(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)

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.

xp: It's not actively dislikabe, just a big wash of nothingness.

idc about her album cover but the whole "Confessions of a..." thing is super tired at this point

yeah, i wouldnt have voted for it but at 3am trying to finish some work stuff its great.

^ Meanderthals not Mariah

that kinda seems like an appropriate context for either one, tbh

is the baroness cover by BWS?

i don't know what bws is but the baroness cover is by the singer of baroness

It kind of reminds me of AOS, actually, but I don't know who BWS is, so maybe it's even more like BWS.

that dude does a mean barry windsor smith imitation
http://www.linesandcolors.com/images/2006-01/bws_450.jpg

No, its by John Baizley, the band's lead singer. He did the last one and some other great covers for like Pig Destroyer and Skeletonwitch.

xp huh yeah there is some definite influencin' going on there

BWS is best known for his early work on conan; eventually did a bunch of batty independent work, mostly does illustration now.
he's a definite touchstone for these metal guys, though obviously BWS is riffing on art nouveau

but i doubt the baroness guy is a massive mucha fan and the conan shit is VERY METAL

xp yeah definitely--looks like good stuff at least from what i'm seeing on his site

i dunno, it's obviously not a masterpiece of design or w/e, but it conveys a really strong likeability large pair of breast implants that's kind of what the whole album's about.

Fixed this (sorry, it's true).

so at this point im basically reloading this thread in the hopes that future of the left is going to place

because sorry dudes but i have never heard of 80% of this so far

That El Perro Del Mar CD is by far her worst. Her other ones had fully realized songs on it. Still like it. Just sayin'

i totally disagree. i've listened to it far more than anything else she's done except for maybe "god knows (you've got to give to get)"

It may have been me who put Broadcast & The Focus Group at #1. It's not the best album of last year, but it is quite beguiling and I thought it deserved a boost. (And The-Dream shouldn't need my help to do very well in this poll.)

Can't remember if I voted for 'Ay Ay Ay' in the end but that's the only other LP in the list so far that I own.

so at this point im basically reloading this thread in the hopes that future of the left is going to place

^ Carpal tunnel syndrome candidate.

Her other ones had fully realized songs on it

they did? pretty much the same 'write a couple of lines and then just repeat them over and over' thing on all 3 albums no? the advantage of Love Is Not Pop is Rasmus Hägg bringing the Balearic lushness.

30 -- Junior Boys - Begone Dull Care (115 points, 10 votes, #1 vote/s) (dnp in p4k, 199 in p&j)

http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/6145/juniorsz.jpg

wow did not know ppl really rated this

yeah seemed like everyone was pretty lukewarm from what i remember from that thread

I know it's got its fair share of begone dull album h8ers but I think it's really good; is a real slow burn compared to the first 2 tho

didn't really at all on first listen but in the run-up to submitting ballots i listened again and it's pretty aces.

curious who voted it no.1

Didn't get round to hearing it cos of aforementioned lukewarm response.

I don't know Cozen, I thought the first two were kinda slow burners themselves. What really made it work for you?? Which tracks specifically tied it all together?