ILM's Top 77 ALBUMS of 2011

basically I feel like ppl punished this album because My Beautiful Dark Twisted Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Fantasy was overpraised

there's some pretty good stuff on 'watch the throne' and it sounds huge and expensive and all that good stuff, but a lot of the time the rapping just isn't all that great

― J0rdan S., Monday, January 30, 2012 11:29 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

pretty much agree with this although i often enjoy kanye's terrible raps just because o_O/hilarity

well at least we get to discuss 76 nice records before the gushing over an album of faux-emotional warbling and caterwauling.

― skip, Monday, January 30, 2012 4:15 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Depending on your taste this could apply to every potential winner except Katy B.

I still haven't heard WTT. I didn't like the Diddy record or MBDTF very much, so I'm kind of sceptical about this one... Do you guyses reckon I should give it a go?

― I want your nose, your shoes and your unicycle (dog latin), Monday, January 30, 2012 12:27 PM (19 seconds ago)

well they're all hip-hop, if you didn't like one, you surely won't like the others

re: WTT, appropriate placing for that very mediocre album

it sounds huge and expensive and all that good stuff

idk it sounds expensive as in it sounds like it cost a lot of money - it doesn't sound expensive in the GREAT way, ie opulent and fabulous - cf this, which is the most opulent hip-hop beat i've heard in some time

there are also points where Kanye does go all the way through o_O and back into "okay I can fuck with that" territory but I'll be fucked if I can name any of them off the top of my head

idk there's def some beats on WTT that sound expensive AND great

Liturgy was #17 in metal poll.
I don't know if there's any more 'metal' to come but if you want to check where it placed in the metal poll click here on the poll results/stats on needle Which Glenn does and is awesome.

i unabashedly love kanye just as a personality/celebrity/entity

as an addition to P&J/P4k placings.

jesus i really like the first song on this joy formidable album, guitars are just huge

i was listening to the college dropout earlier today and just thinking, goddamn how can anyone give a shit about my beautiful dark stupid fantasy

yeah it's weird how people can like two things that are different

http://i.imgur.com/jHDCT.jpg

72. Barbara Panther — Barbara Panther (270 points, seven votes, two first place votes)

P4K: DNP
P&J: DNP

Spotify

Barbara Panther

YAY my #2

hooray, my first place vote!! <3 tho tbh, since submitting my ballot i think i've fallen for tune-yards more, but really happy to see this make the top 77.

I've only listened to the one song from the tracks poll, but I love this kind of thing. Much more realistic interpretation of the New York early-80s L.E.S. scene than things like the Rapture or LCD Soundsystem. Been wanting to hear something that melts up that no-wave/hiphop/disco crossover for a while now.

love the opening lines of "voodoo" so much, particularly her intonation of "wa wa wa wa WITCH!"

This is such a great album. Only heard it in December and ended up putting it in my top 10.

Likewise. Wish I'd spent more of the year with it.

i mentioned it in the tracks thread, but i really dig the sonic contradictions within "dizzy," A LOT

WTT is way better than MBDLMFAOF and it still didn't earn my vote. I am fine with this placement.

Great cover on the B. Panther.

it is kinda weird that even despite a lot of ILX not feeling MBDTF it still placed at #7 last year (and even that was amusingly low), wheres WTT...#73 is nowhere for an album/artists of that profile

I can dig Barbara Panther

Looks like that horrible Yeasayer cover xxp

xxp: that is not weird at all, that is a fantastic example of "backlash" as I stated before

LCD NewsomSystem

enjoying this babs panther album

yeah this is good

She isn't nearly as raspy as Joanna Newsom.

Close enough to turn me off.

http://i.imgur.com/tu9XH.jpg

71. Toro y Moi - Underneath the Pine (271 points, nine votes)

P4K: 48
P&J: 146

Spotify

that is the worst fucking album cover I have ever seen

in one ear, out the other

That is one horrible album cover. (xpost)

i like Underneath the Pine but i don't really have anything to say about it. it just kind of exists

(circumventing the moist-stache entirely)

yeah, not sure if I even want to listen to that toro y moi album because the cover makes me want to barf

This is one of the joys of listening to music in a digital age, guys. I love the Toro y Moi album (it was in my top 5) and didn't even remember that the cover looked like that.

i feel like toro y moi always place somewhere in the low end or middle of ilx polls and bore me in exactly the same way every time

I love that cover! Another one I enjoyed but didn't vote for.

Toro Y Moi - Elise (live version)
http://youtu.be/n7rmUQk6SME

Standout track on the Toro y Moi is "Still Sound":
http://youtu.be/0Gqh4e1S6j0

i always feel like a freak when people go on about that cover being to gross/terrible because i actually find it kind of arresting.

a cover only buffandmaxsmom could love

lol

it is terrible/gross but i assume that's the point.

alright this next one is gonna be the last one for like an hour or so while i get ready for work and head over, will pick up from there

doesn't make it a bad cover imho. i hate looking at it - but that could also make it good?!
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