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I'm still amazed to see Crystal Castles on here; I thought everyone hated them now!

love the MGMT, record, though yeah - mostly for the (spectacular) singles. plus crystal castles too

I got no problem with halfway-mainstream or even mainstream music per se! Just with stuff that's hyped to the stars at the expense of better stuff when I think it has no right to be. I said I wouldn't pursue this line of hatred this year, and now I have, and I feel bad. I'll stop. Viva whatever music you like. MGMT bring me out in hives, though.

contenderizer, thank you for breaking down the list categorically, it was all greek to me.

call all destroyer -- it would be awesome because New Amerykah is awesome, duh.

mgmt wasn't an earth-shattering album, the singles were good, it was generally popular, it only polled at 20, it's friday evening, the weekend's coming, let's relax.

having said that i'd be mad if ne-yo were at 20 ;-)

but this is not to find out which album was most awesome

"god i just HATE it when people like popular things i'm super heavily invested in hating. HATE IT HATE IT HATE IT!"

so the only three albums so far which don't fit into contenderizer's A+ taxonomy are solange, ne-yo and torche.

Hype happens. Sometimes it works it works for you (The Rapture), sometimes it doesn't (The Strokes). Having a stroke over it won't actually change anything.

(examples relate to me)

loved the summary contenderizer

in terms of actual real-world commercial success, which are the most successful? don't have sales info to hand though am guessing ne-yo, mgmt, elbow (in that order). and then maybe...uh...solange? even though her album was a total lol flop.

Contenderizer > I don't think there's any drone to come and definitely no metal. Probably some electro-dribble though will still make it. Where's the hip-hop? I think maybe that poll a hoy hoy was going to do should be revived. Even if it's just for the benefit of those who don't know much about it but want to learn. The metal poll was great for that as people checked out what they weren't aware of.

I'm still amazed to see Crystal Castles on here; I thought everyone hated them now!

i think like a lot of things, people who like them didn't have much to say past a point, beyond "i like this pretty well." but their usefulness as targets of ire and contempt has yet to expire. (especially in their case because every few months there's some new dickish thing they did that sets it all off again.)

Grouper - Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill (substantial drone & ambient elements)

word is there's a doomcore movement brewing in the substantial drone and ambient elements scene. should be big in next year's polls

listening to MGMT > talking about MGMT music

Fixed.

listening to MGMT music > talking about MGMT music

Fixed again.

Yeah, but what about reading about music?

fucking listening to MGMT music > talking about MGMT music

Fixed once more.

NUMBER NINETEEN ALREADY

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19_(song)

fucking listening to MGMT music > talking about MGMT music

Fixed for good?

*hi-five*

Here's my preferences:

fucking to music > dancing to music > reading about music > listening to music > talking about music >>>>> listening to others talk about music

My curvy Colombian wife agrees xxp

*ass slap*

*wink*

xxpost

fucking to music > dancing to music > reading about music > listening to music > talking about music >>>>> listening to others talk about music

End game, lock thread. Correct.

*hi-fives Dan*

reading about music > listening to music

I feel like this should explain so much, but all it does is raise questions!

really surprised at the absence of hip-hop from the list so far. did i miss some massive shift in ILM demographics? ringtone cru don't vote? no thug shit, no pop shit, no backpacker undie shit, no nothing. i mean, there aren't even any albums that borrow from hip-hop (other than freaking girl talk), which is o_O x O_o. Solange and Ne-Yo aaaaand.....

hahahaha ya rly xpost to dan

Maybe they don't like polls.

More like they don't like hip-hop albums but do like hip-hop tracks.

oh, and tuomas: that hector track from 72 that you posted way, way back is fantastic. no idea who "hector" is, but now i'm curious. thank you for that.

reading about music > listening to music

looking in the travel agent's window > going on holiday

I think stuff that would have been big for ringtone folk was either hard to get hold of (abn, that crew who did rollin rollin etc.), mixtapes - so again quite hard to get hold of (killer mike).

Also, I'm pretty certain that the big 4 (kanye, wayne, jeezy, t.i) will place very high, if only because they didn't have much coompetition as the big picks. plus, except for the kanye, they're all great.

Tuomas only dances to music. He doesn't like listening to it at home?

3 metal albums and 4 hip-hop albums doesn't seem very much.

I think there was 4 metal albums in last years dunno bout the hip-hop

if TVOTR don't place, I will quit posting until June

bye lj

dude

I have to go to the shop so I can't be arsed checking myself but I at least searched for last years polls:

**********Just the trax, ma'am: THE ILX 2007 POLL RESULTS, part 1**********
**********Hot damn it's THE ILX 2007 POLL RESULTS, part 2**********

ilm hates rap

I think stuff that would have been big for ringtone folk was either hard to get hold of (abn, that crew who did rollin rollin etc.), mixtapes - so again quite hard to get hold of (killer mike).

idk, i wasn't exactly expecting these to place but it would've been nice, and not too much of a reach, to see one or two of nappy roots, bun b, gucci mane, roots manuva, wiley or lil' mama - none of which were particularly obscure or hard to acquire - place in the 21-50 section. don't think any of them will now :(

also, didn't ilm use to like dancehall once?? not even a single dancehall track placed.

Also, I'm pretty certain that the big 4 (kanye, wayne, jeezy, t.i) will place very high, if only because they didn't have much competition as the big picks. plus, except for especially the kanye, they're all great.

Oh do you see what I did right there? ;-)

btw i don't think deej, m@tt, whiney, preview of the matrix 12 etc voted, thus lowering the chances of ringtone shit placing

i have sensed that non-superstar hip-hop has become much less of a floating-voter proposition in the last year or 2 - i have no idea why this is though. getting poptimists to listen to any of it is the proverbial blood/stone situation :(

I need to get that Nappy Roots, but again, quite hard to get hold of. Gucci only released mixtapes didn't he? Roots album wasn't loved, Wiley released two albums, one of which was rubbish and most prob. turned people off/split votes, lil mama should have been on last years etc.

Paper Trail is so not placing here.

Neither is Young Jeezy, for that matter.