ILM Top 100 2005-2009: ALBUMS

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

that hold steady album was a serious jam, was pretty obvious that it was gonna blow up even before the 9.x pfork review et al

this stretch has had so many albums that would have made my ballot a couple years ago but haven't held up as 'best of year' for me, only as 'enjoyable'

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

Yep, that's my favourite on there too. It's a really difficult album to pin down but it flows really nicely I find - it could so easily sound like a jumbled mess in lesser hands.

i think the first 4 hold steady albs are all really good. haven't really listened to the new one.

listening now i forgot how much i loved st dymphna when it came out

I bought The Drift and Ys around the same time and just couldn't get into either. I ended up selling them both.

Really glad to see Broadcast make it, they got better with each album and that one is perfect. I wasn't too keen on the album they did with The focus Group but I still really would love a new album. I can't believe Tender Buttons is almost five years old.

B&GIA is better than SS. There, I said it.

'Chips Ahoy' was a good single but I've never liked anything else The Hold Steady have done.

Also the cover is terrible. Those fonts!

really seriously want the next album to either be MPP or Britney Spears, nothing beyond those extremes will do

(I know they'll both be top 20 but w/e)

boys and girls is the only HS album i really love and i love it lots

B&GIA is better than SS. There, I said it.

I could not disagree with this more.

anyway FINALLY A RECORD BY A BLACK PERSON COMING UP NEXT HERE

has anyone ever done hold steady tracks polls? that could be fun actually.

the following songs off 'Stay Positive' are very good songs:

"One For The Cutters"
"Lord, I'm Discouraged"
"Slapped Actress"

if there are songs on their other albums like those ones or at least with the scope of those ones, consider me interested

32. BLOC PARTY Silent Alarm (2005) [352 points, 12 votes, 1 first place vote]

http://rgarciaserra.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/bloc_party_-_silent_alarm.jpg

lolo

*actually cleaves own head off*

lol "record by a black person"

I mean, yeah, Kele is black and all, but...

anyway FINALLY A RECORD BY A BLACK PERSON COMING UP NEXT HERE

i KNEW this was horribly ominous

ugh kele okereke really has the worst voice in all of contemporary music