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listening to the badu album for the second time this evening (cheers, spotify). wish I had known about it before.

2 - Hercules & Love Affair - S/T
378.5 points, 34 votes, 1 #1 vote
18 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

wooo

#1 - Animal Collection - MPP

I'M CALLING IT

oh man no offense guys but i do not get the love for this album at all

it doesn't really work as an "album" to me - there are like 4 excellent songs but otherwise....

Time for joke #1s!!!

2 - Bono - Bono
13,278.5 points, 384 votes, 84 #1 votes
1 in P&J, 1 in p4k

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.switched.com/media/2008/11/2008.11.13_friends2.jpg

anyway Portishead is a worthy #1

fuck it, i'll post #1 now

seems tailor made for ILM.

yup

Good call.

1 - Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul
426.5 votes, 76 votes, 15 #1 votes

http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/8653/oasisdigoutyoursoulalbuai8.jpg

1 - The Killers - Day & Age
394 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)

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 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...

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

20 xposts later...

that's a great description

1 - Je Suis Animal - Self Taught Magic From a Book
56,000 points, 365 votes, 130 #1 votes
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/1358834.jpg

1 - Louis XIV - Slick Dogs and Ponies
394 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)

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...

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.

Oasis they were tedious in 1994 nevermind 2008

i was orchestrating the Oasis bashing alongside Sir Jaz Coleman right from the start

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.

Animal Collective votes were null and void, and probably deleted from the spreadsheet

^^^can that be the blurb when they win '09 plz

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

I'll be interested to see where The Roots album comes out in the master list.

I just know the Dirtbombs are going to be #1!

I can't wait to see the full list

...only if I believe hard enough!!!!!

also xpost ^

they got 69.5 points, 6 votes if you're curious

1 - Nickelback - Dark Horse
1700 points 85 #1 votes
#1 P&J #1 p4k
http://softporal.ucoz.ru/Music/Nickelback-DarkHorse.jpg

narrowly beats out kings of leon as album of 08 imo
--country matters

what the hell, i'll post the #1 and the entire list a few minutes early.

xp lol

1 - Portishead - Third
528 points, 43 votes, 4 #1 votes
3 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

― HI DERE

30 seconds into "Hunter"

holy shit, you guys, this is fucking unreal

oh shit, the guitars, holy shit

― HI DERE

omg "Plastic" and that off-meter knocking sound running behind the verse, plus the distorted-synth chorus...

― HI DERE

I'm surprised at how clean Beth's vocals are up to this point!

― HI DERE

God, most of this feels like Portishead reinventing early-90s Warp Records and it's awesome.

― HI DERE

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?

― HI DERE

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.

― HI DERE

Okay "Deep Water" into "Machine Gun" is just fucking awesome.

― HI DERE

"Let's take the most organic, analog-heavy, tender, traditional song we've recorded and segue it into a brutal mechanical grinder."

FUCKINGLOVETHESEPEOPLE

― HI DERE

and yeah that's a lotta points

Awesome. A brilliant album and a very worthy winner.

Watching Dan liveblog this was actually kinda thrilling

Dirtbombs won it! Yay! I knew they would!!!!

Watching Dan liveblog this was actually kinda thrilling

So, I don't want to open the whole thread cause it will fuck my browser, but did New Amerykah get the most #1 votes with 5?

Fandango not to get all ad hominem but do you even like any music on the basis of it offering a real (or close to that) e rush? I've never pegged you that way.

I... think so? I don't know, I'd say automatically and unequivocally YES to this just on the principle.

But seriously all of the stuff I was virulenty slagging upthread (and over-inclusively no dobut I'll be proved wrong to myself as soon as next week) just feels so, for want of a better word, impure. So horribly over-referential and culturally filtered, second hand, second rate, and I just can't really get directly or indirectly to that particular feeling with this music.

I don't know if this helps but someone compared that Air France track to the old Chemical Brothers track "Star guitar" but saying 'it's a much better song'... I was thinking?? the reverse x10000!! and it made me want to go all "so RONG" but instead I shrugged.

fwiw, I heard them quite a while before they got discussed on ILM and felt the same then, kinda pleasant, but somewhat false/forced sounding and yes, pretty (but inconsequential). Reading the strength of some peoples reactions, I don't get it. I'm not saying they aren't true for them, but if/when I do crave that kind of thing from music, it might be (actually helps more often) from dated music, but never ever from what to me just sounds like yet more refried updated nostalgia.

I'll be interested to see where The Roots album comes out in the master list.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, February 16, 2009 4:50 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I was the only person to vote for "75 Bars" in tracks, but didn't care for the full-length at all.

Oops, dbl-posting there

Listening to New Amerykah right now, first track was pretty good

also. vvv tired.

coolio, portishead won. intersting poll this year nite nite

3 in P&J, 2 in p4k , 1 on ILM.
fuck you P&J and Pitchfork!

oh btw, THANK U MUSICALLY <3 <4 <5

Finds of the top 50 for me
Alex Moulton
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Thanks ILM AND THANKS MUSICALLY