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

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

Radiohead, MIA, LCD

3rd will be Radiohead
2nd MIA
1st LCD

So who is right? (please)

3: M.I.A
2: LCD
1: Radiohead

yes, please put us out of our misery

3 MIA
2 Radiohead
1 LCD

3. M.I.A., Kala
2. LCD Soundsystem, Sound of Silver
1. She Wants Revenge, This is Forever

wow @ Burial getting 25 votes! i think the second-highest number (so far) has been 17 votes, a couple times. that's awesome, really speaks to the record's broad appeal better than anything else.

also: looks like 9 of my 20 choices (Blonde Redhead, Burial, Caribou, Eluvium, Jesu, Low, Om, PJ Harvey, Stars of the Lid) have made the cut so far. i'd have voted for LCD or Radiohead, honestly, but i figured so many others would vote for them (and i was right!) that i'd be better off supporting stuff that didn't get noticed as much.

and frankly, i'm surprised Grinderman didn't make the top 50. and possibly Deerhunter, which is also pretty great. the rest i voted for? not surprised to see them absent. but where is Grinderman?????? :(

Grinderman - to trad and unremarkable hard rock

Ranked #366 for 2007
http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/grinderman/grinderman/

i mean in the ilx poll

3. Radiohead - In Rainbows (304 points, 25 votes, 2 number one votes)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2e/In_Rainbows_Official_Cover.jpg

LOL RADIOHEAD

I was secretly hoping they'd beat lcd...sadly not

re: i mean in the ilx poll - i am using rym as a comparative to show that it's wallowing at 366 - and gave comments on why this is so.

Melissa is crying now ! - you thoughtless to**ers

Those damn hipsters!! ;)

2. MIA - Kala
1. Army of the Pharaohs - Ritual of Battle

Here is your #2 album, I think we all know what will be #1 but I'll leave a small cushion for any joke winners.

2. M.I.A - Kala (315 points, 24 votes, 3 number one votes)

http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/337/miakalatq8sj8.jpg

Anticipated follow-up from crit darling got lots of early love for big dance pop, then pushback for questions of authenticity, brazen appropriation and flat rhymes. As good/better than _Arular_? "Hype, hype," sez the Lex, then 776 messages skipped arguing over whether, in fact, this is the most hyped release of the year. ILX consensus: "I like M.I.A. when she's going for all-out maximalist assault ("Boys" is definitely one of my absolute favourite things of the year for this reason), but quickly find her tiresome when she's getting all sparse/spartan/worthy," from Tim F.
-i eat cannibals

1. The Angelic Process - Weighing Souls With Sand

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s874217.jpg

Pioneers and figureheads of the Ambient Drone Metal subgenre of extreme music, their influence can be found in numerous bands that have come of age in their wake. With a sound that fuses the layered guitar drone of MY BLOOD VALENTINE, the epic sound and tribal thump of NEUROSIS, the emotional bloodletting of JARBOE/SWANS, and complex, yet fluidly shifting time signatures, THE ANGELIC PROCESS have forged new musical ground and over the course of numerous on labels all over the world, have refined and defined a sound that one person described as "the sound my soul makes"

myspace
http://www.myspace.com/theangelicprocess

If every MBV fan was aware of the intoxicating shoegazer- metal-soundscapes of The Angelic Process, this album would be number 1

the Kala blurb couldn't be straight-up praise, could it

DJ OTM
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1. Andrew Antone - I Will Love Again (635 points, 54 votes, 16 number one votes)

http://www.andrewantone.com/images/music_album02.jpg

Been re-discovering much of my long dormant music collection now that I've made the jump to iTunes/iPod, etc. Dug this little numbah out of dark corner and rediscovered its riotously naughty majesty.

Best experienced either on headphones or in a dark, black-lit room with massive speakers that drown everything in the toxic murk, to listen to Love Again is to roam about in a dimly-lit labywrinth wherein voices and instrumentation reveal themselves in blurry patches and frightening avalanches. The only real constant being the 'Tone's distinctive, theatrical growl (somewhere between obvious mentors Alice Cooper and Celine Dion). You can dance to it, scream for help, slash your wrists, laugh hysterically or roll around on the floor. The choice is yours.

