nah what am I talking about she has two top-10 spots in the bag, because ILM is THAT cool ;-)
― so you want Mark Ronson to cry into your ass (acoleuthic), Thursday, 8 July 2010 22:48 (fourteen years ago) link
66. ISOLEE We Are Monster (2005) (233.5 points, 9 votes, 1 first place vote]
http://lapiscinavacia.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/isolee_we_are_monster_front.jpg
― altered scones (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 8 July 2010 22:50 (fourteen years ago) link
love rest but never could connect w/ most of we are monster.
― hobbes, Thursday, 8 July 2010 22:55 (fourteen years ago) link
what is isolee? is it DANCE MUSIC?
― so you want Mark Ronson to cry into your ass (acoleuthic), Thursday, 8 July 2010 22:57 (fourteen years ago) link
ayyy isolée. apparently i didn't vote for it but i should've done. love this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SVyV_fqei4
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Thursday, 8 July 2010 22:58 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah madchen mit hase is one of my fav tracks in all of dance music
― ciderpress, Thursday, 8 July 2010 23:00 (fourteen years ago) link
though i haven't really heard an enormous amount of dance music tbh
this one is like a big ol' cushion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBfhQisZDpg
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Thursday, 8 July 2010 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
65. SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS Alpinisms (2008) [234 points, 15 votes]
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c6/AlpinismsAlbumCover.jpg
― altered scones (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 8 July 2010 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
haha amazing i've just come back from seeing school of seven bells live!!! (they were fab.)
as i was saying to kate during the show, i love that despite their raison d'être being pretty girly harmonies, you can still tell that the deheza sisters are grown-ass women. and as a trio they have such an incredible sense of build and release.
this song is superb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt-SNwyxsBM
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Thursday, 8 July 2010 23:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Great record! First one I voted for to place.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 8 July 2010 23:04 (fourteen years ago) link
My second placing! Such an excellent album, I keep returning to it.
― seandalai, Thursday, 8 July 2010 23:07 (fourteen years ago) link
wow don't see the attraction of that at all. all the music is v familiar & rote, like factory settings reproduced in concert the wway they've heard others do that sounded ok, and a melody that's a pastiche of folk & "world" music but disconnected and totally non-edgy. i liked the name so that was a letdown.
― iSleighBellsTellem (zvookster), Thursday, 8 July 2010 23:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Yup, I voted for this too. Would've been top 3-4 had I ranked these fellas.
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Thursday, 8 July 2010 23:09 (fourteen years ago) link
New album's destined to place in the eventual 2010-14 albums poll, judging by these tunes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flKTnN_91eg
jsut listened btw so snap judgement made in ignorance and all that
― iSleighBellsTellem (zvookster), Thursday, 8 July 2010 23:09 (fourteen years ago) link
64. ROBYN Robyn (2005) [234.5 points, 9 votes]
http://musicremedy.com/webfiles/artists/Robyn/Robyn-05-big.jpg
― altered scones (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 8 July 2010 23:10 (fourteen years ago) link
I own this album but never fully got it - some nice tracks but it didn't stick in my mind. Maybe needs another try.
xposts to School Of Seven Bells
― so you want Mark Ronson to cry into your ass (acoleuthic), Thursday, 8 July 2010 23:10 (fourteen years ago) link
lj i know u don't listen to rap & u slag off indie and dance above so what genre are these great artistic statements being made in, prog & metal?
― iSleighBellsTellem (zvookster), Thursday, 8 July 2010 23:12 (fourteen years ago) link
alright so my parents are all "lol let's go out to dinner!" so i'll be back later with the FINAL FOUR (of the first 60)
― altered scones (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 8 July 2010 23:13 (fourteen years ago) link
again, apologies to all british
enjoy
― iSleighBellsTellem (zvookster), Thursday, 8 July 2010 23:14 (fourteen years ago) link
or if johnny f is around and wants to post the final 4 he can go ahead and do it
― altered scones (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 8 July 2010 23:15 (fourteen years ago) link
how did i never notice that fucking robyn is wearing a fucking keffiyah on her album cover smh smh
so glad it placed relatively low and not like top 10 or anything
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Thursday, 8 July 2010 23:15 (fourteen years ago) link
xp re SVIIB: For me it's a comfort album, it's not making a grand statement or inventing new landscapes. I put in on when I want to relax and just sink into pleasure. For me it scratches a similar itch to Ashra or Steve Reich, though obviously it sounds quite different.
― seandalai, Thursday, 8 July 2010 23:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Are you sure that's a keffiyeh and not just, like, a bandana?
― jaymc, Thursday, 8 July 2010 23:19 (fourteen years ago) link
A lot of them are being made in rap, indie and dance! My main concern is that ILM is unfairly weighted towards certain genres, but I don't want to have the debate now.
