ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2014

I think it's kinda interesting that out the 17 albums so far, only Ninos du Brasil has also show up in the tracks list. It's not unusual that with rock music people are more likely to vote for albums than tracks from said albums, but the same seems to apply to techno/house and rap and pop albums on the list too, which is a bit surprising. Are people just more likely to vote for different stuff (one-hit wonders, tracks that didn't get a particularly good album to accompany them) in the tracks poll?

If i like say 3 or less tracks on an album then I dont think of it as an album it just a record with some other tracks on it that i never play. If there's more than that on it I like then I guess I start to think of it as an album

there are only around 12 of these in existence

Future placed in both didn't he?

Oh yeah, forgot about that.

wow great start so far, my #1, #3 and #6 already placing.
voted cher lloyd number one, every single track on that album just grabs me, and every time i listen to it i find myself enjoying it over and over. the finale, 'alone with me' i probably repeat five times over when the album finishes.
also voted dean blunt and sturgill simpson high.
babymetal and ought were both on my longlist, think i was planning on throwing a tracks vote to gimme chocolate but it fell a bit shy too.
voted 'sombra da lua' over the record but absolutely fantastic to see ninos du brasil place on both polls.
most of the rest that has placed so far i had enjoyed but wasn't near voting for, except for the theo parrish and mica levi records, neither of which have i heard so will be checking them out.
cheers ilm and JF!

I was the #1 vote for Future. Had more tracks I straight out loved on it than any other album I listened to last year. Think the only other album I bothered ranking was 2NE1.

Also voted for Ought. Happily most of the countdown so far is stuff I'm completely unfamiliar with. Been enjoying the Noura Mint Seymali a lot this morning.

I was one of the two #1 voters for Brill Bruisers - the New Pornographers totally lost me with their last couple of albums, would never have guessed they'd come back with something this strong.

I liked the Leon Vynehall and Freddie Gibbs/Madlib albums although neither made my ballot (the Step Brothers album got my Old Guy Rap vote this year).

Keen to hear Noura Mint Seymali and Khurin Narin. Also the Ought record - I don't really listen to much post-punk these days but the Karate comparisons upthread sound promising.

tried listening to ought again last night but some of it was so close to tful282 that it was just distracting, like meeting someone who just happens to be wearing the hollowed-out skin of your best friend from school. no slight on their music but i just couldn't do it.

just going through this thread in detail now...

and "alone with me" being the best closing song of all time <3

album's like 70 positions too low

― uberweiss, Monday, January 26, 2015 3:57 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

completely otm for me haha

might grow on me though - i had a similar initial reaction to the protomartyr record which basically sounds like a less-aggro gvsb, but i've ended up playing the shit out of that (xp to me)

I loved that Protomartyr album too Nick, it got a vote from me, GvsB is a good point of comparison, I also thought of Jonathan Fire-eater for my sins.

the songwriting on the ought album is very very good. I've never heard thinking fellers, so maybe it helps. But I love the lyrics on Habit, for example describes the state of addiction/addictive personality disorder perfectly.

"Redeemer" and "Stone Island" by Dean Blunt were my favourite records of that year, go get on them.

yeah, both of these are better/more accessible than Black Metal. Although he's always going to an acquired taste

'Habit' was the song that made me feel sad that LTM will never be able to release a Slovenly box set while Greg Ginn still walks this earth

but yeah, that was a decent track

i've never heard of any of these bands, Nick. Maybe if I had, I'd not be so enamoured by Ought. Certainly felt frustrated by the Parquet Courts' 'Sunbathing Animal' for sounding too uncannily close to umpteen other things.

To mention Total Control again - they were the slightly derivative postpunk band I really took to during the nominations process. Worth checking out (opening track is lovely but an anomaly)

Parquet Courts are a disgrace

I need a list of very good lesser-known postpunk bands to check out.
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/business/levi-roots-launches-post-punk-post-punk-sauce-2015012294685

I was the #1 vote for Future. Had more tracks I straight out loved on it than any other album I listened to last year. Think the only other album I bothered ranking was 2NE1.

Also voted for Ought. Happily most of the countdown so far is stuff I'm completely unfamiliar with. Been enjoying the Noura Mint Seymali a lot this morning.

― pandemic, Tuesday, January 27, 2015 5:38 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

My dude

Xelab 100% otm upthread. Worthless dogshit is correct.

My name is dog latin.

What is latin for indie rock is worthless dogshit then?

I bet you dont know dog no latin

nux vomica nequam est

What's latin for 'lame kissass troll'?

60-41 today, starting now...

http://i.imgur.com/pEzE4q3.jpg

60 TUNE-YARDS Nikki Nack [278 points, 11 votes]

whats the latin word for afterglow of critical irrational exuberance

Tune-Yards finally make an album that I love front-to-back, and that's when everyone starts to cool on them a bit.

ha found it quite tricky to jones for a second listen to this one :(

worst album title of rollout sewn up, maybe worst album too

maybe, one day, i will get through more than 2.5 of the songs on here.

i like the name nikki nack, and the cover to an extent. very ze records/italo disco

does the title actually refer to anything or is it insufferable quirky infantilism pt 939203354354

love your indie infantilism thing, lex.

All of a sudden I have a hankering for a cherry Fruit Roll-Up

I usually love twee infantile indie maximalism and I can't stand Tune-Yards.

Violently loathed Water Fountain, but maybe this harbours discreet depths I'm yet to discover. Trying now.

Only heard one song (dunno from what album) and never felt encouraged to explore any further, even after she won the P&J in whatever year.

we have no time for anything childlike ::roars with applause when nicki minaj becomes a human barbie doll::

that's a pretty low placing right?

mmmm... not really?

Would a Ting Tings comparison be unfair?

Some infantilism is uncanny & inspired. Some is unconscionable & insipid

it's a low placing when her last album was #10 in our 2011 poll. but it's also not unexpected given that on Pazz & Jop she dropped from a #1 in 2011 to #29 in 2014. it doesn't even seem like there was a backlash or bad reviews, people just moved on and lost interest?

it's a low placing when her last album was #10 in our 2011 poll. but it's also not unexpected given that on Pazz & Jop she dropped from a #1 in 2011 to #29 in 2014. it doesn't even seem like there was a backlash or bad reviews, people just moved on and lost interest?

― some dude, Tuesday, January 27, 2015 8:21 AM (1 second ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

quite possibly. it's rough when you believe in an artist and this happens, but it's usually inevitable.

never got into Tune-Yards but her stuff is definitely distinctive, not yr typical indie whatsit at all iirc

how much of TY's high placing in 2011 was down to 'shock of the new'? i don't feel as though this new album is much of a leap, is it?

I was listening to this while showering this morning – some of her best choruses ever. I top tenned it.

Becky G would approve.

I liked "Real Thing" and "Water Fountain" off the album but not much else tbh