ILM Top 100 2005-2009: ALBUMS

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"

actually i think i've ONLY heard the see mi yah remixes, not the originals.

when it was a big thing i was only just getting into mnml techno, so i think it passed me by. possibly because 10 versions of the same riddim seems a bit much even for me.

i don't know R&S, but the cover is great (reverse camera obscura effect)

alright i'm back, queuing up the next one

96. CARIBOU Andorra (2007) [187.5 points, 9 votes]
http://lapiscinavacia.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/caribou1.jpg

hahaha ok this is way weirder than the start of the tracks poll

what an ugly cover.

i love 'up in flames' and his newest one but i kind of slept through everything in between

Really? I think it's awesome.

xp

alright no one seems quite inspired by caribou, so on to the next one

Never heard of See Mi Yah before but it sounds kind of an interesting idea. Gimme Fiction is by no means a great Spoon album; Carter III is ok but I can't say I've listened to it loads since it came out.

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

― Born too beguiled (DavidM), Wednesday, July 7, 2010 2:03 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

true but i'm kinda happy to have it out the way and not know it's gonna show up later. really hoping Carter II does well.

The best part about this is going to be critiquing the album covers!

95. BATTLES Mirrored (2007) [190.5 points, 11 votes]
http://dynowright.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/battles-500.jpg

was my #1 of 2007, but 2007 was a weird year.

ha didn't want this just to become album cover critique but the battles cover >>>>> battles music.

i listened to this a decent amount in 2007, and they're one of the best live bands i've ever seen, but i didn't really consider voting for it in this poll

i loved that album at the time but in the end i only ever listen to atlas so they got relegated to tracks-poll-only for me

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