TOP 10 NOW: \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\shawty got poll poll poll poll poll poll poll (part II: 2008 ALBUMS)/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/

or lol, even booka shade just on name recognition!

did teenpop albums ever do well I cant remember. I assume pop always dominated the singles polls but not albums

Why bother to nominate mix albums when you can have the minimal vs deep house argument for the fiftieth time?

I think Lupe Fiasco's The Cool might have placed, were it not released in January of this year...

― ilxor, Friday, February 13, 2009 1:18 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i feel like i'm reading this post wrong or maybe there's a word missing, but it was released in December '07. also that didn't stop a lot of people for stumping for, say, The-Dream's album (which was released a week earlier) as an '08 album.

one of the things that seems to most dominate the list so far is what i'd call design magazine aesthetics (courtesy of d-mag hipsters?). music that is fastidious, formally intriguing, often (but not necessarily) quiet/minimal, tied to a sometimes "experimental" or "avant garde" context, and almost ruthless coherent in its aesthetics. applies as much to earth & studio as to gas & fennesz.

I think Lupe Fiasco's The Cool might have placed, were it not released in January of this year...

This is one of the most polarizing albums of the year. The people who like it REALLY LOVE IT and the people who don't react as if it were a crime against humanity. (argument might be the tiniest bit overstated)

mlle caro & franck garcia's album was surely MADE for indie/techno crossover

I agree that might have had a big following on here (it is lovely) if anyone had ever actually talked about it.

Anyway Lex incase you cant be bothered looking, Mariah didnt make the 2005
Here's the list
50 Daft Punk - Human after all 64 6 0
49 Franz Ferdinand - You could have it so much better… 65 7 0
48 Smog - A River ain't too much 65 4 1
47 Maximo Park - A certain trigger 66 6 0
46 Depeche Mode - Playing the angels 66.5 6 0
45 Annie - Anniemal 67 5 0
44 Juan Maclean - Less than human 67.5 7 0
43 Dangerdoom - The Mouse and the Mask 68.5 9 0
42 Bright Eyes - I'm wide awake it's morning 71 7 0
41 My Morning Jacket - Z 72 6 1
40 Tom Vek - We have sound 73.5 4 0
39 Alan Braxe & Friends - The Upper Cut 73.5 6 0
38 Konono no.1 - Congotronics* 76.5 9 0
37 Stephen Malkmus - Face the truth* 78 6 0
36 Ellen Allien - Thrills* 89 7 0
35 Whites Stripes - Get behind me Satan 90 10 0
34 Missy Elliot - The Cookbook* 91.5 7 1
33 Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine 95.5 8 0
32 Patrick Wolf - Wind in the wires 97 6 1
31 Madonna - Confessions on a dancefloor 97.5 8 0
30 Low - The Great Destroyer 100 8 0
29 Sigur Ros - Takk 101.5 11 1
28 Deerhoof - The Runners Four 102 8 0
27 Wolf Parade - Apologies to Queen Mary 104.5 9 0
26 Kelley Polar - Love songs of the Hanging Gardens 105 8 0
25 The Clientele - Strange Geometry* 105.5 9 0
24 Ladytron - The Witching Hour 111 9 0
23 Saint Etienne - Tales from Turnpike House 111 8 2
22 Out Hud - Let us never speak of it again 114 8 0
21 Sleater Kinney - The Woods 115 11 0
20 Antony and the Johnsons - I am a bird now 116 12 0
19 New Pornographers - Twin Cinema 125.5 9 1
18 M83 - Before dawn heals us 141 11 2
17 Gorillaz - Demon Days 142.5 12 2
16 Hold Steady - Separation Sunday 154 13 1
15 Robyn - Robyn 155 11 1
14 Rachel Stevens - Come and get it 159 12 1
13 Mountain Goats - Sunset Tree 174 13 0
12 Kanye West - Late Registration 177 14 0
11 Girls Aloud - Chemistry 177 14 0
10 Kate Bush - Aerial* 181 11 5
9 Broadcast - Tender Buttons* 192 15 0
8 Isolee - Wearmonster 200 13 2
7 Sufjan Stevens - Illinois 205 16 1
6 Bloc Party - Silent alarm 206 19 1
5 Animal Collective - Feels 208 19 0
4 Vitalic - OK Cowboy 217.5 20 2
3 Spoon - Gimme Fiction 221.5 20 2
2 LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem 333.5 26 2
1 MIA - Arular* 490.5 36 7

man 2005 was sooo ilx.

2005 list = lol Pitchfork. Give me an unpredictable one like this any day.

this reminds me that I need to buy that Vitalic album

ok, that '05 list is vomitous

this reminds me that I need to buy that Vitalic album

Dude you HAVE heard it right?!

