ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2013

I listened to the first half of that and didn't really click with it, was expecting it to be more rhythmically complex than it turned out being

It's definitely a journey kind of album where energy levels go up over the course of it, starts out pretty slow, gets a whole lot more banging towards the end.

Laura Marling is very well done stuff but it feels like an album made up of Ruby/Poe interlude tracks

FUCKING BANGERZ <3333333

bangerz was top 3 for me all year

good album
voted wrecking ball in the singles
really enjoyed love money party and 4x4 too

I like the DJ Rashad album a lot, but I think the RP Boo album was wilder sounding and ultimately more satisfying

Bangerz is the only album listed so far where I was physically recoiling by the time I got to the third song.

ok, just getting caught up.

Happy to see Laura Marling, that was my #1! I really love this album and came back to it over and over again this past year. It's on the long side, but all of the songs open up so nicely across repeated listens.

The DJ Rashad album is amazing, he took Footwork to the next stage in its evolution with this one.

Had no idea Miley Cyrus released anything in 2013.

... whut

4x4 is awesome, I can take or leave a lot of the rest. Had been wondering who was going to finish higher out of Miley and Ariana and I think the right album won.

yeah I preferred the Rp Boo one.

xxxxp

I love footwork, big proselytiser of this stuff on and off board and I got to interview Rashad earlier last year too. This is maybe the most straight up accessible footwork album so far. It's full of hooks but also I felt like it was a little straightforward compared to other stuff and ultimately didn't play it a great deal. It's a really good album but it also compromises the rough edges of footwork, which is an inevitability I think.

ok so all the really great miley trax last year were her deep cuts

"drive" - anguished dubstep ballad à la melanie fiona's "4 am"
"4x4" - bubba sparxxx's hick-hop dream gets a new lease of life; contains lyric "drivin' so fast 'bout to piss on myself"
"sms (bangerz)" - ludicrous britney duet; anything that contains a hint of freestyle revival will get a thumbs up from me; her "funking bangerz!" aside has been in my head permanently since the album came out
"rooting for my baby" - hey she can do understated and genuinely affecting stuff too

Had no idea Miley Cyrus released anything in 2013.

Dude even the Japanese soldier who didn't realise the Second World War had ended until 1974 knew about the Miley album.

"Rooting For My Baby" is my favorite.

bangerz was both a pop album that felt very 'of the moment' and pretty singular. there's def a lot of rihanna's DNA in the album (as "we can't stop" helped make clear in a pretty obvious fashion) but i think it's a better full length than anything she's ever done, esp recently. 'good girl' might be close though.

i love miley's vocals though. i'm excited for unplugged!

also i really hope "#GETITRIGHT" is the next single for karaoke purposes

This is Reggie off the Rashad record

i love that "rooting for my baby" was a song pharrell had sitting around for 10 years but never liked how it fit anyone else until miley got it

lex posted all the worst songs on the miley album. absolute classic tho

I kind of got interested in hearing Bangerz because people were saying it did actually have great pop bangers, but then I realised all those people were also saying that 'We Can't Stop' was good. And as far as my ears can tell, it's actually very very horrible. Admission: I'm pretty sure I've never heard even a bit of 'Wrecking Ball'.

lex posted all the worst songs on the miley album. absolute classic tho

― k3vin k., Wednesday, January 29, 2014 12:23 PM (24 seconds ago) Bookmark

hahaha

awful album

i don't think "drive" or "sms" are the best ones, "4x4" is a pretty exact distillation of its appeal either good or bad though

Loved We Can't Stop, 4X4, Rooting for My Baby and especially FU but it always felt better than expected rather than a genuine standout album.

I am relatively certain the Miley album is not for me considering that abou 15 seconds of "SMS (Bangerz)" made me tear off my headphones and want to curse out everyone in my immediate vicinity for being alive in this terrible world

I kind of got interested in hearing Bangerz because people were saying it did actually have great pop bangers, but then I realised all those people were also saying that 'We Can't Stop' was good. And as far as my ears can tell, it's actually very very horrible. Admission: I'm pretty sure I've never heard even a bit of 'Wrecking Ball'.

"Wrecking Ball" is a decent song, certainly the best thing I heard by her all last year.

lex posted all the worst songs on the miley album. absolute classic tho

i know a lot of people who rep for this album and NO ONE agrees on which the best/worst tracks are. sure sign of a classic as ever

TRU

Still my favourite song on Bangerz is FU, a magnificent and bizarre dubstep torch song

No opinion on Bangerz but am enjoying the concept that the lyric "drivin' so fast 'bout to piss on myself" is a selling point.

didn't realize "adore you" had been made a single -- that was my favorite deep cut. really dig the future track too but i like just about anything with future on it

lex posted all the worst songs on the miley album. absolute classic tho

i know a lot of people who rep for this album and NO ONE agrees on which the best/worst tracks are. sure sign of a classic as ever

― lex pretend, Wednesday, January 29, 2014 12:25 PM (1 minute ago)

haha yes

"Wrecking Ball" is a decent song, certainly the best thing I heard by her all last year.

― SHAUN (DJP)

The verse is quite good, the chorus is deeply generic.

just realised i've never had Laura Marling and Ellie Goulding straight in my head

the Future "stand by me" shit is embarrassing

The verse is quite good, the chorus is deeply generic.

hence "decent"

the Future "stand by me" shit is embarrassing

tbh I've yet to hear anything by Future that I didn't think was embarrassing

i thought bangerz was okay. hard to understand the enthusiasm for it tho. more media controversy than catchy tracks imho. hot wrecking ball vid tho.

the whole Miley 2013 enterprise is so deliberately trolling that it's one of the few records where when people praise it i just assume they're trolling too

before i post the next album here are my "bangerz" rankings

adore you
we can't stop
#GETITRIGHT (would be #1 except for the bridge)
4x4
my darlin
on my own
wrecking ball
love money party
rooting for my baby
maybe you're right
FU
sms (bangerz)
do my thang
someone else
hands in the air

Re:RP Boo, I felt like it went the absolute opposite way to Rashad. It's totally unhinged, illogical,everything footwork should be. But I want a bit of a mixture. Felt like the Rashad Teklife Vol1 record from 2012 found the best balance.

In other news I'm finally listening to Sky Ferreira and it reminds me of that EMA record from a while ago, but a bit poppier.

No opinion on Bangerz but am enjoying the concept that the lyric "drivin' so fast 'bout to piss on myself" is a selling point.

― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, January 29, 2014 5:25 PM (1 minute ago)

Hahaha, okay, I missed that in lex's post but that's hilarious.

"my darlin" is amazing... the american songboook by way of gucci mane. I APPROVE.

FU and 4x4 made me harsher on the generic blah elsewhere, like, oh, the whole record could have been weird and OTT. But considering how misjudged and/or boring Katy Perry, Britney and Gaga were, a big pop album that delivers both satisfying curveballs and monster hits isn't to be sniffed at.

one of the sure signs of a great album is no one is sure what the worst tracks are

Miley makes me miss Fergie

Who actually did piss herself. Circle closed.

bangerz rankingz:

4x4
rooting for my baby
drive
sms (bangerz)
fu
my darlin'
love money party
adore you
do my thang
we can't stop
wrecking ball
maybe you're right
#GETITRIGHT
someone else
on my own
hands in the air

was pleasantly surprised that fake-ass Pop Masterpiece "Wrecking Ball" missed the top 77 trax entirely, but i guess this was bound to place

http://i.imgur.com/3BOL6HL.jpg

33 DARKSIDE Pyschic (467 points, 16 votes)

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