ILM Top 100 2005-2009: ALBUMS

my ballot, in descending order:

001 ERYKAH BADU, Nu Amerykah Pt 1: 4th World War
162 HIGH ON FIRE, Blessed Black Wings
005 MIA, Kala
034 GANG GANG DANCE, St. Dymphna
027 DIRTY PROJECTORS, Bitte Orca
121 EARTH, The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull
127 THE WHITE STRIPES, Get Behind Me Satan
023 OF MONTREAL, Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
148 THE FALL, Imperial Wax Solvent
170 NELLY FURTADO, Loose
012 THE XX, xx
157 BORIS, Pink
024 ANIMAL COLLECTIVE, Merriweather Post Pavilion
290 WITCH
221 MF DOOM, Born Like This
302 THE BREEDERS, Mountain Battles
120 ONEIDA, Rated O
073 VON SUDENFED, Traumatic Reflexxions
199 YO LA TENGO, I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass

still a lot of stuff i should prolley check out on this list...i'm slow about new stuff :/

put 'er on the post your ballot for the ILM Top 100 2005-2009: ALBUMS poll here thread, drugz

I haven't heard that Erykah album, is it like radically different from her 90s albums? Because I remember those being kinda nice, but a bit too smooth and coffee shoppish for my tastes, and I haven't really paid attention to her ever since.

I actually bought the Portishead album a couple of years ago, but I've only managed to listen to it once or twice. What I remember of it was that everything was so COLD COLD COLD, no variation or dynamics, no room to breath, just all-embracing ANGST. I guess it's sorta admirable as an artistic statement, but it's way too goth for me, I just can't bring myself to listen to that album all the way.

yes it is radically different

who all voted Erykah as #1???

(I got into Erykah in 2000 when one of my fraternity housemates put Mama's Gun on heavy rotation...just explaining how a corny indie fux0r like me could get into this so hardcore...)

One of my votes wasn't counted! It would have placed 762nd.

Maybe I should give it a try then... I like her as a singer, so if she's gotten over the coffee shop syndrome I might dig that album.

I really tried to love NU AMERYKAH, but it was ultimately an album I ended up admiring more than enjoying. Still, it was an album that I found compelling enough that its placement at the top of the poll pleases me, and I look forward to giving it another listen to see if it clicks this time.

Based on the old type of soul/r&b you mentioned often in the alt 70s poll, I think you would eat this album up! xp

johnny fever, where's my missing Yellow Magic Orchestra vote?!?!?!

;)

Yeah, I think I'll give it a listen. Those Youtube songs posted here are pretty cool.

IN YO ASS xp

:D

I love Mama's Gun...like every time I listen to it, I feel like Erykah is one of my best friends...

and every time I listen to Nu Amerykah pt. 1 I feel like one of my best friends got elected to Speaker of the House or something...

I love Mama's Gun...like every time I listen to it, I feel like Erykah is one of my best friends...

and every time I listen to Nu Amerykah pt. 1 I feel like one of my best friends got elected to Speaker of the House or something...

― please sb me (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, July 13, 2010 8:58 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

i love this way of putting it!

Hey lex, all recent email polls on ILX means you are the hivemind ;)

very entertaining! thx J0rdan & Johnny!

Thanks for all the votes and the comments in the threads, people! Meet us back here in five years for the next one!

thanks to both of you for running this! Hurrah for JF & JS!

nah i'm gonna do a first 7 months of the decade poll in august son

you'll have to take that fight to musically's door, son.

Thanks gents. Well done.

^^

As I mentioned in the other thread, surprised Be Your Own Pet didn't place in the top 100.

Also as mentioned, I was one of the Erykah #1 voters.

very happy with the top 3!

lex i probably would've voted for 'paris' also but i never vote in these things

I voted for ES, Volcano The Bear, AND Paavoharju. love u folks, too bad we ain't even close.

Thanks gents, great fun was had by me.

You guys rule for doing this.

yeah I still have a sort of 'Happy New Year's' buzz going on over here... :D

Most of the discussion didn't get personal and was often very edifying. Thanks, gents.

xp
I already feel empty and bitter

lol...pet albums that didn't make it sit hard like broken resolutions...

but at least there's bad champagne...!

I'm okay now!
actually, I do resolve to rank my ballot next time, as difficult as I find doing that

That is one awesomely lady-dominated top 10.

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

lol conor oberst

NUMBER CRUNCHING:

LOVE IT OR HATE IT AWARD: albums with multiple votes and an average ballot placement of 10th or better:

Drive-by Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark
Black Angels - Directions To See A Ghost
rachel unthank and the winterset - the bairns
girls aloud - chemistry
Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock and Roll
Ulver - Blood Inside
The Joy Formidable - A Balloon Called Moaning
Libertines, the - The Libertines
Outrageous Cherry - Our Love Will Change the World
A Place to Bury Strangers - s/t
Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now Youngster...
Menomena - Friend or Foe
Jay Reatard - Blood Visions
el perro del mar - love is not pop
Amadou & Mariam - Dimanche à Bamako
Taylor Swift - Fearless
Miguel “Anga” Diaz - Echu Mingua
Paris Hilton - Paris
Electrik Red - How To Be A Lady, Vol. 1
Demi Lovato - Don't Forget

NUMBER CRUNCHING:

AFTERTHOUGHT AWARD: albums with multiple votes and an average ballot placement worse than 30th:

patton oswalt - werewolves and lollipops
Laura Marling - Alas, I Cannot Swim
Jay Reatard - Watch Me Fall
Andrew Bird - Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs
Jamie Lidell - Multiply
Gudrun Gut - I Put a Record On
The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride
The Cure - 4:13 Dream
Nurse With Wound - The Surveillance Lounge
Fall Out Boy - Infinity on High
maxwell - blacksummersnight
Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
Six Organs of Admittance - School Of The Flower
dirty projectors - rise above
Hot Chip - Made in the Dark
fannypack - see you next tuesday
Alex Smoke - Incommunicado
The Books - Lost and Safe
Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends
The Rolling Stones - A Bigger Bang
Vex'd - Degenerate
Asobi Seksu - Citrus

That was a great list and an incredibly strong top twenty. Apart from Panda Bear and Vampire Weekend I really like or love all the others. I was hoping Portishead would take it but Erykah Badu is a very worthy winner.

Thanks to both of you of you for putting these lists together, which decade can we do next?

Tokyo Jihen - Adult

Nominated by someone other than me (the only person to vote for it). tipsy mothra, where were you?

ah, so close for No Shouts, No Calls, shame on me for not voting. Can we start again?

That is one awesomely lady-dominated top 10.

― Simon H., Tuesday, July 13, 2010 5:38 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Just did a quick count and if I'm not mistaken 39 of the 100 acts on the list have at least one woman as a member.

22 are comprised solely of women.

Which, while not gender parity is a strong showing, esp. given the context of our length conversation about gender race etc, and decade lists/canon on ILM circa P2K etc.

Not to get all "pat yrselves on the back, ilx", just sayin'

yeah no it's def worth mentioning

way 2 go guys

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Huh? What caused that?

lol windows

i'm gonna start posting images from "hoodfever.com" all over ILM if it's gonna keep deej out of threads