(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)

with great power....

Kind of glad this is dragging out, because I was out of town for two weeks and I still have 40% of the poll left to view as it happens (if/when it happens)!

Also, I LOVE these results btw.

Lock thread ?!?

TOP TWENTY IS LEAKING ON ALL TORRENT SITES! QUICK

ILM be begging for poll like a pornstar

I'm crying.

is there a revised schedule yet?

musically has fallen into the black hole swirling inside her office somewhere. Either she's posting the results of the poll from the year 1932, when ILX didn't exist, or from 2358 when all of us are long gone.

musically has fallen into the black hole swirling inside her office somewhere. Either she's posting the results of the poll from the year 1932, when ILX didn't exist, or from 2358 when all of us are long gone.

Ok, which one are you: Damon Lindelof or Carlton Cuse?

or from 2358 when all of us are long gone

All, save Chthulu.

fwiw i'd be cool with just straight up posting the rest of the list whenever you get the chance

also if you had the data ready to go i'd volunteer to post 'em over two days this week

;_;

we hope you're okay, musically.

Well the Book poll results took over a month to countdown, so this ain't so bad yet.

we hope you're okay, musically.

― ha! (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, February 23, 2010 1:20 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

The r.e.m. countdown has been pausing and resuming for months

hrm, i realize people have better things to do with their lives but it would be cool if--seeing as we've already gotten to the top 20 and finished the album poll with relative speed--this didn't take months. i'm having a harder time caring with every passing day.

we need time to collect our outrage when The E.N.D. sneaks in at number 13.

stop whining xp

we waited years for the first 80's Album poll and the results never came

you guys need to be patient. Musically obviously is busy and will resume the poll when she can.

Aye.

Rock 'n' roll, musically.

As long as you return before MBV's comeback album I will be satisfied.

did u miss me?

I had to catch up on Idol first obviously, but this was second. I'll post #20 now just to show that I am here for real and I'll start tomorrow.

20 -- Mastodon - Crack the Skye (170.5 points, 12 votes, 1 #1 vote/s) (dnp in p4k, 18 in p&j)

http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/7862/mastodoncracktheskye.jpg

http://superweeds.com/images/e_3half_surprised.jpg

Cue Handel.

MASTODON!!!

I am borderline shocked this made it to the top 20. Awesome album, I've come around full circle.

Welcome back, musically!

http://morningcoffee.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/07nov1-welcome-home.jpg

hah

Hurrah!!!

YAY!

I still think Sunn O))) is yet to come.

hey musically, you are awes.

mastodon album is decent but that's a wacky high placement for it.

Metal voting bloc.

should vote for better albums

It was only no 3 in !!!!!!!! ILX METAL ALBUMS of 2009 POLL RESULTS!!!!!! (FINAL RESULTS NOW IN! LISTENING TO THESE ALBUMS WILL MAKE YOU STRONGER FRAIL INTERNET PERSON!)

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!!!!!!!! ILX METAL ALBUMS of 2009 POLL RESULTS!!!!!! (FINAL RESULTS NOW IN! LISTENING TO THESE ALBUMS WILL MAKE YOU STRONGER FRAIL INTERNET PERSON!)

I still cant see sunn 0))) going top 20 though. Nor Converge.

lol pillbox

Lol @ coming straight back in with Mastodon. Excellent force of impact there.

I think the Mastodon album had a lot of crossover appeal and people would have voted for it who wouldn't have bothered with the metal poll at all. I know I did.

I think you're right.

mastodon do elaborate brutality with considerable panache, but I really didn't like crack the skye. load of ponderous filigree guff.

for me, they peaked with remission and have become a little more dull with each album since. haven't given up on them though... I'm still hoping the next album will bring the crushingness.

Remission is by far my fave too but I have loved all the others. They wont go back to that style though, which is a pity as I loved the sludgy parts they sometimes employed back then.

I think the Mastodon album had a lot of crossover appeal and people would have voted for it who wouldn't have bothered with the metal poll at all. I know I did.

― Matt DC,

Did you like previous stuff? Was it the clean vocals this time that did the trick?

A 20-somethin' girl at work who likes 'lectronica and Joanna Newsom decided to try to get into metal since some of her friends are into it. She lurves the new Mastodon. Rightly so.

M the G, aren't there like several thousand metal bands out there who try to outdo the "crushingness" of their previous album, only to sound more and more dull? Thank god for Mastodon, who manage to get MORE interesting with each release without sounding too ponderous.

don't get me wrong, I'm not single-minded in pursuit of crushingness, and I'm all for upping the intricacy - I'm just not feeling the direction mastodon have gone in. I don't think it plays to their strengths. they're exceptional as a brutal metal band, mediocre as a noodly prog outfit.

should vote for better albums

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 04:30 (10 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

That's as maybe (haven't heard the Mastodon tbh) but it kind of works on the assumption that people vote for albums having heard a sizeable amount of their 'competition', which is by no means always the case. I don't think most people aim for some sort of perfect equilibrium in their listening habits, they just sort of stumble through falling on things that seem interesting. Don't they?