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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.

Whens the next Paris Hilton album out?

I never realized how much she looks like Fiona Apple.

Is it bad that I've been watching that Hayden Panettiere video with the volume down, without having listened to a single note of the song?

nah
she'd remember this titan, if you feel

it sounds like it was written by hallmark card puppies and is impossible to hate, esp when she starts trying to toast at the end. also i don't believe her for a second when she threatens to cheat on him

Woah I've been sleeping on The-Dream album. Listened to it 10 times today already......man i don't need no hook for this sheeeet

no Keane - this ain't no disco
no The Feeling - this ain't no country club either

(it'd work better if there hadn't been about 75 xposts between it. It would)

Jesus, are we only up to #4?

Somehow -- no, really, I don't know how either -- I missed the GGD album completely. On the evidence of this thread alone I'm grabbing it first thing tomorrow morning.

At least I can be sure that one of my picks will be in the top three, I guess. Hmm.

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.

^ Me exactly.

Woah I've been sleeping on The-Dream album. Listened to it 10 times today already......man i don't need no hook for this sheeeet

― all my single lobsters put a ring on it (tpp), Monday, February 16, 2009 5:36 PM (25 seconds ago) Bookmark

^^this, except like 4 times

no The Killers, this ain't silly Playlouder

Musically ... please present Numero 3

The Gang Gang Dance really shows up the Vampire Weekend record when it comes to picking up ideas from other musics and really running with them. Gimme 'First Communion' over 'Cape Cod' any day.

Really wish the Jamie Lidell album had shown up in this poll.

Anyone else vote for it?

number: 256
Jamie Lidell
Jim

on my friends & favourites network on rateyourmusic.com for 2008 albums using the custom chart feature

hes shit

Musically it's hitting midnight in the UK - are the top 3 coming in the next hour?