(Metal has a lot of good'uns, yes, but not a great deal more than most other genres! Hell, I think if New Amerykah wins this poll it'll have deserved it, although I'd personally rather Third took it)
― so you want Mark Ronson to cry into your ass (acoleuthic), Thursday, 8 July 2010 23:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Also, there's more rap in my taste now than at any other point in my life
― so you want Mark Ronson to cry into your ass (acoleuthic), Thursday, 8 July 2010 23:23 (fourteen years ago) link
someone gave you a rap cd today?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 8 July 2010 23:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Hey Johnny I know you're not a retard but if you do post the final four, make sure to subtract one from the number next to the album on the excel spreadsheet
― altered scones (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 8 July 2010 23:25 (fourteen years ago) link
NEUNAME BE ZINGING
― altered scones (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 8 July 2010 23:26 (fourteen years ago) link
this NEW SO7B track is possibly better than anything on their debut btw
― so you want Mark Ronson to cry into your ass (acoleuthic), Thursday, 8 July 2010 23:26 (fourteen years ago) link
and fuck - there's a rap album at 5 in my ballot! really!
― so you want Mark Ronson to cry into your ass (acoleuthic), Thursday, 8 July 2010 23:29 (fourteen years ago) link
School of 7 bells is my first vote to place! cant really understand anyone not being into that album tbh, for me it does all that stuff that old skool 4AD did for everyone that wasnt me (yeah im looking at you, Lush)
― SAIL HATIN' (jjjusten), Thursday, 8 July 2010 23:32 (fourteen years ago) link
oh wait duh FOTL placed already. fine its my second one then
0 for me so far
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 8 July 2010 23:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Don't worry about me Jordan, watching The New World and if Terrence Malick films are anything, they are fucking long.
― fuque santa cruz (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 8 July 2010 23:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Just checked back here - so glad Kelley Polar made it - I think that album helped to make a bunch of things (such as a love of disco strings and claps) click for me.
I dug out the Liars album the other day and it's much better than I originally gave it credit for. I remember thinking it sounded like a poor-man's Boredoms or an Animal Collective rip off, but there's so much more going on.
― village idiot (dog latin), Thursday, 8 July 2010 23:40 (fourteen years ago) link
I also dumped that Liars album very quickly, haven't listened to it in years. Maybe I should dig it out again.
― seandalai, Thursday, 8 July 2010 23:51 (fourteen years ago) link
i watched the DVD with the music videos
― village idiot (dog latin), Thursday, 8 July 2010 23:53 (fourteen years ago) link
I'll take it down to 61 y'all. Woo hoo!
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 9 July 2010 00:08 (fourteen years ago) link
63. ANTONY AND THE JOHNSONS I Am a Bird Now (2005) [235.5 points, 8 votes]
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/51/I_Am_a_Bird_Now.jpg
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 9 July 2010 00:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Drums Not Dead opened up incredibly after I saw them play tracks from it live - saw them play it in Leicester Square and it was awesome. IF I'd voted it would be Top Ten.
― kraudive, Friday, 9 July 2010 00:11 (fourteen years ago) link
That's a great cover. Still trying to make something of the music.
― kraudive, Friday, 9 July 2010 00:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Such a great album! And only $13.99, the same price as his recent album "The Crying Light." Come talk to me, Jason! I'll help you find other great alternative rock music.
― Best Buy 3, Friday, 9 July 2010 00:14 (fourteen years ago) link
I never heard it but it feels like ancient history when that came out.
― village idiot (dog latin), Friday, 9 July 2010 00:16 (fourteen years ago) link
I am a Bird Now is one of those albums that just blew me away. I remember putting it on for the first time and just falling in love with it straight away.
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 9 July 2010 00:18 (fourteen years ago) link
62. THE FLAMING LIPS Embryonic (2009) [236 points, 11 votes]
http://expresion.metro951.com/files/2010/01/FlamingLipsEmbryonic340B72.jpg
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 9 July 2010 00:23 (fourteen years ago) link
^^opening track and Powerless are awesome, but rest hasn't really grown on me too much - what am I missing? apparently this is one of the great art-pop statements of recent years...
― so you want Mark Ronson to cry into your ass (acoleuthic), Friday, 9 July 2010 00:25 (fourteen years ago) link
While quite breathtaking at various points (Hope There's Someone being an obvious pinnacle of any musical genre this past decade), I find I Am a Bird Now a little uneven and occasionally a bit over the top for my tastes . I find The Crying Light a more accessible record that I go back to more regularly. I realize I'm in a serious minority.
― untrue pitch, Friday, 9 July 2010 00:27 (fourteen years ago) link