ILM's Top 77 ALBUMS of 2011

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Sacred Bones (xpost re: Moon Duo)

Haha xp!

Azari album is cool, but didn't vote for it.

xp lawl

i guess 45 is pleasingly low for this worthless shit

TWO first place votes?

the first weeknd album is still pretty cool imo, i think it was at the very bottom of my ballot

everything after that has been totally unneccesary tho

yeah, 45 is way below basically like any other list that has rated this

BOOM!

A DIGRESSION: ok listening to this hatchback now, this is ~vibez~

yeah, 45 is way below basically like any other list that has rated this

ilx is like the one place i'm confident will have some non-superstar r&b actually above the weeknd and frank ocean

does anyone have like a list or mix of good clams casino songs with rappers?

― call all destroyer, Tuesday, January 31, 2012 2:41 PM (12 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lil b - i'm god
squadda b - fakest year ever
lil b - motivation
asap rocky - palace
lil b - cold war

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, January 31, 2012 2:42 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ty!!

azari and iii sounding pretty good. can't get a handle on hatchback, but maybe i need to save it for a more contemplative moment. liked the weeknd album, but not enough to vote for it.

A DIGRESSION: ok listening to this hatchback now, this is ~vibez~

OTM. Very much regretting not voting for Hatchback now...

i kinda like that weeknd album. what's there to hate? i like gifts. especially if they contain music worth to listen to.

I would add Lil B's "What You Doin" to the Clams list

Everyone on ILM seemed to love the Hatchback record; I thought it was a bit nothingy, and nowhere near as good as his previous one, Colors of the Sun. I should give it another go.

ilx is like the one place i'm confident will have some non-superstar r&b actually above the weeknd and frank ocean

― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend)

Really hope that Raphael Saadiq is one of the albums that places higher.

they should package this hatchback album with a bottle of campari

I'm not even sure the metal poll winner will place now.

― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Tuesday, January 31, 2012 11:41 AM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

gave it a ton of points, but yeah, sadface. think i may have wasted my #1 vote too (a "metal" album that did ok in 2010), but at least it was sincere [/linus]

i love Colors of the Sun, too. you can't really listen to Z&A while sitting at the computer waiting for something to happen imo.

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i love Colors of the Sun, too. you can't really listen to Z&A while sitting at the computer waiting for something to happen imo.

i can vouch for this

yeah i hoped the album you mention might place too but i dont think so now. Even though it came out in N America in 2011 its still a 2010 album to most people.
Pity, I was looking forward to lots of "I didn't know they had an album out this year" "oh its a different band of the same name?"

xp

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44. Fucked Up — David Comes To Life (360 points, 13 votes, one first place vote)

P4K: 33
P&J: 11

Spotify

some really amazing guitars on this one but I can't get over the vocals - which for people who like it are probably the key to the record.

My first place vote, absolutely love this album but I think this was pretty well hashed out in the singles results thread.

let's have another 50-post digression about hardcore vocals now!

sorry, I missed that!

paging DJP, paging DJP

Loved this album, though it did drag after a few listens. Can't remember how high it was on my ballot.

sorry, I missed that!

― skip, Tuesday, January 31, 2012 3:02 PM (40 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah sry that wasnt meant to snark you just to relive fond memories of a week ago

really great record

have been following this discussion pretty well, i never knew how many haters there are on ilm.

was really enthused about this when it dropped, can listen to some tracks in isolation, but that's about it

it's a fabulous record, i'd like to see it place higher. concerns about the length and sameiness are well-founded but it just sounds so good i don't really care.

how can someone listen to a band who gives itself such a moronic name? after i had listened to their album i knew why, apparently the only memorable thing about them is their name.

Giving this a listen now. I expect to like it unless the vox are as bad as made out. but if its not death metal cookie monster grunting then the vox are prob fine

ok nothing wrong whatsoever with these vox

funny thing about that fucked up record is that while i wasn't really feeling it at the time (standard complaints about the vocals) and still can't sit through the whole thing at once, i almost always dig the individual tracks when they come up on shuffle - especially if, as on "queen of hearts", they've got someone else singing for a bit. if i'd done a tracks ballot, that song would have scored high.

so many ilxors had never heard hardcore vox before?

i like fucked up but the whole thing of people marveling about OMG A SHOUTY HARDCORE BAND GOT A BONER FOR THE SOFT BULLETIN gets a bit much

also no one who listens to black metal gets to complain abt hardcore vox

As opposed to a great name like tUnE-yArDs or Hatchback? I mean, come on with that argument.

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43. Real Estate — Days (361 points, 11 votes, two first place votes)

P4K: 9
P&J: 32

Spotify

not sure if i voted that 1 in this poll, but it was #1 on my p&j ballot

It's good stuff, just way too long and relentless for me to have ever heard the entire thing in one listening. Queen Of Hearts was one of my favourite tunes of the year, the rest does pretty much the same thing in different ways.

what in the world does the soft bulletin have to do with that fucked up record?

seriously these vox are no different to all the hardcore vox i listened to in the 90s. What is so off-putting other than the fact you maybe dont dig hardcore? Contenderizer im surprised at you re the vox.

I really like this so far

xp

oh cool Real Estate!

Love love that Real Estate album too! We're on a great run here.

Days is such a great little jangle rock record.

xxxpost Sorry, that was about Fucked Up, not Real Estate who I don't think I really understand yet.