enochroot's top 23 ILM discoveries

I'd obviously heard of lots of these before, but would never have purchased Silk Degrees, for instance, if not for the enthusiasm here.

The numbered artist pools have also been pretty crucial for converting vague awareness into rabid fandom.

great idea, when I looked at my top albums list at least a third was stuff I was turned onto here, including that comsat angels, it's really such an unbelievable resource for music lovers I worry about spoiling it somehow

all of these polls are bad and annoying but this is the least bad and I'm listening to Sextant for the first time coincidentally and it's the best album ever so hooray for it

jordan the comeback

sextant and silk degrees and on the beach also own but i liked them pre-ilm whereas i'd never heard prefab sprout

nice spin on this

I can't decide whether to pick one I boosted (Wau Wau), my fave (hmmm probably Young or Valle?), or the one that's the most ILM-discovery-ish for me (Kvernberg, never would have heard it otherwise)

Yeah, an interesting stat for songs would be the number of ILM mentions divided by the number of Spotify plays. The highest scores would be things like Balloon by Busy Signal or that song about "Common Shapes and Uncommon Shapes" (but I bet Ola Kvernberg scores pretty high)

yeah I was tempted by Ola but that Wau Wau album is really special

Those are both great too

see jordan the comeback, vote jordan the comeback

This may sound weird but Sextant is absolutely one of the giants Oranssi Pazuzu are rocking out on the shoulders of

Sextant is probably my favorite here with The Nightfly a close second. The best one that I found through ILM would be Vanishing Twin, although it was their previous album. They have a new one coming out, btw!

boz scaggs bc great album & one of my ilm thread faves

Sons Of! (My vote)

Number of albums heard: 6

Favourite: On the Beach

Least-favourite: NRBQ (don't see what the big deal is)

Nicest surprise: NRBQ, nevertheless

Unheard, but most want to hear: Purple Mountains

Pretty sure I didn't hear Sextant before some ancient jazz thread myself, so I'm tempted to opt for that, if only because it's so on-theme. But I like a number of these.

Chuffed to see that some big ballot-based polls for which I did the number-crunching (Prefab Sprout and Go-Betweens) led to some further listening. :)

This is Nightfly for me, which I also first heard about on ILM. Buying that record was a fairly mind blowing event for me.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

jordan might be a common vote but i did find it here and it’s one of my faves ever, so…

i mean, i don't really have a choice here do i?

(ty for the shoutout i'm irl blushing!)

(jamal plays jamal a very close second)

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Don't know if it's bad etiquette to vote in your own poll, but at the last minute I voted for Oranssi Pazuzu, which turned out to break the 5-way tie.

I guess nobody else sees what the big deal is about NRBQ either.