ILM Top 100 2005-2009: ALBUMS

actually i accidentally left all rap albums off my ballot so this is probably my fault

I should probably listen to that whole Lil Wayne album, huh? I've had it for two years and have only ever played "A Milli."

I would break ties by

a) total number of votes
b) highest-ranking vote

the way i break a tie in the eoy metal poll is by #1 votes and if it has none # of voters.

i havent really listened to carter3 since 08 but i still love "shoot me down" plus the singles

carter 3 was 9th in the yr end 08 poll btw

predicting a strong ADPY showing.

G has been roundly disowned by ILM obv

carter3 gets really lame at the end but 2/3 of it is straight fiyah.

APDYX

99. SPOON Gimme Fiction (2005) [181 points, 9 votes]
http://www.phawker.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/SpoonGimmeFiction.jpg

tha carter iii is a very strong album but i'd think most lil wayne votes would go to tha carter ii, right?

Nice one. Still one of Spoon's best albums, right alongside Girls Can Tell.

carter III is pretty good -- has a few true, true duds -- carter III was my #2 and drought & d2 are waaaayyy better

Spoons best albums = Telephone and A Series of Sneaks. Everything else ranges from "oh, alright" to "meh."

er, Telephono

i'd rank gimme fiction below kill the moonlight, girls can tell, and ga*5 in that order, but it's still got some killer songs on it

I listened to GAGAGAGAGAGA a bunch of times and liked it and yet just can't find it in me to care about ever listening to Spoon again or checking their other albums. Nice covers though.

i know i've said this before but the front of gimme fiction slays and then it gets deathly boring for 3 or 4 tracks toward the back.

telephono is ca ca ca ca ca

gagaga is by far my fav spoon album & the only one i voted for, but i love gimme fiction too

98. CAMERA OBSCURA Let's Get Out of This Country (2006) [183 points, 7 votes, 1 first place vote]
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8f/Lets_get_out_of_this_country.jpg

that album cover bothers me every time i see it, to the point where i've never even considered listening to the album

dumb, i know

p. good but would not make my top 100 for this period

That's the sort of album cover that tells me I'm not gonna like the music inside. Quite helpful!

that album cover bothers me every time i see it, to the point where i've never even considered listening to the album

Join the club.

first three entries = yawn

Cosign w/ Tuomas. Absolutely atrocious.

untrue pitch lemme check your ballot and tell you about when to check back

great the indiepop gestapo all coming out

I rather like indiepop, but something about Camera Obscura (and it's not just limited to their packaging) rubs me wrong.

great the indiepop gestapo all coming out

we wouldn't need to if indiepop would just die out

that album cover bothers me every time i see it, to the point where i've never even considered listening to the album

same here, except i had previously decided to avoid camera obscura. funny how much consensus there is on this.

I love indiepop but Camera Obscura is not a good band. They have a few good songs and that's it.

we wouldn't need to if indiepop would just die out

bbbbbut its POP!

way to run with the gestapo analogy lex!

97. RHYTHM & SOUND See Mi Yah (2005) [185 points, 9 votes]
http://www.discogs.com/image/R-361829-1248548401.jpeg

That Carter III thing is in last place and is still somehow way way way way way way too high. Way too high.

alright guys i'm gonna run to the bank real quick before this soccer game, i'll be back in 25 mins or so

welll i like the camob cover lets u know that the music will be cool & fun but also emotional

Can anyone else see that Discogs img link? I can't.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61BE4r0AstL._SS500_.jpg

Discogs doesn't allow direct picture linking, you shouldn't use it.

see mi yah is one of those albums that i really should have got round to hearing in the past half decade. all i have are scattered remixes (carl craig's "poor people must work" sticks out)...

what is this record?

there's a remix album lex, i really like it

i hate reading these threads at work because i want to go running to youtube every time something i haven't heard pops up

Rhythm & Sound have always sounded better as a concept than what the actual music is like. The only tune by them I think is an absolute classic is "What a Mistry" with Tikiman.

see mi yah looks like it might be worth listening to, anyone wanna say more about it.

my maudlin career >>> lets get out of this country

see mi yah is one of those albums that i really should have got round to hearing in the past half decade. [x2]

I like this, but not nearly as much as "With The Artists"

huh, it's only in Opera that there's a problem, if i open it in IE (u_u) the whole thing loads and i can now say i am disappointed in every last one of you for leaving The Foreign Exchange's Leave It All Behind. shame on you. shame.

ol' norm already released an album w/ david byrne this year. just getting warmed up.

chances of that album placing in ILM's 2010 poll? 1,000:1

Opera is weird. There are a lot of things I love about it, but ultimately it annoys me. I love the way it scrolls though, it's so smooth.

1. Thanks for doing this J0rdan.

2. ##101-200 v. interesting - kinda wish we'd done the countdown from 200 now

3. Pleased that 19 of my 25 nominees got votes.

http://www.albumoftheyear.org/album/covers/the-black-album.jpg

ugh RONG THREAD! scuse me

This thread motivated me to finally check out Studio's West Coast. I'd hear Yearbook 1 before and had WC on my long list for aaaages, but so glad this prompted me to finally giving it a go. Loving it!

I FUCKING LOVE THIS LIST BTW, KUDOS ILM.

also:

Yay Dilla!!

― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 18:46 (3 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^^^

Finally bought a proper copy of New Amerykah Pt. 1 this week and have played it like a million times again and it really is the best sound.

still pissed about donuts beating every rap album

are we doing this for 2010-14, we shd

We're not Pitchfork. We can at least wait till the year is over before we start thinking about something like this.

we should do it next summer

Though speaking of delayed polls, whatever happened to that Favorite Albums of All Time poll that was proposed?

It got cancelled in favour of that all time rock albums poll that ran a couple of months ago. It was a bit of a messy situation in the end.

are you referring to the classic rock tracks poll? i don't remember an "all time rock albums" poll. there's a thread for scheduling polls, anyhow.

ILM Ballot Polls for 2014 and beyond -- order, timing, "I would have voted if I'd known about it," etc

all time poll,mid decade poll , decade polls and so on have to be booked on that thread.

so it will be the year 2025 when they get to run
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izQB2-Kmiic

naw who gives a fuck about that thread we do the mid-decade poll midway through next year just like the last one in 2010

dont care i just wanted to post that vid as the punchline

We already have exceptions to the queue rule: EOY polls happen at the end of each year. If mid-decade polls are a thing that ILX "does", they should happen each year that's divisible by five imo.

and all time polls?

should happen at the end of all time

seems fair