ILM's Top 77 ALBUMS of 2011

Corrupted at #102!

wow 5 was closer to the countdown than I thought it would be

i think people just forgot about lloyd. i remember reading some people saying it was their fav r&b of the year in the interim between beyonce & drake

Full results: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AumbddEHET5xdFhmbzd5UnBfUHo2Rnc5RjMzVVZnYkE
User stats: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AumbddEHET5xdDJ6eDhmTEdZaEFVUl83TEZPc3V0QUE

― two lights crew (seandalai), Thursday, February 2, 2012 10:47 AM (4 minutes ago)

how can ilx poster just sayin have only 2 in the top 77 but be the hive mind champion??? or am i reading this wrong?

100% hit rate?

ilm metal #1 was only #136!

J3ff is my closest neighbor. Must be Turisas.

how can ilx poster just sayin have only 2 in the top 77 but be the hive mind champion??? or am i reading this wrong?

That poster only voted for 2 albums. Both of them placed.

yessssssss, Destroyer was my #1. Sorry to all tha haterz.

how can ilx poster just sayin have only 2 in the top 77 but be the hive mind champion??? or am i reading this wrong?

probably just voted for Destroyer and PJ Harvey, lol

ok who was the other Eleanoora Rosenholm - Hyväile Minua Pimeä Tähti voter apart from myself & emil.y?

nice!!

Thanks for putting this on, JF and jordan!

Eleanoora Rosenholm #1 for enthusiasm :D

Thanks for running the poll. Unpredictable from start to finish.

That poster only voted for 2 albums. Both of them placed.

― jaymc, Thursday, February 2, 2012 10:54 AM (1 minute ago)

ah. thank you mr. spreadsheet

Only 5 people even voted for KC&JH, very odd indeed.

Thanks jordan and JF for this - such a great rundown. I still maintain it's been one of the best years for music in personal living memory, and so much good stuff out there of course it can't all place. Loads of curveballs and oddities placing instead of obvious choices (Goblin is right down the bottom there).

Eleanoora Rosenholm #1 for enthusiasm :D

― emil.y, donderdag 2 februari 2012 21:56 (12 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Will check this out!

So who's starting the stats'n'ballots thread? Do we leave that to the poll-runners?

77. When Saints Go Machine — Konkylie (258 points, 10 votes, one first place vote)
76. Robag Wruhme — Thora Vukk (262 points, 8 votes)
75. Liturgy — Aesthethica (264 points, nine votes)
74. The Joy Formidable — The Big Roar (266 points, seven votes, one first place vote)
73. Jay-Z & Kanye West — Watch the Throne (266 points, 10 votes)
72. Barbara Panther — Barbara Panther (270 points, seven votes, two first place votes)
71. Toro y Moi - Underneath the Pine (271 points, nine votes)

(tie) 69. Wild Flag — Wild Flag (273 points, 10 votes)
(tie) 69. Low — C'Mon (273 points, 10 votes)
68. ILX Presents Lulu (276 points, 11 votes, one first place vote)
67. Veronica Falls - Veronica Falls (282 points, 11 votes)
66. Big K.R.I.T. - Return of 4Eva (288 points, 10 votes)
65. The Psychic Paramount - II (290 points, 9 votes)
64. Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage (290 points, nine votes, one first place vote)
63. Austra - Feel it Break (290 points, ten votes, one first place vote)
62. Drake – Take Care (292 points, 8 votes, one first place vote)
61. Lykke Li – Wounded Rhymes (294 points, 10 votes)

60. James Ferraro — Far Side Virtual (295 points, 11 votes)
59. Perfume — JPN (298 points, 10 votes, two first place votes)
58. Grouper — Alien Observer/Dream Loss (304 points, 11 votes, one first place vote)
57. The War on Drugs — Slave Ambient (322 points, nine votes, one first place vote)
56. Danny Brown — XXX (323 points, 11 votes, one first place vote)
55. Mastodon — The Hunter (328 points, 10 votes)
54. Kendrick Lamar — Section.80 (337 points, 10 votes, one first place vote)
53. Laura Marling — A Creature I Don’t Know (342 points, 11 votes, one first place vote)
52. The Mountain Goats — All Eternals Deck (342 points, 12 votes)
51. Demdike Stare — Tryptych (347 points, 16 votes, one first place vote)

50. Hatchback — Zeus and Apollo (350 points, nine votes, two first place votes)
49. Moon Duo — Mazes (350 points, 12 votes)
48. Tom Waits — Bad As Me (352 points, 14 votes)
47. Clams Casino — Instrumentals (354 points, 12 votes)
46. Azari & III — Azari & III (358 points, 12 votes)
45. The Weeknd — House of Balloons (360 points, 10 votes, two first place votes)
44. Fucked Up — David Comes To Life (360 points, 13 votes, one first place vote)
43. Real Estate — Days (361 points, 11 votes, two first place votes)
42. Radiohead — King of Limbs (362 points, 13 votes)
41. Andy Stott — Passed Me By/We Stay Together (363 points, 13 votes)

40. Dawn Richard — The Prelude to a Tell Tale Heart (372 points, 11 votes)
39. Girls — Father, Son, Holy Ghost (374 points, 11 votes)
38. Junior Boys — It’s All True (375 points, 15 votes)
37. Death Grips — Ex-Military (382 points, 13 votes)
36. Holy Ghost! — Holy Ghost! (384 points, 13 votes, one first place vote)
35. Julia Holter — Tragedy (386 points, 14 votes, one first place vote)
34. Cut Copy — Zonoscope (392 points, 12 votes, one first place vote)
33. John Maus — We Must Become The Pitiless Censors of Ourselves (398 points, 14 votes, one first place vote)
32. Panda Bear — Tomboy (402 points, 13 votes)
31. Nguzunguzu — The Perfect Lullaby (404 points, 13 votes, 2 first place votes)

