The After Hours end of year awards for the Best & Worst of 2013

Best thread is The creepy/Unnerving stories thread.

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NegativeCreep wrote: »

May I just say that this is a great song let down by an incredibly horrendous video? Cause I think it is.

For me, Yeezus gave RAM a close run for its money in the "Massively hyped albums that really, really let me down" award.* I didn't "get it" to the extent that I think there might be a bit of an Emperor's New Clothes thing going on given the universally ecstatic reviews it received.

But it isn't a terrible album, and Bound 2 is not a terrible song. So when I started seeing the internet going wild over the song as well as the video, I was perplexed to the degree that I thought that a synaesthesia pandemic might have filled in for the usual bout of winter flu. But really, I think it was a a case of internet Chinese whispers run wild. The video came out, it was a ****pile, and alternative music sites recognised it as the steaming, polished turd it was. As the news of this abomination trickled down from niche indie blogs to sites like Facebook and Boards, in which people who aren't into music feel more at home, the message got a bit muddled and changed from "The video is ****pile" to "The video and the accompanying track are a collective ****pile." This was pounced upon by people who don't like music made by black people who don't play stringed instruments, and gave them that warm, fuzzy, look-at-me-I'm-a-music-critic feeling I'd get as a 14-year-old going mad about Westlife's undeserved success. It's very telling that no one was declaring it to be the worst song of the year when it emerged on Yeezus, sans video. This is because the people who hold this opinion do not listen to albums, perhaps with the exception of a Christmas compilation by Michael Bublé, or the odd greatest hits disc by a 70's Dadrock band. "Bound 2 is the worst song ever" is a meme, not a reasonable self-formed opinion.

And don't get me started to the preposterous furore surrounding What does the Fox Say?, which I see is still alive and well. The track first came to my attention on a thread on this site, and the righteous fury it had stirred up in its detractors was tangible even through the impassive screen of my laptop. It wwas declared as "The end of music " - a pretty frightening claim. What had happened; had Burial collborated with Rebecca Black to produce some heavy Brostep that was "All about the drop?" Or maybe Kendrick had put down the pen and pad and replaced it with a guitar to make "quirky" acoustic covers of 90's dance anthems for Youtube videos?

Oh wait, it's a cute joke song with an innocuous Eurodance beat made by two nobodies from Finland or somewhere.

"The end of music," Jesus ****ing wept. What's next, an in-depth Guardian piece annihilating Pat Shortt's Jumbo Breakfast Roll, or a 5000-word polemic about how the rise of Richie Kavanagh and the sad decline of rave culture in Ireland is no mere coincidence?


*Not an actual award

MJ23 wrote: »

Song of the year - intro by the xx

Song of 2009, maybe.

I'm guessing you're a Love/Hate fan?

RAM wouldn't of been that bad if they focused on more than just one song off the damn thing! Touch,Contact and Giorgio Moroder were the only decent tracks.

Album Of The Year: ...Like Clockwork by QOTSA got many replays.

Movie of the year: Nothing really comes to mind that was amazing though I enjoyed Pacific Rim and The World's End for what they were.

Good guy of the year: Chris Hadfield

Best TV moment: Ozymandias episode of Breaking Bad

I've only seen the bound 2 video twice and had not heard any talk about it, but was it not meant to be stupid, it looked like a piss-take; are people saying it wasn't a good a piss-take? What I thought when I saw it was that Kanye was "in a really good place, mentally"...

Cydoniac wrote: »

Worst Song:

:eek:

Won't sleep tonight after watching that...

EDIT:
Can't stop laughing with the lookalikes posts

Best Ride: