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that album is weaksauce

Would be good if you had 5 "antivotes" that took AWAY 20, 15, 10, 5 and 1 points, tbh

ELECTRODRIBBLE!

Would be good if you had 5 "antivotes" that took AWAY 20, 15, 10, 5 and 1 points, tbh

YES OMG!

I mean, it'd make Musically's job harder, but it'd also make shit WAY less predictable

and funnier

thank fuck mgmt aren't any higher - that piece of shit album was top 10, top 5 like everywhere else. pushing it down to no 20 is a good achievement for ilm

Yeah, well with my little scheme in operation it'd have been *even* lower!

actually i'm being a bit unfair - mgmt themselves aren't actually offensively bad, just kinda boring and tedious and blah. what irks is how many people falling over themselves to praise it.

i think getting mgmt out of the way so 'early' is quite unpredictable. they had the most amount of singles place right (i guess maybe wayne/t.i. might have beaten them)? i thought it was a lock for top 10. glad it placed where it did though, and it wasn't pushed up higher by being the token #15 or whatever on more peoples lists.

"antivotes" would necessarily go to expected critical faves, right? like, even if you really hated, i dunno, lau nau or danity kane (to pick examples at random) you'd never give an antivote to them because you'd never imagine they'd place. i'm in favour!

my antivotes: ting tings, vampire weekend, fleet foxes, mgmt, bon iver. there, easy

^^^this is basically my reasoning. "antivotes" would go, in bulk, to particularly high-profile LCD* (lowest common denominator) records, allowing slightly more obscure and better stuff like yer lau naus or danitys to shoot forwards into the limelight

*lol see what I did there

If Fleet Foxes ends up in the top 5, I'll sign on to the antivote petition.

because what this poll is lacking is obscure records placing.

my antivotes are actually quite similar to the lex's, throw in TVOTR instead of Bon Iver (not heard so can't judge) and yeah can roll with that

a hoy hoy, we haven't seen the top 19 yet :(

louis stop being retarded

You'd get like a bunch of stuff ending up with -130 votes or something.

numbers 50-21: "omg what are these i have never heard of them you obscurantists waht"

MGMT shows up in spot 20: "dear god how can we destroy the hegemony of this list before it is too late"

i would be down w/vampire weekend ending up with -130 points

u tru (xp)

Didn't know you liked Danity Kane so much Louis

^^^this is why it's a good idea xposts to Nick B

I wasn't *overly* impressed with the obscurity/eclecticism of 50-21 tbh, when things went weird they did so in quite a rote "hai have some psych-folk and some obscure dance and maybe the MOST high-profile metal released last year" manner

I haven't heard Danity Kane but I'm assuming that he's better than MGMT

lol

ok you're trolling

Bitch, bitch, bitch.

anyone repping for "antivotes" is a point-missing moron who really needs to think about why they're here.

"Anti-Votes" aren't a bad idea, they do it over at SOMB and their lists are pretty okay

a rote "hai have some psych-folk and some obscure dance and maybe the MOST high-profile metal released last year" manner

oh that rote manner

there is a pretty noxious attitude underlying the idea of antivotes so that you can weed out the "lowest common denominator" votes the rest of us cast, LJ. maybe give it a rest.

BTW this is not because i am a MGMT stan or anything

louis - that's what every poll is like, the best records of that year. only the most high profile (/peoples favourite) records make it. if it is the concensus pick to have torche or half man half biscuit or lil wayne, then so be it. these are ilm's favourite records of the year, if you want to see people just shit on things instead of sharing their enthusiasm then i suggest starting a most hated poll or something.

lol lj about danity kane

http://i386.photobucket.com/albums/oo305/lejospopo/Danity_Kane.jpg

Speaking as someone who hates a lot of shit, this entire idea of antivotes is terrible. I hate it.

ditto

Antivotes?

Phh...

When you can unlisten to an album, then you can have antivotes!

the fucking point of this is to see what the ilx community as a whole was repping in '08, not so some of the most vocally negative ilm regulars can see a top 50 that will make them stop bitching for a whole 10 minutes.

dammit i mean i am used to the many quirks and auto-hates that you guys have but jesus christ.

DK is definitely better than MGMT. Well, they were... R.I.P. DK :(

Is Louis thinking of Danny Kaye?

a moment for my favourite picture from 08 of aubrey from danity kane:

http://gofugyourself.celebuzz.com/2008/10/07/spl54091_003-thumb-420x847.jpg

i think we've all anti-voted louis - suggest ban

I've never seen LJ and The Lex so agreement in before. Don't spoil it for them!

^^better than mgmt and also more ridiculous looking

xp

antivotes (or even just a separate "most hated" list) could work for trax, but with albums it would just be a lot of people voting for things they haven't heard just based on what they know of the artist, and you'd never be able to make them prove otherwise.

Please tell me that isn't a bandana on that dog

numbers 50-21: "omg what are these i have never heard of them you obscurantists waht"

MGMT shows up in spot 20: "dear god how can we destroy the hegemony of this list before it is too late"

So so so so true.

The whole idea of antivotes would just lead to someone lame and inoffensive winning by default.

If you look at the MGMT album thread there aren't really that many boosters compared to Vampire Weekend or even someone like Lindstrom. Not a huge surprise.

Also I am guessing no TVOTR in the poll at all.

'Twas merely a passing whimsy, based on the democratic ideal of being able to snipe at the same big obvious targets that received enough coverage and exposure to get INTO so many peoples' ears and lists. In practice it probably wouldn't work out so well. But, harsh as it may sound, I think negative sentiments on music should be heeded as much as positive ones. This does not mean that I am looking to hate music before I hear it, it just means that I've been let down too often. Like I say, though, a bit of whimsy to create debate, and I don't expect it to be seriously adopted.

Please tell me that isn't a bandana on that dog

aubrey is wearing a bandanna, but i think the dog is wearing a...bejewelled mini-bonnet of sorts?