ILM Top 100 2005-2009: ALBUMS

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

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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.

Drum is a character on the record, so treat it as Drum Is Not Dead.

Haha. By the time it finally posted, everyone had made all my points, including the one re: Blackout.

Also, in retrospect Graduation is good but doesn't have the staying power of College Dropout or Late Registration, 808s def. >> Graduation.

OKAY GUYS

that's gonna be the final one for a little bit, i'll do the remaining 8 (67-60) when i get back from work, around 6:30 pm EST -- sorry to britishes, etc and anyone who is "going out" tonight

what is 6:30 est in real time?

If Recession didn't make it top 50 I cannot see more than... King? Cuban Linx? Carter II? making it top 50 :(

Aside from Kanye, obv, what about Hell Hath No Fury? I was hoping that would place well on here.

i think it = 12:30 in london?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSTE7Ms4bJA

Shocked if only because I would have never heard of this album if not for ILM...

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

HAA wasn't trying to do anything like what Discovery did, which basically was to play up their populist side to the point where every track seemed to make "Around The World" come across like an obtuse Squarepusher track; an album where the level of accessibility was centered around tracks like "Robot Rock" and "Technologic" but also contains things like "Steam Machine" (which btw !!!!!!!!!!) was pretty much bound to through people who got on the train there for a loop, but I don't see how anyone who knew "Da Funk" or "Revolution 909" or "Musique" or "Rollin and Scratchin" would be particularly fazed by it.

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...'

i think britney had a lot more of a distinct presence, much more character, than either kylie or rachel. especially when she was drunk and drugged up!

Liars! Been meaning to get into them for a while. This might be the added push needed to do so.

i think britney had a lot more of a distinct presence, much more character, than either kylie or rachel. especially when she was drunk and drugged up!

Not by the time Blackout came out, considering that its 3 singles feature the most robotic singing of her career.

i really only ever go back to 3 tracks on that liars album (it fit when i was a kid, drum & the uncomfortable can, the other side of mt heart attack) but they are all SO GOOD that it placed on my ballot

Wiping my tears as Parallax Error Beheads You looks ever more unlikely :'(

PLUS i genuinely find "roses" and "hey mama" quite touching - so much less contrived than anything from his emo-tune phase

― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Thursday, July 8, 2010 10:11 AM Bookmark

Ahh, ok, I'm with you there. Both slipped my mind. I didn't like "Hey Mama" at the time (I found it too cutesy), but I find it charming now. "Roses" is great until it goes on for two minutes too long.

dunno if you are confusing character w/ reading stories about her on oh no they didnt to get a feel for what the album should sound like.

also lol at the idea of hell hath no fury making it.

correct punctuation is on the album cover ffs

davek it is ok we voted max tundra and we know we're right

i guess dont see why it matters that rachel stevens is a bore or that her album was such a commercial flop. i mean i dont disagree w/ either

i liked that liars album and i also can't imagine only listening to select tracks from it, it seemed like all one extended piece of music to me

i don't really like anything else by them though

And Kelley Polar makes for my 5th wrong album vote. :(

i didnt think hell hath no fury was universally loved by the ilm rap crew, and it seems a rap album has to be in order to make these polls

xposts Human After All is just okay. In a way I'm a bit depressed to listen to it, considering what they've done in the past. It's the classic example of how a perfect aesthetic can sometimes slip so easily into monotony and near self-parody.

I've grown tired of Liars, although Drum's Not Dead is probably the best of their re-engineered sound.

I love the Tromatic Reflexxions album. MES's 'drunk singing karaoke' vocals are at their recent best here

Rachel Stevens is probably the only thing on this list so far that I've never heard

Someone pointed out that fans of Homework wouldn't really be fazed. But the entire album (HAA) basically has no dynamics, which is incredibly frustrating to this fan of Homework. Let alone the huge comedown it is following Discovery, which just might be the hugest party since Thriller.

how the hell can you say something with both "Robot Rock" and "Emotion" has "no dynamics"