ILM Top 100 2005-2009: ALBUMS

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

I voted for the Caribou album, it's a really relaxing piece of summery psych-pop that deserves a listen from all ears.

am pretty interested in hearing their new material tho -- i am willing to submit to battlesmania once again

race in and atlas kind of summarized battles so well that the rest of the album, while not bad at all, got dwarfed.

It's already clear to me how much I've devalued the album as a steadfast go-to in my own listening based on the results thus far. I have vague memories of hearing most of these, but it all comes down to a song or two for me. And I don't mind that at all.

Like I posted in the tracks thread, Mirrored has aged horribly. It sounded so exciting back in 2007 but I listened against recently and it felt obvious and plodding.

94. BOARDS OF CANADA The Campfire Headphase (2005) [192 points, 9 votes]
http://centripetalnotion.com/images/boc.jpg

Ha! I forgot that album was recent enough to qualify.

wow. Great. I didn't vote for this but I'm really glad it showed up. I didn't realize how old it was either or Dayvan Cowboy would have shown up on my tracks list.

yeah boards of canada feel like ancient history right now to me

i've been meaning to listen to my ancient copy of music has the right for like a year now

starting to remember how much further from my taste these album polls are compared to the tracks polls.

Boards of Canada, more like Bored of FauxnaiveIDMcrap, right?

93. NE-YO Year of the Gentleman (2008) [195.5 points, 10 votes]
http://badtzbeat.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/ne-yo-year-of-the-gentleman-front.jpg

word

hello, ne-yo! it's good to see you!

first of my votes to place

BoC, at least late-period BoC, has nothing at all to do with IDM. It's not naive either. They're good at layers of sound, which I happen to love at 2 in the morning when I don't feel like staying awake but don't quite feel like going to bed either. xps

Fair enough, to be honest I never got past Music Has the Right to Children, which has one good track and the rest is kinda boring.

lol v glad my l8 ballot got ne-yo into the TOP 100

:-)

I voted for In My Own Words and think Gentleman is pretty unremarkable outside of the (great) singles, but still really happy to see Ne-Yo here.

yeah but i bet your late vote got animal collective in the top 5 ;)

Fair enough, to be honest I never got past Music Has the Right to Children, which has one good track and the rest is kinda boring.

Well then you missed their best EP and album, in 2000 and 2002, respectively.

nearly half the tracks on YOTG were singles, and on top of those i think "what's the matter?", "so you can cry" and "lie to me" are all fantastic songs too - i really like in my own words but def prefer gentleman, its highs are higher imo.

Yup, I voted for YOTG. Great album.

the singles on that album are titanic, and i found it a bit problematic when getting into the thing as a whole -- it's really a slow burn in that sense

92. NEKO CASE Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (2006) [196 points, 8 votes]
http://media.anti.com/neko_case/fox_confessor_mini-hi.jpg

bad album imo

well I mainly meant "Closer" and "Miss Independent" -- am kind of indifferent to "Mad," forgot "Part Of The List (Sexy Hermit Crab Woman)" was a single and don't count "Single" since a different version was a single for a different act, so I really meant it has 2 great songs and 10 I wouldn't mind never hearing again.

a few amazing songs, can't remember the rest

i think i liked a couple songs on that one, only one i can remember the name of is 'maybe sparrow'

Most of Neko's solo songs sound half-finished. Fox Confessor is no different.

i like 'teenage feeling' a lot p good soda commercial

also some dude ur retarded 'mad' is tremendous

"single" and "mad" are the most amazing YOTG tracks imo

never heard fox confessor; i love her voice, i thought blacklisted was a wonderful album, but last year's effort left me cold...

fox conf closer to the newest one than blacklisted, which is actually a good album

Didn't vote, but Fox Confessor would be my #1.

Ahh, it's started. I liked Tha Carter III and The Campfire Headphase but didn't feel like I knew either of them quite well enough to make my ballot. Am very surprised that the Camera Obscura album made it - I liked 'Hey Lloyd' a lot but am so uninterested by most of the rest of their songs. Borrrrring.

91. LOS CAMPESINOS! Hold On Now, Youngster... (2008) [197 points, 6 votes, 1 first place vote]
http://arts-crafts.ca/promotion/loscampesinos/images/AC031.jpg

"Part Of The List (Sexy Hermit Crab Woman)"

plz explain

Huge Boards of Canada fan, and I enjoyed The Campfire Headphase. I didn't vote for it, though, feeling that it wasn't quite up to the level of their first two LPs.

even the mere mention of los campesinos makes me twitch with repulsion/desire to punch them in the face. when i tweeted a link to my singles jukebox slagging of them, without an @, the losers still tweeted me back :(