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

yeah i never really participated either so i shouldn't talk shit. i gotta say that end-of-year seems more and more like an anachronism or a formality now (heh speaking of talking shit). i wonder if you'd get more or less consensus if the voter turnout was higher. if i e.g. surf the p&j lists i barely look at the top ten. instead i go directly to the critics' lists.

higher turnout = more (and duller) consensus, pretty much always. otoh low turnout is just pointless. 100 or so ballots seems a good balance.

this is the first year i voted sorry i broke your poll dudes ;_;

yeah dude now autechre is not going to win

What could make it less consensus based is if more of the ringtone/rolling metal/rolling country/rolling psych/bobbins etc voted. Lots of each just dont think its worth voting as they think their choices wont place.
Then again I dont know if that would make any difference to the top 10. The fact that hip-hop gets in the top 10 every year does suggest that at least could get higher or more entries in the top 10.

However maybe most ilxors dont want more niche acts in the top 20 considering the "i prefer the top 20 to 50-21 albums" posts that have been made here?

If bands that no-one had heard of cracked the top 5 I think there would be complaints.

8 - Air France - No Way Down
262 points, 22 votes, 1 #1 votes
171 in P&J, 14 in p4k

http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/3164/airfrancealbumartbb6.jpg

I'm halfway through their new EP No Way Down and it's jaw-droppingly good, "has music ever been this good" good. "Collapsing At Your Desktop" is one of the most amazing things I've heard, something like Saint Etienne's "London Belongs To Me" meets The Field. "June Evening" is gorgeous melancholy tropical pop.

This after "Hold On To Me, Baby" was already the prettiest thing I'd heard this year.

This stuff blows their first EP out of the water. They're getting better and better, and they're already the most bewitching music I've heard this year.

― Tim F

then again, this is ilx, no matter what happens someone will complain.
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Wow, I really didn't think that would make it.

OK I'm surprised an ep got in.

dude no joke i would kill to see your top ten list because i am way too outside and almost certainly sleeping on some great stuff.

xpost to and what

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esham - sacrificial lambz
young jeezy - the recession
reks - gray hairs
lil boosie - da beginning
mr sche & nasty nardo - we from memphis
heltah skeltah - d.i.r.t.
gucci mane & oj da juiceman - gucci juice
catalyst - fuck the radio
killer mike - pledge allegiance to the grind 2
dj scream & gorilla zoe - i am atlanta
g-side - starshipz & rocketz
i-20 - blood in the water

thx dude you are fucking awesome srsly

i-20 - blood in the water

i LOVED that 'really like her' single. cavernous.

I was going to stay around and be excited about the top 10 but fuck that, eduardo is starting. have fun suckaz.

7 - Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
285.5 points, 26 votes, 2 #1 votes
23 in P&J, 4 in p4k

http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/9669/f012ln9.jpg

Album streaming: http://www.last.fm/music/Cut+Copy/In+Ghost+Colours

really falling in love with In Ghost Colours this summer. this album is firmly in my top 10 for this year. it's the 80's vibe that has done it for me.

― Bee OK

^^^heard one song from this, it was really really really really really boring

cut copy took the very depths of your soul and smashed them over the insides of your skull with some very illegally delicious things

If never heard Cut Copy before, but this sounds kinda boring indeed. Nice synth sounds, but the singer is quite bland, and the song really lacks the sort of poppy sensibility it's aiming for.

"I've never heard"

I played the Cut Copy album to death over the summer but there's really nothing to explain to people who don't get it. It's pure surface enjoyment and nothing else.

My favorite CC track:

Especially for the unexpectedly gentle second half.

Still really like lights and music. Its not so much indie dance as indie haunted by ghosts from Ibiza.

I cant even be bothered discussing this

an important distinction, xp

New Order in 1989 with technique, Cut Copy in 2008 with In Ghost Colours - both similar concepts

It took me a while to warm up to In Ghost Colours, in part because it felt almost too rote and professional in contrast to the homemade-seeming exuberance of Bright Like Neon Love. I still don't love it, but there are a half-dozen songs that are pretty solid jams.

i think the next one will surprise many people here...

I like surprises! (maybe)

i liked the carter III at first but now i sure never feel like listening to it.

Yeah that bit half way through So Haunted is amazing. The whole album feels a bit like a sugary imitation of an e rush put together by kids who have only read about it, but have stumbled across something really great anyway.

Could it be Goldfrapp? I thought it was a really great album and was sure it would show up in the poll. (x-post)

^^^lol

I'm thinking Shearwater or something lame, that album seemed to have some real evangelists.

I never did listen to Shearwater, despite promising Southall on numerous occasions that I would

Either that or its Portishead placing surprisingly low.

it's not dullplay because only geir votes for them

It doesn't necessarily have to be an album we don't expect, but it could be a placement. What if Badu is #6?

That would be something of an anticlimax tbh, I want genuine WTF "where has this artist come from"

me too.

I'm guessing that Badu, Portishead, H&LA, Vampire Weekend, and TVOTR are not the surprises, so that leaves one more.

tvotr already placed wise guy.

Ah I know what it is.

Lindstrom?

Based on what was guessed upthread, it seems like we're expecting Portishead, Badu, Vampire Weekend, H&LA, Gang Gang Dance, and Lindstrom, probably in roughly that order.

^^i'll be pretty shocked if one of those 6 doesn't place, so i assume it's either portishead or badu placing lower than expected

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/photopost/data/947/4485Scott_Baio_playing_drumroll.jpg

The whole album aesthetic feels a bit like a sugary tepid, washed-out imitation of an e rush put together by kids who have only read about it, but have stumbled across something really great anyway surprisingly ordinary, but which has been talked up quite beyond belief seemingly everywhere

RIGHT that's Cut Copy/Aeroplane/Air France/nu-Balearica and fuck it probably the Avalanches too (ok, admittedly it did was fun for like, 3 months over Summer '01...) dealt with. Deep breath aaaannd I'm moving on...

I'm willing to toy with the possibility that Hercules & Love Affair didn't actually place, due to people mostly voting it #19 or #20.

dude you just dissed like 85% of ILX's taste xp

flying lotus!