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

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?

Britney Spears - what is this celebrity pop nonsense !

pop album of the year, fwiw

-- blueski, Monday, 26 November 2007 20:39 (3 months ago)

oh shut up

-- r|t|c, Monday, 26 November 2007 21:35 (3 months ago)

great days

great album but still maybe the worst cover of the decade

YOU try making an album cover with MS Paint.

6. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (203 points, 17 votes)

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5 left:

Radiohead
MIA
Burial
LCD Soundsystem
Robyn or Battles ?

The Field album is kind of magical for a few tracks and then my attention wanes.

yeah about half i'm totally enraptured, the other half its like "oh, is this still playing?"

hooray spoon, fuck the haters

money says battles xxp

are there more popists than math-rockists on ilm these days?

I'm thinking enough people here championed the same Robyn album in years past that that's the one that didn't get many votes.

Britney Spears? ILX irony has gone too far.

Yeah, Robyn probably showed up in the 2005 poll.

Indeed.

In fact, here's DJ Martian handicapping the top 20 of 2005:

first up the 10 most likely to show up in the top 20:

Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
M.I.A. - Arular
Kate Bush - Aerial
Antony and the Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now
Vitalic - Ok Cowboy
Broadcast - Tender Buttons
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Animal Collective - Feels
Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase
LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem

the next 10 IS difficult to judge, so here are some candidates with comments:

Common - Be [Is rap still popular asks Geir?]
Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene [Is this too generic indie rawk to show up in the top 20?]
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah [Have enough ILM types voted for Pitchfork approved Talking Heads karaoke?]
Gorillaz - Demon Days [Does ILM like fun? OR NOT ]
Isolée - Wearemonster [Have the dance types voted in enough numbers?]
Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain [Where are the Noise dudes?]
The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema [Canadian Indie on a zillion blog / webzine lists]
Nine Horses - Snow Borne Sorrow [Will enough people vote this into the top 20?]
Robyn - Robyn [A long thread on ILM suggests this is popular]
Kanye West - Late Registration [Is rap still popular asks Geir?]

-- DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, January 16, 2006 2:04 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Link

"Britney Spears? ILX irony has gone too far."

Totally agreed

I still haven't gotten over that ridiculous Stars Of The Lid showing. You drone dorks need to get a life, stat! Am I right, people? I mean, please! And Britney freakin' Spears? What the hell is that? Y'all need to get your head out of your collective asses here.

And don't get me started on those idiots in Battles. Holy crap, I'd rather eat my ass out with a spoon than listen to that swill.

The Britney record might be too high, but it's actually a v. good record.

Speak of the devil!

5. Battles - Mirrored (230 points, 17 votes, 3 number one votes)

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I'm not too sure what to say about a year in which the finest album was a descendant of the DNA of mid-90s math rock and post rock, of Helmet, and the late, lamented (but sadly reanimated) Don Caballero. I'll take it as a sign that the increasingly anything-goes environment for music is a blessing: somewhere along the way, Battles turned from a mildly-interesting bearer of the instrumental rock torch into an absolute revelation, and a lot of people took notice. Nowhere was this more apparent than at the band's explosive live shows--causally interested college students and young professional types turned out along with the typical indie-music fandom to watch four guys play some of the most impossibly intricate yet fun music they'd ever seen. As an album, Mirrored is a big, shiny, rush-inducing object, an exhilarating kick that never falls into pretension and never elevates any portion of its lockstep ensemble playing over the almighty beat. Watching Battles live, I was struck by how much work it is to create their songs--no one gets a second off as there are always more loops to be built, drums to be hit as hard as possible, 7-foot high cymbals to reach. It's work to listen to as well, and I like to think that the payoff for playing it must match the glorious highs of listening.
-call all destroyer

Radiohead at 4 then?

"Britney Spears? ILX irony has gone too far."

Totally agreed

it's not irony you plebs

lol @ someone honestly responding to bill magill's opinion about music

kornrulez6969, please enlighten us with 5 or 10 albums that should be in the top 50.

causally interested college students and young professional types turned out along with the typical indie-music fandom

i thought this was the typical indie-music fandom?!

lol for real

"lol @ someone honestly responding to bill magill's opinion about music"

Man, you really toasted me there.

Still processing kornrulez6969's comments about eating his ass out with a spoon....

x-post yeah I mean they are all WITE PEOPLE but let's just say the audience at Battles was real, real different from the audience at Don Cab a couple years ago.

re: Battles was real, real different from the audience at Don Cab a couple years ago.

- they read all read pitchfork now NOT magnet

anyone got a link to the soundopinions poll results?

Hahahaha.

Maybe I should've made it more of an age thing. Don Cab = 30+ beardos. BTTLS = 20+ girls, downtown professionals. Close to half the audience w/no indie signifiers whatsoever.

Spears=30+ People mag reading houswives and 15+music dorks.

lol @ dudes being shocked @ britney