ILM Top 100 2000-2004: ALBUMS

Points: 573
No. of votes: 32
No. of #1 votes: 1

Artist: MISSY ELLIOTT
Title: MISS E...SO ADDICTIVE
Label: Elektra
Year: 2000

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So Addictive is the first Missy album I really can love as a whole. The others somehow dind't work for me as a whole. Hard to explain why. Nothing else to add than Classic and i'll second Glitch-hop, it's the fututre of rock 'n roll you know. Omar

Recommeded tracks: Get Ur Freak On, One Minute Man, Lick Shots, Step Off

Two words: Jesus ballads.

Points: 679
No. of votes: 29
No. of #1 votes: 1

Artist: BELLE & SEBASTIAN
Title: DEAR CATASTROPHE WAITRESS
Label: Rough Trade
Year: 2003

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Indie sucks in 2004, and it’s all about the money. Too much money spent on rent-an-addiction frontmen, vintage tee-shirts, and overly coiffeured bedhead. Belle and Sebastian, on the other hand, consist of a chorister, a fat girl, and some other members who all look like Games Workshop employees. In a time and age where their peers are topping album charts and selling out arenas with The Jam and Stooges vulturisms, B&S take their cues on “Dear Catastrophe Waitress” from Thin Lizzy and Sir Cliff Richard. Whilst the rest of the indiegentsia are sucking from Zane Lowe’s teat, B&S speak with eagerness about how much Radio 2 got behind “Wrapped Up In Books”. Whilst Starsailor and The Vines expected you to care that they’d dug Phil Spector up from his tomb, B&S employed Trevor Horn, who’d just come off the back of getting Russian jailbait popsters to cover The Smiths. The topics of this album include: a homage to Robin Askwith movies interspersed with anti-Thatcher commentary, gay baseball stars, ex-girlfriends preferring their clothes to you, single people should praise God more, drag queens, and “Stay Loose”, which the entire history of popular music down to The Police and Squeeze, and when it hits you realise that that’s all there really is. They have a song called “Roy Walker”. Whatever the future of rock and roll is, you can be sure that Belle and Sebastian sound absolutely nothing like it. Dom Passantino

Recommeded tracks: I'm A Cuckoo, Dear Catastrophe Waitress, Stay Loose, Wrapped Up In Books

Points: 681
No. of votes: 24
No. of #1 votes: 2

Artist: BOREDOMS
Title: VISION CREATION NEWSUN
Label: Birdman
Year: 2001

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Vision Creation Newsun offers what it's title suggests: it creates a universe of its own, inviting the listener to step inside and enjoy the view on this spaced-out trip along its infinite borders and into its billowing core. Willem

Recommended tracks: 1, 3, 7, 9

Points: 682
No. of votes: 31
No. of #1 votes: 2

Artist: WILCO
Title: YANKEE HOTEL FOXTROT
Label: WEA
Year: 2002

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All right, let's get it out of the way. This album is not a
masterpiece. And it's not nearly as avant-garde as the record-label-got-scared hype would have you believe. But it's still Wilco's best record, because for the first time they managed to break out of the boring Midwestern songs-to-drink-microbrews-to formula, which never once did it for me. (Okay, once: I liked the twangy "Box Full of Letters," from "A.M.") Above all, "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" knows how to use space and breath, with songs that start all open-skied and lonely and devolve into ramshackle pots-and-pans percussion (courtesy of new drummer Glenn Kotche) and shortwave static. But it's also got great tunes, from the plaintive violin-and-whiskey-tinged "Jesus, Etc." to the jangly, upbeat "Heavy Metal Drummer." It may not be canon-worthy just yet, but I'd say it's a winner. jaymc

Recommended tracks: Jesus Etc., Heavy Metal Drummer, I Am Trying To Break Your Heart, Pot Kettle Black

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considering at one early point, YHF was about 5th

It hasn't shown up yet on the list, so it must be in the top ten.

I'm a fan of them when the result was something actually different. Which I believe was also your point. ;-)

The more both lists go on the more I openly cackle at all the various cherished assumptions being dashed.

Don't a lot of people feel this way about their own lives? Hence stuff like this making more 'sense' in that respect? Not that I've even heard this album!

i think track 6 off VCN is my favourite. if i'm remembering which one it is right.

Ha! Emma Bunton and Junior Senior top late-career snooze-inducer by legend.

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Points: 703
No. of votes: 31
No. of #1 votes: 2

Artist: KANYE WEST
Title: THE COLLEGE DROPOUT
Label: Roc-A-Fella
Year: 2004

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Comments: n/a (seems to have passed people by, heh heh...)

Recommended tracks: Jesus Walks, Through The Wire, We Don't Care, Slow Jamz

Given the amount of Big Love shown for them around here, I'll dig them both out and give them another chance.

(As for Music Has The Right and Summer Teeth... NOW we're talking.)

The College Dropout was the first album I bought on the strength of Big Love @ ILM - for which I shall be eternally grateful.

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but only cos i can holler 'IIIIFFFFFF YA LIKE MAH BOOOODDDDYYY ANNNNND YAH THIIINK AHM SEEEXXXXXYYY...' over it
-- the neurotic awakening of s (stevem7...), August 26th, 2004.

Steve's next hair idol is uncovered.

Points: 751
No. of votes: 34
No. of #1 votes: 1

Artist: RADIOHEAD
Title: HAIL TO THE THIEF
Label: Parlophone
Year: 2003

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50 words on Hail to the Thief (THANK YOU ILM IF ONLY THERE WAS A THREAD LIKE THIS FOR EVERY ALBUM NOMINATED)

Recommended tracks: There There, Sail To The Moon, Myxamatosis, I Will

Indie is like metal: attractive people can't do it properly.