I dug the VW album (and voted for it) BUT didn't want to see it place super high. Why? Because it placed super high everywhere else on Earth
THIS IS ILM SNITCHES WE DO SHIT DIFFERENTLY
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 30 January 2014 21:31 (ten years ago) link
HAIM really was the ILM album of the year
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Thursday, 30 January 2014 21:31 (ten years ago) link
I'm neither here nor there on Haim but bassface is all-time
― charitable remainder unitrust (crüt), Thursday, 30 January 2014 21:31 (ten years ago) link
do we start a new thread of album ballots? yeah right?
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 30 January 2014 21:31 (ten years ago) link
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, January 30, 2014 9:31 PM (36 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
:D
― lex pretend, Thursday, 30 January 2014 21:31 (ten years ago) link
a win for bassface is a win for ilm
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 30 January 2014 21:31 (ten years ago) link
more accurate would be "THIS IS ILM SNITCHES WE DO LIKE ONE SURPRISING THING AND THEN RESHUFFLE THE WIDER CONSENSUS"
― SHAUN (DJP), Thursday, 30 January 2014 21:32 (ten years ago) link
Big thanks to J0rdan and Seandalai for putting this together. It's been a lot of fun.
What do I have to look forward to now?
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 30 January 2014 21:32 (ten years ago) link
days are gone days are gone HAH
― voodoo chili, Thursday, 30 January 2014 21:32 (ten years ago) link
polls are gonepoll are goneHA
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 January 2014 21:32 (ten years ago) link
Can someone do a recap of the whole list again? Please?
― these birches is awful (Branwell Bell), Thursday, 30 January 2014 21:32 (ten years ago) link
Watched School Of Rock too many times
xxp
― pandemic, Thursday, 30 January 2014 21:32 (ten years ago) link
Thanks J0rdan (hope the hangover is cured) and Seandalai! Was a lot of fun!
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 30 January 2014 21:32 (ten years ago) link
I am kinda glad that the poptimists still secretly rule ILM.
lol @ "secretly"
― polyphonic, Thursday, 30 January 2014 21:33 (ten years ago) link
― SHAUN (DJP), Thursday, January 30, 2014 9:32 PM (25 seconds ago)
OTM. *yawn*
― emil.y, Thursday, 30 January 2014 21:33 (ten years ago) link
Also LOL @ bassface. Bassface = always awesome.
― these birches is awful (Branwell Bell), Thursday, 30 January 2014 21:33 (ten years ago) link
I get why Haim would appeal especially to people who didn't grow up in through the 80s, and hell, I like that track that sounds a bit like the Dirty Projectors.
I gave it two listens only, I admit. First one was 'what is all the hullabaloo about' after the shitstorm after Scott Creney's article on Collapseboard, and, listening to it with a distanced ear I thought it was an impressive achievement, production-wise, etc. Second listen was agony and I never want to hear it ever again.
― ineloquentwow (Craigo Boingo), Thursday, 30 January 2014 21:33 (ten years ago) link
Me too. It was a very good year.
Thanks pollrunners.
― What is wrong with songs? Absolutely nothing. Songs are great. (DL), Thursday, 30 January 2014 21:33 (ten years ago) link
beysus with the moral NINE-first-places victory and baduesque redemption to come :)
― lex pretend, Thursday, January 30, 2014 4:29 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
why do you keep saying this? the first New Amerykah placed 5th and the second one placed 10th.
― some dude, Thursday, 30 January 2014 21:34 (ten years ago) link
Linking to Brad's piece again.
"This is how guitars function on Days Are Gone: like drums, but tuned, as if pulled through a kaleidoscope. “Drums were the first instrument that we played because my dad’s a drummer,” Alana Haim said in a phone interview back in July. “We grew up always being surrounded by percussion and drums and stuff like that, so it’s like the foundation of where we started.” A sense for percussion is also soaked into their voices; they sing with a kind of built-in turbulence. The notes are tightly cropped, isolated to individual words and sounds, feeling like brief stirs of the air."
(Also, Tim F: "It doesn't sound like the eighties, it sounds like the work of the star graduates of Tim's Private School of Drums and Palm Mute Guitar.")
― etc, Thursday, 30 January 2014 21:34 (ten years ago) link
― some dude, Thursday, January 30, 2014 9:34 PM (4 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
part one won the mid-decade poll
thx j0rdan and seandalai
― lex pretend, Thursday, 30 January 2014 21:35 (ten years ago) link
Many thanks to J0rdan and seandalai. Your medals are in the mail.
