ILM Top 100 2005-2009: ALBUMS

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?

i have this argument every time and i'm not going to get into it now - suffice it to say that i'm being grouchy after germany lost and fuck buttons are craftless

that go absolutely fucking nowhere

RONG

"well this is mostly fucking boring so far"

yeah, the traks thread definitely seems more fun/cooler. or what i've heard of it so far anyway. (was gonna try and listen to everything today but i forgot that i actually have a job)

i saw oceansize open for doves once, they were pretty good

heaven forbid we don't all sit around twiddling with vacuums

tbf Queen covers performed on vacuums is not that far off from what animal collective end up sounding like sometimes

oh fuck OFF belle & sebastian. i really feel that ever since i got on the internet, everywhere i've been, it's like i've been beset by belle & sebastian fans. why the hell are there so many of them?

You realize that a number of ILXors migrated here from a Belle and Sebastian mailing list?

Not only is the album format not a particular forte of the genre

maybe before run dmc's debut LP

which isn't a problem at all in the tracks poll but which will rile me the fuck up here

hahaha wtf dude explain this

I am not impressed with this list so far, the only entry I liked (and I wouldn't say it's a TOTALLY AWESOME album or anything) is the Spoon entry

hahaha wtf dude explain this

would think this is pretty obvious...? implication being that chartpoppers are good at singles and not so much at albums?

yeah I'm saying that we're not going to get that many albums that were beautifully crafted AS albums, we're gonna get a few stale indie flagships and a load of albums that have a handful of stellar tracks and a load of filler

and I can already sense a moratorium on anything 'arty' - prove me wrong, ILX

this said it is a great victory for something or other that something as obscure and bizarre as DJ Sprinkles is at 81 - I still need to hear that shit

i would think the people who are voting for mainstream pop albums are doing so because they like the full albums, not just the singles! that's why we have 2 polls...

oh and we'll get some dance albums - the ones by europeans will be great, the ones by the DFA will be hurlsome

ciderpress please do not expect me to be rational

As long as Paavoharju make it, I promise not to kill everybody.

As long as Paavoharju Orthrelm make it, I promise not to kill everybody.

Three of my picks (B&S,Spoon, Santigold) have placed, and my points helped push two of those (B&S and Spoon) onto the list. Never heard the Rhythm & Sound or DJ Sprinkles albums, so the list is serving the dual purpose of inflating my sense of self-importance and introducing me to stuff I've never heard before. In other words, I'm liking the results so far.

really beginning to regret giving Orthrelm only 12 points :/

As long as Paavoharju make it, I promise not to kill everybody.

That makes two of us. Paavoharju up there will nullify all wrongs.

acoleuthic OTM in general here too, even though he's ranting incoherently.

Even though I know it's been edited together seamlessly, I like to kid myself that the two guys did the entire thing in one take, no mistakes. Battles, my only pick thus far, could've picked up a few tricks from OV for sure.

Not only is the album format not a particular forte of the genre

maybe before run dmc's debut LP

Sure, there are a number of full-length masterpieces. But when taking the roughly 30-year time frame as a whole, I wouldn't say there's a great preponderance, especially since about 2002.

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

Agree with this 100%