(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)

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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

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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?

I'd be surprised if Sunn 0))) didn't make it. It was the only thing close to metal on my ballot, for instance (well, aside from Zombi getting in the metal chart for some inexplicable reason).

xp well my comment (tossed of as it was) was in reference to the concept of a "metal voting bloc" getting the mastodon record a high placement, and i was saying that if that were the case they should be voting for better metal records. what i'd say about crack the skye is that it's a hell of a lot better than blood mountain (by which i mean it's halfway listenable) and fans of their old stuff should find some things to like about it, but it's still pretty damn mor at the end of the day.

lol I loved Blood Mountain. I really can't explain why I've not even made an effort to hear CTS, other than having a constant stream of stuff someone wants me to listen to

xp it's not like there was a concerted campaign by the metalheads to smuggle mastodon in the list though. it's just that lots of folks liked it.

right--i realize that--again, my og comment was a tossed off continuation of johnny fever's own tossed-off comment about a metal voting bloc

if anything there was people actively begging people not to vote Mastodon.

You guys are just like the rnb dudes berating everyone for voting for Crazy In Love.

You wait until the noise dudes get on your case for voting for Fuck Buttons.

crazy in love >>>>>> crack the skye

hey I voted Mastodon.

There's an awful lot of tossing off going on, on this thread.

I'd be surprised if Sunn 0))) didn't make it. It was the only thing close to metal on my ballot, for instance (well, aside from Zombi getting in the metal chart for some inexplicable reason).

― emil.y,

But Zombi are on a metal label and most of their fans are metalheads!

if anything there was people actively begging people not to vote Mastodon.

― Pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname)

Feel free and call me out - I campaigned against all the metal that will make this poll - Mastodon, Baroness and Sunn O))). It's all crap.

hahaha

19 -- Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx II (172 points, 15 votes, no #1 vote/s) (5 in p4k, 8 in p&j)

http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/3271/raekwononlybuilt4cubanl.jpg

pretty agreeable placement for that imo

yeah agreed

thirded - liked several jams off that, it was a more than decent album, not one i felt moved to rave about or rep for though

lol @ ghostface

Is Ghostface wearing a shellsuit?

18 -- Bat For Lashes - Two Suns (181 points, 15 votes, no #1 vote/s) (7 in p4k, 23 in p&j)]

http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/2576/batforlashestwosuns2009.jpg

yay

Too low!

Good album - though I didn't hear it until after I submitted my ballot.

Maybe? Can't make that call until I see the top 17.

Yep, this is top ten material for me. Really kept sneaking up on me throughout the year, but I played it as much as anything else in the end.

I am really enjoying the Death album upthread.

BFL was my #4, but I might be comfortable with it coming at #18. Like I said, there are still 17 more to go before I get butthurt.

Had I voted, I would have ranked that album very high; my only real "problem" with it is that I got both B4L albums at the same time and I like Fur and Gold more.

I'm trying to think of 17 albums from 2009 better than Two Suns... can't do it.

My #1 already came in at #26 here, but #2 and #3 are still waiting to place (one of which I'm sure will, but the other I'm not sure at all).

I wish I could see my ballot. But I don't want to email Musically again if she's really busy, hopefully she can reply at some point.