Later albums were never as cohesive nor fun. But for a brief, gooey moment in 2007, Andrew Antone was perfect. -Alex in NYC

hahahahahahaha

lol

And finally...

1. LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver (460 points, 30 votes, 3 number one votes)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/ff/LCD_Soundsystem_-_Sound_of_Silver.jpg

I resisted LCD for a long time, and for no good reason. Eventually, I had to admit that the man knows how to make a track, and everything fell into place from there. The "emotional core" of Silver's middle tracks has been well-discussed, but there's value to everything here--the James Murphy of LCD records is a memorable character, and would be a fine author if he weren't such a damn good musician.
-call all destroyer

http://blog.dirkschuetze.de/wp-content/Kool-AidMan.jpg

lol

Nothing to look at here. Go home, boys.

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

Dig the true top ten, people!

1. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna...
2. LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
3. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
4. Bruce Springsteen - Magic
5. Apples In Stereo - New Magnetic Wonder
6. Against Me! - New Wave
7. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
8. No Age - Weirdo Rippers
9. M.I.A. - Kala
10. National - Boxer

This was actually a pretty good and interesting list, much less predictable than the singles.

did andrew antone play Brad on Home Improvement? If so, then he needs a new haircut.

lol raising sand

And here's everything else:

73 points Liars - Liars
71 points Dinosaur Jr - Beyond
70 points Grinderman – st

69 points Angelic Process - Weighing Souls With Sand
69 points Fiery Furnaces - Widow City
68 points Angels Of Light - We Are Him
66 points New Pornographers - Challengers
66 points Matthew Dear - Asa Breed
65 points Map of Africa - Map of Africa
64 points Björk - Volta
64 points Apparat - Walls
62 points Prodigy - Return Of The Mac
61 points Cornelius - Sensuous
61 points Pole - Steingarten

58 points Good, The Bad & The Queen - st
56 points Okkervil River - The Stage Names
56 points Girls Aloud - Tangled Up
56 points Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today
56 points Parts & Labor - Mapmaker
55 points Chromatics - Night Drive
55 points Yeasayer - All Hour Cymbals
55 points Ghostface Killah - Big Doe Rehab
54 points Ricardo Villalobos - Fabric 36
54 points Rhys Chatham - A Crimson Grail
52 points Boris w/ Michio Kurihara - Rainbow
52 points Gogol Bordello - Super Taranta
51 points Klaxons - Myths of The Near Future
51 points Tokyo Jihen - Variety
50 points Jarvis Cocker - Jarvis
50 points Super Furry Animals - Hey Venus
50 points Ewan Pearson - Piece Work
50 points Avril Lavigne - The Best Damn Thing
50 points Iron And Wine - The Shepherd's Dog

49 points Tinariwen - Aman Iman (Water Is Life)
49 points Shackleton/Appleblim - Soundboy Punishments
48 points Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
48 points Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
47 points Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
47 points Apples In Stereo - New Magnetic Wonder
46 points Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Trip The Light Fantastic
45 points Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends
44 points A Place To Bury Strangers - st
44 points Freeway - Free At Last
44 points Black Lips - Good Bad Not Evil
43 points Wu-Tang Clan - 8 Diagrams
42 points Pharoahe Monch - Desire
42 points Ulver - Shadows Of The Sun
42 points Paramore - Riot!
41 points No Age - Weirdo Rippers
40 points Baroness - Red Album
40 points Simian Mobile Disco - Attack Decay Sustain Release

39 points Ned Rothenberg - Inner Diaspora
39 points Bird And the Bee - st
39 points Deathspell Omega - Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum
38 points Kathy Diamond - Miss Diamond To You
38 points Go! Team - Proof Of Youth
37 points va - Hyphy Hitz
36 points Sloan - Never Hear The End Of It
36 points Calle 13 - Residente O Visitante
36 points Talib Kweli - Eardrum
36 points Melchior Productions Ltd. - No Disco Future
35 points Nina Nastasia And Jim White - You Follow Me
34 points Marissa Nadler - Songs III: Bird On The Water
34 points Sir Richard Bishop - While My Guitar Violently Bleeds
34 points Neurosis - Given To The Rising
33 points Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
32 points Deerhunter - Cryptograms
31 points September - Dancing Shoes
30 points Field Music - Tones Of Town
30 points Deerhunter - Fluorescent Grey EP
30 points Working For A Nuclear Free City - Businessmen And Ghosts
30 points Dan Deacon - Spiderman of the Rings
30 points Trans Am - Sex Change
30 points Six Organs Of Admittance - Shelter From The Ash
30 points Against Me! - New Wave

