ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2017

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42 LANA DEL REY "Lust For Life" (286 points, 13 votes)
spotify

rowdy enough for ya?

Hey, there's one I voted for

It was inevitable.

<3

Here you go frederick:
https://optimomusic.bandcamp.com/album/miracle-steps-music-from-the-fourth-world-1983-2017

-_-

actually she's alright i guess

43 JUTE GYTE "OVIRI"

err 41. fucked that up. carry on

This was a big step up from Honeymoon, which was a snooze fest.

jute del gyte aren't making it this year; i have ordained it

is this up there with the better moments of idk ultraviolence? is it a completely different thing? i have not-too-bad recollections of songs from this one, but no lasting impressions. LIKE PASSING ZEPHYRS

Lana Del Rey is so consistent on here.

2012 35 LANA DEL REY Born to Die (392 Points, 11 Votes)
2014 40 LANA DEL REY Ultraviolence [390 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote]
2015 36 LANA DEL REY Honeymoon (405 points, 13 votes)
2017 42 LANA DEL REY "Lust For Life" (286 points, 13 votes)

This and Honeymoon are in dire need of edits but she's been in a great little songwriting pocket for a while.

I think Ultraviolence is her only great album, but this one is probably her second best.

Ultraviolence has stronger songs, but this has fewer cringe-worthy lyrics.

jute del gyte aren't making it this year; i have ordained it

scoundrel

OK this mono no aware thing was not what I was expecting at all. Sounding good though. Where was this talked about on ILM?

scoundrel

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hey i still put it in my top 10!!!

The cringiness of Lana Del Rey's lyrics are part of the appeal I think

xxp

Wholly forgettable album. The first of hers that feels that way actually. It's not bad, I just literally keep forgetting it exists.

xps hmm i think we discussed it? maybe one of the sub experimental time travel threads?

mono no aware that is

LDR is good

mono no aware much better than most 2017 gloopy ambient shite

mono no aware is a nice sampler of artists on the Pan label, which has had an amazing run, and it is also a well-sequenced, satisfying album on its own

bill compiled it for some book fair

bill kougalis

last one for today and boy is it a doozy

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41 U2 "Songs of Experience" (288 points, 8 votes)
spotify

you lie

ULie, rather

pfft

really funny thing would have been a fake spotify link as well

Are there 8 ilxors who liked this? Not openly, at least.

It's weird how in my old age I don't really hate U2 anymore. If one of their songs comes on the radio I don't change the station.

now let's get to the real #41.

*i* like it

i would be stunned if anyone else voted for it (I put it at #25)

hehehe

It's weird how in my old age I don't really hate U2 anymore.

I was a superfan in my youth, so maybe I'm *extra* critical of the slop they make now.

ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2017 (Tuesday Recap)

77 AIMEE MANN "Mental Illness"
76 L'RAIN "L'rain"
75 ELDER "Reflections of a Floating World"
74 PLAYBOI CARTI "Playboi Carti"
73 THE WEATHER STATION "The Weather Station"
72 YOUNG MARCO / VARIOUS ARTISTS "Welcome To Paradise (Italian Dream House 89-93)"
71 LOUISE BURNS "Young Mopes"
70 HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF "The Navigator"
69 THE NATIONAL "Sleep Well Beast"
68 SPOON "Hot Thoughts"
67 BJÖRK "Utopia"
66 WAXAHATCHEE "Out in the Storm"
65 TORNADO WALLACE "Lonely Planet"
64 EX EYE "Ex Eye"
63 KESHA "Rainbow"
62 HANNAH PEEL "Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia"
61 VISIBLE CLOAKS "Reassemblage"

60 WILEY "Godfather"
59 COLLEEN "A flame my love, a frequency"
57(tie) RYUICHI SAKAMOTO - "async"
57(tie) MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA " A Black Mile to the Surface"
56 DUA LIPA "Dua Lipa"
55 KING KRULE "The OOZ"
54 WEDNESDAY CAMPANELLA "SUPERMAN"
53 LAUREL HALO "Dust"
52 FUTURE "HNDRXX"
51 WOLF ALICE "Visions Of A Life"
50 KAREN GWYER "Rembo"
49 JULIEN BAKER "Turn Out the Lights"
48 ULVER "The Assassination of Julius Caesar"
47 ALVVAYS "Antisocialites"
46 LEE ANN WOMACK "The Lonely, the Lonesome & the Gone"
45 VARIOUS ARTISTS "Mono No Aware"
44 CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG "Rest"
43 JAPANESE BREAKFAST "Soft Sounds from Another Planet"
42 LANA DEL REY "Lust For Life"
41 U2 "Songs of Experience"

*drums fingers*

real #41 is arcade fire

😬

I secretly hope it's real bcz lol

its real!

well played gr80 now what's 41

guys we're being softened up for a much bigger grift here

% the board

Wat, come on now.

Gr80 do you mean to tell me (huell bowser voice) I could have pushed it up the poll even further?

*howser

couldn't find a divide symbol on my phone