(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)

yea that sleeve is nothing special imo. maybe if you're into cars?

someone should do an album covers of the year poll

35 -- The Mountain Goats - The Life Of The World To Come (110.5 points, 10 votes) (45 in p4k, 80 in p&j)

http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/3518/333wh.jpg

one of the worst album covers i've seen.
a muscle car? ok.. neko perched on top of it? ehh.. she's holding a sword? uhh.. corny indie-as-fuck handwritten lettering?? RAGE!! xpost

J0hn D.'s #1?

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well considering it didn't have a #1 vote, no

(joke post)

good joke

I know right?

ilxor FAIL

cover reminds me of SY's Sister.

Cover reminds me of the Bauhaus BBC Sessions disc.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NDpJQZYRMD8/Sp_44mheVhI/AAAAAAAAA6w/kVnZqJFv6oc/s320/bbc+cover.jpg

also broadcast - haha sound

I love this Mountain Goats album - it was the one that converted me from an admirer to a fan. The production on this is top notch, and J0hn's control of his voice has only improved with time. The most played album in my house the last few months.

it was a bit outside my top 20 but def a good album and worthy choice

Great, great record.

34 -- Lady Gaga - The Fame Monster (111.5 points, 10 votes) (dnp in p4k, 31 in p&j)

http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/218/ladygagathefamemonstery.jpg

voted for gaga

makes me think all pop albums should be 8 songs long; it's such a perfect stream of bangers

Likewise.

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it was pretty weird how they released 'the fame monster' i guess they were in an equally envious/unenvious position

nothin i voted for yet

I think The Mountain Goats might be the only thing on my ballot that will show up.

33 -- Mariah Carey - Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel (112 points, 8 votes) (dnp in p4k, 332 in p&j)

http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/7013/memoirsofanimperfectangz.jpg

i did not vote for the fame monster but i really like it, or the first four songs at least. literally just played my personalized mini-EP

xps

we're already at #33? sheesh

the mariah album is like a shower of feathers

a peacock?

what an remarkably boring album

everytime i think the results cant get worse ILM reaches a new low.

Nothing useful to say here.

Is it me or is that album title as wonky as hell?

Nobody looks that high on the cover to notice

Mariah's always been wonky!

People just voting for anything Terius related, and this one's grasping at straws.

Yeah, pretty much. I reserved my votes for his two more deserving projects.

everytime i think the results cant get worse ILM reaches a new low.

― Pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, February 11, 2010 3:17 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

so much worse than 08.

wow i really didn't expect mariah to place - very happy it did - i don't think either emancipation or e=mc2 did, and they were both much more commercial, immediate, pop-friendly affairs, whereas this one may as well be subtitled "strictly for mariah fans". maybe the-dream's involvement pulled some on board? i think it's a really great, satisfying album; mariah's ability to deliver real talk seems to be oddly correlated to her willingness to deliver self-parody; almost as if the more of a cartoon of herself she is, the more intimate and honest she sounds. also, she's fucking funny throughout, and the-dream coming over all restrained and velvet-pillows-of-layered-vocals on us is very effective. "shower of feathers" about covers it.

jj - was disappointed by, there's wispy, drifting balearica that compels you to return to it (meanderthals) and then there's wispy balearica that drifts through you completely. b'ring.

gave neko case a good try as i really love her voice, if not always her songs, but nothing stuck with me; it's not a patch on blacklisted imo. still, great voice.

um, Mariah is fucking awesome, losers.

nb i am not going to defend the mariah album cover

Hopefully some good stuff to come. Last year I discovered a few really good albums I hadnt heard because of the poll and quite a few things I liked charted too. But Baroness & Neko Case are the only ones so far.

Mind you, some peoples worst poll results are someones best poll ever.

People just voting for anything Terius related, and this one's grasping at straws.

bullshit, some of us were voting for mariah albums way before she met terius - and yes she is and always has been awesome, LOSERS

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_big_are_mariah_carey's_breasts

um, Mariah is fucking awesome, losers.

― autotuna fish (Tape Store), Thursday, February 11, 2010 3:23 PM Bookmark

Hey, I liked her two previous albums, but a spade is a spade.

this is for real, for real
oprah winfrey whole segment for real, for real

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_POWkL_J-Y

and no superglue can fix this shhh - when i break, i break, i break
not even a welder and a builder can rebuild this shhh - when i break, i break, i break
not even a nail technician with a whole lotta gel and acrylic can fix this shhh - when i break, i break
if we were two lego blocks, even the harvard university graduating class of 2010 couldn't put us back together again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i7GEMQC2IY

that neko placing is just about right - it's a nice album but really drags toward the end. def support her though

pleased that mariah placed and look forward to more people who don't listen to r&b commenting negatively on it

rev not included obv

did neko case ever do anything as good as twist the knife? tuned out after that

if we were two lego blocks, even the harvard university graduating class of 2010 couldn't put us back together again

::BARF::

fucking chatty cathy doll of an album