ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2013

Thanks J0rdan (hope the hangover is cured) and Seandalai! Was a lot of fun!

I am kinda glad that the poptimists still secretly rule ILM.

lol @ "secretly"

more accurate would be "THIS IS ILM SNITCHES WE DO LIKE ONE SURPRISING THING AND THEN RESHUFFLE THE WIDER CONSENSUS"

― SHAUN (DJP), Thursday, January 30, 2014 9:32 PM (25 seconds ago)

OTM. *yawn*

Also LOL @ bassface. Bassface = always awesome.

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.

I am kinda glad that the poptimists still secretly rule ILM.

Me too. It was a very good year.

Thanks pollrunners.

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.

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.")

why do you keep saying this? the first New Amerykah placed 5th and the second one placed 10th.

― 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

Many thanks to J0rdan and seandalai. Your medals are in the mail.

thanks poll team, gj, was fun

some dude: ILM Top 100 2005-2009: ALBUMS

why do you keep saying this? the first New Amerykah placed 5th and the second one placed 10th.

She came back and won the 2005-09 poll.

(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.")

deeply invested in this private school

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

oh yeah i totally forgot about the 2005-2009 poll

THIS IS ILM SNITCHES WE DO SHIT DIFFERENTLY

more accurate would be "THIS IS ILM SNITCHES WE DO LIKE ONE SURPRISING THING AND THEN RESHUFFLE THE WIDER CONSENSUS"

― SHAUN (DJP), Thursday, January 30, 2014 3:32 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thanks pollsters, for all your hard work!

yeah leaving all my money to that school in my will

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.

Thanks to the poll runners. Excellent job as always.

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

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

Yay! My #3 vote. Actually, when I listened to "Falling" again during the tracks rollout I wondered why I hadn't voted for it.

these threads are so much fun, thanks everyone

Yeh thanks to the pollposse, u r00l3d xox

Oh sh1t so that means we're nominating soon for a 2010-14 poll? *poll team faints*

Not a big fan but very happy to see Haim stop Daft Punk winning. Thanks pollrunners!

I founded that private school. All the boys have Koenig hair.

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.

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.

Yay, HAIM! Wasn't my #1 but sometimes I think it should have been (usually while listening to "If I Could Change Your Mind").

So where's the data, guys!?

let's not get it twisted, last train to paris is gonna be the album doing an erykah

Just a question for the ages: did anyone else besides me vote for the Sightings album? Even one person?

Yeah, the best thing about the Haim album is that EVERYTHING is a percussion instrument. xps

prolego otm

Thanks once again pollrunners. Happy enough with Haim at #1

RIP The Joy Formidable, I thought more people liked you

never thought the drums/rhythms of the Haim record were anything special, think of it more as a melody record

yay mazel tov haim!

data Driver, roll up the partition, please: ILM 2013 albums poll stats and ballots

this was fun, never got to keep up with the tracks one cos it fell on my works busiest work week but enjoyed reading that too.

