ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2013

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.

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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

xxp Haim and obviously Phil France

http://media.giphy.com/media/7mSCBRscI4LM4/giphy.gif

oh yeah i forgot about Haim

RIP tauheed and darold

into this thread becoming an endless chain of ezra hair gifs followed by more drug test talk

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

― bilbo bobbins (how's life), Thursday, January 30, 2014 8:39 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Maybe I should test a copy of this VW record with my urine.

floorplan #1 calling it

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

― raggett neds of your summer dress (The Reverend), Thursday, January 30, 2014 8:40 PM (55 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

third best album in the top 10 tho.

(i'm surprised too, i guess she must have bridged several ilx subcommunities?)

Yeah, Alfred is slacking xps

http://media.giphy.com/media/7mSCBRscI4LM4/giphy.gif

― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, January 30, 2014 8:41 PM

Oh no, not that one. He looks like the singer of Muse in this one. The other one. The one with the eyelashes.

having awful visions of HAIM winning, if only because Kaputt won that one time and they're both the same kind of boring

haim winning would be almost as lol as vamp winning so i support this happening

it's obv gonna be daft punk tho

5. MBV
4. Daft Punk
3. Haim
2. Beyonce
1. Cakes da Killa

cakes <3 i voted for that

I feel like Kaputt has a lot more personality than HAIM.

i been thinkin bout diiiiiick

If I could change your mind
I would hit the ground running
It took time to realize
And I never saw it coming
Forgive my lying eyes
Gonna give you all or nothing
If I could change your mind
I could make you mine, make you mine

Vampire Weekend emerging as the big consensus crossover indie act of the post-Arcade Fire era is pretty horrifying but i guess whoever else would be in that spot instead would be pretty horrifying too

Joanna Gruesome surprise number one, I can feel it.

C'MOWN MBV, TOP THREE, YOU CAN DO IT!

I love all five of the albums still to come so will be happy however it goes. Sky would be my first choice as it was my number two.

Bey is not gonna be #1 imo, clearly this list is not cool enough for that to happen

whoever else would be in that spot instead would be pretty horrifying too

Pretty much a coin flip between them and The National imo, except ILM loves one and hates the other.

I feel like Kaputt has a lot more personality than HAIM.

― MarkoP, Thursday, January 30, 2014 8:44 PM (46 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i guess 'bay of pigs' was kinda good

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.

― SHAUN (DJP), Thursday, January 30, 2014 3:36 PM (8 minutes ago)

did you even listen to this album? the opposite seems true to me - they've turned into a somewhat regular rock band that just writes great songs

J0rd should reveal the top 5 during the Super Bowl.

Johnny, why do you keep reminding us that National album exists?

http://i.imgur.com/5Uwmakr.jpg

5 SKY FERREIRA Night Time, My Time (1,426 points, 45 votes, 2 first place votes)

Spotify

Pretty much a coin flip between them and The National imo, except ILM loves one and hates the other.

catch 22 between no trace of personality whatsoever vs worst personalities ever :(

i like the national but the new album was pretty unmemorable

I don't see Beyoncé losing this.

Modern Vampires is a fantastic record, was my #1.

These are ridiculous numbers of #1 votes. 7 each for Paramore and the Knife! 8 for VW!

lol irony at lex talking about bad personalities