ILM Top 100 2005-2009: ALBUMS

lol - 1 first place vote obv

Like that Burial album a lot.

so I had a follow-up post that said:

(yes, blatant hyperbolic overstatement)

but it was xposted out of relevance and I figured that that portion of it would be obvious

thus concludes another episode of "assumptions HI DERE knows better than to make"

Yeah, Untrue is stellar.

true fact: googling for "panda bear person pitch" is how i found ilx

― hoos gossage (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, July 13, 2010 2:49 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this thread is really putting a strain on our friendship j0rdan, uncomfortable truths are coming out

haha i don't remember what i googled to initially find ilx but i think it popped up in a few indie-album-related google searches over the course of a year before i finally decided to check out if the rest of the forum was cool or not

wait really someone linked to the wikipedia article for song?

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― call all destroyer, Tuesday, July 13, 2010 2:50 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

HI DERE did this to me in a Radiohead thread longways back...I'll dig it up here in a minute...

i had no idea so many googlers stayed on ilx

also I found ILX by googling Pisces Iscariot...

(thinking about starting a thread where foax link to the threads where their first posts are...what do you all think?)

I've done it to several people, usually because they are arguing that having lyrics and a melody doesn't make a song a song. I don't remember the Radiohead argument, though.

xp I think there already is one.

actually i was into momus's music for a while around the time i started reading ilx, i bet it was him that i was searching for

oof, that must have been fun

also i got into rap for the first time within like 3 weeks of reading ilm regularly so you guys have some sort of tremendous power

people who vote for Knives Out in this poll are mental...Knives Out is one of Radiohead's best songs...I Might Be Wrong is not far behind...and Street Spirit is pretty damn great, too. I mean, what's more annoying than a Radiohead fan whining about whininess...?

for me, it's either Let Down or 2+2=5

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― Test Tube Teens from the Year 1754 (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, January 10, 2009 3:09 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^^awesome punchline, would lol again

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― Goodnight, Mr. Johnson. (country matters), Saturday, January 10, 2009 3:10 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Let Down = worst chorus ever
2+2=5 = climaxes too early

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― Test Tube Teens from the Year 1754 (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, January 10, 2009 3:23 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I'm not actually a great fan of "Let Down" either, but c'mon there's some real dross here (pretty much exclusively from the first two records), and it's not even the worst OKC representative here (that would be No Surprises).

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― Goodnight, Mr. Johnson. (country matters), Saturday, January 10, 2009 3:26 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark

4 posts later...

well...i haven't heard Pablo Honey...and No Surprises is pretty bad...but Let Down is about 100X more dreary Nowheresville than either Knives Out or I Might Be Wrong...I do like the diffuse, inebriated, out-of-focus jangle of the song (like being hammered at 6:30 in some dive bar where there are Xmas lights still up in April) but there's no escaping how completely it kills OK Computer just by being fourth in the tracklist...kills it worse than Fitter Happier, so bad that Climbing Up the Walls and Lucky can't redeem it...

2+2=5, though, is not a song...

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― Test Tube Teens from the Year 1754 (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, January 10, 2009 3:35 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark

OK Computer
# Title Length
1. "Airbag" 4:44
2. "Paranoid Android" 6:23
3. "Subterranean Homesick Alien" 4:27
4. "Exit Music (For a Film)" 4:24
5. "Let Down" 4:59
6. "Karma Police" 4:22
7. "Fitter Happier" 1:57
8. "Electioneering" 3:51
9. "Climbing Up the Walls" 4:45
10. "No Surprises" 3:49
11. "Lucky" 4:20
12. "The Tourist"

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― choke on my mess of a schlaporito (k3vin k.), Saturday, January 10, 2009 3:38 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/song

stop saying stupid shit plz

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― ^likes black girls (HI DERE), Saturday, January 10, 2009 3:39 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark

sorry for not editing out the sb/permalinks (and for pretty much laying a huge turd in the middle of this thread...)

Surprised Untrue is as high as it is - still like the album a great deal but it would be in the middle of my top 30 or whatever. (Again though, consensus. Seems like an album that a lot of people would probably rank mid-range.)

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

i'm so glad that we get dubstep/post-dubstep albums like ikonika and guido rather than burial in 2010. albums with some actual oomph to them as well as beauty. actually i really wonder how ikonika and guido will do in this year's EOY poll.

(itd be funny actually if In Rainbows was #9)

xp
I was really hoping the 5 Years of Hyperdub comp would show up in this poll.

In Rainbows wont win, it wont be top 5, so wouldn't be surprised if it was #9

i don't remember if i voted for burial but i enjoy the album, it sits in a nice midpoint between pretty and creepy

also it caused me to seek out other dubstep which i was suprised to find sounds nothing like it, it's more of an ambient record almost

i voted for the hyperdub comp! IT MAY YET!

nah i guess comps are never gonna get much love in these, though i voted for three that seemed "right" (hyperdub, run the road, hyphy hitz).

xps

i love the downcast euphoria of the burial album. was my #1

this thread is really putting a strain on our friendship j0rdan, uncomfortable truths are coming out

― some dude, Tuesday, July 13, 2010 2:53 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark

kind of lol but mostly sad

alright sorry for the delay i was making lunch

i'm so glad that we get dubstep/post-dubstep albums like ikonika and guido rather than burial in 2010.

Well at no point in time have we gotten dupstep albums "like" Burial except for Burial's own. He wasn't part of a trend and he didn't start a trend, even among Hyperdub colleagues. Which is partly why his albums are great / classics / top 10 on any random list.

8. RADIOHEAD In Rainbows (2007) [600 points, 27 votes]

http://funfm.ro/sitefiles/image/200905/Radiohead-In-Rainbows-421972_large.jpg

dire, airless document of a band painting themselves into a corner

LOL at me thinking we were still on 10

album has one good song, can't remember which one it is

reckoner

I like it a lot, but didn't vote for it.

I like the one about the decay of modern society.

I think it's my favorite radiohead album

fuck radiohead and their entire dreadful career for real

so much hate

"All I Need" was actually my #1 on my tracks ballot, but I really don't have a lot of time for this album as a whole.

I'm sad The Bug isn't going to place now.

Weird Fishes

it really is a massive indictment of the critical establishment that radiohead are as lauded as they are.

Weird. Fishes.

actually i kind of like 15 step also...

those are some weird motherfuckin fishes

fishes?

Although I don't care for the album, its tour was the best show of theirs I've seen; they were actually a lot of fun.

yeah weirdly (I've said this about a bazillion times) the individual songs on it are great but altogether as an album it verges on Pablo Honey levels of don't-give-a-shit for me

Only 7 more before it's all over. ;_;

yeah HI DERE otm...

Easily the Radiohead album I'm most likely to listen to these days.