ILM Top 100 2005-2009: ALBUMS

It was pretty much all she did for half a decade too!

"Confide in Me" is still pretty good, but that other hit song he did with the Goth guy is kinda rubbish.

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"he" = "she"

lol Nick Cave "the goth guy", pretty good summary!

I liked that song. But Confide In Me is clearly her best song.

'Confide In Me' is great, that predated the indie phase by a year or so I think (though it was the start of her Serious Kylie phase cf. moody b&w album cover featuring her wearing GLASSES).

Wasn't that part of Serious Dance Music Kylie?

This is insanely wrong and given that you've said Ciara is "brimming with personality" I'm not sure what your yardstick is here at all.

This is OTM, speaking as a fan of Ciara and Kylie (not so much Rachel). Kylie is pretty much overflowing with nice, relatable, happy personality, or at least that's how she projects as a celebrity. Rachel may as well be a faceless studio voice (in fact, it may have served her record sales better). Ciara falls somewhere in between -- it's a struggle to have her personality come across well enough to make an impact beyond her occasionally great, 3-4 minute pop songs.

You're right - she was signed to DeConstruction at that point (just for that one album maybe?).

XP to Herman.

not fair that this poll is happening in US time

I'll run the metal poll in UK time just for you dog latin.

new wave of british heavy time zones

4/40 with a bunch of other stuff I like

72. AMY WINEHOUSE Back to Black (2006) [223 points, 9 votes]
70. KANYE WEST Graduation (2007) [225 points, 11 votes]
64. ROBYN Robyn (2005) [234.5 points, 9 votes]
61. GIRL TALK Night Ripper (2006) [236 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote]

I like Amy Winehouse's album, but it got overshadowed for me by Sharon Jones.

While Sharon Jones put on one of the best live shows I've ever seen, I will never understand people who prefer her studio recordings to Winehouse's on account of Winehouse has much better production and much much much much much much much much much better songwriting.

Based off of the bits I've heard, Winehouse sounds much much better on her first album than she did on B2B, and ultimately I like Sharon Jones's voice more.

where jordan at

I've never gotten around to hearing Amy's earlier stuff but I think her voice sounds great on B2B so

I just think SJ's albums suffer a dearth of interesting material. I find it telling that her cover of "What Have You Done For Me Lately?" is my favorite recording she's done.

sharon jones feels very montreal jazz fest to me, if anyone knows what i mean.

anyways dear science is an awful, awful record

And going back to the discussion in the other thread, I feel like Jones doesn't navigate the tricky problem of avoiding coming off as a faux-dusty period piece nearly as well as Wino.

xxp: know exactly what you mean. she also seems unusually popular here.

in your world of old ppl

And going back to the discussion in the other thread, I feel like Jones doesn't navigate the tricky problem of avoiding coming off as a faux-dusty period piece nearly as well as Wino.

well part of this is because Jones behaves like a mature woman in her 40s instead of a crack-addled starlet

anyways dear science is an awful, awful record

― young monet (samosa gibreel), Friday, July 9, 2010 9:44 AM Bookmark

as a total non-TVOTR fanboy, who didn't even vote for it, you are very very wrong. most enjoyable record they've done by far.

^ agreed.

I don't think Amy comes off as a crack-addled starlet on B2B itself tho. And a mature woman in their 40s was a teenager in the 80s, not the 60s. There are plenty of mature women in their 40s making music that feels modern, even when dabbling in retro stylings.

5/40
97. RHYTHM & SOUND See Mi Yah (2005) [185 points, 9 votes]
81. DJ SPRINKLES Midtown 120 Blues (2009) [208.5 points, 10 points]
76. ELLEN ALLIEN & APPARAT Orchestra of Bubbles (2006) [212 points, 12 votes]
74. DAFT PUNK Alive 2007 (2007) [219 points, 10 votes]
68. LIARS Drum's Not Dead (2006) [229.5 points, 14 votes]

should've voted for: isolee, lil wayne - tc3, robyn

also like: young jeezy, boards of canada, low, madonna

hate: girl talk, tvotr - daer science (worst album of theirs so far, that i'm aware of)

Thirding the TVOTR acclaim. Not my fav. band by any means, but it's the best thing they've done since the first EP. By far.

I guess Dear Science is the TVOTR album for people who don't like TVOTR?

(I do like "Wolf Like Me" tho.)

I feel like TVOTR have yet to live up to the promise of that first EP. Blew me away when I first heard it.

nah i stan hard for tvotr and dear science is prob their best record

are we waiting for J0rdan to wake up or something?

anyways dear science is an awful, awful record

― young monet (samosa gibreel), Friday, July 9, 2010 9:44 AM

samosa you are a good dude but this is madness

I'm the people who think TVORT's only worthwile release was their first EP. they fell off HARD imo.

hey guys

sup

i'll get your bowl of cereal, you just go ahead and post #60

TVORT aren't BAD but every new album they put out inevitably disappears into my music library. Dear Science (COMMA!) is kind of just there.

Dear Science has srs jams imo

ppl who listen to "Lover's Day" and think it sucks really must have nothing to live for

60. KANYE WEST 808s & Heartbreak (2008) [247.5 points, 12 votes]

http://mensrag.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/kanye-west-808s-heartbreak-kaws-2.jpg

al is such a good dad

lol

Still kind of bummed "Paranoid" didn't make the tracks poll, but a) I didn't even bother to vote for it and b) there was PLENTY of Kanye represented.

59. ARTHUR RUSSELL Love is Overtaking Me (2008) [249 points, 10 votes, 1 first place vote]

http://kenyanthropus.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/love-is-overtaking-me1.jpg

man, Friday's on the internet