There is a 0.0000000000000000% chance Haim places tomorrow. I'm surprised it didn't come in behind U2 in the voting.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 1 February 2018 05:37 (six years ago) link
That second Haim album was a heartbreaker. It totally deserves to miss out.
― kitchen person, Thursday, 1 February 2018 05:49 (six years ago) link
i liked it a lot! Not top 25 material, but likely top 50.one for the box there.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 1 February 2018 05:51 (six years ago) link
And they were #1 in 2013! Not even inertia could carry them forward
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Thursday, 1 February 2018 06:14 (six years ago) link
Sorry folx but there's no way Dawson's not making the countdown
― the man from P.O.R.L.O.C.K. (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 1 February 2018 08:04 (six years ago) link
shhh let them dream
― imago, Thursday, 1 February 2018 08:07 (six years ago) link
can't wait for dawson to win this
― ogmor, Thursday, 1 February 2018 08:21 (six years ago) link
I think Monotony has nailed the top 20 with the exception of Jessie Ware and Jay-Z who won't get anywhere near. Something like the Octo Octa record or even Gas feel more likely. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith is definitely in there.Also I can't work out if Taylor has been 78'ed or if she's just way too high here. TBH top 20 feels too high for the XX as well but I can't see that missing out altogether.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 1 February 2018 09:20 (six years ago) link
Narkopop is spectacular and anybody who doesn't get it is a rube.
not like I voted tho.
― bizarrer Gandhara (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 1 February 2018 09:28 (six years ago) link
Holding out hope that Sorority Noise have overperformed
― devvvine, Thursday, 1 February 2018 09:52 (six years ago) link
we already had taylor matt, she was #32
― faust apes (NickB), Thursday, 1 February 2018 09:53 (six years ago) link
as much as I like Sacred Paws, it's be nice to have Simi's Simisola for contemporary Nigerian highlife rather than a Scottish indie take on the 80s stuff :/
― etc, 1. februar 2018 03:40 (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Voted for Simisola fully knowing that it wouldn't make it, but yeah. It's great and everyone should check it out.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 1 February 2018 09:58 (six years ago) link
Taylor placing but not Haim is pretty shocking to me but I guess there really isn't that much chance at this point
― ufo, Thursday, 1 February 2018 09:59 (six years ago) link
TBH top 20 feels too high for the XX as well but I can't see that missing out altogether.
I was assuming they would be Top 10
― groovypanda, Thursday, 1 February 2018 10:00 (six years ago) link
HAIM album is excellent if you skip the first three tracks.
― ? (seandalai), Thursday, 1 February 2018 10:01 (six years ago) link
I'll be gutted if Narkopop doesn't show up.
― Gavin, Leeds, Thursday, 1 February 2018 10:03 (six years ago) link
It's not quite Akrakabo, but the switch 2:10 into Tiff might be a good place to start with Simi. From Celine Dion to afrobeat rave in 3 minutes. I love that album so much :)
― Frederik B, Thursday, 1 February 2018 10:23 (six years ago) link
enjoying that Simi track, will check out the album
― ufo, Thursday, 1 February 2018 10:37 (six years ago) link
Simi placed?
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Thursday, 1 February 2018 10:41 (six years ago) link
No, just mentioned, took the chance to hype her a bit more. She should have :(
― Frederik B, Thursday, 1 February 2018 11:20 (six years ago) link
Ah.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Thursday, 1 February 2018 11:23 (six years ago) link
I think Monotony has nailed the top 20 with the exception of Jessie Ware and Jay-Z who won't get anywhere near. Something like the Octo Octa record or even Gas feel more likely. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith is definitely in there.
Agree, i.e. OO and KAS in for JW and J-Z. I'll take a punt and say Miguel also missed out. Leaving one slot; hoping it'll be Sunny Sweeney but Jane Weaver feels more likely.
― Jeff W, Thursday, 1 February 2018 11:29 (six years ago) link
Jane Weaver would be great, but I'd be surprised if she cracks the top 20.
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 1 February 2018 11:32 (six years ago) link
good morning!fair warning about today: i’m in and out of meetings all day today so there could be some extended lags between placements. but i’ve got bbcode for the top twenty on my phone and will do my best to keep it moving via zing.
― gr8080, Thursday, 1 February 2018 11:51 (six years ago) link
Quit ur job.
― Jeff, Thursday, 1 February 2018 11:55 (six years ago) link
good luck gr808080!