29 points Colleen - Les Ondes Silencieuses
29 points Ghost - In Stormy Nights
29 points Sir Richard Bishop - Polytheistic Fragments
29 points Islaja - Ulual Yyy
29 points Bruce Springsteen - Magic
29 points Grails - Burning Off Impurities
28 points Shellac - Excellent Italian Greyhound
28 points Boxcutter - Glyphic
28 points Richard Hawley - Lady's Bridge
28 points Glass Candy - B/E/A/T/B/O/X
27 points Bat For Lashes - Fur And Gold
27 points M83 - Digital Shades, Vol 1
27 points Sean Price - Jesus Price Superstar
27 points Robyn - st
27 points Italians Do It Better - After Dark
26 points T-Pain - Epiphany
26 points Future Conditional - We Don't Just Disappear
25 points Charalambides - Likeness
25 points Bottomless Pit - Hammer Of The Gods
25 points Witchcraft - The Alchemist
25 points Menomena - Friend And Foe
25 points Efdemin - Efdemin
25 points Harmonia - Live 1974
24 points Sugababes - Change
24 points Muscles - Guns Babes And Lemonade
24 points Reverend Bizarre - III: So Long Suckers
24 points Holy Fuck - LP
24 points Lucky Soul - The Great Unwanted
24 points Times New Viking - Presents The Paisley Reich
23 points Maximo Park - Our Earthly Pleasures
23 points Club 8 - The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Dreaming
23 points Clientele - God Save The Clientele
23 points Stars - In Our Bedroom After The War
21 points White Rainbow - Prism Of Eternal Now
21 points Scarface - Made
21 points Underworld - Oblivion with Bells
21 points Nels Cline Singers - Draw Breath
20 points Soulsavers - It's Not How Far You Fall, It's the Way You Land
20 points Mala Rodriguez - Malamarismo
20 points Thee Majesty - Vitruvian Pan
20 points Aly & AJ - Insomniatic
20 points Kubichek! - Not Enough Night
20 points Ashley Tisdale - Headstrong
20 points Laura Veirs - Saltbreakers
20 points Lucky Pierre - Dip
20 points Melt-Banana - Bambi's Dilemma
20 points Kevin Ayers - The Unfairground
20 points Ray Davies - Working man's cafe
20 points Caina - Mourner
20 points Group Doueh - Guitar Music From The Western Sahara
20 points Sorcerer - White Magic
20 points Freemasons - Shakedown

