ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2012

77. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Centipede Hz (204 Points, 8 Votes, 1 First Place Vote)
76. JEREMIH Late Nights With Jeremih (206 Points, 10 Votes)
75. BIGBANG Alive EP (210 Points, 6 Votes, 1 First Place Vote)
74. DAPHNI Jiaolong (213 Points, 9 Votes)
73. TWIN SHADOW Confess (214 Points, 8 Votes)
72. VATICAN SHADOW Ghosts of Chechnya (216 Points, 7 Votes)
71. NITE JEWEL One Second of Love (216 Points, 8 Votes)
70. LONE Galaxy Garden (216 Points, 9 Votes)
69. NINA KRAVIZ Nina Kraviz (218 Points, 7 Votes, 1 First Place Vote)
68. METZ Metz (219 Points, 10 Votes)
67. GUNPLAY Bogota Rich: The Prequel (220 Points, 9 Votes)
66. KATY B Danger EP (223 Points, 8 Votes)
65. LOWER DENS Nootropics (227 Points, 7 Votes)
64. ACTION BRONSON & PARTY SUPPLIES Blue Chips (230 Points, 7 Votes)
63. CHRISTIAN MISTRESS Possession (232 Points, 8 Votes)
62. GRIZZLY BEAR Shields (233 Points, 8 Votes)
61. LAUREL HALO Quarantine (246 Points, 8 Votes)

60. DIRTY PROJECTORS Swing Lo Magellan (254 Points, 8 Votes)
59. SHACKLETON Music for the Quiet Hour/The Drawbar Organ EPs (258 Points, 7 Votes, 3 First Place Votes)
58. CHIEF KEEF Finally Rich (262 Points, 10 Votes)
57. SILENT SERVANT Negative Fascination (277 Points, 11 Votes)
56. RICARDO VILLALOBOS Dependent and Happy (278 Points, 8 Votes)
55. ORBITAL Wonky (278 Points, 11 Votes)
54. COOLY G Playin' Me (282 Points, 11 Votes)
53. JAPANDROIDS Celebration Rock (290 Points, 11 Votes)
52. CONVERGE All We Love We Leave Behind (296 Points, 10 Votes, 1 First Place Vote)
51. SUN ARAW & M. GEDDES GENGRAS MEET THE CONGOS Icon Give Thank (298 Points, 12 Votes)
50. NIKI & THE DOVE Instinct (306 Points, 9 Votes, 2 First Place Votes)
49. DEATH GRIPS The Money Store (307 Points, 12 Votes)
48. CLOUD NOTHINGS Attack on Memory (314 Points, 13 Votes)
47. FRANKIE ROSE Interstellar (316 Points, 12 Votes)
46. PURITY RING Shrines (320 Points, 11 Votes, 2 First Place Votes)
45. BAT FOR LASHES The Haunted Man (329 Points, 13 Votes)
44. BEAK> ">>" (332 Points, 13 Votes, 1 First Place Vote)
43. ARIEL PINK'S HAUNTED GRAFFITI Mature Themes (334 Points, 12 Votes)
42. KILLER MIKE R.A.P. Music (345 Points, 14 Votes)
41. THE XX Coexist (352 Points, 14 Votes)

