You could have it so much better.....with the ILM albums of 2005

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I need to check out this Robyn album because I love that Annie record. Fastnbulbous says it's even better so I'm excited about that.

― BeeOK (boo radley), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 09:34 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm intrigued that there's been no arcade fire action yet.

most of jaymc's predictions are solid and dependable, i think.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 11:12 (eighteen years ago) link

also: there aren't enough goddamn fall fans voting on this bitch. the peel-sessions box-set was my #2 choice, for fuck's sake.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 11:14 (eighteen years ago) link

substitute Broadcast for Jamie Lidell in jaymc's list. otherwise, I agree with his predictions (tho' not the order necessarily)

― zebedee (zebedee), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 12:15 (eighteen years ago) link

ok so did no one else listen to the lil kim album this year?

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 13:20 (eighteen years ago) link

i find her too intimidating, what with all that sex n' all

Brooke Valentine album also slept on eh?

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 13:24 (eighteen years ago) link

That Girls Aloud cover is great, isn't it.

The Lex - in the rundown of the top 10 don't forget to post about how crap the chart is, and it must have been rigged by guitar-worshippin' american college dorks who should be listening to some new jack electropop. Don't forget now.

― Dr.C (Dr.C), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 13:31 (eighteen years ago) link

as if.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 13:32 (eighteen years ago) link

i'll save that for when some shit like sufjan stevens is no 1.

brooke album bizarrely slept on by the lady herself, did she bother even promoting 'girlfight' in any meaningful way?

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 13:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Thursday ! Talk about leaving us to stew !

my ILM top 10 predictions:

Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
M.I.A. - Arular
Animal Collective - Feels
LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
Kate Bush - Aerial
Vitalic - Ok Cowboy
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Isolée - Wearemonster
Broadcast - Tender Buttons
Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase

maybes or maybe NOT: will these be OUTSIDE the top 50 or will any sneak into the top 10?

The Arcade Fire [have enough Brits voted for it?]
Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Common - Be
Dälek - Absence
Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain
The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute
New Order - Waiting for the Sirens' Call
Nine Horses - Snow Borne Sorrow
Spoon - Gimme Fiction

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 13:47 (eighteen years ago) link

Who are Spoon? (And has anyone else in the UK ever heard of them?)

― Jamie, Tuesday, 17 January 2006 13:51 (eighteen years ago) link

(And should I have said 'Who is Spoon? That always bugs me. It just sounds so weird to talk about bands in the singular. But anyway.)

― Jamie, Tuesday, 17 January 2006 13:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Bands such as the Hold Steady and Spoon - are popular with North American indie rawk types that read magazines such as Magnet and Filter and The Big Takeover

in the UK they are NOT well known

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 13:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Spoon
http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/spoon

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 13:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Is the emphasis on the 'rawk' or the indie? They sound terrible. It's such a dreadful name for a band. Whereas the hold steady is a cool name. A little verb-noun grammatical shift, like The Make Up.

Bring on Isolee at number 1 anyway.

― Jamie, Tuesday, 17 January 2006 14:07 (eighteen years ago) link

that'll be just as bad! (i find 'wearemonster' one of the most over-rated albums of last year, but that is, of course, just me)

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 14:09 (eighteen years ago) link

Where has your top 100 got to, Steve?

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 14:15 (eighteen years ago) link

the spoon album is teh fucking ace.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 14:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Reading over this list, I'm now convinced that ILM is dominated by 14 year old British girls.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 15:14 (eighteen years ago) link

14-yr-old british girls >>>>> american indies

especially the ones in hackney

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 15:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Hackney, maaan. The street.

― Dr.C (Dr.C), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 15:30 (eighteen years ago) link

That'd be a dodgy sentence from anyone else!

― fandango (fandango), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 15:32 (eighteen years ago) link

glad to see Rachel Come And Get It made a good showing. didn't vote in the poll (wish I'd had time), but it's still my fave album -by far- of 2005.

― Paul (scifisoul), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 21:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Since it's official that Paul ScifiSoul has the best taste on ILM, can't we just get him to sub in his list of Top 100 albums instead???

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 21:20 (eighteen years ago) link

The Spoon album is blah. I love Spoon, it's just Gimme Fiction ain't that strong.
And at first I was going to complain that Girls Aloud and Rachel Stevens had both charted higher than they deserved, but then I remembered what they're up against... Weak indie tea, mostly.