30. Ford & Lopatin — Channel Pressure (410 points, 14 votes)
29. Britney Spears — Femme Fatale (424 points, 13 votes, one first place vote)
28. Araabmuzik — Electronic Dream (445 points, 14 votes)
27. St. Vincent — Strange Mercy (469 points, 14 votes, one first place vote)
26. Oneohtrix Point Never — Replica (474 points, 17 votes, one first place vote)
25. Frank Ocean — Nostalgia, Ultra. (476 points, 12 votes, one first place vote)
24. Colin Stetson — New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges (481 points, 13 votes, one first place vote)
23. E-40 — Revenue Retrievin: Overtime Shift/Graveyard Shift (484 points, 16 votes)
22. Lady Gaga — Born This Way (488 points, 14 votes, one first place vote)
21. Shabazz Palaces — Black Up (502 points, 17 votes)
20. Bon Iver — Bon Iver (512 points, 15 votes)
19. Peaking Lights — 936 (514 points, 17 votes)
18. Nicolas Jaar — Space is Only Noise (517 points, 19 votes, one first place vote)
17. M83 — Hurry Up We’re Dreaming (519 points, 21 votes, one first place vote)
16. Boy Better Know — Tropical 2 (548 points, 15 votes, 4 first place votes)
15. Rustie — Glass Swords (557 points, 18 votes)
14. Kurt Vile — Smoke Ring For My Halo (572 points, 16 votes, one first place vote)
13. Julianna Barwick — The Magic Place (583 points, 19 votes, two first place votes)
12. EMA — Past Life Martyred Saints (590 points, 18 votes, two first place votes)
11. Tim Hecker — Ravedeath, 1972 (597 points, 21 votes, one first place vote)
10. tUnE-yArDs — w h o k i l l (666 points, 20 votes, two first place votes)
9. Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats — Blood Lust (696 points, 19 votes, two first place votes
8. Pistol Annies — Hell on Heels (762 points, 19 votes, two first place votes)
7. DJ Quik — The Book of David (846 points, 26 votes, one first place vote)
6. Gang Gang Dance — Eye Contact (860 points, 29 votes, one first place vote)
5. Kate Bush — 50 Words For Snow (880 points, 29 votes, one first place vote)
4. Beyonce — 4 (1,089 points, 32 votes, three first place votes)
3. Katy B — On a Mission (1,288 points, 37 votes, one first place vote)
2. PJ Harvey — Let England Shake (1,311 points, 37 votes, seven first place votes)
1. Destroyer — Kaputt (1,355 points, 36 votes, 12 first place votes)

xps I voted for ER too, Kerr.

A big thank you to all involved and those that did all all the number crunching. I really fucking loved all of this \\0//

Someone start the stats thread stat

Destroyer = Man Utd is a really crap analogy

This Destroyer album... it sounds like someone doing a pastiche of OMD or Electronic or something, which is exactly what it is. ILM, seriously I thought we were over this kind of thing. Must've been the US vote on this one, I'm assuming?

Yes, thanks a lot guys!

Damn! I had forgotten about the Eleanoora Rosenholm album. I'd have voted for that.

aw man i'm the only one who voted for trail of dead

tbh I only remembered ToD released a new album when I saw it on the nominations list. Would have considered voting it worst album art of the year, though.

Kauputt has basically ZERO relevance to new pornographers fyi

OTM. It has zero relevance to anything in 2011. Everyone who voted for this terrible record should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves.

not impressed with this Destroyer so far. It's a bit tasteful and polite. Nothing to hate about it but its hardly genius like grady thinks.

Only one sad little vote for my #1, mine.

the destroyer record goes a lot deeper than the initial sonic comparisons fyi

just want 2 b "relevant"

What was it, LL?

yeah the album cover is pretty audacious

i kinda like the 'bad fantasy novel' aesthetic though tbh

It was Kieran Hebden, Steve Reid & Mats Gustafsson - Live at the South Bank and I think a lot more people would like it if they had heard it, esp considering what actually placed. OH WELL.

If someone with a voice that didn't make me nuts had made Kaputt, I'd have liked it a lot more.

It has zero relevance to anything in 2011.

What difference does this make?

his voice doesnt bother me at all. I think it may have been a better idea to play this just before bedtime.

It was apparently VERY relevant to 12 people from ILM (and others who didn't actually make it their #1 votes).

I like Bejar's voice for the same reason I like Bowie's or Morrissey's.

it was released in 2011 and a lot of people listened to it in 2011 and enjoyed it in 2011. that's pretty relevant imo

i like destroyer good record good victory for the New World lol britishes

Half Man Half Biscuit got four more points than Tyler <3

thx guys, now I can buy this Destroyer album w/ a clear conscience.

destroyer was my #1 as well. Took me a while to get into it, but it is an album worth investing some time in.

also I love his voice and lyrics, on this and on previous albums.

4 tracks in and every song on this Kaputt album sounds the same - same tempo, same droney faux-English voice... Thought the Gayngs album from last year did a much better take on this kind of thing.

Yeah, even if I didn't vote for it, I'm not gonna shit on the winner of this poll (that holds true for ANY album). Unless it would've been Hammers of Misfortune lol.

lol