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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.

other weird difference is that this year's thread has had something like four times as many responses in its first week as last year's thread did during its entire run.

oh, and you could/should add battles to the count for metal albums last year, maybe (it's at least as metal as jesu and alcest) - so 5 for 07

my sentimental geezer vote fwiw went to paul westerberg, as much for his pricing scheme as anything.

and i guess if nick cave places he'll count in the geezer column.

omg double studio!! m.o.r. balearodribble? is that redundant?

albums are v different fwiw

18 - Kelley Polar - I Need You To Hold On While The Sky Is Falling
151.5 points, 14 votes
276 in P&J

http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/9574/333lj0.jpg

Full album streaming: http://www.last.fm/music/Kelley+Polar/I+Need+You+To+Hold+On+While+The+Sky+Is+Falling

I seriously can't remember the last time I heard a full-length this good.

― Jena

This is probably my favourite album of the year?

― I know, right?

I dunno, I felt the first album a lot more than this one. But I've only listened to it like 4 times so... maybe I should revisit it

excellent. wasn't sure if this was gonna place. :)

k.polar's one where i'm just firmly in the do-not-get camp. tried the first one, tried the second one, zzzzz.

I'm firmly in the I-like-two-or-three-tracks camp, on both albums.

Haven't heard this guy. What's he like?

d. lissvik is different but not THAT different, really. like i said, my vote went for this one in the end but i find it odd that a remix album would place so high in any poll. odd but awesome.

recent entries upping the electrodribble quotient slightly, if only by association (open-eared electronic production stuff that leans heavily towards pop).

but more and more, i'm feeling a strong tone of d-mag restraint & formality

kelley polar is dramatic violin disco. His vocals are a dealbreaker for many people - I like em myself.

meh more electrodribble coming up i expect - H&LA, Air France, M83, Cut Copy.

HERCULES, AIR FRANCE AND M83 ARE NOT ELECTRODRIBBLE YOU WANKER.

;-)

lol okay. i dunno i kind of stopped reading like ten posts into that electrodribble thread.

(open-eared electronic production stuff that leans heavily towards pop)

^^was going from this descriptor.

No one can agree on whether "electrodribble" means a) indie bands that use electronics or b) electronic acts that appeal to indie audiences.