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it's kinda weird i guess i thought i had more "typical" ILM tastes than i actually do.

already said this on some thread or other, but this is the first jeezy album i've loved. i've always liked him, but i think the production and hooks are the most solid top to bottom on this one, and i also like the urgency of it (and that the urgency feels connected to something beyond his own bad self). compared with, say, the mopey self-absorption of paper trail, the recession feels connected to me. (this was my #2, happy to see it here.)

I gave up on Harvey Milk making it when Torche made it. James Blackshaw a few posts later.

xxp

xp: 20-11 has been the only part of the poll I've really cared for at all

unpredictable vs predictable-but-don't-like i suppose

tipsy otm on the urgency.

Jeezy isn't really club rap, tho. Even when he is he's treading the line between club banger/hardcore street ish.

Yeah, I said that after just hearing Amazin. The other tracks linked up there are much more likeable.

here's hoping for one last curveball

Well there is still the mystery of what album(s) didn't make it.

unpredictable vs predictable-but-don't-like i suppose

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― whatever, Friday, February 13, 2009 3:57 PM Bookmark

Yeah, for me it was unpredictable-but-don't-like vs predictable-but-like.

I had hoped Marnie Stern would make the top 50. Surprised she made the metal top 50 but not here.

my thing w/ the recession is that it wants to be an important album, but it's not ham-handed at all, it's very "jeezy gives back in the best way he knows how" vain, like one thing ppl who are broke and down on their luck want is good entertainment, and jeezy's album is really that. his personal bailout, in a way. the recession thing just makes it more relatable and timely, like "put on" - "i put on for my city" - is pretty self-centered in a way, and it's all about his cars and money etc, but i was in atl when that shit dropped and it felt like the lifeblood of the city. it's just a totally pitch-perfect album imo, not too heavy one way (like the nas album for instance), and ppl (real ppl) really really feel jeezy

I've always felt that one of the major things that made Jeezy tick in the past was his sense of dread. He's on top now, but it could all come crashing down at any moment. Now that things are coming down, that dread has turned into the urgency tipsy speaks of.

real ppl

it wants to be an important album, but it's not ham-handed at all

yeah i think part of what makes something like "my president" work is that he's equally concerned about his president and his lamborghini. it's honest, and also funny.

20-11 has been the only part of the poll I've really cared for at all

― The Reverend, Friday, 13 February 2009 23:49 (Yesterday)

Rodney I'm surprised we have any matches on last fm ;)

jeezy just takes his albums super seriously and refuses to have any bullshit on them. no verse is wasted. no lame guests. no beat isn't on-theme. he just goes in and makes big statement albums and people love him for that cuz they can just throw the disc in the car and know they're gonna be feeling the whole thing.

he leaves the bullshit to his RnB guest spots

Well, it would have been totally wrong for him to pretend that he wasn't rich or he was really poor or whatever. I think he puts himself in it perfectly. It's really not a political album but there is a real sense of 'no matter your bank balance or job or whatever, someone has fucked up so badly that we are all effected and hurt by it' off screen. And then to try and do your best and enjoy what you have (in this case, his lambo) regardless.

can you imagine a super-serious recession themed album by, say, Jay-Z

can you imagine a super-serious recession themed album by, say, Jay-Z
no but kanye yes

lol @ the thought of a recession-themed kanye album

he don't do shares

basically, i don't listen to a ton of Jeezy but i def respect him and what he represents in the game and i am totally glad he finished high just because, i dunno, he's is a real* hip hop dude to me, doing real* shit. and he's definitely got that epic scale to me, like his big budget widescreen stuff like put on really works.

*lol "realness" but fuck it shit like that matters to me

is this the right time to admit that I have a crush on young jeezy

because I do

can you imagine a super-serious recession themed album by, say, Jay-Z

― autogoblin (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Friday, February 13, 2009 6:10 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

this one was called american gangster, it was awful

btw, potm12 on point totally

And then to try and do your best and enjoy what you have (in this case, his lambo) regardless.

and the lambo represents achievement too. in a different way than a black president, but they're both basically emblems of beating the odds.

i also just have always dug his delivery, he gets more range out of his rasp than it seems like is there at first. the way a line like "just look at 'em fly" sounds fatalistic and hopeful at the same time.

brainwasher crush all u want

yeah i think part of what makes something like "my president" work is that he's equally concerned about his president and his lamborghini. it's honest, and also funny.

