ILM Albums Polls POLLED

i like to think new amerykah was the actual winner of 2008 considering it beat everything in the half decade poll.

Fever Ray for me. Never heard of Miguel or Destroyer, all the others in the poll are okay, except for The Streets, which is corny and awful.

I think I've mentioned this before: I bought the Portishead album when it came out due to all the praise, but I was only able to listen to it twice, and it's been sitting on the shelf ever since. It was just so unrelentlessly bleak and grey that I couldn't force myself to play it again. So yeah, in theory it might be a perfect album, but only for someone who enjoys incredibly grim things, and that's not me.

Sir Lucious is the only one of them that I own and it's awesome so I voted for it. Never heard of Destroyer

silent shout was my favourite record of the 00s so that's a hands down vote for me

Best to worst:

Kanye
Fever Ray
Miguel
Knife
Portishead
Big Boi
M.I.A.
LCD Soundystem
Destroyer

None of these are terrible although I haven't the Streets one in full, never liked anything Mike Skinner's done. The top four are all classics.

Sir Luscious Leftfoot IMO.

Amazing to think the Streets made the count - inconceivable that something so Brit-centric could place so high today.

Before I clicked on the thread title I was about to say Let England Shake, easy, but then I remembered the whole Kaputt unpleasantness. My memory had obviously conducted a recount.

I'm still reeling from all that.

It was a transatlantic incident that threatened ILX's special relationship

Kaleidoscope Dream > Silent Shout > Arular > Third > Fever Ray >>> Sound of Silver > Sir Luscious Left Foot >>> Original Pirate Material >??>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Being punched in the face >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Kaputt.

I still don't think I've actually heard College Dropout from start to finish.

Fever Ray - Fever Ray
Portishead - Third
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
The Knife - Silent Shout

That's a hell of a run, right there. Don't know much about the rest of them.

If the 2011 poll had not been voted in by cloth-eared fools and Let England Shake had beaten Kaputt that might have taken my #1 vote, but I get more out of the Miguel album than anything else here by quite some distance. And I really like at least half of them.

iirc we claimed the moral victory for Let England Shake, either due to voting shenanigans or more first-place votes or just a very necessary deus ex machina

college dropout is actually really good matt

i keep seeing people who think i'm a kanye hater and i'm like no the only reason i hate on MBDTF is because i was a kanye FAN

Johnny Fever, pls update poll options to reflect moral victory. Thx.

I don't really like Kanye's voice, personality or on-record presence even when he's good so have never bothered to check out an entire album.

Destroyer is the only one of these I don't really love. It's between Sound of Silver and Third for me, it's a close call.

The only ones of these I can say I've really really enjoyed and played on several occasions are Big Boi, The Knife and The (LOL) Streets. The rest I've heard and enjoyed to differing extents, but I dunno.

Could go Kanye, could go M.I.a or big boi. Have to think on this.

I love LCD Soundsystem but never felt they released a consistently brilliant album in their career, Sound of Silver included. Always seems the highs are high and the lows are low with them.

Portishead by miles. Fuck the rest

I like Third and Fever Ray most of all but I voted Kaputt because I don't like whinging

It's not whingeing, it's the righteous fist of justice

I agree w you re: "Let England Shake" but every time I turn on the internet there's a "let's take him out back and"

Destroyer is the only one of these I don't really love. It's between Sound of Silver and Third for me, it's a close call.

― Kitchen Person, Friday, February 1, 2013 11:44 AM (1 hour ago)

Exactly how I feel. Sound of Silver hits so many of my sweet spots but Third is so high drama. The tours for both these records were two of my 00s highlights.

what is about destroyer particularly that everyone hates? is it the voice?

do all these people also hate roxy music and the psb?

kinda interesting that big boi was #1 here a few years ago and didn't even chart this year

obviously the album dropped really late and was pretty cruddy but still

You could always use this
ILx'ers Top Albums of 2003

xp I love PSBs and Roxy but I hate Prefab Sprout and that's what Kaputt sounds like.

