(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)

(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...

It's always been about having gnarly pictures on the cover afaict, but the Baroness covers are pretty much a one-off in terms of style and content.

basically relapse and maybe southern lord realized that metal dorks will still spend a lot of money on a physical release if it's nice enough.

ah ok, just wondered whether this was a reaction to, you know, The Downloading Culture, or just something that metal's retained

btw one of the guys in baroness does those covers, he's also done records for skeletonwitch and kylesa off the top of my head

For underground bands definitely. It attracts the collector mentality and it means labels/bands can shift physical copies that many other bands just cant as they d/l it for free. The Baroness comes with a code to download mp3s of the album too. More labels, of all kinds, need to do that.
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metal bands and labels are still able to inspire some pretty fierce loyalty from the fans, it can be cool imo

i mean converge/mastodon/sunn/baroness are all like 3-7 albums deep or something, could they really be getting many new fans?

I jumped on the Mastodon wagon, finally, after not really caring for what they did over the last 7-8 years. Currently in the process of going back and revisiting the old albums and finding them a LOT better than I remembered...

Baroness are on album #2, I think, with a few EPs in tow as well.

yes 2 eps 2 albums

metal and indie vinyl (especially colour vinyl) has always been around in all my years of buying music, but the last 5 years it has definitely increased. I always felt the reason Boris & Sunn 0))) crossed over to p4k etc was because their early stuff sold for $200 on ebay, so you had to buy lps on via mailorder within an hour of pre-sales going up on websites if you wanted to get one. This hype then spread to msg boards then blogs then the media cottoned on to that.

Boris & Sunn 0))) crossed over to p4k etc

I wouldn't exactly say they "crossed over" -- they got the coverage, sure, but how many hardcore Pfork readers who are buying Memory Tapes, Girls, She & Him, Wild Beasts, Surfer Blood, etc. are also going out and dropping $15 on that new Sunn O))) album, or however much more the vinyl costs?

Pfork coverage is one thing (as scottpl has graciously pointed out in recent threads, the site has expanded its genre coverage a good deal in recent years), but Pfork readership as a whole latching onto these groups is another.

"Who needs that new Baroness album that placed in the Pfork Top 50 of 2009 when this new Broken Bells album is leaking track by track?"

I think 'The Wire' works better than 'p4k' there.

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