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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?

of course erykah was my no 1 - it's pretty much album of the decade for me. it is on another fucking level - i don't actually think i've been this blown away by an album since i first started listening to music

i don't even know what to say to the people who don't get it (apart from "try harder, losers")

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

and country and metal and grime and finnish psych and drone and and and...

it is on another fucking level - i don't actually think i've been this blown away by an album since i first started listening to music

That's how I felt at the time about Fever to Tell in 2003. Now, ask me the last time I listened to it.

as for no 1 i guess i'm rooting for GGD or lindstrøm now - portishead would be a boring result (if a great album), H&LA a boring result (and a boring album), and vampire weekend would probably make me want to get a bit chris brown on you all

cut copy are incredible

xxp When was the last time you listened to it?

I was liking this list much more when it was about so-called d-mag (really...) music, that actually might be a lot harder to make sound interesting with words. I think stuff like that has actually been my retreat a lot of last year from the more immediate, vulgar, but lately unsatifying diet of a music fan with no particular scene attachment but who still hope(d) to find "good stuff" via the internet. There might be something of a bigger trend in that retreat into anonymity and head music you know... or not.

lol...probably not in at least a year and a half...maybe longer. xp

I shoulda voted.

Am giving the GGD album a run-through right now, and lounge-MBV "Vacuum" is the obvious stand-out so far...but it sounds like it could well grow on me

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

and country and metal and grime and finnish psych and drone and and and...

eh, i'll admit that the only reason erykah and jeezy even placed at all was because they got sustained crit-hype over the year (more than any of their previous albums) - if an album from one of the genres you mentioned got the same level of crit-love they'd probably suffer the same fate

i think the thing w/ badu re this poll is that the most vocal backers of it are also pretty visible posters on the board so ppl thought it was gonna do way better than #6, whereas cut copy had only a decent thread but it hit in here where it did in tons of other polls

lex stop being a crybaby (go on, you CAN do it)

#6 is a perfectly fucking respectable placing for a mind-breakingly good (to a person, maybe later to a canon) contemporary classic album in an end of entire whole year poll featuring a gazillion other possible contenders.

That's how I felt at the time about Fever to Tell in 2003. Now, ask me the last time I listened to it.

i really like fever to tell but i think new amerykah may be working on just a few more levels to it

lol @ a chinchillas post in the ILM albums poll thread!

cut copy album is album of the year for me

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

probably, but then there's those of us who like erykah fine but don't love her. that album rarely really comes alive for me. it feels a little predictable. as far as kooky soul grrls go, i'll take kelis.

i don't even know what to say to the people who don't get it (apart from "try harder, losers")

but i don't want to have to try to get excited about something, you see. i don't really feel like there's something i'm missing about e.b., i'm kindly disposed toward her and i think it's a pretty good record. i just don't think she's ... that much fun? something like that.

the badu is the one album from '08 that i return to the most. i agree with lex that it's on another level. i don't think there was another album from '08 that felt so much like '08 like on this meta-level.

not every album has to be "fun"

top 5 predictions:

5 Juana Molina or Flying Lotus or 2562 or Jóhann Jóhannsson or James Blackshaw or The Notwist or Nomo or Opeth or Gang Gang Dance or Shearwater or Boring Iver

4 Hercules and Love Affair

3 Vampire Weekend

2 Lindstrom

1 Portishead

"Princes" is actually really cool

I wasn't meaning to compare Fever to Tell and New Amerykah directly as albums, but just as revelationary objects. Hopefully New Amerykah holds up better for you than Fever to Tell did for me. xxxxp

not every album has to be "fun"

no. but it helps.

back up, lex likes the yeah yeah yeahs?

How is that remotely a surprise?

Gang Gang Dance and Lindstrom both placing in the top five (assuming they do) is really something considering neither of them got anywhere near the hype of the rest of the top ten bar Air France. Well, outside ILM anyway.

what electrodribble is to come?

in re: fun, erykah always feels a little didactic to me. i'd like more of the second half of "master teacher," less of the first half.

ffs, it did better on pazz and jop than ilm. im not all that bummed, and otr #6 isnt really that bad, considering a lot of people probably didnt come across it? but like lex said, it's smoe next level/album of the decade type shit, and the fact that it's not #1 (considering what i voted for as #1 didnt have much of a chance) is a shame. but, like i predicted earlier, that's a ridiculous point-per-vote, and all of you who slept on are on some wack shit imo

xposts fandango wtf are you going on about

i don't even mind that hercules and love affair record.

but i just flat don't like that antony dude's singing at all. on anything.

also, it seemed like people really projected a lot of romantic disco type feelings onto that record, which only seemed sort of "okay" to me. lot of filler, couple killer tracks.

idk if you're making albums as smart, moving, powerful and absolutely packed with meaning and life as new amerykah, i'm not sitting there going "but where's the FUN??" at the end of it.

also it IS fun, in places.

Is 'fun' that much of a concern in a poll where Portishead is the overwhelming favourite?

I mean, I'm not saying there aren't people having the time of their life to 'Threads', but...

i just flat don't like that antony dude's singing at all. on anything.

cosign

but i just flat don't like that antony dude's singing at all. on anything.

also, it seemed like people really projected a lot of romantic disco type feelings onto that record, which only seemed sort of "okay" to me. lot of filler, couple killer tracks.

^^definitely agree with this (except i can take antony's voice far more on disco than on wibbly singer-songwritery delicacies) - "couple killer, lot of filler" sums it up though

Hah I'd agree with that as well except my four favourite tracks on the album are the ones with Antony on them.

but, like i predicted earlier, that's a ridiculous point-per-vote, and all of you who slept on are on some wack shit imo

15.3 points per vote. that's quite something.

Erykah placing 6th here is a fucking good result, if you ask me. There are tons of "next level/album of the decade" albums on this list (and shite ones as well). It's a matter of who you ask really. But acting like it's a crime against humanity that Erykah didn't get the top spot is stretching it. A lot.

Am liking the GGD album muchly