(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)

Black Meteoric Star - Black Meteoric Star -- 81 points, 7 votes

Goddamnit, I left this off my ballot "strategically" because I thought it had no shot at placing. Was up there in my top 15 or so albums this year. If I'd known it would end up #59, and that my vote would simultaneously put it over the top *and* bump Gucci Mane out of the top 50... wow, huge missed opportunity.

nobody else voted 4 chris brown then

I had as many unique votes as votes that placed:

Meshell Ndegeocello - Devil's Halo -- 16 points, 1 votes
A-Trak - Fabriclive.45 -- 14 points, 1 votes
Nicolay - City Lights Vol. 2: Shibuya -- 12 points, 1 votes
Shafiq Husayn - Shafiq En A-Free-Ka -- 11 points, 1 votes
Geeneus - Volumes: One -- 9 points, 1 votes
Wiley - Race Against Time -- 8 points, 1 votes
Blaq Poet - The Blaqprint -- 2 points, 1 votes

Nicolay - City Lights Vol. 2: Shibuya -- 12 points, 1 votes

<3

fo real. why didn't you vote for it if you <3 it so much?

only voted for 10; don't get polls, don't read OPs ;_;

What even is that, coz?

http://www.removethelabels.com/images/city_lights_vol_2.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjXa_Mp86lI

would've saved J0rdan some work if that had gone top 10

Pretty!

z-ro - relvis presley -- 16 points, 1 votes ;_;

Franz Ferdinand - Blood -- 1 points, 1 votes

Ah, I remember those guys!

lol didn't even know they released an album

Blood is the "dubby" remix version of Tonight. it's actually alright.

idk why i am even bothering with that 2nd sentence but i was surprised myself.

aw tonetta was so close!
who else voted for autotune the news?

Lindstrøm & Christabelle - Real Life Is No Cool -- 11.5 points, 2 votes

so, we were able to vote for this??

kinda annoying after so much talk of it already that it will be high on this year's list

i endorse these stragglers from varying distance

Au Revoir Simone - Still Night Still Light -- 24 points, 3 votes
Washed Out - High Times -- 23 points, 3 votes
Martyn - Great Lengths -- 20.5 points, 2 votes
Little Boots - Hands -- 15 points, 3 votes
Hudson Mohawke - Polyfolk Dance EP -- 13 points, 1 votes
Shafiq Husayn - Shafiq En A-Free-Ka -- 11 points, 1 votes
Saint Etienne - Foxbase Beta -- 10 points, 2 votes
Andrew Weatherall - A Pox On The Pioneers -- 6 points, 1 votes
Falty DL - Love Is A Liability -- 6 points, 1 votes
Smith & Mudd - Le Suivant -- 6 points, 1 votes
Lusine - A Certain Distance -- 3 points, 1 votes
Franz Ferdinand - Blood -- 1 points, 1 votes

Lusine - A Certain Distance -- 3 points, 1 votes

Was listening to this today and I fully approve of 'Two Dots'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iIvRXCV9lk

Land of Kush - Against the Day -- 15 points, 1 votes

if you got all excited like me, this is actually like a john zorn-y egyptian-influenced post-rock album :(

I'm listening to those Electrik Red tunes and shaking my head. Sooo bad. Who listens to this besides sweaty white hipster boys? I guess I could see them getting spins at gay clubs.

ok this doofus made my night

Previous placements:

(#2) The-Dream - Love/Hate (#16 in 2008)
(#7) Animal Collective - Sung Tongs (#19 in 2004); Feels (#5 in 2005); Strawberry Jam (#43 in 2007)
(#8) Phoenix - Alphabetical (#12 in 2004)
(#11) Lindstrom & Prins Thomas - It's a Feedelity Affair (#30 in 2006); Where You Go I Go Too (#3 in 2008)
(#14) Juan Maclean - Less Than Human (#45 in 2005)
(#20) Mastadon - Blood Mountain (#50 in 2006)
(#23) Rihanna - Good Girl Gone Bad (#44 in 2007)
(#26) Lily Allen - Alright, Still… (#9 in 2006; #25 in 2007)
(#30) Junior Boys - Last Exit (#4 in 2004); So this is Goodbye (#4 in 2006)
(#31) Miranda Lambert - Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (#27 in 2007)
(#35) Mountain Goats - We Shall All Be Healed (#46 in 2004); Sunset Tree (#13 in 2005)
(#36) Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings The Flood (#21 in 2006)
(#40) El Perro Del Mar - El Perro Del Mar (#42 in 2006)
(#42) Grizzly Bear - Yellow House (#19 in 2006)
(#44) UGK - Underground Kingz (#29 in 2007)
(#46) Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country (#46 in 2006)

