ILM Top 100 2005-2009: ALBUMS

oh god yeah Studio and Lindstrom (two albums I most CERTAINLY voted for) will do damn well

And Paavoharju of course.

LJ livebloggin Aerial warms my heart

(if I keep repeating it it has to happen, right?)

23. OF MONTREAL Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? (2007) [428 points, 18 votes, 2 first place votes]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/01/Hissingfauna.jpg

has panda bear placed?

"btw are we done with the animal collectors now or do they have any more albums i should mentally prepare myself for..."

we haven't seen Person Pitch yet, right? my feeling is that many like that who don't even like AnCo that much (me included actually)

xp

me as well, altho i didn't vote for it

well I already know the last two tracks are mega-^________^ but there's Somewhere In Between to negotiate first, and guess what it's started very promisingly

oooh good lord those strings just leapt into a higher register and kinda gave me a shiver

YEAH AN ALBUM I ACTUALLY VOTED FOR XDDDDD sorry folks but Of Montreal are really good!

I have pointedly ignored that record because of the title.

hissing fauna is another one that i think is great that i didn't vote for i don't think

matt you'll probably hate kevin barnes' voice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahyOOizPu94

I did that for ages but it's actually really sweet although I am guessing a bit hyperactively indie for your tastes Matt

Wait wait wait. Lex, how do you have the stones to call Blaqkout anything the best hip-hop album of the last 5 years if you haven't heard Fishscale? Fishscale! These are the fundamentals.

voted Skeletal Lamping over Hissing Fauna btw but I'm probably alone on that one

okay, if I'd voted, Battles would have pushed just ahead of Young Jeezy and Ellen Allien/Apparat would have been right behind TV on the Radio

Vitalic would have just beat out Strawberry Jam

(you guys, I'm so sorry)

Britney Spears still wouldn't have shown up if I had

Robyn would have beaten Girl Talk

Wait wait wait. Lex, how do you have the stones to call Blaqkout anything the best hip-hop album of the last 5 years if you haven't heard Fishscale? Fishscale! These are the fundamentals.

i called king the best hip-hop album of the past etc etc, i'm not really a huge ghostface fan. i only have the pretty toney album of his solo stuff and it's, um, ok, i guess.

Of Montreal album title sounds like fridge magnet poetry

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

the cover is the worst thing about MPP, it's really inexplicable.

what's Britney's excuse?

Sunset Tree over Gang Gang Dance

E-40's put out like 3 albums better than King in the last 5 years, and two of those were this year!

x-post

Britney was too busy doing drugs, shaving her head and going crazy to care about trifling matters like album covers.

dan, i woulda put gang gang dance back above it though

britney's excuse was that she was busy shaving her head, being on drugs/crazy and getting sectioned at the time, and i guess her label couldn't really be bothered with the artwork.

lol xp

lol at all this OJ Simpsoning

22. CLIPSE Hell Hath No Fury (2006) [441.5 points, 18 votes]

http://potholesinmyblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/clipse-hell-hath-no-fury.jpg

ok i've heard the two e-40 albums from this year and neither of them are remotely close to king

haha where are all the clipse votes coming from fess up

i think we can all agree that the overrated-ass clipse album is certainly not the best hip-hop album of the half-decade tho smh smh

(still have a lot of time for "trill" tho)

fucking hate u clipse stans but remember upthread when people said it wasn't even gonna place? i so called it.

HHNF was definitely one of my most disappointing albums of the decade

1. "FutureSex/LoveSound"
2. "SexyBack" (featuring Timbaland)
3. "Sexy Ladies/Let Me Talk to You (Prelude)"
4. "My Love" (featuring T.I.)
5. "LoveStoned/I Think She Knows (Interlude)"
6. "What Goes Around.../...Comes Around (Interlude)"
7. "Chop Me Up" (featuring Three 6 Mafia & Timbaland)
8. "Damn Girl" (featuring will.i.am)
9. "Summer Love/Set the Mood (Prelude)"
10. "Until the End of Time"
11. "Losing My Way"
12. "(Another Song) All Over Again"

Genuinely curious what songs people don't consider classic! I'll go ahead and concede that the lyrics of "Losing My Way" ("Hi my name is bob and I work at my job") are hilariously lame, but the song is classic.

it really is just an obscenely overrated album

fucking hell clipse made it???

haha where are all the clipse votes coming from fess up

Hi!

I think 22. is a pretty suitable placement for this one.

have decided that Nocturn is quasi-balearic fwiw

what rap albums are likely to place above this? tha carter ii and...?

i love the one where the beat has the sound of someone reaching inside a piano and strumming all the strings ("ride around shinin" i think)

Hell Hath No Fury has some classic jams but really it should have had the wheat seperated from HHNF and the mixtapes and put together to make something I'd actually listen to again.

American Gangster soundtrack!!! (j/k) xp to lex

Everything after Chop Me Up is shit, and Sexyback is Barely even a song and has dated so badly. Can't believe people called out Single Ladies for being more a signature than a song but SexyBack is like 20 times worse for that.

i dunno where thats sampled from but its a novel idea

have decided that Nocturn is quasi-balearic fwiw

― RIP la petite mort (acoleuthic)

hah, this has been stated before. on ILX maybe?

or maybe i just thought it to myself... idk

have decided that Nocturn is quasi-balearic fwiw

Nocturne is a cornerstone of nu-Balearic dude. Ewan Pearson started a Balearic mix with it a few years ago. It really does work if you're listening to it while watching the sun go down.