ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2014

awwww no top ten

but is this the highest Lambert's ever ranked?

Its weird after everybody clowned Lex for not 'getting' Lifestyle how...not good that song turned out to be. Thug literally sounds brain-damaged in the back half of every chorus.

You think Black Portland has a shot at making it?

(xp)

First Pistol Annies was top ten. I think CXG was in the thirties though

i remember when CMT first started playing the "Me and Charlie Talking" video round the clock 10 years ago and she seemed like the most feeble cheeseball wannabe star ever. still astounded she's become a critically beloved superstar.

the tape is so cool, the word/vibe that ultimately resonates with me re #1 RICH GANG The Tour Part 1 is intimate, like you get that feeling with thugger and quan of cabin fever, two dudes who are in the midst of spending a lot of time together (in the sutdio i guess) and theyve developed this chemistry of inside jokes and theyre starting to talk like and think like each other, which is really cool to hear in the music how their respective styles bleed into each other like quan totally gets on that thug tip with having a million diff styles/cadences every song and thuggers energy gets a little groovier and human via quan, its also intimate from the pov of being totally sexy w the smooth jazz beat and the near constant come ons which seem designed to appeal to actually humans rather than just some self involved braggy bodycount bs, such a legit great work of art everyone check it out :)

Thug literally sounds brain-damaged in the back half of every chorus.

That's the hook though

Black Portland definitely not gonna place. Christgau and a few other rockcrits prefer it to Rich Gang but not many people around here.

I rank Kerosene third among her albums.

booming post from lagoon

country stars required by law to pose by wheeled conveyances

Correction: CXG was #27 of 2007

i am rn printing out a photograph of a chaffinch on a computer whose speakers don't work, it is bliss

def wanna get int othis now I've read lagoon's post.

great post lagoon

[bows]

ya gr8 stuff

i was one of the three #1 votes. it tails off near the end but the openning run of, like, 10 songs givenchy thru i got is straight 10/10 one after the next

def a few songs in the second half that cldve been left off but it wld be an album not a tape in that case

if i had a few more months to digest it and/or a CD copy to play in my car it probably could've been my #1 instead of my #3

http://i.imgur.com/9jrcTOU.jpg

17 AGAINST ME! Transgender Dysphoria Blues [607 points, 16 votes, 4 first place votes]

the CROZ album is actually pretty good! It's better the new Spoon IMO (&i'm a moderate Spoon fan).

also i love "who's on top" obvs

top tenned the last two. My Young Thug-Migos-Rich Gang go-to thing remains The lag∞n Mixtape

today's nipple count at 3

excellent record
erroneously thought i voted fuckmylife666 so didn't vote for the album :( what a dope

phew

my #23

clicked on the NPR stream of this expecting to be all 'oh ilm and its silly taste in rock', ended up listening to the damn thing about 3 times

it's superb imo - rollicking, super energetic, well-written and lyrically important

this miranda lambert album is really awesome. her solo albums since crazy ex-girlfriend both underwhelmed me to varying degrees despite those years seeing the emergence of pistol annies (so you couldn't really say lambert fell off at all) and of course the whole post-lambert wave of young female country talents. but i think platinum finally found her finding a mode that worked for her as an established grande dame rather than young ferocious firebrand shooting everything up. someone on her thread compared it to beyoncé and that's really accurate - both albums made by women at the peak of their profession and genre, both deeply personal in their reflections on themselves and outward-facing in their commentary on femininity/body image in society and crucially multi-faceted in the way they balance the traditional with the radical

"bathroom sink" is just killer, and works so well as the dark flipside of "platinum" in which miranda revels in her ability to win a game she knows is rotten
"girls" feels like an anthem in waiting
"two rings shy" spins and lurches and wheels around its central metaphor brilliantly
"hard staying sober" has that amazing false ending then WHY YA THINK THE WORLD DRINKS??????

tempted to check this out on the back of Lifestyle (which I love). So is this no good then?

― UK Horseshit Cru (dog latin), Thursday, January 29, 2015 9:39 AM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

never listen to lex's opinions on rap music

and it's appropriate that she wrote "Bathroom Sink" by herself.

My #1 album of the year, marred by poor single choices.

worst development of this poll is imago letting us know every time he finds the lyrics of a rap song problematic

Other M Lambert placings:

Kerosene - #445 of 2005
Revolution - #31 of 2009
Four the Record - #233 of 2011

xp !!! I had TDB pegged for top ten for sure!

also ty to 'some dude' for nominating (among certain other things) the Chumped album, because that's emerging as another great pop-punk/emo record from 2014, with another strong pan-album lyrical conceit

never listen to lex's opinions on rap music

― flopson, Thursday, January 29, 2015 3:21 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i like most of the same rap music as you, dickhead

That it for you LJ? I have one more coming

top tenned the last two. My Young Thug-Migos-Rich Gang go-to thing remains The lag∞n Mixtape

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, January 29, 2015 10:18 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

being ilxes #1 young thug scholar is a lot of responsibility but also an honor thank you

I have 1 more - a very high vote from me too. Clue: he's an ILX poster, lol

worst development of this poll is imago letting us know every time he finds the lyrics of a rap song problematic

― flopson, Thursday, January 29, 2015 3:21 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i agree with this though, add in his commentary about country and it's just like...does he even realise the stereotypical ignorance rap and country fans have heard a million times before

oh no, I have 2 more. the other one is not an ILX poster but it is 2 rappers rollin' 2003 or w/e the h8rs call it

what is my commentary on country in this poll?

don't believe I've said anything except to praise LAW a bit and point out the similarities in album covers

Metal lyrics are just as bad as rap

and look at the lazy stereotyping metal gets too

also ty to 'some dude' for nominating (among certain other things) the Chumped album, because that's emerging as another great pop-punk/emo record from 2014, with another strong pan-album lyrical conceit

speaking of i thought the hotelier might place. lol guess not

metal lyrics are extremely good and cool

i agree with this though, add in his commentary about country and it's just like...does he even realise the stereotypical ignorance rap and country fans have heard a million times before
― lex pretend, Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:26 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

And indie and metal but w/e

Oh too late

Metal lyrics are just as bad as rap
― sock (strychnine), Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:29 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Have you ever heard any metal or even taken notice of the lyrics? Or is this just an assumption?

anyway ftr i enjoy lex's contributions to these threads, his consistency of taste & his enthusiasm (not dissimilar to my own) so idk peace, you take your miranda lambert and i'll take my menace ruine

ignore strychnine

but maybe strychnine thinks rap lyrics are great

fuck/marry/kill