ILM Top 100 2005-2009: ALBUMS

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

lex ffs ur revisionist history is a bit much u started a thread abt rachel stevens (i said never again)!

Rachel Stevens - 'I Said Never Again (But Here We Are)'

xpost that DP live album is like the worst thing in their catalogue...yes even worse than Human After All. Every song builds to this pointless and completely contrived trance climax, rather than riding out the groove like they do best. Digital freaking Love is absent and you get to hear all your Daft Punk favourites in medium-res quality with obligatory live-album crowd noise. What a draw ;)! I was at the Alive 07 Hyde Park show and the best way to relive that tour is through youtubes.

I don't think Lex said she was bad per se, just a bore who lucked into some good songwriters and shiny production.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r83WCytLyu0 is my jam

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

― emo WINNER! (HI DERE), Thursday, July 8, 2010 5:17 PM (3 minutes ago)

OTM X10000000000

68. LIARS Drums' Not Dead (2006) [229.5 points, 14 votes]

http://letmestandnexttoyourflower.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/liars.jpg

is it "Drum's"? sorry

i want to say no punctuation?

i've been repping for her album in this thread! it's a good album! but especially in retrospect its commercial failure is a lot more obvious

tho kylie somehow built a 20-year-and-counting career out of precisely the same amount of personality, so...

xps

xp would have been extremely high on my imaginary ballot

just a bore who lucked into some good songwriters and shiny production.

― Davek (davek_00), Thursday, 8 July 2010 18:22 (23 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

perfect description. also the second part of that can be used for my other love in 00s pop, britney's blackout. replace 'just a bore' with 'just some drunk who...'

Oh, yay! Come and Get It made it. Worried that it might have been too old-skool ILM to survive in 05-09 land.

Rachel is/was the hot one from S Club 7, who then had a mediocre solo album (Funky Dory) and then THIS where Richard X and a bunch of people gifted her with interesting and good pop songs with really killer production that prefigured most of the schaffel/electropop take over by 6 months or so? My timeline might be off. It sold a brick, basically. (See: Blackout - Spears, Britney)

The point is, there's maybe two less-than-great songs on the whole album, and 'Nothing Good About This Goodbye' is one of the best songs of the decade.