Was the "y'all" a clue? I didn't really mean for that. I just like using it online because I sound like an idiot when I say it out loud.
7. Britney Spears - Blackout (201 points, 15 votes, 3 number one votes)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c9/Blackout_-_Album.PNG
― musically, Friday, 7 March 2008 19:08 (sixteen years ago) link
8. Studio - West Coast (198 points, 13 votes, 5 number one votes)
THIS IS A VICTORY FOR SOMETHING OR OTHER.
I think West Coast works better as an album mostly because of the ordering, it feels complete already without the extra two tracks. Also Out There is just such an amazing opener.
So, hands up who else was surprised DJ Martian forgot about Britney?
― Matt DC, Friday, 7 March 2008 19:11 (sixteen years ago) link
you guys still listening to britney, huh?
― the next grozart, Friday, 7 March 2008 19:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Britney Spears - what is this celebrity pop nonsense !
― djmartian, Friday, 7 March 2008 19:42 (sixteen years ago) link
pop album of the year, fwiw
-- blueski, Monday, 26 November 2007 20:39 (3 months ago)
oh shut up
-- r|t|c, Monday, 26 November 2007 21:35 (3 months ago)
great days
― blueski, Friday, 7 March 2008 19:44 (sixteen years ago) link
great album but still maybe the worst cover of the decade
― blueski, Friday, 7 March 2008 19:45 (sixteen years ago) link
YOU try making an album cover with MS Paint.
― musically, Friday, 7 March 2008 19:47 (sixteen years ago) link
6. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (203 points, 17 votes)
http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/3153/gagagagagafv7ok9du9.jpg
― musically, Friday, 7 March 2008 20:30 (sixteen years ago) link
5 left:
Radiohead MIA Burial LCD Soundsystem Robyn or Battles ?
― djmartian, Friday, 7 March 2008 20:35 (sixteen years ago) link
The Field album is kind of magical for a few tracks and then my attention wanes.
yeah about half i'm totally enraptured, the other half its like "oh, is this still playing?"
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 7 March 2008 20:42 (sixteen years ago) link
hooray spoon, fuck the haters
money says battles xxp
are there more popists than math-rockists on ilm these days?
― djmartian, Friday, 7 March 2008 20:44 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm thinking enough people here championed the same Robyn album in years past that that's the one that didn't get many votes.
― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 7 March 2008 20:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Britney Spears? ILX irony has gone too far.
― Reatards Unite, Friday, 7 March 2008 20:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, Robyn probably showed up in the 2005 poll.
― jaymc, Friday, 7 March 2008 20:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Indeed.
― jaymc, Friday, 7 March 2008 20:58 (sixteen years ago) link
In fact, here's DJ Martian handicapping the top 20 of 2005:
first up the 10 most likely to show up in the top 20:
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois M.I.A. - Arular Kate Bush - Aerial Antony and the Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now Vitalic - Ok Cowboy Broadcast - Tender Buttons Bloc Party - Silent Alarm Animal Collective - Feels Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
the next 10 IS difficult to judge, so here are some candidates with comments:
Common - Be [Is rap still popular asks Geir?] Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene [Is this too generic indie rawk to show up in the top 20?] Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah [Have enough ILM types voted for Pitchfork approved Talking Heads karaoke?] Gorillaz - Demon Days [Does ILM like fun? OR NOT ] Isolée - Wearemonster [Have the dance types voted in enough numbers?] Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain [Where are the Noise dudes?] The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema [Canadian Indie on a zillion blog / webzine lists] Nine Horses - Snow Borne Sorrow [Will enough people vote this into the top 20?] Robyn - Robyn [A long thread on ILM suggests this is popular] Kanye West - Late Registration [Is rap still popular asks Geir?]
-- DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, January 16, 2006 2:04 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Link
― jaymc, Friday, 7 March 2008 21:02 (sixteen years ago) link
"Britney Spears? ILX irony has gone too far."
Totally agreed
― Bill Magill, Friday, 7 March 2008 21:06 (sixteen years ago) link
I still haven't gotten over that ridiculous Stars Of The Lid showing. You drone dorks need to get a life, stat! Am I right, people? I mean, please! And Britney freakin' Spears? What the hell is that? Y'all need to get your head out of your collective asses here.
And don't get me started on those idiots in Battles. Holy crap, I'd rather eat my ass out with a spoon than listen to that swill.
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 7 March 2008 21:08 (sixteen years ago) link
The Britney record might be too high, but it's actually a v. good record.
― jaymc, Friday, 7 March 2008 21:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Speak of the devil!
