Rolling Top 100 2005-2009: ALBUMS "I don't get it thread"

ha sounds good :) xps

jj i am finding we have weirdly un-aligned tastes!

a; grumh aside

lol

A; Grumph brings ppl together

i'll be fucked, there's a lot of the grumh on youtube!!

THROUGH GUESSTIMATING I HAVE DEDUCED JJ'S TOP TWO

APPARENTLY SLEEPYTIME GORILLA MUSEUM ALBUM IS BETTER THAN BLOOD INSIDE

I still need to hear it + the others :(

You win!

please post the whole thing now!

ALBUMS (RANKED)

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - in Glorious Times - 40 points
Ulver - Blood Inside - 39 points
Future Of The Left - Travels With Myself And Another - 38 points
Sparks - Hello Young Lovers - 37 points
MSTRKRFT - the looks - 36 points
Gay Witch Abortion - Maverick - 35 points
Presets - Beams - 34 points
Future of the Left - Curses - 33 points
Supersystem - Always Never Again - 32 points
Man Man - Six Demon Bag - 31 points
Slough Feg - Ape Uprising! - 30 points
Ulver - Shadows Of The Sun - 29 points
The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree - 28 points
System Of A Down - Mezmerize - 27 points
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dandelion Gum - 26 points
torche - meanderthal - 25 points
Belphegor - Bondage Goat Zombie - 24 points
Devin Townsend Project - Addicted - 23 points
Dethklok - the Dethalbum - 22 points
Flat Earth Society - Psychoscout - 21 points
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra and Tra-La-La Band - 13 Blues
for Thirteen Moons - 20 points
The Decemberists - Picaresque - 19 points
The Books - Lost and Safe - 18 points
Stars of the Lid - And Their Refinement of the Decline - 17 points
School of Seven Bells - Alpinisms - 16 points
Rodrigo y Gabriela - Rodrigo y Gabriela - 15 points
Paleo - Misery, Missouri - 14 points
Mastodon - Crack the Skye - 13 points
Lady Gaga - The Fame Monster - 12 points
harvey milk - life...the best game in town - 11 points
Foetus - Love - 10 points
Earth - The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull - 9 points
Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You - 8 points
Pink - Funhouse - 7 points
Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain - 6 points
Baroness - Red Album - 5 points
Bohren & der Club of Gore - Geisterfaust - 4 points
Craig Wedren - Lapland - 3 points
Current 93 - Black Ships Ate The Sky - 2 points
Krallice - Krallice - 1 point

TRACKS (UNRANKED)

Against Me! - Thrash Unreal
Avril Lavigne – Girlfriend
Bat for Lashes - What's a Girl to Do?
Battles - Atlas
chamillionaire ft. krayzie bone - ridin dirty
Daft Punk - Robot Rock
Depeche Mode - Wrong
DJ Khaled f/ Akon, T.I., Rick Ross, Fat Joe, Birdman and Lil Wayne -
We Taking Over
Future of the Left - Arming Eritrea
Hot Chip - Over And Over
Imogen Heap - Hide and Seek
Kanye West - Stronger
Lady Gaga - Bad Romance
Lady Gaga - Paparazzi
Lily Allen - The Fear
Liars - The Other Side of Mt. Heart Attack
Lil Wayne - A Milli
Neko Case - Hold On, Hold On
Of Montreal - The Party's Crashing Us
Pink - Funhouse
Rihanna - Umbrella (ft. Jay-Z)
Sparks - Dick Around
The Dead Weather - Treat Me Like Your Mother
The Killers - When You Were Young
the presets - if i know you
The Thermals - A Pillar of Salt
The Raconteurs - Steady, As She Goes
Three 6 Mafia ft. Project Pat - Poppin My Collar
Veronicas - Hook Me Up
Young Jeezy - My President
Zombi - Spirit Animal

Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dandelion Gum
Belphegor - Bondage Goat Zombie

despite being one of like 3 Devin Townsend fans on ILM I haven't heard OF that one let alone heard it! also yes, I need to hear Gay Witch Abortion, as has been discussed. FOTL are great and I've seen them live and they were great live too and really funny between songs!

I've heard and liked Psychoscout too, would you believe. I put it on a few times during my stint at that classical and jazz store because the cover looked promising. Sold a few copies! One of the better nu-jazz acts - need to relisten.

