ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2014

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nice juxtaposition!

I have hated everything I've ever heard by Scott Walker, except for this album, which I like quite a lot

WRINKLEPAWSOME (sleeve), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 20:27 (nine years ago) link

I preferred all the minor side projects from various Sunn members than this.

xelab, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 20:29 (nine years ago) link

This initially disappointed me. I've come to enjoy it quite a bit. Sure, it's a step down from Bish Bosch, but that is one of the best albums ever made.

silverfish, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 20:29 (nine years ago) link

I dig it.

Simon H., Wednesday, 28 January 2015 20:30 (nine years ago) link

Kinda wish it and the Swans record coulda swapped lengths

Simon H., Wednesday, 28 January 2015 20:30 (nine years ago) link

ha, guess we're in the spooky old man music stretch here

― gr8080, Wednesday, January 28, 2015 3:25 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this seems to happen around this time every year

call all destroyer, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 20:30 (nine years ago) link

haha totally OTM xp

WRINKLEPAWSOME (sleeve), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 20:31 (nine years ago) link

leonard cohen must be coming up

LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 20:31 (nine years ago) link

My #23 and my first to poll. Pretty good, but expectations were pretty ridic. Surprised it's this high but I guess it was always gonna get widely checked out and there wasn't much wrong with it. Those opening riffs also start things w/ a good lol.

All The Craigers Gonna Craig Craig Craig Craig Craig (Craigo Boingo), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 20:32 (nine years ago) link

lots of xps: the reason Nicki Minaj or Azealia Banks using "cunt" was such a big deal is because the word is so generally verboten in the US. It's just not something you hear often so it's kind of shocking when it is used. It's very different than Brits being all I met my old cunt down at the pub or whatever.

The Reverend, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 20:34 (nine years ago) link

i don't know that i listened to the new alb but i saw swans this summer for the second time in 2 years and it was way worse than the first. the first time was really dynamic, with extended quiet parts that were insanely beautiful, but this time was just brutally loud and relentless. and like, 2.5 hours long. also the guy who plays that electric lapsteel thing was way too loud in the mix, like overpowering everything else in the mix at its peak, but whenever the sound guy would try and turn him down gira would scream at him to leave the levels as they were. such an asshole. changed my impression of him from obdurate musical genius to just cranky deaf asshole

flopson, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 20:35 (nine years ago) link

Like if a dude in the US says cunt a lot there's a 100% chance they're a hardcore misogynist.

The Reverend, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 20:35 (nine years ago) link

true

flopson, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 20:36 (nine years ago) link

i don't think i even knew the word "cunt" till i started reading ILX

example (crüt), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 20:36 (nine years ago) link

My old mother never says the c-word out loud, she fucking S-P-E-L-L-S it, I'm all like 'Ma, you just made it last 4 times as long'.

All The Craigers Gonna Craig Craig Craig Craig Craig (Craigo Boingo), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 20:37 (nine years ago) link

*british accent* why charles i'm feeling rather cunty this morning

flopson, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 20:38 (nine years ago) link

for queen and cunty

o.m.g. lol @ hurt butt (wins), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 20:39 (nine years ago) link

oh, I guess ballroom types are the exception

The Reverend, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 20:40 (nine years ago) link

could we just get back to talking about scott walker & cunnt ((())) plz

why you gotta be so rmde (NickB), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 20:40 (nine years ago) link

see you next tuesday

gr8080, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 20:41 (nine years ago) link

Last time I saw someone get called the c-word IRL, blows were exchanged, the cops came, everything.

The Reverend, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 20:41 (nine years ago) link

Cuntry is very under-represented on this poll so far

Stig of the sanctimonious uncontextualized linkdump (Michael B), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 20:42 (nine years ago) link

I met my old cunt down at the pub or whatever.

― The Reverend, Wednesday, January 28, 2015 3:34 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

Irl lol btw

, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 20:42 (nine years ago) link

Difficult Listening For Old Men

billstevejim, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 20:42 (nine years ago) link

quoting mike skinner there

LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 20:43 (nine years ago) link

got your girl in the cunt and she choosay

example (crüt), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 20:43 (nine years ago) link

del boy fell through the cunt, top laugh that

goole, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 20:43 (nine years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/5cYh1KS.jpg

24 K. MICHELLE Anybody Wanna Buy a Heart? [486 points, 17 votes, 1 first place vote]

(If I were to re-vote, this would be my #1. As it was, it was my #3.)

Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 20:44 (nine years ago) link

Thank heck for that

All The Craigers Gonna Craig Craig Craig Craig Craig (Craigo Boingo), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 20:44 (nine years ago) link

whoop whoop

The Reverend, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 20:44 (nine years ago) link

whooooooooo!

indie fuxxor albums i have secretly spotified (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 20:45 (nine years ago) link

WOOO

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 20:45 (nine years ago) link

who????

LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 20:46 (nine years ago) link

j/k i do like this album

LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 20:46 (nine years ago) link

I didn't think there was a standout track on this but it's really solid front to back yeah

, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 20:47 (nine years ago) link

wasn't 100% on this but i thought 'going under' was a fantastic song

why you gotta be so rmde (NickB), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 20:48 (nine years ago) link

Didn't vote for it, but this is a very good album. "How Do You Know" was my favorite track. Love the cover art too.

Indexed, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 20:48 (nine years ago) link

"Drake Would Love Me," y'all.

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 20:48 (nine years ago) link

ILX would love me

some dude, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 20:50 (nine years ago) link

a totally fucking great album

emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 20:50 (nine years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0T00XcN0N0

some dude, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 20:51 (nine years ago) link

HATED Scott Walker, until I heard Bish Bosch, which I ADORED. Therefore was expecting to ADORE Soused, but didn't particularly engage with it all.

mike t-diva, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 20:53 (nine years ago) link

...AT all, duh.

mike t-diva, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 20:54 (nine years ago) link

I'm gonna give K. Michelle a whirl based on this response (seriously)

RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 20:56 (nine years ago) link

As a listener who typically only digs into lyrics when they're really really good, I'm absolutely smitten with this album lyrically.

Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 20:57 (nine years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/GamJ0dw.jpg

23 RICHARD DAWSON Nothing Important [497 points, 15 votes, 2 first place votes]

Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:03 (nine years ago) link

my #1 and contender for all-time great status

listen
to
the
title
track

DJ Quit (imago), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:05 (nine years ago) link

aptly titled

diamonddave85​ (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:06 (nine years ago) link

& read its lyrics

DJ Quit (imago), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:07 (nine years ago) link

seriously, read the lyrics to this album's longer tracks, especially the title track. read the lyrics while listening to the music. imagine a small, impossibly mice man howling them onstage accompanied only by a small, amplified nylon guitar.

DJ Quit (imago), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:09 (nine years ago) link


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