ILM Top 100 2005-2009: ALBUMS

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

bloc party was in the top 20 for a lot of the voting, then they kinda slipped down as the ballots rushed in, but i was probably happier about them placing near the top 30 than any other development in the poll

wowwwww. forgot all about them. this seems like it came out forever ago.

*actually cleaves own head off*

RIP RIP la petite mort

strangely enough the corny indie album from this time period that's held up the best for me is the Menomena album, which i'd imagine will be hanging out down in the 101-300s for all you spreadsheet navigators later

i'm so pissed off at him calling his solo record "tenderoni". only awesome musicians should be allowed to use that word. michael jackson and/or kp & envyi basically.

bloc party sucks, let's be real

yeah all of bloc party's recordings after album 2 were completely destroyed by the use of kele's voice

first album is the #1 rock banger of this time period

did his first album bomb in the uk? i have to imagine so

I like that hold steady album, the 1st 3 are great, but I didn't vote for any of them.

Bloc Party was robbed in tracks voting, btw. I mean, every album after the first suffered from various degrees of suck, but only one Bloc Party track was nominated. And none of them made the 2000-04 tracks poll, probably because it was held in AUGUST OF 2004. They were truly the band who got lost in the gap between the two polls.

did not vote bloc party fyi

I mean for all that I invoked the Indie Hailstorm, the only one I voted for was Mountain Goats, well before anyone except JS had any inkling this might happen

(and JF)

so do not care about the Hold Steady or Bloc Party. this list is weird

Silent Alarm is perfect and has so many memories, buying it the day we went to Paris and jamming it the whole journey there :DDDDD

and then they sucked. yeah jordan noone gave a shit about his solo album.

"Helicopter" is still a jam, tho. "Banquet" too.

This wasn't on my radar tho

so do not care about the Hold Steady or Bloc Party. this list is weird

― gordon lishification (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 12 July 2010 21:19 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah so weird that ppl would vote for stuff they like, and not what you care about!

Bloc party *yawn*

any poll taken from a small specialized sample of the population is gonna be weird

I never rly got Bloc Party but w/e each to their own

I will forever and always stan for that Bloc Party debut. At the time I thought they were going to be one of my favorite bands, unfortunately they continued to release music and ruined that for me. The debut still stands very tall, imho.

^ cosign.

jon pretty much completely otm -- def still love 'silent alarm' to pieces

I used to love that Bloc Party album but can't listen to it now. Every time those cheesy dual guitars come up on shuffle I reach for the fast-forward button. Pretty cool that the lead singer is openly gay though.

Little Thoughts is the song I like by Bloc Party and they didn't even put it on the album.

Pretty cool that the lead singer is openly gay though.

Is that really still a thing? Not being gay, I mean. Being a big deal.

"Little Thoughts" is on the US version xp

I liked 'Banquet' at the time, 'Little Thoughts' still sounds good... Yeah, that's about it for me.

31. T.I. King (2006) [352.5 votes, 16 points]

http://40versions.files.wordpress.com/2006/12/king.jpg

Arctic Monkeys are going to show up soon aren't they?