***What's that coming over the hill? It's the 2006 ILX ALBUMS POLL RESULTS***

Woohoo! Neither TV on the Radio nor Ys are number 1! Go ILX! (Of course, this invariably means that bloody Hold Steady album is gonna be #1. Bummer.)

^Bummer indeed.

Just because you said that, I'll do one more...

10. Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
(123 points, 8 votes, 2 number ones)

http://ilx2006music.googlepages.com/boysandgirls.jpg

THANK GOD.

barf city. boner city.
oh ilm how did you come to this
OTM

It's not just ILM. The marketplace is too fractured, which means that the critical consensus is weaker now than ever in the last five years. It's not that there isn't great music; it's that none of us can agree on what it is (thanks, popism!)

So, what album(s) are you gripers actually rooting for?

http://www.undercover.com.au/pics/countingcrows4_040303.jpg
#10? ILM, how ccoouuulld youuuuuu??

Boo @ Google's bandwidth cap. No more pretty pictures, at least for a few days :(

And now they are back! Okay, from now on don't click on this thread unless ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY.

Was there a 2005 album poll? I can't find it on the search anywhere - anyone care to provide the link?

musically, you can also get album cover images from rateyourmusic.com with BBCode that works on Ilxor

I'm surprised Furtado came in ahead of Beyonce.

Still to come....

Ghostface
Timberlake
Clipse
The Knife
Hot Chip
LCD?
Belle & Sebastian?
CSS?

Help me out here. I'm lost.

lily allen?

booka shade?

Okay, I will finish this tomorrow; I really wanted to finish it today but I am swamped!

Junior Boys?

Here we go...

9. Lily Allen - Alright, Still
(129 points, 12 votes)

http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z56/ilx2006poll/albums/alright.jpg

Thoughts?

8. Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
(141 points, 14 votes, 2 number ones)

http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z56/ilx2006poll/albums/thelife.jpg

[quote]The Life Pursuit is their best in a long time. Consistently catchy songs.
-Matt Olken

the album is a majestic and ironically muscular masterpiece.
-Algy Watts[/quote

I'm wondering if you shouldn't finish this on Monday as there will be more people around.

You know what sucks? BBCode. I can do HTML in my sleep but this nonsense makes me weep tears of blood.

THOUGHTS:

10. YUCK
9. YUCK
8. YUCK

ok throw 11-14 in there is YUCK too

ilm you depress me with your awful taste

I still don't get the Hold Steady. The songs are generic, the vocals are really shitty and it tries way too hard to be hip.

Lex, you don't like Girl Talk?!

I was thinking about that, but if you look at the posts about 99% of the posts made by others come after I post all the results for the day. Between 20-11 there was only one comment made, so I figure I'll just post them now and people can just reflect on the results later, which is what seems have been going on so far.

the singles list is much much much better than this despite my gripes - i think the majority of it is at least ok. there are only a handful of decent albums on this list at all!

xp NO I HATE GIRL TALK THEY MASH LOVELY AALIYAH UP WITH HORRID INDIE

7. LCD Soundsystem - 45:33
(149 points, 12 votes)

http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z56/ilx2006poll/albums/4533.jpg

This should be higher on the list but it's physically impossible for me to run longer than thirty minutes.
-The Macallan 18 Year

my orig reaction to the girl talk album is on http://www.ilxor.com:8080/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=54101

it was "i think i need to go and vomit a little now"

There's no Aaliyah in Girl Talk, and not really that much indie.

6. Hot Chip - The Warning
(149 points, 12 votes, 1 number one)

http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z56/ilx2006poll/albums/thewarning.jpg

Christ almighty is this ever good. I really didn't like Coming On Strong, but this one's just so breathtakingly easy to listen to that it's almost alarming. Maybe they beefed up the low end? I remember Coming On Strong sounding kinda artlessly chintzy, like they were sufficiently satisfied with making a blindingly ahead-of-the-curve R&B album that they didn't bother to make a GOOD blindingly ahead-of-the-etc., but this is just relentlessly dance-y. And WOW does "Over & Over" trump anything on the first album.
-James.Cobo

yes i recall that the possibility of aaliyah was just used to tease me, but christ the rest of it sounds just as disgusting.

hot chip: all the remixes are awesome and they are great live! the album simply can't live up to either of those things

Hot Chip are way more boring than they should be.

i'm concerned that lily allen needs to stick her tongue out in most pictures of her.

xpost: hot chip are dull. full stop.

