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

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

Ha, happy to help, tt. I just checked if anyone nominated "The Suffering", which they didn't, but I see you nominated a Coheed & Cambria album that I haven't heard. I'll give it a listen.

the main records i wanna strongly advocate for are Sheena Ringo's Shouso Strip and Kalk Samen Kuri no Hana

Shouso Strip is an inventive alt rock album, kinda reminiscent of stuff like The Bends in its anthemic nature but jazzier (in that way kinda similar to some of Fiona Apple's more rock-adjacent work?), noisier, and more electronics. one of my favourite rock albums ever

Kalk Samen Kuri no Hana is probably best described by the nebulous term of 'art pop', as it's more focused on elaborate orchestration but there's still some electronics and part of her previous jazzy alt-rock style in the mix too. there's not really anything else that sounds quite like it, probably the go-to comparison would be Post/Homogenic-era Bjork but that's still not very close and they're very different songwriters too.

Crap, I forgot Nagamani Srinath's Sunada. I wasn't sure about the release date but it was 2000. Really good Carnatic vocal album. Guess it's no longer a lock for the top 10.

Kalk Samen... will be very high up my albums ballot, and its fifth track, Yattsuke Shigoto, will be very, very high up my tracks ballot, because on an already stellar album it stands out as one of the greatest moments in all pop imo

ALBUMS

Absu - Tara
Abida Parveen - Visal: Meeting Mystic Poets from the Hind & Sind
Anaal Nathrakh - The Codex Necro
Arckanum - ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ
Autistic Daughters - Uneasy Flowers
Charles Lloyd - Hyperion with Higgins
Christian Wallumrød Ensemble - A Year from Easter
Daniel Bélanger - Rêver mieux
Darkspace - Darkspace I
Deadbeat - Something Borrowed, Something Blue
Deepchord Presents Echospace - The Coldest Season
Derek Bailey, Jamaaladeen Tacuma & Calvin Weston - Mirakle
Immortal - Sons of Northern Darkness
Joe Maneri, Barre Phillips & Mat Maneri - Angles of Repose
Kangding Ray - Stabil
Melingo - Maldito Tango
Monolake - Momentum
Pan Sonic - Katodivaihe
Richard Skelton - Landings
Trelldom - Til minne…

50/50

Err, the alphabetical order is slightly off, but no matter.

-_-

I'm so sorry. :(

I suppose you can be forgiven just this once

...not that I'm likely to include any of those, for the sake of precedent. But as well as campaigning, this thread is also now for argument, so I'll let you all settle it.

Any FURTHER nominations will be viewed very dimly indeed, however

a few big omissions from the 00s Dance tracks poll results

Black Leotard Front - Casual Friday
Oni Ayhun - OAR003 B
(btw I think the Ayhun track silverfish nominated is from 2010 although probably was out there before vinyl release?)
Ricardo Villalobos - Dexter
Ellen Allien & Apparat - Way Out (although the album should do well)
Zed bias - Neighborhood
(I came very close to nominating this although iirc it was released in the very last week of 1999)
Alter Ego - Rocker
Blawan - Getting Me Down
Green Velvet - La La Land

Another big omission that should be viewed very brightly

The Fish Brothers And Eastend ‎– We All Shout The Millwall Song

23/30

...not that I'm likely to include any of those, for the sake of precedent. But as well as campaigning, this thread is also now for argument, so I'll let you all settle it.

I understand. My apologies for besmirching the democratic process that you have worked so hard to uphold.

Oops forgot to use my last few noms but dyl hit a couple key tracks I'll vote for, cheers

Kleptones- A night at the Hip-Hopera

THANK YOU

i should have nominated Chad VanGaalen's Infiniheart, despite being the only one that would vote for it. I'VE LET YOU DOWN CHAD!

xxxp thanks, circles!

don't know about the others but blawan's "getting me down" didn't come out until 2011 xp

Nelly - Country Grammar (Hot Shit)

Wow! Can’t believe this went un-nom’d until Dyl hit it

Someone upthread nominated this track:

Thee Madkatt Courtship III - My Life Musik

But both the single and the album its on came out in 1999, otherwise I would've nommed them myself.

don't know about the others but blawan's "getting me down" didn't come out until 2011 xp

right, that poll seemingly covered the century so far despite being labelled as for the 00s