Please enter the wonderful world of mike t-diva's 50 favourite albums of all time

this one is easily Blackstar, but Yes came pretty close

Giving John Martyn a vote

Going for Gong, incredible album.

Nice that you picked that Kraftwerk album, engineered to a perfect distillation of their style.

Quite a few artists where I'd have gone for different albums (Mott > The Hoople, for instance) but not "The Modern Dance".

Voted Laurel Halo but like, aspirationally ...that one hasn't clicked yet

Bish Bosch

Actress!

My own choice would be Yes: Close To The Edge. It's been in my life since I bought it unheard at the age of 12, and I can still remember playing it for the first time. Since then, my relationship with it has evolved, and even after 49 years, I can still hear new things in it.

Broadcast

everyone on ILM has great taste. Haven't raised an eyebrow at a single entry by anyone yet.

out of this list I'm voting Blackstar

Voted for the Nic Jaar because no one else will and it's the one I've listened to most regularly in the last few years.

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as per a vote elsewhere, "Soul Mining" is an album i have not listened to in a long time, but still means more to me than just about anything else.

fuck it i’m voting Reactivate

Soul Mining and N Jaar are both fantastic, cosign

this year’s model and the band by the band (oh and exile, duh) are perhaps my gun to head fav rock albums of all time, so

this year’s model it is

will throw that lindstrom album some love, it is monumental, should be a core ilm text but feels like it's a bit neglected now

+1 on Lindstrom

Straight to Joy of a Toy, no hesitation, what a wonderful record.

Reactivate series had the best 90s sleeve art...never got round to buying any tho :/

the best lindstrom album is ii (would be in my top 50 if i bothered to put one together) but where i go you go too is #2

18+ I love. Is this the first appearance of "Lexicon of Love"? "This Year's Model"?

Notable personal observation: iirc I've yet to come across one of these lists with an album I *hate* on it.

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tremendous selection, one of my favs of the whole august 2023 ilm poll boom and have to vote for anita baker because good lord, rapture

Number of albums heard: 22

Favourite: Ubu over Genesis

Least-favourite: The Epic

Nicest surprise: Scott Walker, Shuggie Otis

Unheard, but most want to hear: The Hoople and Gong

several contenders but went for Gong. Daevid Allen & Euterpe would be 2nd choice. Metal Box and Soul Mining 3rd equal.

The Epic is awesome! Ended up voting for Erykah Badu over Laurel Halo

Went with Lenny Cohen

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Don't think I voted in this but if I had it'd've been Feast

I like the spread of these results, Well Done Everybody. The longest part of compiling this list was the data trawling, but my fetish for documentation was a big help. That left a long list of 56, which was easy to whittle down ("is this album actually one of your favourites, or do you just like the idea of it being one of your favourites"). I stuck with subjectivity over objectivity, didn't do any conscious genre/gender/decade/canonical-vs-non-canonical weighting whatsoever, and some genres where my listening is mostly track-based ended up being under-represented, but this is as clear a window into my Wonderful World Of Album Listening as you could get.

this is one of the best lists in this series of polls imo

didn't see this somehow but likely would've voted Kevin Ayers or Shuggie Otis