ILM Top 100 2005-2009: ALBUMS

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

popism authenticity

cute

red circle dp is so WS.

I can't think of a better pair of closing tracks right now than Nocturn and Aerial. I saw a clip of Cirque du Soleil performing to Aerial - sadly it was dubbed on later, they actually perform to something else, but it was still great.

look at that album cover. i mean really

(have now segued into the Aerial title-track - this is v good music indeed)

i voted for sufjan stevens

― hoos gossage (J0rdan S.), Monday, July 12, 2010 4:57 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i am getting more and more apprehensive about you eventually posting your ballot

I can't think of a better pair of closing tracks right now than Nocturn and Aerial

otm

i can't believe anyone has complained about any album cover ever in history in a thread with the Hold Steady album in it.

lol alex -- it has its fair share of canonical indie rock albums

just thinking about the depth and breadth of kate bush's artistry makes me smh so much at dirty projectors placing above her, next to kate they literally come off like six-year-olds messing around

fwiw one of sufjan's cheerleader hoes is on my ballot but imo the 1st my brightest diamond album is dope

26. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE Futuresex/Lovesounds (2006) [410.5 points, 16 votes, 1 first place vote]

http://brotherherm.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/justin1.jpg

man, JT has like sideshow bob long feet

fuck that album

mmm fuck him.

Hm. Will Justified appear?

i've made my peace w/that album and basically like it but it's soooooo ridiculously overrated

In hindsight Justified is clearly the better album. But there are some real bangers on Futuresex, still.

shipley's new DN is confusing the hell out of me, its like when i saw a photo of someone who looked just like me kissing some guy on a friends FB and I was like "when the fuck did that happen?"

I've never understood why the hell is he smashing that perfectly good glitter ball?

i liked loose way more

Justified came out 2+ years too early for this poll, but is way better than his other album

fyi there are posters named "max" and "max r"

"My Love" is awesome

uh ok im just not used to it im not hoos

The interludes, "Losing My Way," and the bleh will.i.am collab keep this at a very solid B+ for me, but I'm always tempted to overrate it because Justin sounds so damn cocky: he's found a sound to match his slightly dorky charm.

Influential too: I swear bits of the new Scissor Sisters sound like FS/LS.

25. GHOSTFACE KILLAH [/i]Fishscale[/i] (2006) [420 points, 21 votes]

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

Hahah -- I love this album to bits.

i should listen to it again -- prob haven't in 3 years -- i didn't vote it but it's pretty good i think

I thought Fishscale would be a top ten contender.

I sort of thought Aerial would be a lock for the Top 10, people who liked it, myself included, seemed to really love it. The second disc is just this amazing slow build, it's such a good spring album.

Fishscale is Ghost's best of the last 5 years

dude had a CRAZY decade tho

am still listening to Aerial fwiw - yeah it ain't bad at all, although that Britney song is possibly the best thing I've heard of today's offerings

at this point i have 4 albums in the list, 2 more that i know will make it, and at most 3 more that have even the slightest possibility of placing this high :/

Yeah Fishscale is great, really need to revisit it.

LJ don't give up on Aerial until you've heard the second half, it knocks the (pretty great) first half into a cocked hat.

The thing about the Justin album was that it really felt like he was trying to make this huge 1980s style epochal I Am The World's Biggest Pop Star As Of RIGHT NOW album and, enjoyable as it is, he only really got maybe half way there.

24. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009) [426 points, 18 votes]

http://intothedustbowl.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/animal-collective-merriweather-post-pavilion-cd-cover-album-art.jpg

dude had a CRAZY decade tho

― gordon lishification (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 12 July 2010 22:33 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

+ crazy visions of how to do clarks now son

will post my Kate Bush comment in a second, after crossing myself repeatedly

i never heard fishscale. i probably should.

ugh the MPP cover is even uglier than blackout, and at least britney had an excuse

dat deus merriwentum

ok...literally at this very moment, An Architect's Dream is making me rapidly reconsider that prior statement

(I heard the last 2 tracks of Side 2 which ruled, then started at The Coral Room)

(that prior statement being Get Naked = best song I've heard today)

haha fitting

get naked (an architect's dream)

:D