ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2013

bowie? i don't know. did ilm rate it highly?

lol it's ILM

figured Chvrches was a lock for the countdown somewhere but I can't see it as top 20

ILM was the one of the few sane places that didn't go apeshit over Bowie.

But ILM didn't appear to go apeshit over the Arcade Fire album and that still made it. I Really can't call it on albums like that.

The quasi-lurker vote?

I'd be pretty surprised if These New Puritans placed, but you never know...

1975 is like the best album ever other than maybe red and lttp and autobiography, it makes me dizzy with happiness, the drums on 'the city', the section starting with 'TABS WITH UNLIMITED 0S' on 'money', how the guitar riff shifts at the "run run away from the boys in the blue" on 'chocolate', the second verse on 'heart out' which i can't not mouth along with in public with every line corresponding to a different facial expression, THE INSTRUMENTAL BRIDGE ON 'SETTLE DOWN' LIKE HELLO, the ridiculously dramatic bridge on 'robbers', "i know you're looking for salvation in a secular age but girl i'm not your saviour", the bassline in 'pressure' omg joy. also i barely know what a bridge or a bassline is so hope i used those correctly lol

anything that places from here on out needs at least 20 enthusiastic fans on the board, kind of a high bar, especially for something like that Bowie that never generated much excitement here.

I'll be absolutely amazed if it didn't. Look at the number of points 77 had, and consider how many people have already admitted to placing it high (although I placed it around the middle tbf) xxp

consider how many people have already admitted to placing it high

About three? Not sure that's enough.

Hmm. Think a lot more people liked it than it might seem. But if it has missed out then you all fucking suck (and if it's missed out by less than 10 points *I* fucking suck because it really could have been higher)

nickb, me, imago... errr...

uberweiss otm

Thing about the These New Puritans album is that I know a couple of people that really like them don't vote in these lists. Scik Mouthy and Gerald McBoing-Boing seem to be big fans but don't usually get involved. Same reason that Wild Beasts have never made any of the end of year lists (despite them being awesome)

still got my fingers crossed for 1d's album to place!!!

It should be mandatory that anyone with access to 77 board has to vote.

nickb, me, imago... errr...

DJP! NA! Have faith!

:-)

the main thing is that i hope yeezus doesn't sweep

cos that would be like yeezus swept

bang

omg @ yeezus swept

kanye krucifies the kompetition

nickb, me, imago... errr...

― doglato dozzy (dog latin)

I actually had it quite low on my list too.

+32 lurkers and we've got ourselves a winnuh!

think there's a silent swell of voters (sarahell for ex. who I know voted for TNP) with fairly artrockish tastes. we can hope TNP was the rallying-point (other than MBV)

the new pornographers?

looool

I keep on reading it Star Trek style... like... uh... The Next Penetration?

the neverending pory.

Transgressing Nice Poll

I preferred MBV to These New Puritan as an album, actually, although imo the latter's high was (slightly) higher (both incredible at their best obv)

*Puritans

Soooo many of the DJ Sprinkles tracks are available on itunes on their original records, but they are almost always the "Album Only" tracks.

i hate itunes, but it frustrates me that you can find dj sprinkles' albums easily available for purchase online.

sorry, "can't find."

1975 is like the best album ever other than maybe red and lttp and autobiography, it makes me dizzy with happiness, the drums on 'the city', the section starting with 'TABS WITH UNLIMITED 0S' on 'money', how the guitar riff shifts at the "run run away from the boys in the blue" on 'chocolate', the second verse on 'heart out' which i can't not mouth along with in public with every line corresponding to a different facial expression, THE INSTRUMENTAL BRIDGE ON 'SETTLE DOWN' LIKE HELLO, the ridiculously dramatic bridge on 'robbers', "i know you're looking for salvation in a secular age but girl i'm not your saviour", the bassline in 'pressure' omg joy. also i barely know what a bridge or a bassline is so hope i used those correctly lol

― uberweiss, Thursday, 30 January 2014 00:14 (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

<3 <3 <3

the most otm post of this entire thread everyone else go home

I am going to give that album a full, focused listen because of some of you all's vociferousness, but my impression is that 1975 fans have given up on life are just eating whatever is lying around

Unexpectedly divisive band.

love that uberweiss post.

1.5 songs was not enough to tell me much abt the 1975 beyond the fact that whoever recorded that snare drum sound should be incarcerated.

will get back at it tomorrow

Today is the first time that I was aware that These New Puritans released an album that was worth checking out. (I've seen their name bandied about but have never actually heard their music, so I guess I just missed all the hype.)

uberweiss otm

how's life, check your ilx email

also those prince-y guitar licks in "m.o.n.e.y." which act as sort of curled responses toward the vocal melody, uh literally everything about "talk!" the pitched delivery of which made me ecstatic for a week, i've also come around to "she way out" bc of how much i like the phrase "two phone everything." "is there somebody who can watch you" sounding delicately strained from a larger and mostly silent mark hollis song and honestly i can't think of another song about feeling like a terrible brother

i promise to focus as much on the individual textures of the paramore record

I didn't write about this one tho, ppl were noticing that I was blurbing my favorite albums instead of doing my day job (oops)

― SHAUN (DJP), Wednesday, January 29, 2014 8:52 AM

this was me, today

not feeling inspired to listen/write w/this run, oh well. Hecker was on my long-list ballot but I honestly prefer something like that Yo La Tengo album with all of its same old same old if I'm listing my records of the year. gonna do a quick Spotify run through looking for surprises...

OK this PSB record is very cool, glad I'm listening

fab to play Classixx and this mix back to back

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJS2FZtC6Ao

PSB became kinda blaring on track 2, moved on to the Marling which is good... L says it reminds her of Shawn Colvin & also Joni Mitchell.

particularly dig Marling's guitar playing, my kind of strummy intensity