**********Hot damn it's THE ILX 2007 POLL RESULTS, part 2**********

50. High On Fire - Death Is This Communion (74 points, 5 votes, 1 number one vote)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5f/Image-Death_Is_This_Communion.jpg

49. White Stripes - Icky Thump (74 points, 7 votes, 1 number one vote)

http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/9745/thewhitestripesickythumca7.jpg

damn i already like this poll

Please everyone, contain your excitement!

48. Caribou - Andorra (77 points, 7 votes, 1 number one vote)

http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/8200/caribouandorract7ec4.jpg

It's gonna make me kinda sad when Spoon ends up like 30 places higher than Caribou.

Wow, a number one vote for each so far! And two out of three ain't bad for a start -- I couldn't care less about the Stripes album, but the High on Fire and Caribou albums are both excellent.

that high on fire rec is awesome

47. Jesu - Conqueror (77 points, 8 votes)

http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/5760/jesuconquerordm1gv7.jpg

The greatest one-trick pony of 2007. Justin Broadrick has been
honing in on one sound since Jesu's inception, and Conqueror indicates
that that sound has arrived. The low, low guitars, endless layering,
and repetitive, start-stop beats are as impressively deep on the
record as they not in a live setting, where I tend to think that most
PA systems are simply not built for what Broadrick is trying to do. As
it appeals to one very specific part of my musical palette, Jesu's
fusion is beautiful and beautifully limited. The limitations aren't
going anywhere, but as far as execution against goals goes, this band
is tops.
-call all destroyer

Here is an "up-and-comer" with lots of "buzz":

46. Amy Winehouse - Back To Black (78 points, 8 votes, #39 in 2006)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/46/Amy_Winehouse_-_Back_To_Black_US.jpg

Whoa.. I was randomly handed that High On Fire CD last night and it's currently in my bad unlistened. I will listen to it right now.

in my **BAG**!!!

45. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand (79 points, 6 votes)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a9/3_c86c2c75f4dd5cfa2361959701f93205.jpg

well that caribou album was pretty good...

Awesome that High On Fire made it. I had hoped my no1 choice Electric Wizard would make it along with Alcest. Probably wont but I'm hoping Om might.

44. Rihanna - Good Girl Gone Bad (79 points, 10 votes)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/83/Gggbrihanna.jpg

The best thing I can say about Good Girl Gone Bad is this: its
first song is the consensus best pop song of last year, and the rest
manages not to pale in comparison.
-J0rdan S

Ella, ella, ella. Biggest brelly single since The Hollies kicked off
the most fun first half of an album this year; "Push up on Me," "Don't
Stop the Music" (with that Dibango-by-way-of-Jackson "Mukassa" sample)
and "Breakin' Dishes" are undeniable. Second half may be slow down,
but damn, those harmonies. Too bad about Ne-Yo though. Hate on this
and be prepared to surrender your poptimist card.
-i eat cannibals

lol most backhanded compliment ever :/

i really really like this album tho

i like that the past 2 years have kicked off the list with a metal album. awesome

I get the feeling that this could be a very schizophrenic list.

=43. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam (80 points, 6 votes)

http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/6663/strawberryjamhighrescovzy8.jpg

=43. Roisin Murphy - Overpowered (80 points, 6 votes)

http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/7296/roisinmurphyoverpoweredsm3.jpg

Glad AC didn't get a higher placig.

strawberry jam was great. my first to make it so far.

The album cover is so gross.

^^^

41. Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala (80 points, 7 votes)

http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/9550/jenslekamnnightfallsxi5zw7.jpg

And I think I speak for everyone when I say FINALLY SOME LCD SOUNDSYSTEM IN AN ILM POLL!!

40. LCD Soundsystem - 45:33 (82 points, 7 votes, #7 in 2006)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0c/45-33_album_cover.jpg

(that's it for today, tune in tomorrow for a result that will both shock and awe)

(PS: I still need a Waffles invite...I'm not threatening to hold the rest of the poll hostage or anything, but I am putting that option on the table)

strawberry jam was awesome

shocked it didn't place higher, but i guess it's pretty "conventional" for an AC record? don't really know their oevure, can some1 educate a hoos

i still have not heard the electric wizard album!! :( :(

Electric Wizard album is awes.

Yeah it's their best yet. I never thought they would top Dopethrone.

Gah there's only like four good songs on the Jens album!

Hoos re: AC start with Sung Tongs, then listen to Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished/Danse Manatee, or actually start with the Panda Bear but I imagine you've heard that already, believe the hype on that one. I had this weird handmade EP or something called Campfire Collective but it was boring so I got rid of it. Feels is really boring, although maybe not if you haven't heard too much else, I dunno.

I thought we only liked Campfire Songs.

oh yeah campfire songs. i only don't like it. and feels. so far.

When I saw them live they played a heap of stuff from Feels and it sounded really great!1

feels was awesome. jam is my second favorite to it. glad it placed but deserved a lot higher. im surprised that there was only 6 of us.

don't blame me, i gave that bitch 17 points. and re: Feels, yeah it's less than compelling in places, but it also has some of their best material. don't sleep on it hoos.

I thought Campfire Songs was one of their best, along with Sung Tongs. I haven't really been able to get into the new one, though.

V. happy to see Rihanna.

17 pts here too...sung tongs was great too. i actually like everything i've heard from them except for the live album.

39. Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity (82 points, 7 votes, 1 number one vote)

http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/4808/deerhooffriendopportunigl0.jpg

38. PJ Harvey - White Chalk (83 points, 10 votes)

http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/6227/wccoverwm4mg4.jpg

White Chalk: the party record of 2007

37. Patrick Wolf - Magic Position (84 points, 6 votes, 1 number one vote)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/26/The_Magic_Position_cover.jpg

Kinda surprised the White Stripes and PJ Harvey are so low. I suppose they're the sort of albums that several ppl vote around the 9th or 10th mark.

More surprised by Patrick Wolf being #37, figured this would be a lock for the top 20.

ilxors have short memories

36. Eluvium - Copia (86 points, 8 votes)

http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/7444/eluviumcopiape9tc9.jpg

Matthew Cooper's latest effort as Eluvium brings to mind the gentler
side of Michael Nyman. But there's an anxious undercurrent to even the
most relaxed of Nyman's work; in place of that, Cooper achieves a more
laid-back mixture of the epic and the intimate. Lilting waltz rhythms
make "indoor swimming at the space station" an album highlight. And if
the solo-piano "radio ballet" seems monochromatic in comparison to the
(MIDI) orchestrations that enrich the rest of the album, _Copia_ still
makes for a compelling start-to-finish listen.
-Paul in Santa Cruz

35. Electrelane - No Shouts, No Calls (91 points, 7 votes, 2 number one votes)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4f/Electrelane-NoShoutsNoCalls.jpg

I'm glad the Eluvium album made the cut. Such a beautiful record.

Nice on the Eluvium

34. Von Südenfed - Tromatic Reflexxions (92 points, 7 votes)

http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/1029/52827412796996f82d8oyk0.jpg

Mouse on Mars plus Mark E. Smith and a name that sounds like German
cough medicine? Following up on a 2005 collaboration, _Tromatic
Reflexxions_ was prickly dance punk that garnered favorable
comparisons to LCD Soundsystem. ILX money quote? "I listened to the
lead single ("Fledermaus Can't Get It"), and while the beat was
surprisingly good, the vocalists mumblings were just as awful as I
thought. Can someone explain me what's the supposed charm with this
dude?" said Tuomas.
-i eat cannibals

33. Pantha Du Prince - This Bliss (94 points, 8 votes, 1 number one vote)

http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/4297/o768903lh3qo1.jpg

Glad Pantha made it. I kinda figured he'd be higher based on how well the single did, but oh well. What a stunning record.

