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

I've heard the whole of Plant & Krauss. None o'teh others, tho.

As perusual I've only even heard of about three.

i've heard amy winehouse, plant/krauss (never actually bought this, really should), and deerhoof so far.

I've heard seven of these all the way through.

and most of plant/krauss, von sudenfed, electrelane, AC

heard five... possibly six, can't remember about Electrelane 'cos got so stuck on Saturday rest of the record paled beside it, great song.

heard 4: Rihanna, Winehouse, LCD, Stripes

29. UGK - Underground Kingz (98 points, 8 votes, 1 number one vote)

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Up until December 4, 2007, Underground Kingz symbolized what was arguably UGK’s best year ever. The album, though not their best, made them chart-toppers for the first time and helped them become the feel good story in a year that again featured a deluge of ones about music’s demise. But on that day in December, founding member Pimp C passed away in a Los Angeles hotel room, and the album became something else: the group’s eulogy.

Fortunately, it’s a fitting one. The best songs are faithful takes on the soulful, organic sound the group helped pioneer and perfect. The worst are, at the very worst, extraneous; though at this point I think we’d call them blessings.
-j0rdan S

1 number one vote

pretty sure this was me.

28. Lil Wayne - Da Drought 3 (102 points, 8 votes)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/19/Da_Drought_3_cover.jpg

More ink and more characters were devoted to Lil Wayne last year than arguably any rapper in the world. He hasn’t released an album since 2005 and, up until this past January, hadn’t released an official single since the summer of 2006. Instead, he’s made his name on the fruits of his insane, and possibly self-destructive, work ethic. Da Drought 3, his sprawling two-disc mixtape, brought him a wider (and whiter) audience, but more importantly was 2007’s best evidence that his work ethic is something we should admire and not worry about. Wayne uses the tape as a place to constantly one-up himself, rolling out enough hilarious pop culture free-associations and weed jokes to provide your favorite frat dude with a year full of Facebook statuses (“Jake is so motherfucking high he could eat a star”; “Randy is a monster, everyday is Halloween”). How you know this tape is deep: the statuses have continued in ’08.
-j0rdan S

27. Miranda Lambert - Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (103 points, 7 votes)

http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/4240/mlambcrazyexgfkd5fj9.jpg

i own 12 of these so far. wow. really really glad to see OM on the list!

i think it's funny that that bootleg ass image of da drought 3 is the one that gets used as a jpg in all of these lists

Yeah, the other one is much classier.

stuff like OM always sounds great when i read about it, and then way boring when i check it out.

26. Alcest - Souvenirs d'un autre monde (103 points, 8 votes, 2 number one votes)

http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/9020/alcestkg2py1.jpg

I feel like music has gotten away from me

what is that

never heard of it.

Me neither, but apparently Shoegazer Metal : Search & Destroy

Wow, mega-showing for Alcest. People really likin' this better than Jesu?

HURRAH FOR ALCEST!!!

Alcest are popular with metal niche on ILM, however that album is more shoegazer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcest

Alcest currently ranked 29th for 2007 albums on rateyourmusic at the mo - so no shock
http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/alcest/souvenirs_dun_autre_monde/

Wow, really surprised about Alcest being so high. Not complaining though...

That's the most surprising entry here, by far...

neige for Alcest has another band AMESOEURS - joy division / the cure meets Life Without Buildings meets shoegazer tinted black metal - check the track Faiblesse Des Sens on myspace

Amesoeurs
http://www.myspace.com/amesoeurs

25. Lily Allen - Alright, Still… (103 points, 9 votes, #9 in 2006)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d6/Alrightstill.jpg

rly>?

I'm finding this list surprisingly interesting so far (in some cases just because of where certain albums are showing up on the list).

Alcest currently ranked 29th for 2007 albums on rateyourmusic at the mo - so no shock
http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/alcest/souvenirs_dun_autre_monde/

-- djmartian, Wednesday, March 5, 2008 4:39 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

Yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing some Porcupine Tree and Pearl Jam show up later.

Rateryourmusic vs. Metacritic uselessness challenge! It's a toss-up.

alcest, nice

Yeah Alcest! One of those number one votes is mine. Absolutely fell in love with this album.

Thanks again Adrien!

i'm not sure why people bother with albums anymore, unless it's to get hold of a particular song. i don't know if that's a good or a bad thing.

24. Robert Wyatt - Comicopera (104 points, 8 votes)

http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/7378/wyattcomicoperacoverwp3pk3.jpg

Because some people enjoy whole albums?
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Awesome, Robert Wyatt made it too!

i've only heard a few of these

considered picking up the alcest but didn't

now i will

Robert Wyatt yesyesyes

23. Blonde Redhead - 23 (105 points, 8 votes)

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hahaha nice!

woo. my second album to make it.

happy to see jens in there. if i'd actually heard the album last year i would have voted for it

This list is rad so far.

this list sucks!

Still waiting for my two noms...

I'm sort of happy that the Alcest record made it, despite never having heard it, heard of it, or held any opinion of it, because I was kinda worried the albums poll would be boringly predictable.

Still Lily Allen at 25 in 2007 = WTF?

Nice one on the Blonde Redhead making it

22. Dizzee Rascal - Maths + English (110 points, 9 votes)

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In which Dizzee 'went pop' in the best manner possible, eschewing the Primark Kanye West stylings and focus-grouped crossover attempts of grime's underachieving former leading lights, and instead delved into the last 15 years of UK High Street sounds. A fresher take on 'just-out-of-fashion' dance music, familiar enough to be easy to latch onto without sounding self-consciously revivalist, Dizzee's sheer force of personality enough to save even the more prosaic tracks from sounding like half-arsed knock-offs.

If it lacks the initial power of Boy In Da Corner, Maths & English serves as a timely reminder that grime didn't just come from nowhere, and possibly presented a few pointers as to where it went wrong. It helped that, for the first nine tracks at least, Maths & English is utterly unstoppable. Kudos as well for giving me the opportunity to shout 'Pussy'ole!' at whoever I happened to be dancing with at the time.
-Matt DC

21. Feist - The Reminder (110 points, 10 votes)

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