ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2013

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THANK YOU LEX. It was driving me mad that nobody moved BoC to its proper position.

emil.y, Thursday, 30 January 2014 22:13 (ten years ago) link

loooool rev

141 Jute Gyte - Discontinuities 142 drake - nothing was the same (imago), Thursday, 30 January 2014 22:14 (ten years ago) link

so what was 78-100?

keiji cretins (NickB), Thursday, 30 January 2014 22:15 (ten years ago) link

78 Queens of the stone age - Like clockwork
79 Earl Sweatshirt - Doris
80 Various Artists - I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age Music In America 1950-1990
81 Joanna Gruesome - Weird Sister
82 Bardo Pond - Peace on Venus
83 The National - Trouble Will Find Me
84 Pantha Du Prince & The Bell Laboratory - Elements of Light
85 Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away
86 Blondes - Swisher
87 Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels
88 John Talabot - DJ Kicks
89 Young Thug - 1017 Thug
90 2 Chainz - B.O.A.T.S. II #METIME
91 DJ Sprinkles - Where Dancefloors Stand Still
92 The Haxan Cloak - Excavation
93 Mikal Cronin - MCII
94 Momoiro Clover Z - 5th Dimension
95 Omar Souleyman - Wenu Wenu
96 autre ne veut - anxiety
97 Annie - The A&R EP
98 Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light
99 Grouper - The Man Who Died In His Boat
100 Eleanor Friedberger - Personal Record

Ramnaresh Samhain (ShariVari), Thursday, 30 January 2014 22:16 (ten years ago) link

oh thanks, that's a solid list of stuff!

keiji cretins (NickB), Thursday, 30 January 2014 22:17 (ten years ago) link

so that's a staggering EIGHT rap albums in the top 100, huh.

some dude, Thursday, 30 January 2014 22:19 (ten years ago) link

good top 77, great top 100

thanks to everyone who voted and organised this!

boxedjoy, Thursday, 30 January 2014 22:29 (ten years ago) link

RIP Moderat, I guess I'm the only one who really feels how wonderful a trance workout "Milk" is

SHAUN (DJP), Thursday, 30 January 2014 22:29 (ten years ago) link

Never knowingly heard Haim.

the drummer is a monster (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 30 January 2014 22:33 (ten years ago) link

It's all over, now everybody gaan haim.

emil.y, Thursday, 30 January 2014 22:35 (ten years ago) link

you didn't miss much, nick, they are ok but nothing special, really. i don't understand what the fuss is about really. another derivative, mainstream sounding pop band made of girls, so what?

it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Thursday, 30 January 2014 22:46 (ten years ago) link

those darn girls!

Spaghetti Sauce Shampoo (Moodles), Thursday, 30 January 2014 22:47 (ten years ago) link

you see, THAT'S the sort of misogynist critique I wasn't making when I simply said they bored me :P

141 Jute Gyte - Discontinuities 142 drake - nothing was the same (imago), Thursday, 30 January 2014 22:48 (ten years ago) link

ty

another derivative, mainstream sounding pop band made of girls (wins), Thursday, 30 January 2014 22:49 (ten years ago) link

I don't find any of the words in that description to be derisive, tbh.

jaymc, Thursday, 30 January 2014 22:49 (ten years ago) link

Oh no, not "mainstream sounding."

jaymc, Thursday, 30 January 2014 22:50 (ten years ago) link

beysus with the moral NINE-first-places victory and baduesque redemption to come :)

― lex pretend, Thursday, January 30, 2014 9:29 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

VW had EIGHT so it's morally second.

Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Thursday, 30 January 2014 22:51 (ten years ago) link

I can't believe Juicy J didn't even make the top 100 and everyone voted Ka over Roc Marciano :(

xelab, Thursday, 30 January 2014 22:51 (ten years ago) link

"another....band made of girls" is horrifying, jaymc

141 Jute Gyte - Discontinuities 142 drake - nothing was the same (imago), Thursday, 30 January 2014 22:51 (ten years ago) link

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♬ what keeps daft punk from winning? (haim) ♬

keiji cretins (NickB), Thursday, 30 January 2014 22:52 (ten years ago) link

All bands are 'made of girls' when you think about it

ineloquentwow (Craigo Boingo), Thursday, 30 January 2014 22:52 (ten years ago) link

nah Kraftwerk were hewn from girders and plastic

141 Jute Gyte - Discontinuities 142 drake - nothing was the same (imago), Thursday, 30 January 2014 22:53 (ten years ago) link

I can't believe Juicy J didn't even make the top 100 and everyone voted Ka over Roc Marciano :(

― xelab, Thursday, January 30, 2014 4:51 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

marci beucoup was kinda disapointing imo

Zen Dawson (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 30 January 2014 22:53 (ten years ago) link

my god, it's made of girls!

another derivative, mainstream sounding pop band made of girls (wins), Thursday, 30 January 2014 22:54 (ten years ago) link

I liked Marcberg a lot more than Roc Marciano's recent stuff. The Night's Gambit is Ka's best yet.

raggett neds of your summer dress (The Reverend), Thursday, 30 January 2014 22:55 (ten years ago) link

The heartening fact that the poll was full of (bands of) girls makes that a pretty un-misogynist comment, TBH.

these birches is awful (Branwell Bell), Thursday, 30 January 2014 22:55 (ten years ago) link

marci beucoup was kinda disapointing imo

― Zen Dawson (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, January 30, 2014 3:53 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Spottie, Thursday, 30 January 2014 22:56 (ten years ago) link

I'm with alex in mainhattan in a sense: there were hundreds upon hundreds of albums released last year, and this is allegedly the best of them all? Naturally, I disagree.

Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Thursday, 30 January 2014 22:56 (ten years ago) link

xp that's about the best thing about haim. imagine they would have been another boygroup, jesus.

it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Thursday, 30 January 2014 22:56 (ten years ago) link

another derivative, mainstream sounding pop band made of girls, so what?

apart from the sexism in this that's been dealt with, "another"? there are only five all-girl bands in the 77, that's quite a small proportion.

lex pretend, Thursday, 30 January 2014 22:57 (ten years ago) link

Haim at number 1! Hahaha. Only real surprise for me was seeing Vampire Weekend at #6 (and Sky Ferreira at 5, I had no idea ILM loved her that much) I expected VW on the top three based on the comments surrounding the release.

Moka, Thursday, 30 January 2014 22:58 (ten years ago) link

I have not spreadsheeted it this year, but there seem to be metric fucktons of female solo artists.

these birches is awful (Branwell Bell), Thursday, 30 January 2014 22:59 (ten years ago) link

(I have no idea how a metric fuckton differs from an imperial fuckton, to be honest.)

these birches is awful (Branwell Bell), Thursday, 30 January 2014 23:00 (ten years ago) link

just another guy named alex in manhattan, making dumb remarks

Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 January 2014 23:00 (ten years ago) link

five all girl bands? what are the other ones apart from savages and haim?

pearly-dewdrops' bops (monotony), Thursday, 30 January 2014 23:02 (ten years ago) link

Marci Beaucoup is a grower and Pimpire is >>>the nights gambit.

xelab, Thursday, 30 January 2014 23:02 (ten years ago) link

oh and tegan & sara, i guess

pearly-dewdrops' bops (monotony), Thursday, 30 January 2014 23:03 (ten years ago) link

I have not spreadsheeted it this year, but there seem to be metric fucktons of female solo artists.

25!

lex pretend, Thursday, 30 January 2014 23:03 (ten years ago) link

"another....band made of girls" is horrifying, jaymc

I think I wasn't clear. I don't find "derivative," "mainstream sounding," "pop," or "made of girls" to be inherently derisive terms, so I find it silly that AiM is using them as though they were.

jaymc, Thursday, 30 January 2014 23:03 (ten years ago) link

five all girl bands? what are the other ones apart from savages and haim?

tegan and sara, yamantaka // sonic titan, f(x)

lex pretend, Thursday, 30 January 2014 23:03 (ten years ago) link

YT//ST aren't all female, I'm pretty sure. Though the two main songwriters are.

emil.y, Thursday, 30 January 2014 23:05 (ten years ago) link

25 solo + 5 bands + (who knows how many band members) = 30/77 = really amazingly close to parity. 25 is fully 1/3 which is way better than most publications' lists.

these birches is awful (Branwell Bell), Thursday, 30 January 2014 23:05 (ten years ago) link

Haha I totally thought Yamantaka / Sonic Titan was a project of Boredoms dude.

raggett neds of your summer dress (The Reverend), Thursday, 30 January 2014 23:05 (ten years ago) link

that F(x) album has been my fave discovery from this poll, need to start paying attention to the K pop thread.

xelab, Thursday, 30 January 2014 23:07 (ten years ago) link

Curious now how many all-dude bands placed apart from Daft Punk & Vampy W/e?

Another derivative, mainstream-sounding girl made of bands (Branwell Bell), Thursday, 30 January 2014 23:09 (ten years ago) link

YT//ST aren't all female, I'm pretty sure. Though the two main songwriters are.

wikipedia implied the core of the band was a duo (both women) with other "supporting members", and 90% of the promo shots just seem to consist of the two main members

lex pretend, Thursday, 30 January 2014 23:11 (ten years ago) link

xp i will never understand how it can be sexist to say that a girls band is a girls band, that is maybe a tautology but what the hell does it have to do with sexism? may i say that i love women or is that sexist as well? thinking about it the only world imaginable without sexism in this sense is a world without sexes. is that what you dream of, lex?

it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Thursday, 30 January 2014 23:12 (ten years ago) link

Haim? HAHAHAHAHAHa' HAIM ?? half ridiculous,half sublime.
much better than v. weekend, that's for sure.

nakamura, Thursday, 30 January 2014 23:13 (ten years ago) link

Saying that you "love" "women" is totally sexist, though. That can fuck right off.

Another derivative, mainstream-sounding girl made of bands (Branwell Bell), Thursday, 30 January 2014 23:14 (ten years ago) link

25 solo + 5 bands + (who knows how many band members) = 30/77 = really amazingly close to parity. 25 is fully 1/3 which is way better than most publications' lists.

yeah i think ilx has always been pretty good like this (another reason i respect this EOY list more than most!). TONS of female frontwomen in mixed bands, it felt like

*counts*

seven i think? plus prob some more females in mixed bands who aren't the frontperson

lex pretend, Thursday, 30 January 2014 23:15 (ten years ago) link


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