32. Gui Boratto - Chromophobia (96 points, 9 votes)

http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/6764/727793xx7.jpg

exciting! i own & love i think 6 of the last 7 albums posted here.

31. OM - Pilgrimage (97 points, 8 votes, 1 number one vote)

http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/9724/ompilgrimagetd2il7.jpg

As long as Om keeps making records, they'll probably keep finding
their way into top 20s. The band's formula is too solid, it arrived
too fully-realized, and it's not only unique, but hard to copy. While
last year's Conference Of The Birds rode one brilliant track (and one
fine one) to acclaim, Pilgrimage works better as a front-to-back
recording. The meditative title track buttresses the louder songs
well, and "Bhima's Theme" works while being the most normal riff
they've ever laid down. It's disturbing to learn that Chris Hakius has
left the band, but as long as they find someone who can work a ride
cymbal as hard as he can I'll think they'll be OK.
-call all destroyer

Glad Pantha made it. What a stunning record.

^^^

Om!!!!

I approve of this poll so far.

30. Kylie Minogue - X (98 points, 8 votes)

http://img184.imageshack.us/img184/1804/kyliexgc0wp2.jpg

I haven't heard *any* of these albums all the way through!

I've heard "Andorra"

I've heard the whole of Plant & Krauss. None o'teh others, tho.

As perusual I've only even heard of about three.

i've heard amy winehouse, plant/krauss (never actually bought this, really should), and deerhoof so far.

I've heard seven of these all the way through.

and most of plant/krauss, von sudenfed, electrelane, AC

heard five... possibly six, can't remember about Electrelane 'cos got so stuck on Saturday rest of the record paled beside it, great song.

heard 4: Rihanna, Winehouse, LCD, Stripes

29. UGK - Underground Kingz (98 points, 8 votes, 1 number one vote)

http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/8508/ugk28undergroundkingz29hk0.jpg

Up until December 4, 2007, Underground Kingz symbolized what was arguably UGK’s best year ever. The album, though not their best, made them chart-toppers for the first time and helped them become the feel good story in a year that again featured a deluge of ones about music’s demise. But on that day in December, founding member Pimp C passed away in a Los Angeles hotel room, and the album became something else: the group’s eulogy.

Fortunately, it’s a fitting one. The best songs are faithful takes on the soulful, organic sound the group helped pioneer and perfect. The worst are, at the very worst, extraneous; though at this point I think we’d call them blessings.
-j0rdan S

1 number one vote

pretty sure this was me.

28. Lil Wayne - Da Drought 3 (102 points, 8 votes)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/19/Da_Drought_3_cover.jpg

More ink and more characters were devoted to Lil Wayne last year than arguably any rapper in the world. He hasn’t released an album since 2005 and, up until this past January, hadn’t released an official single since the summer of 2006. Instead, he’s made his name on the fruits of his insane, and possibly self-destructive, work ethic. Da Drought 3, his sprawling two-disc mixtape, brought him a wider (and whiter) audience, but more importantly was 2007’s best evidence that his work ethic is something we should admire and not worry about. Wayne uses the tape as a place to constantly one-up himself, rolling out enough hilarious pop culture free-associations and weed jokes to provide your favorite frat dude with a year full of Facebook statuses (“Jake is so motherfucking high he could eat a star”; “Randy is a monster, everyday is Halloween”). How you know this tape is deep: the statuses have continued in ’08.
-j0rdan S

27. Miranda Lambert - Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (103 points, 7 votes)

http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/4240/mlambcrazyexgfkd5fj9.jpg

i own 12 of these so far. wow. really really glad to see OM on the list!

i think it's funny that that bootleg ass image of da drought 3 is the one that gets used as a jpg in all of these lists

Yeah, the other one is much classier.

stuff like OM always sounds great when i read about it, and then way boring when i check it out.

26. Alcest - Souvenirs d'un autre monde (103 points, 8 votes, 2 number one votes)

http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/9020/alcestkg2py1.jpg

I feel like music has gotten away from me

what is that

never heard of it.

Me neither, but apparently Shoegazer Metal : Search & Destroy

Wow, mega-showing for Alcest. People really likin' this better than Jesu?

HURRAH FOR ALCEST!!!

Alcest are popular with metal niche on ILM, however that album is more shoegazer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcest

Alcest currently ranked 29th for 2007 albums on rateyourmusic at the mo - so no shock
http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/alcest/souvenirs_dun_autre_monde/

Wow, really surprised about Alcest being so high. Not complaining though...

That's the most surprising entry here, by far...

neige for Alcest has another band AMESOEURS - joy division / the cure meets Life Without Buildings meets shoegazer tinted black metal - check the track Faiblesse Des Sens on myspace

Amesoeurs
http://www.myspace.com/amesoeurs

25. Lily Allen - Alright, Still… (103 points, 9 votes, #9 in 2006)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d6/Alrightstill.jpg

rly>?

I'm finding this list surprisingly interesting so far (in some cases just because of where certain albums are showing up on the list).

Alcest currently ranked 29th for 2007 albums on rateyourmusic at the mo - so no shock
http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/alcest/souvenirs_dun_autre_monde/

-- djmartian, Wednesday, March 5, 2008 4:39 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

Yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing some Porcupine Tree and Pearl Jam show up later.

Rateryourmusic vs. Metacritic uselessness challenge! It's a toss-up.

alcest, nice

Yeah Alcest! One of those number one votes is mine. Absolutely fell in love with this album.

Thanks again Adrien!

i'm not sure why people bother with albums anymore, unless it's to get hold of a particular song. i don't know if that's a good or a bad thing.

24. Robert Wyatt - Comicopera (104 points, 8 votes)

http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/7378/wyattcomicoperacoverwp3pk3.jpg

Because some people enjoy whole albums?
x-post
Awesome, Robert Wyatt made it too!

i've only heard a few of these

considered picking up the alcest but didn't

now i will

Robert Wyatt yesyesyes

23. Blonde Redhead - 23 (105 points, 8 votes)

http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/6408/blonderedhead23bb0dt1.jpg

hahaha nice!

woo. my second album to make it.

happy to see jens in there. if i'd actually heard the album last year i would have voted for it

This list is rad so far.

this list sucks!

Still waiting for my two noms...

I'm sort of happy that the Alcest record made it, despite never having heard it, heard of it, or held any opinion of it, because I was kinda worried the albums poll would be boringly predictable.

Still Lily Allen at 25 in 2007 = WTF?

Nice one on the Blonde Redhead making it

22. Dizzee Rascal - Maths + English (110 points, 9 votes)

http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/7739/mathsandenglishph0cm5.jpg

In which Dizzee 'went pop' in the best manner possible, eschewing the Primark Kanye West stylings and focus-grouped crossover attempts of grime's underachieving former leading lights, and instead delved into the last 15 years of UK High Street sounds. A fresher take on 'just-out-of-fashion' dance music, familiar enough to be easy to latch onto without sounding self-consciously revivalist, Dizzee's sheer force of personality enough to save even the more prosaic tracks from sounding like half-arsed knock-offs.

