ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2012

I like to play the sound of animals eating other animals while I eat.

Jessie Ware goes splendidly with before-dinner martinis and Brie.

Form a band Death Cruts

xps

Death Grips dinner party would rule, as long as Death Grips wasn't actually there

Death Grips would enter through the window and take your Brie.

ofwgkta would pile in, nibbling everything in sight

oh damn

who plays death grips at a dinner party

Kendrick would chill with Jessie Ware on the divan with a craft brew.

farrah abraham is an aspiring sous-chef! her concoctions seem as bizarre as her music

In "Food with Farrah 'Inspire & Admire,'" amateur cooking-show personality Farrah demonstrates how to make something she calls a "mobile salad"—a concoction of parmesan, yellow onions, mozzarella, cherry tomatoes, chick peas, Florida avocado, and some bok choi and white asparagus sautéed by hand, all crammed into a hollowed-out artichoke and drizzled with fig tahini dressing.
At one point in the video, she admires the large Florida avocado. Cheerfully, she tells the camera: "I myself have never tried this before, so it could be a new experience for you as well!"

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/09/the-scary-misunderstood-power-of-a-teen-mom-stars-album/262237/

omg wins

armor on sold 30k :/

― lex pretend, Thursday, January 31, 2013 4:36 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark

this is pretty good imo considering a lot of factors (nature of the release, sales figures for something like electrik red, all the great r&b singers that are stuck in mixtape hell)

wasn't Farrah's cooking video posted on her thread?

based on that recipe and the fact that i'm pretty sure at some point during her album she sings through a vacuum, there's a chance that farrah abraham is actually l0u1s jagg3r

lol j0rdan

haha

The reason I asked was because I find it interesting that mainstream R&B does somewhat well on critical lists whereas mainstream rock music generally does not.

I live in Philly. The local R&B station is playing Miguel (#2 on their playlist right now, actually). Whereas the big songs at WMMR, our rock station? Soundgarden, Shinedown, Alice In Chains, Volbeat, Linkin Park. Not artists whose new material are getting crit love for the most part.

In fact, compare the playlist at WMMR with the one from WDAS and you will find a lot more critical overlap with the R&B station than the rock station.

This interests me.

modern rock is a wasteland.

Not even bringing modern rock into the discussion though for shits and giggles, here is the WRFF playlist. I don't see very much critical love for most of this either.

nor should there be

Yet there is for mainstream/popular R&B and pop music.

The critical choice is not so much between modern rock and pop/R&B, but between modern rock and indie rock.

These bands are losing column space to Alabama Shakes not Miguel.

And what of rock rock?

radio rock is incredibly stagnant compared to the amount of innovation happening in pop music. 'modern rock radio' is basically targeted at people who grew up in the 90s hence endless grunge/alt-metal rehashes

ROckWrok

And what of rock rock?

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 31 January 2013 10:12 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Same story. Basically all non-indie rock is marginalised in music crit by virtue of indie-rock's dominance.

Of course a lot of these bands do a lot better commercially than whoever is this week's indie rock darling so they're not necessarily crying themselves to sleep.

great poll, thanks to johnny fever, seandalai and the others. lots to discover for me here especially in the top 20. i think i like the frank ocean and the jessie ware most but blondes seems to be quite captivating electronic music. lindstrom's energy level is a little too high for me on an album base. one or two tracks in a row could be a nice coffeine substitute though. goat is def too heavy for me, i need space and air in my music. miguel seems ok but nothing to be crazy about.

'modern rock radio' is basically targeted at people who grew up in the 90s hence endless grunge/alt-metal rehashes

to be fair i think it just recently shifted out of this

which you can especially tell by looking at that wrff playlist

many many xposts

lol at gr8080 for my dick, well done!

by recent do you mean, like, 5-8 years?

ftr Kaputt >>>>>>>> all of these records

goat is def too heavy for me
aw that's kinda sweet -- i think goat is kinda lite but it's good to know that there are delicate souls out there who aren't crispy old chicken legs like me.

being totally earnest, i really like how these polls are like a conference of all of the different ilm factions 1x a year. it's charming. some sniping but nothing harsh, see you next year!

