ILM Top 100 2000-2004: ALBUMS

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Hmm. Fun! Recent votes (JBs, NERD, Broken Social Scene and Prml Scrm) haven't done TOO badly...

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 14:10 (nineteen years ago) link

and dude one of those requests has noise dudes written all over it

Wolf Eyes at #1??

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 14:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Echoes!

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 14:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Wow, only 17 votes for BSS but 5 #1 picks. That's got to be the highest "average" points/vote we've seen thus far.

Coulda been worse, coulda been the Sigur Ros album that's named after some dumb ass brackets...

But that's a far better album!

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 15:16 (nineteen years ago) link

My top 8 have now appeared on this list so I have nothing left to root for ... I'll just have to root against R*******d (since it appears they've got three in the top 20).

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 15:28 (nineteen years ago) link

I wouldn't be surprised if one of those Radiohead songs were left off the list altogether (like "There There").

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 15:33 (nineteen years ago) link

'Like Spinning Plates' definitely should've

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 15:34 (nineteen years ago) link

I was referring to the three albums, but yeah, the tracks too.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 15:36 (nineteen years ago) link

I am honestly wondering if a Radiohead bloc vote was organised.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 15:38 (nineteen years ago) link

and a daft punk one wasn't?!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 15:41 (nineteen years ago) link

If one was actually organised it happened without my knowledge Julio!

Putting it another way, I wonder how many people who voted for one Radiohead album voted for all three? I'm just curious.

(There has always been a big pro-'Head contingent on ILM, I'm not saying their (apparently) high placings are in any way illegitimate!)

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 15:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Sorry Barry, my mind was on tracks, forgot what thread this was!

I voted for 2 of the 3 Radiohead albums.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 15:48 (nineteen years ago) link

the three albums all strike me as consistent enough with each other for someone to vote for all three unless there were enough other albums to their preference. there's another artist with three out of four nominations currently unaccounted for too...

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 15:53 (nineteen years ago) link

sorry, sigur ros?

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 16:12 (nineteen years ago) link

i voted for kid a but not the other two. It's shorter. and with radiohead that's good. also until this little poll i'd forgotten how much i like the songs on that record. especially everything in its right place.

― danh (danh), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 16:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Yay! That was my nomination. I think all three albums made it
into my top 15, but amnesiac was probably pretty low down.

― Jamie Fake (the pirate king), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 16:41 (nineteen years ago) link

One thing about the Junior Boys album is it's availability. I can't find a retail CD of it out here in the sticks (of Los Angeles), and I've never been able to download proper mp3s (since they released a bunch of loops beforehand). Only through the assistance of a certain "nordic" person was I finally able to listen to it. I love it at this point, but I may have been 'over it' before I even heard it.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 16:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Spencer - I just picked up the Junior Boys at Amoeba.

― T. Weiss (Timmy), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 16:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, I only heard it recently, and have wondered whether I would've voted for it if I'd heard it sooner. (At the very least, I think "Birthday" might've gotten a vote.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 16:57 (nineteen years ago) link

In France, "In search of" has been released late summer 2001, the sleeve was different and the record was better without that Spymob instrumentation in my opinion, this is still one of my favorite Neptunes productions alongside "Kaleidoscope", that's why I voted it number one.

― Sami (Sami), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 17:01 (nineteen years ago) link

I voted for all 3 Radiohead albums but wasn't part of any bloc. Like I said, I hadn't even much more than 15 albums on the list, I don't think. There were a few albums on there I'd heard but didn't like that much like Fugazi, Le Tigre (Good God, if this is list-worthy indie for this half-decade I'm glad I haven't heard more), and Shellac. And I really love all those Radiohead albums. I listen to them tons.

(Mind you, if, say, Bill Frisell and Meredith Monk and Oren Ambarchi and Phil Jeck and Derek Bailey or Kid Koala or . . . were on there I might not have voted for so much Rhead. Or if Sean Paul or motherfucking Outkast were on there. Or maybe even the Darkness. Or System of a Down. Or Bjork. Radiohead definitely wouldn't have placed so high. And I do want to check out lots of the rap and dance records I haven't heard.)

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 17:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Spencer - I just picked up the Junior Boys at Amoeba.

Thanks for the tip - I'm going after work.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 17:18 (nineteen years ago) link

And, just so you know Barry, GYBE was my #2. I thought their debut was a ponderous 4/4 Pink Floyd plod but from the opening brass glories of Fists I knew they were onto something else - just how great it came out to be was a shock though. Channeling Glenn Branca and Fred Frith at moments, Zoviet France at others, various 80s posthc outifts (probably Sonic Youth and Mission of Burma although someone else could probably tell you better than I) at some points, and Floyd (minus the suck)/Rush at other bits, everything connected into perfectly shaped and paced compositions moving through a spectrum of moods.

