Best albums (and tracks) of YOUR favourite albums (and tracks) of the ENTIRE NOUGHTIES: 2000-2009 Ballot Poll Nominations + Campaigning Thread

imago I hope you will reconcile the MIA - M.I.A. discrepancies

Track

Excepter - Forget Me

50/50

TRACK

Utada Hikaru - traveling

50/50

Tracks

Matt Sweeney & Bonnie “Prince” Billy - My Home is the Sea
Sleater-Kinney - Jumpers

50/50

I love those 50/50 choices

When do we start “campaigning”?

ALBUMS

SO - SO (since it's hard to Google: https://oval.bandcamp.com/album/so)
Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough
Imahoritsuneoyoshidatatsuya - Dots
Torche - Meanderthal
Rez Abbasi - Snake Charmer
Philip Jeck - 7
Triosk Meets Jan Jelinek - 1+3+1
Plastikman - Closer
Robert Normandeau - Clair de Terre
Ali Farka Touré - Savane
Robert Plant - Dreamland

TRACKS
DJ Shadow - Six Days
Tool - Reflection
Oneida - Did I Die
Robert Normandeau - Éden
HIM - Wings of a Butterfly

46/50

Wait, Torche is there already so that's 45.

Tracks

Schmoov! - Playground

18/30

XP: Oooh, I considered So, but figured I'd be the sole vote. Nice.

ALBUMS

Joane Hétu and Jean Derome - La vie, c'est simple
Maryanne Amacher - Sound Characters
Rhys Chatham - A Crimson Grail
Annette Krebs - Guitar Solo
Building Castles Out of Matchsticks - Building Castles Out of Matchsticks

50/50

XP: Oooh, I considered So, but figured I'd be the sole vote. Nice.

It really was one of my favourite albums of that year and still sounds beautiful to me.

I usually assume and accept that I'll be the only vote for a bunch of things.

that So album is awesome

I love Maryanne Amacher's Sound Characters

playing it makes me feel like something is moving in the walls of my house

I can't figure that one out, I've really cranked it and I get how the high frequency stuff is supposed to work but it just seemed painful and I didn't understand the low frequency stuff at all. I should try it again with the newer amplifier, there's a lot of low end.

(with MY newer amplifier, to be clear)

ALBUMS
Föllakzoid – Föllakzoid
Suishou No Fune – Prayer For Chibi
Kawabata Makoto's Inui – Inui
Fursaxa – Amulet

TRACKS
Circle – Lokki
Om – At Giza
The Black Angels – Snake in the Grass
Thee Majesty – Feel Strange
Jim Jones feat. Ron Browz and Juelz Santana – Pop Champagne
Iyaz – Replay
J-Money – Sauce

47/50

i love sound characters but wasn't it from 1999?

Tracks

STL - Inner Silence

19/30

TRACKS
Sigur Ros - Hoppipolla

ALBUMS
Piana - ephemeral

50/50

xxp yes I think so, didn't discover it until later

Martin Simpson - Never Any Good

I keep reading this as Marge Simpson.

ALBUMS
Ellen Allien - Remix Collection
Smoosh - She Like Electric
Shannon Wright - Maps of Tacit

TRACKS
Bardo Pond - Destroying Angel
Bardo Pond - Lord of Light
Bardo Pond - Two Planes
Electrelane - Saturday
Espers - Dead King
Farben - Raute
Fuck Buttons - Sweet Love for Planet Earth
ISIS - Celestial (The Tower)
Josie and the Pussycats - 3 Small Words
Puffy Amiyumi - Teen Titans Theme
Saloon - Vesuvius
Yann Tiersen - Mary
Amon Tobin - Four Ton Mantis

44/50

Late arrivals to the ball. Last time I checked there was no Zombi nommed which is not fair even if everyone's forgotten about them now.

