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

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

All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Sunday, 15 September 2019 22:39 (five years ago) link

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.

#YABASIC (morrisp), Sunday, 15 September 2019 22:47 (five years ago) link

number one track of the 10s = africa? xp

Mordy, Sunday, 15 September 2019 22:49 (five years ago) link

OTM

All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Sunday, 15 September 2019 22:51 (five years ago) link

Either Africa or Bohemian Rhapsody.

Johnny Fever, Sunday, 15 September 2019 23:04 (five years ago) link

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

Vinnie, Monday, 16 September 2019 00:34 (five years ago) link

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

Green Velvet - La La Land

Thought I nominated that but perhaps I forgot

groovypanda, Monday, 16 September 2019 09:14 (five years ago) link

I still have 20 nods left, go ahead and throw one of them to that

TRACKS

Green Velvet - La La Land

(31/50)

Pauline Male (Eric H.), Monday, 16 September 2019 15:25 (five years ago) link

nominations be closed.

Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 16 September 2019 16:04 (five years ago) link

Oh well

Pauline Male (Eric H.), Monday, 16 September 2019 18:18 (five years ago) link

Crap, I missed this, and my no. song wasn't even nominated :(

daavid, Monday, 16 September 2019 21:16 (five years ago) link

No. 1?

Ok, anyone is allowed to nominate their no. 1 song if it's missing. However, if their ballot later shows up without that song at no. 1 their ballot will be discounted! Isn't power fun

imago, Monday, 16 September 2019 21:20 (five years ago) link

There is *no way* you will check all ballots on that but <3 :D

Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 16 September 2019 21:23 (five years ago) link

Too funny

Bee OK, Monday, 16 September 2019 21:23 (five years ago) link

how many ballots could possibly ask to nom their #1 vote after the deadline tho? he could easily check the 1-2

Mordy, Monday, 16 September 2019 21:23 (five years ago) link

I only need to check ballots who nominate a #1 from this point onward! Exactly

imago, Monday, 16 September 2019 21:24 (five years ago) link

damn we forgot to nominate "duffle bag boy" didn't we

Mommy...can I go out and VAPE tonight? (voodoo chili), Monday, 16 September 2019 21:30 (five years ago) link

are we supposed to be campaigning in this thread?

Mordy, Monday, 16 September 2019 21:32 (five years ago) link

jewlia eisenberg (of charming hostess)'s trilectic is a vocally inventive playful post-meredith monk album that uses cantorial traditions, eskimo throat singing, doo wop, ethiopian jewish traditions and more as settings for text excerpted from letters exchanged between walter benjamin, asja lacis, and gershom sholem (+ other texts). it came out on zorn's tzadik label under the radical jewish culture imprint. it was tremendously important to me when it came out in 2001 and i was still a rabbinic student in yeshiva, bc it was so unlike anything else i had heard (both musically + in that nexus of theological/political thought) but over the years its uniqueness has only grown to me. it sounds like very few other things (and most of the things it does sound like are also in the tzadik catalog and are influenced imo by eisenberg's work -- i'll write a recommendation about mayim rabim at a later point unless sund4r wants to??) but it's extremely listenable and memorable for an avant/experimental vocal work. it has hooky moments and gorgeous melodic moments. it also has a song ("Dream of Me") based on Susan Buck-Morss's The Dialectics of Seeing about Asja's frustrations with Benjamin that includes the line, "I dreamt you fucked me like John Reed, and I'm a good red - I pushed back and begged for more / I dreamed the vanguard of the left she came so hard she had to scream." it's a v weird + strange alternate dimension of an album both in choice of subject material (communist love songs) + sonic palette. i really think ppl should seek out the whole thing bc the style + tones shift wildly over the course of the album but i'll include a couple youtube links bc i'm not sure where you can actually stream the whole thing. i could probably write a million more things about this album but i'll just say that i always thought it was the kind of thing i'd think [some] ilmers would be into and i'm not sure why it never happened [yet, utopian longing v much themely].

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4n2LVyMy1Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb2leR5i8Hw

those are the only two i can find on youtube. also i dropboxed one of my favorite tracks that i cannot find on youtube here

Mordy, Monday, 16 September 2019 21:50 (five years ago) link

Here are some of my nominations that aren't on spotify (or maybe just not on canada spotify?) that i wanna highlight/campaign for

1. ZAZEN BOYS - WEEKEND
I literally think about this song almost every 7 days. Weird mathy Japanese band goes FUNKY and screams about the WEEKEND. Also the video rules. everyone should be as obsessed with this as i am.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-ZjYq8-SHw

2. STONED GREEN APPLES - SUGAR K (YURA YURA TEIKOKU REMIX)
Why this hasn't played at every good party I've ever been to is a stupid mystery. doesn't really sound like the original, doesn't reaaally sound like a lot of yura yura teikoku, but goddamn is it good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1epHwAQTVc

I'm a board man. Board man gets paid (Will M.), Monday, 16 September 2019 22:13 (five years ago) link

y'all voting for this one, right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6T3I_Zskfs

groovypanda, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 08:17 (five years ago) link

are we supposed to be campaigning in this thread?

yes

octobeard, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 09:31 (five years ago) link

Spotfiy is still banned by the local mystics here since they formed an alliance with the Asda Boys, their grip is tightening so I have no idea what has made it out there

saer, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 10:20 (five years ago) link

man i really need to give zazen boys a proper listen someday, "weekend" rules

ufo, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 10:25 (five years ago) link

No. 1?

