ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2014

~Change Your Ticket~

What was the image selection process for this cover? It must be more symbolic than it lets on...

excellent journalism from our j0rdan on that front:

http://rankings.gawker.com/the-dumb-faces-of-one-directions-four-ranked-1661231846

never have four consistently gross-looking young dudes recorded such fine pop

it's sad – how do you kick FIVE dudes out of bed at the same time?

xpost

Haha perfect! Still looking to unlock some Lacanian deeper purpose to it all though...

never have four consistently gross-looking young dudes recorded such fine pop

solitary posts that effortlessly summarize the history of rock & roll

i can't get into these dudes (have tried), it just doesn't hit my specific pop music sweet spots

No Control, Change Your Ticket, and Steal My Girl alone make this worth your time. The whole album is great.

love it

xps to alfred seems difficult, could require assistance from hotel staff

They seem like okay kids, but they're definitely too far on the Ryan Tedder/OneRepublic end of pop music for me to embrace any of their songs.

they aren't bad looking imo

I bet that kid with the hat has early male pattern baldness.

clouds is my favourite here.

Here! We! Go again! Another go round for all our friends! Another non-stop will it ever end?

Oh hang on, I just got to "Stockholm Syndrome." It (most likely unintentionally) sounds like "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" imo.

very. with a little bit of that one Haim song too.

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

43 DJ Q Ineffable [374 points, 17 votes]

didn't vote for it but what a great moment in ilx history

classic pop/rock pastiche is a big part of the 1D brand. there are the singles that sound like "Baba O'Reilly," "Pour Some Sugar On Me" and "Faithfully," and one of the bonus tracks on Midnight Memories sounds like "Jessie's Girl." xp

one thing about the one direction album is that it's such a throwback to when an album meant something - a thematically well-strung together, well developed whole unit that does rigorous world building and echoing musical motifs

at different times through the year, i think i would've called Ineffable my fave album of the year. it's fucking great.

They seem like okay kids, but they're definitely too far on the Ryan Tedder/OneRepublic end of pop music for me to embrace any of their songs.

― Johnny Fever,

not at all!

so did DJ Q get his album title from ILX?

y

oh that is very cool

and how did we repay him

lol

his next album's called '43'

We should get DJ Q to post here regularly.

Catching up: Really thrilled that the Wild Beasts album made it, my number 3.

xp to Alfred - Tedder is one of the chief architects of the very blocky strict measure for measure pop that dominates both top 40 and country radio that sounds like they just dragged and dropped songs into being using Logic. I won't get into it all here—in fact I may never get into it because it seems to go nowhere anytime I do—but it's a formula I don't like at all.

i just don't think 1d occupy that space at all

their blockiness is stadium rock-derived. not that tedder's isn't i guess

Isn't there a thread for pics of musicians and their synths?

http://i.imgur.com/azBbKXS.png

I voted for and named this album.

I hear more traditional guitar-bass-drums arrangements and climaxes, with a power pop bass. Tedder can't resist electronified white gospel rave-ups.

You're still distracted by the flourishes. I'm talking about the very skeleton of the songs. (It had already begun to take that turn before OneRepublic ever happened, but he's ballooned the style certainly.)

Back to Ineffable, though...this is great!

think Rev needs a bit more erence for his feat of boosting tbrr

http://i.imgur.com/rJIpNt7.jpg

42 LEE ANN WOMACK The Way I'm Livin' [380 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote]

his next album's called '43' '77'

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i like that cover it looks like something King Tee would have if he had a new album

i would be interested in hearing this just based on that cover

YES

This album took a while, and it's not as indelible imo as There's More Where That Came From, but the singing and playing are first-rate.

was about to say the same, awesome cover!

Really hoping the rest of the album sounds like "All His Saints".

That is an awesome cover.

I like the cover too. I agree with standing next to cars