ILM's Top 77 ALBUMS of 2011

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

its always dudes regardless of whether its metal or not!

― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Thursday, February 2, 2012 11:54 AM (45 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah, mostly, but i've sold a fair amount of poppy garage stuff to women

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

6. Gang Gang Dance — Eye Contact (860 points, 29 votes, one first place vote)

P4K: 29
P&J: 92

Spotify

Oh good!

Ha, apparently I'd never seen the cover of that GGD album before. Voted for it though!

29 votes. We're in consensus territory!

Top 5 =

PJH
Katy B
Destroyer
Beyonce
and...?

I'm blanking on the fifth.

Way to go Uncle Acid voters! Absolutely stunned to see that in the top ten!

uncle acid sounds really good!

Kate Bush still to come.

I'm losing my confidence in that.

Right, Kate Bush!

But then, how could she not have made the list at all? I guess you are right.

Yeah, I think it's too high a placing, but I'm sure she'll make it.

Top 5 =

PJH
Katy B
Destroyer
Beyonce
and...?

I'm blanking on the fifth.

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, February 2, 2012 12:02 PM Bookmark

I've been under the assumption those four would top 5 this whole poll but been unable to come up with the fifth. I was hoping it would be DJ Quik.

xp Oh yeah, Kate Bush.

Kind of surprised at lack of Wild Beasts though.

I found Eye Contact to be a considerable step down from St. Dymphna, but there are still a couple of undeniable jams on it.

don't count out slick pulla