ALBUM

Zombi - Surface To Air

TRACK

Zombi - Sapphire

(4/50)

that post makes me remember Zomby's "Where Were U in '92", a great album

I've run out of nominations though

TRACK

Project Pat – Gorilla Pimp

48/50

ALBUMS

Bonobo -  Days to Come
Herbert -  Bodily Functions
Horsepower Productions - In Fine Style
Jazzanova - Of All the Things
Max B - Million Dollar Baby 2
MRR-ADM ft. Malcolm Catto - Untitled
Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics - Inspiration Information Vol.3
Nação Zumbi - Fome de Tudo
Radio Citizen - Berlin Serengeti
Sa-Ra Creative Partners - Nuclear Evolution: The Age of Love
Sightings - Absolutes
Tinariwen - Amassakoul
Z-Ro - King of the Ghetto

TRACKS

Antena - Camiño del Sol (Todd Terje remix)
J Dilla - Love it Here
Jill Scott - A Long Walk
Jill Scott - Gettin' in the Way
Max B ft. Al Pac - White Lines
Naçao Zumbi - Bossa Nostra
Pimp C ft. Mike Jones & Bun B - Pourin' Up
Spacek - Dollar

42/50

guess it's too late, but if someone would nominate Zomby - Where Were U in '92, I would definitely vote for it

Tracks

Journeyman - Has Got To

20/30

Looks like we're in injury time, the masses are congregating around the edge of the box, they're queuing up now to smash one in

Tracks

Heath Brunner - Senses

21/30

TRACKS:
Art Brut - Emily Kane
Missy Elliott ft. Ludacris - Gossip Folks
Missy Elliott ft. Ludacris - One Minute Man
Bubba Sparxxx - Ugly
Róisín Murphy - You Know Me Better
Róisín Murphy - Primitive
Róisín Murphy - Sow Into You
Lil Mama - Lip Gloss
Justice - Waters of Nazareth

ALBUMS:
Chromatics - Night Drive
Caribou - The Milk of Human Kindness
David Last - The Push Pull
Zomby - Where Were U in '92 (I have never heard this but I'm going to bed now, so whatever)
(43/50)

TRACKS

The Field - A Paw in My Face
The Drones - Jezebel

[28/50]

you've all got about 1 hour!

Albums
Lloyd Cole - Etc.
Kleptones- A night at the Hip-Hopera
LMP - A Century of Song
Playgroup - Playgroup
Unkle - End Titles ...Stories for Film

Tracks
Craig Armstrong feat. Evan Dando - Wake Up in New York
Matthew Dear - Don and Sherri (Hot Chip remix)
Richard Hawley - The Ocean
Hot Chip - One Life Stand
Major Lazer - Keep it going louder
PeterLicht - Sonnendeck Schallplattenspieler Fassung (Ekimas & Proppe remix)
50/50

If anyone wants to nominate the following albums in the final hour they’ll get my eternal and admiration.

Clientele - Suburban Light
Hot Chip - Made in the Dark
David Wrench - The Atomic World of Tomorrow

...Love and admiration...

Very well...

Clientele - Suburban Light
Hot Chip - Made in the Dark
David Wrench - The Atomic World of Tomorrow

[31/50]

Thought about the Clientele but wasn't sure it was eligible given it was largely 90s material. Will vote for it if it is.

track:
Madonna - Die Another Day

(50/50)

Thanks Nag! Nag!Nag!

I wondered about the Clientele too. Will abide by the referee’s decision.

TRACKS:

*NSYNC - This I Promise You
Alice Deejay - Better Off Alone
Alicia Keys - Fallin'
Anna Nalick - Breathe (2 AM)
BBMak - Back Here
Britney Spears - Everytime
Case - Missing You
Coldplay - The Scientist
DJ NG - Tell Me (feat. Katy B & MC Versatile)
DJ Sammy & Yanou - Heaven (feat. Do)
DJ Sammy - The Boys Of Summer
Daniel Bedingfield - If You're Not The One
Dirty Vegas - Days Go By
Dream - This Is Me
Faith Hill - Breathe
Filter - Take A Picture
Freemasons - Uninvited (feat. Bailey Tzuke)
Ginuwine - Differences
Girls Aloud - The Loving Kind
Heather Headley - In My Mind
Imogen Heap - Hide And Seek
Infinite Body - Drive Dreams Away
Jason Mraz - You And I Both
Jazmine Sullivan - In Love With Another Man
Jessica Simpson - I Think I'm In Love With You
JoJo - Too Little Too Late
Jonathan Peters - All This Time (Club Mix) (feat. Sylver Logan Sharp) *
Kid Rock - Only God Knows Why
La Roux - Bulletproof
La Roux - In For The Kill **
Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love
M.I.A. - Boyz
Mario - Let Me Love You
Melanie C - I Turn To You (Hex Hector Club Mix)
Montell Jordan - Get It On Tonite
Nelly - Country Grammar (Hot Shit)
Nicki Minaj - Itty Bitty Piggy
Paulina Rubio - Don't Say Goodbye
Plies - Bust It Baby (Part 2) (feat. Ne-Yo)
R. Kelly - I Wish
Sarah McLachlan - Sweet Surrender (DJ Tiësto Mix)
Savage Garden - Crash And Burn
Shakira - She Wolf
Sugarland - Stay
Tamia - Officially Missing You
The Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling
The Killers - Mr. Brightside **
The Shins - Phantom Limb
Vanessa Carlton - A Thousand Miles
Vistoso Bosses - Delirious (feat. Soulja Boy Tell'em)

