ILM Top 100 2005-2009: ALBUMS

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]

http://thumbs.filmstarts.de/wallpaper/BritneySpears_Blackout.jpg

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

maybe I should just sit down and listen to it like I just listened to that TI song, which wasn't bad

I need to properly re-listen to King, it's something I like rather than love.

THIRTIETH??? Really frikkin curious as to what you guys have put in the top 10 now. How? Why? If this isn't a seminal album of the decade...

wow what a horrible cover, never seen that before (re: Blackout)

wtf i was sure blackout (and indeed blaqkout) (and obv king) would be way higher!

great album obv. "save the foolishness and fuckery, i'm handlin my business"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4YSUReS1l0

THIRTIETH??? Really frikkin curious as to what you guys have put in the top 10 now. How? Why? If this isn't a seminal album of the decade...

― abcfsk, Monday, July 12, 2010 4:39 PM (33 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

wow

i thought those were actually solid placings for 'king' and 'blackout' -- maybe it's cuz they were all much, much lower until the last few days

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fehzr9rA2DU

i mean, blackout actually is dope, but, yeah

um, Blackout was not a seminal album of the decade, like not by a long shot

"Gimme More" is rad but nothing else about this album or Brit at the time it came out made me at all interested in listening to it.

"get naked (i got a plan)" is surely the #1 song title of the decade tho

i wish all song titles had (i got a plan) after them

i thought those were actually solid placings for 'king' and 'blackout' -- maybe it's cuz they were all much, much lower until the last few days

i think of both as classics of their genre, not just personal favs - best hip-hop album of the half-decade and best pop album of the half-decade should be top 20 at the VERY least