(TOP 5 TODAY, MOFOS!) Yo P&J, I'm really happy for you, Imma let you finish, but ILX had the greatest 2009 poll of all time! All time! (2009 ILX Albums Poll Results)

http://img708.imageshack.us/img708/4703/girlsalbum.jpg

okay...what is up with that, someone please post the album cover pic for me

it worked both times

i love that album, wish now that it was slightly higher on my ballot

weird all three of these have had less than 10.5 points per vote

really? I am not seeing it, and when I try to view the image directly it says the site is blocked. But I can see the others, idk

i can see both pics

okay, i resisted in the trax thread, but i'd really love my ballot sent to me if poss. it's doglatin at g mail dot com. thank you thank you musically

i think her response to everyone has been email HER and ask for it

oops sorry.

The good news, judging by #50, is that it can only go uphill from here!

I regretfully take this back now that Girls have placed.

The only thing worse than Girls' Album placing is having to see its damn cover twice in a row.

(Fire away, kevin/J0rdan.)

wow! 3 out of the first 3 for me

Zero out of three for me so far, but at least I like two of the three.

I'm 0/3, enjoy the Aguayo album but am new to it, so wasn't on my ballot.

47 -- Baroness - Blue Record (92 points, 11 votes) (41 in p4k, 19 in p&j)

http://img708.imageshack.us/img708/5715/baronessbluerecord.jpg

Hoped that would be higher but at least it made it I guess

hmmm. this bodes not well for the metal quotient.

Enjoying this album, glad it placed.

Judging by the metal poll results, should we expect Mastodon and Converge to place in the next 15 spots or so? I've no doubt Sunn O))) will make the cut, just wondering about the other two...

Re: Ay Ay Ay

"rollerskate" is irritating as fuck

You'd probably hate the album then because all of it's done using those voice samples as the building blocks for the tracks. I love the comical feel it lends the music. These are all funny, silly-sounding songs on the one hand, but on the other they're all so damn light and graceful and sensual. Which is a pretty good trick IMO...

Still need to hear that Baroness, still the best cover ever though.

still the best cover ever though.

...when it doesn't have that nasty writing on it I mean

I suppose that's the downside with polls getting a lot of votes it means niche stuff doesn't do that well.

I hoped YOB and Cobalt would make it but they wont beat Baroness. Im not even sure Converge will make it.

don't really 'do' metal

To a lot of metalheads, Baroness , Converge, Sunn o))), Mastodon etc aren't metal.

Listened to half of the Girls album when it came out, shrugged, moved on.

Listened to the whole Matias Aguayo, actively didn't like, have somewhat come around now but not fully.

To a lot of metalheads, Baroness , Converge, Sunn o))), Mastodon etc aren't metal.

Or they all just kinda suck.

I just realised YOU ARE THAT VILLAGE VOICE KNOBEND OF A WRITER , aren't you? ;)

The actual baroness cover

http://tobeginwitheverything.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/baroness_blue_record1.jpg

and the vinyl
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o84/888888eight/baronesslp-1.jpg

What is it with cracked eggs this year?

Best packaging of the year, possibly.

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guys, stephen ilxor will jump on the gucci mane bandwagon this time next year when he puts out his 'love vs. money'

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, February 10, 2010 1:25 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

unless this is an intentional deej parody this is straight up dickhead talk

Would vote Baroness on packaging alone - that's Tuskesque, only even better.

there is absolutely no denying the nirvana that can be attained from a well conceived and packaged vinyl release.

baroness placing = uhoh for metal in general for sure for this poll

unless this is an intentional deej parody this is straight up dickhead talk

― some dude, Wednesday, February 10, 2010 2:25 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

it was an intentional deej parody

I think most of us thought Baroness might crack the top 20
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Just what we need on ILM, another deej. ;-)

ugh i dont even know what i was trying to do there

rephrase: i expect poll will have little or no further metal on it

Sunn O))) is a lock for top 25, Mastodon good to probable chance of showing, Converge unlikely... that's all folks!

Here's a track from the Baroness album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts1sONxQQfc

absolutely beautiful packaging on the baroness, not too fond of the contents.

really beautiful cover

I just realised YOU ARE THAT VILLAGE VOICE KNOBEND OF A WRITER , aren't you? ;)

― Pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname)

Are you going to posit this in every thread where I say proggy southern metal (Torche excepted) is crap? Just wonderin'.

Metal always gets shafted in the polls which is why there is a metal albums of year poll now on ILM.

It's like they took the packaging/cover art for this Fahey comp...

http://www.normanrecords.com/images/covers/85294.jpg

...and then threw some BBW's (or whatever the Craigslist personal ads term is) in there for good measure.

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shouldn't shock anybody that it was not a big year for crossover metal--i mean converge/mastodon/sunn/baroness are all like 3-7 albums deep or something, could they really be getting many new fans? and no monster debuts/career peaks afaict (maybe blue record is a career peak, i don't know)

is a particular emphasis placed on putting an effort into packaging and the physical artefact in metal, then? like, is this sort of packaging par for the course in the genre or a baroness unusual in doing it...

Lusine - A Certain Distance -- 3 points, 1 votes

i could have sworn i ended up leaving this off my ballot at #21, does that mean someone else here has actually heard it ??

oh just saw 'two dots' posted upthread. great track.

I think it was me who voted for it...

Finally caught up with this thread. Should check out more of these albums (but I'll work through the metal list first). My ordered ballot IIRC:

Nels Cline - Coward
NOMO - Invisible Cities
Vijay Iyer Trio - Historicity
John Zorn - Filmworks XXIII: El General
Mew - No More Stories / Are Told Today / I'm Sorry / They Washed Away // No More Stories / The World Is Grey / I'm Tired / Let's Wash Away
Bad Plus (Joined by Wendy Lewis), The - For All I Care
Ekkehard Ehlers & Paul Wirkus – Ballads
Bell Orchestre - As Seen Through Windows
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
John Zorn - O'o
Jim O'Rourke - The Visitor
Gary Burton, Pat Metheny, Steve Swallow & Antonio Sanchez - Quartet Live!
Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue
Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble - The Moment's Energy
Isis - Wavering Radiant
Clark - Totems Flare
Prefuse 73 - Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian
Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough
Dirty Projectors, The - Bitte Orca
Zombi - Spirit Animal

Nels Cline - Coward

Kept meaning to hear that!

Clark - Totems Flare

Damn I forgot about that - really good imo.