The ILX Readers Poll 2002 - RECORDS OF THE YEAR

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The fuckin' Streets!

Shit!

(jumps up and down going 'woo')

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Sunday, 5 January 2003 20:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

c'mon that means farben is 4th then! if you had instead put it as "starbox is the special edition textstar with bonus tracks" there'd be no question

― zemko (bob), Sunday, 5 January 2003 21:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

it's way better than board of canada and boomselection neway!

― zemko (bob), Sunday, 5 January 2003 21:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

I knew there was something I forgot to vote on...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 5 January 2003 22:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

thanks for posting my heroic 20 pointer for Xiu Xiu "The Chapel of the Chimes" EP ... honestly, i think that's the best thing i've heard all year.
m.

― msp, Sunday, 5 January 2003 22:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

Likewise, thanks for posting my heroic 20-pointer for Aarktica, although my enthusiasm's waning a bit for it now (I like certain tracks but not sure about the album straight through), plus I've finally heard Farben, Textstar, which is fantastic. All of this too late to revise my ballot...

(msp: How would you compare the Xiu Xiu EP to the full-length from earlier in the year? I loved the full-length at first but fatigue set in after a few listens.)

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Sunday, 5 January 2003 23:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

I really wanna see the thread where this was voted. Who likes The Streets?

― David Allen, Monday, 6 January 2003 00:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

ilm

― , Monday, 6 January 2003 00:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

I am somewhat flummoxed that I had the only vote for the 8 mile soundtrack.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 6 January 2003 02:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

I might've given it one if I had voted, sterl. and if I had decided yet if it would be in my top 10 or not.

I bet simon would've too.

― Josh (Josh), Monday, 6 January 2003 03:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yeah it was just outside my 10 too Sterling. I did sort of assume other people would vote for it, oh well.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 6 January 2003 10:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

Who was the other voter for DJ Yoda then, because they're going into my "favourite ILXers" list straight away.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 6 January 2003 10:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

''Sundar: Ballads would have appeared if I voted. Sorry. I guess Julio didn't cast his ballot either.''

I was on holiday so I couldn't!

james- we'll try and sabotage the list next year OK.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 6 January 2003 11:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

Dom Passantino, meet Alan Trewartha.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 6 January 2003 11:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

who else voted for recloose?

― michael wells (michael w.), Monday, 6 January 2003 11:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

"22. BEACHWOOD SPARKS - Make The Cowboy Robots Cry (32)"
heh heh! Me and one other person, but WHICH other person?

I'm the other voter for that one. It's actually one of the few records I voted for that anyone else liked as well.

(I'm the sap that wasted most of my votes on Lewis Taylor and Solomon Burke. Also, nobody else went for Cinematic Orchestra, The Boggs or the Rough Trade electronic compilation.)

― James Ball (James Ball), Monday, 6 January 2003 11:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

I voted for 10 mix CDs! Only two of which charted.

― Jeff W, Monday, 6 January 2003 11:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

Am I the only person who is surprised, nay, AMAZED at the high placing of Sleater Kinney?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 6 January 2003 13:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

No Matt.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 6 January 2003 13:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

You are not alone.

― Roger Fascist (Roger Fascist), Monday, 6 January 2003 13:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

Not because I don't like S-K or anything - I've hardly heard them. But my impression was that the reaction on ILM to this record was pretty lukewarm even from fans.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 6 January 2003 13:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

Same with Low (apart from myself). A lot of people thought it was a disappointment.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 6 January 2003 13:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hello Dom

― Alan (Alan), Monday, 6 January 2003 13:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

Thank you, James Ball.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 6 January 2003 13:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

Same with Low (apart from myself). A lot of people thought it was a disappointment.
No way. Best thing they've done since Curtain.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 6 January 2003 14:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

I liked it a lot too, Sean (the "apart from myself" bit meant that I thought was one of few who liked it on ILM). I set up a couple of threads about Low, and the general consensus SEEMED to be that people found trust disappointing. Its my 2nd fave Low rec, after Secret Name, and I voted it 2nd best rec of the year, with 12 points. I'm pleasantly surprised to see it so high.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 6 January 2003 15:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

My surprise is that Sleater-Kinney placed so high when *I* didn't vote. (You know, with me being ILX's resident "I never met a shouty Olympian I didn't love" idiot and all.)

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 6 January 2003 19:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

ILM in indie as fuck shockah

― _gi**y_, Monday, 6 January 2003 20:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

(msp: How would you compare the Xiu Xiu EP to the full-length from earlier in the year? I loved the full-length at first but fatigue set in after a few listens.)

it's way better than the full length. perhaps it's length is a factor, but i think the ep shows them much more raw, and the production is much more bombastic, so the emotion is more pronounced.

― msp, Monday, 6 January 2003 22:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

You know, that Top 10 really is eerily representative of ILM as a whole. A little of everything you hear about most.

― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 6 January 2003 22:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

My top 2 are the poll's top 2, and I voted for Missy - after that you have to wait until No.30 for one of mine (Hustle) and then there's Total 4 and Clipse and Sugababes and Wire.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 6 January 2003 22:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

Also no trina and no tweet!!!!!???

ilm hurts me deep in my heart.

the paulina rubio thing almost makes up for it though, except i think that's just kogan and me.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 06:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

My surprise is that Sleater-Kinney placed so high when *I* didn't vote.

Don't worry I stuffed the ballot for you. I'm geniunely surprised it did so well too. w00t.

