ILM Top 100 2005-2009: ALBUMS

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

The Cut Copy has aged really well, imo.

I don't have the urge to pull it out all the time, but when I do I always go, "Why the hell aren't I listening to this ALL THE TIME?!!"

yes it has

I get the urge to listen to Cut Copy's first album from time to time, but almost never choose to hear the second (this one).

super super stoked that overpowered made it so high. PHENOMENAL ALBUM. hooks, lyrics, production, and that voice that makes me melt. i also love the idiosyncratic arrangements of "primitive", "checkin' on me" and "tell everybody"... but it's the big glossy dance jams that cut me the deepest. "movie star", "let me know", and THIS monster:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dBi_aYXjuE

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 some amount that is less than MILES AND MILES

― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Friday, July 9, 2010 1:27 PM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark

i would say yeah (pretentious mix) trumps anything w/the lcd soundsystem name on it, except maybe 45:33

It's criminal considering how many people have slept on that Roisin Murphy album. I'm a total corny indie fuxor and Overpowered was my #2.

It's criminal considering how many people have slept on that Roisin Murphy album. I'm a total corny indie fuxor and Overpowered was my #2.

― righteousmaelstrom, Friday, July 9, 2010 3:17 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

I'm a rap nerd and Overpowered would probably have been #1 for me.

4/60 now, voted for

65. SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS Alpinisms (2008) [234 points, 15 votes]
56. YEAH YEAH YEAHS It's Blitz! (2009) [262 points, 14 votes]
47. AIR FRANCE No Way Down EP (2008) [286 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote]
44. BEYONCE B'Day (2007) [304.5 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote]

xp ive never listened to roisin murphy before but i'm liking these youtubes - will check out

Pretty sure I voted for:

60. KANYE WEST 808s & Heartbreak (2008) [247.5 points, 12 votes]
57. LADY GAGA The Fame Monster (2009) [261.6 votes, 14 votes, 1 first place vote]
49. THE JUAN MACLEAN The Future Will Come (2009) [280.5 points, 12 votes]
43. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM LCD Soundsystem (2005) [308.5 points, 17 votes]

Also enjoy:

59. ARTHUR RUSSELL Love is Overtaking Me (2008) [249 points, 10 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]
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]
47. AIR FRANCE No Way Down EP (2008) [286 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote]
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]

i'm around 10/60. interesting mix of albums so far on this list.

still at 1.

me too

Great list so far, I voted for these

88. ART BRUT Bang Bang Rock & Roll
82. HOT CHIP The Warning (2006)
76. ELLEN ALLIEN & APPARAT Orchestra of Bubbles (2006)
73. VON SUDENFED Tromatic Reflexxions (2007)
71. RACHEL STEVENS Come and Get It (2005)
70. KANYE WEST Graduation (2007)
64. ROBYN Robyn (2005)
63. Antony and the Johnsons I Am a Bird Now (2005)
62. The Flaming Lips Embryonic (2009)
53. GIRLS ALOUD Chemistry (2005)
43. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM LCD Soundsystem (2005
41. CUT COPY In Ghost Colours (2008)

There's quite a few albums that almost made my list too like Hercules & love Affair and It's Blitz. I've only just got into Spoon recently, I would have voted for Ga Ga Ga Ga for sure.

I'm so glad we now have another thread where several people are all being turned on to Róisín all at once. Too bad it didn't happen before tracks voting (coz "Primitive" wuz robbed!).

New Pornos will never again equal Mass Romantic in my estimation, but I have to say that the title track from Twin Cinema has stuck with me over the years. As has "Sing Me Spanish Techno" though my dislike of the arch title keeps me from embracing the song fully.

Now 3 I voted for: Art Brut, Belle and Sebastian, New Pornographers.