ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2014

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booming post from lagoon

some dude, Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:06 (nine years ago) link

country stars required by law to pose by wheeled conveyances

young thug squarepants (imago), Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:06 (nine years ago) link

Correction: CXG was #27 of 2007

proggy went a-courtin' (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:07 (nine years ago) link

i am rn printing out a photograph of a chaffinch on a computer whose speakers don't work, it is bliss

young thug squarepants (imago), Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:07 (nine years ago) link

def wanna get int othis now I've read lagoon's post.

UK Horseshit Cru (dog latin), Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:07 (nine years ago) link

great post lagoon

pandemic, Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:08 (nine years ago) link

[bows]

lag∞n, Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:09 (nine years ago) link

ya gr8 stuff

i was one of the three #1 votes. it tails off near the end but the openning run of, like, 10 songs givenchy thru i got is straight 10/10 one after the next

flopson, Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:11 (nine years ago) link

def a few songs in the second half that cldve been left off but it wld be an album not a tape in that case

lag∞n, Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:12 (nine years ago) link

if i had a few more months to digest it and/or a CD copy to play in my car it probably could've been my #1 instead of my #3

some dude, Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:14 (nine years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/9jrcTOU.jpg

17 AGAINST ME! Transgender Dysphoria Blues [607 points, 16 votes, 4 first place votes]

Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:16 (nine years ago) link

the CROZ album is actually pretty good! It's better the new Spoon IMO (&i'm a moderate Spoon fan).

kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:17 (nine years ago) link

also i love "who's on top" obvs

flopson, Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:17 (nine years ago) link

top tenned the last two. My Young Thug-Migos-Rich Gang go-to thing remains The lag∞n Mixtape

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:18 (nine years ago) link

today's nipple count at 3

gr8080, Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:18 (nine years ago) link

excellent record
erroneously thought i voted fuckmylife666 so didn't vote for the album :( what a dope

nxd, Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:19 (nine years ago) link

phew

my #23

clicked on the NPR stream of this expecting to be all 'oh ilm and its silly taste in rock', ended up listening to the damn thing about 3 times

it's superb imo - rollicking, super energetic, well-written and lyrically important

young thug squarepants (imago), Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:19 (nine years ago) link

this miranda lambert album is really awesome. her solo albums since crazy ex-girlfriend both underwhelmed me to varying degrees despite those years seeing the emergence of pistol annies (so you couldn't really say lambert fell off at all) and of course the whole post-lambert wave of young female country talents. but i think platinum finally found her finding a mode that worked for her as an established grande dame rather than young ferocious firebrand shooting everything up. someone on her thread compared it to beyoncé and that's really accurate - both albums made by women at the peak of their profession and genre, both deeply personal in their reflections on themselves and outward-facing in their commentary on femininity/body image in society and crucially multi-faceted in the way they balance the traditional with the radical

"bathroom sink" is just killer, and works so well as the dark flipside of "platinum" in which miranda revels in her ability to win a game she knows is rotten
"girls" feels like an anthem in waiting
"two rings shy" spins and lurches and wheels around its central metaphor brilliantly
"hard staying sober" has that amazing false ending then WHY YA THINK THE WORLD DRINKS??????

lex pretend, Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:20 (nine years ago) link

tempted to check this out on the back of Lifestyle (which I love). So is this no good then?

― UK Horseshit Cru (dog latin), Thursday, January 29, 2015 9:39 AM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

never listen to lex's opinions on rap music

flopson, Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:21 (nine years ago) link

and it's appropriate that she wrote "Bathroom Sink" by herself.

My #1 album of the year, marred by poor single choices.

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:21 (nine years ago) link

worst development of this poll is imago letting us know every time he finds the lyrics of a rap song problematic

flopson, Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:21 (nine years ago) link

Other M Lambert placings:

Kerosene - #445 of 2005
Revolution - #31 of 2009
Four the Record - #233 of 2011

xp !!! I had TDB pegged for top ten for sure!

proggy went a-courtin' (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:23 (nine years ago) link

also ty to 'some dude' for nominating (among certain other things) the Chumped album, because that's emerging as another great pop-punk/emo record from 2014, with another strong pan-album lyrical conceit

young thug squarepants (imago), Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:23 (nine years ago) link

never listen to lex's opinions on rap music

― flopson, Thursday, January 29, 2015 3:21 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i like most of the same rap music as you, dickhead

lex pretend, Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:25 (nine years ago) link

That it for you LJ? I have one more coming

proggy went a-courtin' (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:25 (nine years ago) link

top tenned the last two. My Young Thug-Migos-Rich Gang go-to thing remains The lag∞n Mixtape

