yeah that 4th World War poll is easily one of the cooler threads on ILM
― 37 x 18 = (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:33 (seventeen years ago)
co-sign on the greatness of the badu album, just listening for first time tonight. wasn't around for discussions when it came out, but i'd just like to say thx to this thread for showing me, yah it's pretty nuts... wau!
― mark cl, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:34 (seventeen years ago)
Also, I would like to point out that everyone who didn't vote for Badu is dead to me. I mean, if we could collectively send something as amazing, but kinda niche-y, as "Happy House" to #2, there's no fucking excuse for New Amerykah not to win this poll.
― I would much rather listen to hard bop jazz and stfu (The Reverend), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:34 (seventeen years ago)
it's so good!!
*goes, right now, to find a copy of Badu's album*
I'll think of it as ILM's present
― there's no antivote to (country matters), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:35 (seventeen years ago)
(Along with Lindstrom and GGD)
Naw, I'm being facetious haha. LJ, I look forward to your thoughts!
― I would much rather listen to hard bop jazz and stfu (The Reverend), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:36 (seventeen years ago)
I actually rather fancy I'll like it, given the several reviews I've seen.
― there's no antivote to (country matters), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:36 (seventeen years ago)
i'll post #2 now, i'll post #1 at 5pm PST
― lil waynes babymama (musically), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:37 (seventeen years ago)
listening to the badu album for the second time this evening (cheers, spotify). wish I had known about it before.
― Gukbe, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:37 (seventeen years ago)
2 - Hercules & Love Affair - S/T378.5 points, 34 votes, 1 #1 vote18 in P&J, 9 in p4k
http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/7869/lovegk0.jpg
Streaming link: http://www.last.fm/music/Hercules+and+Love+Affair/Hercules+And+Love+Affair
what's so baffling about people loving something that sounds like arthur russell, disco, and house with pop vocals. plus DFA seal of approval. seems tailor made for ILM.
(p.s. not being cynical here, it's a great record! probably the best thing I've heard so far this year)
― dmr
OK for UK: 5pm PST = 1am GMT
― djmartian, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:38 (seventeen years ago)
wooo
― there's no antivote to (country matters), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:38 (seventeen years ago)
#1 - Animal Collection - MPP
I'M CALLING IT
― unaustralian (jabba hands), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:38 (seventeen years ago)
oh man no offense guys but i do not get the love for this album at all
― From Rax to Rich's (jjjusten), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:39 (seventeen years ago)
it doesn't really work as an "album" to me - there are like 4 excellent songs but otherwise....
― half troll half biscuit (The Brainwasher), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:40 (seventeen years ago)
Time for joke #1s!!!
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:40 (seventeen years ago)
2 - Bono - Bono13,278.5 points, 384 votes, 84 #1 votes1 in P&J, 1 in p4k
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.switched.com/media/2008/11/2008.11.13_friends2.jpg
― ilxor, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:40 (seventeen years ago)
anyway Portishead is a worthy #1
fuck it, i'll post #1 now
― lil waynes babymama (musically), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:41 (seventeen years ago)
seems tailor made for ILM.
yup
― The User Formerly Known As Pfunkboy Latterly Known as.. (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:41 (seventeen years ago)
Good call.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:41 (seventeen years ago)
1 - Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul426.5 votes, 76 votes, 15 #1 votes
http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/8653/oasisdigoutyoursoulalbuai8.jpg
― lil waynes babymama (musically), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:42 (seventeen years ago)
1 - The Killers - Day & Age394 points, 30 votes, 6 #1 votes 20 in PJ, n/a in p4k
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3193/2954040624_a946a8ce1e.jpg?v=0
"Spaceman" is fucking brilliance and if you don't hear that, you're a pompous cunt.
― Nottingham: it's the new Abu Dhabi (King Boy Pato), Monday, 5 January 2009 08:06 (1 month ago)
― there's no antivote to (country matters), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:42 (seventeen years ago)
Musically when will you be posting the rundown of albums that nearly made the top 50? If it's tonight i'll stay up for it.
― The User Formerly Known As Pfunkboy Latterly Known as.. (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:42 (seventeen years ago)
the thing abt Nu Amerykah is that it's so forlorn and so fucked up/confused and experimental, and yet it's a protest record, and Badu is making a stand...she's having a hard time figuring out what that stand is, wading through the suffering of millions to find out what's going on...just like the rest of us, she's fucked sideways in confusion, but she knows what's right is right, and she's willing to stand up and fight for it...carving knife in hand, she will leave no cranny and nook unexplored until she finds the devil & cuts its tail off...
― 37 x 18 = (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:42 (seventeen years ago)
Portishead at Numero Uno
or if Geir requested the Coldplay fanclub to vote on the ilxor poll, maybe it's: Viva la Boredom or Death and All His Friends
― djmartian, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:43 (seventeen years ago)
20 xposts later...
