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90 new answers and only 2 lists have the 50 cent album in them???

― minna (minna), Monday, 5 January 2004 03:37 (twenty years ago) link

He'll probably do better in people's singles lists.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 5 January 2004 03:40 (twenty years ago) link

50 Cent is so overrated that it defies all semblance of logic.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 5 January 2004 03:42 (twenty years ago) link

i was wondering about the total lack of love for 50 too. is it cause the album came out so early in the year or do people really not rate it?

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 5 January 2004 03:43 (twenty years ago) link

1. Katatonia - Viva Emptiness - Peaceville (15 points)
2. Opeth - Damnation - Koch (14 points)
3. Gaby Kerpal - Carnabailito - Nonesuch (13 points)
4. Groovski - Groovski - Groovski (12 points)
5. Virgin Black - Elegant...and dying - The End (11 points)
6. El Gran Silencio - Super Riddim International Vol.1 - EMI Latin (9 points)
7. Wonwons - Original Punk Super Stars - Public Eyesore (8 points)
8. Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highway - Jetset (7 points)
9. Ulver - 1993-2003:1st decade in the machines - Jester (6 points)
10. Amon Amarth - Virsus The World - Metal Blade (5 points)

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 5 January 2004 03:52 (twenty years ago) link

Katatonia

I really need to finally hear these guys.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 5 January 2004 03:52 (twenty years ago) link

shit, i spelled "versus" wrong. oh well. yeah, you do ned. but i already told you that and i ain't telling you again.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 5 January 2004 03:57 (twenty years ago) link

Wah!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 5 January 2004 03:58 (twenty years ago) link

See, this is why I suggested a long time ago that 50 Cent really wasn't going to do that well (i.e., Top 10) on P&J.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 5 January 2004 04:14 (twenty years ago) link

who could make it through an entire 50 Cent album?

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 5 January 2004 04:19 (twenty years ago) link

Actually, my original sentiment (from way back in June) was 50 Cent only goes Top 10 if the Outkast album totally bombs. And obv. that didn't happen.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 5 January 2004 04:21 (twenty years ago) link

Argh! I left Coloma off my Village Voice poll! Which looked like this:

1. Luomo - The Present Lover
2. Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash
3. V/A: Michael Mayer - Fabric 13
4. Dizzee Rascal - Boy in da Corner
5. Ward 21 - U Know How We Roll
6. Sugababes - Three
7. Junior Senior - D-D-Don't Stop the Beat
8. Mis-Teeq - Eye Candy
9. V/A: Jammer - N.A.S.T.Y. Mix
10. The Rapture - Echoes

... but mentally replace The Rapture with Coloma. Also what I've heard of Bubba would put it in there if I had the whole thing.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 5 January 2004 04:29 (twenty years ago) link

yeah, you know, you really didn't need 50 at all if you were listening to bubba, outkast, david banner, yin yang twinz, youngbloodz, etc, etc. the south ruled the school. too bad nelly didn't sing in da club, i might have liked it.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 5 January 2004 04:32 (twenty years ago) link

1. A.R.E. Weapons - A.R.E. Weapons - Rough Trade (10 points)
2. A Frames - 2 - S-S (10 points)
3. Justin Timberlake - Justified - Jive (10 points)
4. Matthew Dear - Leave Luck to Heaven - Ghostly (10 points)
5. Strokes - Room on Fire - RCA (10 points)
6. Rapture - Echoes - DFA/Strummer/Universal (10 points)
7. Bubba Sparxxx - Deliverance - BeatClub/Interscope (10 points)
8. Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash - Astralwerks (10 points)
9. FannyPack - So Stylistic - Tommy Boy (10 points)
10. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell - Interscope (10 points)

1. A.R.E. Weapons - "Don't Be Scared" - Rough Trade
2. Beyonce - "Crazy in Love" - Columbia
3. Matthew Dear - "Dog Days" - Ghostly
4. Chevelle - "Send the Pain Below" - Epic
5. R Kelly - "Ignition (Remix)" - Jive
6. Killer Mike - "A.D.I.D.A.S." - Epic
7. Wayne Wonder - "No Letting Go" - Atlantic
8. Dizzee Rascal - "I Luv U" - XL
9. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Maps" - Interscope
10. Cold - "Stupid Girl" - Geffen

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 5 January 2004 05:13 (twenty years ago) link

. YOU ALL LOVED AVRIL LAVIGNE [X] MONTHS BACK; WHAT HAPPENED???

