ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2017

i rated Pa'lante at the top of my tracks poll, should have rated Living In the City too. it's great throughout though and the former one seemed like the representative rallying cry for the LP as a whole.

those are two great songs that kinda towered over the rest of the album for me.

I really tried hard to get into this album after reading some interesting reviews and the positive reactions on here. There were some great moments, but overall I found it too uneven.

Just joining now, L'Rain is definitely TOO LOW, was totally anticipating it being a surprise hit. At least it made it, I would've been horrified if it had missed out.

my response to Living In The City was basically "oh cool, there's a female Hold Steady now" lol

lol

wow that's mean

jesus christ lj

if you're gonna be that cruel save it for the bitching thread

my pazz and jop application portfolio increaseth

you're also like, incredibly wrong

guess the craig finn album is prob gonna miss the countdown...

just kidding, i didn't listen to that

*lj hears extremely vu-indebted track* "oh wow this is a female hold steady"

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69 THE NATIONAL "Sleep Well Beast" (206 points, 6 votes)
spotify

nice

worst national album in however many years, still pretty good

i liked the singles but the album left me cold :\

carin at the liquor store, the system only dreams in total darkness, guilty party, all great tracks, but the whole album was sort of a chore to listen to.

the system dreams in total darkness is one of their best songs, pretty boring overall though

"turtleneck" is the worst "we're gonna rock out again" song i've heard in a while

Fake results this early?

carin at the liquor store, the system only dreams in total darkness, guilty party, all great tracks, but the whole album was sort of a chore to listen to.

These, "Dark Side of the Gym" and "Born to Beg" are the only ones that made it onto my phone, pretty poor showing by their standards.

this young marco italian dream house thing is outstanding

y'all are severely underrating "i'll still destroy you"

enh that one struck me as a little try-hard miserablist even for them, will revisit tho

the "it's just the lights...coming on" part is like the ultimate national part of a national song

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68 SPOON "Hot Thoughts" (206 points, 7 votes)spotify

and yet another steaming turd of a US band.

joking, of course!

great record

will always welcome a new spoon album full of displaced and disembodied funk rock and deliberately underwritten bond themes

Thought this was a good record but it didn't make my ballot, didn't find myself returning to it much over the year.

also like the national they're a band where it's just a pleasure to hear the drummer play

v solid album by an almost scarily consistent band

List feels a little full of plodding Amerindie to me.

I assume it won't last

only 67 more plodding Amerindies to go!

xp to brad totally true, two of the best drummers currently doing it in rock and roll

we're getting the amerindie out of the way early

137 plodding Amerindie fans can't be wrong!

i wont divulge anything about american plod indie, but i can say that there is no more italian dream house for the rest of the rollout sadly

:'O

can i sit next to you made me think i might like this one but i didnt, never really been into them though

Two of my favorite bands of the last couple of decades. Two albums I very much liked the *sound* of, full of songs completely overshadowed by their prior work. ("The System Only Dreams in Darkness" is excellent).

Here is an actual verse from my favorite sounding song on the Spoon record:

Coconut milk, coconut water, aw ha
You still like to tell me they're the same
Aw ha, and who am I to say?

less Amerindie more Amerie, amirite

he's got a point
xp

Re: "plodding Amerindie" ... is there really any other type?

it's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife don pablo's animals

hurray for the riff raff is....not what i was expecting