2005 was so 2005... looks pretty 'normal' to me

2006 ***What's that coming over the hill? It's the 2006 ILX ALBUMS POLL RESULTS***

considering how well AnCo, Spoon and Sufjan did (and LCD as well), I'm just glad MGMT came and went at 20.

Unexploded Bomb Iver.

Dude you HAVE heard it right?!

Not the whole thing! I know I will love it, though.

outliers along the d-mag axis includes stuff like MGMT, arthur russell, school of the seven bells, alex moulton, luomo, deerhunter, psych-folk stuff

40. Ornette Coleman - Sound Grammar

^^^never knew this existed. is it worth hearing?

2006 was the 1st time a metal album made it (Mastodon - Blood Mountain)

pasts lists seem less weirdly insular, more open to pop

It really does seem like this year everyone made a concerted effort to find something NEW, doesn't it? Like, everyone had a reoccurrence of that middle school/high school moment where you throw up your hands and say "ugh, what else it out there" and you end up buying, say, five albums of Bulgarian women's choir music.

arctic monkeys beat beyonce? fuck u ilx, fuck u to hell and back u cunts.

― lex pretend, Saturday, 5 May 2007 03:23 (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lolol

i feel like i'm reading this post wrong or maybe there's a word missing, but it was released in December '07. also that didn't stop a lot of people for stumping for, say, The-Dream's album (which was released a week earlier) as an '08 album.

under-the-radar december releases will often get treated well in the following year's poll b/c people don't tend to pick them up until well into the next year (like the-dream - i only heard that in march or april, i think). hoping this will benefit anthony hamilton and brandy next year.

Boris - Pink was no23 that year

more open to the same Lily Allen and Amy Winehouse records appearing two years running morelike

^^^never knew this existed. is it worth hearing?

It won a Pulitzer Prize, for whatever that's worth.

mlle caro & franck garcia's album was surely MADE for indie/techno crossover

I agree that might have had a big following on here (it is lovely) if anyone had ever actually talked about it.

― Maximo Park Ji-Sung (Matt DC), Friday, February 13, 2009 6:24 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

agreeing with someone agreeing with self in the hope that someone might investigate this album!

Actually just read all the lex's comments on the 2006 thread

lol

FWIW the Mlle Caro & Frank Garcia is warm bedtime microhouse with boy-girl harmonies, in French accents, with strummy guitars and strings and stuff as well.

Was that 2006 poll the reason you quit ilx for a while Lex?

Skimming the 2006 one I found this:

This weekend I'll list the top 3 most hated singles of 2006 over in the other thread.

― musically, Saturday, 5 May 2007 02:35 (1 year ago) Bookmark

So did the 2006 one have anti-votes or whatever? How did that work out?

I feel unexpectedly invested in this thread, even though I haven't voted in an ILX poll in probably four years. I think that's partly because the conversation is interesting and wide-ranging and also because there are indeed a handful of albums I'm unfamiliar with, which piques my curiosity. Maybe I'll vote next year.

caro & garcia:

40. Ornette Coleman - Sound Grammar

^^^never knew this existed. is it worth hearing?

yes! it's great.

musta been a serious shortage of quotes on yearbook 2 :/

i didn't vote in this, but i've gotten more mileage out of D. Lissvik's album, so i'd rank that higher

I like the Mlle Caro & Frank Garcia album to a point, but it gets samey.

i will give this list credit for exposing me to several excellent (or at least excellent-seeming, on the first pass) records that i wouldn't have otherwise been aware of. very different from past lists where pretty much every entry was a known/familiar quantity.

very intrigued by Paavoharju, D. Lissvik, Lau Nau & Grouper (the last i'd written off for reasons unknown)

re: the ornette coleman mention, another interesting thing on this list, reflective of this year -- almost no presence of eminence-grise types. (except i guess mark e. smith.) (and arthur russell, but he's an eminence morte.) but i can't think of much from '08 that would have qualified -- no dylan, robert plant, or lindsey buckingham or whatever. there was probably a neil young album (don't even remember), but not one that made a dent.

There WAS a Buckingham album, but opinions are far too split for it to ever be ranked.

er, you know Robert Plant and Allison Krauss just won a Grammy for Album of the Year, right

Yeah, that too.

but didn't that album place last year iirc?

xposts:

plant/krauss was an '07 album though. would have been on last year's poll. (don't remember if it was.)

and i didn't even know there was a buckingham record...

no anti-votes before, i just asked people to submit a handful of their most hated songs with their ballots and the ones with the most noms were featured. believe it or not not a lot of people did it so i dropped it.

Oh right, it came out in 2007. xxxp

Weller could qualify but he hasn't made it I assume.

and i didn't even know there was a buckingham record...

Yeah, Gift of Screws finally got released, although it bares almost no resemblance to the bootleg of the same name that's been floating around for 8 years.