ILM Top 100 2005-2009: ALBUMS

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?

Silent Alarm is totally the album that redeems Bloc Party, everything else they've done since has been atrocious but this one has some fantastic moments, especially the middle section.

Saint Dymphna - just totally awesome all the way through.

Boys & Girls In America is the best Hold Steady album because it's the most pop. It's all getting a bit Pitchfork though.

(xpost hah thank god for T.I)

THANK GOD FOR THAT

literally verbatim - Matt's post was an 0 seconds ago xpost

T.I. shoulda been higher but what can u do

one day like the phoenix rose from the ashes...

i wish lj hadnt been xposted

352.5 votes, 16 points

t.i. also super fell off after king... it's almost weird to think that he's even the same guy -- i don't think there's been as musically rich a rap album to come out since king

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.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, July 12, 2010 4:24 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I wouldn't use the words "big deal" but it's nice to see.

352.5 votes, 16 points

― goth (crüt), Monday, July 12, 2010 4:28 PM (42 seconds ago) Bookmark

second time i've done this

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

― gman59, Monday, 12 July 2010 19:55 (29 minutes ago) Bookmark

I thought they were utter shite live.

Put me off the album altogether. The girl was so outtsynch with the rest of the band, it looked as though she couldn't hold back her own laughter at her fuckups on the tom=tom drum.

Almost made me wonder if that fire at their tour opening amsterdam show wasn't some kinda excuse to try get more practise in before they toured.

practice to legally smoke weed morelike

Xpost I think I disliked Kele after he punched Eddie Argos. I realise that probably makes him go up in some peoples estimations.

Their dance direction on the third is one of the least convincing things I've heard in modern music. I remember seeing them perform Mercury on Jools Holland, it was really embarrassing.

xpost agree with all the people saying Silent Arm feels like eons ago.

like blaqkout, king should be WAY higher! i think it's the pinnacle of tip's career so far tho, just the point where he was at the top of his game in every respect.

this is my favourite deep cut - his southern drawl is absolutely irresistible here, esp on the georgia/water/flo'da rhymes in the first verse. and the way the beat goes nuts in the third verse is O_O

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVMVyq4gLoE

you niggas better fall back, 'fore i grab a 'ball bat
take it to ya skull, that's gon be the end of all that
insist on having problems? bet this revolver'll solve that
hit 'em in the temple then i leave em where they fall at

t.i. and trina will always be my sentimental default answers to the question "who is your favourite rapper"

T.I. did fall off after King but "Swagga Like Us" is pretty monstrous IMO

Hot on the heels of stealing the limelight away from bands like Franz Ferdinand and the Arcade Fire: Bloc Party, everybody!

"get it" is the sickest flow ever

yeah King is T.I.'s peak no question.

btw I didn't vote for ANY of the albums in that Run Of Indie, just sayin'

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

― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Monday, July 12, 2010 4:17 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^

tie between king and trap muzik imo

Girls doesn't count as contemporary music?

t.i. also super fell off after king... it's almost weird to think that he's even the same guy -- i don't think there's been as musically rich a rap album to come out since king

t.i. vs t.i.p. wasn't great and paper trail had bad moments but i disagree that it's anywhere close to a "super fall off" - that phrase should be reserved for latter-day jay-z or lil wayne over the past couple of years. post-king tip's still given us "hurt", "let my beat pound", "whatever you like" (a hip-pop classic imo), "no matter what", a ton of great guest verses (yung l.a., nicole scherzinger, diddy/dirty money, r kelly) and i love most of what i've heard off the new one...

30. BRITNEY SPEARS [/i]BLACKOUT[/I] (2007) [363 points, 13 votes]

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t.i. vs t.i.p. had really good singles but the album itself wasn't good

t.i. also super fell off after king... it's almost weird to think that he's even the same guy -- i don't think there's been as musically rich a rap album to come out since king

― hoos gossage (J0rdan S.), Monday, July 12, 2010 4:29 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this makes no sense to me. aside from the dip in quality there's been WAY less of any kind of change to T.I.'s music/rapping/image/persona in the past 4 years than pretty much any other major rap star. also of that album's many virtues, 'musically rich' does not come to mind, it's very monolithic and single-minded (in a good way).

WAY TOO FUCKING LOW

i know i didn't vote, but i made a ballot and it was my #1

^^^has spent half an hour extolling The Blackout to me IRL