ILM Top 100 2005-2009: ALBUMS

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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are there many donuts haterz?

well then

donuts is a cool listen, no idea how it made it this high tbh altho it makes sense since this list leans a bit beat heavy

it's a great album tho

dan: vw flows perfectly to me, and their budget ruined their sound

but the biggest problem with contra is that the songwriting went from really fucking great to just kinda who gives

I am thinking that there is some element of "which one did you hear first" at play here

the rev is totally wrong about contra

Anti-American Graffiti. Time: The Donut of the Heart. excellent

I think the songwriting on both VW and Contra is at a pretty comparable level, but something about the first album seems more "pssst, we're just some guys you know...listen to our songs" whereas Contra is more "PEOPLE OF THE WORLD WE MADE AN ALBUM FOR YOU!"

donuts is a legit surprise up here i think

there are great bits of melody even in songs like "run" which are in the template of their debut but aren't as good as stuff like "campus"

Are we still talking about VW?

Apparently!

donuts is fine to listen to, like, once i guess, but i'm not sure i could have mustered any lasting enthusiasm after even one play. but obviously a dead guy's beat tape must be better than any actual rappin-ass rap that got released in the past five years. i am actually surprised to see it here.

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

― Mister AOR (The Reverend), Tuesday, July 13, 2010 11:40 AM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

Lex is totally wrong about it too. The third album is not a bore at all. Really really good shit.

i mean, don't get me wrong, i don't hate contra at all, but i don't think i would have checked out more of their stuff if i had heard it first

xp no really, that's one of the most boring albums i have ever heard by anyone

i lean towards agreeing w/rev on donuts, which i heard at the time but can't remember much about

14. STUDIO West Coast (2007) [517 points, 23 votes, 2 first place votes]

http://www.inf000.com/images/inf002_small.jpg

Listened to that album for the first time yesterday and it renewed my faith in balearic.

donuts isn't a rap album, shouldn't be looked upon as such. same goes for the field which is a fuckin shoegaze album, guys, not techno.

xpost fuck yeah my #1

don't see how the field is not techno but ok

I love Donuts, though I'm not sure how to go about convincing someone it's not "boring" if they've already decided that. I don't know, it came along at a time when my interest in hiphop had started to seriously decline due mostly to no longer feeling able to listen to lyrics I found hateful. I guess it being a "dead guy's beat tape" is at least partially why I liked it. There's a lot of love for all kinds of music in it.

Donuts is utterly fantastic.

Studio I've played a few times, like it well enough, but never caught the ILM love fever.