Big K.R.I.T. - The Last King -- 21 points, 2 votes

sup rev ;_;

kev, this is the same guy who wrote:

The trend for normally sensible critics to give accolades to crappy mainstream rap albums continues, with Jay-Z, UGK, Ghostface Killah and Kanye West topping lists. You'd think from them that hip-hop has stopped evoloving and is curled up waiting to die. And please stop encouraging Lil' Wayne. Hitting one clever lyrical turn for every ten raps does not equal brilliance. Soon the market will be flooded by amateur tapes of rappers throwing every rhyme that falls off the top of their heads with no self editing whatsoever, because they know those white critics will eat anything up. Kanye West isn't totally horrible, as he always manages a couple decent singles. But if you actually listen to what else is out there, there's really no excuse. Artists like Dälek, El-P, Aesop Rock, Shape of Broad Minds, Oh No, Busdriver and Cloud Cult are actually pushing the art of hip-hop to new horizons, chipping away at the untapped vast potential for sounds. Oh No dug into Lebanese, Italian and Greek psych rock, and it's only the tip of the iceberg. Pharoahe Monch, Brother Ali, Black Milk and Little Brother showed it's still possible to make accessible hip-hop that's still powerful and relevant. Saul Williams, well, he's like that crazy uncle who freestyles at the family picnics. He's a little embarrassing, but still he speaks the truth.

man see u, kells

Soon the market will be flooded by amateur tapes of rappers throwing every rhyme that falls off the top of their heads with no self editing whatsoever

soon?

haha shiplo called him out for same at the time

Oh No dug into Lebanese, Italian and Greek psych rock, and it's only the tip of the iceberg.

OH MY LORD FATES PRESERVE US

i like these results a lot. i really didn't think terius would have a shot at no 1 or electrik red would be top 5, so they both exceeded expectation; of course either at no 1 would've been ~pop champagne~ but i really love fever ray as well and that being no 1 felt inevitable from the start. really, voting for the entire top 6 feels really rather novel. and it's petty, but i love seeing anco, DPs and phoenix pushed down towards the lower half of the top 10 - like the trax list this list is just, like, this is why i post here!

fever ray benefited from coming out at the start of the year: i knew i admired it from the off, couldn't work out whether i loved it or not for the longest time. stopped listening to it completely in the summer, but when winter hit again, it felt so absolutely right. right now i think i might even prefer it, as a body of work, to silent shout.

i remember when OPM seemed like totally the on-it hipster choice; i really liked it at the time. but he's one of those artists whose later revealed flaws go back and infect the good stuff so much that i can't listen to it any more. not that it was anything close to my album of 2002 (trina's diamond princess bitchezz - i bet that'd do really well now).

lol @ the Actual Black Woman being called to pronounced judgement on Actual Black Women. it's sad.

2009 was such a fucking good year for music! i say this every year but 2009 really was special in so many ways.

i don't think i had any unique votes! surprised only 3 votes for courtney love given how many people loved that album on the thread. who are my fellow demi lovato and etienne jaumet voters?? actually the former is prob shiplo, right?

Tonetta777 - YouTube output for 2009 -- 84.5 points, 8 votes

honestly amazed at how close this came to placing

actually Lovato did not make it onto my ballot here, so it wasn't me

Never heard of Electrik Red either, but I think I'll pass on finding out who they were.

DavidM OTM.

another valuable poll thread poster!

I'm thinking about starting a blog to document in minute detail all the different records I don't know about and have decided to pass on checking out based on whatever vague impression I've gotten about it -- it's so fascinating and worthwhile when people do it here that it might make for a good book or something someday

there's already one of those -- nahright.com

i voted for 7 of the 50, gotta work harder on catching all the ilx-hyped albums before the year end list. might have voted for quik&kurupt or dj sprinkles if i had heard em before now.

my ballot, ordered from top. 3 made the top 50.

