ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2013

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)

Spotify

:'(

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.

rip alfred's ezra hair flipping gif tumblr

my #1

tbh I don't care what's #1 now as long as it isn't this.

in yr face m0rdy sry but this is <3felt still love u boo

TOO LOW

this isn't funny enough

*mumbles something about Mums and West Country holiday resorts in flood season*

my impression is that the oddness people associate with Shaking the Habitual has something to do with the lack of verse-chorus structure to the songs

i can't wait for ilx to have the same #1 overall as the grammys

Hey, what's that slurping noise!?

*penny drops*

Ahhhh...

hahahahahahaaaaaaaaaa thank fuck this wasn't top 5

twee indie pests i refute you

maybe their best yet. i dunno, theyre all great. fuck all yall haters

do they still sound like paul simon?

Beyoncé won a Grammy?

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

I mean Kristina Wahlin, the Danish mezzo-soprano who sang on "Tomorrow, in a year"

contra is their best. this is pretty good

Kacey my #1, Paramore my #3. good showing!

Approve of VW, approve of this album. Y'all some tiresome motherfuckers itt at times.

I still feel that Vampire Weekend turned into the band that everyone who made fun of them over the first two albums claimed they were all along.

I dunno, the ilx predict-a-trons have done too good a job, I'm finding this part of the roll-out the least interesting. Who cares if something is number six or number five when you already know what's making up the top ten?

i love this album so much. was my co #1 with chance for much of 2013.

i'm a huge VW stan but i think this is just leaps and bounds better than their previous two records. a massive leap. it's hard to listen to some of their old songs... this album is so much richer.

Wow. I thought that was a shoe in for Top 3 given all the ilxor love it had in the thread.

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

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, January 30, 2014 8:34 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

OTMFM.

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!

you don't really strike me as the target market for 20 minute drones tbh

Wish I'd given Vampire Weekend some points now.

flaws are not inherently interesting!

And so what? An album can still work brilliantly in spite of its flaws, and I'll be the first to tell you Yeezus is quite a flawed work.

i love this album so much. was my co #1 with chance for much of 2013.

i'm a huge VW stan but i think this is just leaps and bounds better than their previous two records. a massive leap. it's hard to listen to some of their old songs... this album is so much richer.

― le goon (J0rdan S.), Thursday, January 30, 2014 3:37 PM (8 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

agree

good ass record

― ciderpress,

good hair record

do they still sound like paul simon?

― diamonddave85‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌ (diamonddave85), Thursday, January 30, 2014 2:35 PM (1 minute ago)

no :(

First impressions of MVOTC: zzz, same old same old. But by the end of the year, VW had won me round all over again. Perhaps my biggest change of heart on an album last year.

I'm with VW where I was in 2010 with M.I.A.: fabulous second album, excellent third, ok debut.

There's always next album.

balls wrote this on thread ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2013 on board I Love Music on Jan 30, 2014

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.

Just checked with a lab tech friend of mine and she says that they test for all drugs with urine.

So…top 5:

5. MBV
4. Daft Punk
…I forgot what else is left

1. Beyonce

rip alfred's ezra hair flipping gif tumblr

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, January 30, 2014

it took a few minutes to walk outside for air

I feel like Sky Ferriera is totally undeserving of her top five placement.

Too low for 8 #1s (including mine) Incredible record which puts the first two in the shade - and I loved the first two.

I feel like Sky Ferriera is totally undeserving of her top five placement.

yeah jesus christ y'all

You know, if that Interpol record doesn't turn up in the post tomorrow, I'm going to Modern Vampies as my 22grudgelistens project. That, at least, was in the charity shop on the high street.

(Please can we have the hair flip gif again? Please?)

So…top 5:

5. MBV
4. Daft Punk
…I forgot what else is left

1. Beyonce

― Murgatroid, Thursday, January 30, 2014 3:39 PM (48 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Sky Ferreira and Haim, aka the Reichstad All-Stars

5. MBV
4. Sky
3. HAIM
2. Daft Punk
1. Bey