ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2013

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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REJOICE!!! :D :D

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)

i cant even remember if i voted for VW but i'd rather see them at #1 than daft punk

The Knife album cover (and the music inside, to some extent) reminds me of Remain in Light

i actually kicked the knife album off my ballot due to it not needing my help but i am very much pro it. "wrap your arms around me" is as beautiful a song as they've ever made

of the top 10 choices, it's worrying that the better ones seem to be coming in the bottom half :/

theres no way that's happening though

listen i like that vampire weekend record but it's kind of patchy i don't care how many feels you've caught on bushwick rooftops

Yeah, because nobody actually likes Giorgio Moroder.

WTF?

― emil.y, Thursday, January 30, 2014 8:21 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no i mean everyone fkn DOES like Moroder &c, hence VOATZ

idk never been much of a daft punk fella although discovery obv bangs

VW at #1 would be incredible

yay, the Knife!

(iirc, ILM's very first poll had Britney Spears and My Bloody Valentine's Loveless tied for first place. I don't think our demographics have changed that much over the decades.)

Bought this when it came out, played it a few times but didn't really go back to it until November. Now I just love it more and more each time I play it (skipping a couple of tracks of course)

The long break between Brand New Eyes and s/t was interesting because you didn't really know what band would come back to greet you. Sure Hayley is the central force, but on BNE she co-wrote almost all the songs with Josh Farro, and then to assume the switch to doing all tracks with York would work out just as well..

ready, ready to loose a privilege

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

"riot" and "brand new eyes" are both great, and i'll even ride for about half of the debut - the new one's where the lyrics, especially, made a huge leap forward, and the synthpop/r&b influences started to poke through. they've always been a great singles band, though - "decode" is such a jam

I should have put the knife higher, maybe even #1. Amazing work.

Yeah, because nobody actually likes Giorgio Moroder.

WTF?

― emil.y, Thursday, January 30, 2014 8:21 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no i mean everyone fkn DOES like Moroder &c, hence VOATZ

idk never been much of a daft punk fella although discovery obv bangs

― in fact, do read if you hate me (imago), Thursday, January 30, 2014 8:23 PM (21 seconds ago)

What you're suggesting is that the 'expensive collaborations' are 'designed to win votes'. Rather than, say, Daft Punk actually liking the people they're working with. Which is an incredibly fucking stupid thing to say.

Kacey Musgraves is very talented and I'm glad she exists; I'm not ever going to say "oh hey, I want to listen to Kacey Musgraves today" but she's good

I liked Paramore more when they had a bratty single that I would periodically stumble across on pop radio

Knife album goes to some weird places but is one of the most satisfying listens I had all year; "Wrap Your Arms Around Me" is clearly in their top 10 songs ever AFAIC

i'm on #teamvdubs but only out of eagerness to witness the reaction

(I kind of wish they'd held onto the mezzo they recorded "Tomorrow, in a year" with, that would have been a really cool texture to weave into some of the songs here, or if they'd intercut her doing hocket and/or arpeggios into the boiler drone piece)

The more I listen to Shaking The Habitual, the more I find myself wondering what people found so odd about it. Yes, it's abrasive in places, and yes, it does have a 20-minute drone track on it and a track which consists of a vocal and a bedspring being bowed. For the most part, though, it just comes across as a very edgy pop record to me.

o emil.y c'mon must i go outta my way to post ;)s and label my facetious asides as such. my point was that daft punk releasing an album would have been an *event* in itself, as with mbv, but they made it even more of one with numerous high-profile collaborations, p much ensuring blanket exposure and beyond-planets hype

anyway, yeah, whoo, these last few albums q a dope collection, shame abt top 5

Just catching up with the last few, but LJ please listen to "Rollin' & Scratchin'" right now.

had no idead i had my own sub-interest group

DJP, by mezzo you mean her singing voice? I assume it was all her voice. loved the vocals, in particular on "cherry on top"

xp for some reason i associate you with the whole balearic revival etc thats been popular on this board for the last 5 years or whatever

am listening to Bangerz rn, catching up where I left off yesterday, might skip str8 to top 20 though? tough call to only come back later to the lower-ranked records

xxp I found it weird how many critics acted like yeezus was the only sensible choice for album of the year. On the New Yorker podcast SFJ basically said you'd have to be dumb or obtuse not to recognise it as such. Which for an album that flawed, if occasionally spectacular, seemed off. If you're going to condescend to people who don't like an album then pick a more consistent album. If it was as all good as the opening of On Sight he might have had a point.

Shaking the Habitual feels like a fairly natural progression from Silent Shout after the detour of Tomorrow in a Year, although maybe one they could only have made with the latter in the can? Not sure.

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mbv or vw getting the top spot would be aok with me

mbvwtf

i dont know where i fit in with mordys list

have i graduated from valuable new poster yet

xxp I found it weird how many critics acted like yeezus was the only sensible choice for album of the year. On the New Yorker podcast SFJ basically said you'd have to be dumb or obtuse not to recognise it as such. Which for an album that flawed, if occasionally spectacular, seemed off. If you're going to condescend to people who don't like an album then pick a more consistent album. If it was as all good as the opening of On Sight he might have had a point.

critics have always been weirdly enraptured by the idea of the flawed genius tho right? one of those things where you point out where it drags musically or isn't enjoyable or is hugely problematic and they respond "but that's the POINT"

no, no it isn't. i mean i love the knife album but i'll be the first to say that the 20 min drone serves no purpose to me and can get tae fuck. flaws are not inherently interesting!

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6 VAMPIRE WEEKEND Modern Vampires of the City (1,397 points, 39 votes, 8 first place votes)

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rip ezra i will always remember u

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

good ass record

Yay! (That it's not higher.)

thank god this is as far as it made it.

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