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Or TVotR, for that matter.

I love the VW record, so I don't agree.

I voted Lindstrom as my number one and i bet i wasn't the only one. >_<

can I say I don't get people who only lik3e"Poison Dart"? one of the most boring tracks on the album! wtf

man fuck a hater I hope Vampire Weekend and TVotR make the top ten

the upbeat afrofunk joints on the new tvotr are the only good things they have done imo

fuck yall btw

like i said it's the cognitive dissonance that intrigues me, like, i'm listening and thinking 'i have every reason in the world to hate this song" and i cant bring myself to it. pretty powerful thing imo

this happens a lot w/kanye! though not with 'robocop' for me, that shit sucks. i mean seriously, ROBOCOP? how the hell did that simile make it past the editing process? and the "spoilt little LA girl" chant is definitely the nadir of something or other.

If someone called me a Robocop as we were on the verge of breaking up that would be the dealbreaker

brainwasher otm. i get that i'm not supposed to sympathise w/kanye, that the bitterness is part and parcel of his whole experience, and i'm down with that on most of the songs, but the problem with the 'robocop' lyric isn't so much that dude is being a dick as dude is being retarded and using 12-year-old schoolboy similes.

i didn't vote for it b/c there's no way it's one of the 20 best albums of the year but i'm glad it placed where it did - absolutely love 'welcome to heartbreak' (which is where the cog. dissonance that kevin talked about really works - yeah it's a spoiled multimillionaire whining about his luxurious life but he definitely captures the gilded-cage isolation of it - plus that synth line is just gorgeous), and 'heartless' works surprisingly well in a radio context, like hearing it in a clothes shop and stuff. also i like 'see you in my nightmares' a lot, may as well admit that in the middle of this long-ass paragraph where no one will see. apart from the "mrs PU" line obv! why can kanye and wayne not self-edit those moments. no wonder trina dumped his ass. trina and alexis need to get together and work on a single ladies clothing line or something. you just know they're more fun to hang with.

(also poor "Pinocchio Story", what a load of balls)

weirdest thing was that apparently this endlessly terrible thing was included on 808s at beyoncé's insistence o_0

anyway i am SO PLEASED that the recession placed higher than 808s. jordan's write-up was completely otm - "pitch perfect" sums it up really. hip-hop album of the year no contest for me, it's just got everything - clever lines, dumb lines (like ign'ant good dumb, not kanye retarded dumb), that zeitgeisty topical feel (without being too self-conscious or heavy-handed), moodiness and triumphalism and a ton of hooks.

also really pleased about the bug, though i'd thought it might make the top 10. so yeah overall i <3 the 20-11 section, the poll's really coming alive, good work to all, and maybe vampire weekend will miss out altogether, the audacity of hope and change and all that.

drunk rev! <3

man the prob w robocop isnt the lyrics but htat it sounds like some soul calibur 2 or final fantasy tactics bullsh

haha drunk rev <3 is right

10 Lindstrøm
9 Air France
8 Gang Gang Dance
7 Cut Copy
6 TV on the Radio
5 Vampire Weekend
4 Hercules and Love Affair
3 Lil Wayne
2 Erykah Badu
1 Portishead

too hungover to think of anything else which might/should make it - guess i can stop holding out for mariah, trus'me and jazmine now - but 20-11 will easily be the best section of the list in that case.

lex get on aim u muthafuka hit me up "reverenddollars"

#11 is kinda perfect 4 the bug tho

Haha I love how this has thread has become everyone sending hearts and congratulating one another on a job well done, interspersed with LJ frothing in indignation.

No T.I. then?

:-/

never really connected with the Paper Trails hype

tha carter iii would be a kickass #1 btw. prob not gonna happen tho right?

1. Erykah Badu
2. Portishead
3. Lil Wayne

stuff this poll to the gills with all the electrodribble you want; but if that's the top 3 it'll be the greatest poll ever!

So this Portishead album is good then yeah?

that edge-of-the-world beat really works for him - also added oomph from ye dropping the track before his verse comes in

yeah i love that moment, w/the howling wolves in the background and shit - it's like the inverse of that episodic pause before kanye's verse on 'put on'

EYES SO LOW YEAH I LOOK LIKE AN ASIAN

favourite hip-hop line in this vein will always & 4eva be "i wanna nigga that'll grab the weave and turn my eyes chinese"

It's good. It's way overhyped. It'd be a decent winner, given what else is apparently left.

Anyway, after that little interjection, I have sport to be watching. Adios.

i think lj might like the erykah badu album?

Lex, I solemnly promise you I will give it every chance :)

in my expereince, the badu album breaks down like this:

songs 2-4 are the most immediate winners, esp. 'the healer'
songs 5-7 take a little more time, but persevere; once they click the rest of the album falls into place.

don't know ab tthe portishead album...but me putting it at #2 was concessions; from all talk, it pretty much is surefire #1

I dunno, it took me a long time to *get* Erykah Badu. It involved waking up during a looong bus journey with The Other Side of the Game having come on shuffle on my mp3.

Just put on Portishead, from first 30seconds this is already better than I thought it would be. A lot better.

i think the portishead album is a really impressive piece of work but i never got as into it as i expected (they were my favourite group when i was a teenager) - i admire it from afar rather than loving it, so i didn't vote for it.

so, does the Silence really just cut out like that?

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I mostly feel the same way about it. It's a brilliant album, but I'm not listening to it much anymore. Indeed admiration exceeds love here (The Rip excluded, which is stellar)

xxxxp Mama's Gun was one of the albums I got into in college..."Bag Lady" was the song that sold me, though now I like "2000 A.D." the most from that album...

I have a soft spot for Worldwide Underground, especially I want you. That album has the most spazzed out seventies vibe. Which I feel.

Blah--I guess Jamey Johnson's not going to make this poll.

The Portishead was fabulous and deserves to be no1. So it probably wont be as others wont place it high as they think other ilxors will. While Erykah badu fans will have that at no1.

Kinda surprised Grace Jones isn't gonna chart now I think of it.

Definitely thought there were more Hurricane lovers than Crystal Castles ones.

Bimble didn't vote

i think the portishead album is a really impressive piece of work but i never got as into it as i expected ... i admire it from afar rather than loving it, so i didn't vote for it.

otm. (in some ways i think the gang gang dance album does for me what portishead does for other people. even though they're obv. very different.)

I had no idea Eryka Badu released an album this year

I would be really, really, really fucking happy if GGD went top five.

The Gang Gang Dance album is good enough an album but no way should it be a top 10 record. Obviously it is going to be though on ILM. Good chance it will still be better than most in the top 20 mind you.

^ this

i was surprised at how much i liked saint dymphna, given that i'd thought other stuff of theirs was just sort of interesting. i really like the ebbs and flows of the album, and it has all this stuff in it -- bits and pieces of sound and rhythm that still surprise me. and i like how it acknowledges a lot of different forms (rock, grime, dubstep, trance, whatever) but doesn't feel bound or defined by them.

plus they were the best live act i saw last year. really good.

(and like i said, i love the drumming. nice to hear a band really thinking about and expanding the possibilities of rhythm in song structures.)

I was supposed to be at a GGD show in Brussels now, but it (and the rest of the tour) has been cancelled after the storage room containing their equipment burned down yesterday in Holland.

?!? :(((((((

whoa that sucks. i hope they had insurance.