ILM Top 100 2005-2009: ALBUMS

still love "Gold Digger" to death

this album seems to have his most coherent, least corny lyrics (aside from 1 or 2 808s tracks)

i've said this before -- it's not his best album, but it's his opus, it's the overblown and bloated and yet still totally awesome and idiosyncratic album that kanye was manifested to make -- a lot of the collaborations are inspired and it's still a great listen

actually I should get this

What is going to be top 10?

17. VAMPIRE WEEKEND Vampire Weekend (2008) [476.5 points, 21 votes]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/27/VampireWeekendCD2.jpg

I just got that VW album 2 weeks ago and it's kind of a downer when compared to Contra. It's still good but it would never have made my ballot.

Not Vampire Weekend, apparently.

xxp

"A-Punk" is a ton of fun tho

preemptive http://www.shacknews.com/extras/faylor/haters-gonna-hate.gif

VW >>> Contra

contra was so disappointing compared to the debut

they're both good but i like the more spare sound of the debut

they are better minimalists than maximalists

i think the final three songs on 'contra' is my fav stretch of VW songs, because it's actually an instance of a band building on an already great songwriting template and still feeling organic and not like a frustrated reach

the s/t is def better tho

contra the song does indeed kick ass.

Yeah I'm really not with y'all on this; maybe because I had no preconceived notions or really any idea of what a VW album should sound like because I'd only heard snippets of "A-Punk" in commercials before deciding to pick up Contra and "Horchata" took me completely by surprise.

ugh

The first six or seven Contra tracks: victory lap.
The last three = here's where we stretch and tease our audience with what we're doing next.

I'd take "Cousins" over every song on s/t and that's not even my favorite off of Contra

"horchata" is amazing as is "cousins" but only a few contra songs have stuck with me at all

ugh just realised those twats will have TWO albums clogging up the top 20

16. JUNIOR BOYS So This is Goodbye (2006) [478.5 points, 25 votes]

http://www.albumoftheyear.org/album/covers/so-this-is-goodbye.jpg

You just said yourself you've only had it for 2 weeks. Give it some time. There are plenty of outstanding songs on the s/t. xxxp

nah lex, their other album is 2010

My #1 album of 2006 back in the day. Great, great album. Haven't listened to it in quite a while, though.

love so this is goodbye - it gets negatively compared to the debut a lot but i think they're about on a par. "fm" and "the equalizer" are so gorgeous.

You just said yourself you've only had it for 2 weeks. Give it some time. There are plenty of outstanding songs on the s/t. xxxp

sure but my point was that Contra was an immediate hit for me; s/t was a pleasant listen that I wasn't particularly into

Yeah, STIG is so of its time. I'd walk into someone's apartment and it'd be on.

there's nothing as quite as taking as any of the first 4 tracks on vw tho, maybe "cousins" one-ups "a-punk" by doing the same rushed, upbeat style but with more sheer density, but that's about it

the only junior boys i've is their latest album, which i'm falling asleep just thinking about

huh never given the junior boys any thought. I like the sleeve art tho

nah "a punk" is way better -- "cousins" is kind of annoying and "a punk" has that awesome keyboard riff right before the chorus

junior boys was my #3 or 4 i think, so here come all my top picks i guess..?

I gave "Horchata" a failing grade last November, which I retracted when I heard how sparkling it sounded in sequence. Also: "Giving up the Gun" knocked me out faster than anything on the s/t.

I am 100% behind "Holiday", "Run" and "Taxi Cab"

"the equalizer" - the chorus is total heart-in-mouth moment

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

some great remixes emerged from this album too, thinking of tensnake's "fm" remix and carl craig's "like a child" remix

the third junior boys album is a total bore, so flat and DULL :(

i like some tracks on the third album, esp. "the animator"

I keep meaning to check out Junior Boys but I had the same reaction to Begone Dull Care as I had to Vampire Weekend, namely it's pleasant enough but I don't actually want to listen to it.

"giving up the gun" is a decent song (or at least a decent chorus in search of a decent song) but its polished chintz kinda negates everything that was interesting about them in the first place

this thread is hard to post on

if you started out with 'begone dull care' then you fucked up, the first 2 albums are both classix

it's pleasant enough but I don't actually want to listen to it.

this is exactly how i feel about contra

Contra is all about juxtaposition to me; it's them doing messy and orchestrated and glossy and raw and thick and thin in a really well-sequenced ebb and flow. S/T sounds like a bunch of cleaned-up demos that don't really have much to do with each other.

15. J DILLA Donuts (2006) [492 points, 22 votes, 1 first place vote]

http://www.kelvingumbs.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/02/donuts.jpg

Yay Dilla!!

Although I didn't vote for it, huge regret.

BOOOOOM

fuck the haterz, i love that album

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