Get Naked (I Got A POLL): ILM's Top 100 ALBUMS Of The 00's

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98. Basement Jaxx - Rooty - 558 points - 10 votes - 0 FPVs

Glad this is out the way. This period of dance music turned me right off for a few years

Cool singles and all but I don't think it qualifies for a top 100 sub specie aeternitatis.

clearly ten people disagree enough

idk what sort of music basement jaxx even is after hearing several of their songs

I expected this to be top 10 tbh They were hugely popular here back in the day

To their credit it's all kinds of music, danceable being the lynchpin.

Wow at Kanye only just scraping into the top 100, his rep has really dropped off.

There's a few more Kanye albums to come, right?

Maybe, maybe not. How was 808 received on ILM?

I can’t say, but College Dropout won the EOY poll for 2004.

Streets were #2 that year and I don’t expect them to place.

808 rules but dropout was the only kanye i voted for

Yeah, I can't imagine many ILMers still listen to the stuff.

xp

Wild results so far! These could've passed for the top 3 prob in 2010

At least Mike Skinner taught me the British meaning of 'geezer' as early as 2002.

Huh, I must have listened to Rooty more than I remember, because some of these tracks are instantly familiar. 'Jus 1 Kiss' and 'Get Me Off' are great, and I voted for 'Where's Your Head At' in the tracks poll.

I voted for Person Pitch. That and Feels are fading for me but still like them very much.

Love the images, again.

re: Person Pitch, Mark Richardson has a nice image in his Pitchfork review about spinning samples in "wheels of sound that seem like they could go forever".

didn't vote for it, but I like Person Pitch a lot too. surprised to see it just barely make it onto this list

Great title imago!

I love all three of these albums.

Person Pitch is a very autumn album for me, too. Listened to it for the first time in ages this week.

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97. Spoon - Gimme Fiction - 560 points - 8 votes - 1 FPV

Good album, didn't vote for it.

Didn't vote for it but #97 seems about right. I wonder whether Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (my favourite) will place.

Wild results so far! These could've passed for the top 3 prob in 2010

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I think Kish Kash is the official ILM Jaxx album iirc. Things may have changed since the 00s, but I expect it place way ahead of Rooty.

i still really love kish kash

had "plug it in" been nominated for tracks it would've been my no. 1

I love all kinds of nothingy, MOR, identikit, tracky rock music from way back, and I still don't have a fucking clue what anybody hears in Spoon

Didn't vote for it but #97 seems about right. I wonder whether Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (my favourite) will place.

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Feel like every Spoon album from this 00s will place. Maybe Girls Can Tell is on the bubble.

Then again I was shocked at the dearth of Spoon in the tracks poll.

Wow, I felt bad I wasn't around for the tracks thread so I'm glad I think I'll be around for the albums results, so far so good! Didn't vote for any yet but I almost voted for #100.

pretty sure no one under 30 has ever listened to spoon

I never really clicked with Spoon, think I might try to re-listen.

Can't imagine many of us are under 30.

Person Pitch was in my top 5, easily my favourite Animal Collective-related record these days. Surprised at the low placing for College Dropout although it's not the Kanye album I voted for.

Much as I love Spoon I've never been able to get into Gimme Fiction.

xp oh totally which is why here is the only place i've ever seen people talking about them

final 10 minutes of College Dropout kinda a harbinger of things to come from him

Congrats Kanye on making it to the top 100!

I still have a lot of time for Rooty, but Kish Kash is the one. Those first three albums are still so much fun.

I haven't been in a Kanye mood in the last year or so. The last time I listened to The College Dropout before that, I did enjoy it a lot. I slightly prefer Late Registration and Graduation.

Imma let you finish

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96. Taylor Swift - Fearless - 561 points - 10 votes - 0 FPVs

great record, she's bested it several times over but fearless was my whole world in 2009

ILM gonna ILM I guess.

If ilm were ilmming, this would be #5.

Nah that's the 2010s poll.

Red would be a deserving winner of any 2010s poll

The Kanye album is admittedly so so much better than I was expecting. It's much more involved and full-sounding than his later stuff.

Red would be a deserving winner of any 2010s poll

Stuff like this makes me feel like the protagonist of Eugen Ionescu's Rhinoceros.

Yeah, I miss the days of his notoriety coming from his production rather than his weird ass eccentricities. xp

regrettably did not vote but amazing results so far

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95. Sufjan Stevens - Come on Feel The Illinoise - 561 points - 11 votes - 0 FPVs

Still waiting on Tuomas to run the Jazz tracks poll he promised to do when I ran the post war jazz albums poll.

I'd forgotten all about this, but sure, I can run such a poll, if there would be enough interest in it?

will it be an all-time tracks poll or just pre-war?

Kerr do you have a link to the jazz albums poll list?

Here we go Winston

JAZZ IS LIKE HEROIN TO ME ! ! ! ~~~~ ILM POST-1945 JAZZ ALBUMS POLL - THE RESULTS COUNTDOWN (now counting top 25!)

Thanks

will it be an all-time tracks poll or just pre-war?

All-time, I think... I don't think there's enough pre-war jazz enthusiasts here to run a poll just for them.

yeah, that's what I thought

We could address every concern raised in this discussion by beginning a thread for French Canadian country music, which I will happily bookmark.

Started with this post: Nous voilà enfin débarrassés de tous ces amateurs

I don't think I'd heard of The Wrens till now, let alone the album, and I was the corniest indie fuxx in 2003

the impression i've gotten is that it got a very good score from p4k at the time, which has kinda helped people discover it more long-term, but it was just before a good p4k review could really break a band on the sort of level that happened with say, arcade fire a year later

I think its stock also went up because after that album, all those who loved it started longing for more... Which still hasn't come, despite numerous announcements. Anticipation of a next album has mythologized The Meadowlands even more I think.

The new Loveless

In a way, yes.

it's a weirdly singular record, despite being fairly straight-forward indie rock in sound there's nothing else that feels much like it

Someone recommended it to me in the '00s, but it made no lasting impression, musically. Fairly or not it mostly lingered in my mind as That Amerindie Thing With The Uninspiring Typeface. (Though I now see that the sleeve design is more interesting beyond the front cover.)

The Wrens enjoyed a small, but hardcore, cult following in the 90s. Among it were a lot of people who ended up writing reviews at notable music outfits like Pitchfork. Because it had been so long since their last album, The Meadowlands became kind of like the Chinese Democracy of indie rock. Once it dropped, these folks did a lot to give it a big platform.

Damn, I totally missed until now that these polls took place at all! But for that, Barbara Morgenstern's Nichts Muss would have been nommed, gained a high vote and um I guess gone nowhere further.

If you would have been the only vote, it might have landed on this poll!

Top-3 might have been pushing it, but thanks for the link, fun idea!