ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2014

leonard cohen must be coming up

My #23 and my first to poll. Pretty good, but expectations were pretty ridic. Surprised it's this high but I guess it was always gonna get widely checked out and there wasn't much wrong with it. Those opening riffs also start things w/ a good lol.

lots of xps: the reason Nicki Minaj or Azealia Banks using "cunt" was such a big deal is because the word is so generally verboten in the US. It's just not something you hear often so it's kind of shocking when it is used. It's very different than Brits being all I met my old cunt down at the pub or whatever.

i don't know that i listened to the new alb but i saw swans this summer for the second time in 2 years and it was way worse than the first. the first time was really dynamic, with extended quiet parts that were insanely beautiful, but this time was just brutally loud and relentless. and like, 2.5 hours long. also the guy who plays that electric lapsteel thing was way too loud in the mix, like overpowering everything else in the mix at its peak, but whenever the sound guy would try and turn him down gira would scream at him to leave the levels as they were. such an asshole. changed my impression of him from obdurate musical genius to just cranky deaf asshole

Like if a dude in the US says cunt a lot there's a 100% chance they're a hardcore misogynist.

true

i don't think i even knew the word "cunt" till i started reading ILX

My old mother never says the c-word out loud, she fucking S-P-E-L-L-S it, I'm all like 'Ma, you just made it last 4 times as long'.

*british accent* why charles i'm feeling rather cunty this morning

for queen and cunty

oh, I guess ballroom types are the exception

could we just get back to talking about scott walker & cunnt ((())) plz

see you next tuesday

Last time I saw someone get called the c-word IRL, blows were exchanged, the cops came, everything.

Cuntry is very under-represented on this poll so far

I met my old cunt down at the pub or whatever.

― The Reverend, Wednesday, January 28, 2015 3:34 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

Irl lol btw

Difficult Listening For Old Men

quoting mike skinner there

got your girl in the cunt and she choosay

del boy fell through the cunt, top laugh that

http://i.imgur.com/5cYh1KS.jpg

24 K. MICHELLE Anybody Wanna Buy a Heart? [486 points, 17 votes, 1 first place vote]

(If I were to re-vote, this would be my #1. As it was, it was my #3.)

Thank heck for that

whoop whoop

whooooooooo!

WOOO

who????

j/k i do like this album

I didn't think there was a standout track on this but it's really solid front to back yeah

wasn't 100% on this but i thought 'going under' was a fantastic song

Didn't vote for it, but this is a very good album. "How Do You Know" was my favorite track. Love the cover art too.

"Drake Would Love Me," y'all.

ILX would love me

a totally fucking great album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0T00XcN0N0

HATED Scott Walker, until I heard Bish Bosch, which I ADORED. Therefore was expecting to ADORE Soused, but didn't particularly engage with it all.

...AT all, duh.

I'm gonna give K. Michelle a whirl based on this response (seriously)

As a listener who typically only digs into lyrics when they're really really good, I'm absolutely smitten with this album lyrically.

http://i.imgur.com/GamJ0dw.jpg

23 RICHARD DAWSON Nothing Important [497 points, 15 votes, 2 first place votes]

my #1 and contender for all-time great status

listen
to
the
title
track

aptly titled

& read its lyrics

seriously, read the lyrics to this album's longer tracks, especially the title track. read the lyrics while listening to the music. imagine a small, impossibly mice man howling them onstage accompanied only by a small, amplified nylon guitar.

Dawson <3 <3 <3

Didn't hear this till the tracks poll came out, good stuff

prefer the lyrics to the album's shorter tracks tbh

apt cliche: 'practically a religious experience'

#263 on PnJ. I see Whiney voted for it.

Good stuff, voted for this.

Richard Dawson is terrible and unlistenable as far as I'm concerned.