Emeralds - What Happened
Richard Bishop - The Freak Of Araby
Nurse With Wound - The Surveillance Lounge
Michael Hurley/Ida - Ida Con Snock
Flaming Tunes - Flaming Tunes
Fever Ray - Fever Ray
Juan Maclean, The - The Future Will Come
Kurt Vile - God Is Saying This To You
Wooden Shjips - Contact 12"
Richard Youngs - Beyond the Valley of the Ultrahits
Es - Kesåmaan Lapset
OOIOO - Armonico Hewa
Six Organs Of Admittance - RTZ
United Bible Studies - The Jonah
Wolves In The Throne Room - Malevolent Grain
Current 93 - Aleph At Hallucinatory Mountain
Bill Orcutt - A New Way To Pay Old Debts
Kurt Vile - Childish Prodigy
Six Organs Of Admittance - Luminous Night
Sunn 0))) - Monoliths And Dimensions

what is "united bible studies"

great psych/folk/trad/noise band from Dublin

word--will check out

OK, here's the voter-centricity ranking. For those of you new to this, it ranks voters by how close they came to matching the critical consensus. If you'd voted for all 20 of the top 20 albums, your rating would be 1.000. Points and order don't matter for this.

# - score - voter
1 - 0.771 - groovemaaan
2 - 0.743 - Ari
3 - 0.737 - cozwn
3 - 0.737 - tubesocks
5 - 0.726 - ilxor
5 - 0.726 - maciej recognizing trill
7 - 0.696 - gman59
8 - 0.68 - lex pretend
9 - 0.672 - Tape Store
10 - 0.665 - Gavin in Leeds
10 - 0.665 - gukbe
12 - 0.657 - call all destroyer
13 - 0.65 - Alex in Montreal
13 - 0.65 - blueski
15 - 0.633 - Whitey on the Moon
16 - 0.631 - c sharp major
17 - 0.615 - Kitchen Person
18 - 0.611 - sofatruck
19 - 0.591 - Lostandfound
20 - 0.585 - Bee OK
21 - 0.576 - een
21 - 0.576 - k3vin k.
23 - 0.57 - monster_xero
24 - 0.55 - J0rdan S.
25 - 0.539 - Tim F
26 - 0.523 - LeRooLeRoo
27 - 0.517 - President Keyes
28 - 0.511 - Parenthetical Grillz
28 - 0.511 - Pillbox
30 - 0.509 - Future_Perfect
31 - 0.507 - Moreno
32 - 0.504 - Jamie T Smith
33 - 0.502 - Matt DC
34 - 0.496 - Roz
35 - 0.495 - jabba hands
36 - 0.489 - danzig
37 - 0.48 - hoot
38 - 0.479 - purrington
39 - 0.474 - Cunga
40 - 0.472 - CrackleBox
41 - 0.448 - samosa gibreel
42 - 0.446 - Jibe
43 - 0.443 - Fastnbulbous
44 - 0.437 - lou
44 - 0.437 - micarl
46 - 0.435 - Dan S
46 - 0.435 - johnny crunch
46 - 0.435 - Spencer Chow
49 - 0.433 - dan.
50 - 0.424 - MumblestheRevelator
51 - 0.415 - i know, right?
52 - 0.413 - Paul in Santa Cruz
53 - 0.409 - forksclovetofu
54 - 0.407 - DavidM
55 - 0.401 - won't have sex cuzzov stds
56 - 0.382 - abanana
57 - 0.38 - mike t-diva
58 - 0.375 - Derelict
59 - 0.374 - David Katz (davek_00)
59 - 0.374 - rat bat bruce
61 - 0.367 - The Reverend
62 - 0.365 - Billy Dods
63 - 0.359 - Johnny Fever
64 - 0.354 - I eat cannibals
65 - 0.351 - Mind Taker
66 - 0.337 - ciderpress
67 - 0.335 - Fetchboy
68 - 0.328 - Egg Foo Yung Joc
68 - 0.328 - Jeff W
68 - 0.328 - karl...arlk...rlka...lkar...
71 - 0.324 - psychgawsple
72 - 0.318 - o. nate
73 - 0.309 - Mordy
73 - 0.309 - Tannenbaum Schmidt
75 - 0.307 - NickB
76 - 0.304 - Steampig67
77 - 0.298 - kaygee
78 - 0.28 - Ioannis
79 - 0.272 - some dude
80 - 0.27 - DJ Mencap
81 - 0.259 - omar little
82 - 0.252 - tipsy mothra
83 - 0.239 - skeletor
84 - 0.236 - Euler
85 - 0.233 - sleeve
86 - 0.22 - emil.y
87 - 0.204 - acoleuthic
88 - 0.198 - Pete Scholtes
89 - 0.193 - dog latin
90 - 0.187 - jjjusten
91 - 0.185 - peepee
92 - 0.174 - pfunkboy
93 - 0.17 - Rudipherous
93 - 0.17 - Sundar
95 - 0.165 - Steve Shasta
96 - 0.139 - m the g
97 - 0.116 - glenn mcdonald
98 - 0.114 - musically
99 - 0.111 - EZ Snappin
100 - 0.06 - keythhtyek

