(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)

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

― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Thursday, February 11, 2010 6:23 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

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?

yeah that's the thing, it seemed to me like a more reserved less immediate junior boys album which is kind of intense

is a real slow burn compared to the first 2 tho

See, I thought the second album was a slow burn (and a damn good one)... didn't really have the patience for *another* of those.

I've got the patience for another if I'm a little sure it'll pay off. There was clearly some overlying theme holding the 2nd all together and I appreciated the songs more and more as the whole story started to emerge. I don't really detect anything similar on this one.

Well stated.

Wrong album cover, btw:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_woLA1fBnELI/SznniACxm4I/AAAAAAAAAc4/WvfdqF_7w40/s320/Begone-Dull-Care-by-Junior-Boys_0Q0MVQeaJk0x_full.jpg

Just couldn't get into that album.

29 -- Röyksopp - Junior (116 points, 9 votes, #1 vote/s) (30 in p4k, 301 in p&j)

http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/6954/royksoppjunioru.jpg

ok this is a weird list

Really got into that one recently though.

Their best album imo.

that junior boys album is real good chill house i think, i was surprised that ppl were so meh on it

I keep coming on to these results threads so late in the game that I feel like an asshole for not being there earlier than then jumpin' in all willy nilly.

Really enjoying The Grandfather Paradox, more stuff that I've never heard of before that's awesome plz

xpost Think its because their previous was the same, but with better tunes.

Two in a row I voted for! Begone Dull Care is great, am curious who voted it #1.

Royksopp and Junior Boys are the first two to appear from my list.

Begone Dull Care is their weakest album in my opinion but only because the first two are just perfect. I think Work being the second track made the album a but hard to get into at first. When people talk about the album being less instant, I think that must be the song they think of. Songs like Hazel and Bits & Pieces are up there with their best and as poppy as In The Morning.

It's the exact opposite for me with Royksopp, I like the first two albums just fine but Junior was in a different league. It's such a warm album and probably my favorite production on an album this year. I'm surprised it didn't sell a lot better, when I first heard The Girl & The Robot I thought it would give Robyn her second number one.

it looks like the last two didn't actually get a #1 vote but '#1 vote/s' is just included in details from hereon, or am i misreading?