ILM Top 100 2005-2009: ALBUMS

Video for Art Brut is really looool in a bad way (like the song):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUEd_8QMPVU

hmmm, a communication medium that allows you to stalk people without ever leaving home; why would that appeal to a Belle & Sebastian fan...?

lol

hahaha

dying tbh

voted for that album

like that album a lot, should break it out again

it still surprises me that j0rdan likes so much old british indie :(

Whatever, The Life Pursuit is awesome (along with every other Belle & Sebastian album......)

i was 15 once, too

A+++ zing dan

By the way, I gave up defending Art Brut in 2005, and am not even tempted to restart doing so here. I gave BBR&R my #2 vote and I'm perfectly happy about it.

85. BAT FOR LASHES Two Suns (2009) [205 points, 9 votes, 1 first place vote]
http://justjustlive.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/bat-for-lashes-two-suns-2009.jpg

Fantastic - turns out I guaranteed The Life Pursuit's placement in the list by putting in my top 5. Will celebrate by listening to "Another Sunny Day" immediately. Apologies to those who find Belle & Sebastian the moral and aesthetic equivalent of kicking puppies.

The 3rd Art Brut album is just as good, if not better.

more like cuddling with puppies instead of fucking them

And The Life Pursuit was the first B&S album I really liked since Sinister, mostly because Stuart Murdoch ended the democracy that crippled them for years and took control of the singing/songwriting again for the most part.

if all the original posters from when i first started reading ilx way back were still here, every B&S album from the 00s would probably be in the top 10.

I love Two Suns btw (not so much for "Daniel" but for "Glass" and "Two Planets") so any disgruntled B&S fans should really take my teasing with a grain of salt.

Just checked in for the day, as usual none of my picks have come up. Really surprised with the indieness of the list so far, I'd never have guessed it was voted by the same people who did the tracks list. Aren't there any Southern rap albums?

xp - nothing wrong with Belle and Sebastian, didn't vote for them though.

84. FUCK BUTTONS Tarot Sport (2009) [206 points, 12 votes]
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e8/Tarot_Sport.jpg

Is it wrong that I've reached an age where I feel like it's impossible for me to take a band named "Fuck Buttons" seriously?

the trax peoples votes will probably come up in the later stages. I expect there to be shitloads of rap,pitchfork faves, mainstream pop and rnb to come with a few big consensus dance albums and hopefully Scott Walker.

metal folks dont vote so I dont think there will be any metal.

j0rdan puppy joke a+++++

"Olympians" would be my jogging on the treadmill jam if I still lived in a world where exercise and I got along regularly.

when Belphegor takes the top spot you will be eating those words Pfunk

i think the bigger thing wrt metal voting is that those of us who do vote in these things have divergent tastes (or at least diff obsessions) but i think that if u1v3r hasnt made it in by this point the LJ/JJ voting block has been defeated for sure

ok john votes, but him & i are the only ones i think. And when I pick an 80% metal ballot i know that the 80% wont get near the top 100.
I still cba doing a decade of metal poll. It feels so last year & overdone in all the mags.
I did consider doing an ILM all time metal album poll by email but noone would volunteer to tabulate it (and im rubbish at that kind of thing) so the idea is dead unless someone else will volunteer.

I voted ulver but we know they wont make it

jj fancy tabulating a poll?

RHYTHM & SOUND See Mi Yah

my fav album so far^ soooo heavy, thick, hallucinatory. the beat should get old but doesn't, a testament to the subtle balance of all the elements in the music; like everything Moritz Von Oswald releases it really feels lived-in and well thought out. its an album that i can play over and over without getting sick of them.

ALRIGHT! fuck buttons made it! Love them and this album. im 2 for 16 right now. hopefully this poll keeps on taking a turn for the noisy.

83. SANTIGOLD Santogold (2008) [206.5 votes, 10 points]
http://2liveandfly.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/santogold-album.jpg

i would consider it but would need some guidance thanks to never tabulating one before and worries that i would get overwhelmed/confused, say fuck it, and have to start posting here under some assumed name thx to peeps gunning for me when the results never showed up.

xpost to pfunk obv

lol @ how the santigold album is no longer eponymous

The Fuck Buttons album is good, but not great. Suffers a bit from the syndrome that the Battles LP and The Field (which I voted for) also have. Admirable works, but the concept can get a bit one-dimensional in the long run.

I voted for plenty of metal too (I even voted for u1v3r, though pretty low).

xposts to john and pfunk

jj will discuss it with you on googlechat. glenn says he can help you with the software he uses as its work related so hes free to help you.

ez you wont vote for the 2 other bands most likely to scrape in a poll :(

also my #1 is technically a metal album and I refuse to count it out, yet.

lol @ how the santigold album is no longer eponymous

Actually it is. Pressings since the name change have altered graphics.

ok dude. prob will not be on googlechat for a few thx to home computer hard drive destructo but thinking this isnt something that needs to get done next week so xpost pfunk yep yep

Also, I still love this album! xp

yay Santigold btw

"Starstruck" is totally my jam from this album, weirdly. (Besides "L.E.S. Artistes" I mean)

i still have been unable to get this whole santigold thing, which given peeps who like them is weird.

also I am 1 degree of separation away from her because my brother did a show with her old band several years before she blew up

santigold only got 10 points, shouldn't be here

I still like Lights Out a lot too, even after hearing it a zillion times in the Bud Lime commercials. (note to Bud Lime: people don't want to see other people swimming in yellow water. It looks like urine.)

well now that all depends on the niche demographic they were going for tbf

ha, I guess you're right.