That is devin townsends pop masterpiece and no, I am not being at all tongue in cheek

I can well believe he made a pop masterpiece! Dude was in The Wildhearts after all. Plus he's one of the great modern producers.

Oh, and he wrote 'Hide Nowhere' which is nothing if not a mile-wide slab of pure fucking pop genius

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGvi6GeXnLg&feature=youtube_gdata

holy shit

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I didn't think it'd be THIS pop!! awesome x20

Yeah that's prob my favorite track, but here is something to appeal to the blood inside voter in you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUtMdDSUFM8&feature=youtube_gdata

Be sure to lock in for the full 9 minutes, things will get good and weird

I just listened to the opening track and yeah this is good shit - about to bed in with yr suggested dementia tho

when that dance-beat takes over I am like O_O

this whole album is massively dope

yeah i know! now of course there are 2 of us who give a shit about it, but man i really wish it had gotten more of a foothold. lady who is singing was in "The Gathering" who i never gave a shit about, but man she works well on here, and the vocal harmonies are just O_O. Really well written, prob too pop pretty for the metal dudes, and too metal for the mainstream so obscurity here we come.

thinking i should maybe resurrect the blog w/a youtube laden countdown of stuff i voted for (although some of it will prob not be anywhere, they only pressed 1000 of that Paleo album iirc).

btw just to derail and talk some more about Ellen Allien/Apparat/Modeselektor, this is Apparat's "Arcadia" off of Walls which I think is really awesome:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3bkmD-70e4

thought of doing the countdown here and then realized "hey how many threads can i start about me and my fascinating opinions before i become king douche" was a valid question. xpost

Bend It Like Bender! is currently rocking my sweet world like a giant male/female duetted popsharktopus

Really well written, prob too pop pretty for the metal dudes, and too metal for the mainstream so obscurity here we come.

well, speaking of which, have YOU heard...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK_trE9qdfY

I've been going mental for the record that's on for the past week. Very different production-wise to Devin's work (or anything else ever made), but equally kickass.

hmmmmmm. thats going to have to grow on me i think, first listen didnt catch me (despite shouty childrens choir bits, which seem to be in that "sounds i like" category most of the time.)

idk, lead vocal has that post ministry pixelated thing going on thats tough for me to deal with anymore so

fair notice: stuck listening to it on the internal iphone speakers so theres i am sure much going on that i am not hearing.

ha at first I thought you were talking about the Apparat track and I was all "...waht"

it's one of the most wilfully distorted, fucked-up recordings in the history of pop-metal, I'll give it that - maybe you'd prefer their cleaner recordings! endless, nameless was very much a 'fuck-you' experiment - I just happen to love it in all its abrasive glory

slightly low quality but what can ya do:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPs02a1bie0

If that fails, I'll get back to praising Devin Townsend, and not a word more of this shall e'er be spoken

LJ, did you ever hear Black Moth Super Rainbow? Their Dandelion Gum album kind of comes across as Boards of Canada on ecstacy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYQMs_zXF9k

also they are willing to go much creepier than anything I've seen from BoC (whom you know I love):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC6aAs4kkbY&feature=related

Lollipopsichord starts off sounding like every band Pitchfork has 'broken' for the past 5 years, finds a flute and some meaty synths, doesn't come from anything remotely like the same fragile pastoral-hip-hop sound-world of BoC, has some mysterious vocals, ends. Nonetheless, I refuse to discount them.

Sun Lips is much better - like, MUCH better, while still being a bit garishly this-must-belong-to-some-wave-right. I like the video, even if it is a bit silly. The flute works really well this time. Even less BoCesque. Got a sorta psych-folk vibe, just done with synths. I bet they read their blogs.

Still, I may give their stuff a proper go...

i have started this countdown thing www.jjjusten.blogspot.com

was gonna say Resolve! is my new fave track but tbh there isn't a song that's any less than balling on Addicted and that is glorious truth

just wanted to post and thank JJJJusten for "Bondage Goat Zombie" - because this is why i don't vote in polls like that one, because the likes of Bondage Goat Zombie has no chance of winning

i live to make the lives of others better in some small way

btw JJ the 'big reveal' was gonna be that Devin Townsend is an ex-member of The Wildhearts and the two are mutually enamoured of each other in a big sorta way - 'Resolve!' is a Wildhearts tribute, in fact

I have absolutely no doubt you'll go ape for quite a lot of Wildhearts material (if not necessarily the distortion-bomb blow-out) so take it as a VERY strong recommendation

joanna newsom just placed in the 2010 so i thought id better bump this to avoid being a shitheel on the main thread

the list, so i dont have to load the whole thread again:

