ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2014

2014's Dire Straits?

sorry to interrupt.

one of the best parts about swans live is gira literally doing the jigglepanda dance

i saw swans back on the children of god tour (my ears my ears), and i have always wondered if he still does this.

brilliant.

back to catching up.

nothing i enjoyed in 2014 has appeared (i never vote in these as i feel i do not listen to enough to new music to make an informed decision), but that does not stop me from soaking all of this up.

one of my favorite shows of all time was seeing these guys open up for destroyer during the kaputt tour

Ah! So that explains it.

19 minutes and counting...

For stats' sake, there were 142 ballots in the albums poll.

what about if you like rae sremmurd?

xxxp

― pandemic

I question all judgments you may have about music. I'm not a fan of this War On Drugs record, but I can see it's appeal to people. Which is something I can't say about rae sremmub.

WOD is pretty good to listen while stoned (lol what isn't)

I admire your persistence and I lolled but I don't think "rae sremmub" is going to happen ;_;

I know. But I try. Either that or "rae sreredrum". I can't decide which.

There hasn't been anything on the list so far I can't see the appeal of tbh

you'll be delighted next year when the album is top ten
xp

High rankings on best-of-year lists everywhere prompted me to listen to the St. Vincent album repeatedly. Still does nothing for me.

I would have voted for the Croz album had it been nominated. Likewise Joan as Police Woman.

Still several I voted for I was sure would place that haven't shown up yet, but also didn't think they'd place this high, so have no idea what to expect....

xpost agree with EZ Snappin, Rae Sremmurd more cringeworthy and embarrasing than WoD

Pretty surprised that it looks like Flying Lotus won't place at all.

sometimes laying around and being lazy and doing nothing can be great. it's no way to live your life but it can often be the best way to spend your day. that's pretty much how I break WoD down to an extent.

I know, pandemic. I know. *sigh*

xposts

neither are embarrassing or cringe worthy, they're just records

xxp

i would be surprised to see sremm make top ten in 2015 but anything's possible

Listening to Croz right now because why not. His voice is still pretty great for the life he's lived, huh?

Man I had no idea the Juan Maclean album was supposed to be so great! I spent most of my time on the Shit Robot album instead I guess. That one was super awesome too.

Just finished the Juan Maclean album, v enjoyable.

i would be surprised to see sremm make top ten in 2015 but anything's possible

― Sounds like a forks display name (forksclovetofu), Thursday, January 29, 2015 7:14 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

most of the reaction to sremmlife has been "exceeded expectations, which were already high". 12 months is a long time but i don't think january releases have suffered unduly before

Listening to Croz right now because why not. His voice is still pretty great for the life he's lived, huh?

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, January 29, 2015 2:15 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Still being alive is pretty great for the life he's lived....

(albeit on his second liver)

though this january has been the best january i can recall EVER for new music so i'm hoping that people's memories are long for next year

lol yeah xps

I've only ever heard WoD when a friend takes me out to a restaurant that has single squiggly filament bare bulbs and giant oak tables and "hen of the woods" on the menu. They play the entire album one repeat. I've heard it three times in that environment and it is virtually indistinguishable to my ears from the Wilco that I used to hear in that environment. There's a cool song that sounds like a Silver Apples rip and I sing Silver Apples along to it. The rest of it sounds like Tom Petty and like all generic indie it seems extremely inoffensive and super-functional, I mean, it does go well with "hen of the woods". But with all generic indie it seems that the metric in which it is measured is 'competence' instead of 'genius', like, "no no this is in fact the Most Competent album by The New Pronographers" but I cannot fathom anybody getting either super-excited or super-pissed off about it, both sides of the fence are alien to me. Sounds good when a friend is buying you a hangar steak, that's pretty much how I break WoD down to an extent.

as someone who's been on board with wod since the beginning i'm still mystified that this record is getting the attention it is, since it's more or less the third time they've made the same record

excellent post fgti

we call it "chicken of the woods" here in the PacNW

http://i.imgur.com/rMeUeq2.jpg

7 YG My Krazy Life [1,004 points, 32 votes, 2 first place votes]

they got it right this time tho

wait they literally have a menu item called "hen of the woods"?

WOD is what people who don't listen to Wilco think Wilco sound like? Tom Petty, Dire Straits, Springsteen, yes. Wilco, no.

as someone who's been on board with wod since the beginning i'm still mystified that this record is getting the attention it is, since it's more or less the third time they've made the same record

Third time's the charm apparently!

"Hen of the woods" is a kind of mushroom, and I have hot takes for miles but I'm too shy to post them, I wrote two paragraphs on Kiesza's reverb settings, who wants to read that? nobody.

i can tell this YG album is great but it's so clearly not for me

fgti relax you beat them

I don't mind hearing some WoD now and then, just like I don't mind a bit of early Dire Straits once in a while. But I think a lot of us are at a loss as to why it's rated so high (top 10 here, #3 Pazz n Jop).

The opening four or five tracks here are just fire, you just have to sit up and take notice.

Voted this. Love this.

32 votes, damn

Couldn't get into this for some reason

I mean 'Bicken Back Being Bool'!!

such a great album

my favourite non-obvious track from this was one of the bonus tracks! "459" is so so amazing, natasha mosley with a pretty haunting hook there

i was one of the #1 votes :)

I've only ever heard WoD when a friend takes me out to a restaurant that has single squiggly filament bare bulbs and giant oak tables and "hen of the woods" on the menu. They play the entire album one repeat. I've heard it three times in that environment and it is virtually indistinguishable to my ears from the Wilco that I used to hear in that environment. There's a cool song that sounds like a Silver Apples rip and I sing Silver Apples along to it. The rest of it sounds like Tom Petty and like all generic indie it seems extremely inoffensive and super-functional, I mean, it does go well with "hen of the woods". But with all generic indie it seems that the metric in which it is measured is 'competence' instead of 'genius', like, "no no this is in fact the Most Competent album by The New Pronographers" but I cannot fathom anybody getting either super-excited or super-pissed off about it, both sides of the fence are alien to me. Sounds good when a friend is buying you a hangar steak, that's pretty much how I break WoD down to an extent.

this is mostly accurate, but there's enough of a place for music like that in my life that this album did end up somewhere in the lower spots on my ballot.

Like I don't get super excited about WoD but end up listening to it a bunch because it just fits well in many situations.

I voted for it somewhere in the lower parts of my ballot.

kinda surprised YG didnt make the top 5, it is indeed incredible

i have all the time in the world for fgti reverb discussion.

I wrote two paragraphs on Kiesza's reverb settings, who wants to read that? nobody.

i'd sincerely like to hear your thoughts on this tbh

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^srsly

Could I get anything out of YG? Would revulsion overcome literary merit?

I wrote two paragraphs on Kiesza's reverb settings, who wants to read that? nobody.

lol girl I trippin, p sure most ppl wd want to read this

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