18 - Cage the Elephant - Thank You, Happy Birthday
17 - Beady Eye - Different Gear, Still Speeding
16 - Wiz Khalifa - Rolling Papers
14 - Tori Amos - Night of Hunters
9 - LMFAO - Sorry for Party Rocking
8 - Red Hot Chili Peppers - I’m with You
7 - Lady Gaga - Born This Way
4 - Tyler, The Creator - Goblin
1 - Lou Reed & Metallica - Lulu
9 of these 20 are on the EOY spreadsheet. Yes, even Lulu.
It's fascinating to me that all year long - unless I just wasn't reading the right things - whenever the Odd Future collective was discussed and debated, Tyler and Goblin were the focal point. It was one of the most talked-about albums of the year, and I figured that it would show up on a lot of EOY lists. It's been on a few, but as it turns out it's fellow OF member Frank Ocean who's been killing it. I actually had never heard a thing about Nostalgia, Ultra until it started popping up on all these lists; I downloaded it over the weekend, and it's quite fantastic (even though one of its signature tracks, "American Wedding," doesn't -sample- "Hotel California," it just has Ocean singing new words over the entire original track, guitar solos and all, which is a little weird).
