ILM Top 100 2005-2009: ALBUMS

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.

its a crowded beverage marketplace out there

82. HOT CHIP The Warning (2006) (206.5 points, 12 votes)
http://stuntgoat.files.wordpress.com/2006/09/hot-chip.jpg

too low

I think more of my picks have appeared so far on this poll than they did in the entire of the Tacks results.

Caribou , Vitalic (just got into over the past year really. Lovin it. The follow up should have been nommed as well imo), Belle & Sebastian (one of my favourite ever bands, but not overly keen on this record. I put it on at the bottom of my list, just for "We Are the Sleepyheads" and old time's sake), Bat For Lashes.

When they first came along I thought Art Brut were going to be something I would really like. Listened to that album and thought 'uh, maybe not'.

speaking as a dude who voted for over and over, that hot chip album was unbelievably fucking awful imo

it's a good album, but i think all their albums get progressively better

The newest one is minor step backwards, but I mostly agree with that.

That Santigold album wasn't bad at all. Didn't vote for it myself though.

i think the new hot chip is head and shoulders >>>

jj check email

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

well noms will take 2-3 weeks then another 3 weeks for voting so we can take nominations tonight and you wont need to do anything for at least 6 weeks! So if you give the ok, we can start a nominations thread tonight!

shitloads of rap

i can't really see there being more than 10, maybe 15 rap albums on this list

alright last one for today

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?

― emo WINNER! (HI DERE), Wednesday, July 7, 2010 3:51 PM (28 minutes ago)

Dan this album is tailor-made for you, I'd advise you to at least check out the music (obv. their name is ridic!).

Animal Collective, think that's the first of my votes in. Totally don't get the appeal of '00s Belle & Sebastian, the shinier production doesn't suit them at all and Murdoch's voice is far too weak to pull of the punchier songs they started writing.

i can't really see there being more than 10, maybe 15 rap albums on this list

haha, compared to most genres, that is shitloads!

81. DJ SPRINKLES Midtown 120 Blues (2009) [208.5 points, 10 points]
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_x460v8Bh5gg/SWxSAqIxPCI/AAAAAAAAAfQ/yeWKWe07ilQ/s400/m120b-cover.jpg

More of a casual rap fan here fwiw... I'd be seriously hard pressed to come up with 15 rap albums that belong on this list. Not only is the album format not a particular forte of the genre, but the past 5 years have seen relatively few truly solid rap LPs.

I predict the top 50 will be entirely made up of free improv, with the exception of Brian Kennedy's Greatest Hits at 23.

alright to recap

100. LIL WAYNE Tha Carter III (2008) [181 points, 8 votes]
99. SPOON Gimme Fiction (2005) [181 points, 9 votes]
98. CAMERA OBSCURA Let's Get Out of This Country (2006) [183 points, 7 votes, 1 first place vote]
97. RHYTHM & SOUND See Mi Yah (2005) [185 points, 9 votes]
96. CARIBOU Andorra (2007) [187.5 points, 9 votes]
95. BATTLES Mirrored (2007) [190.5 points, 11 votes]
94. BOARDS OF CANADA The Campfire Headphase (2005) [192 points, 9 votes]
93. NE-YO Year of the Gentleman (2008) [195.5 points, 10 votes]
92. NEKO CASE Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (2006) [196 points, 8 votes]
91. LOS CAMPESINOS! Hold On Now, Youngster... (2008) [197 points, 6 votes, 1 first place vote]
90. SLEATER-KINNEY The Woods (2005) [198.5 points, 8 votes]
89. VITALIC OK Cowboy (2005) [200 points, 10 votes]
88. ART BRUT Bang Bang Rock & Roll (2005) [200.5 points, 6 votes, 1 first place vote]
87. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Strawberry Jam (2007) [203 points, 9 votes]
86. BELLE AND SEBASTIAN The Life Pursuit (2006) [204.5 points, 8 votes]
85. BAT FOR LASHES Two Suns (2009) [205 points, 9 votes, 1 first place vote]
84. FUCK BUTTONS Tarot Sport (2009) [206 points, 12 votes]
83. SANTIGOLD Santogold (2008) [206.5 votes, 10 points]
82. HOT CHIP The Warning (2006) [206.5 points, 12 votes]
81. DJ SPRINKLES Midtown 120 Blues (2009) [208.5 points, 10 points]

0/40!

i'm not saying there necessarily SHOULD be more than 10 rap albums on this list -- there were only about 10 on my ballot -- but we probably don't need all of the 60 indie rock albums on this list either.

Glad to see the DJ Sprinkles there.

tomorrow will be decidedly less indie-centric

if the xx are indie, then i agree with you! ;)

0/40!

Me too.

I've got 4/40 so far (I think, just working off memory). DOES THIS MAKE ME A C0RNY INDIE FUX0R?

i didn't hear the dj sprinkles album until the 09 poll a few months ago but it impressed me enough to make the bottom of my ballot

i'm 4 for 40, turns out i did vote for boards of canada, weird

Ditto Johnny. 4/40 for me too. Battles, Lil Wayne, Hot Chip, Los Camp!

looking at my ballot for the first time since i submitted it and i already disagree with the ranking of almost everything haha

i should just submit unranked ones since i second guess myself so fucking much

The only one of these 20 I voted for is DJ Sprinkles, but I'm glad that it made it! Previously I'd considered Terre Thaemlitz to be way too abstract/conceptual as a producer, but this album has soul to spare.