(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)

I guess I don't see the point to being pedantic about whatever an "album" is or why it even matters that we have to keep Best of the Year collections to whatever that definition is. What's the benefit? I'm not sure why we have to be so rigid about coloring within the lines when they're our lines in the first place.

wow tbh i thought autogoon cru + R&B cru was a more ... marginal group on ilx than theyve apparently become

― average dump from average gangsters (deej), Saturday, February 27, 2010 6:27 PM (3 hours ago)

who tf r the r&b crew

al, my enthusiasm for the material makes the question of "is this an album or not?" moot to me in the same way that the freeway stuff gets a pass from you. in my mind, listing a collection of autotune stuff is VERY much like listing a mixtape or a demo; it's a low cost alternative to going out and finding a deal that still allows you to get your story told.

the lonely island guys have been doing online shit for forever and if snl hadn't picked up dude, that album almost certainly WOULD have been released as a serious of youtubes! t-pain shows up in both LI and autotune's videos only the autotune guys can't afford a boat.

i understand your gut response, but it comes off a little like "it's okay if i like the material but pretentious if i don't"

― forksclovetofu, Saturday, February 27, 2010 3:27 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I wasn't making loopholes or exceptions for the stuff I like, I was explaining why I listed them (i.e. if Lonely Island never got signed to a major label and just put their stuff on web videos, or if Freeway's website series never got compiled as an official mixtape, they wouldn't have been on my year-end list, they'd just be songs I liked and wrote about/endorsed elsewhere).

plus the whole thing of taking a medium that is like 50% visual and putting in the context of a bunch of strictly audio recordings is a big can of worms for me. i realize this is totally OCD or worse to really these kinds of "the line must be drawn HERE!" standards about it, but that's just how i feel.

nxt yr i am voting for my holiday photos

i can diggit if it's where you're at.
truth be told i rely very little on youtube for visuals in music; it's more commonly a listening thing

<3 the other 4 of you who voted for mayyors, whoever you are

Me! Love that thing.

Me too!! Did you hear that Woodhouse joined the Intelligence?? Dream matchup imo.

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.