(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)

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.

17 -- The Flaming Lips - Embryonic (182 points, 15 votes, 2 #1 vote/s) (4 in p4k, 9 in p&j)

http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/2571/flaminglipsembryonic.jpg

I haven't even checked that email acct in a week or two, I'll check it tonight and get any ballots out.

one I voted for!

I lost interest in trying to crack that Lips record after five or so listens. I appreciate it, but don't enjoy it necessarily.

Im pretty sure I voted for the Flaming Lips too.

I haven't totally got into it so I don't think I gave it a high placing, but when it's good it's great.

Heh, this is turning into the "at least that's out of the way" section of the list for me. Dirty Projectors next please.

Second Herman's stuff, it's a great record that I ought to listen to more!

i have hated the flaming lips so much for as long as i remember

matt dc otm

Why the hate, lex?

you had to ask?

lol really?

i hadn't heard it for voting but embryonic is a badass album

kinda wishing it never started back now

really surprised at that bat for lashes album being so low

refused to listen to the Flaming Lips ever again after that 'Yeah Yeah Yeah Song'

given how the bat for lashes/florence and the machine/la roux/little boots audiences overlap so much elsewhere (despite their being pretty distinct artists), it's curious that ilx has embraced one but definitely not the others

xp I can understand that, but this is by some way their best work since the soft bulletin.

to many people, that's not saying much

given how the bat for lashes/florence and the machine/la roux/little boots audiences overlap so much elsewhere (despite their being pretty distinct artists), it's curious that ilx has embraced one but definitely not the others

ILM be full of goths.

I like Florence a little bit too, but La Roux (and Little Boots to a lesser degree) can go rot the fuck in hell.

Shame on Phil Oakey for wasting his time with Little Boots.

the advantage BFL album has over, um, the other aforementioned UK wimmins, is the general dream pop/ethereal production ethos really (tho it doesn't mine that enough imo). that's what i like best about it at least. don't rate it much more than the little boots lp tho.

16 -- Maxwell - BLACKsummers'night (190 points, 17 votes, no #1 vote/s) (dnp in p4k, 14 in p&j)

http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/332/300x300maxwellblacksumm.jpg

i love that Bat For Lashes album and made my Top 10, surprised (like others have said) that it didn't make ILM's Top 10.

nice! i think maxwell is the only thing i heard too late that would've cracked my top 20