ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2012

The melodic austerity and purposeful restriction of sound palette on Fin meant that while I always liked it I could never love it in the way I do some of his remixes. I wish he'd leavened it with a couple of sun-coming-up beach rave tracks like his Teengirl Fantasy/XX/Chairlift remixes. Still a really strong album but it's like dance music for giant Easter Island heads or something.

xp remember you saying it wasn't sunny enough or something

i'd still pay a mint for a talabot remix collection

Still, I like everything in the top five this year so I can't really complain.

if "last land" and "h.o.r.s.e." aren't sun-coming-up anthems i don't know what are

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02. KENDRICK LAMAR Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City (1293 Points, 40 Votes, 5 First Place Votes) Spotify

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01. MIGUEL Kaleidoscope Dream (1909 Points, 51 Votes, 7 First Place Votes) Spotify

OMGLOOKATHOSEFUCKINGSTATS ^

yes

i connect with talabot's own productions much more than his remixes, i find them much happier

cool, miguel album is waaay better

wow not even close

never in doubt number one!

Landslide!

and yeah miguel album is def much better than kendrick's

both good though! good rundown!

holy shit

Armor On is too low imo; its more of a piece than most concept albums. Its not just thatthe pacing is exquisitely calibrated but that along with the extended battle tropes never fails to imply a higher form of songwriting,music as a higher calling. Intensely visionary stuff

Multixps

"Adorn" still #1 in R&B airplay. If not for the absurd rule change, this would have been one of the longest running #1's on the R&B chart. As it is, we'll remember "Adorn" up there with the great R&B electroballads.

good lord what a blowout

that is a lot of points.

:o

biggest landslide on a year end poll ever?

Wow, that's a lot of votes/points. Well-deserved #1.

Psst Jordan

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yesssss miguel

Miguel was my #4; dude lavished us w great songs this yeat. Its only appropriate we reciprocated

51 votes - nearly half (or over half?) of all voters :o

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yay
great thread.

thanks matt!

The melodic austerity and purposeful restriction of sound palette on Fin meant that while I always liked it I could never love it in the way I do some of his remixes. I wish he'd leavened it with a couple of sun-coming-up beach rave tracks like his Teengirl Fantasy/XX/Chairlift remixes. Still a really strong album but it's like dance music for giant Easter Island heads or something.

― Matt DC, Thursday, January 31, 2013 9:59 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

xp remember you saying it wasn't sunny enough or something

― flopson, Thursday, January 31, 2013 9:59 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha, yes. basically what Matt DC said

Also Miguel was my #1 so fuck yeah. It's just such an accomplished and gorgeous and emotionally rewarding album on every level and his voice is just so fucking soulful.

Thanks Johnny and also J0rdan for the Trax poll. Oh and Seandalai

Well done, everyone. Tea and cakes all round.

woulda been my #1 if I'd voted

anyone who liked this miguel album and still hasn't heard his (possibly superior) first record should go and un-fuck that up

wish some dude was around to tell us what kinds of drinks the bobbins crew brought to the party this time

something polite, yet austere

This Top 10 utterly blows away the idea of 'tasteful' or 'dinner party music' as pejoratives. Everything here with the exception of Goat and Kendrick is total dinner party music and almost all of it is good-to-astonishing. And even the Kendrick has a sort of velvety soundtracky sumptuousness to the production that means it sort of qualifies as well.

Kendrick was my #1, Miguel was my #21

what happened to al?

Great stuff, JF and seandalai... only another year to go 'til the next lot, eh? :D

The Top 3 means absolutely dick-all to me, mind.

"Adorn" still #1 in R&B airplay. If not for the absurd rule change, this would have been one of the longest running #1's on the R&B chart. As it is, we'll remember "Adorn" up there with the great R&B electroballads.

It would have been the biggest passing the 18 week record by now and it's still miles ahead in airplay over the #2 ("swimming pools") - it's pretty much going to go down as the biggest song in the history of the format which is insaaaaane.

yes, thank you! great poll.
also by the end I was really won over by the b/w album cover art

i recently unfucked up re kendrick, and now that i am on the right path I LOVE HIM

good voting, ILX!

what happened to al?

― flopson, Thursday, January 31, 2013 10:08 AM (31 seconds ago)

banned for going over the line while beefing w/ another poster

This Top 10 utterly blows away the idea of 'tasteful' or 'dinner party music' as pejoratives. Everything here with the exception of Goat and Kendrick is total dinner party music and almost all of it is good-to-astonishing. And even the Kendrick has a sort of velvety soundtracky sumptuousness to the production that means it sort of qualifies as well.

"Tasteful" can absolutely be done well, as evidenced by a good chunk of the top 10, but it can also make one wonder "what exactly are people hearing in this that makes them go 'OMG THIS IS INCREDIBLE' rather than 'how very competent, please pass the butter'"

man those top two are so appropriate and deserving. kendrick is a really good rapper and all but his songs kind of suck, and it sounds bad on every speaker and headphone I have heard it on. miguel's album is super gorgeous and classic and solid gold, deserves all its points.

banned for going over the line while beefing w/ another poster

― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Thursday, January 31, 2013 3:10 PM (30 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

smh

fuck yes miguel

Hey where did Fiona place? I'm having problems showing all messages on my phone

yeah, major kudos to Johnny Fever for the greyscale choice, if for no other reason than just that it's DIFFERENT