ILM Top 100 2005-2009: ALBUMS

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.

This was my #3, kind of cheating because disc 2 is the key to the set. Even the new stuff is good, though it did point the way forward to Murphy as Creepy Uncle New York solemnizer/anthemizer.

FUCK if I voted I'd have voted for Roisin at #1, no joke. I would've given her a nice bump.

Meanwhile I would argue that LCD has gotten better with each album; I really hated "Daft Punk..." on first listen, to the point where I actively avoided everything they did until SoS came out and "Someone Great" was being played in the record store I was browsing in, making me buy the album on the spot.

"Losing My Edge" is also just okay. "Tribulations" is a total jam tho.

still don't think he's topped "beat connection" imo

"Never as Tired as When I'm Waking Up" set the stage for so much horrible pap. He was better when he took fun seriously and put together amazing grooves instead of spending entire tracks being slow and philosophical. If you're going to try to be deep, at least let us dance to it.

42. THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS Twin Cinema (2005) [309.5 points, 13 votes]

http://betterpropaganda.com/images/artwork/Twin_Cinema-New_PornographersX_The_480.jpg

Still my favorite New Pornos album.

The drums sound fantastic.

can't listen to that album because of the cover

thats weird, i'm usually a big critic of album covers but this one doesn't bother me at all

i haven't listened to the album since like 2006 though probably. it's their best one iirc but it hasn't held up as a classic to me, just a nice powerpop album.

Electric Version is my fave--Twin Cinema is just a little too shiny production-wise. The songs are great though.

That's J0rdan's revenge for my AnCo loathing ;)

the joint that connects the two reels looks like a light saber

twin cinema is a megajam would have easily been in my top ten

Twin Cinema is the best cover the band has ever had, they've got a long history of completely awful covers. Challengers will always be the worst.

i liked the roisin murphy track in the tracks poll and i like these ones lex posted so it seems i should get that album...!

font looks like something from 1995, unforgivable imo

has any notable band ever used comic sans