GOod jobbbbbs

77 JULIANNA BARWICK Nepenthe
76 FALL OUT BOY
75 MELT-BANANA Fetch
74 BILL CALLAHAN Dream River
73 LORDE Pure Heroine
72 THEE OH SEES Floating Coffin
71 FÖLLAKZOID II
70 GORGUTS Colored Sands
(tie) 68. KELELA Cut 4 Me
(tie) 68 CUT COPY Free Your Mind
67 f(x) Pink Tape
66 DANNY BROWN Old
65 FACTORY FLOOR Factory Floor
64 CIARA Ciara
63 PARQUET COURTS Light Up Gold
62 K MICHELLE Rebellious Soul
61 ARCTIC MONKEYS AM
60 DONATO DOZZY Plays Bee Mask
59 JOHN GRANT Pale Green Ghosts
58 RHYE Woman
57 YOUNG GALAXY Ultramarine
56 KA The Night's Gambit
55 DJ SPRINKLES Queerifications and Ruins: Collected Remixes by DJ Sprinkles
54 NEKO CASE The Worse Things Get
53 CARCASS Surgical Steel
52 SAVAGES Silence Yourself
51 ASHLEY MONROE Like a Rose
50 WAXAHATCHEE Cerulean Salt
49 WILLIAM ONYEABOR Who is William Onyeabor?
48 YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN UZU
47 LAUREL HALO Chance of Rain
46 QUADRON Avalanche
45 ARCADE FIRE Reflektor
44 MATMOS The Marriage of True Minds
43 JON HOPKINS Immunity
42 MAYA JANE COLES Comfort
41 FUCK BUTTONS Slow Focus
40 FANTASIA Side Effects of You
39 GOLDFRAPP Tales of Us
38 PET SHOP BOYS Electric
37 LAURA MARLING Once I Was an Eagle
36 DJ KOZE Amygdala
35 DJ RASHAD Double Cup
34 MILEY CYRUS Bangerz
33 DARKSIDE Psychic
32 ARIANA GRANDE Yours Truly
31 DEAFHEAVEN Sunbather
30 BURIAL Rival Dealer EP
29 HOLDEN The Inheritors
28 TEGAN & SARA Heartthrob
27 AMEL LARRIEUX Ice Cream Everyday
26 TIM HECKER Virgins
25 CLASSIXX Hanging Gardens
23 JULIA HOLTER Loud City Song
22 BRANDY CLARK 12 Stories
21 THE 1975 The 1975
24 BOARDS OF CANADA Tomorrow's Harvest
20 KURT VILE Walkin On a Pretty Daze
19 CHVRCHES The Bones of What You Believe
18 JANELLE MONÁE The Electric Lady
17 CHARLI XCX True Romance
16 DISCLOSURE Settle
15 THESE NEW PURITANS Field of Reeds
14 M.I.A. Matangi
13 ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER R Plus Seven
12 DAWN RICHARD Goldenheart
11 CHANCE THE RAPPER Acid Rap
10 KANYE WEST Yeezus
9 KACEY MUSGRAVES Same Trailer Different Park
8 PARAMORE Paramore
7 THE KNIFE Shaking the Habitual
6 VAMPIRE WEEKEND Modern Vampires of the City
5 SKY FERREIRA Night Time, My Time
4 BEYONCÉ Beyoncé
3 MY BLOODY VALENTINE mbv
2 DAFT PUNK Random Access Memories
1 HAIM Days Are Gone

to cure my ocd

77 JULIANNA BARWICK Nepenthe
76 FALL OUT BOY
75 MELT-BANANA Fetch
74 BILL CALLAHAN Dream River
73 LORDE Pure Heroine
72 THEE OH SEES Floating Coffin
71 FÖLLAKZOID II
70 GORGUTS Colored Sands
(tie) 68 KELELA Cut 4 Me
(tie) 68 CUT COPY Free Your Mind
67 f(x) Pink Tape
66 DANNY BROWN Old
65 FACTORY FLOOR Factory Floor
64 CIARA Ciara
63 PARQUET COURTS Light Up Gold
62 K MICHELLE Rebellious Soul
61 ARCTIC MONKEYS AM
60 DONATO DOZZY Plays Bee Mask
59 JOHN GRANT Pale Green Ghosts
58 RHYE Woman
57 YOUNG GALAXY Ultramarine
56 KA The Night's Gambit
55 DJ SPRINKLES Queerifications and Ruins: Collected Remixes by DJ Sprinkles
54 NEKO CASE The Worse Things Get
53 CARCASS Surgical Steel
52 SAVAGES Silence Yourself
51 ASHLEY MONROE Like a Rose
50 WAXAHATCHEE Cerulean Salt
49 WILLIAM ONYEABOR Who is William Onyeabor?
48 YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN UZU
47 LAUREL HALO Chance of Rain
46 QUADRON Avalanche
45 ARCADE FIRE Reflektor
44 MATMOS The Marriage of True Minds
43 JON HOPKINS Immunity
42 MAYA JANE COLES Comfort
41 FUCK BUTTONS Slow Focus
40 FANTASIA Side Effects of You
39 GOLDFRAPP Tales of Us
38 PET SHOP BOYS Electric
37 LAURA MARLING Once I Was an Eagle
36 DJ KOZE Amygdala
35 DJ RASHAD Double Cup
34 MILEY CYRUS Bangerz
33 DARKSIDE Psychic
32 ARIANA GRANDE Yours Truly
31 DEAFHEAVEN Sunbather
30 BURIAL Rival Dealer EP
29 HOLDEN The Inheritors
28 TEGAN & SARA Heartthrob
27 AMEL LARRIEUX Ice Cream Everyday
26 TIM HECKER Virgins
25 CLASSIXX Hanging Gardens
23 JULIA HOLTER Loud City Song
22 BRANDY CLARK 12 Stories
21 THE 1975 The 1975
24 BOARDS OF CANADA Tomorrow's Harvest
20 KURT VILE Walkin On a Pretty Daze
19 CHVRCHES The Bones of What You Believe
18 JANELLE MONÁE The Electric Lady
17 CHARLI XCX True Romance
16 DISCLOSURE Settle
15 THESE NEW PURITANS Field of Reeds
14 M.I.A. Matangi
13 ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER R Plus Seven
12 DAWN RICHARD Goldenheart
11 CHANCE THE RAPPER Acid Rap
10 KANYE WEST Yeezus
9 KACEY MUSGRAVES Same Trailer Different Park
8 PARAMORE Paramore
7 THE KNIFE Shaking the Habitual
6 VAMPIRE WEEKEND Modern Vampires of the City
5 SKY FERREIRA Night Time, My Time
4 BEYONCÉ Beyoncé
3 MY BLOODY VALENTINE mbv
2 DAFT PUNK Random Access Memories
1 HAIM Days Are Gone

