ILM Top 100 2005-2009: ALBUMS

Oh come on, number 72?

:( at Wino placing this low. My #3.

Lex, I listened to the album once and I think I once again ran against the problem that I don't generally "get" techno.

ok guys Do Not Break is really good! Really propulsive and yet detailed.

i kind of feel if you love an album enough to vote for it here you should probably know how to spell its title (and indeed the artist's name)

For christ's sake it's not even a real word! Blame squarely on the band.

71. RACHEL STEVENS Come and Get It (2005) [223 points, 9 votes, 1 first place vote]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/53/Rachelcomeandgetit.jpg

if anyone is wondering, the rachel stevens album placed ahead of winehouse because of the first place vote

:DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD <3 y'all ilm.

who is that?

ahahahahahaha what

never thought there'd still be love for rachel stevens on ilm! didn't vote for it but don't begrudge it at all. i actually prefer the deep cuts to the singles, lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kD4AN1uj4o

:D!!!!

Nothing Good About This Goodbye is fantastic.

karl- you really don't need to care who she is. she herself is duller than whiney's frap addiction. but that album is back-to-front poptastic jams.

that daft punk album is better than any of DP's studio albums but I didn't put it on my poll because it didn't seem right

― ILX trolls and "autistic" use of the N-word (crüt), Thursday, July 8, 2010 12:32 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Yeah, it's kind of a greatest hits album but I put it at my #1 anyway. I almost pulled over my car the first time I heard it, matching Neutral Milk Hotel for initial impact while driving a vehicle. A serious of 3-minute snippets of their best tracks is all anyone really needs, especially of the Human After All stuff. The way the new tracks stood up to the Homework and Discovery best-of on Alive 2007 also raised my opinion of Human After All.

diggin the song lex posted

sam this song is really awesome

what the fuck is rachel stevens

what song? the one lex posted?

she is spectacularly dull, but no more so than eg kylie - somehow (i guess someone somewhere decided to make rachel their project) she lucked out into getting an all-killer-no-filler album (smart, knowing lyrics and production which felt very "now", er, then - schaffel touches, electro glitz and whatnot). and then the entire project totally flopped, lol.

also terrific:

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

70. KANYE WEST Graduation (2007) [225 points, 11 votes]

http://www.hoodfever.com/wp-content/images/kanye-west-graduation-special-edition.png

yeah the one lex posted

no one knows who rachel stevens is? really? didnt "some girls" win every yrs poll like 03-05?

rmde at the fact that's going to get beat by Late Registration and fucking 808s & Shartbreak

late reg >>> graduation

you're right about 808s tho, bleh

btw I am actually going to listen to that DP live album now - I pretty much have to given my antics

"Gold Digger", "Drive Slow", "Diamonds from Sierra Leone" and the weird coda of "Heard Em Say" are the only good parts of LR

don't really know if i would rate graduation or 808s higher at this point

808s & Shartbreak

― otmato (The Reverend), Thursday, July 8, 2010 1:02 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

come on

:D

O FFS! Really, Rachel Stevens? That demands some red hot Paavoharju action to balance it out, thanks.

i think 808s is straight up better, but i guess my other problem would be that if i was like "i want to listen to a kanye west rap album right now", i would never pull for 'graduation', aside from like, maybe 3 songs

I had resisted any (very minor, I tell you) temptation to use the word "shart" til now.

late reg >>> graduation

you're right about 808s tho, bleh

― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Thursday, July 8, 2010 11:03 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

Fuck no. Graduation >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> LR.

I was listening to Graduation like 3 times a day all that fall. I don't play it much anymore, but it is totally engrained in my heart and I have so much residual love for it.

Also, as overproduced and everything-and-the-kitchen-sink as it is, "We Major" is, well, major.

69. KELLEY POLAR Love Songs of the Hanging Gardens (2005) [225.5 points, 11 votes]

http://www.oscillos.com/uploaded_images/Kelley_Polar-712872.jpg

I don't even own Late Registration and I still think it's better than Graduation (which I do own)

damn, The Recession was #4 on my ballot and I hoped it'd be much higher. still, only one I voted for to place so far.

happy that Graduation finished as low as it did, though.

late reg has "gone", "crack music" and "we major" as well as the ones rev picked out, PLUS i genuinely find "roses" and "hey mama" quite touching - so much less contrived than anything from his emo-tune phase

how bout that poor critically underrated Back To Black btw

i am not a late reg guy, at all

[i]she is spectacularly dull, but no more so than eg kylie - somehow (i guess someone somewhere decided to make rachel their project) she lucked out into getting an all-killer-no-filler album (smart, knowing lyrics and production which felt very "now", er, then - schaffel touches, electro glitz and whatnot). and then the entire project totally flopped, lol.

― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Thursday, July 8, 2010 1:00 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink<?i>

That track sounds like a cut-rate Kylie.

Alive 2007 is soooo fucking awesome, just put it on for the first time in forever. it totally deserved to make this list and easily stands up next to their other albums(while redeeming Human After All). ROBOT.ROBOT.ROBOT.ROBOT.ROCK.ROCK.ROCK.ROCK.RRR.R.R.ROOCKRO,CROGZAGZGZGZZZ

poor kelley polar! where are all the kelley polar voters talking about the album??

YAY for Kelley Polar! I like the second album more but Love Songs is a bit more raw and probably gets to the essence of his sound to a greater extent. The strings are folded less smoothly into the mix and the Metro Area influence is more obvious. Both albums kick ass though.

Human After All didn't need redeeming; Discovery fans needed to be in the right frame of mind when listening to it.

"Roses" is hogwash. "Hey Mama" is good, yeah. Graduation has "Champion," fucking "GOOD LIFE"! (best feel-good anthem of 'Ye's career?), "Can't Tell Me Nothing," "Flashing Lights" (top 5 Kanye song), "The Glory." I just think it being more compact leaves less room for bad songs, it's pacing is better, works better as an album.

i'm not really a HAA hater but i can't not see it as a pretty big step down after Discovery xpost

Its*

Kylie now sounds like a cut-rate Kylie :(

LR >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> CD >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Grad >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 808