If it lacks the initial power of Boy In Da Corner, Maths & English serves as a timely reminder that grime didn't just come from nowhere, and possibly presented a few pointers as to where it went wrong. It helped that, for the first nine tracks at least, Maths & English is utterly unstoppable. Kudos as well for giving me the opportunity to shout 'Pussy'ole!' at whoever I happened to be dancing with at the time.
-Matt DC

21. Feist - The Reminder (110 points, 10 votes)

http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/8198/thereminderjv6no5.jpg

GAH

something i prepared last night

ilm 2007 top 20 albums poll guess

are these in the top 20:

Radiohead
MIA
Panda Bear
Burial
LCD Soundsystem
Robyn
Battles
Arcade Fire
Kanye West
Spoon
The National
Beirut
Studio
The Field
Pharoahe Monch
Justice
Deerhunter
Yeasayer
Liars
Bruce Springsteen

are these outside the top 50? or could some be in the top 20?

The Angelic Process
A Place To Bury Strangers
Band of Horses
The Besnard Lakes
Andrew Bird
The Clientele
Matthew Dear
Digitalism
Dirty Projectors
Efterklang
Gogol Bordello
Grinderman
Richard Hawley
Iron & Wine
Klaxons
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
Les Savy Fav
Low
Modest Mouse
The New Pornographers
Okkervil River
The Shins
St. Vincent
Underworld
Siouxsie
Stars of the Lid
Sunset Rubdown
Wilco
Wooden Shjips

Feist album is suprisingly low!

I love the title of the Dizzee album.

20. Kanye West - Graduation (111 points, 10 votes, 1 number one vote)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/70/Graduation_%28album%29.jpg

ilm 2007 top 20 albums poll guess

are these in the top 20:

You forgot Of Montreal.

i'm still listening to the dizzee album.

19. Low - Drums And Guns (115 points, 12 votes)

http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/5954/lowdrumsandgunses2se9.jpg

wau @ low > kanye, awesome

i loved that low album.
its definately up there with the best stuff they have ever done.
glad to see it get some recognition.

I keep checking incase Electric Wizard were gonna sneak in but I think all hope has been lost :(

18. !!! - Myth Takes (117 points, 8 votes)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b6/Warp154.jpg

Myth Takes was a huge surprise to me, and that's a result of how rare it is for a band to so completely correct their biggest flaw. !!! always had the sound and the attitude, but were often lacking memorable songwriting that would elevate them to classic status. No more: Myth Takes is bursting with huge, memorable hooks, singable choruses and (as always) fun lyrics. Happily, the band's noisy, post-punk-referencing guitars remained intact through this transformation, giving the album's best songs a dark edge that makes them absolutely club-worthy. If that wasn't enough, Myth Takes works as an LP too, with exceptional track-to-track flow right down to the quiet, weirdly affecting closer "Infinifold."
-call all destroyer

forgot that album existed

i don't even remember ppl talking about it

rev why didn't you write a blurb for kanye?

>are these outside the top 50? or could some be in the top 20?

i'd be surprised/disappointed if stars of the lid didn't make the list

yea same here

17. Amerie - Because I Love It (121 points, 9 votes)

http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/548/becauseiloveitup6sk0.jpg

It's funny to look back on how staid Amerie was when she first appeared. So demure she was, and that was the only way she knew how to sing. Then she devoted herself to the discovery of how to use her voice in every damn way possible. Her second album may have held one of the most untetheredly joyous songs recorded, but, in whole, it was a bit shaky and transitional. _Because I Love It_ is where Amerie fully realizes all of which she's capable. A cathedral to multi-tracking on a foundation of post-Richcraftian neo-funk, the set finds Amerie shrieking, crooning, chirping, feinting, shouting, controlling the moment. Blame the lack of domestic release on its lack of a tune as unstoppable as "1 Thing", but how many albums have one? That was her lucking into something that can only be lucked into, this is where the mastery of her craft pays off.
-The Reverend

who the heck are they?

Bringing out the records I forgot about. Thinking back, Myth Takes is very good, even if they annoyed me live.

the first half of that amerie album = still unstoppable.

AMERIE!!! That makes me so happy.

16. Daft Punk - Alive 2007 (123 points, 9 votes, 2 number one votes)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/49/Daft_Punk_Alive_2007.JPG

i would have sex with all this ameries

-- and what, Monday, March 26, 2007 4:57 PM (11 months ago) Bookmark Link

Alive 2007 was my #1.

15. Justice - † (131 points, 11 votes, 1 number one vote)

http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/6578/justicecrossdj5yb5.jpg

wooooow justice beating daft punk

DJ Martian not confident about Ulver breaking the top 20 then? ;)

hey musically can you post an up to date list whenever you decide to cut it off for today?

It will have to wait until I get home but I can definitely do that tonight.

14 to go - these 10 will make it,

Radiohead
MIA
Panda Bear
Burial
LCD Soundsystem
Robyn
Battles
Arcade Fire
Spoon
The National

only leaves 4 positions possibly: Beirut, Studio, The Field and of Montreal - therefore not expecting Ulver.

maybe: stars of the lid

14. National - Boxer (138 points, 13 votes)

http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/3856/thenationalboxeriv8ae7.jpg

Daft Punk was my number 1 too. that solves that mystery.
favorite album of the year. favorite tour of the year. and until that album i thought human after all was useless. alive proved that wrong.

13. Stars Of The Lid - Stars of the Lid and Their Refinement of the Decline (145 points, 10 votes)

http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/7827/starsofthelidandtheirreik3.jpg

This is the lamest poll ever. Seriously, people.

Last one for today; top 11 tomorrow...

12. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (147 points, 11 votes)

http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/7203/neonbible2yi7fy3.jpg

This is the lamest poll ever. Seriously, people.

-- kornrulez6969, Thursday, March 6, 2008 11:58 PM

why?

because his username is KORN RULEZ

i'll give the amerie another go; wasn't feeling it apart from a few tracks.

neon bible was great. didn't vote for it but glad it made the cut.

i'm still hoping #1 will be of montreal or studio even though it'll inevitably be radiohead

How come a whole bunch of these albums came out in 2006?

I didn't vote, but if Of Montreal gets number one I won't have had to.

forget it, too many people are gonna vote for that lcd soundsystem bullshit

So far:

50. High On Fire - Death Is This Communion (74 points, 5 votes, 1 number one vote)
49. White Stripes - Icky Thump (74 points, 7 votes, 1 number one vote)
48. Caribou - Andorra (77 points, 7 votes, 1 number one vote)
47. Jesu - Conqueror (77 points, 8 votes)
46. Amy Winehouse - Back To Black (78 points, 8 votes)
45. Robert Plant & Alison Kraus - Raising Sand (79 points, 6 votes)
44. Rihanna - Good Girl Gone Bad (79 points, 10 votes)
43. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam (80 points, 6 votes)
43. Roisin Murphy - Overpowered (80 points, 6 votes)
41. Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala (80 points, 7 votes)
40. LCD Soundsystem - 45:33 (82 points, 7 votes)
39. Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity (82 points, 7 votes, 1 number one vote)
38. PJ Harvey - White Chalk (83 points, 10 votes)
37. Patrick Wolf - Magic Position (84 points, 6 votes, 1 number one vote)
36. Eluvium - Copia (86 points, 8 votes)
35. Electrelane - No Shouts, No Calls (91 points, 7 votes, 2 number one votes)
34. Von Sudenfed - Tromatic Refelexions (92 points, 7 votes)
33. Pantha Du Prince - This Bliss (94 points, 8 votes, 1 number one vote)
32. Gui Boratto - Chromophobia (96 points, 9 votes)
31. OM - Pilgrimage (97 points, 8 votes, 1 number one vote)
30. Kylie Minogue - X (98 points, 8 votes)
29. UGK - Underground Kingz (98 points, 8 votes, 1 number one vote)
28. Lil Wayne - Da Drought 3 (102 points, 8 votes)
27. Miranda Lambert - Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (103 points, 7 votes)
26. Alcest - Souvenirs D'Autre Monde (103 points, 8 votes, 2 number one votes)
25. Lily Allen - Alright, Still… (103 points, 9 votes)
24. Robert Wyatt - Comicopera (104 points, 8 votes)
23. Blonde Redhead - 23 (105 points, 8 votes)
22. Dizzee Rascal - Maths & English (110 points, 9 votes)
21. Feist - Reminder (110 points, 10 votes)
20. Kanye West - Graduation (111 points, 10 votes, 1 number one vote)
19. Low - Drums And Guns (115 points, 12 votes)
18. !!! - Myth Takes (117 points, 8 votes)
17. Amerie - Because I Love It (121 points, 9 votes)
16. Daft Punk - Alive 2007 (123 points, 9 votes, 2 number one votes)
15. Justice - + (131 points, 11 votes, 1 number one vote)
14. The National - Boxer (138 points, 13 votes)
13. Stars Of The Lid - Stars Of The Lid tnd Their Refinement Of The Decline (145 points, 10 votes)
12. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (147 points, 11 votes)

