kornrulez6969, please enlighten us with 5 or 10 albums that should be in the top 50.
― djmartian, Friday, 7 March 2008 21:21 (sixteen years ago) link
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?!
― Jordan, Friday, 7 March 2008 21:23 (sixteen years ago) link
lol for real
― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 7 March 2008 21:24 (sixteen years ago) link
"lol @ someone honestly responding to bill magill's opinion about music"
Man, you really toasted me there.
― Bill Magill, Friday, 7 March 2008 21:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Still processing kornrulez6969's comments about eating his ass out with a spoon....
― call all destroyer, Friday, 7 March 2008 21:28 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 7 March 2008 21:29 (sixteen years ago) link
re: Battles was real, real different from the audience at Don Cab a couple years ago.
- they read all read pitchfork now NOT magnet
― djmartian, Friday, 7 March 2008 21:30 (sixteen years ago) link
anyone got a link to the soundopinions poll results?
― abanana, Friday, 7 March 2008 21:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Hahahaha.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 7 March 2008 21:32 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 7 March 2008 21:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Spears=30+ People mag reading houswives and 15+music dorks.
― Bill Magill, Friday, 7 March 2008 21:38 (sixteen years ago) link
lol @ dudes being shocked @ britney
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 7 March 2008 21:38 (sixteen years ago) link
"wait, you mean...people like POP MUSIC?! but it's so SUBSTANCELESS"
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 7 March 2008 21:39 (sixteen years ago) link
re: 20+ girls
just like this: http://suicidegirls.com/boards/The+Pictures/255757/
― djmartian, Friday, 7 March 2008 21:39 (sixteen years ago) link
bill magill= 50+ crusty dude who still wonders how a list of best albums could rank universally popular ones over niche metal
― J0rdan S., Friday, 7 March 2008 21:39 (sixteen years ago) link
30+, but you're on the right track
― Bill Magill, Friday, 7 March 2008 21:41 (sixteen years ago) link
15+music dorks.
Doesn't this describe pretty much everyone on this board?
― jaymc, Friday, 7 March 2008 21:45 (sixteen years ago) link
musically - hit my baby one more time - lets have number 4 - so the top 3 predictions can start, thanks
― djmartian, Friday, 7 March 2008 21:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Since you asked politely...
4. Burial - Untrue (269 points, 25 votes)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/64/BurialUntrue.jpg
― musically, Friday, 7 March 2008 21:47 (sixteen years ago) link
radiohead, mia, lcd
― Mark Clemente, Friday, 7 March 2008 21:48 (sixteen years ago) link
right dorks: rearrange these 3 in order of the ilm 2007 albums poll
LCD Soundsystem M.I.A Radiohead
― djmartian, Friday, 7 March 2008 21:50 (sixteen years ago) link
mia, radiohead, lcd
― Simon H., Friday, 7 March 2008 21:50 (sixteen years ago) link
LCD, Radiohead, M.I.A.
― jaymc, Friday, 7 March 2008 21:52 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 7 March 2008 21:54 (sixteen years ago) link
3rd will be Radiohead 2nd MIA 1st LCD
― Herman G. Neuname, Friday, 7 March 2008 21:55 (sixteen years ago) link
So who is right? (please)
― Herman G. Neuname, Friday, 7 March 2008 22:15 (sixteen years ago) link
3: M.I.A 2: LCD 1: Radiohead
― djmartian, Friday, 7 March 2008 22:16 (sixteen years ago) link
yes, please put us out of our misery
― Simon H., Friday, 7 March 2008 22:19 (sixteen years ago) link
3 MIA 2 Radiohead 1 LCD
― stephen, Friday, 7 March 2008 22:19 (sixteen years ago) link
3. M.I.A., Kala 2. LCD Soundsystem, Sound of Silver 1. She Wants Revenge, This is Forever
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 7 March 2008 22:20 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― stephen, Friday, 7 March 2008 22:21 (sixteen years ago) link
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?????? :(
― stephen, Friday, 7 March 2008 22:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Grinderman - to trad and unremarkable hard rock
Ranked #366 for 2007 http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/grinderman/grinderman/
― djmartian, Friday, 7 March 2008 22:28 (sixteen years ago) link
i mean in the ilx poll
― stephen, Friday, 7 March 2008 22:29 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― musically, Friday, 7 March 2008 22:29 (sixteen years ago) link
LOL RADIOHEAD
― stephen, Friday, 7 March 2008 22:30 (sixteen years ago) link
I was secretly hoping they'd beat lcd...sadly not
― Simon H., Friday, 7 March 2008 22:30 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― djmartian, Friday, 7 March 2008 22:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Melissa is crying now ! - you thoughtless to**ers
― djmartian, Friday, 7 March 2008 22:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Those damn hipsters!! ;)
― Herman G. Neuname, Friday, 7 March 2008 22:38 (sixteen years ago) link
2. MIA - Kala 1. Army of the Pharaohs - Ritual of Battle
― ciderpress, Friday, 7 March 2008 23:00 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― musically, Friday, 7 March 2008 23:17 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― djmartian, Friday, 7 March 2008 23:19 (sixteen years ago) link
the Kala blurb couldn't be straight-up praise, could it
― Gukbe, Friday, 7 March 2008 23:21 (sixteen years ago) link
DJ OTM x-post
― Herman G. Neuname, Friday, 7 March 2008 23:21 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 7 March 2008 23:26 (sixteen years ago) link
hahahahahahaha
― jonathan - stl, Friday, 7 March 2008 23:34 (sixteen years ago) link
lol
― Mark Clemente, Friday, 7 March 2008 23:38 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― musically, Friday, 7 March 2008 23:59 (sixteen years ago) link