ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2019

The album defeated me, but I loved hearing every single on the rado.

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#09 - Big Thief - Two Hands (544 points, 15 votes)
Big Thief - Two Hands
https://exclaim.ca/music/article/big_thief-two_hands

Big Thief manage to be both really good and slightly overrated. That's it. That's the post.

i'm curious to see where she goes from here, the album is good all the way thru imo but there's more she's capable of in the future, and she has a rare level of total confidence + being seemingly vv relatable (compared to most if not all other major pop stars).

just how big a thief are we talking here

they stole our hearts

The album defeated me, but I loved hearing every single on the rado.

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, February 6, 2020 2:26 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

oh yeah, whatever misgivings i had about the album, the songs did really stand out from the crowd on z100

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JG9Y9rk52sY/maxresdefault.jpg

Big Thief manage to be both really good and slightly overrated. That's it. That's the post.

― TOO LOW, the Curator (imago), Thursday, February 6, 2020 7:29 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

Really?!

I can't lie, I laughed a bit when I saw that Billie Eilish album title and cover (hadn't seen them before), but finding out she's a teenager (I did know that either), I feel bad know. People are allowed to be young.

Yeah, they're great but people do talk about them like they've saved rock! Not the messiah,just a very good band. idk maybe they have saved rock, who am I to say

Glad to see These New Puritans place this high, well done everyone!

Feel like we've had a roll-out like discussion on Big Thief at least twice before already

Rock doesn't ever need saving imo xp

U.F.O.F. >> Capacity >> Two Hands > Masterpiece

I've tried to really like these guys, but my attention always drifts off when listening to them and I can't help but feel there's an emperor's new clothes element to their mystique.

wait was swift real

U.F.O.F. >> Capacity >> Two Hands > Masterpiece

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, February 6, 2020 8:34 PM (fourteen seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

That's how I break it down to an extent, too.

swift was totally real

I was the number one for Lover, what can I say, I loved it

Rock doesn't ever need saving imo

Is there a music fan equivalent to Stockholm Syndrome?

I enjoyed both the Big Thief albums plenty, but I didn't end up voting for either of them. Two Hands would have been the one I'd have gone for. Neither of them come close to the magic of Capacity for me though.

yes it's called fandom xp

agree with kitchen person for me

Is there a music fan equivalent to Stockholm Syndrome?

100 Gecs? XD

Neither of them come close to the magic of Capacity for me though.

― kitchen person, Thursday, February 6, 2020 12:37 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

it's worth repeating a lot

I was the number one for Lover, what can I say, I loved it

― juntos pedemos (Euler), Thursday, February 6, 2020 12:36 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

*high fives euler*

I find it hard to pick between the big thief albums, they're all different enough that i just tend to put on the one i haven't heard in awhile and enjoy it equally. her solo albums are also really good (haven't heard her collaboration w/Meek).

not sure how if I'm expressing this right, but I thought U.F.O.F. was really magical and I didn't want to dilute the experience of it by paying too much attention to Two Hands

Taylor Swift isn't an artist i've ever been too excited by but i think she's a pretty worthy megastar and also catches too much shit for mild misdemeanors

I voted for Two Hands over UFOF, but they were both strong.

I thought people here love Taylor Swift, didn't she win the albums poll a few years ago?

I don’t believe so

Also I think there are lots of people that like Swift’s music but find it frustrating that she’s introduced her most recent projects with such dreadful lead singles

(which for whatever reason sours the whole album experience somewhat)

Many years ago iirc xps

I think the closest she came to winning was when 1989 came second to Black Messiah in 2014.

"stockholm syndrome" is at least somewhat accurate in my case as i fell for lover so completely that i don't even mind "me!" in sequence anymore. it helps she removed "hey kids! spelling is fun!!!!" (i always liked "you need to calm down")

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#08 - Ariana Grande- Thank U, Next (551 points, 17 votes, 1 number 1 vote)
Ariana Grande - "Thank U, Next" (the album)
https://music.avclub.com/ariana-grande-has-no-fucks-to-spare-on-the-thrilling-th-1832533748

#1

Thank you, next

Ah, okay, she was #2, not #1. But why is placing at 11 a shocker then, people don't like her anymore?

xxxxpost

xp XD

sexiest album of the year

nm I thought it happened in 2009, but that was Fever Ray.

I still have only heard "Into You" by Ariana Grande. I thought that was a great song, but I just don't ever hear her songs out (Thank U, Next only sold 17k where I live) and so I never think to listen to her albums.

U.F.O.F. >> Capacity >> Two Hands > Masterpiece

Capacity all the way. Lyrically and musically.

Totally forgot this was still to come. It rivals as Dangerous Woman as my favourite album of hers. I wasn't expecting to enjoy it as much as I did based on Sweetener only having four good songs, but this is great if you ignore 7 Rings.

“shade never made anybody less gay!” was to me almost more egregious than “hey kids spelling is fun!”