Ok, anyone is allowed to nominate their no. 1 song if it's missing. However, if their ballot later shows up without that song at no. 1 their ballot will be discounted! Isn't power fun

― imago, Monday, September 16, 2019 9:20 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Thanks, imago!

Here we go!

Alexis Strum - Nothing Good About This Goodbye

daavid, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 10:54 (five years ago) link

:)

on I plunge playlisting

The Chemical Brothers - Surrender has been officially thrown out of this poll for being released in the middle of 1999, sorry ledge

imago, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 12:04 (five years ago) link

noticed we all failed to nominate merzbeat, or indeed any merzbow. what has become of us? only my colossal respect for imago stops me from voting for it anyway

ogmor, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 12:28 (five years ago) link

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

There is now an Albums master list!

Tracks to follow.

If I've made any errors, let me know and I'll correct...

imago, Thursday, 19 September 2019 11:16 (five years ago) link

The Chemical Brothers - Surrender has been officially thrown out of this poll for being released in the middle of 1999, sorry ledge

i was going purely on my shoddy antiquated mp3 tags, apologies for wasting your valuable time.

The Pingularity (ledge), Thursday, 19 September 2019 11:23 (five years ago) link

Right now I've been playing the fun game of going through the tracks playlist on shuffle and trying to pinpoint what year a song I don't recognize is from without looking at any track or artist information.

MarkoP, Thursday, 19 September 2019 13:31 (five years ago) link

xxp thanks! only 1,661 album noms, I can do this.

sleeve, Thursday, 19 September 2019 13:39 (five years ago) link

looks like you've got Dam-Funk's Toeachizown on there twice

a wagging to the furious (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 19 September 2019 13:50 (five years ago) link

A couple more dupes:

Desaparecidos - Read Music/Speak Spanish
Abe Vigoda - Kid City
Elliot(t) Smith - From a Basement on the Hill
Melt-Banana - Cell-Scape
Move D / Namlook - XII: Space & Time
Saint Etienne - Tales from Turnpike House / Up the Wooden Hills
Spoon - Transference
The Advisory Circle - Other Channels
TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes

ArchCarrier, Thursday, 19 September 2019 13:57 (five years ago) link

Oh, and Mastodon - Leviathan

ArchCarrier, Thursday, 19 September 2019 14:03 (five years ago) link

Transference turned out to be ineligible.

#YABASIC (morrisp), Thursday, 19 September 2019 14:19 (five years ago) link

Has a voting deadline been set yet?

jmm, Thursday, 19 September 2019 14:25 (five years ago) link

Daamn no-one nominated Daft Punk's Human After All (not that I'd vote for it)

It was pointed out already but Fripp & Eno's 'Evening Star' is presumably ineligible? It was merely remastered in 2008 afaik

nashwan, Thursday, 19 September 2019 14:26 (five years ago) link

TRACKS NOMINATION LIST

As before, please let me know if you find any dupes or omissions!

imago, Thursday, 19 September 2019 14:28 (five years ago) link

The Glow pt. 2 is listed under Microphones, The instead of The Microphones where the other such albums are listed

Albums I would vote for, but are not on the list: Xiu Xiu "A Promise", Harvey Milk "Life.. The Best Game In Town", Deerhoof "Reveille"

fgti (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 19 September 2019 14:34 (five years ago) link

Xiu Xiu "A Promise"

Fuuuuckkkk.... I was sure that was nominated, which is why I didn't myself...

Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 19 September 2019 14:36 (five years ago) link

Oh also: The Mountain Goats "We Shall All Be Healed", like every album is there except the best 00s album

I myself would vote Constantines s/t over "Shine A Light", and Fucked Up "Epics In Minutes" over "Hidden World", and I intend to do so

fgti (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 19 September 2019 14:37 (five years ago) link

Will you allow write-ins LJ? 'A Promise' cannot be absent.

Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 19 September 2019 14:39 (five years ago) link

is there a voting thread with the links to the nomination lists on top?

je est un autre, l'enfer c'est les autres (alex in mainhattan), Thursday, 19 September 2019 14:41 (five years ago) link

My list includes only two mainstream albums (Missy "Under Construction", Erykah "Mama's Gun"), only one Solex album, zero Grouper albums-- one Kranky release and it's "Tired Sounds Of...", Life Without Buildings, only one Xiu Xiu album and only one "electronic" album (and it's Max Tundra, of course)

fgti (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 19 September 2019 14:42 (five years ago) link

Dupe in tracks:

Fatima Yamaha – What's a Girl to Do
Fatima Yamaha ‎– What's A Girl To Do?

Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 19 September 2019 14:43 (five years ago) link

Oh and I am voting for three Canadian albums. The aforementioned two and Destroyer "Your Blues".

If this is the campaigning thread, let me once again state that the best Fucked Up album is "Epics In Minutes", it is also the best Canadian album of this century, and you can hear for yourself and I am tired of saying this over and over again

https://derangedrecords.bandcamp.com/album/epics-in-minutes

fgti (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 19 September 2019 14:47 (five years ago) link

No voting thread until seandalai creates the voting form, and he's only back from holiday tomorrow!

As I'm such a pushover, I will allow anyone who has not posted to thisthread before today a small handful of 'panic nominations'. fgti bring the first of such. But that only applies if you really didn't see this until now.

imago, Thursday, 19 September 2019 14:56 (five years ago) link

I'm out now but will make further edits later and add fgti's choices etc

imago, Thursday, 19 September 2019 14:57 (five years ago) link

<333

Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 19 September 2019 15:00 (five years ago) link


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