tied for 10th! i'm a born follower.

i didn't know that danzig was here!

hehe 92

but musically at 99 makes me lol

cozen you hipster!!! lol

Next up, here's kvltosis. This is a reranking of the albums (5+ votes) inversely-weighted by voter-centricity (from above). Thus the stuff towards the top was disproportionately supported by people far from the consensus (more kvlt), and the stuff towards the bottom was disproportionately supported by people close to the consensus (less kvlt).

1 - 0.764 - 6 - Converge - Axe to Fall
2 - 0.760 - 5 - Omar Souleyman - Dabke 2020: Folk and Pop Sounds of Syria
3 - 0.734 - 5 - OOIOO - Armonico Hewa
4 - 0.717 - 7 - Zu - Carboniferous
5 - 0.687 - 5 - Mayyors - Deads
6 - 0.686 - 7 - NOMO - Invisible Cities
7 - 0.684 - 8 - Tonetta777 - YouTube Output for 2009
8 - 0.681 - 5 - Lady Gaga - The Fame
9 - 0.664 - 12 - Death - For the Whole World to See
10 - 0.656 - 7 - Bob Dylan - Together Through Life
11 - 0.655 - 5 - Jim O'Rourke - The Visitor
12 - 0.650 - 10 - Mountain Goats, The - The Life of the World to Come
13 - 0.648 - 10 - Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You
14 - 0.644 - 6 - Yo la Tengo - Popular Songs
15 - 0.635 - 6 - Micachu and the Shapes - Jewellery
16 - 0.634 - 5 - Fontan - Wintherhwila
16 - 0.634 - 6 - Jon Hassell - Last Night the Moon Came Dropping Its Clothes in the Street
18 - 0.628 - 5 - Dominique Leone - Abstract Expression
19 - 0.625 - 7 - Moritz Von Oswald Trio - Vertical Ascent
19 - 0.625 - 6 - Telefon Tel Aviv - Immolate Yourself
21 - 0.624 - 5 - K'naan - Troubadour
22 - 0.622 - 9 - Henrik Schwarz, Âme and Dixon - The Grandfather Paradox
23 - 0.620 - 6 - Oneohtrix Point Never - Rifts
23 - 0.620 - 17 - Sunn 0))) - Monoliths and Dimensions
25 - 0.617 - 9 - Sonic Youth - The Eternal
26 - 0.613 - 9 - Broadcast & the Focus Group - ...Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age
27 - 0.612 - 6 - White Denim - Fits
28 - 0.606 - 7 - Ben Frost - By the Throat
28 - 0.606 - 8 - Nite Jewel - Good Evening
30 - 0.604 - 6 - Emeralds - What Happened
31 - 0.600 - 12 - Mastodon - Crack the Skye
32 - 0.594 - 8 - Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
33 - 0.592 - 12 - Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
34 - 0.591 - 5 - Jeremih - Jeremih
35 - 0.589 - 7 - Black Meteoric Star - Black Meteoric Star
36 - 0.586 - 7 - Shackleton - Three EPs
37 - 0.582 - 6 - Tim Hecker - An Imaginary Country
38 - 0.580 - 7 - Field, The - Yesterday and Today
39 - 0.576 - 11 - Future of the Left - Travels With Myself and Another
40 - 0.574 - 5 - Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
41 - 0.573 - 6 - Moderat - Moderat
41 - 0.573 - 10 - Omar S - Fabric 45
43 - 0.571 - 5 - Kings of Convenience - Declaration of Dependence
44 - 0.568 - 9 - JJ - JJ No2
45 - 0.567 - 7 - Telepathe - Dance Mother
46 - 0.565 - 7 - Major Lazer - Guns Don't Kill People...Lazers Do
47 - 0.563 - 10 - Lady Gaga - The Fame Monster
48 - 0.550 - 6 - Super Furry Animals - Dark Days/Light Years