― Jeff W, Thursday, 30 January 2014 21:35 (ten years ago) link
thanks poll team, gj, was fun
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 30 January 2014 21:35 (ten years ago) link
some dude: ILM Top 100 2005-2009: ALBUMS
― SHAUN (DJP), Thursday, 30 January 2014 21:35 (ten years ago) link
She came back and won the 2005-09 poll.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 30 January 2014 21:36 (ten years ago) link
deeply invested in this private school
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 30 January 2014 21:36 (ten years ago) link
in the end a band that could've been created in a lab to appeal to ilx specifically crushing the competition is not that surprising
u could say this just as well about the #2 as well tho
― flopson, Thursday, 30 January 2014 21:36 (ten years ago) link
oh yeah i totally forgot about the 2005-2009 poll
― some dude, Thursday, 30 January 2014 21:37 (ten years ago) link
― SHAUN (DJP), Thursday, January 30, 2014 3:32 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
thanks pollsters, for all your hard work!
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 30 January 2014 21:37 (ten years ago) link
yeah leaving all my money to that school in my will
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 30 January 2014 21:37 (ten years ago) link
Thanks as always to the poll-runners, some great albums placed but also a lot of shite. I'd like everyone to remember that no matter what the polls say, in any given year there are hundreds of albums released, and this just scratches the surface of the amount of great music that was released last year.
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Thursday, 30 January 2014 21:37 (ten years ago) link
Thanks to the poll runners. Excellent job as always.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 30 January 2014 21:37 (ten years ago) link
Since Alfred won't do it, congratulations from Ezra Koenig (and Norman Mailer)
http://www.esquire.com/cm/esquire/images/KD/ESQ-vampire-weekend-ezra-koenig-050613-xl.jpg
― these birches is awful (Branwell Bell), Thursday, 30 January 2014 21:37 (ten years ago) link
wow i totally forgot about that 05-09 poll or that i rolled out the albums
s/o to my "hoos gossage" display name tho
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 30 January 2014 21:38 (ten years ago) link
Yay! My #3 vote. Actually, when I listened to "Falling" again during the tracks rollout I wondered why I hadn't voted for it.
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 30 January 2014 21:38 (ten years ago) link
these threads are so much fun, thanks everyone
― SHAUN (DJP), Thursday, 30 January 2014 21:38 (ten years ago) link
Yeh thanks to the pollposse, u r00l3d xox
― ineloquentwow (Craigo Boingo), Thursday, 30 January 2014 21:38 (ten years ago) link
Oh sh1t so that means we're nominating soon for a 2010-14 poll? *poll team faints*
― Jeff W, Thursday, 30 January 2014 21:38 (ten years ago) link
Not a big fan but very happy to see Haim stop Daft Punk winning. Thanks pollrunners!
― devvvine, Thursday, 30 January 2014 21:39 (ten years ago) link
I founded that private school. All the boys have Koenig hair.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 January 2014 21:39 (ten years ago) link
I hadn't even listened to HAIM but "Days Are Gone" was the one album I decided to give a chance based on the singles results (usually don't vote or pay much attention to the albums poll). I think it's pretty good so well done ILM, I guess.
― daavid, Thursday, 30 January 2014 21:40 (ten years ago) link
wow, I like the Haim album quite a bit but never imagined they'd win it. Feel some relief that it wasn't Daft Punk even though I also like RAM well enough.
― Spaghetti Sauce Shampoo (Moodles), Thursday, 30 January 2014 21:40 (ten years ago) link
Yay, HAIM! Wasn't my #1 but sometimes I think it should have been (usually while listening to "If I Could Change Your Mind").
― o. nate, Thursday, 30 January 2014 21:42 (ten years ago) link
So where's the data, guys!?
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Thursday, 30 January 2014 21:42 (ten years ago) link
let's not get it twisted, last train to paris is gonna be the album doing an erykah
― prolego, Thursday, 30 January 2014 21:42 (ten years ago) link
Just a question for the ages: did anyone else besides me vote for the Sightings album? Even one person?
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 30 January 2014 21:42 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, the best thing about the Haim album is that EVERYTHING is a percussion instrument. xps
― raggett neds of your summer dress (The Reverend), Thursday, 30 January 2014 21:43 (ten years ago) link
prolego otm
― some dude, Thursday, 30 January 2014 21:43 (ten years ago) link
Thanks once again pollrunners. Happy enough with Haim at #1
― Gavin, Leeds, Thursday, 30 January 2014 21:43 (ten years ago) link
RIP The Joy Formidable, I thought more people liked you
― SHAUN (DJP), Thursday, 30 January 2014 21:43 (ten years ago) link