ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2013

wooden shoe?

Yeah, as a matter of fact.

He became less interested in radical politics over time, after watching just about everything go in the opposite direction of what he considered ideal.

pretty much all the office jobs I've had since moving to Texas require them

I've had one job since college where a drug test didn't eventually happen, which was at a startup run by math hippies.

i love that place xxp

Blimey they don't really happen over here. I only know one friend who has had to take one, and he works for an American company (he failed comprehensively but managed to keep his job).

(I think I first met this guy when he gave me a ride home from a Willem Breuker Ensemble concert. Can't make this stuff up.)

whenever i realise how common drug tests are in america i'm like...aren't you guys supposed to be the ones all about individual freedoms

never even encountered them anecdotally here

only drug test i ever took was to get life insurance and i passed w/ flying colors

one thing you have to remember about America is that it is hypocritical as shit and only really cares about rich people

ppl who work in factories sometimes have to take them here, apart from that it doesn't happen afaik

Here, Future refers to a urinary drug test, stating that his urine contains traces of drugs. These tests are commonly enforced and mandatory in order to get a job, as well as in criminal investigations.

xposts to Mordy

Yeah, it used to be over on 20th Street (or 21st?) just above or below Chestnut. Sorry, my Philadelphia geography is getting fuzzy already. I don't know what the Wooden Shoe is like lately. It's been many years. If you haven't been to House of Our Own Books in University City, you should check that out.

My mate who had to take one works for Sony FWIW.

my company's policy used to require drug tests for full-time employees only so my boss in hawaii would hire guys on a part-time basis first then if he decided they were worth keeping he'd say "ok so you need to take a drug test... i need you to be honest with me and tell me how long you'll need to ~study~"

I've never been drug tested for a job in my life!

whenever i realise how common drug tests are in america i'm like...aren't you guys supposed to be the ones all about individual freedoms

never even encountered them anecdotally here

― lex pretend,

yeah but drug tests keep labs in business. Job creation!

Wooden Shoe used to be in a basement. Was frankly a bit dirty and a little intimidating when I used to go there in the 80s/early 90s.

man

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acid rap is really good

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smh @ me in april

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yeah i was a big Chance skeptic when it dropped but it ended the year in my top 5. listening to it right now with a big smile on my face.

In fact, don't Americans do blood tests for marriages too?

aren't you guys supposed to be the ones all about individual freedoms

Not lately.

quick question: what is the percentage of artists in the top ten who you think would pass a drug test?

high

high as fuck

depends if Kacey has followed her arrow in the past month

gonna go with bigger jpgs here for the top 10 just fyi no one freak out

is that with a hard or soft "j"?

colossal kacey pics

*freaks out*

Start Freakin' Out

http://i.imgur.com/TUrng22.jpg

10 KANYE WEST Yeezus (1064 points, 35 votes, 2 first place votes)

Spotify

THAT'S RIGHT I'M IN IT

*bon iver vocals*

four great songs start this out, it slams into a hard wall with "Hold My Liquor" and never fully recovers

also "Bound 2" is a terrible way to end an album

also "Blood on the Leaves" stfu Kanye

Every album in the top 10 is going to have 1000+ points? Yowza!

"Bound 2" ended up being my favorite from this

HIVEMIND

peaks with "Black Skinhead." I know lots of you love "Bound 2" but to my ears it's a sop and the I KNOW YOU'RE TIRED sample is like, "Yes, I am, stop fucking shouting at me"

i was pretty enthralled with yeezus immediately but wasn't sure how much i'd dig it going forward but i feel pretty comfortable now saying it's his best album after CD, LR & 808s

it's far from his most accomplished album but i sorta think that him pulling off this swerve so well is the surest sign yet that he's a total & unimpeachable genius

i think this album is so, sooooo, sooooooo much better than MBDTF

for the first 10 minutes it is

alot of drug testing (beyond being just an easy way to weed ppl out at the interview stage) is tied into insurance and liability. i'm curious what it will be like if/when it's effectively legalized nationwide as marijuana is really the only kind of casual drug use urine testing is likely to pick up.

"bound 2" was the most redundant to me (if not the actual worst, hi "hold my liquor") and i was glad it didn't place in the trax. just a clumsy redux of songs and themes he'd mastered previously.

anyway yeah agree with DJP. a step up from MPDTF though! got me interested in him as an artist again! keep it up kanye, might get half as good as you used to be again if you try

Yeezus to me, was one of those albums that was worth listening to in full at least once. It was definitely a hard album to ignore and provided plenty of people something to talk about. An ego-packed LOL-fest it certainly is, especially when you factor Kanye's interviews into the equation and stunts like the video to 'Bound 2'. However, there was nothing much here that made me want to really listen to it again. Worth listening to in full at least once, and worth talking about, but... a lasting long player? Nah, not for me.

i think the fallon version of "bound 2" is so much better than the recorded http://www.spin.com/articles/kanye-west-charlie-wilson-jimmy-fallon-bound-2-video/

plz drug-test your top ten, you lawbreakers

too high

We're all too high, so high we've forgotten what high even is, what dimension either metaphorical or mathematical might signify, and are simply accepting of and solely concerned with time's onward rollerdisco, its paradoxical stillness...nothing snaps the spell despite a million interruptions...zen is chaos...peace is violence...where can I find more of this shit

bored 2

The brevity of Yeezus was itself attractive.

Didn't vote for this bc I knew it didn't need my help but it's an amazing album, "Guilt Trip" is the one weak track though.