― js (honestengine), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 21:36 (eighteen years ago) link

i don't think the Hackney gyals are into Rachel or Girls Aloud tho - and certainly not M.I.A. ha ha.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 21:40 (eighteen years ago) link

xxxxxxpost Grimly I voted the Fall Peel Sessions Box #2 also. It ain't gonna happen though. Fall Heads Roll is probably splitting the Fall vote....

[LET'S GO DIRTY PROJECTORS #1!)

― Dr. Gene Scott (shinybeast), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 22:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Gimme Fiction isn't as great as the previous Spoon album, but it's plenty strong, and it got at least one #1 vote in this poll.

― These Robust Cookies (Robust Cookies), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 22:39 (eighteen years ago) link

And another, uhh, #18 vote (hey, every little bit counts!).

― National Roffle Association (Paul in Santa Cruz), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 23:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Lex is right

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 23:05 (eighteen years ago) link

adam is wrong

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 23:38 (eighteen years ago) link

the shortwave set should be present. saw them yesterday at the opening night of their pawn shop residency at soho arts theatre. majestic!! otherwise only animal collective can probably save us from the tiresome bombast of arcade fire.

― edgar, Wednesday, 18 January 2006 01:41 (eighteen years ago) link

jed is right

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 01:50 (eighteen years ago) link

RJG is right.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 02:04 (eighteen years ago) link

It's all relative.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 02:09 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm not related.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 02:11 (eighteen years ago) link

glad to see Rachel Come And Get It made a good showing. didn't vote in the poll (wish I'd had time), but it's still my fave album -by far- of 2005.

It's my fave album too and I didn't vote for albums either. I wonder what difference would a couple of extra no. 1 votes have made.

― daavid (daavid), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 02:11 (eighteen years ago) link

will the delia and gavin record be in the top 10?

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 02:32 (eighteen years ago) link

no. all the hippies forgot to vote.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 02:35 (eighteen years ago) link

I voted for it! :)

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 04:13 (eighteen years ago) link

adam is wrong

I like the smog record!

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 04:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Tim, it's just a regular lovefest for us (& ThemCo) eh? but you wouldn't believe the amount of stuff I don't get to hear (e.g. since OSX upgrade nixed Nicotine: Brightside Thin White Duke...). best link I've had off recent stuff is Dannii Minogue's Girl, which is fantabulous - what've you Aussies got? oh yeah, same as UK: Brian Higgins...

seriously, from the Pascal Gabriel/Paul Statham (B-Movie!)/Hannah Robinson Rachel contributions (not forgetting Rob Davis (Mud!) + Jewels & Stone and Shelly Poole/Damian Legassick), feel like these are who I should be watching (+ bassline garage?). we know yer names, we know your old bands, we er... like you lots, watch out!

― Paul (scifisoul), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 05:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Daavid, good on ya! have you heard "Queen"? ("Negotiate" b-side and my fave from this album - makes a good ending bonus track cos it adds on to the meta-narrative of "So Good" et al)

― Paul (scifisoul), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 05:09 (eighteen years ago) link

Yes I've heard "Queen", and I quite like it. But I don't understand what you mean by it adds on to the meta-narrative of "So Good" et al.

― daavid (daavid), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 05:16 (eighteen years ago) link

to the Rachel thread then: Rachel Stevens - Come And Get It

― Paul (scifisoul), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 05:29 (eighteen years ago) link

ANNIEMAL at 46? you HAVE to be joking right? is that because we think of it as a 2994 release. the original back n forth about it was august/september '04. seriously that can't be right! i can barely recall a more fondly thought of long player on this board.

― piscesboy, Wednesday, 18 January 2006 15:43 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm not sure I would have voted for it in any case, but I considered it "ruled out" because it got so much attention in 2004.

― National Roffle Association (Paul in Santa Cruz), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 16:18 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah i class it as an '04 album and it's presence here means it's keeping something decent that emerged this year off!

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 16:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Anniemal was an Oct 2004 UK release but got rescheduled after the initial pressing. I did a big buy-in to Tower U.S. and for a while hipsters everywhere were searching for it to no avail (you'd have seen maybe 1 or 2 copies on GEMM going for $40-60), when every Tower in America had stock. take that indie coalition fuxors!

was also my fave album of 2004, but haven't gone back to it much and mostly think of those 4 main songs... so I'd prob put Junior Boys or somat else over it now (but then there is "Heartbeat"...).

― Paul (scifisoul), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 16:30 (eighteen years ago) link

ah sorry i see it was in the top 3 last year!

― piscesboy, Wednesday, 18 January 2006 16:43 (eighteen years ago) link

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