ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2014

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This album is FANTASTIC

"Go pet your dog" is the name of my dog (DJP), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:39 (nine years ago) link

YESSSSS

some dude, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:39 (nine years ago) link

Need to listen to this again. I only heard it once at the beginning of the year and really liked it but for some reason never went back to it.

Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:39 (nine years ago) link

i should've voted for this, it's really good

J0rdan S., Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:40 (nine years ago) link

WOW

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:41 (nine years ago) link

I still jam to this a couple times a week.

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:41 (nine years ago) link

not heard this before, but this looks like an r'n'b album i could get into.

UK Horseshit Cru (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:42 (nine years ago) link

I have played "I Wish" so much this year, it's kind of ridiculous

I gushed about this album to my wife and she listened to it once and got super worried. After a ridiculous "are you trying to tell me something?" conversation she never went back to it.

"Go pet your dog" is the name of my dog (DJP), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:43 (nine years ago) link

I never got around to listening to this until the noms process was underway, and by the time I'd already pretty much cemented my ballot, but if I'd had more time with it I'm sure I'd have voted for it. Wonderful record.

Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:43 (nine years ago) link

Looool

, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:43 (nine years ago) link

Xp to DJP

, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:44 (nine years ago) link

I still need to hear this, nb I know next to nothing about either of them aside from "Un-Breaky My Heart" and a hand of Boyz II Men singles

example (crüt), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:44 (nine years ago) link

uh, Un-Break obv

example (crüt), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:44 (nine years ago) link

it's so good that even the extra track "Let's Do It" sounds like the greatest Ne-Yo song ever.

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:44 (nine years ago) link

I gushed about this album to my wife and she listened to it once and got super worried. After a ridiculous "are you trying to tell me something?" conversation she never went back to it.

― "Go pet your dog" is the name of my dog (DJP), Wednesday, January 28, 2015 11:43 AM (44 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha yeah it can be a little awkward to be happily married but totally appreciate when someone makes a great breakup album

some dude, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:45 (nine years ago) link

You can't break my heart
My un-breaky heart

"Go pet your dog" is the name of my dog (DJP), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:45 (nine years ago) link

so if you really wanna fight we can take it to the bed tonight

J0rdan S., Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:45 (nine years ago) link

album is the perfect length too

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:46 (nine years ago) link

my #2 P&J album

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:47 (nine years ago) link

there's really nothing to say about this album except that it sounds exactly like you would want it to

J0rdan S., Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:48 (nine years ago) link

glad i clicked on this thread right now - 'love, marriage & divorce' is a great, great record

from a different perspective its nice to listen to when youre going through a breakup

wizaerd (Lamp), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:48 (nine years ago) link

nice not really the word i guess - cathartic probably what i meant

wizaerd (Lamp), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:49 (nine years ago) link

btw crut, there was a period of time where Babyface was involved in almost every significant piece of black popular music; check this list of things he wrote, produced and/or performed that was nominated for or won awards:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babyface_%28musician%29#Awards

"Go pet your dog" is the name of my dog (DJP), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:50 (nine years ago) link

o_O (this is the only Spoon album I actually listen to or give a damn about)
― Johnny Fever

A+ trolling.

campreverb, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:52 (nine years ago) link

Nah, that opinion or some variation of it has been consistent in every spoon thread on ilm for the last ten years. xp

Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:53 (nine years ago) link

thanks DJP! I know a few of these songs, but I missed out on '90s pop and R&B radio so it's kind of a big hole in my knowledge that I need to correct

example (crüt), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:55 (nine years ago) link

i still really like the grab bag of later non-R&B things Babyface did (Fall Out Boy, Eric Clapton, the Josie & The Pussycats soundtrack) and would like to hear him make a weird eclectic record someday. but the album with Toni is a homerun for his more familiar style.

some dude, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:55 (nine years ago) link

"i wish" is so good, so much acid and a great balance between being strong and being pathetic

J0rdan S., Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:56 (nine years ago) link

Kept meaning to check this out, seems as good an impetus as any

Simon H., Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:57 (nine years ago) link

re: Toni Braxton, if you stick with her first two album you get 90% of what people know and love by her:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni_Braxton_discography

"Go pet your dog" is the name of my dog (DJP), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:57 (nine years ago) link

I Wish is fucking bitter as hell. Love it.

Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:58 (nine years ago) link

the angel olsen record was my no. 1 vote

j. winters (josh), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:59 (nine years ago) link

secrets is a legitimately great album

J0rdan S., Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:59 (nine years ago) link

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

34 ANDY STOTT Faith in Strangers [424 points, 14 votes]

Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:00 (nine years ago) link

secrets is a legitimately great album

so is Toni Braxton

"Go pet your dog" is the name of my dog (DJP), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:00 (nine years ago) link

toss in ""He Wasn't Man Enough"

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:01 (nine years ago) link

I LOVED the previous Andy Stott album but had zero desire to even investigate this one

"Go pet your dog" is the name of my dog (DJP), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:03 (nine years ago) link

h8 that cover

languagelessness (mattresslessness), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:04 (nine years ago) link

your instincts were correct – i felt this one was a let down.

xpost

AKA Thermo Thinwall (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:05 (nine years ago) link

I LOVED the previous Andy Stott album but had zero desire to even investigate this one

aw djp - this was his goth one as well!

why you gotta be so rmde (NickB), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:06 (nine years ago) link

check out the title track for example: http://youtu.be/9BIYV3BLcno

why you gotta be so rmde (NickB), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:08 (nine years ago) link

I missed the one weird trick of prior three releases, namely overbearing sidechain compression. I'm guessing inertia and belated recognition accounts for the critical praise.

OTOH, the cover art may be the best thing about more recent Andy Stott releases.

The inscrutable savantism of (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:09 (nine years ago) link

listening to "Faith In Strangers" now

I am one who is all in favor of drawn-out intros but good god man, get on with it

much more interested in going back to the Lena Willikens album crut linked on the thread I started in Idiot Thread Repository than continuing with this, which has a slight "Squarepusher on quaaludes" vibe to it

"Go pet your dog" is the name of my dog (DJP), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:12 (nine years ago) link

so ponderous xp

languagelessness (mattresslessness), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:12 (nine years ago) link

i don't remember his last record having overbearing sidechain, it was pretty roomy. haven't heard this one yet but will check out at some point, i'm a mild admirer

ciderpress, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:15 (nine years ago) link

I put on Scuba Death's Nitrogen Narcosis (less ambitious, and better for it) far more often when seeking soporific dub techno in 2014.

The inscrutable savantism of (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:16 (nine years ago) link

what exactly were the ambitions of this record?

diamonddave85​ (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:17 (nine years ago) link

to serve man

ciderpress, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:18 (nine years ago) link

things pick up on it after the first three tracks tbh, it does get off to a very slow start

why you gotta be so rmde (NickB), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:19 (nine years ago) link


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