TOP 10 NOW: \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\shawty got poll poll poll poll poll poll poll (part II: 2008 ALBUMS)/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/

Most of the blurbs are from existing ILX posts, and aren't sent in specially for the poll

47 - Sébastien Tellier - Sexuality
84.5 points, 11 votes
447 in P&J

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this album is great. i didn't expect something so minimal, the synths and drum machines just glisten. it's kinda like italians do it better for people who go to dinner parties. think 'elle' is my favourite at the moment, but it seems like the kind of album where every song is a potential favourite, i love records like this

― r1o natsume

i think this is my favorite album of the year so far. that fucking glistening sound is just wonderful. it seems to build on discovery's whole 80s aor thing really well, these song forms offer more room to play around in that area. like the over-the-top supertramp-ness of the 4th track (even down to that damn wurlitzer sound). and i've been listening to van halen a lot lately so those "jump" synths in "kilometer" really hit me (especially since it's such a killer tune anyway).

― winston

forgot about that one

My first vote to place. XD

new Secret Machines >>>>>> School Of Seven Bells album

(I am the only person who thinks this)

i think my favorite thing about the Tellier album is the cover

not that its a bad album, just didn't love it

Yeah, it's never quite spectacular, but it altogether works haha. It was in the lower half of my ballot. I'm really digging the Aeroplane remix of "Kilometer" right now.

this is the first time i've actually seen the tellier cover large enough to see what it is :/

i like the album fine - it was a bit too samey to get in my voting range though.

Oh, by the Dutch shop, did you mean http://3voor12.vpro.nl/luisterpaal/

yes this is exactly it. i seem to recall finding it much easier to navigate in the past though.

arthur russell's a bit low, isn't it? I'm glad I placed it high on my ballot then.

let the excitement begin, I look forward to seeing more of my votes on this list. Hopefully.

46 - Fall, The - Imperial Wax Solvent
86 points, 8 votes, 1 #1 vote

http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/3245/imperialwaxuc1.jpg

On the first play of it all the way through I gotta say it's definitely never boring. There's a lot of energy here. "Alton Towers" has a really spooky sound to it, like a jazzy haunted house. I adore the bass on "Can Can Summer" - LCD Soundsystem, take that! It really does feel like a swipe at LCD, that one.

― Bimble

my #1 pick. if there was ever a use for the cliche "resounding return to form", this album is it.

Unlike the singles list, this is just making me depressed.

I must have missed something if it was your #1 vote, let me check

I re-sent you my ballot, just in case.

maybe I forgot to say "ordered"...

looks like you were right, pretty much!

yeah it's easier to gloss over a "20" than miss the entire vote, double-checked but it's all good.

Unlike the singles list, this is just making me depressed.

Why? If it's stuff you don't like then surely you're happy it's not high in the list, and the albums you do like will be up later?
Personally I find the 50-30 part the most interesting and sometimes has better albums than the top 20 but for some reason aren't as well known as those that finish higher.

yeah, it's a little early to start complaining, unless your name is lex.

The TRACKS (not singles) list was about as dull-as-ditchwater as it gets IMO, symptomatic of a closed-minded ILM that refuses point-blank to see past its staunch Poptimist principles

Tracks/singles list...whatever...I guess it's just easier for me to like tracks than albums these days. LOL IM OLD!

The TRACKS (not singles) list was about as dull-as-ditchwater as it gets IMO, symptomatic of a closed-minded ILM that refuses point-blank to see past its staunch Poptimist principles

― Robin van Injury (country matters), Monday, February 9, 2009 3:50 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

is this self-parody i can't tell

louis are you implying that ppl didn't vote in oceansize because of "poptimist principles"? isnt it possible that people just like aeroplane and "paper planes" more than oceansize (or whoever else)?

like me, for example

can't blame ILM if pop is the place where interesting things are happening.

on the one hand, there's lex complaining about indie and on the other, lj complaining about pop. you can't win.

The TRACKS (not singles) list was about as dull-as-ditchwater as it gets IMO, symptomatic of a closed-minded ILM that refuses point-blank to see past its staunch Poptimist principles

You just know the 'poptimists' will say the same about 'rockists' and the album chart. Rather than checking out the good stuff. The trax chart was great for having youtube links to check out what I didn't know.
I assume LJ's complaint was that there was hardly any non-singles choices in the trax top 50?

