(TOP 5 TODAY, MOFOS!) Yo P&J, I'm really happy for you, Imma let you finish, but ILX had the greatest 2009 poll of all time! All time! (2009 ILX Albums Poll Results)

yay NOMO!
It's jammy, weird and wonderful. It's Nomo's new album 'Ghost Rock'

Invisible Cities isn't a quantum leap, but it's very enjoyable.

nomo is like... synth pop + african percussion? or something.

had never even heard of nomo! will try to check out, forks or m@tt what is a good song to get started?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOrNrLCIPug

xp grillz - if it really bothers you just wait til musically posts the big list and replace #50 with #51 etc. imo there's no point getting too literal/pedantic about it, an album that came out a couple weeks before nominations is just as robbed for not showing up on the 08 list as whatever the #51 album is this year.

Not to get, you know, too pedantic, but FaD was preceded by two singles and sold 150,000 copies in its first week, so it's not like it wasn't out there to take notice of. It's not some brand new artist we're talking about here, it's one of the biggest rock bands of the last five years.

Streaming Invisible Cities on Lala via Pitchfork. First few track sounds like spacey jazz-funk with echoes of dub, maybe?

xp I would try the Invisible Cities album Lex.
I saw these guys live on my 30th birthday with Tza and Jon Williams.
good times

spacey jazz funk with dub and afrobeat is not far from it

They're better live but not so much live on tape. Lala is a good call:
http://www.lala.com/#album/2882585238330814678/Nomo/Invisible_Cities

Nu Tones is such a good time. Okay, ahmastop gushing now.

Fucking awesome to see NOMO in there, PS. It was one of my nominees, but I don't remember if I actually voted for it or not...

I'd say start with "Patterns" from this one, "Rings" from Ghost Rock, and "Fourth Ward" and "Reasons" from New Tones.

yay NOMO

I was the #1 for FOB :)

my first thought was actually that they must be really enjoyable live

that was pretty good, i kinda had that "they're talented but i don't know what i'm meant to DO to this" feeling but i like the way they don't let the listener rest on their laurels. i don't think "post-pub drunk" is the ideal situation to hear them in tbh.

xps re nomo

50 -- Gucci Mane - Burrprint 3D (89.5 points, 9 votes) (dnp in p4k, 195 in p&j)
49 -- Matias Aguayo - Ay Ay Ay (91 points, 11 votes) (dnp in p4k, 226 in p&j)
48 -- Girls - Album (92 points, 10 votes) (10 in p4k, 10 in p&j)
47 -- Baroness - Blue Record (92 points, 11 votes) (41 in p4k, 19 in p&j)
46 -- Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career (93 points, 8 votes, 1 #1 vote/s) (dnp in p4k, 30 in p&j)
45 -- Fall Out Boy - Folie a Deux (96 points, 6 votes, 1 #1 vote/s) (dnp in p4k, dnp in p&j)
44 -- UGK - UGK 4 Life (96.5 points, 10 votes) (dnp in p4k, 311 in p&j)
43 -- Henrik Schwarz, Âme and Dixon - The Grandfather Paradox (98 points, 9 votes) (dnp in p4k, 816 in p&j)
42 -- Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest (98.5 points, 10 votes) (6 in p4k, 6 in p&j)
41 -- NOMO - Invisible Cities (101 points, 7 votes) (dnp in p4k, 356 in p&j)

so far UGK is my only vote

i know placement schadenfreude is just the lamest, but I'm awful happy to see NOMO ahead of grizzly bear

Hmm. Didn't vote for Folie a Deux, because I'd been listening to it for a huge chunk of 2008, but it's probably better than at least 50% of my 2009 albums ballot. Curious where we go from here - more stuff I haven't heard/heard of here than on trax.

never even heard of Nomo before but they sound awesome!

if you have an issue with a song/album's nomination, it's more helpful to bring it up during the nomination/voting threads so I can remove it or people can discuss it, there's not much to be done now.

