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

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)

http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/548/becauseiloveitup6sk0.jpg

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)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/49/Daft_Punk_Alive_2007.JPG

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)

http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/6578/justicecrossdj5yb5.jpg

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)

http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/3856/thenationalboxeriv8ae7.jpg

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)

http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/7827/starsofthelidandtheirreik3.jpg

This is the lamest poll ever. Seriously, people.

Last one for today; top 11 tomorrow...

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

http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/7203/neonbible2yi7fy3.jpg

This is the lamest poll ever. Seriously, people.

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

why?

because his username is KORN RULEZ

i'll give the amerie another go; wasn't feeling it apart from a few tracks.

neon bible was great. didn't vote for it but glad it made the cut.

i'm still hoping #1 will be of montreal or studio even though it'll inevitably be radiohead

How come a whole bunch of these albums came out in 2006?

I didn't vote, but if Of Montreal gets number one I won't have had to.

forget it, too many people are gonna vote for that lcd soundsystem bullshit

So far:

50. High On Fire - Death Is This Communion (74 points, 5 votes, 1 number one vote)
49. White Stripes - Icky Thump (74 points, 7 votes, 1 number one vote)
48. Caribou - Andorra (77 points, 7 votes, 1 number one vote)
47. Jesu - Conqueror (77 points, 8 votes)
46. Amy Winehouse - Back To Black (78 points, 8 votes)
45. Robert Plant & Alison Kraus - Raising Sand (79 points, 6 votes)
44. Rihanna - Good Girl Gone Bad (79 points, 10 votes)
43. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam (80 points, 6 votes)
43. Roisin Murphy - Overpowered (80 points, 6 votes)
41. Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala (80 points, 7 votes)
40. LCD Soundsystem - 45:33 (82 points, 7 votes)
39. Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity (82 points, 7 votes, 1 number one vote)
38. PJ Harvey - White Chalk (83 points, 10 votes)
37. Patrick Wolf - Magic Position (84 points, 6 votes, 1 number one vote)
36. Eluvium - Copia (86 points, 8 votes)
35. Electrelane - No Shouts, No Calls (91 points, 7 votes, 2 number one votes)
34. Von Sudenfed - Tromatic Refelexions (92 points, 7 votes)
33. Pantha Du Prince - This Bliss (94 points, 8 votes, 1 number one vote)
32. Gui Boratto - Chromophobia (96 points, 9 votes)
31. OM - Pilgrimage (97 points, 8 votes, 1 number one vote)
30. Kylie Minogue - X (98 points, 8 votes)
29. UGK - Underground Kingz (98 points, 8 votes, 1 number one vote)
28. Lil Wayne - Da Drought 3 (102 points, 8 votes)
27. Miranda Lambert - Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (103 points, 7 votes)
26. Alcest - Souvenirs D'Autre Monde (103 points, 8 votes, 2 number one votes)
25. Lily Allen - Alright, Still… (103 points, 9 votes)
24. Robert Wyatt - Comicopera (104 points, 8 votes)
23. Blonde Redhead - 23 (105 points, 8 votes)
22. Dizzee Rascal - Maths & English (110 points, 9 votes)
21. Feist - Reminder (110 points, 10 votes)
20. Kanye West - Graduation (111 points, 10 votes, 1 number one vote)
19. Low - Drums And Guns (115 points, 12 votes)
18. !!! - Myth Takes (117 points, 8 votes)
17. Amerie - Because I Love It (121 points, 9 votes)
16. Daft Punk - Alive 2007 (123 points, 9 votes, 2 number one votes)
15. Justice - + (131 points, 11 votes, 1 number one vote)
14. The National - Boxer (138 points, 13 votes)
13. Stars Of The Lid - Stars Of The Lid tnd Their Refinement Of The Decline (145 points, 10 votes)
12. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (147 points, 11 votes)

didn't even consider neon bible

fuuuuck you argayde fire

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Glad to see props for Myth Takes in this poll! Totally glossed over by most media but damn what an album.

It's dreadfully boring, a couple songs excepted, and this is coming from someone who loves Louden Up Now. WTF is it doing in this let alone that high up?

^^

rev why didn't you write a blurb for kanye?

-- J0rdan S., Thursday, March 6, 2008 12:02 PM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Link

Cause I didn't get around to it at first and then I forgot about it.

lol @ djmartian's "who the heck are they?"

end times

forget it, too many people are gonna vote for that lcd soundsystem bullshit

-- omar little, Friday, 7 March 2008 01:32 (5 hours ago) Link

thank you....i dont see what everyone loves

i love that it is awesome

tuneful and dancey and funny and funky and holy shit actually ocassionally moving which is more than i can say for most of what i heard in 07 unfortunately

if you're gonna get heated over ppl voting for lcd in an 07 albums poll don't waste your time opening this thread

the sky is blue... i don't see what everyone loves

accept it and move on

that said hoos generally otm

39 down, 11 to go...

11. Field - From Here We Go Sublime (170 points, 16 votes, 1 number one vote)

http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/1064/fromherewegosublimeqp6wa4.jpg

Like a lot of people who liked The Field, I don't know too much about the context from which Axel Willner's music arises. But I do know gorgeousness when I hear it, and the analog warmth and human-touched live mixing of _Sublime_ makes it an easy pick for year-end lists. Willner's love of his source material is matched by his ability to transform it, and the way he works with sound as something close to a physical object is special. From pleasant background to up-front scrutiny, the multipurpose album of the year.
-call all destroyer

10. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? (189 points, 14 votes, 2 number one votes)

http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/2341/o480487fp4za9.jpg

I really did not give a shit about this band until I heard 'The Past is a Grotesque Animal,' but I loved that song a lot so I figured I should investigate further. Their back catalog still doesn't do much for me but this album is great, one of the best album-length portraits of depression I've heard in a long time, all dressed up in neon-lights and filled with hooks on top of hooks.
-Maciej

I've spent the whole end-of-year poll season just assuming that the Of Montreal album is shit judging purely by the title.

That useful and incisive post was bought to you by the Wilful Blind Prejudices in Indie Society.