ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2012

I'm listening to Farrah on the train and you know it is a listenable album. It is entertaining and it is interesting. Call it a novelty, but i'm really not a lover of enjoying things based on camp/kitsch values alone. i find it a lot more enjoyable than a lot of other stuff on this list tbh.

Here are a few some dude quotes...

haha no way unfortunately
nah frank ocean will beat miguel in albums, it's a lock
would be willing to be[t] on this.
ok so who's taking my $5 bet on this.

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09. FRANK OCEAN Channel Orange (757 Points, 27 Votes, 3 First Place Votes) Spotify

oh holy fuck yes yes yes no top 5 for you

wow, shockingly low!

haaaaaaaaaaaaa number NINE

lol

STILL TOO HIGH

but i am pleased :)

missing u some dude

I am literally overjoyed and will remain so until Taylor places #2

shit, this means DAWN BEAT FRANK as she should have rightly done everywhere this year - THANK U ILM <3

Frank O not feeling so orange now huh

!!! Let's go see Goat together in Philly dude.

Oh hells yeah...

Still love this album.

I'm guessing this means Miguel also beat Frank.

i'm not gonna say miguel's a dead cert for #1 b/c i thought CRJ was the most cert ever in the trax poll but i've pretty much assumed a kaleidoscope dream win all along

Did anyone take ship's bet? I should have, but that would have been cheating.

Ke$ha's album hasn't placed yet...just saying.

I still think some of the lyrics could be better and I'm not crazy about the lower register of his voice, but I'm surprised at the lasting power of this album

no orange soda at this party

this was my no. 1

my #1, y'all can suck it 8========D

i realized btwn the time that i voted and now that i prefer the frank ocean album to kendricks, though both are on like the bottom 1/3 of my ballot

I do like this album, but more as an album I can dip in and out of while listening. I'm sure it MEANS THINGS to some people (and tbh Thinkin Bout You tugs at my heart), but to me it's just an awesome collection of things that sound good together on an unconscious level.

The Frank Ocean album's had a lot of love and a lot of hype, but I'm glad it placed no higher. I tried hard to get into it and was ultimately left cold. R'n'B is obviously not my forte but compared to a whole load of other things I enjoyed, Miguel included, it just felt like a slog. Something about his lyrics, the production, feels flimsy, tossed off, placeholder to me. But hey, I'm probably missing something important in the music that others are picking up on and enjoying. Got a feeling he will one day make something I will truly be able to get behind, but this isn't the one.

I am still holding out for one of Thee Oh Sees, Schoolboy Q or Starkey to make a shock top 10 showing.

who

My #3 or #4. So many different standout tracks. I don't get the hate — unless you really can't stand his voice I guess.

i didn't realize everyone hated frank ocean so much. seems like a guy worth rooting for to me

channel orange was def the album i played most last year and it wasn't even close but i think it lends itself to that... i always went back and forth on whether it or miguel was my no. 1. suspect i'll always feel that way.

i like this album but i also like JF's move to include some dude quotes

No one hates him cept lex and maybe ship, they just think the album's overrated

unless you really can't stand his voice I guess

his voice doesn't move me and is actively annoying in his lower register but it wasn't just that - i thought the songwriting was just very flimsy and insubstantial, his narratives uncompelling, his ideas and the things he was tackling just boring

and yeah i don't think it's a terrible album by any means, it's just...not remarkable to me

My #3 or #4. So many different standout tracks. I don't get the hate — unless you really can't stand his voice I guess.

It's not disgust – I don't think it's adaptable to the songs he recorded for this record. Also, at least half the songs are non-entities.

i mean i'm sure if i put it on now i wouldn't actively mind listening to it but neither would i particularly...notice it

I love the production on this, it's one of its best features

suprised at how much these songs have worked their way into my subconcious

sometimes you just want to listen to a non-entity though, that's why this album rules

Sweet Life and Rich Kids are the only ones I like off side 1, I love lots of Channel Orange but not enough as a whole album to have voted for it.

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08. JESSIE WARE Devotion (791 Points, 26 Votes, 1 First Place Vote) Spotify

I knew I had to shut up about it when three friends at Pitchfork last July not known for giving a damn about R&B couldn't wait to talk about how awesome it was.

THERE WE GO.

i like this album but i also like JF's move to include some dude quotes

hahaha well i think there's unanimous agreement that including the some dude quotes was a great move

one thing i really love about channel orange is that there's a real dreamlike quality to it... it's a great album to just put on, lay down and close your eyes

it's sort of druggy in its own way

happy that jessie beat frank too. great album!

lol @ only four songs off of Jessie Ware being available in the US

I notice the weaker Ware tracks in a way I didn't even six weeks ago but, boy, the...wildest moments kill me.

one thing i really love about channel orange is that there's a real dreamlike quality to it... it's a great album to just put on, lay down and close your eyes

#vibesnotmoves #vibesnottunes #soboredofvibes

i don't really consider "an album to do nothing to" a great compliment; as an industry-wide aesthetic it's a fucking pox

Dawn will be top three I reckon, maybe even top two. The Goldenheart anticipation will have given her a voting bounce.

the problem w/ the jessie album is that all the best songs were released as singles

was "Night Light" a single?