ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2017

The War on Drugs are a band that seem appealing in theory but in practice their albums are bloated and unmemorable unfortunately

What's the real number 34 gr8080?

American Dream

I'm shocked, legit shocked, that AWOD has enough of an ILM fanbase.

It's not THAT bad, is it?

they were top 10 in 2014 so this is about where i expected them to show up

as a guy who liked Lost in the Dream, lemme just say that Deeper Understanding is bloated and unfocused, with 2.5 good songs left to languish in the 70 minutes of runtime

― hoooyaaargh it's me satan (voodoo chili), Wednesday, January 31, 2018 8:15 AM (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah this record to me didn't even seem to have a "red eyes" to anchor it, it was just free-floating mediocrity

WOD is another joke entry, yes?

I'm shocked, legit shocked, that AWOD has enough of an ILM fanbase.

another perennial feature of these rollouts is the realizations that there are a bunch of indie rock listeners around here

Father John Misty isn't going to place is he?

Just a bunch?

xp

not really into the new sassy St Vincent. sounds like someone buying way too much into their own hype. an overblown album that plays with ideas of emotion while sounding tremendously flat. and i say this as someone who loved her stuff beforehand. this is her Merriweather Post Pavilion I guess

I liked one of the singles on this WOD album but I can't imagine ever getting through the whole album

my favorite post about war on drugs:

the music this draws from hits me in a deeply nostalgic place, really the sounds themselves and i enjoy this band as a child in many ways and therefore understand their ultimate dullness but like them in a way that i'm not inclined to interrogate.

― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, August 30, 2017 5:09 PM (five months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://i.imgur.com/THTEjQC.jpg

33 ALICE COLTRANE "World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda" (318 points, 12 votes)
spotify

could listen to the groove at the end of "thinking of a place" forever

this rules

OH THANK GOD SOMETHING ACTUALLY AMAZING!!

is that three or four compilations now? not that i'm complaining too much if it's good

I rushed out and bought this based on a 30 second cursory listen on Spotify. It's the kind of thing which once you hear it you wonder how you coped without it. No hyperbole, it's been an aural salve for me over a year of ups and downs. Just plain spectacular. The cover is great too.

single artist comp of stuff that was virtually unreleased prior

cool ok.

imago, you heard this yet?

the Alice Coltrane compilation is so great, and doesn't even have the best tracks from those releases imo!

hearing it now! really liked her appearance on the iirc ten-minute songs poll

first thing i voted for to place

same

ha, I think that's true for me as well

I don't like seeing Alice Coltrane slumming it with such fucking riff-raff tho!

joking, of course

I love Journey in Satchidananda and Translinear Light but this stuff mostly made me think of having to go to the temple and sing bhajans tbh (which isn't really a good thing). I should probably listen for the way it intersects with the gospel and jazz elements and the trippy organ but I probably have too many hangups to really deal with it.

my partner has the same problem Sund4r

switching gears:

https://i.imgur.com/7bOMb9E.jpg

32 TAYLOR SWIFT "Reputation" (319 points, 10 votes, 1 first place vote)
spotify

reckoned that was coming

can we take a half hour break to come up with the best metaphor to describe this turn of events?

didn't expect a first-place vote tho lol

I'd struggled to square how alice coltrane seemed to rub ppl up the wrong way with the blissful, contemplative music I had heard but now I get it

lovely cover though

32 is a weird spot to throw in another gag entry.

Taylor Beats Alice

I guess some people are baffled by the War on Drugs placing, but I am just as baffled by this Taylor Swift album placing.

avoided this because of look what you made me do and because i hated the album cover

i regret nothing

I never listened beyond the singles (of which "Ready For It" was by far my preference)

there are a few good to great songs buried on there

Yes! Alice Coltrane! That was a last-minute addition to my ballot - I'd never heard any of her '80s material before but it's really something.

lol spotify just interrupted my listening to Alice Coltrane with an ad for Reputation

the metaphor came for me

there are a few good to great songs buried on there

― President Keyes, Wednesday, January 31, 2018 9:14 AM (fifty-seven seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah def

also quite a few real disasters