ILM's Top 77 ALBUMS of 2011

Regarding Tune-Yards, flopson put it so much better than I could ever hope to:

listening to tuneyards i feel like i'm in a room at a party when someone youtube dj's obnoxious dubstep or a guy with acoustic guitar getting too into it. like you politey try to ignore it but inside you're reeling at their painful lack of self-awareness, embarrassed for them.

― flopson, Monday, January 23, 2012 10:35 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thinking about tuneyards i almost convinced myself that i like music thats more poised/restrained but then i realized, like, i love "mother" and early boredoms and other cathartic or ott singing so that must not be it. compared to john lennon tuneyards shounds like she's singing with loud headphones on, like you can acknowledge that its ecstatic but you also don't feel that you should be privy to it, like walking in on someone masturbating vigorously

― flopson, Monday, January 23, 2012 10:44 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Woulda been higher if the reverend hadnt cut it off.

lex its not really metal, its psychedelic poppy heavy rock

ASR you should be grinning right now. I hope you are.

WELL DONE GUYS. Just missed my ballot, but I'm very happy it's here.

(And yep, it's not metal, but it is rock)

those flopson posts were great

holding out slim hope for subrosa and corrupted!

not as much as George, he predicted top 10 at the start!

I've never dipped into Tuneyards that much, kind of sounds like the kind of thing Ponytail did well occasionally.

ehhh, i voted for it but EPs are always gonna have a tough time stacked up against full length albums :(

― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Thursday, February 2, 2012 11:20 AM Bookmark

I voted for hella EPs including my #1. :(

Oh shit, this list's gone bonkers

also voted for the al-Qadiri EP

Uncle Acid fans: any particular track to start with?

aw thanks, guy xp's

Eh, it's metal enough to be metal for people who don't spend any of their time listening to metal. That would be like arguing that Robyn isn't pop and Britney is. xps

Awesome! My #3!

Lex there's a thread I just made for this and other psych/pop-art metal albums...

Sweet. Us rockers can stop whining now, the crossover album of choice made it. Lots of other great stuff that would appeal to those on the metal fence like SubRosa, Blood Ceremony, The Devil's Blood, Elder and Graveyard, but just glad to see one make it.

I hoped by starting Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - Blood Lust (One of the best rock albums this year) I'd get ilxors into the band but never dreamed it would go top 10. just WOW.

It really is an album that anyone who likes poppy rock could get into. Nothing to put anyone off at all. Might even be melodic enough for geir!

Didn't particularly like this album, but it's good seeing the list get nutso.

rob start with the youtubes on that thread?

Great to see Uncle Acid place!

Another victory for outloud room btw

top ten!!

i would have voted for it if i'd heard it in time, dug into it on the metal results thread.

BTW if there's anything on the list that needs it to be understood, that Tim Hecker needs to be listened to REALLY FLIPPING LOUD

I feel like half the stuff that I don't recognize is Outloud fare.

or http://youtu.be/zfNHX5k9N-A
and
http://youtu.be/jWyj03OSvek

nice psychedelic video for the first one

9. Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats — Blood Lust (696 points, 19 votes, two first place votes

FUCK YES! DAM was saying it was gonna place, but i figured that for wishful thinking. biggest (and happiest) surprise of the countdown. the run from "i'm here to kill you" through "13 candles" to "ritual knife" is probably my favorite quarter-hour of music released this year.

cool, just listened to I'll Cut You Down. Not totally sold yet--this isn't really my thing these days--but it's well done and I would definitely be into anything these people art-directed

hmm, kinda think I need to hear this at better than youtube quality. is there much bass on the record?

I think some of you might like drugs a moneys thread Poptimists get into ...METAL?!

like you can acknowledge that its ecstatic but you also don't feel that you should be privy to it, like walking in on someone masturbating vigorously

― flopson, Monday, January 23, 2012 10:44 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this metaphor repulses me so much i can't even begin to

was it in front of a baby?

i just got here. is there a single spotify playlist being made for as much of this poll is available there?

I found that Uncle Acid record kinda dull, didn't find it particularly distinctive at all. Really looking forward to hearing Julianna Barwick though.

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

8. Pistol Annies — Hell on Heels (762 points, 19 votes, two first place votes)

P4K: DNP
P&J: 23

Spotify

without really knowing what's coming i think i'm glad we got 8-10 out of the way here

haha nice timing
Metalheads Respond to Pistol Annies

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

heh we've just been discussing this on Metalheads Respond to Pistol Annies

my #4. superb album

Been away, just dropping in to say UNCLE FUCKING ACID! Well done to the rock Crüe, particularly Kerr who persuaded me to change my ballot after it had been handed in.

Cool, Uncle Acid placed... I don't really care about the rest.

hopefully a non limited no bullshit this time vinyl repress will come of the uncle acid.
Uncle Acid is from Cambridge btw. So it's strange seeing a brit heavy rock band in the top 10.

discovering stuff like Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats is what makes lurking at this place worthwhile. My #2.

xp yeah i would love that album on vinyl

uncle acid vinyl is going for $400+ these days. its bullshit

happy today to have been introduced to nicolas jaar, julianna barwick and that tim hecker album. thanks to all and especially to j0rdan.

and yeah, i'm also hoping for a less limited repress of that uncle acid album. top five for me.

! xp

Lex, that Vatican Vibes video is great. The music really reminds me of Plaid - did you ever get on board with them?

how nuts is this
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Uncle-Acid-deadbeats-Blood-lust-lp-vinyl-Rise-above-records-mint-/220945871690?pt=UK_Records&hash=item337166734a