didn't even consider neon bible

fuuuuck you argayde fire

Results 1 - 6 of 6 for "argayde fire". (0.18 seconds)

Glad to see props for Myth Takes in this poll! Totally glossed over by most media but damn what an album.

It's dreadfully boring, a couple songs excepted, and this is coming from someone who loves Louden Up Now. WTF is it doing in this let alone that high up?

^^

rev why didn't you write a blurb for kanye?

-- J0rdan S., Thursday, March 6, 2008 12:02 PM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Link

Cause I didn't get around to it at first and then I forgot about it.

lol @ djmartian's "who the heck are they?"

end times

forget it, too many people are gonna vote for that lcd soundsystem bullshit

-- omar little, Friday, 7 March 2008 01:32 (5 hours ago) Link

thank you....i dont see what everyone loves

i love that it is awesome

tuneful and dancey and funny and funky and holy shit actually ocassionally moving which is more than i can say for most of what i heard in 07 unfortunately

if you're gonna get heated over ppl voting for lcd in an 07 albums poll don't waste your time opening this thread

the sky is blue... i don't see what everyone loves

accept it and move on

that said hoos generally otm

39 down, 11 to go...

11. Field - From Here We Go Sublime (170 points, 16 votes, 1 number one vote)

http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/1064/fromherewegosublimeqp6wa4.jpg

Like a lot of people who liked The Field, I don't know too much about the context from which Axel Willner's music arises. But I do know gorgeousness when I hear it, and the analog warmth and human-touched live mixing of _Sublime_ makes it an easy pick for year-end lists. Willner's love of his source material is matched by his ability to transform it, and the way he works with sound as something close to a physical object is special. From pleasant background to up-front scrutiny, the multipurpose album of the year.
-call all destroyer

10. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? (189 points, 14 votes, 2 number one votes)

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I really did not give a shit about this band until I heard 'The Past is a Grotesque Animal,' but I loved that song a lot so I figured I should investigate further. Their back catalog still doesn't do much for me but this album is great, one of the best album-length portraits of depression I've heard in a long time, all dressed up in neon-lights and filled with hooks on top of hooks.
-Maciej

I've spent the whole end-of-year poll season just assuming that the Of Montreal album is shit judging purely by the title.

That useful and incisive post was bought to you by the Wilful Blind Prejudices in Indie Society.

to hell with everyone who thinks The Field album is better than SMD's

9. Panda Bear - Person Pitch (191 points, 15 votes, 3 number one votes)

http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/3976/pandabearpersonpitchcs0fa7.jpg

SMD is a decent album, y'know, but the Field (which was my #1) is the most beautiful record in, like, forever, works just as well on the dancefloor as SMD, in my experience, and has gotten those little loops stuck in my head more than probably any non-"ella ella, ey ey ey" thing all year.

I still don't really see why Person Pitch is so highly rated. It's okay, but it's a bit of a snooze compared to, well, most other AC stuff. Maybe I don't get it?

But I am thrilled Of Montreal got in the top ten at least. Absolutely brilliant, super-realised pop that actually sounds new and interesting and like it genuinely comes from the future.

sorry, what's SMD??

simian mobile disco, the other dance record not by justice people liked this year

I don't really see how people could really compare Justice and SMD with the Field other than the fact that they were high profile dance albums this year... They are really completely different.

And SMD and Justice are lame and The Field rules.

its a bizarre comparison but i like smd the most of the three, if anyone is updating deej.xls

Although its possible I'm just being reactionary.

I have no idea how some of these beat the High on Fire.

the field is way better than simian mobile disco, but the field isn't nearly as good as pantha du prince.

and listening to of montreal makes me feel physically ill

The Field album is kind of magical for a few tracks and then my attention wanes. The Simian Mobile Disco is rubbish bar a couple of tracks.

I have no idea how some of these beat the High on Fire.

-- Bill Magill, Friday, 7 March 2008 18:16 (2 minutes ago) Link

lolololololololololololololol <3 magill

But yeah, comparing them is like comparing Low to Andrew WK or something.

the comparison is just based on them both being among the most hyped predominantly dancey LPs in blogsville - kind of a reference to this

i like smd most out of the 3 (and i like all 3 a lot-- haven't hear pantha). i really loved the field album a few times this year, both were when i was flying (window seat)and slipping in and out of consciousness/sleep with the sunlight shining onto me, really abstract bs i know but it happened to be pretty perfect

like I THOUGHT IT WAS OBVIOUS, my bads (xp)

This album received the highest number of #1 votes...

8. Studio - West Coast (198 points, 13 votes, 5 number one votes)

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It's now impossible for me to hear the word 'Balearic' without thinking of the moment about 8mins into Out There, when the sound drops out almost entirely, leaving nothing but those impossibly warm, beach-at-sunset chords drifting through before everything builds back up again. Or the bit during West Coast where the inebriated bloke-rock drawl of "solid good times" is drenched in girly Ibiza pads. Or just the phrase... Life's A Beach! Rarely have I heard an album that sounded so... content.

The real joy in this record is how unexpected it felt amid 2007's rock landscape, the sound of a million bland chillout comps reclaimed and reworked into exciting new and old shapes. The aura of faint thuggishness, never far away, but tamed by sunshine and ecstasy and glorious second summer of love vibes. I played this record far more than anything else last year, and true to form it sounds fucking wonderful while drinking beer, by the sea, as the sun goes down. Which is exactly as it's meant to be.
-Matt DC

was my #2 so almost 6! love this and am listening right now (actually prefer yearbook 1 because the two extra songs are pretty good)

i didn't get to 'west coast' soon enough to vote for it - i'll be the only dude making it top 5 THIS year...

i hope future consensus on albums of 2007 is west coast obvs = best by far

i've only heard a couple tunes, but i don't really get studio.

Pardon my ignorance on the subject:

West Coast is just Yearbook 1 without two tracks, right? Are the mixes different? Should I listen to Yearbook 1 minus No Comply and Radio Edit to get a better "album" experience?

5 number ones holy hell

No Comply and Radio Edit are my 2 faves by them so i keep wanting to think of WC and YB1 as the same album

The #7 is going to seriously blow your minds y'all

blackout right?

Was the "y'all" a clue? I didn't really mean for that. I just like using it online because I sound like an idiot when I say it out loud.

7. Britney Spears - Blackout (201 points, 15 votes, 3 number one votes)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c9/Blackout_-_Album.PNG

8. Studio - West Coast (198 points, 13 votes, 5 number one votes)

THIS IS A VICTORY FOR SOMETHING OR OTHER.

