ILM Top 100 2005-2009: ALBUMS

"it's britney, bitch"

^^unparalleled way to open an album

― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Monday, July 12, 2010 4:51 PM (56 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you do have a knack for treating something really boring and unremarkable like the most amazing thing in the world

^^^I am listening to this song atm and appreciate this post xps to T

i get the impression that britney's planning circa blackout was limited to the very short term, like the next 5 minutes

lol some dude otm

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

No -- he's gay.

Yes, Ys. Silent Alarm is solid.

Blackout was in my Stylus ballot for top ten of the deacade. "Heaven and Earth" = best album track.

Who are the people that still give half a shit about Sufjan Stevens' theme albums so far removed from their actual release dates? I want to know you by name.

Britney Spears eh?

still nothing in this list that pisses me off more than Hold Steady, the ultimate hipster runoff scarequotes band. heeeeey guys we're a 'bar band,' we're writing songs about 'the kids,' check out our 'riffs'!

seminal, lolololol

you do have a knack for treating something really boring and unremarkable like the most amazing thing in the world

should be directed to all sufjan fans

Imagine if Britney Spears and Sufjan Stevens had a baby

still nothing in this list that pisses me off more than Hold Steady, the ultimate hipster runoff scarequotes band. heeeeey guys we're a 'bar band,' we're writing songs about 'the kids,' check out our 'riffs'!

oh that must explain their appeal.

what if I hate both Sufjan AND Britney

xp

Sufjan Spears

28. KATE BUSH Aerial (2005) [368.5 points, 13 points]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b4/Katebushaerial.jpg

i voted for sufjan stevens

I think I've only heard Blackout start-to-finish once, will listen again though. Sufjan isn't really for me.

"it's britney, bitch"

^^unparalleled way to open an album

― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend)

That just makes me think of that scene on The Office when Michael drives up to the camera and takes his shades of and says "It's Britney bitch" but it's obviously Lady GaGa playing on his stereo. Anyway yeah, perfect start to the album.

I remember Gimme More coming out and the sleazy low budget video that came with it I just thought I bet in a few years she'll have no memory of it coming out.

OK, wasn't expecting that.

another one which should be a lot higher!!!!

been returning to aerial a lot recently for some reason. i think it might actually be her best album. it's so immersive.

Kate Bush! XD

I get the impression that britney's planning circa blackout was limited to her management team

that is a seriously high average vote

so I should listen to Aerial huh

sem·i·nal   [sem-uh-nl]
–adjective
1.
pertaining to, containing, or consisting of semen.

That just means Britney Spears is spunky imo!

There's some amazing moments on Aerial but the first disc is just too weak for me, although Coral Room is incredible.

kate bush album cover is so unbelievably boring

Didn't vote for Aerial, I do think it's great though. I honestly had no idea it was still so well-liked.

lol I just now realized what the design on the cover of the Kate Bush album is (not that I ever looked to closely at it before).

"Coral Room" is beautiful. So is "Joanni," which makes me wish more musicians recorded on Fairlights.

I wonder what song/sound is represented. xp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-xsCXEvR6M

kate bush cover is great? its islands but its also a soundwave and there's a hidden message?

Imagine Kate Bush covering "Radar."

"Coral Room" is beautiful.

Yes yes yes yes yes.

kate bush album cover is so unbelievably boring

It's not quite Never For Ever is it.

its also hilarious that britney was so out of it they couldn't release Radar as a single so had to put it on Circus. My CD still says featuring the singles Gimme More, Piece of Me, Break the Ice and Radar

"how to be invisible" and "a coral room" are my picks on the first cd of aerial, though "mrs bartolozzi" is kinda beautiful too

the second cd is just straight-up genius start to finish

I still haven't properly listened to Aerial. I should.

listening to nocturn on spotify - feels like an adventure unfolding

i wouldn't call Aerial her best album, but it is def top three for me (the others being HoL and The Dreaming). immersive is a good word to describe it, just beautifully produced. its cinematically intimate in that unique Kate Bush way--she evokes subtle emotions and use sound and imagery to make them explode.

27. DIRTY PROJECTORS Bitte Orca (2009) [374.5 points, 18 votes]

http://rocksdemilo.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/149428-dirty-projectors-coverart.jpg

Aerial always sounded quite similar musically to The Sensual World to me but it's wider in scope and more rewarding for it. I'm going to listen to it now I think.

I very much admired the DP's show at Pitchfork Fest a couple of years ago; the album never gelled for me though.

its also hilarious that britney was so out of it they couldn't release Radar as a single so had to put it on Circus. My CD still says featuring the singles Gimme More, Piece of Me, Break the Ice and Radar

― plax (ico), Monday, July 12, 2010 5:03 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

iirc there was some kind of contractual obligation to the producer of "Radar" or something that the song had to be a single, so when they had a new album ready but hadn't made it a single yet, they just kinda shuffled it into the next album cycle

I think people namedropping mariah carey in relation to dirty projectors is the least-fitting reference ever.. desperate attempt to claim popism authenticity, for reals

Not even the 27th best record of 2009