40. WILD NOTHING Nocturne (357 Points, 12 Votes, 1 First Place Vote)
39. NICKI MINAJ Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded (362 Points, 13 Votes)
38. THE MOUNTAIN GOATS Transcendental Youth (368 Points, 13 Votes)
37. ANGEL HAZE Reservation (381 Points, 14 Votes)
36. CHAIRLIFT Something (382 Points, 14 Votes, 1 First Place Vote)
35. LANA DEL REY Born to Die (392 Points, 11 Votes)
34. LE1F Dark York (396 Points, 12 Votes, 1 First Place Vote)
33. NENEH CHERRY & THE THING The Cherry Thing (396 Points, 13 Votes)
32. VOICES FROM THE LAKE Voices From the Lake (419 Points, 17 Votes, 2 First Place Votes)
31. SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS Ghostory (422 Points, 14 Votes)
30. TAME IMPALA Lonerism (426 Points, 15 Votes, 2 First Place Votes)
29. MUNGOLIAN JETSET Mungodelics (428 Points, 15 Votes)
28. IAMAMIWHOAMI Kin (430 Points, 13 Votes, 2 First Place Votes)
27. SAINT ETIENNE Words & Music By Saint Etienne (434 Points, 12 Votes, 4 First Place Votes)
26. HOT CHIP In Our Heads (457 Points, 14 Votes)
25. BEACH HOUSE Bloom (470 Points, 20 Votes, 1 First Place Vote)
24. ACTRESS R.I.P (473 Points, 17 Votes, 1 First Place Vote)
23. BURIAL Kindred EP (479 Points, 16 Votes, 1 First Place Vote)
22. JULIA HOLTER Ekstasis (503 Points, 18 Votes, 1 First Place Vote)
21. GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! (510 Points, 19 Votes)

20. TODD TERJE It's the Arps EP (530 Points, 15 Votes, 1 First Place Vote)
19. FIONA APPLE The Idler Wheel (608 Points, 17 Votes, 1 First Place Vote)
18. BLONDES Blondes (634 Points, 25 Votes)
17. CARLY RAE JEPSEN Kiss (635 Points, 20 Votes, 4 First Place Votes)
16. SCOTT WALKER Bish Bosch (636 Points, 18 Votes, 4 First Place Votes)
15. FARRAH ABRAHAM My Teenage Dream Ended (652 Points, 21 Votes, 2 First Place Votes)
14. FUTURE Pluto (678 Points, 20 Votes, 2 First Place Votes)
13. LINDSTRØM Smalhans (710 Points, 24 Votes, 2 First Place Votes)
12. ANDY STOTT Luxury Problems (713 Points, 25 Votes)
11. SWANS The Seer (718 Points, 21 Votes, 4 First Place Votes)
10. GOAT World Music (736 Points, 21 Votes, 1 First Place Vote)
09. FRANK OCEAN Channel Orange (757 Points, 27 Votes, 3 First Place Votes)
08. JESSIE WARE Devotion (791 Points, 26 Votes, 1 First Place Vote)
07. CHROMATICS Kill For Love (882 Points, 26 Votes, 1 First Place Vote)
06. TAYLOR SWIFT Red (943 Points, 28 Votes, 2 First Place Votes)
05. GRIMES Visions (1057 Points, 33 Votes, 1 First Place Vote)
04. DAWN RICHARD Armor On (1174 Points, 31 Votes, 3 First Place Votes)
03. JOHN TALABOT ƒin (1218 Points, 38 Votes)
02. KENDRICK LAMAR Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City (1293 Points, 40 Votes, 5 First Place Votes)
01. MIGUEL Kaleidoscope Dream (1909 Points, 51 Votes, 7 First Place Votes)

Thanks, JF and J0rdan and seandadata. Smooth as ever. Now, I'd better go listen to Miguel, huh?

Well looks like Grizzly Bear got shafted

so Anco finished #77 w/ one first-place vote, and Talabot finishes #3 with none.

finished/finishes #writing!

i think KD is the best album of the first third of the decade (although something may blow it away prior to may 1st).

Yeah images looked great! Ace job JF, seandalai and ilm for a fantastic countdown. What I thought was a bit lacklustre year actually looks top notch all ganged up in that recap.

whoa miggy's average points per vote is like 38, #1 votes are 40 right?

50 i thought

Full results: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AumbddEHET5xdFVGakxIeG1NMzVfcDR1cVJoNC1Ybnc

I'll put the stats thread up in a minute.

Hurrah for Miguel! Was in the lower half of my ballot (alongside Dawn Richard and John Talabot and Chromatics) but I can definitely get behind it as the consensus #1.

xp #1 vote gives 50 points

oh ok i think it was 40 at one point in the past, that would be less crazy

Great work, pollrunners. Awesome choice for #1 too.

