ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2014

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.

It was, but it wasn't transferred to the nominations list until about half way through the voting period.

still room for one more Lewis album

jenny lewis right?

day 1 > day 3 > day 2

Pretty much follows that pattern every year iirc

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

YG should be a shoo-in tbh

shoo-in for top 10, even

my top 5 prediction would be is d'angelo, twigs, swift, owen and yg

(delete the "is" lol)

im pretty sure no one voted for a beck album in the year 2014, especially a mopey-mode beck album

Yeah, I can't see the Beck album placing at all.

I think Monotony might be about right. Maybe Todd instead of YG.

VINCE STAPLES

If 8 votes got Babymetal in at #77 surely ILM's Staples stans can elevate Shyne Coldchain 2 into the top 20. Right? Right?!?

Vince Staples couldn't even break into the tracks poll, he ain't showing up

As shit as my poll has gone at least so far there has only only been 3 fucking tedious, useless, reductive fucking uber-schmoozer wanker-posts from ILX's leading worst fucking poster on this thread so far.

uh pinkprint was not nominated guys

― johnny crunch, Wednesday, January 28, 2015 5:38 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yup it was: ILM's 2014 End of Year Albums & Tracks Poll / NOMINATIONS THREAD

but it didn't make it into the list. ppl, who wanted to vote for it were supposed to email the ppl running the poll if they wanted it included ILM's 2014 End of Year Albums & Tracks Poll / VOTING THREAD

conspiracy, basically

hey wait, strychnine posted more than three times

(xp)

lol not true. I added it to the list when it was brought to my attention and it was added to your ballot manually within a half an hour of your request. CONSPIRACY MY EYE

;-)

http://i.imgur.com/8YVcuNW.jpg

SPOILER!

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isn't it a bit early for joke #1s?

had to be a bit more realistic and post that one as a joke #20

Pretty sure I've posted more than 3 times too so for once it's not me being called it.

Shabazz Palaces, oh my fucking god! We're near the end & honestly this feels like a subliminal trip, like Shabazz is in my head fiddling with the wires, implanting awesome ideas I won't fully comprehend until my net wisdom has reached a certain point. It's absolutely fucking glorious & easily my favourite discovery of the rollout so far. Thanks for voting for it!

^fake imago

Lol

Is xelab a faux-British matt p sock? Only other person who's come out of nowhere to hate me so much.

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

― emil.y, Wednesday, January 28, 2015 8:26 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, this was supposed to be the ultimate and it didn't quite meet my expectations. I'd actually thought about this collaboration before it happened, and when it did I couldn't believe it. But ultimately it's Scott doing his thing over Sunn O))) doing their thing. With a marriage of these minds it could have been more than the sum of its parts. I haven't gone back to it all that much, but it has consolidated both Bish Bosch and Monoliths & Dimensions as the apex (so far) of what each act is able to do in my opinion. Still, the lyrics on Herod 2014 are some of the best Scott's done and I think 'OOOOH THE WIDE MISSOURI' is pretty special. Still, not enough Sunn O)), and maybe the wrong amount of Scott.

Sorry guys, I love you. You are among my favourite acts in history, but this gets a B-.

i feel exactly the same way about Swans and Scott this year. They individually delivered my favourite albums of 2012, opened up so many horizons for me and acted like a bit of a benchmark in that respect which could never be surpassed, even by them.

I've basically been listening to Richard Dawson on repeat since it placed in the tracks poll. Great record. I love that high English tenor. I love his melodic turns and phrasings. Sometimes it is so funny the way he gives such big melodies to small lyrics such as, "chaaassssing a ball throuuuggh theeee mud"

On the other hand, Richard Dawson has filled my 'weird dark art-music dude' void, but only in the last couple of weeks. Nothing Important blew my mind. I didn't vote for him in the tracks poll because I think Nothing Important needs to be taken as a whole, and I'm pleased he deservedly beat out Swans and Scott O))) in those stakes.

This 'A Winged Victory For The Heart Of The Sun' thing is gorgeous! Absolutely just.. just gorgeous. Thanks ILM

imo their self-titled album from a few years ago is even more gorgeous

Is xelab a faux-British matt p sock? Only other person who's come out of nowhere to hate me so much.

Lol! Matt P even takes the piss out of me. You are a boring reactionary poster who has a habit of jumping in with an ill conceived "huh! pc gone mad" type demeanour on multiple threads in recent times. Some of them were threads where people were using disablist slurs, that leaves me thinking you deserve nothing but contempt, so until you you actually admit you are an arsehole, fuck off and die.

yea i shouldve posted abt it when i was doing my ballot cuz i was gonna put nicki on it, tho near the bottom tbh maybe giving it eight pts or something inconsequential

xelab...

now i want a faux british sock

http://i.imgur.com/UoH9NpW.png

Anywheeeee, Shabazz Palaces... No, this is twiggy cobweb music to me. Then again, I have an increasing aversion to excessive reverb and over-reliance on plugin-style effects these days. It's too often a get-out-of-jail-card for artists who either seem to be embarrassed about their abilities or want a cheap way to make themselves sound out-of-the-ordinary. It's my chief problem with bands like War On Drugs - it attempts grand gestures but modesty-screens them in washy films of echo and haze until I'm left stranded without anything to really catch hold.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcEXydy8zGM

inividuals' routine rote dismissal of entire genres is my least favourite thing about ILM

OTM x 100000. the tracks poll was so over the top, it was ridiculous. people like different things, get over it. almost made it so i didn't even want to post anymore.

5/57