ILM's Top 77 ALBUMS of 2011

i voted for both death grips and dawn richard so p happy to see those place. the dawn richard mixtape has an even dumber name cuz i think its supposed to have a hashtag? idk. i dont know how much appeal this will have to ilm posters but its v v modern sounding to me w/o being 'futuristic' stuff like 'broken record' works really well in a number of contexts for e.g. or the way 'runway' is like part yuppie club fodder and part bratrap eyeroll

the death grips tape is just really badass

it was not so long ago that you were complaining about "fatass rick ross" ruining mariah m@tt!

I thought it was Nick Cannon who ruined Mariah

lamp you should hear the kalenna song

that mariah remix my the dream is pretty nice, except having big fatass rick ross on a track sort of diminishes it's "wonderful space ballad drifting thru space"-ness IMO.

― Yo, I just copped dat brand new Manity Kane cd. (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, February 13, 2009 9:19 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no one has ruined mariah yet though :)

i bought the real estate record for my bf cuz its the exact kind of music he really likes and its really nice, idk, the guitars do sound really good and its appropriately sweet w/o being cloying. 'it's real' is a total jam

that mariah remix my the dream is pretty nice, except having big fatass rick ross on a track sort of diminishes it's "wonderful space ballad drifting thru space"-ness IMO.

― Yo, I just copped dat brand new Manity Kane cd. (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, February 13, 2009 9:19 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no one has ruined mariah yet though :)

― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Wednesday, February 1, 2012 12:26 PM (31 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha i know! i don't like love him or anything i just think it's funny how much you hate him, plus i do think he's gotten better...

though that said, i pretty much HATE guest rap verses in R&B I think that's the #1 that sucks about R&B

I think Death Grips is more of a live act than an album act, sort of like Lightning Bolt. I posted this in the DG thread already:

http://youtu.be/YG71wkBZNbA

last one before i run to work.. will pick up in like 45 mins or so

p much all the rap dorks i know stan for Real Estate, though some of the older heads are all like "damn this this shit is weak i ride for O.G. shit like Let's Active and Aztec Camera"

― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, February 1, 2012 6:18 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

just wanna, how you say, 'flag' this post

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36. Holy Ghost! — Holy Ghost! (384 points, 13 votes, one first place vote)

P4K: DNP
P&J: 148

Spotify

do it DJ Mencap, just do it

"Broken Record" is great, though the audio quality is weirdly lo-fi as mentioned upthread

all this debate about girls and like 3 people talking about dawn richard ;_;

lol wah. in order to demonstrate to myself that i don't like girls, i just listened to "honey bunny". holy fuck that sucks. nadir of the happy happy beach party funtime shit indie garage ppl went nuts for when they got tired of "weird punk" c. 2008. modern lovers via lemonheads via something even more horrid.

dudes i already redacted the "rap dorks" thing. i shouldn't talk about music. i won't post anything else today.

it's cool mang sorry

trying to imagine an ILM where everyone who made slightly regrettable generalizations about music fandoms stopped posting

dudes i already redacted the "rap dorks" thing. i shouldn't talk about music. i won't post anything else today.

it's okay though cuz real estate are really fucking boring (swidt)

music sucks

real estate is pretty swell but i don't get excited over them. i can see why some folks would, though.

Save us J0rdan S.

Holy Ghost! is decent but I dunno, I don't think the quality holds up over the length of a full album.

omg! about that mariah/Rick Ross post! Didn't M@tt post another thing right after that about being high on mushrooms & not being to enjoy it bcz some linebacker was relaying his sexual conquests right next to your ear? Or something like that? Those posts were awesome!

n/a, 'member when Dalek rocked our cawlidge? I think I could get into this Death Grips stuff, although I don't necessarily hear the Dalek connection that much. Dalek was more immersive, wash-y, sloppier and thicker; Death Grips operates on a final-scene-of-Clockwork-Orange level of alertness, like a transmission from a scary land where there's no drugs and kids kill woodland creatures for fun instead.

Re Real Estate: I like pretty much everything that's come out of the Mondanile/Woodsist axis but Days is just so boring, like they've turned the chillometer up to 11 and given up on motion entirely.

