ILM's Top 77 ALBUMS of 2011

xp to omar there's gotta be a subset of 30-ish guys who have a little money and think it's so rad to have that stuff on vinyl

― call all destroyer, Thursday, February 2, 2012 8:17 PM (36 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

also in the case of the first two they had fuck all LPs pressed in the 90s despite being hueg

Woah. Surprised.

i originally upthread thought katy b would win until i remembered beyonce had an album out that everyone on ilm seemed to love. but with uncle acid in the top 10 there might be enough pj voters after all.

ok wow

Big points jump there.

beyonce's gotta shave those pits imo

wow, stats for the next 3 are going to be crazy

if destroyer isnt up next the lex would be shitting himself if he was here

You know, the two things that totally knocked me out in the tracks poll was the Blawan track and Beyonce's 'Countdown'. There's been this trend in r'n'b/pop lately to incorporate loads of big trance rushes and breakdowns and it's never done anything for me, but this is how you make a fucking pop song. I was spellbound by her Glastonbury performance when I watched it on telly earlier this year, and now I have 4 and am very much looking forward to checking it out properly.

Prediction: Destroyer won't place

Interesting! I was expecting Beyoncé to be top two.

destroyer will def place

destroyer at #1

that's a really crappy album cover on the beyonce.

without being arsed to go to the respective threads now I got the impression that a lot more US posters dug the PJ album than the Katy B album, which seems like it should be a p big factor

Glad to see 4 @ 4.

this whole thread is like an object lesson "how to not make an album cover," beyonce really one of the lesser offenders

Is Beyonce at 4 in both polls? It's a pretty fucking patchy album with so many unbelievably stupid bits - 'I Miss You', "tears falling down to my ears", that godawful ballad at the end when she's basically going "ME ME ME ME ME" for four minutes, fucking SWAGU. But then the rest of it is straight up amazing - Love On Top, End Of Time, Countdown, Schoolin' Life, Rather Die Young, Lay Up Under Me, all top drawer. If a bit more thought had gone into sequencing and track selection it could well have been my #1.

what's her best album, MAtt?

4

my favorite covers are probably the more boomkatty ones like grouper or julianna barwick and also the revenue retrievin twofer

4, actually.

see the KC & JH album's got a good cover (I have a signed copy on my wall, I know, I know) that's why it didn't place.

basically if you put "Crazy In Love", "Ring The Alarm" and "Get Me Bodied" on 4 you would have my platonic ideal of a Beyonce album

16 for Tropical 2!

hopefully quik keeps putting out an album a year

― J0rdan S., Thursday, February 2, 2012 2:53 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"keeps"? last couple were 2 years apart and before that he was averaging an album every 3-4 years

Going back to Kate Bush, I only really love the first three tracks of 50 Words For Snow, but all of the rest have at least one awesome thing going on in them (but not enough for me to vote for it).

aaaaand no. 3

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

3. Katy B — On a Mission (1,288 points, 37 votes, one first place vote)

P4K: 34
P&J: 52

Spotify

lex is now shitting himself!

I am basically just googling for pictures of clowns to post if Destroyer wins this.

OK so now it's a head-to-head between my #1 and some bullshit.

if Destroyer wins I'll even listen to it. If it doesn't I shouldn't bother, right?

C'mon PJ!

not sure i'd call pjh bullshit
xp

i think it'll be PJ

b/c of britishes

Rooting hard for Destroyer

plus honourary britishes

LOUTALLICA

Come on Peej! Or, erm, what am I saying? COME ON ELEANOORA ROSENHOLM!

xp Ha, no, PJ is my #1, Destroyer is the bullshit

hah omar britishes think it wont be pj because of yanks

both are d0pe

LOUTALLICA

― ⚓ (gr8080)

its USA vs Britain

LOUTALLICA

in Olympic year

Only ILM could make an album about the horrors of war across several continents and an entire century into 'lol britishes',

Alex Salmond thinks it should be Mogwai

Only lol britishes could make an album about the horrors of war across several continents and an entire century

I was the only first place voter for Kate Bush? Dang