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

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.

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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.

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

i generally feel like too many singles get votes when they're really album tracks, but the Rihanna album is def an example of that in reverse. a couple great singles but not an album I'd ever consider voting for

mencap otm

just annoys me that there will be albums of lesser exposure outside of the 77 with a small but utterly passionate following and yet the ILM consensus ropes in the usual suspects

apart from that, am eager to discover new things here!

Didn't get into the Rihanna album at all. Rated R is still one of the albums I play a lot from 2009 but apart from the singles I found Loud really forgettable.

lex: ever figured that she may just be happier?

made it as far as a drake verse. dunno if it would be worth going further.

just annoys me that there will be albums of lesser exposure outside of the 77 with a small but utterly passionate following and yet the ILM consensus ropes in the usual suspects

the albums placing right now are getting 8-12 votes, i think that counts as a small and enthusiastic following - unless you want albums that only like 3 people rep for to place? i don't like loud but i know of a few people who really do.

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

yeah, i really need to lower my expectations when a pop artist releases their most daring & interesting work and just accept their next album is going to be a bit rubbish, as history shows.

lex: ever figured that she may just be happier?

oh sure, it's just the way it cleaves to the most obvious pop trends is really uninspired.

just annoys me that there will be albums of lesser exposure outside of the 77 with a small but utterly passionate following and yet the ILM consensus ropes in the usual suspects

There'll be a load of stuff with a small and passionate following, 77 is a lot of albums, and 75th place is really low for a pop star of Rihanna's standing.

Quadron album isn't nearly as interesting as it wants to be.

it's hard to be creative when you're happy. not even joking.

an album that kind of hangs in the heat and just shimmers slightly.

Listening a bit more I can sort of see this, there are some subtle touches that are really nice, but it does definitely get lost in a bit of a middle-of-the-road drippiness at times.

it's hard to be creative when you're happy. not even joking.

how many points did the #1 album get?

Happy Rihanna >>>> Angry Rihanna

fwiw i think the quadron is a real summer album - i haven't gone back to it once since the weather got cold

would like to see a passionate defence of the rihanna album. then would like to suggest a change to the weighted voting structure - first place 50 points, second 40, third 30, fourth 25 then 5 onwards is 20-1

an album that 5 or 6 people rep for but that they all rep HARD for is worthy of a place in the poll imo

Happy Rihanna >>>> Angry Rihanna

if Happy Rihanna = "if it's lovin' that you want", "umbrella", "pon de replay" and "break it off", sure.

Harvey Milk: I like this in theory, but lack the attention span to make it through
Quadron: The vocals are not my thing
Rhianna: I like the couple tracks I've heard, but probably not enough to spend a lot of time with the album.

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74. ZOLA JESUS — Stridulum II (244 points, 10 votes)
P&J: 233rd
Pitchfork: 37th
Spotify: listen

it's hard to be creative when you're happy. not even joking.

This is the laziest bullshit position ever.

LJ i don't think that would do much except encourage collusion and 'strategic voting' even more

umbrella doesn't so much happy as hard and defiant. which is what rihanna does best!

it's hard to be creative when you're happy. not even joking.

wait for real? Just you, or, like, everyone ever?

A SB that 5 or 6 people rep for but that they all rep HARD for is worthy of a place in the hole imo

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.