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

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!

also the post-announcement discussion of cut copy has been the most tepid reaction to any album yet, right? which is entirely apt, how they're in the top TEN i just don't know

6 - Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)
291 points, 19 votes, 5 #1 votes
5 in P&J, 13 in p4k

http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/3237/ebadnewamerykahokpiu1.jpg

Album streaming: http://www.last.fm/music/Erykah+Badu/New+Amerykah+Part+One+(4th+World+War)

See...this record is the bizness. The slurry almost-Theo Parrish production on "Twinkle" is killing me. And Badu is still on another brain plane lyrically. This is great.

― Capitaine Jay Vee

serious album of the decade potential.

― Dimension 5ive

Lolololol.

*kicks computer, tears shirt*

A little bit better than Cut Copy!

oh ilm :(

I'm actually gonna give this one a good listen

lol

*regrets strategic voting*

I listened to the album again today in preparation for the top two placing you all told me was an inevitability and I still just didn't get it - I couldn't work out why it was leaving me so cold.

Portishead romping home to victory at this rate.

;_; at Erykah placing. I had it second.

the badu album is very heavy-handed in terms lyrics and construction, sorta the opposite of tepid and washed-out. it can almost make you miss how good the grooves are.

Beginning to think Portishead wont be no1 either and we have a shock winner

Lex was Erykah your no1 album?

If Portishead come up before 1st, comedy #1s could actually not suck.

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

― there's no antivote to (country matters), Monday, February 16, 2009

and probably half of my favourite posters tastes as well :(

I try not to spend my posting time railing against the stuff that honestly, just seems like the weakest of sauces possible anymore unless I have other positive things to contribute these days though. Battle scarred from the great M.I.A. wars of '05 :/ Santogold is lame, but not actually evil.

not only is it ridiculously low, it got less voters (19) than anything since young jeezy - excluding jeezy, less voters than anything since fleet foxes, who placed fifteenth. both erykah and jeezy only placed where they did because their voters gave them v high scores, more so than anything else around them.

street rap and neo-soul are huge blind spots for people not already into them, right?

was it your no1?