ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2014

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is this the first javiera mena album to have placed after years of her tracks?

lex pretend, Thursday, 29 January 2015 14:11 (nine years ago) link

TBF this is the first album she's released since she rose to ILX prominence

, Thursday, 29 January 2015 14:12 (nine years ago) link

nah previous record placed well too iirc

nxd, Thursday, 29 January 2015 14:12 (nine years ago) link

52nd

nxd, Thursday, 29 January 2015 14:14 (nine years ago) link

i am a bad ilxor because i don't think i've ever listened to one of her songs ever, or if i have, they have left no trace at all. will dutifully trundle off to spotify i guess

why you gotta be so rmde (NickB), Thursday, 29 January 2015 14:17 (nine years ago) link

trundle to youtube, plenty of fun videos :)

nxd, Thursday, 29 January 2015 14:19 (nine years ago) link

the track that placed this year is really lovely, balearic pop - all ice creams and twinkling sand.

UK Horseshit Cru (dog latin), Thursday, 29 January 2015 14:23 (nine years ago) link

Also the video was awesome

YES TYPE all your albums ballot out and post them here (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 29 January 2015 14:25 (nine years ago) link

Wonderful album. This is my favourite of hers so far. Not a bad song on there.

Kitchen Person, Thursday, 29 January 2015 14:26 (nine years ago) link

Ok the one w the awesome video made last year's countdown

proggy went a-courtin' (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 29 January 2015 14:28 (nine years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/R8cVhon.jpg

19 RICH GANG The Tour Part 1 [581 points, 18 votes, 3 first place votes]

Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 January 2015 14:32 (nine years ago) link

ugh the hour i spent listening to this felt like about five. such an energy-suck, the beats all sound tinny and identical. don't think i enjoyed it at any point

lex pretend, Thursday, 29 January 2015 14:36 (nine years ago) link

lol I was gonna say, posting this during the UK shift won't work out so well

not a fan of much of this stuff. 'stoner' is fun. lyrics seem a combination of trite and problematic; will stand to be corrected though. fully aware that there's a large contingent who think these guys are saving rap or w/e

DJ Quit (imago), Thursday, 29 January 2015 14:37 (nine years ago) link

pretty cool starfish costume that one guy has

why you gotta be so rmde (NickB), Thursday, 29 January 2015 14:38 (nine years ago) link

tempted to check this out on the back of Lifestyle (which I love). So is this no good then?

UK Horseshit Cru (dog latin), Thursday, 29 January 2015 14:39 (nine years ago) link

hahahaha xp

Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 January 2015 14:39 (nine years ago) link

let's allow the trap gang their say, dear chap

DJ Quit (imago), Thursday, 29 January 2015 14:40 (nine years ago) link

the trap cadre

DJ Quit (imago), Thursday, 29 January 2015 14:40 (nine years ago) link

Love the Rich Gang, tho somehow left it off my ballot I think. Kinda have endless patience for rap in this wheelhouse.

pandemic, Thursday, 29 January 2015 14:40 (nine years ago) link

also yeah ty

young thug squarepants (imago), Thursday, 29 January 2015 14:41 (nine years ago) link

Voted for the DJ Quik from yesterday as well mainly on the strength of the 4 songs I really love on it. Problematic lyrics?? Yeah, don't care.

pandemic, Thursday, 29 January 2015 14:43 (nine years ago) link

imo you should but w/e

young thug squarepants (imago), Thursday, 29 January 2015 14:44 (nine years ago) link

He kept placing in the other pol rightl? Definitely had enough of him

saer, Thursday, 29 January 2015 14:44 (nine years ago) link

amazing mixtape, London On Da Track made my favorite beat of the year ("About The Money") and then proved he had a whole bunch of other tricks in his bag over the course of the Rich Gang project. have no idea what Lex means about tinny and identical production, the beats are varied and huge-sounding.