― paper plans (tipsy mothra), Friday, February 13, 2009 6:08 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah like to me, i get the sense that tons of jeezy's fans, if they ever made it up out of the trap a la jeezy, would get a blue lambo and would be goddamned if their rims weren't too. ppl really liked to clown that line i think, but imo it's so in touch w/ his fan base (im speculating here obv). i feel teh same way about "when they see me out in traffic they say jeezy on some other shit" - ppl want to hear him rap about being rich because it inspires them to be so. the blue lambo line is maybe the most inspiring line about obama in popular music imo

lol

i struggle out in traffic too

last one for today:

11 - Bug, The - London Zoo
236.5 points, 20 votes, 1 #1 vote
111 in P&J, 38 in p4k

http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/4104/lilc8znrks4.jpg

Full album streaming: http://www.last.fm/music/The+Bug/London+Zoo

After six months with the record, I think it's one of the best records ever made, a funky political party on par with Maggot Brain, Sandinista, Double Nickles on the Dime, Nation of Millions. Poison Dart is the first one I heard, and I still can't believe I haven't worn it out the way I've been playing it, so it's got my deepest love. All the associated tracks on the 12" are brilliant too- Stampin, Ganja. Poison Dart, Jah War next maybe. Every track gets me though.

This one and the A Frames debut sum up the 00's for me. Like those other records I mentioned, I don't think I'll ever get to the bottom of them.

― bendy

Top 10 on Monday...if you have a blurb for anything you think will be in the top 10, please send it my way (seattle.maryATgmailDOTcom).

HAHAHAHA like the last 5 have all been called

LJ I told you so

haha xp

Friday the 13th - day of the candyman

Can I send you that LOTP blurb now, Musically? ;-)

Finally another I voted for. Hoped it would be higher.
The Wires No1 is No 11 on ILM!

Glad to see 11 so I can go to bed now. The Bug strikes me as a record I'd love and yet I can't garner enough enthusiasm to actually listen to it. Maybe tomorrow.

Hah where did everyone go? Someone must want to talk about The Bug

Kinda disappointed to see Jeezy place so low actually - that made my #2 for the year. He has all the dexterity of a steamroller and the unpredictability of a wrecking ball but somehow that totally *makes it*. I can't remember the last time I heard an album that aimed so bluntly for the epochal and actually hit it.

Conversely I'm kind of happy to see The Bug miss the top 10. It's an album I liked a lot at first, but the more I think about it the less it appeals to me. Except the tracks with Flowdan, which are brilliant.

did this thread break ILX or what? i couldn't log on for a while.

Can we go back to Kelley Polar for a second? Really wish I'd voted in this thing, because I definitely woulda given that another #1. Anybody who hasn't heard his Italian/Italo cover of Magic Dance needs to. Now. https://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=batch_download&batch_id=Q01IZGVkdEN6NEkwTVE9PQ

M83 and Schnauss as appeal to similar moods for me, too. And I think of M83 as kind of It's My Life-era Talk Talk by way of Black Box Recorder. By which I mean no criticism; I voted for S=Y and it will almost certainly be my highest placement.

Also, I feel sad and old that somebody said "BOC" and meant something other than Blue Oyster Cult.

Glenn, odds are you are not that much older than me! (also I said Boards of Canada before switching to the acronym precisely because of Blue Oyster Cult)

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
20 - MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
19 - Studio - Yearbook 2
18 - Kelley Polar - I Need You To Hold On While The Sky Is Falling
17 - Santogold - Santogold
16 - The-Dream - Love/Hate
15 - Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
14 - Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak
13 - M83 - Saturdays=Youth
12 - Young Jeezy - The Recession
11 - Bug, The - London Zoo

I can't figure out which of these two won't make it:

Air France
Erykah Badu
Bon Iver
The Bug
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Cut Copy
Fleet Foxes
Gang Gang Dance
Hercules and Love Affair
Hot Chip
Lindstrom
M83
No Age
Portishead
TV on the Radio
Vampire Weekend
Kanye West

― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Friday, 13 February 2009 20:45 (Yesterday)