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, January 29, 2015 10:18 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

being ilxes #1 young thug scholar is a lot of responsibility but also an honor thank you

lag∞n, Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:25 (nine years ago) link

I have 1 more - a very high vote from me too. Clue: he's an ILX poster, lol

young thug squarepants (imago), Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:26 (nine years ago) link

worst development of this poll is imago letting us know every time he finds the lyrics of a rap song problematic

― flopson, Thursday, January 29, 2015 3:21 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i agree with this though, add in his commentary about country and it's just like...does he even realise the stereotypical ignorance rap and country fans have heard a million times before

lex pretend, Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:26 (nine years ago) link

oh no, I have 2 more. the other one is not an ILX poster but it is 2 rappers rollin' 2003 or w/e the h8rs call it

young thug squarepants (imago), Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:27 (nine years ago) link

what is my commentary on country in this poll?

young thug squarepants (imago), Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:27 (nine years ago) link

don't believe I've said anything except to praise LAW a bit and point out the similarities in album covers

young thug squarepants (imago), Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:28 (nine years ago) link

Metal lyrics are just as bad as rap

sock (strychnine), Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:29 (nine years ago) link

and look at the lazy stereotyping metal gets too

Get Ducked (Cosmic Slop), Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:30 (nine years ago) link

also ty to 'some dude' for nominating (among certain other things) the Chumped album, because that's emerging as another great pop-punk/emo record from 2014, with another strong pan-album lyrical conceit

speaking of i thought the hotelier might place. lol guess not

emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:30 (nine years ago) link

metal lyrics are extremely good and cool

ciderpress, Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:31 (nine years ago) link

i agree with this though, add in his commentary about country and it's just like...does he even realise the stereotypical ignorance rap and country fans have heard a million times before
― lex pretend, Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:26 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

And indie and metal but w/e

pig∞n (dog latin), Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:31 (nine years ago) link

Oh too late

pig∞n (dog latin), Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:32 (nine years ago) link

Metal lyrics are just as bad as rap
― sock (strychnine), Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:29 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Have you ever heard any metal or even taken notice of the lyrics? Or is this just an assumption?

pig∞n (dog latin), Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:33 (nine years ago) link

anyway ftr i enjoy lex's contributions to these threads, his consistency of taste & his enthusiasm (not dissimilar to my own) so idk peace, you take your miranda lambert and i'll take my menace ruine

ignore strychnine

young thug squarepants (imago), Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:35 (nine years ago) link

but maybe strychnine thinks rap lyrics are great

Evan, Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:36 (nine years ago) link

fuck/marry/kill

lag∞n, Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:36 (nine years ago) link

sun/kill/moon

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:36 (nine years ago) link

also ftr i voted for 3 hip-hop trax and 3 hip-hop albums & would never generalise about it

can we talk abt against me! pls

young thug squarepants (imago), Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:37 (nine years ago) link

(not dissimilar to my own)

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lex pretend, Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:37 (nine years ago) link

I genuinely thought Miranda was a lock for the top 10 given that both Kacey Musgraves and Pistol Annies placed there.

Matt DC, Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:38 (nine years ago) link

:)

young thug squarepants (imago), Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:39 (nine years ago) link

Hey Imago I can save you ten minutes of scouring Rapgenius for things to be appalled by advising you just skip the YG album when it appears.

Matt DC, Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:39 (nine years ago) link

Musgraves rode non-country support, I think, and Pistol Annies I don't know.

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:40 (nine years ago) link

PLATINUM was my #1 just ahead of Gazelle Twin. totally incredible record with only one moderately "eh" track (and yet it was the first single and the track a lot of year end voters rallied around.) her singing on this album is masterclass.

And I was the one who thought it was like 'beyonce'. ;)

LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:40 (nine years ago) link

Two coffins for sleep.
One for you, one for me.
We'll get there eventually.

In the dark of our graves our bodies will decay.
I wish you'd never change.

How lucky I ever was to see
the way that you smiled at me.
Your little moon face shining bright at me.
One day soon there'll be nothing left of you and me.

Two coffins for sleep.

Two coffins for sleep.

All the things I have yet to lose will someday be gone too.
Back into annihilation.
All things will fade, maybe it's better off that way.
I wish you'd stay with me.

How lucky I ever was to see
the way that you smiled at me.
Your little moon face shining bright at me.
One day soon there'll be nothing left of you and me.

Two coffins for sleep.

Two coffins for sleep.

brain floss mix (sleeve), Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:41 (nine years ago) link


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