ILM Top 100 2000-2004: ALBUMS

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Kish Kash got my number one vote too. I love it like I love my new puppy and chocolate.

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Friday, 27 August 2004 12:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Mine was at 70.

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 27 August 2004 12:26 (twenty-one years ago)

No. of #1 votes: 0 (the highest ranked album to not score a #1 vote from anyone)

I would've voted #1 for it!!! Cripes!!

― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 27 August 2004 12:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm surprised I was the only one to vote Rooty number one. Actually, when I voted, I was also surprised it was my number one. I guess I did so because it was the album that got me back into music after a good couple of years of not caring much. It was the best Prince album I'd heard since Lovesexy. Romeo was completely irresistible and Where's Your Head At led me back to Gary Numan. It's a safe bet that had there been no Rooty in my life, I would not have found ILM.

― frankE (frankE), Friday, 27 August 2004 12:33 (twenty-one years ago)

My first reaction to A Grand Don't Come for Free was, You've got to be kidding me? The ITV line was so awkward and uncomfortable... My second reaction was, this is so (excuse the word) endearing.

― frankE (frankE), Friday, 27 August 2004 12:35 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm still in two minds

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Friday, 27 August 2004 12:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm probably keen.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 27 August 2004 12:48 (twenty-one years ago)

but what do you know about cricket?

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Friday, 27 August 2004 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Thank you, Alba. But I fear Steve sneakily replaced 'Supersonic' with 'Good Luck', as there's no way I honestly prefer GL to 'Super', which is definitely the track I've listened to most after 'Plug It In'. I think I voted Rooty as my 9th or 10th, mind.

Steve, try MTV's Shaggy/Vallance mash-up instead.

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:11 (twenty-one years ago)

i was the only person who voted rooty #1? really?

― adam west (adamwest), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess he took other people's recommendations into account.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm a little disappointed my Interpol write-up wasn't used, but on the other hand, that's one less thing for you guys to make fun of me for. :-)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, that's more than likely, Alb, tho' I liked the outsider/underdog status 'Supersonic' exudes.

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:18 (twenty-one years ago)

i think you're the only person who rates Supersonic that much dude. Sure I like it, but Good Luck is the best song of all time (after Euro 2004 saturation) now.

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I like the bitterness 'Good Luck' exudes.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:22 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry jaymc, keep losing track of what's been written - again it will appear in the final webpage version to be published next week

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:23 (twenty-one years ago)

It's the only 'fuck you' song I can think of right now that doesn't just end up making the singer sound pathetic.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:23 (twenty-one years ago)

what about 'Caught Out There'?

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:24 (twenty-one years ago)

hey steve, can you put a full list of votes (numbers 101-???) on the webpage version?

― peter smith (plsmith), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I admit I wasn't thinking very hard.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:26 (twenty-one years ago)

would you like more graphs than your brain can handle with that?

xpost

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:26 (twenty-one years ago)

But being so explicit about the hating rather than taking the sarcastic route of 'Good Luck' is somehow a different kind of thing.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Or 'Hit 'Em Up Style'?

Jess wrote some real niceness about 'Supersonic' in December and more than anything, it encapsulates what Kish Kash the album is about, as per my opening sentences.

x-p

That Euro 2004 help certainly didn't give Kish Kash a top 10 hit at last, which was irritating to say the least. Hell, JC did better on his own!

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:30 (twenty-one years ago)

(Not counting 'Good Luck's original no.12 placing)

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)

'Hit Em Up Style' isn't the same, because she lets herself sound so vulnerable on the "all of the lies you told" bit for it to be an uncomplicated 'fuck you'.

