Unless this is a cruel fakeout, this means that I voted for both the #1 track AND the #1 album. That has definitely never ever happened before. Fuck.
― emil.y, Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:04 (five years ago) link
Thank you, pollrunners. Thoroughly enjoyable and well-executed rollout!
― tangenttangent, Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:05 (five years ago) link
blurb for kacey yes ? xpYeah!
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:05 (five years ago) link
emil.y your ILM-embroidered jacket should arrive in the next 2-6 weeks
― budo jeru, Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:06 (five years ago) link
also thanks very much Moka, forks, and seandalai !!!
Low's last one finished relatively....low...compared to this. Ones and Sixes was at #43.
― omar little, Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:06 (five years ago) link
Yes! Low my #1. Kinda knew it would win but didn't want to jinx it. 1440 points is, like, all-time high though, isn't it? Which I did not expect.
― Jeff W, Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:07 (five years ago) link
I think that's a fair discrepancy. this one felt like the fully-fleshed-out version of that one. xp
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:07 (five years ago) link
https://www.twitter.com/BruceLevenstein/status/1075876452887916544
― *there's (Noel Emits), Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:08 (five years ago) link
Thanks Moka! ulysses! seandadata! Standards maintained, and arguably surpassed this year.
― Jeff W, Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:08 (five years ago) link
45 votes has to be close to a record
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:08 (five years ago) link
/ 'great choice for #1, in my opinion'
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:09 (five years ago) link
That Low album pwns. It's perfect for headphones.
― GDPR vs GAPDY (DJP), Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:09 (five years ago) link
DAMMIT
― budo jeru
^^^
hahaha yess!
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:09 (five years ago) link
Low's great! if they ever tour anywhere near you, go
still feel weird about the time I saw side project Retribution Gospel Choir and there were about a dozen people in the audience but they still completely went all-out
― mh, Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:09 (five years ago) link
Kendrick scored 62 votes for To Pimp a Butterfly, don't know if that was the record though.
― omar little, Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:10 (five years ago) link
One more week to vote in the 2018 ILX metal poll! Don't forget to cast a ballot!
The 2018 ILX Metal n' Heavy Rock Poll VOTING + CAMPAIGNING thread! NEW EXTENDED DEADLINE! Ballots due by Friday, February 15th 11.59pm PST
― aquaman goes to college (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:10 (five years ago) link
To the people who organized this, thank you very much, this is the best list and ILM is the best community.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:10 (five years ago) link
thank you poll-runners and ILXors :)
― jmm, Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:10 (five years ago) link
Great job running this, folks.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:10 (five years ago) link
thx to the poll-runners!
onward to metal
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:11 (five years ago) link
great poll moka, forks, seandalai. well chuffed with that #1
― Friedrich B. Neechy (Oor Neechy), Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:12 (five years ago) link
I listened to the Low album once maybe a couple of months ago and it did not make much of an impression, I should give it a more focused listen I guess.
― silverfish, Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:13 (five years ago) link
I sneakily suspect Low could win because it was my #1 and I've never been a Low stan. There must be others like me.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, February 6, 2019 2:51 PM
I'm a genius.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:15 (five years ago) link
thank you to the pollrunners, and thank you to all the other people who helped place a whole bunch of albums i loved onto this list
― simmy simmy ya, simmy yam simmy yay (voodoo chili), Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:16 (five years ago) link
Low was my #1. I kind of wanted to give one of my more idiosyncratic favorites the top spot, but this was just too good in every way imaginable. Low is a band I always admired, but never loved. The couple times I saw them live were brilliant, but I never had the patience for their recordings. Did not expect they'd put out an album that would instantly hook me. This is the perfect example of a traditional guitar/bass/drums band using modern technology to its fullest to create something new and unusual, completely avoiding the kids let loose in a room full of toys mentality of so many rock bands turned tech neophytes. These songs have weight and alien timbers, mystery and drama, and are unmistakably Low to the core. The album flows so well from song to song, and manages to feel brief despite their signature glacial pace. Perfect.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:16 (five years ago) link
how many ballots total were there?
― frogbs, Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:17 (five years ago) link
it did not make much of an impression, I should give it a more focused listen I guess.
― silverfish, Thursday, February 7, 2019 2:13 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol i feel like this about maybe 15 or 20 albums on this list
― budo jeru, Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:17 (five years ago) link
usually I find the album list is a bit snoozy compared to the tracks list in terms of diversity and placement, but I had a blast with it this year
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:18 (five years ago) link
yeah, great list
― imago, Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:19 (five years ago) link
booming post moodles
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:19 (five years ago) link
sorry i went overboard with the holter slagging, i get carried away at the sharp end of an eoy. will re-check everything i've heard and discover everything i haven't
I voted for my 10 favorite albums, and I think only two of them placed? I get why many of the rest wouldn’t be widespread faves, but the absence of Brandi Carlile does surprise me. Did you guys just not hear that LP? (It’s not even quite in my “wheelhouse,” yet it’s so objectively great I had to vote for it!)
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:19 (five years ago) link
most surprising absence imo: pistol annies
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:21 (five years ago) link
a bit surprised the Pistol Annies didn't place, it was probably just outside the 77. Brandi Carlile was my guess for the other country album to show up.
― omar little, Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:21 (five years ago) link
I also voted for Brandi xps
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:22 (five years ago) link
Thanks poll runners! Just caught up. Happy with that as a winner. Confusion hath made its masterpiece.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:23 (five years ago) link
LOW
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:24 (five years ago) link
!!!!!!!!!!
i love ilm, personally
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:25 (five years ago) link
Country music is not really a thing here, so I've never heard of those artists. Wouldn't know who Kacey Musgraves is either, if it wasn't for ILM.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:25 (five years ago) link
wow, Robyn made the top 3. Ah well. Low #1 though! So good! ILMFTW
― octobeard, Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:26 (five years ago) link
wrt Low, it's crazy to me that a band managed to put out their best album 25 years in. makes me kind of hopeful.
― fffv, Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:26 (five years ago) link
Great poll!
Moka, tell us: who bears the onus of 78?
― aquaman goes to college (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:27 (five years ago) link
wait, people are saying the new one is the *best* Low album? I've got to get back to it to relisten
― mh, Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:28 (five years ago) link
Good winner, pretty great 77.
Thankig u Moka, Forks and Seandalai! <3
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:28 (five years ago) link
it is def a contender for best Low album, though Trust is my sentimental fave
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:29 (five years ago) link
As someone who's gone between indifference and mild delight re: Low since the 90s, this is the only one that makes my jaw drop.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:31 (five years ago) link