13. Stars Of The Lid - Stars of the Lid and Their Refinement of the Decline (145 points, 10 votes)
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― musically, Thursday, 6 March 2008 23:35 (sixteen years ago) link
This is the lamest poll ever. Seriously, people.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 6 March 2008 23:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Last one for today; top 11 tomorrow...
12. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (147 points, 11 votes)
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― musically, Friday, 7 March 2008 00:05 (sixteen years ago) link
-- kornrulez6969, Thursday, March 6, 2008 11:58 PM
why?
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 7 March 2008 00:07 (sixteen years ago) link
because his username is KORN RULEZ
― blueski, Friday, 7 March 2008 00:09 (sixteen years ago) link
i'll give the amerie another go; wasn't feeling it apart from a few tracks.
― winston, Friday, 7 March 2008 01:00 (sixteen years ago) link
neon bible was great. didn't vote for it but glad it made the cut.
― gman, Friday, 7 March 2008 01:22 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm still hoping #1 will be of montreal or studio even though it'll inevitably be radiohead
― ciderpress, Friday, 7 March 2008 01:24 (sixteen years ago) link
How come a whole bunch of these albums came out in 2006?
― the next grozart, Friday, 7 March 2008 01:27 (sixteen years ago) link
I didn't vote, but if Of Montreal gets number one I won't have had to.
― the next grozart, Friday, 7 March 2008 01:29 (sixteen years ago) link
forget it, too many people are gonna vote for that lcd soundsystem bullshit
― omar little, Friday, 7 March 2008 01:32 (sixteen years ago) link
So far:
50. High On Fire - Death Is This Communion (74 points, 5 votes, 1 number one vote) 49. White Stripes - Icky Thump (74 points, 7 votes, 1 number one vote) 48. Caribou - Andorra (77 points, 7 votes, 1 number one vote) 47. Jesu - Conqueror (77 points, 8 votes) 46. Amy Winehouse - Back To Black (78 points, 8 votes) 45. Robert Plant & Alison Kraus - Raising Sand (79 points, 6 votes) 44. Rihanna - Good Girl Gone Bad (79 points, 10 votes) 43. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam (80 points, 6 votes) 43. Roisin Murphy - Overpowered (80 points, 6 votes) 41. Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala (80 points, 7 votes) 40. LCD Soundsystem - 45:33 (82 points, 7 votes) 39. Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity (82 points, 7 votes, 1 number one vote) 38. PJ Harvey - White Chalk (83 points, 10 votes) 37. Patrick Wolf - Magic Position (84 points, 6 votes, 1 number one vote) 36. Eluvium - Copia (86 points, 8 votes) 35. Electrelane - No Shouts, No Calls (91 points, 7 votes, 2 number one votes) 34. Von Sudenfed - Tromatic Refelexions (92 points, 7 votes) 33. Pantha Du Prince - This Bliss (94 points, 8 votes, 1 number one vote) 32. Gui Boratto - Chromophobia (96 points, 9 votes) 31. OM - Pilgrimage (97 points, 8 votes, 1 number one vote) 30. Kylie Minogue - X (98 points, 8 votes) 29. UGK - Underground Kingz (98 points, 8 votes, 1 number one vote) 28. Lil Wayne - Da Drought 3 (102 points, 8 votes) 27. Miranda Lambert - Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (103 points, 7 votes) 26. Alcest - Souvenirs D'Autre Monde (103 points, 8 votes, 2 number one votes) 25. Lily Allen - Alright, Still… (103 points, 9 votes) 24. Robert Wyatt - Comicopera (104 points, 8 votes) 23. Blonde Redhead - 23 (105 points, 8 votes) 22. Dizzee Rascal - Maths & English (110 points, 9 votes) 21. Feist - Reminder (110 points, 10 votes) 20. Kanye West - Graduation (111 points, 10 votes, 1 number one vote) 19. Low - Drums And Guns (115 points, 12 votes) 18. !!! - Myth Takes (117 points, 8 votes) 17. Amerie - Because I Love It (121 points, 9 votes) 16. Daft Punk - Alive 2007 (123 points, 9 votes, 2 number one votes) 15. Justice - + (131 points, 11 votes, 1 number one vote) 14. The National - Boxer (138 points, 13 votes) 13. Stars Of The Lid - Stars Of The Lid tnd Their Refinement Of The Decline (145 points, 10 votes) 12. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (147 points, 11 votes)
― musically, Friday, 7 March 2008 01:45 (sixteen years ago) link
didn't even consider neon bible
― J0rdan S., Friday, 7 March 2008 03:21 (sixteen years ago) link
fuuuuck you argayde fire
― Simon H., Friday, 7 March 2008 03:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Results 1 - 6 of 6 for "argayde fire". (0.18 seconds)
― musically, Friday, 7 March 2008 03:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Glad to see props for Myth Takes in this poll! Totally glossed over by most media but damn what an album.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 7 March 2008 05:17 (sixteen years ago) link
It's dreadfully boring, a couple songs excepted, and this is coming from someone who loves Louden Up Now. WTF is it doing in this let alone that high up?