Back in the good old days you could just rely on your A&R man to push you around in a grocery cart.

n/a, 'member when Dalek rocked our cawlidge?

i think the id "opened"!

Love that Holy Ghost album although the second half is definitely stronger. I don't know how you can be familiar with their recent history and remain unmoved by Jam For Jerry.

They're like the perfect bridge between the DFA scuzzy New York crew and the Permanent Vacation dancing on beaches guys.

I loved Dälek. Maybe I should listen to that Death Grips record, then.

i can see the death grips/dalek thing on a superficial level but agree with clarke that they're pretty different, death grips is way more aggro and in your face than dalek ever was

Hmm, I couldn't get into Dalek back when "From Filthy Tongue of Gods" came out, but this is hitting the spot for me now.

xxxpost

it kinda sucks overall, like you can't just do a nice trippy remix it's always gotta have a rapper on it.

it's like you just ate mushrooms and wanted to watch planet earth on DVD but instead you have to sit there and listen to an offensive lineman from the jaguars tell you how he got a blowjob from some chick in a convenience store bathroom

― Yo, I just copped dat brand new Manity Kane cd. (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, February 13, 2009 3:24 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

:)

i don't know wtf my login name was about back then :\

This is the Death Grips track that immediately grabbed me:

http://youtu.be/DaE8cMt_8iU

And n/a, I think the Id did open! All the girls were pining for Chang, I remember that.

Because he's DREAMY.

They're like the perfect bridge between the DFA scuzzy New York crew and the Permanent Vacation dancing on beaches guys.

On this description they should be 100% pure seandalai-bait and I've been following them since "Hold On"...I think the main reason I'm a bit down on the album is that it doesn't quite live up to my expectations. Before today I hadn't felt like revisiting it in months.

Holy Ghost has a great album in them but it's not this one. they remind me more of Chromeo than of DFA - smarmy and cloying, except Chromeo is very tongue in cheek about it. These guys are (or at least the vocal delivery is) way too straightforward. This is FUN! music that doesn't sound like they had fun making.

it's maybe weird that i ride so hard for death grips when i was bitching just yesterday about the "angryman" vocals killing fcukedup for me, but i dunny, the mr. death grips approach strikes me as funny, fresh and appealingly weird. pink eyes not so much.

Hmm, I couldn't get into Dalek back when "From Filthy Tongue of Gods" came out, but this is hitting the spot for me now.

― polyphonic, Wednesday, February 1, 2012 10:48 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

and filthy tongues is so great, so forgotten, still love you forever

Haha thx m@tt for the vintage LOLs...

Good to see Dawn Richard, I'm another lover of 'Hey'.

Never got with Death Grips, too 'aggro' is about right.

Really hate every Girls song I've heard, voice, production, everything. Yeuckh.

hey u guys has anyone been doing an albums spotify list? ty.

YUH

http://open.spotify.com/user/miketd/playlist/1eFRt0eXdigDDJ1aWMqPuP

― Yo, I just copped dat brand new Manity Kane cd. (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, February 13, 2009 3:24 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

:)

i don't know wtf my login name was about back then :\

― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, February 1, 2012 6:49 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

funny thing is that username comes back round into relevance here b/c of course dawn richard first rose to prominence as a member of danity kane, and indeed she was the one who provided their bizarrely outré name (iirc they were named after a fictional animé character of dawn's own invention)

xp thanknig u

the holy ghost album is pretty cool, "some children" and "jam for jerry" are total classics

this is not a criticism necc but holy crap i am listening to takyon by death grips and now i cant get the fact that it sounds like an aggro hip hop group fronted by Chuck Mosely out of my goddamn head

sorry about this being so disjointed today, let's get rolling again

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35. Julia Holter — Tragedy (386 points, 14 votes, one first place vote)

P4K: DNP
P&J: 1734

i like death grips, but the one time i tried to play it for a friend it felt oddly embarassing

i got the julia holter album after seeing it on several EOY lists and falling in love w/the idea of it - i was very disappointed that i couldn't get into it, it seemed very slight/too abstract - possibly i didn't give it enough of a chance but nothing hooked me in :(