77. HARVEY MILK — A Small Turn of Human Kindness (240 points, 8 votes, 1 first place vote)
76. QUADRON — Quadron (240 points, 12 votes)
75. RIHANNA — Loud (244 points, 9 votes)
74. ZOLA JESUS — Stridulum II (244 points, 10 votes)
73. THIRD EYE FOUNDATION — The Dark (246 points, 8 votes, 2 first place votes)
(TIE) 71. THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH — The Wild Hunt (250 points, 8 votes)
(TIE) 71. KYLIE MINOGUE — Aphrodite (250 points, 8 votes)
70. WARPAINT — The Fool (250 points, 9 votes)
69. SUN ARAW — On Patrol (252 points, 8 votes)
68. NO AGE — Everything in Between (256 points, 11 votes)
67. GAYNGS — Relayted (258 points, 10 votes)
66. GUCCI MANE — Mr. Zone 6 (260 points, 9 votes)
65. SUN CITY GIRLS — Funeral Mariachi (260 points, 9 votes, 2 first place votes)
64. THE RADIO DEPT. — Clinging to a Scheme (266 points, 11 votes)
63. THE KNIFE — Tomorrow, In a Year (270 points, 8 votes, 1 first place vote)
62. THE NATIONAL — High Violet (270 points, 9 votes)
61. ENSLAVED — Axioma Ethica Odini (272 points, 8 votes, 1 first place vote)

60. KELIS — Flesh Tone (272 points, 11 votes)
59. CURREN$Y — Pilot Talk II (272 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote)
58. IKONIKA — Contact, Love, Want, Have (276 points, 10 votes, 1 first place vote)
57. R. KELLY — Love Letter (284 points, 12 votes)
56. THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS — Further (286 points, 10 votes)
(TIE) 54. NEIL YOUNG — Le Noise (290 points, 11 votes)
(TIE) 54. THE FALL — Your Future Our Clutter (290 points, 11 votes)
53. RANGDA — False Flag (306 points, 9 votes)
52. JAVIERA MENA - Mena (310 points, 8 votes, 2 first place votes)
51. CRYSTAL CASTLES — Crystal Castles (312 points, 13 votes)
50. GORILLAZ — Plastic Beach (316 points, 12 votes)
49. MARINA & THE DIAMONDS — The Family Jewels (320 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote)
48. DEERHUNTER — Halcyon Digest (320 points, 13 votes)
47. ELECTRIC WIZARD — Black Masses (334 points, 10 votes)
46. BIG K.R.I.T. — K.R.I.T. Wuz Here (344 points, 11 votes)
45. PANTHA DU PRINCE — Black Noise (348 points, 15 votes)
44. TYLER, THE CREATOR — Bastard (352 points, 14 votes)
43. SPOON — Transference (374 points, 12 votes, 1 first place vote)
42. RICK ROSS — Teflon Don (380 points, 12 votes)
41. YEASAYER — Odd Blood (380 points, 13 votes)

40. WE LOVE — We Love (380 points, 13 votes, 1 first place vote)
39. JAZMINE SULLIVAN — Love Me Back (404 points, 12 votes, 1 first place vote)
38. TITUS ANDRONICUS — The Monitor (410 points, 15 votes, 4 first place votes)
37. THESE NEW PURITANS — Hidden (414 points, 13 votes)
36. AGALLOCH — Marrow of the Spirit (420 points, 13 votes, 1 first place vote)
35. CIARA — Basic Instinct (438 points, 14 votes, 3 first place votes)
34. FLYING LOTUS — Cosmogramma (462 points, 17 votes)
33. EARL SWEATSHIRT — Earl (474 points, 14 votes, 1 first place vote)
32. ARCADE FIRE — The Suburbs (478 points, 14 votes, 1 first place vote)
31. GUIDO — Anidea (480 points, 17 votes)
30. E-40 — Revenue Retrievin' (484 points, 16 votes, 1 first place vote)
29. HOT CHIP — One Life Stand (490 points, 17 votes, 2 first place votes)
28. LAURA MARLING — I Speak Because I Can (516 points, 15 votes, 2 first place votes)
27. OWEN PALLETT — Heartland (544 points, 17 votes, 1 first place vote)
26. GIL SCOTT-HERON — I'm New Here (544 points, 20 votes)
25. SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS — Disconnect From Desire (550 points, 20 votes, 2 first place votes)
24. WAKA FLOCKA FLAME — Flockaveli (558 points, 20 votes, 1 first place vote)
23. M.I.A. — /\/\ /\ Y /\ (560 points, 18 votes, 1 first place vote)
22. GLASSER — Ring (570 points, 17 votes, 1 first place vote)
21. JOANNA NEWSOM — Have One on Me (636 points, 17 votes, 2 first place votes)

this has started with bad portents since my iphone keeps trying to autocorrect quadron as "quadroon" o_o

which judging from far cry is totally booooooring. moving on.

