ILM Top 100 2005-2009: ALBUMS

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]
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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]
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2005 being well repped so far.

The overall sound of OK Cowboy is immaculate but it's not something I'd want to listen to all the way through. Worthy choice though.

i think i was underwhelmed by ok cowboy at the time, but it's held up pretty well.

nice! first one of my votes to show up. oh man. this album is great. epic.

YES vitalic!!!!!!!

i guess as an album it felt a year or two overdue at the time BUT it pretty much collected all the hits, and his music pretty much soundtracked the early to mid-00s for me; really, really pivotal for me, for a number of reasons.

when i listen to this track, i imagine skyscrapers slowly rising out of the ground:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Fpj4YTyR-k

and this is basically the most epic, banging club track ever made

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGOaXphpT7w

man i didn't even think about OK Cowboy when i was voting but yeah it's good

i'm 0 for 40 so far

i want to go out raving RIGHT NOW thanks to vitalic showing up

la rock. i got a speeding ticket because of that song. well a warning. but still. i blame vitalic. really glad it made the list.

88. ART BRUT Bang Bang Rock & Roll (2005) [200.5 points, 6 votes, 1 first place vote]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4f/Artbrutbbrr.jpg

augh

i think you have to be british to understand this band?

i don't think i 'get' that album

la rock. i got a speeding ticket because of that song.

soooo appropriate

i think you have to be british to understand this band?

i understand them all too well, it only makes them worse

i think "emily kane" and "good weekend" are out and out 10/10 classics, but i can't stand eddie argos over a whole album

That album is front-to-back funtime bangahs.

OH GOD I REMEMBER WHAT SONG THAT IS NOW i am literally shuddering here!!! it's that "i've seen her naked - twice!" one. oh god oh god worst song ever, i gfeel i need to scrub my brain clean after that. literally the grossest, TMI moment in any song ever.

this is because i remembered classic collection of old-skool stylus jukebox reviews of art brut

i had forgotten about that song. UGHHHHHHHH it makes my skin crawl.

87. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Strawberry Jam (2007) [203 points, 9 votes]
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5c/Strawberry_jam_high_res_cover.jpg

:(

hate that album cover

love 'peacebone'

don't really care about the rest

i mean, of the 3 animal collective albums that were obv gonna place (SPOILER ALERT), having one go in at 87 isn't terrible -- i thought all 3 might make the top 30 or something tbh

SJ is actually a good album tho

SJ >>> their other albums.

Lex, you do know that line is supposed to be lol right, and not some sort of barrywhitelurveexpression?

lol @ lex thinking the idea of seeing a woman naked is the most disgusting thing he can conceive of

lol at the music released that week tho

lol circles

otm tho imo

Los Campesinos is literally the worst thing that has EVER happened to music.. ever ever ever since it was invented and some homo neanderthalis knocked some rocks together and grunted.

what's lol about that line? it's more creepy

it's the idea of bragging about seeing a naked woman in such stupid, gauche terms that's gross