ILM Top 100 2000-2004: ALBUMS

Points: 394
No. of votes: 17
No. of #1 votes: 1

Artist: FENNESZ
Title: ENDLESS SUMMER
Label: Mego
Year: 2001

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Comments: n/a (anybody?)

Recommended tracks: Endless Summer, Caecilia, Shisheido

Points: 398
No. of votes: 19
No. of #1 votes: 1

Artist: PRIMAL SCREAM
Title: XTRMNTR
Label: Creation
Year: 2000

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Comments: XTRMNTR is angry as hell and noisy as a plane taking off. Sometimes it's a techno album, sometimes it's a guitar album, sometimes it's a hip-hop album with swearing and screaming on top. Sometimes it's a New Order album (with Barney Sumner on guitar for authenticity), sometimes it's an MBV album (with Kevin Shields on guitar for authenticity), and sometimes it's a David Holmes soundtrack album (with movie samples and er, David Holmes twiddling the knobs for authenticity). What more could you possibly want in an album??? Barry Bruner

Recommended tracks: Swastika Eyes, MBV Arkestra, Shoot Speed Kill Light

Points: 398
No. of votes: 24
No. of #1 votes: 1

Artist: LAMBCHOP
Title: NIXON
Label: City Slang
Year: 2000

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Comments: Lush, funny, aching... Play it while walking round through the city at night. C'mon progeny! Stewart Smith

Recommended tracks: Up With People, Nashville Parent, The Distance From Her To There

17th best album @ Metacritic: http://www.metacritic.com/music/bests/

When that XTRMNTR was released certain critics stated that it was the first great album of the 21st century

[even though it blatantly stole sounds from 70s/ 80s/ 90s: it was a case of spot the cool influences, theoughout the album]

how unusual!

Points: 401
No. of votes: 21
No. of #1 votes: 1

Artist: BROADCAST
Title: HA HA SOUND
Label: Warp
Year: 2003

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Comments: Strangely managing to be at times the most accessible thing they've done and at other times the most advanced, Broadcast's world is one of spinning wheels, frost-covered lake shores, branch lines in Summer haze, distant church towers and Vaudevillian charm. And here they suck you right in through concentrated, refined gumption and melodic interplay. The songs lurch into effect like rickety contraptions (yet built to last) but with operators like these they work to optimum standard, and all for Lonesome Science Girl to swoon over with a reserved but still heart-tugging lucidity.

Recommended tracks: Colour Me In, Valerie, Lunch Hour Pops

i'm imagining mylo's "drop the pressure" with fuckthepeoplefuckthepeoplefuckthepeople instead of motherfuckermotherfuckermotherfucker

where the hell are the techno/electronic nominations? is weiss.mix going to actually place in the top 35? or villalobos? or the soft pink truth? does ilm talk about electronic stuff more than they actually listen to it? or is the ilm personality a purist at heart believing that dance music is a singles genre?

xpost. yay broadcast!

dleone
Would anyone be surprised to see this list published at Pitchfork? So far, give or take 5 records, I wouldn't be.

Get, Ryan Pitchfork to organize a Pitchfork Staff Top 100 Albums of the first 5 years of the 00s - early next year.

Also will Ned be doing his own half decade summary to follow on from his infamous and much loved Ned's 90s feature? or will we have to wait another 5 years ?

(I'm actually amazed at how much rancour I still feel for prml scrm in general and xtrmntr in particular)

only 1 of my top 10 has appeared so far (beta band, far too low obv) so i'm still confidently expecting a top 5 of daft punk/jaxx/dizzee/avalanches/streets in some order, yes, no, yes, hmm?

Points: 403
No. of votes: 18
No. of #1 votes: 2

Artist: FUGAZI
Title: THE ARGUMENT
Label: Discord
Year: 2001

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Comments: n/a (anybody?)

Recommended tracks: Argument, Epic Problem, Kill

Points: 436
No. of votes: 19
No. of #1 votes: 2

Artist: LE TIGRE
Title: LE TIGRE
Label: Wiija
Year: 2001

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Comments: I don't care what the rest of you think, this album means something to me. It has nothing to do with feminism or gay rights, just a simple feeling of muddling through, of contradiction, of trying even though you may well fail.

Deceptacon is about dancing, alliteration and having your sounds stolen by some cheeky scamp; My My Metrocard celebrates the freedom of solo travel through an urban environment (no, it's still got nothing to do with some Mayor of New York!); Les and Ray is all about 'Less' rather than 'Lez', and liking people who are friendly to you.

Kathleen Hanna may be so, like, whatever, ya know (dude)? But Le Tigre are great, and this debut connects with me, it makes me feel. I know I'm not the only one. Meirion Lewis

Recommended tracks: Deceptacon, Hot Topic, My My Metrocard, Les And Ray

didn't you nominate Nixon?