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

top ten, that is, up to wherever we are.

xxxpost dammmit

I usually look fwd to the lex take on this shit, but if he quote one more g-d VW lyric its going to be v v hard for me to avoid Suggest Ban.

J0rdan, don't you want to be here for the magic moment in an hour's time when I a) turn 22 and b) admit Erykah's excellence and VW's "well they're OK I guess"-ness?

GGD album, after two plays, is very good, and would've probably gotten into my own top 10 if I'd heard it.

my top 3 prediction:

3: Hercules and Love Affair
2: Lindstrom
1: Portishead

lolz @ lex trolling. i was thinking of listening to the vw album, now i'm glad i didn't.

Finally, release from the Lex snob trolling. And what a release! Glorious album.

it's not trolling when you actually are making reasonable points.

disagreeing=/=trolling

haha louis, im actually anticipating your birthday thread

big up ggd btw

The Gang Gang Dance is absolutely incredible, I voted it #3 but in a different mood it could have been my #1. It just covers an immense amount of ground and does pretty much everything I want my music to do at one point or another.

<3 <3 <3 ggd

but i have to admit that even though i was digging the album before i saw them, it was the live show that put them all together for me. i heard the album differently after that, and things that had seemed a little drifting before suddenly seemed more directed and tantalizing. seriously great live band.

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
10 - TV on the Radio - Dear Science
9 - Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
8 - Air France - No Way Down
7 - Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
6 - Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)
5 - Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
4 - Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna

It's perfectly structured as well, just the way it builds to these three massive peaks (First Communion, Princes, Desert Storm) and then subsides, but the stuff between is so compelling as well.

i wasn't trolling! those lyrics sent me into a genuine state of shock.

hurrah GGD, love this album. for ages i didn't think there was much to it beyond the three obvious uptempo bangers ('first communion', 'princes', 'house jam') - the rest of it went past me somewhat - but i actually really love the way it's structured around those three peaks now, how the slower tracks sort of wash around them like tides.

ha xp!

saint dymphma is great but if you wanna hear some of the band's more adventurous stuff try i.u.d. or gavin's solo album

Saint Dymphna was the highest placer without a #1 vote, FYI

no of montreal on this thread. should've voted

(or not, if you hate of montreal which i understand is entirely justified, but i loved that album)

ok 'more adventurous' sounds douchey, consider it further listening i guess

comparison

on my friends and favourites network on rateyourmusic for 2008 albums using the custom chart (150 users plus - and a large sample than ilm 2008 poll)

top 15 consensus as follows

1 Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale
2 Portishead - Third
3 Opeth - Watershed
4 Deerhunter - Microcastle / Weird Era Continued
5 Meshuggah - obZen
6 M83 - Saturdays = Youth
7 This Will Destroy You - This Will Destroy You
8 Have a Nice Life - Deathconsciousness
9 Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
10 Sun Kil Moon - April
11 Jóhann Jóhannsson - Fordlândia
12 Darkspace - Dark Space III
13 TV on the Radio - Dear Science
14 James Blackshaw - Litany of Echoes
15 No-Man - Schoolyard Ghosts

27: Erykah Badu
New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)

43: Gang Gang Dance
Saint Dymphna

56: Lindstrøm
Where You Go I Go Too

97: Vampire Weekend
Vampire Weekend

241: Hercules and Love Affair
Hercules and Love Affair

Relieved at no Of Montreal (hopefully)

Lex - House Jam is like Vacuum, it's the final build before they really just bang it out. I also love love love the way the singer's shrieking whooping voice wraps around some of the tracks, especially around Tinchy's flow on Princes.

Wait, Lindstrom in the top 3?!?!?! I haven't been paying enough attention, I guess!

I'm guessing it's in

I think albums like Of Montreal and Hot Chip were only half good. I was shocked how the latter turned up on so many other lists. I should probably give it another listen, as I only heard it about 3 times all the way through.

'house jam' is much more immediate than 'desert storm', what with its 'the way i are' rip nod - it's faster too, right?

is tim dewitt still in ggd or not? i read that he'd left or was "taking a break," but i haven't seen any other drummer's name mentioned anywhere.

Those are maybe the obvious peaks but I do think it above all generates narrative momentum and powers through on its own collective steam. "Inners Pace" and "Afoot" together are mighty, and coming between two 'bigger' tracks they nonetheless create a substantial force of their own. It also seems like the sort of album that'll really grow on me even more. I'll be interested to see how well-beaten by #s 1-3 it was...this is why we need a rolling art-rock thread. ;-)

Vacuum is a really loaded track, it's the coiling of a massive shoegazey/Orbital-y spring, and Princes is, yeah, a banger. Great sequencing. House Jam/Interlude do similar, but I'd also lump the last two tracks together as the album's most psychedelic suite.

Yeah, I like Hot Chip. I even voted for the album. But I can't wholeheartedly endorse it from front to back. xxxp

I hope Lindstrøm made it, though I was thinking for a while that it would place much, much lower. I figured the excitement of the "I Feel Space"/Prins Thomas collabs would have died away, leaving this album to feel more like an afterthought. Of course it isn't, but I cynically assume that ILM felt that way.

xxpost

(or dewit, i guess it is)

'house jam' is much more immediate than 'desert storm', what with its 'the way i are' rip nod - it's faster too, right?

Yes and it's also more danceable but it doesn't have an enormous crescendo of drums and shrieking.

co-signing the GGD love, and I'm gutted they had to stop their tour.

Saint Dymphna was the highest placer without a #1 vote, FYI

It would have been my #1 had I ranked my list, fyi.

so basically we can go ahead and crown it spiritual winner right

Soooooooo Bon Iver?!!?!

Boring Iver - This is ilxor NOT mumbling Mojo and Americana Uncut

we've reached the portion where dj martian lazy zings british music magazines

There's a first for everything

did snore patrol have an album out last year????

Is 'Americana Uncut' a circumcision reference?

if you must...

no Kings of Leon - this ain't crappy Q mag
no Glasvegas - this ain't nonentity NME

no Scarlett Johannson - this place sucks

Martian is getting a bit like John McEnroe still shouting "you cannot be serious!" at exhibition matches.

I genuinely enjoyed the Scarlett album the couple times I played it. Did the 4AD hazy atmosphere for the 2000s much better than, say, Return to Cookie Mountain. xpost

by "this place" i assume you mean the world, because scarlett's album was nonexistent there as well

the scarlett johansson album was ok but i didn't love it as much as i thought i would, or even as much as the hayden panettiere cod-reggae single

now why that didn't place i have no idea

because the scarlet J street team didn't vote

the hayden panettiere cod-reggae single

Thankfully, I missed the fact this even exists.