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

Robert Wyatt yesyesyes

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

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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This is the lamest poll ever. Seriously, people.

Last one for today; top 11 tomorrow...

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

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This is the lamest poll ever. Seriously, people.

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

why?