ILM Top 100 2000-2004: ALBUMS

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Drums!

― Drums!, Tuesday, 24 August 2004 13:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm glad I wasn't the only person who put the first Le Tigre album as their first choice - it was that or Supreme Clientele but I figure the latter will get in the top 20 without my help. I figure.

"Who are you people?" - I dunno, my first post was a fair while ago but I've not posted that often before, so well done neurotic s for capturing my imagination.

I really like that Justin and Le Tigre are back to back.

― Flyboy (Flyboy), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 13:33 (twenty-one years ago)

No. 31

Points: 440
No. of votes: 19
No. of #1 votes: 5

Artist: THE FIERY FURNACES
Title: GALLOWSBIRD BARK
Label: Rough Trade
Year: 2003

http://base58.com/ilx/ilm/top100/20002004/albums/gallowsbirdbark.jpg

Comments: n/a (anybody?)

Recommended tracks: Crystal Clear, Tropical Iceland, Inca Rag/Name Game

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

5 number 1 votes for #31? the top 20 is going to be really intense...

― peter smith (plsmith), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I still don't think I've heard any Justin Timberlake. I must live under a rock.

― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I bet you that that Fiery Furnaces album will be greatest number of #1 votes per total votes.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

surely lifter puller?

― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Is there another Lifter Puller album on the way?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Primal Scream hahahahah ... as for the "hip-hop" comment, omg, allow me some poetic liscence people ... obv. I gave XTRMNTR the #1 vote, so rekognize, hataz!

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

How can there be no comments about Endless Summer? There's got to be something we can dig up ...

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)

trawling the archives is the worst part of this whole thing, i did try, it really slows things down though.

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

youre done for the day, right steve?

― peter smith (plsmith), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

and i mean - i could write a little something about endless summer...

― peter smith (plsmith), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I did nominate Nixon but Gallowsbird's Bark is by far my favourite album to appear here so far.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)

No. 30

Points: 465
No. of votes: 19
No. of #1 votes: 5

Artist: SLEATER-KINNEY
Title: ONE BEAT
Label: Kill Rock Stars
Year: 2002

http://base58.com/ilx/ilm/top100/20002004/albums/onebeat.jpg

Comments: One Beat was the first Sleater-Kinney album that really grabbed me by the cajones right off the bat, and it led me back to their other albums, which I gained new appreciation for. I still think this one is their best and it easily repels all boarders.Gear!

Recommended tracks: One Beat, Sympathy, O2, Step Aside

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

holy god

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

its not the beach(boys)-y album cover or even the buried quasi-melodies that make endless summer a warm album. theres a sense to christian fennesz's music of real struggle and work, culminating in these great noisy albums that maintain some sort of humanity. nothing is over-controlled, nothing is lifeless. sometimes, experimental electronic music lacks a heartbeat. sometimes, this is clearly the intention. not so, here. endless summer is alive, beyond all of the hackneyed praise for its vaunted beach concept.

― peter smith (plsmith), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

That's a really ugly cover, like a sprouting experiment gone wrong.

― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

cheers pete!

i think that's all for today

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

willing commentators, gmail me asap , the next lot is tough

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

lemme know if you want something, i will channel some vh1 bs for ya.

― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Good one Pete ... surprisingly, I couldn't find hardly anything in the archives either.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

mailed you steve, re. comments

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

LPs I voted for that have made it thus far: Emma Bunton, Ghostface, Cornelius, Ladytron, Cann Ox and, yes, XTRMNTR.

― Jeff W (zebedee), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Fugazi - The Argument
the PFM review mentions The Kinks and EL-fucking-O, which makes me feel warm and fuzzy: Fugazi get even more tuneful. pisses off the hardcore maybe, but when Guy sings "i'm on a mission to never agree / here comes the argument" damned if I don't try my hardest to forget what's been learned me about separation of music and state

― comme personne (common_person), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't get me ten bucks then

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry, is that in response to what I wrote?

― comme personne (common_person), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

that made no sense to me

― artdamages (artdamages), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't get me ten bucks then

I can't believe you were as close as you were, honestly.

XTRMNTR is one of the best albums of the decade no question. The real atrocity here is fucking Lambchop landing higher.

― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Bill and Gear made a bet about the placing of that Fugazi album on another thread.

XTRMNTR : the silent majority speaks up! :)

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

If only Bobby Gillespie would join the silent majority.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry, that $10 bet was over Sleater-Kinney ... not Fugazi.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

If only Bobby Gillespie would join the silent majority.

Yes!!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

i wonder for how many seconds of Xtrmntr is Bobby audible

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

i think that's my next project sorted

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Jesus, you're a sucker for punishment.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

It was a one-sided bet, though. Gear doesn't owe me anything.

― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm incredibly cheap which goes without saying.

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think Jess lika da S-K

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

'Nothin' Else' is not a lowpoint on Justified.

― billstevejim, Tuesday, 24 August 2004 18:44 (twenty-one years ago)

XTRMNTR is great. The real crime here is an early Fiery Furnaces record over 'Justified'. I mean, is there a street team on here or something? I haven't even heard of that record (though I will check it out). And Sleater Kinney? Are you serious? We're people just filling out their ballots with records they'd heard of??

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

people thought it was the '90s one cos you'd think that'd come first

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think I could listen to even half of XTRMNTR without putting on something else. Overblown, awful mess.

― Bimble (bimble), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

S-K was my #1 pick and I'm not about to not choose it for reasons that exist in other peoples' heads.

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I would've picked 'Keep Your Dreams' as a personal fave off XTRMNTR...it's their best 'ballad', tho Bobby's not particularly interesting on it

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Such fun ... I am so glad I nominated XTRMNTR!

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

*tries to judge what Spencer's actual level of surprise is*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)

For the Sleater Kinney record? I *am* surprised. I'd guess that it's a decent enough record (perhaps even very good), but I don't recall very much ILM discussion about it (apart from seeing them as ancillary to Greil Marcus threads).

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Spencer might have a point -- Tom's big Best of 2002 poll, I think I was one of two people who voted big for One Beat (though I might be thinking of a different album).

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 21:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I was thinking that about Fugazi's Argument as well. The original ILM thread about it in 2001 has about 10 posts. (maybe 3 of which actually praise the album.) (fwiw fugazi was one of my favorite bands in the mid 90's.) (and yes, obv ILM 2001 =/= nu-nu-post-indie guilt-ILM '04.

― bnw (bnw), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 21:30 (twenty-one years ago)

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