ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2013

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.

there's a little Ramosi in all of us, apparently

Probably my favorite thing in music 2013 was all the love suddenly heaped on Paramore, critically and just from people around me. So few people were writing about them ,talking about them before this album, at least from my experience, and I've felt like a kid shouting in a corner about all the things that interest and fascinate me about their output. No more!

Also one of my big live experience ambitions is joining the crowd in "woah-ooh"-ing the "Proof" chorus - "Baby if I'm half the man I say I am, if I'm a woman with no fear just like I claim I am".

surprised as anyone else that my favorite album of the year is a double album with ukulele interludes

*insert Amanda Palmer joke here*

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

― le goon (J0rdan S.),

well this is a rare record whose front third is the weakest imo

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

― in fact, do read if you hate me (imago), Thursday, January 30, 2014 3:13 PM (47 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's definitely hazier and more difficult to pin down than ever before, but if there was a coat of arms back in the early days you may as well have put the MBV and Daft Punk logos on it

Oh, for god's sake.

well this is a rare record whose front third is the weakest imo

truuuuuue

there's really no unified ilm demographic though occasionally we get an album that bridges 2 of the sort of sub-interest groups and surprises people in these polls (e.g. kaputt)

I loved this album but was the first of theirs I'd by heard. Are any earlier ones worth checking out?

Oh, for god's sake.

uh oh colossal donkey dick is getting sucked

Surpised at how low it is. On the other hand, I'm thinking it'll proabably have one of the higher enthusiasm scores.

before this album my fave track by them was "that's what you get"

I mean, fair enough, Paramore have their fans and that's all fair and all good and it's not for me and all that stuff. 8th best album of the year? Go to sleep.

bridges 2 of the sort of sub-interest groups and surprises people in these polls (e.g. kaputt)

Trolls and people with no taste?

lol

I loved this album but was the first of theirs I'd by heard. Are any earlier ones worth checking out?

brand new eyes yes but also each album is a massive improvement on the previous

Would definitely have had Paramore high on my ballot if I'd heard it before the tracks rollout - had never liked the band before so sadly paid it no attention.

xp i was thinking indie pfork fuxxors and gr80s

uhh the front third includes "Ain't It Fun"

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

A bunch of white people? Or is this a foolish assumption that I've been making for ages.

Yeah, I checked out Brand New Eyes last week. It's great, but still such an enormous leap between albums.

i still say Riot destroys Brand New Eyes, thought they were on the path of indefinite diminishing returns before this album

haha I almost put the Kacey Musgraves interview album on the Spotify playlist, oops

it's definitely hazier and more difficult to pin down than ever before, but if there was a coat of arms back in the early days you may as well have put the MBV and Daft Punk logos on it

― some dude, Thursday, January 30, 2014 8:15 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha this is fair

although - daft punk did loads of expensive fancy collaborations designed to get votes in EOY polls and Grammies and so forth; Kevin Shields mastered some tapes, recorded some overdubs and STILL got (some) people excited

xp and the Grow Up/Daydreaming double whammy

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

7 THE KNIFE Shaking the Habitual (1,371 points, 41 votes, 7 first place votes)

Spotify

Grow Up is great. I think I had that second on my tracks ballot, after Last Hope.

hot damn, great album

Also it looks like the streak of the last two years where my faovrte album of the year, Paramore, is also the number 1 for ILM has been broken. And I didn't even vote in those years.

I loved "Full of Fire" without warming to the other experiments, but I understand how it could be someone's #1.

daft punk did loads of expensive fancy collaborations designed to get votes in EOY polls

Yeah, because nobody actually likes Giorgio Moroder.

WTF?

too low yo! I demand a recount.

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I loved "Full of Fire" without warming to the other experiments, but I understand how it could be someone's #1.

basically, while also forgetting that "full of fire" existed until the tracks rollout

i'm rooting for vamp to go #1 overall

I thought most people were disappointed with The Knife album?

i'm rooting for vamp to go #1 overall

― Mordy , Thursday, January 30, 2014 3:21 PM (14 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

same

I'm rooting for it to get shut out of the top 5

Still haven't heard this in its entirety but have basically liked-to-loved everything I've heard from it. Well, this week, all my attention-span failings get RECTIFIED. Even the long-form sound-experiments (ESPECIALLY the long-form sound experiments; I'm one of the weird fucks who thinks Tomorrow, In A Year Disc One is their crowning achievement)