ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2012

lol @ Jarboe as an 'additional musician'.

bollocks.

See? Swans! There's tons of metal in this poll!

(Waiting for the ban hammer.)

many xp but

also what's the name of the musical sequence he likes to use?

There's no specific name for that sequence, but the concept is Shepard Tone. See also: The X-Files and Resident Evil soundtracks

I can't keep up with this thread in real time but these are great albums
I'm happy to see Beak placed

TOO LONG (jks)

― pandemic, Thursday, January 31, 2013 10:14 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I should have played this Swans album before now, this rules

That Swans album is really impressive and I thought it was terrific when I was actually listening to it but I couldn't imagine wanting or needing to hear it more than once or twice a year in particularly horrible weather or something.

best album cover of the year though
Especially the rear. For those of you with only downloads:

http://indieethos.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/backscreen_shot_2012-07-25_at_3-13-46_pm1.jpg

http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2012-10/72740815.jpg

Swans of course was #3 in metal poll (which caused some consternation amongst the purists)

LOL there was a time when I was sure this wd be #1 so seeing it just outside the top 10 is a bummer

haha, I had no idea that was on the rear. I recant my earlier statement.

Really? It gives me the heebie jeebies.

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, January 31, 2013 12:19 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

grayscale versh looks cute

(sorry)

Nine of the top 10 are locks but I have no idea what the 10th is.

Its not gonna be Goat :(

Holding out for Meek Mill but I reckon we're way too high for that now.

I just didn't get into this the same way I did with "My Father...". Don't really have a good explanation why, maybe I only need one Swans album in my life.

i really have no idea what's going to be in the top 10, i figured swans and scott walker were a lock

back album cover reminds me of ¿ferret rim jobs – c/d?

I still believe in a Miguel-Kendrick-Dawn top 3 tho

the meek mill had way too much rosé on it to vote for

if Goat doesn't place I'm gonna be really mad at myself for not voting.

if Dawn beats Frank Ocean I will do such a happy dance

miguel
jessie ware
frank ocean
kendrick
talabot
grimes
dawn richard
chromatics
taylor swift
goat

?

laying on my bed listening to 'the seer' for the first time while drifting in an out of consciousness was probably the most intense listening experience of my life

were you sleepy, or close to death?

felt like both

Yay swans, I feel some kinship with the front cover, not so much the back cover. Looooooove this album in its righteous heaviness. Sounds like church. (not the church, just church)

I can't see Goat beating Scott and Swans. I really can't.

Glad I got around to listening to The Seer before voting finished. It grabbed me straight away and went relatively high up on my list. Intense is right.

I couldn't see Farrah beating Carly Rae but here we are.

http://i.imgur.com/9llMwoT.png

10. GOAT World Music (736 Points, 21 Votes, 1 First Place Vote) Spotify

Swans, my #3 only knocked off the number 2 spot by Eyvind Kang in the final week of voting. It's totally epic. I never listened to this band before this album but for me it was instant. Don't know if It'll have quite the same effect in the summer, but for now it's sound tracking those long dark nights rather well and I can't wait to see them in Brighton in April.

Anyone else got the vinyl edition? I was kind of thrown by the alternate tracklisting. Mother of The World makes so much more sense as the second track; but on vinyl it's buried away on the third or fourth side. So wrong!

what is goat?

are they called goat as a nod to the acronym or the animal or both?

okay the emil.y/crut/Johnny F run of posts there is kind of hilarious

whats goat

Lol. YAY GOAT.

greatest of all time?

first track on this is kind of awesome btw

I was the number one voter for this. I just think it's a joyous psychedelic record.

kinda assumed all the goat talk on the thread was some inside joke tbh X:

I can't wait to see them in Brighton in April.

FAP?

goathead

you probably don't wanna check their live show tho.

i would have put this in my top ten. tremendous album. psychedelic shaman vibes.

holy shit, track 2 is great as well

really digging this

yay my #3
probably the album i listened to most in 2012 haha

Goat is fantastic, was my P&J #1. Would've been my #1 here too if I'd have voted.

Goat at number 10? Hardcore! All is forgiven ILM :-) :-) although I don't think it's better than swans or Scott.

haha awesome! a highly controversial #16 in metal poll.
This is like when Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats went top 10 in last years poll.

i liked this too at first, but ended up going right off it. all a bit too panto for me