READERS POLL 07: Album of the Year

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Next up in what may well prove a bumper day of polls is the relatively insignificant AlBUM of the Year award. Last year's winner was The Knife. What about this year?

[Poll #1108010]

(I am DYING for lunch so I'm not going to faff around finding the album covers, sorry for the boring unvisualness of this post)

AND A REMINDER: Get your 10 favourite tracks of the year to leagueofpop@gmail.com before New Year! The spreadsheet so far makes INTERESTING READING if you are 1xbig nerdxor like me.

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I still don't know if I should get the Miranda Lambert album, it depends how 'proper' country it is. I really can't get into 'proper' country but I saw a review which compared it to Lucinda Williams, and I like her fine...though never near album-of-year levels.

Er Britney obv. Kala is an odd one, it's definitely not as good as Arular but some of the individual tracks are among the best I've heard this year ('Hussel', 'Bamboo Banga', 'Bird Flu'). 'Jimmy', 'XR2' and 'Paper Planes' also good but everything else I find a bit blah, never went back to the rest. No different to a lot of other patchy albums I guess. I still don't like 'Boyz'!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Britney and MIA are indivisible for me, love both albums more than I've loved a full-length record since Discovery came out (!). I ticked MIA cos I voted more for Britney elsewhere in the poll, but I might switch back to make the result closer.

[koganbot]

Lucinda Williams? Ack!

Think of it as "Jealousy" and "I'm Not Leaving Without You" with guns. Or Britney with an umbrella.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure her attitude will appeal but...I dunno what I dislike about country music. The accents, the twangs, the style? It seems so alien and weird in a bad way to me. I guess this is how lots of other people hear US hip-hop.

[koganbot]

Well, "country" is all over the place these days. The only "proper" country that's charting is from bores like George Strait. In any event, I would be shocked if you didn't like LeAnn Rimes' "Nothin' Better To Do" or Taylor Swift's "A Place In This World" (the latter being as teenpop as you can get). Shocked.

[koganbot]

But you should still vote Britney over Miranda. My top three albs right now are Insomniatic, Blackout, and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, though I'm uncertain as to the order of the first two, there are a couple of contenders who could overtake Miranda, and several albs waiting in the wings unheard by me that I have hope for.

(So I could change my vote to Britney, if the voting is close, or if I just decide that Blackout beats Insomniatic after all.)