***What's that coming over the hill? It's the 2006 ILX ALBUMS POLL RESULTS***

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In case you were curious, the winner (by quite a bit) is:

1. Knife - Silent Shout
(289 points, 21 votes, 2 number ones)

http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z56/ilx2006poll/albums/silentshoutalbum.jpg

An album that simultaneously familiar and strange, analog and digital, etcetra etcetra. And the singles, with remixes by Trentmoller, Bookashade, Rex the Dog, Radioslave, are just killer.
-The Macallan 18 Year

― musically, Saturday, 12 May 2007 21:26 (sixteen years ago) link

Yeah, enough with this CSS bullshit, back to HTML! (xp)

― The Reverend, Saturday, 12 May 2007 21:32 (sixteen years ago) link

Shit,
2007 is already thrice the year 2006 was as far as the music goes,

man.

― peepee, Saturday, 12 May 2007 21:40 (sixteen years ago) link

I am listening to Silent Shout for the first time right now

― Curt1s Stephens, Saturday, 12 May 2007 22:07 (sixteen years ago) link

i listened a couple times last year *snoozers* but I'm big enough to cow to the mob and reconsider.

― tremendoid, Saturday, 12 May 2007 22:22 (sixteen years ago) link

"Losing My Way" has that terrible awesomeness that's also found on "Senorita" during the sing-a-long section. He tries so hard and fails to the point of succeeding.

― Tape Store, Saturday, 12 May 2007 23:07 (sixteen years ago) link

It's not just an album, it's multimedia!!! Add acrobats and you've got a Cirque du Soleil!!!!(!)

― M.V., Saturday, 12 May 2007 23:12 (sixteen years ago) link

i've totally grown off FS/LS but given what else is present...we take what we can get. pretty happy with the winner at any rate.

these were my votes:

1. Ellen Allien & Apparat - Orchestra Of Bubbles
2. Paris Hilton - Paris
3. The Knife - Silent Shout
4. Ciara - The Evolution
5. Kiki - Boogybytes Vol 1
6. Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye
7. Beyonce - B'Day
8. TI - King
9. Henrik Schwarz - DJ Kicks
10. Booka Shade - Movements
11. Fergie - The Dutchess
12. Cassie - Cassie
13. Nelly Furtado - Loose
14. Michael Mayer - Immer 2
15. Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds
16. Lindstrom - It's A Feedelity Affair
17. Arthur Russell - First Thought Best Thought
18. Magda - She's A Dancing Machine
19. Kelis - Kelis Was Here
20. Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury

― lex pretend, Sunday, 13 May 2007 09:19 (sixteen years ago) link

haha i've totally grown off an album i actually VOTED FOR. i mean, at the actual end of 06 i placed it...like, top 5 without hesitation. now it's one of the interchangeable bunch at the bottom of the 20.

― lex pretend, Sunday, 13 May 2007 09:21 (sixteen years ago) link

Isn't totally growing off of what you loved last year part of the popist...aesthetic?

― M.V., Sunday, 13 May 2007 13:47 (sixteen years ago) link

"growing off what"

― M.V., Sunday, 13 May 2007 13:48 (sixteen years ago) link

Despite popular belief, being a flake isn't a part of a popist aesthetic.

― Mordechai Shinefield, Sunday, 13 May 2007 13:58 (sixteen years ago) link

Though ironically, popular belief is.

― Mordechai Shinefield, Sunday, 13 May 2007 13:58 (sixteen years ago) link

And irony isn't.

― M.V., Sunday, 13 May 2007 14:02 (sixteen years ago) link

Haha I was reading that Junior Boys quote thinking 'fucking OTM' and then realised it was me.

― Matt DC, Sunday, 13 May 2007 15:00 (sixteen years ago) link

Girl Talk is the worst thing happening in music right now. Worse than Hinder.

― billstevejim, Sunday, 13 May 2007 16:56 (sixteen years ago) link

First glance: "Worse than Hitler."

― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 13 May 2007 17:51 (sixteen years ago) link

practically the same thing

― Curt1s Stephens, Sunday, 13 May 2007 17:53 (sixteen years ago) link

Lex had the paris album number 2 and I had it number 1, so that's 39 points. This means that the rest of the polled were unwilling to toss just 9 points Paris' way.

Come on people! If we aren't more positive, she won't make another one.

― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, 13 May 2007 18:17 (sixteen years ago) link

Come on people! If we aren't more positive, she won't make another one.

Speaking for myself - I'd be perfectly happy with that result.

― Mordechai Shinefield, Sunday, 13 May 2007 20:19 (sixteen years ago) link

"Speaking for myself - I'd be perfectly happy with that result."

Surely because the first one is so awesome, that you're bound to be disappointed.

― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 14 May 2007 00:59 (sixteen years ago) link

Surely.

― Mordechai Shinefield, Monday, 14 May 2007 01:47 (sixteen years ago) link

why try to follow perfection?

― lex pretend, Monday, 14 May 2007 09:03 (sixteen years ago) link

i feel that paris thinks along the same lines. the evidence suggests that she has forgotten she ever made an album in the first place. this is kind of perfect

― lex pretend, Monday, 14 May 2007 09:03 (sixteen years ago) link

I should have voted..