And, fuck yeah, it rocks when it has to and crushes when it has to (which isn't all the time) - not for any elevator I could imagine.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 17:19 (nineteen years ago) link

I was about to say I got it there too. Would it be inaccurate to say JBs are like The Postal Service if TPS didn't do everything terribly wrong?

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 17:20 (nineteen years ago) link

The Postal Service are catchier, Junior Boys have more soul.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 17:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Someone made a Postal Service comparison on a Junior Boys thread, but in a dismissive fashion, i.e., how is this any different from the goddamn Postal Service?

But that's still a good question: I mean, I like both bands, and probably for some similar reasons. Junior Boys have more "mood," though, and the album's more cohesive. Then again, "Such Great Heights" is probably catchier than anything on Last Exit. What exactly does the Postal Service do wrong (other than be liked by indie asshats)?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 17:25 (nineteen years ago) link

Haha, that was an x-post! And "mood" = "soul," I guess.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 17:25 (nineteen years ago) link

The music and the vox were all too obviously recorded in different time zones, it doesn't feel like a whole, it feels like two very separate, boring parts brought together.

Plus the asshattery

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 17:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Sundar is wise (and GYBE were my #3).

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 17:30 (nineteen years ago) link

xpost: Well, they do kind of warn you with the name. Still, it's *way* better than that Sinatra duets album.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 17:31 (nineteen years ago) link

true on both counts. blech.

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 17:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Some of what sundar said.

― Rockist Scientist away from usual PC, Wednesday, 25 August 2004 17:37 (nineteen years ago) link

personally I like both ...Infinity and Lift Your Fists..., I haven't heard Yanqui.

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 17:38 (nineteen years ago) link

i listened to (the programmed( "in search of.." the other day for the first time in maybe a couple years. it's really not all that good (save the deathless "run to the sun" and maybe "lapdance" just for the nostalgia value.). the fact that there's a record by broken social scene on the happier side of the 30s is i think the best ammunition yet for the antipitchforkitizationalists.

― m. (mitchlnw), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 17:45 (nineteen years ago) link

I listened to that BSS album around the time it came out and forgot it instantly. Maybe it's good and I was having a bad day but probably not.

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 17:48 (nineteen years ago) link

I really like a couple tracks on that album. One sounds like a leftover from Isn't Anything era MBV (the one with the bassline, I forgot what it's called).

Also, I suspect all ILM anti-pitchforkers will defend their favorite indie as not a part of the problem.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 17:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Right, cuz the Beta Band is the solution.

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 17:55 (nineteen years ago) link

I prefer Metric to BSS actually

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 17:55 (nineteen years ago) link

"Levez Vos Skinny Fists ..." is easily the best GYBE album. In my comments, I was taking the piss out of their other stuff (which I also like) but "Fists" is certainly the one to start with.

Spencer otm ... omg some indie is actually pretty good, oh no how can i live with myself for thinking that ...

(xpost)

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 17:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Pop-guilt

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 17:57 (nineteen years ago) link

For awhile there I thought "indie guilt" was people making others feel guilty for listening to Slint.

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 17:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, don't get so defensive - you won! Be happy! :)

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 18:01 (nineteen years ago) link

RS, I wanted to ask you what Fahey's Red Cross was all about. Was it posthumous? I really like The Yellow Princess (from the 60s). Womblife (90s) is cool too. D/k his other stuff.

I don't know if they'd be your thing but I like Yanqui U. X. O. and (obv) List Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 26 August 2004 04:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Would it be inaccurate to say JBs are like The Postal Service if TPS didn't do everything terribly wrong?

Setting aside the Junior Boys for the moment -- the Postal Service just bug me (in contrast, a band like Joy Electric distinctly UN-bug me, so the fact that they get no attention and haven't for something like ten years while TPS are seen to be something special reminds me how hate is as important as love).

I recall thinking Yawnspeed You Goddamn Chain-Smoking Quebecois Fuckups's second full album did actually have some major keys on it. It was not enough.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 26 August 2004 05:24 (nineteen years ago) link

No. 20

Points: 545
No. of votes: 26
No. of #1 votes: 0

Artist: PJ HARVEY
Title: STORIES FROM THE CITY, STORIES FROM THE SEA
Label: Island
Year: 2002

http://base58.com/ilx/ilm/top100/20002004/albums/storiesfromthecity.jpg

Comments: n/a (argh!)

Recommended tracks: Good Fortune, A Place Called Home, You Said Something, We Float

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 26 August 2004 10:24 (nineteen years ago) link

tsk, year 2000 obv.

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 26 August 2004 10:24 (nineteen years ago) link

i wonder if the list looks suitably pazz and jop to chuck now

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 26 August 2004 10:24 (nineteen years ago) link

all i could find in the archives was people slagging that album off, oh well...

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 26 August 2004 10:27 (nineteen years ago) link

well it's her "crossover" album, y'see

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 26 August 2004 10:28 (nineteen years ago) link

all sounds like indie shite to me, so whadda iknow etc etc

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 26 August 2004 10:29 (nineteen years ago) link

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