some dude, Thursday, 29 January 2015 14:44 (nine years ago) link

The curious should try "Flava" imo

rob, Thursday, 29 January 2015 14:49 (nine years ago) link

agree

some dude, Thursday, 29 January 2015 14:50 (nine years ago) link

19 RICH GANG The Tour Part 1 [581 points, 18 votes, 3 first place votes]

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, January 29, 2015 9:32 AM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://i.imgur.com/TRW9sSW.gif

#1 #1 #1

lag∞n, Thursday, 29 January 2015 14:53 (nine years ago) link

#1 19 RICH GANG The Tour Part 1 [581 points, 18 votes, 3 first place votes]

lag∞n, Thursday, 29 January 2015 14:54 (nine years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/GxIG8Xi.jpg

18 MIRANDA LAMBERT Platinum [604 points, 16 votes, 1 first place vote]

Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 January 2015 14:56 (nine years ago) link

xxp Like '730' off that tape a lot as well.

pandemic, Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:00 (nine years ago) link

awwww no top ten

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:01 (nine years ago) link

but is this the highest Lambert's ever ranked?

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:02 (nine years ago) link

Its weird after everybody clowned Lex for not 'getting' Lifestyle how...not good that song turned out to be. Thug literally sounds brain-damaged in the back half of every chorus.

You think Black Portland has a shot at making it?

(xp)

proggy went a-courtin' (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:02 (nine years ago) link

First Pistol Annies was top ten. I think CXG was in the thirties though

proggy went a-courtin' (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:03 (nine years ago) link

i remember when CMT first started playing the "Me and Charlie Talking" video round the clock 10 years ago and she seemed like the most feeble cheeseball wannabe star ever. still astounded she's become a critically beloved superstar.

some dude, Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:04 (nine years ago) link

the tape is so cool, the word/vibe that ultimately resonates with me re #1 RICH GANG The Tour Part 1 is intimate, like you get that feeling with thugger and quan of cabin fever, two dudes who are in the midst of spending a lot of time together (in the sutdio i guess) and theyve developed this chemistry of inside jokes and theyre starting to talk like and think like each other, which is really cool to hear in the music how their respective styles bleed into each other like quan totally gets on that thug tip with having a million diff styles/cadences every song and thuggers energy gets a little groovier and human via quan, its also intimate from the pov of being totally sexy w the smooth jazz beat and the near constant come ons which seem designed to appeal to actually humans rather than just some self involved braggy bodycount bs, such a legit great work of art everyone check it out :)

lag∞n, Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:05 (nine years ago) link

Thug literally sounds brain-damaged in the back half of every chorus.

That's the hook though

UK Horseshit Cru (dog latin), Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:05 (nine years ago) link

Black Portland definitely not gonna place. Christgau and a few other rockcrits prefer it to Rich Gang but not many people around here.

some dude, Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:05 (nine years ago) link

I rank Kerosene third among her albums.

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:06 (nine years ago) link

booming post from lagoon

some dude, Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:06 (nine years ago) link

country stars required by law to pose by wheeled conveyances

young thug squarepants (imago), Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:06 (nine years ago) link

Correction: CXG was #27 of 2007

proggy went a-courtin' (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:07 (nine years ago) link

i am rn printing out a photograph of a chaffinch on a computer whose speakers don't work, it is bliss

young thug squarepants (imago), Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:07 (nine years ago) link

def wanna get int othis now I've read lagoon's post.

UK Horseshit Cru (dog latin), Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:07 (nine years ago) link

great post lagoon

pandemic, Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:08 (nine years ago) link

[bows]

lag∞n, Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:09 (nine years ago) link

ya gr8 stuff

i was one of the three #1 votes. it tails off near the end but the openning run of, like, 10 songs givenchy thru i got is straight 10/10 one after the next

flopson, Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:11 (nine years ago) link

def a few songs in the second half that cldve been left off but it wld be an album not a tape in that case

lag∞n, Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:12 (nine years ago) link

if i had a few more months to digest it and/or a CD copy to play in my car it probably could've been my #1 instead of my #3

some dude, Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:14 (nine years ago) link


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