19 points Nellie McKay - Obligatory Villagers
19 points Ulrich Schnauss - Goodbye
19 points Dirty Projectors - Rise Above
19 points Marc Almond - Stardom Road
19 points Apartment - The Dreamer Evasive
19 points Dälek - Abandoned Language
19 points Interpol - Our Love To Admire
19 points Keke Palmer - So Uncool
19 points DJ Spooky - Creation Rebel
19 points Balkan Beat Box - Nu Med
19 points Odious Mortem - Cryptic Implosion
18 points Chromeo - Fancy Footwork
18 points Rachel Unthank & The Winterset - The Bairns
18 points Boris with Merzbow - Rock Dream
18 points Clutch - From Beale St. To Oblivion
18 points Hand Hell - Phonography
18 points Prins Thomas - Cosmo Galactic Prism
18 points va - Grand Cru 2007
18 points Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters
18 points Fall Out Boy - Infinity On High
18 points Afrirampo - Suuto Breakor
18 points Tough Alliance - A New Chance
18 points Blues Control - Puff
17 points Pearlfishers - Up With The Larks
17 points James Murphy - FabricLive 36
17 points Tuk - Shallow Water Blackout
17 points Murcof - Cosmos
17 points Pink Reason - Cleaning the Mirror
17 points Ted Leo - Living With The Living
17 points Echospace - The Coldest Season
17 points Magik Markers - Boss
17 points Twilight Sad - Fourteen Summers And Fifteen Winters
17 points Yellow Swans - At All Ends
17 points Blues Control - st
17 points Mira Calix - Eyes Set Against the Sun
17 points Trelldom - Til Minne
16 points Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
16 points Citywide Vacuum – Pact
16 points Hue Blanc?s Joyless Ones - Arriere Garde
16 points Oxbow - The Narcotic Story
16 points Pissed Jeans - Hope For Men
16 points Cave - Hunt Lke Devil/Jamz
16 points Cloudland Canyon - Silvertongued Sisyphus
16 points Paul McCartney - Memory Almost Full
15 points Horrors: Strange House
15 points Aereogramme - My Heart Has A Wish That You Would Go On
15 points Johan Ess - Govern Yourself Accordingly
15 points Torche - In Return
15 points Nadja - Touched
15 points Focus Group - We Are Pan's People
15 points Yakuza Heart Attack - st
15 points Rufus Wainwright - Release The Stars
15 points Birchville Cat Motel - Astro Catastrophies
15 points Will.I.Am - Songs About Girls
14 points Bubonic Plague - Instant Coma
14 points William Basinski - El Camino Real
14 points Pinch - Underwater Dancehall
14 points Voice Of The Seven Woods - st
14 points Crowded House - Time On Earth
14 points Jordan Pruitt - No Ordinary Girl
14 points Marnie Stern - In Advance of a Broken Arm
14 points New Buffalo - Somewhere, Anywhere
14 points Black Francis - Bluefinger
14 points Charlotte Hatherley - The Deep Blue
14 points Dj A-Trak - Dirty South Dance
14 points OST - I'm Not There
14 points nsi. - Plays Non Standards
14 points Casa De Leones - st
13 points Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid - Tongues
13 points Zoroaster - Dog Magic
13 points Boyz Noize - Oi Oi Oi
13 points Pelican - City Of Echoes
13 points Daniel Pemberton - Tvpopmuzik
13 points Lost In Hildurness - Mount A
13 points Oscillation - Out Of Phase
13 points Owls - Suns and Daughters
13 points Raz Mesinai's Badawi - Unit Of Resistance
12 points Fred Anderson & Hamid Drake - From The Ocean To The River
12 points A Mountain Of One - Collected Works
12 points Eleni Mandell - Miracle Of Five
12 points Modeselektor - Happy Birthday
12 points Rumskib - Rumskib
12 points Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
12 points Even As We Speak - A Three Minute Song Is One Minute Too Long
12 points Cloaks - A Crystal Skull In Peru
12 points Aliens – Astronomy For Dogs
12 points Future Of The Left - Curses
11 points Merzbow + Carlos Giffoni - Synth Destruction
11 points Kings Of Leon - Because of the Times
11 points Big Business - Here Come The Waterworks
11 points Skeletonwitch - Beyond the Permafrost
11 points Donnacha Costello - Colorseries
11 points Warhammer 48K - An Ethereal Oracle
11 points Strategy - Future Rock
11 points Bang Gang Deejays - Light Sound Dance
11 points Original Silence - First Original Silence
11 points Avett Brothers - Emotionalism
11 points Built to Spill - They Got Away EP
10 points va - ILX HAS A BUCKET!!!
10 points El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead
10 points Alchemist - Tripsis
10 points Burning Star Core - Operator Dead ... Post Abandoned
10 points Holly Golightly And The Brokeoffs - You Can't Buy A Gun When You're Crying
10 points Meshell Ndegeocello - The World Has Made Me the Man of My Dreams
10 points Andy Palacio - Watina
10 points Dir En Grey - THE MARROW OF A BONE
10 points Max Mohr - Trickmixer's Revenge
10 points Dark Tranquillity - Fiction
10 points Supermayer - Save the World
10 points Manic Street Preachers - Send Away the Tigers
10 points Earth - Hibernaculum
10 points Health - Health
10 points Nightwish - Dark Passion Play
10 points Tori Amos - American Doll Posse
10 points Kuniyuki Takahashi - We Are Together
10 points In This Moment - Beautiful Tragedy
10 points Young Gods - Super Ready/Fragmenté
10 points Jimmy Eat World - Chase This Light
10 points Oh Sees - Sucks Blood
10 points Amiina - Kurr
10 points Mary Weiss & Reigning Sound - Dangerous Game
10 points Asrai - Pearls In Dirt
10 points Arp - In Light
10 points Elvis Perkins - Ash Wednesday
10 points Secrets Of The Moon - Antithesis
10 points Sunn o))) - Oracle
10 points Runrig - Everything You See
10 points Tuss - Rushup Edge
10 points Rotting Christ - Theogonia

