ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2013

Again I fee a wee bit guilty about not voting, as I would've pushed QOTSA and possibly Run the Jewels into the top 77.

MBV may not have deserved to be at number three, but Daft Punk didn't deserve to be at number two and Haim didn't deserve to be at number one, so it all evens out in the end.

I really don't get the hype with Haim.

They're girls don't you see

Good job, once again ILM's poll is like no other. A little bit country, a little bit rock/metal/avant/hip-hop, and an assload of glossy R&B & pop!

What is it about m b v that makes people say the dumbest shit when they don't like it?

It's an incredibly shoddy record that no one in their right minds would have paid any attention to, were it not for the 20 year wait and the gimmicky way they released it?

for the record, the 20-year gap since loveless is definitely the thing i love most about m b v

Anguished non-voters may be consoled by the knowledge that you'll be able to make amends in just 351 days time!

Well, you both are in the minority. I adore the disc, though I had it #4 on my meager metallic list.

If you had 20 years worth of records sounding just like that between then and now, it really wouldn't seem the slightest bit spectacular.

(My shoegaze reunion attention was entirely taken up by Medicine, but people ignored them now, just like they ignored them then.)

It's an incredibly shoddy record that no one in their right minds would have paid any attention to

Things that can be said about 99% of this poll, part 12049871359873150861356097

what is the ratio of top77 that can't be described as 'incredibly shoddy'

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"Something which I used to like a lot, and meant a huge amount to me when I was young, has now come back in a vastly inferior form and everyone is going apeshit for it, and I don't understand why, and this annoys me."

There, happy?

very much so.

the huerco s. record was a disappointment

vehemently disagree

"Something which I used to like a lot, and meant a huge amount to me when I was young, has now come back in a vastly inferior form and everyone is going apeshit for it, and I don't understand why, and this annoys me."

Phantom Menace syndrome.

well that was also shit tbf

Anakevin Shieldwalker

did that MBV album have a jar jar binks equivalent?

she posted above

Think my favorite takeaway from this poll is John Grant's Black Belt.

Mine too! I bought the album last night. Quiet stunner.

The new finds I've been enjoying most are Maya Jane Coles, Danny Brown and Classixx.

ok i'm on the third song of the 1975 album--how many fuckin' times is this guy going to say "petticoat"

considerably less than he says "mouth"

yeah i'm pretty sure i get why some of you guys like this album but this is not for me

the huerco s. record was a disappointment

vehemently disagree

― Lamp, Friday, January 31, 2014 9:20 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'll have to listen to it again and try to see why. i thought everything he did that wasn't on the LP was so much stronger, especially the stuff as royal crown of sweden.

ok i'm on the third song of the 1975 album--how many fuckin' times is this guy going to say "petticoat"

― call all destroyer, Friday, January 31, 2014 10:01 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmao

alright, yeah, with 'ragtime u.s.a. (warning)' i'm sinking into the vibe for real. i wish i had been listening to this the other night when i drove through some of the thickest fog i've ever been in at like 4am.

although i was listening to the woo daps mixtape and that was a cool experience, too

Think my favorite takeaway from this poll is John Grant's Black Belt.

― bilbo bobbins (how's life), Friday, 31 January 2014 14:50 (3 hours ago) Permalink

Seriously, thanks for the John Grant you guys. I had only heard GMF, which sounds nothing like the rest of this album.

It's such a fantastic album.

how do you guys rank the remixes?

yeah idk how much john grant i need in my life but it's a very cool, weird album and i'm glad dan and others pushed it so hard.

also i had kinda blown off sky f. when it was released but damn it's working for me today.

Thanks poll runners! And wins for the Haim joke.

Taylor S aside I haven't generally been into the pop-country ILM pushes, so the extent to which this Kacey Musgraves is hitting a spot I didn't even know I had is a very nice surprise.

Serious question: pop country as opposed to what country?

alt country duh

Even I like Kacey Musgraves! I wasn't aware that I wanted some disarming honesty in my life, but there it is.

ha, yeah, i guess by pop country i really just mean modern country (indicating my general ignorance).

brandy clark is trying to rouse empathy, not anger, because unlike you, she understands that a simple, elegant description of how things are that rings true can be more powerful than noisy rabble-rousing

― lex pretend, Friday, January 31, 2014 8:08 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fair - I accept that it is my failing that I cannot fully empathise with the message because of my aversion to the music - my personal preference is for a bit of high drama, shock & awe, grand sonic theatre - this sort of music is very understated and plays towards and within fairly rigid genre conventions. perhaps I shall keep trying - through careful listening and maturity I've overcome aversions to other sorts of music, once professed in ignorant childhood (punk, classical, rap, r&b), even if I tend to gravitate towards the more sonically and structurally ambitious examples of each of these

thanks for at least explaining it rather than getting all precious like yr yankee counterparts

I keep meaning to start a pop-country recommendations thread for people who are new to the genre to learn about what they have been missing all these years. Seems crazy in retrospect that Allison Moorer, Brad Paisley, etc were completely overlooked in the UK.

Suspect that it would devolve into me posting Judds YouTube clips and Seminole Wind pretty quickly, though, and putting people off forever.

Imago, did you get past the first few songs to Take A Little Pill, Hungover, etc?

don't you dare talk like that about Seminole Wind :)

Str8 classic, I know, but maybe not a big crossover winner.

Were you a strict metallist, imago?

I was a strict rock/indie/art-pop/bit of metal incoherent babble of fairly whitemale guitarry music tbh, and ILX has to take 98% of the blame for converting me away from that. Damn you, ILX!

Anyway, I'm tearing thru the list - when I get to Kacey, as I've said, I'll give the whole thing a proper front-to-back listen, promise