yeah i think i knew every song on the trax list besides maybe 3 or 4 - albums will at least have more stuff to check out for me. 2/10 so far

it's dec 08, i think it flies

http://sites.google.com/site/pnauert/Screenshot2010-02-10at4.31.45PM.png

ha

oh ugh i just looked over my ballot and i gave a high placing vote to an album i completely detest because i got it confused with something else o_O

if "Dark Was the Night" places it is my dumb goddamn fault and i will ban myself from ILM

ha it will not place - i would advocate the bannings of anyone who voted for it if it does, however

banning*

i bought that nomo album but never really got into it that much--something seems kinda overproduced or vibe-sucking about it? i still like their concept tho so it's cool to see them up here.

i was a vecky voter but it was pretty low on my ballot--no ish with it placing in the 40s.

i will listen to the aguayo and ugk records. i think i liked the one aguayo song i heard.

oh and btw just to close the loop on fall out boy/modern rock, i was thinking about it walking back from the indian place where i got takeout and i realized this--from 1996-1999 i basically did nothing but listen to modern rock radio. and it's really hard for me to enjoy stuff from today that would slot into that format, or even basically think about it objectively. like i'm streaming a few of those f.o.b. tracks and they really just sound like nothing to me--i get a really blank feeling.

Why do people keep saying: "look this cover is just like that," and then posting similar covers which really aren't that similar?

I don't know what Shabazz Palaces is, but I want that packaging.

Ignore the stupid thread title, but they are kind of ramshackle undie rap by one of the dudes from Digable Planets. I like them a lot

Shabazz Palaces - Most important musical group/moment in Seattle since Nirvana at OK Hotel?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMZKPaSF0GE

UGK - Da Game Been Good To Me (youtube)

excellent Pimp C hook and coda, aggressive Bun B verse

UGK - Purse Come First (youtube)

some anger, paranoia and political commentary that would fit right in on Goodie Mob's Soul Food. Except with some religious apocrypha thrown in, and a money-over-everything hook apropos of nothing much

Those aren't anywhere near my favorite tracks on that album.

had the youtubes to hand. post 'em.

"da game been good to me" is def a highlight for me - would also recommend "used to be"

from puppy to dog, from tadpole to frog, from PIG TO A MOTHERFUCKIN HOG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1cYtBbv3XA

that shabazz palaces sounds great, what have they released that's worth getting?

yeah "used to be" is a favorite, but it's a pretty even album. i've actually probably played the two interludes, "texas ave" & "7th street" more than anything else

xp

xp: they just have two untitled mini-albums, both of which are god

good*

"she luv it" is my jam on the ugk

"Used to be" is the shit! Gets me so effin pumped, but seriously just about every song is awesome. UGK was my #6.

Aaaand Girls was my #5, probably ruining the goodwill of those who are with me on the UGK.

lol @ justen u_u

although i get the kneejerk anti-corny indie fux hatering

Just to clarify, this may be why *some* folks hate on Grizzly Bear but personally, it's not a "kneejerk" reaction -- I've heard each of their albums as they've come out (gave them a big chance from the start due to the Warp Records association) and I just haven't enjoyed 'em at all -- not kneejerk. It's not an "anti-corny" thing, either -- "corny" is one of the last ways I'd describe GB, if anything they are guilty of being overly serious and boring. And it's not an "indie fux" thing -- I like plenty of stuff that can be classified as "indie," including YYYs and AnCo, two fellow GAPDY bands. Basically I just don't like GB. At all.

lol plenty of people on ilm like grizzly bear - i actually liked their other album. most of the more vocal posters just don't really care one way or another about veckatimest

thread needs less bitching about grizzly bear, more bitching about girls and more talk of the grandfather paradox in general. regardless of the 'preachy' aspect of the mix (which has been overstated on ilx imo) this is a well-mixed, amazing collection of music. thooo i think i might like the unmixed collection even better- for some reason there are great tracks that appear on one disc and not the other?