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

that's so awful. poor GGD.

Can someone repost ##20-11 in list form please. This thread is now so huge that my work PC's webwasher refuses to open the full version.

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

Thanks!

(Hmmm. I figured 15, 14 and 12 would all be higher.)

will start the top 10 in a few minutes...

Musically did say there was strange placings in the top 20. So looks like some big hitters (TVOTR?) might not place and perhaps it wont be Erykah Badu and Portishead as no1 & no2 as we all assumed?

Yeah, it's Coldplay and Oasis in the first two slots.

Nowt weird about having Coldplay at Number One...

Fair enough, may as well all give up and vote for the Nazis.

So when do we get the top ten?

10 - TV On the Radio - Dear Science
241.5 points, 20 votes, 1 #1 votes
1 in P&J, 6 in p4k

http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/1104/dearsciencejr3.jpg

Album streaming: http://www.last.fm/music/TV+on+the+Radio/Dear+Science

It's hard to write anything too soon about them because it takes so many listens for the layers, details and surprises to reveal themselves. My third listen on headphones on a train ride is what put it over the top for me. After finishing it I was wobbly with vertigo. It felt like the songs corresponded with the neighborhoods that whizzed by, each packed with years of memories and emotions. It's like traveling in an unfamiliar country with a lover, having an intense conversation, getting drunk, arguing, and ending the night at 3 a.m. exhausted from intense make-up sex.

― Fastnbulbous

wow that blurb.

was gonna say, makes me wanna hear this.

I was under the impression it was kind of a poppy record. Only heard it once and didn't pay attention tho.

same here. and i hadn't been impressed by their previous albums either.

Ok I thought this might miss out. So kinda surprised to see it. Not heard it and not sure I want to. Can anyone tempt me?

well it's like hate fucking, apparently.

or make-up sex. same thing?

I actively disliked their earlier work (the debut EP excepted) and don't mind this one. Not a fan, but it didn't make me turn it off immediately. Small steps.

can i just say this now and never say it again: fuck TVOTR

― Robin van Injury (country matters), Monday, February 9, 2009 5:07 PM (1 week ago)

just quoting this here so that when LJ wakes up he remembers this promise.

Ok I thought this might miss out

of the 10 someone posted the other day, i think air france are probably the most vulnerable - only an ep, people might have voted for trax instead &c. but then people did seem to really love them. maybe cut "electrodribble" copy too, i have no idea if anyone is really into them.

I fancy electrodribble to do well Lex. It's replaced pop and indie as ILM music these past few years.

I still think Erykah Badu will be no1

agree that air france is a long shot. same with cut copy, but not quite as long. haven't heard the lindstrom, and it isn't really in my orbit, so i was inclined to hedge on that, too, but it seems to have a lot of strong supporters, so...

would LOVE to see EB take #1

Being big into my indie-friendly electrodribble, I bought the Cut Copy and Hot Chip albums and didn't vote for either, as they're basically not very good. I predict that they will both miss out.

i just listened to that badu record again this AM in the car and it's great, but daaaamn what's with neosoul peeps addiction to meandering, boring ballads?

Musically are the numbers of points for nos 1 & 2 quite close or is it a runaway winner? (i don't think either way it will give a clue who will win as most people seem to be split between Erykah Badu and Portishead as winners)

^^real talk

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I hate boring ballads more than anything in the world. I think you put me off wanting to hear it M@tt

plus make-up sex != "hate fucking". FTR

actually I just hate ballads

Is there some story behind it that redeems "TV on the ... Radio" or is it the worst fucking band name ever, as it appears to be?

imagine it tho

I just wish there was a surprise high entry how the fuck did that get there album to come. I suppose if Nick Cave did that kinda would do it, except for the fact he's been top 10 in every list last year practically. I don't expect him to make it in this one mind you.

You know what I'm REALLY looking forward to? Seeing no's 60-51 just to see what almost made it.

Followed by emil.y's posts of "if I had voted that would have made it"

ballad haterz have no souls. i don't think new amerykah has any meandering ballads in any case, not in the usual neo-soul vein anyway, but i guess we can talk about that when, hopefully, erykah takes her rightful place at the top of this pile.

if any of the 10 upthread don't get in, it's probably only to make room for hot chip or bon iver or blahzzzz :(

actually, looking at the list...is it just me or is it a rather male-dominated list so far? and most of the top 10 predictions are dudes too.

Who did you vote for Lex?

I don't think the word 'ballad' really aptly describes any song on New Amerykah except maybe "Telephone." I don't know what else you'd categorize the long R&B slow burners on the album as, but balladry seems way off.

the ladies albums keep getting put back 6 months

the long R&B slow burners makes it sound even less appealing to me I'm afraid.

seeing as we're talking about it ahead of appearance; The only ballad-y tracks on EB's album are Telephone and That Hump - both have a subtle smoky warmth, musically, that i can get with (altho i like the first half of the album more).

the ladies albums keep getting put back 6 months

TRUE. Whither thou Keri Hilson?

HGN, if you're waiting for someone to tell you that an Erykah Badu album doesn't have a lot of low key midtempo tracks before you can give a damn about listening to it then I don't think I can help you.

Time for #9?

9 - Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
262 points, 21 votes, 4 #1 votes
6 in P&J, 11 in p4k

http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/4017/lilwaynecarter3coverlr3.jpg

Album streaming: http://www.last.fm/music/Lil%27+Wayne/Tha+Carter+III

I fucking love this album. I love it cuz of its imperfections, silly metaphors, raspy uneven voice, for all the tracks that didn't make it, for all the pushbacks, for all the verses that dont fit and dont go anywhere. And its cuz of the cult of personality, of the feeling of event and of populist participation. I really dont understand how a rap fan would not be feeling this on some level. It's all over the place but not in a norm weezy-mixtape era, recording ten tracks a day kinda way. Its all over the place in a very concsious way. He had the sense to make songs like tie my hands and comfortable and dr carter in addition to got money and a millie and it would not have been that farfetched to expect an album of 16 tracks like the latter. This album isn't the blueprint but it is the carter iii

― chinchillas they can fit on gorillas

surprisingly low?

it tied with #8, but #8 had one more vote.