the holiday involves watching other bloggers do the same. For this Episode, we're showcasing a handful of these with which to feed your monster. While some barely touch on our kind of music, others are all over it. But no other rivals R&B for our award-winning blend of the familiar and the fringe.
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At Glide, they call it their Twenty Best Albums.
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Saving Country Music carries out their list in three categories, soliciting readers for their input. View 'n vote for Album Of the Year, Song Of the Year, and/or Single Of the Year. Special points for scrolling to the bottom of each page for the fisticuffs that inevitably ensues in their Comments.
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At R&B, we feel thirty is a magic number for lists. Consequence Of Sound does us twenty better with their Fifty Best Albums Of 2024.
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Paste is as mainstream a page as we'll present here. They're gifting readers with 100 Best Albums Of 2024. Once you reach past thirty on a list like this, it's pretty relative.
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God bless NPR and their Fifty Best Albums list. Can you genuinely force together stuff from such disparate genres? Can we showcase the jazz alongside the metal? It's all lions and lambs as far as we're concerned.
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New York Times is celebrating this holiday season by apparently lowering the paywall for their Best Albums Of 2024 list.
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Stereogum lays out a lovely buffet, with just enough obscurity to earn their snobbery badge. Check out their smorgasbord of Fifty Best Albums and Best Songs of the year.
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As we've mentioned previously, books are as important a part of our lives as music. This time of year, Largehearted Boy labors admirably to compile a List Of Essential and Interesting 'Best Books Of 2024' Lists.
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Bandcamp has an entire page of their year-end superlatives. They're adding new Best Of 2024 lists just about everyday.
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Pitchfork is a daily visit for us, even if only to humble us with the awareness of how little we really know about music. Let's count how many of their Best Albums Of 2024 we actually recognize. They're piling their 2024 lists here, in case you'd like to sample their favorite electronica.
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Maybe somewhat closer to home, albeit much closer to mainstream country, Holler finishes us off for this Episode with their Best Country Music Albums Of 2024.
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