ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2013

is there a track of hers we should listen to to get a sense?

my #2 overall

"merry go round" "dandelion" "blowin smoke" "follow your arrow"

kacey/brandy/ashley/miranda/shane/etc is a better nashville muzikmafia than the last nashville muzikmafia.

(xp) and, as mentioned above, "it is what it is."

is there a track of hers we should listen to to get a sense?

"merry go round" was her breakthrough single for a reason, "blowin' smoke" for something more uptempo, "keep it to yourself" or "it is what it is" for the emotional gutpunch country realness

My second favorite of the Miranda Lambert Crew, and, yeah, "It Is What It Is" is devastating.

"keep it to yourself" is my jam from musgraves.

was never a fan of "Follow Your Arrow" or "Blowin' Smoke." It took "Stupid" and "Step Off" to do it.

kacey/brandy/ashley/miranda/shane/etc is a better nashville muzikmafia than the last nashville muzikmafia.

i'm so excited about what all these people will do post-breakthrough, they're so ridiculously talented

shane is a really interesting guy to talk to

Who would be included in the last Nashville music mafia?

i'm so excited about what all these people will do post-breakthrough, they're so ridiculously talented

discover king crimson and start making technical country prog

I am trying to give Yeezus another chance and "Hold My Liquor" is making me retroactively dislike "Block Rockin' Beats"

i was disappointed miranda's own "mama's broken heart" (co-written by kacey and brandy...and shane iirc?) didn't make the trax poll but i loved the contrast between her campy OTT interpretation and kacey's original sullen version

praise ye, shane mcanally

Would it be safe to assume he is Mac McAnally's son?

am i the only person who thinks "Back On The Map" is one of Kacey's hardest hitting cuts?

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8 PARAMORE Paramore (1,253 points, 36 votes, 7 first place votes)

Spotify

TOO LOW

last nashville muzikmafia, for which the name was coined, was big & rich, gretchen wilson, james otto and a few others. the great hopes of country music 2004.

this was my #1 and yeah too low

whoa had this as lock for top 3

No! Back On The Map is one of my favorites.

too low

Whatever wins is gonna have 15000 points, right?

way too low

this album saved my life

also ship "back on the map" is my favorite kacey song

*grows tragically hopeful of MBV heroics*

... seven first place votes

man, people really miss Roxette

whoa from the enthusiasm and high placement of both singles (both of which i now FUCKING LOVE at last) this is really low for this album!

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Ah I would tend to agree. My opinion on country music isn't worth much, but I do like this current bunch more than lots of other country.

Roxette? foh

it's just a spark, but it's enough to keep me going

like i definitely did not see as much enthusiasm for the mbv album as for paramore!

i don't know whether i'll ever love this as an album but i'll just enjoy obsessing late over the singles for now and see where that takes me

7 first place votes is only tied for third for most first place votes

Would it be safe to assume he is Mac McAnally's son?

a bit too old to be mac's son, and no relation afaik.

... seven first place votes

man, people really miss Roxette

― SHAUN (DJP)

We do!

I'm happy it made it this high! but yeah. Listened to this album so much this year.

so many great albums that aren't perfectly demographically aligned with the ILM demographic being sacrificed at the altar of nobody's favorite Daft Punk and My Bloody Valentine albums

that said, i figured this would be about where Paramore would place and knew all the speculation of it being #1 were nutso

have grown to concede that this album is pretty good & viewed thru a certain lens is kinda astonishing. lex the mbv album was and is an extremely good and sonically inventive record that was five times better than anyone dared hope - practically on a level with revered alltimer forebear - it'll be on 40-50 ballots and it'll have quite a few very high placements, mine included

this is another one that I voted for but maybe would've dropped if I did it again. I like the song "Now" but there isn't a lot else that I find myself coming back to.

i am surprised the enthusiasm for mbv prevailed after that first weekend bc i don't think i've listened to it since then

I saw the singer of paramore's nipples before i ever heard their music / entertained the notion of listening to them.

I like the Paramore album a lot but I didn't put it on my albums list (I don't think I did, maybe I did since we had 25 slots) because I had that silly "no crossover between artists on the albums and singles lists" rule and like, that last song that sounds like ISIS is kind of a slog.

i never got that into the paramore album and don't think i voted for it but the amazing stuff ("still into you," "ain't it fun," the second half of "grow up," "anklebiters") is REALLY amazing

some of the hooks -- "daydreaming," "now" -- really kinda grate on me for whatever reason

so many great albums that aren't perfectly demographically aligned with the ILM demographic being sacrificed at the altar of nobody's favorite Daft Punk and My Bloody Valentine albums

― some dude, Thursday, January 30, 2014 8:10 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's probably my favourite MBV album nowadays, truly I understand the Daft Punk confusion tho

paramore as a story in 2013 was great though, feel only positively towards that

cool story marc iv

what even IS the ILM demographic? i've made the mistake of calling it out before, don't think it exists

Surprised this is low. Only got into it after the tracks list but would have given it some votes if I'd heard it earlier.