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

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