ILM Top 100 2005-2009: ALBUMS

i want to go out raving RIGHT NOW thanks to vitalic showing up

la rock. i got a speeding ticket because of that song. well a warning. but still. i blame vitalic. really glad it made the list.

88. ART BRUT Bang Bang Rock & Roll (2005) [200.5 points, 6 votes, 1 first place vote]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4f/Artbrutbbrr.jpg

augh

i think you have to be british to understand this band?

i don't think i 'get' that album

la rock. i got a speeding ticket because of that song.

soooo appropriate

i think you have to be british to understand this band?

i understand them all too well, it only makes them worse

i think "emily kane" and "good weekend" are out and out 10/10 classics, but i can't stand eddie argos over a whole album

That album is front-to-back funtime bangahs.

OH GOD I REMEMBER WHAT SONG THAT IS NOW i am literally shuddering here!!! it's that "i've seen her naked - twice!" one. oh god oh god worst song ever, i gfeel i need to scrub my brain clean after that. literally the grossest, TMI moment in any song ever.

this is because i remembered classic collection of old-skool stylus jukebox reviews of art brut

i had forgotten about that song. UGHHHHHHHH it makes my skin crawl.

87. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Strawberry Jam (2007) [203 points, 9 votes]
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5c/Strawberry_jam_high_res_cover.jpg

:(

hate that album cover

love 'peacebone'

don't really care about the rest

i mean, of the 3 animal collective albums that were obv gonna place (SPOILER ALERT), having one go in at 87 isn't terrible -- i thought all 3 might make the top 30 or something tbh

SJ is actually a good album tho

SJ >>> their other albums.

Lex, you do know that line is supposed to be lol right, and not some sort of barrywhitelurveexpression?

lol @ lex thinking the idea of seeing a woman naked is the most disgusting thing he can conceive of

lol at the music released that week tho

lol circles

otm tho imo

Los Campesinos is literally the worst thing that has EVER happened to music.. ever ever ever since it was invented and some homo neanderthalis knocked some rocks together and grunted.

what's lol about that line? it's more creepy

it's the idea of bragging about seeing a naked woman in such stupid, gauche terms that's gross

not the naked woman, obv, i am a lil kim fan after all

lol @ at THAT being your clarification

"this you spell 'HAHAHAH...'" really, really shld have made the top singles list

86. BELLE AND SEBASTIAN The Life Pursuit (2006) [204.5 points, 8 votes]
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3a/Thelifepursuitcover.jpg

ok the list so far is shifting from hilarious wtf territory to deep seated worry for the future i think

wait till you see where hall & oates places

oh fuck OFF belle & sebastian. i really feel that ever since i got on the internet, everywhere i've been, it's like i've been beset by belle & sebastian fans. why the hell are there so many of them?

Video for Art Brut is really looool in a bad way (like the song):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUEd_8QMPVU

hmmm, a communication medium that allows you to stalk people without ever leaving home; why would that appeal to a Belle & Sebastian fan...?

lol

hahaha

dying tbh

voted for that album

like that album a lot, should break it out again

it still surprises me that j0rdan likes so much old british indie :(

Whatever, The Life Pursuit is awesome (along with every other Belle & Sebastian album......)

i was 15 once, too

A+++ zing dan

By the way, I gave up defending Art Brut in 2005, and am not even tempted to restart doing so here. I gave BBR&R my #2 vote and I'm perfectly happy about it.

85. BAT FOR LASHES Two Suns (2009) [205 points, 9 votes, 1 first place vote]
http://justjustlive.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/bat-for-lashes-two-suns-2009.jpg

Fantastic - turns out I guaranteed The Life Pursuit's placement in the list by putting in my top 5. Will celebrate by listening to "Another Sunny Day" immediately. Apologies to those who find Belle & Sebastian the moral and aesthetic equivalent of kicking puppies.

The 3rd Art Brut album is just as good, if not better.

more like cuddling with puppies instead of fucking them

And The Life Pursuit was the first B&S album I really liked since Sinister, mostly because Stuart Murdoch ended the democracy that crippled them for years and took control of the singing/songwriting again for the most part.

if all the original posters from when i first started reading ilx way back were still here, every B&S album from the 00s would probably be in the top 10.