ILM Top 100 2005-2009: ALBUMS

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.

ILXORS: good at math

my only vote was for ne-yo but i like some of the others ok

HI DERE: bad at thinking outside the box

I would like to just say that my personal history with jjjusten makes me lol hardcore at him being the first to make the 40 = 20 mistake

although maybe Mr 0ls3n was working the kinks out of his calculus curriculum when he took it, idk

40 = the forty spots on individual ballots! xp

It really is a very indie list so far - but if anything that's indicative that the top end WON'T be particularly indie.

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

This always happens to me. But then I do always leave it until the last minute.

Oh, and I'm 0/40 too, I think. Still haven't got around to hearing DJ Sprinkles, either.

shhh JF, you are messing with my mock time

It really is a very indie list so far - but if anything that's indicative that the top end WON'T be particularly indie.

Hmm, not so sure about that, there's still plenty of indie left to go around...

bats for lashes' belly button area is weird

It's painted that way.

I think Ne-Yo was the only one I voted for, too. Don't like very many of these albums tbh

Evan Parker is going to pack this list:

2005, Free zone Appleby 2005, psi 06.06. Gerd Dudek/Tony Levin/Evan Parker/Tony Marsh/Paul Dunmall/Philipp Wachsmann/John Edwards/Kenny Wheeler/Paul Rogers.
2005, La lumière de pierres, psi 07.02. François Houle/Evan Parker/Benoît Delbecq.
2006, Abbey Road duos, Treader trd009. Evan Parker/Matthew Shipp.
2006, Music from Colourdome, psi 07.01.
2006, Free zone Appleby 2006, psi 07.04. Philipp Wachsmann/Rudi Mahall/Aki Takase/Alexander von Schlilppenbach/Evan Parker/Paul Rutherford/Paul Lovens.
2006, A glancing blow, Clean Feed CF085CD. Evan Parker/John Edwards/Chris Corsano.
2006, Live at Roulette, ANIMUL ANI 106. Evan Parker/Ned Rothenberg.
2007, Parallelisms, Ruby Flower Records RF04CD. Herb Robertson/Evan Parker/Agusti Fernandez.
2007, A life saved by a spider and two doves, Another timbre at07. Max Eastley/Graham Halliwell/Evan Parker/Mark Wastell.
2007, Belle ville, Clean Feed CD125CD. Townhouse Orchestra.
2007, Free zone Appleby 2007, psi 08.04. Paolo Angeli/Evan Parker/Ned Rothenberg.
2007, The brewery tap, Smalltown Superjazzz STSJ160CD. Duo with Ingebrigt Håker Flaten.
2008, Live, In situ IS242. With Marteau Rouge.
2008, Relevance, Red Toucan RT 9338. Dave Leibman/Evan Parker/Tony Bianco.
2009, House full of floors, Tzadik TZ7632. Evan Parker/John Edwards/John Russell/Aleks Kolkowski.
2009, Psalms, psi 10.05. Evan Parker/Sten Sandell.
2005, Freedom of the city 2005, Emanem 4216. London Improvisers Orchestra.
2005, Crossing the river, psi 06.02. Evan Parker Octet.
2002-2005, Composition No. 62: Compilation IV, BF57. Simon H. Fell.
2007, Separately & together, Emanem 4219. London Improvisers Orchestra/Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra.
2004, Oort-Entropy, Intakt CD 101. Barry Guy New Orchestra.
2008, Radio rondo/Schaffhausen concert, Intakt CD 158. LJCO/Irène Schweizer.
2006, Globe Unity - 40 years, Intakt CD 133.
2007, The moment's energy, ECM 2066/177 4798. The Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble.
2008, C-Section, Second Layer Records SLR001. Evan Parker/John Wiese.
2006, Zafiro, Maya Recordings MCD0602.
2006, Topos, Maya Recordings MCD0701. Fernández/Parker/Guy/Lytton.
2007, Gold is where you find it, Intakt CD 143. Schlippenbach Trio.
2009, Bauhaus Dessau, Intakt CD 183. Schlippenbach Trio.

I'm at 0 as well, which given my poll history is no surprise.

0 from my 40 votes have turned up (that ok Dan?) ;)

well this is mostly fucking boring so far

lol

Only two of my votes have featured (Battles, Caribou) and I clean forgot to vote BoC. I only gave Battles a very small number of points, so Andorra is the only album I've gotten into the 100.

Andorra is fucking superb, of course.

The Woods is it for me so far. I'm surprised its so low.

After some leisurely afternoon YouTube research, I have yet to find a Ne-Yo song that seems noteworthy in any respect.

i love "the woods" also, but forgot 2 vote for it :\

does it make me pretentious if I'd rather listen to all those Evan Parker releases instead of hearing that Caribou album again

i think you're pretentious for having listened to the caribou album in the first place

This list is pretty good so far apart from all the indie journeymen bands (Sleater Kinney YAWN, Camera Obscura YAWN, Caribou FFS). Even the B&S and Los Campesinos picks give me hope that the twee vote has been well and truly split and that's the end of it.

OK Cowboy is the best album here by a mile, Tarot Sport second.

OK Cowboy is the best album here by a mile [x2]

thats funny matt. ok cowboy and tarot sport are my only two to make it so far.

Considering Vitalic was only at #89, I guess Isolee's We Are Monster (being lesser known) sadly won't be making this list.

tarot sport is a load of promising noisy dance-jams that go absolutely fucking nowhere

you all know as well as I do that the poll will be absolutely fucking stuffed with chartpop, which isn't a problem at all in the tracks poll but which will rile me the fuck up here

heaven forbid we don't all sit around twiddling with vacuums and listening to things called "oceansize"

kind of agree about Tarot Sport ... but chartpop? I don't see that happening ... Like what?