(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)

grandfather paradox is the only pick of mine to show up so far. i really like the idea of it, but even more than that how well it works -- and how idiosyncratic it is too, there's some obvious things in there but there's also stuff like cymande and yusef lateef that works and fits but that sort of expands the idea of the minimalist lineage. unmixed disc is great too.

40 -- El Perro Del Mar - Love Is Not Pop (104.5 points, 8 votes, 2 #1 vote/s) (dnp in p4k, 1558 in p&j)

http://evilmonito.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/el-perro-del-mar-love-is-not-pop.jpg

huh

awesome! but wrong cover!

(my #1)

lol i hope that means meanderthals is higher

oh...then someone else please post the right one, I just google them and use the first ones that show up

http://trimaran.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/el-perro.jpg

pretty album but still want her to expand her songs more

I've edited the message to put the right album cover there. I really love that El Perro Del Mar album incidentally, gorgeous stuff... the soundtrack to the early summer for me.

Not sure how much of an intersect there is between Girls fans and Animal Collectors.

― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Thursday, February 11, 2010 9:17 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

about 40% of P&J's Girls voters also voted for AC:
https://pub.needlebase.com/actions/visualizer/V2Visualizer.do?domain=Pazz-Jop-2009&query=Top-10+Voter+Overlap

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.

haha it really is dope early morning music and "seamless" is a good way to describe it. and while its okay mood music i do think the mix has a clarity and tension that really rewards close listening.

v interested in el perro del mar

hated the production on that camera obscura album--way too much reverb and soft-focus orchestration that makes it sound like no actual instruments are being played.

I really liked the production for much the same reason.

kinda fitting that the ilx equivalent of GAPDY is FAPDY

those Studio guys are like catnip for ILX. I voted for El Perro Del Mar.

Not heard it at all, feel free to YouTube like devils.

the lou reed cover is v good!

about 40% of P&J's Girls voters also voted for AC

Intersting. They've obviously got lots in common, but that Girls stuff just seems to pale in comparison to MPP in terms of ambition and imagination.

39 -- Meanderthals - Desire Lines (104.5 points, 9 votes) (dnp in p4k, 877 in p&j)

http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/5451/jjno2.jpg

haha

crossing my fingers for jj at #38

X-post regarding nicely packaged albums (I just finished skimming through the thread) - I was struck by the packaging for the last Hacride and UFOmammut albums. Not only the cover art, but these special jewel cases with rounded corners that seem extra sturdy.

UFOmammut albums also cost 50 euros though, so fuck that.

about 40% of P&J's Girls voters also voted for AC

What about the other way around?

way more people voted for AC, so only about 16% of that number

xxpost - Some of their albums are hard to get and are pricey for sure, but Idolum was about £12/$17 when I got it. It might be a bit more, but not 50 euros!

Meanderthals! The third of my votes to place. Best album falling under the balearic umbrella by miles for me; for a good while it was my default first-thing-in-the-morning album, I associate it really strongly with black coffee and the morning papers and catching up on the internet and the world.

black coffee and the morning papers and catching up on the internet and the world

so not balearic

would be cool if someone could fix the image again too, just for posterity

yeah. it's a great cover as well.

black coffee and the morning papers and catching up on the internet and the world

so not balearic

pretty sure balearic is now just about workaday office folk trying to escape the daily routine with visions of beaches et all

<3 meanderthals

balearic is dreaming of the beach when youre already sleeping on the beach

Black coffee is totally balearic

Black coffee may be the least Balearic substance I can think of. Except possibly cocaine.

Black coffee in the hot sun is crazy business.

38 -- JJ – jj n° 2 (104.5 points, 9 votes, 1 #1 vote/s) (35 in p4k, 105 in p&j)

http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/3766/68967959.jpg

really really happy about Grandfather Paradox, El Perro Del Mar, and Meanderthals! :D

really irritated about the posting of the JJ cover under Meanderthals, JJ fucking blows (xpost, ha)

all the same these Scando bands

three of mine in a row

Musically, you have some image madness going on!

Mungolian Jet Set next?

maybe Royksopp

based on these last placings i'd bet mungolian jet set makes it on this list

strange, i have no idea what this was about:

awesome! but wrong cover!

― psychgawsple, Thursday, February 11, 2010 11:15 AM (1 hour ago)

yet after that every cover has been wrong

^ well it was changed shortly after my post

^^the El Perro was wrong originally but a mod fixed it xp

Scandinavian gremlins afoot

oh i see, my b

L&P II is the other scando-balearo-disco that'll def make it, idk about MJS

really don't see the appeal of jj tbh. i was way disappointed.

saaaaaame here^

i just thought it was silly twee-ish crap, worse than the tough alliance which i actually liked when in the mood for it