ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2017

the elder and weather station albums are amazing. elder in particular, what a journey

The Weather Report sounds lovely.

Station!

File this under things discovered at a shockingly old age, but I only just discovered Aimee Mann was in Til Tuesday.

^ Wow I really didn't think she was 57. She looks incredible.

phantastic album by tamara lindeman, i am happy that she made it into the top 77.

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72 YOUNG MARCO / VARIOUS ARTISTS "Welcome To Paradise (Italian Dream House 89-93)" (202 points, 7 votes, 1 first place vote)
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Woah, I had no idea that existed!

yeeeeah love this :D

almost hit my tracks top 77 score of 3 already!

i didn't vote for that because it's all old stuff but i listened to it so very many times this year. <3

i listened to this lots while chilling in italy this summer https://i.imgur.com/4sE8x2C.gif

Happy to see the lovely Aimee Mann record place, voted for that and Carti.

still playing the shit out of 707 boyz' 'emotions'

Funny how pretty much every house track (and loads of techno) from the past 30 years is now tagged 'deep house' on Discogs/RYM/etc.

Yeah I have a high bar for including archival comps but I couldn't omit this one. It's my favourite album of the year for daydreaming while doing housework.

oh cool. Glad to see my #1 vote for Mental Illness helped it (barely) crack the list.

Speaking of archival comps, was The Men In The Glass Booth nominated?

Funny how pretty much every house track (and loads of techno) from the past 30 years is now tagged 'deep house' on Discogs/RYM/etc.

'Deep house' is to the 10s what 'electro' was to the 00s at this stage.

It also bugs me to no end that most early 90s trance is nowadays airbrushed out of history as 'techno', for example see the Trance Europe Express comps, etc.

guys its DREAM house

great year for young marco with this comp, his dekmantel selectors set and obviously the gaussian curve album

I love Elder's sound and playing. I'm not always 100% sold on the compositions.

Genre names are for bureaucrats, dream thieves, pedants and phone users

Would have voted for this if it wasn't for a self-imposed no comps rule. Italian dream house beats all

May well just be the kind of thing that comes together with more listens. I did stream the album a bunch in the summer. xp to self

^ i'd probably agree with that Sund4r re Elder, they do sound amazing to me but sometimes their songs just keep chuggling on and on for no obvious reason

Young Marco was my #1. Probably the (double) album I spent more time listening to than any other and it sent me down a discogs rabbit hole in search of similar sounding artists.

it was a double double album!

also you should totally start an italian dream house thread

sometimes their songs just keep chuggling on and on for no obvious reason

That's usually what the problem seems to be imo, in a nutshell.

yeah it might be a magic eye thing idk

also you should totally start an italian dream house thread

To be honest, the discoveries were fairly slim. A lot of the artists that appear only made that one track (707 Boyz for example)

OK this Young Marco record definitely sounds like something I'd like.

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71 LOUISE BURNS "Young Mopes" (202 points, 8 votes, 1 first place vote)
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also you should totally start an italian dream house thread

― faust apes (NickB), Monday, 29 January 2018 14:40

Vibraphone is a nice place to start!

https://www.discogs.com/label/10403-Vibraphone-Records

that cover!

oh, what is this? xp

This ends with a Blue Nile cover, to explain its appearance

This was destined for inclusion when she covered the Blue Nile. (xp lol)

I should point out that i was the the #1 voter and have no interest in the Blue Nile...

It's a wonderful album.

(Not saying it's undeserving; it's a nice record.)

a record with a good Blue Nile cover indeed

glad to see Weather Station place, "Thirty" got robbed in tracks poll

btw what was the amusing track that was 78 for a long time in the voting for songs

that turned out to be Look What You Made Me Do

will have to check out this Louise Burns album

elder critics itt insufficiently stoned imo

xp ah cheers!

it's a magic high thing xp