ILM Top 100 2005-2009: ALBUMS

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 :(

never heard them. nice to see boc make it though.

A couple of these images you're picking are GINORMOUS, dude.

ha, sorry

"Mad" is one of those songs where I think Schaffer gets a little too Manilow and I miss the R&B, plus it sounds like he's sneezing in the chorus.

"Part Of The List" verse 1: "it's your left hand and the way that it's not quite as big as your right"

i'll choose smaller ones

los camp was my #3

hermit crab zing is my favorite al ship running joke of all time

when i tweeted a link to my singles jukebox slagging of them, without an @, the losers still tweeted me back :(

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ugh artists that are on top of anyone who mentions them on twitter positive or negative are the worst

"Part Of The List" verse 1: "it's your left hand and the way that it's not quite as big as your right"

looooooooooool

I really should pay more attention to lyrics, I suppose...

It's twitter, guys. It is public.

Not really a fan of Los Campesinos, mind you. I love a lot of stuff they are influenced by, but their way of doing it just doesn't strike the right chord with me.

90. SLEATER-KINNEY The Woods (2005) [198.5 points, 8 votes]
http://www.culturebully.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/sleater-kinney-the-woods-cd-cover-album-art.jpg

well obv it's public, but to find it they'd have to a) be doing constant searches for their band name and b) then, amongst the thousands of results, still care enough about a one-paragraph blurb to tweet me about it

Still love S-K, still don't think The Woods was all that great (or One Beat, for that matter).

and whoa i haven't thought about this album in an age - it impressed me at the time but, um, "impressive" rather than "enjoyable" given how little i've returned to/can remember it

one beat is the only S-K album (that i've heard) that i outright love - every song on it is just huge

Quite the opposite for me with Los Campesinos. They don't really seem like something that should work for me on the face of it, but they really work for me. Lotsa xps.

Dunno if I can think of an album from this period that was opened up for me by seeing the material live more than <em>The Woods</em>.

kinda hate Los Campesinos

<3 S-K and Neko - "Fox Confessor" is full of highlights, u r all mad.

yeah even if i made a top 100 list of these years i don't think the woods would make it. but i like it fine. i don't listen to it much either, but i do call up their letterman performance of "jumpers" sometimes, it's really good.

<3 <3 <3 <3 the past 4 albums. Ne-Yo maybe the best singles artist of the time, in a nice 'wow i love hearing that on the radio now and again, its so refreshing' kinda way. Neko tugs the heart strings. Los Camp! was my #1 and post-football I may write more on it (sorry lex). And S-K are the bestest.

89. VITALIC OK Cowboy (2005) [200 points, 10 votes]
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/92/Okcowboy.jpg

2005 being well repped so far.