ILM'S TOP 77 ALBUMS of 2010 (NOW COUNTING DOWN THE TOP TEN)

yeah, sounds like a lot more concentrated voting in this compared to the tracks.

P&J: 220th
Pitchfork: DNP

Fuck P&J and Fuck Pitchfork.

never knowingly heard this band. What're they like? What song should I check out?

I used to like it in polls like this when notable comments from album threads were put up, although I know it's a bit much to ask :-)

I think it might have been a runner-up album on the Pitchfork list?

smashing album cover btw.

yeah fuck a mostly indie website for not covering a relatively obscure metal band! xpost

selected youtubes - URLs not embeds! - from the albums' fans/voters would prob be appreciated

i have no idea what's going to place in this poll, let alone place. well, am hopeful for 11 of my ballot, anyway.

gonna have to drop out for 45 mins in a bit to interview one of the artists that i assume will be on this!

tell erykah i <3 her and bag lady is my jam lex

I keep confusing Harvey Milk and Titus Andronicus and Abe Vigoda

it's not erykah :(

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_ePwDySjVdyo/TTv2cj9wL0I/AAAAAAAAAV8/dQmJiutbH88/quadron.jpg

76. QUADRON — Quadron (240 points, 12 votes)
P&J: 433rd
Pitchfork: DNP
Spotify: listen

I keep confusing Harvey Milk and Titus Andronicus and Abe Vigoda

― vienn?tta (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, January 31, 2011 10:13 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

harvey milk has been around longer than titus andronicus and abe vigoda put together btw

oh. i'm sure i remember you mentioning interviewing her last week. oh well, just tell whoever it is that bag lady is awesome and they'll never write anything that good unless they pull their finger out

this is going to be painful for me, isn't it

i haven't heard much of this year's harvey milk but they're a spectacular band, so i approve!

quadron album is great, particularly "slippin'", "day", "pressure" if you need tracks to check out folks

that quadron record was on Andy K's end of year list, right? that probably functions as a great endorsement for some folks (myself included)

hate the album cover though :(

I couldn't get into that Quadron album at all.

I have the Quadron album. It's good. I have no idea about her/them.

I don't like the album cover though - so many albums with that kind of thing now. Really reminds me of Zoomer by Schneider TM or that recent one by Phil Selway from Radiohead.

xposts

Fever, can you pull some descriptive quotes from ILX about these albums?

again it's hard to pull a "standout track" from the harvey milk album but here's a sample track that's fairly representative:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta0RdajnegU&feature=related

is this the happy xx?

It felt like a kind of weird Scandipop attempt at doing Sade to me.

yeahhhh quadron! i CANED this over the summer - perfect for easing those hangovers in weather too hot to breathe. an album that kind of hangs in the heat and just shimmers slightly.

buster keaton
pressure

No, but other people can. xps to lj

that quadron record was on Andy K's end of year list, right?

it was andy k mentioning them offhand in the sideways r&b thread that turned me on to them

i love that you'd never actually guess they were scandinavian if you didn't know

That one about fitting into your old jeans was the one I put in my neo-soul mix when I was on heavily on that tip a few months ago.

recent harvey milk a relative disappointment after life...

good band though

Quadron comes up as 2009 on spotify, ha. Seems a little bland on first listen.

these spare neo-soul acts leave me cold...which may be the point, which I'm missing completely

would like to request that people mostly use youtube links instead of youtube embeds in this thread, since long threads with lots of embeds crash/hang browsers for a lot of people

Quadron was released in Denmark in 2009, and gets in on a technicality by having been released in the US/UK in 2010.

this Harvey Milk song kicks assssssss

dig "pressure" from that quadron album. "slippin" isn't bad either. jackson 5 via the XX.

Is anyone else super curious where Glasser (and also maybe Chemical Brothers) is going to place?

this Harvey Milk song kicks assssssss

yeah, "i got up alone" was the HM track i was thinking of posting. it's good, very representative. if you dig it, you'll dig the whole album. personally, i like it when they aren't trying to be so deliberately difficult. the cloud of crushing doom and despair makes the pop and "metal" moments so astounding - when they choose to let them in.

Like I really have no idea if it's going to pop up today or wind up being #4 or something.

quadron is surprisingly not bad. much better than the xx.

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_ePwDySjVdyo/TTv2zcO40gI/AAAAAAAAAWI/UVisoidPOXY/rihanna.jpg

75. RIHANNA — Loud (244 points, 9 votes)
P&J: 271st
Pitchfork: DNP
Spotify: listen

figure glasser will place in the 20s. no idea about chem bros.

Quadron album is a bit... XX meets Joss Stone imo. Not feeling it.

[ducks, covers]

do like how the solo in "i got alone" is basically a visit from the residents

I really like the idea of a doom band throwing in strutting pop movements, so I'll clearly have to listen to HM a little more assiduously. I have 'Life...' on my computer

ah rihanna. does anyone really think that album brought much new to the party or were they just filling their ballot with stuff they were always going to? :P

haaa

er, "i alone got..."

honestly so surprised that anyone has time for that rihanna album...it's so lazy and tossed-together and inadequate. kind of like "hello pop listeners! you can forget that Angry Rihanna ever existed! there is only Happy Rihanna!" except it's way too forced and heavy-handed to actually succeed in the same way that her old sunny reggae stuff did. i guess "only girl (in the world)" is, er, really catchy?

ilx can be very unimaginative, sometimes

quadron are kinda breezy and fun on the basis of the two songs Lex has youtubed, can see how a whole album's worth might start dragging tho

but then it's not the first time a pop act has followed in introspective, dark and somewhat daring effort with a safe, conservative follow-up

P&J: 220th
Pitchfork: DNP

Fuck P&J and Fuck Pitchfork.

