ILM Top 100 2005-2009: ALBUMS

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!

1 ILM Year = 14,285 Dog Years

No wait, that's the wrong way round.

14,285 ILM Years = 1 Dog Year more like

'Trill' would be up there with my most played songs of the last 5 years I think.

i'm lukewarm on that clipse album but "trill" is incredible, yes

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

it's pretty sui generis, though it comes from two producers who basically work within the micro/mnml field. colorseries is definitely a very pure form of mnml tho.

orchestra of bubbles >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the field (insert many more >s in there)

yeah, Colorseries is one of the best album length examples of minimal that i recommend when friends want to get into it. Studio 1 also comes to mind but i think its harder to get into.

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

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, July 8, 2010 5:30 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I've contemplated doing an alt 00-04 once all this is over. maybe after the metal/hard rock polls.

yeah i read through the 00-04 and wow different world of o_O, unless you dudes are still rocking both those streets albums hardcore

i think i was here around then but still askeered of ILM so didnt vote.

i was on ilm by 2001 but never voted in polls . how times change.

That Streets album is hardcore garbage and always has been.

i've been treating it as a given that Hell Hath No Fury will place -- Pitchfork has way more relevance in this poll than the rolling rap thread crew that didn't even all vote (tempted to count the Best New Music selections when the poll is over). assuming we'll also see Underground Kingz, BlaQKout, King, Fischscale, maybe a few others in addition to the Kanyes.

i was on ilm by 2001 but never voted in polls . how times change.

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, July 8, 2010 6:21 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ditto, not really sure how i missed out on em at the time