(50/50)

* to anyone who's assembling a streaming playlist from the noms: this track, which has a runtime of ~8:06, is labeled (incorrectly) as the 'Jonathan Peters Mix' on streaming services
** these previously had remixes nominated but not the main versions

Tracks

Nick Holder - Swimming

22/30

Looked a dead cert for relegation but that 30 point safety mark is sliding into view now, if we can just nick a point off Zvezda Perm before last orders we might even stay up

Albums

A Perfect Circle - Mer de noms
Ahvak - Ahvak
Alcest - Souvenirs d'un autre monde
Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs
Burst - Lazarus Bird
Disillusion - Back to Times of Splendor
Draconian - Arcane Rain Fell
Ephel Duath - The Painter's Palette
Gojira - From Mars to Sirius
The Horrors - Primary Colours
HTRK - Marry Me Tonight
IQ - The Seventh House
Jaga Jazzist - What We Must
Jaga Jazzist - The Stix
Killing Joke - Hosannas From the Basements of Hell
Mar de Grises - Draining the Waterheart
No-Man - Returning Jesus
Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets
Novembre - Blue
Out Hud - S.T.R.E.E.T. D.A.D.
Paatos - Kallocain
Porcupine Tree - In absentia
Riverside - Second Life Syndrome
Solefald - In Harmonia Universali
Triosk - The Headlight Serenade
TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
Ulver - Perdition City
Virus - Carheart
White Willow - Storm Season
Wobbler - Hinterland

If Sound Characters is ineligible, please replace with

TRACKS
Fennesz - Transit (feat. David Sylvian)

TRACKS

Oceansize - You Can't Keep A Bad Man Down
Shearwater - The Snow Leopard
Thumpermonkey - Whateley
The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band With Choir - American Motor Over Smouldered Field
Sia - Breathe Me
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - You Look Great When I'm Fucked Up
Kesha - Tik Tok
British Sea Power - No Lucifer
Beirut - Elephant Gun
Straylight Run - Existentialism On Prom Night
Badly Drawn Boy - The Shining
Chad VanGaalen - Mini T.V.'s
Aereogramme - Post-Tour, Pre-Judgement

ALBUMS

Tyro - Audiocards
Biffy Clyro - Blackened Sky
Gomez - In Our Gun
Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends
Panic! At the Disco - A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
Fall Out Boy - Take This to Your Grave
Melt-Banana - Cell-Scape
The Starting Line - Say It Like You Mean It
Stephen Malkmus - Face the Truth
Muse - Absolution

50/50

What's that I hear? Pollrunner's prerogative?

ALBUM

The Brave Little Abacus - Masked Dancers: Concern in So Many Things You Forget Where You Are

51/51 (FP'ed)

(I haven't actually heard this album in full yet but I think it belongs in The Conversation)

Anyway, ***NOMINATING IS NOW CLOSED***

I'll be back in a few days (might be nearer a week, let's see) once the playlists and spreadsheets have been compiled to present a voting thread.

IN THE MEANTIME, USE THIS THREAD FOR CAMPAIGNING AND SUCH

See you shortly!

I'm all out. Have listed every record I can think of or remember

I see where I was confused now. I checked the date on the back of the Maryanne Amacher CD but the CD I checked was , not Sound Characters. This means I have to choose between Sound Characters 2 and "Transit" - I will stick with "Transit". 2xp

Uh, the CD I checked was Sound Characters 2.

Heh, tt, I was hoping someone would nominate "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" since it didn't end up in my 50 but I do feel like it was important and I did like it. I'm glad you nominated the album.

I had a last minute pang of conscience that some of my favourites of the era still hadn't been nominated. I'm glad you covered Mew and Final Fantasy too!

Oh and tt, Cell-Scape was definitely already nominated so we can pretend your 50th was my special bonus album

Oh, so it was! Okay, yes that works out well