5. Battles - Mirrored (230 points, 17 votes, 3 number one votes) http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/5018/battlesmirroredsw9wh4.jpg
I'm not too sure what to say about a year in which the finest album was a descendant of the DNA of mid-90s math rock and post rock, of Helmet, and the late, lamented (but sadly reanimated) Don Caballero. I'll take it as a sign that the increasingly anything-goes environment for music is a blessing: somewhere along the way, Battles turned from a mildly-interesting bearer of the instrumental rock torch into an absolute revelation, and a lot of people took notice. Nowhere was this more apparent than at the band's explosive live shows--causally interested college students and young professional types turned out along with the typical indie-music fandom to watch four guys play some of the most impossibly intricate yet fun music they'd ever seen. As an album, Mirrored is a big, shiny, rush-inducing object, an exhilarating kick that never falls into pretension and never elevates any portion of its lockstep ensemble playing over the almighty beat. Watching Battles live, I was struck by how much work it is to create their songs--no one gets a second off as there are always more loops to be built, drums to be hit as hard as possible, 7-foot high cymbals to reach. It's work to listen to as well, and I like to think that the payoff for playing it must match the glorious highs of listening. -call all destroyer
― musically, Friday, 7 March 2008 21:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Radiohead at 4 then?
― Herman G. Neuname, Friday, 7 March 2008 21:16 (sixteen years ago) link
it's not irony you plebs
― blueski, Friday, 7 March 2008 21:16 (sixteen years ago) link
lol @ someone honestly responding to bill magill's opinion about music
― J0rdan S., Friday, 7 March 2008 21:18 (sixteen years ago) link
kornrulez6969, please enlighten us with 5 or 10 albums that should be in the top 50.
― djmartian, Friday, 7 March 2008 21:21 (sixteen years ago) link
causally interested college students and young professional types turned out along with the typical indie-music fandom
i thought this was the typical indie-music fandom?!
― Jordan, Friday, 7 March 2008 21:23 (sixteen years ago) link
lol for real
― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 7 March 2008 21:24 (sixteen years ago) link
"lol @ someone honestly responding to bill magill's opinion about music"
Man, you really toasted me there.
― Bill Magill, Friday, 7 March 2008 21:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Still processing kornrulez6969's comments about eating his ass out with a spoon....
― call all destroyer, Friday, 7 March 2008 21:28 (sixteen years ago) link
x-post yeah I mean they are all WITE PEOPLE but let's just say the audience at Battles was real, real different from the audience at Don Cab a couple years ago.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 7 March 2008 21:29 (sixteen years ago) link
re: Battles was real, real different from the audience at Don Cab a couple years ago.
- they read all read pitchfork now NOT magnet
― djmartian, Friday, 7 March 2008 21:30 (sixteen years ago) link
anyone got a link to the soundopinions poll results?
― abanana, Friday, 7 March 2008 21:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Hahahaha.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 7 March 2008 21:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Maybe I should've made it more of an age thing. Don Cab = 30+ beardos. BTTLS = 20+ girls, downtown professionals. Close to half the audience w/no indie signifiers whatsoever.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 7 March 2008 21:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Spears=30+ People mag reading houswives and 15+music dorks.
― Bill Magill, Friday, 7 March 2008 21:38 (sixteen years ago) link
lol @ dudes being shocked @ britney
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 7 March 2008 21:38 (sixteen years ago) link
"wait, you mean...people like POP MUSIC?! but it's so SUBSTANCELESS"
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 7 March 2008 21:39 (sixteen years ago) link
re: 20+ girls
just like this: http://suicidegirls.com/boards/The+Pictures/255757/
― djmartian, Friday, 7 March 2008 21:39 (sixteen years ago) link
bill magill= 50+ crusty dude who still wonders how a list of best albums could rank universally popular ones over niche metal
― J0rdan S., Friday, 7 March 2008 21:39 (sixteen years ago) link
30+, but you're on the right track
― Bill Magill, Friday, 7 March 2008 21:41 (sixteen years ago) link
15+music dorks.
Doesn't this describe pretty much everyone on this board?
― jaymc, Friday, 7 March 2008 21:45 (sixteen years ago) link
musically - hit my baby one more time - lets have number 4 - so the top 3 predictions can start, thanks
― djmartian, Friday, 7 March 2008 21:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Since you asked politely...
4. Burial - Untrue (269 points, 25 votes)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/64/BurialUntrue.jpg
― musically, Friday, 7 March 2008 21:47 (sixteen years ago) link
radiohead, mia, lcd
― Mark Clemente, Friday, 7 March 2008 21:48 (sixteen years ago) link
right dorks: rearrange these 3 in order of the ilm 2007 albums poll
LCD Soundsystem M.I.A Radiohead
― djmartian, Friday, 7 March 2008 21:50 (sixteen years ago) link
mia, radiohead, lcd
― Simon H., Friday, 7 March 2008 21:50 (sixteen years ago) link
LCD, Radiohead, M.I.A.
― jaymc, Friday, 7 March 2008 21:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Also, I just wanted to point out that ILM was sort of founded on liking Britney Spears: ILM Top 100 Records -- The Full List
Radiohead, MIA, LCD
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 7 March 2008 21:54 (sixteen years ago) link