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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)

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

...all as yet unaccounted for

ohhh shi-

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.

The Bug left me a bit cold too really. Dunno why, it's just all a bit Kev Martin being scowly and uncompromising isn't it?

I heard Poison Dart just now and it did precisely squat-all for me. There wasn't even an authentic air of menace, just a particular and insistent vocal styling atop some standard droning, grinding electronics.

fairly confident of ggd making the top 10. that's about the only thing left i voted for that i think still has a chance of showing up. (other than that, my rooting interest is all about hoping vampire weekend somehow failed to place.)

Yeah, maybe I should give The Bug a third chance. I had a similar reaction, though. It was decent enough, but it was so hyped from all quarters that I was expecting to be blown away.

Hopefully GGD

House Jam is A++++++++

also wtf is cut copy and why do i have a dreadful feeling they sound like another neatly-packaged indie-electro band such as hot chip

"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"

<3ing you right now J0rdan.

Nah, CutCopy are better than they sound. More expansive and New Order-ey. A kindof Lisa Lashes aesthetic going on which I think is funny.

they still sound very "safe" to me

maybe that is the point

GGD will be there for definite. Would guess that Hot Chip and No Age aren't going to make it though. Which leaves one more...

xpost, yeah I mean they're pretty boring but if they were on in the backround it would be fine.

Shouldn't there be an inquest when "pretty boring" is a near dead-cert for the top 5 of a year-end ILM poll?

lol I think I'll wait and hear them before saying any more, it's well past my bedtime

electrodribble?
xcpost

g'nite LJ i've enjoyed your hateration

night Brainwasher, you and yours have been doughty adversaries :)

WS dancing guy in this video.

Yeah, what am I douing still awake? Have had Astral Social Club on repeat. Noise-friendly Electrodribble you can believe in.