ILM's Top 77 ALBUMS of 2011

girls record is fantastic, was my #5 i think

i barely listened to it at all until the past month or 2 when it hit me pretty big

I think people went nuts over a Girls track showing up in the tracks poll rather than the album poll. Also, I still think this band is completely boring.

there are some really great tracks on that Girls album, as well as some cringeworthy moments. Their little Black Sabbath homage was embarrassing live.

I think their name is so lame that I haven't been able to bring myself to listen to them.

i just really like the sound, it's like something straight out of 1977

i would say 1986 judging by these 2 tracks ive heard on spotify just now

Seems like this Girls record got a fraction of the hype of the first one, and yet it did nearly as well on EOY polls.

some of the personality that came through on their last record seemed leeched out on this one to me

and i dont get why people would love it so, yet i dont get why people would hate so much either. Its inoffensive and polite. If theres a new Friends this decade i could imagine them doing the theme song.

This is not for me

save us j0rdan fever!

i would say 1986 judging by these 2 tracks ive heard on spotify just now

Listening to "Vomit" and it sounds just like Pink Floyd to me.

The guitars on that Girls album sound fantastic but good grief the vocals are dreadful and the songwriting is earnest to the point of being excruciating. They are the ultimate 'god help us if there's a war' band.

can never enjoy this band, h8 the singer

'hey' is my personal choice cut from dawn, the end of the bridge is one of my favorite music moments of the year: OOOOH HEY BABY OHHHH HEY!

Yeah, Girls was my #279. Which believe it or not means I liked it plenty. But god damn if there wasn't a ton of good music last year.

Hurls more like.

just gonna ignore that last one and carry on talking about dawn

hey is another favourite - so melodically generous

i love how the mixtape is as equally interested in sounds, emotions and SWAGGER. her debut album proper is easily one of my most anticipated for 2012

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38. Junior Boys — It’s All True (375 points, 15 votes)

P4K: DNP
P&J: 631

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Also is there a version of that Dawn Richard album that doesn't sound like a third-generation cassette copy yet? The songs were fantastic (Runway especially) but I was finding it way too muffled to really get into. Well, except the one with the a cappella autotune, that was terrible.

is this that same girls band that did that laura song and he sings like a child? and he grew up in isolation from all music except 2 songs or something?

fastnbulbous you ranked 500 albums? 0_o

cuz i heard a bit of this new one and it sounded like a different band?

yeah same one

Yeah, Girls was my #279

Are you joking? I thought only freaks like Chuck Eddy were capable of ranking to this extreme.

Vomit and Honey Bunny are great tracks but the rest of that Girls album is quite plodding and boring, especially the track Magic which sounds like some britpop band like Dodgy or someone.

wikipedia says:

Dawn has announced that her major solo debut project will be a broken up trilogy of albums entitled "GoldenHeart, "BlackHeart", and "RedemptionHeart". "GoldenHeart", the first of the trilogy is expected to be released in 2012.

i really really hope that's true

nb kalenna, the other dirty money girl, has also kicked off her solo career, and this first track has got be HYPED for it - a few months earlier and maybe i'd have had time to rep it enough for it to place in the trax poll http://soundcloud.com/k-diddybop/kalenna-gotowork

Also 'A Prelude To A Tell Tale Heart' is a terrible fucking title.

I'll agree w/the consensus that the last two Jr. Boys albums are no patch on the first two, but there are still plenty of nice moments on them.

i still like what junior boys are doing, though this doesn't really touch their first 2 records

will never get the love for junior boys

ha in between the junior boys single placing in trax and today, i managed to forget again that they released an album last year. siiiiigh they're just not exciting any more ;_;

Also 'A Prelude To A Tell Tale Heart' is a terrible fucking title.

the album was originally gonna be called a tell tale heart, hence "a prelude to..." for the mixtape

will have to dl that Dawn Richard. Nikkiya was "the free mixtape r&b" i listened to in 2011 ;)

A Tell Tale Heart is also a pretty terrible title.

Nikkiya was "the free mixtape r&b" i listened to in 2011 ;)

still got my fingers crossed that this will place but not as hopeful any more :(

I'm getting déjà vu. Junior Boys again? They bore me to tears, sorry.

you ranked 500 albums?
Um, have you've visited his website?

ok vomit is quite good actually. But none of the other tracks are as good as it

Love this Junior Boys album, love them all for different reasons. Forgot to vote for it.

xp
at least it wasn't called "Four Beasts in One - The Homo-Cameleopard"

i wonder if the feeling i get when people get all giddy about real estate and girls is the same feeling rap dorks get when people like drake or lex gets about the weeknd. i guess not because i just find them generic and boring, not deplorable, but it seems to be the same kinda thing where most of the people who like them don't really listen to a lot of indie rock/guitar music. it's like indie rock for rap dorks.

plz get fastnbulbous spam out of here plz, we have enough of that around ilm

it's like indie rock for rap dorks.

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speaking as a rap dork that loved both the real estate and girls album, i can just about guarantee you that maybe 1% of rap dorks are checking for real estate and/or girls albums

people who only listen to indie rock are really into those two bands

actually, there are some good mixtape titles in the Poe bibliography. "Thou Art the Man" is making me lol

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37. Death Grips — Ex-Military (382 points, 13 votes)

P4K: DNP
P&J: 165

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it took me like all year to realize i liked it's all true

it's not nearly as immediately catchy/poppy as last exit, which id still rank as my fav of theirs

ppl seem to really love so this is goodbye but it's v meh to me

Yeah, 532 albums. It's what I do. Think of it as an ongoing playlist. When I started listening to a lot of music, it's just a handy way to keep track of stuff and revisit my favorites more often, or reconsider others rather than forget about them. They started as lists on whatever word processing program I used for Apple IIs in 1983 on the 5" floppies, and went to web in '95.

it's like indie rock for rap dorks.

curious what the real indie insiders are stanning over?

I like Real Estate (And Woods) but not anything i've heard by Girls.

i'm phrasing my point re: real estate and girls poorly. maybe i just mean they seem like "entry level" indie rock or something. ignore all the stuff about rap dorks. i think i actually like real estate but don't get why someone would be really excited about them.