I think Chutes Too Narrow is fantastic and has aged very well
― Dan S, Sunday, 27 October 2019 00:52 (four years ago) link
(also The Meadowlands)
― Dan S, Sunday, 27 October 2019 00:55 (four years ago) link
Not a revelation but have been thinking about the difference between "music of the 00s" and "music I listened to in the 00s". It's the first decade where I was consuming music, as it came out, all the way through - all but 3-4 of the albums I voted for, I heard at the time. But what were the 00s for me? Lots of reissues (Shuggie Otis, Arthur Russell, Analog Africa), stuff on blogs, a deep dive into soul and disco and the beginning of my Christmas music obsession. Very little of which ties into the "new" music I voted for.
― britain's secret sauce (seandalai), Sunday, 27 October 2019 01:01 (four years ago) link
I bought the wrens album around the time it was released and enjoyed it I guess but if I would have made a top 10 in 2003 I doubt it would have made it. But over the years I kept coming back to this album, listening to it every once in a while. This album had a surprising amount of depth. It was only while making my ballot that I realized that this is one of the best albums of the 00s.
― silverfish, Sunday, 27 October 2019 01:28 (four years ago) link
imago THE MIDNIGHT ORGAN FIGHT is Lido for people who didn't go to public school, Vital and Important at hazy non-specific hours of this morn
― Jonathan Hellion Mumble, Sunday, 27 October 2019 01:34 (four years ago) link
We've done albums/tracks for the 00s, 80s, 70s (albums twice for the 70s, once and again with all the albums that placed the first time being ineligible for the second time) and tracks for the 50s. Did we attempt the 90s? Dare we attempt the 60s?
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 27 October 2019 05:41 (four years ago) link
90s has been done:
THE 1990s POLL RESULTS - THE ALBUMSLadies and gentlemen....the 1990s ILX SINGLES POLL RESULTS
and there was a second 90s poll run by imago with the original placing albums excluded and unusual ballot rules that lead to uh interesting results (the top 2 were a shiina ringo album and the space jam soundtrack, both with a single vote)
FREEFORM 1990's ALTERNATIVE ALBUM POLL - THE RECKONING (TOP TEN COUNTING DOWN NOW)
― ufo, Sunday, 27 October 2019 06:14 (four years ago) link
I'm pretty sure the 1960s have been done too? I seem to remember voting in such a poll?
― Tuomas, Sunday, 27 October 2019 06:17 (four years ago) link
oh yeah here are those
Better late than never. ILX 60'S POLL PART TWO - THE ALBUMSILX 60'S POLL PART ONE - THE SONGS
― ufo, Sunday, 27 October 2019 06:23 (four years ago) link
It would be great to poll the 10-19 decade immediately as it closes, then again in 2029. Not having polled 00-09 in January 2010 was a missed opportunity.
― Una Palooka Dronka (hardcore dilettante), Sunday, 27 October 2019 06:30 (four years ago) link
Thanks voodoo chili, did you notice that another favourite of yours nearly placed at #2 in the rollout?― tangenttangent, Saturday, 26 October 2019 13:26 (yesterday) link
― tangenttangent, Saturday, 26 October 2019 13:26 (yesterday) link
Haha yes, my old fav broken bears.
― thicc elizabeth (voodoo chili), Sunday, 27 October 2019 06:40 (four years ago) link
That album cover is brilliant, makes me want to start an 00s tribute band with that name
― thicc elizabeth (voodoo chili), Sunday, 27 October 2019 06:41 (four years ago) link
the 10s poll would be ideal june-ish next year which would be just enough time after the usual year end polls
― ufo, Sunday, 27 October 2019 06:44 (four years ago) link
Broadcast are my number one discovery from this, so thanks to everyone who voted for them. I'd heard Third years ago but forgot how good it was so I guess that's a rediscovery for me. A solid choice for number one I'd say (and better than bloody Radiohead)
― paolo, Sunday, 27 October 2019 07:58 (four years ago) link
I think another 90s poll with regular rules would be interesting, didn't realize it was 15 years since the first time. Partially because I can't even remember if I voted the first time. But yeah, 10s poll first
― Vinnie, Sunday, 27 October 2019 10:10 (four years ago) link
1920s / 1930s / 1940s ? Tracks not albums of course
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 27 October 2019 10:15 (four years ago) link
The ILX List of Lists most of the polls are here, all the other decade polls are pretty old now. the most recent are the second 70s and 90s albums polls (2010) and the 80s albums poll (2009)
― ufo, Sunday, 27 October 2019 10:23 (four years ago) link
stirmonster and i were supposed to be doing the equivalent of the 70s/80s rock polls for the 60s and were going to finish with the 90s version but we never got to it as he was too busy
― Vote (with a bullet) (Oor Neechy), Sunday, 27 October 2019 12:58 (four years ago) link
(no, seriously, I obviously mean the seven who had their breakthroughs in the nineties...)Avalanches released more good records in the ‘90s than the ‘00s tbh
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Sunday, 27 October 2019 13:08 (four years ago) link
Not having polled 00-09 in January 2010 was a missed opportunity.