I think West Coast works better as an album mostly because of the ordering, it feels complete already without the extra two tracks. Also Out There is just such an amazing opener.

So, hands up who else was surprised DJ Martian forgot about Britney?

you guys still listening to britney, huh?

Britney Spears - what is this celebrity pop nonsense !

pop album of the year, fwiw

-- blueski, Monday, 26 November 2007 20:39 (3 months ago)

oh shut up

-- r|t|c, Monday, 26 November 2007 21:35 (3 months ago)

great days

great album but still maybe the worst cover of the decade

YOU try making an album cover with MS Paint.

6. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (203 points, 17 votes)

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5 left:

Radiohead
MIA
Burial
LCD Soundsystem
Robyn or Battles ?

The Field album is kind of magical for a few tracks and then my attention wanes.

yeah about half i'm totally enraptured, the other half its like "oh, is this still playing?"

hooray spoon, fuck the haters

money says battles xxp

are there more popists than math-rockists on ilm these days?

I'm thinking enough people here championed the same Robyn album in years past that that's the one that didn't get many votes.

Britney Spears? ILX irony has gone too far.

Yeah, Robyn probably showed up in the 2005 poll.

Indeed.

In fact, here's DJ Martian handicapping the top 20 of 2005:

first up the 10 most likely to show up in the top 20:

Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
M.I.A. - Arular
Kate Bush - Aerial
Antony and the Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now
Vitalic - Ok Cowboy
Broadcast - Tender Buttons
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Animal Collective - Feels
Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase
LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem

the next 10 IS difficult to judge, so here are some candidates with comments:

Common - Be [Is rap still popular asks Geir?]
Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene [Is this too generic indie rawk to show up in the top 20?]
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah [Have enough ILM types voted for Pitchfork approved Talking Heads karaoke?]
Gorillaz - Demon Days [Does ILM like fun? OR NOT ]
Isolée - Wearemonster [Have the dance types voted in enough numbers?]
Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain [Where are the Noise dudes?]
The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema [Canadian Indie on a zillion blog / webzine lists]
Nine Horses - Snow Borne Sorrow [Will enough people vote this into the top 20?]
Robyn - Robyn [A long thread on ILM suggests this is popular]
Kanye West - Late Registration [Is rap still popular asks Geir?]

-- DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, January 16, 2006 2:04 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Link

"Britney Spears? ILX irony has gone too far."

Totally agreed

I still haven't gotten over that ridiculous Stars Of The Lid showing. You drone dorks need to get a life, stat! Am I right, people? I mean, please! And Britney freakin' Spears? What the hell is that? Y'all need to get your head out of your collective asses here.

And don't get me started on those idiots in Battles. Holy crap, I'd rather eat my ass out with a spoon than listen to that swill.

The Britney record might be too high, but it's actually a v. good record.

Speak of the devil!

5. Battles - Mirrored (230 points, 17 votes, 3 number one votes)

http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/5018/battlesmirroredsw9wh4.jpg

I'm not too sure what to say about a year in which the finest album was a descendant of the DNA of mid-90s math rock and post rock, of Helmet, and the late, lamented (but sadly reanimated) Don Caballero. I'll take it as a sign that the increasingly anything-goes environment for music is a blessing: somewhere along the way, Battles turned from a mildly-interesting bearer of the instrumental rock torch into an absolute revelation, and a lot of people took notice. Nowhere was this more apparent than at the band's explosive live shows--causally interested college students and young professional types turned out along with the typical indie-music fandom to watch four guys play some of the most impossibly intricate yet fun music they'd ever seen. As an album, Mirrored is a big, shiny, rush-inducing object, an exhilarating kick that never falls into pretension and never elevates any portion of its lockstep ensemble playing over the almighty beat. Watching Battles live, I was struck by how much work it is to create their songs--no one gets a second off as there are always more loops to be built, drums to be hit as hard as possible, 7-foot high cymbals to reach. It's work to listen to as well, and I like to think that the payoff for playing it must match the glorious highs of listening.
-call all destroyer

Radiohead at 4 then?

"Britney Spears? ILX irony has gone too far."

Totally agreed

it's not irony you plebs

lol @ someone honestly responding to bill magill's opinion about music

kornrulez6969, please enlighten us with 5 or 10 albums that should be in the top 50.

causally interested college students and young professional types turned out along with the typical indie-music fandom

i thought this was the typical indie-music fandom?!

lol for real

"lol @ someone honestly responding to bill magill's opinion about music"

Man, you really toasted me there.

Still processing kornrulez6969's comments about eating his ass out with a spoon....

x-post yeah I mean they are all WITE PEOPLE but let's just say the audience at Battles was real, real different from the audience at Don Cab a couple years ago.

re: Battles was real, real different from the audience at Don Cab a couple years ago.

- they read all read pitchfork now NOT magnet

anyone got a link to the soundopinions poll results?

Hahahaha.

Maybe I should've made it more of an age thing. Don Cab = 30+ beardos. BTTLS = 20+ girls, downtown professionals. Close to half the audience w/no indie signifiers whatsoever.

Spears=30+ People mag reading houswives and 15+music dorks.

lol @ dudes being shocked @ britney

"wait, you mean...people like POP MUSIC?! but it's so SUBSTANCELESS"

re: 20+ girls

just like this:
http://suicidegirls.com/boards/The+Pictures/255757/

bill magill= 50+ crusty dude who still wonders how a list of best albums could rank universally popular ones over niche metal

30+, but you're on the right track

15+music dorks.

Doesn't this describe pretty much everyone on this board?

musically - hit my baby one more time - lets have number 4 - so the top 3 predictions can start, thanks

Since you asked politely...

4. Burial - Untrue (269 points, 25 votes)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/64/BurialUntrue.jpg

radiohead, mia, lcd

right dorks: rearrange these 3 in order of the ilm 2007 albums poll

LCD Soundsystem
M.I.A
Radiohead

mia, radiohead, lcd

LCD, Radiohead, M.I.A.

Also, I just wanted to point out that ILM was sort of founded on liking Britney Spears: ILM Top 100 Records -- The Full List

Radiohead, MIA, LCD

3rd will be Radiohead
2nd MIA
1st LCD

So who is right? (please)

3: M.I.A
2: LCD
1: Radiohead

yes, please put us out of our misery

3 MIA
2 Radiohead
1 LCD

3. M.I.A., Kala
2. LCD Soundsystem, Sound of Silver
1. She Wants Revenge, This is Forever

wow @ Burial getting 25 votes! i think the second-highest number (so far) has been 17 votes, a couple times. that's awesome, really speaks to the record's broad appeal better than anything else.

also: looks like 9 of my 20 choices (Blonde Redhead, Burial, Caribou, Eluvium, Jesu, Low, Om, PJ Harvey, Stars of the Lid) have made the cut so far. i'd have voted for LCD or Radiohead, honestly, but i figured so many others would vote for them (and i was right!) that i'd be better off supporting stuff that didn't get noticed as much.

and frankly, i'm surprised Grinderman didn't make the top 50. and possibly Deerhunter, which is also pretty great. the rest i voted for? not surprised to see them absent. but where is Grinderman?????? :(

Grinderman - to trad and unremarkable hard rock

Ranked #366 for 2007
http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/grinderman/grinderman/

i mean in the ilx poll

3. Radiohead - In Rainbows (304 points, 25 votes, 2 number one votes)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2e/In_Rainbows_Official_Cover.jpg

LOL RADIOHEAD

I was secretly hoping they'd beat lcd...sadly not

re: i mean in the ilx poll - i am using rym as a comparative to show that it's wallowing at 366 - and gave comments on why this is so.

