ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2017

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why wait? let's do it now.

(the blues version in his Broadway show) (crüt), Saturday, 3 February 2018 00:03 (six years ago) link

It's probably the only way the Tracey Thorn album would win.

Johnny Fever, Saturday, 3 February 2018 00:35 (six years ago) link

octo octa album is incredible; she really has a touch for making quite maximal tracks smooth as ice

kolakube (Ross), Saturday, 3 February 2018 04:25 (six years ago) link

It's probably the only way the Tracey Thorn album would win.
Seems unfair to have the poll before the Gaz Coombes album is out

groovypanda, Saturday, 3 February 2018 06:31 (six years ago) link

NV:

I think I don't listen voraciously to enough new albums to be a viable music-poll voter.

This is p much exactly how I feel, but I talked myself into submitting a 13-album ballot shortly before the deadline, and am glad I did.

I think it's pretty crucial that partial and unranked ballots are allowed. I decided I was comfortable with submitting a ballot that in effect says "here are a few albums from 2017 I enjoyed"; a ranked ballot would feel uncomfortably like stating "this is the actual very best album of 2017".

anatol_merklich, Saturday, 3 February 2018 10:22 (six years ago) link

(nb that is just how it would feel to me, I don't look at the ranked ballots of others as necessarily making grandiose claims or anything)

anatol_merklich, Saturday, 3 February 2018 10:24 (six years ago) link

Yeah I'm the same really. I tend to parasitically use the yearly polls to get recommendations of music to check out. I listened to the tracks Spotify playlist and there was quite a bit of stuff I wasn't aware of that I liked (e.g. I didn't even know Charlotte Gainsbourg was a musician) and downloaded some albums that looked intrsting from the albums poll.

Colonel Poo, Saturday, 3 February 2018 11:27 (six years ago) link

a friend of mine recently said he never heard anything from Stormzy that came close to the Shut Up freestyle, I was about to tell him he was wrong but then I couldn't really come up with as great a song from his catalogue

wonder if he'll ever top it

niels, Saturday, 3 February 2018 18:42 (six years ago) link

bummed i didn't vote for BALSAMS by Chuck Johnson.

omar little, Monday, 5 February 2018 01:56 (six years ago) link

what's the gif (by gr80?) that every was applauding?

flopson, Monday, 5 February 2018 02:34 (six years ago) link

the image for the reveal of #1 and #2. If it's not working, right click the image and open it in a new tab (that's how i saw it)

josh az (2011nostalgia), Monday, 5 February 2018 02:36 (six years ago) link

bummed i didn't vote for BALSAMS by Chuck Johnson.

― omar little, Sunday, February 4, 2018 7:56 PM (yesterday)

my number one!

gr8080, Monday, 5 February 2018 19:38 (six years ago) link

what's the gif (by gr80?) that every was applauding?

― flopson, Sunday, February 4, 2018 8:34 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

click this

gr8080, Monday, 5 February 2018 19:39 (six years ago) link

xp my number 6!

works like a balm...

niels, Monday, 5 February 2018 21:00 (six years ago) link

i probably read three whole books just to that album alone in 2017

gr8080, Monday, 5 February 2018 21:07 (six years ago) link

fantastic stuff, I had no idea. glad you singled it out just now, right up my street.

Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 5 February 2018 21:28 (six years ago) link

xps- woahhh

flopson, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 00:11 (six years ago) link


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