As for Boards of Canada, I was hoping that Twoism, even though it's a reissue, would sneak in there instead of Geogaddi, which played more like an extended EP (an EEP?) for me.

― Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 07:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hello Alan. You are now one of my favourite ILXers.

I think Ballboy being placed top 40 is my favourite moment of that list, to be honest. House music never meant anything at all to me.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 09:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yeah it is Sterling but it got me to download "Don't Say Goodbye" which is FAB! I also dl'ed "Gimme The Light" from your singles list but I like another track with the same riddim better and am now stuck for placing it.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 11:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

You do realise 15 of Ballboy's points came from me, though?

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 14:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

Boards of Canada takes the cake this for Record No One Talked About But Nearly Everyone Thought to Include in their Top 10. It's like everyone is sorta interested in IDM, but not all that much, really, and BoC was the only thing they could agree upon, the perfect token inclusion. I think it's a good record, mind you, but it's weird how it has shown up on nearly every list, and placing quite high, too.

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 14:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

Haha what do Boards Of Canada, Solomon Burke and Orchestra Baobab all have in common?

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 14:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

Tom, what were the top tens if you split it ILM/ILE?

― James Ball (James Ball), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 14:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

mark p:
6 vowels, 3 'O's, 3 'A's? (nope, none of those work for all three)

other mark: dunno about elsewhere, but you couldn't move on ILM for BoC threads when 'Geo-doggi-do' was released

― zebedee, Tuesday, 7 January 2003 14:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

I hear ya, Z, but all the discussion centered around "Sounds like BoC, I don't mind" (including my own review & Reynolds list). So I lot of it just slid by.

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 15:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

ILM Top 10:

1 The Streets - OPM
2 2 Many DJ’s: As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt. 2
3 farben - textstar
4 Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
5 Low- trust
6 BOC - 'geogaddi'
7 The Delgados - Hate
8 Books - Thought for Food
9 Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
10 Sonic Youth - Murray Street

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 15:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

ILE Top Ten: (including only recs which got more than 1 ile vote)

1. The Streets - OPM
2. Sleater-Kinney: One Beat
3. 2 Many DJ’s: As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt. 2
4. Boom Selection_Issue 01
5. Paulina Rubio – Border Girl
6. Missy Elliot - Under Construction
7. Golden Boy with Miss Kittin – Or
8. Mekons – Oooh!
9. Prefuse 73 - 92 vs 02
10. Sugababes – Angels With Dirty Faces

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 15:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

Top 10 Records which nobody from ILE gave points to:

farben - textstar
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Low- trust
Books - Thought for Food
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
Saint Etienne - Finisterre
Beachwood Sparks - Make the cowboy robots cry
Immortal - Sons of Northern Darkness
max tundra - mastered by the guy at the exchange
Black Dice, Beaches & Canyons (DFA)
The Bees - Sunshine Hit Me

Top Records (and indeed only charting records) which nobody from ILM voted for:

Paulina Rubio – Border Girl
Golden Boy with Miss Kittin – Or
Mekons – Oooh!
Prefuse 73 - 92 vs 02
Sugababes – Angels With Dirty Faces
Clipse: Lord Willin’

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 15:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

i thought the golden boy/miss kittin was from 01?

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 15:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

proven by science that ile is cooler than ilm non-shocker!!

i forgot to vote :(

― geeta in DC, Tuesday, 7 January 2003 16:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

james- we'll try and sabotage the list next year OK.
Wicked!

― James Annett (jlannett), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 16:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

Tom: you should download the title track ("Border Girl") immediately and maybe you'd dig "Sexual Lover" a great deal too.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 17:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

proven by science that ile is cooler than ilm non-shocker!!
I don't see how that follows. ;)

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 17:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

Also surprised that Prefuse placed in the top 50, as I used it simply to fill out my list so that I'd have ten entries so that I could give 30 to One Beat and 25 to RJD2 (YES IT WAS ME).

Who else voted for One Beat? I'm taking yall out to drink (all both of you).

― Leee (Leee), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 01:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

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― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 15 April 2010 02:48 (fourteen years ago) link

i've heard like 3 of the albums in ilxor's list

― J0rdan S., Thursday, 15 April 2010 02:49 (fourteen years ago) link

i was just sayin ilxor is the type of poster to list a bunch of albums without prompting

― someone knows about persian cats (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 15 April 2010 02:59 (fourteen years ago) link

i mean, and tbf it was a "zing" not an insult. it's all love.

― someone knows about persian cats (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 15 April 2010 03:00 (fourteen years ago) link

and yes, I will admit our tastes are shockingly similar! save the few lolindie records peppering that list its a lot like my best of 02 for sure!

― someone knows about persian cats (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 15 April 2010 03:02 (fourteen years ago) link

i can't believe thats the same guy who was dissing the Patton/Melvins ATP

― someone knows about persian cats (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 15 April 2010 03:03 (fourteen years ago) link

ha yeah i was gonna say pot meet kettle, it looks like one of your lists

― k3vin k., Thursday, 15 April 2010 03:15 (fourteen years ago) link

that OP list is pure crape.

― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 15 April 2010 03:35 (fourteen years ago) link

Textstar was great! Farben is Jan Jelinek.

― Jeff, Thursday, 15 April 2010 03:40 (fourteen years ago) link

Lolindie = Wilco, Spoon, Flaming Lips, Notwist, Interpol... Raveonettes? What else?

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 15 April 2010 04:13 (fourteen years ago) link

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