(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)

i still haven't really thoroughly delved into taylor's first album

i might love "tim mcgraw" and "our song" even more than anything on fearless

i remember looking up the dj sprinkles album after u posted abt it here tim and all i could find were japanese websites

i like "tim mcgraw" & "teardrops on my guitar" but i don't really know the album tracks

that's a great q&k screengrab

and yeah, same as plaxico re: dj sprinkles

i still haven't really thoroughly delved into taylor's first album

I think the highs are higher in many ways - or, rather, there's a kind of joyful country effervescence at times that I really like - but it's not as consistent. I think all you really need are "Tim McGraw", "Picture To Burn", "Cold As You", "Stay Beautiful", "Mary's Song (Oh My My)", "Should've Said No", "Our Song" and "Invisible".

so that leaves the dream, yeah yeah yeahs, the xx, electric red and fever ray?

"picture to burn" - yes! actually jordan, if you haven't seen the video, go and do so immediately!

"so go and tell your friends i'm obsessive and crazy / that's fine, i'll tell mine you're gay"

"and if you come around sayin' sorry to me / my daddy's gonna show you how sorry you'll be"

WHAT I always thought it was "So go and tell your friends I'm obsessive and crazy / that's fine, you won't mind if I say... by the way... I HATE YOUR etc."

There's a real sass to some of those tracks which i think is missing on the second album which is a lot more earnest. I suspect because first time around she was writing more deliberately for a country audience. it has the odd effect of making the first album seem older (in terms of the age of the songwriter) than the second.

"Ain't got no time for tears / I'm just sitting here / planning my revenge / there's nothing stopping me / from goin' out / with ALL of YR BEST FRIENDS!"

haha i think "you won't mind if i say" is the radio/video edit. yeah taylor's so clean-cut and princessy that she needs a radio edit at the age of 16

i love the way she slips into "burn, burn, burn baby burn" at the end

and yeah otm about how the country focus makes her seem older - or maybe rougher, more working class - on her debut

i looove fearless but her debut mostly leaves me cold. i should revisit

lil surprised yyy's is top 5 but it has a lot of fans here i guess. i think it's boring tbh

+ Jesus-like posturing (um...)

Haha, I heard about some interesting costume change on her recent tour to this effect?

also i listened to most of the fuck buttons album 2day and dug it, good stuff

surprised at no pissed jeans also

Actually, I think a lot of people pissed their jeans over Taylor Swift, and many others.

i don't really give a fuck abt individual placements on this poll but q+k over mpp is an only on ilm moment that does warm the heart a little

fuck buttons was my #2; i actually got emotional when i played that shit loud

Thought Telefon Tel Aviv might have made it too, really been getting in to that one all over again xps

wasn't what was edited out something like "i'll tell all your friends you're gay" or something? i guess if you're singing country music no one really minds.

so that leaves the dream, yeah yeah yeahs, the xx, electric red and fever ray?

My prediction:

1. The-Dream
2. Fever Ray
3. The xx
4. Yeah Yeah Yeahs
5. Electrik Red

1. tonetta

kinda blowing my mind that electrik red (and quik&kurupt) are getting this many votes - did 25 people even post in those threads?

i'd be interested in seeing what rap albums didn't crack the 100

or 50, whatever

Haha, I heard about some interesting costume change on her recent tour to this effect?

The costumes are okay (there's a white dress for the end of "Love Story" though) - it was the standing still and accepting praise for like ten minutes with a look of faux-surprise on her face, about three times during the concert, plus the ostentatious descent from the back of the auditorium to the centre between "Hey Stephen" and "Fifteen", hugging each and every tween present, like Bono at Live Aid to a factor of 1000.

Psyched for a top five that I really enjoy, btw -- voted for The-Dream, Fever Ray, the xx; enjoy the YYYs album a good deal, don't think I voted for it, though; didn't vote for Electrik Red because I picked it up too late but holy hell, it's a great listen.

like Bono at Live Aid to a factor of 1000.

Didn't even know this was possible. Geez!

ugh

Taylor Swift is repellent.

Taylor Swift. Her music is just... nothing.

― DavidM, Thursday, February 25, 2010 3:32 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

STOP

think if you're going to come at the thread twice with words like "nothing" and "repellent" it's kinda incumbent on you to EXPAND YOUR POINT like an articulate human being rather than a bot

6 -- DJ Quik and Kurupt - Blaqkout (353.5 points, 27 votes, 1 #1 vote/s)

cooooool, woulda been my #1. don't think another full length was touching this this year.

like the pictures here, but nothing can beat the still from the hey playa thread for awesomeness bc for those two to be alive and free making dope music & riding camels in Morocco in 2009 is so damn joyous.

been listening to the Q&K record loads recently, trying to usher summer in w/the power of wishful thinking alone - such a great record, probably wd be my #1 were you to re-poll today

yeah i tried to find a big enough photo of them w/ the camels but everything was super small

there are only like 15 photos on the internet of the two of them together anyway

http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs114.snc1/4839_524412192033_43201281_31246244_1131248_n.jpg

:)

http://img461.imageshack.us/img461/9619/camel25ps.jpg

but q+k over mpp is an only on ilm moment that does warm the heart a little

don't think it would've happened if i hadn't deliberately left MPP off my ballot.

feels great to have made a difference.

don't think it would've happened if i hadn't deliberately left MPP off my ballot.

Doubt you're the only one, tbh.

His debut is very much his worst btw, even if it does include a couple of k-classics.

― im barry white btw (The Reverend), Wednesday, February 24, 2010 2:13 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

listen again

Merriweather Post Pavilion: ILX's true favorite album of 2009, even if half of us won't admit to voting for it and the other half left it off our ballots deliberately due to GAPDY overload.

don't think it would've happened if i hadn't deliberately left MPP off my ballot.

― mdskltr (blueski), Thursday, February 25, 2010 7:05 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

but while we're in "what-if" land, if i had voted it would have

listened 2 burrprint earlier today -- its a rap classic & is severely underrated

Damn right it's a rap cla-- wait, what's that?!

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_WMpSC7nK3os/SxLsLPXgchI/AAAAAAAAEOc/Uq_inkmrCbs/s400/flying_pig.jpg

but q+k over mpp is an only on ilm moment that does warm the heart a little

don't think it would've happened if i hadn't deliberately left MPP off my ballot.

― mdskltr (blueski)

Did you vote for any of the other GAPDYX albums?

I decided to mess around with the stats (so far along w/ the presumed top 5) to highlight differences between this poll and the 2 that musically included comparisons with for each entry:

ILX's top ranked albums that placed in neither P&J not Pitchfork's top 50:
Electrik Red, Taylor Swift, Lindstrom & Prins Thomas, DJ Sprinkles, The Juan Maclean, Future Of The Left, Rihanna, Death, Dam-Funk, Mungolian Jet Set

P&J’s top ranked albums that did not place in ILX's top 50:
Mos Def, The Avett Brothers, The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, Sonic Youth, Wilco, Converge, Antony and the Johnsons, Jay-Z, Dead Weather, The Decemberists

Pitchfork's top ranked albums that did not place in ILX's top 50:
Neon Indian, Japandroids, Antony and the Johnsons, The Very Best, Atlast Sound, The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, Wild Beasts, Memory Tapes, Bill Callahan

^^ that last one being especially weird because PF’s whole top 13 placed in ILX, and then 10 of the next 11 did not

likewise i was here for noms and didn't vote bc of qualms abt fairness of doing so as a newcomer; were they ignored that'd be another blaQKout #1. lots of ppl who forgot to vote/didn't get round to it/missed the thread etc. would have influenced the results, but the results are the results. xposts