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Monday, 31 January 2011 16:08 (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

can I politely request you refrain from doing this throughout the entire thread thx

Yeah, even w/o Needle I expect some basic string edit distance computations would handle a lot - but even then there are "cleaning" issues like whether a release is permissible (e.g. actually came out last year), whether two releases should be combined like we did with Yelawolf or whether two albums with very similar names are actually distinct. Having a public nominations thread means informed people can weigh in (I would have had no idea about Yelawolf).

otm re: cleaning issues - many many people seem not to pay attention to the YEAR BEING POLLED at all.

also i think a nominations thread (plus gap between then and the voting) is more inclusive - allows people who may not have been paying attention during the year to have a bit of a catch-up.

only 1 more poll needs to be done between now and next jan tbh and that is the last decade (the oooooos).

didn't we just do a 06-10 less than a year ago though? maybe get a bit of distance from that first

err '05-'09 i mean

I really really want to do an alternate '00-'04 poll, where none of the albums/songs that placed in the 2004 poll are eligible. I might start making moves to do that after there's some breathing room from this one.

I might poll the 50 best biscuits.

I mean re-running a list for a period ILM has already covered is a bit Q magazine.

bourbon ftw

Only poll I'm really keen to see is a pre-1960 (1950?)tracks poll, though I suspect that may be a niche opinion.

More or less happy with the current voting set up, though would prefer a weighted/unweighted ballot as an option next year.

would love a jazz poll tbh. I doubt glenn would be interested in helping me with that tho. If he agrees to set needle up though I'd totally be up for it

I really really want to do an alternate '00-'04 poll, where none of the albums/songs that placed in the 2004 poll are eligible.

i suggest looking at the albums/songs that placed in the 101-200 range --pretty good list of alternates to the top 100

my 2012 resolution is to vote next year

I'd like to see that Electronic albums/tracks poll happen. Seemed to peter out back in Oct.

iirc that one broke down over infighting about what was and wasn't eligible genre-wise, i think the poll creator had a mnml/idm/ambient-type poll in mind and a bunch of people were nominating synthpop and new wave type ilm-love stuff and getting mad when they were shot down

i unveiled the results, you may have missed it because it was in this thread

YOU TOTALLY MISSED THE ILX HEAVY ROCK/METAL ALBUM POLL COUNTDOWN, SUCKA (CLICK FOR A RECAP)

haha

I really really want to do an alternate '00-'04 poll, where none of the albums/songs that placed in the 2004 poll are eligible.

i suggest looking at the albums/songs that placed in the 101-200 range --pretty good list of alternates to the top 100

― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Friday, February 4, 2011 12:40 PM (56 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah, lot of good stuff there but not remotely all of the good records that missed the top 100 that people would probably vote for now.

I've never understood the point of doing nominations in the first place. What's wrong with having everyone just send in a list with their top 25 albums and singles? With 15 noms/person x 100-odd people making nominations, most people's favourites end up on the nominations list anyway.

More importantly: it cuts down on the time needed to run the poll because you can cut out the ~ 3 wk nomination period and publish the poll results in January.

i thought the point was in large part to standardize the name, spelling, format of each nominated item.

I guess nominations are good for ironing out the "which year did this come out" difficulties and they remind people of stuff, but otherwise, yeah.

If it's a 70's or 80's or "all-time genre" poll, I can understand wanting to remind people of stuff, but not for a year-end poll for a year that just ended. Standardizing the formats is obviously a huge help to the people running the poll and doing the coding, which I know nothing about so I won't comment on how big of a headache it might be to not have that in place.

w/r/t the delay - i think that's a positive. albums are still released well into december - some of them placed this year! which wouldn't nec be the case if the poll was done a few weeks earlier. and doing it in the dog days of january never exactly hurts enthusiasm.

nominations are useful for me for reminding me of albums I wanted to check out but ended up forgetting about, and also for albums I did listen to and love but might forget to put on my list

^ yeah, this. nominations thread assists the process in a number of ways, not just in the standardization of ballots. i personally appreciate the memory-jogging and heads-upping, along with the extra time it provides for (re)evaluation before ballots are officially cast.

Veil Veil Vanish - Change in the Neon Light
Engineers - In Praise of More
the Prids - Chronosynclastic

i like these ones trayce! in fact the prids was in my top 5 on my ballot iirc

in the shoegazing poll, half of my ballot at least was made up of stuff I checked out from the nominations thread, stuff I never would've heard of w/o it (Skywave, Joy Formidables, you are the coolest)--of course this meant my ballot favored heavily on stuff that got nominated in the thread's first two days, but still, it was v useful...

also, some dude I like your idea of doing another '00-'04 poll but let's not do an alternate one, let's just an updated nu-ILX one. I don't want to deal with any constrictions on what you can &/or can't vote, esp. since we aren't doing a whole decade poll for the forseeable future...

Having done an 00-04 poll and an 05-09 poll already, the next time we even touch the first decade of this century should either be an all-in thing or a genre poll of some kind. That said, I'm not advocating anyone start anything of the sort in the near future.