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

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)

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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)

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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.

to hell with everyone who thinks The Field album is better than SMD's

9. Panda Bear - Person Pitch (191 points, 15 votes, 3 number one votes)

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SMD is a decent album, y'know, but the Field (which was my #1) is the most beautiful record in, like, forever, works just as well on the dancefloor as SMD, in my experience, and has gotten those little loops stuck in my head more than probably any non-"ella ella, ey ey ey" thing all year.

I still don't really see why Person Pitch is so highly rated. It's okay, but it's a bit of a snooze compared to, well, most other AC stuff. Maybe I don't get it?

But I am thrilled Of Montreal got in the top ten at least. Absolutely brilliant, super-realised pop that actually sounds new and interesting and like it genuinely comes from the future.

sorry, what's SMD??

simian mobile disco, the other dance record not by justice people liked this year

I don't really see how people could really compare Justice and SMD with the Field other than the fact that they were high profile dance albums this year... They are really completely different.

And SMD and Justice are lame and The Field rules.

its a bizarre comparison but i like smd the most of the three, if anyone is updating deej.xls

Although its possible I'm just being reactionary.

I have no idea how some of these beat the High on Fire.

the field is way better than simian mobile disco, but the field isn't nearly as good as pantha du prince.

and listening to of montreal makes me feel physically ill

The Field album is kind of magical for a few tracks and then my attention wanes. The Simian Mobile Disco is rubbish bar a couple of tracks.

I have no idea how some of these beat the High on Fire.

-- Bill Magill, Friday, 7 March 2008 18:16 (2 minutes ago) Link

lolololololololololololololol <3 magill

But yeah, comparing them is like comparing Low to Andrew WK or something.

the comparison is just based on them both being among the most hyped predominantly dancey LPs in blogsville - kind of a reference to this

i like smd most out of the 3 (and i like all 3 a lot-- haven't hear pantha). i really loved the field album a few times this year, both were when i was flying (window seat)and slipping in and out of consciousness/sleep with the sunlight shining onto me, really abstract bs i know but it happened to be pretty perfect

like I THOUGHT IT WAS OBVIOUS, my bads (xp)

This album received the highest number of #1 votes...

8. Studio - West Coast (198 points, 13 votes, 5 number one votes)

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It's now impossible for me to hear the word 'Balearic' without thinking of the moment about 8mins into Out There, when the sound drops out almost entirely, leaving nothing but those impossibly warm, beach-at-sunset chords drifting through before everything builds back up again. Or the bit during West Coast where the inebriated bloke-rock drawl of "solid good times" is drenched in girly Ibiza pads. Or just the phrase... Life's A Beach! Rarely have I heard an album that sounded so... content.

The real joy in this record is how unexpected it felt amid 2007's rock landscape, the sound of a million bland chillout comps reclaimed and reworked into exciting new and old shapes. The aura of faint thuggishness, never far away, but tamed by sunshine and ecstasy and glorious second summer of love vibes. I played this record far more than anything else last year, and true to form it sounds fucking wonderful while drinking beer, by the sea, as the sun goes down. Which is exactly as it's meant to be.
-Matt DC

was my #2 so almost 6! love this and am listening right now (actually prefer yearbook 1 because the two extra songs are pretty good)

i didn't get to 'west coast' soon enough to vote for it - i'll be the only dude making it top 5 THIS year...

i hope future consensus on albums of 2007 is west coast obvs = best by far

i've only heard a couple tunes, but i don't really get studio.

Pardon my ignorance on the subject:

West Coast is just Yearbook 1 without two tracks, right? Are the mixes different? Should I listen to Yearbook 1 minus No Comply and Radio Edit to get a better "album" experience?

5 number ones holy hell

No Comply and Radio Edit are my 2 faves by them so i keep wanting to think of WC and YB1 as the same album

The #7 is going to seriously blow your minds y'all

blackout right?

Was the "y'all" a clue? I didn't really mean for that. I just like using it online because I sound like an idiot when I say it out loud.

7. Britney Spears - Blackout (201 points, 15 votes, 3 number one votes)

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8. Studio - West Coast (198 points, 13 votes, 5 number one votes)

THIS IS A VICTORY FOR SOMETHING OR OTHER.

I think West Coast works better as an album mostly because of the ordering, it feels complete already without the extra two tracks. Also Out There is just such an amazing opener.

So, hands up who else was surprised DJ Martian forgot about Britney?

you guys still listening to britney, huh?