Melissa is crying now ! - you thoughtless to**ers

Those damn hipsters!! ;)

2. MIA - Kala
1. Army of the Pharaohs - Ritual of Battle

Here is your #2 album, I think we all know what will be #1 but I'll leave a small cushion for any joke winners.

2. M.I.A - Kala (315 points, 24 votes, 3 number one votes)

http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/337/miakalatq8sj8.jpg

Anticipated follow-up from crit darling got lots of early love for big dance pop, then pushback for questions of authenticity, brazen appropriation and flat rhymes. As good/better than _Arular_? "Hype, hype," sez the Lex, then 776 messages skipped arguing over whether, in fact, this is the most hyped release of the year. ILX consensus: "I like M.I.A. when she's going for all-out maximalist assault ("Boys" is definitely one of my absolute favourite things of the year for this reason), but quickly find her tiresome when she's getting all sparse/spartan/worthy," from Tim F.
-i eat cannibals

1. The Angelic Process - Weighing Souls With Sand

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s874217.jpg

Pioneers and figureheads of the Ambient Drone Metal subgenre of extreme music, their influence can be found in numerous bands that have come of age in their wake. With a sound that fuses the layered guitar drone of MY BLOOD VALENTINE, the epic sound and tribal thump of NEUROSIS, the emotional bloodletting of JARBOE/SWANS, and complex, yet fluidly shifting time signatures, THE ANGELIC PROCESS have forged new musical ground and over the course of numerous on labels all over the world, have refined and defined a sound that one person described as "the sound my soul makes"

myspace
http://www.myspace.com/theangelicprocess

If every MBV fan was aware of the intoxicating shoegazer- metal-soundscapes of The Angelic Process, this album would be number 1

the Kala blurb couldn't be straight-up praise, could it

DJ OTM
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1. Andrew Antone - I Will Love Again (635 points, 54 votes, 16 number one votes)

http://www.andrewantone.com/images/music_album02.jpg

Been re-discovering much of my long dormant music collection now that I've made the jump to iTunes/iPod, etc. Dug this little numbah out of dark corner and rediscovered its riotously naughty majesty.

Best experienced either on headphones or in a dark, black-lit room with massive speakers that drown everything in the toxic murk, to listen to Love Again is to roam about in a dimly-lit labywrinth wherein voices and instrumentation reveal themselves in blurry patches and frightening avalanches. The only real constant being the 'Tone's distinctive, theatrical growl (somewhere between obvious mentors Alice Cooper and Celine Dion). You can dance to it, scream for help, slash your wrists, laugh hysterically or roll around on the floor. The choice is yours.

Later albums were never as cohesive nor fun. But for a brief, gooey moment in 2007, Andrew Antone was perfect. -Alex in NYC

hahahahahahaha

lol

And finally...

1. LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver (460 points, 30 votes, 3 number one votes)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/ff/LCD_Soundsystem_-_Sound_of_Silver.jpg

I resisted LCD for a long time, and for no good reason. Eventually, I had to admit that the man knows how to make a track, and everything fell into place from there. The "emotional core" of Silver's middle tracks has been well-discussed, but there's value to everything here--the James Murphy of LCD records is a memorable character, and would be a fine author if he weren't such a damn good musician.
-call all destroyer

http://blog.dirkschuetze.de/wp-content/Kool-AidMan.jpg

lol

Nothing to look at here. Go home, boys.

kornrulez6969, please enlighten us with 5 or 10 albums that should be in the top 50.

Dig the true top ten, people!

1. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna...
2. LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
3. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
4. Bruce Springsteen - Magic
5. Apples In Stereo - New Magnetic Wonder
6. Against Me! - New Wave
7. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
8. No Age - Weirdo Rippers
9. M.I.A. - Kala
10. National - Boxer

This was actually a pretty good and interesting list, much less predictable than the singles.

did andrew antone play Brad on Home Improvement? If so, then he needs a new haircut.

lol raising sand

And here's everything else:

73 points Liars - Liars
71 points Dinosaur Jr - Beyond
70 points Grinderman – st

69 points Angelic Process - Weighing Souls With Sand
69 points Fiery Furnaces - Widow City
68 points Angels Of Light - We Are Him
66 points New Pornographers - Challengers
66 points Matthew Dear - Asa Breed
65 points Map of Africa - Map of Africa
64 points Björk - Volta
64 points Apparat - Walls
62 points Prodigy - Return Of The Mac
61 points Cornelius - Sensuous
61 points Pole - Steingarten

58 points Good, The Bad & The Queen - st
56 points Okkervil River - The Stage Names
56 points Girls Aloud - Tangled Up
56 points Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today
56 points Parts & Labor - Mapmaker
55 points Chromatics - Night Drive
55 points Yeasayer - All Hour Cymbals
55 points Ghostface Killah - Big Doe Rehab
54 points Ricardo Villalobos - Fabric 36
54 points Rhys Chatham - A Crimson Grail
52 points Boris w/ Michio Kurihara - Rainbow
52 points Gogol Bordello - Super Taranta
51 points Klaxons - Myths of The Near Future
51 points Tokyo Jihen - Variety
50 points Jarvis Cocker - Jarvis
50 points Super Furry Animals - Hey Venus
50 points Ewan Pearson - Piece Work
50 points Avril Lavigne - The Best Damn Thing
50 points Iron And Wine - The Shepherd's Dog

49 points Tinariwen - Aman Iman (Water Is Life)
49 points Shackleton/Appleblim - Soundboy Punishments
48 points Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
48 points Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
47 points Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
47 points Apples In Stereo - New Magnetic Wonder
46 points Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Trip The Light Fantastic
45 points Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends
44 points A Place To Bury Strangers - st
44 points Freeway - Free At Last
44 points Black Lips - Good Bad Not Evil
43 points Wu-Tang Clan - 8 Diagrams
42 points Pharoahe Monch - Desire
42 points Ulver - Shadows Of The Sun
42 points Paramore - Riot!
41 points No Age - Weirdo Rippers
40 points Baroness - Red Album
40 points Simian Mobile Disco - Attack Decay Sustain Release

39 points Ned Rothenberg - Inner Diaspora
39 points Bird And the Bee - st
39 points Deathspell Omega - Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum
38 points Kathy Diamond - Miss Diamond To You
38 points Go! Team - Proof Of Youth
37 points va - Hyphy Hitz
36 points Sloan - Never Hear The End Of It
36 points Calle 13 - Residente O Visitante
36 points Talib Kweli - Eardrum
36 points Melchior Productions Ltd. - No Disco Future
35 points Nina Nastasia And Jim White - You Follow Me
34 points Marissa Nadler - Songs III: Bird On The Water
34 points Sir Richard Bishop - While My Guitar Violently Bleeds
34 points Neurosis - Given To The Rising
33 points Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
32 points Deerhunter - Cryptograms
31 points September - Dancing Shoes
30 points Field Music - Tones Of Town
30 points Deerhunter - Fluorescent Grey EP
30 points Working For A Nuclear Free City - Businessmen And Ghosts
30 points Dan Deacon - Spiderman of the Rings
30 points Trans Am - Sex Change
30 points Six Organs Of Admittance - Shelter From The Ash
30 points Against Me! - New Wave

