(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)

what i had no idea broadcast released anything this year!!! what's it like vis à vis their older stuff (specifically "come on let's go" and haha sound), people who've heard it?

miranda lambert album is good, but not GREAT like crazy ex-girlfriend (maybe i didn't give it enough of a chance?)

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)
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)
39 -- Meanderthals - Desire Lines (104.5 points, 9 votes) (dnp in p4k, 877 in p&j)
38 -- JJ – jj n° 2 (104.5 points, 9 votes, 1 #1 vote/s) (35 in p4k, 105 in p&j)
37 -- Horrors - Primary Colours (106.5 points, 11 votes) (dnp in p4k, 65 in p&j)
36 -- Neko Case - Middle Cyclone (107 points, 12 votes, 2 #1 vote/s) (21 in p4k, 3 in p&j)
35 -- The Mountain Goats - The Life Of The World To Come (110.5 points, 10 votes) (45 in p4k, 80 in p&j)
34 -- Lady Gaga - The Fame Monster (111.5 points, 10 votes) (dnp in p4k, 31 in p&j)
33 -- Mariah Carey - Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel (112 points, 8 votes) (dnp in p4k, 332 in p&j)
32 -- Broadcast & The Focus Group - ...Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age (112.5 points, 9 votes, 1 #1 vote/s) (dnp in p4k, 88 in p&j)
31 -- Miranda Lambert - Revolution (115 points, 9 votes) (dnp in p4k, 25 in p&j)

nothin i even thought srsly of voting so far, maybe aguayo or meanderthals but like only if we were doing top 40

Wait, I just spent all afternoon catching up with the movie poll & know your going to go & do this to me too..

tally so far - 4 of my votes have shown up, including 2 i didn't really expect to, and i'm 99% sure i still have another ten (ten!) to come

Can't really say why but I prefer Kerosene to Crazy Ex-Girlfried. I think it's all the beautiful slow paced songs Kerosene's got. Both are great anda step above Revolution, which I still enjoyed quite a lot.

what's it like vis à vis their older stuff (specifically "come on let's go" and haha sound), people who've heard it?

Nothing on it as good as those imo, lots of haunty and jaunty instrumental bits spliced together collage style, not enough choooons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlVaRcNf9nc&feature=related

Only voted for Matias Aguayo so far - 1/20

Great list so far. Glad to see a few off my list so far, including my hometown homiez in NOMO!! Whoever asked about what record of theirs would be a good starting point, I would recommend New Tones, followed immediately by Ghost Rock. Their first record is basically an album-length tribute to Fela Kuti, which is all fine and good, but they moved well beyond that pretty quickly & really started coming into their own on the second record imo.

the Baroness record was also on my list. That sleeve illustration.. you see what I get for downloading everything these days. I miss out on things like the best goddam cover art of ALL TIME!

Broadcast & FG album is more 'experimental' than previous Broadcast LPs and a bit of a mess but often a good mess. Can't say I've listened to it much tho.

i don't get the baroness sleeve art. i've seen better Wizard mag covers

loooool at calling broadcast chillwave

The Wire made that Broadcast album their No 1 of 2009; but then, it pretty much mines that whole hynagogic thing they've been going on about all year. I like it enough to have listened to it 3 or 4 times; the first half is pretty good, but really tails of and annoyingly so with lack of solid songs to sustain the second half. I hear there is a new, proper Broadcast album due out soon in 2010.

Only thing I voted for so far is The Grandfather Paradox, which I dig lots.

At some point last year, I'd heard these, and went "shrug/meh":
Matias Aguayo - Ay Ay Ay
Girls - Album
Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
JJ
El Perro Del Mar

But I'm gonna check out these:

Mariah, Meanderthals and NOMO.

Who's this Miranda Lambert?

it's in the subtle differences b/w various blue hues - xxp

xp occasionally fiesty country singer

probably the best vocals of anyone singing country imo.

iwitches cult is chillwave because it has electronics and reverb in it.

same yo lets get stoned and watch old kids shows vibe

never got that vibe from broadcast, tbh!

yah not so much solo but this alb is totes glofi

isn't glofi what chillwave is rebelling against? totes confused

n/m, slightly diff shades of blue as mentioned above

I was referring to the Baroness album cover.

yah i wdnt worry they're dumb names made to piss off ppl who hate other ppl who live in ny so

oops pillbox; hmmmmmm i guess i'd have to see it in person. it just looks like there's way too many lines with the same thickness, making it look kinda messy. i barely know wtf i'm talking about here

i hate to be the one to use this phrase but wasn't the wire calling stuff like the broadcast/focus group album 'hauntological' or some shit before they invented 'hypnagogic pop'? that term also predates chillwave, and is a lot more accurate (if super cringeworthy). basically everything on ghost box has a similar vibe iirc

aka they are reaalllly into the bbc radiophonic workshop stuff

aka old kids shows, but i agree w/you

wtf same diff iirc

hauntological = british chillwave

psychgawsple,yeah you're right - hauntology.

ok go smoke up and try chillin out to any of those focus group records

i believe i said proto-chillwave for british ppl

I didn't vote for the Miranda Lambert album, but I'm kind of glad to see it show up anyway, given some of the other things that are appearing on the list. (Also given that it's good.) When I submitted my list, I narrowed it down to things I really really liked, not just the pretty good stuff, so I cut Revolution out at that point (along with two of my own nominations that I hadn't been sure about). That means probably only one of my picks is going to show up. Of this list, I'd be most interested in hearing that Broadcast thing, based on the snippets I'd checked out before, but I don't expect I'd love it.

Seeing this Grandfather Paradox mix presented as "new music" is bemusing. Funny, some of it looks pretty familiar. (Of course, I haven't actually heard it so I don't know how much they alter the originals.)

no beach vibes so it can't be chillwave right? unless they're riding waves on the isle of wight or w'ever

wow u r v technical abt micro genres

The Focus Group bring the hauntology, Broadcast brought their strand of UK psych-glo-fi

Britain doesn't have beach vibes. Walking along a windwept cliff vibes maybe. So British Chillwave seems right to me.

british beach vibes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIRZMNV4Evo

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

El Perro Del Mar was my #1. The slowest, saddest, most sublime disco music. As close to perfect as anything on this list is gonna get.

xpost: really? I gave it a cursory listen last night, but didnt get any disco vibe. What track would you recommend?

morelike this imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPEhIoKeTg0

but i just like posting that

^ yea, more fleetwood mac or kate bush vibes than disco vibes

wow u r v technical abt micro genres

rip electrodribble

wow, this list is wacky! only one thing i've voted for so far, but unlike some of the irritating fucking negative nancies on this thread i'm thrilled to be part of such a diverse community of listeners tbqfh

unless it means mariah carey OF COURSE

wut people are hating on mariah carey?

nb i am not going to defend the mariah album cover

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i dunno, it's obviously not a masterpiece of design or w/e, but it conveys a really strong likeability that's kind of what the whole album's about. it's a big notch under 'how to be a lady' and 'love vs money' but it's consistently listenable the whole way through, and i like "ribbon" more than anything on the other two albums. i can totally get someone not being blown away by it, but it takes a special kind of heartless bastard to actively dislike this stuff.

Meanderthals album is pretty good!! Just discovered after seeing it place above. I had no idea The Idjut Boys were involved in this.