ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2012

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

Thanks Johnny.

hasn't there already been a grimes at dinner parties debate this year?

there's always an "[artist x] at dinner parties" debate, it's kind of at the point where I want invite ppl over for food and then put on "Ventolin" on endless repeat

people always act like coffee table dinner party album is such a lol strawman but grimes was for really realsies the undesired faint background muzak to so very much of my illstarred 2012

― r|t|c, Tuesday, January 22, 2013 8:12 PM (1 week ago)

grimes is dope fu(gently)iud

like anyone on ilx is ever invited to any dinner parties

not if they keep putting on Grimes

I want to be invited to SWANS dinner party.

I go to lots of dinner parties but there's never any music on

Raakost - raw vegetables
Lammelaar - dried salted lamb meat
Eggedosis - what you get when you mix eggs and sugar with a blender
Vossakorv - a sheep-sausage made in Voss
Faarikaal - lamb with cabbag
Vafler - waffles

― with perhaps the exception of r-r-r-r-rhythm (Sanpaku), Thursday, January 31, 2013 6:31 AM (4 hours ago)

I heard Slayer and fucking Erasure at the last one.

"Ventolin" dinner party is the best idea ever. 5 different types of cornbread, no beverages.

last dinner party i had involved some old folklyric trad mexican music lps

i would invite grimes to a dinner party, she'd probably be entertaining

i'd invite most of these artists to a dinner party, even the ones whose music i wouldn't allow in the house

i <3 dinner parties

enjoy entertaining Chief Keef

I heard Slayer and fucking Erasure at the last one.

― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, January 31, 2013 8:57 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Sounds like my kinda party! :D

I hope it was Slayer doing "Oh L'Amour" and Erasure doing "Reign In Blood"

Yeah, bit of a missed opportunity for Erasure's covers album, that.

anco and ariel pink certainly come lower than keef in terms of artists i would want at my table

Going back to Miguel, we've been arguing about indie R&B for over a year and then here's this album that's almost as much classic rock as it is modern R&B showing up at the top to near universal delight. Like while lesser artists (especially from the rock side) would just awkwardly cut-and-shunt elements of the two together Miguel does it by understanding what the two genres have in common and building out from there.

::"i don't like"/picky eater joke::

I'd invite Scott Walker to my dinner party as long as he promised not to do any le pétomane shit. I'd serve pork obv

Scott Walker seems like a dude. He'd definitely be invited to my hypothetical dinner party. As long as he didn't mind just eating takeaway pizza.

Ariel Pink would be incredibly low on my dinner party guestlist, and I like the guy's music for the most part. He's a massive bellend.

lol gr8080

what's the deal w/ariel pink as a person, did i miss something egregious in '12?

this: http://thequietus.com/articles/10133-ariel-pink-beta-male-misogyny

specifically, this quote: "beta males have got it figured out so that they don't have to chase or rape their prey, so to speak"

Bisexual shaming, trans* shaming, misogyny. Even if it was playing up to a character/trolling, it's a shitty level of discourse, and he's a dick.

xps

answering my own question: a bit of research reveals that the last time any jazz made the list was 2007, when both ornette coleman & ayelet rose gottlieb placed. Doesn't seem to happen often though.

All the more impressive in 2007, when the rollout only consisted of 50 albums.

Honest question from someone who doesn't spend much time with mainstream music:

My impression is that critically acclaimed R&B stuff (i.e. stuff that placed in this poll) tends to be fairly commercially successful as well. Is that accurate?

Miguel, yes. Dawn Richard, not so much.

none of the r&b acts in the top 10 have had a uk top 40 hit

UK Top 40 blows

wow, ariel pink...

miguel has obv had huge commercial success in the US (but not on the hot 100, iirc?)
dunno if frank's had a breakout single but i gather the album has done well
same for jessie
dawn is doing her solo career with a team of 5 people and a budget of $5

Alright, everybody...let's meet back here in a little less than 11 months and do this again. Also, find me good shit to listen to/vote for, because I've apparently grown lazy.

"Adorn" hit Top 20 in America.

none of the r&b acts in the top 10 have had a uk top 40 hit

this is crackers

Jessie Ware's biggest UK single is Wildest Moments at #46. Frank's is Lost at #53. Adorn reached #176! I just find that unfathomable.

no church in the wild got to 32, but yeah it doesn't really count.