***What's that coming over the hill? It's the 2006 ILX ALBUMS POLL RESULTS***

There's no Aaliyah in Girl Talk, and not really that much indie.

6. Hot Chip - The Warning
(149 points, 12 votes, 1 number one)

http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z56/ilx2006poll/albums/thewarning.jpg

Christ almighty is this ever good. I really didn't like Coming On Strong, but this one's just so breathtakingly easy to listen to that it's almost alarming. Maybe they beefed up the low end? I remember Coming On Strong sounding kinda artlessly chintzy, like they were sufficiently satisfied with making a blindingly ahead-of-the-curve R&B album that they didn't bother to make a GOOD blindingly ahead-of-the-etc., but this is just relentlessly dance-y. And WOW does "Over & Over" trump anything on the first album.
-James.Cobo

yes i recall that the possibility of aaliyah was just used to tease me, but christ the rest of it sounds just as disgusting.

hot chip: all the remixes are awesome and they are great live! the album simply can't live up to either of those things

Hot Chip are way more boring than they should be.

i'm concerned that lily allen needs to stick her tongue out in most pictures of her.

xpost: hot chip are dull. full stop.

I always think it's more like he mashes up the Four Stairsteps with Three 6 Mafia with Ciara with James Taylor.

5. Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds
(151.5 points, 13 votes, 2 number ones)

http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z56/ilx2006poll/albums/futuresex.jpg

Ok, my reaction to "Justified":
Man, this is pretty great, the Neptunes rule, I want to hug JT

My reaction to "FutureSex/LoveSounds":
God, this is really amazing, Timbaland is today's best producer, I want to make out with JT, take him up to the bedroom, etc.

What makes "FS/LS" so great is its consistency. Rather than setting out to make a few great singles, Justin really tried to create a great pop-forward album. With the help of Timbaland, he succeeded. From the steamy title track to "My Love," FS/LS is, to lift a phrase from Paris Hilton, really fucking hot.
-Tape Store

Yeah, that's more like it.

(x-post. well, not x-post, too)

"Losing My Way" cannot be described as being "really fucking hot" but it is oddly my favourite song on FS/LS.

4. Junior Boys - So this is Goodbye
(154 points, 17 votes, 1 number one)

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Other ILXors said...

After several weeks of finding this pleasant but slightly underwhelming, it all slotted into place perfectly at the weekend. Now I think it's better the first album, certainly more consistent (and Like A Child and FM are easily the equal of Teach Me How To Fight and Last Exit).

A couple of things really strike me about it. The first is that it initially seems so similar to Last Exit in mood and tone, but on closer listening they're constructed in totally different ways. I like the greater emphasis on loops this time round (and arpeggios, wow!), the way you can follow a thread through a song while barely listening to the vocals or the main melody. I can envisage some remixes of So This Is Goodbye, Double Shadow or The Equaliser that would sound amazing in the middle of a really hypnotic minimal set.

The second is that the removal of the Johnny Dark rhythmic tricksiness has left other elements of the sound to blossom. This is every bit as complex and detailed a record as Last Exit, possibly more so. It's not really the rhythms as such (and it's not exactly rhythmnically simple). It's the meticulous attention to detail that's been given to the tone and timbre of every sound. No note that's held for more than a fraction of a beat sounds the same from start to finish - especially on When No One Cares, which consists of little other than these big open chords, but virtually every single one of them sounds different. There's so much depth and subtlety of texture there that only really hit me when I listened to it very loud on headphones.

Also, the swell two third of the way through Like A Child sends a shiver down my spine like no other moment in music this year.
-Matt DC

ilx = camp 2007 b/w hard drive noises

The Knife are going to win this, aren't they?

3. Clipse - Hath No Fury
(188 points, 17 votes)

http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z56/ilx2006poll/albums/hell.jpg

Thoughts?

The Knife? Please no.

Clipse seven places ahead of The Hold Steady: please close ILX down now.

2. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale

(195.5 points, 14 votes, 3 number ones)

http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z56/ilx2006poll/albums/fishscale.jpg

Other ILXors said...

good album for a sluggish late summer - hot, humid, drunk
-Lukas

I think I'm spending more time with it paused so I can do happy dances around my house without missing anything than actual listening.
-The Reverend

omg this is the moment you have all been waiting four months and 12 days for!

1. Westlife - The Love Album
(196 points, 16 votes, 5 number ones)

http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z56/ilx2006poll/albums/lovealbum.jpg

Other ILXors said...

