ILM Top 100 2005-2009: ALBUMS

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I have been hitting F5 every few seconds for the last 12 hours waiting for this to pop up btw

Aw yeah

so, we have three ties on the schedule today

is everyone okay with this? or should i break the ties by putting the album with the most votes first, which is what i think musically did last year

i say go with the tie

Just looked at the list... those aren't really ties if one has a higher number of votes.

i think i have 1 album im sure will place. 2 or 3 that might and 1 i thought was sure would place until none of their tracks made the tracks poll and now im unsure.

? or should i break the ties

^^^^^^

Are you going to include little quotes or go blurbless?

I think we should have a poll for all this, send in your ballots by august 4

break the ties by using an octopus

http://www.squishable.com/mm5/graphics/00000001/octopus.jpg

okay, i'll break the ties, although there is one tie where both albums have the same amount of points/votes

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100. Kevin Federline - Playing with Fire (2007) [195.5 points, 7 votes, 1 first place vote]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bPxgT53qak

100. LIL WAYNE Tha Carter III (2008) [181 points, 8 votes]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c8/CarterIII.jpg

there is one tie where both albums have the same amount of points/votes

aka A REAL TIE ;)

Whaaaaaaaaaaaa!! Shit should be top ten. Ugh.

i demand a recount

ilxor, before I scrolled down and saw your name under the post, I seriously thought KF made it on the list and wanted to laugh at ilx forever

KF is top 10 for sure

actually i accidentally left all rap albums off my ballot so this is probably my fault

I should probably listen to that whole Lil Wayne album, huh? I've had it for two years and have only ever played "A Milli."

I would break ties by

a) total number of votes
b) highest-ranking vote

the way i break a tie in the eoy metal poll is by #1 votes and if it has none # of voters.

i havent really listened to carter3 since 08 but i still love "shoot me down" plus the singles

carter 3 was 9th in the yr end 08 poll btw

predicting a strong ADPY showing.

G has been roundly disowned by ILM obv

carter3 gets really lame at the end but 2/3 of it is straight fiyah.

APDYX

99. SPOON Gimme Fiction (2005) [181 points, 9 votes]
http://www.phawker.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/SpoonGimmeFiction.jpg

tha carter iii is a very strong album but i'd think most lil wayne votes would go to tha carter ii, right?

Nice one. Still one of Spoon's best albums, right alongside Girls Can Tell.

carter III is pretty good -- has a few true, true duds -- carter III was my #2 and drought & d2 are waaaayyy better

Spoons best albums = Telephone and A Series of Sneaks. Everything else ranges from "oh, alright" to "meh."

er, Telephono

i'd rank gimme fiction below kill the moonlight, girls can tell, and ga*5 in that order, but it's still got some killer songs on it

I listened to GAGAGAGAGAGA a bunch of times and liked it and yet just can't find it in me to care about ever listening to Spoon again or checking their other albums. Nice covers though.

i know i've said this before but the front of gimme fiction slays and then it gets deathly boring for 3 or 4 tracks toward the back.

telephono is ca ca ca ca ca

gagaga is by far my fav spoon album & the only one i voted for, but i love gimme fiction too

98. CAMERA OBSCURA Let's Get Out of This Country (2006) [183 points, 7 votes, 1 first place vote]
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8f/Lets_get_out_of_this_country.jpg

that album cover bothers me every time i see it, to the point where i've never even considered listening to the album

dumb, i know

p. good but would not make my top 100 for this period

That's the sort of album cover that tells me I'm not gonna like the music inside. Quite helpful!

I was an Erykah #1 btw. I still maintain that she made an album about me.

thanks a ton, JS and JF

Yes, thanks. After looking at the full album spread-sheet I was pretty struck by how much work was involved with this (not that it should have been a surprise considering how long the nominations list was).

How are you people seeing past #200?

NUMBER CRUNCHING:

albums whose only vote was a first place vote:

Tokyo Jihen - Adult
Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst
Charalambides - Likeness
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - in Glorious Times
Kathleen Edwards - Asking For Flowers
The Owls - Daughters and Suns
Actress - Hazyville

OH HI DERE ME

great great top 2

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

― Dan S, Tuesday, July 13, 2010 12:05 PM (8 hours ago) Bookmark

Did you vote? Untrue was also my #1, but the scorecard says 1 #1 vote. Hmm ...
Anyway, good to see it place so well.

!!! at that #1 ... I didn't even vote!

i knew ILM loved that album but i had no idea it was potentially #1 of the last five years. i'll have to give it another go sometime...

