ILM Top 100 2005-2009: ALBUMS

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%

Preferred Fuck Buttons when they were a bit more aggressive, also. See: Sweet Love For Planet Earth.

for lj

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

Does The Knife/Fever Ray count? They should do quite well, I reckon. Scott Walker better place in here too, dammit.

it's funny how hip-hop, r&b, chartpop and dance all get regularly dismissed as not being album genres, yet somehow every year there are enough of them that i love as albums qua albums to fill my end-of-year lists. sure, the stereotypes are there for a reason (techno is singles-driven, pop albums can be singles + filler, hip-hop albums can be overlong) but it's not as if an "albums genre" like indie rock is immune from the exact same criticisms, and an artist's capacity to work within the album format in tandem with the tracks format doesn't have much to do with genre.

anyway my 2/40 votes so far were

93. NE-YO Year of the Gentleman (2008) [195.5 points, 10 votes]
89. VITALIC OK Cowboy (2005) [200 points, 10 votes]

and i basically approve of lil wayne, sleater-kinney, santigold and dj sprinkles showing up.

Preferred Fuck Buttons when they were a bit more aggressive...

;___; aww, i love tarot sport. not my favorite album in the world, but very nice if yr in the proper headspace. also had santigold and the warning in my ballot. overall though, 1st 20 = a bunch of terribly boring crap. probably including the stuff i like...

Does The Knife/Fever Ray count? They should do quite well, I reckon.

Yeah, they'll do very well. I didn't vote for them though! There really were a lot of albums I liked. In retrospect I should have probably chucked Fever Ray a few points (I much prefer it to Silent Shout) but again I saw them as collections of very good songs rather than albums.

lex ... as a big electronic music listener (or 'dance', if you like); i do agree with that mostly. though, like you said, there is some truth to the stereotypes. i do find the indie vs. hip-hop thing on ilm to be ridiculously tired though. too much pointing fingers. just because someone makes a criticism about hip-hop does not make them 'indie' loyalists or something.

xpost no no Fever Ray + SS are dynamite album experiences, especially the former. If you could explain, what is the determinant that divides proper albums from just rows of good songs?

I should have qualified that Fever Ray does work really well as an album, but I still prefer to listen to individual tracks from it than the whole album in one go - which is my personal determinant.

I was about to say that you completely invalidated all of your incoherent ranting by claiming that the Fever Ray album doesn't work as an album, and then you made that clarification

which tbh still leaves you kind of dangling on the "I'm only typing because you are all not actually sockpuppets whose taste I can control" hook a little bit

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― altered scones (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, July 7, 2010 3:38 PM (3 hours ago)

haha otm

Pretty sure I voted for these albums, from memory:

100. LIL WAYNE Tha Carter III (2008) [181 points, 8 votes]
99. SPOON Gimme Fiction (2005) [181 points, 9 votes]
96. CARIBOU Andorra (2007) [187.5 points, 9 votes]
93. NE-YO Year of the Gentleman (2008) [195.5 points, 10 votes]
87. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Strawberry Jam (2007) [203 points, 9 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]