ILM's Top 77 ALBUMS of 2011

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?!
xpost

yeah, I'm sure they meant the cover to be awful and foul, but that still doesn't mean I have to like it

http://i.imgur.com/r5VB1.jpg

(tie) 69. Wild Flag — Wild Flag (273 points, 10 votes)

P4K: 49
P&J: 4

Spotify

btw the wild flag cover is 1000x worse than the toro y moi one

ha otm

outstanding record, don't get the cover but i sort of like it for some reason.

Wait, I thought we*weren't doing the MS Paint versions of the album covers?

kind of feel like i don't love the wild flag album as much as i should but i should also spend more time with it, i think it's one of the albums i lost when my old hard drive crashed and i didn't redownload it

it's like a bloodstain making out with snuffaluffagus

I voted for the Wild Flag album -- it's not a masterpiece or anything, but it's really fun.