Armor On had the highest average points/vote in the top 77, Kaleidoscope Dream had the 2nd highest average.

78 Trust - TRST

OH FUCK ALL OF YOU

OMFGGGGG Shanell actually almost made it!!!!!!!!!!

I should've just bumped that highe rup my ballot, aghhhh

wow baroness at #82

if I had flipped Trust and Killer Mike, I could have kept Animal Collective out of the countdown

DAMMIT DAMMIT DAMMIT DAMMIT DAMMIT

ooooh 6 organs at 80!! that smarts!!

if we had banned EPs...

J-Fo #99
cracking the top 100 ain't bad
after Ke$ha, that's bad

2 of my top 5 (Baroness, DIIV) finished between 78 and 86. (i didn't vote in this.)

loved that Mirrorring album too (85)

Elle Varner also. Those two (Elle and Shanell) were both great late in the year releases. Sigh.

ha is the meek mill album at #218 the one that people still thought might show up in the top 15?

all these album covers we could have seen in grayscale ;_;

oh my god I didn't even notice Elle Varner at #79

ARGH

2012 Albums Poll Afterparty of Stats, Ballots and Differential Calculus

Haha miguel got 51'd

my #1 album came in at 205 :(

no Clockwork Angels in top 77 :'(

1-page display for all the images: http://imgur.com/a/Ev1kI

If you guys want to look at the albums in color, I made an appendix imgur gallery. Only up to #51 so far. I'll do the rest after lunch:

http://imgur.com/a/HGHgu

― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Tuesday, January 29, 2013 9:20 AM (2 days ago)

polyphonic come back!!

These lists are always great. I didn't engage much with music this year for various reasons so I'm looking forward to going through this. Had I been registered/voted in this the cherry thing would've been my #1, just an incredible album (when was the last time a jazz album placed in this poll btw?)

The B/W covers work really well when they're lined up like that.

polyphonic come back!!

Sure, I'll get em after lunch.

i know u guys think i don't care abt contemporary music, but i am gonna run right out and buy #38 and 53.

Big Boi #1 in 2010, #597 in 2012, now that's what I call a fall from grace.

his album this year was okay at best

so was his album in 2010

oh hell no, I love the shit out of Sir Lucious Left Foot

couple of keepers but way too uneven for me

I still regularly play "Daddy Fat Sax', "General Patton", "Back-Up Plan" and "Tangerine"

last one was really good, new one was really really bad

This Top 10 utterly blows away the idea of 'tasteful' or 'dinner party music' as pejoratives.

So otm. Kendrick was my #1 but Miguel wasn't far behind. It's like Kaputt never happened. Poor Bobby Womack, Leonard Cohen and Mark Lanegan though - all on my ballot, all way way down on the list. It's no country for old men. (Well, unless you're Scott Walker or Michael Gira)

Thanks to the poll-runners.

the big boi album did come out in december...though actually that's no excuse given that scott walker and even katy b with her four (4) songs placed off the back of dec releases

thx to all poll-runners, yes!

Using ILX as a post-it note, before today here is what I feel like checking:

57. SILENT SERVANT Negative Fascination (277 Points, 11 Votes)
56. RICARDO VILLALOBOS Dependent and Happy (278 Points, 8 Votes)
32. VOICES FROM THE LAKE Voices From the Lake (419 Points, 17 Votes, 2 First Place Votes)
24. ACTRESS R.I.P (473 Points, 17 Votes, 1 First Place Vote)

^ to make-up for the lack of bobbins in the tracks poll of course.

There are a lot of great albums on there with just one vote to their name, wtf people!

Poor Bobby Womack, Leonard Cohen and Mark Lanegan though - all on my ballot, all way way down on the list. It's no country for old men. (Well, unless you're Scott Walker or Michael Gira)

You forgot Dylan :)

I dunno what dinner parties you guys attend.

it's true that if someone put on Grimes at a dinner party I would take the entire pot of ramen and throw it out the window