ILM Top 100 2005-2009: ALBUMS

Never really got Broadcast - there always seemed to be something missing - or at least, the songs were delicate but largely substanceless, reaching for profundity through understating tweeness

mind you, Tender Buttons might be way better than Ha Ha Sound so I won't judge it...yet

do ppl think this is better than tilt btw?

no way - i admire the drift a lot but rarely in the sense of actually wanting to listen to it (unlike tilt, which is gorgeous)

tho i'm pleased to see it place and will prob relisten to it soon!

agree with lj on broadcast, always seemed so slight

in a way, having the mp3 of Clara sent to me (in 2006) independently of the album kinda killed The Drift for me - it's so monolithic and wondrous that I find it hard imagining the rest of the album to be as good, although I ought to give it all a go at some point

Sometimes I think I prefer The Drift actually. It's just so dark. It makes Tilt seem like a bubblegum record.

i only really like the drift lyrically, i think it sounds really self-important. but tilt is deranged andrew lloyd webber fed through bataille's typewriter or something. Then again, I heard tilt at a time when i was way more receptive to scott walker than i was when i heard the drift.

iirc when i listened to the drift it felt like i was listening to a soundtrack, not an album, ie i felt like there was a piece missing somewhere. did he do videos for any of the songs?

Never really got Broadcast - there always seemed to be something missing - or at least, the songs were delicate but largely substanceless, reaching for profundity through understating tweeness

this is basically how i felt about them b4 tender buttons. i love the noisy blown-speaker sound of it all. and that massive rip roaring guitar on "america's boy", etc.

35. JOANNA NEWSOM Ys (2006) [332.5 points, 13 votes, 1 first place vote]

http://www.albumoftheyear.org/album/covers/ys.jpg

(I was also sent Cue, which is very good if not fully great...it's like, OK I've heard the long songs and they rock...why can't all of The Drift be 12-minute expositions on love, hate, Mussolini, freedom, fascism and mercy)

Tilt I have listened through to - and goddamn is that record terrifying (and brilliant) - close call as to which is darker

OH LOL

ok I am SBing myself now

okay ppl

'jesse' had one:

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

I knew some of you assholes would vote for Ys. KEEP THAT TO YOURSELVES.

Another two for me with Scott Walker and Broadcast, ha ha. It seems I have more in common with ilx hivemind than I thought.

While I have much love for Tilt I have grown to think The Drift is its equal.

And although I voted for Tender Buttons my favourite Broadcast record is still far and away Work and Non-Work.

lol so is fleet foxes gonna show up or

Ys = a very good album by a very good artist that I have come around to having written off
Fleet Foxes = get to fucking fuck you fucks

wtf how did only 13 people vote for YS!

The last three records is where I divide from the indie hivemind...never could bring myself to listen to any of them all the way through.

ys is another of those records that i guess i admire but never ever listen to. i can't really seem to muster up either love or hate for j newsom.

also 'Jesse' is rly good, I need to own The Drift! :D

lol are you going to make me describe Joanna Newsom's singing voice on this album again

wtf how did only 13 people vote for YS!

I gave it 40 ANTIvotes.

something about geese being fed thru a woodchipper iirc

(with my mind.) xp

woodpoppage

i can't really seem to muster up either love or hate for j newsom.

This is OTM for me, too. Though I have seen her be brilliant live.

srsly I am feeling so embarrassed about my posts earlier in light of what has happened since DJQ&K

Never really got Broadcast - there always seemed to be something missing

This is almost entirely the point of (at least a good portion of) Broadcast. Sparse, fragile, haunting, spare, delicate to the point of nearly disintegrating at any second. Like a snowflake landing on a blade of grass.

Maybe not on Tender Buttons, but listen to "Echo's Answer" and tell me you don't agree.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7-gk_RsIL0

the 1 or 2 times i heard ys was "well there's something going on here but it's not worth the pain"

xp i haven't listened to that in years, sound so good right now :D

i was flipping radio stations the other night in my car and i landed on the opening verse of "Emily" and was a bit startled

i listened to the whole song though and i think it's held up fine...not sure about the rest of Ys though, "Emily" was my favorite track by far even when i was digging on it

34. GANG GANG DANCE SAINT Dymphna (2008) [333 points, 15 votes]

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/12324-saint-dymphna.jpg

^^^sick

ok I'm SBing myself AGAIN

(I actually voted for this one too!)

Oh shit, Gang Gang!

man that's an amazing record

I kind of want to hate Gang Gang Dance, but this is pretty good. Didn't make my list, though.

awesome. they put on a hell of a live show too

Ys is just great. Perfect, even.

Very good album, Saint Dymphna. And yeah, I kinda wanted to hate them too but it really is good!

That Broadcast song was nice, although if anything it was too busy to be spare, too minimal to be intricate...it was nice but there were a few too many compromises going on. Maybe I need to listen to them more to get the hang of it! Maybe I need to think of it as pop music for insomniacs. Whatever it is, I'll listen to Tender Buttons.

will never forgive ILM for making me listen to Gang Gang Dance. terrible album.

much love for Tender Buttons tho.

Oh shit, Gang Gang!

― emil.y, Monday, July 12, 2010 7:54 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

YES. love this album a great deal, voted for it.

i actually really liked that broadcast song

hahaha turns out I DIDN'T vote for Saint Dymphna...would have been in the next 2 or 3 places

I probably should have voted for Gang Gang instead of some of the stuff on the lower reaches of my ballot, actually. It's just the trendy hipster thing that puts me off.

holy shit Louis how did you do this. Being a corny fuxxor I like most of these albums a lot, but I'm SBing you for crimes against diversity anyway.

dymphna is an album w/ a really weird mixture of fans

It's just the trendy hipster thing that puts me off.

it's the "not being able to maintain a steady rhythm" thing that puts me off, personally.