― faust apes (NickB), Thursday, 1 February 2018 12:02 (six years ago) link
ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2017 (77 - 21)
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" 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 ALGIERS "The Underside of Power"
40 BLANCK MASS "World Eater"39 GAUSSIAN CURVE "The Distance"38 FOUR TET "New Energy"37 THE CLIENTELE "Music From The Age Of Miracles"36 JAMES HOLDEN & THE ANIMAL SPIRITS "The Animal Spirits"35 ST VINCENT "Masseduction"34 THE WAR ON DRUGS "A Deeper Understanding"33 ALICE COLTRANE "World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda"32 TAYLOR SWIFT "Reputation"31 LAURA MARLING "Semper Femina"30 SAINT ETIENNE "Home Counties"29 CHARLI XCX "Pop 2"28 LCD SOUNDSYSTEM "American Dream"27 MOSES SUMNEY "Aromanticism"26 BIG THIEF "Capacity"25 MOUNT EERIE "A Crow Looked At Me"24 CHINO AMOBI "PARADISO"23 JULIE BYRNE "Not Even Happiness"22 SACRED PAWS "Strike A Match"21 J HUS "Common Sense"
― gr8080, Thursday, 1 February 2018 12:03 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/WXoih2T.jpg
20 BICEP "Bicep" (447 points, 18 votes, 2 first place votes)spotify
― gr8080, Thursday, 1 February 2018 12:04 (six years ago) link
\m/
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 1 February 2018 12:05 (six years ago) link
woo
― nxd, Thursday, 1 February 2018 12:15 (six years ago) link
Hi!
It's very easy to underrate this album or take it for granted or belittle its strengths or etc. but I think there's actually very few dance albums that are as strong front to back as this. It has that consistent steely elegance I associate with Beacoup Fish.
― Tim F, Thursday, 1 February 2018 12:27 (six years ago) link
Also thank you to the people who voted for Japanese Breakfast, which has been my favourite discovery of this poll (though I haven't actually checked out much else yet) - both albums! I am easy like that.
Also also I would be ecstatic if Octo Octa makes the top 20 regardless of whether it is due to me or otherwise (I suspect otherwise).
― Tim F, Thursday, 1 February 2018 12:28 (six years ago) link
Bicep too low. My #1
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Thursday, 1 February 2018 12:32 (six years ago) link
this next album is no Kaputt, but it’s a damn fine album:
― gr8080, Thursday, 1 February 2018 12:36 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/bZ14Ibh.jpg
19 DESTROYER "ken" (485 points, 15 votes, 1 first place vote)spotify
i was wondering about the etymology of the word bicep and apparently it comes from 'two-headed', so it works well on that level as a name for a duo. slightly disappointing though cos my best guess was 'two mushrooms'
― faust apes (NickB), Thursday, 1 February 2018 12:40 (six years ago) link
oh ken
I would probably take one of the (now out of print) feel my bicep hot tub jams t-shirts over any further recorded music from bicep but this is not a statement re the quality of bicep's music so much as a reflection of how much I would like one of those t-shirts.
― Tim F, Thursday, 1 February 2018 12:45 (six years ago) link
I knew it. Y'aaaaaaaaaallllllllll
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 1 February 2018 12:47 (six years ago) link
destroyer is dull at the best of times so i genuinely dread even trying to listen to this
fortunately the bicep album is really long so i can just keep that going
― imago, Thursday, 1 February 2018 12:49 (six years ago) link
never knowingly heard a Destroyer song, the proud tradition continues
― bizarrer Gandhara (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 1 February 2018 12:49 (six years ago) link
My #1. Indeed no Kaputt, but those New Order bass lines & Cure synths are catnip to me. Seeing them live cemented it.
― dorsalstop, Thursday, 1 February 2018 12:52 (six years ago) link
this seems too high, ken is fine but unusually lacking in ambition for a destroyer album and one of his weakest. still a fair few good tracks like Rome and Tinseltown.
― ufo, Thursday, 1 February 2018 12:53 (six years ago) link
Wouldn't have enjoyed this album half as much had he not absolutely blown me away live.
― call me by your name..or Finn (fionnland), Thursday, 1 February 2018 12:56 (six years ago) link
ken took a few listens to grow on me but i love itdef exceeded my expectations live too
― gr8080, Thursday, 1 February 2018 12:57 (six years ago) link
i predict a charli xcx Collin in 2019
― gr8080, Thursday, 1 February 2018 12:58 (six years ago) link
collab*
so 15 ilx0rs saw him live last year I guess
― Simon H., Thursday, 1 February 2018 12:59 (six years ago) link
I've never really listened to the sort of late 90s Sasha & Digweed style pristeen prog-house that the Bicep album is apparently referencing, but every time I listen to it I find myself thinking quite how naff and unfashionable it would have been in the mid-00s. Not that it isn't highly enjoyable, but it could probably do with pruning in the middle. That said, when you get out of the boring mid-album drift, especially the moment where the Indian film soundtrack sample kicks in during Rain, it's pure hands-in-the-air stuff right to the end.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 1 February 2018 12:59 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/o6grMfu.jpg
18 MIGOS "Culture" (491 points, 16 votes)spotify
― gr8080, Thursday, 1 February 2018 13:03 (six years ago) link