harvey milk is already in my comfort zone, although this album doesnt really measure up to the early stuff imo

ha the new HM was supposed to be the return to their early style after the more produced/catchy/amazing "Life ... the Best Game in Town"

it took this hm album for me to realize that aprt of the appeal there is that theres a weird touchstone between hm singer and the power bellowing that foetus used to do a lot of the time, esp in clint ruin/wiseblood mode. in retrospect shoulda voted this somewhat higher

rihanna i heard and found woefully disappointing from somebody that was so good so recently

xpost yeah see thats the prob w/chasing your past is that when you try to do it, it never seems to actually work tho

first impression of zola jesus was that the world doesnt need yet another fucking siouxsie copycat but theres something kind of interesting going on musically that gets me in a way that makes up for finding her voice reallll boring. this night song which i guess must be the single maybe? is pretty bland, but the song that youtube says is named stridulum is kind afantastic at the end so - idk, peeps that dig this should lead me through the zone here.

3EF was one of my top votes, so i dont really need to dig in there.

tallest man on earth - wow there are not a lot of names worse than this, but i havent heard a note yet, so ill reserve judgement. uh ok so people are way overselling the guitar work on this, not that its bad, but its kinda standard decent acoustic picking stuff, vocals dont bug me as much as they seem to for others - kinda a more cautious version of paleo. in fact people who are into this should just go ahead and go check out some Paleo, its kinda this dude done better. this is ok i guess.

hey jj have you seen mother of fire locally? not a souixsie copycat but really cool band that might appeal to a fan of early bashees stuff, witchy female vox + electric violin + dub bass + post punk drumz

i dont really need to hear any more kylie minogue, i just dont get it and i never will and thats fine

this warpaint thing (undertow) seems to be a bunch of fiddly nonsense, messy oververbed and look at me! lazy cant be bothered attitude, dont like stuff like this at all really. second song now (majesty) and actually thats too soft, i really fucking hate this.

sun araw - started with ma holo and man i am tired of endless loopy nonsense as a thing i guess idk if its just not getting high anymore or what but i am done w/this stuff. beat cop now and unless this goes somewhere soon before we all die, i just dont have any idea what this is supposed to do for me, it just sounds like unfun dub with half the ideas and several decades late.

xpost: sorry was out selling stuff - have not seen mother of fire, but could see totally digging them from that description, will investigate

i know im coming over as all crotchety old man on this thread, but i actually really enjoy these end of year things because i kinda live in a cave outside of my weirdo things im way too into musically these days so like 90% of these lists are full of things ive never ever heard. and despite being a little bitch about most of it so far, no offense intended to peeps that dig this stuff, my ears are as wrong as anybody elses imo.

bump to just express my bafflement about taylor swift making the top twenty when she is absolutely unredeemable in every way and completely talentless and awful.

I'm not even sure my ballot was counted. There's literally SO MUCH on here I don't even know, but I thought I'd voted for fairly obvious stuff. Oh well.

mother of fire, you say? sounds like something i should check out

so no age - this is like time traveling back to 5 years ago at a load records showcase at big vs bar, but scrape off all the sweat and turn things down to a nice manageable level and for gods sake lets tune those guitars and shout less. in other words this sounds like la bowlderizing a providence time capsule for the kids. barf.

gayngs - this has some promise maybe, glitcho stuff at the beginning but now theres smooth jazz saxophone and breathy singing and fucking hell is this the year of reverb or what? and now thanks to wikipedia i realize that these dudes are from minneapolis, and some of them are friends of mine. sorry. and this cover of godley and creme fucking blows and makes me irrationally angry.

Hello JJ. I would like to concur with you on a few things.

guys i am srsly very very sorry about gayngs. knocing some folks off the christmas card list for making that bullshit.

*burns doomtree shirt in protest*