ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2013

good top 77, great top 100

thanks to everyone who voted and organised this!

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

Never knowingly heard Haim.

It's all over, now everybody gaan haim.

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?

those darn girls!

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

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

Oh no, not "mainstream sounding."

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.

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

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

http://i.imgflip.com/13lz5.gif

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

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

nah Kraftwerk were hewn from girders and plastic

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

my god, it's made of girls!

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

just another guy named alex in manhattan, making dumb remarks

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

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

oh and tegan & sara, i guess

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

25!

"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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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 did you include DJ Sprinkles in that number

l 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?

it's sexist because you mentioned "girls" as if their sex were a reason to dismiss them

Plus by my count 12 (?) mixed-gender acts

My Bloody Valentine
The Knife
Paramore
These New Puritans
Chvrches
Goldfrapp
Arcade Fire
Quadron
Young Galaxy
Factory Floor
Thee Oh Sees
Melt-Banana

Is that all?

xp i will never understand how it can be sexist to say that a girls band is a girls band

b/c every other descriptor you used for haim was meant in a derogatory way

xp yes re: dj sprinkles

this album is so monumental to me. i know it disappointed a lot of people but it's just an album that needs an incredible amount of time to sink into, to wrap your head around. the amount of ideas here is overwhelming. i can understand if people didn't want to do that but trust me, it was so worth it for me. i could actually rarely listen to it except all the way through as an album - it just made so much sense that way.

how i feel about the laura marling lp

ILM list also includes a lot of females who didn't get much or any EOY list love from major publications: i.e. amel larrieux, k. michelle, ariana grande, f(x), quadron, fantasia, y // st, charli xcx