(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)

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?

I like that Shabazz Palaces track, and the video

grizzly bear is OKAY but pretty much just OKAY based on the two albums i heard. not sure i see why i should care more than i do which means you don't get near my top hundred.

I haven't checked this site in awhile and I come back and people are still freaking out about how much they hate grizzly bear. Get over it! Major hive mentality round these parts.
On a side note that Matias Aguayo album is great. Really great.

I haven't checked this site in awhile and I come back and people are still freaking out about how much they hate grizzly bear. Get over it! Major hive mentality round these parts.

lol

have barely heard much by any of the GAPDY bands but G is i guess the most meat and potatoes indie rock band of the bunch, right? no crazy noise or dance beats or synths or whatever to redeem them as 'forward-thinking' or 'eclectic' or w/e? i always figured that's why they were the easy target out of the bunch.

I agree, most conventional in terms of g/b/d format, but not in the way the songs are structured, which I think is very complex, certainly more than Phoenix or Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Also more sedate and somber, which I think puts some people off.

basically all of grizz bear's reference points are pre-'75 so they seem square

I think I was the person who nom'd Fall Out Boy and obv I voted for it. I bought the album in January 2009. I guess I'm dated given so many people already hated the album in December 2008.

tbf some of them probably hated it before it came out.

regardless of the 'preachy' aspect of the mix (which has been overstated on ilx imo) this is a well-mixed, amazing collection of music

yeah, i did enjoy the grandfather paradox, but it did seem that angle got it a lot more attention compared to say, dixon's own temporary secretary mix, which i thought was way superior

It got more attention because it had Heinrik Schwarz's name on it, that probably helped. He looms pretty large over Innervisions.

grandfather paradox didn't really do much for me to begin with cos i was trying to listen to it like a dance mix, which it isn't, but over the year it impressed me more and more with the way it builds and sustains a mood and just the seamless seamless flow of it. it became my default hangover music for a while - high praise imo.

So what exactly is on Grandfather Paradox?

CD1: Mixed
01. Steve Reich & Pat Metheny - Electric Counterpoint - Fast (Movement 3)
02. Etienne Jaumet - Repeat After Me (Âme Mix)
03. Kenneth Bager - Fragment Eleven… The Day After Yesterday Pt.1
04. Liquid Liquid - Lock Groove (Out)
05. Cymande - For Baby Oh
06. Patrick Moraz - Metamorphoses 1st Movement (Live)
07. To Rococo Rot - Testfeld
08. Mathematics - Blue Water
09. I:Cube - Acid Tablet
10. Ø - Atomit
11. Conrad Schnitzler - Electrocon 11
12. Green Pickles feat. Billy Lo & M. Pittman - Feedback
13. La Funk Mob - Motor Bass Gets Phunked Up (Richie Hawtin's Electrophunk Mix)
14. John Carpenter - The President Is Gone
15. Yusef Lateef - The Three Faces Of Bala
16. Robert Hood - Minus
17. Raymond Scott - Bass-Line Generator
18. Moondog - Invocation

CD2: Unmixed
01. Conrad Schnitzler - Elektrocon 11
02. Steve Reich & Pat Metheny - Electric Counterpoint - Fast (Movement 3)
03. Liquid Liquid - Lock Groove (Out)
04. To Rococo Rot - Testfeld
05. Patrick Moraz - Metamorphoses 1st Movement (Live)
06. Young Marble Giants - N.i.t.a
07. Kenneth Bager - Fragment Eleven… The Day After Yesterday Pt.1
08. Arthur Russell - Make 1, 2
09. John Carpenter - The President Is Gone
10. Robert Hood - Minus
11. Raymond Scott - Bass-Line Generator
12. Pyrolator - November Mühlheim
13. Cymande - For Baby Oh
14. Can - Sunday Jam

Oh thanks - that looks great

I just got this... its lovely so far.