ILM Top 100 2005-2009: ALBUMS

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

alright last one for today

twin cinema's cover screams "local band CD, 1996, now festering in cutout bin"

41. CUT COPY In Ghost Colours (2008) [311.5 points, 13 votes]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/67/InGhostColours.jpg

^^^ very good album, don't know that I would have voted for it

Superhappy at Air France! I threw The Juan Maclean a couple of points, but I don't really think there's much to it beside Happy House and One Day. LCD Soundsystem album feels a lot older (because of Losing My Edge et al I guess), I agree with the suggestion that James Murphy has never topped Beat Connection.

twin cinema easily their best. lcd album proper hit and miss but cd 2 is unfuckwithable. should really give roisin a chance. never liked 'Crazy in Love' so I never really gave that album a chance. liking her sasha fierce stuff though. 'Halo' is well underrated. Cut/Copy are good but I've never really gotten into them.

those are my two cents. what are yours?

The Cut Copy album sleeve is apt: most of the music is colored lights and smoky air. Only three or four proper songs and lots of fragments. But I adore "So Haunted," which would easily make my top ten singles of the last five years.

100. LIL WAYNE Tha Carter III (2008) [181 points, 8 votes]
99. SPOON Gimme Fiction (2005) [181 points, 9 votes]
98. CAMERA OBSCURA Let's Get Out of This Country (2006) [183 points, 7 votes, 1 first place vote]
97. RHYTHM & SOUND See Mi Yah (2005) [185 points, 9 votes]
96. CARIBOU Andorra (2007) [187.5 points, 9 votes]
95. BATTLES Mirrored (2007) [190.5 points, 11 votes]
94. BOARDS OF CANADA The Campfire Headphase (2005) [192 points, 9 votes]
93. NE-YO Year of the Gentleman (2008) [195.5 points, 10 votes]
92. NEKO CASE Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (2006) [196 points, 8 votes]
91. LOS CAMPESINOS! Hold On Now, Youngster... (2008) [197 points, 6 votes, 1 first place vote]
90. SLEATER-KINNEY The Woods (2005) [198.5 points, 8 votes]
89. VITALIC OK Cowboy (2005) [200 points, 10 votes]
88. ART BRUT Bang Bang Rock & Roll (2005) [200.5 points, 6 votes, 1 first place vote]
87. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Strawberry Jam (2007) [203 points, 9 votes]
86. BELLE AND SEBASTIAN The Life Pursuit (2006) [204.5 points, 8 votes]
85. BAT FOR LASHES Two Suns (2009) [205 points, 9 votes, 1 first place vote]
84. FUCK BUTTONS Tarot Sport (2009) [206 points, 12 votes]
83. SANTIGOLD Santogold (2008) [206.5 votes, 10 points]
82. HOT CHIP The Warning (2006) [206.5 points, 12 votes]
81. DJ SPRINKLES Midtown 120 Blues (2009) [208.5 points, 10 points]

80. LOW Drums and Guns (2007) [209.5 points, 9 votes, 1 first place vote]
79. WOLF PARADE Apologies to the Queen Mary (2005) [210.5 points, 10 votes]
78. FUTURE OF THE LEFT Travels With Myself and Another (2009) [211 points, 8 votes]
78. MADONNA Confessions on a Dance Floor (2005) [211 points, 8 votes]
76. ELLEN ALLIEN & APPARAT Orchestra of Bubbles (2006) [212 points, 12 votes]
75. YOUNG JEEZY The Recession (2008) [214.5 points, 9 votes]
74. DAFT PUNK Alive 2007 (2007) [219 points, 10 votes]
73. VON SUDENFED Tromatic Reflexxions (2007) [220.5 points, 9 votes]
72. AMY WINEHOUSE Back to Black (2006) [223 points, 9 votes]
71. RACHEL STEVENS Come and Get It (2005) [223 points, 9 votes, 1 first place vote]
70. KANYE WEST Graduation (2007) [225 points, 11 votes]
69. KELLEY POLAR Love Songs of the Hanging Gardens (2005) [225.5 points, 11 votes]
68. LIARS Drum’s Not Dead (2006) [234 votes, 15 votes]
67. TV ON THE RADIO Dear Science (2008) [233 points, 13 votes]
66. ISOLEE We Are Monster (2005) (233.5 points, 9 votes, 1 first place vote]
65. SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS Alpinisms (2008) [234 points, 15 votes]
64. ROBYN Robyn (2005) [234.5 points, 9 votes]
63. Antony and the Johnsons I Am a Bird Now (2005) [235.5 points, 8 votes]
62. The Flaming Lips Embryonic (2009) [236 points, 11 votes]
61. Girl Talk Night Ripper (2006) [236 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote]

60. KANYE WEST 808s & Heartbreak (2008) [247.5 points, 12 votes]
59. ARTHUR RUSSELL Love is Overtaking Me (2008) [249 points, 10 votes, 1 first place vote]
58. THE NATIONAL Alligator (2005) [258.5 votes, 9 votes, 1 first place vote]
57. LADY GAGA The Fame Monster (2009) [261.6 votes, 14 votes, 1 first place vote]
56. YEAH YEAH YEAHS It's Blitz! (2009) [262 points, 14 votes]
55. SUNN O))) Monoliths & Dimensions (2009) [263 points, 12 votes, 1 first place vote]
54. PHOENIX Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (2009) [265.5 points, 12 votes]
53. GIRLS ALOUD Chemistry (2005) [271 votes, 8 points]
52. HERCULES & LOVE AFFAIR Hercules and Love Affair (2008) [272.5 points, 14 votes]
51. PANTHA DU PRINCE This Bliss (2007) [280 points, 13 votes]
50. THE FIELD From Here We Go Sublime (2007) [280 votes, 14 points]
49. THE JUAN MACLEAN The Future Will Come (2009) [280.5 points, 12 votes]
48. THE HOLD STEADY Separation Sunday (2005) [282.5 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote]
47. AIR FRANCE No Way Down EP (2008) [286 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote]
46. ROISIN MURPHY Overpowered (2007) [288.5 points, 13 votes]
45. SPOON GA GA GA GA GA (2007) [299.5 points, 14 votes]
44. BEYONCE B'Day (2007) [304.5 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote]
41. CUT COPY In Ghost Colours (2008) [311.5 points, 13 votes]

44. BEYONCE B'Day (2007) [304.5 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote]
43. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM LCD Soundsystem (2005) [308.5 points, 17 votes]
42. THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS Twin Cinema (2005) [309.5 points, 13 votes]
41. CUT COPY In Ghost Colours (2008) [311.5 points, 13 votes]

Twin Cinema? Sometimes I'm thrown a real surprise with these lists, and this is one. So bloody average and anonymous.

Lord Sotosyn above is otm about Cut Copy.

Air France was my no.1! Such a beautiful record, I love it so much. Delighted to see it up here.

"Hearts On Fire" is the greatest New Order/Severed Head collaboration that never happened

cut copy album was such a mirage, i loved it to death for about a week and then never came back to it except for a few tracks. 'out there on the ice' is a serious banger though imo and i would have voted it top 5 in tracks poll if it was nominated

"Far Away" & "Strangers in the Wind" are both the shit

"Out There On The Ice" is a lost Severed Heads track and ergo awesome