ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2012

Would be fun if the percentage of colour increased with every entry.

or if the percentage of color increased every time someone complained about it

lol just noticed/registered that Lower Dens is also greyscale/b&w

Did someone remix all the albums to be in mono for the Spotify playlist?

you're welcome

Would be fun if the percentage of colour increased with every entry.

― questino (seandalai), Monday, January 28, 2013 4:40 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the wi7ard of o7

could we get Z S in here to subtly animate all the album covers thx

ugh, i'm already spending all my free time animating all of the coint and plick results for next week's rollout!

(also i like the b/w! it's something new to think about when seeing all these covers again for the billionth time!)

um so if it's clear that there is absolutely no good reason for these to be in grayscale can we do the rest in color? so they look like the actual covers of the albums we're polling?

how about people who didn't put in the effort to roll out the poll stfu and let him do w/e he wants, ffs. sepia tone that shit for all i care.

i like the b/w

There is a good reason: that is the design aesthetic the poll roll-out has this year. So suck it.

i hope you're all learning a valuable lesson about the horrible plight of the colorblind and dogs

who cares imo

ILXors, apparently

the horrible plight of dogs

but that's not the same. dogs don't know that there ae colours, we do. and we have even seen them.

ok, points taken, whatever. i think it's important to see what album covers look like, more important than someone's cool color scheme. n.b. i'm an archivist not a designer.

and the "you didn't do the work, don't complain" response is just the worst, i'll work on not caring about changing album covers if u work on not being a moron.

next year all tracks poll screnshots need to be from fan-made youtube videos

btw i'm really digging the accompanying album text boxes, they look fab.

JF shld do a whiney at this point imo

― beez in the katz (zvookster), Monday, 28 January 2013 22:01 (1 minute ago) Permalink

love this one zvook

btw i'm really digging the accompanying album text boxes, they look fab.

― says a future man to his crystal son (reddening), Monday, January 28, 2013 12:01 PM (2 minutes ago)

otm, nice work on this part

cool argument, u guys

JF shld do a whiney at this point imo

this would be funny as hell

sorry i'm "caring." i mean they look great, i just think grayscale is taking it too far. this is cool and fun. the end.

(also i like the b/w! it's something new to think about when seeing all these covers again for the billionth time!)

otm, JF has done a great job.

Would be fun if the percentage of colour increased with every entry.

I still have to make the top fifteen graphics. Could do this.

JF shld do a whiney at this point imo

What's that? Other than just being generally snarly?

and the "you didn't do the work, don't complain" response is just the worst, i'll work on not caring about changing album covers if u work on not being a moron.

― Butt Trump tweet (Matt P), Monday, January 28, 2013 5:00 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol, wow

chill, my man

What's that? Other than just being generally snarly?

there was a year the goons ran their own invite-only rap poll and started posting the results to ILM in a big rollout thread which prompted some "wtf get a blog" arguments and culminated in Whiney qutting the rollout after 10 or so albums

J0rdan picked it up shortly afterward but the whole thing was pretty funny

top ten ilx, impo

what the fuck happened here

― J0rdan S., Friday, January 7, 2011 2:55 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

whiney seriously how old are you

― J0rdan S., Friday, January 7, 2011 2:55 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i swear to god both you & deej are 12 years old

― J0rdan S., Friday, January 7, 2011 2:55 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

loooool

good times

that was a great poll btw, i was always sad they didn't do another one

ilx definitely need more goon opinions and arguments

but really i'd just comb the individual ballots that we all end up posting after this thing ends anyway

yeah no i can do that; i just liked it summarized so it was easier for me (and more difficult for you i guess)

Next year, we'll include a checkbox during voting so people can "self-identify" as goon or non-goon.

goon or goblin iirc

ugh, i'm already spending all my free time animating all of the coint and plick results for next week's rollout!

is this true? dang, shda voted

the other element to the Great Goonpoll Clusterfuck was that it was conducted in secret on an invite-only basis and most of the board did not know it was going to happen until the rollout. One poster in particular was v v scandalized.

It wasn't that secret. We'd been openly discussing it in the goon thread.

goon thread may as well be a secret board

well there was never a HAY EVERYONE PLEASE VOTE IN THE GOON POLL - LURKERS WELCOME thread, which was enough for some people to be scandalized

The Nina Kraviz first-place vote came from me. I can understand why people might see it as a standard dance long-player but it's a lot more than that. Those vox are so alluring, the whole thing feels like when you come home from a great night clubbing with someone and there's that mix of lingering substance effect, sexual tension, and nervousness - it's like an intimately euphoric bedroom party. Obviously there's that whole "woman in techno makes feminine-sounding techno" narrative around her career which I don't really believe in - there's plenty of sensual and organic dance music out there, and the album is quite dark and verges on abrasive at times. (although I do admit, I did also place this highly because I was certain most of everything else I voted for would place regardless and I wanted to see this get some love)

I thought we were supposed to do a goon poll this year? Xp

they are you just weren't invited