They are definetely talented shane has a great voice and well mark is incredible in every song just breathtaking. some good song choises some not that much
the rose is without a douth the best song of the album perfect choise for the firts single
easy is another great effort ,total eclipse of the heart is very good but compared with the original lacks passion
all or nothing is very well done and if you like westlife you surely will enjoy it
also You Light Up My Life songs great one of my fabourites
All Out of Love (feat. Delta Goodrem) nicee song but something dosn't work there i love delta's voice but it just dosn't work well with the westlife guys
so finally if you are a westlife or a true romantic this one is a no brainer this album if for you
-Paul Edward Wagemann

Wow. I can't believe I said that. Awesome, though. (xposts)

Yep, the Knife it is.

Lol @ the Clipse getting no #1 votes. I think I gave it #14 or something. I imagine a lot of other people did likewise.

I'm glad CSS didn't make it - learn to use a preposition!

In case you were curious, the winner (by quite a bit) is:

1. Knife - Silent Shout
(289 points, 21 votes, 2 number ones)

http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z56/ilx2006poll/albums/silentshoutalbum.jpg

An album that simultaneously familiar and strange, analog and digital, etcetra etcetra. And the singles, with remixes by Trentmoller, Bookashade, Rex the Dog, Radioslave, are just killer.
-The Macallan 18 Year

Yeah, enough with this CSS bullshit, back to HTML! (xp)

Shit,
2007 is already thrice the year 2006 was as far as the music goes,

man.

I am listening to Silent Shout for the first time right now

i listened a couple times last year *snoozers* but I'm big enough to cow to the mob and reconsider.

"Losing My Way" has that terrible awesomeness that's also found on "Senorita" during the sing-a-long section. He tries so hard and fails to the point of succeeding.

It's not just an album, it's multimedia!!! Add acrobats and you've got a Cirque du Soleil!!!!(!)

i've totally grown off FS/LS but given what else is present...we take what we can get. pretty happy with the winner at any rate.

these were my votes:

1. Ellen Allien & Apparat - Orchestra Of Bubbles
2. Paris Hilton - Paris
3. The Knife - Silent Shout
4. Ciara - The Evolution
5. Kiki - Boogybytes Vol 1
6. Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye
7. Beyonce - B'Day
8. TI - King
9. Henrik Schwarz - DJ Kicks
10. Booka Shade - Movements
11. Fergie - The Dutchess
12. Cassie - Cassie
13. Nelly Furtado - Loose
14. Michael Mayer - Immer 2
15. Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds
16. Lindstrom - It's A Feedelity Affair
17. Arthur Russell - First Thought Best Thought
18. Magda - She's A Dancing Machine
19. Kelis - Kelis Was Here
20. Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury

haha i've totally grown off an album i actually VOTED FOR. i mean, at the actual end of 06 i placed it...like, top 5 without hesitation. now it's one of the interchangeable bunch at the bottom of the 20.

Isn't totally growing off of what you loved last year part of the popist...aesthetic?

"growing off what"

Despite popular belief, being a flake isn't a part of a popist aesthetic.

Though ironically, popular belief is.

And irony isn't.

Haha I was reading that Junior Boys quote thinking 'fucking OTM' and then realised it was me.

Girl Talk is the worst thing happening in music right now. Worse than Hinder.

First glance: "Worse than Hitler."

practically the same thing

Lex had the paris album number 2 and I had it number 1, so that's 39 points. This means that the rest of the polled were unwilling to toss just 9 points Paris' way.

Come on people! If we aren't more positive, she won't make another one.

Come on people! If we aren't more positive, she won't make another one.

Speaking for myself - I'd be perfectly happy with that result.

"Speaking for myself - I'd be perfectly happy with that result."

Surely because the first one is so awesome, that you're bound to be disappointed.

Surely.

why try to follow perfection?

i feel that paris thinks along the same lines. the evidence suggests that she has forgotten she ever made an album in the first place. this is kind of perfect

I should have voted..

I should have voted twice.

ALBUMS:
1 Justin Timberlake - Futuresex/Lovesounds
2 Girl Talk - Night Ripper
3 John Legend - Once Again
4 Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
5 LCD Soundsytstem - 45:33
6 T.I. - King
7 Beyonce - B'Day
8 DFA - The DFA Remixes: Chapter One
9 Ne-Yo - In My Own Words
10 Andy Montanez - Salsaton: Salsa Con Reggaeton
11 Nelly Furtado - Loose
12 tv on the radio - return to cookie mountain
13 Tego Calderon - El Subestimado
14 DJ Quik - Live At The House Of Blues
15 Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
16 Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
17 Too $hort - Blow The Whistle
18 Diddy - Press Play
19 Lily Allen - Alright Still
20 Game - Doctor's Advocate

LCD & Winehouse benifit here from having just first heard them right before the voting. If I did it today LCD would be lower and Winehouse would probably not be at all.

I don't get the love for Girl Talk at all.