ILM Top 100 2005-2009: ALBUMS

I'd have probably voted Of Montreal's last two albums very highly, and The Drift would have made it to.

I don't know why, but I've completely slept on Saint Dymphna.

This thread, also Clipse at 22, rules.

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'!

― plax r (some dude), Monday, July 12, 2010 4:56 PM (6 hours ago)

this post is so out of character

― k3vin k., Monday, July 12, 2010 11:46 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

it only seems that way because i have been pretty good about resisting the urge to troll Hold Steady threads, but seriously fuck that shitty band

If there was any consensus techno album from 2005-9, it was Isolee's "Wearemonster"

From Here We Go Sublime, IMO.

for ppl who like techno tho? or for ppl who like indie

dear savage love

i listened to hhnf again and i still like it

- trying to fit in in minneapolis

I have a feeling my #1's not gonna show up

hhnf vitriol is weird to me--it is overrated and there are some forgettable tracks but 1-5 on it are killer for both beats and rapping. tbh wamp wamp might be my favorite beat ever so to hear ppl say it has no good beats seems like overstating the case imo.

― call all destroyer, Tuesday, July 13, 2010 12:40 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah see "Wamp Wamp" just sounds like an ugly mess to me, there was a nice IDEA there but Pharrell and his love for sloppy unquantized drums made it really cluttered and awkward

Just ... in general, I guess? From Here We Go Sublime finished in the Pazz and Jop top 40 and had a Metacritic score of 90. Seems like I heard a lot more about it than about Wearemonster, though I do read Pitchfork more than Resident Advisor. (Oddly enough, I actually feel like the Isolee album would appeal to indie rockers more than the Field, esp. tracks like "Schrapnell.")

the phrase "wamp wamp" sounds like dubstep onomatopoeia

i think most people who actually listen to dance music beyond the stuff that crosses over like that would prefer isolee to the field

in fact i suspect most people overall would prefer isolee, he's got more to offer unless the field's specific approach is exactly what you're looking for in techno music

in fact i suspect most people overall would prefer isolee

Don't think this is true, what The Field has that appeals to non-dance fans is a very obvious devotion to prettiness without making you work too hard for it. The same is true of Four Tet to a lesser extent.

Resident Advisor's 00s albums poll put Booka Shade at #6, The Field at #29 and Isolee at #53, fwiw.

The real consensus dance album of the second half of the 00s hasn't appeared in this poll yet.

that would be Untrue

it would be either West Coast or Where You Go I Go Too, probably the latter

xpost re: untrue

yeah that might get a lot of ppl like me who don't ever follow dance...but dudes were making such a fuss about it i downloaded it and ended up liking it....

but i have zero frame of reference for whether it was really good or innovative compared to other stuff...i just ended up liking to listen to it

i'm pretty sure i voted for it

that would be Untrue

― Dan S, Tuesday, July 13, 2010 12:12 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

I concur. My bets lay on Untrue placing at #10.

if we narrow the definition of "dance album" to "album you can dance to" we're left with just booka shade, of these options

i mean did any of these other "dance" albums being mentioned give us an "in white rooms" AND a "mandarine girl" AND a "body language"?

There is no consensus as to the real consensus dance album of the second half of the 00s, clearly.

I thought Gui Boratto - I thought EVERYONE loved that - or Booka Shade . But Burial is prob what Matt DC meant, although it doesn't feel like/function as dance music to me.

I reckon Matt meant the Lindstrom album

Sound of Silver would be the consensus "dance" album, if it's considered dance.

Matt's post just prompted me to read that RA best of 00s for the first time. No Lindstrom at all there, strangely.

lindstrøm is ilm-consensus, burial general crit-consensus

(booka shade were some intersection of ilm consensus, dance crit consensus and actual populist club crossover consensus; isolée was dance/"experimental electronic music" crit consensus only; the field were pfork indie consensus (a pejorative).)

^^^ would agree with all this, actually

pan-genre crit consensus pick would be "Untrue", no contest

alright, starting this up in a few mins

i've said this before but i only enjoy the singles from HHNF -- not sure why that is tho

does "experimental electronic music" refer to the-genre-formerly-known-as-IDM

lex you are a smart guy but you basically become like the glam version of alex in NYC when you talk about any kind of rock music.

You say that like it's a bad thing. :::sniff::::

I think indie-approved dance is the successor to IDM, especially if we're talking about the likes of Four Tet and The Field

xpost

okay, the album coming up is tied with the #1 placing album for the most number of #1 votes

I assume my Alex Moulton pick isn't gonna place? :(

20. THE-DREAM Love/Hate (2007) [456.5 points, 17 votes, 4 first place votes]

http://www.popstarsplus.com/images/TheDreamLoveHateCover.jpg

xp yeah i was hoping for alex moulton on here but i think it was in the bottom half of my ballot so i barely did my part

oh yeah. there he is

LOVE that its full title is love me all summer, hate me all winter

also lol @ none of the terius fan club on ilm realising that for like a year and then not getting it when brainwasher referred to its full title - shows how many of us owned the actual cd

LOVE that its full title is love me all summer, hate me all winter

― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, July 13, 2010 12:47 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

yes it's too bad that they chopped this down

interesting that Love Vs. Money will apparently place higher, didn't really expect that (I prefer it, but voted for neither)

also lol @ none of the terius fan club on ilm realising that for like a year and then not getting it when brainwasher referred to its full title - shows how many of us owned the actual cd

― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, July 13, 2010 12:48 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

this was actually the name of the album when press about it was just coming out, but then they shortened it -- i for one own all three CDs!

I'm going to give Love/Hate another go, see if I like it more in light of the new one.

Yeah the consensus album I was talking about was Untrue, although I like most of the dance albums mentioned above loads more. West Coast is not dance music in any sense of the word.

i think LVM has always grabbed a wider swath of ppl on ilm even tho there was always a really monolithic and loud contingent of L/H disciples on the board

the first terius song i heard was "ditch that...", in rich four four's end-of-year mix of 4x4 house beats in r&b and hip-hop at the end of 07. it was one of the few i didn't recognise, and for a few weeks i genuinely assumed he was an amazing new deep-voiced dyke rapper. i STILL think that if missy elliott had any balls left by then she'd have done "ditch that..." as a comeback single.

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

okay, the album coming up is tied with the #1 placing album for the most number of #1 votes

― hoos gossage (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, July 13, 2010 9:43 AM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this means that erykah rightfully won, right?

I assume my Alex Moulton pick isn't gonna place? :(

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, July 13, 2010 9:45 AM Bookmark

i echo yr :(

19. LINDSTRØM Where You Go I Go Too (2008) [465 points, 24 votes]

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/12125-where-you-go-i-go-too.jpeg

GREAT ALBUM CHEERS OK

lex you are a smart guy but you basically become like the glam version of alex in NYC when you talk about any kind of rock music.

You say that like it's a bad thing. :::sniff::::

― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, July 13, 2010 4:41 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

aw alex! i didn't mean it like that....just you used to get all vitriol about pop stuff just like lex does about rock stuff is all

Yay Lindstrom! I loved the poll that asked what time of day ILMers enjoy listening to Lindstrom.

eh

Hoped this would be higher but good to see it anyway.

I'm totally torn as to this vs West Coast. On the one hand this doesn't have Out There or Indo on it, but on the other, it does flow like a motherfucker, and take you on a coherently awesome journey...

― Electric Universe (wherever that is) (acoleuthic), Sunday, 10 January 2010 01:17 (6 months ago)

what a turn of phrase this dude had