ILM Top 100 2005-2009: ALBUMS

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"

"Steam Machine" (which btw !!!!!!!!!!)

prob my fav track on HAA iirc

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

― Davek (davek_00), Thursday, July 8, 2010 1:31 PM (26 minutes ago)

what i've heard from this album is outrageously annoying

I'm a huge electronic/dance music listener - and get annoyed with the complaint that it's too repetitive - but I get bored with the repetition of Robot Rock after the first minute or so. There's no build up, momentum, and hardly any variation on the theme. And that's true of most of the album. The themes are often quite interesting and striking, but they don't develop into living/breathing compositions to me. I kind of took the album as an odd joke on DP's part (especially given the title), taking the piss, or whatever. Take a listen to those HAA tracks on Alive - and you'll hear the difference; they've clearly pumped some blood into them.

and, yeah, Robot Rock is a monster of a track on Alive.

Don't like it on the album of course, but it was a monstrous way to start the Hyde Park show. With those two robot guys up there in the pyramid!! I'd never seen anything like it...

karl here is the towering peak of Parallax Error, irritatingly sans last 3 seconds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpJP7nCY0hs

they've clearly pumped some blood into them.

― untrue pitch, Thursday, July 8, 2010 1:59 PM (3 minutes ago)

On Alive 2007 those tracks actually GO somewhere, and like you said they feel revitalized and dynamic. On HAA they flatline. Even the radio edit of Robot Rock is draining, and that's probably the album's most obviously hooky track.

That final track on Parallax is incredible.

i don't think i voted for the max tundra but i do love that song and 'which song'

I still maintain that Human After All is one of the '00s best albums and an absolute monstrous beast of insanely great tracks. It's their best album. Homework is the blueprint; Discovery is the fun side project; Human After All is the masterpiece.

I don't know if you got my letter, but everyone thinks you're great :p

Fact fans: I gave that song quite a lot of points on the tracks ballot. WHERE WERE Y'ALL

yeah 'which song' is awesome too. davek didn't you introduce a load of people to that record with 'will get fooled again'? error.

today is off to a better start, i think. i also voted for the wrong polar album.

I did? All I know is that I feel like I'm planet earth's no 1 Max Tundra street teamer, introduced quite a few people to his music, with much more success than Cardiacs hahha. We Got Fooled is astonishing though...replete with lyrics about the Jewish festival Pesach no less.

it's a good song but the lyrics are gonna put all but the most open-minded of people off

Too Long / Steam Machine omgz so good

when this is all over i may liveblog listening to lj's votes and see where it takes me.

Daft Punk in 2007 was probably the greatest live show that I have ever attended. The album did the show as much justice as a recording of it is going to do.

max tundra remains one of the worst things I've ever heard.

Heheh I guess astounding may be a little far, but be warned I get into Lex-gushing-over-Ellen-Allien-mode with Max Tundra.

indescribably subtle yet momentous, ineffable

Daft Punk in 2007 was probably the greatest live show that I have ever attended. The album did the show as much justice as a recording of it is going to do.

― gman59, Thursday, July 8, 2010 1:14 PM (2 minutes ago)

agreed. i saw them in a PLANE HANGAR on that tour. i really don't think there's a better venue for those guys

yeah thats the one I was at. in Toronto. was amazing. I have to throw that album a vote in all of these polls.

small world

Lex-gushing-over-Ellen-Allien-mode

none of Lex's gushing over Orchestra of Bubbles is unwarranted, it really is amazing and deserves any praise and attention it gets.

listening to the Max Tundra track LJ posted right now, so far it sounds like insane noodling. it is calling to memory these weird videos they distracted us with in preschool with magic tricks and people riding roller coasters and stuff.

slowing down now, and lyrics now, hehe, funny.

sorry, ending liveblogging now.

xpost that hyphenated adjective of mine wasn't a knock on Lex, it's just this sense of being so hopelessly in love with an album or artist that your posts look and sound a certain way.

But this idea of being 'warranted', so certain albums are communally accepted as gush-worthy, while another person's enthusiasm for something is somehow bunk?

uh, i just meant that i support lex's enthusiasm for that album

Okay okay sorry no beef :)

I dropped the Rachel Stevens album from my ballot at the last second. Looking at it now I'm wondering why I did. Good to see it here though.

Two of my noms that did make it: Amy and Madonna. The only two pop albums I voted for in the end.

make sure jjj doesn't notice that post :)

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

― fuque santa cruz (a hoy hoy), Thursday, July 8, 2010 5:32 PM (49 minutes ago) Bookmark

:( It got my vote at least, but if it was gonna appear I would have thought it would've been by now. 'Trill' would be up there with my most played songs of the last 5 years I think.

yeah if trill made the singles list then maybe the suggestion would be less lol. that song is dope.

Just dropped in, really happy to see Kelley Polar make it - I rate that album way over Hercules and Love Affair, The Juan Maclean or any of the other big indie synthdisco albums of the past few years. I guess we won't get "I Need You to Hold on While the Sky Is Falling" then?

That makes me 1/40 so far then.

Listening to Orchestra of Bubbles now; I've previously been unsuccessful at really getting into "crossover" minimal techno that everyone else loves, like The Field or Donncha Costello, but this is really nice. Or does this even still count as minimal?

the field was kind of a weird thing to cross over since it was basically a one-trick album

We Are Monster worked a lot better as a crossover mnml album i think since it really showed off the variety of sound that's possible while staying mostly within the bounds of a genre that your average rock/pop music fan might have assumed was all samey

Thanks for the tip, I'll check it out.

i wouldn't call Orchestra of Bubbles minimal, idk how to categorize it really. soft-techno?

you should give Donnacha Costello another chance, Colorseries is all-time classic imo.

so far the first real gem that this poll has exposed to me are these come and get it youtubes. people calling her boring makes perfect sense imo, i mean her name is rachel stevens ffs.

Davek's gushing over Max Tundra/Parallax is totally warranted, and I did my part as a voter, but yeah, it's looking unlikely at this point. ¯\(°_0)/¯

The fact that I couldn't get into Colorseries was what made me conclude that minimal maybe just isn't my genre. I can tell it's well-composed and sometimes I get into it a bit but I find it very difficult to engage on a pleasurable level. Oh well, anyway...let's get back to moaning about Daft Punk.

Okay, never heard 'Orchestra Of Bubbles' before. It is stupendous!!! Thank you ILM<3

glad to see love songs of the hanging gardens made it. impeccably crafted grooves. i can see how the dude's voice might put some people off, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnICKJIcMoU&feature=related

I haven't had internet access over the last few days so missed the start of this. I am so delighted that Art Brut made the list. It's by far my favourite album of the last decade.

impeccably crafted grooves.

Those handclaps would work on almost anything, but this track is made all the more awesome in the way you can pick apart each element. It almost feels like a live performance.

I just scrolled through ILM Top 100 2000-2004: ALBUMS and all that shit seems A MILLION YEARS OLD!