Yo P&J, I'm really happy for you, Imma let you finish, but ILX had the greatest 2009 poll of all time! All time! (2009 ILX Trax Poll Results: TOP TEN TODAY)

For my money, American Gangster is Jay-Z's best album since Reasonable Doubt. I like it even better than the Blueprint and the Black Album.

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1. Reasonable Doubt
2. American Gangster
3. The Blueprint
4. Vol. 1
5. The Black Album
6. Vol. 3
7. Vol. 2
8. Roc La Familia*
9. Kingdom Come*
10. Blueprint 2
11. Blueprint 3*

Though these are probably due for some re-appraisal.

one thing I have learned is not to talk to anyone on ILM about Jay-Z

better than the blueprint!!!!???

Yeah. Ignoring the historical significance, that is. There's a lot more depth of emotion and thought on American Gangster, whereas on The Blueprint he's more like a sociopath faking emotion. (Which is doubly funny because AG is the one where he's supposedly role-playing.) Plus, AG has ballsier production and just plain better songs--"Ignorant Shit," "No Hook," "Success," "American Dreamin'," "Blue Magic."

*supposedly = supposed to be

::throws up hands::

::waves them, doesn't care, exits conversation::

I mean, I could go on... ;)

well at least you agree BP3 sucks. moving on please, less crazy talk, more good songs

yeah what's 19!?!?!

1. The Black Album
2. The Blueprint
3. Reasonable Doubt
4. Vol. 3
5. American Gangster
7. Vol. 2
6. Vol. 1
8. Blueprint 3
9. Roc La Familia
10. Kingdom Come
11. Blueprint 2

stop stop

let's talk some more about how fucking wretched GIRLS is

Blueprint 3 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Girls

not really, lol

19 -- Future Of The Left - Arming Eritrea (10 votes, 147 points, 3 #1 vote/s) (301 in P&J, 98 in p4k)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cmNy50dHzA

"Lust For Life" would be somewhere in the middle of a spectrum below "Real As It Gets" but above "Venus Vs. Mars" (xpost)

okay Future Of The Left is putting a big fucking ginormous smile on my face

awesome

WORD

Yes!

My #1

Had you not heard them before, Dan? They're Mclusky 2.0 (can't remember how many members made the move).

Heard of them, never heard them; was really only tangentially aware of McClusky via Joel Veitch Rathergood.com.

It sounds like My Chemical Romance meets Mclusky! Awesome!

that youtube is live and not that great, here's the video, non-embed

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkTvISL53HQ

let's flail togethahhhhhhhhhhhhhhHHHHHHHHHHHH

The real video is awesome.

I love the line "caught in the switch of the flow," on that FotL song. So great, especially with that full-throttle delivery. The climax of that song has so much more drama, for want of a better word, than it has any right to. Shit just sounds huge and important. Fucking brilliant.

COME ON RICK

EVERYBODY

Haha at Empire State of Mind (my #1 in case you didn't guess). I was expecting a pasting for it too, thanks for holding back.

cool song

nice!!!

FOTL is smashing - yeah McClusky!!!!

i coulda sworn that was 2008 tho too

They're Mclusky 2.0 (can't remember how many members made the move).

If I recall, the guitarist/vocalist and the drummer made the move; the bassist split off into another band.

yah shooting at unarmed men

I was expecting a pasting for it too, thanks for holding back.

it sort of arrived pre-pasted.

and as someone who kinda dug mcclusky and then forgot about them, i'm now intrigued by fotl. that song rocks pretty well.

by the way The Dynasty album is the second best Jay album, so you list makers are tripping.

Awesome! (xpost)

yay fotl! i'm glad everyone else is happy about this

this should've been the blurb beneath the youtube btw

DEEP IN THE HEART OF THE BATTLE

― k3vin k., Friday, November 6, 2009 11:05 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

CAUGHT IN THE SWITCH OF THE FLOOOOO-OOW

― k3vin k., Friday, November 6, 2009 11:06 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

FREE! DOM! FROM NOTES! SHE! SELLS! FREE! DOM! FROM! SOOOOOOOONGGGGGGGS!

― The looming shadow of the big baller/shot caller (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, November 6, 2009 2:19 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

that's an agreeable spot for 'empire state of mind' -- 'american gangster' is NOT GOOD AT ALL - can't believe actual critics fell for that junk - it's pretty good sonically but jay never stopped falling off as a rapper after 'kingdom come'

So is the rest of this FotL album as good as this?

not as immediate/anthemic as that but it's a fantastic record

18 -- The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Zero (14 votes, 147.5 points) (6 in P&J, 6 in p4k)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmGNo8RL5kM

would have been my #1 if i did trax voting

wonder if "heads will roll" is gonna show up - don't dislike "zero" at all but compared to HWR it's kinda negligible to me