49 - 0.549 - 11 - Baroness - The Blue Album
50 - 0.546 - 6 - Fall Out Boy - Folie a Deux
50 - 0.546 - 11 - Horrors - Primary Colours
52 - 0.545 - 27 - Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
52 - 0.545 - 8 - Memory Tapes - Seek Magic
54 - 0.544 - 22 - Lindstrom & Prins Thomas - II
54 - 0.544 - 12 - St. Vincent - Actor
56 - 0.541 - 6 - Cortney Tidwell - Boys
57 - 0.540 - 11 - Matias Aguayo - Ay Ay Ay
58 - 0.539 - 9 - Mos Def - The Ecstatic
59 - 0.530 - 7 - Annie - Don't Stop
60 - 0.524 - 7 - Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
61 - 0.522 - 19 - Taylor Swift - Fearless
62 - 0.520 - 8 - El Perro Del Mar - Love Is Not Pop
62 - 0.520 - 9 - Röyksopp - Junior
64 - 0.518 - 6 - Washed Out - Life of Leisure
65 - 0.515 - 6 - Redshape - The Dance Paradox
66 - 0.514 - 19 - DJ Sprinkles - Midtown 120 Blues
66 - 0.514 - 17 - Maxwell - Blacksummers' Night
68 - 0.510 - 10 - Mungolian Jet Set - We Gave It All Away...Now We Are Taking It Back
69 - 0.505 - 10 - Junior Boys - Begone Dull Care
70 - 0.504 - 22 - Juan Maclean, The - The Future Will Come
71 - 0.503 - 23 - Dirty Projectors, The - Bitte Orca
72 - 0.501 - 15 - Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
72 - 0.501 - 24 - Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
74 - 0.500 - 13 - Dam Funk - Toeachizown
75 - 0.499 - 10 - Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
75 - 0.499 - 9 - Gucci Mane - Burrprint 3D
77 - 0.494 - 5 - Julian Casablancas - Phrazes for the Young
78 - 0.486 - 10 - Girls - Album
78 - 0.486 - 23 - Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
80 - 0.485 - 6 - Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
81 - 0.484 - 15 - Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx II
82 - 0.482 - 6 - Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
82 - 0.482 - 5 - Various - Five Years of Hyperdub
84 - 0.479 - 9 - Meanderthals - Desire Lines
85 - 0.477 - 10 - UGK - UGK 4 Life
86 - 0.474 - 44 - Fever Ray - Fever Ray
86 - 0.474 - 7 - Florence and the Machine - Lungs
88 - 0.472 - 9 - Miranda Lambert - Revolution
89 - 0.471 - 6 - Japandroids - Post-Nothing
90 - 0.468 - 6 - Very Best, The - Warm Heart of Africa
91 - 0.466 - 15 - Flaming Lips, The - Embryonic
91 - 0.466 - 39 - Xx, The - The Xx
93 - 0.464 - 7 - Gucci Mane - The State Vs Radric Davis
94 - 0.459 - 16 - Rihanna - Rated R
94 - 0.459 - 5 - Ryan Leslie - Ryan Leslie
96 - 0.452 - 28 - Electrik Red - How to Be a Lady Vol. 1
97 - 0.446 - 27 - DJ Quik and Kurupt - Blaqkout
98 - 0.445 - 8 - Ciara - Fantasy Ride
99 - 0.444 - 34 - The-Dream - Love Vs. Money
100 - 0.443 - 34 - Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The - It's Blitz!
101 - 0.442 - 8 - Mariah Carey - Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel
102 - 0.425 - 5 - DOOM - Born Like This

Amusing to see Converge at the top of this list, after being near the bottom of the kvltosis list for the ILM Metal poll. Mariah Carey seems like the definitive ILM anti-kvlt example here.

haha Converge!