ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2012

i loved Before Today but could not get into this one on the same level, too much novelty and not enough sincerity

there is some truly woeful shit on that record ("schnitzel boogie") but its not as bad as people make it out to be.

I think I heard about 2 minutes of something off that Ariel Pink album once?

"farewell american primitive" and "only in my dreams" are two of the best songs hes ever done

or maybe the problem is just the goofier songs on this one are even goofier and the juxtaposition is just too much

Yeah, too much goofy/gross humour on this one for me but I loved 'Only in My Dreams' and a couple of other tracks.

Someone that I've enjoyed enough in the past but didn't really need to hear any more of, sorry old toots

okay hahaha I think it was actually two minutes into this first song before I tapped out, mostly because I was led to believe this was going to be OUT THERE music and when I heard a bland 60s pop pastiche with a dude chanting "WHO SUNK MY BATTLESHIP" I stopped playing it and thought to myself "some ppl need to get out more, or at least listen to that Farrah Abraham album before extolling this on quirkiness/weirdness grounds"

second track started out weirder but now it's a 60s Men Without Hats song, only totally unappealing

sounds quite interesting in the beginning but gets boring after a while. does not sound very commercial, is that the indie of the 2010s?

tracks 3 and 4 are the only ones i really like

I actually really liked the title track. Classic Ariel Pink melodies.

ha I am on track 3 right now and I was about to make a They Might Be Giants crack

Beak>'s Wulfstan II, for those looking to dodge the Ariel Pink conversation.

^^^ that track is fucking great

fantastic album

i even like the silly songs, the only one i don't like is nastradamus & me

tmbg is not actually that off-base a comparison

with 'only in my dreams' being his 'she's an angel' i guess

I think that once I stop thinking about what I want this album to be and start paying attention to what it actually is, I'll be more kind to it

mature themes might not an album for your typical ilxor, but it's really fun and i jammed it p heavily for a few weeks. at its best it feels like post-punk zappa, if that makes sense. before today is good, too, but it's too studied, ppl flipped out at the time cause it was the right sound at just the right time but if you go back a lot if is pretty stiff

*crosses his fingers that something good might appear on this poll in the next couple of hours*

ap always has killer basslines, too

xp

haha

yeah zappa is an even better comp

i could never get into beak>>, but i tried

Mature Themes is great for shuffle, maybe not so great as a sequential album imo

i love "baby" off the ariel pink but otherwise i find it unlistenable

"baby" is unreal... so good

is 'baby' a cover or a pastiche i can't even tell

i kinda assumed it was a cover

it's a cover

I got through "Only In My Dreams" before I went back to Purity Ring; by that point I was starting to get into the album more but I was also sick of listening to it

hmm i think i didn't make it to wulfstan the first time i tried the beak album

Here's the original of "Baby":

http://youtu.be/ONIJXHvoynw

I love the Beak> album but "Wulfstan II" is the track that really makes the whole thing work for me.

http://i.imgur.com/Z7Qapek.png

42. KILLER MIKE R.A.P. Music (345 Points, 14 Votes) Spotify

it's definitely a standout--i really want to like beak but it still might be a little too dry

okay seriously, lol

apparently my entire ballot is gonna get posted before we hit 35

i played this a lot in the first half of the year but it didn't quite make my ballot

There is just something about El-P's production that rubs me the wrong way. I can't put a finger on it.

yeah

the whole Donnie & Joe Emerson album that "Baby" comes from is really sublime:

http://vimeo.com/m/39424998

I almost put it on my ballot, even though reissues aren't technically eligible

ariel pink: remains despicable, and now we know he's a despicable human being as well as a worthless musician
beak>: this is dude out of portishead, right? listening to "wulfstan ii", it's def got a three-minus-beth vibe. it's the kind of think i can enjoy while it's playing and admire in general but really, i don't even listen to three ever, and removing my favourite thing about it...i just would never actually put this on. nice to see it place though
killer mike: was blown away by "big beast" beforehand and then on first listen, but then it suffered RAPIDLY diminishing returns; still not sure why, bar the perennial awkwardness of el-p beats. i think "southern fried" and "jojo's chillin'" were my favourites?

I'VE JUST REALISED why beak>'s name is styled liek that duhhhhhhhhhhh

*like

i heard of the cover of 'baby' and liked it, then i heard the original and no longer had much use for the cover. also, the rest of the donnie and joe emerson album is fantastic, unlike the ariel pink.

xxp yep

overall this section of the list has not been a particularly fruitful one for me, gradually coming to terms with most of my non-obv votes failing to place :(

really like Go! and i really like the title track off RAP Music, even though the sentiment is a bit cheese

I am completely nonplussed as to why anyone would find the beats on the Killer Mike album "awkward". What are people hearing that makes them lean towards that word?

i want to engage in some magical bitching, but i don't know if i can summon the energy.
what's the point :(