(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)

only crossover artists w/the trax poll thus far:

gucci mane, lady gaga, röyksopp, lily allen

I expect probably 14 more and maybe an encore for Gucci Mane

really? i can't see any other Gucci releases placing this high.

not sure if the album will get more votes from peeps who don't really do mixtapes, but there's a reason that one was a "maybe"

fair enough.

one thing i love about ILX: our polls don't look like anyone else's polls

― Mordy, Friday, 12 February 2010

also it's pretty good seeing all the "dnp in p4k"s - in yr FACE, useless website.

― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend),

heh, only problem is that these results so far are as bad and boring.
I don't see the point in celebrating a poll just because it has different results from other polls when the results actually aren't any better, plus a lot of these albums are as predictable to ILM as those other albums are to pitchfork but different strokes etc.
Glad to see some people are enjoying the results though just like I did last year.
Hopefully there's loads of surprise high entries for lesser known music to come so we can all discover something great that we may have missed. Last year was great for that.

I don't think there will be anything like that though this year now. ILM seems to be heading towards to the mainstream this year more than previous years.

lol u really haven't found anything worth investigating in the results so far?

i'm pretty sure that when this list is done and we can compare it to previous ILM album polls "more mainstream" will not be the phrase that comes to anyone's mind.

Anything i like or vaguely like I had already heard I'm afraid.
xp

how sad for u

heh, only problem is that these results so far are as bad and boring.
I don't see the point in celebrating a poll just because it has different results from other polls when the results actually aren't any better, plus a lot of these albums are as predictable to ILM as those other albums are to pitchfork but different strokes etc.

I haven't found it predictable but then I've realised recently (thanks in part to the '70s/'80s polls) that I don't really have a handle on what consensus ILM taste might even be - I guess that might not be the case for the more regular posters.

Things I voted for so far: Baroness, Mountain Goats, Omar-S, Rihanna (maybe Mariah too, that was on the edge of my Top 20 and I can't find the scrap of paper I wrote my ballot down on...)
Things I plan on investigating: Gucci Mane, UGK, Meanderthals, Dam-Funk, Death

only crossover artists w/the trax poll thus far:

gucci mane, lady gaga, röyksopp, lily allen

― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Saturday, February 13, 2010 10:14 AM (4 hours ago)

and future of the left

which is proof that the world is still a wonderful place

fsotl "arming eritrea" is so good; will def check out the album at some stage, maybe even just buy it unheard if they are some broke motherfuckers

Btw, I recommend "Throwing Bricks at Trains" off the FotL album for anyone who hasn't heard it.

dunno how i completely forgot abt the st vincent album; wouldve been somewhere btwn ~8-12 for me

Anything i like or vaguely like I had already heard I'm afraid.

"I know I won't like it, therefore I won't listen to it" seems like a funny position to take after slamming the results.

Except I didn't say "I know I won't like it, therefore I won't listen to it". So saying that I did seems like a stupid thing to say.

So you've heard just enough of each record to know it's not your bag?

I've heard plenty of the albums, and in the case of mariah, rihanna,girls ive heard the singles or seen several youtubes posted on them , so in their case, yes I've heard just enough of those acts to know I wont like the albums, if that is what you meant.

herman do you like any pop, rap, or r&b? maybe ilm polls arent for you

fwiw i'm as befuddled by these results as the next guy

kev you say that as if the top 20 is going to have more than a handful of rap/R&B records.

xp or maybe you could start your own poll in a genre you like so you could have enjoyable results to look forward to every year and....oh wait....

oh i forgot that I only listen to one genre of music. Nice of you to follow me around on ilx to keep me right, how would I manage without you.

ok let me level with you: complaining about poll results is just not really a mindset i understand or can really get behind.

wish a few of these were available on spotify.

well every year, every poll, there's people who don't like results of polls,last years I did like a lot in it, this year I don't. Other people have said they dislike the results so far.
Plenty of people who didn't like last years probably like this years, I'm not the only one who doesn't like the results so far. No doubt if pitchfork bands dominate the top 20 others will dislike that too. That's the internet for you. Would be very very boring if everyone agreed with one another.

Spotify doesn't have many of these albums?

I can't even access Spotify in the U.S. I guess there is a way to do using a proxy, but I'm not up on the specifics of it. I have been able to find a fair amount of the albums on Lala or Grooveshark though.

think i might filed fotl and lotp together somewhere and unfairly dismissed the former, how awful

Lord of the Pings?

late of the pier iirc

quite a few of them are on Spotify, but the ones I've not heard aren't. Specifically I'd like to hear Death.

Labias of the Pornstars

Most of Death's ...For the Whole World to See is on Grooveshark (one track, "Where Do We Go from Here" seems to be missing): http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/artist/Death/1098142.

the death album is quite good iirc but not such a curate's egg as sometimes claimed (omg do we have to rewrite all our holy rockrit metanarratives?)

thx cad

the death album is quite good iirc but not such a curate's egg as sometimes claimed (omg do we have to rewrite all our holy rockrit metanarratives?)

Jmo, but to the extent that they were largely written out of rock history up until last year, I think that it is an important resurrection. I grew up in the seventies, listened to a lot of punk and proto-punk and had never heard of them before.

'for the whole world to see' was never previously released afaik so it never had the chance to be written, but yes an omission now thankfully filled

curate's egg is something that's good in parts, as in the superpolite curate who gets a bad egg but disputes the fact: "Oh no, it is quite good in parts" Think you mean something else.

suggest "missing link"

there also seemed to be a reactionary sentiment, if they weren't trying to rewrite history in its favour people reached either for inessential oddity or overhyped juvenilia, none of this seemed right and i don't think it diminishes death to say it's a good album with an unusual history that sort of threw critics

Screw the history books, it's just a really good rock & roll record that no one had heard before.

yes!

As of right now...

Albums I voted for:

UGK; Death

Albums I liked a lot but didn't vote for:

Gucci Mane

Albums I heard but wasn't hugely taken with:

Matias Aguayo; Meanderthals; JJ; Mariah Carey; Junior Boys; Royksopp; Omar-S; Mungolian Jet Set; Dam-Funk; Rihanna

Intend to check out:

Henrik Shwarz, Ame, & Dixon; NOMO

It's kinda sad that the third category is by far the largest

do you like any pop, rap, or r&b? maybe ilm polls arent for you

fwiw i'm as befuddled by these results as the next guy

― vag gangsta (k3vin k.),

:)

rev kinda surprised you dont dig dam-funk, have you heard part 3?

Albums I voted for:

Broadcast and the Focus Group
The Horrors
Lady Gaga
Rihanna

Albums I liked a lot but didn't vote for:

Matias Aguayo
Baroness
Dâm-Funk
jj
The Mountain Goats
Röyksopp
UGK

Albums I heard but wasn't hugely taken with:

Future of the Left
Grizzly Bear
Junior Boys
Neko Case

Intend to check out:

Lily Allen
Omar-S

i'm guessing from his album title that Dâm-Funk is an alias of Musiq Soulchild?

none of my votes are here

I have heard seven of these and liked Royskopp, FotL and Death. Neko and MG aren't really my thing but obv both good. don't get Grizzly Bear but I do get Lada Gaga, my friends' kids are all into her. there's probably 8 or 10 more that I plan on checking out when I spin radio rotation. I see a lot of this stuff in the stacks and pass it up but tbh an ILM recommendation does help.