'Hit Em Up Style' should have been in this top 100, btw.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:35 (twenty-one years ago)

ALBA OTM (only in the singles arena, not the album list)

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know shit about albums, so that's OK.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:39 (twenty-one years ago)

No. 5

Points: 1035
No. of votes: 44
No. of #1 votes: 8

Artist: THE AVALANCHES
Title: SINCE I LEFT YOU
Label: XL
Year: 2001

http://base58.com/ilx/ilm/top100/20002004/tracks/sinceileftyou.jpg

Around the world in 80 minutes. The irony being the opening title track just sounds like coming home as much as 'Extra Kings' - a perfect loop encompassing a tour de force in which you are waltzed up and disco'd down, bombarded in all directions by friendly bombs, primed straight for the heart. It's hard to think about 'Since I Left You' as something you'd listen to NOT during an epic journey such is the obviousness with which this theme is presented. And as cliched as it would be to call it a musical journey as well as the soundtrack to a geographical...oh man no I just can't do it. But it's a journey I'm happy to keep taking again and again. Basically I can't think of a better soundtrack to a better life. A life that may not even involve that many other people. Perhaps just the one person. That special someone, and everything that lies between them and you - past, present and future. The whole thing lives and breathes, sings and roars like one giant electric circus complete with dancing bears (without chains) and...oh I don't know, fluorescent elephants. Technical supremacy (finest 'showing off' since 'Endtroducing', but a damn sight more FUN than that all round) and impressive ambition scoring big, variety the splice of life. Here is your ticket.

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:42 (twenty-one years ago)

woops, wrong location for that image

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Aaah, that's nice. I'm going to listen to it when I get home.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Also 8 number one votes!!!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Recommended tracks: Since I Left You, Frontier Psychiatrist, Flight Tonight, Live At Dominoes

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I should give that another listen, I can see on paper why it's so good but I've always found it too lounge-y the few times I've listened to it.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)

It doesn't pack the punch of the Basement Jaxx albums but there are too many gorgeous moments for that to be a real criticism.

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)

(Also Frontier Psychiatrist was too zany.)

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never given that album a chance, mostly because both "Since I Left You" and "Frontier Psychiatrist" irritate me when listened to in isolation; I wouldn't be at all surprised if they made more sense on the album (I had a similar reaction to The Cure's "The End Of The World").

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a fucking annoying record.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)

it's thing like 'Etoh' and 'Summer Crane' that get me on the album as much as the rollerskatin' madness of 'Live At Dominoes' - the former tracks are essentially interludes but it's like being whispered to sleep by sparkling angels who proceed to infiltrate your dreams and ensure much pleasantness (interpret as you wish).

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry for becoming a total wanker as the end draws ever closer...

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:50 (twenty-one years ago)

OTM. That last section from Etoh onwards is nearly perfect.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I really tried to like this. I've gone back to the CD store and put this on, trying to convince myself to buy it, but I always loose interest after about 2 and half songs. I also remember having a burn of it when it came out, and playing it at work over and over - only to get very annoyed with it. Not sure why that is, because it seems pleasant enough.

― dleone (dleone), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)

i think the other thing is knowing Gimix and their other mixes so well which feel like extensions of the album and their thinking behind it, to the point where it just stops being an album to my mind altogether (which i find a very good thing in this decade).

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Great record. Try to get the original Australian edition with the illegal samples (Midnight Run!)

― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 27 August 2004 13:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Does Gimix really sync up w/it THAT WELL? Cos if it does I'll just make it myself (I'd rather not)

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I've had an experience similar to dleone's. For all SILY gets championed as an album, I really just like the singles. Every time I've tried to listen to the whole thing it bored me.

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)

i deeply love every record from #10 up so far!!!

― artiste (artiste), Friday, 27 August 2004 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

even and especially the interpol which is so bright and shinily produced and has better tunes than the kitchens of distinction and has those pretty shimmery guitar lines and has lyrics that are openly unapologetically memorably awful and i played it more than any rock album let alone indie rock since um what? (ans: dolittle in high school i think)

― artiste (artiste), Friday, 27 August 2004 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

i had to live with SILY for a while before it made sense to love it. it took the entirety of a summer vacation and one cold winter night.

― m. (mitchlnw), Friday, 27 August 2004 14:20 (twenty-one years ago)

i used to think since i left you was a summer record but now i actually think it's a winter record because the vinyl beat diggin aesthetic sounds like the memory of warmth

― artiste (artiste), Friday, 27 August 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

An album for all seasons (it came out in the Winter here anyway)

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Friday, 27 August 2004 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

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