― Ian Johnson (orion), Monday, 5 January 2004 05:22 (twenty years ago) link

1. Pluramon: Dreams Top Rock (Karaoke Kalk)
2. Sogar: Apikal.Blend (12k)
3. The Books: The Lemon of Pink (Tomlab)
4. The Clientele: Violet Hour (Merge)
5. Animal Collective: Here Comes the Indian
6. Manitoba: Up In Flames (Leaf)
7. Alejandra & Aeron: Bousha Blue Blazes (Lucky Kitchen)
8. Califone: Quicksand/Cradlesnakes
9. Fennesz: Live in Japan (Headz)
10. So: So (Thrill Jockey)

― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 5 January 2004 05:22 (twenty years ago) link

Avril Lavigne's album was 2002. Some of her singles might get voted on this year; I might put "I'm With You" on my top 60 of 2003.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 5 January 2004 05:27 (twenty years ago) link

"i'm with you" would easily be in my top 25. "sk8r boi" would have been in my top 20 last year.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 5 January 2004 05:31 (twenty years ago) link

da unbreakables, s. carter collection mixtape, choppin em up 8, philadelphia freeway, ego war, assholes by nature, my last underground, mississippi, juve the great, college dropout, alexisonfire, god's son, the final chapter 2k3.

― cloverlandthug, Monday, 5 January 2004 05:50 (twenty years ago) link

1. Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash - Astralwerks (15 points)
2. Dizzee Rascal - Boy in da Corner - XL (15 points)
3. Michael Mayer - Fabric 13 - Fabric (15 points)
4. Fiery Furnaces - Gallowsbird's Bark - Rough Trade (12 points)
5. Animal Collective - Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished/Danse
Manatee (reissue) - Fatcat (9 points)
6. Rapture - Echoes - DFA/Universal (8 points)
7. Ricardo Villalobos - Alcachofa - Playhouse (8 points)
8. Diamanda Galas - La Serpenta Canta - Mute (8 points)
9. Bubba Sparxxx - Deliverance - Beat Club/Interscope (5 points)
10. Barbara Morgenstern - Nichts Muss - Monika (5 points)

― geeta (geeta), Monday, 5 January 2004 09:00 (twenty years ago) link

Oh bollocks I forgot Ward 21.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 5 January 2004 12:02 (twenty years ago) link

01 Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Hearts of Oak
02 Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
03 Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in People
04 Drive-By Truckers - Decoration Day
05 Viktor Vaughn - Vaudeville Villain
06 Dizzee Rascal - Boy in Da Corner
07 Songs: Ohia - Magnolia Electric Co
08 Cafe Tacuba - Cuatros Caminos
09 David Banner - Mississippi: The Album
10 Shelby Lynne - Identity Crisis

― Josh Love (screamapillar), Monday, 5 January 2004 13:08 (twenty years ago) link

P&J:

1. Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash - Astralwerks (25 points)
2. Dizzee Rascal - Boy in Da Corner - XL (15 points)
3. Michael Mayer - Fabric 13 - Fabric (15 points)
4. Soundmurderer - Wired for Sound - Violent Turd (8 points)
5. Clientele - The Violet Hour - Merge (8 points)
6. Rapture - Echoes - Strummer/Universal (7 points)
7. Darkness - Permission to Land - Atlantic (7 points)
8. Ted Leo/Pharmacists - Hearts of Oak - Lookout (5 points)
9. Strokes - Room on Fire - RCA (5 points)
10. Broadcast - Haha Sound - Warp (5 points)

hm: junior senior, bubba sparxxx, coloma, goldfrapp, tobias thomas, sean paul, girls aloud, yyys, libertines, luomo, george, sufjan stevens, richard x, tatu, saturday looks good to me, fiery furnaces, david banner, freeway, m83, enduser, villalobos.

