(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)

is my #1 and 'happy house' is by no means my favourite thing on it

there were a few trax i had to program out from the future will come (title track, "a new bot", "human disaster") and "happy house" did feel somewhat separate from it, but otherwise one of the most purely pleasurable albums of the year. didn't vote for it but it came close.

my favourite is "the simple life" by far

my fave two aside from "happy house" are "tonight" (totally beautiful track) & "accusations" for I GET SO EMOTIONAL THESE DAYS *shrieking synth coda*

will check out juan mclean.

related, i bought the el perro del mar on the basis of it placing here and it's pretty great.

13 -- Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport (265 points, 24 votes, 1 #1 vote/s) (11 in p4k, 39 in p&j)

http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/1601/fuckbuttonstarotsport.jpg

her cover of the xx that was posted on pfork yesterday is really nice

tbh at this point i'm just a bit nervous w/r/t whether electrik red will show up in the next two spots, or go top 10

awesome to see the juan maclean so high!

related, i bought the el perro del mar on the basis of it placing here and it's pretty great.

also awesome. if i like this would i like that bat for lashes album? "daniel" sounds like it came out of the same studio as most of 'love is not pop'

kong are going to be top 5, I reckon.

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is Kong any good? maybe bump the Oceansize thread if you're a fan...

Sunn O))) was my number 3. My #2 was St. Vincent, and I *really* thought my #1 would place but y'all Micachu-hatin' savages

have all the juan fans heard the marcus worgull remix of "simple life"? so beautiful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHgMks_3MkQ

i got accused of playing prog when playing that Worgull mix

yes! also u&k is the gavin russom remix of "accusations" which isn't on youtube

i think i was the #1 vote for tarot sport, not 100% sure

fun album

(boring prediction time)

I'm calling the top 12 in this order:

lindstrom & prins thomas
taylor swift
dirty projectors
quik & kurupt
electrik red
dj sprinkles
phoenix
yeah yeah yeahs
the-dream
animal collective
fever ray
the xx

i voted for 7 of those :/

Thought Tarot Sport would scrape the top 10 actually, great record.

The Juan Maclean is a bit of a 'great EP padded out too much' record for me - it's ridiculously patchy. The only tracks I'm ever really tempted to play are One Day, Tonight, Accusations and Happy House. I don't think I'll ever want to play it all the way through again. Admittedly those four tracks are really, really fucking good.

i voted for three

how can you not like No Time xp

No love for "The Station" on that Juan album -- really?? C'mon guys!

the top 12 = 7 i voted for, 2 i didn't but am fundamentally ok with...and the fucking APD section of GAPDY

12 -- DJ Sprinkles - Midtown 120 Blues (270 points, 19 votes, 3 #1 vote/s) (dnp in p4k, 82 in p&j)

http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/3516/djsprinklesmidtown120bl.jpg

fever ray are a lock for #1 sadly.

only 4 of the 12 on my part

sadly you will keep moaning xp

really high ppv on that one! (in spite of my #11 vote)

thought sprinkles would place higher actually. fantastic record

I'd guess Fever Ray is my favourite thing on that list, and would be a worthy winner, although I'd really REALLY like to hear DJ Sprinkles after Tiarnan spent an afternoon basically telling me how ace it is

how can you not like No Time xp

I do! I got No Time and Accusations mixed up.

yeah yeah yeahs
the-dream
animal collective
fever ray

Could be any one of these four for #1. Can't really see it being The XX.

blah blah blah like the sprinkles album fine, do not get what's so "wow" about it at all

that said terre thaemlitz's dj set at the RFH last week WAS amazing and he is an awesomely nice dude, and it's good to see it place.

Sprinkles LP is good but obv benefitted hugely from Tim thread-repping it (big reason why i checked it out admittedly) and the ensuing political discussion. like many i just haven't heard enough recent 'deep house' albums to really compare it with so it just stood out by default.

i mean...i just didn't think it was a patch on, say, the redshape album. shrug...

i haven't heard sprinkles album but listening to youtube clips now and it does sound like my kind of thing

ciderpress, what's so awesome about Fuck Buttons, and would I like it?

We had this big discussion last year with some grousing about the fact that there were only 3 really "political" albums on that list (Erykah Badu, Young Jeezy, The Bug). Is DJ Sprinkles the only one this year?

Everything. Shocked it is this low. I mean, angel vaginas guys.

political? What is DJ Sprinkles exactly?

Louis dude you would totally love the Fuck Buttons album, surprised you haven't heard it.

The Sprinkles album went #1 in Resident Advisor's list as well, it's not just a one-thread ILM hype record. I never really got into it, but then again I've come to the conclusion I just don't enjoy deep house that much.

xpost lex, you seriously can't see why more people would be into the sprinkles album than the redshape? i mean i love redshape but i can't help but think the album is somehow a little grey and flat, maybe i just prefer listening to him in singles/mixes rather than albums. sprinkles' album really flows with a lot of shifting between ambient and more propulsive stuff, it is so lush and beautiful with gorgeous synth and vocal textures, perfect for home listening which really works for the album format.

xxp deep house w/ angry queer rants

the house-ness is more disputable than the deepness, angriness, or queerness

hm. alright, sounds like i'm overdo for a listen.

Can't really see it being The XX.

May want to reconsider. I think it's a dark horse for the #1 spot...

really don't see that happening

the redshape album really surprised me with how varied and constantly surprising and inventive it was (not b/c i didn't like redshape, more that i never assume any techno artist album will be that amazing) - sprinkles was sort of a really nice wash of sound but little really stood out on it.

i need 2 check out the fuck buttons -- didnt think it was my thing but off of the singles list i <3 surf solar

"Surf Solar" is great, but I think the album closes in even more spectacular fashion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6WJnHfvfGk

Gotta say that both the Fuck Buttons and the Sunn 0))) left me a bit cold. Think that Ben Frost was my top noisy choice for the year.

Just put 'Surf Solar' on. I'll overlook the 'straight-up post-rock dynamics' criticisms I've been reading (actually, given how SS has started, I'd have probably done that anyway) and try to feel the love.

Someone else link some good DJ Sprinkles...

Need to hear that Ben Frost.