ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2014

xpost to mike t-diva, yea the album basically climaxes with "oxygen" and then sorta peters out, closing title track is particularly meandering and doesn't add much

i still want someone to photoshop frank sobotka on this swans cover:

http://i.imgur.com/Ildk6Gg.png

Gazelle Twin is way too low

All 19 of us who heard it voted.

If only all 19 of you went on to start ILM threads too

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25 SCOTT WALKER & SUNN 0))) Soused [482 points, 18 votes, 1 first place vote]

ha, guess we're in the spooky old man music stretch here

someone asked me today what i'd think about a scott walker POTUS run and i was briefly very confused

:) liked what I have heard of this

Probably my biggest disappointment of the year. I was hyped for it, but it just didn't click. I think the mix was off.

nice juxtaposition!

I have hated everything I've ever heard by Scott Walker, except for this album, which I like quite a lot

I preferred all the minor side projects from various Sunn members than this.

This initially disappointed me. I've come to enjoy it quite a bit. Sure, it's a step down from Bish Bosch, but that is one of the best albums ever made.

I dig it.

Kinda wish it and the Swans record coulda swapped lengths

ha, guess we're in the spooky old man music stretch here

― gr8080, Wednesday, January 28, 2015 3:25 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this seems to happen around this time every year

haha totally OTM xp

leonard cohen must be coming up

My #23 and my first to poll. Pretty good, but expectations were pretty ridic. Surprised it's this high but I guess it was always gonna get widely checked out and there wasn't much wrong with it. Those opening riffs also start things w/ a good lol.

lots of xps: the reason Nicki Minaj or Azealia Banks using "cunt" was such a big deal is because the word is so generally verboten in the US. It's just not something you hear often so it's kind of shocking when it is used. It's very different than Brits being all I met my old cunt down at the pub or whatever.

i don't know that i listened to the new alb but i saw swans this summer for the second time in 2 years and it was way worse than the first. the first time was really dynamic, with extended quiet parts that were insanely beautiful, but this time was just brutally loud and relentless. and like, 2.5 hours long. also the guy who plays that electric lapsteel thing was way too loud in the mix, like overpowering everything else in the mix at its peak, but whenever the sound guy would try and turn him down gira would scream at him to leave the levels as they were. such an asshole. changed my impression of him from obdurate musical genius to just cranky deaf asshole

Like if a dude in the US says cunt a lot there's a 100% chance they're a hardcore misogynist.

true

i don't think i even knew the word "cunt" till i started reading ILX

My old mother never says the c-word out loud, she fucking S-P-E-L-L-S it, I'm all like 'Ma, you just made it last 4 times as long'.

*british accent* why charles i'm feeling rather cunty this morning

for queen and cunty

oh, I guess ballroom types are the exception

could we just get back to talking about scott walker & cunnt ((())) plz

see you next tuesday

Last time I saw someone get called the c-word IRL, blows were exchanged, the cops came, everything.

Cuntry is very under-represented on this poll so far

I met my old cunt down at the pub or whatever.

― The Reverend, Wednesday, January 28, 2015 3:34 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

Irl lol btw

Difficult Listening For Old Men

quoting mike skinner there

got your girl in the cunt and she choosay

del boy fell through the cunt, top laugh that

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24 K. MICHELLE Anybody Wanna Buy a Heart? [486 points, 17 votes, 1 first place vote]

(If I were to re-vote, this would be my #1. As it was, it was my #3.)

Thank heck for that

whoop whoop

whooooooooo!

WOOO

who????

j/k i do like this album

I didn't think there was a standout track on this but it's really solid front to back yeah

wasn't 100% on this but i thought 'going under' was a fantastic song

Didn't vote for it, but this is a very good album. "How Do You Know" was my favorite track. Love the cover art too.

"Drake Would Love Me," y'all.

ILX would love me

a totally fucking great album