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Monday, 5 January 2004 15:10 (twenty years ago) link

1. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
2. 1 Mile North - Minor Shadows
3. Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash
4. Cat Power - You Are Free
5. Enduser - 15 Tracks
6. Blood Brothers - Burn Piano Island, Burn
7. Fog - Ether Teeth
8. Dizzee Rascal - Boy in Da Corner
9. Rapture - Echoes
10. Strokes - Room on Fire
11. Arab Strap - Monday at the Hug and Pint
12. Bubba Sparxx - Deliverance
13. Books - The Lemon of Pink
14. Mu - Afro Finger and Gel
15. Broadcast - Haha Sound
16. Constantines - Shine a Light
17. Sole - Selling Live Water
18. So - So
19. TV on the Radio - Young Liars
20. Xiu Xiu - A Promise
21. Kills - Keep on Your Mean Side
22. Manitoba - Up in Flames
23. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in People
24. Angels of Light - Everything Is Good Here / Please Come Home
25. Eluvium - Lambent Material

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Monday, 5 January 2004 16:21 (twenty years ago) link

1. British Sea Power - The Decline Of British Sea Power
2. Stellastarr* - Stellastarr*
3. Dizzee Rascal - Boy In da Corner
4. The Mars Volta - De-Loused In The Comatorium
5. Snow Patrol - Final Straw
6. Radiohead - Hail To The Thief
7. Hot Hot Heat - Make Up The Breakdown
8. The Rapture - Echoes
9. Zwan - Mary Star Of The Sea
10. Tom McRae - Just Like Blood
11. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell
12. Pretty Girls Make Graves - The New Romance
13. The Strokes - Room On Fire
14. Deftones - Deftones
15. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People

― Chris Jones (Crackity Jones), Monday, 5 January 2004 21:36 (twenty years ago) link

ok let's see

6. damien jurado - 'where shall you find me?'
3. barbara morgenstern - 'nichts muss'
5. ricardo villalobos - 'alcahofa'
1. david sylvian - 'blemish'
4. nasty crew - deuce cover-mount cd
2. bubba sparxxx - 'deliverance'
9. m. ward - 'the transfiguration of st. vincent'
7. melt banana - 'cell-scape'
8. tara jane o'neill - 'tko'
10. m83 - 'dead cities, red seas & lost souls'

― dav¡d (Cozen), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 00:10 (twenty years ago) link

screw that order: alasdair roberts - 'farewell, sorrow'; michael mayer - 'peel session'.

― dav¡d (Cozen), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 00:11 (twenty years ago) link

As here, mostly...

20. Jolie Holland - Catalpa
19. Manitoba - Up in Flames
18. The Dears - No Cities Left
17. The Weekend - Teaser + Bonus Level
16. Nina Nastasia - Run to Ruin
15. Damien Jurado - Where Shall You Take Me?
14. Elbow - Cast of Thousands
13. Sufjan Stevens - Michigan
12. Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic
11. Okkervil River - Down the River of Golden Dreams
10. Four Tet - Rounds
09. Postal Service - Give Up
08. Josh Rouse - 1972
07. The Clientele - The Violet Hour
06. The Long Winters - When I Pretend to Fall
05. The Books - The Lemon of Pink
04. OutKast - The Love Below/Speakerboxxx
03. Songs:Ohia - Magnolia Electric Co (with demos)
02. The Microphones - Mt Eerie
01. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People

Should be in there but I can't be bothered at this point: MF Doom's King Geedorah and Sun Kil Moon's Ghosts of the Great Highway.

― Sean M (Sean M), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 00:28 (twenty years ago) link

1. Drive-By Truckers - Decoration Day
2. Janet Bean & Concertina Wire - Dragging Wonder Lake
3. Saturday Looks Good to Me - All Our Summer Songs
4. Exploading Hearts - Guitar Romantic
5. Sufjan Stevens - Greetings From Michigan
6. Andrew Bird - Weather Systems
7. Emmylou Harris - Stumble Into Grace
8. Hidden Camaras - Smell of Our Own
9. My Morning Jacket - It Moves
10. Super Furry Animals - Phantom Power
11. Handsome Family - Singing Bones
12. The Thermals - More Parts per Million
13. Jolie Holland - Catalpa
14. Songs: Ohia - Magnolia Electric Co.
15. Twilight Singers - Blackberry Belle

― Catherine (Catherine), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 03:41 (twenty years ago) link