77 JULIANNA BARWICK Nepenthe
76 FALL OUT BOY
75 MELT-BANANA Fetch
74 BILL CALLAHAN Dream River
73 LORDE Pure Heroine
72 THEE OH SEES Floating Coffin
71 FÖLLAKZOID II
70 GORGUTS Colored Sands
(tie) 68 KELELA Cut 4 Me
(tie) 68 CUT COPY Free Your Mind
67 f(x) Pink Tape
66 DANNY BROWN Old
65 FACTORY FLOOR Factory Floor
64 CIARA Ciara
63 PARQUET COURTS Light Up Gold
62 K MICHELLE Rebellious Soul
61 ARCTIC MONKEYS AM
60 DONATO DOZZY Plays Bee Mask
59 JOHN GRANT Pale Green Ghosts
58 RHYE Woman
57 YOUNG GALAXY Ultramarine
56 KA The Night's Gambit
55 DJ SPRINKLES Queerifications and Ruins: Collected Remixes by DJ Sprinkles
54 NEKO CASE The Worse Things Get
53 CARCASS Surgical Steel
52 SAVAGES Silence Yourself
51 ASHLEY MONROE Like a Rose
50 WAXAHATCHEE Cerulean Salt
49 WILLIAM ONYEABOR Who is William Onyeabor?
48 YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN UZU
47 LAUREL HALO Chance of Rain
46 QUADRON Avalanche
45 ARCADE FIRE Reflektor
44 MATMOS The Marriage of True Minds
43 JON HOPKINS Immunity
42 MAYA JANE COLES Comfort
41 FUCK BUTTONS Slow Focus
40 FANTASIA Side Effects of You
39 GOLDFRAPP Tales of Us
38 PET SHOP BOYS Electric
37 LAURA MARLING Once I Was an Eagle
36 DJ KOZE Amygdala
35 DJ RASHAD Double Cup
34 MILEY CYRUS Bangerz
33 DARKSIDE Psychic
32 ARIANA GRANDE Yours Truly
31 DEAFHEAVEN Sunbather
30 BURIAL Rival Dealer EP
29 HOLDEN The Inheritors
28 TEGAN & SARA Heartthrob
27 AMEL LARRIEUX Ice Cream Everyday
26 TIM HECKER Virgins
25 CLASSIXX Hanging Gardens
23 JULIA HOLTER Loud City Song
22 BRANDY CLARK 12 Stories
21 THE 1975 The 1975
24 BOARDS OF CANADA Tomorrow's Harvest
20 KURT VILE Walkin On a Pretty Daze
19 CHVRCHES The Bones of What You Believe
18 JANELLE MONÁE The Electric Lady
17 CHARLI XCX True Romance
16 DISCLOSURE Settle
15 THESE NEW PURITANS Field of Reeds
14 M.I.A. Matangi
13 ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER R Plus Seven
12 DAWN RICHARD Goldenheart
11 CHANCE THE RAPPER Acid Rap
10 KANYE WEST Yeezus
9 KACEY MUSGRAVES Same Trailer Different Park
8 PARAMORE Paramore
7 THE KNIFE Shaking the Habitual
6 VAMPIRE WEEKEND Modern Vampires of the City
5 SKY FERREIRA Night Time, My Time
4 BEYONCÉ Beyoncé
3 MY BLOODY VALENTINE mbv
2 DAFT PUNK Random Access Memories
1 HAIM Days Are Gone

