ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2014

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

trundle to youtube, plenty of fun videos :)

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

Also the video was awesome

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

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

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

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

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

pretty cool starfish costume that one guy has

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

hahahaha xp

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

the trap cadre

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

also yeah ty

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.

imo you should but w/e

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

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.

The curious should try "Flava" imo

agree

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

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#1 #1 #1

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

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

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

awwww no top ten

but is this the highest Lambert's ever ranked?

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?

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

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.

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 :)

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

That's the hook though

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

I rank Kerosene third among her albums.

booming post from lagoon

country stars required by law to pose by wheeled conveyances

Correction: CXG was #27 of 2007

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

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

great post lagoon

[bows]

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

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

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

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17 AGAINST ME! Transgender Dysphoria Blues [607 points, 16 votes, 4 first place votes]

the CROZ album is actually pretty good! It's better the new Spoon IMO (&i'm a moderate Spoon fan).

also i love "who's on top" obvs

top tenned the last two. My Young Thug-Migos-Rich Gang go-to thing remains The lag∞n Mixtape