1. Matthew Dear - Leave Luck to Heaven - Spectral Sound (17 points)
2. David Sylvian - Blemish - Samadhi Sound (15 points)
3. Jay-Z - The Black Album - Roc-a-Fella (12 points)
4. Monolake - Momentum - Monolake (11 points)
5. Villalobos - Alcachofa - Playhouse (10 points)
6. Dizzee Rascal - Boy in da Corner - XL (9 points)
7. Broadcast - Haha Sound - Warp (8 points)
8. Lawrence - The Absence of Blight - Dial (7 points)
9. Kelis - Tasty - Star Trak (6 points)
10. Andrés - Andrés - Mahogani (5 points)

― Andy K (Andy K), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 17:12 (twenty years ago) link

why do I never get a paz and jopp thing? I wrote about music last year, and my choices would be outlying points of difference, it's not fair :(

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 18:06 (twenty years ago) link

jel's picks should just BE the pazz and jop top 10, end of story! :)

My 10s (subject to revision, blah blah):

1. kevin blechdom – Bitches Without Britches
2. Villalobos - Alcachofa
3. Jay-Z – The Black Album
4. The Black Eyed Peas – Elephunk
5. The Darkness – Permission To Land
6. LFO – Sheath
7. Throwing Muses – Throwing Muses
8. Rachel Stevens – Funky Dory
9. 50 Cent – Get Rich or Die Tryin’
10. Bubba Sparxxx – Deliverance

Reissues / archive compilations
1. V/A – Pop à Paris, Vols. 1-5 (Universal France)
2. V/A – Mutant Disco (Ze)
3. Motorbass – Pansoul + EPs (Labels/Virgin France)
4. Elton John – “Are You Ready For Love?” [CD single] (Southern Fried)
5. Donna Summer – Bad Girls [deluxe edition] (Mercury)
6. Neil Young – On The Beach (Reprise)
7. Yes – Close To The Edge (Rhino)
8. V/A – The Ranking Miss P presents ‘Sweet Harmony’ (Trojan / Sanctuary)
9. Diana Ross – Diana [deluxe edition] (Motown)
10. V/A – Sampled 4 (Virgin)

New compilations & mix CDs
1. Michael Mayer – Fabric 13
2. Miss Kittin – Radio Caroline, Vol. One
3. V/A – Wanna Buy A Craprak?
4. The Herbaliser – Solid Steel presents ‘Herbal Blend’
5. Tiga – DJ Kicks
6. V/A – Sign: Greensleeves Rhythm Album #42
7. Errol Alkan – One Louder
8. Swayzak – Fabric 11
9. V/A - !K7 150 (+ !K7 150 mix by DJs Are Not Rockstars)
10. DFA – Dance to the Underground

― Jeff W (zebedee), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 18:11 (twenty years ago) link

add this to my list oh yes: animal collective - 'spirit they've vanished...'/'danse manatee'

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 19:04 (twenty years ago) link

oh and this one too: russian futurists - 'let's get ready to crumble' (i know it's an awful title).

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 19:27 (twenty years ago) link

somebody should use this thread to calculate an ILM-consensus Top 10 albums list.

Bubba Sparxxx- deliverance
girls aloud- sound of the underground
Mary J Blige- Love And Life
basement jaxx- kish kash

mary j's was nice.

― lid, Wednesday, 7 January 2004 19:54 (twenty years ago) link

four weeks pass...

2003:

1. Japanther Dump The Body In Rikki Lake Menlo Park
2. Blues Goblins ST Off & Blues Goblins As Is Thee Quasi Imprint
3. Maher Shalal Hash Baz Blues Du Jour Geographic
4. Neil Michael Hagerty The Howling Hex Drag City
5. Life Partners S/T Twisted Village
6. Neung Phak 1 Abduction
7. Mammal Double Nature SNSE
8. Celesteville Mamlo Tape Mountain
9. Mindflayer Take Your Skin Off Bulb
10. Beans Tomorrow Right Now Warp
11.. Jad Fair & Bill Wells Whale friends and relatives
12. Tyondai Braxton and Parts & Labor Rise, Rise, Rise Narnack
13. the mirrors 13 patient flowers Fleece
14. Wrangler Brutes S/T Wrangler Brutes Records
15. The Grey Tapes S/T 555
16. The Speaking Canaries Get Out Alive: The Last Type Story Scat
17. James Koulvasi Gweeee!!!! Silly Bird
18. Why? Oaklandazulasylum Anticon
19. Karl Hendricks Trio The Jerks win Again Merge
20. Campfire Songs S/T Catsup Plate

