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Harvey Milk wont make it. It was no2 behind Torche in the metal poll and Torche is in. Strangely 2 albums well below it made it here.

I'll have to track it down.

I'm rooting for Welcome to the Dollhouse.

Wonder if Marnie Stern will make it

musically http://images.buycostumes.com/mgen/merchandiser/18916.jpg

no, no, maybe no, no, no

Fixed!

i voted for danity kane too!!! sadly i have no faith that it will place :(

btw after some recalculations there were more ties than just the one I stated in the original post...in case anyone was planning on demanding an explanation for the inconsistencies.

23 - Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
130 points, 11 votes
45 in P&J

http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/7793/elbowtheseldomseenkidpasd6.jpg

Album streaming: http://www.last.fm/music/Elbow/The+Seldom+Seen+Kid

wheres that HMV guys quote...

their worst album

The first time I heard of Los Camp was an email from a friend where i misread the song title as "You! Me! Danzig!" and sadly they never lived up to that image.

hahahaha

ugh if I'd thought I might be quoted I'd have had something a little less goofy to say! It's deffo more than the sum of it's rather ordinary influences that one though. Great album... and no (for Matt DC) not talked about that much really, but there was a brief ILM thread. Probably bumped aside for the 15,000th waste of space Poll thread.

Balls to Elbow.

You could've got Grouper higher!

*cries*

5 extra points and it would've been higher than elbow

I could have voted but well, until about mid-December I had about as few albums I cared about as that one guy who always likes to make a point of telling you how he doesn't really like albums MAN and it's all about the tracks, and he doesn't watch TV either...

ILM hasn't really felt like a good place for catching off-the-radar releases at all for for most of last year anyway.. and the majority of the threads dominating the tone, themes, trends in action from the hivemind have seemed to be about stuff that I just don't get the big deal about AT ALL.

well this,trax and the metal poll thread are a great way to catch up

eh texturally sumptuous dance music is not too far from pop music. in many cases they both inform each other. (plus tim f knows my taste very well)

i would like a u.k./u.s. disaggregation of the votes. like, did any americans vote for elbow? (or any britishes for torche?)

(or, um, u.k./u.s./aussie/tuomas, i guess)

i voted for torche

and not elbow

and im scottish

LJ vote Torche

possibly dj mencap too?

22 - Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
133 points, 12 votes
101 in P&J, 15 in p4k

http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/9343/crystalcastleszp1.jpg

Album streaming: http://www.last.fm/music/Crystal+Castles/Crystal+Castles

Okay I fold, the album is really great. I'm trying to work out why something this cheap and shoddy and trashy is this affecting, and I can only put it down to that sense of sadness running through everything. It's like dying in Zelda over and over again.

― Matt DC

Ways in which popular E4 teen comedy-drama Skins has made music better - let us list them

wow

great album cover

it totally is. i havent heard the whole thing, but i didnt know it was so big on ILM

What are they looking for?

xpost - true, I like reading over the ILM lists when they're complete every year anyway as they're usually a bit more wtf/random/aesthetically confusing than any of the online rags... although not necessarily better quality wise!

It's like dying in Zelda over and over again.

― Matt DC

this is the first comment that has actually made me want to hear something in this thread!

^^ cosign

i didnt know it was so big on ILM

it is more hated than loved on ilm, but some people like it. i do.

i can only imagine that a ton of ilmers would be here freaking out about the way this list is going but are frozen in mid seizure.

Not heard it, but why is it hated?

Seeing these albums ahead of Grouper makes me :'( to be honest.

it is hated because a.) they are allegedly assholes, and b.) see what matt dc said about cheap, shoddy, trashy, etc. but he's also otm about the sense of sadness, it's pretty melancholy and mysterious. for electrodribble.

stars of bloghouse/frankendance/young(er) people getting dance wrong why is it hated?

What are they looking for?

knuckle-draggers of the world, unite and take over

xxxxxxpost

"What are they looking for?"

maybe it's not so much what they are looking for as what they have lost.

Maybe Bono asked them to look for something

i can only imagine that a ton of ilmers would be here freaking out about the way this list is going but are frozen in mid seizure.

― From Rax to Rich's (jjjusten), Thursday, February 12, 2009 7:59 PM (6 minutes ago)

yeah i cant say i have a solid opinion on this list so far other than it's...strange.

and they probably told him to fuck right off :D

xp

i can only imagine that a ton of ilmers would be here freaking out about the way this list is going but are frozen in mid seizure.

― jjjusten

i was being kinda snide earlier, but it's a damn good list, so far. leans a bit more toward the "only in the UK" than "only in america", but that's cool.

Maybe Bono asked them to look for something

was that something him?

and big props to musically for the enjoyable ride these polls have so far been

I was lol kidding. Love Crystal Castles, and the Zelda reference indeed is on the mark.