29 points Colleen - Les Ondes Silencieuses
29 points Ghost - In Stormy Nights
29 points Sir Richard Bishop - Polytheistic Fragments
29 points Islaja - Ulual Yyy
29 points Bruce Springsteen - Magic
29 points Grails - Burning Off Impurities
28 points Shellac - Excellent Italian Greyhound
28 points Boxcutter - Glyphic
28 points Richard Hawley - Lady's Bridge
28 points Glass Candy - B/E/A/T/B/O/X
27 points Bat For Lashes - Fur And Gold
27 points M83 - Digital Shades, Vol 1
27 points Sean Price - Jesus Price Superstar
27 points Robyn - st
27 points Italians Do It Better - After Dark
26 points T-Pain - Epiphany
26 points Future Conditional - We Don't Just Disappear
25 points Charalambides - Likeness
25 points Bottomless Pit - Hammer Of The Gods
25 points Witchcraft - The Alchemist
25 points Menomena - Friend And Foe
25 points Efdemin - Efdemin
25 points Harmonia - Live 1974
24 points Sugababes - Change
24 points Muscles - Guns Babes And Lemonade
24 points Reverend Bizarre - III: So Long Suckers
24 points Holy Fuck - LP
24 points Lucky Soul - The Great Unwanted
24 points Times New Viking - Presents The Paisley Reich
23 points Maximo Park - Our Earthly Pleasures
23 points Club 8 - The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Dreaming
23 points Clientele - God Save The Clientele
23 points Stars - In Our Bedroom After The War
21 points White Rainbow - Prism Of Eternal Now
21 points Scarface - Made
21 points Underworld - Oblivion with Bells
21 points Nels Cline Singers - Draw Breath
20 points Soulsavers - It's Not How Far You Fall, It's the Way You Land
20 points Mala Rodriguez - Malamarismo
20 points Thee Majesty - Vitruvian Pan
20 points Aly & AJ - Insomniatic
20 points Kubichek! - Not Enough Night
20 points Ashley Tisdale - Headstrong
20 points Laura Veirs - Saltbreakers
20 points Lucky Pierre - Dip
20 points Melt-Banana - Bambi's Dilemma
20 points Kevin Ayers - The Unfairground
20 points Ray Davies - Working man's cafe
20 points Caina - Mourner
20 points Group Doueh - Guitar Music From The Western Sahara
20 points Sorcerer - White Magic
20 points Freemasons - Shakedown

19 points Nellie McKay - Obligatory Villagers
19 points Ulrich Schnauss - Goodbye
19 points Dirty Projectors - Rise Above
19 points Marc Almond - Stardom Road
19 points Apartment - The Dreamer Evasive
19 points Dälek - Abandoned Language
19 points Interpol - Our Love To Admire
19 points Keke Palmer - So Uncool
19 points DJ Spooky - Creation Rebel
19 points Balkan Beat Box - Nu Med
19 points Odious Mortem - Cryptic Implosion
18 points Chromeo - Fancy Footwork
18 points Rachel Unthank & The Winterset - The Bairns
18 points Boris with Merzbow - Rock Dream
18 points Clutch - From Beale St. To Oblivion
18 points Hand Hell - Phonography
18 points Prins Thomas - Cosmo Galactic Prism
18 points va - Grand Cru 2007
18 points Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters
18 points Fall Out Boy - Infinity On High
18 points Afrirampo - Suuto Breakor
18 points Tough Alliance - A New Chance
18 points Blues Control - Puff
17 points Pearlfishers - Up With The Larks
17 points James Murphy - FabricLive 36
17 points Tuk - Shallow Water Blackout
17 points Murcof - Cosmos
17 points Pink Reason - Cleaning the Mirror
17 points Ted Leo - Living With The Living
17 points Echospace - The Coldest Season
17 points Magik Markers - Boss
17 points Twilight Sad - Fourteen Summers And Fifteen Winters
17 points Yellow Swans - At All Ends
17 points Blues Control - st
17 points Mira Calix - Eyes Set Against the Sun
17 points Trelldom - Til Minne
16 points Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
16 points Citywide Vacuum – Pact
16 points Hue Blanc?s Joyless Ones - Arriere Garde
16 points Oxbow - The Narcotic Story
16 points Pissed Jeans - Hope For Men
16 points Cave - Hunt Lke Devil/Jamz
16 points Cloudland Canyon - Silvertongued Sisyphus
16 points Paul McCartney - Memory Almost Full
15 points Horrors: Strange House
15 points Aereogramme - My Heart Has A Wish That You Would Go On
15 points Johan Ess - Govern Yourself Accordingly
15 points Torche - In Return
15 points Nadja - Touched
15 points Focus Group - We Are Pan's People
15 points Yakuza Heart Attack - st
15 points Rufus Wainwright - Release The Stars
15 points Birchville Cat Motel - Astro Catastrophies
15 points Will.I.Am - Songs About Girls
14 points Bubonic Plague - Instant Coma
14 points William Basinski - El Camino Real
14 points Pinch - Underwater Dancehall
14 points Voice Of The Seven Woods - st
14 points Crowded House - Time On Earth
14 points Jordan Pruitt - No Ordinary Girl
14 points Marnie Stern - In Advance of a Broken Arm
14 points New Buffalo - Somewhere, Anywhere
14 points Black Francis - Bluefinger
14 points Charlotte Hatherley - The Deep Blue
14 points Dj A-Trak - Dirty South Dance
14 points OST - I'm Not There
14 points nsi. - Plays Non Standards
14 points Casa De Leones - st
13 points Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid - Tongues
13 points Zoroaster - Dog Magic
13 points Boyz Noize - Oi Oi Oi
13 points Pelican - City Of Echoes
13 points Daniel Pemberton - Tvpopmuzik
13 points Lost In Hildurness - Mount A
13 points Oscillation - Out Of Phase
13 points Owls - Suns and Daughters
13 points Raz Mesinai's Badawi - Unit Of Resistance
12 points Fred Anderson & Hamid Drake - From The Ocean To The River
12 points A Mountain Of One - Collected Works
12 points Eleni Mandell - Miracle Of Five
12 points Modeselektor - Happy Birthday
12 points Rumskib - Rumskib
12 points Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
12 points Even As We Speak - A Three Minute Song Is One Minute Too Long
12 points Cloaks - A Crystal Skull In Peru
12 points Aliens – Astronomy For Dogs
12 points Future Of The Left - Curses
11 points Merzbow + Carlos Giffoni - Synth Destruction
11 points Kings Of Leon - Because of the Times
11 points Big Business - Here Come The Waterworks
11 points Skeletonwitch - Beyond the Permafrost
11 points Donnacha Costello - Colorseries
11 points Warhammer 48K - An Ethereal Oracle
11 points Strategy - Future Rock
11 points Bang Gang Deejays - Light Sound Dance
11 points Original Silence - First Original Silence
11 points Avett Brothers - Emotionalism
11 points Built to Spill - They Got Away EP
10 points va - ILX HAS A BUCKET!!!
10 points El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead
10 points Alchemist - Tripsis
10 points Burning Star Core - Operator Dead ... Post Abandoned
10 points Holly Golightly And The Brokeoffs - You Can't Buy A Gun When You're Crying
10 points Meshell Ndegeocello - The World Has Made Me the Man of My Dreams
10 points Andy Palacio - Watina
10 points Dir En Grey - THE MARROW OF A BONE
10 points Max Mohr - Trickmixer's Revenge
10 points Dark Tranquillity - Fiction
10 points Supermayer - Save the World
10 points Manic Street Preachers - Send Away the Tigers
10 points Earth - Hibernaculum
10 points Health - Health
10 points Nightwish - Dark Passion Play
10 points Tori Amos - American Doll Posse
10 points Kuniyuki Takahashi - We Are Together
10 points In This Moment - Beautiful Tragedy
10 points Young Gods - Super Ready/Fragmenté
10 points Jimmy Eat World - Chase This Light
10 points Oh Sees - Sucks Blood
10 points Amiina - Kurr
10 points Mary Weiss & Reigning Sound - Dangerous Game
10 points Asrai - Pearls In Dirt
10 points Arp - In Light
10 points Elvis Perkins - Ash Wednesday
10 points Secrets Of The Moon - Antithesis
10 points Sunn o))) - Oracle
10 points Runrig - Everything You See
10 points Tuss - Rushup Edge
10 points Rotting Christ - Theogonia