I'd call it the #1 of the last 10 years, really.

How are you people seeing past #200?

― Mister AOR (The Reverend), Tuesday, July 13, 2010 8:22 PM Bookmark

How are you people seeing past #200?

― Mister AOR (The Reverend), Tuesday, July 13, 2010 8:22 PM Bookmark

How are you people seeing past #200?

― Mister AOR (The Reverend), Tuesday, July 13, 2010 8:22 PM Bookmark

How are you people seeing past #200?

― Mister AOR (The Reverend), Tuesday, July 13, 2010 8:22 PM Bookmark

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AjL3wBlEALAGdEI2SERYS29WVUJaX1lGS2NWMXJnVWc&hl=en#gid=0

btw bigups for a top 5 where i like every album to some extent ^_______^

(NA >> SoS > 3 > Kala = SS)

xp right..... but I can only see the top 200 of that

weird, idk man

Whaaaa? Scroll down, it goes to 800 or so

Maybe you have some of that malware? I don't know. Are you trying to scroll too soon and making it freeze while it's loading? Somehow I don't think you would do that.

Everybody reboot your computer and reinstall ILX

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

― Dan S, Tuesday, July 13, 2010 12:05 PM (8 hours ago) Bookmark

Did you vote? Untrue was also my #1, but the scorecard says 1 #1 vote. Hmm ...
Anyway, good to see it place so well.

― untrue pitch, Wednesday, July 14, 2010 4:15 AM (37 minutes ago)

I did vote! maybe they counted one of our ballots as unranked. If they did, correct ranking would have put it only one spot higher, so I guess it's no big deal

The best part about "In Rainbows" is still how Radiohead managed to commit what starting at a person napping sounds like to tape.

Lol Portishead. Maybe Fatboy Slim's comeback album will be no. 2 on the 2010-2014 list.

a) Fatboy Slim never went away. He just released an album under a different name last year.
b) Portishead and Norman Cook are alike in what way?
c) Third is awesome. Eat a dick.

I will admit that Portishead has rather successfully bottled what being old and apparently infallible sounds like.

Norman Cook: DON'T CALL IT A COMEBACK

hope u die on the floor of the house of representatives

huh, it's only in Opera that there's a problem, if i open it in IE (u_u) the whole thing loads and i can now say i am disappointed in every last one of you for leaving The Foreign Exchange's Leave It All Behind. shame on you. shame.

ol' norm already released an album w/ david byrne this year. just getting warmed up.

chances of that album placing in ILM's 2010 poll? 1,000:1

Opera is weird. There are a lot of things I love about it, but ultimately it annoys me. I love the way it scrolls though, it's so smooth.

1. Thanks for doing this J0rdan.

2. ##101-200 v. interesting - kinda wish we'd done the countdown from 200 now

3. Pleased that 19 of my 25 nominees got votes.

http://www.albumoftheyear.org/album/covers/the-black-album.jpg

ugh RONG THREAD! scuse me

This thread motivated me to finally check out Studio's West Coast. I'd hear Yearbook 1 before and had WC on my long list for aaaages, but so glad this prompted me to finally giving it a go. Loving it!

I FUCKING LOVE THIS LIST BTW, KUDOS ILM.

also:

Yay Dilla!!

― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 18:46 (3 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^^^

Finally bought a proper copy of New Amerykah Pt. 1 this week and have played it like a million times again and it really is the best sound.

still pissed about donuts beating every rap album

are we doing this for 2010-14, we shd

We're not Pitchfork. We can at least wait till the year is over before we start thinking about something like this.

we should do it next summer

Though speaking of delayed polls, whatever happened to that Favorite Albums of All Time poll that was proposed?

It got cancelled in favour of that all time rock albums poll that ran a couple of months ago. It was a bit of a messy situation in the end.

are you referring to the classic rock tracks poll? i don't remember an "all time rock albums" poll. there's a thread for scheduling polls, anyhow.

ILM Ballot Polls for 2014 and beyond -- order, timing, "I would have voted if I'd known about it," etc

all time poll,mid decade poll , decade polls and so on have to be booked on that thread.

so it will be the year 2025 when they get to run
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izQB2-Kmiic

naw who gives a fuck about that thread we do the mid-decade poll midway through next year just like the last one in 2010

dont care i just wanted to post that vid as the punchline

We already have exceptions to the queue rule: EOY polls happen at the end of each year. If mid-decade polls are a thing that ILX "does", they should happen each year that's divisible by five imo.

and all time polls?

should happen at the end of all time

seems fair