ILM Top 100 2000-2004: ALBUMS

-- ())(())()()()(()(LASER)()()()LA(Z)E(R)()()()((L)()()(A)(S(E)R()()()) (j.dubz@RoffleStationZero), August 18th, 2004. (later)

You're right. I really wished someone would have followed up my "Things Will Never Be The Same" track nomination with a "Beaches and Canyons" album nomination but it never happened.

Points: 214
No. of votes: 12
No. of #1 votes: 0

Artist: THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS
Title: ELECTRIC VERSION
Label: Matador
Year: 2002

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Comments: On their second album, Vancouver?s the New Pornographers take a shot at redemption for the bad artists and their sickly moons. By exalting the shabby (?From Blown Speakers?), making the trivial awesome (?Miss Teen Wordpower?) and generally coming off like an underdog despite having put out one of the greatest debut albums (2000?s Mass Romantic) in Canadian history, they pull off a terrifically nerdy pop album in the tradition of the Cars? Candy-O.
Where their debut instantly made you a fan, with automatic-new-favourite-songs like ?Letter From An Occupant? and ?Wild Homes?, Electric Version isn?t so aggressively addictive. All the same elements are there, even reclusive Dan Bejar (who very rarely appears live the group), but they?re not presented as bombastically as they were before. The softer touch actually bodes well for the long-term enjoyment potential of Electric Version, because while the highs aren?t as exhilarating, the comedown afterwards isn?t as harsh.
Horace Mann

COMING UP ON I LOVE MUSIC'S TOP 100 ALBUMS 2000-2004...

More 90s altrock sell-outsheroes!

Mad Mancs, Beyond Quintegenaridome!

And...HIS favourites...

KEEP IT LOCKED!!!

I am glad that Jonny G takes his place among the electroacoustic greats!

You really are an infantile little brat, aren't you? Maybe you can find someone to buy you a life.

buuuuuuurn.

Radiohead, Belle and Sebastian, the Cure, the list goes on, really.

The countdown will resume tomorrow.

I think it likely that FITEs will arise from this list but it would be nice if they weren't bitter.

Do The New Pornographers still sound like The Wonderstuff?

btw, you must have put an awe-inspiring amount of work into researching the archives for intelligent comments and recommended tracks. Great work!

More like the dBs, I think, but I haven't heard a lot of the Wonderstuff.

Plus Junior Senior's album was total ephemeral pop thrill = people will remember it but only vaguelly = liek Tom said, low votes and lots.

Points: 218
No. of votes: 11
No. of #1 votes: 0

Artist: SONIC YOUTH
Title: SONIC NURSE
Label: Geffen
Year: 2004

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Comments: ...this thing's so BIG and the guitar's so FLUID and lovely and Thurston's lost a little of his more obnoxious hippy tendencies and Kim's following up on "Sympathy for the Strawberry" w/an even better version of allowing BEAUTY into her voice and songs w/"I Love You Golden Blue" and Steve's caught a dose of FUNK or something (that impression got pretty confirmed live in Ak, I've never found myself unable to refrain from semidancing at an Sy show before), this is just so so good. ONE LISTEN IN, however. Still, for a record a lot of people have called a "grower" (here at least, like I read anyone elses' reviews anyway), that's NOT A BAD THING. Hoohah. Andrew Thames