ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2014

Grouper OTM

Neneh was my #2, and it was a late addition. I def felt when I heard it "this is better than anything else I'd heard this year". Lex you are not the first person I'd heard say that you found yourself not coming back to it after a very positive first impression. Idk maybe that will happen to me too :\

todd terje yes. not so sure about grouper.

Any chance Ariana Grande is in the top 20?

The one thing I regret about skipping the Pitchfork Fest was missing Neneh Cherry. Did anyone see her show?

― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, January 28, 2015 3:55 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It was just all right.

suppose it would be nice for there to be more tunes (not just on the TB&B album but generally) that sound as infinity-swimming-pools luxuriant as Babyface's absolute best productions of the 90s ("You're Making Me High", "Diggin' On You" etc.)

I hear this on "Let's Do It": the oh-oh-oh and quiet insistent "Let's do it" Babyface backup vocals, the ooooh-ooohs after the chorus hook.

miranda and juan maclean are safe bets too; i agree that mariah and angaleena don't get in. parquet got love everywhere else and nicki stans are a considerable voting bloc. so:
Run The Jewels
D'Angelo
Taylor Swift
fka Twigs
Tinashe
Charli XCX
Caribou
Owen Pallett
The War on Drugs
Aphex Twin
Against Me!
St Vincent
YG
Miranda Lambert
The Juan McLean
Rich Gang

and i'd bet on parquet and nicki... Phantogram? Did Terje's "It's Album Time" not go in for last year? If not, it's gotta place here right?

Grouper / Protomartyr split?

Seems like only 1 album from the metal poll top 10 is going to place. Even the winner isn't going to place. You would think a few things would crossover to ilm in general.

I bet Arca will place

xxp as in: which of the two is more likely to make it

who is going to finish second to D'angelo?

grouper x 10000 xp

Did Terje's "It's Album Time" not go in for last year?

it just came out this past April!

no Pharmakon, damn

1 to 4 in no order - D'Angelo, Taylor, RTJ, Aphex

xps to slop i voted for nux vomica and YOB!

crut, i guess I got all the Strandbar/Spiral stuff confused with it. It's a fun album!

RTJ will not be top 4. FKA twigs will.

i think aphex will be a shock placing outside the top 10

(definitely nux vomica...i barely remember my ballot at this point)

1. FKA
2. D'Angelo (juuuuust released too late to take no 1 spot imho)
3. Tay-tay
4. Aphex
5. St. Vincent

as a nicki stan i can assure you that the pinkprint will have been nowhere near placing

slothslopslimes

i'm thinking miranda lambert will be in the top ten

Love the Protomartyr (would've been top 5 on my ballot had I voted) -- but if it hasn't gone in already, it's not going to.

d'angelo's not gonna make it. sorry guys.

i voted 4 nicki

I was late to the Charli XCX game & didn't vote for it but that album is great

Given what's placed already I can't see Sleaford Mods missing the entire top 77. Ditto Flying Lotus.

Yeah, I'm not sure D'Angelo will be number one. If Beyonce couldn't win last year I'm not sure he can.

Sharon von Etten might sneak in? Please God no Beck or Damon

really hope SVE makes it in that album was fucking incredible

Amory's top 5 looks about right, StV will prob be a bit lower though

no Protomartyr is a bummer

SVE will make top 20, no doubt. Beck though, by god I hope he doesn't place... For ILM's sake. Think abt the children ffs.

I think Owen Pallett might stand a chance of being top five. That album had crazy support on here. I wouldn't rule Todd Terje out either. I think he'll be like Daft Punk last year where the thread was full of people saying they were disappointed but the album will still do really well.

todd terje album was so so good but it just didn't feel right putting it on my albums ballot, y'know?

If you insist:

Winner: D'Angelo and the Vanguard
Top 5: FKA twigs, Taylor Swift
Certainly: Against Me!, Aphex Twin, Caribou, Charli XCX, The Juan McLean, Miranda Lambert, Nicki Minaj, Owen Pallett, St. Vincent, Rich Gang, Run The Jewels, Tinashe, Todd Terje, The War on Drugs
Likely: Beck, Grouper, Flying Lotus, Javiera Mena, Perfume Genius, Sharon von Etten
Possibly: Arca, Phantogram

What will be the album with the longest dedicated thread that has absolutely fuck all chance of placing?

My guess is: Thom Yorke - Tomorrow's Modern Boxes

I think Twigs is gonna win.

yup

Migos?

would be surprised by Beck or Phantogram.

People saying they really liked the Neneh album and then just let it fade away experienced it just the opposite of how I did. I thought it was cool initially, but then it just kept getting better and better.

Migos suffer from vote splitting.

Would be surprised if Minaj made it. Not a lot of love for the album once it eventually came out and it wasn't even included in the nominations list until a few days before closing due to error.

uh pinkprint was not nominated guys

Sia? Nenad Markovic? lol

in that case nicki puts thommy to shame:

Nicki Minaj - The Pink Print (2014)
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Thom Yorke - Tomorrow's Modern Boxes
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oh ok maybe just last min, wasnt there when i voted

I think at this exact point last year people were debating if the first Run The Jewels album was going to make it. It missed out but can't remember by how much now.