ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2013

Yessssssss.

beysus with the moral NINE-first-places victory and baduesque redemption to come :)

That is one of the best top 20s I've seen on here. So many great albums!

Well done everyone.

The Wire was 2012 though xp

in the end a band that could've been created in a lab to appeal to ilx specifically crushing the competition is not that surprising

Don't really care for either.

Big ups J0rdan and Seandalai for doing the poll. Thanks guys!! Been a blast.

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in the end a band that could've been created in a lab to appeal to ilx specifically crushing the competition is not that surprising

http://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/jump-the-shark.gif

Can we have some more Ezra Koenig gifs now?

btw if we did this countdown in reverse and started with #1 we would've hit asap ferg and autre ne veut before floorplan

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every time I think I'm cooling on Haim, I remember Haim Bassface and I am delighted all over again

didn't vote for either of these but the Haim album was floating on the bottom of my ballot for a while

Yeah pretty great top 10, only albums I didn't vote for in it were Kanye (which I do like) and DP

Yes! Haim! So happy!

I dug the VW album (and voted for it) BUT didn't want to see it place super high. Why? Because it placed super high everywhere else on Earth

THIS IS ILM SNITCHES WE DO SHIT DIFFERENTLY

HAIM really was the ILM album of the year

I'm neither here nor there on Haim but bassface is all-time

do we start a new thread of album ballots? yeah right?

THIS IS ILM SNITCHES WE DO SHIT DIFFERENTLY

― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, January 30, 2014 9:31 PM (36 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

:D

a win for bassface is a win for ilm

THIS IS ILM SNITCHES WE DO SHIT DIFFERENTLY

more accurate would be "THIS IS ILM SNITCHES WE DO LIKE ONE SURPRISING THING AND THEN RESHUFFLE THE WIDER CONSENSUS"

Big thanks to J0rdan and Seandalai for putting this together. It's been a lot of fun.

What do I have to look forward to now?

days are gone days are gone HAH

polls are gone
poll are gone
HA

Can someone do a recap of the whole list again? Please?

Watched School Of Rock too many times

xxp

Thanks J0rdan (hope the hangover is cured) and Seandalai! Was a lot of fun!

I am kinda glad that the poptimists still secretly rule ILM.

lol @ "secretly"

more accurate would be "THIS IS ILM SNITCHES WE DO LIKE ONE SURPRISING THING AND THEN RESHUFFLE THE WIDER CONSENSUS"

― SHAUN (DJP), Thursday, January 30, 2014 9:32 PM (25 seconds ago)

OTM. *yawn*

Also LOL @ bassface. Bassface = always awesome.

I get why Haim would appeal especially to people who didn't grow up in through the 80s, and hell, I like that track that sounds a bit like the Dirty Projectors.

I gave it two listens only, I admit. First one was 'what is all the hullabaloo about' after the shitstorm after Scott Creney's article on Collapseboard, and, listening to it with a distanced ear I thought it was an impressive achievement, production-wise, etc. Second listen was agony and I never want to hear it ever again.

I am kinda glad that the poptimists still secretly rule ILM.

Me too. It was a very good year.

Thanks pollrunners.

beysus with the moral NINE-first-places victory and baduesque redemption to come :)

― lex pretend, Thursday, January 30, 2014 4:29 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

why do you keep saying this? the first New Amerykah placed 5th and the second one placed 10th.

Linking to Brad's piece again.

"This is how guitars function on Days Are Gone: like drums, but tuned, as if pulled through a kaleidoscope. “Drums were the first instrument that we played because my dad’s a drummer,” Alana Haim said in a phone interview back in July. “We grew up always being surrounded by percussion and drums and stuff like that, so it’s like the foundation of where we started.” A sense for percussion is also soaked into their voices; they sing with a kind of built-in turbulence. The notes are tightly cropped, isolated to individual words and sounds, feeling like brief stirs of the air."

(Also, Tim F: "It doesn't sound like the eighties, it sounds like the work of the star graduates of Tim's Private School of Drums and Palm Mute Guitar.")

why do you keep saying this? the first New Amerykah placed 5th and the second one placed 10th.

― some dude, Thursday, January 30, 2014 9:34 PM (4 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

part one won the mid-decade poll

thx j0rdan and seandalai

Many thanks to J0rdan and seandalai. Your medals are in the mail.

thanks poll team, gj, was fun

some dude: ILM Top 100 2005-2009: ALBUMS

why do you keep saying this? the first New Amerykah placed 5th and the second one placed 10th.

She came back and won the 2005-09 poll.

(Also, Tim F: "It doesn't sound like the eighties, it sounds like the work of the star graduates of Tim's Private School of Drums and Palm Mute Guitar.")

deeply invested in this private school

in the end a band that could've been created in a lab to appeal to ilx specifically crushing the competition is not that surprising

u could say this just as well about the #2 as well tho

oh yeah i totally forgot about the 2005-2009 poll

THIS IS ILM SNITCHES WE DO SHIT DIFFERENTLY

more accurate would be "THIS IS ILM SNITCHES WE DO LIKE ONE SURPRISING THING AND THEN RESHUFFLE THE WIDER CONSENSUS"

― SHAUN (DJP), Thursday, January 30, 2014 3:32 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thanks pollsters, for all your hard work!

yeah leaving all my money to that school in my will

Thanks as always to the poll-runners, some great albums placed but also a lot of shite. I'd like everyone to remember that no matter what the polls say, in any given year there are hundreds of albums released, and this just scratches the surface of the amount of great music that was released last year.

Thanks to the poll runners. Excellent job as always.

Since Alfred won't do it, congratulations from Ezra Koenig (and Norman Mailer)

http://www.esquire.com/cm/esquire/images/KD/ESQ-vampire-weekend-ezra-koenig-050613-xl.jpg

wow i totally forgot about that 05-09 poll or that i rolled out the albums

s/o to my "hoos gossage" display name tho

Yay! My #3 vote. Actually, when I listened to "Falling" again during the tracks rollout I wondered why I hadn't voted for it.