ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2012

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40. WILD NOTHING Nocturne (357 Points, 12 Votes, 1 First Place Vote) Spotify

good morning!

cloud wild nothing

huh

I kind of like this first song

What is Wild Nothing? And are they any more tangible than Cloud Nothings?

ha, xposts

googled these guys, literally everything that came up immediately made me close the tab down for fear of contamination

there's a little bit of "this would have been my favorite band in 1987" going on here

https://soundcloud.com/wildnothing/velocity-girl-primal-scream

lmao now Im definitely not listening to this band

gonna shine out in the wild nothing

ok album, not as good as the first

also everyone pls feel free to update spotify for the next two days cause i won't have access during rollout time

My number 1. Suck it.

I haven't heard this record but I approve of Gukbe's post.

This is fun. Thanks Gukbe & co.

good album

cad: I felt the opposite. I thought the first album to be patchy and a bit of a snooze save a couple of great tracks. Much preferred the Golden Haze EP so I figured I could only handle him in small doses, but I wound up listening to this album more than any other this year for whatever reason.

Is this a 25 year anniversary reissue or something?

If haters want some added ammunition, watch the "Paradise" video in which Michelle Williams listens to a mixtape on a Walkman and stares at waterfalls. I imagine it to be Lex's ludovico.

i could listen to the riff at the beginning of Nocturne (the song) forever

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39. NICKI MINAJ Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded (362 Points, 13 Votes) Spotify

the Wild Nothing is a very nice, pleasant album

it reminds me of the pleasant parts of junior high, kind of a generic stand-in for all of the jangly British guitar bands I was just beginning to discover as hair metal forced my attention away from pop radio

Nicki's album was 3-4 amazing songs buried under a pile of nonsense

The highs on the Nicki album are way high but my word there's some absolute dross as well.

i like wild nothing, happy to see them way up here

She also has the very best mockney accent.

xp

I'm sure I've listened to this Wild Nothing album before, but I didn't remember it sounding so nice. I remember his first one being a mixed bag, but this is really, really well put-together and it sounds amazing.

Not sure if I voted but I dig the Wild Nothing. I like a lot of stuff on Captured Tracks these days, with The Soft Moon, DIIV, Mac DeMarco and some reissues.

While Converge was #1 in metal poll, there's still others that would have more crossover appeal. Of the heavy rock/metal, I would expect to see Baroness and Goat for sure, possibly Om, Neurosis, Torche, Aluk Todolo, Alcest, and probably not Witchcraft, Graveyard, Jess And The Ancient Ones, Royal Thunder or Les Discrets but I recommend them to heavy music dabblers. I doubt I'll see my #1.

This is my favourite jam from the Nicki today I Am Your Leader

Adn I think Swans top 10 for sure.

Alcest has had some success in previous ilm polls iirc.

Bonus topless Rick Ross in the video btw

xxp

YES! I fucking love that Wild Nothing album. About time something good cropped up.

oh god, the OM album is so so good. As are the two UFOmammut albums that got released last year. Shame they won't place.

NICKI!!!!!

This is a great album. There's more than an album's worth of incredible music, songs that I played to fucking death last year. My last.fm stats tell a story of Nicki obsession in 2012. Give me an album like this every time over something that's consistently decent for 12 tracks but doesn't give me anything special, who cares about the dross (and there's less of it than you might think). This was my #3 or #4 but if I was a bit more honest with myself it might have been my #1.

Stand-outs that didn't make the trax poll:

come on a cone. DICK IN YOUR FACE. PUT MY DICK IN YOUR FACE. My moment of the year.
hov lane. I DON'T GIVE A FUCK HO, LIKE WE IN THE FRIEND ZONE
pound the alarm. BOTTLE / SIP / BOTTLE / GUZZLE / I'M A BAD BITCH, NO MUZZLE. I love how the video/song elide two separate Nickis: trashy dance-pop Nicki and carnival queen island Nicki.
gun shot. That "oooh-oooh-oooh-ooooh-ooooh" melody might be the prettiest thing Nicki's ever put her name to. Probably my favourite song off the album, so emotional.
i'm legit. I DID A FREESTYLE THEN I GOT A SHOUT-OUT FROM OBAMA. She did, you know.

xp - agree -- UFOmammut accompanied me on a lot of long walks this year! i voted for it. who knows?!

oh god, the OM album is so so good.

i guess i need to relisten to this

gun shot is the best, idk why but i always lol at the beginning of the beenie man verse "beenie man... i'm a g"

oh god, the OM album is so so good.

i guess i need to relisten to this

― ᶘ ᵒᴥᵒᶅ (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 16:32 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I wish I'd voted it higher TBH. it's definitely the kind of thing that non-metal fans would enjoy.

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38. THE MOUNTAIN GOATS Transcendental Youth (368 Points, 13 Votes) Spotify

Yes, Wild Nothing!!

also i feel like the "but it's not a coherent album all the way through and i don't like some of it" criticism is just...redundant w/r/t roman reloaded since that's patently not what she was aiming for. it's a 30-track (inc the re-up) album designed for the itunes generation and to appeal to every audience she possibly can. and that whole "throwing every possible thing at the wall and seeing what sticks" isn't even a criticism of nicki any more, it's what she does, it's part of her appeal, that manic gonzo "i'm going to try EVERYTHING" attitude - why do you think she's splattered in paint on the cover?

a moment too for her completely batshit grammy performance of roman holiday

local boy done good

I always love the way Mountain Goats albums open and this is no exception

a moment too for her completely batshit grammy performance of roman holiday

I thought that was one of the most awesome things I'd ever seen on tv, but it was weird and uncomfortable according to most of my fb friends.

who's that other band i always get confused with wild nothing? british, "dramatic" falsetto vocals, two singers?

wild beasts. i always get them confused with wild nothing. the sad thing is i like wild beasts but i never listen to them because i can't remember if they're the one i like or not.

lol

haha

the Grammy performance was amazing but didn't really distract from the song itself being a hot mess

mountain goats from like 'all hail west texas' to present is one of the greatest long runs of records ever imo. like the modern day equivalent of what neil young did in the 70s or something