9 points Mary Onettes - The Mary Onettes
9 points Cherry Blossoms - Cherry Blossoms
9 points Kenna - Make Sure They See My Face
9 points Wooden Shjips - Wooden Shjips
9 points David Torn - Prezens
9 points White Rabbits - Fort Nightly
9 points Onur Ozer - Kasmir
9 points Unsane - Visqueen
9 points Mendoza Line - 30 Year Low
8 points Kalabrese - Rumpelzirkus
8 points Agnes - Dumbles Debuts
8 points Queens Of The Stone Age - Era Vulgaris
8 points Digitalism - Idealism
8 points Swimmer One - The Regional Variations
7 points Jason Isbell - Sirens Of The Ditch
7 points False - 2007
7 points Kinski - Down Below It's Chaos
7 points James Blackshaw - Cloud Of Unknowing
6 points Beanie Sigel - The Solution
6 points Tracey Thorn - Out of the Woods
6 points A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Scribble Comic Music Journal
6 points Polyphonic Spree - The Fragile Army
6 points Babyshambles - Shotter's Nation
5 points Say Anything - In Defense Of The Genre
5 points Life Without Buildings - Live At The Annandale Hotel
5 points Petre Inspirescu - Tips
5 points Jesu - Pale Sketches
5 points Brothers Martin - The Brothers Martin
5 points Fennesz Sakamoto - Cendre
5 points Susanna - Sonata Mix Dwarf Cosmos
5 points June Tabor - Apples
4 points Stooges - The Weirdness
4 points Instituto Mexicano Del Sonido - Piñata
4 points Prince Fatty - Survival of the fattest
4 points Hives: The Black And White Album
4 points Bright Eyes - Cassadaga
4 points Strange Death of Liberal England - Forward March!
4 points Vic Chesnutt - North Star Deserter
3 points Clockcleaner - Babylon Rules
3 points va - Basic Replay CD (Basic Replay)
3 points Signal - Robotron
3 points Janet Feder/Fred Frith - Ironic Universe
3 points Dungen - Tio Bitar
3 points Bertrand Burgalat - Chéri BB
2 points Bamboos - Rawville
2 points Maria Mckee - Late December
2 points Dethklok - The Dethalbum
2 points Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dandelion Gum
2 points Porn Sword Tobacco - New Exclusive Olympic Heights
1 points Bonde Do Role - With Lasers
1 points Githead - Art Pop
1 points Booka Shade - DJ Kicks
1 points Souvenir's Young America - An Ocean Without Water

surprised to see no age so far down

I think that means I contributed 12 of the 31 10-pointers. I understand how I could be the only person who voted for both Rotting Christ and Amiina, but the only one who voted for either?! Hmph.

No Little Big Town, No...

...Big Little Town?

Clever.

i didnt vote in this but big ups to you dorks for rating Studio so high.

27 points Sean Price - Jesus Price Superstar

;_;

10 points El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead

this is so sad ^

album is fantastic

61 points Pole - Steingarten

I'm glad to see someone else voted for this too. It's one of the best electronic albums I've heard in ages, and an absolute return to form after the rather boring previous album with rapping. Plus he manages to expand his signature into new and exciting dimensions. Too bad Pole hasn't been trendy for years (if he ever was), so Steingarten was mostly ignored.

y'know out of boredom i was doing an image search of castles last year, stumbled upon neuschwanstein, and decided it was my fave; wiki'd it, talked some b.s. with my girl about visiting etc. THE VERY NEXT DAY p4k reviewed Steingarten, with MY CASTLE plastered all over the cover. I still haven't listened to this, but i probably should.

2 points Dethklok - The Dethalbum

:)

24 points Reverend Bizarre - III: So Long Suckers

Awesome

1 points Souvenir's Young America - An Ocean Without Water
That was me!

Thanks to musically for compiling all this.

Yes! Very much so!

cheers musically!

This top 50 makes more sense to me if #1 is actually #50, and vice versa.

aka, read the list in reverse order: LCD #50, MIA #49, etc.

...okay nevermind, that puts the White Stripes at #2, fuck that.

haha

lol ilm

Thanks musically!

...okay nevermind, that puts the White Stripes at #2, fuck that.

lol

yes thanks very much to musically for putting this together!!

thanks musically, i didn't even vote for albums out of respeck, i heard like maybe a dozen. My pick was Lee Burridge's Balance but that could change I guess. The LCD Soundsystem album exceeded my expectations, I don't know enough of these albums to tell whether the results are a tragedy or not.

10 points va - ILX HAS A BUCKET!!!

I say yay for the appreciation. And no sadness for it not making the chartie.

Based on this thread, I bought the Miranda Lambert and checked Deerhoof out of the library today. There are a few other records on here that escaped my attention in 2007 and will have to check out. Thanks to musically and the people who contributed.

I checked out Studio because of this poll. Kudos to musically!

talked some b.s. with my girl about visiting etc.

This is tangential, but I just want to advise against this - it's hot, RIDICULOUSLY crowded with shoulder-to-shoulder grumblers, and the tour is actually pretty brief. But OTOH I've never been that interested in the building, so if you really really love it you might be more impressed. For my brother it was like a religious experience...

OK, I have to admit, this was a lot more useful for me than the Plan B end of year list, in terms of finding missed gems I actually liked.

Glad everyone (kornrulez6969 excepted) enjoyed this one...and I think this poll was a lot easier to tabulate and post than last year. By 2010 I'll be able to crank these mfs out!

Thanks musically!

Re: "the Kala blurb couldn't be straight-up praise, could it"

Nope. I really liked the album, but I didn't like all of it. And it's hard to blurb the album without mentioning the hype/backlash. Maybe I coulda done it better, but hell, you coulda done it.

all in all, a pretty bizarre list that struck boring predictability come the top 10. can't complain with a lot of the choices, though :)

next year i'll vote

Your vote could have changed the whole thing!

ok anything i may have said about sound of silver i completely take back. after spending time with it all weekend and hearing i see why it is so loved. "new york i love you" is one of the best ending songs ive heard in a while.

i love the album and it definately deserves to be at the top.

i used to read ILM a lot a few years ago and only check in every so often now to keep an eye on whats going,but my god its depressing to find people complaining about the britney album being in the album polls,and calling it "ilx irony"

have things really changed that much?

I wouldnt say it's near the top but it turned me around also xp.

Things haven't changed. Read ILX : What is The Genre Of Music You Dislike/Hate Most? for proof.

uh huh rockist, my vote may well have inched the deerhoof and blonde redhead closer to top spot glory. maybe even the jens and jesu records. but maybe not

massive lol at radiohead beating 'blackout'

is the worst ilm eoy list??

most of them are pretty lol but i think the earliest ones moreso

yeah i guess all the lists ive seen are filled w/garbage this one just seemed particularly lulz-y

Maybe Lamp and prego covered this but does anyone else think this list hews paricularly close to critical consensus/"P4k"? Maybe it was a banner year for trendiness?

I think this year was a record low for voting iirc?

I actually like some of these albums