ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2012

i'm still holding out hope for Rush

yo bum, rush won't show

lol

also now thinking of Yo Bum as a sequel to My Dick

I don't think the Killer Mike beats are awkward, but it's hard not to hold them up to the standards of prime-era Southern rap and find them a little wanting. I like that album, but it feels to me like a 2003 also-ran that stands out nine years later in a messy, consensus-less hip-hop miasma.

I kind of agree that the album sounds like it should have come out last decade; I think that's a point in its favor, though!

i've lost hope for jojo at this point

i mean not in general, just in this poll

I think a lot of people went slowly off that Killer Mike album over the course of the year, it got so much ILX attention at the start of the year and everyone seemed to be down with it and it seems to have slipped into the mild indifference zone now. Would still have expected it to be higher though.

interestingly, just as La Lechera posted that I started playing "JoJo's Chillin" off of R.A.P. Music

i've lost hope for the jojo i voted for as well :(

about the right place for killer mike imo

i've lost hope for jojo at this point

^ feeling this :(

i mean no rangda? no jojo? i feel like a lonely weirdo howling on a rocky cliff.

Last one for the day...

I hear ya La Lechera. At best I think two albums I voted for will place. At best.

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

41. THE XX Coexist (352 Points, 14 Votes) Spotify

ilm's aggregate interests overlap mostly in pop music shocker

we were pretty close to another GAPDY this year, i wonder if the planets will ever align completely again

7 things on my ballot have shown up so far and I firmly expect at least 4 more to turn up with 3 others with a good shot

xp: lol let's revise that to 8 have placed, with 4 definites and 2 wildcards

Too high!

that xx album is all about "Missing" and "Swept Away" IMO

if jojo didn't place a single i really doubt that she's gonna place an album

xx album is one of my most disappointing albums in a really long time

the xx more like the zz (as in, . o O(zzz))

I think it's funny that so many ppl went apeshit for "Angels" when it came out while I thought "oh no, this is going to be boring" and then the album came out and everyone went "oh no, it's boring" and I went "OH PHEW THIS IS ALL SO MUCH BETTER THAN 'ANGELS'"

DJP + me = mindmeld about this xx album.

It's better than "Angels" was for the most part.

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.

― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Tuesday, January 29, 2013 3:38 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

disagree with this entirely haha. imo the cover destroys the original, and everything else on dreamin wild was almost unlistenable.

if jojo didn't place a single i really doubt that she's gonna place an album

none of the mixtape cuts were singles as such. i never thought it'd place, what with it being released in mid-dec, but it still deserves more attention.

"angels" is a decent (not great) single, the album works as something you don't have to pay attention to in the background but there is nothing else at all memorable on it. dunno if i was as crushingly disappointed as j0rdan but it was not a notable release for me

i mean when i say "angels" is great all i mean is that it gave me vague vibes a few times, it's way inferior to pretty much every song on the debut

i've lost hope for jojo at this point

― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Tuesday, January 29, 2013 2:53 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

There must be another JoJo b/c I did not take you for a JoJo fan. (Also I don't think she released an album in 2012.)

She released a mixtape in December, which is what lex and J0rdan were referring to. Not sure about La Lech's reference.

agreed that killer mike album had serious diminishing returns, sounded awesome for a week though. don't think i voted for it.

LL is talking about josephine foster i believe

the first of my choices to make it. i don't understand the backlash concerning the xx. i think this album firmly establishes their place in pop music. i think i prefer it because they actually have developed. from the minimal young marble giants naive diy shtick to a band which strts using electronic devices to improve their music, to make their point more efficiently. my two faves are duets: the wonderful, magic chained and the slowly unfolding swept away which turns into a dance number. a caterpillar changing into a butterfly.

The xx album was disappointing but not because it's bad. It's just that the debut was a bit better, and this one wasn't different enough aesthetically to overcome that slight drop in quality.

jojo's mixtape is called agápē and it's really, really strong. more singer-songwritery than you expect, "we get by", "take the canyon", "billions" and "can't handle the truth" are my favourites. there's a joni mitchell cover too! which does not feel out of place!

That's a fair assessment. I don't think Coexist is bad in any way. I just think the debut was superior. xp

It's just like people were just not into heavy this year and they got their weird from another store. That's ok I guess. But I have given up caring (unless The Seer doesn't place and then I will flip out on y'all nuclear holocaust style)

I am indeed talking about Josephine Foster.

the preponderance of b&w album covers really is something. had not noticed this trend before.

xp

LL is talking about josephine foster i believe

Oh haha.

I didn't vote for Killer Mike, but I'm surprised it's as low as it is.

I prefer the debut as well but Coexist was still in my top 10 this year

xp: oh man Shakey, how much of this thread have you missed

haha

I am indeed talking about Josephine Foster.

Gonna have to start calling her JoFo to avoid confusion

oh lol guess I shoulda loaded all messages ha

I actually really like the color version of that XX cover. I think I first saw it as a poster taped to the side of a building, and I couldn't tell whether the oil-slick look was innate to the cover or the result of damage.

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.

― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Tuesday, January 29, 2013 3:38 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

disagree with this entirely haha. imo the cover destroys the original, and everything else on dreamin wild was almost unlistenable.

― flopson, Tuesday, January 29, 2013 4:07 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

unlistenable?! damn, harsh... i can see the vocals being sort of off-putting, maybe? but i kinda doubt that's what you're talking about, b/c they're really not too bad. its just a totally charming album of warm, spacey funk, how can you hate this?: http://youtu.be/Jdb6SnSBOPk

Now with albums 41 through 77:

http://imgur.com/a/HGHgu

Eh. They look better in black and white.

Gonna have to start calling her JoFo to avoid confusion

haha, i guess so but no one will know what we're talking about any more than if we called her by her full name. :(

JUFo