ILM's Top 77 ALBUMS of 2011

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.

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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

http://i.imgur.com/kjAH5.jpg

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 :(

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

It's almost this for me as well, verging on caricature the same way, say, early Swans does: yeah, yeah, I'm a slave, we're all meat, he's a bad boss, she despises her fuckhole, got it. For whatever reason, it's harder for me to connect with that sort of primal rage than it used to be--or maybe it's more that I've really distanced myself from such forceful and un-nuanced expressions of it.

Yaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy wow SO surprised at it placing so high! <3

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 :(

you might like her live recordings better, theyre a little more raw and gestural, the performance can give s.thing to hold on to

I love this album, though it's not very immediate in its appeal. The most charming track is Goddess Eyes, a human-vocoder duet with a whiff of "O Superman".

Listening to "Goddess Eyes" now. I like this a bunch.

yaaaay Julia Holter -- something else I voted for. It's dreamy and kinda remote, but I can definitely hear a real human in there. I probably will forget about it/use it for alarm clock music in a couple of years (hello Colleen!) but it sounded nice in 2011.

I probably will forget about it/use it for alarm clock music in a couple of years (hello Colleen!)

heh i use colleen for hangover music these days

cool, voted for julia holter. it's great!

http://i.imgur.com/DacWw.jpg

34. Cut Copy — Zonoscope (392 points, 12 votes, one first place vote)

P4K: 28
P&J: 109

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I love that Holter record, so gutted I couldn't get hold of it on vinyl. Lots of people seem to lump it in with a bunch of the washed-out kind of electronica stuff but it's so deftly written, with nods to operatic narrative and early music, and gaaaah it's bloody great.

ok i am officially intrigued by the julia holter stuff

Remind me who Cut Copy are again? I think I always confused them with Crystal Castles for some reason.

It's almost this for me as well, verging on caricature the same way, say, early Swans does: yeah, yeah, I'm a slave, we're all meat, he's a bad boss, she despises her fuckhole, got it. For whatever reason, it's harder for me to connect with that sort of primal rage than it used to be--or maybe it's more that I've really distanced myself from such forceful and un-nuanced expressions of it.

― Clarke B., Wednesday, February 1, 2012 11:24 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i may be doing it wrong, but i don't take death grips anywhere near as "seriously" as swans/gira always seem to demand. it's fun and funny cartoon apocalypse music for jumping around to.

Still never figured out whether i liked that Julia Holter record as a whole or not, but it's certainly very interesting.

Remind me who Cut Copy are again? I think I always confused them with Crystal Castles for some reason.

lol i confuse them with futureheads

with nods to operatic narrative and early music, and gaaaah it's bloody great

i can see this ('tragedy finale') but idk culturally or w/e shes p squarely part of 'the washed-out kind of electronica stuff'

Zonoscope grew on me a lot through the year. It's obviously not in the same league as In Ghost Colours but it's still a really great album.