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

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

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

eh, releases that came out in 1999, esp late the year, are totally valid as 00s songs if that's when people were discovering them

i nominated filter's "take a picture", a 1999 release that broke at rock radio in november of that year. but i didn't hear it until it started picking up steam at top 40 stations, which was like 3-4 months later. i wouldn't fault anyone for considering it either a 90s tune or a 00s one. people are inevitably going to think to some extent about whether a song is actually 'from' the 2000s when they consider whether they should vote for it

so i don't think it would be some big injustice if a track that technically came out in 1999 slipped into the results

There’s gotta be a cutoff, may as well make it strictly by release date.

decade of impact rule

Half the releases in this thread had almost no “impact” at all

Even judging by year of impact, "My Life Muzik" was an underground hit in 1999 and appeared on several different multi-artist compilations that year, so no way does it count as a 2000 track.

(It’s not my poll, of course — just seems weird to say that a chart-performing release gets to slide into consideration for the following year, if that’s when it has the fortune to “pick up steam” culturally.)

Dooms Night (Timo Maas Remix) was released in Germany in 1999, but was only a hit in the UK in 2000, honestly not sure on that one.

The same with Darude's "Sandstorm" (which I don't think was nominated?): it was released here in Finland in late 1999 and was played a lot in clubs already that year, but it didn't become a global hit until 2000.

I'm wondering where the "decade of impact" rule will put my nominations of Lady Gaga/Beyonce's "Telephone" (released on an EP at the end of 2009, but not released as a single until early 2010) and Young Money's "Roger That" (included on a 2009 compilation before being released as a single in 2010). I'm still going to vote for them, but I totally get why they might be thought of as belonging more to the current decade than the previous one.

i believe "decade/year of impact" pretty much means "if there's an edge case like that, it's eligible" so i don't think there's a problem with either of them

i feel like not having hard cut-off will generate more work on what’s already going to be an epic poll.

If we're going by decade of impact, "Don't Stop Believin'" should def be nominated.

Wouldn’t the tracks cited above be “edge cases” only if this were a 2010s poll? If they were released officially in some form in 2009, I would think they qualify here.

number one track of the 10s = africa? xp

OTM

Either Africa or Bohemian Rhapsody.

Wouldn’t the tracks cited above be “edge cases” only if this were a 2010s poll? If they were released officially in some form in 2009, I would think they qualify here.

Yeah hard to argue against including the 2009 tracks. But I mean, "Better Off Alone" is a 1998 track, even if its parent album was only released in 2000. Easiest solution is just leave it up to voters I think