― The Reverend, Friday, 7 March 2008 05:24 (sixteen years ago) link
^^
― J0rdan S., Friday, 7 March 2008 05:25 (sixteen years ago) link
rev why didn't you write a blurb for kanye?
-- J0rdan S., Thursday, March 6, 2008 12:02 PM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Link
Cause I didn't get around to it at first and then I forgot about it.
― The Reverend, Friday, 7 March 2008 05:25 (sixteen years ago) link
lol @ djmartian's "who the heck are they?"
― The Reverend, Friday, 7 March 2008 05:27 (sixteen years ago) link
end times
― tremendoid, Friday, 7 March 2008 05:34 (sixteen years ago) link
-- omar little, Friday, 7 March 2008 01:32 (5 hours ago) Link
thank you....i dont see what everyone loves
― gman, Friday, 7 March 2008 06:58 (sixteen years ago) link
i love that it is awesome
tuneful and dancey and funny and funky and holy shit actually ocassionally moving which is more than i can say for most of what i heard in 07 unfortunately
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 7 March 2008 07:00 (sixteen years ago) link
if you're gonna get heated over ppl voting for lcd in an 07 albums poll don't waste your time opening this thread
― J0rdan S., Friday, 7 March 2008 07:06 (sixteen years ago) link
the sky is blue... i don't see what everyone loves
accept it and move on
― J0rdan S., Friday, 7 March 2008 07:07 (sixteen years ago) link
that said hoos generally otm
39 down, 11 to go...
11. Field - From Here We Go Sublime (170 points, 16 votes, 1 number one vote)
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Like a lot of people who liked The Field, I don't know too much about the context from which Axel Willner's music arises. But I do know gorgeousness when I hear it, and the analog warmth and human-touched live mixing of _Sublime_ makes it an easy pick for year-end lists. Willner's love of his source material is matched by his ability to transform it, and the way he works with sound as something close to a physical object is special. From pleasant background to up-front scrutiny, the multipurpose album of the year. -call all destroyer
― musically, Friday, 7 March 2008 15:49 (sixteen years ago) link
10. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? (189 points, 14 votes, 2 number one votes)
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I really did not give a shit about this band until I heard 'The Past is a Grotesque Animal,' but I loved that song a lot so I figured I should investigate further. Their back catalog still doesn't do much for me but this album is great, one of the best album-length portraits of depression I've heard in a long time, all dressed up in neon-lights and filled with hooks on top of hooks. -Maciej
― musically, Friday, 7 March 2008 16:51 (sixteen years ago) link
I've spent the whole end-of-year poll season just assuming that the Of Montreal album is shit judging purely by the title.
― Matt DC, Friday, 7 March 2008 17:12 (sixteen years ago) link
That useful and incisive post was bought to you by the Wilful Blind Prejudices in Indie Society.
― Matt DC, Friday, 7 March 2008 17:17 (sixteen years ago) link
to hell with everyone who thinks The Field album is better than SMD's
― blueski, Friday, 7 March 2008 17:19 (sixteen years ago) link
9. Panda Bear - Person Pitch (191 points, 15 votes, 3 number one votes)
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― musically, Friday, 7 March 2008 17:42 (sixteen years ago) link
SMD is a decent album, y'know, but the Field (which was my #1) is the most beautiful record in, like, forever, works just as well on the dancefloor as SMD, in my experience, and has gotten those little loops stuck in my head more than probably any non-"ella ella, ey ey ey" thing all year.