― jack cole (jackcole), Friday, 6 February 2004 02:01 (twenty years ago) link

1. Dizzie Rascal - Boy In Da Corner
2. Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash
3. Prefuse 73 - One Word Extinguisher
4. Various Artists - Ghana Soundz
5. Four Tet - Rounds
6. Michael Mayer - Fabric 13
7. Belle & Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
8. Led Zeppelin - How The West Was Won
9. Missy Elliot - This is not a Test
10. Kraftwerk - Tour de France Soundtracks

― tipustiger, Saturday, 14 February 2004 21:00 (twenty years ago) link

1.Alexander Kowalski - Response
2.Bangkok Impact - Traveller
3.Ott - Blumenkraft
4.Laidback Luke - Windmill Skills
5.Ellen Allien - Berlinette
6.Soundmurderer - Wired For Sound
7.Midi Miliz - Passages
8.Legowelt - Classics 1998-2003
9.Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner
10.V/A - Powerslaves: An Electro Tribute To Iron Maiden

(excluding any Metal - haven't made my mind up yet)

― Siegbran (eofor), Saturday, 14 February 2004 22:10 (twenty years ago) link

The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow

― 7368, Saturday, 14 February 2004 23:12 (twenty years ago) link

chester beatty - shot of love
jan jelinek - la nouvelle pauvrete
50 cent - get rich or die trying
basement jaxx - kish kash
justin timberlake - justified
rapture - echoes
dopplereffekt - linear accelerator
mu - afro finger and gel
deerhoof - apple o
sunroof - cloudz

jacques lu cont - fabric 09
david guetta - fuck me i'm famous
gus gus - mixed live at sirkus
motorbass - pansoul reissue
jackie-o motherfucker - wow/magick fire music 2cd

i listened to youngsbower's "relayer" more than anything else above this year but it's actually late 2002 i guess.

― vahid (vahid), Saturday, 14 February 2004 23:44 (twenty years ago) link

i suppose i could've listed dizzee rascal, jay-z, lfo and mutant disco but i had a bad habit of listening to only 2 or 3 songs several times in a row and then taking it off. i think i forgot andres' s/t on mahogani, too.

― vahid (vahid), Saturday, 14 February 2004 23:50 (twenty years ago) link

one month passes...

1. Bardo Pond - On the Ellipse
2. Mirah/Ginger & Friends - Songs From the Black Mountain Music Project
3. Mira Calix - Skimskitta
4. Pretty Girls Make Graves - New Romance
5. kaito - band red
6. M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
7. Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place
8. Kinski - Airs Above Your Station
9. Alizée - Mes Courants Electriques
10. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell

― O.Leee.B. (Leee), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 07:13 (twenty years ago) link

five months pass...

super furry animals?! are you kidding me? who's going to even think of that when naming good albums that were released in 03? nobody. nobody even talks about it now.

lightning bolt on the other hand should be number one. or anybody that's actually DOING SOMETIHNG.

rock music gets so boring sometimes.

― seahorse genius (seahorse genius), Thursday, 23 September 2004 23:37 (nineteen years ago) link

it's not an official poll dude

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 23 September 2004 23:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Apparently the sister of the bassist or drummer or something of lightning bolt goes to my school. That's the rumor.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Thursday, 23 September 2004 23:51 (nineteen years ago) link

three months pass...

To the posthumous Sun Ra solo piano CD that was my favorite of 2003 (in 2003, but probably still my favorite now), I would add:

Cooper-Moore/Assif Tsahar: America
John Fahey: Red Cross
William Parker: Scrapbook
Matthew Shipp: Equilibrium
Wadi el-Safi: Netrik Sahran
Rahim AlHaj: Iraqi Music in a Time of War

― RS LaRue (rockist_scientist), Friday, 31 December 2004 19:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Also: Various: Lost Classics of Salsa, reissues of very rare tracks from the 70s.

― RS LaRue (rockist_scientist), Friday, 31 December 2004 19:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Man. There were some pretty silly lists up there. Makes me feel a little bit better about the direction that ILM has gone.

― Atnevon (Atnevon), Saturday, 1 January 2005 20:03 (nineteen years ago) link

eight years pass...

geir likes outkast?

― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Friday, 1 February 2013 13:55 (eleven years ago) link

yes he always used them as his exception to the rule.

― dog latin, Friday, 1 February 2013 14:26 (eleven years ago) link

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