― baaderonixx, Monday, 14 May 2007 09:18 (sixteen years ago) link

I should have voted twice.

― peepee, Monday, 14 May 2007 12:10 (sixteen years ago) link

ALBUMS:
1 Justin Timberlake - Futuresex/Lovesounds
2 Girl Talk - Night Ripper
3 John Legend - Once Again
4 Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
5 LCD Soundsytstem - 45:33
6 T.I. - King
7 Beyonce - B'Day
8 DFA - The DFA Remixes: Chapter One
9 Ne-Yo - In My Own Words
10 Andy Montanez - Salsaton: Salsa Con Reggaeton
11 Nelly Furtado - Loose
12 tv on the radio - return to cookie mountain
13 Tego Calderon - El Subestimado
14 DJ Quik - Live At The House Of Blues
15 Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
16 Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
17 Too $hort - Blow The Whistle
18 Diddy - Press Play
19 Lily Allen - Alright Still
20 Game - Doctor's Advocate

LCD & Winehouse benifit here from having just first heard them right before the voting. If I did it today LCD would be lower and Winehouse would probably not be at all.

― The Reverend, Monday, 14 May 2007 15:38 (sixteen years ago) link

I don't get the love for Girl Talk at all.

― baaderonixx, Monday, 14 May 2007 15:40 (sixteen years ago) link

I think it's one of those deals where you immediately love it or will never get it at all.

― The Reverend, Monday, 14 May 2007 15:53 (sixteen years ago) link

i got the pull quote for #1, woo! pretty funny that it's only two sentences long and the second sentence is about non album remixes. no one had much to say about silent shout or were you going for brevity?

― The Macallan 18 Year, Monday, 14 May 2007 15:58 (sixteen years ago) link

'Press Play' was totally overlooked.

― baaderonixx, Monday, 14 May 2007 16:02 (sixteen years ago) link

Totally. It should have been higher on my list, come to think of it. I certainly listened to it more than most of the albums around it.

― The Reverend, Monday, 14 May 2007 16:10 (sixteen years ago) link

I'm also kind of surprised given the amount of indie in this thread, that the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Marit Larsen or the Rapture didn't feature at all.

― Matt DC, Monday, 14 May 2007 16:21 (sixteen years ago) link

The Rapture album is frequently good, but never great. (Although the same could be said about a couple of the things i did vote for.)

― The Reverend, Monday, 14 May 2007 16:27 (sixteen years ago) link

i completely forgot the rapture released an album! i never heard it and for some reason don't really care.

yeah yeah yeahs would probably be my 21st or 22nd place...ironic that my token indie band of last year don't make it.

― lex pretend, Monday, 14 May 2007 16:32 (sixteen years ago) link

It was produced by Ewan Pearson, Lex. I haven't heard it either though

― braveclub, Monday, 14 May 2007 16:35 (sixteen years ago) link

i only like a couple of songs off their first album though. and one of those has grown v old, and the other...was actually the tiefschwarz rmx.

― lex pretend, Monday, 14 May 2007 16:37 (sixteen years ago) link

Girl Talk are kind of what Ween would have been if they grew up listening to Jason Forrest instead of '70s stoner rock.

― o. nate, Monday, 14 May 2007 16:49 (sixteen years ago) link

ten years pass...

can't believe nelly doesn't have her own thread
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pBo-GL9SRg

― Week of Wonders (Ross), Thursday, 24 August 2017 05:28 (six years ago) link

more interesting to me than this list is the evolution of ilx and ilxors

there's a really strange and almost frightening blend of raw and paranoid opinion, sometimes with one or the other expressed in the extreme by someone, sometimes both expressed by the same person in the same post.

also nelly furtado

― Karl Malone, Thursday, 24 August 2017 06:12 (six years ago) link

xp NO I HATE GIRL TALK THEY MASH LOVELY AALIYAH UP WITH HORRID INDIE
― lex pretend

― Karl Malone, Thursday, 24 August 2017 06:15 (six years ago) link

not sure if that was at me Karl, but I probably shouldn't post when I'm wasted.

i lurked here 15+ years before making my first post a year or so ago

― Week of Wonders (Ross), Thursday, 24 August 2017 18:49 (six years ago) link

oh no, it wasn't ross! actually i'm not sure hat that was about (i have the same posting problem)
when you bumped the thread, the first thing i did i was go back to the beginning and re-read it. for some reason i decided it would be funny to call out nelly furtado, just because i haven't heard anyone mention her in several years. i don't really know her tbh. man my jokes are great! but yeah i didn't even see your post til i had already crapped my post out.

oof. weekday nights are brutal

― Karl Malone, Thursday, 24 August 2017 23:27 (six years ago) link

there's a really strange and almost frightening blend of raw and paranoid opinion

makes me think of this bit from [i]the rest is noise/i] about schoenberg and mahler:

The Mahlers regularly invited [Schoenberg] to their apartment near the Schwarzenbergplatz, where, according to Alma, he would incite heated arguments by offering up 'paradox of the most violent description'.

― brimstead, Friday, 25 August 2017 00:18 (six years ago) link

haha cool Karl, best regards :)

― Week of Wonders (Ross), Friday, 25 August 2017 00:19 (six years ago) link

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