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

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)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c9/Blackout_-_Album.PNG

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)

http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/3153/gagagagagafv7ok9du9.jpg

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)

http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/5018/battlesmirroredsw9wh4.jpg

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

"wait, you mean...people like POP MUSIC?! but it's so SUBSTANCELESS"

re: 20+ girls

just like this:
http://suicidegirls.com/boards/The+Pictures/255757/

bill magill= 50+ crusty dude who still wonders how a list of best albums could rank universally popular ones over niche metal

30+, but you're on the right track

15+music dorks.

Doesn't this describe pretty much everyone on this board?

musically - hit my baby one more time - lets have number 4 - so the top 3 predictions can start, thanks

Since you asked politely...

4. Burial - Untrue (269 points, 25 votes)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/64/BurialUntrue.jpg

radiohead, mia, lcd

right dorks: rearrange these 3 in order of the ilm 2007 albums poll

LCD Soundsystem
M.I.A
Radiohead

mia, radiohead, lcd

LCD, Radiohead, M.I.A.

Also, I just wanted to point out that ILM was sort of founded on liking Britney Spears: ILM Top 100 Records -- The Full List