ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2012

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

Figured as much.

Any chance of Lace Curtains or Thee Oh Sees placing in the top 60? nah!

77. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Centipede Hz (204 Points, 8 Votes, 1 First Place Vote)
I liked the direction they took with Merriweather Post Pavilion but not a fan of this run-away-from-pop, obnoxious squall stuff, and there was too much Avey Tare vox going on. Record reminds me of bad smelling people.
76. JEREMIH Late Nights With Jeremih (206 Points, 10 Votes)
Voted for this and really like it, guess I'm just hanging out for more terius but this was a fine replacement. Of course there are obvious highlights but I wouldn't be so hasty as to suggest that the rest of it has no merit.
75. BIGBANG Alive EP (210 Points, 6 Votes, 1 First Place Vote)
Never heard of this, have confined my K and J-pop mostly to singles (I liked the Perfume album from a few years ago initially, but then found it grated with repeat listens). Will investigate.
74. DAPHNI Jiaolong (213 Points, 9 Votes)
Pretty bored by this, and I liked Swim a lot.
73. TWIN SHADOW Confess (214 Points, 8 Votes)
Haven't returned to this as much as I did the gorgeous Forget - but it's a compelling listen and the songwriting is good. All the braggadocio he displayed in interviews was a little off-putting but the delicacy of the lyrics kind of made up for it.
72. VATICAN SHADOW Ghosts of Chechnya (216 Points, 7 Votes)
Haven't heard this - feel like this wasn't the only VS release from last year? Might check it out eventually.
71. NITE JEWEL One Second of Love (216 Points, 8 Votes)
I was really hyped up for this one because I loved the first single and then the album turned out to be very staid and lacking in energy. Feel like she has brilliance in her - clearly inspired by Jeff Phillips - and songs like "She's Always Watching You" have the propensity to get stuck in my head at unusual occasions. But I'd be lying if I said it was anything other than a disappointment.
70. LONE Galaxy Garden (216 Points, 9 Votes)
Respectable enough dance music but not particularly thrilling or exciting to me. Needs more Azealia Banks! lol
69. NINA KRAVIZ Nina Kraviz (218 Points, 7 Votes, 1 First Place Vote)
Keep meaning to hear this one. Heard good things.
68. METZ Metz (219 Points, 10 Votes)
Haven't properly listened to any of these bands Pitchfork seems to be lumping together as part of this 90s rock revival (see: Cloud Nothings, The Men, Merchandise, I'm sure there are others. Actually, I have listened to Japandroids, so there you go.) No real interest either.
67. GUNPLAY Bogota Rich: The Prequel (220 Points, 9 Votes)
Haven't heard this either! But I did like "Jump Out" - is that on here? Seems like something I should get into.
66. KATY B Danger EP (223 Points, 8 Votes)
"Aaliyah" rules but I agree with the sentiments expressed upthread, this belongs in some kind of separate EP poll with Kindred and Frank + Derol.
65. LOWER DENS Nootropics (227 Points, 7 Votes)
"Brains" is really good - like an update on "The Rat", almost - but I prefer the poppier stylings of Bloom to this.
64. ACTION BRONSON & PARTY SUPPLIES Blue Chips (230 Points, 7 Votes)
This stuff ain't my thing.
63. CHRISTIAN MISTRESS Possession (232 Points, 8 Votes)
Only album on the list so far I've never heard of before.
62. GRIZZLY BEAR Shields (233 Points, 8 Votes)
I know everyone thinks this band is aural Nyquil but I don't really get it - the arrangements are too intricate for me to nod off! There are Buckinghamisms all over this album which is what really kept drawing me back - that and the rousing final few songs and the fact that it sounded like it was recorded in a really beautiful recital hall. That said I still don't think I found room for it in my top 25.
61. LAUREL HALO Quarantine (246 Points, 8 Votes)
I guess I am supposed to admire this deliberately dissonant vocal technique or whatever but I just think this sounds crap. Like, major interior semiotics vibes. Incredibly disappointing as well given that "Strawberry Skies" is still a pop song for the ages. Lovely album cover though!

Lone aka matt cuttler

okay i lied when talking about christian mistress i hadn't heard of that OR bigbang

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

― Bel-Air the Fresh Prince, sitting in a chair (DJP), Monday, January 28, 2013 4:21 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

this seriously happened? another thing i learned today.

