TOP 10 NOW: \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\shawty got poll poll poll poll poll poll poll (part II: 2008 ALBUMS)/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/

no vocals on this one at all actually

:D

i shall track it down! it may be my dream studio album

i am liking this poll a lot - so much to check out already

weird, just realised that solange's album placed but her singles didn't. and beyoncé's singles placed, but tbh i don't expect her album to. that seems oddly...backwards to how it should be.

lex you're the only person i can recall that's really ridden hard for the beyonce album

kevin too, i think? yeah i know, which seems weird cuz i still can't stop listening to it. i just don't think this is how beyoncé would have planned it.

How about SASHA FIERCE?

yeah you're probably right - tho i am surprised that "sandcastle disco" didn't place

sasha fierce plans nothing. sasha fierce has people plan for her. i don't think she'd be happy either though.

i wonder if paper trail will place. didn't vote for it but it's really grown on me of late.

re: Paavoharju

for the people who have no idea what that record is, anyone want to sell it?

I don't know if this helps, but it really reminds me of the Legendary Pink Dots' stranger moments. For me that is an automatic A++, but if that's also unfamiliar I could compare it to a strange, dreamy radio broadcast that keeps changing and doing unpredictable things. Doesn't rock at all, no beats to speak of, but it gets under your skin in this half-awake twilight fashion. Especially after a few listens.

Fonal, their label, has put out some of my favorite stuff this decade.

Fonal Records

it had better.

xp

i dont even know what rap's going to place... jeezy and wayne for sure, but after that i really don't know. i don't think t.i. will, and i dont think ringtone will be able to push a.b.n or something thru. was wale even nominated in this poll?

lol who would vote for wale.

am guessing the combined efforts of rev, whiney and myself will not be enough to get nappy roots a showing - the failure of hood headlinaz to place in the trax poll was probably evidence that ringtone crew repping alone is not enough :(

Kanye will make it for sure (does that count as rap?). T.I., too.

808s isnt rap nah

doesn't matter, it's still great.

agreed, just saying

what's really weird about it is that i hated it at first, loved it soon after, shortchanged it for this poll, and now i'm back to thinking it's one of the year's very best. go figure.

Has anything been decided on the top 10 being announced monday or will there be 15 albums listed thurs and friday?

I say we wait until Monday for the top 10.

I don't mind either way. Whatever is best for musically.

yep.

I think I will just post it on Monday, don't want to rush a day and not give an album its discussion time.

You can just tease people on friday by saying there's shock entries in the top 10 and surprising albums left out and make everyone wait til Monday ;)

Also re: Paavoharju, I think "hippie parents" is about right. The voices sound like they came out of Eastern
Europe in the 60's. I agree with sleeve, the Fonal label is great. My favorite recording on the label is by
Es ("Kaikkeuden Kauneus"). It's a great late-night album of strange meditative forest-folk.

I'm quite happy for the album's poll to move more slowly, it gives us time to check things out.

Fonal rules

37 - Gas - Nah und Fern
93.5 points, 7 votes
397 in P&J

http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/3663/nahundferngr5.jpg

Okay, this list finally stumped me. Never even heard of this.

ok, i have only heard 3 things here, voted for 2 and know a couple others but i am loving this list. some cool covers, and way too much to try and listen to. :)

hm

Looks like the ILM rockist coalition forgot to vote this year.

I totally missed the Gas albums when they first came out, so it was nice to get them all for cheap in that reissue. They're kinda like the first Pole records when they came out, something that follows logically from previous electronic music yet is also totally novel and inimitable. Like a complement aesthetic statement that needs no followup.

Still think voting for reissues is cheating.

Considering Nah und Fern is actually four albums the most recent of which was released nine years ago, it really shouldn't qualify. But unless Musically individually checked every single album on the list I think she can be forgiven for not knowing that.

No, reissues which received a lot of attention like this one qualify, I just don't think they should.

Oh, that explains why is passed under my radar. Reissue of old coma-inducing minimalist stuff?

No, it is actually brilliant though.

It was stated in the original thread that "significant reissues" are applicable for the vote. The Gas albums were all out of print, Nah un Fern includes a couple of new tracks, and the four albums clearly make up an aesthetic whole, so to me it made sense to vote Nah und Fern as a 2008 release. It certainly was among the top 5 best records I heard last year.

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I love Gas, but I am surprised reissues were allowed. But yay for something really good I didn't expect.

So far, I've only heard Solange, Tellier, and Girl Talk. Several things I haven't heard of. List looks good so far, though!

If it was on Mille Plateaux close to a decade ago, it's gonna make me want to rip my ears off.

Johnny Fever, Gas probably isn't the sort of "coma-inducing minimalist stuff" you're thinking of. It might be minimalist in melody/progression, but it's actually maximalist in harmony/sound.

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Ahh, Gas is the first exciting discovery of the album-list for me. Thanks, you 7 voters!

I'm getting more and more hivemind about music : (

really don't think any reissues should be allowed but whatever...this poll is a lot more esoteric so far than i expected. so far i've heard 5, like 4, voted for 2, which is good going. and there are a couple i want to try to check out. oh i tried the jay reatard thing on spotify but couldn't get more than 20 seconds in, sorry :/

If things like this are charting then maybe some of the stuff I voted for with no expectation of anyone else liking may chart.

I always said the lower end of polls tend to be more interesting. But maybe the top end will be too!

I'd give Gas a whirl if the Kompakt site didn't keep crashing my browser.