ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2013

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

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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.

THAT'S RIGHT I'M IN IT

*bon iver vocals*

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, January 30, 2014 2:38 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

funniest kanye to the forum gif ever btw

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a lot of the themes of yeezus that were praised as radical and thought-provoking such were...like, were people even listening to his old stuff where he covered similar ground but in a much more affecting way? when yeezus succeeds it's all about his strung-out delivery, just this furious barrage of words

i do find it pretty funny how one of the most notable lines delivery-wise is pretty much entirely due to him having nicki's dick in his mooooouuuuuuuth

It's definitely my second favourite comedy album of the year after the My Dick record, though.

Outside of the first 4 songs, Guilt Trip is my favorite. It wasn't enough for me to vote for it, mainly because some lyrics really got on my nerves.

i'm glad Yeezus only just barely beat chance but how cool would it be if their spots were reversed

"i be speaking swaghili" was my fav dumb rap line of the year

i love "bound 2," rather than being a clumsy redux of his older songs i think it's way starker and alien sounding than any of his other pitch-shifted soul sample songs, and the charlie wilson chorus explodes the whole thing open

New Slaves alone was like 649271648x better than all of MBDTF combined, gonna give this a good listen.

great album, i love kanye west

funniest kanye to the forum gif ever btw

― some dude, Thursday, January 30, 2014 2:44 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

still the funniest thing KTT has ever produced tho is the jpgs of dudes opening yeezus hard copy in reverse so they wouldn't break the red sticker

Was thinking about New Slaves the other day and realized it has a lot of similarities to "Slow Bus Movin' (Howard Beach Party)" by Fishbone.

heard a DJ drop "new slaves" last night, that was kinda weird

the first four songs are incredible and I love them, and then "Hold My Liquor" and "Blood on the Leaves" generated so much ill will in me that I have zero desire to give anything else on the album a chance

i came around to most of the second half except "blood on the leaves" still makes me go "man what the hell"

Confused "Guilt Trip" with "Power Trip" so I was confused for a sec as to why some of you were suddenly talking about J. Cole.

But yeah, the former sounds pretty inconsequential coming after "Blood On The Leaves" (regardless of what you ultimately think of the song IMO).

I know thread has moved on, but I'm loving this Chance the Rapper record, uh, mixtape, whatever.

i feel like Kanye fucked up majorly by not servicing "New Slaves" to DJs as soon as the album dropped, no reason it couldn't have gotten club play if "Dreams & Nightmares" could

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"Blood On The Leaves" is definitely a gigantic turd that weighs down the album but i'm still more of a fan of it than not

"guilt trip" is just this woozy nowhere

the first four songs are incredible and I love them, and then "Hold My Liquor" and "Blood on the Leaves" generated so much ill will in me that I have zero desire to give anything else on the album a chance

― SHAUN (DJP), Thursday, January 30, 2014 2:47 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

you should listen to "send it up" tho it's as good as the first four tracks in that style

Guilt Trip sounds like 808s and Heartbreak which is the worst Kanye album.

it was hilarious when kanye first played the album for people in nyc and twitter exploded right during "blood on the leaves" but half of it was "WHOA KANYE SAMPLES TNGHT" and the other half was "KANYE SAMPLES C-MURDER"

"Blood On The Leaves" is definitely a gigantic turd that weighs down the album but i'm still more of a fan of it than not

― some dude, Thursday, January 30, 2014 2:49 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's way better if you imagine that he's singing about the movie Alien

for real: i was in a coffeeshop the other morning and their whatever mix was on and nina simone's 'strange fruit' started and one of the baristas (this skater looking dude i always avoid having take my order) went 'kanye west? i don't think so' and then he put on a vampire weekend album. america.

it was hilarious when kanye first played the album for people in nyc and twitter exploded right during "blood on the leaves" but half of it was "WHOA KANYE SAMPLES TNGHT" and the other half was "KANYE SAMPLES C-MURDER"

neither of these things are the most "wtf just happened here" aspect of that song!

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9 KACEY MUSGRAVES Same Trailer Different Park (1,124 points, 32 votes, 1 first place vote)

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for real: i was in a coffeeshop the other morning and their whatever mix was on and nina simone's 'strange fruit' started and one of the baristas (this skater looking dude i always avoid having take my order) went 'kanye west? i don't think so' and then he put on a vampire weekend album. america.

nuke America