ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2012

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! :)

Hahahahaha

sry, kinda drunk and just happy to see lamp

:-/

rev is telling the truth (unless whiney lied to me) + it's also hilarious

Mostly lol but kinda sad

while a true goon at his core, forks submitted a ballot that was only about half the size of everyone else's and came with a bunch of caveats and apologies that he didn't actually listen to that much rap over the year.

but rev, do continue your stellar work of airing out two-year-old offsite trivia in an attempt to create drama between me and an IRL friend.

don't do the crime if you can't do the time imo

Three of my votes showed up yesterday:

VATICAN SHADOW: This really impressed me on first listen, austere techno when done well can be the best thing ever.
NINA KRAVIZ: Found myself coming back to this over and over again during the year, seemed to suit a lot of different moods.
LAUREL HALO: I really loved this despite not being fussed about LH's previous stuff, I like the queasiness.

The others I've heard are:

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE: Was a big fan from Sung Tongs through to MPP but this was a bit of a mess. Poor production, low on hooks. They should've just released an EP wih 'Today's Supernatural' as the lead track.
NITE JEWEL: Enjoyable enough.
LONE: Ditto
METZ: Like others here I don't think this compares to its influences but if this had come out 8-9 years ago I'd probably have loved it.
CHRISTIAN MISTRESS: I liked parts of this but it was a bit too corny for me to love. Obviously talented songwriters though.

There was an interview with Julia Holter in the Wire where she said she was friends with Laurel Halo and Nite Jewel and that they'd released some of her favourite albums of the year. Would love to see a collab.

there is this Holter and Nite Jewel collaboration - http://youtu.be/wKchvpb_VPg

also this coming up: http://www.kaufmanmusiccenter.org/mch/event/ecstatic-music-festival-daniel-wohl-laurel-halo-julia-holter-with-transit

well i'll be

when's the roll-out starting again? just wondering cos i have to make up work for yesterday's lackadaisicaliality.

I'll be starting in about 60-90 mins.

grand

Sweet

3... 2... 1...

http://i.imgur.com/3c6nGy3.png

60. DIRTY PROJECTORS Swing Lo Magellan (254 Points, 8 Votes) Spotify

Damn, going to miss this part of the results as I'm in Australia at the moment and it's a little late here. I'm starting to give up hope of my precious iamamiwhoami placing. If it doesn't appear in the next few albums it's probably not going to make it.

despised everything about them so much that i avoided this completely (proud achievement!) but if i'm not mistaken this is way down from where the last one placed? ilm coming 2 its senses <3

The only song I've really liked that I've heard by Dirty Projectors was Stillness Is The Move. I found a lot of their last album a bit cloying and ultimately trying too hard and failing at something they probably shouldn't have attempted in the first place (the guy can't pull off those Eastern / R'n'B-influenced melismas all that well to my ears). Should I listen to this?

So far, we've knocked out GAPDYX.