ILM Top 100 2005-2009: ALBUMS

we already had one AnCo album at 87

Don't worry -- we have a few more to go.

never got around to hearing that juan maclean. LOVED the first album but i was much of a sad sack of mopey shit for the past few years to even give the new one a listen.

yeah yeah yeahs are a group i want to like. i love where they've taken their sound, but a lot of their vocal hooks just sound awkward and corny to me, despite her A++ voice. should probably just cave in and buy the damn thing.

lyrically, most YYYs songs are nonsense; the charm is in how she sings them and the way they're arranged IMO

Hooray for the Hold Steady, although the last two albums have ensured that it'll take many years for me to love Separation Sunday like I did in 2005 when it was my AOTY.

This is soooooo OTM. I don't think I'll ever love this band as much as I did that year.

YYYs lyrics were probably better in their early days, when karen o just threw out bratty slogans - "as a fuck, son, you suck!" is such an a+ chorus - but their lyrics never bother me; individual lines are still pretty evocative even if they don't really hang together.

She can be an affecting lyricist when she remembers: "Hysteric" and "Cheated Hearts," for ex.

hell, "maps", that's pretty affecting, imo

47. AIR FRANCE No Way Down EP (2008) [286 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c1/NoWayDown.jpg

xx: yeah, hysteric is lovely

did it get nominated for trax? why didn't i vote for it?

you guys, "most" does not and has never meant "all"

No one said it did! We just mentioned our favorite YYY lyrics.

air france! not a big fan or anything (wd rather jam my dlx etienne reissues) but wow high placing.

i didn't vote for that album but i still play it a lot and it's really great for bedtime listening

surprised at how high it placed tho yeah

46. ROISIN MURPHY Overpowered (2007) [288.5 points, 13 votes]

http://matty03.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/overal02.jpg

GOD I LOVE THAT RECORD

The other day I started singing the hook to "Let Me Know" in Target.

hurrah róisín - was gonna say "good to see her this high" but i pretty much assumed she'd place. was it a lady gaga or m.i.a. thread that got derailed amazingly into a ton of americans discovering her?

these are my fav deep cuts on her album =>

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppDzHE4zY_I

i love that beneath the electronics and eccentricity she has a really affecting trad soul voice

it still galls that la roux and florence & the machine are so successful when murphy's solo career is commercially one giant flop :(

(her "momma's place" single from this year is AMAZING btw, as is "royal t", her track on the otherwise-terrible crookers album)

She has everything I could want in a disco-pop diva: voice, lyrics, amazing presence, shrewd choice of collaborators.

wow, "Tell Everybody" is amazing. shame about that album cover.

45. SPOON GA GA GA GA GA (2007) [299.5 points, 14 votes]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d7/GaGaGaGaGa.jpg

i've never heard spoon but i like to imagine that thinking about that album will just get "bad romance" stuck in everyone's heads

ha

that is a spoon album that i loved more over time and then eventually became easily my favorite album of theirs

Spoon is an economical indie band that consistently delivers catchy songs without any pretentious BS to deal with. they're often accused of being boring, which is not inaccurate imo, but at least they don't come across as complete twats. the last album i listened to by them was Gimme Fiction, which i liked at the time.

44. BEYONCE B'Day (2007) [304.5 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote]

http://www.duckykuek.com/DKMA/images/2006/B%27Day.jpg

idk why i took it upon myself to say something about Spoon

SUGA MAMA

SUGA MAMA

44. BEYONCE (I'd Cheerfully Use Mark Ronson's Face As A) B'Day (2007) [304.5 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote]

yeah it seriously took all my will power not to write BEYONCE [/i]Bidet[/i]

whoops

I've never heard Overpowered, but "Let Me Know" is such a jam

b'day is the highest placing album with 11 votes or less

this is a very good album

god i love this song. the way she hollers over the outro is just... YES-AH!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riE0N0yJBgU

I'LL GIVE YOU ALL MY MONEY BABY
TURN ME ON BOY SOMETHIN CRAZY
TAKE MY CREDIT CARD, KEYS TO MY HOUSE
TAKE MY CAAAAAR!

i'm so pleased this placed, wasn't sure about it at all!

beyonce is a very beautiful human being

"Suga Mama" is my favorite jam; really, this is her best album, and it's so short!

SHOULDA BEEN HIGHER. Who doesn't love Beyonce?

(ILM) - 11, apparently

also, those two girls from the original destiny's child

HOLD UP!...bring the beat back
STOP!...i ain't ready yet
WAIT!...now let me fix my hair
now pass me my dress

What's she hiding in that bee hive?

ROISIN AT 46!!! FUCK THE REST!!!

One trick pony... perhaps, From Here We Go Sublime seems to remain the only good album The Field will release (good single releases before that, though) and I can't say I look forward to more from him anymore. But yes, he's infinitely better than the one dimensional muzak meister Pantha du Prince. Pure cheese, that.

― abcfsk, Friday, July 9, 2010 12:33 PM (37 minutes ago) Bookmark

o_O Wow, really? I voted for both, and even sort of agree with you about The Field (his follow-up had some gorgeous, if slightly redundant cuts). But I strongly recommend that you give Pantha du Prince a few more listens. I, too, wasn't terribly impressed the first time I heard This Bliss. It took me quite a few listens to grasp what he was doing. But once it clicked, I could confidently say it's one of the most exquisitely crafted electronic music records that exists. Period. Use a good pair of headphones, crank it up, whatever. It's brilliant. My #3 pick of the decade.

43. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM LCD Soundsystem (2005) [308.5 points, 17 votes]

http://dkpresents.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/1106783199.jpeg

yeah i wish i had put this higher up on my ballot, but i felt guilty since i only heard it for the first time recently

disc 2 of this album (the bonus disc of all their early 12"s inc "yeah", "beat connection", "losing my edge") >>>>>>>> any other full-length james murphy has released by MILES AND MILES

too bad disc 1 is mostly boring! apart from "daft punk..." and "tribulations" tho even w/the latter i prefer the lindstrøm remix - amazing break midway thru

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuQLxjL3Db8

I never play disc two, sorry -- those songs bored me.

It took "Tribulations" and "Daft Punk..." to understand what he was doing. I loathed "Losing My Edge" on contact.