(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)

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)

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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

The Maxwell album really grew on me through out the year. It might actually be my favorite album of his.

I voted for the Flaming Lips. I really wasn't excited about a new album by them but it's easily their best since the Soft Bulletin.

Gave Maxwell a try a couple of months ago. Found it pretty bland, tbh.

the maxwell singles still kind of lord over the album for me, but it's really nice to listen to

Maxwell not making p4k's list was criminal. Glad to see it so high up. The Bat for Lashes should be well higher. That one's only gotten better with time.

I think the Maxwell album is pretty great throughout, really glad to see it here.

i'm the opposite, the "cold"/"fistful of tears"/"help somebody"/"love you" stretch is my favourite on the album - the entire thing really grew on me so much over the last few months of the year, it's an album that you live with and only realise a bit later how much you love it. (xp to jordan)

it's def an album qua album but if i had to choose one cut it'd be "help somebody" - i love the details of the arrangement, the way it ebbs and flows, that moment halfway through when the beat drops out for a second <3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXop4f3nkWM

yeah help somebody is such a jam.

this record makes an incredible case for live-band rnb that is not some self-consciously retro dapkings shit