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as much as i love Caribou (and i really love Caribou) I've come to avoid anything tagged with "Caribou Remix" since its reliably boring noneffective attempts at techno. that said, i'm really enjoying this Daphni album!

liking the cloudy sound of that Lower Dens. also like that the songs are presented in quite an understated way, despite the fact there's obviously a lot going on.

the action bronson & daphni albums are both good fun but i voted for vatican shadow, gunplay & the dreaded laurel halo. vatican shadow is cartoonishly bleak. reminiscent of metal gear solid. bogota rich was my fav unacceptable album of the year, relentlessly hard&catchy even if there was marginally less precision-bellowing than on inglorious bastard. i like how perverse quarantine is. it's so internet. that sort of numb sensitivity you get w/ sleep deprivation. her dispassionate bleating just endeared it to me more aggressively.

― ogmor, Monday, 28 January 2013 19:50 (Yesterday) Bookmark

have 2 say oggie u got a good knack of making me kinda wanna revisit albums i know i don't like

i guess i am saying those look like good opinions

you don't like bogota rich??

just endeared it to me more aggressively

this is a sympathetic description to me though I have never knowingly heard Quarantine.

oh no i was talking about the other ones

although for some reason my "hey let's listen to gunplay" mystical tipping point never arrived last year so i still actually havent heard any of his tapes

i'm sure they're as excellent as described though

way behind but v interested in results -- for now I'm in tears reading whiney's goon rollout, thx for linking gr8080

totally forgot abt icey's a+ trolling in that thread

#1 DIDDY DO IT - TAPAS 2010

― ice cr?m

for christ's sakes there were 15 ballots--no one's asking you to take the math sat ii on your friday afternoon

― call all destroyer, Friday, January 7, 2011 2:12 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

they're asking me to do shit i dont feel like doing, should be happy with what i'm giving them, and can therefore str8 suck my bawls through my drawers

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, January 7, 2011 9:17 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

... why are you crying into your underwear

― Indolence Mission (DJP), Friday, January 7, 2011 9:18 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

surely this isn't THAT stressful

― Indolence Mission (DJP), Friday, January 7, 2011 9:18 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'm not stressed, i'm shocked at the fucking entitlement of some people

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, January 7, 2011 9:20 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh boo hoo.

― i don't even vacuum, i'm roomba pimpin (The Reverend), Friday, January 7, 2011 9:20 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

like maybe this is different from the 3097098308763 other polls on ilx and ppl should just dealwithit.gif

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, January 7, 2011 9:21 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i wish this were a singles poll, feel like im entitled tbh

― ice cr?m, Friday, January 7, 2011 9:21 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I feel like we are on the cusp of something awesome

― Indolence Mission (DJP), Friday, January 7, 2011 9:22 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

imo metadata for some larger poll like P&J or the sitewide ILM ones can be interesting, w/ a dozen participants it's kind of pointless

― Johnny Cheever (some dude), Friday, January 7, 2011 9:22 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you whiners can stephen ilxor guess numbers 1 through 17, because i'm not posting them anymore, eat a dick, crybabies

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, January 7, 2011 9:22 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

awesomeness achieved

― Indolence Mission (DJP), Friday, January 7, 2011 9:23 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there it was

lol

suck my bawls through my drawers

I had completely forgotten about Whiney's midpoll meltdown and I'm having a hard time picking myself up off the floor. What a clown.

^ rejected lyric for rihanna's 'cockiness' xp

The real reason Whiney was so resistant to post ballots and points was because he had pulled a total dick move and decided to only count forks' ballot for half points. Just putting that in the open.

really have no idea why i let this be handled by whiney

― J0rdan S., Friday, January 7, 2011 8:04 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'm basically just confused as to how whiney figured out the winners without having the number of points handy

― call all destroyer, Friday, January 7, 2011 2:30 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

two years later and i'm still confused by this!

oh wow xp to rev's post; what a dick

let's be rr though, that poll was a 100% accurate representation of how the goon threads work, if it had gone off flawlessly I would have been v disappointed

why the fuck did nite jewel stop being chillwave? this album is terrible.

The real reason Whiney was so resistant to post ballots and points was because he had pulled a total dick move and decided to only count forks' ballot for half points. Just putting that in the open.

― The Reverend, Monday, January 28, 2013 8:34 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

whaaat

that is a hilarious post whether Rev is joking or telling the truth

hahahahaha c'mon rev is totally trolling

That's what Jordan told me, at least. ¯\(°_o)/¯

http://c268492.r92.cf1.rackcdn.com/img/election.png

can we talk about the jpgs bcz they were awesome imo

ilx is p awesome tonight, damn

The real reason Whiney was so resistant to post ballots and points was because he had pulled a total dick move and decided to only count forks' ballot for half points. Just putting that in the open.

― The Reverend, Monday, January 28, 2013 7:34 PM (58 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is hilarious imo

outstanding trivia if it's true

lamp! :)