ILM's Top 77 ALBUMS of 2011

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

pistol annies: the year's most resonant recession album. tales of small-town women who are variously unhappily married, financially insolvent, addicted to pills or "bad women" in one way or another, and who respond to their non-ideal emotional, social and financial situations with, by turns, brittle optimism, defiance and utter, numbed despair.

concise (almost every song clocks in at under 3.5 minutes, but each one packs a hell of a lot into its narrative), witty, very sharp. "trailer for rent / no down payment / comes with some holes and dents where i got tired of his shit / call if you're interested."

the diehard version sells for a lot more as its ltd to 50

and it all sold out before i could get one :(

There's enough vinyl fetishists that would pay that, so can't blame them. The CD is only around $16, free shipping.

and uncle acid isnt really known outside of doom circles so imagine how much it would go for if they actually got p4k acclaim and got popular.

i think The Quietus list was the only one that had them on it. but no doubt, like with the Ghost (Sweden not Japan) album, it might get a US release in 2012so make the EOY lists in december.

metal vinyl just goes nuts on ebay sometimes.

not just metal.

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

7. DJ Quik — The Book of David (846 points, 26 votes, one first place vote)

P4K: 29
P&J: 92

Spotify

but yeah underground metal fans prefer vinyl.
xp

i thought DJ Quik would be higher going by its popularity in outloud

RAP

The only hip-hop album I voted for, iirc.

thanks CAD

Yessir for DJ Quik. Tremendous album.

Ghetto Rendezvous the ice coldest track of the year, genuinely shocking to me
http://youtu.be/aqlLDyA28yU

I didn't vote Quik, but it didn't need my help after all. YAY!

"ghetto rendezvous" is for real the coldest rap track in recent memory

hopefully quik keeps putting out an album a year

metal vinyl just goes nuts on ebay sometimes.

― omar little, Thursday, February 2, 2012 11:49 AM (48 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not just metal.

― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Thursday, February 2, 2012 11:49 AM (35 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah, but often metal. i've occasionally sold stuff on e-bay, and bidders do seem to lose their shit over "collectible" metal. plus the doods that buy it (and they're always doods) are often crazy obsessive and super-informed about billion weird little details, like comic book collectors.

xp until i die, yes

its always dudes regardless of whether its metal or not!

Killer Dope lives up to it's title and then some http://youtu.be/84hIeyQgMf0

hurrah dj quik

i have to go now i am so late oh god