Didn't find an in to this Eilish album but may not have tried hard enough
― abcfsk, Friday, 11 February 2022 18:40 (two years ago) link
Feel like the 11-30 range is always my sweet spot in these polls, then we get into the kind of music that I hear (and appreciate!) while trying to decide if I'm too old to pull off these dusty rose-colored slim fit chinos (I am).
― beard papa, Friday, 11 February 2022 18:41 (two years ago) link
I've said this elsewhere but:
- the CHVRCHES album singlehandedly revived my interest in them in a band after years of going "well they're all right I guess but ultimately *yawn*", every single song is fire- I would argue that few, if any, songs on Happier Than Ever reach the heights of Billie's previous singles but the album is way greater than the sum of its parts and much, much better than the debut
― castanuts (DJP), Friday, 11 February 2022 18:43 (two years ago) link
Think I voted for everything in the top ten so far.
After lowering my expectations for the Billie album based on the singles, I ended up loving it more than the debut.
― kitchen person, Friday, 11 February 2022 18:47 (two years ago) link
God today's rollout is making me depressed
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Friday, 11 February 2022 18:47 (two years ago) link
yep
― imago, Friday, 11 February 2022 18:48 (two years ago) link
I think it's been mentioned by other posters on other threads, but I agree that it's bemusing how Eilish's debut is massively popular and Grammy-winning when the EP and the second album are much better.
I'm assuming Arooj Aftab and Floating Points make it into the top 5 from here?
― aphoristical, Friday, 11 February 2022 18:50 (two years ago) link
I do think the need to state "why would you listen to female-fronted pop music when you could listen instead to this guy farting into a tuba for 4 hours" is an impulse worth interrogating
― castanuts (DJP), Friday, 11 February 2022 18:52 (two years ago) link
Nala Sinephro made it! Had no expectations of that one placing, but I'm stoked others recognize how gorgeous and well produced it is. Definitely play that one on your best system/cans sometime
― octobeard, Friday, 11 February 2022 18:53 (two years ago) link
The Floating Points record is one where conceptually it should have been one of my favorites, but it just left me empty and it didn't even make my ballot. I'm sure it makes top 5 though...
― octobeard, Friday, 11 February 2022 18:54 (two years ago) link
table/imago otm
― Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note I'm (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 11 February 2022 18:55 (two years ago) link
do think the need to state "why would you listen to female-fronted pop music when you could listen instead to this guy farting into a tuba for 4 hours" is an impulse worth interrogating
― castanuts (DJP), Friday, February 11, 2022 1:52 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink
You tell that cloud!
― Evan, Friday, 11 February 2022 18:55 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/ceZ1atL.jpg5. Magdalena Bay - Mercurial World559 points / 17 votes / 1 #1 voteVideo from the album: “Secrets (Your Fire)”https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=110343
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 11 February 2022 18:56 (two years ago) link
Mercurial World the only album on this list i truly love
― Murgatroid, Friday, 11 February 2022 18:57 (two years ago) link
maybe i just don't like music anymore
― Murgatroid, Friday, 11 February 2022 18:58 (two years ago) link
Honestly, in the context of what's to come, too low. I wasn't completely impressed with the whole, but I was VERY impressed with parts. I think they have greater in store. They're a sort of music I expect and demand ILM to champion.
― imago, Friday, 11 February 2022 18:58 (two years ago) link
can't believe birthday ass made top 4
― nxd, Friday, 11 February 2022 18:59 (two years ago) link
This list has been 50% 50 year old rockers and 50% instrumental introversion and some posters still have the gall to complain about a few pop albums showing up.
― abcfsk, Friday, 11 February 2022 18:59 (two years ago) link
No way Floating Points is in the top 5, although from the discussion on the album thread there would be riots.
Lots of alternative rock music today, huh.
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 11 February 2022 19:00 (two years ago) link
Love this album, also my personal #5.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 11 February 2022 19:01 (two years ago) link
I'm think we might need a goon-style rolling thread where me/table/imago/Raymond can just talk about noise/free improv/sound art/field recordings without having to constantly butt our heads against the Jepsen Actuallys
― Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note I'm (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 11 February 2022 19:01 (two years ago) link
I swear every pop singer sounds exactly the same nowadays (well, the men all sound alike and the women all sound alike), don't know how ppl aren't sick of it by now *shakes fist at cloud*
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 11 February 2022 19:01 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/kbjLYK7.jpg4. Cleo Sol - Mother587 points / 20 votesSong from the album: “Promises”Sault - What's the story?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 11 February 2022 19:01 (two years ago) link
And there's always a build up to a I'M STILL SINGING THE SAME WAY BUT NOW I'M LOUDER chorus
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 11 February 2022 19:02 (two years ago) link
Jepsen rocks! Magdalena Bay are v much in that upbeat lineage, albeit with a few bells and whistles. The ubiquitous...vibes are more what I object to; none of these artists are bad on their own but together they create a Vibe don't they
― imago, Friday, 11 February 2022 19:04 (two years ago) link
Inflo Industries are thoroughly plugged into said Vibe
― castanuts (DJP)
I like female-fronted pop music but I want to heard this guy farting into a tuba album, please.
