ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2014

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

sun/kill/moon

also ftr i voted for 3 hip-hop trax and 3 hip-hop albums & would never generalise about it

can we talk abt against me! pls

(not dissimilar to my own)

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I genuinely thought Miranda was a lock for the top 10 given that both Kacey Musgraves and Pistol Annies placed there.

:)

Hey Imago I can save you ten minutes of scouring Rapgenius for things to be appalled by advising you just skip the YG album when it appears.

Musgraves rode non-country support, I think, and Pistol Annies I don't know.

PLATINUM was my #1 just ahead of Gazelle Twin. totally incredible record with only one moderately "eh" track (and yet it was the first single and the track a lot of year end voters rallied around.) her singing on this album is masterclass.

And I was the one who thought it was like 'beyonce'. ;)

Two coffins for sleep.
One for you, one for me.
We'll get there eventually.

In the dark of our graves our bodies will decay.
I wish you'd never change.

How lucky I ever was to see
the way that you smiled at me.
Your little moon face shining bright at me.
One day soon there'll be nothing left of you and me.

Two coffins for sleep.

Two coffins for sleep.

All the things I have yet to lose will someday be gone too.
Back into annihilation.
All things will fade, maybe it's better off that way.
I wish you'd stay with me.

How lucky I ever was to see
the way that you smiled at me.
Your little moon face shining bright at me.
One day soon there'll be nothing left of you and me.

Two coffins for sleep.

Two coffins for sleep.

feel like two or three folks who'd have put Platinum at #1 didn't vote maybe? alfred?

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

― lex pretend, Thursday, January 29, 2015 10:25 AM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ya but we differ on crucial pts at which ppl should defer to me

lambert is surprisingly low yeah, though it was also surprisingly high on pazz & jop. despite being the progenitor, i found her a much more difficult sell to people who were converted by k musgraves and b clark - she's a much brasher, glitzier, camper proposition

i also though angaleena presley would be a lock for at least the lower reaches of the 77 so absolutely no pistol annies effect there :( such a great album though.

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

― lex pretend, Thursday, January 29, 2015 10:25 AM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ya but we differ on crucial pts at which ppl should defer to me

― flopson, Thursday, January 29, 2015 3:42 PM (30 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

SOMEONE has to provide some anti-rich gang balance given praise gets lavished on them from all other quarters

Does someone?

maybe its just good tho think abt it

Rich Gang top ten for me, super-enjoyable throughout its approx 180 minute runtime.

I haven't listened to Platinum though I loved the first Pistol Annies album and have liked almost every solo single of hers. Same with LAW, except I only heard a couple recommendations scattrred throughout various threads. Sturgill missed my ballot by inches; dude had like three or four really great ideas but still tows the line a little too much for me and his druggie nihilism still feels a lot like status updates from an old high school friend who broke up from a LTR and began becoming obsessed with Hunter S Thompson and Bill Hicks and John Lennon. I'm holding out hope that a couple records down the road he might stumble into Up On the Sun territory from the opposite end if the country spectrum

The only other country album I was tempted to check out was from the other SS: Sunny Sweeney. The last album I heard from her wasn't necessarily front-to-back amazing but it had a couple songs--Staying's Worse than Leaving and From a Table Away--that I still am passionate about, esp the latter which is just super-smart in terms of songwriting...

...ummm I thought for some reason LJ was asking ME for my commentary on country music in this poll