ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2014

They seem like okay kids, but they're definitely too far on the Ryan Tedder/OneRepublic end of pop music for me to embrace any of their songs.

― Johnny Fever,

not at all!

so did DJ Q get his album title from ILX?

y

oh that is very cool

and how did we repay him

lol

his next album's called '43'

We should get DJ Q to post here regularly.

Catching up: Really thrilled that the Wild Beasts album made it, my number 3.

xp to Alfred - Tedder is one of the chief architects of the very blocky strict measure for measure pop that dominates both top 40 and country radio that sounds like they just dragged and dropped songs into being using Logic. I won't get into it all here—in fact I may never get into it because it seems to go nowhere anytime I do—but it's a formula I don't like at all.

i just don't think 1d occupy that space at all

their blockiness is stadium rock-derived. not that tedder's isn't i guess

Isn't there a thread for pics of musicians and their synths?

http://i.imgur.com/azBbKXS.png

I voted for and named this album.

I hear more traditional guitar-bass-drums arrangements and climaxes, with a power pop bass. Tedder can't resist electronified white gospel rave-ups.

You're still distracted by the flourishes. I'm talking about the very skeleton of the songs. (It had already begun to take that turn before OneRepublic ever happened, but he's ballooned the style certainly.)

Back to Ineffable, though...this is great!

think Rev needs a bit more erence for his feat of boosting tbrr

http://i.imgur.com/rJIpNt7.jpg

42 LEE ANN WOMACK The Way I'm Livin' [380 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote]

his next album's called '43' '77'

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i like that cover it looks like something King Tee would have if he had a new album

i would be interested in hearing this just based on that cover

YES

This album took a while, and it's not as indelible imo as There's More Where That Came From, but the singing and playing are first-rate.

was about to say the same, awesome cover!

Really hoping the rest of the album sounds like "All His Saints".

That is an awesome cover.

I like the cover too. I agree with standing next to cars

fyi everyone i'm clothes shopping with my gf right now and the store is playing warpaint

Where's the best place in the forest to find cars saer

Tedder is one of the chief architects of the very blocky strict measure for measure pop that dominates both top 40 and country radio that sounds like they just dragged and dropped songs into being using Logic. I won't get into it all here—in fact I may never get into it because it seems to go nowhere anytime I do—but it's a formula I don't like at all.

It sounds like you're saying "he writes pop songs using the rules for constructing a pop song", which I don't believe is what you're trying to say.

Well hey, "Chances Are" is some good old slow country too. I'm guess Lee Ann isn't beholden to the big pop country sound? Please don't betray me, album. I want to like you.

It sounds like you're saying "he writes pop songs using the rules for constructing a pop song", which I don't believe is what you're trying to say.

No, you're right. I may elaborate someday, but not now.

this song:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5_xgDDrvzo

No, you're right. I may elaborate someday, but not now.

I hope you do, and that when you do this baffled expression leaves my face

sometimes i want to like this kind of thing. maybe when i'm 55 and living in grand junction with a dog and gin.

1D are pretty approachable

lee ann womack record most devastating record of the year

excellent journalism from our j0rdan on that front:

http://rankings.gawker.com/the-dumb-faces-of-one-directions-four-ranked-1661231846

lmao love it

xps
It suits me as 41 yr old with a dog and a carton of Tesco wine, that song sounded really lovely and I need to dig more country really.

btw Noura Mint Seymali is ungodly good wow

i worked a concert recently and got to hear lee ann womack sing an emmylou harris song, she sounded gorgeous. haven't heard any of her singles in a while so i had kinda forgotten about her.

oh i dialed the album up on spotify, couldn't get past the jesus song tbr but the rest sounded aight. her voice is great.

Her 2008 album had a couple of bangers. Try "Solitary Thinkin'."

Really glad this list broke out of its ambient/Balearic/dreamy indie pattern in such style.

I reckon Q would be quite happy at beating Katy B and One Direction fwiw.

oh i dialed the album up on spotify, couldn't get past the jesus song tbr but the rest sounded aight. her voice is great.

jesus can you save me
from going crazy

http://i.imgur.com/OmwYt29.jpg

41 EX HEX Rips [380 points, 15 votes]

I love this record and this band. Shame it wasn't released until the fall as this is amazing summer driving music.

I still haven't gotten around to that one. Which is good because I CAN just wait until summer.

oh shit this rules