― emil.y, Friday, 11 February 2022 19:06 (two years ago) link
After having very few votes place the first few days, I voted for a lot of today, including what I'm assuming are the top 3...Arooj, Floating Points, Low. Cleo Sol was on my long list and has grown on me a lot.
Guess I'm going to have to revisit that Wolf Alice album!
― Indexed, Friday, 11 February 2022 19:07 (two years ago) link
But yeah, the lack of variety within pop (and only secondarily, lack of variety of genre and lack of interest in music that decidedly WILL wake the baby) is as ever the issue, not the fact of pop, which is ILM's primary Cause after all
― imago, Friday, 11 February 2022 19:07 (two years ago) link
― Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note I'm (Whiney G. Weingarten)
You mean something like Rolling weird music // time travel // unclassifiable 2021 ?
― emil.y, Friday, 11 February 2022 19:07 (two years ago) link
the consensus picks go to the top that's just math ???
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 11 February 2022 19:08 (two years ago) link
glad to see Cleo here after all!
cleo sol album brings "vibes" the same way that riperton's come into my garden does. it's a cohesive collection of beautifully sung and performed songs.
― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Friday, 11 February 2022 19:08 (two years ago) link
This is basically what Billie Eilish/Olivia Rodrigo sound like to me
http://www.youtubemultiplier.com/6206b40052985-ilx-poll-winners-2021.php
― Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note I'm (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 11 February 2022 19:09 (two years ago) link
that might just be your tinnitus
― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Friday, 11 February 2022 19:10 (two years ago) link
Soft Sounds From Another Planet did place in our 2017 list Indexed, but much lower down. In the 40s I think?
― kitchen person, Friday, February 11, 2022 12:22 PM (forty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Ah cool. Still like that one as an album more than Jubilee. Psychopomp is dream pop ear candy, too.
― Indexed, Friday, 11 February 2022 19:11 (two years ago) link
I get the same vibe from Cleo Sol that I do from Riperton, and, sure, I have moments when they bore me despite liking their albums (I top twentied Sol).
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 11 February 2022 19:11 (two years ago) link
I liked the Wolf Alice album because it functioned as a sampler of most alt-rock styles since 1992.
― Indexed
Two of those are correct, the other is Ms. Musgraves
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 11 February 2022 19:12 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/9tsvSaZ.jpg3. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises592 points / 18 votes / 1 #1 voteFan Video from the album: “Movement 6”Floating Points and Pharoah Sanders and London Symphony Orchestra - Promises (2021)
I'm amazed Cleo Sol landed so high, I thought it was quite a drop off from her last one
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 11 February 2022 19:13 (two years ago) link
whaaaat no Arooj? Come to think of it i was surprised how few track votes she got, on the spreadsheet (wasn't in top 77)
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 11 February 2022 19:14 (two years ago) link
Oh maffew.
― imago, Friday, 11 February 2022 19:14 (two years ago) link
I also liked Cleo Sol’s previous one a whole lot better, but this one is perfectly good as it is. Wont complain at the high placement, really enjoyed this one for a couple of months.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 11 February 2022 19:15 (two years ago) link
sadly mirroring the Obama situation where he was apparently all about her in the summer but a fake friend at year's end
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 11 February 2022 19:15 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/U5DPTwu.jpg2. Arooj Aftab - Vulture Prince639 points / 18 votes / 2 #1 votesLive from Joe’s Pub with Vijay Iyer and Shahzad Ismaily, 2019Arooj Aftab
:tears of joy:
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 11 February 2022 19:16 (two years ago) link
what a run. thanks pollrunners!
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 11 February 2022 19:17 (two years ago) link
And of course to surprise of absolutely noone in the board:
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 11 February 2022 19:17 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/ZnHq8zv.jpg1. Low - HEY WHAT1114 points / 30 votes / 5 #1 votesVideo from the album: “Disappearing”Too LOW: ILM Artist Poll #111 - Low - RESULTSDo You Know How to POLLtz?: ILM Artist Poll #111 - Low