ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2014

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They seem like okay kids, but they're definitely too far on the Ryan Tedder/OneRepublic end of pop music for me to embrace any of their songs.

― Johnny Fever,

not at all!

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 21:06 (nine years ago) link

so did DJ Q get his album title from ILX?

sleeve, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 21:07 (nine years ago) link

y

why you gotta be so rmde (NickB), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 21:08 (nine years ago) link

oh that is very cool

cajunsunday, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 21:09 (nine years ago) link

and how did we repay him

o.m.g. lol @ hurt butt (wins), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 21:10 (nine years ago) link

lol

Ban Kil Moon (imago), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 21:10 (nine years ago) link

his next album's called '43'

cajunsunday, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 21:11 (nine years ago) link

We should get DJ Q to post here regularly.

Tay-Tay Brooklynpants (Murgatroid), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 21:12 (nine years ago) link

Catching up: Really thrilled that the Wild Beasts album made it, my number 3.

quan voice (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 21:12 (nine years ago) link

xp to Alfred - Tedder is one of the chief architects of the very blocky strict measure for measure pop that dominates both top 40 and country radio that sounds like they just dragged and dropped songs into being using Logic. I won't get into it all here—in fact I may never get into it because it seems to go nowhere anytime I do—but it's a formula I don't like at all.

Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 21:12 (nine years ago) link

i just don't think 1d occupy that space at all

emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 21:14 (nine years ago) link

their blockiness is stadium rock-derived. not that tedder's isn't i guess

emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 21:14 (nine years ago) link

Isn't there a thread for pics of musicians and their synths?

http://i.imgur.com/azBbKXS.png

, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 21:14 (nine years ago) link

I voted for and named this album.

The Reverend, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 21:17 (nine years ago) link

I hear more traditional guitar-bass-drums arrangements and climaxes, with a power pop bass. Tedder can't resist electronified white gospel rave-ups.

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 21:18 (nine years ago) link

You're still distracted by the flourishes. I'm talking about the very skeleton of the songs. (It had already begun to take that turn before OneRepublic ever happened, but he's ballooned the style certainly.)

Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 21:19 (nine years ago) link

Back to Ineffable, though...this is great!

Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 21:21 (nine years ago) link

think Rev needs a bit more erence for his feat of boosting tbrr

Ban Kil Moon (imago), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 21:21 (nine years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/rJIpNt7.jpg

42 LEE ANN WOMACK The Way I'm Livin' [380 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote]

Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 21:23 (nine years ago) link

his next album's called '43' '77'

― cajunsunday, Tuesday, January 27, 2015 10:11 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Fixed

a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 21:24 (nine years ago) link

i like that cover it looks like something King Tee would have if he had a new album

Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 21:24 (nine years ago) link

i would be interested in hearing this just based on that cover

languagelessness (mattresslessness), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 21:25 (nine years ago) link

YES

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 21:26 (nine years ago) link

This album took a while, and it's not as indelible imo as There's More Where That Came From, but the singing and playing are first-rate.

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 21:26 (nine years ago) link

was about to say the same, awesome cover!

xelab, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 21:26 (nine years ago) link

Really hoping the rest of the album sounds like "All His Saints".

Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 21:27 (nine years ago) link

That is an awesome cover.

The Reverend, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 21:27 (nine years ago) link

I like the cover too. I agree with standing next to cars

saer, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 21:28 (nine years ago) link

fyi everyone i'm clothes shopping with my gf right now and the store is playing warpaint

gr8080, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 21:28 (nine years ago) link

Where's the best place in the forest to find cars saer

, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 21:29 (nine years ago) link

Tedder is one of the chief architects of the very blocky strict measure for measure pop that dominates both top 40 and country radio that sounds like they just dragged and dropped songs into being using Logic. I won't get into it all here—in fact I may never get into it because it seems to go nowhere anytime I do—but it's a formula I don't like at all.

It sounds like you're saying "he writes pop songs using the rules for constructing a pop song", which I don't believe is what you're trying to say.

"Go pet your dog" is the name of my dog (DJP), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 21:30 (nine years ago) link

Well hey, "Chances Are" is some good old slow country too. I'm guess Lee Ann isn't beholden to the big pop country sound? Please don't betray me, album. I want to like you.

Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 21:30 (nine years ago) link

It sounds like you're saying "he writes pop songs using the rules for constructing a pop song", which I don't believe is what you're trying to say.

No, you're right. I may elaborate someday, but not now.

Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 21:31 (nine years ago) link

this song:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5_xgDDrvzo

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 21:31 (nine years ago) link

No, you're right. I may elaborate someday, but not now.

I hope you do, and that when you do this baffled expression leaves my face

"Go pet your dog" is the name of my dog (DJP), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 21:35 (nine years ago) link

sometimes i want to like this kind of thing. maybe when i'm 55 and living in grand junction with a dog and gin.

languagelessness (mattresslessness), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 21:37 (nine years ago) link

1D are pretty approachable

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 21:39 (nine years ago) link

lee ann womack record most devastating record of the year

emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 21:40 (nine years ago) link

excellent journalism from our j0rdan on that front:

http://rankings.gawker.com/the-dumb-faces-of-one-directions-four-ranked-1661231846

lmao love it

gr8080, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 21:40 (nine years ago) link

xps
It suits me as 41 yr old with a dog and a carton of Tesco wine, that song sounded really lovely and I need to dig more country really.

xelab, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 21:41 (nine years ago) link

btw Noura Mint Seymali is ungodly good wow

Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 21:42 (nine years ago) link

i worked a concert recently and got to hear lee ann womack sing an emmylou harris song, she sounded gorgeous. haven't heard any of her singles in a while so i had kinda forgotten about her.

some dude, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 21:43 (nine years ago) link

oh i dialed the album up on spotify, couldn't get past the jesus song tbr but the rest sounded aight. her voice is great.

languagelessness (mattresslessness), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 21:44 (nine years ago) link

Her 2008 album had a couple of bangers. Try "Solitary Thinkin'."

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 21:44 (nine years ago) link

Really glad this list broke out of its ambient/Balearic/dreamy indie pattern in such style.

I reckon Q would be quite happy at beating Katy B and One Direction fwiw.

Matt DC, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 21:46 (nine years ago) link

oh i dialed the album up on spotify, couldn't get past the jesus song tbr but the rest sounded aight. her voice is great.

jesus can you save me
from going crazy

emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 21:46 (nine years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/OmwYt29.jpg

41 EX HEX Rips [380 points, 15 votes]

Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 21:48 (nine years ago) link

I love this record and this band. Shame it wasn't released until the fall as this is amazing summer driving music.

EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 21:50 (nine years ago) link

I still haven't gotten around to that one. Which is good because I CAN just wait until summer.

Evan, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 21:50 (nine years ago) link

oh shit this rules

languagelessness (mattresslessness), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 21:51 (nine years ago) link


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