ILM Top 100 2005-2009: ALBUMS

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.

i prefer yearbook 1 cuz 'radio edit' is my favorite studio song

Listened to Donuts the other day. I like the idea of it, and it's perfectly pleasant, but I have a hard time understanding how someone could love it. Except for "Workinonit," which is assuredly great. I guess I'd just rather listen to Prefuse 73 or RJD2.

Thought Studio would be top 10, or even top 5. If I had bothered to rank my votes, it would have been my #1.

xpost
I like the simplicity of Donuts compared to Prefuse or RJ who are a little more prog-y imo (I don't mean that as a pejorative).

never heard donuts or prefuse or any other "hip-hop beats" album--don't feel like i'm missing anything but i guess i could be?

13. M.I.A. Arular (2005) [517.5 points, 17 votes]

http://www.tubafrenzy.org/weblog/archives/MIA_Arular.jpg

aw, would have been sweet had that hit the top 10

even if I still don't really like "Bingo" or "10 Dollar"

tbh i've never really had any use for the beat tape subgenre at all

xp my #2! disappointed it's not in the top 10 and disappointed it's lower than fucking overrated-ass kala