I always think it's more like he mashes up the Four Stairsteps with Three 6 Mafia with Ciara with James Taylor.

5. Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds
(151.5 points, 13 votes, 2 number ones)

http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z56/ilx2006poll/albums/futuresex.jpg

Ok, my reaction to "Justified":
Man, this is pretty great, the Neptunes rule, I want to hug JT

My reaction to "FutureSex/LoveSounds":
God, this is really amazing, Timbaland is today's best producer, I want to make out with JT, take him up to the bedroom, etc.

What makes "FS/LS" so great is its consistency. Rather than setting out to make a few great singles, Justin really tried to create a great pop-forward album. With the help of Timbaland, he succeeded. From the steamy title track to "My Love," FS/LS is, to lift a phrase from Paris Hilton, really fucking hot.
-Tape Store

Yeah, that's more like it.

(x-post. well, not x-post, too)

"Losing My Way" cannot be described as being "really fucking hot" but it is oddly my favourite song on FS/LS.

4. Junior Boys - So this is Goodbye
(154 points, 17 votes, 1 number one)

http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z56/ilx2006poll/albums/sothisis.jpg

Other ILXors said...

After several weeks of finding this pleasant but slightly underwhelming, it all slotted into place perfectly at the weekend. Now I think it's better the first album, certainly more consistent (and Like A Child and FM are easily the equal of Teach Me How To Fight and Last Exit).

A couple of things really strike me about it. The first is that it initially seems so similar to Last Exit in mood and tone, but on closer listening they're constructed in totally different ways. I like the greater emphasis on loops this time round (and arpeggios, wow!), the way you can follow a thread through a song while barely listening to the vocals or the main melody. I can envisage some remixes of So This Is Goodbye, Double Shadow or The Equaliser that would sound amazing in the middle of a really hypnotic minimal set.

The second is that the removal of the Johnny Dark rhythmic tricksiness has left other elements of the sound to blossom. This is every bit as complex and detailed a record as Last Exit, possibly more so. It's not really the rhythms as such (and it's not exactly rhythmnically simple). It's the meticulous attention to detail that's been given to the tone and timbre of every sound. No note that's held for more than a fraction of a beat sounds the same from start to finish - especially on When No One Cares, which consists of little other than these big open chords, but virtually every single one of them sounds different. There's so much depth and subtlety of texture there that only really hit me when I listened to it very loud on headphones.

Also, the swell two third of the way through Like A Child sends a shiver down my spine like no other moment in music this year.
-Matt DC

ilx = camp 2007 b/w hard drive noises

The Knife are going to win this, aren't they?

3. Clipse - Hath No Fury
(188 points, 17 votes)

http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z56/ilx2006poll/albums/hell.jpg

Thoughts?

The Knife? Please no.

Clipse seven places ahead of The Hold Steady: please close ILX down now.

2. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale

(195.5 points, 14 votes, 3 number ones)

http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z56/ilx2006poll/albums/fishscale.jpg

Other ILXors said...

good album for a sluggish late summer - hot, humid, drunk
-Lukas

I think I'm spending more time with it paused so I can do happy dances around my house without missing anything than actual listening.
-The Reverend

omg this is the moment you have all been waiting four months and 12 days for!

1. Westlife - The Love Album
(196 points, 16 votes, 5 number ones)

http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z56/ilx2006poll/albums/lovealbum.jpg

Other ILXors said...

They are definetely talented shane has a great voice and well mark is incredible in every song just breathtaking. some good song choises some not that much
the rose is without a douth the best song of the album perfect choise for the firts single
easy is another great effort ,total eclipse of the heart is very good but compared with the original lacks passion
all or nothing is very well done and if you like westlife you surely will enjoy it
also You Light Up My Life songs great one of my fabourites
All Out of Love (feat. Delta Goodrem) nicee song but something dosn't work there i love delta's voice but it just dosn't work well with the westlife guys
so finally if you are a westlife or a true romantic this one is a no brainer this album if for you
-Paul Edward Wagemann

Wow. I can't believe I said that. Awesome, though. (xposts)

Yep, the Knife it is.