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

It was up there on the 2000-2004 poll -- top ten, IIRC. People definitely haven't forgotten about them but the "Campfire Headphase" hype really deflated after the album's release.

If you listened to The Campfire Headphase you'd know why!

so are #376 and #309, I noticed

cos y know making people happy with yr unthreatening melodic niceness is so much less important than oh whatever. fuck the kids at woollies aye?

anyway. here's the list of an ageing indie kid and synthpop fan who's a sucker for anthemic rock.

ALBUMS
1. M83: Before The Dawn Heals Us (20 points)
2. The Fall: The Complete Peel Sessions (19)
3. Arcade Fire: Funeral (18)
4. Meshuggah: Catch 33 (17)
5. Malcolm Middleton: Into The Woods (16)
6. Boom Bip: Blue Eyed In The Red Room (15)
7. Depeche Mode: Playing The Angel (14)
8. Pelican: The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw (13)
9. Electrelane: Axes (12)
10. Spoon: Gimme Fiction (11)
11. Hood: Outside Closer (10)
12. Lali Puna: I Thought I Was Over That (9)
13. Goldfrapp: Supernature (8)
14. The Wedding Present: Take Fountain (7)
15. Low: The Great Destroyer (6)
16. UpCDownCLeftCRightCABC+Start: And The Battle Is Won (5)
17. Isolee: WeAreMonster (4)
18. Stars: Set Yourself On Fire (3)
19. Antony and the Johnsons: I Am A Bird Now (2)
20. Sigur Ros: Takk (1)

SONGS
1. M83: Lower Your Eyelids To Die With The Sun (20)
2. M83: Don't Save Me From The Flames (Superpitcher Remix) (19)
3. Arcade Fire: Rebellion (Lies) (18)
4. U2: Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own (17)
5. Malcolm Middleton: Choir (16)
6. Lali Puna: Micronomic (Boom Bip Remix) (15)
7. UpCDownCLeftCRightCABC+Start: Comfort Me, I've Lost My Heart (14)
8. Low: Pissing (13)
9. M83: A Guitar And A Heart (12)
10. Goldfrapp: Number One (11)
11. Stars: Ageless Beauty (10)
12. Matt Sweeney and Bonnie "Prince" Billy: Beast For Thee (9)
13. New Order: Waiting For The Sirens' Call (8)
14. Moby: Love Should (7)
15. Gang Of Four: Natural's Not In It (Ladytron Remodel) (6)
16. New Order: Temptation (Secret Machines Remix) (5)
17. Bloc Party: The Pioneers (M83 Remix) (4)
18. New Order: Krafty (3)
19. The Wedding Present: Interstate 5 (2)
20. Depeche Mode: Precious (1)

For the record, although I didn't poll:

1. Broadcast - 'Tender Buttons'
2. Animal Collective - 'Feels'
3. Deerhoof - 'The Runners Four'
4. Arcade Fire - 'Funeral'
5. Lightning Bolt - 'Hypermagic Mountain'
6. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - 'Worn Copy'
7. Xiu Xiu - 'La Foret'
8. Electrelane - 'Axes'
9. Art Brut - 'Bang Bang Rock & Roll'
10. Danger Doom - 'The Mouse & The Mask'
11. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! - 's/t'
12. OOIOO - 'Green & Gold'
13. Architecture In Helsinki - 'In Case We Die'
14. Oneida - 'The Wedding'
15. Bell Orchestre - 'Recording A Tape The Colour Of The Light'
16. Four Tet - 'Everything Ecstatic'
17. Sam Prekop - 'Who's Your New Professor?'
18. Colleen - 'The Golden Morning Breaks'
19. Black Dice - 'Broken Ear Record'
20. Part Chimp - 'I Am Come'

No one else voted for this??? C'mon people!

My number one is 86 so my list actually didn't mean that much afterall, as it should be. haha

This is v different from one of the discs I have of his (on Durian) - its ok, but its the kind of thing that I find quite common for composers coming out of central europe.

Yeah - Mannie got robbed. Even if he did come out last year.

256 Dead Machines - The Future Embrace 16 1 0

162 Billy Corgan - The Future 23 2 0

but great job overall man

Does that mean s.f.a. should have been in top 50?

No, they had less points than #50 and 51.

I am astounded that New Order finished so low! And nobody else loved Mount Sims! Ah well ... my vote.

1. Richard Hawley - Coles Corner
2. Books - Lost and Safe
3. Mount Sims - Wild Light
4. Pernice Brothers - Discover A Lovlier You
5. The Clientele - Strange Geometry
6. Kate Bush - Aerial
7. Manual - Azure Vista
8. Holly Golightly - Slowly But Surely
9. New Order - Waiting For The Sirens' Call
10. Broadcast - Tender Buttons
11. Ween - Shinola
12. Josh Rouse - Nashville
13. Dungen - Ta Det Lungt
14. Matt Pond PA - Several Arrows Later
15. M83 - Before The Dawn Heals Us
16. Great Lake Swimmers - Bodies And Minds
17. Maximo Park - A Certain Trigger
18. Solvent - Apples + Synthesizers
19. The National - Alligator
20. The Music Lovers - The Words We Say Before We Sleep

and, more importantly, what game was the upcdowncleftcrightcabc+start cheat from?!