― Tuomas, Sunday, 27 October 2019 14:54 (four years ago) link
Those old polls are so primitive. 60s albums only had 265 nominees.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 27 October 2019 15:35 (four years ago) link
We are slaves to the Gregorian calendar. A 1955-1964 poll always made more sense to me than a 60s poll.
― Jeff W, Sunday, 27 October 2019 15:50 (four years ago) link
I like that idea.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 27 October 2019 15:55 (four years ago) link
I found my vote for the first 80s poll deep in my gmail (which I probably had just signed up for). I don't remember how the nominations process went but I suspect there was a lot missing, given many of my long-time favorites are absent from my ballot and I voted for a few albums I still haven't heard but like one or two singles on
― Vinnie, Sunday, 27 October 2019 15:57 (four years ago) link
Still waiting on Tuomas to run the Jazz tracks poll he promised to do when I ran the post war jazz albums poll.
If he definitely doesn't want to do it I might be up for it in spring or summer if there's still interest in it
― Vote (with a bullet) (Oor Neechy), Sunday, 27 October 2019 15:57 (four years ago) link
Tuomas should do it though
― Vote (with a bullet) (Oor Neechy), Sunday, 27 October 2019 16:02 (four years ago) link
55-64 would be cool. What would the splits after that be to end up in 1999?
― Una Palooka Dronka (hardcore dilettante), Sunday, 27 October 2019 17:34 (four years ago) link
55-64 was an amazing era for jazz albums
― Vote (with a bullet) (Oor Neechy), Sunday, 27 October 2019 17:45 (four years ago) link
I'd forgotten all about this, but sure, I can run such a poll, if there would be enough interest in it?
― Tuomas, Sunday, 27 October 2019 18:10 (four years ago) link
will it be an all-time tracks poll or just pre-war?
― Vote (with a bullet) (Oor Neechy), Sunday, 27 October 2019 19:04 (four years ago) link
Kerr do you have a link to the jazz albums poll list?
― a hoy hoy, Sunday, 27 October 2019 20:35 (four years ago) link
Here we go Winston
JAZZ IS LIKE HEROIN TO ME ! ! ! ~~~~ ILM POST-1945 JAZZ ALBUMS POLL - THE RESULTS COUNTDOWN (now counting top 25!)
― Vote (with a bullet) (Oor Neechy), Sunday, 27 October 2019 20:41 (four years ago) link
Thanks
― a hoy hoy, Sunday, 27 October 2019 21:13 (four years ago) link
All-time, I think... I don't think there's enough pre-war jazz enthusiasts here to run a poll just for them.
― Tuomas, Monday, 28 October 2019 10:34 (four years ago) link
yeah, that's what I thought
― Vote (with a bullet) (Oor Neechy), Monday, 28 October 2019 14:00 (four years ago) link
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
― No language just sound (Sund4r), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 03:28 (four years ago) link
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
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 10:58 (four years ago) link
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
― ufo, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 11:02 (four years ago) link
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.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 11:06 (four years ago) link
The new Loveless
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 11:12 (four years ago) link
In a way, yes.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 11:19 (four years ago) link
it's a weirdly singular record, despite being fairly straight-forward indie rock in sound there's nothing else that feels much like it
― ufo, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 11:31 (four years ago) link
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.)
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 11:46 (four years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 11:57 (four years ago) link
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.
― anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 10:43 (four years ago) link
If you would have been the only vote, it might have landed on this poll!
― octobeard, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 22:28 (four years ago) link
Top-3 might have been pushing it, but thanks for the link, fun idea!
― anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 22:55 (four years ago) link