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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.

I dunno, this list doesn't seem very ILM-ish to me, but maybe I've just been stuck in my little corner of ILM and haven't been paying attention....

and yeah definitely big up to musically for the effort

What corner is that? Don't think I've seen you much on ILM. Thought you were more an ILE guy

The R&B and Pop threads basically.

i always seem to miss the boat for voting, but i would have given props the 'the black sea', depending suppose on how many votes i had to dispense.

re brainwasher: that's weird, cuz the list looks EXACTLY like ilm to me...

last one for today:

21 - Deerhunter - Microcastle
133 points, 14 votes
11 in P&J, 5 in p4k

http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/927/micro2ke4.jpg

Woah, that's way lower than I expected! I thought Deerhunter 'd rank in the top ten for sure!

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

― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, February 13, 2009 1:11 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

never heard of them but love the cover

nice cover again. happy mondays.

the "who the hell are crystal castles?" business is the first thing on this thread that's really surprised me. like that's the most obscure pick so far???

i don't think any given album so far is un-ilm, but ambient droney stuff does seem rather overrepresented compared to its visible presence. and there's a weird lack of house and techno so far, though i'm not sure what the consensus albums even were this year (shed? trus'me?). also i suspect that the metal crew have done a better job of getting themselves organised for an effective assault on this poll. i can't even imagine the r&b or ringtone threads doing that.

i'm not unhappy with it, better this than the terrible pfork indie which filled every other 2008 year-end list, but i do feel a bit...distant from it, and i really hope the top 20 has more stuff i'm down with.

ie no more fucking elbow, seriously, god, so BORING.

better this than the terrible pfork indie which filled every other 2008 year-end list

lol this was an xpost, while i was typing that musically posted deerhunter. facedesk.

List so far for those not keeping up/who have bad memories:

50 - Boris – Smile
49 - Arthur Russell - Love Is Overtaking Me
48 - School Of Seven Bells – Alpinisms
47 - Sébastien Tellier – Sexuality
46 - Fall, The - Imperial Wax Solvent
45 - Girl Talk - Feed The Animals
44 - Jay Reatard - Matador Singles 08
43 - Alex Moulton – Exodus
42 - Stephen Malkmus and Jicks - Real Emotional Trash
41 - Solange - Sol Angel & The Hadley Street Dreams
40 - Paavoharju - Laulu Laakson Kukista
39 - Hold Steady, The - Stay Positive
38 - D. Lissvik - 7 Trx + Intermission
37 - Gas - Nah und Fern
36 - Glass Candy - B/E/A/T/B/O/X
35 - Half Man Half Biscuit - CSI: Ambleside
34 - Max Tundra - Parallax Error Beheads You
33 - Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull
32 - Luomo – Convivial
31 - El Guincho – Alegranza
30 - Quiet Village - Silent Movie
29 - Lau Nau – Nukkuu
28 - Fennesz - Black Sea
27 - Ne-Yo - Year Of The Gentleman
26 - Torche – Meanderthal
25 - Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now, Youngster
24 - Grouper - Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill
23 - Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
22 - Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
21 - Deerhunter - Microcastle

haven't seen that particular take on the deerhunter cover art, but it sure tops the image of that demonic, glazed over indie type on the front of my copy.

i have actually heard deerhunter rather too much, and they're just so grey and bloodless and mediocre. it's nothing music. it's barely existence.

(I had to correct the Grouper album title in that round-up, I just couldn't live with it.)

xpost I'm pretty meh about Deerhunter too, although I did enjoy Atlas Sound at Primavera, though not sure if it was just his rambling 'tween song charm that did it.

also i suspect that the metal crew have done a better job of getting themselves organised for an effective assault on this poll.

― lex pretend

lol, metal cru = crimson permanent assurance

the "who the hell are crystal castles?" business is the first thing on this thread that's really surprised me. like that's the most obscure pick so far???

They are for those of us who voted the obscure stuff no-ones heard of before now ;)

but ambient droney stuff does seem rather overrepresented

What 'ambient droney stuff', Lex? Only thing really ambient, and somewhat droney, is Gas, but what else?