ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2014

elaborate dissections of oft-overlooked minutiae are a crucial and beloved component of yr discernible posting style imo

hot or not?

no

xp Glad there's a place for it, it drives my friends crazy

Cmon, explain why this is good!

Oh, his penis works, and so do his eyes. That's nice.

i mean, dnftt

It's trolls feeding trolls from where I stand

trolls all the way down

enjoying this YG album so far, production is great. reminds me of classic gangsta rap albums like 'doggystyle'

Let's all just be smug about how much more liberal and progressive we are than black people who grew up in deprived circumstances.

ouch

lol matt dc that's the trolliest thing posted yet

uh oh

ooook I'll be checking back in after the countdown is through

lol matt dc that's the trolliest thing posted yet

still accurate

Do we have these conversations every year when rap albums place or is this year special? Because y'all are acting like dummies.

(Matt's comment, I mean)

really be / 1 am / sorry momma / bicken back are all A+ tracks

think its time to bow out here

just a great combination of YG's massive personality coupled to a producer at the top of his game. perfect storm really

i don't think it's a particularly rare occurrence - i mean, there's still the owen pallett and st vincent albums to come in this poll for instance

― why you gotta be so rmde (NickB), Thursday, January 29, 2015 12:59 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hmm idk i guess those are 2 exceptions. i haven't listened to st v so i don't know how skilled the playing on it is, what i've heard of hers was just quirky indie pop tho. indie is not really a sick chops genre though, it grew out of the jangly halfassed post-punk tradition & even if some acts have shed that attitude and make slick music it doesn't necessarily mean their playing is at such a high level. the twin sis album sounds extra studio-skilled because of the style they play, though

matt dc otm

flopson, StV is a legitimately talented guitarist--must see her live to appreciate her chops

personally speaking i don't feel smug towards YG. i think he's obv a force of nature in terms of his personality + charisma and his songs are brilliant. but bc of my rarified hoity-toity cultural background i can't really play any of the songs off this album in front of ppl w/out offending delicate upper class sensibilities so i don't really get to enjoy it very much. fwiw i do think that white dress line is kinda hot idk. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

If I stay too long in Canada, I'll hear something like Bobby Schmurda and feel like I can't turn off my moral compass, lib feelings like "I understand that it's impossible to fully extract gun culture from all of American art but this is too much for me #Ferguson". But then I come back to the States and it's maybe on the second or third rest stop in rural upstate New York that I hear a white gas station attendant grumbling about the "n****r work" she's doing as she's mopping up spilled coffee and I basically shut my mind off, forget that I'm a faggot and press play on all rap

i've seen st. v live at least twice, it ain't for everyone

have read and loved plenty of books containing unconscionable shit, on a par with or worse than some of rap's more objectionable perspectives

I'd be very frustrated if Aphex won, but I doubt he will. My bets are on #6

― diss strychnine (dog latin), Monday, January 26, 2015 3:54 PM (3 days ago)

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6 APHEX TWIN Syro [1,035 points, 43 votes, 2 first place votes]

::wrings hands about problematic Aphex Twins lyrics::

lol we could talk about the Windowlicker video if you want

I was gonna say

or his prior use of the c-word.

c-word? crut?

There are lots of lines on that album I wish didn't exist but the combination of YG and Mustard together is just electric on a purely musical level. A track like Left/Right is one of the most exciting noises I heard last year.

actually there was some chatter about a problematic sample on this one

I would like some milk from the milkman's wife's tits

id like taylor to win but i think dangelo will

was that boards of canada album '14 or '13?

haha nobody remembers

"Left right" is probably the greatest thing i heard all year

2013

boc placed in the top 20 last year

Let's all just be smug about how much more liberal and progressive we are than black people who grew up in deprived circumstances.

― Matt DC, Thursday, January 29, 2015 1:36 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well that and let's be get all queasy and handwringy about songs written for a club environment where people are upfront about wanting to fuck

i've never liked mustard much tho :(

I believe the problematic tune that I can't play to my liberal friends is "Produk 29 [101]"

goon tie for #1

"she like the duk"

ppl using dire straits as generic dad rock stand in smh they sound nothing like the WOD and are so >>>>>>

For most of this year I thought my interest in techno had faded but Syro is pretty much the album that reignited my love for it, I just caned so many mixes new and old from September onwards. Just such a gorgeous, playful, endlessly involving record. It's not as good as his best ones, but it's better than a lot of electronic releases from this year.

imago riding a feminist high horse after this unremarked-upon post in the tracks thread has been v entertaining:

Love for the Gs in the ends
We don't love no girls in the ends
Last time I fell in love with a sket
But trust me, I will never do that again

Urban Dictionary: sket
www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sket
Definition of a young girl late teens or 20's who sleeps around willingly and without worry.

so he's a ho-shaming cunt as well? hate this now

I know UK passports come with a special dispensation from the queen pardoning you of any misogynistic intent while using that word, but so much lol at this

kidzbop take on "Produk 29 [101]" is classic