― maciej recognizing trill, Friday, 7 March 2008 17:46 (sixteen years ago) link
I still don't really see why Person Pitch is so highly rated. It's okay, but it's a bit of a snooze compared to, well, most other AC stuff. Maybe I don't get it?
― the next grozart, Friday, 7 March 2008 17:57 (sixteen years ago) link
But I am thrilled Of Montreal got in the top ten at least. Absolutely brilliant, super-realised pop that actually sounds new and interesting and like it genuinely comes from the future.
― the next grozart, Friday, 7 March 2008 17:58 (sixteen years ago) link
sorry, what's SMD??
― the next grozart, Friday, 7 March 2008 18:00 (sixteen years ago) link
simian mobile disco, the other dance record not by justice people liked this year
― deej, Friday, 7 March 2008 18:07 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't really see how people could really compare Justice and SMD with the Field other than the fact that they were high profile dance albums this year... They are really completely different.
And SMD and Justice are lame and The Field rules.
― jonathan - stl, Friday, 7 March 2008 18:12 (sixteen years ago) link
its a bizarre comparison but i like smd the most of the three, if anyone is updating deej.xls
― deej, Friday, 7 March 2008 18:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Although its possible I'm just being reactionary.
― jonathan - stl, Friday, 7 March 2008 18:13 (sixteen years ago) link
I have no idea how some of these beat the High on Fire.
― Bill Magill, Friday, 7 March 2008 18:16 (sixteen years ago) link
the field is way better than simian mobile disco, but the field isn't nearly as good as pantha du prince.
and listening to of montreal makes me feel physically ill
― later arpeggiator, Friday, 7 March 2008 18:17 (sixteen years ago) link
The Field album is kind of magical for a few tracks and then my attention wanes. The Simian Mobile Disco is rubbish bar a couple of tracks.
― Matt DC, Friday, 7 March 2008 18:18 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Bill Magill, Friday, 7 March 2008 18:16 (2 minutes ago) Link
lolololololololololololololol <3 magill
― J0rdan S., Friday, 7 March 2008 18:20 (sixteen years ago) link
But yeah, comparing them is like comparing Low to Andrew WK or something.
― Matt DC, Friday, 7 March 2008 18:21 (sixteen years ago) link
the comparison is just based on them both being among the most hyped predominantly dancey LPs in blogsville - kind of a reference to this
― blueski, Friday, 7 March 2008 18:23 (sixteen years ago) link
i like smd most out of the 3 (and i like all 3 a lot-- haven't hear pantha). i really loved the field album a few times this year, both were when i was flying (window seat)and slipping in and out of consciousness/sleep with the sunlight shining onto me, really abstract bs i know but it happened to be pretty perfect
― J0rdan S., Friday, 7 March 2008 18:23 (sixteen years ago) link
like I THOUGHT IT WAS OBVIOUS, my bads (xp)
This album received the highest number of #1 votes...
8. Studio - West Coast (198 points, 13 votes, 5 number one votes) http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/6416/749205bv6.jpg
It's now impossible for me to hear the word 'Balearic' without thinking of the moment about 8mins into Out There, when the sound drops out almost entirely, leaving nothing but those impossibly warm, beach-at-sunset chords drifting through before everything builds back up again. Or the bit during West Coast where the inebriated bloke-rock drawl of "solid good times" is drenched in girly Ibiza pads. Or just the phrase... Life's A Beach! Rarely have I heard an album that sounded so... content.
The real joy in this record is how unexpected it felt amid 2007's rock landscape, the sound of a million bland chillout comps reclaimed and reworked into exciting new and old shapes. The aura of faint thuggishness, never far away, but tamed by sunshine and ecstasy and glorious second summer of love vibes. I played this record far more than anything else last year, and true to form it sounds fucking wonderful while drinking beer, by the sea, as the sun goes down. Which is exactly as it's meant to be. -Matt DC
― musically, Friday, 7 March 2008 18:26 (sixteen years ago) link
was my #2 so almost 6! love this and am listening right now (actually prefer yearbook 1 because the two extra songs are pretty good)
― J0rdan S., Friday, 7 March 2008 18:29 (sixteen years ago) link