ILM Top 100 2005-2009: ALBUMS

beat tapes should be for rappers to listen to, and then rap over, imo

Applying this logic, I guess people everywhere should just superfluously add their own vocals to compositions by Mozart and Beethoven?

feel like I've posted enough about West Coast and Donuts on other threads tbh Alfred (both albums have threads dedicated to them)

lol alfred

Applying this logic, I guess people everywhere should just superfluously add their own vocals to compositions by Mozart and Beethoven?

you are smarter than this Mr. Cox

beat tapes should be for rappers to listen to, and then rap over, imo

^^^this. i do like a lot of (not all, no) the rap songs that have used donuts instrumentals

that will make at least three artists with two in the top twenty

― Dan S, Tuesday, July 13, 2010 11:10 AM Bookmark

terius, maya, ????

i love a ton of instrumental music but i can't really think of any hip-hop beat that i prize as a thing without vocals.

anyway you can listen to that dj marlboro/m.i.a. remix at we7 - http://www.we7.com/#/album/M-I-A/Bucky-Done-Gun-Single - and you should. as i said, banging.

feel like I've posted enough about West Coast and Donuts on other threads tbh Alfred (

I was complimenting you. You always me laugh out loud.

by the time I heard Donuts I recognized half the beats from other rap records - did not give a shit

xp

The only really good "instrumental hip-hop" record I've heard is still this one. I've nothing against Jay Dee, but it's quite rare rap beats work well without rapping.

(several x-posts)

xp to Shakey: I dunno, I get a lot of enjoyment out of beat albums/comps for what they are. I don't require a vocal element for everything. (Though, I'm far less a fan of Donuts than some people, but I do get into Prefuse, Rjd2, Onra, etc.)

12. THE XX xx (2009) [517.5 points, 27 votes, 1 first place vote]

http://bolsteryourholster.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/the-xx.jpg

For example, the instrumental Company Flow album is one of the most emotionless and boring records I've ever heard.

I don't know that I even agree that Donuts is a "beat tape." Tracks off it that I've heard rappers use (Ghostface and DOOM) don't really work for me as the beat behind a rapper, they work better as part of the album. I mean I can see why you wouldn't be interested in "instrumental versions of rock records" but are you also not interested in rock without any vocals in general?

xposts nevermind lol

good record, too high

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i was counting fever ray/knife as one artist

I'm saying nothing

i was wondering how high the xx would be. still got luv!

cad otm

love love love the xx album, was in my personal top 10

but i want to go alex in nyc on 27 people :)

The xx was someone's FAVORITE album of the last five years?

Sorry if that sounded judgy.

that's really high...I mean, I liked it, I voted for it, but still...

never got the xx, sounds contrived.

it got a lot of votes, guys

I know this is bullshit, but someone pointed out that one of their songs is super similar to Chris Isak's Wicked Games and that was all I ever bothered to find out about them.

I just don't get the xx. At least with Joanna there's something interesting going on even if you don't want to listen to it all the time. With the xx there's no there there. So boring.

xp yup, that is bullshit

I know this is bullshit, but someone pointed out that one of their songs is super similar to Chris Isak's Wicked Games and that was all I ever bothered to find out about them.

It's bullshit.

Wicked Game comparison is not untrue, but vastly overstated.

With the xx there's no there there. So boring.

otm

lol

ok, what song should I check out?

I found this a snooze at the time but every time a track comes on it's pleasant enough.

agree too high but that's what consensus is about
10 more votes than the mia album!

stick with wicked game

At least with Joanna there's something interesting going on

Joanna NEWSOM? I do beg to differ, sir.

way i figure, xx should be down in the 20s & 30s where most of the other albums I voted for are.

xxxp check out Crystallised and Islands, esp. the video for the latter one

re: Donuts it's the equivalent of priveleging the Pet Sounds Instrumental box set version over the actual album with vocals. Just... why?

West Coast I heard a couple years ago after the raving in the ILM thread and it just seemed very innocuous and inconspicuous to me. It's nice enough in the Eno aural wallpaper sense but nothing impressed me about the arrangements or playing or hooks or anything. it was like a competently designed but uninspiring piece of furniture, it just sits there.

thread moving too fast

xp

man if I'd voted you all would REALLY be htaing on XX placement

#1 album of the last half century?

the xx I've heard has been fine but not really engaging enough for me to want to hear the whole album. too chilly and goth-y or something. can just listen to the Young Marble Giants if I'm in that particular mood.

xx hate otm

just sounds like some crappy local band to me

man if I'd voted you all would REALLY be htaing on XX placement

― Fee Fie Fo, FUNFNFUINFLFF! (HI DERE), Tuesday, July 13, 2010 2:23 PM (33 seconds ago) Bookmark

Sounds threatening.

for sake of time will someone plz c&p entire xx thread here?

11. ELECTRIK RED How to Be a Lady: Volume 1 (2009) [532 points, 1 first place vote, 17 votes]

http://www.f2dcollection.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/electrikred2.jpg

okay lol

wow

never got into electrik red

too low? too high?