9 points Mary Onettes - The Mary Onettes
9 points Cherry Blossoms - Cherry Blossoms
9 points Kenna - Make Sure They See My Face
9 points Wooden Shjips - Wooden Shjips
9 points David Torn - Prezens
9 points White Rabbits - Fort Nightly
9 points Onur Ozer - Kasmir
9 points Unsane - Visqueen
9 points Mendoza Line - 30 Year Low
8 points Kalabrese - Rumpelzirkus
8 points Agnes - Dumbles Debuts
8 points Queens Of The Stone Age - Era Vulgaris
8 points Digitalism - Idealism
8 points Swimmer One - The Regional Variations
7 points Jason Isbell - Sirens Of The Ditch
7 points False - 2007
7 points Kinski - Down Below It's Chaos
7 points James Blackshaw - Cloud Of Unknowing
6 points Beanie Sigel - The Solution
6 points Tracey Thorn - Out of the Woods
6 points A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Scribble Comic Music Journal
6 points Polyphonic Spree - The Fragile Army
6 points Babyshambles - Shotter's Nation
5 points Say Anything - In Defense Of The Genre
5 points Life Without Buildings - Live At The Annandale Hotel
5 points Petre Inspirescu - Tips
5 points Jesu - Pale Sketches
5 points Brothers Martin - The Brothers Martin
5 points Fennesz Sakamoto - Cendre
5 points Susanna - Sonata Mix Dwarf Cosmos
5 points June Tabor - Apples
4 points Stooges - The Weirdness
4 points Instituto Mexicano Del Sonido - Piñata
4 points Prince Fatty - Survival of the fattest
4 points Hives: The Black And White Album
4 points Bright Eyes - Cassadaga
4 points Strange Death of Liberal England - Forward March!
4 points Vic Chesnutt - North Star Deserter
3 points Clockcleaner - Babylon Rules
3 points va - Basic Replay CD (Basic Replay)
3 points Signal - Robotron
3 points Janet Feder/Fred Frith - Ironic Universe
3 points Dungen - Tio Bitar
3 points Bertrand Burgalat - Chéri BB
2 points Bamboos - Rawville
2 points Maria Mckee - Late December
2 points Dethklok - The Dethalbum
2 points Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dandelion Gum
2 points Porn Sword Tobacco - New Exclusive Olympic Heights
1 points Bonde Do Role - With Lasers
1 points Githead - Art Pop
1 points Booka Shade - DJ Kicks
1 points Souvenir's Young America - An Ocean Without Water

surprised to see no age so far down

I think that means I contributed 12 of the 31 10-pointers. I understand how I could be the only person who voted for both Rotting Christ and Amiina, but the only one who voted for either?! Hmph.

No Little Big Town, No...

...Big Little Town?

Clever.

i didnt vote in this but big ups to you dorks for rating Studio so high.

27 points Sean Price - Jesus Price Superstar

;_;

10 points El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead

this is so sad ^

album is fantastic

61 points Pole - Steingarten

I'm glad to see someone else voted for this too. It's one of the best electronic albums I've heard in ages, and an absolute return to form after the rather boring previous album with rapping. Plus he manages to expand his signature into new and exciting dimensions. Too bad Pole hasn't been trendy for years (if he ever was), so Steingarten was mostly ignored.

y'know out of boredom i was doing an image search of castles last year, stumbled upon neuschwanstein, and decided it was my fave; wiki'd it, talked some b.s. with my girl about visiting etc. THE VERY NEXT DAY p4k reviewed Steingarten, with MY CASTLE plastered all over the cover. I still haven't listened to this, but i probably should.

2 points Dethklok - The Dethalbum

:)

24 points Reverend Bizarre - III: So Long Suckers

Awesome

1 points Souvenir's Young America - An Ocean Without Water
That was me!