ILM Top 100 2005-2009: ALBUMS

Low is the bomb.

Seriously, this thread got really horrible, ppl need to stop acting like such colossal pussies every time some dumb record they don't like makes the SUPER IMPORTANT ilm albums poll list.

I think lex's point is that he likes musicians who act their age. Hip-hop, misogynist or not, is basically guys being guys; teenpop works because it's teenagers being teenagers; whereas twee/hippie stuff can be repulsive because it often consists of grown adults acting like toddlers w/r/t cutesy aesthetic themes, lyrics, sounds, unhealthy obsession with childhood reminiscing and whatnot.

also, hip hip is like the poster child genre for arrested development! i mean, jesus it's full of like 40 year old dudes trying to act 30 and 35 year old dudes trying to act 25!

like i love hip hop and love tons of really ignorant shit just because it is rad as fuck, but c'mon trying to take some kinda weird moral high ground over twee shit as if it's "unhealthy" or some cod psychology bullshit is reeeeeeeallly fucking reaching.

lex you are a smart guy but you basically become like the glam version of alex in NYC when you talk about any kind of rock music.

I still haven't heard this album!

can we just talk about the albums instead of each other for a change

listen to it then louis.

OK FINE

"glam version of alex in NYC"

such a vision...

For me all of Low's albums seem to blend together into a muddle of 3-star competence. I do pull out the Christmas EP every year though.

can we just talk about the albums instead of each other for a change

― emo WINNER! (HI DERE), Thursday, July 8, 2010 11:43 AM (34 seconds ago)

^^

if only dom could see us now

79. WOLF PARADE Apologies to the Queen Mary (2005) [210.5 points, 10 votes]
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/87/ApologiestotheQueenMary.jpg

ok now sell me Wolf Parade

listen to it then louis.

lol

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that got my last place vote -- i loved it in 05 but haven't listened to it in fooooorever -- kinda scared tbh

Apologies to the Queen Mary people who voted for this album.

They'll believe in anything, amirite?

amazon.co.uk will sell you that wolf parade album for £6.97 louis

the production on drums and guns is just really bizarre and i think the album would collapse under it if the songs themselves weren't strong, but they are so it ends up sounding really neat

I love Drums and Guns so much. What a great band. This is the only Low that I voted for in this poll. (although Great Destroyer is phenomenal as well) Beautiful album. Helped put me to sleep many nights. I mean that in a really good way.

yeah, the hard panning on the mix makes it ...strange to listen to on headfones

through speakers in open air it sounds very nice

Yeah the production is good on D&G to be fair, I don't think all the songs are that strong though. I guess most of them are at least pleasant, bar 'Bury The Hatchet' with its terrible chorus.

ok this one coming up is a tie

i loved that wolf parade album in '05, not sure what it would sound like today. it may be textbook 00s indie rock, but it's just loaded with hooks

78. FUTURE OF THE LEFT Travels With Myself and Another (2009) [211 points, 8 votes]

http://17seconds.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/futureof-the-left-travels-with-myself-400x400.jpg

78. MADONNA Confessions on a Dance Floor (2005) [211 points, 8 votes]

http://www.mad.tv/special/cd2005/covers/Madonna%20-%20Confessions%20On%20A%20Dance%20Floor.jpg

never paid much attention to Wolf Parade, but I remember hearing that album a few times and thinking it was excellent, and then never really bothering to listen to again. Not a diss on the quality, just one of those things.

don't you mean 77

Neat that the intersecting circles appear on both sleeves!

JORDAN S IN 77-SPURNING SHOCKER

no i'm skipping 77 -- find it fitting in a way

I'm sure fans of both those albums will agree they're pretty much as good as each other.

^^

it's like how hotels don't have a 13th floor

LOL I never noticed how photoshopped that Madonna cover is--look at her left arm, or the digital approximation of it.

Voted for the album--listened to it over and over again at the time and it still works. It wasn't just "Hung Up" and a bunch of filler.

hahaha xp

76. ELLEN ALLIEN & APPARAT Orchestra of Bubbles (2006) [212 points, 12 votes]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/eb/Ellen-Allien-and-Apparat-Orchestra-of-Bubbles.jpg

haha what an appropriate tie

i think there's mileage to the argument that confessions is a bunch of barely-sketched songs and sorta-annoying lyrics rescued by incredible beats, but 5 years on the production still feels mammoth - not even that dated. and even at her laziest madonna still knows her way around an anthemic hook and punch-the-air moment ("JUST! WATCH! ME! BURN!" on "let it will be", soooo good). though it always annoyed me that she called one of the songs "forbidden love", like she'd forgotten that she already did a song called "forbidden love" a decade earlier on bedtime stories (and it's the 1995 song that's the better one).

this remix of "sorry" - jacques lu cont under another pseudonym iirc - absolutely bangs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr4QO_hw72c

u suggesting they had to remove a bingo wing, skip?

Oh cool! I had Orchestra Of Bubbles in my ballot somewhere, glad to see it in. So gorgeously produced.

xps YES!!! i didn't know whether orchestra of bubbles would make it, soooo happy it did - best dance album of the entire 00s for me, soundtracked so much of 2006 for me. i remember djing w/my friend anna-marie when it first came out, we played "turbo dreams" and just looked at each other and went "the textures, how can human beings make sound this beautiful??"

"way out" - still sad this failed to make the trax top 100 but it's, like, one of the best songs ever, just absolutely epic and evocative. DRY LAKES~~~

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxeQ85PYChc

I really like Orchestra of Bubbles but I never feel like it quite leaves up to the promise of the awesome, awesome opening pairing of Turbo Dreams and Way Out.

Love that track, I think it snagged a vote from me also.

xp

Orchestra of Bubbles was on the lower reaches of my ballot. Am actually surprised to see it make it, but glad.

I should give that album a listen, it's passed me by somehow.

i've always felt ellen allien was underappreciated by ilm dance heads, especially in light of how most of my IRL dance crew (rightly) revere her - so i'm particularly pleased to see OOB place. she's easily one of my favourite dance producers ever, so distinct every time out and so restless with each release. i hope thrills will show up too.

xps matt what about "jet" and "do not break"!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY_uo45AqdA

I think I react adversely to the reverence really - she's very good but there are so many better mnml/post-mnml producers.

u suggesting they had to remove a bingo wing, skip?

― iSleighBellsTellem (zvookster), Thursday, July 8, 2010 12:06 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

More LOL -- never heard the term "bingo wing" before. That looks less like bingo wing removal than a complete arm transplant.

I wasn't a big fan of Thrills, which is the only thing I've heard of Ellen Allien - it just sounds a bit random and lazily-executed to me - but I may well check out this record as I have been really enjoying the more recent Moderat album.

Would I like this?

Orchestra of Bubbles would have been on my ballot.

the moderat album was ok, i thought, but mostly it made me want to listen to orchestra of bubbles

this is one of my all-time favourite artist photos of ellen:

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kudv3wfLtC1qzzexoo1_r1_500.jpg

so here's a question. how do you pronounce her last name? is it al-leen' ? or like alien?