One thing i'd like to draw people's attention to re Carly Rae Jepsen:

On "This Kiss", in the second half of the first verse when Carly sings "And's she's a real sweet girl..." and this little ticking hi-hat comes in which just lifts the stadium-pop beat to a new level, that's one of my favourite obv-but-perfect little details in a pop tune forever (the gold standard for this will always and forever be the bongo loop added to the final victory lap choruses of Kylie's "Love At First Sight").

I love blondes but my favourite dance full-length this year turned out to be manuel tur's swans reflecting elephants, which apparently only I like. Fans of austerity should check it out imo

two things:

1) johnny fever, great job doing this poll!

2) i usually try to avoid meta-thread whining, and i won't mention this again, but man i fucking hate when everyone predicts the top five and the top ten way ahead of time. i guess it's fun for people who are intensely poll watching and are deeply interested in the tracking and predicting the ilx hivemind (i mean that seriously, it's an interesting thing to think about albeit not my thing), but for the rest of us, you just ruin the results. for example, i for one did not listen to any john talabot this year, and i know nothing about him really. it would have been so awesome to see him pop up at #3, such a surprise, and i'm sure i would have been very excited to go home and listen to his music immediately. instead, when his album was revealed it was like "oh there's the guy that i've seen on literally dozens of predicted ilx 2012 album poll top tens for the last week." i am sure there is -50,000 sympathy for this view, and it's not like i'd like to see all discussion of prospective top placers squashed, but man it totally draaaaaaaaains the fun out of it when you're repeatedly exposed to the top ten over and over before you ever get there.

bonus 3) j0rdan's trax poll was awesome too!. you both did rolled them out within a work week, using the same exact countdown schedule. sheesh, you guys are pros.

i done did don't know how to type so well good

why is it more fun to listen to john talabot today vs a week ago?

welp know what my first post to coint & plick's gonna be

hahaha

i don't think you'd be able to predict the top 5 in this year's coint & plick!

i kinda agree with you on the predictions Z S, i would never be able to guess everything myself if other people didn't all dump speculative lists into the thread starting around #20, and surprises are fun. i don't really like the idea of policing that though, it is what it is.

xpost yeah i know i'm alienating myself by criticizing something that 90% of the posters on this thread probably contributed to. and also there's no way to possibly stop it, so whatever.

*shouts at clouds*

it would have been so awesome to see him pop up at #3, such a surprise,

this is kind of stretching the concept of surprise...

no way, i would have been surprised for sure!

i would have been like "who the fuck is john talabot, #3, holy smokes, wow!"

but you could have said that three days ago when people were predicting him! ruining the surprise of being exposed to something you've never heard of before... by being exposed to it

i understand your point, z s. and i plead guilty. but at least my predictions were completely off the mark...

I love blondes but my favourite dance full-length this year turned out to be manuel tur's swans reflecting elephants, which apparently only I like. Fans of austerity should check it out imo

― castle grayscale (wins), Thursday, 31 January 2013 10:34 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I wanted to hear this! Then forgot that it existed before actually tracking it down. I loved "Will Be Mine" a few years back.

The Amanda Mair album must have been pretty popular with the three people who heard it - a first place vote, my #2 and one other vote to have it place at 122 in a 700-odd listing. I hope more people would hear it and love it.

Very pleased with the results, a good mix of stuff I loved and stuff I will no doubt end up loving, thanks everybody.

yeah, but (god i can't believe i'm elaborating on my stupid opinion) it's the countdown that makes it fun and interesting! if all of the fun came from seeing a list of top albums, then we wouldn't do a poll or a countdown, we'd just bust out our top tens and move on with our lives.

then again, most would probably say that speculating on who will make the top 20 (or whatever) is part of what makes the countdown fun and interesting. so whatever, i get it.

sorry i brought it up.