ILM Top 100 2005-2009: ALBUMS

(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.

like if yr making dance music the one thing you need is a constant tempo, none of this sloppily dropping the beat every 15 bars or whatever. hate this band.

re: hipster thing, I think that may have been what subconsciously swayed me towards Opeth for my 40th slot :/ either that or the fact that Watershed is p good and SD has a coupla weaker moments (more than made up for by, say, Princes, House Jam, the last two tracks etc)

man, just listening to saint dymphna, it's such an unstoppable force of an album - feels like it could soundtrack a mini action movie. to make the art-rock comparison that some did at the time, animal collective just sound so puny and weak and cheap in comparison to GGD's total mastery of everything they try.

you can totally dance to house jam

yeah calling saint dymphna a dance record is kinda missing the point

The reason I thought I voted SD was that I'd voted House Jam in the trax poll - great tune

All this Animal Collective hatred makes me so sad, you know. ;_;

33. THE HOLD STEADY Boys and Girls in America (2006) [344.5 points, 15 votes]

http://dmhamby2.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/holdsteadyalbumcover.jpg

*dies*

Especially when there are bands like the Hold Steady about. Ugh.

rip louis

wait sep sunday already placed, right?

yeah calling saint dymphna a dance record is kinda missing the point

to me it sounds like a bunch of people who can't play their instruments trying to make a dance album. DANCEFAIL

that's such a banger of an album

yeah sean

barf

waht to hold steady

sloppy is absolutely the last word i'd apply to GGD, their rhythms or otherwise - when they chop and change the rhythm it's deliberate and effective, and it's never really at the expense of the danciness (and only a few of the songs are meant to be anywhere near trad "dance tracks" in any case) (i can and have danced w/ease to "first communion" and "princes")

and this is from a dude that kinda stanned for the first 2 albums, but how the fuck could the third one get this high, who gives a fuck anymore really

ok never mind i will go back to my thread and stop cluttering

Wow - Hold Steady apart, this is a great run tonight. Voted for GGD, Mountain Goats and Scott Walker, which was my no. 1. I got completely obsessed with The Drift for a while, it's so perfectly realised. Only just got the Quik & Kurupt record, too early to say whether it would've made my ballot.

That is by far the worst Hold Steady record too.

Stay Positive had some really nice moments - like, some really good songs. I haven't heard any other Hold Steady album. I didn't vote for them, or start the fire.

thought everyone agreed the hold steadys are laughable wannabes at this point

its important to note that saint dymphna has an awesome cover