― 37 x 18 = (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:43 (seventeen years ago)
that's a great description
― (I have the documentary) (rent), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:44 (seventeen years ago)
1 - Je Suis Animal - Self Taught Magic From a Book56,000 points, 365 votes, 130 #1 voteshttp://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/1358834.jpg
― emil.y, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:45 (seventeen years ago)
1 - Louis XIV - Slick Dogs and Ponies394 points, 30 votes, 6 #1 votes 20 in PJ, 12 in p4k
http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/l/louis-xiv/album-slick-dogs-and-ponies.jpg
the stone temple pilots to the white strokes' nirvana, or not so much?― Fritz Wollner (Fritz)
i heard a louis xiv song and i thought i t was sexy― charleston charge (chaki)
They're like the Crazy Town of the 00s.― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B)
― ilxor, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:46 (seventeen years ago)
awesome take on it...
so glad H&LA didn't win - don't have much against them but winning both polls would've been unseemly.
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:46 (seventeen years ago)
Oasis they were tedious in 1994 nevermind 2008
i was orchestrating the Oasis bashing alongside Sir Jaz Coleman right from the start
― djmartian, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:46 (seventeen years ago)
musically - didn't you say you might say where the animal collective would have placed if it wasn't ruled out for being a '09 release? just wonderin', like.
― BAAAWSE (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:47 (seventeen years ago)
Animal Collective votes were null and void, and probably deleted from the spreadsheet
― djmartian, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:48 (seventeen years ago)
^^^can that be the blurb when they win '09 plz
― there's no antivote to (country matters), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:50 (seventeen years ago)
they wouldn't have placed, but that's not entirely fair to them since i imagine many were reserving their votes for next year's poll
― lil waynes babymama (musically), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:50 (seventeen years ago)
I'll be interested to see where The Roots album comes out in the master list.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:50 (seventeen years ago)
I just know the Dirtbombs are going to be #1!
― 37 x 18 = (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:51 (seventeen years ago)
I can't wait to see the full list
― The User Formerly Known As Pfunkboy Latterly Known as.. (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:51 (seventeen years ago)
...only if I believe hard enough!!!!!
also xpost ^
― 37 x 18 = (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:52 (seventeen years ago)
they got 69.5 points, 6 votes if you're curious
― lil waynes babymama (musically), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:52 (seventeen years ago)
1 - Nickelback - Dark Horse1700 points 85 #1 votes#1 P&J #1 p4khttp://softporal.ucoz.ru/Music/Nickelback-DarkHorse.jpg
narrowly beats out kings of leon as album of 08 imo--country matters
― Jewish Lager (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:53 (seventeen years ago)
what the hell, i'll post the #1 and the entire list a few minutes early.
xp lol
― lil waynes babymama (musically), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:53 (seventeen years ago)
1 - Portishead - Third528 points, 43 votes, 4 #1 votes3 in P&J, 2 in p4k
http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/3424/portisheadthirdxk9.jpg
Streaming link: http://www.last.fm/music/Portishead/Third
Holy fuck.
I'm trying to think of a "love at first listen" record in recent memory that ALSO signaled such depth/repeated-listening rewards. Most of the records I swoon over on day one ultimately tank due to one-dimensionality or excessive novelty or whatever. This is a grower AND a shower.
― Hadrian VIII
Fucking awesome, awesome, awesome. Blows their 90s stuff out of the water, and their 90s stuff was real good. I love how free they feel to take the songs in any direction at any time--they treat changing the arrangement or the specific sound of a part the way most bands treat changing chords or going to a bridge or new section. The whole thing is so structurally fucked but not a way that seems random or annoying. Basically it's one of the most liberated albums I've ever heard; like they have no idea that it's going to be heard by anybody other than them.
― call all destroyer
Album of the decade.
― van smack
Even the first time I listened to Third, I got the same kind of whole-body chill I got the first time I listened to The Avalanches' Since I Left You and Life Without Buildings' Any Other City...and those remain #1 and #2 on my albums-of-the-decade mental list. I don't think including it in any kind of decade-centric ranking is a stretch at all.
― Johnny Fever
So... I just bought this and am about to listen to it. The only thing I've heard to date is "Machine Gun", which I thought was unreal awesomeness.
― HI DERE
42 seconds into "Silence"
holy shit
30 seconds into "Hunter"
holy shit, you guys, this is fucking unreal
oh shit, the guitars, holy shit
omg "Plastic" and that off-meter knocking sound running behind the verse, plus the distorted-synth chorus...
I'm surprised at how clean Beth's vocals are up to this point!
God, most of this feels like Portishead reinventing early-90s Warp Records and it's awesome.
oh shit, "We Carry On"
I was going to complain about the drums not being heavy enough but that would have missed the point of the song, wouldn't it?
It's like, the guitar kicks in and I went "OH! That's why the drums aren't heavier!"
These guys arrange the shit out of everything they touch. Impeccable.
Okay "Deep Water" into "Machine Gun" is just fucking awesome.
"Let's take the most organic, analog-heavy, tender, traditional song we've recorded and segue it into a brutal mechanical grinder."
FUCKINGLOVETHESEPEOPLE
― lil waynes babymama (musically), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:54 (seventeen years ago)
and yeah that's a lotta points
Awesome. A brilliant album and a very worthy winner.
― The User Formerly Known As Pfunkboy Latterly Known as.. (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:57 (seventeen years ago)
Watching Dan liveblog this was actually kinda thrilling
― there's no antivote to (country matters), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:57 (seventeen years ago)
Dirtbombs won it! Yay! I knew they would!!!!
― 37 x 18 = (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:57 (seventeen years ago)