Oceansize didn't release anything, but plenty of really brilliant, exciting acts did, acts which the Poptimists haven't heard of through simple, brute ignorance. Very little I heard from the Youtubes was in any way exciting for me. At least I gave them a go.

my trax list is poptimist, my albums list is (more) rockist. isn't this the natural way of things?

The natural way of things should be inquisitive, unprejudiced listening. Not following the herd.

I listen to TOO MUCH music. No surprises on either list so far, actually. I'm just not down with these albums (or many 2008 albums at all).

if that was the natural way of things, then wouldn't there be no herd to follow? xpost

louis, i love you but this is an absolutely insane argument. 'poptimists' (what strawman is this btw? lex?) who voted in the ilx poll didn't overlook the rock bands that you like out of ignorance— instead i'd say that these people just don't like the rock bands that you like. it's really not that difficult of a thing to understand

the trax list wasn't even v "poptimist", either in terms of genre or in terms of commercial success (there were 13 crossover trax w/the actual poptimist poll) (i preferred the ilx results, i have to say)

Yeah, I thought the trax list was the most rounded 2008 poll thing I saw on the entire internet.

^otm - i was really happy

srsly tho if people thought something was really good, all you had to do was plug it a lot on the nominations thread like that school of seven bells record here or the ida maria song on the tracks charts. Both didn't really get a lot of ilm love until near the end of the year but had at least one enthusiastic proponent swaying the votes. ilm-ers *are* an inquisitive bunch and i don't know anyone here who wouldn't at least check a few songs out if someone pointed something interesting their way.

Sorry. I shouldn't let myself get worked up like this. But plenty of good things were overlooked in favour of utter fucking shit like The Ting Tings or Katy Perry, and in my opinion there's some weak-ass listening habits contributing to this. Maybe I'm being harsh. I probably am in fact, and I should probably accept the vagaries of taste. I'll give a few more of them a listen.

roz otm - that SVIIB record really is a great case in point. in the end its main enthusiast didn't even vote here, and it still placed. it's not something i'd ever have checked out by myself but the way kate repped for it convinced me.

fwiw my 20-trax ballot contained all of two top 40 hits - this is not v poptimist at all.

OH hang on if your tirade is actually directed at the ting tings and k perry, i am 100% with you on that!!

Lex, I don't actually think you're a particularly bad offender; you tend to get very much into your taste and explore it quite freely. I am a bit miffed about the DIVERSITY of tastes here, is perhaps the point.

katy perry was nowhere close to the poptimist poll fyi

Didn't much care for the Ting Tings song that ranked, but would've supported "Great DJ." I'd only vote for Katy Perry if she slept with me, though.

i think katy perry did win "worst thing of 2008" in the poptimist poll

At least the lex was willing to check out Boris. Even if he probably wont like it.
I cant understand why the ting tings get so much love but meh who cares about them.

diversity of tastes? too many people liked the same thing? in a poll?

ha yeah, katy perry with a landslide in "most horrible thing of 2008"

Sorry. I shouldn't let myself get worked up like this. But plenty of good things were overlooked in favour of utter fucking shit like The Ting Tings or Katy Perry, and in my opinion there's some weak-ass listening habits contributing to this. Maybe I'm being harsh. I probably am in fact, and I should probably accept the vagaries of taste. I'll give a few more of them a listen.

― Robin van Injury (country matters), Monday, February 9, 2009 4:15 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

louis, what you're doing here is arguing that everyone who voted in the poll - or who votes in polls - should pay close attention to the fringe indie rock you listen to. obviously, this is never going to happen in any situation. katy perry and the ting tings were two of the biggest pop acts of 08 in their respective countries, and though i don't really care for either, i'm not surprised that either placed. when you have a consensus poll it usually coalesces around the - no duh - consensus! and it's hard for something to become consensus when they haven't heard something, and the amount of ppl who heard katy perry and the ting tings is incomparable to the number that heard the rock music you are vouching for. this is really nothing new, my man.

ha well otoh portishead would have picked up at least 12 points from me

xpost

And so they should have.

More stuff from these polls up on Spotify (Grouper)

argh these threads are pretty hard to find/scan for in search (maybe just because there's a close bracket right after the word ALBUMS in this case). might be worth editing the titles to make them a bit easier to find (ie come up top in search results for '2008 albums poll results' or whatever).

yeah...all due respect to musically but i much prefer the more straightforward thread titles under the johnny/j0rdan regime