I really dislike the Destroyer dude's voice, it reminds of some horrible slimy thing wheedling at me. The music has that awful cloying quality that you get from a lot of that sort of wide-eyed, brightly coloured post-Deserter's Songs North American indie. It feels plasticky but not in a good way. If it had just popped up at #9 I doubt I'd have cared but it beat the album I consider to be the best of the last five years at least, one whose emotional register Destroyer couldn't get anywhere near even if he wanted to.

If we'd held a poll for 2003, I imagine Speakerbox/The Love Below would've won. Or maybe Fever to Tell. Or Elephant? I dunno. 2003 was a pretty bountiful year.
Kish Kash would've won by a mile, based on the then ILM user base.

it's between Kaputt or Silent Shout

xxp I can see how you feel about Destroyer dude's voice is a big thing in how you feel about that record, but I think the production sounds a lot more like (and consciously tries to evoke) say Avalon-era Roxy more than recent US indie. But then I really like that record. Obv Bejar should be shot on Lex's command, though.

For me Portishead > The Knife > Destroyer > Fever Ray > Kanye > the rest.

what is about destroyer particularly that everyone hates? is it the voice?

do all these people also hate roxy music and the psb?

― monotony, Friday, 1 February 2013 13:25 (46 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's precisely because we like PSB and Roxy Music that we don't like Destroyer AFAIK.

yes, because it's not possible to like all three, is it.

also who is this "we"

I don't like Roxy Music either to be fair.

Peak-era PSBs are unique, no one who tries to sound like them is ever any good.

fair enough. I've never particularly heard a PSB influence in Kaputt, but there we go.

yes, because it's not possible to like all three, is it.

― Neil S, Friday, 1 February 2013 14:18 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You know what I mean.

Actually I don't hate Kaputt, but it def wasn't better than LES. Never mind.

I like PSB, but I've never heard Roxy Music, so I don't know what this Kaputt is supposed to be like..? Is it like synth-pop?

Some shocking Roxy Music ignorance OTB

Tuomas, Kaputt sounds like Neil Tennant singing on extended pure-pop songs that some say are labyrinthine and confessional, others say tedious and self-obsessed.

The idea "The Streets = the British Chief Keef" just popped into my head

I know that's not really accurate but still, lol

xp Except Bejar doesn't sound at all like Tennant. This is where I need DJP's vocal-technique expertise to explain why.

I don't get any PSB comparison to Destroyer at all, DL is correct, "Kaputt" sounds like Prefab Sprout
I love Prefab Sprout and love Destroyer but Kaputt is not even my fifth favourite Destroyer record

I haven't listened to much Destroyer but iirc I'd peg him as Tennantesque

yeah never heard that either. I can see how people might think he sounds smarmy, something I don't think Tennant could ever be accused of, intonation and vocal styling aside.

I don't really hear the PSBs in Kaputt either.

You can't swing a cat in London without hitting a British Chief Keef, half yr technically limited lumpen grime or road rap MCs would lay claim to that. I mean not to the extent that anyone buys their records but still...

on the subject of sounding like the pet shop boys
i quite like the sound of arrows, who mirror their peak work pretty much

might change my vote to kanye next week

if this poll were re-taken next week i'd pick Kaputt

plus it'd be nice if everyone could win even if only for one week xpost

each album should be polled against each of the others one at a time, twice, football league style.

we should all make shirts and flags to support the albums we are backing each week.

that would be 90 more polls in total i think xp

i want a silent shout/third half-and-half scarf

we could have former musicians live chatting about the polls as they happen, and watching individual polls, reporting the action to the fans.

Bottom two finishers get relegated and replaced by two records from the rymans metal poll league

it all sounds amazing.

all sounds like a dream to me

only way to settle this thing. i don't think destroyer travelling up to meet big boi on a wintery sunday afternoon is an easy fixture in anyone's book

voted kaputt for a laugh. paid in full.

throwing this out there, would there be any interest in a favourite poll of 2012 poll?

i'd need about 50 votes to make it worth doing

What the fuck is this shit. What the shit