ILM'S TOP 77 ALBUMS of 2010 (NOW COUNTING DOWN THE TOP TEN)

I don't know who Third Eye Foundation are but for a minute I was thinking it was that band that did Semi Charmed Life.

i think trying to rejigger the poll results so rihanna doesnt make it is lame, is all

rejagger

"Closure" reminds me of that Venetian Snares track where he samples the Bartok string quartet.

ok sry deej but plz quit it with the whole interpersonal attax postingstyle, it's rly dismaying :(

here is what i said about the ALBUM OF THE YEAR (above)

lol

yeah srsly, at first I was all 'this is some neat dark electro' and then halfway thru part 2 I was basically reduced to 'my god this is the end of days'

― schlomo replay (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 15:05 (1 month ago)

nsb = furnace abbrev

listening to "if you treat us all like terrorists..."

nice. are the strings meant to sound this muddy? love the cycling droning horn noise, sounds like it was sculpted out of a muezzin's call or something.

I mean Elgar cello concerto.

its an interpersonal attack 2 say that trying to electioneer rihanna out of the results is lame?

whats the diff between 'persona' & 'interpersonal'

As I said, I was worried my #1 would be obscured by an album that by common consent is a step backwards and has no #1 votes...but now it's turned up so soon after, have made my peace with Rihanna and her fans tbh

I mean Elgar cello concerto.

<3 <3 <3 elgar cello concerto

i used to think deej was evil, but then i realized we just disagree about stuff (such as how to disagree)

I don't know who Third Eye Foundation are but for a minute I was thinking it was that band that did Semi Charmed Life.

― Kitchen Person, Monday, January 31, 2011 12:03 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

whats the diff between 'persona' & 'interpersonal'

'intrapersonal' is the one that always gets me

Cool to see Third Eye Blind here, didn't realize they were still around. Doot doot doot, doot da-doot doot.

trying to kip but this 3rd eye shit sounds like something that dudes who still wear raver pants in 2010 think sounds 'deep'

at least its better than zola jesus

Here's that Venetian Snares track. Much more emo/dark than I remember--thanks, college.

the key with 3EF is the sense of acceleration - you're thrown headlong into the abyss, whole thing's a 40-minute piece rly

contenderizer - for fear of derailing - I find when I'm happy I get complacent about things like making music. Ideas don't seem to come to me as I'm too content and sort of distracted. If I'm going through a miserable phase, I can pick up a guitar or get on Reason and ideas come from nowhere. I pin all my problems on creativity, using it as a release. This is kind of a problem as in 2007 when my girlfriend of the time split up with me and then I lost my job, I ended up writing and recording about a song a week. This was to the detriment of finding a job and err... showering. I stopped writing music almost entirely when I met my current girlfriend, with a little peak when I was made redundant.

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(TIE) 71. THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH — The Wild Hunt (250 points, 8 votes)
P&J: 40th
Pitchfork: 33rd
Spotify: listen

'Closure' off that Third Eye Foundation album sounds a lot like someone's put some beats over 'The Sinking of the Titanic'.

^^ the dullest album on earth

I usually can't stand more than 10 minutes of guy-and-an-acoustic-guitar stuff but happily listened through this entire album multiple times. King of Spain was my fave.

never heard of it.

i like the tallest man on earth. though i am taller than him iirc

you linked the wrong album, jf!

we reviewed one of the songs off that tallest man on earth album on the jukebox, it was the WORST. his VOICE, intolerable.

xps yes it was "king of spain" :/

Oops! Maybe someone can link the right one? I'm just linking what seandalai sent me.

Whiny-voiced acoustica herein

I think I heard this guy's first album, but it didn't make an impression. "King of Spain" sounds like a more Starbucks-friendly Devendra Banhart.

'Closure' off that Third Eye Foundation album sounds a lot like someone's put some beats over 'The Sinking of the Titanic'.

― seminal fuiud (NickB), Monday, January 31, 2011 9:11 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

hate to disappoint a jagger, but this ^^^

surprised this needs to be said but obv i dont have anything against lj

a more Starbucks-friendly Devendra Banhart

apparently you haven't heard recent devendra banhart albums? already v much sbux friendly

surprised this needs to be said but obv i dont have anything against lj

ilxor, on the other hand

and I wouldn't have anything against you if you didn't single people out - and I know it's normally not me - but single people out for 'real talk' treatment!

weird mix of emotions so far itp

king of spain guy isn't awful but isn't will oldham and he cleeeeeearly wants to be

will oldham isnt even will oldham anymore

"king of spain" - shit, dude can play. endorse the fingers on strings aspect... but fuck! that voice. wtf, tall man? sticking with it. and it's okay, once you allow for the fact that dude's gonna be sneezing all over the track like that. it's better than okay, really. not my thing by any stretch, but i'd be lying if i said i hated it. i mean, i want to hate it, but can't quite.

i don't think TMOE guy wants to be oldham at all, not on that "king of spain" track anyway. he wants to be some kind of dylan/jens leckman midpoint.

i don't think he wants to be will oldham so much as dylan if dylan only wrote songs like "Love Minus Zero/No Limit" etc

dylan hongro

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(TIE) 71. KYLIE MINOGUE — Aphrodite (250 points, 8 votes)
P&J: 193rd
Pitchfork: DNP
Spotify: listen

I kinda like this. Its unashamedly "Dylan-y"

Blimey. Kylie had an album out last year? I'm so out of touch.

Close to taking a screenshot of Kylie and "unashamedly 'Dylan-y'" in the next post.

Tallest Man is emulating what Dylan haters claim Bob's voice sounds like.

Guessing it's not "unashamedly Dylan-y" tho.

"a lion's heart" similarly evokes 60s/70s singer-songwriter folkies, primarily dylan. with, yeah, lots of devendra in the vocal. am coming to terms with the fact that i actually like this shit.

multiple xps: could think of a lot worse things to say about a piece of music than "someone's put some beats over 'The Sinking of the Titanic'" tbf

Tallest Man is emulating what Dylan haters claim Bob's voice sounds like.

― EZ Snappin, Monday, January 31, 2011 9:25 AM (20 seconds ago) Bookmark

^^^

his voice is dylanesque but his playing is quite will oldham imo

anyway he's a folky dude, can write songs, not bad