ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2014

That's one of the few albums I've heard that makes floaty vaguely psychedelic sad submarine Ecco the Dolphin R&B actually seem like a good idea.

― Matt DC, Thursday, January 29, 2015 3:28 PM (46 minutes ago) Bookmark

this is very true but also she can really sing ... she has really strong vocal moments ("bated breath") but they don't break the glass so to speak, it's kind of a tricky thing they pull off

the bridge on "two weeks" is just unfairly sublime

Yeah, I've never gotten why it's a stronger song or more r&b than anything else on there. xxxp

was waiting for the u2 zing :-)

DJP otm. To me LP1 evokes much the same emotional state as the Marina Topley Bird tracks on Maxinequaye, only with present UK bass sonics and more coherence as an album, and that's no small feat. I also think, song for song, EP2 is stronger.

Or maybe the real touchstone is, what if Nearly God wasn't made by a lazy stoner.

I went back to EP2 thinking "omg I WAS WRONG" after loving LP1 so much and... well, I liked it more than I did initially, which is to say I didn't think it was monochromatic boring nonsense this time, but rather a dry run for the album that didn't work for me.

Prob my favorite Twigs song is still "Papi Pacify" tbh

this is very true but also she can really sing ... she has really strong vocal moments ("bated breath") but they don't break the glass so to speak, it's kind of a tricky thing they pull off

Wish she had more of these tbh, I love her lower register and she doesn't use it that much. I also prefer the more conventional second half to the floatier first half.

ha i went back to EP2 as well and still thought it was boring wispiness

Haven't heard any taylor swift since the first track to place on an EOY poll. People seem super into her though. Good luck to 'em.

YES to praising tinashe's lower register

i'll have to revisit ep2. I loved 'water me' but wasn't so in to the others.

Water Me and Papi Pacify are still the two best Twigs songs imo, but LP1 works so well as it is that I'm glad they weren't repurposed for it.

But FKA Twigs isn't someone who really works well for me on a song-by-song basis. Way better to just put it all on and immerse.

I've spent a lot of time listening to EP2 and LP1 back to back. For some reason I've never gone back to the first EP tho.

we should just stop the poll here and leave the top 2 a mystery

CROZ

If that averts Taypocolypse, it works for me.

https://38.media.tumblr.com/b98745eb565e85c79c4814165af6806f/tumblr_n7cfzxWpFL1tq2qiuo1_500.gif

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2 TAYLOR SWIFT 1989 [1,624 points, 40 votes, 8 first place votes]
1 D'ANGELO AND THE VANGUARD Black Messiah [2,105 points, 58 votes, 8 first place votes]

why even bother with 1-2?

you could listen to 3-4-5 on repeat forever and just generally be a happier person

xp haha nvm i guess the cat is etc

58 votes!! WOW

good job running thus guys. Thanks.

holy shit

2105! I noticed that we crossed 1000 as far back as YG.

Yessss!

record-breaking points total

i havent listened to the record yet since it came out so late in the year but that is an impressive % of the voter base

sort of relieved taylor didn't win with her worst album, even though i'm likely to play the best songs off 1989 more than black messiah, which also has its flaws

Thx Fever and Sean.

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also haha tie for first place votes!

D'Angelo is a worthy winner. Thanks JF. Sorry for shitting it up briefly.

cheers JF and crew for the effort, tis much appreciated.

so glad that was a blowou

lol Taytay gif is perfect

Thanks, JF, gr80, seandalai!

lmao prolego

D'Angelo is a worthy winner. Thanks JF. Sorry for shitting it up briefly.

― Why? Gee! (imago), Thursday, January 29, 2015 4:27 PM (27 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh louis. it wasn't that brief.

YES thank you thank you thank you JF!

(also it's just in time for all of you to go nominate some stuff for ILGames's top of 2014, just saying)

lol prolego

thx johnny & seandalai & gr8080!

wow D'Angelo was on 40% of the ballots if I'm doing this right

Have at it: ILM 2014 Albums Poll: Thread of Ballots, Statistics and Survivalist Posturing

Can't begrudge D'Angelo for winning but it does make me wish I loved Black Messiah more than I did, although I'm listening now and Sugah Daddy is really doing it for me.

love the guy behind swift saying "fuckit"

congratulation dangelo! i am glad u came back

Direct link to the full results for those rationing their clicks: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HzdPL-OpUWIUEAOj9aKRbzPxMPyh0-XGBwxIK9YdPBo/edit?usp=sharing

good poll JF and seandalai!

It's not Taylor's best album - that's Fearless - and it's not necessarily more interesting than her last two, but with a few sequencing edits she succeeded in making an album-album which I've listened to more start to finish than, for example, Speak Now in the same period. And it doesn't really matter if the moment she went big, not only in album sales but in general acceptance, if you will, does not sound like what she's done so well until now -- because she has the power to define that even more now, anew, and has stated she's not doing the same album again, and after being so sceptical of the 1989 she pitched us, and an ill-advised lead single statement, and yet so happy with the result, all I can say for her future ventures is I'm more giddy with excitement than ever.