25 CLASSIXX Hanging Gardens
23 JULIA HOLTER Loud City Song
22 BRANDY CLARK 12 Stories
21 THE 1975 The 1975
24 BOARDS OF CANADA Tomorrow's Harvest
20 KURT VILE Walkin On a Pretty Daze

this will do nothing for your OCD i'm guessing

can someone post the whole list?

lol all you guys are still leaving 24 between 20 and 21 tho?

that is hilarious

for the sake of MY ocd

77 JULIANNA BARWICK Nepenthe
76 FALL OUT BOY Save Rock And Roll
75 MELT-BANANA Fetch
74 BILL CALLAHAN Dream River
73 LORDE Pure Heroine
72 THEE OH SEES Floating Coffin
71 FÖLLAKZOID II
70 GORGUTS Colored Sands
(tie) 68 KELELA Cut 4 Me
(tie) 68 CUT COPY Free Your Mind
67 f(x) Pink Tape
66 DANNY BROWN Old
65 FACTORY FLOOR Factory Floor
64 CIARA Ciara
63 PARQUET COURTS Light Up Gold
62 K MICHELLE Rebellious Soul
61 ARCTIC MONKEYS AM
60 DONATO DOZZY Plays Bee Mask
59 JOHN GRANT Pale Green Ghosts
58 RHYE Woman
57 YOUNG GALAXY Ultramarine
56 KA The Night's Gambit
55 DJ SPRINKLES Queerifications and Ruins: Collected Remixes by DJ Sprinkles
54 NEKO CASE The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You
53 CARCASS Surgical Steel
52 SAVAGES Silence Yourself
51 ASHLEY MONROE Like a Rose
50 WAXAHATCHEE Cerulean Salt
49 WILLIAM ONYEABOR Who is William Onyeabor?
48 YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN UZU
47 LAUREL HALO Chance of Rain
46 QUADRON Avalanche
45 ARCADE FIRE Reflektor
44 MATMOS The Marriage of True Minds
43 JON HOPKINS Immunity
42 MAYA JANE COLES Comfort
41 FUCK BUTTONS Slow Focus
40 FANTASIA Side Effects of You
39 GOLDFRAPP Tales of Us
38 PET SHOP BOYS Electric
37 LAURA MARLING Once I Was an Eagle
36 DJ KOZE Amygdala
35 DJ RASHAD Double Cup
34 MILEY CYRUS Bangerz
33 DARKSIDE Psychic
32 ARIANA GRANDE Yours Truly
31 DEAFHEAVEN Sunbather
30 BURIAL Rival Dealer EP
29 HOLDEN The Inheritors
28 TEGAN & SARA Heartthrob
27 AMEL LARRIEUX Ice Cream Everyday
26 TIM HECKER Virgins
25 CLASSIXX Hanging Gardens
24 BOARDS OF CANADA Tomorrow's Harvest
23 JULIA HOLTER Loud City Song
22 BRANDY CLARK 12 Stories
21 THE 1975 The 1975
20 KURT VILE Walkin On a Pretty Daze
19 CHVRCHES The Bones of What You Believe
18 JANELLE MONÁE The Electric Lady
17 CHARLI XCX True Romance
16 DISCLOSURE Settle
15 THESE NEW PURITANS Field of Reeds
14 M.I.A. Matangi
13 ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER R Plus Seven
12 DAWN RICHARD Goldenheart
11 CHANCE THE RAPPER Acid Rap
10 KANYE WEST Yeezus
9 KACEY MUSGRAVES Same Trailer Different Park
8 PARAMORE Paramore
7 THE KNIFE Shaking the Habitual
6 VAMPIRE WEEKEND Modern Vampires of the City
5 SKY FERREIRA Night Time, My Time
4 BEYONCÉ Beyoncé
3 MY BLOODY VALENTINE mbv
2 DAFT PUNK Random Access Memories
1 HAIM Days Are Gone