(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)

oh yeah, Shabazz Palaces

http://www.thestranger.com/images/blogimages/2009/05/15/1242428730-dumb_eyes_cd_pkg.jpg

Michael Jackson Grammy tribute??

it probably was, actually

nnghhh didn't even know camera obscura were still going...the epitome of weedy, wimpy indie. useless.

46 -- Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career (93 points, 8 votes, 1 #1 vote/s) (dnp in p4k, 30 in p&j)

not to be confused with the Scottish twee pop band of the same name

what an annoying album title, too

Love seeing Camera Obscura there. I feel pretty strongly that this is by far their best album, but it seems like get gets short shrift. I'm blown away that it didn't end up in p4k's top 50, and 8 votes even seems astoundingly low here.

what an annoying album title, too

Trying to be as un-snide as possible, but have you actually listened to the title track?

not sure you need the safesearch on for that particular google

no, i was just kneejerking! i'm heading out now but feel free to tell me why it's not irritating.

xp

hated the production on that camera obscura album--way too much reverb and soft-focus orchestration that makes it sound like no actual instruments are being played.

I just think the composition on that album was stone-solid, especially on that song. I get the kneejerk reaction, and I'm not a fan of their earlier stuff for those same reasons, but My Maudlin Career really blew me away.

not sure you need the safesearch on for that particular google

Hahaha, true. I'm at the office, I think everything is searched that way by default (a good thing).

45 -- Fall Out Boy - Folie a Deux (96 points, 6 votes, 1 #1 vote/s) (dnp in p4k, dnp in p&j)

http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/5175/falloutboyfolieadeux.jpg

really like that album

ffs

That's less votes than anything on the (smaller) singles poll recieved. Over 15 points per vote!

was 6th on my list~

That's a 2008 album I thought?

Also it sounds kinda like Orson.

i didn't vote for camera obscura's album, but seeing that it placed leaves me even more confused for the lack of traction for french navy. imo the rest of that album doesn't come close, but i've admittedly not spent much time with it.

Is that pedobear on the Fall Out Boy cover?

That's a 2008 album I thought?

Yeah, this one came out in December 2008. For shame...

#196 in P&J 2008.

LOL @ EZ Snappin

Wish we could remove FOB 2008 and bump #51 up to its rightful place in the 2009 poll. :'(

#51 was robbed!

What a disaster for pedobear.

Okay, I get that it was a late-2008 release, but Folie a Deux probably shouldn't have even been elligible. 3/4 of its singles came out in 2008, and the fourth one was negligible. Did Fall Out Boy really make some kind of an impact in 2009?

xpost

They broke up -- that's a huge fucking impact as far as my ears are concerned.

It's made an impact in 2010; I had no idea pedobear had hit the mainstream.

"The Sweetest Thing," "My Maudlin Career," "Honey in the Sun" ≥ "French Navy"

...knew some sort of impact joke was coming

44 -- UGK - UGK 4 Life (96.5 points, 10 votes) (dnp in p4k, 311 in p&j)

http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/3825/ugk4life.jpg

listening to 'folie a deux' today -- definitely in my top 10 of the decade, my favorite rock record since the los campesinos! debut

xposts Pedobear - the only thing about Fall Out Boy that can make me raise a chuckle.... I haven't and will never listen to that album, but will someone who has explain to me why it received even a single vote?

da game been good to me

the Fall Out Boy had the second highest average vote, the album with the highest average won't be for a while but it was just a bit higher than FOB

that ugk album is dope but i didn't vote for it

fall out boy is just a bridge too far for this guy

Is that pedobear on the Fall Out Boy cover?

― EZ Snappin,

is the funniest thing I've read on ILX this year.

UGK = Yesssssss!!

modern rock is like the last bastion of generally popular genre that indie crowds just won't fuck with -- of course tons of it is shit, esp on an album level, but it means that people don't realize it when a class like 'fad' goes right under their noses

i wonder who else voted for it

i know ship did, maybe tim if he voted, i guess johnny crunch, morty i assume, and me -- that leaves 2 or 3 others

Was bummed about not ranking my songs ballot, but not ranking my albums ballot has been awesome in re pushing Camera Obscura and UGK onto the list.

If I remembered to vote I would have had FOB on there. I didn't tho.

to alleviate the mystery, i was not one of them xxpost

dan says john voted for iwrestledabearonce

Fall Out Boy split release with iwrestledapedobearonce out march 2011

grrrrrr

thats the sound awesome bands related to bears make

working on a theory here that any bear related bands (name or album coverwise) suck. fall out boy, iwrestledabearonce, grizzly bear. hmmmm